Chronomon News

Early Access .7983

--- Features ---

• Mine leaderboard added to mining entrance,
  
• Cheats or game hacks that modify any online features will result in a permanent ban from leaderboards and online services (Can't load from cloud anymore or access LBs),
  
• Breaking decorations auto move them to player,
  
• Hovering over inventory use type buttons show description,
  
• Gender added to monster pop up UI,
  

--- Other Changes ---

• Enemy monsters can no longer walk into safe zones,
  
• Night spawns always have mean personalities,
  
• Mountain farm stairs showing over player,
  
• Buildable items name/descriptions fixed,
  
• NPC like/dislike menu graphical changes,
  
• Imprint menu changed for better readability on what is locked/unlocked,
  
• Windowed mode changes from previous update causing full screen on PC to look terrible when clicked,
  
• More mine monsters added at higher levels,
  
• Cryo bed is no longer craftable,
  

--- Balancing ---

• Trainers between Camillia and Vicevale levels balanced (First ones increased, last ones reduced),
  

--- Bugs ---

• Wall objects and topper objects drag/moved not retaining their original spots,
  
• Battle Maestro (10k battles) unlocks same time as previous achievement,
  
• Shaking/Scared monsters cause soft lock at night,
  
• NPC save data issue when giving like/dislike items,
  
• Imprint level up animation not going away,
  
• Sign-up cloud menu not letting you click to sign up if previously messed up information,
  
• Player boss monsters still showing up as enemy stat increases,
  
• Certain mine levels freezing the game (39, 70)
  

Early Access .7982 Released

I managed to get a few controller related issues in here (not many but working on it) and will continue to improve on the controls and UI support over the coming week.

--- Features ---

• Gender Image added to mon info menu
  
• Metal monster have no gender
  
• Monsters in storage (not in farm) now heal when sleeping
  
• Click/Hold on skills when only 1 monster now shows if effective or not. (works with mouse hover and controller as well)
  
• Leaderboard will now show the top 5 when checking your score
  
• Monsters south of camillia and sewers no longer spawn in as families and don't call others to attack
  
• Choice menus can be navigated with WASD now
  

--- Other Changes ---

• Tablets no longer scale UI as mobile but as PC scaling
  
• Season image changing wrong on last day of season
  
• New game menu controller input changed (not as confusing now) as well as sign-up menu
  

--- Balancing ---

• Recylclaw Defense reduced from 402 to 102
  
• Drastaroid Attack reduced from 993 to 93
  
• Boss stat increase, if player monsters reduced to 1.3x normal stats (enemy mons at 3x)
  
• Spawning ladder while breaking rocks chances now determined by how many are left (Prev 7% flat)
  
• Boulder Smash attack power increase from 20 -> 40
  
• Reduced the number of monsters that spawn in the mines on eradicate levels
  

--- Bugs ---

• Shift clicking to swap storage monsters not removing them from farm if grazing
  
• Mine Level 30 (Along with various other levels descending) causing black screen and soft lock
  
• Issue when setting your birthday as the 1st day of spring causing Groundhogs Day (day never proceeds, stuck on 1 forever)
  
• Inventory item info menu staying open when throwing CIMs making it where you can't click battle buttons
  

Early Access .7981

--- Features ---

• Brick recipe added to 5th week wednesday TV
  
• Anytime you end in the void, you spawn back to the farm
  
• The mines, now multiple different types of gem nodes appear
  
• Sign in mine added to explain features
  
• Windowed mode and Foldable phone support (I hope, no way to test)
  
• Keyboard can be used to navigate dialog (WASD and Space)
  
• Menus now resize while on Steam Deck (like they would on mobile)
  

--- Other Changes ---

• TV Crafting day "Climbing Bar" giving "cart" instead
  
• Calender menu now closes when escaping
  
• Grammar and other wording fixes
  
• Fishing odds changed (Previously getting most rare -> common)
  
• Important NPCs naming issues
  
• Wardrobe can now be broken
  

--- Balancing ---

• Mon kill exp raised!
  
