Hot Lava News

Hey everyone,

Today we are announcing that Hot Lava will be coming to Apple Arcade on iOS, tvOS and macOS. We’ve been blown away with how much fun the mobile version of the game is turning out to be. We’re happy to say that it will be the full PC experience with no graphical reductions, and a really great control scheme. I can't wait to show everyone what we came up with!

For those of you who have been following us on Steam, rest assured that our launch schedule remains the same, and the core design of Hot Lava remains unchanged. This news means we’ve expanded the team, and we will be able to welcome many new players to the Hot Lava community.

If you have any questions at all, please let us know, and thank you to everyone who has been following, participating, and giving feedback to us all this time, I really (really) appreciate it.

Some time ago Hot Lava closed sales to new players, and we began work on responding to the issues we saw in the game. We are working incredibly hard to finish Hot Lava and your continued feedback is a huge part of this. We are addressing issues in the new player experience, daily challenges, content fatigue, and enriching the Hot Lava world with more detailed and interactable environments. I wanted to take a moment to reassure everyone that we are working on tons of new and exciting content for future updates.

Coming soon: Playground: Bouncy Land course


We have also been hard at work on a new wave of characters with unique locomotion mechanics. These mechanics share similarities with the base character, but change some aspect to allow you to re-experience the game with a unique twist. They will also allow us to explore other fun movement mechanics missing from the base game, building on the foundation we have created with our GAT 'boosting' characters.

Tons of other content is in the works, and we will release more information as things solidify. Thank you for being here with us -- I can't wait to show you what we are up to next!


I've been totally blown away by the content our community has produced for Hot Lava since our Closed Beta launched. Today I'm pleased to announce that we are starting a "Bounty" program to help reward outstanding community content.
Content that is selected for the bounty program will be embedded directly in the game for launch, the creators will be listed in the credits, and financial compensation will be provided.
I'll be discussing the details and constraints more over the following weeks on our official Hot Lava discord channel. If you are interested in joining in, stop by and say hi!
We are planning to update Mod Kit to the latest engine version tomorrow.

• Upgraded engine to 2018.3.6f1
  
• Added new introductory tiny toy and pogo trials to playground and gym class along with new rewards
  
• Released 6 new items: Birdcage, Parrot, Polynesian, Raccoon Tail, and Log
  
• Playground x’s and o’s are now interactable
  
• Playground steering wheel is now interactable
  
• School water fountains are now interactable
  
• Course changes to playground pogo trial. This leaderboard has been reset
  
• Added chess pieces to Playground
  
• Implemented Lex Splorer facial animations, other characters coming soon
  
• Fix for vertical surf flick when using low mouse sensitivity
  
• Fixed potential cause of player’s camera being locked at 0,0,0
  
• Fix Buddy occasionally not held correctly after intro or restart
  
• Fixed lobster trap on top of molasses barrels in Wholesale
  
• Prevent binding inputs on French computers from breaking the game
  
• Make playing teeter totter with other players more “realistic”
  
• Fixed issue with replays disappearing early
  
• Fixed bloom missing in Menu
  
• Revert to default when input bindings are corrupted
  
• Added more ambient sound to Intermediate area of Playground’s Overworld to match the soundscape of the Recess area
  
• Added path to jump back over from Intermediate area of Playground Overworld if you get over without unlocking that section
  
• Added variation to sand in Intermediate section of Playground
  
• Optimized terrain in Playground
  
• Prevent tree rustle audio from invisible trees (potato mode)
  
• Fix intro animations playing sfx at double volume
  
• Added impact sfx to throwable Pizza Slice
  
• Make AFK plane sfx more realistic
  
• New Decal UI sfx
  
• Improve teeter totter sounds
  
• Fix Pinny glass texture
  
• Fixed a couple cases of null reference output log spam
  

• Upgraded modkit to use Unity 2018.3.6f1. You will need to download this version of Unity
  
• Divided up the art packages even more to help improve download size and import time
  
• Setup your own things that spin, move, or swap with TouchableButton (use Layer Pickable)
  
• water_fountain_01 may show as missing swap it with a new water_fountain_01
  
• Pickable layer no longer has collision
  

• Tiny Toy trial added to Playground
  
• Three new outfits added to the reward container “Barbarian”,”Rockabilly”, and “Elf”
  
• New Tiny Toy pickups added throughout worlds, pick them up to become tiny
  
• Fixed cached jumping bonus from incorrectly triggering from a stand still
  
• New brightness option that prevents the game from looking washed out when used
  
• Added emotes sounds
  
• Update surf slope detection, surf velocity when looking up slopes is now more natural allowing for a complete deceleration of your speed before sliding back down the slope
  
• Update surf flick detection, surf flicks better detect when flicking away from a surf surface
  
• Most rock pillars are now marked as convex to reduce issues where players lose speed on them
  
• Optimized texture streaming
  
• Fixed some blurry UI elements
  
• Updated in-game Course Selection UI text layer sounds
  
• Fixed bug where any object could trigger the Basketball Hoop confetti effect. Now triggers with basketballs only
  
• Removed Bell sound from Checkpoint Trail Arrival effect. Too confusing to read what its purpose was
  
• Added new Save Checkpoint sound
  
• Fixed bug where players could get a big boost of speed when disconnecting from a handhold immediately after grabbing it
  
• Players should no longer respawn at trials they pass without activating them when exploring the overworld
  
• Prevent bad text when translation mods contain excessive poedit headers
  
• Reduce glitchiness when picking up pogo
  
• Fixed bushes in lava of Playground
  
• Collectible cards are now easier to see in game
  
• Optimized lighting in Tutorial for improved framerate
  
• Optimized lighting in Mastery for improved framerate
  
• Disabled some sounds on online players causing performance issues
  

• Fixed multi-part replays (e.g. Mastery and Pogo)
  
• Fixed missing item strings
  
• Fixed reward decal art
  
• Apply tiny toy soundscape to overworld tinytoy
  
• Don’t drop pogo/tinytoy when paused
  
• Fix wacky arms in buddy mode animation
  
• Fixed occasionally missing local player audio
  

New modkit build 303963 is live:

• Split modkit into two packages to make importing new updates faster
  
• modkit_readme.pdf updated with instructions for new import process
  
• Add MustLastSecondJump/NoLastSecondJumps skill tags
  
• Switch to Lava/Reality buttons put players into separate online “worlds” so players in lava world don’t see players in reality world
  
• Open workshop legal agreement URL in browser if user needs to accept it
  
• Prevent flood of errors after failing to connect to steam
  
• Fix “Upload” button is sometimes missing in “modify mod” screen
  
• Fix “Add ItemKeys” generating Grabbables that couldn’t be picked up (wrong layer)
  
• Fix “Trigger Volume Fixer” applying wrong layer to volumes