Hey zombie freaks,

🗺️ New Map: Death Row🚨

🛠️ Prison tweaks: turret repositioned (button unchanged) + new sawblade traps
🧟‍♂️ Slightly increased spawn rate of riot-control zombies
🏃 Dash chaining is back: press dash again during cooldown to auto-trigger the next one
🌍 Added more translations across supported languages

• We’ve fully moved to the upgraded bean and added a few changes and options to make the experience closer to that of the classic bean.
  
• Drivable vehicles are now available in Rooms 2!
  
• Custom locomotion updates, new chips, and more!

• Start your engines, drivable vehicles are now available in Rooms 2! Find the Rally Buggy, Classic Coupe, Wolf Ride, and Trusty Pickup Truck in the MakerPen palette.
  
• The new Particle VFX Constant and Play Particle VFX At Position nodes allow you to play a particle effect using Circuits! You can even create your own custom Particle VFX in Rec Room Studio and then use those effects with Particle VFX Constant.
  
• Added a set of chips to attach objects to player avatars. This enables costume functionality in Rooms 2!
  
• Added missing chip descriptions for Rooms 2 chips.
  
• Share Camera polaroids can be printed in Rooms 2 rooms.
  
• Audio values can now be set for object properties directly from the config panel.

• Beans now locomote smoother (they’re less bouncy).
  
• The bean avatar head has been moved forward by 4cm to replicate the old bean look.
  
• Idles stand more up-straight. The hip/body moves around a bit rather than being "land-locked" producing less leaning/bending.
  
• Hands are animating again when idle (this goes for full body as well!)
  
• Suggested items in the Avatar Customization menu now include popular items made by our community.
  
• Added a fix for the mouthbrows!
  
• Added a fix for eye gleam on bean avatars.

• Circuits Messages have been delivered! They're an alternative to Events that are much easier to reuse across rooms and inventions. They're as flexible as the "Generic Room" event is, but with a LOT less boilerplate circuitry needed to filter actions and fetch parameters. Let us know what you think of them in the Discord or Creator Forum!
  
• Custom Locomotion updates:
  
• • Input events are now available in the global scope, e.g. On Locomotion Sprint Button Input.
    
  • Added local player variants of locomotion state events, e.g. On Local Player Jumped.
    
• Added the "Rec Room Object Try Get Property" chip to beta. This chip combines Rec Room Object Has Property and Rec Room Object Get Property - it outputs both a bool for whether or not the property exists on the given object and the value of the property itself. If the property does not exist, it outputs a default value set by one of the chip's inputs.
  
• Added the “Find and avoid Edge” and “Find and avoid Obstacle” chips. These will have some more detail in the comments on the creator forum if you wanna know more about how to use them!
  
• Fixed a bug that could cause the 'Audio Player Set Time Stamp' chip to break when used without an active audio clip.

• The Maker Pen now only blocks custom locomotion when you're flying, making it easier to mix creation and play!
  
• Fixed a bug where disabling jump input while flying would leave you trapped in the air.
  
• Dropping the maker pen will now make you stop flying so you can get right back into the action.
  
• Weapons with configurable object damage now have a default object damage value equivalent to their default player torso damage value.
  
• MakerAI Day Pass redemption fixes.

Please see here for convenient links to controls, tutorials, comfort options, news, and more:
https://rec.net/creator

We love to hear your feedback, so please don't hesitate to let us know what you think using the Creator Forum here: https://forum.rec.net/

In commemoration of Release of version 2.5.0,
We hold an event : Mimic harvest festival:) (UTC 2025, June 6th ~ 12th)

During the period, you can enter a special dungeon (where only Mimics spawn) once in a day.

- That dungeon may not appear if you open the game directly on steam version. In that case, it will appear by starting the game from the Steam app.
- Mimic ... A rare monster in this game. He may drop a chest. He usually spawns in normal dungeons except for the boss dungeon in a very low possibility.

The Response

To everyone that wishlisted Dandelion Void on Steam, shared our trailer, and joined our Discord... Thank You!

We created Dandelion Void because it is a game we wanted to play. Now that we have revealed it on Steam, we are floored to discover that it is a game you want to play. To say we are blown away by the response is an understatement...

1 Week, 25k Steam Wishlists

Wishlisting our game is the most important way you can help us on our journey to release. It is more than just a marketing metric, it is the wind we needed in our sails to continue taking this project seriously. The interest is there for Dandelion Void, and we are in a good place to execute on our next milestones!

Questions

In addition to the outpouring of support and excitement, we have also received so many great questions. Some of these we can answer today. For the rest, we appreciate your patience while we facilitate our ongoing Steam Wishlist reveal and consult among ourselves.

Who is the team behind Dandelion Void?

We are Manzanita Interactive, a worker-owned and operated game studio based in sunny Southern California. Our team consists of four member-owners with over 30 years of combined games-industry experience. Prior to working with each other at Manzanita Interactive, we met as worker-organizers fighting for union representation in our industry. We look forward to sharing more about our team in future blog posts!

Will there be a story?

While Dandelion Void is not a traditional, narrative game, we believe rich lore can breath life into our world and reward exploration. We'll say more on this as development progresses.

