Dec 30, 2021

Caves of Qud - ptychomancer

Our Deep Jungle feature arc is now in beta. If you're interested, come help us test!

To access the beta: right-click on Caves of Qud in Steam, select Properties, click the Betas tab, and switch to the 'beta' branch. We'd appreciate if you logged issues you find at our public issue tracker. Kindly include [beta] in the bug title.

Live and drink, friends.

PATCH NOTES

DEEP JUNGLE AND BAROQUE RUINS

We added two minor late-game regions, the deep jungle and baroque ruins.
- Made significant changes to the worldmap to accommodate the new regions.
- Added new creatures: deep slumberling, purple jell, trash abbot, and goatfolk qlippoth.
- Added new flora: nachash tree and nimbus beam.
- Added rare urberry bushes.

LATE-GAME HISTORIC SITES

We added historic sites for the period 1, 2, and 3 sultans. The number of historic sites per game now follows this pattern:
- Period 5 sultan: 2 sites
- Period 4 sultan: 2 sites
- Period 3 sultan: 2 sites
- Period 2 sultan: 1 site
- Period 1 sultan: 1 site
We made mid and late-game historic sites have fewer levels. They now max out at around depth 7.
More changes to historic site population are likely to come.

NEW ACHIEVEMENTS

Added 48 new achievements.
- Mechanimist Reformer; Aaaaaaaaargh!; Feast Upon the Goat Hearts! *cheers*; Rocket Bear; Two Cats Are Better Than One; Me, Myself, and I; Clonal Colony; The Woe of Apes; Close the Loop; Tourist; Sight Older Than Sight; What Are Directions on a Space That Cannot Be Ordered?; Star-Eye Esper; The Quasar Mind; There Can Be Only One; Glimmer of Truth; Sultan of Salt; Absolute Unit; Non-Locally Sourced;
  Surprise!; From Thyn Heres Shaken the Wet and Olde Lif; All Those Who Wander; The Recitation of the Drowning of Eudoxia by the Witches of Moonhearth; A Clammy Reception; What's Eating the Watervine?; Byevalve; You Recame; Dayenu; Belong, Friends; Token of Gratitude; The Laws of Physics Are Mere Suggestions, Vol. 2; Aetalag; I-; *gulp*; Jeweled Dusk; The Narrowing Sky; Dawnglider; Was It Something I Said?; Lottery Winner; The Psychal Chorus; Become as Gods; Live and Ink; tsk tsk; Raisins in the Layer Cake;
  May the Ground Shake But the Six Day Stilt Never Tumble; Red Rock Hazing Ritual; Mumblecore; Open Your Mind

RUST WELLS

The Rust Wells have been entirely revamped. The dungeons are now based on fulcrete wells that are dug into the earth.
Added a mechanism to allow flight in strata beneath the surface when there is sufficient open sky above you.

BALANCE

If you have the Hooks for Feet defect, your dismembered hooks now regrow.
We reduced the defensive buffs from cooking with the preserved gland paste of the various bearded lizards.
- Sleetbeard gland paste and concentrated sleetbeard gland paste now bestow +10 and +20 cold resist, respectively, instead of +100.
- Flamebeard gland paste and concentrated flamebeard gland paste now bestow +10 and +20 heat resist, respectively, instead of +100.
- Tartbeard gland paste and concentrated tartbeard gland paste now bestow +10 and +20 acid resist, respectively, instead of +100.
- The gland paste and concentrated gland paste of nullbeards, gallbeards, dreambeards, stunbeards, and maze beards no longer offer any defensive bonuses.
Made a small adjustment to the creature tier calculation.

POPULATION REFACTOR

We're in the process of refactoring our systems for populating maps and creature inventories. Creature and equipment distributions may have changed somewhat (but not drastically).
Humanoid creatures, particularly snapjaws and goatfolk, now rarely spawn with a wider range of equipment.
Snapjaw scavengers now occasionally spawn without equipment.

MODDING

We're in the process of retiring encounter tables in favor of population tables. This may affect mods.
Creatures that were previously equipped via encounter table equipment builders are now implemented as multiple creature objects with the AggregateWith tag (ex: Snapjaw Scavenger).

Dec 30, 2021

Episode III

Tiny Bunny - Saikono

Hello, Saikono here! Hurrah! it's finally the time! Our Bunny finally has a treat for you. We shoved this small present hidden under your Christmas tree (as late as it might be for our Western audience) so happy New Year! The new episode will feature new new characters, more branching plot, as well as different outcomes depending on your choices in previous episodes, and also one small but curious addition: mini-games. Sadly, because of the engine's technical limitations, saves from the older versions of the game won't work in this one, so you'll have to replay everything up to EP. 3 manually or just skip the text by activating the "skip all text" option in the settings an pressing the Ctrl key. We're deeply sorry for this inconvenience. This whole year our team was working really hard at polishing the game and keeping and the quality bar as high as. Now then, we'll be holding our breath in anticipation of your reaction. If you like the game, be sure to tell your friends about it (or maybe post about it on twitter, pretty please?). Your support matters a lot to us as a small indie team. Let's hope all of can us enjoy the upcoming year together!
Cheers!

Dec 30, 2021

Update 1.1 is out now!

