The next character refresh has arrived! As usual we also have some new skins and some new streaming drops.


Though she may have left her old life far behind, Wigfrid still feels its echoes... and an irresistible desire to perform. Recently, she has begun honing this side of herself even further, using the power of performance to stir the hearts and minds of her audience whether it be by lifting their spirits, frightening them out of their wits, or giving them the courage to take on the world. For this venturesome Viking vocalist, all the world's a stage... and she will play her part well.

• When in combat Wigfrid now gains Inspiration, which, as it fills her meter, allows players to use the new craftable songs.
  
• Fighting stronger foes will provide more Inspiration.
  
• Disengaging combat will cause the inspiration to diminish.
  
• Wigfrid has a new Stagecraft crafting tab from which she can make her new songs.
  
• Singing adds a buff to all players in an area around Wigfrid, which remains active as long as she keeps her inspiration level up.
  
• As Wigfrid's inspiration raises, she can preform up to three abilities at a time.
  
• Some abilities have an instant effect, at the cost of reducing Wigfrid's inspiration

Wigfrid Deluxe Wardrobe ($10.99): This Deluxe Wardrobe contains Wigfrid's complete set of Guest of Honor, Roseate, Survivor, Triumphant, and Winged Victory skin items.

Wigfrid Winged Victory Chest ($2.99): This Chest contains Wigfrid's complete set of Winged Victory skin items.

Winged Victory Chest ($3.99): This Winged Victory Chest contains the following skin items: Winged Spear, Winged Helm, and Marble Victory Armor.

For a limited time Wigfrid's past skins are 50% off. After that her Guest of Honor, Roseate Chest, Triumphant, Survivor Chests will be available for $2.99.

Starter Pack 2020 ($7.99): This Chest contains the playable character, Wortox: The Soul Starved, Wilson's Victorian skin set, Willow's Guest of Honor skin set, Wigfrid's Verdant skin set, Webber's Contenders skin set, the Weathered Spear, the Mini Beefalo Carryall, and the Sleepytime Ensemble.

We are adding the Dark Magic Telelocator Focus skin to the Crystalline collection. For more information on streaming drops and how to get them, check out our support topic here.


Hallowed Nights is coming up next month and we really wanted to focus on the content update so we aren't making a lot of changes to it this year, but we will have a little bit of new stuff and some fun new Hallowed Nights Skins.

The team is working hard on the next big update we're calling "Forgotten Knowledge". We're keeping this all under wraps for now, but we'll have more details as we get closer to the October content update. Maybe this little teaser will be enough to hold you over until then.

Though she may have left her old life far behind, Wigfrid still feels its echoes... and an irresistible desire to perform. Recently, she has begun honing this side of herself even further, using the power of performance to stir the hearts and minds of her audience whether it be by lifting their spirits, frightening them out of their wits, or giving them the courage to take on the world. For this venturesome Viking vocalist, all the world's a stage... and she will play her part well.

Wigfrid's character refresh arrives next week - Thursday September 24th (PDT).

Here are some of the details:

• When in combat Wigfrid now gains Inspiration, which, as it fills her meter, allows players to use the new craftable songs.
  
• Fighting stronger foes will provide more Inspiration.
  
• Disengaging combat will cause the inspiration to diminish.
  
• Wigfrid has a new Stagecraft crafting tab from which she can make her new songs.
  
• Singing adds a buff to all players in an area around Wigfrid, which remains active as long as she keeps her inspiration level up.
  
• As Wigfrid's inspiration raises, she can preform up to three abilities at a time.
  
• Some abilities have an instant effect, at the cost of reducing Wigfrid's inspiration

Of course as always, we will also have a new animated short and we'll add a new item to the Crystaline Collection streaming drops as well. See you next week!

• Updated the less photosensitive lightning effects for DLCs

• Changed the lightning visuals to be less harmful photosensitive eyes.
  
• Added a "Screen Flashes" option in settings to adjust the effect.

Fixed a corrupted audio file that was causing the wrong sound fx to play.

• Fixed a bug that allowed character specific items to be crafted by other characters after using the Florid Postern.
  
• Fixed Bee Boxes resetting their timer for producing honey at dusk.
  
• Fixed a case where server mods could be enabled on the client mods screen.
  
• Fixed a rare crash with deciduous trees.
  
• Stingers will now correctly spread fire.
  
• Fixed a beard layering issue with Wilson’s Pigsbury Mask skin.
  
• Wardrobe search bar now filters when you stop typing, or when you hit enter.
  
• Cleaned up some duplicated string table entries.
  