How do I become a tester?

Right now, we are relying on our existing testers to run private playtests. Applications for future playtests will be announced first on our Discord. We want your feedback, but right now the best way to help us is by wishlisting our game, staying up-to-date in our Discord, and telling your friends about Dandelion Void!

Will Dandelion Void have multiplayer or cooperative play?

Our goal is to launch Dandelion Void into Early Access with solid single player experience. We love the idea of having multiplayer support for Dandelion Void in the future, but it’s not something we are focusing on at the moment. We will clarify whether or not multiplayer support is on the roadmap before going into Early Access.

Will modding support be available in Early Access?

Some form of it, yes. Dandelion Void is a highly modifiable game, and it's our goal to release to modders the tools we are using to develop it. But like everything else, we plan to test our modding tools with modders before publicly releasing them.

Will feature xyz be added?

If I could send a note back in time to ourselves before we revealed our Steam Wishlist page, it would be this:

Prepare a roadmap that's ready to share with the world!

We have an internal roadmap, but it's full of spoilers, ideas we want to explore privately before revealing, and is in a format that needs tidying up. Once this roadmap is out, we believe it will clarify many of your questions... and perhaps inspire a few new fun ones!

When is the release date?

We are not ready to announce that, yet!

What language localizations will you support?

We are currently translating our Steam store page into multiple languages. We plan to release Dandelion Void in as many languages as possible, but there is no firm count yet.

And finally...

Thank you all so much! We love the support, ideas, fan art, and everything else that has come with this wonderful Steam Wishlist reveal! If you've not yet wishlisted our game, you can do so here.

Added
• Added a lot of tutorial sections.
  
• Benjy now walks to Ada's House.
  
• Tooltips are more visible.
  
• Players will no longer regenerate energy if they have no blood.
  
• Players will hear an audible "hungry" sound when below 10%.
  
• When hungry, Players will sniff out a blood trail from Travelers.
  
• New Forageable Creature: Azure Butterflies.
  
• Added reroll limit when Selecting Arriving Travelers.
  
• Various sound effect and ambience improvements.
  
• Town Sanity stat is displayed instead of Mana.
  
  
  Changes
• Stunned Travelers will reduce "warning" radius to other Visitors.
  
• Lighting saturation is reduced in the first night.
  
  
  Bug Fixes
• Rummaging minigame spawned items behind buildings.

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v0.3.1 Notes

General

• The Howling Dens zone has been improved.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where you could use abilities while asleep, bugging out the player.
  
• Fixed critical issues with the player save/load process.
  
• Adjusted the collision on a few models for better gameplay.
  
• The pause menu no longer permanently blocks mouse click visibility after closing the menu.

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v0.3.2 Notes

General

• The Yorikuzo Heights and Moonless Woodlands Zones have been improved upon.
  
• The Character equipment page now has a new tab for your companion where you can select companion type, color, and see information (work in progress).
  
• Added Motion Blur toggle in the settings menu.
  
• Added Window mode option in the settings menu.
  
• Added more fast travel locations to the overworld.
  
• Elevators now have buttons to call it to your level (finally)!
  
• Fixed the collision of many meshes so that the player companion no longer passes through into the void.
  
• Exiting the Pause menu should now always resume the game.
  
• Reduced the performance impact of many light sources and overall overlap in the world.

Another mini game has been added to Froggies at the Zoo! This time you can practice your food throwing abilities. Head on down to the extra bits section to try it out. Got one more mini game to be added in when it's finished and then it'll be three extra levels afterwards.

【雀姬×虚研社特别联动装扮限时再贩！】
动态桌布礼包【该起床咯！】（艾尔莎）限时复刻：
动态桌布：【该起床咯！】
手套：新春猫手
特效：狼之怒

动态桌布礼包【休息片刻】（艾露露）限时复刻：
动态桌布：【休息片刻】
手套：小熊猫之手
特效：花开特效

服装店限时返场商品：
动态服装【天才麻将狼少女】艾尔莎
动态服装【小熊猫的起居室】艾露露
头像套组：【迷你消防员艾露露&整装待发】、【迷你艾尔莎&女仆套装】
牌背：【8bit艾露露（消防员）】、【8bit艾尔莎】
立直棒：【灭火器】、【女仆发饰】
桌布：【灭火专家】、【能干的女仆】
贴纸：嘎哦哦哦！
（上架时间：2025年6月5日11:00）

Good day players,

We are happy to share that Card Shop Simulator Multiplayer is going to join 2025 Steam Next Fest June 9th !

If you are interested in the game, feel free to download the free demo in the Next Fest activity. It's our pleasure if you add the game in the wishlist, that gonna help you get a reminder when the full game release and help you get the best discount !

There will be a nice discount on the launch day, hope you don't miss it!

- Adjusted initial mouse and gamepad camera sensitivity
- Fixed an issue where a specific NPC was difficult to find in the first area
- Fixed an issue where players could be hit and trapped by the Muscle Ghost in a specific spot in the first area
- Fixed an issue where characters would intermittently keep walking during conversations