+For a limited time, players will be able to earn the 2025 Autumn Event skin: Cordyceps Acrocanthosaurus, as well as all previous year's Autumn Event Skins: Servant of Charon Megaraptor and Fall Decay Tyrannosaurus.

• Cordyceps skin was made by Croww & Valhalla
  
• The skins all have a glowing, bioluminescent layer.
  
• The skins unlock separate equippable cosmetic overlays: Leafy Refuge for Acrocanthosaurus & Tyrannosaurus, and Charon's Splendor for Megaraptor. The unlocked overlays can go on any skin of their corresponding species.
  
• Event skins for Acrocanthosaurus and Tyrannosaurus come with equippable mesh objects.
  
• The Cordyceps skin also works for its subclasses: Carcharodontosaurus

+To unlock the skins and their overlays, players need to find and collect golden dinosaur idols scattered around the map.

• Acrocanthosaurus Idols will unlock the Acrocanthosaurus Seasonal Skin
  
• Tyrannosaurus Idols will unlock the Tyrannosaurus Seasonal Skin
  
• Megaraptor Idols will unlock the Megaraptor Seasonal skin
  
• The idols will be spawning on all servers and on both Life Cycle and Free Roam game modes.

+ Gathering idols will allow the player to progress through the achievement associated with earning the corresponding skin.
+ Completing skin achievements on any server will unlock access to the skin and cosmetics game-wide.

• The newest skin: Cordyceps Acrocanthosaurus will require gathering 50 idols to unlock. While all previous year's seasonal skins will require 35 idols to unlock.
  
• The idols belonging to the newest skin will have a special compass icon different from the others. It looks like a gold star-burst border pattern.
  
• The idols belonging to land species will only spawn on land randomly anywhere carcasses can spawn.
  
• The Idols belonging to aquatic species will only spawn underwater randomly anywhere carcasses can spawn.
  
• All Seasonal Skins are earned by collecting idols scattered around the map and returning them to a matching deity shrine.
  
• All idols must be gathered on the same server to complete the achievement and unlock the skin, but they can be individually gathered by different creatures or during different lives.
  
• Idols show up on the compass when nearby with a color themed for the deity shrine they belong to.
  
• Turning in an idol will show achievement progress in the top-right corner of the screen
  
• You should also be able to view the progress you've made towards unlocking the event skins by viewing the corresponding achievements in the achievements gallery's Limited Time Events page.

Myth: The newest type of idol isn't spawning because there is too many older event idols on the map.

Fact: Each idol type has its own maximum count which is maintained by the server. The count is not influenced by the amount of other types of idols, nor will turning in other kinds of idols promote the spawning of another species' idol.
There is likely 'less' of the newest idol because it is likely being utilised the most by other players.

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+Added New Pachy Skin: Algae Vein by Krymsonfeather & Croww
+Added New Pachy Skin: King Pachy by Twilight & Natahi4

+Added twinkling animation to talent UI
+Added New Apatosaurus talent: Titan's Fortitude
-Removes damage reduction while whipping when investing a point, and instead applies damage reduction to your neck and front legs while using Neck Sweep or Stomp.
-When fully invested into the talent, it completely removes tail damage reduction during whip attacks and instead grants a 30% damage reduction to the front half of the Apatosaurus while performing a Stomp or Neck Sweep. The damage reduction calculation functions similar to how Coah’s frill damage reduction is determined.
-Inherits do not remove damage reduction on the tail while whipping, they instead apply damage reduction to the neck and front legs. This reduction will only take effect after a point has been invested.
-This talent is in talent socket P3.1 on Apatosaurus
-Note that negative inherits can never make you take less damage on the tail than baseline. They can, however, make you take more damage from the front while stomping.
+Added New Apatosaurus talent: Accelerator
-When sprinting straight forward, you will gain Frenzy stacks.
-Each talent point increases the number of Frenzy stacks you can accumulate by two. Inherits increase this value by one.
-Turning, walking, standing, attacking, or taking damage from another creature will cancel this effect.
-This talent is in talent socket M3.3 on Apatosaurus
+Added New Para talent: Bull
-You gain damage resistance while in quadrupedal stance
-This does not refund AP when hitting another Parasaurolophus, or when hitting a group member
-This talent is in socket S3.3

+Admin: Added new console command, SpawnClone
-This console command requires SpawnEntity permissions in the server config
-This console command has an optional player name / ID input argument. It will accept a player's name, their CID, or their steam ID. If left blank, it will target the player who used the command.
-This command duplicates a creature and places it on top of the player who used the command. It will be a perfect copy of their character, including all stats, cosmetics and skins, talents, and other relevant characteristics.
-This command is designed to be used for testing purposes. Duplicating someone's character will not result in their character dying or being lost if the clone dies.
- If no damage is dealt the clone will despawn after 300s

+Admin: Added new console command, removeplayerfromleaderboard
- This console command requires control server permissions
- This console command lets server mods remove players from the leaderboard.


+Optimization: Various optimizations to improve AI critter server performance. This was expensive, so servers may run noticeably better after this change if the server has AI enabled.
+Optimization: Other various optimizations that will slightly improve server performance

+QoL: Server admins are able to setup an automatic message and determine its interval of repetition in minutes with config variable AutoMessages=(Message="Message", IntervalMinutes=minutes, UTCTime="hours:minutes" Alert=true/false)
-Admins can either set a repeating message by setting IntervalMinutes or they can set a specific time for the message by setting UTCTime
-Example of repeating message: +AutoMessages=(Message="Message repeating every hour", IntervalMinutes=60, Alert=false)
-Example of timed message: +AutoMessages=(Message="Message at UTC 23:40 with alert", UTCTime="23:40", Alert=true)
-When setting the alert to true, the message is shown at the top of the screen similar to daily messages or server broadcasts. When setting it to false, the message is only displayed in chat.
-This goes under the [/script/beastsofbermuda.servergameinstance] header in the Game.ini file

+QoL: Added a configurable profanity filter to the server config. Servers can decide to censor words by adding them to a list in the config. If a player types a filtered word, it will be starred out. +ProfanityWords="example"
-This goes under the [/script/beastsofbermuda.servergameinstance] header in the Game.ini file

+Balance: The talent Constitution now helps you recover more quickly from both status conditions of Sickness and Recovering from Sickness
+Balance: Venom and Bleed can no longer be dealt until you are at least 0.8 growth
+Balance: Egg no longer counts as meat for the dietary requirements of Velociraptor, Utahraptor, Megaraptor, Palaeophis, Pachycephalosaurus, Pteranodon, and Tropeognathus. Instead, it counts towards its own Egg dietary category. This category becomes unhealthy if it exceeds 75% of the creature's diet.

+Balance: Kaprosuchus can no longer apply the Tendon Tear debuff until 0.8 growth

+Balance: If the Palaeophis' diet is 50% or more egg, it will now regurgitate egg carcasses that provide egg food instead of meat or fish.
-This is to combat the Palaeophis being used as a means to feed other players off of eggs
+Balance: The Palaeophis can now gain up to 8 stacks of Frenzy by default, up from 7

+Balance: Tyrannosaurus rex's Devastating Ambush buff now continues to charge and remains active while crouched, regardless of whether or not the player is moving or stationary.

+Balance: Wiehenvenator can no longer apply the Tendon Tear debuff until 0.8 growth


+Fixed: Placeable map assets SM_LCave_P_Floor_01_Sandy and SM_LCave_P_Floor_03_Sandy no longer render with a black texture when their z coordinate is too high
+Fixed: Setting the time of day in the creature editor with the sundial should no longer allow players to keep the time of day fixed to that time if they join a server after setting it.
+Fixed: Getting sick above 2.5 growth and resetting your growth to 1.0 no longer allows players to earn the achievement for surviving a 2.5+ growth sickness.
+Fixed: Various client and server crashes
+Fixed: Underwater effects should no longer have weird screen resolution when using Fidelity FX / FSR
+Fixed: Scent clouds should work again when effect quality are set to medium or low
+Fixed: The Wiehenvenator is now properly referred to as Wiehenvenator on the talent UI's dino information text header
+Fixed: Utah's eat and drink sounds now properly loop while eating
+Fixed: Mosasaurus can no longer double jump, or jump while darting out of the water
+Fixed: missing Pachy on Main Menu
+Fixed: Blocking players now persists through logging out or restarting the game
+Fixed: Changing keybinds no longer jams the set keybind action
+Fixed: Pteranodon no longer crashes clientside when trying to play its dance emote
+Fixed: As a female holding ready to lay eggs, any owned nests with eggs already placed will prompt for repair or laying eggs.
+Fixed: The setalltalentinheritsto console command no longer kicks the player and dirties their dinosaur if they use it without the correct admin perms.
+Fixed: Invisible Juniper trees on Titan's Rise

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Afrikaans

From now until Oct 25th 2025, you will be able to purchase Petite Palaeophis Plushies on Makeship's website to help reach the funding goal.

