Nubby's Number Factory News

[p]Greetings nubblygubbywubblybubblygrubblys,


Welcome to Weekly Nubby News #9! In this edition, I'm going to be talking about what I've been working on for V1.4 and sharing the results from the nubby science poll.


Progress on V1.4:
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Lately I've been working away at V1.4, the next big content update for nubby. I thought I'd share something cool I'm currently finishing up!


Meet "Jelly", the most involved food item I've ever added to nubby.
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Jelly is a very special little guy. As of now, the effect for jelly is "Eat -> Upgrades cafe food items that are currently available for purchase".

Yes, you heard that right! This means that every food item in cafe nubby now has an upgraded counterpart, including the new jelly item. Upgraded foods work slightly different than upgraded items. Items from nubby mart / black market are designed to be equally as powerful (or slightly more powerful) than having 2 copies of an item. Upgraded foods are a bit more variable than upgraded items in this regard. Because the effects of food items don't always work with the "2x as powerful" logic, I had to get creative with some upgraded foods.

For example, the moldy sandwich food item that you can find while playing on balogna tony randomizes the triggers of all items in your inventory. For the upgraded counterpart of moldy sandwich, the tentative effect is: "Eat -> Randomizes the triggers of items in slots 2-7. The item in slot 1 is not affected". In this case, the advantage of eating an upgraded moldy sandwich is that you could keep an item that has a really good trigger in slot 1 to not risk its trigger being randomized to something less ideal. I won't share every upgraded food effect here, but basically you'll find a lot of variability in upgraded food items, further than just "twice as good as the non-upgraded version".

Ok, now on to the nubby science!

Nubby Science Poll Results:
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A couple weeks ago I shared a poll with you all that asked questions about your preferences / dislikes in nubby (e.g. favorite board layout, favorite item, least favorite item, etc.). Over 6,500 people submitted responses to the poll, which is spectacular. Thank you!

I said I'd share the results in the next nubby news, so here you go!

(Huge shoutout to nubby community members: Arny, rccat, and SovietRedOnion for putting time and effort into gathering and presenting the data!)


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Wrap up + thank you:
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As always, thanks for reading and thank you for supporting me and my work! I hope you find amusement in the poll results. For the most part, I wasn't too surprised about the top favorites and least favorites for things, but its still very interesting to see how the community is divided in personal preferences.

Also, to anyone who has pre-ordered the nubby plush, I sincerely thank you for your support! I'm super excited for everyone to receive their nubby in the mail!

That's all from me for now. I'll keep dropping V1.4 devlogs in future editions of WNN as I make progress, so stay tuned, nubbywubblies.

~Mog
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[p]Yup, you heard it here, nubheads. The time has come! The nubby plush is available now (7/15/25) through August 5th at 12pm PT.
[/p][p]Here's a link to the store page: https://youtooz.com/products/nubby-plush-9-inch[/p][p][/p][p]I hope everyone who decides to purchase a nubby plush enjoys their plush as much as I'm currently enjoying mine. It's the centerpiece of my living room area and it's a real conversation starter! [/p]

[p]Wow, I have been really excited to share this news with you all for a long time!

Nubby plush is happening! I have been in collaboration with the brand, "Youtooz", working to design the nubby plush! The plush will be available for pre-order on July 15th, though I do have a free giveaway opportunity to share with you that you can participate in now!

Three partcipants will be selected on July 15th to receive a free nubby plush! Follow this link to enter into the contest: https://youtooz.com/pages/nubbys-number-factory-giveaway

I am super ecstatic about this plush and it's been a dream of mine to have some official nubby merch up for sale. Here's a picture of me with the plush so you can get a feel for the size and color:





Thanks to Youtooz, this dream has become a reality. Even if you can't get your own nubby plush, I wholeheartedly thank you for playing nubby and being a part of this lovely community.
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Surprise update today! This is just a big ol' bunch of bug fixes with the only real addition being a new common perk that I think you will like!

Apologies for going off schedule. I previously said that the next update you'd see would be V1.4 sometime in late summer. After the release of V1.33 (autosave update), there were some really annoying bugs that I wanted to fix before a rather long period of no updates. This build is a lot more stable than V1.33, I hope you'll enjoy the fixes I made here. As always, you can find the full list of changes below.

