The Build-a-Buddy Update!

Hello Creators!

There’s been a lot of commotion in the Creativerse universe in the past few months… We have welcomed the arrivals of Baby Leafi, Petey the Parroki, Buzzkill, butterflies, and many more to Creativerse with curiosity. The world feels more friendly.

If you followed our weekend build challenge, you may have heard about the mysterious friendly traveller who sent letters out through the Pebble Postal Service asking if they could visit. Until today, their identities have been unknown…

We call them Villagers! While they aren't the first non-player characters to appear in Creativerse (shout out to Pumpkiru and Elfi), these friendly folks have some powerful surprises in store for you. They are out there now, in the world, waiting for you to find them. They each have their own favorite hangout spots, so you'll have to go looking for them. Once found, they will present you with a challenge. Upon completion, you will be granted a most curious reward: Programmable Villagers, which are customizable NPCs you can place anywhere you like! Villagers are eager to become extant and fill your creations with life, and they each have their own unique quirks, tastes, and things to share.

As always, we look forward to your feedback!

Happy building!

—The Playful Team

• Villagers have arrived!
  • Villagers are helpful, customizable, interactable NPC friends-in-waiting.
  • Villagers have jobs that define their behavior.
  • You'll have one villager job unlocked by default: Talker
  • Additional jobs, like Miner or Logger, can be permanently unlocked by:
  • Collecting Villager Upgrade Chips from treasure chests.
    
  • Finding villagers in the wild and helping them.
    
  • Villagers will spawn in various locations, depending on their assigned job.
    
  • Villagers will ask you for help with a certain task. If you can complete their task, you'll permanently unlock that villager's job, and receive a Programmable Villager to use anywhere!
    

• New item: Programmable Villager
  1. Programmable Villagers can be placed anywhere and assigned a job to perform.
     
  2. Point your wiring tool at a Programmable Villager's base and press your View Details shortcut ('n' by default) to customize the villager's settings.
     
  • Name them!
  • Customize their look!
  • Assign their job!
    
  • Depending on their assigned job, a villager can give you loot if their specific needs and wants are met.
    • Each job has its own set of conditions - interact with a villager and select a job from the dropdown menu to learn about the likes and/or dislikes associated with that job.
      
    • Depending on how well their needs are met, villagers will do their job extremely well (and give you lots of loot), do it just well enough (some loot), or, if they're totally in a bad mood, they won't do it at all!

5 new villager jobs
• Talker - Give your talker villager numbered lines of dialogue. Then, when the talker receives a numerical input, it will output the associated line of dialogue. Great for interactive builds and adventures!
  • Unlocked by default - select 'None' from the job dropdown menu on your Programmable Villager.
• Miner - Gathers ore from nearby nodes (without depleting them) and shares it with you.
  • Spawns in stalactite caves.
• Logger - Gathers wood, leaves, saplings, and more from nearby trees (without destroying them) and shares it with you.
  • Spawns in elderwood forests.
• Chef - Cooks delicious dishes for you.
  • Spawns by desert oases.
• Researcher - Shares wisdom with you via lore items like notes and chips.
  • This job can only be unlocked via Villager Upgrade Chips.

Updated Treasure Chests
• Added Lumite and Iron treasure chests. There is now one treasure chest corresponding with each material tier.
• Loot has been updated for each chest, including Villager Upgrade Chips (to unlock jobs), and new lore items.
New Block
• Full Grass Slab - By special request of our sneak preview players! It's got grass on every side. Process grass to craft some.
New Items in the Store
• Trainer Suit Costume - super-comfy and FREE for a limited time!
• Villager Hat Combo - Includes a chef hat, logger hat, and researcher hat!
• Alphi Companion - An early version of QB to float alongside you!
• Packs of Programmable Villagers - Find these in the wild or grab 'em from the store!

[h3]Improvements[/h3]

• Several new special creatures added to support Villager tasks. Have you met Big Baby Leafi yet?
• QuickTM potion is now craftable
  
  • Recipe found in treasure chests
• Speed Potion did the same thing as QuickTM, so we changed it to a Stamina Regeneration Potion
  

Found footage of an early Villager traveling cyberspace en route to Creativerse. I guess he got lost because to this day, Creativerse is without a Plumber Villager….




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