After the Plushie is successfully funded, they will be shipped out to backers 2-3 months after the Campaign end date. You can find additional info about the plushie and campaign by following the link at the bottom of the announcement.

• These plushies are Limited Edition and are each given a unique numbered tag, so get them before they are gone!
  
• Makeship has a badges system! The first 200 backers will get a gold badge on Makeship's website! Example of some Makeship Badges: https://store.makeship.com/badges/user/Seebs
  
• In addition, your name shows up on the 'recent supporters' section of the website and once the campaign is over all supporters' usernames are celebrates on the product's page!

In order to receive badges and statuses, you need to first create an account with Makeship.
You can check shipping destinations here.

Back the Campaign Today!

All of the funds we receive from this campaign are put back into development costs! Allowing us to buy models, cosmetics, animations, music and more!
You can help fund the campaign by purchasing your own Beasts of Bermuda plush using the link below:
https://www.makeship.com/products/petite-palaeophis

Thank you for your patience this year on the later than usual events as we re-transition back to UE4.

+For a limited time, players will be able to earn the 2025 Summer Event skin: Summer Fern Pteranodon, as well as all previous year's Summer Event Skins: Summer Lily Elasmosaurus and Waverider Lurdusaurus.

• The Summer Fern skin was made by Natahi4 & Valhalla
  
• The skins all have a glowing, bioluminescent layer.
  
• The skins unlock separate equippable cosmetic overlays: Mossy Cover for Pteranodon, Lilipads for Elasmosaurus, as well as Barnacles for Lurdusaurus. The unlocked overlays can go on any skin of their corresponding species.
  
• Event skins for Elasmosaurus and Pteranodon come with equippable mesh objects.

+To unlock the skins and their overlays, players need to find and collect golden dinosaur idols scattered around the map.

• Pteranodon Idols will unlock the Pteranodon Seasonal Skin
  
• Elasmosaurus Idols will unlock the Elasmosaurus Seasonal Skin
  
• Lurdusaurus Idols will unlock the Lurdusaurus Seasonal skin
  
• The idols will be spawning on all servers and on both Life Cycle and Free Roam game modes.

+ Gathering idols will allow the player to progress through the achievement associated with earning the corresponding skin.
+ Completing skin achievements on any server will unlock access to the skin and cosmetics game-wide.

• The idols belonging to land species will only spawn on land randomly anywhere carcasses can spawn.
  
• The Idols belonging to aquatic species will only spawn underwater randomly anywhere carcasses can spawn.
  
• All Seasonal Skins are now earned by collecting idols scattered around the map and returning them to a matching deity shrine.
  
• All skins require gathering 50 idols each. All idols must be gathered on the same server to complete the achievement and unlock the skin, but they can be individually gathered by different creatures or during different lives.
  
• Idols show up on the compass when nearby with a color themed for the deity shrine they belong to
  
• Turning in an idol will show achievement progress in the top-right corner of the screen
  
• You should also be able to view the progress you've made towards unlocking the event skins by viewing the corresponding achievements in the achievements gallery's Limited Time Events page

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+Added Utahraptor as our newest addition to Beasts of Bermuda's roster! The Utahraptor is a rather large raptor who specializes in having an agile, quick playstyle. It's a very fast runner and an excellent jumper. It can hit hard when it needs to, but is quite fragile. It's designed to be easy to play, using a basic, simple kit. Hunt carefully, preferably in a large pack.

+The Utahraptor's Primary Attack deals moderate damage with a quick snap of its jaws.
+The Utahraptor's Secondary Attack utilizes your claws and feet to slash at your prey. This attack inflicts a large amount of knockback damage, but leaves your prey relatively unharmed. Use this attack to push away pests, or bully around larger creatures.
+Utahraptor's Ability Key allows it to use Dual Slash
-Dual Slash is a hard-hitting attack that deals both substantial base damage and injury damage. It also deals knockback.
-Dual Slash has a cooldown, so time it wisely!

+The Utahraptor can jump once again while in mid-air. If you are holding directional movement keys while performing an aerial jump, you will perform a boosted jump in that direction. Use this additional, aerial maneuverability to escape dangerous situations, reach high places, or to stay on top of your prey.

+The Utahraptor has three tail plumage variants and four head plumage variants the player can choose to equip. These can be found under the 'Character' tab of the customization screen.

+Added New Utah Skin: Bluebilled by Gamevideosforlife & Natahi4
+Added New Utah Skin: Bluejay by Twilightwolf & Gamevideosforlife
+Added New Utah Skin: Duck by Natahi4 & Pixeldeer
+Added New Utah Skin: Fawn by Val & Pixeldeer
+Added New Utah Skin: Frosted by Omnomnomnivore
-Added Heterochromatic eyes to Frosted Utah
+Added New Utah Skin: Lupin by Twilightwolf
+Added New Utah Skin: Mysa by Val
+Added New Utah Skin: Vulture by Val

+Utahraptor's sprint speed is 1135, making it the fastest land creature in the game
+Utahraptor has a growth rate and scaling stats that match the Pachycephalosaurus
+Utahraptor's base health is 425
+Utahraptor's base damage is 80

+The Utahraptor can group with the Horseshoe Crab and the Frog by default
+The Utahraptor's default group limit is 8
+The Utahraptor has a taunt emote. It is unlocked by having champion hunt points
+The Utahraptor has a dance emote. It is unlocked by owning the Beasts of Bermuda OST on Steam


+The Pachycephalosaurus now has a new model and new set of animations
+The Pachycephalosaurus has new sound effects for charge loop, dance, eat, and taunt

+The Pachycephalosaurus now has four quill variants the player can choose to equip. These can be found under the 'Character' tab of the customization screen.
+The Supporter Warpaint cosmetic has been redone for the Pachycephalosaurus on its new model. Any owners of the Pachycephalosaurus Supporter Warpaint will have access to the new version of this cosmetic.
+The Pachycephalosaurus has a taunt emote. It is unlocked by getting all water sources
+The Pachycephalosaurus has a dance emote. It is unlocked by owning the Beasts of Bermuda OST on Steam

+Added Pachy Skin Remake: Riverrock by Val
+Added New Pachy Skin: Spinehowl by Pixeldeer and Natahi4
+Added New Pachy Skin: Hothead by Krymsonfeather and Natahi4
+Added Pachy Skin Remake: Yemen by Soals and GamevideosforLife
+Added New Pachy Skin: Tropical by Omnomnomnivore and Natahi4
+Added Pachy Skin Remake: Slashed Velvet by Val and Misha



+Added New Kapro Skin: Laced by Krymsonfeather and Croww
+Added New Kapro Skin: Redwood by Natahi4 & Twilightwolf
+Added New Ptera Skin: LanternFly by TeatimeJess and DJZ

+Admin: Servers can now assign different growth limits to different specializations. This syntax would result in Acrocanthosaurus having a growth limit of 1.0, and Carcharodontosaurus having a growth limit of 1.2.
+GrowthLimits=(Type=EDinoType::Acrocanthosaurus,Limit=1.0f,Specialization=0)
+GrowthLimits=(Type=EDinoType::Acrocanthosaurus,Limit=1.2f,Specialization=1)
-If only specialization 0 is specified, all specializations will use the limit specified for specialization 0
-If the config file is not edited and the specialization is left out entirely, the growth limit will default to the limit for the whole species
-For reference, these are the specialization indices for all relevant creatures: Acrocanthosaurus=0, Carcharchodontosaurus=1, Apatosaurus=0, Brontosaurus=1, Semi Palaeophis=0, Terra Palaeophis=1, Aqua Palaeophis=2, Velociraptor=0, Changyuraptor=1
+Admin: Toggleplayernametags now displays the group id of the player. If the player is not in a group, this data field is hidden
+Admin: Banning, Unbanning, muting, unmuting, and kicking players from the server manager, the emote wheel, or the player list now properly displays this in the AdminCmdDiscordWebhook section of the Webhooks
+Admins can see how many eggs a female creature is gestating with the spectate's inspect ability
+Admin: Added CID to most places where player name and player steam ID are displayed on Discord Webhooks
+Admin: All Discord webhooks now have a UTC timestamp on them

+Mechanics: All creatures now align to the pitch angle of the object they're sitting or laying on
+Mechanics: All land creatures are now slightly buoyant while swimming
+Mechanics: Players who are resurrecting and selecting a new spawn point region for their dead creature will now properly spawn at least 750 meters away from where they last died. If there are no spawn points in the selected region that satisfy this criteria, a random one in a random region will be selected instead