• Note for modders: HasItemWithTag is now properly defined on the inventory classified.

**Hotfix 428553 was pushed to fix the crash in the harvester component

Changes:

• Fixed the cookbook ingredient’s tooltip string for the ocean fish and Wobster.
  
• Fixed Toma Root and Onion ingredient images in the Cookbook.
  
• Adjusted the Batilisk Wing drop rate from Batilisks.
  
• Fixed a crash when the Sea Weed’s projectile hits a mounted player.
  
• Fixed a crash affecting a number of mods relating to displaying inventory images.
  
• Fixed the mods update count from not refreshing properly.
  
• Fixed a crash when loading mods using an older dependency system.
  
• Favorites are now properly saved when applying mods.
  
• Fixed the arrow indicator in the integrated backpack layout.
  
• Fixed shift + left click not moving items properly between inventories with the integrated backpack layout.
  
• Items can now be properly dropped from your inventory while holding another item.
  
• Fixed inconsistencies with wall textures.
  
• Fixed the texture issues with the new Sorcerer's Staff.
  
• Increased resolution of staff items when not equipped.
  
• Fixed Sorcerer's Staff Profile Icon collection info.
  
• Increased resolution of the Pan Flute.

Hey everybody.

I hope you're all out there doing well. We're back with another QOL update. As before, we're using this time to give the team some room to catch for the next update. And in classic Klei fashion, we took this opportunity for a small update and went a little overboard.

In addition to that, we have a bunch of fun stuff to give away. We have new twitch items, login rewards, and a new Klei reward item as well!

• Added the Cookbook item for survivors to record and review their culinary adventures.
  
  • The Cookbook item can be crafted under the Food crafting tab.
    
  • Recipes will be learnt after the player who cooks the food, picks up the item off the cooking device.
    
  • Food details will be displayed upon eating it.
    
  • The 6 most recent unique recipes will be stored, older ones will be forgotten.
    
  • The history is stored in your online profile and can be viewed in the compendium
    
  • Modded foods are saved locally, they are not saved to your online profile and appear in their own tab within the cookbook screen.
• Changed the screen flash effect for lightning and gunpowder.
  
• Screen flashes (lightning and gunpowder) will no longer close any containers you have open.
  
• Added the option “Screen Flashes” to allow players to further reduce the intensity of screen flashes.
  
• Tackle Box and the Spectackler Box can now be opened from the inventory. It will be dropped on the ground when doing so.
  
• Add the option Backpack Layout to allow keyboard/mouse players to use the backpack layout that is integrated into the inventory bar.
  
• Batilisk Wings can now be used in the Crockpot.
  
• Holding Left Shift (key binding: "Force Container (mod)") and right-clicking an item in your inventory will now drop it.
  
• The Ancient Guardian now drops a sketch to craft its statue.
  
• Mods can now be favorited and will show up at the top of the mods list.
  
• Mods can now be searched and filtered in the mod screen.
  
• Added our newest team member, Zachary Lockwood (Zarklord), to the credits.

• Improved the resolution of the ground textures.
  
• Improved resolution on various items.
  
• Improved resolution on walls.
  
• Characters will now display their most recently used skins when previewing beards.
  
• Rockjaws can now despawn.
  
• Rabbit Earmuffs no longer require a science machine to prototype.
  
• Reduced the amount of Tentacle Spots required to craft the Tail o' Three Cats.
  
• Reduced the amount of Cat Tails required to craft the Cat Cap.
  
• Reduced the amount of Batilisk Wings required to craft the Bat Bat.
  
• Increased the chance of Batilisks dropping a Batilisk Wing.
  
• Added c_freecrafting and c_selectnext to auto-complete in the command console
  
• Stingers can now be set on fire.
  
• Added map icons for the Suspicious Marble pieces and the Crab King.
  
• Wurt no longer disappears when reading a book while riding a beefalo.
  
• Improved the performance on the mods screen.

Cookbook

• Calling AddCookerRecipe will add a recipe to the cookbook.
  
  • All mod foods will be added to the Mod Recipes tab within the cookbook.
    
  • Recipes for the “portablespicer” will not be added to the recipe book.
    
  • Add “no_cookbook = true” to a recipe to exclude your recipe from the cookbook.
    
  • RegisterInventoryItemAtlas(atlas, image) must be called for each food and ingredient in order for their icons to be displayed in the cookbook. If this is not called, the food or ingredient will be displayed as a question mark.
    
  • Foods with side effects should set “oneat_desc” to a descriptive string.
    
  • Foods with temperature modification as their only side effect will automatically have the description set.
    