Alchemic Cutie - viridiansoftware

This post originally appeared on https://alchemiccutie.com/2021/12/update-1-1-is-out-now/

Hey there Cutie Club!

We have a (little late) holiday gift for everyone today! 🥳 Update 1.1 is out now on Steam & Xbox and includes a lot of new features, improvements and fixes!

Wimba Island Shrines

Shrines weren't challenging and didn't require players to do much besides feed jellies. Each shrine now requires relics of different shapes and colors.

The shapes and colors required change each season. Happy hunting!

Your progress for each shrine is displayed on the right side of your screen. But only for shrines you have found! And don't worry! You won't lose your progress by updating the game or changing seasons.

Competition Improvements

Competitions can now be entered in any season in the morning or afternoon. To enter, go to the competition grounds and use the sign with the trophy icon above it. You can bring a jelly or select one using the new competition popup.

This displays your opponent, how their skills compare to yours, and what prizes you can win. Progress is tracked per jelly, so you'll need to raise one that can go from rookie to grand champion in one go!

Weekly Delivery Improvements

You don't have to speak to Gabby to finish a weekly item delivery. The delivery can be completed by using the farm storage once the delivery deadline has passed.

We also added a notebook tab to help you track your item delivery progress.

Fast Travel

You can fast travel not only to the farm but also to temples that you have discovered. This will reduce backtracking when you just want to get somewhere instead of harvesting items or jellies on the way.

Fast travel by opening the Map tab of the notebook, then using the fast travel hotkey. You can then select which location to fast travel to. Fast travel now passes time based on how far you travel.

Keyboard Improvements

Keyboard hotkeys are now more consistent across every UI. We also made adjustments to the default keyboard control layout based on feedback with a focus on comfort during longer play sessions.

And more!

We've added over 40 fixes and improvements. Thank you for sticking with us and be sure to give us your feedback on our Discord server 🙂

Changelog

Improvements

Improve competitions with more challenging NPC AI
Improve keyboard hotkeys throughout UI
Improve competition rewards with more rare items
Improve shrine game mechanics. Shrines now require players to find specific Jelly colors + shapes.
Camera will now pan to farm during poofening
Allow competitions to be started in any season and from the competition location instead of from NPCs
Gabby will come to farm to give shipment rewards if not collected from shop
Add Item Shipment tab to Notebook
Add window to preview competitors and select Jellies for competitions
Add multiple NPC tracking for quests for Dibble/Titus objectives
Add 'M' hotkey to open map
Add 'Give Up' button to competitions
Add shift + click action to move items between storage windows
Add right-click to take 1 item from a stack
Add notification when Jellies on farm are sad or hungry
Lost and Found now collects crystals too

Fixes

Fix NPCs sleep walking in some scenarios
Fix camera sometimes getting stuck during cutscenes
Fix pull animation not working during Jelly Splash
Fix competition NPCs not resuming schedules
Fix brief frame stutter after clicking Continue or Load Game
Fix crash when player touching a released Jelly
Fix crash when pausing during some cutscenes
Fix Jelly eyes disappearing during some trait notifications
Fix Charity quest not being marked as completed if Talk to Vira objective is skipped
Fix breeding crash when archive trait is the last trait
Fix duplicate hotkey icon in Notebook
Fix some SFX not playing in Notebook
Fix transparent overlay not showing in Quest Details page
Fix crash when transmute marked grass was removed by world streaming
Fix various crashes during longer play sessions

Dec 30, 2021

Holiday Update: Explosions, Rockets, Carrots and presents for Youtubers!

HARD BULLET - JukSteelfly

Hi all!

We want to thank every one of you for choosing our team and our games. This was a big year for our small team and Hard Bullet would not be so good experience without those who support us with purchase or feedback, by making new video or just comming to our Discord to say "Hi!"

We've prepared some awesome things for 2022 and to celebtare it's beginning we are rolling this holiday update.

Happy New Year and have fun!

GexagonVR team.

Explosives

This holidays we are adding new explosive mechanic that will evolve during further Hard Bullet development. Meet Rockets and Bombs.

They can deal brutal damage to enemies and also work with Ammo Workshop and Welding Tool so you can create new fun situations in the Sandbox.

Rockets

Warning! Those rockets move chaotic and unpredictable, do not use indoors!

Press Trigget to ignite.
Release from your palm to let it fly.
You can also ignite it with a gun shot or explosion.

Bombs

Explosions can dismember enemies and push the nearby objects.

Press Trigger to ignite.
You can also ignite it with a shot or explosion.

You will find all these new toys under the tree in the Sandbox or on the wall behind it.

Carrots as weapons

Bringing back carrots as weapons — there are few different types and forms that will spawn randomly in the armory.

Thank to Youtube creators

We want to thank Youtbers who constantly record and have been creating Hard Bullet videos like crazy — your endless creativity inspires us and helps us bring more light to our game.

We hope this will become a good tradition and more content makers' merch from other Youtubers will be added in the future.

We watch all videos and read all your reviews.

Winter at Rooftops

Go full yippee-ki-yay on those motheragdolls on new snowy Rooftop.

What's Coming Next?

Soon we'll make new Devlog thread that will feature new content we prepared and cool things that will come in the nearest future.

In few words: upcoming 2022 will bring us clever and more realistic enemies, awesome sound redesign with help of FMOD and a lot more!

Follow our page and you won't miss it!

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