+QoL: All creatures will receive a talent reset for this patch
+QoL: Wing Beat now displays an error to the player if they try to use the ability while it is on cooldown
+QoL: Interacting with your nest while you are carrying eggs now repairs the nest
+QoL: A status condition now displays when a player has their growth paused due to not entering the Gauntlet on the Life Cycle game mode
+QoL: Added a 'Low Comfort' status condition that displays as a status debuff when you are low on comfort. This status condition helps inform players that they are low on comfort and may help them figure out how to remedy the situation before it kills them.
+QoL (public): The remainder eggs are no longer destroyed when the number of eggs you have ready to lay exceeds the capacity of the nest you are laying in

+Balance: Eggs can no longer grow slower than the rate at which they grow with default configs. This means servers that choose to set their growth rate config values to be slower than the default value will not see eggs grow more slowly. Servers with faster growth rates still see eggs grow more quickly as well.
+Balance: Increased all sprint, swim walk, and swim sprint speeds by 8.3%, and reduced effectiveness of the Swiftness talent by 35%. The 5/3 Swiftness speed of all creatures has not changed, but all speeds when players have less than 5/3 Swiftness has been increased. The goal of this change is to make the Swiftness talent less polarizing, and to do so by buffing speeds for all creatures when they do not take Swiftness or lack max Swiftness or Swiftness inherits. Situations where creatures with Swiftness can overtake others that have not talented into this particular talent or do not have inherits in it should be less frequent and less extreme.
+Balance: Acro, Carch, Ichthy, Wiehen, Ory, Pachy, Lurdu, Para, Sai, Ptera, Utah, Velo, Tropeo, Coah, Megaraptor, Archelon, and Palaeophis now have 1.3x their adult stamina at juvenile, rather than 0.85x. This value lowers back down to 100% at sub adulthood. Hatchling stamina values remain unchanged.
+Balance: Significantly reduced damage output of all creatures (50% for most creatures) at the juvenile stage of growth. This damage fades back in and remains unchanged at subadult and beyond.

+Balance: Aurora can no longer use Sand Attack until growth 0.8

+Balance: Reduced Carch's Voracious Bite heal tick scaling beyond growth 1.0 such that larger Carchs do not receive as much health tick scaling as before
+Balance: Carch can no longer proc Voracious Bite by attacking other Carchs

+Balance: Horseshoe Crab now has Elusiveness in talent S3.1
+Balance: The Horseshoe Crab now has Dart, with Ichthy's dart stats. It cannot struggle.
+Balance: The Horseshoe Crab now has Improved Dart in talent M3.3

+Balance: Reduced Kapro's injury damage output by 35% under all circumstances

+Balance: Krono now has Forager in talent socket S3.3

+Balance: Lurdu no longer requires salt in its diet

+Balance: Increased Megaraptor's egg incubation radius by 50%

+Balance: Ory can no longer use Sand Attack until growth 0.8

+Balance: Decreased Pachy's Primary Attack cooldown timer to 1.0 seconds, down from 1.2
+Balance: The talent Sneaky now makes Pachy's charge start sound quieter

+Balance: Palaeophis' Venom Spit can no longer apply venom above 50 on its target
+Balance: Venom no longer influences Ability or Stamina regeneration while you are sitting or laying down

+Balance: Increased size of Para's back kick hitbox
+Balance: Reduced cost of Para's back kick to 20 Stamina, from 30 Stamina
+Balance: Para's back kick now deals 25 base damage
+Balance: Para can now use attacks immediately after using its alarm call

+Balance: Reduced Wiehenvenator food drain rate to 0.83, down from 0.95

+Updated AMD Fidelity FX / FSR to 2.2.1
-Fidelity FX upscaling should look less grainy
+Steam Deck: Updated the default compatibility layer Proton 9 to Proton 10
+Enabled AMD Fidelity FX / FSR for Steam Deck
+Fixed: Fidelity FX upscaler now should work properly on dedicated Laptop GPUs
+Ocean and weather effects are more optimized
+Optimized the lowest settings for more performance on lower end hardware
+Added a misc setting that allows player to forcefully show hidden graphics settings
-On some GPUs the API might false tag GPU not to support certain features like FSR. Toggling this option allows player to bypass that hardware check if they know that the feature should work on their hardware

+Fixed: HUD elements no longer teleport to the wrong location when editing the HUD
+Fixed: Kapro's food HUD no longer swaps to piscivore after changing your game settings
+Fixed: Coah's Active Defense buff is now removed after a duel ends
+Fixed: Archelon no longer keeps any shield regeneration it receives during a duel from using its Spiky Shield ability
+Fixed: Archelon, Wiehenvenator, and Kaprosuchus no longer occasionally trigger their Snapping Jaw, Tendon Tear, and Bone Snap abilities if you're rapidly initiating Primary Attack over and over
+Fixed: The camera now zooms in smoothly and sits atop each dinosaur's hip rather than acting badly when at close zoom levels
+Fixed: Kapro can no longer charge and use its Tendon Snap ability while charging or using its Brute Force attack
+Fixed: Text error in Velo Intuition description
+Fixed: Lurdu and Kapro can no longer damage their own eggs with Lurdu's charge and Kapro's RMB pounce
+Fixed: Archelon and Elasmo can no longer gain air satiation from eating coconuts
+Fixed: Palaeophis no longer takes extra damage from Wing Tear
+Fixed: You can no longer heal as a Carcharodontosaurus by dueling and then forfeiting the duel with stacks active before the duel is over
+Fixed: Reduced Kapro's fat morph so it no longer clips into its legs and arms while moving
+Fixed: Kapro can no longer dart while charging up Bone Snap
+Fixed: The Velociraptor and Changyuraptor now have the same restrictions on what objects they can sense while in flight as Pteranodon and Tropeognathus
+Fixed: Scars, burn overlays, and lightning scars now properly go behind other equippable cosmetics such as warpaint
+Fixed: Kapro's head tracking is no longer significantly lessened after playing your Taunt or Dance emotes
+Fixed: The Palaeophis can no longer play emotes while sitting or laying down, resulting in a jam
+Fixed: Standing on large underground rocks spawned around ory burrows no longer causes server-side log spam

Thank you to the BoB QA Team for the images provided.

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Afrikaans

+For a limited time, players will be able to earn the 2025 Spring Event skin: Granite Gladiator, as well as all previous year's Spring Event Skins: Skal Archelon and Spring Guardian.
- The Granite Gladiator skin was made by Natahi4 & Twilightwolf
- The skins have a glowing, bioluminescent layer.
- The skins unlock separate equippable cosmetic overlays: Mossy Covers for Apatosaurus & Velo, as well as Algae Bloom for Archelon. The unlocked overlays can go on any skin of their corresponding species.

+To unlock the skins and their overlays, players need to find and collect golden dinosaur idols scattered around the map.
- Apatosaurus Idols will unlock the Apatosaurus Seasonal Skin
- Archelon Idols will unlock the Archelon Seasonal Skin
- Velociraptor Idols will unlock the Velociraptor Seasonal skin
- Gathering the idols will allow the player to progress through achievements associated with earning the skins.
- The idols will be spawning on all servers and on both Life Cycle and Free Roam game modes.
- Completing the achievement on any server will unlock access to the skin and cosmetics game-wide.

• The idols belonging to land species will only spawn on land randomly anywhere carcasses can spawn.
  
• The Idols belonging to aquatic species will only spawn underwater randomly anywhere carcasses can spawn.
  
• All Seasonal Skins are now earned by collecting idols scattered around the map and returning them to a matching deity shrine.
  
• All skins require gathering 50 idols each. All idols must be gathered on the same server to complete the achievement and unlock the skin, but they can be individually gathered by different creatures or during different lives.
  
• Idols show up on the compass when nearby with a color themed for the deity shrine they belong to
  
• Turning in an idol will show achievement progress in the top-right corner of the screen
  
• You should also be able to view the progress you've made towards unlocking the event skins by viewing the corresponding achievements in the achievements gallery's Limited Time Events page

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Afrikaans

The Kaprosuchus is our newest creature that has been added to Beasts of Bermuda! It is a small, semi-aquatic crocodilian that specializes in a swift, fast playstyle. It's a very fast runner and has several tools to help it ambush prey and deal damage quickly.

+The Kaprosuchus' Primary Attack consists of dealing damage with a standard bite attack that inflicts moderate damage. Additionally, the Kaprosuchus can hold Primary Attack to use Bone Snap. Bone snap deals additional damage and applies a crippling, Tendon Tear debuff. The longer the Primary Attack key is held, the more damage is dealt and the longer the Tendon Tear debuff lasts. Be wary, as continuing to hold this ability will actively deplete your ability.

• While charging a bite, you move and turn slower. This allows you to punish adversaries that face you head-on with this debuff, while making it more difficult to apply to fleeing targets.
  
• The Kaprosuchus has the talent Snapping Jaw. This talent increases the duration of the Tendon Tear debuff applied by Bone Snap. It additionally decreases the ability cost, increases the damage multiplier, and reduces the movement penalty associated with charging and using this ability.

