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Feature Friday - October 16, 2021

202.88 - 'beta' branch
  • Added new descriptions for the following objects: starmchair, sofa, multicabinet, chalkboard, marble steps, glass hydraulic pipes in the Yd Freehold, and fulcrete with square wave.
  • Thermo casks are now considered artifacts.
  • Night-sight interpolators now have a trade value.
  • Svardym storms now last longer and eggs drop a bit less frequently.
  • Lithofex gaze is now more visible in the reef.
  • Crab cherubim and mechanical crab cherubim now have claws.
  • Clarified that precision nanon fingers' 3X boost to crit chance applies only to base crit chance.
  • Clarified that the fitted with filters mod only protects against harmful gases if you're breathing them.
  • Creatures now render over clams.
  • Clarified in the description of giant hands that it applies to all weapon types.
  • Clarified in the description of Akimbo that it applies to all missile weapon types.
  • The glass pipes in the Yd Freehold are now lacquered.
  • Greatly improved performance when a large party of creatures is on screen.
  • Swapped the tiles for Teleportation and Teleport Other.
  • Minorly improved input performance.
  • Minorly improved erformance when transitioning to or traveling on the world map.
  • Fixed a bug in the alt overlay that revealed the tile of unidentified artifacts and disguised creatures.
  • Fixed a bug in the alt overlay with the Yd Freehold's appearance.
  • Fixed an bug that caused crashes during zone builds.
  • Fixed a bug that caused empty "pool" objects to appear in zones.
  • Fixed a bug that caused you to be unable to speak with Otho if he was selected for the resolution of the Landing Pads quest.
  • Fixed several issues with variant selection on the Choose Mutations screen.
  • Fixed a text error in slynth settler's dialogue.
  • Fixed a typo in Mental Mirror's description.
  • Fixed a typo in trining lamprey's description.
  • Fixed a rare crash when transitioning to [redacted].

Feature Friday - October 9, 2021

202.85 - 'beta' branch
  • The new quest Landing Pads is now fully implemented start to finish.
  • Added a new music track for Rainbow Wood, Lake Hinnom, and Palladium Reef.
  • Fixed a major OSX hang on startup.
  • Character generation screens now have hotkeys.
  • Added arsplice hyphae to the subterranean reef.
  • Added a new description, name color, and eat message for arsplice seed.
  • Reduced the damage on-high voltage arc winder and the overloaded variants of both arc winder and high-voltage arc winder.
  • Added new dialogue for gutsmongers.
  • Added a new description for star orchid marble.
  • Electrobow has a tile again.
  • The Esper morphotype now has the right icon in the character creation UI.
  • Turrets mounting blood-gradient hand vacuums are now called blood-gradient vacuum turrets.
  • Baetyls no longer request nanon-modded items.

Feature Friday - October 1, 2021

203.83 - 'beta' branch
  • Added all new tiles for most missile weapons.
  • Added new items: kaleidocera cape, kaleidocera muffs, kaleidocera krakows, enigma cone, and enigma cap.
  • Added a new book: The Murmurs' Prayer.
  • Added new descriptions for the following items: night-sight interpolaters, tri-hologram bracelet, slip ring, precision nanon fingers, step sowers, 3D cobblers, gas tumbler, chiral rings, eigenrifle, eigenpistol, light rail, hand rail, spaser rifle, spaser pistol, space inverter, arc winder, high-voltage arc winder, psychal fleshgun, di-thermo beam, and sharpened polyp.
  • Added new descriptions for the following creatures: slynth residents and wanderers, all the wild svardym, Geeub, Krka, Tillifergaewicz, Rokhas, and Warden Une.
  • Added new descriptions for the following terrain objects: coral polyp, palladium strut, coral and palladium strut, swollen bulb, and coral pit.
  • Build Library is now functional.
  • You now autosave when you reach a checkpoint in Roleplay and Wander modes.
  • Gorged growths who are members of settlements no longer crumble apart.
  • Farmed bop sponges are no longer always ripe.
  • Generated villages now have accurate descriptions on the world map.
  • Night-sight interpolators now work like other kinds of night vision for the purpose of perceiving [redacted].
  • Using the sit interaction on a chair that's in your inventory now places the chair on the ground and sits on it, rather than silently failing.
  • Recycling suits can no longer (uselessly) get the recycling mod.
  • Added a popup confirmation for targeting yourself with a geomagnetic disc.
  • Fixed a bug that caused Regeneration to regrow your tongue while you were still affected by glotrot.
  • Fixed a bug that caused ubernostrum tonics to remove glotrot without the cure.
  • Fixed a bug that caused Light Manipulation's lase ability to fail when targeting a creature with mental mirror.
  • Fixed a perfomance issue caused aquatic or wall-walking creatures in your party trying to pathfind to you.
  • Fixed a grammar error in some messages when companions were swallowed whole.
  • Fixed conversation choices getting resorting when you revisited a node.
  • Fixed a bug that caused Golgotha and Bethesda Susa to not build properly.
  • [pets] Fixed a bug that caused You, but Mechanical not to inherit your anatomy.

