Crea News

Greetings Adventurers! Time has flown by since the last announcement and I wanted to update everyone on what is going on.

First off, the NPC update has sadly been delayed due to real life taking over. Unfortunately it is going to be another two months before I will be able to release it. Sorry! I will try to get a smaller patch out in the meantime to fix any major issues. Apologies for not being around for the few weeks to reply. I'm going to try to be better at balancing that.

Over the last few weeks I have been busy selling many of my possessions, packing up my apartment, and moving everything into storage 600 miles south of Portland in Northern California. This is all with Kelley's help and baby Kaelie... not so much help. Since arriving in California we've been visiting family and friends this last week and now we are off on a big adventure - to Sweden!

For those keen readers you may remember that the talented Crea artist, Jonatan, is in Sweden. I am going to visit him and we will be starting a new project! That's right, after five and a half years working on Crea I am finally going to be working on something else. We are going to be working on a prototype at first and go from there. My plan is to focus on this new project while in Sweden and once I get back to the States in 6 weeks get back to working on Crea part time. We are excited to be starting something new and I believe that once I return to Crea it will be with a restored vigor.

Again, sorry for the tease on announcing the next update and then delaying it for so long. I hope everyone is still looking forward to it when it does finally land.

Thank you everyone for your continued support!

Greetings Adventurers! Time has flown by since the last announcement and I wanted to update everyone on what is going on.

First off, the NPC update has sadly been delayed due to real life taking over. Unfortunately it is going to be another two months before I will be able to release it. Sorry! I will try to get a smaller patch out in the meantime to fix any major issues. Apologies for not being around for the few weeks to reply. I'm going to try to be better at balancing that.

Over the last few weeks I have been busy selling many of my possessions, packing up my apartment, and moving everything into storage 600 miles south of Portland in Northern California. This is all with Kelley's help and baby Kaelie... not so much help. Since arriving in California we've been visiting family and friends this last week and now we are off on a big adventure - to Sweden!

For those keen readers you may remember that the talented Crea artist, Jonatan, is in Sweden. I am going to visit him and we will be starting a new project! That's right, after five and a half years working on Crea I am finally going to be working on something else. We are going to be working on a prototype at first and go from there. My plan is to focus on this new project while in Sweden and once I get back to the States in 6 weeks get back to working on Crea part time. We are excited to be starting something new and I believe that once I return to Crea it will be with a restored vigor.

Again, sorry for the tease on announcing the next update and then delaying it for so long. I hope everyone is still looking forward to it when it does finally land.

Thank you everyone for your continued support!

Hello everyone! First off I want to say thank you for everyone's support the last few weeks. Many people stopped by my livestream to tell me how much they have been enjoying Crea and lots of great reviews. It really means a lot to us!

I wanted to give everyone a quick update on the NPC housing and the next update for Crea. Good progress has been made on the housing with full room detection including which items are in the room. The big remaining task is getting the NPC to get the various bonuses from the items they request.



Originally I was wanting to get this update out last week but that did not happen for various reasons. One of those reasons being that I unfortunately have to move by the end of the month. Towards the end of the month and after I'm going to be quite busy. The plan is to release the 1.5 update a little before that happens which is not far off. Because of this the NPC update will just be rolled into the 1.5 update.

Along with the 1.5 update I'm going to do my best to address the reported issues. Thank you everyone for your patience and support!

Since "The Enchanted" 1.4 update was released I have been hard at work fixing issues and incorporating feedback. Thanks to this feedback there are some huge changes coming into Crea!


Enchantments were introduced in 1.4 and players quickly took to hoarding them. Players needed something to do with this plethora of enchantments on hand. Now you can enchant enchantments!

When enchanting an enchantment you can replace individual attributes on an enchantment with a random attribute from another enchantment. This isn't free though. It consumes the latter enchantment and costs some of your hard earned Auri.





The monster levels in the world regions have been static but we're experimenting with changing that. A new world option "monster levels" can now be set to "progression". This lowers the levels on the surface of the world some and when you defeat a boss the lower level regions increase.

This change helps keep the world relevant and more engaging as you progress. It also allows us to make that change with lowering the initial levels. I am leaving the "static" option as the default for now and am looking to hear your feedback. If it is good then I hope to make "progression" be the new default. Note that existing worlds are unaffected as they are already "static".

Bonus! You can now increase a region's level by releasing contained chaos in it. Take care!


Customizing your character before starting off on your huge adventure together is undeniably important. The more options the better! Now you can customize your characters face and there are new shirt and pants options. This is just the first pass on expanding character customizations so definitely let us know what you'd like to see!




Building in Crea has always been done by the player's own volition. That is about to change! This week I will be working on adding in some incentives to build a base. The first and simpler one is that monsters will be a bit more aggressive in general and even more so at night.

