Beasts of Bermuda News

[h2]Coahuilaceratops[/h2]
+Added Coahuilaceratops as a new playable creature
-The Coahuilaceratops is an omnivore and requires both meat and plant food in reasonable proportions to meet its diet
-Coahuilaceratops has built in +2 in Intimidation when dropping comfort of non-grouped players. This stacks with additional talents and inherits into Intimidation
-The Coahuilaceratops can turn in place, and does so while crouching
-The Secondary Attack is a hard-hitting gore attack, which behaves very similarly to that of a stomp. It also, however, deals knockback when it hits
-Attacking the Coahuilaceratops from the front results in it taking significantly reduced damage due to its large, protective shield

[h2]New Dietary System[/h2]
+Dietary System has been implemented alongside the release of Coahuilaceratops to support its Omnivore status

There are four diet qualities you can have: +Unhealthy Diets
-An unhealthy diet is met if any one of your dietary requirements are below the "Danger" threshold
-The reason for your unhealthy diet will be shown as a red debuff condition in the corner of the screen, which explains which requirement you are deficient in
-In order to remedy an unhealthy diet, one must eat the food or mineral type they are deficient in
-An unhealthy diet results in slower stamina regeneration, slower sprinting speed, and faster stamina drain

+Poor Diets
-Above an unhealthy diet is a poor diet
-A poor diet is met if any one of your dietary requirements are below the "Warning" threshold while all requirements still remain above the "Danger" threshold
-The reason for your poor diet will be shown as an orange debuff condition in the corner of the screen, which explains which requirement you are craving
-In order to remedy a poor diet, one must eat the food or mineral type they are deficient in
-A poor diet has no negative effects. It simply serves as a warning, stating you are craving a certain food or mineral.
-If foods of the improper types are continuously consumed while you are in a poor diet state, you will develop an unhealthy diet, deficient in the requirement you did not meet

+Balanced Diets
-A balanced diet is met if you have no dietary cravings or deficiencies, which would place you at a poor or unhealthy diet
-A balanced diet carries no buff or debuff with it
-Fresh spawns and saved creatures from previous save files will load in with balanced diets

+Superb Diets
-A superb diet is met if all of your dietary requirements meet the "Superb" dietary requirement
-While your diet is superb, you will see a green, positive status condition in the corner of the screen
-A superb diet allows eggs to gestate faster and allows you to incur less of a movement speed penalty while carrying objects such as foliage or meat and while gestating eggs

+General
-It should be observed that we deliberately chose not to make superb diets feel mandatory. They provide a couple nice, circumstantial, non-combat related buffs
-In order to quickly check your diet, you can find information about all of your dietary requirements on the Character screen (O menu, by default)
-Hatchlings have trivial dietary requirements. As they grow up, the requirements begin to come into play
-In order to see a more detailed breakdown of your dietary requirements and status, you can expand the stats on the Character screen to see a full dietary synopsis
-It is possible that we may add more dietary requirements in the future, potentially with unique buffs and debuffs for exceeding or ignoring the requirements. If people like the system, it's likely we'll expand upon it but for now we tried to keep it very simple, easy, and non-punitive
-Food combat logging messages now show what kind of food you're receiving from a particular eating event


[h3]Omnivore Dietary Requirements[/h3]
-Pachycephalosaurus and Coahuilaceratops are both omnivores
-Omnivores must eat both plants and meat in sufficient quantities to balance their diet
-Fish, player carcasses, or carrion (map-spawned carcasses) all contribute towards a general meat category for omnivores
[h3]Piscivore Dietary Requirements[/h3]
-Tropeognathus, Pteranodon, Ichthyovenator, and Elasmosaurus are all piscivores
-Piscivores must eat both fish and meat in sufficient quantities to balance their diet
-Player carcasses and carrion (map-spawned carcasses) both contribute towards a general meat category for piscivores
[h3]Carnivore Dietary Requirements[/h3]
-The Kronosaurus, Mosasaurus, Velociraptor, Megalosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, and Acrocanthosaurus are all carnivores
-Carnivores must eat player carcasses in order to obtain a superb diet, which shows up as a "Meat" category for them
-Carnivores cannot have a poor or unhealthy diet due to the requirement that player carcasses be consumed to meet this requirement
[h3]Herbivore Dietary Requirement[/h3]
-Parasaurolophus, Apatosaurus, Saichania, Lurdusaurus, and Oryctodromeus require salt in their diets
-Ancestral Plains, Rival Shores, Forest Island, Test_Performance, and DM_Caldera now have numerous salt crystals placed around the shorelines of the maps
-Salt does not give food
-In order to obtain a superb diet, you must meet 100% of your salt dietary requirement. You can exceed it up to 133%
-If you are full on salt (133%), you cannot eat more salt
-Salt cannot be carried
-Salt cannot be eaten by creatures who do not need to eat it

[h2]Reincarnation Mechanic[/h2]
+A Reincarnation mechanic has been added to the game
-Creatures that are at least 0.8 in size can now be reincarnated
-In order to reincarnate, one must select a dead creature of at least 0.8 growth on the Save Select screen and then click the new Reincarnate button
-When a creature is reincarnated, a new juvenile of that species will show up in the player's Save Select screen in place of the creature that was selected for reincarnation
-The juvenile will receive a skin that would result from the reincarnated creature breeding with itself
-The juvenile will receive inherits that would be similar to that of the reincarnated creature breeding with itself
-The probability the juvenile will receive inherits is heavily tied to the quality of the reincarnated creature's Trials scores
-Good power Trials will improve the likelihood of inheriting power talents
-Good mobility Trials will improve the likelihood of inheriting mobility talents
-Good survival Trials will improve the likelihood of inheriting survival talents
-Doing poorly on Trials of a specific category does not make you more likely to inherit talents in other categories at the expense of that category
-Deity pledges and sacrifices apply to these inherit calculations exactly as they do when computing resurrection point values
-The juvenile will spawn at a random, appropriate spawn point on the map when first selected for play
-The 0.8+ growth, dead creature will be permanently lost, fully deleted from the game's save data and not available for resurrection or reincarnation, even by an administrator
-Skins can be edited on the reincarnated creature
-Reincarnations use the same gender as the previous creature