+The Kaprosuchus' Secondary Attack key allows it to use Brute Force. Brute Force is a powerful, leap-like attack that deals significantly more damage to its target if it hits. It also deals bonus injury damage. Brute Force gives the Kaprosuchus a tool to hit very hard and potentially cripple its prey before it has a chance to flee. It costs both Ability and Stamina to use and slows your movement speed by 40% while charging the attack.

• Aiming the camera up and down while holding the Secondary Attack key will allow you to adjust the angle Brute Force leaps with. Additionally, crouching lowers the launch angle. There is now an aiming cursor that shows where you will land while using this ability.
  
• Brute Force's leap distance does not scale with growth, Powerful Legs, or being fat. This allows the ability's trajectory to remain consistent and useful as a combat ability regardless of growth. Note that Kapro has another, similar ability specifically for mobility that does scale with growth and Powerful Legs.

+While swimming, the Secondary Attack key allows the Kaprosuchus to dart. Its dart is similar to other creatures with the ability.

+Kaprosuchus' Ability key allows it to use Blood Rush

• Blood Rush adds additional damage to the next attack the Kaprosuchus successfully lands.
  
• Blood Rush also allows your next attack to ignore damage reduction if it hits on the tail
  
• Blood Rush cannot be used while in combat, so the Kaprosuchus must be prepared for the fight to get this bonus. A notification will display when you leave combat on the Kaprosuchus, informing you that Blood Rush can be used once more.
  
• Blood Rush's damage does not scale with other abilities that add damage such as Bone Snap or Brute Force. It does scale with growth, damage talents, and other conditions that modify damage such as being grabbed.
  
• The Talent Thirsty for Blood increases the damage Blood Rush adds to an attack

+The Kaprosuchus' Special key allows it to perform a large, high-angled hop. This ability can also be aimed by tilting your camera up or down, and it has an aiming cursor that indicates where you will land while using this ability. Crouching lowers the launch angle. While charging this ability, the Kaprosuchus moves 20% slower.
-This ability scales with both Powerful Legs and Growth, allowing it to go much farther as it gets bigger. It costs only Stamina. You may find the Kaprosuchus in surprising places due to usage of this ability!


+Added Replenish as a new talent to Kapro's talent tree in socket S3.1

• Replenish grants stamina to the Kapro on a successful attack. At 5/3 this grants 37.5 Stamina per attack

+Added Thirsty for Blood as a new talent to Kapro's talent tree in socket M3.1

• Thirsty for Blood increases how much damage Blood Rush adds to your next successful attack. It also reduces the cost of Blood Rush and increases how long the buff lasts until it expires.

+Thick Tail

• -Thick Tail grants the Kaprosuchus 65% damage reduction on its tail rather than the standard 50%

+Thick Scutes

• Thick Scutes grants immunity to venom. This applies to both the venom damage type and to the Palaeophis' Venom Spit ability and its associated status effect
  
• Thick Scutes additionally grants 50% damage resistance to damage being dealt by serpents such as the Palaeophis.

+Lazy

• The Kaprosuchus can eat a lot, far surpassing being full. This takes overeating to the extreme, allowing the Kaprosuchus to gain substantial amounts of health and weight at the expense of mobility.
  
• It also can go a very long time without eating.
  
• Note that to take full advantage of Kapro's Lazy trait, the talents Resilience and Tough Stomach are highly recommended. Otherwise, the comfort drop from being this overweight will likely result in your death.

+Kapro has a growth rate and scaling stats that match the Pachycephalosaurus
+Kapro has a base food value of 125
+Kapro has a max food value of 300, which is higher than any other creature in the game
+Kapro's base health is 425
+Kapro's base damage is 65

+The Kaprosuchus is primarily a meat eater, but it can occasionally eat fish without getting sick. A diet too rich in fish may make you sick via the dietary mechanic, as it has a max fish allowance in its diet.

+FireBelly by Twilightwolf & Natahi4
+Leopard by Valhalla
+Swamp Runner by Pixeldeer & Novacaine
+Mangrove by Callie
+Seaspray by Novacaine & Valhalla
+Banded by Gamevideosforlife & Novacaine
+Marbled by Nonyapie & Natahi4

+Added Kapro taunt emote

• The taunt emote requires visiting all major deity shrines on the map

+Added Kapro dance emote

• The dance emote requires owning the BoB OST

+Kapro lays nests where the eggs get buried after they are laid. This functions similarly to the Archelon nest. It does not have to be laid on or near a beach.


Cypress Marsh is a mysterious and misty biome located behind Titan's Rise. Its a semi-aquatic focused area that connects to the ocean biome: Eroded Coast. It trades good food and water for poor visibility and unpredictable marshy terrain.

+Cypress Marsh features a unique biome soundtrack
+A thick fog covers the biome both day and night, making it perfect for ambushes
+The largest body of water in Cypress Marsh does not have a banner (or a mark on the compass) to prevent confusion while traversing the biome. This main watersource is infinite but does not provide satiation. However, there are many small pristine water sources across Cypress Marsh and the Eroded Coast to drink from instead that do provide satiation.
+Cypress Marsh features a special water Post Process effect which makes the water look dirty and murky when below the surface. All animals are at an equal visual disadvantage to this biome-specific murkiness. There are also chunks of algae floating in the water at some locations.
+Creatures now get covered in algae from the top-down while breaching in swampy water
+There are 3 mini land shrines and 3 mini aquatic shrines in Cypress Marsh.
+There are various types of AI in Cypress Marsh
+Cypress Marsh features various unique POI and environmental story telling

+Fixed bad collision on burnt Tropic Trees
+Improved LODs on the Kapok Trees
+Replaced the mammoth bone assets on Titania with lore-correct theropod bone assets
+Added some more broken building structures to the Orchard Ruins at Outlands
+Cypress Marsh Trees, Roots, and Stumps are now in the foliage tool and interactable on Titania. Stumps, Roots, and dead trees can be knocked over, but not eaten. Cypress Trees with leaves can be eaten when playing as correct species type and growth.
+Increased compass scent radius by 75% on Isla Titania to accommodate for map expansion


+Each creature can now earn an equippable burn overlay if they are caught on fire by a forest fire and manage to survive.

• There is a corresponding achievement in the achievement gallery under the cosmetics section that shows how many creatures currently have earned the overlay
  
• This cosmetic unlocks game-wide if earned on an Official server.
  
• The Burn scar overlays can only be earned if the player survives a fire that has not been spawned with console commands. Note using 'spawnfire' during a forest fire will mark all active fires as console-spawned, and the achievement will not work in this case either. Touching lava and being caught on fire by lava during a forest fire will also not grant the achievement.

+Each creature can now earn an equippable lightning scar overlay if they are struck by a naturally occurring lightning bolt

• There is a corresponding achievement in the achievement gallery under the cosmetics section that shows how many creatures currently have earned the overlay
  
• This cosmetic unlocks game-wide if earned on an Official server.

+Surviving sickness at or above 2.5 growth now rewards the sickness overlay for the creature that got sick. This sickness overlay is equippable on the Character customization screen.

• It equips to the same texture slot as the burn and lightning overlays.
  
• There is an achievement in the achievement gallery that displays how many creatures you have gotten sick and survived on. All creatures can earn a sickness overlay. Completing the achievement requires surviving a terrible sickness (2.5+ growth) on all creatures.
  
• Note that Pachycephalosaurus can earn the achievement, but currently has no sickness overlay.

+Added new Velo skin: Harrier by Twilightwolf


+The console command SetAllTalentInheritsTo now dirties a creature

+Talent points have been reset for this patch
+Added Velociraptor dance sound
+The Palaeophis now removes any visual dirtiness effects such as mud or sand after shedding its skin. It also dries it off.
+Renamed the Pteranodon Idle2 animation to Shake in the emote action wheel. Using this animation now dries and cleans the Pteranodon
+Using the Shake emote as the velociraptor now dries and cleans the Velociraptor
+While not mousing over any talents, the dino information that shows up on the dino select screen now also shows up on the talent screen. Note that all dino information has been updated to be relevant and up-to-date
+Added two additional save slots to all player save profiles, bringing the total save slot count up to 12, from 10

+Added Streamer Mode toggle in the gameplay settings

• Toggling it on automatically randomizes own name, hides global chat, uses only friend's steam avatars and hides server's name
  
• Streamer mode now changes other players names to their ID in player list, chat and in group. This is only visible to the streamer. ID can be used for /invite etc.
  
• Streamer mode now changes group names to random dino species name from that group in the group finder. This is also only visible to the streamer
  
• Player colors and badges are now hidden while in Streamer Mode
  
• Leaderboard names are now hidden while in Streamer Mode

+The Dino Customization UI has been edited to make it easier to find various cosmetic options while creating a new creature.

• The voice pitch, preview growth, and update camera view options are now immediately visible to the player on the left side of the screen.
  
