🛠️ Fixes and Improvements
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🏍️ Fixed motorcycle tipping over and getting stuck. Enjoy smoother rides now!

🗺️ Fixed issue where the motorcycle was not visible on the minimap.

🎨 Corrected several faulty textures.

📘 Tutorial texts are now more readable.

🗺️ Players can now move while the map is open.

🌦️ Fixed issues with the weather system.

Welcome back, Scribes! It's been almost two weeks since 1.0 dropped and we've been blown away by the enthusiasm and support for Vellum. Thank you!

Today - we're channeling our own 1.0 excitement into Interlude Patch: In Circulation!

This update includes Circulate: a new Movement Spell, Performance and QOL Upgrades, Book Club Reward Updates, Vignette Secrets, an Ascendant Rewards Adjustment, Raid Tuning, Photosensitivity Mode and many bug fixes.

Check out the highlights of this patch below and watch for our next update: 1.1 - Beyond! As always, you can track our journey from the Roadmap in Vellum's main menu (quite the saga!).


Go for a leisurely scroll...

Build momentum with mounting anticipation and a trusty Scroll - then zoom off into and through your foes with the first Movement Spell to have baseline damage!

What wild combos will you skillfully scrawl into existence? Use the new Pages of Power and clever strategy to show the Torn what 'doom-scrolling' really looks like!


Intrepid adventurers may have noticed some extra secrets and rewards in the various Vignettes found within the Tomes. Sometimes these hidden rewards give new Pages of Power, Temp Mana, or other useful statuses.

I dare not speak further of such secrets - only to say that previously secret-lacking Vignettes are now up to date with something more to discover. Happy hunting!


Performance and quality of life have been top of mind for us since the 1.0 launch! With today's Interlude Patch, we're taking a more ink-laden pen to performance! Many of the wild interactions between mechanics in Vellum come down to core building blocks: Projectiles, Areas of Effect, Statuses, and Augments. Improvements in this patch aim to smooth out each of these pillars' performance - both in solo and multiplayer games!

We've also made a number of networking changes and upgrades aimed at improving the stability and synchronization of your team-up scribbling adventures!

Elsewhere, in the realm of Quality of Life - we're directly addressing feedback in a few key areas: we're adding new toggles for photosensitivity and visual effect intensity, we've clarified language and tutorials in the beginning of the game and throughout the Binding/Attunement/Ascendant processes, and smoothing out other experience-impacting bugs!

Please continue to share your feedback with us as you interact with these systems!


The Book Club is now more rewarding! From now on, you'll be able to gain a first-time 500 Quillmark + Gilding bonus from playing new Book Club challenges - the perfect way to spice up your journey as a Scribe. Because Book Club challenges are ink-level-agnostic, tackling the Book Club right after Ascending may be a great way to kickstart your level-ups! On that topic...

Ascending is now more clear, no longer restricts Tome access, and will now allow multiple Bindings to drop at once when Over-binding Tomes! As a bonus - Ascendant Scribes also start with 500 Quillmarks to more flexibly reignite their journey!

Ascending in Vellum is designed to be an optional way to continue playing the game - we want it to be rewarding and fun, but not feel like a mandatory part of your journey. We'll continue to keep an eye on this system - let us know what you think!


We're adjusting and improving many aspects of the Torn Raids - from multiplayer scaling and boss ability frequency to visual telegraphs and Codex hints. Full details are in the patch notes below, but Araxiom, The Taking Tree, Styxen, and both Torn Lords have all received adjustments.

Quillmark and Gilding rewards have also been increased to help celebrate your victories!


Eyes on the Horizon...
1.1 - Beyond is coming soon and the Tangent Lord's curiosity knows no bounds!

In the meantime, come join us in the official Discord to share your feedback and show off your achievements, strategies, and your Reading Nooks designs (in a new dedicated channel)!

If you've been enjoying your time in Vellum, please consider leaving a review on Steam (it's a huge help, we read them all, and we always love to hear about your experiences)!

Thank you for playing Vellum - write on!

- The Vellum Team

- New Spell: Circulate
- Hold & Release: Charge up a Scroll and charge forward when released, damaging foes (Speed and Damage increase with hold time)!
- Tap: Charge a short distance in your movement direction.
- Circulate Pages of Power
- Illuminated Library Race Course
- Illuminated Library Tower Platforming Puzzle

- Book Club now grants 500 Quillmarks and Gildings for first-time completions
- Book Club now highlights the cosmetic rewards available (and your progress)
- Ascendant no longer locks access to Tomes (jump into illegible at Level 1!)
- Ascendant now grants a 500 Quillmark starting bonus
- Over-bound Tomes now drop multiple Bindings, increasing with higher Over-Binding