[h2]Replay System[/h2]
+Replays have been added to the game, but be warned the recordings can be a bit choppy sometimes
-To access replays, visit the Escape Menu and select the new Replays option
-Here, you will be able to either start a replay, stop a replay, or view your replays
-Replay files can be shared between players so they should be a huge help for the moderation of servers
-Replays support admin viewing. For this to work, the player needs to play a replay that was generated on the server they are admin on (be it by them or an other player), and load this replay while being logged onto said server.
-Replays can be enabled to automatically record every time the player starts playing. If so, they will start a new file each time the player switches creatures
-While automatically recording, the replay files will also delete after a specified number of days. This can be set in the Gameplay Options UI
-The Replay controls UI visibility can be toggled using the toggle hud key, or by pressing the button for it on the bottom right of the screen when in replays


[h2]New Emote Wheel[/h2]
+Emote Wheel UI:
-A new emote wheel has been added to the game
-By default, it is bound to the V key. It can be changed in the Keybinds settings for the game
-The emote wheel provides easy access to all 5 vocalizations, along with mate, nest, invite, and kick. Admins can also server kick, server mute, and server ban players through the emote wheel
-While holding the mouse over the mate, nest, invite, kick, and admin options on the emote wheel, a tooltip will show you who you're performing the action on or will tell you why you cannot do this action
-The emote wheel opens when you begin holding its keybind down and will perform the action your mouse is over when you release the key


[h2]Arboreal Nesting[/h2]
+Arboreal Nests have been added to the game
-Arboreal nests are larger nests that can be laid in trees or on large rocks
-Arboreal nests have collision and can be sat in. You can also place eggs or other carried objects into the nest
-The Tropeognathus and Pteranodon can lay arboreal nests by perching on an appropriate surface, such as a tree branch
-The Velociraptor can now lay arboreal nests if they have at least 3 points in the Arboreal talent

[h2]Easy Anti-Cheat[/h2]
+Easy Anti-cheat Integration
-Beasts of Bermuda now runs behind the protection of Easy Anti Cheat
-This will prevent any third-party software from running with Beasts of Bermuda
For information or support regarding Easy Anti-Cheat please visit their website.


[h2]Skins[/h2]
+Added the following skins:
-Added Acro Skin: Bumble by Twilightwolf & Natahi4
-Added Acro Skin: Autumn by Twilightwolf & Natahi4
-Added Para Skin: Melon by Twilightwolf
-Added Para Skin: Nomad by Triptrap & GameVideosForLife
-Added Rex Skin: Avian by Twilightwolf
-Added Krono Skin: Duckweed by Twilightwolf & Natahi4
-Added Krono Skin: Sandshifter by Twilightwolf
-Added Krono Skin: Banded by TeaTimeJess & DJZ
-Added Coah Skin: Wicked by Triptrap
-Added Coah Skin: Fractal by Triptrap & DJZ
-Added Coah Skin: Salmon by Twilightwolf & Natahi4
-Added Coah Skin: Potato Beetle by TeatimeJess and Natahi4
-Added Coah Skin: Foal by Triptrap
-Added Coah Skin: Jupiter by Twilightwolf & Natahi4

[h2]Map Changes[/h2]
+Map Work
-Turned off collision on the tiny palms on Rival Shores / Jungle
-Added small, new area behind the mountain on Rival Shores' Jungle Mountain
-Fixed various holes and issues on Rival Shores and Ancestral Plains
-Replaced several types of foliage on Rival Shores' Jungle Mountain
-Rebalanced water source values on Forest Island. Most have more water
-Removed about 40% of the seaweed on Ancestral Plains
-Removed 50% of the seaweed on Rival Shores

[h2]Quality of Life: Adjustments & Mechanics[/h2]
+Mechanics: Nests can now be attacked and destroyed by repeatedly attacking the nest with any damaging attack
+Mechanics: While holding the scent key, all creatures can now see which plants they are able to eat by seeing a periodic highlight effect on all nearby, interactable foliage
-This accounts for growth and creature type
-Comfort flowers, crystals, and other objects like these also will show this effect
-There is a setting to disable this effect in Gameplay Options
+Mechanics: If less than 1.0 growth, resurrection no longer takes any growth away
+Mechanics: Fires no longer spread super slow at the start, which was causing them to fizzle too often

+QoL: Reduced Krono's idle sound volume by 75%
+QoL: Reduced Krono's eat sound volume by 90%
+QoL: Reduced Krono's attack sound volume by 72%
+QoL: The /l local chat now broadcasts to all players within a 100 meter radius of your character, rather than changing based on character size
+QoL: Added new loading prompts for diets, pledging, and on-screen prompt settings.
+QoL: Improved cave lighting so the transitions between outside and inside is much more natural feeling
+QoL: Improved Acro's textures (normal map)
+QoL: Updated Tyrannosaurus model high poly and textures
+QoL: You now receive an Incubating status icon if sitting or laying close enough to eggs to incubate them
+QoL: Added Ichthy claw and spike texture
+QoL: All talents have been reset due to balance changes with this patch
+QoL: Orys can now find salt crystals in their burrows


