Hazard modeling the new football item set

As we are working hard on preparing Hot Lava for Early Access, I wanted to take some time to talk about some amazing things going on in the Hot Lava community.

Yesterday we added support for user created translations of Hot Lava, and in under 24 hours we have seen 'Russian', 'Spanish', 'Turkish' and even 'Pirate' translation mods appear on the workshop! If you are interested in helping translate Hot Lava to another language, details can be found on the Klei forums. To view translations as they are added visit the workshop

Through the Community Spotlight we have been highlighting some of the best and most accessible levels the community has been producing. But please know this is just the tip of the iceberg- the workshop is littered with plenty of other creative, surprising, and challenging maps!
View workshop maps

The Modkit is being updated today. Support for multi-course levels, game modes (like pogo), consistent export names (only retire leaderboard when you intend to), modkit friendly wall jumps and much more! It's strongly recommended that you install the modkit to a new project and port existing maps over to avoid corruption. We will continue to build on and improve the Modkit based on your feedback. The new modkit should go live in the next hour.

The speed running community for Hot Lava has become very competitive. Many world records have been secured by fractions of a second. A "Full School Run" tournament will be happening on the 22nd at 11am PST, 2pm EST, 7pm CET. The competition will be streamed on Twitch. If you think you have what it takes and want to sign up, or are just interested in following the competitive scene an event discord has been setup.

To show our appreciation towards the community we have added two award items. The Wrench and Crown. These items will be awarded for recipients of the Community Spotlight and the to the winners of select Community Competitions respectively. Those who were featured in previous spotlights have retroactively received this award. Thank you for helping grow Hot Lava through your contributions!


Klei hosts a weekly developer stream where we talk about on of our games- and this week (like, right now) you can catch us talking about Hot Lava. More details are available on the Klei forums.

If you are interested in becoming involved in any part of the Hot Lava community- or just want a chill place to hang out, please join me on the Hot Lava Discord.

Today we are adding the ability to translate Hot Lava into other languages. This is an important step towards early access. If you are interested in helping translate Hot Lava into your language instructions are available at the bottom of this update.

• Added full translation support
  
• Added translation mod uploader tool to Steam
  
• Difficulty markings have been added to the course info screen of each course
  
• Added football item set
  
• Added community spotlight award item
  
• Added community speedrunning award item
  
• Automatically disable SSAO in potato, was visually detrimental
  
• Optimization: decorations now lod out at a distance based on quality
  
• Optimization: Integrated Vignette into the fog pass
  
• Re-tuned pursuit to be more competitive
  
• Improved visuals of lava fog
  
• Fix for bug where finish points could be seen through walls before they were active
  
• Collision cleanup in wholesale for some trap areas, some notorious traps in freezer and at the start of course Meat Grinder.
  
• Timer visibility re-enabled for first sections of mastery courses (the timer is always counting so this will not affect the leaderboards)
  
• Fix for bug where players would sometimes play non-pogo jump animations on pogo
  
• Improve gamepad navigation on Custom Game screen
  
• Improve default settings for detected hardware
  
• Improved accessibility of the art room in school

For more information on how to create and submit user generated translations please visit the Klei Forums:
https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/95685-creatingusing-language-translations/

• Disable "select" button when selecting currently active language mod
  
• Optimized VFX on wrench award
  
• Fixed rare crash with certain language mods
  
• Fixed level/group update issue causing names to appear twice
  
• Fixed issue where players could get stuck under the art room cabinet

• You can now sell certain duplicate items for more tickets
  
• Added new ‘bee’ outfit
  
• Revisions to the pursuit mechanic. Catching the target gives it a temporary speed boost, fade to black no longer goes to full black and starts later
  
• Wholesale course leaderboards reset for Duct and Cover, Meat Grinder and Chase the Lie. Due to course iterations and feedback
  Duct and Cover changes:
  • Spawn point moved up to first checkpoint location
    