• After selecting a skin, additional cosmetic options that can be added to the character are now also visible on the left side of the screen. This includes holiday or warpaint overlays, velo / changyu plumage options, usable model morphs, and any other cosmetic options available to the player.
  
• Pressing the back arrow or the escape key will hide the left panel with the customization options, allowing the original UI setup to be viewed instead.
  
• The color wheel that displays when a color-customizable equippable item is added to a character can now be closed, allowing the player to get back to the growth preview and voice pitch options
  
• These changes were made as we realized players were not finding these options very easily.
  
• Note that most of these changes are for the creature creation screen, not the customization screen accessible while playing a creature.

+Balance: You can no longer dart while Tendon Tear is active
+The talent Vigilance also gives an additional effect:

• Vigilance reduces how much venom damage is received from all sources. This also shortens the duration of Venom Spit's blind effect. With max talents invested, it mitigates these by 67%.

+The talent Burrow Master now has an additional effect:

• Increases the rate at which you regenerate Ability, Stamina, Comfort, and Health while in a burrow. With three points invested, these match their resting regeneration rates.

+The talent Snake Senses can no longer sense players that are in a burrow
+Balance: Flyers are no longer knocked out of flight if hit by a gliding velo or changyu while flying
+Balance: Increased the speed threshold at which flyers will transition into a swimming state when diving into the water. This means you enter a swimming state sooner than before.
+Balance: Wing Beat's status diminishing returns timer is now 15 seconds, down from 30. Note this applies to both Archelon and Tropeognathus

+Balance: The talent Snapping Jaw also reduces the base Ability cost of Archelon's charged bite attack

+Balance: Increased Ory's base bite damage to 30, up from 25
+Balance: Increased Ory's base health to 145, up from 125
+Balance: Increased Ory's swim sprint speed to 370, up from 250
+Balance: Increased Ory's swim walk speed to 233, up from 150
+Balance: The Oryctodromeus is no longer immune to Tendon Tear
+Balance: Added Metabolism and Hydration to Oryctodromeus' talent tree in talent sockets S3.1 and S3.3

+Balance: Pachy is now considered a Piscivore, which means it can eat Chinlea and other sources of fish without getting sick

+Balance: The Palaeophis is no longer immune to Tendon Tear

+Balance: Pteranodon can now cancel their dart by releasing Secondary Attack (RMB typically)
+Balance: Increased Pteranodon's base damage to 40, up from 35

+Balance: Tropeognathus now has Improved Dart in its M3.1 talent socket
+Balance: Tropeognathus can now cancel their dart by releasing Secondary Attack (RMB typically)

+Balance: The Velociraptor (all Specializations) is no longer immune to Tendon Tear
+Balance: Reduced Velociraptor Specialization's healing rate by 20%
+Balance: Reduced Changyuraptor's healing rate by 35%
+Balance: Changyu's stationary turn rate is now 230, down from 272.5
+Balance: Changyu's sprinting turn rate is now 170, down from 190
+Balance: Reduced Velo and Changyu's damage scaling below 1.0 growth such that hatchlings and juveniles deal less damage than before


+Fixed: Being hit while climbing as velo/chang should no longer cause the creature to fall through the map
+Fixed: Velo's climbing tutorial prompt shouldn't pop up again if player has climbed
+Fixed: Velo no longer jams if it mates while climbing
+Fixed: The preview creature on the dino selection screen now properly adjusts itself so it sits properly on the ground while adjusting the growth slider
+Fixed: Server crash related to AI. The server log would print 'Container has changed during ranged-for iteration!' AI should now be able to be enabled without this crash occurring.
+Fixed: Server crash related to stumps being removed on the map. The server log would print 'Container has changed during ranged-for iteration!' with a note above about FoliageControllerBase.MULTICAST_RemoveStump
+Fixed: Server crash related to burrow networks deconstructing. The server log would print 'Container has changed during ranged-for iteration!' but on line 2l6.
+Fixed: Equipped cosmetic items now properly unequip when you remove them through the Character Customization UI after having just opened it with cosmetic items already equipped
+Fixed: Certain equippable cosmetic items such as elder eyes and supporter eyes now properly stay equipped on Acro/Carch and Apato/Bronto
+Fixed: Trying to take off from a swimming state immediately after being hit by another player no longer results in your stamina immediately draining to zero
+Fixed: Changyuraptor now plays its glide animation when it is selected while on the dino select screen
+Fixed: Pachy should no longer gain plant diet from secret snackies gores
+Fixed: Elusiveness' invisibility effect no longer breaks when you successfully deal damage to another player while having 4 or more talent points in Elusiveness
+Fixed: Newly reincarnated creatures are no longer lost if the server restarts or crashes before doing a save tick

Thank you to the BoB QA Team for the provided screenshots.

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+Fixed: The Coahuilaceratops Hyperboreos skin now unlocks game-wide rather than server-wide if earned on a community server. Note that you may need to log onto the server you earned the Coahuilaceratops Hyperboreos skin for the skin to then be available game-wide. Also note this same error was present with the Mosasaurus Ice Blight skin as well.
+Fixed: Velo can no longer spam RMB while out of resources, causing it to spam sounds and attempt to play its animation
+Fixed: Velo's pounce sound no longer causes a stutter when the sound is stopped
+Fixed: Velo Skin Kākāpō to have Macrons in the name
+Added Velos to main menu

Warpaints
+Due to popular request the Jewelry-only version of the warpaint dlcs now has the option to switch on the glow layer

Titania
+Fixed: Mud and sand improperly handling subsurface scattering
+Fixed: Lens flare causing water graphical problems

+The Velociraptor has been given an entirely new model and set of animations

+The Velociraptor can now enter a gliding state if the jump key is pressed while the velo is already in the air. While gliding, the crouch and jump keys offer control of the pitch angle. Note that holding jump only mildly improves pitch angle.
+While gliding, holding the sprint key will further improve pitch angle while gliding
+Releasing all movement keys while gliding will cause the glide to end, placing the player into freefall
+While gliding, pitch angle gradually becomes more and more angled downward. The longer you glide, the harder it is to stay aloft.
+Entering freefall and then re-entering a gliding state will refresh the pitch angle decay, allowing you to begin a fresh glide. Each time this is done, the stamina cost of doing so doubles. The baseline cost is 10 stamina, so it will cost 10, then 20, then 40, then 80, and so on to re-enter a glide. This is reset when the player touches the ground, enters a body of water, or enters the climbing state

+The Changyuraptor, a specialization of the Velociraptor, is a quad-winged gliding specialist with feathered pantaloons
+The Changyuraptor and Velociraptor share skins, animations, and sounds. The Changyuraptor, however, has its own unique model
+Changyuraptor and Velociraptor can group by default. If servers wish to keep them separate, it can be done by editing the appropriate settings in the server's config file
+Changyuraptor is substantially better at gliding than Velociraptor. It is, however, a slower climber.
+Changyuraptor has slightly less health, damage, and weight than Velociraptor
+The Changyuraptor can use its pounce while gliding by holding down and releasing the right mouse button. It can do this to gain altitude while gliding

+Added new talent to Changyu's talent tree in talent socket M3.1, Sugar Glider
-Sugar Glider decreases how much more Stamina each successive re-entry to glide costs during one flight
-Sugar Glider also decreases the baseline Stamina cost of entering glide
+Added new talent to Changyu's talent tree at socket M3.3, Updraft
-Updraft also increases the maximum pitch angle you can fly at while holding the jump key

+Added Airborne Ambush as a new talent to both Velociraptor and Changyuraptor talent trees in socket P3.1
-This talent greatly increases damage dealt while pouncing or gliding.
+Baseline, Velociraptor can now use an ability called Intuition. It allows dodging the direction of your current movement keys when quickly pressing and releasing the Secondary Attack key
+Added new talent, Intuition, to Velociraptor's talent tree in socket S3.1
-This talent greatly reduces the cost of using Intuition
-The baseline cost of dodging is 30 Ability and 30 Stamina, which reduces significantly with talent points invested
-Note that if you flick the camera up or down quickly while using this ability, you can control the pitch angle you launch at when using dodge.