[h2]Balance Changes[/h2]
+Balance: Reduced Rex's bite damage to 425, down from 450
+Balance: The talent Unbreakable no longer mitigates against the slowing effects injury has on dart speed
+Balance: The talent Constitution now stacks additively with the health increase received by being overweight, rather than multiplicatively
+Balance: Taking damage from a non-flyer while in flight now sets you into a falling state and resets all flight-based momentum
+Balance: Knockback is now heavily mitigated by Sai's Spiky Shield ability
+Balance: Being overweight now provides less mitigation against knockback effects
+Balance: Increased fall damage thresholds for all creatures by 10%
+Balance: Saichania now takes 20% less knockback damage at all times
+Balance: Greatly increased Tropeo dart speed, and slightly reduced dart duration
+Balance: Reduced the effectiveness of the talent Unbreakable by 33%
+Balance: The Turn while Stomping talent now slightly improves turn rate further at 4/3 and 5/3
+Balance: The Quick Takeoff talent is now less effective, with 3/3 having the old 5/3 talent coefficient
+Balance: Increased Pachy's swim sprint speed to 350, up from 300
+Balance: Increased Pachy's swim walk speed to 250, up from 200
+Balance: The Saichania now has the Bludgeon attribute, allowing it to ignore any natural armor other creatures have
-Currently, this allows it to ignore the protection Coahuilaceratops' facial shield offers it+Fixed a couple bugs related to mutated skins to properly integrate "Locked" patterns from mutations
+Balance: Serrated Teeth is now just as effective as Sharp Teeth at dealing increased damage to players with large health pools
+Balance: Adjusted sleep root offset to make meshing into walls more difficult
+Balance: Adjusted hatchling sai weight so it's small enough to be picked up by its parents until higher growth levels
+Balance: It no longer costs stamina to enter flight from the surface of the Ocean
+Balance: Saichania now has a built in +2 stress resistance when negating comfort drops from other, nearby creatures
+Balance: Reduced the ability cost of digging or filling an ory tunnel by 40%

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]
+Fixed: Sterile skins are now properly sterile. Code will attempt to use a fallback texture (from an other skin) if trying to use a texture from a sterile skin when generating the required patterns (base mask, normal, SSRM/DRM, etc).
+Fixed: Force respawning no longer allows a player to deny another player their carcass and hunt points for killing them
+Fixed: Picking up carcasses over edible foliage no longer destroys the foliage if you hold the use key
+Fixed: Eggs no longer cause a buffer overflow causing the creature to be unplayable, but are limited to 100 incubated eggs per creature
+Fixed: You can no longer lay a nest until you are mature enough to mate
+Fixed: Para now holds foliage properly in its jaw
+Fixed: Flyers now reset their momentum after entering a swimming state
+Fixed: Pachy can no longer spam charge after hitting a target with charge
+Fixed: Empty carcasses no longer prompt you to interact with them
+Fixed: Drinking water to get satiation while full on water now properly adds to Water Drank Trial
+Fixed: Strafing out of a body of water no longer gets you stuck moving that direction indefinitely
+Fixed: Forest fire ash no longer shows on the character
+Fixed: Removed tooltip from Adrenaline that suggests you move faster while low on health
+Fixed: Logging in near eggs no longer causes the warning that you're logging in near other big players
+Fixed: Death screen music getting stuck playing if you alt tab while the death screen is up
+Fixed: Chat messages not sent to global chat and chat commands no longer get blocked while using incognito mode if the player has global chat disabled
+Fixed: Ichthy leg issues with the new ichthy mesh
+Fixed: The carrying object indicator on the ory dirt jar HUD element now hides when you hide your HUD
+Fixed: Bleed particle effects should now properly despawn after 10 seconds
+Fixed: Tropeo can no longer take off while performing its wing beat animation
+Fixed: Clicking on the player list scroll bar no longer causes it to close
+Fixed: The 'There is no Escape' message on the screen now properly hides if you go to the character select screen while it is open

+Optimization: Optimized a CPU frame hitch associated with loading burrows

Pictures provided by: Jynn, Triptrap, & Thyrunnersaurus

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[h2]New Acrocanthosaurus[/h2]
+Added new Acrocanthosaurus model, with accompanying animations
Skins:
+Added Default Acro by Twilightwolf & Callie
+Added Catopuma Acro by Tserra & Natahi4
+Added Swift Claw Acro by Tserra & Gortys
+Added Plains Acro by Twilightwolf
+Added Civet Acro by Triptrap & DJZ
(+Updated Glimmer Acro by Twilightwolf & Natahi4)


[h2]New Kronosaurus[/h2]
+Added new Kronosaurus model, with accompanying animations
Skins:
+Added Oceanic Krono by Callie & Twilightwolf
+Added Mudskipper Krono by Soals & Triptrap
+Added Trekker Krono by Tserra & DJZ

[h2]Mechanics Changes[/h2]
[h3]Underwater Strafing Movement[/h3]
+Added underwater strafing to all creatures. This allows moving sideways, up, down, backwards, or along any diagonal while orienting towards your camera look direction
+The default keybind for Use is now F, rather than Q
+Added new keybind, Strafe Left. This currently only works while swimming. It defaults to Q
-This is an optional keybind
+Added new keybind, Strafe Right. This currently only works while swimming. It defaults to E
-This is an optional keybind
+Added new keybind, Strafe On. This currently only works while swimming. It defaults to Middle Mouse Button
-This is an optional keybind
-While held, the other movement keys strafe instead of turn
+While strafing underwater, all creatures will now rotate on the roll and pitch angles if moving side to side, or backwards

[h3]Aquatic Sleeping[/h3]
+Aquatics can now sleep. They can do so by pressing the rest key while swimming, and they will orient upwards and sleep like whales do!
-Krono, Elasmo, and Mosa now heal at the baseline "standing" rate while not asleep, and heal at the "sleeping" rate while sleeping

[h3]Incubated Buff[/h3]
+Eggs now grow 50% faster if a group member sits or lays down on the eggs
-The players in the eggs receive an "Incubated" buff to indicate this status