  • Set a hidden checkpoint to visible after the cafeteria to help direct players
    
  • Removed redundant wall jumps in first section of risers because it confused pathing
    
  • Opened up some congested sightlines on the top of the risers that would direct players off course
    
  • Fixed an exploit where players could skip the last 3 checkpoints without boosting or using air control by jumping up a paper towel stack
    
  • Nudged various boxes to better guide player along course
• Fix throwing Buddy through walls and blue force fields
  
• Fix timer sometimes activating in overworld after finishing a course or spectating a player
  
• Fix bug where camera would stay frozen after dying on certain courses
  
• Fix rare instance where checkpoints would get out of order when running through multiple consecutive courses
  
• Fixed minor checkpoint and finish point bugs
  
• Collision and lighting fixes in mastery gym level
  
• Collision and course adjustments in wholesale level, Changes made to course Duct and Cover
  
• Fixed occlusion issues in the paper towel fort of Wholesale that was allowing player to see skybox
  
• Updated collision of the ramps in the meat grinder section of Wholesale so players can no longer run along top striped band
  
• Catch the target sfx
  
• UI sfx improvements and addition (Restart, Item already selected, Sell Duplicate, etc.)
  
• Fixed an audio bug in School where a cart floating on lava in the main ring corridor was spamming rattle sounds

• Fixed issue preventing taunts from being equipped

By: drawnblue

Take a pleasant little jaunt across the rooftops of a quaint woodland village in this charming map that combines original game-play with a distinctive art style. It may look small but there’s lots of fun crammed into this map. Give it a try to see for yourself!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1463473650

• Buddy added to wholesale. Six new buddy courses in wholesale including new rewards
  
• Fixed misaligned scoreboard numbers
  
• Fixed player controller jumping 45 degrees sideways when A/W or W/D are held on jump, to prevent sideways movement drift
  
• Optimized particle systems
  
• Fixed missing collision in ceiling intersections in school
  
• Disable other players showing “buddy mode”
  
• Fixed missing collision in wholesale inside Bruce’s Own BBQ sauce
  
• Disable fmod debugging
  
• Increase alpha on boosting bar, reduced width
  
• Fixed a null reference with the hot potato
  
• Exploit fix: checkpoints are now properly ghosted if Buddy is not in your hands after Replay or Spectate
  
• Fixed rare case where players would spawn rotated during introduction animations
  
• Fix local mods being unplayable unless you have workshop mods also installed
  
• Fixed news image sometimes loading in slowly
  
• Fixed some stacked / colliding art in wholesale
  
• Bow and arrow accessory increased in rarity and colored

HOTFIX - 283226

• Prevent items from being placed inside geo when falling.
  
• Attempt to fix inappropriate out of bounds death.

By: RUMME

Created by one of the top Hot Lava speedrunners "RUMME". This map is both fun for new players and pros alike. It's packed with shortcuts and liberal boosting opportunities for seasoned pros. You might just find yourself turning into a speedrunner after playing this map.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1480837964

• Hot Potato
  
• Pass it on. Pass it on
  
• New UI visualization for boosting
  
• Step up on crouch now works
  
• Step up works better from a stand still
  
• Crouching in air now correctly prevents grounding in the raised volume
  
• Cleanup raycast now prevents 'pops' when grounded on a concave object (e.g. crouching through the vents)
  
• The player no longer preemptively crouches in the air when their head is touching the ceiling
  
• Experimental shader variant loading, should drastically improve initial load times
  
• Added missing dissolve trigger in the school levels toxic patch
  
• Fixed kill volumes in wind tunnels killing players through walls in school
  
• No longer play collision impact UI from grounding collisions
  
• More Buddy sfx and refinements
  
• Fix for School and Pogo Intro cutscene audio out of sync
  
• Fix Buddy getting coloured by stickers
  
• Fix ghost knocking Buddy into lava
  
• Fix invisible Buddy in your hand after spectate or replay.
  
