Chronomon News

Early Access .7986

--- Features ---

• Boss monsters now show icon when hovering over them,
  

--- Other Changes ---

• Inventory controller move speed reduced,
  
• Scared monsters no longer try to attack if going into battle, then running and being too close,
  
• Being stung by a bee now returns the player back to its original color,
  
• Black screen showing below Vice Approach,
  
• BBQ timer on before placing items on it,
  
• Recyclaw has splash skill twice,
  
• Trout added to rivers,
  

--- Balancing ---

• Severe sell price balancing on all items,
  
• Seed costs changed to reflect total season profit,
  

--- Bugs ---

• Farm monsters not working on the forge,
  
• Quick swapping mon to PC when it is following doesn't remove it,
  
• Removing monster from farm while working on forge doesn't stop the timer,
  
• Removed using the scanner from bag in battles (use button above run for now on) causing soft lock,
  
• Player no longer moves when attacking, letting the monster move. This keeps from accidentally getting game freeze if walking in front of a trainer,
  
• Chrono menu showing up blank after completing job in town where you give a mon,
  
• Issues in town board with controllers,
  
• Crop Czar achievement not completing
  

Early Access .7985

--- Features ---

• Cloud save will initiate everyday when Levi picks up the items. (if any items),
  
• Farm debris no longer spawn on placed paths,
  
• Controlled monsters can now remove FOW in mines,
  
• Planting mons no longer use seeds from chests inside buildings,
  
• Planting mons no longer use seeds outside of a season,
  

--- Other Changes ---

• FARM MONS
  
• Monster will no longer work if hunger is 0,
  
• Monster will no longer water plants that are ready to harvest,
  
• Monster tasks no longer target objects outside the farm exterior bounds,
  
• Monsters on farm now prioritize feedbox food over dropped food,
  
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• Scrooge unlocking with briefcase achievement,
  
• Farming leaderboard exploit found and fixed. No form of cheating is allowed. Ever,
  
• Mine level 35 shows as 30 above elevator,
  
• Minor graphical issues in some maps,
  
• Mines music changed,
  
• Final boss #4 leaving the wrong way after battle,
  
• Obsidian Hollow selling anemone flowers instead of seeds,
  
• Hold time for using moves changed (Using real time instead of system speed),
  
• Held item shop in mining town no longer is a Raider to battle,
  
• Only farm sales leaderboard triggers a cloud save (instead of all of them),
  
• Bees no longer make you jump (causing to many issues) - the players body turns red instead,
  
• Copper ores now have a green/copper look to them,
  

--- Balancing ---

• Meat and Cooked meat buy/sell costs balanced,
  
• CIM cards now take into account monster level and balanced out catch rates,
  

--- Bugs ---

• Exploit found in Farm Sales leaderboard,
  
• Sewers 2nd door to boss locked (Not supposed to be) along with other vertical doors,
  
• Music for Obsidian Hollow not changing to proper music,
  
• Player able to walk through holes designed for monsters (Camillia zone 2),
  
• Monsters sometimes double spawning and not being able to remove from the farm,
  
• Player walking 10 miles to a spot to fight,
  
• Farm building doors not showing up when paths are built underneath,
  
• Solaris inn not opening door after paying for room,
  
• All enemies in dungeons drop keys (changed to only bosses)
  

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