Feature Friday - September 24, 2021

202.82 - 'beta' branch
  • Flawless crysteel gear is now a bit rarer.
  • Zetachrome gear is now much rarer.
  • Added new creature descriptions: giant clam, ixlthyxl, tongue tyrant, star kraken, and galgal.
  • Added new item descriptions: thermo cask, high-energy thermo cask, and psychic meridian.
  • Gorged growths now dehydrate and crumble apart after a while.
  • Updated Burgeoning plant-summoning tables to be better distributed and include more plants, particularly late-game plants.
  • Added some polish to the Hydropon.
  • Warden Une now has appropriate equipment.
  • Palladium struts are no longer takeable.
  • Made several enhancements to [redacted].
  • Irritable Genome's message now includes the mutation that was affected.
  • Eater's flesh and luminous hoarshroom now counts as mushrooms for the purposes of triggering cooking effects.
  • Fixed a bug that caused pits and chasms to drop you into solid walls.
  • Fixed a bug that caused objects to be placed on top of pits, leading to excessive build times as multiple zones were built.
  • Fixed a bug that caused zone transitions to happen rapidly every time an object was swallowed by a vortex.
  • Fixed a bug that caused gas generation to continue after transitioning to the world map.
  • Fixed a bug that caused visual effects like torches to sometimes persist after teleporting to another zone.
  • Fixed a bug that caused geomagnetic disc to sometimes bounce to neutral and friendly creatures.
  • Fixed a bug that caused villages or village outskirts to build over Pax Klanq's hut.
  • Fixed a bug that caused villages to use the wrong liquid type when building pools and rivers
  • Fixed a bug that caused the "Seek the Heart of the Rainbow" quest step not to complete upon reaching the correct zone.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the minimap to share the message logs opacity setting
  • Fixed a bug that caused subtype tile detail colors to not be properly set
  • Fixed the pluralization of pneumatic pistons, anchor spikes, palladium electrodeposits, and tibular hydrojets.

Feature Friday - September 17, 2021

202.80
  • Added a new kind of fauna: bop sponge.
  • Added new butcherable and harvestable consumables: bop cheek and tongue twist.
  • Added three new cooking effect domains: rubber-based, powerful rubber-based, and tongue-based.
  • Added three new ingredients: congealed rubbergum, sliced bop cheek, and fermented tongue.
  • The Yd Freehold now has a signature dish: Tongue and Cheek.
  • Svardym no longer rain down on the Yd Freehold.
  • Added a prerelease input manager binding for "move to point of interest".
  • Added new descriptions for the following creatures: twinning lamprey, trining lamprey, reef hermit, junk dollar, enigma snail, and plasma jelly.
  • Having the equipment rack cybernetic implant no longer prevents you from receiving a certain achievement.
  • You no longer receive a certain achievement earlier than is appropriate just by being repeatedly dismembered.
  • Billowing conch of the Aji can no longer produce plasma.
  • You can no longer use the following items and abilities on the worldmap: hologram bracelet, Force Wall, Light Manipulation, Time Dilation, gas generation, and Spinnerets.
  • Generated villages now interact more robustly with their surrounding terrain.
  • The trip back from [redacted] now works more consistently.
  • Fixed an error when a creature with no back grew wings.
  • Fixed the worldmap tip displaying too soon (during world generation).
  • Fixed incorrect pronouns in the description of sultan crocs.
  • Fixed a zonegen error in the Yd Freehold.
  • Fixed a rare exception that prevented the ability manager from opening.
  • Fixed an issue causing "BoxColliders does not support negative scale or size." spam in the message log.
  • Fixed an issue that would prevent [redacted] from carving murals if interruped by a serialization cycle.
  • [modding] Fixed populations being replaced instead of merged.