- Performance improvements (Enkindle and Many AoEs are vastly improved)
- Network Connection improvements (harder to be disconnected, easier to rejoin, less stress from game actions)
- Damage VFX intensity slider
- Photosensitivity Mode
- Arachnophobia updated for Raids
- Change Ink in Antechamber

- New Secrets can be found in Vignettes, awarding Pages, Temp Mana, and other Statuses
- No changes to Raid or Pride and Profit Vignettes

- Scribes may now swap Signature Inks in the Antechamber
- Quillmark rewards have been increased(100/encounter, 150/Torn Lord)
- Gilding rewards are now visible (25/encounter, 100/Torn Lord)
- Scribes will now be fully healed when defeating an encounter
- An "!" now appears over the Codex when it becomes available
- The Codex now has an introductory UI Tutorial for Encounters
- The AFK timer should no longer function in Raids
- Binding Workshop appied typo fix to Decomposition
- Raid Boss HP Reduced in Multiplayer:
-- 2 Players: - 8%
-- 3 Players: - 20%
-- 4 Players: - 20%
- Araxiom: Reverberate Cooldown increased by 3s
- Araxiom: Awaken, Legions! Cooldown increased by 11s
- Araxiom: Removed duplicate ability in Codex Entry
- Araxiom: Bombardier Broodling now has improved hitbox points
- Araxiom: Burstling Broodling now has improved sound effects while attacking
- The Taking Tree: Beam Walls have increased visibility in their spawn location, with a slight grace period
- Raving Lord (Normal): Will now be immune to damage while channeling a - - Statue (matching Hard Mode behavior)
- Raving Lord: Lantern attacks and Blossom will now target a maximum of 2 Scribes
- Styxen (Normal): Avalanche size decreased by 20%
- Splice Lord (Normal): Foil damage reduced to 35 (was 50)
- Splice Lord (Normal): Wordsmith damage reduced to 30 (was 50)
- Splice Lord (Normal): Jot damage reduced to 15 (was 18)
- Splice Lord: Callback AOE size reduced slightly
- Splice Lord: Now changes phase at 5% higher HP
- Splice Lord: Encounter Info tip is now clearer

- New Pages are available for Orange
- Clarified text for some Teal and Orange Inscriptions
- Teal Ink: Now has Book VFX when Signature Spell is ready
- Pink Inscription: Exceeds Expectations now functions as written
- Pink Signature Challenge: Doctrine will now properly record progress
- Spender: Weave targeting has been improved
- Spender: Passage now shows the proper colorization when infused with Signature Ink
- Page of Power: Molten Slag (Wordsmith) will now properly rain metal
- Page of Power: Explosive Payload is no longer lethal to players
- Page of Power: Measured Response credit now persists through death
- Page of Power: Father of Quill has improved targeting
- Page of Power: Four Scour and Seventy - Scour now deals +70% damage to the first 4 Torn hit (had been only allowing 4 Torn to be hit at all)
- Scribes can now collect Signature Challenge rewards from the Cosmetics window (in addition to the Questboard)
- Bindings UI: The rewards section now shows +1 Attunement - which has a hover tooltip for reviewing the system
- Bindings: "Random" will now opt to fill over the Target value if an exact match is not found
- Binding Attunement reward bonus is now properly capped at 600% (and is now appropriately reflected in the UI)
- Binding: Stormy Night will now longer appear purple
- Tome: On the Nature of Seasons now displays hover text and information for the Seasonal Statuses
- Tomes: To avoid confusion, Binding Tome rewards are now hidden until Bindings are unlocked (continuing into the Appendices is still available as usual)
- Vignette: Tundra Pass platforming has been adjusted
- Vignette: Lighthouse has been remodeled (how'd the construction crew even get there?!)
- Vignette: Timeless Alcove will now appear less often
- Vignette: Skyline Belfry has been remodeled (how'd the construction crew even get there?!)
- Library: the Vault jump puzzle will no longer vanish while midair
- Lore: Codex/Cosmetic/Nook breadcrumb pages now appear at Attunement 1
- Lore: "Knowledge, Unending" will now appear in the proper space (should now be collectable for all eligible Scribes)
- Suggested Reading bonuses now properly account for chapters completed
- Curiosities (back items) will now scale properly
- The Abandon Run button will no longer negatively affect performance when spammed
- Improved the performance of high volume of damage numbers
- Nook Object: Money Bag will no longer go invisible (but keep an eye out for thieves!)
- Boss: "Big" Cap VFX will properly clean up after the encounter
- "Donut-shaped" AOEs are now more accurate with their inside calculation
- Updated Bell visuals
- Fixed the elusive "Empty Quillmark Tracker" bug in the Library
- Adjusted text and icons in the FTUX Tutorial Chapter
- Various Vignette Arena structural cleanup
- Fixed various issues with Multiplayer AOE Status applications
- Fixed an issue with Boss reward scrolls not appearing properly in Multiplayer games
- Freeze effects on Zombies will now scale properly
- Entities will no longer turn while Frozen
- Improved the performance of high stacks of various Green and Orange statuses
- Improved the performance of all statuses
- Fixed various stuck camera issues
- Fixed the display of some Nook Items