[h3]General[/h3]
+While darting, fish only get eaten while holding the use key
-If the use key was double tabbed to enter object pickup mode, they are now picked up rather than eaten while darting
-The use key also no longer stops movement while swimming unless you have a valid interaction target
+Crouched creatures no longer stress other creatures out and cause intimidation
+While in burrows, only burrowed creatures can stress you. While out of a burrow, only creatures outside of a burrow can stress you.
+Adjusted carcass scaling so hatchlings and juveniles grant less food than before
+Creatures can no longer drop more food on a carcass than the food they've eaten in their entire life, normalized across growth and size


[h2]Optimizations[/h2]
+Integrated AMD FidelityFX(r) Super Resolution. You can enable this in the graphics settings.
-Enabling this feature allows the game to render at lower resolution and upscale at runtime to the target resolution (eg. 1920x1080).
-This helps improve performance for GPUs supporting it.
-This feature will be unavailable on unsupported GPUs, and the option greyed-out.
+Vastly improved/optimized the server-side save file load code so that in parses in seconds, rather than minutes, even on huge files
+Big burrow actors now hide if the player is not in a burrow
+Set up proper LODs on deity statues
+Adjusted max size on many textures. Should result in less GPU VRAM usage

[h2]Quality of Life Changes[/h2]
+Further Edits to the Character screen (O Menu) to make it more readable and colorful
+The text on the Character screen now shows up in bright white while in colorblind mode
+Ichthy/Para Dirtmask edits from public feedback
+Adjusted the Ichthy dirtmask to have pink tints on the hands and muzzle instead of brown tints
+Adjusted/darkened the dirtmasks of rex and acro to handle being pure white better
+Improved the TAA feature a bit
+Improved keybind window to have widgets highlight when they are in an invalid state (no binding, for instance)
-Implemented optional bindings to the graphics window. Optional bindings will not highlight red when set to None on both bindings.
+Added scrollbar to the keybinds wid
+Reduced Tyrannosaurus' eat volume by 30%

[h2]Balance Changes[/h2]
[h3]General[/h3]
+Players go immune to being grabbed for a period of time after 3 successive grabs, down from 5
+Players now go immune to being intimidating roared for a period of time after 3 successive roars
+The Near Children buff now provides a flat 20% growth buff. It is no longer further increased from taking the talent Good Parent
+If taking Good Parent, while near your children you now grow as if you had fuller food, water, water satiation, and comfort
+Reset all talent trees for all creatures due to several talent tree edits and balance changes
+The talent Unbreakable now reduces the slowing effects injury has on dart

[h3]Acro[/h3]
+Increased growth speed by 50% until 1.0, where it then tapers back to normal between 1.0 and 1.2
+Increased max camera distance by 33%

[h3]Apato[/h3]
+Increased growth speed by 50% until 1.0, where it then tapers back to normal between 1.0 and 1.2
+Apato can now pick up heavier children
+Apato can no longer be grabbed under any circumstance once it is 0.9 growth or larger

[h3]Elasmo[/h3]
+Replaced Elasmo's Powerful Jaw talent with Thick Skull
+Elasmo can no longer exceed the grab growth requirement caps, which allowed it to grab creatures beyond (0.4 + BabySnatcher * 0.1) growth

[h3]Krono[/h3]
+Increased growth speed by 50% until 1.0, where it then tapers back to normal between 1.0 and 1.2
+Increased Krono's swim walk speed to 660, up from 550
+Increased Krono's swim sprint speed to 1125, up from 1050
+Decreased the cost of Kronosaurus' bite cost to 10, down from 12
+Increased Krono's base HP to 1850, up from 1700
+Reduced Swift Flippered's influence on Krono's turn rate while charging by 50%
+Increased Krono's base bite damage to 255, up from 252
+Reduced Krono's base lunge damage to 126, down from 252
+Reduced the air cost of lunge to 45, down from 60
+Reduced the stamina cost of lunge to 37.5, down from 50
+Reduced the ability tick cost of lunge to 1.5, down from 2
+Reduced the ability cost of lunge to 22.5, down from 30
+Reduced the ability refund lunge grants to 10, down from 20
+Krono's lunge now lasts 0.75 seconds baseline, down from 1
+The talent Swift Flippered no longer makes Krono's lunge charge up more quickly
+Lunge now takes 3.25 seconds to charge up, down from 4
+Reduced Kronosaurus turn rate while aiming Lunge by 50%
+Krono now has Slippery where Asphyxiation was
+Krono now has Sharp Teeth where Slippery was
+Krono now has Tough Stomach where Herbalist was

[h3]Megalosaurus[/h3]
+Increased Megalosaurus bite damage to 130, up from 115

[h3]Mosa[/h3]
+Increased growth speed by 50% until 1.0, where it then tapers back to normal between 1.0 and 1.2
+Reduced Mosasaurus' adult length to 13m, down from 16.5m
+Reduced mosa grab size scaling beyond 1.0

[h3]Pachy[/h3]
+Reduced Pachy's growth speed by 20% under all circumstances
+Adjusted pachy's charge injury scaling such that it deals less extreme injury at high charge velocities
+Reduced pachys turn rate while charging and jumping by 30%
+Pachy now stops charging if it hits a target
+Pachy's jump now costs 13 stamina, up from 10
+Replaced Pachy's Sturdy talent with Unbreakable, and placed Acrobat where Unbreakable was
+Decreased Pachy's headbutt cooldown to 1.2 seconds, down from 1.33
+Increased Pachy charge's damage but not injury by 20%

[h3]Para[/h3]
+Increased max camera distance by 33%

[h3]Ptera[/h3]
+Ptera Talent Tree Edits:
-Swiftness is now in talent slot M11
-Aqua Affinity is now in talent slot M21
-Quick Takeoff is now in talent slot M5
-Nimble Footed is now in talent slot M12
-Improved Braking is now in talent slot M42
-Strong Legs is now in talent slot MS1

[h3]Saichania[/h3]
+Increased growth speed by 9% until 1.0, where it then tapers back to normal between 1.0 and 1.2

