We've been hard at work with our 2.2 update. This update brings Tier 3 mechanics into the world, with its corresponding tools, machinery, and pipes. A new resource also spawns now - Corestone! Found in Tier 2 and Tier 3 depths, this orangy-purpleish material is required for the crafting of T3 machines.



With this update we've also introduced Ore Veins - randomly spawned zones which when using a drill or shovelling into these zones will increase the chance of a certain resource spawning. Use a prospecting helmet or the new Hydro Prospector to help find these ore veins.

Since pre-2.0, players have missed the Hydro Excavator - a vehicle capable of storing dirt while it digs holes into the ground. We've revisited the concept of a mining vehicle. And whilst it doesn't store dirt, it certainly is a massive step up from our previous excavator. The Hydro Mole is a versatile, easy to handle vehicle which is perfect for digging tunnels. It has locked angles to make it easy for you to dig up, down, or straight.

A common request from players is a reason to progress through the game. With this feedback, we've implemented a mainline quest! With increasing difficulty, progress through Bastion Keep, to complete a quest for the king, with a pretty sizable reward!

Another thing players have been requesting for a while now is Steam Achievements! We've gone ahead and added over 50 achievements for you to get.

That's not everything from us for this update, see the full patch notes below for everything. There's some good quality-of-life improvements we've added in, such as NPC locations on quest scrolls, the ESC menu pausing time, and more.

We're not finished with Hydroneer, there's still lots more we want to do to the game. Everyone here at our small studio is very excited to share with you our hard work on this update, we hope you enjoy it!
If you do, please consider leaving us a Steam review. It really helps us out :)

-Max

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Full Patch Notes:

2.2 Prospecting Update
14 April 2023

--- New Features
- The Hydro Mole - a utility vehicle which can dig dirt terrain. Can be set to three different angles.
- New resource: Corestone Ore. Slightly more common than Cloutium, not as expensive but can only be found in Tier 2 and Tier 3 depths.
- Complete Anvil crafting rework. Weapons and Jewellery can now be crafted by using any material besides shards. Anvil is also doubled in size.
- New Currency: Prospecting Guild Tokens
- New tasks: Craft items for NPCs using the anvil to gain Prospecting Guild Tokens.
- New store in the Bridgepour Harbour to spend these new tokens.
- New ‘Main Story’ Quest progression: “For The King!” With a secret new item reward for completion.
- New Tier 3 Tools and Equipment:
- Corestone Tools
- Corestone Pipes
- Corestone Drills and Harvesters.
- Ore veins have been added to Hydroneer. Randomised locations where drilling and digging will result in a higher yield of this resource type.
- Prospecting Helmet. Detects nearby ore veins depending on which direction the player is facing.
- Hydro Prospector. A utility vehicle which can find nearby ore veins and prospects downwards to find what type of vein is under the ground.
- Logic Saw Hook. Input a logic value to split resources to a certain size.
- Gem Chisel, used to split gems.
- Crafted weapon storage racks.
- Steam Achievements.
- All items can now be magnetised and conveyored
- Tutorial accessible from the main menu.
- The ESC menu now pauses time.
- New voicelines.
- 'H' taskbar icon for the Hydroneer app.

--- Fixes
- Bucket/Pan now drops dirt on the correct drop target location when emptied.
- Bucket stability improved when dropping it. It’ll try and land straight up now.
- Removed minor issue where multiple currency types in a purchasing bucket of a vehicle will remove the unused currency.
- Pipes and conveyors no longer rotate off grid in rare occasions.
- Players no longer 'splash' when exiting near water.
- Vehicle lights no longer effect water fuel tanks visually.
- Splitting coins/cut veg on top of scales will now update the scale reading.
- Items placed down in build mode over a storage vehicle will no longer still be snapped to the vehicle after being picked up and dropped.
- Dropping a helmet while wearing a helmet of the same type will no longer stop the effects of that helmet.
- Pressure gauge reverts back to 0 when picked up or water is no longer passing through.
- Logic Gem Compressor sound effects now linked to the 'machines' sound slider as intended.