PLAYTEST #6 HOTFIX 5 PATCH NOTES

NEW AUDIO SFX

• Shotgun,
  
• Parry,
  
• Fire Staff,
  
• Frost Staff,
  
• Defiler,
  
• Sniper,
  
• Phase Walk,

ALL Spells and weapons now have SFX

BALANCE
Solar Flare - AoE increased by 25%,
Fly - Movement speed bonus is now 80%, up from 75%,
Sniper - Projectile speed is now 40, up from 30

Tire Fire Rally exists in a large part because, like a little kid, I have fun drawing cars. So, I'm channeling that childish urge into new content for the game.

This week, I'm adding three new vehicles to the list the player can choose from.



First of all, I've fixed up the (previously broken) taxi from the promotional pictures. Feel free to turn off the sound and play The Offspring in the background while you zoom around in the Unstable Taxi.



Second on the list is a car I am calling the GT 2024. It looks like a car someone would drive along a long highway in a Viagra commercial, or James Bond would steal and crash in the Brosnan era. Perfect for driving into tunnels, or through a canyon.



Third is the White Steed. Ideal for your impromptu freeway jaunt on a sunny afternoon after you definitely didn’t murder your wife. All of these jokes are old, but probably so is my target audience.

Anyway, that’s it for this update. Go try out the new cars. Come back next week for more.

Later.

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Hi everyone sorry for the long wait but we're finally releasing the big pet update! I'm really excited about the changes this update brings as I think it really focuses the game on what everyone has found the most fun; pets! Here's a list of what's new and what's changed.

• Pet Station - Befriending your creatures will now make them residents of your planet instead of just being put away in storage. Residents will roam your planet and interact with one another. The Pet Station is where you can manage what pets you want to keep around. The storage is still there to keep any pets that overflow the station. Upgrades to the station size will be coming in a future update.
  
• Feeding - Feed your pets to increase the new PetPak level. There are no longer star levels for each PetPak but a level 1-100 for each slot on your pet. Without revealing too much, I can say that PetPaks now work on a whole new system. This means recipes have changed for PetPaks and so you will have to discover them all over again. Each pet whether befriended or hatched will have different comptabilities with different PetPaks. Feeding items and PetPaks will now show up in the indicator when you get close to pets.
  
• Eggs! - Get your pets to romance and lay an egg! Hatch the egg to get a pet that inherits traits from its parents. Certain pet colors can only be obtained through romancing!
  
• Pet Naming - You can now name your pets! Pet names can be a maximum of 12 characters.
  
• The Tutorial - The entire beginning of the game has changed to focus more on pets and the idea that building on your planet will attract more.
  
• Rain - There is a chance that you will get rain periodically. Rain will automatically water all of your crops.
  
• Virtual Keyboard - A custom virtual keyboard to help with all the issues we have been having with the Steam Deck. Official verified steam dec

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• One True Grid - all of the items in the game now work on the same grid (buildings, crops, furniture, etc.) This will allow you to put machines in your home. Also this includes better position snapping for fences.
  
• Pet Visit Conditions - There are many more pet visit conditions than just planting crops. I'll leave these for you to figure out!
  
• Pets have animations for chopping down trees, smashing meteors, and sitting.
  
• Crops - The grow time for crops has been fixed so they no longer grow instantly. Crops will also now grow even while you're away from your planet. You will still need to water each growth stage.
  
• The minimap now shows you a live view so it's always up to date.

• Fashion Show - The camera will no longer turn black and you should be able to play the game normally.
  
• Planet color changes correctly when going to another player's planet
  
• Travel Fallback - when you connect to a planet code that doesn't exist the game now puts you back where you came from with a network error message.
  
• Camera app crash should now be fixed

Greetings from Com2uS!

We'd like to inform you of the 4th Live Update for the 2025 season.
Please check below for more details.

■ 2025 Season 4th Live Update Notice
https://community.withhive.com/MLB9IRIVALS/en/board/10/10606


Thank you.

Servers will be temporarily offline for an estimated time of 4 hours on Thursday, May 15th from 2 AM to 6 AM (UTC) to update Patch 1.47.

* The game will be unavailable during the maintenance period.
* Please restart your client after the update.
* Use of the event page may be limited during maintenance.

Thank you for your patience!

Just some quick fixes

- Fixed ingredients being returned sometimes by machines
- Added rice seed recipe

Work continues on the big update.

Thanks and see you soon!

New Revised, Polished, and Edited Version UPDATED

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Enjoy.