• Exploit fix: Buddy now appears at the last checkpoint instead of in your hands after Replay or Spectate
  
• Fix Buddy lost when thrown through overworld portals
  
• Fix rare news download error
  
• Fix throw reticle when holding item, now only shows when throwing or placing
  
• Fix items thrown too far to the right of the reticle
  
• Fix over sensitive gamepad at high framerate when vsync is disabled
  
• Fix no sticker award when completing chase the doggo

By: drawnblue

Another delightful experience from drawnblue. Explore Giant's Garage, weaving through power tools and shop supplies to adorn the hood of a giant blue car. This custom map has equal parts puzzle and parkour.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1475657331

• Added a buddy to help you feel less lonely
  
• Added “placement” feature, right click to gently place a held object down
  
• Added throwing sound effects
  
• Throws can now be made stronger by holding the throw button
  
• Simple drop shadow added to players to help place landings
  
• Fixed bad vent geometry in wholesale
  
• Fixed bad concrete collision above the cafeteria in wholesale
  You can now look down 10 degrees more
  
• Updated death reasons for certain types of deaths
  
• Add gamepad button mapping for SaveCheckpoint (press Y to set respawn location in Explore mode)
  
• Fixed bad audio feedback when closing Trial screen with escape
  
• Better logging for startup and network errors
  
• Additional online slow down fixes
  
• A paused timer now starts on throw
  
• An additional checkpoint added to Repeat The Grade to make some pathing more clear
  
• Added six new reward decals to collect
  
• You can now grab and throw items in wind tunnels
  
• Added throwing targeting reticle
  
• Fixed uncapped backwards boosting
  
• Added boosting UI to backwards boosting
  
• Inverted backwards boosting controls to be more in-line with forwards boosting

HOTFIX - 281461

• Fix several crashes introduced in the last update.
  
• Fix replays to work in mod maps again.
  
• Fix Buddy sometimes not grabbable.

• Leaderboard and the score screen now show the times of others on the same world as you, even if they aren’t on your friendslist
  
• New Tiny Toy Master course added to Mastery Gym level
  
• Fixed starting area collision issues with Tiny Toy in Wholesale, reset leaderboard for this trial
  
• Scroll jump has been reworked to be a viable option for playing.
  
• Scroll jump honors scrolls made before landing, but during the perfect jump threshold
  
• Scroll jumps are not invalidated when multiple scroll notches are done in a single jump
  
• Scroll jump clears any queued jumps on landing to prevent unintended jumps
  
• Scroll jump no longer zooms the camera in Tiny Toy
  
• New more consistent grounding and can stand up logic
  
• Added UI sounds for Trial Selection menu
  
• Fix super launch when coming out of AFK on a boost pad
  
• Removed “continue” option on course end screen to prevent accidental leaving of custom games
  
• Fix custom game preview images to be square like they are on Steam Workshop
  
• Fix error from missing vfx in Tiny Toy
  
• Fix rare rotation bug on spawn in Tiny Toy
  
• Fix accessory error when starting Tiny Toy trials

Come by the Klei Twitch channel this Thursday (August 2nd) at 3:30 PM Pacific / 10:30 PM UTC where we will be playing and discussing Hot Lava's recent updates, as well as answering your questions. https://www.twitch.tv/kleientertainment

• Fixed vent issues in school
  
• Fixed crouching stand up issue in certain cases
  
• Fixed crouching animation not playing in wind tunnels
  
• Fixed tiny toy trial music looping on early portion of the song
  
• Fixed some master checkpoint issues
  
• Disable play replay on non-friends times- this feature is not working correctly

• Fixed issue preventing online players from spawning and causing significant slow down
  
• Fixed bad offsets on grabbable objects throughout school
  
• Increased online player position extrapolation time to help smooth high ping player movement
  
• Put in better handling for bad online packet data with additional logging
  
• Fixed issue where you would immediately jump off a swing from a queued jump
  
• Fixed an issue preventing the player from landing in a crouch
  
• Fixed pogo getting stuck in a crouched animation

• Fixed networking bug causing random performance issues for entire lobbies of players