The second and honestly more exciting change is that NPC will begin to request having their own rooms. Give them their own space and then they'll start asking for some stuff to fill it. As you fullfill the NPC requests you'll start getting bonuses from them. Such as the merchant may request a Auri Register and once fullfilled prices may be cheaper or new items made available. We are just beginning to work on this so if you have any suggestions then definitely make them known either below in the comments, on the discord server or on my devstreams.

• Enchanting enchantments is now possible
  
• New head and clothing character customizations
  
• World levels progression introduced
  
• Improved water monster movement logic
  
• Map markers now face the direction the item is facing
  
• Prevent the player from changing gear while active doing something
  
• Added "Auto Toolbar" option to automatically switch the active toolbar when changing mode and weapon loadouts
  
• Greatly reduced "Hulk" health
  
• Made Slam and Sky Sword skills not usable in water
  
• Better interactions with Lorumite Column
  
• Level 3 remna now drop from level 40+ monsters (was 50+)
  
• Warden armor is now based off of max stamina
  
• Support spells such as healing now target allies even if your cursor is not exactly on top of them
  
• More clay and soot in worlds now
  
• Added Sano Idol with healing bonuses
  
• Show which Aer the player is channeling as a status effect
  
• Made enchanting a bit cheaper
  
• Resolved issue with being able to use another weapon while a bow is drawn
  
• Resolved many multiplayer issues caused by having more than two clients connected
  
• Resolved issue where craft UI would get into a weird state if interacting with a crafting station while the craft UI is open
  
• Resolved issue with enchantments not being synced to client properly
  
• Resolved several issues with enchanter NPC in multiplayer
  
• Resolved issue with water and lava not rendering on the client properly
  
• Resolved issue with monsters teleporting to the end of a grappler
  
• Resolved issue with Firestorm, Sandstorm and Snowstorm not working properly
  
• Resolved issue with an expanded inventory getting into a bad state when interacting with an item notification
  
• Resolved issue with bosses being invisible on multiplayer
  
• Resolved issue with other players being invisible in multiplayer
  
• Resolved issue with renaming chests and Way Crystals in multiplayer
  
• Resolved issue with water not rendering properly in multiplayer
  
• Resolved issue with shield facing the wrong way in multiplayer while on backhand
  
• Resolved crash in multiplayer when joining a game where a character has a storm effect active
  
• Resolved crash in multiplayer while trying to show monster info
  
• Resolved issue with popup notifications not showing in multiplayer
  
• Resolved issue causing chaos craft tutorial to show up repeatedly in multiplayer
  
• Resolved issue with Weapons and Tools power not saving properly
  
• Resolved issue with lower level Beam spell not chaining
  
• Resolved issue with combo keyboard bindings not saving properly
  
• Resolved performance issue with foliage system gradually causing extreme lag
  
• Fixed pagoda shingles from slowly moving from original position
  
• Resolved issue with Impeen Wand not charging correctly
  
• Resolved a few issues with Silvan Anomaly
  
• Resolved issue with bad loot dropping from apex monster causing a constant fountain of items to pour out of its remains
  
• Resolved issue that allowed bosses to be fought repeatedly without leaving the realm
  
• Fix issue with purify anomaly spawning monsters
  
• No longer able to grab bosses and paragons with a grappler
  
• Focus now works with elemental weapons
  
• Do not show "Flip Item" help text for already placed items
  
• Focus controller input only when the Start button is pressed
  
• Fixed ResistStatusEffectAttribute on tooltips
  
• Fixed Corium Shield icon
  
• Fixed Precision Striker graphics
  

Hello! With "The Enchanted" just released now is a great time to try to join and help build Crea's community.


Before I get into the juicy details I first wanted to say thank you to all of the recent kind words and encouragement - it means a great deal to us! I also want to thank those who have taken the time to post reviews. I read every single one and not only do I (usually) get great feedback from them but it also helps us and Crea out more than you would think.


We would love to have more players involved in any and every way possible. Here are a few!

• Steam Forums
  
• Crea Discord Server
  
• Development Livestreams
  
• Siege Games Twitter

In order for the community to grow we need to help new players. This includes replying to questions on the forums and discord. An even better way is to expand the Official Wiki.

There is much to do on the wiki and we need all the help we can get. If you have dozens of hours or just started your first play through you can help contribute. The goal with the wiki is to provide answers to whatever questions players may have. How do you get refined items? How do you unlock the first boss? How can I move water?

If you want to help out but not sure how to contribute to the wiki then feel free to join the discord channel and ask for help. Myself or many other awesome community members would happily help you!

Thank you to anyone that does help out in any way!


If you're enjoying Crea then I hope you consider joining the community and sticking around.