[h3]Tropeognathus[/h3]
+Tropeo Talent Tree Edits:
-Swiftness is now in talent slot M11
-Aqua Affinity is now in talent slot M21
-Quick Takeoff is now in talent slot M5
-Swift Wings is now in talent slot M41
-Nimble Footed is now in talent slot M12
-Strong Wings is now in talent slot M42
-Strong Legs is now in talent slot MS1

[h3]Tyrannosaurus[/h3]
+Increased growth speed by 50% until 1.0, where it then tapers back to normal between 1.0 and 1.2
+Increased max camera distance by 33%


[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]
+Elasmosaurus can now grab stuff while it has eggs
+The old para model is no longer accessable through the console command possessentity para
+Players can now be invited to groups that have eggs in them
+Eggs no longer contribute to soft or hard caps if using mixed herding limits
+Poor animation behavior when leaving the crouched state while moving and looking to the left or right
+Poor animation behavior when entering the crouched state
+Server-side crash related to resurrecting creatures under certain conditions
+Players can now deal or receive damage immediately after using portals
+Large burrow actors can no longer spawn close enough to the surface to poke through the landscape mesh
+When using megalo's ability negative bias should no longer have two minus signs. Bias' visual look also matches the new O menu.
+Para should no longer receive repeated chances to change gender
+Fixed the Keybinds bug where missing axis bindings would get broken completely and unfixable without deleting the client saved data. (aka the "None move forwards" bug)
+Unlisted exploits - they'll be in the notes when the patch is released
+Water no longer counts as a mesh for mesh hit detection, blocking player attacks
+Fixed a scenario where accounts could not get their dead creatures resurrected in certain specific scenarios
+Eggs no longer trigger the "You may spawn near other, big players..." warning when spawning in
+Ory burrow visual effects now properly apply when entering a burrow while in a cave state
+Elasmo's auto-target now properly scales with its character mesh for growths greater than 1.0
+Swift Flippered now properly reduces the ability tick cost of using Lunge
+Characters cloaked with Elusiveness no longer give intimidation
+Crouch animation play rate now syncs properly to movement speed for creatures less than 1.0 growth
+Fixed server side crash when resurrecting creatures that are not at index 0 of the character list, with multiple other entities.
+Exploit that allowed players to create chains of grabbed creatures to ultimately place players outside or under the map
+Exploit that allowed players to grab other players indefinitely if they logged out and back in while holding a player

[h3]Deity Shrines[/h3]
+There are six total deity shrines on Forest Island, Rival Shores, and Ancestral Plains that players may visit for the purposes of pledging or sacrificing.
-These shrines come in three different types, representing the Mobility, Power, and Survival Deities
-There is one of each type under the Ocean, and one more of each type on land.
+There is a new Trial called Shrines Visited. This trial requires one to visit each shrine.
-Non-aquatics only need to visit the shrines that are on land, and aquatics only need to visit the shrines under the Ocean, but Lurdu and Ichthy must visit all six.
-You do not need to pledge to a shrine to successfully "visit" it.
+If killed while in the presence of a deity shrine, that death counts as a sacrifice to that deity.
+Players do not grow in the presence of a deity shrine.
+Creatures killed in the influence of deity shrines drop empty carcasses.

[h3]Pledging or Sacrificing to a Deity[/h3]
+Each deity shrine can be interacted with to give the player the option to either pledge or sacrifice themselves.
+If a creature that is not pledged or sacrificed dies, it is worth 75% of its previous value when used to resurrect a creature.
+If a creature is pledged to a deity, the Trials score associated with that deity is changed to equal the value of the second best Trials score.
-Creature point values are broken down and shown pre Trials category both on the save select screen and in the prompt shown when you pledge to a deity at a shrine
-These point values are based on a combination of how long the creature has been played, and how well the player has done on that creature's Trials
-If a creature has these point values: Power = 100, Mobility = 150, Survival = 125, a pledge to the Power deity shrine will bump the Power category up to 125. A pledge to the Mobility or Survival deity will not increase any individual Trials category unless the player earns enough Power Trials score to surpass one of these other two
-This allows players to avoid or neglect a specific Trial or collection of Trials and focus on the other two if they wish to, for example, ignore the hunting / power Trials
+If a creature sacrifices themselves at a shrine to a specific deity, the corresponding point value in that Trials category is instead set to the maximum of the three Trials categories.
-In the example above, this means sacrificing to the Power deity, which is done by visiting the Power deity shrine on the map, will result in their Power score being set to 150
+You can change your pledge at any time by visiting the appropriate deity shrine. The previous pledge is overwritten by the new pledge.

[h3]Resurrecting Dead Creatures[/h3]
+Dead creatures can be resurrected by a new, in-game UI which can be found on the save selection screen
+When selecting a dead creature, the option to resurrect that creature will now be present
+While resurrecting a creature, the player is given the option to sacrifice dead or living creatures from their select screen to meet the cost of a resurrection
+If the cost of resurrection is not met, the value of the sacrificed creatures will instead be subtracted from the target's resurrection cost
-This allows players to chip away at the cost of resurrection for a large creature that may be too expensive to resurrect at the time
+The amount of points a creature gives in order to revive another creature is not equal to its own cost to be revived.
-Point values are always broken down into three categories: Power, Mobility, and Survival
-The cost to resurrect a creature is based on this formula:
If Growth > 1.1, Cost = 30 * (Growth / 1.1) ^ 5
If Growth -The point value of a creature when used for meeting a resurrection cost is based on this formula:
PointValue = NumMinutesPlayed * TrialCategoryScore, where TrialCategoryScore ranges from 0 to 1.0 based on the average scores of the Trials in that category
-If dead and neither sacrificed nor pledged, this PointValue is 75% of what it would be from the calculation above
+When resurrected, creatures also receive a loss of some growth
-This growth penalty is very small for smaller growths, but climbs for large growths
-Here are some examples
-For a 1.0 creature, this means it will resurrect as a 0.8625 growth creature at the cost of 25 Trials points
-For a 1.5 creature, this means it will resurrect as a 1.2375 growth creature at the cost of 141 Trials points
-For a 2.0 creature, this means it will resurrect as a 1.6125 growth creature at the cost of 596 Trials points
-For a 2.5 creature, this means it will resurrect as a 1.9875 growth creature at the cost of 1819 Trials points
-For a 3.0 creature, this means it will resurrect as a 2.3625 growth creature at the cost of 4527 Trials points
-If a player resurrects with too many talent points spent for their reduced growth, their talent bonuses will not be active until they remove some talents of their choice. This is done by opening the Talents screen and clicking on talents