--- Changes
- Task notes will now display the location that NPC is located to return the item.
- Various balancing changes:
- Shards are now slightly rarer
- Cloutium is now slightly less rare.
- Balanced prices of masterwork crafting recipes.
- Logic Smelter changes:
- No longer takes damage.
- Doors close automatically.
- Pipe Pressure can no longer be bypassed by using a lower tier of pipe and then using a booster back up to the pressure of the intake pipe. It'll now be capped by the maximum pressure of the weakest pipe in the line.
- In creative mode, the Masterwork Forge can now be used without any resources.
- Using a splitting tool (Saw/Cooking Knife/Chisel/Pickaxe) will only be able to split the intended use item, as well as currencies.
- Complete foliage visual overhaul, including all grass, bushes and trees.
- Bridgepour Harbour, Bastion Keep, and misc. world changes.
- NPCs will no longer call female characters "Lad", will instead refer to them as "Lass".
- Reduced the volume of crucibles and smelters when a large amount of ores enter.
- Reduced the size of the Boot item.
- Hydro truck now has visible windows.
- New visual effects for the masterwork forge.

The new resource found deep underground...

- Removed issue where the Hydro Cropper would not output resources properly if multiple types of vegetables were collected.
- Items that leave the bounds of the worlds will now return to their last dropped location.
- Bucket and Pans no longer cause items simulating physics to fly away if they're hit when the Bucket/Pan is picked up.
- Fixed issues with save file corruptions.
- Removed minor issue with stores being functional with no coins in the tray after they've been removed.
- Plant pots no longer resize randomly and their plants are now attached to the pots as intended.

Hey folks!
We've compiled our final patch for this year. This one includes a full vehicle overhaul as well as some much needed bug fixes.
Happy Holidays!


2.1.2 Patch
21 December 2022

--- Fixes
- Removed the issue where a small amount of players would have their save file completely empty while loading.
- Removed rounding issue when completing soup tasks.
- Hydro Cropper now properly saves its contents.
- Various sound fixes, water sounds are now appropriately in their correct volume level switchers.
- Soup values are now appropriate to their contents.
- Translation fixes for some store items.
- Skipping time in screenshot camera will no longer grow plants faster, but this feature will still work with the hourglass.
- Subtitle text now correctly appears in all languages with unique letters.
- Multiple currency types in a store no longer delete the un-used currency.
- Carrots now spawn slightly higher than before.
- Corn maximum scale size reduced.
- Carrots no longer roll around.
- Seed bags will no longer change size.

--- Changes
- Overhauled vehicles completely.

We've been listening to player feedback over the weekend since the 2.1 launch and have applied some changes as well as fixes to this update, the biggest changes being:
- Rebalances to make farming slightly more rewarding.
- Cut veg can be added to a soup pot after the soup has been created.
- Seed bags can be stacked in store to make multi-purchasing easier.
- Soup contents now displays in the soup's description box.

Thanks everyone for your feedback on this update! We hope you're enjoying it :) If you are, please consider leaving us a steam review, it really helps us out.



2.1.1 Patch
13 December 2022

--- Fixes
- Request notes are no longer removed when the save is reloaded, the note for 'grandmaMax' will no longer appear.
- Items on pallet will no longer appear red after placing a pallet.
- Soup bowl weight now displays correctly when on scales.
- Certain items in the truck no longer cause the truck to fly off.
- Emeralds will now move along conveyor belts easier and will not be stuck on the edge of the gem compressor.
- Cooking pot will now always heat up when placed on the stove.
- Cut vegetables will now stack everytime they make contact, instead of if the bigger is dropped onto the smaller stack.
- Carrots will no longer clog on the seed mill.
- NPCs will no longer 'steal' items when accidentally handing them the item.
- Gem Compressor sounds no longer playing globally.
- When picking up dirt it'll no longer be added to a bucket if its in between the player.
- Soup sounds no longer playing globally.
- Fixed minor issue with collisions in the world stone stairs.
- Changed Veg Stacker description issue.
- Minor light fix on the Hydro Cropper.

