Wooden Ocean News

7/10/2023

v8.0.2 Hotfix and Balancing

New Features:
Some common enemies can now transform on death.

Balancing:
Increased Violet's stats by 10%.
Increased damage of tier 0 spells by 10%.
Reduced final multiplier of light spells by 20%.
Reduced defense aspect of gravity spells by 20%.
Reduced realism shard costs for candy boxes by 10%.
Increased realism shard costs for single piece
candies by 20-25%.
AP Souls now give +5 instead of +3.
NG+ now has a small effect on store level.

Misc:
Fixed candy boxes that were not working.
Fixed infinity potions from crashing game.
Fixed NG+ talents that were not transferring over.

6/20/2023

v8.0.1 Hotfix

New Features:
If 200 generic books are read, then Violet will
say a random line and move on. (doubled knowledge
from reading generic books) (this doesn't apply to
all generic books) (previous saves begin at 0 books
on this concept)

Balancing:
Greatly increased damage multiplier of cannons.
Reduced starting damage of Ghost Ship.
Reduced base damage of cannons. (these 3 changes
combined give more purpose to leveling ghost ship)
Further increased population growth rate for each
NG+ from triple to quadruple.
Futher increased Hotel growth rate for each NG+ from
triple to quadruple.
Futher increased Golem growth rate for each NG+ from
triple to quintuple.
Futher increased Ghost Ship growth rate for each NG+
from quadruple to quintuple.

Misc:
Due to NG+ bugs, all previous NG+ saves will receive
+5 tech levels, +10 charisma, and +15 knowledge per
NG+.
Fixed bank accounts being deleted on NG+.
Fixed ghost ship construction bonus for NG+.
Placed fail safes for ghost ship and academia progress.
Placed a fail safe on NG+ amount. (NG+2 and NG+3 are
available no matter what) (still don't know what
the original cause was) (hopefully this fixes a
population issue regarding NG+)
Fixed bar audio in Southern Undercity.
Fixed Seed of Life interaction in Buried Ritual.
Slightly improved graphics to basic ice spell.

6/14/2023

v8.0 Year 8

New Features:
Improved various graphics.
Improved various sound effects.

Misc:
Slightly improved prologue.

5/28/2023

7.2.2 Hotfix

New Features:
Created animations for Prepare spells.
Improved animations for various spells.
Added 10 new monsters throughout game.
Replaced Omen with a new super boss.
Cosmic Keys added to loot tables. (these are
extremely rare and currently have no use)
Two new items can now be crafted by the PoM
inside of the Hotel.

Balancing:
Wet status now lasts 10 turns instead of 5.
Wet status is no longer removed after combat.

Misc:
NG+ is temporarily infinite. (this was done
to find the source of a bug)
Aiming is now removed after combat.
Fixed a few resistances on various enemies.
Fixed NG+ not giving proper AP on skill reset.
Fixed PoM located in last level.

5/21/2023

7.2.1 Misc

Misc:
Fixed memory scene.
Fixed a few instances of Alex talking while not in party.
Fixed mace formulas. (skills that bypassed a portion
of the target's defense, now properly do so)
Fixed text for Mass Cadium.