[h2]New Parasaurolophus[/h2]
+The new parasaurolophus model, set of sounds, and accompanying animations have been added to the game to replace the older para
+There are currently five skins associated with the new para. Players who log in from older para saves will be given a new skin and will also be allowed to customize or change it once by visiting the character menu and hitting Dino Customization
-Added Darkfoot Para by TeaTimeJess & Natahi4
-Added Savannah Para by Twilightwolf and Natahi4
-Added Default Para by Twilightwolf and Callie
-Added Bison Para by Twilightwolf & Natahi4
-Added Pharaoh Para by TeaTimeJess & TripTrap
+Para now has a gender-specific morph on its model. This morph starts showing up as you grow larger and does not show in the juvenile stage
-Players logging onto a para saved from the public branch will be immediately prompted to change gender. You only get to do this once, so choose wisely

[h2]New Character Stats UI[/h2]
+The 'O menu' has been redone
-Note that food and water satiation now only show up when they are non-zero, and that injury and bleed damage show up on the status condition icons


[h2]New Death Screen[/h2]
+After dying, a new screen now shows up rather than the regular Escape menu.
+In the top-left corner, there is now a dropdown arrow that allows one to view character stats, server stats, and a combat history leading up to their death
-This combat history shows all recent damage dealt and received
-It also contains creature type, gender, growth, coordinates, server, and time
+The new death screen should now show you why you died if it was from comfort-related or status-related conditions

[h2]Talent Hints[/h2]
+Smelling other players should now hint as to what kind of talent build they have, alongside which talent may be their best
-This hint prompt suggests what their first and second most talented trees are, and then suggests one of their strongest talents
-The talent portion of the hint changes once per hour to a new, randomly selected talent that may be tied for their best talent at the current time
-Inherits are factored into what this hint prompt displays


[h2]Burrow Changes[/h2]
+Several large objects can now be found underground while digging in ory burrows
-This currently includes large ribs, a vertebrae column, boulders, and a spooky acro statue
+Adjusted the spawn rate and priority of the cucumbers in ory burrows such that they are as common as the potato
+Increased the amount of water satation cucumbers give to 3.0, up from 1.5
+If talented into Burrow Master, the Oryctodromeus can now move decorative objects around in their burrows
-One object can be stashed at a time, and while carrying an object an icon appears on the dirt jar HUD element
-One point into Burrow Master allows moving non-edible, non-solid, non-special objects
-Two points into Burrow Master allows moving edible and solid, non-special objects
-Three or more points into Burrow Master allows moving all objects, including special objects such as crystals and ruins
-The cost to pick up and stash an object is 2x the cost of digging a tunnel node, and is reduced with Swift Claws
-The Ability key will now do this, and will either stash the object in the node you're standing on or drop the stashed object, depending on whether or not you're carrying a stashed object
+Crystals, rocks, and other solid decorative objects now reappear if a tunnel node contained that decorative element becomes once again suitable for its placement
+Reduced the volume of the crystals in ory burrows by 70%

[h2]Balance Changes[/h2]
+Adjusted Tropeo's damage so it deals significantly less as a hatchling, juvenile, or subadult
+Megalo's Identify ability is expanded: 4/3 reveals gender and 5/3 reveals food/water satiation
-Note that these won't show up on the UI if the target does not have any food or water satiation
+Para can now highlight any creature that is not in its group, rather than just non-herbivores
+The Para's alarm call now alerts the group chat of what they spotted
+Increased Megalosaurus' turn rate by 10%
+Stiffened Megalo's tail by 33% so it isn't as easy to hit during a fight


[h2]Map Changes[/h2]
+Tightened the Out of Bounds volumes on RS (they were too far away from the playable area)
+Added the deity shrines on Rival Shores, AP, and Forest Island
-There are six in total. Three are under the Ocean and three are on land
-The Shrines Visited Trial only requires visiting shrines appropriate for your creature. Non-flying Semi-Aquatics need to visit all 6
+Updated the forest to jungle bridge so that it is easier to jump at low tide, but still hard to grab players
+Added new biome-specific ambient sounds to both Rival Shores and Ancestral Plains

[h2]Mechanics[/h2]
+Consuming Water Satiation now counts towards the Water Drank Trial
+Consuming Food Satiation now coounts towards the Food Eaten Trial
+Dry lightning now adds to the Storm Time Weathered Trial
+The Distance Traveled Trial no longer applies for the Oryctodromeus
Added a new Trial for the Oryctodromeus - Distance Traveled Underground
-This requires about 1/3 the total travel distance of the previous Trial, but only counts while traveling while in a burrow
+Added a new Trial for Lurdusaurus and Ichthyovenator - Distance Swam
-This requires about 1/2 the total travel distance of the Distance Traveled Trial, but only counts while swimming
+Added a new Trial for all creatures - Species Identified
-This requires sniffing creatures of different species. It triggers if you sniff a player directly, so long as they are large enough to leave behind a scent trail.
+Forest fires now ramp up in spread rate for the first 90 seconds, giving players a larger window of time to see a fresh forest fire and escape to safety before it aggressively spreads
+Forest fires can no longer spawn within 100 meters of a player
+Reduced the maximum spread rate of forest fires
+Creatures marked dirty can now view their Trials, but cannot receive additional Trials score.
+SetWeather no longer increases the Storm Time Weathered Trial. ForceStorm still does.
+Console-spawned carcasses no longer grant progress towards any Trials
+Console-spawned plants no longer grant progress towards any Trials
+Mesh bites should now be more stringent, and should reject more cases where players are partially occluded by rocks or other objects
-This should remove the need for meshing-related biting or attacking to be moderated, as the game now handles this
+After logging in, players can now not deal or receive damage for 8 seconds
+Keen Senses no longer highlights players that are in the player's group
+The talent Sneaky now additionally reduces how long your scent trail is and, at 3/3, also makes it so you do not release scent while sitting or laying down