+The Velociraptor and Changyuraptor have multiple tail and crest plumage options you can choose from. There are, in total, 4 tail options and 3 crest options. Choosing no crest or tail plumage is also an option.
-Note that you won't have any crest or tail plumage by default. Crest and tail plumage can be added by going to the Character part of the skin customization UI

+The Velociraptor now has a dance emote. It requires owning the BoB OST on Steam to use
+Added Velociraptor taunt emote. It requires 100% in the Hunt Points Trial.
+Added both Velociraptor idle variant animations to the emote action wheel
+Added velo fat, skinny, incest, elder, and baby morphs


+New Velo Skin: Redtail by Valhalla and Twilightwolf
+New Velo skin: Snow Leopard Remake by Valhalla (originally by Misha)
+New Velo Skin: Skua by Twilightwolf & Pixeldeer
+New Velo Skin: Chimera by Valhalla
+New Velo Skin: Nuclear by Pixeldeer & Natahi4
+New Velo Skin: Charged by Omnomnivore
+New Velo Skin: Carved by Valhalla & Natahi4
+New Velo Skin: SunBather by Callie
+New Velo Skin: Kākāpō by Soals
+Added Velos Elder Eyes
+Added Velo Supporter Warpaint + Supporter Eyes Cosmetics

+Velociraptor can now enter the climbing state while gliding by pressing the Ability key
+Velociraptor now enters the climbing state by using the Ability key

+For a limited time, players will be able to earn the new Coahuilaceratops Hyperboreos skin. Previous Winter-themed cosmetics and skins can also be earned once more at this time.
-The Hyperboreos skin was made by Valhalla and Gortys
-The skins have a glowing, bioluminescent layer.
-The skins unlock separate equippable cosmetic overlays. The Hyperboreos skin unlocks a snowy overlay and equippable icicles. The unlocked overlays and items can go on any skin of their corresponding species.



+To unlock the Hyperboreos skin and its Overlay, players need to find and collect Coahuilaceratops-themed idols scattered around the map.
+To unlock any previous Winter-themed cosmetic and associated overlays or other equippable items, players need to find and collect appropriately themed idols scattered around the map.

• The idols will match the dinosaur type the cosmetic corresponds to. This Winter, you can earn cosmetics for Mosasaurus, Parasaurolophus, and Coahuilaceratops.
  
• Gathering the idols will allow the player to progress through achievements associated with earning the skins.
  
• The idols will be spawning on all servers and on both Life Cycle and Free Roam game modes.
  
• Completing the achievement on any server will unlock access to the skin and cosmetics game-wide.

• The idols will be found scattered across land and sea, spawning randomly anywhere carcasses spawn.
  
• The Coahuilaceratops Hyperboreos skin and any previous Winter-themed, earnable skin can now be earned by collecting idols scattered around the map and returning them to a matching deity shrine.
  
• All skins require gathering 50 idols that correspond with their dinosaur type. All idols must be gathered on the same server to complete the achievement and unlock the skin, but they can be individually gathered by different creatures or during different lives.
  
• Idols show up on the compass when nearby with a color themed for the deity shrine they belong to
  
• Turning in an idol will show achievement progress in the top-right corner of the screen
  
• You should also be able to view the progress you've made towards unlocking both the event skins by viewing the corresponding achievements in the achievements gallery's Limited Time Events page

+Nest Raiders can now get food out of empty looking or incompletely filled carcasses dropped by juvenile dinosaurs that would otherwise be non-interactable or have very little food value. Full carcasses do not provide additional food to baby snatchers.
-Carcasses cannot contain more total food than the creature that dropped it ate in total. This was added a while back to combat self-feeding behaviors and to make fresh spawns not an enticing kill for players to hunt, but it also adversely affected the Nest Raider talent. The above change allows only Nest Raiders to bypass this mechanic, getting access to the full carcass value of food regardless of whether or not the dropper of that carcass ate food or not before dying. Full 5/3 Nest Raider allows 100% access to all the remaining, unfilled food value that would otherwise be absent in a carcass. Lower point values of Nest Raider only allow partial access. Nest Raiders eating from a carcass will deplete the hidden Nest Raider food first.
-Nest Raiders will see carcasses with more meat on them if they contain this hidden food that only they can interact with and eat.
-Legging a carcass does not pull Nest Raider food off the carcass. It always stays with the original carcass.
+Disabled Ability key climbing toggle from controls settings. The Ability key is now always used to enter the climbing state.

+QoL: Improvements to how the moon direct light is handled. It should now be brighter and easier to see at dusk and dawn on all maps.
+QoL: Public branch Velociraptors now get a specialization reset. Skins from public branch should select the best-matching new velo skin.
+QoL: Servers now spawn a world event immediately upon booting up. The first world event has no countdown timer and is immediately active. Additional world events will continue to spawn as normal.
+Added Shape_Plane_Snow and SM_Cube_Snow to the foliage placement tool

+Added looping Save Select and Dino Select music tracks to their respective UIs
+Added new Near Combat music. This music plays when you are near members of your group that are engaged in a fight but are not in the fight yet yourself.

+Balance: The talent Resilience now adds comfort for beached aquatics
+Balance: The talent Arboreal now increases the rate at which you regenerate Ability, Stamina, Comfort, and Health. With full talent investment, these match their resting regeneration rates.
+Balance: The talent Wing Tear now also applies its damage increasing effect to Velo and Changyu if they are gliding. Note that Velo and Changyu are injury immune, meaning no additional injury damage will be dealt.

+Changyuraptor's base bite damage is 25. Velo's is 33
+Changyuraptor's base health is 110. Velo's is 125
+Changyuraptor's size is 110. Velo's is 120
+Changyuraptor's gliding stats are substantially better than Velo's
+Changyuraptor's sprint speed is 760. Velo's is 815

+Balance: Elasmosaurus now has Out of Element in its P3.3 talent socket

+Balance: Kronosaurus now has Out of Element in its P3.3 talent socket

+Improved Megaraptor Slash Attack hitbox

+Balance: Mosasaurus now has Out of Element in its P3.3 talent socket

+Balance: Palaeophis now has the same dietary requirements as Mosasaurus, and cannot eat fish food without risking getting sick
+Balance: Palaeophis is no longer considered a piscivore. This means Chinlea give substantially less food and give negative comfort bias when eaten.
+Balance: Regurgitating now costs 25 Ability Power baseline. The talent Ready to Run reduces this cost.
+Balance: The Palaeophis can no longer use its primary attack while darting, resulting in it doing more damage than intended
+Balance: Adjusted how venom damage is calculated such that the Palaeophis cannot deal more venom damage than it would with a 2:1 weight advantage vs its opponent. This prevents it dealing very high levels of venom damage to very small weight class creatures such as Velociraptor and Oryctodromeus.

+Balance: Saichania now resists 50% of all venom damage

+Balance: Velociraptor now has Tough Stomach in place of Adrenaline
+Balance: Reduced Velociraptor pounce leap stamina cost to 25, down from 40
+Balance: Velociraptor no longer consumes stamina while coiling its pounce leap
+Balance: Velociraptor can now continue to hold its pounce leap indefinitely until RMB is released. Pressing other movement keys will cancel the pounce leap.
+Using pounce leap with insufficient stamina results in a shorter leap
+Balance: Sturdy now activates when above 75% health, rather than 90% health
+Balance: Increased Velociraptor climbing speed by 33%
+Balance: Increased Changyu and Velo heal rates by 60%
+Balance: Velo can no longer use its pounce while blinded by Sand Attack
+Balance: Increased Velo's base damage to 33, up from 30

+Fixed GPU-related clientside crash
+Fixed: A rarer but similar instance of growth loss and reversion of save state to a previous version of a saved character being possible.
+Fixed: Sacrificing at a shrine now properly marks the dead creature as having sacrificed to the shrine and awards proper Trials points. It also fixes a sacrificed creature not receiving a boost to their Trials in that deity category for the purposes of reincarnation.
+Fixed: Tyrannosaurus rex's Devastating Ambush ability no longer prints Devastating Bite in the log when consuming stamina
+Fixed: Creatures spawned by the creature select screen now properly despawn if you take an egg while the screen is in use
+Fixed: Pressing the Talent button while in an egg no longer jams the camera
+Fixed: Growth now properly un-pauses if you die with your growth paused
+Fixed: Attacking eggs no longer grants enemy-ship with yourself
+Fixed: Ichthy's animations now work properly in the main menu creature editor
+Fixed: Game should no longer crash randomly or when sniffing other creatures when effects are set to higher or above
+Fixed: Preview animations now work on the main menu's customization preview editor
+Fixed: Typo in scent tooltip for sea anemones
+Fixed: Velo can now climb properly while carrying another player
+Fixed: Attacking eggs no longer makes the Near Combat music play for grouped players
+Fixed: Motion blur should now be disabled regardless of graphics settings

Thank you to the BoB Testing Team for the provided images.

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+Added a new specialization to the Acrocanthosaurus class. The specialization is the Carcharodontosaurus
+The Carcharodontosaurus uses the same skins as the Acrocanthosaurus and behaves similarly to how we implemented the Brontosaurus as a specialization of the Apatosaurus class
-All other specialization-specific stuff that we did for bronto should work for carch
+See the Balance Changes section of the patch notes for Carch's stats. Note that Acro's stats have changed as well to better-differentiate it from Carch and adjust its balance point a bit.