  • A custom details panel can be set by implementing “custom_cookbook_details_fn” for a recipe. This function must return a Widget for your new details panel.
• RegisterInventoryItemAtlas(atlas, image) can be called to add an item’s inventory icon and atlas to a global lookup table. Anywhere that calls GetInventoryItemAtlas will use this table.
  
• Mods can now mark other mods as dependencies in modinfo
  
• Two new modsettings.lua functions
  
  • DisableModDisabling() disables the games built-in functionality for disabling mods when the game crashes
    
  • DisableLocalModWarning() disables the warning that happens when enabling an all_clients_require mod that isn’t on the workshop
• Modinfo now gets passed a locale code, stored in the variable “locale” to support translations inside modinfo
  
• A helper function “ChooseTranslationTable(tbl)” will take a table and return tbl[locale] or tbl[1], tbl[1] should be the default locale of your mod.

We are adding the Sorcerer's Staff to the Crystalline collection. For more information on streaming drops and how to get them, check out the post here.

And to keep the ball rolling, we have not one but TWO chests full of magnificent beards for Wilson and Webber! These will be granted for free upon login for a limited time, so grab them now while you can.


And because we need to get more and more cool stuff into Klei Rewards, we have also added the Hunters Shovel to Klei Rewards for 1200 points. And have some free points too: https://accounts.klei.com/link/augQOL (link expires in 30 days)

The team has been chipping away at the next big content update, but before that we have another Character Refresh coming up next month! Now, this image is probably a bit more on the nose than the teasers I have shared in the past, but frankly - I really just thought this was so cool that I had to share. As always, I'll have more details as we get closer to release.

That's it for now. Thanks again for playing, have fun out there!

Changes:

• Wavey Jones will be chased off permanently for the night after several attempts
  
• Wavey Jones will only pop off boat patches if the lowest crew sanity is 25% or less.
  
• Improved the resolution of the science machine art. A little “pre QOL update” QOL update.

Bug fixes:

• Wavey won’t show up on a boat that is empty
  
• Fixed missing cuffs on the Stitched Coat.
  
• Fixed Roseate Wurt skin issues.
  
• Fixed floating issues with the Head Chef Hat.
  
• Fixed typo in Warly's quote for Leafy Meatloaf.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused Wendy’s arm clothing to revert.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a crash in the An Eggy Tally game.
  
• Fix a texture clipping issue with Wilson’s Verdant skin.

The seas seem to grow more dangerous with every passing day. Is this the work of Charlie, or is the strange, mutating influence of the moon growing stronger? Let’s hope our Survivors can stay afloat long enough to find out.

• New craftable mast upgrades.
  
• New craftable water pump for open water fire emergencies.
  
• Sea Weed living out on the Sea Stacks.
  
• Spittlefish
  
• Rock Jaw sharks plying the deep waterways.
  
• The Terrorclaw, aquatic relation to the Terrorbeak.
  
• Barnacles and new Barnacle cooking recipes.
  
• New cooking recipes for Leafy Meat.
  
• Something to break the lonely nights at sea.
  
• New skin sets available

We have also added new character skins as drops in-game or for purchase.



Lost Adventurers Chest $10.99 (19 RMB). Contains 5 skin sets.
Warly's "The Head Chef" set, including the "Head Chef's Hat" Top Hat skin, Wolfgang's "The Verdant" set, Wilson's "The Verdant" set, Wurt's "The Roseate" set, and Wormwood's "The Triumphant" set.

In addition, we had to change up some of the skin prices a bit to bring them more in-line with the spool value of the items inside. Some packs went down in price and some went up, but just by a little bit.


We have added the Enchanted Crystal to the Crystalline collection. For more information on streaming drops and how to get them, check out our support topic here.



We know you have all been wondering what's coming up next. Will we have more DLC characters? What's the next character refresh?

For the next DLC character. We'll see. Probably, but no promises right now. We're mostly focused on trying to stick to a manageable schedule, which is obviously a bit tough at the moment. But, I think we're doing pretty well so far.

With that being said, we're going to do another QOL update for August. The last one was received very well and not only does it allow everybody on the team some room to breath and catch up with everything they are working on, but we've found it to be rewarding to get in some of the things that we have wanted to get fixed up but haven't found the time. If you have things that you would like to see in the next QOL update, now's the time to let us know!

We've already begun work on the next character refresh as well as the next animated short for that character and we're well on our way for the next big content update. We'll announce the character on the QOL update post next month. I know, I know. I want to tell you, but you're gonna have to wait a bit longer.

That's it for now. Have fun out there!