Bug fixes:
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-Fixed the bug where setting up a chain of multiple squids to transform into a "first peg popped" item would result in most of the squids in the chain having their effect skipped. (AKA the "lazy squids bug")
-Added a failsafe for save data corruption. If you've experienced a crash where the game crashes immediately once it launches, that's due to a save file being corrupted and the game trying to read the save data but failing. This isn't a solution to save corruption, but it does fix the immediate crash, thus preventing the game from becoming unplayable.
-Fixed round 900 crash in endless mode
-Fixed issue with crashing in endless after receiving a perk
-Fixed issue in endless where you could come across final bosses again.
-Warlock perk description updated
-You can no longer use the load button to access endless mode in challenges
-Pause button in upper right corner of screen now appears in endless mode
-End game button now appears when loading into an endless mode save
-Alien now appears in nubby mart (like all the other black market items) while playing as criminal tony
-Non-upgraded inflatable dolphin beach ball summon is now counted as a summon.
-House'O'Cards perk now triggers "20 pegs popped" items.
-House'O'Cards perk now triggers "12 pegs popped" items.
-House'O'Cards perk now triggers items with "x pegs popped" triggers as their second trigger while playing on mutant tony.
-Crazy straw can now be obtained while playing as C.E.O. Tony
-Dave and Lentil food effect outcomes are now affected by game seed.
-Fixed bug where if you spammed the "exit" button on the claw machine you could break it and cause the claw machine to stay on screen for the next round.
-Fixed bug where insulation would give points even if it didn't hit a peg.
-Fixed the crash caused by eating the chip item in the cafe and then grabbing another food item while the chip was being consumed.
-Fixed odds issue with flaming skull item: odds changed from 1/11 to 1/10, as was originally intended.
-Fixed the unnecessary extra gap in the item description of squid while playing as mutant tony.
-Fixed bug where 1Q+ pegs were valued at 0.
-Broken socket can now be triggered by other broken sockets.
-Broken Socket now triggers twice on glass tony


Additions:
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-Added common perk: "Archaic Perk" - Every 1.5 seconds -> Force-triggers all non-upgraded items.
-This perk does not appear in the "Times Up!" challenge.


Other changes:
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-Starting with this update, existing autosaves will be deleted when you update the game due to incompatibility in saved data.

Hello! Welcome to the long awaited V1.32! I'm happy to get this out to the public so I can begin work on some really fun stuff. Either way, enjoy autosaving!

V1.3.2 Patch Notes:
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Bug fixes:
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-Fixed bug where egg missiles from rubber chicken didn't collide with pegs on hunter tony

-Kebab perk and croissant perk now have their triggers randomized in bologna tony

-Fixed the peg revival glitch with cactus and uranium rod (shoutout to Seymour for the help)

-Game no longer crashes are round 467 (thanks again, Seymour)

-Fixed the bug where if you spammed the launch nubby button right at the start of the game, you'd get a 9999x restock.

-Fixed bug where you could steal corrupted items as criminal tony and end up with negative money as a result

-Asbestos insulation summons now count as summons





Additions:
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-Implemented autosave system (yippee)




Other Changes:
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-For lunar perk: the amount of force triggers is now determined by the round number instead of how many rounds it has been in your inventory

-Warlock perk now triggers all "Nubby Dies ->" items.

-Asbestos insulation now gives 5%-10% of the round goal. Upgraded asbestos gives between 12%-17% of the round goal (sad, but we all knew this was coming)

-Broken socket now triggers on: "item to the right of me triggers"; Has a 25% chance to execute its cluster shock effect.
-Same thing for upgraded broken socket.

-Coin sound effect is less shrill

-In the in-game pause menu, "Abandon Game" button is replaced by "Save and Quit" button.

-For "Pol's Bane" challenge: T-Block, E-Block, and Flibby Flobbies are no longer obtainable.

-For "Time's Up!" challenge: Cheesy Perk is no longer obtainable.

-All-seeing pyramid item no longer appears in the early game and has the same item weight as T-Block.

-Avocado price changed from 11 to 9.
-Evil goose priced changed from 6 to 5.
-Flamethrower price changed from 9 to 7.