+Added new mechanic to Carcharodontosaurus: Voracious Roar and Voracious Bite
-The Carcharodontosaurus has Voracious Roar as an ability rather than Intimidating Roar. Voracious Roar is activated by pressing the Ability key and costs 35 Ability. When activated, yourself and all nearby group members (carch and acro only) receive a temporary buff called Voracious Roar. This buff lasts 20 seconds, then 10, then 5, and then cannot be used any longer for one minute.
-While Voracious Roar is active, attacks dealt by any player with the buff against any ungrouped player will result in receiving the Voracious Bite buff. Voracious Bite is a stacking, heal-over-time buff that lasts for a duration of time. This buff resets its timer and increases its stack count each time the player deals another successful offensive attack.
-Carcharodontosaurus, by default, receives 3 stacks of Voracious Bite each time it succeeds in making an attack while Voracious Roar is active. Acrocanthosaurus receives only 2 stacks.
-Voracious Bite's healing is reduced by bleed and hits a 50% reduction when the player has 100 bleed.
-Voracious Bite does not activate if the Carcharodontosaurus' attack struck a player who had Spiky Shield or Evasive Maneuver active
-Carch's Voracious Roar status icon now shows up above the Carch's head while it is both active and on cooldown on non-owning clients
-Note that support toggling whether or not specializations that share the same dino type can group has been added. By default, Carch an Acro will not be allowed to group with one-another on Officials due to balance concerns. This can be changed in a server's Game.ini config file if a server wishes for them to be able to group. More details are located in the Admin section of the notes.

+Carcharodontosaurus has a talent tree identical to Acrocanthosaurus, with only one difference.
+Replaced Improved Intimidating Roar with Voracious Roar on Carch
-Increases how much healing you personally receive from your Voracious Bite healing
-Increases how long the Voracious Bite Heal over Time effect lasts on your character.
-Reduces the cost and increases the duration the Voracious Roar Buff that gets put on both you and all nearby party members
-Increases how many stacks of Voracious Bite you can have going at once. Talent points increase it by two, and inherits increase it by one.
+All saved Acrocanthosaurus have received a specialization reset

+Added new Lurdu Skin: Siliquosa by Pixeldeer & Natahi4
+Added new Acro Skin: Rouge by Callie
+Added new Apato Skin: Genetic Stripe, by Valhalla


+For a limited time, players will be able to earn the Megaraptor Servant of Charon skin and the Tyrannosaurus Fall Decay Skin.
-The Charon skin was made by Valhalla and Croww
-The skins have a glowing, bioluminescent layer.
-The skins unlock separate equippable cosmetic overlays: Charon's Splendor for Megaraptor & Leafy Refuge for Tyrannosaurus. The unlocked overlays can go on any skin of their corresponding species.

Earning the Skins:
+To unlock the Servant of Charon and its Overlay, players need to find and collect Megaraptor-themed idols scattered around the map.
+To unlock the Fall Decay skin and its Overlay, players need to find and collect Tyrannosaurus rex-themed idols scattered around the map.
-Gathering the idols will allow the player to progress through achievements associated with earning the skins.
-The idols will be spawning on all servers and on both Life Cycle and Free Roam game modes.
-Completing the achievement on any server will unlock access to the skin and cosmetics game-wide.


Idol Collecting Tips!

• The idols will always be found on land and spawn randomly anywhere carcasses spawn.
  
• Both the Megaraptor Servant of Charon skin and last year's Tyrannosaurus rex Fall Decay skin are now earned by collecting idols scattered around the map and returning them to a matching deity shrine.
  
• Both skins require gathering 50 idols each. All idols must be gathered on the same server to complete the achievement and unlock the skin, but they can be individually gathered by different creatures or during different lives.
  
• Idols show up on the compass when nearby with a color themed for the deity shrine they belong to
  
• Turning in an idol will show achievement progress in the top-right corner of the screen
  
• You should also be able to view the progress you've made towards unlocking both the event skins by viewing the corresponding achievements in the achievements gallery's Limited Time Events page

+Added a setting to only show friends' steam icons in player list and in group. If disabled, shows everyone's steam icons (unless profile is private, no profile picture etc.). This requires a restart to take effect.
+The dawn, noon, night, deity shrine, and combat music all play on all maps now. Not just Isla Titania
+QoL: Added tooltips to the Unstuck and Unjam buttons on the Escape menu so players can see the difference between the two
+QoL: If you've fallen under the map, you can use the Unstuck button on the Escape menu to immediately be teleported to an appropriate spawn point. Additionally, when player is stuck under the ground the unjam and unstuck buttons are immediately available when opening the escape menu
+QoL: Exiting the map's playable boundary now results in the player being moved to a random spawn point appropriate for their creature rather than in a death. Certain bugs were triggering this death condition and we'd rather handle possible out of bounds bugs with something less punitive for the player.
+Minor improvements to dino shader
+Brontosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus now show up as such in combat log events, on the character stat screen, and as the default name on saved entities

+Improved various assets on Isla Titania to improve performance
+Optimization: removed shadows from small meshes on all dinos


+Added console command ClearCommandHistory that clears the history of previously used commands

+Admin: Servers can now configure whether or not any specific dino type allows cross-specialization groupings to occur. The default value is set to true. If configured to disallow cross-specialization groupings for a specific dino type, players with different specializations will no longer be able to group with one-another.
-In order to configure this value, the CreatureLimits config value in the Game.ini file can be changed to this:
-By default, Acrocanthosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus cannot group with one-another due to this config value being set to false. If servers wish for them to be able to group, the bAllowSpecializationGrouping value either needs to be set to true or it needs to be removed from this line of the config file, as it defaults to true when not specified.

+Admin (public): Added support for different group caps for different specialization types in the server's Game.ini config. The syntax is like this:
Note: Acrocanthosaurus is specialization 0, Carcharodontosaurus is specialization 1, Brontosaurus is specialization 1, Apatosaurus is specialization 0, Terrestrial Palaeophis is specialization 1, Semi-Aquatic Palaeophis is specialization 0, and Aquatic Palaeophis is specialization 2

+Fixed a variety of UI-related Server Manager issues
+The Server Manager is now compatible with controller usage
+The Server Manager should now reliably work to fetch information from the server and present it to a server admin who wishes to use it.

+Mechanics: Bottom Walking now triggers from 50% further away from the seafloor
+Mechanics: Hard-capped groups now have a growth threshold at which a player starts counting towards the cap. Previously, all players counted towards the cap regardless of growth. This allows hard-capped groups to have younger dinosaurs in their group without them counting towards the cap. By default, this value is 0.8 growth. If a player grows past 0.8 growth and that player caused the group to exceed its hard cap, they will be automatically removed from the group.
-Note, this value is in the server's config settings, and can be changed on a per-species basis. The CreatureLimits array defines this value with this syntax:
-Players should receive a notification in chat when they are removed from a group for this reason

+Mechanics: Sometimes going through portals, touching foliage that has collision, or being dropped from a grab would cause the player to die. Under these circumstances, the player is now safely logged out immediately and the player's saved character is not marked as dead. Trying to fix these has been challenging, so we're making the impact of these sorts of bugs not nearly as severe for the player as well. That is the reason for this change.
+Experimental new change to Biomutations and other bioluminescent skins:
-The alpha value of the bio's color picker now drives how much of the underlying skin's colors bleed into the bio. A alpha value of 0 causes it to use the underlying color completely, whereas a value of 1 uses the color of the biomutation's color picker. A value of 1 corresponds to current public branch bios, and this setting is totally optional.
+Reduced good parent offspring sniff range and snake senses sniff range from 600m to 60m

+The Great Nesting Site world event now disables the food and water drain increase associated with having the Survival Deity Blessing buff
+Great Nesting Site and the Survival Deity Blessing now both close the gap between your current Good Parent level and 5/3 Good Parent by 50%. This effect does not stack, and having either buff will grant this effect.
+Both Great Nesting Site and the Survival Deity Blessing add one additional Good Parent beyond this effect for the purposes of talent inherit generation.
+Under all nesting circumstances, the odds of passing on inherits has been improved by 0.5 Good Parent.
+The chances of getting inherits during reincarnation has been improved slightly to simulate the effects of having 0.5 Good Parent added to this mechanic as well.
-Note that the above changes were made due to us findi ng a bug related to the Great Nesting Site world event. It was granting the effects of having 7.5 Good Parent for players that had 5/3 in the talent, resulting in players receiving better inherits in this world event than intended. Players can still get the same odds of passing inherits while under both the effects of Great Nesting Site and the Survival Deity Blessing. The improved odds, however, have just been spread around a bit more to make other avenues of nesting fairer in comparison.
-Status condition tooltips have been updated to reflect these changes.