--- Changes
- MAJOR CHANGE: Cut Veg can now be added into a soup pot after the soup has been created.
- Soup descriptions now display the contents of that soup.
- Increased the value of vegetables, cut vegetables, and soup (for both tasks and selling).
- Seed bags can now be stacked in the store.
- Quest markers on the map are now easier to see.
- Ember Cradle store info board no longer has collision.
- NPCs no longer hang around the area dedicated to the mod shop.
- Reduced the largest size Cut Brocolli can be to prevent them not fitting inside the cooking pot.
- Cropper collision updated to prevent the player from walking inside.
- Cropper collision update to prevent objects colliding with the step on the side.
- Grangefield equipment store now sells scales.
- Logic Lamp light size increased back to it's size before the update.

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• Grow crops, harvest them, cook vegetables into soup, and gain a special new currency to spend in the new town: Farming Guild Tokens!
  
• NPCs are added to the world, they request soup, which can be made from growing crops and harvesting them. This system will be expanded upon in the next update to include mining related quests!
  
• Three new vehicles!
  
• New town: Grangefield - filled with lots of stores!
  
• Lots of optimisations / fixes.
  
• Gem Compressor rework.
  
• Lots more!!

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2.1 Farming Season Update
9 December 2022

--- New Features
- MAJOR FARMING UPDATE
- A new town has been established filled with new stores.
- NPCs now inhabit the world of Hydroneer. They'll occasionally give out tasks for soup in return for Farming Guild Tokens.
- Grocer stores are located next to jewellers. Sell your vegetables and fish to them!
- Farming mechanics. Grow your own vegetables to turn into soup for villagers or sell at the grocer. Start by purchasing some seedbags and purchase more by completing tasks.
- Cooking mechanics. Cook vegetables into different combinations of soup!
- Lots of new items related to cooking and farming to purchase.
- New store type: Purchase items exclusively with Farming Guild Tokens! (Currency acquired by completing tasks, NOT MICROTRANSACTIONS!!)
- New buildset: Greenhouse. Purchased with Farming Guild Tokens, these new glassy pieces make fantastic greenhouses.
- Hydro Quad! A small quick vehicle with limited storage space has been added to the vehicle store.
- Hydro Roller. The perfect vehicle for levelling ground quickly. Available now in the vehicle store.
- Hydro Cropper - Farming utility vehicle used to harvest and replant crops.
- BEEP BEEP. Vehicles now have horns!
- Vehicles now have their tooltips shown while they're being driven.
- Tutorial board in Ember Cradle store to explain how purchasing items works.
- Fish Bucket which exclusively stores fish.
- New languages: Norwegian, Swedish, Danish.

--- Fixes
- Major vehicle optimisation.
- Logic Lamp no longer displays the incorrect store price.
- Removed harvester issue which causes durability to drop to -0 instead of 0, breaking some logic repair circuits.
- Greatly decreased the chance that tiny specs of dirt will appear when digging.
- Rotating an item while precision placing now has the ability for reverse directional rotation by holding Ctrl.
- Placing an item no longer sometimes makes the item blue/red after its been placed down.
- Updated old tool-tip for spanner, mentioned items that are no longer in the game.

--- Changes
- Major Gem Compressor rework. The item now compresses gems as they enter the machine if its turned on.
- Various new sound effects.
- Retextured lots of buildings throughout the game.
- Construction Hammer no longer plays animation if it cannot be used.
- Smelter and Logic Smelter no longer accepts resources that are different to the current smelted resource.
- Completely reworked the cave with visual improvements.
- Raised the brightness at night time/in shadows.
- Tools that can split items (pickaxe/saw/cooking knife) now have item badges in the description box as well as the ability to split more items.
- Creative Wand can now destroy vehicles.
- Increased dirt chunk max scale size.
- Temporarily removed Conveyor Shredder hooks from stores as they do not currently have any use. Will be added back in for 2.2!