[h2]QoL Changes[/h2]
+If banned from a server, it now shows you how many hours the ban remains for and the reason why
+Blocking a player through the player list now mutes them completely in your chat, this includes any message sent by them in global, local, pack, dm, ...
+The player list is now only searchable by steam ID if you are an admin on the server
+Game now warns you if you try to spawn a saved creature near other big animals
+Players logging on no longer automatically join a group if they cannot normally join that group without admin assistance, unless an admin is present in the group at the time of logging on
+Reworked the Megalosaurus' Identity UI
-Note that if Food and/or Water satiation is at 0, it won't show on the UI even with the proper level of talents and inherits
+Dutch and Polish are now supported as in-game languages
+Added a new, improved Ichthy mesh and set of textures
+Creatures that die and get resurrected now get their stats (bleed, injury, etc) reset. This means that if you died with a lot of injury, your resurrected creature will have none.
+Added creature info on the dino select screen for Lurdusaurus, Saichania, and Kronosaurus

[h3]Environmental[/h3]
+Improved the wind sound effects
+The distant rumbling thunder sound now fades in before lightning strikes start happening
-This gives players a window of time where they can hear thunder approaching without the risk of being struck by lightning or witnessing the spawning of a forest fire
+Wind, Rain, and distant thunder rumbling sounds now turn off while the camera is underwater
+Edited rain weather effects to be more intense, and rain now blows with the direction of the wind
+Added a foggy effect while in caves
+While storming or windy, the Ocean's waves now get rough
+Cave lighting is now consistent regardless of time of day or weather outside

[h3]Server Control[/h3]
+Added a new function: ServerGlobalMute(DurationSeconds) which allows to globally mute the server for the provided duration, after which it'll lift automatically.
+Added a new function: SlowMode(DelaySeconds, DurationSeconds) which allows to create a slow mode on the chat globally with the specified "cooldown" and duration, after which it'll lift automatically.
-These functions only apply to global chat and are bypassed by admins.
+The observer camera now also shows a player's talent points when using the Identify ability on it.
-You must have enableallscreenmessages set in the console
-This will not show inherits that are beyond the player's current growth
+The ListTalentPoints console command now has a player name argument and now requires UseObserver permissions, rather than ModifyTalents permissions
-This will also not show inherits that are beyond the player's current growth
+Observer Cam's ability now displays if player has used commands and is dirty or even unsaveable
+Servers can now specify which herbivorous species can group with one-another through the game.ini config file
-It is possible to make arrangements such as this:
-Species A can group with species B, B can group with C, but A cannot group with C.
-All cases where A and C may be able to get into a group through B such as logging on and offline should be accounted for and blocked correctly
-By default, the config is set up such that all herbivores can group with one-another, which is the way it currently is on public branch
-Here is an example config. A server wishes for para and pachy to never be able to group with one-another, but wishes for both para and pachy to group with every other herbivore. They also wish for all other herbivores to group with one-another

!AllowedSpeciesGroups=ClearArray
+AllowedSpeciesGroups=(Group=(EDinoType::Apatosaurus, EDinoType::Saichania, EDinoType::Pachycephalosaurus, EDinoType::Oryctodromeus, EDinoType::Lurdusaurus))
+AllowedSpeciesGroups=(Group=(EDinoType::Apatosaurus, EDinoType::Saichania, EDinoType::Parasaurolophus, EDinoType::Oryctodromeus, EDinoType::Lurdusaurus)) 

[h3]Game Reporter[/h3]
Implemented a passive tool server side which allows broadcasting certain game events through Discord webhooks.
This can be used to see chat activity live in a specific discord channel for moderation purposes,
It can also be used to keep an eye on admin command usage activity and login/logout of anybody on the server, for moderation purposes.
-These are the config settings available for GameReporter (in your Game.ini file):
+Added group activity tracking for GR:
-This is enabled by the config variable bUseGroupActivityWebhook and the settings GroupActivityDiscordWebhook and GroupActivityDiscordIconURL.
-This webhook will track player joining and leaving groups along with parsing the online group members when joining and after leaving.
-It also shows the growth and species of each player
+The commands SlowMode and ServerGlobalMute now support 3 parameters affecting the local chat, the group chat, and DMs.
+Added a new config variable, bForceIgnoreGroupSpeciesCheckOnLogin
-When true, players logging onto creatures will automatically rejoin their groups, even if they violate species permissions
+Added a new admin command category, GroupInvitesOnly
-The only ability this admin category controls is the ability to invite other players to groups
-The 'Groups' category also allows inviting players to groups, but also allows usage of the admin command disbandallgroups
+Implemented Combat log Tracking for GameReporter …
-Config settings are:

 CombatActivityDiscordWebhook="webhook_url"
        CombatActivityDiscordIconURL="icon_url" (optional)
        bUseCombatActivityWebhook=True/False (to enable this feature on the server)
[GameReporter]
ChatReportDiscordWebhook="12345/example"
ChatReportIconURL="any/url/to/img"

LoginDiscordWebhook="12345/example"
LoginDiscordIconURL=""

AdminCmdDiscordWebhook="12345/example"
AdminCmdDiscordIcon="IconURL"

bUseChatWebhook=True
bUseLoginReportWebhook=True
bUseAdminCommandUsageWebhook=True

