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With the start of the Autumn Sale, nominations for this year’s Steam Awards are underway and we’d like to ask for your support by nominating Empires of the Undergrowth for the Labor of Love Award.



In the years since Early Access release, we’ve continued to improve Empires of the Undergrowth with huge, game-expanding updates - but we’re not done yet. We know all too well that our tiny team takes their time on the major updates, but we do that in the name of quality - and your kindness in supporting that allows us to take a considered approach. We couldn’t be more grateful, so this isn’t just our labor of love - it’s yours too!

Over the past year, we’ve been working on the following:

• A whole bunch of changes to custom games, including Skirmish - a new way to play freeplay maps.
  
• More up-to-date artwork for the beach and rotting log levels, bringing them in line with the visual fidelity of the more recent parts of the game - our aim is not just to finish the game, but have it be at its best possible quality too.
  
• Extended the climbing system to many more creatures in the game, really helping us settle into the skin-crawling feeling of ants crawling over everything!
  
• Working towards completing the systems and artwork for our final release, tier 5 – which will feature 3 new campaign levels set in an as-yet unrevealed location. Then a final climactic formicarium challenge which the scientist has been preparing your colony for!
  
• Bug fixes (ha!)
  
• And many more updates!
  

We wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you, the community, supporting our game throughout development and with each update we’ve brought to Empires of the Undergrowth. We are incredibly grateful for your support, and we know there will be a lot of competition for this award, so your nomination means the world to us. Please check the nominate button that’s part of this post if you would like to consider us for the Labor of Love award for the 2023 Steam Awards.

Thank you,

The Slug Disco team

With the start of the Autumn Sale, nominations for this year’s Steam Awards are underway and we’d like to ask for your support by nominating Empires of the Undergrowth for the Labor of Love Award.



In the years since Early Access release, we’ve continued to improve Empires of the Undergrowth with huge, game-expanding updates - but we’re not done yet. We know all too well that our tiny team takes their time on the major updates, but we do that in the name of quality - and your kindness in supporting that allows us to take a considered approach. We couldn’t be more grateful, so this isn’t just our labor of love - it’s yours too!

Over the past year, we’ve been working on the following:

• A whole bunch of changes to custom games, including Skirmish - a new way to play freeplay maps.
  
• More up-to-date artwork for the beach and rotting log levels, bringing them in line with the visual fidelity of the more recent parts of the game - our aim is not just to finish the game, but have it be at its best possible quality too.
  
• Extended the climbing system to many more creatures in the game, really helping us settle into the skin-crawling feeling of ants crawling over everything!
  
• Working towards completing the systems and artwork for our final release, tier 5 – which will feature 3 new campaign levels set in an as-yet unrevealed location. Then a final climactic formicarium challenge which the scientist has been preparing your colony for!
  
• Bug fixes (ha!)
  
• And many more updates!
  

We wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you, the community, supporting our game throughout development and with each update we’ve brought to Empires of the Undergrowth. We are incredibly grateful for your support, and we know there will be a lot of competition for this award, so your nomination means the world to us. Please check the nominate button that’s part of this post if you would like to consider us for the Labor of Love award for the 2023 Steam Awards.

Thank you,

The Slug Disco team

We’ve fixed and changed a few things in our ongoing optional beta - if you aren’t participating yet and would like to, see the previous post for details on how to join.



[h2]Fixes[/h2]

• 3.1 Hard achievement now correctly says ‘Boundary Dispute’ rather than ‘Shoot the Messenger’
  
• 2.1 Extreme with challenge mode will now spawn tiger beetle larvae
  
• 3.2 ‘Sitting Ducks’ achievement now only fails if an ant tile is upgraded to 3, not any tile
  
• Formicarium Challenge 3 Extreme difficulty now possible
  
• Fixed uber praying mantis, spiny devil and whip spider not being climbable
  
• Fixed an AI chamber building issue in Sand Spit
  
• Fixed an AI construction layout issue in Imprisoned
  
• Fixed amphibians using their swim animation underground
  
• Removed a floating seed in Strawclutch
  
• Pressing Esc during difficulty selection will no longer lead to a UI overlap
  
• Small beach wolf spider given correct hat
  

[h2]Changes[/h2]

• Formicarium Challenge 3:
  
  • Easy difficulty now slightly easier
    
  • Enemy queen no longer has abilities on Normal as well as Easy
    
  • Mole crickets and praying mantises no longer have food reduction on harder difficulties
• Tooltips on freeplay sliders will now appear faster
  
• Uber mole cricket now climbable
  
• Added latest localisations
  
• Added some decorative rocks to Imprisoned
  

[h2]Known Issues[/h2]

We’ve run out of time for this patch, and these issues are known but didn’t make it in this time (or we don’t yet have enough information on them) - they’ll be fixed next week once we figure them out.

If you are experiencing any of the following and have a save game file that demonstrates them, please send us an email to [email protected] with the save files attached (the instructions on how to find your files are in this thread)

• Ghost hybrids from older saves
  
• Enemies stuck in nest entrances on Sand Spit
  
• Something activating random caverns in freeplay
  
• Issues with dragonfly landing and dying on Imprisoned
  
• Wrong rewards displayed on easy in FC1 and FC2
  

With the start of the Autumn Sale, nominations for this year’s Steam Awards are underway and we’d like to ask for your support by nominating Empires of the Undergrowth for the Labor of Love Award.



In the years since Early Access release, we’ve continued to improve Empires of the Undergrowth with huge, game-expanding updates - but we’re not done yet. We know all too well that our tiny team takes their time on the major updates, but we do that in the name of quality - and your kindness in supporting that allows us to take a considered approach. We couldn’t be more grateful, so this isn’t just our labor of love - it’s yours too!

Over the past year, we’ve been working on the following:

• A whole bunch of changes to custom games, including Skirmish - a new way to play freeplay maps.
  
• More up-to-date artwork for the beach and rotting log levels, bringing them in line with the visual fidelity of the more recent parts of the game - our aim is not just to finish the game, but have it be at its best possible quality too.
  
• Extended the climbing system to many more creatures in the game, really helping us settle into the skin-crawling feeling of ants crawling over everything!
  
• Working towards completing the systems and artwork for our final release, tier 5 – which will feature 3 new campaign levels set in an as-yet unrevealed location. Then a final climactic formicarium challenge which the scientist has been preparing your colony for!
  
• Bug fixes (ha!)
  
• And many more updates!
  

We wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you, the community, supporting our game throughout development and with each update we’ve brought to Empires of the Undergrowth. We are incredibly grateful for your support, and we know there will be a lot of competition for this award, so your nomination means the world to us. Please check the nominate button that’s part of this post if you would like to consider us for the Labor of Love award for the 2023 Steam Awards.

Thank you,

The Slug Disco team