+Acro's stats have been changed a bit to better-differentiate it from Carch
+Acro's base sprint speed is now 785, up from 750
+Acro's base walk speed is now 535, up from 500
+Acro's base swim sprint speed is now 425, up from 400
+Acro's base size is now 1200, down from 1300
+Acro's base health is now 1050, down from 1200
+Acro's base attack damage is now 225, down from 255
+Acro's base stamina is now 70, up from 60
+Acro's base food drain rate is now 0.72, down from 0.76
+Acro's size is now 6% smaller than before
+Acro's base healing is now 24, down from 27.5
+Reduced Acro's stationary turn rate to 110, down from 125
+Reduced Acro's sprinting turn rate to 92, down from 105
+The Acro no longer deals increased damage to bleeding targets

+Increased growth rate by 35%

+Increased growth rate by 35%

+Increased Beelzebufo's healing rate by 100%

+Carch has a sprint speed of 755. public branch Acro is 750
+Carch has a walk speed of 505. public branch Acro is 500
+Carch has a swim sprint speed of 375. public branch Acro is 400
+Carch has a swim walk speed of 280. public branch Acro is 300
+Carch has a size of 1400. public branch Acro is 1300
+Carch has a stationary turn rate of 95. public branch Acro is 125
+Carch has a sprint turn rate of 70. public branch Acro is 105
+Carch has a swim stationary turn rate of 60. public branch Acro is 85
+Carch has a swim sprint turn rate of 40. public branch Acro is 55
+Carch has a base attack damage of 290. public branch Acro is 255
+Carch has 55 base stamina. public branch Acro has 60
+Carch has 1600 base health. public branch Acro has 1200
+Carch has a food drain rate of 0.65. public branch Acro is 0.76
+Carch sitting and standing transition animations play 20% slower than public branch Acro
+Carch is 10% larger than public branch Acro
+Carch's healing rate is 20% less than public branch Acro
+Carch's bite cooldown is 1.25 seconds, up from Acro's 1.2
+Carch's bite AP cost is 13, up from Acro's 12
+Increased Carch's max food to 125, up from Acro's 100
+Carch deals 40% less bleed damage baseline
+Reduced how bendy Carch's spine is when it's looking left and right by about 30%
+The Carch does not deal increased damage to bleeding targets
+Carch's growth rate is now equal to that of rex

+Balance: Coah now has a small jump similar to Saichania's. It costs 20 Stamina.
+Balance: Added a new mechanic to Coahuilaceratops. Each time it is hit from the front, it receives a stack of Active Defense. Active Defense, baseline, reduces damage by 7.5%. This can be improved by the talent Hardened Shield. Active Defense can stack up to 5 times, and behaves much like Frenzy. It lasts 20 seconds, and the timer for its expiration resets each time the Coahuilaceratops takes damage from the front. The stacking is multiplicative, meaning 5 stacks grants 0.925^5 damage reduction, not 1 - 0.075*5. This mechanic only activates if the Coah is either stationary or crouched.
+Balance: Added Hardened Shield as new talent to the S3.1 socket in Coah's talent tree. It improves the effectiveness of stacks of Active Defense.
+Balance: There is no longer a cap on how much comfort can be lost from a Coahuilaceratops' intimidation

+Increased the playable Malawania's dart speed multiplier to 3, up from 2
+Increased Malawania Archerfish knockback by 100%

+Ory's food and water drain rate now reduces by 50% while in a burrow

+Reduced the Venom and Ability cost of Venom Spit to 17.5, down from 25
+Increased Venom Spit baseline range by 43%
+Increased Venom Spit baseline blind duration by 43%
+Reduced the effectiveness of the Venom Spitter talent by 50%. At 5/3, the effect is identical to before with the above-mentioned buffs.
+Balance: Increased Aquatic Palaeophis' food drain rate to 0.75, up from 0.54
+Balance: Increased AP cost of Palaeophis' bite attack to 10, up from 5


+Fixed: Severe memory leak related to the recently fixed Steam group and player list icons
+Fixed: Nested skins very frequently having very low layer counts and lacking complexity
+Fixed: Semi-Aquatics now receive water satiation from eating coconuts
+Fixed: Semi-Aquatic and Terrestrial Palaeophis abandoned eggs now spawn on land and with not-empty water
+Fixed: Aquatic Palaeophis eggs now properly grant live birth to the player when taken
+Fixed: Aquatics no longer deal reduced damage when lower on oxygen. This was especially apparent when playing Life Cycle and at larger growths
+Fixed: Palaeo meat food icon should no longer turn into fish food icon after graphic or HUD settings are changed
+Fixed: Grabbing a creature and then turning elusive no longer turns the grabbed creature elusive
+Fixed: Player list HUD elements load up properly when it's opened through save selection before spawning as any creature yet
+Fixed: The Auto-Resurrection server setting and Death's Blessing world event should no longer sometimes fail to resurrect players after they die
+Fixed: Player list in the creature select menu no longer results a blank screen
+Fixed: Pressing escape in player list in the creature select menu closes player list and opens up creature select menu
+Fixed: Hatchling palaeo no longer gets jammed after hatching while at the same time aquatic mother is holding a gore
+Fixed: Korean and Japanese glyphs now show up properly in chat
+Fixed: The prompt that informs you what foliage object you ate to get sick no longer says you got sick from eating a "None" under certain circumstances
+Fixed: Using portals should no longer fling the player across the map at very high speeds under certain circumstances
+Fixed: Successfully reincarnating or resurrecting dead dino now unselects the dino such that the player is no longer able to resurrect the creature again and again causing it's growth to get smaller
+Fixed: After reincarnation the spawn or creature new button no longer select a random slot in the saved creature list and instead player needs to click a creature or empty slot first before the button reactivates
+Fixed: Creatures with elusiveness should no longer turn completely invisible when it's hit by para's or malawania's ability
+Fixed: Acro can no longer spam intimidating roar ability on a creature that already has intimidating roar debuff, resulting in wasted AP
+Fixed: Egg Carcasses should no longer cause excess server log spam
+Fixed: Abandoned egg nests will now properly get destroyed from attack instead of staying on the map and causing particle effects every time player attacked the abandoned egg
+Fixed: Division by zero log spam should no longer happen when player has no points in stamina improvement or health improvement or forager
+Fixed: Palaeo can now forfeit duels through emote wheel without looking at the creature it's dueling with
+Fixed: Velociraptor no longer loses the ability to climb at high growths, and adjusted velociraptor's climbing speed so it won't slip off from climbable surfaces as easily at high growths
+Fixed: Hatchling's or egg's POV no longer switches to palaeo's POV after it has been dropped by palaeo and then someone else picks the player up again
+Fixed: Safely logging out to main menu or to quit game should save the creature as reliably as safely going back to save selection screen
+Fixed: Creatures with elusiveness should no longer turn completely invisible when it's hit highlight ability like acro roar
+Fixed: Various issues on Isla Titania
+Fixed: Force respawning while in the death animation no longer causes the dino to perma die on auto revive servers or on deaths blessing event
+Fixed: Palaeo picking up other players should no longer result the picked up character's camera to get stuck on palaeo
+Fixed: Wiehenavator is no called Megalosaurus in character / O-menu
+Fixed: Lurdu uses its falling animation and no longer loops its jump animation when it jumps from a high place
+Fixed: First play tutorial window now properly closes with escape key
+Fixed: Ichthy's distress, pain grunt, and death sounds no longer play faster when at lower growths and instead properly play their juvenile variants at the proper speed
+Fixed: Aquatic palaeo should no longer spawn on land after resurrecting or reincarnation
+Fixed: Juvenile calls no longer play for adult creatures when the player making the call is out of render distance
+Fixed: The Father's specialization now shows up properly in the egg select screen instead of always being a copy of the mother's specialization
+Fixed: Nvidia GTX 900-series and older GPUs use system RAM in addition to their VRAM to load dino textures properly on Titania
+Fixed: Abandoned eggs now sort into separate categories based on egg specialization
+Fixed: Eggs now show their specialization name properly in the character stat ui
+Fixed: The Great Nesting Site world event now properly closes the gap between the player's current level of Good Parent and 5/3 Good Parent for the purposes of generating egg inherits.
-Note that Great Nesting Site was previously able to combine with Good Parent and exceed the effectiveness of having 5/3 Good Parent in regards to inherit generation. It was never our intention to allow this mechanic to exceed what players could normally obtain through other gameplay means such as reincarnation or regular nesting. We've decided to fix this bug, making it such that 5/3 Good Parent presents the best possible odds you can get to pass inherits onto your hatchlings.
+Fixed: Archelon can now earn its elder eyes

Possible fix for various GPU related crashes:
+Maybe Fixed: D3D12 async crash should no longer happen
+Maybe Fixed: D3D11 and D3D12 command queue crash should no longer happen
+Maybe Fixed: RHI command parallel crash should no longer happen
+Maybe Fixed: D3D12RHI Sync Threshold Reached crash should no longer happen
+Maybe Fixed: DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED and DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG should happen less

+Fixed: Volcano Bay should no longer spam tile limit reached in the log
+Fixed: AI should work properly in Volcano Bay


Thank you to the Beasts of Bermuda QA Team for providing the above featured screenshots.

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