• Medium chest now takes copper instead of iron
  
• Large chest added wood to build
  

--- Bugs ---

• TV crashing later in the year on Wednesday and sometimes Saturday
  
• Catching last monster in mines does not spawn ladder
  
• KOing monster at sleep time causing soft-lock
  
• Mine elevator issues showing last floor not open or unlocked floors
  
• Iron not showing up past level 20 in the mines
  
• Map clipping issues (sometimes showing black squares)
  
• Town menu displaying incorrect towns, descriptions & not showing correct ones open
  
• Can add more monster to the farm than allowed
  

[h3]Early Access .7979 [/h3]

--- Features ---
- Any errors or bugs auto-copied to clipboard so you can send to dev
- IOS 13+ support (Previously IOS 18)

--- Other Changes ---
- Mail no longer drops "Death" mail mutliple times
- Removed scanning when monster is in control
- Mine ladder now asks if you want to go down
- Solaris seed shop selling grapes instead of grape seeds
- Some farming soils not farmable on default farm
- Unlock pop-up now auto-closes after 2 seconds instead of requiring a click
- More checks added to ensure cloud load doesn't happen twice (causing double farm items)
- Gem nodes spawn after level 20 now (so you can break them to get the ladder)
- Version on main menu changes color for time of day for readability
- More pathfinding fixes for farm monsters when looking for larger objects
- Paths inside mine entrance can now be broken
- Save after every cutscene
- Map fixes for entering the void (Can walk through trees to no map)

--- Balancing ---
- Ore bar crafting times increased
- Cooked meat values changed (10HP, 10Energy, 15Hunger)
- Flowers take longer to grow (6 days)
- Catching monsters reduced from 5% to 2%

--- Bugs ---
- Mine Bugs
- Death in mines from Monster stalk not exiting mines completely making screen darker
- Death in mines from Monster stalk not saving the last mine level
- Mining achievement setting wrong
- Mines not loading in last highest level (Elevator not recognizing it)
- Mines not despawning dropped items
- Switch mons or calling them back while in mines causing issues (black screen, not coming back)
- Live battle attacks resulting in monster death not spawning ladders
- Death not taking gold if no items in inventory
- Night spawns not stalking if no alive monsters in party
- Enemy not stalking if lost in battle
- Knocking down fruit with fishing rod as only tool in inventory causing soft lock
- Swapping from player to monster in mines causes soft lock
- CRASH - New days will crash the game if all plots are tilled.
- UI locking while eating and trying to open a menu
- Tree near fenland coming back after breaking and not able to break it again

[h3]Early Access .7978 [/h3]

--- Features ---

• Death in mines now causes tombstone to appear in entrance. Item quantity is halved.
  
• Shift/Trigger click cloud monsters to quick swap them over
  

--- Other Changes ---

• Fixed ocean water tiles next to south pier
  
• Swoop Imprint sprite not set
  
• Mons no longer eat if they didn't make it to the item/box (instead of chomping from 100ft away)
  
• Changes made to AI - mons were having a hard time getting to items right in front of them if there was something north of it
  
• Some farm tiles in Beach farm no tillable
  
• Hot bar updates after tossing an item
  
• Mine current level number displays in red if a monster killing floor.
  
• Clamped player life skill exp gain and level to max
  
• Mail from upgrading barn displaying the wrong amount.
  
• Eggplant showing planting as grass
  
• Items purchased with an "s" at the end no longer add another
  

--- Balancing ---

• Blobby can no longer cut debris (Gather/Craft only)
  

--- Bugs ---

• Fishing up/down with copper or above fishing pole freezes game
  
• Unable to move or break Shake Shack
  
• Feed box inventory not opening sometimes
  
• Stop monster from eating non food items from feedboxes
  
• Monster walking to eat food and you picking it up before causing issue
  
• Held item shop in Vicevale not opening with quest finish
  
• Shift swapping tools to another chest does not retain quality
  
• Mines not spawning ladders
  
• Monster evolutions not triggering in battle
  
• Meet kyral in Fenland quest doesn't finish when doing cutscene
  
• Chillspire teleporter not unlocking, Solaris unlocking prematurely
  
• Trying to catch nice mon after feeding causing inventory to not show up