ChatReportDiscordWebhook: Chatlog sent over to Discord
LoginDiscordWebhook: Every login and logout will be sent to this webhook
AdminCmdDiscordWebhook: Admin command usage login webhook 

Note that these can use the same link if desired.
The webhook link needs to only be the channel number and webhook key, not the full discord webhook link.

 eg. `https://discordapp.com/api/webhooks/12345678/abcd` needs to be `12345678/abcd` 

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]
+Teleporting into a forest fire actor no longer catches you on fire if you are not actually near any flames
+Lurdusaurus' claw swipe attack now properly plays its animation on other clients
+Mosa's thrash damage is now properly reduced by Acro's intimidating roar
+Attempting to pick up plants while holding onto a carcass no longer destroys the plants
+Steam avatars no longer show through incognito mode if you mouse over the player's steam avatar on the player list
+Grabbed players no longer can be carried through portals, which resulted in a glitched state
+Eating multiple foliage elements at the same node in an ory burrow between digging and replacing the node is now handled properly
+Fixed a server side memory leak issue with objects being created asynchronously and not properly destroyed.
+Drowning and fall damage deaths now properly display on the death screen
+Several instances of combat log event-related texts not being translated into the correct language
+Several translation-related bugs. Some stuff needs translating to show up correctly in-game, however
+Aquatics now properly report they are breathing air, not water, in the combat logging messages
+Fix for the "failed to join server" error when joining a server after failing to join for some other reason
+The 'Turn while Stomping' talent no longer improves turn rate if it has an inherit, until you're big enough to see it
+The admin Server Manager window no longer crashes the client if there are too many saved profiles
+Pressing Spawn while viewing a creature's Trials on the save selection screen no longer gets the Trials screen stuck
+The status condition tooltip no longer shows if alt tabbed while not inside the Escape or Character screen, which resulted in it getting stuck onscreen
+The scroll position of the dino select screen creature info panel now properly resets when swapping to view other creatures
+The resurrection restore admin tool now properly shows the mouse cursor after closing if the player is using it from a UI such as the save select screen
+ The Health HUD orb now properly shows your HP remaining fraction when overweight

[h2]Mechanics Changes[/h2]
+When a player refuses a request to join the nest or to nest, or to mate, the requester gets temporarily "blocked" for these specific requests. The current cooldown is 2 minutes.

[h3]Forest Fires[/h3]
+The innate weather resistance of a non-swimmer creature now modifies how much damage they take from fires
-Apato and Sai have particularly high weather resistance stats
-Ichthy, Lurdu, Mosa, Krono, and Elasmo are not influenced by this
-The Weather Resistance talent does not further reduce forest fire damage
+Creatures who have their feet in water no longer can suffer from forest fire flame damage, nor can they be caught on fire
-Getting your feet in water will still not put out an already active fire on the player. This requires entering the swimming state

[h3]Water Satiation[/h3]
+Doubled the rate at which water source dirtiness goes away
+Full water sat growth benefit is now achieved by having any level of water satiation
+Water now cleans itself more quickly when 50 or more players are on the server. For every 50 players online, the rate gains +100% faster cleaning rate.
+Water sources get boring at 2/3 the rate they did previously

[h3]Skin Mutations[/h3]
+Bioluminescent skin mutations should now have a consistent chance of rolling across all skins

[h2]Rival Shores[/h2]
+Added a rock slope to the new cave on RS so fat apatos can get out
+Made Rival Shores bridge between jungle and forest islands wider at low tide
+Made the snowy river deep enough for a 1.2 mosa to swim through (don't recommend larger sizes)
+Added a new aquatic cave to Rival Shores
+Added new ice shelter on Snowy on RS
+Made the base of the waterfall on snowy nicer
+Fixed the "baby hole" on snowy to be a normal small shelter
+Added a velo/ory sized ice cave

[h2]Balance Changes[/h2]
+Balance: While charging, Pachy no longer deals excessive damage and injury if they hit while jumping
+Balance: The Thick Skull talent's damage increase to dart has been increased by 100%

[h2]Optimization[/h2]
+Reduced frame hitch when using scent in crowded areas

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]
+Fixed: The requests UI status widget not sizing to fit to the text properly
+Fixed: The first message in the top left stack area for requests no longer gets the upper angle of the triangle cut off.
+Fixed: The greyness of Ory quills
+Fixed: Broken eggs now replicate the state of the egg yolk's eaten-ness properly
+Fixed : Issue where the claws on rex did not recolor properly
+Fixed: The Elusiveness talent now interacts properly with Kronosaurus' lunge
+Fixed: Drinking freshwater through the landscape mesh
+Fixed: Elusive players now have the proper graphical effect when entering net relevance range on the non-owning client
+Fixed: You can now struggle out of grabs if the grabbing creature is beached
+Fixed: Megalosaurus state jam that resulted from using the Identify ability while sitting down
+Fixed: Plant debris from tornadoes no longer knocks players into the air
+Fixed: Players who would drop large carcasses now drop the proper carcass size (2250 command carcass size or greater)
+Fixed: Logging in while underwater no longer results in your breath bar being at 0% if you logged out while above water
+Fixed: Comfort Bias, Comfort, Stamina, and Ability Power now save and load properly
+Fixed: Thick Skull now properly increases damage
+Fixed: Krono's lunge can no longer be blocked by an aquatic egg
+Fixed: Tornados can no longer interact with grabbed players or eggs, causing the parent to be picked up as well
+Fixed: Several server and client crash sources
+Fixed: Certain freshwater sources playing frog ambiance when they should not be
+Fixed: Main menu sounds not hooked properly to the game settings, they are now controlled by the environmental sound setting
+Fixed: Main Menu graphical issues

[h2]Misc[/h2]
+Updated several language localization texts
+Added/Fixed Missing ID entries for Phoenix tropeo