• Fixed a bug which the game sometimes stopped.

Hayo Zookeepers,

Pack your bags and get ready to embark on an unforgettable journey along the coastal islands. Introducing the Planet Zoo: Oceania Pack which will be sailing its way to you on 19 September alongside Free Update 1.15. 



Abundant in rich fauna and flora, you'll discover some iconic species in various locations on the Oceanian continent. 

Through the lush forests of New Zealand you may encounter the curious Kiwi, or set sail further along the islands to meet with the energetic Tasmanian Devil. Keep rowing along the South Coast of Australia to discover a Little Penguin colony huddled together, or if you'd prefer, take a hike to Rottnest Island to discover the lovable Quokka giving you their best smile. Oh, Look up there! It's the striking Spectacled Flying Fox, spreading its wings in its Walkthrough Exhibit! 



Alongside these stunning animals, you'll also be getting over 200 scenery pieces inspired by the rich traditions of Polynesia. Decorate your Zoos with intricately carved Tiki Statues, straw huts and colourful Flower Leis, in celebration of the captivating culture of the region. You can even admire the diversity of the islands with the addition of impressive glow-in-the-dark faux lava, along with distinctive foliage that inhabit the islands, such as the beautiful Nīkau Palm and the radiant Silver Fern, emblematic of New Zealand.

It's time to also welcome back Emma Goodwin, Bernie's daughter in another Planet Zoo Career Scenario! This time you'll be supporting Emma as she works on a very special project in the Oceanic region, focusing on conservation. Of course, you'll be helping her fix up the place, add some infrastructure and making sure plant diversity is on point! Can't forget about the animals too, you'll take part in establishing a breeding program to make sure all the wonderful species that are unique to the region are around for generations to come. Can you help Emma make the project a success? We can't wait to see how you tackle this one!

Keep an eye on our social channels as we help Emma and her dad kick-start this special project early! 👀



That's not all though, we've also got some extra additions that are coming your way in Free Update 1.15.

Viewing Domes

Give your Zoo visitors a whole new viewing experience with Viewing Domes. Guests will be able to enter these Viewing Domes in the habitat via an underground network without any need for a path or tunnel, so they can enjoy an extra closeup view of your wonderful animals through the safety of the glass. To activate this feature, just place a Viewing Dome entrance on the habitat barrier and then place your Viewing Dome anywhere inside the habitat. They will automatically be connected to your dome gate and you can even place multiple domes in one habitat. Why not place them underwater to create an even more breathtaking view? Just make sure you add water to your terrain after you place the dome in the desired location.  You can find your dome entrance in the barriers menu and the glass viewing dome in your guest facilities and habitats tab. We're excited to see all the creative ways you utilise this new feature for your Zoos! 



As always, we've added some quality of life updates in the game for you to enjoy.

We've now added the brachiation behaviour for the Bornean Orangutan. They will be able to brachiate using the 1m, 2m, 4m, and 6m Climbable Logs, so you'll be seeing them swinging around in your Zoos in ways you've not seen before!

There are also new colour morphs for the King Penguin from the Aquatic Pack, which are Melanistic, Leucistic, Brown, and Xanthic!  We've also added a new Temperate Oceania biome for you to enjoy in all modes. 

Free Update 1.15 will also come with various fixes alongside all of this content, which will be included in the Update Notes upon release on 19 September.

Also some more exciting news - We are officially on TikTok! We'll be posting exclusive content over on our Planet Zoo official TikTok channel in the lead up to the launch of the Oceania Pack and update 1.15, so make sure to follow us over there so you don't miss out on all the fun! 

The Planet Zoo: Oceania Pack will be available for purchase for £7.99 ($9.99, 9.99€) on Steam from 19 September. If you want to be notified when the game is available, then head on over to Steam and wishlist it now! Please remember that you'll only be able to enjoy the Planet Zoo: Oceania Pack if you already own the base game of Planet Zoo.

Follow along on our social media channels in the run-up to the Pack launch to join Bernie and Emma to scout out the islands before they start their big conservation project, you may spot some animal reveals along the way 👀. You can find us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and now on TikTok! If you missed our ✨special livestream✨ yesterday you can also check it out here.

We hope you are as excited as we are for this announcement, and we look forward to seeing how you get involved with the Goodwin Family's special project! Tell us what you're more excited for below ⬇️

The Grinch will do anything to get these presents😏!
Sneaking around in a Santa costume 🎅, swinging from a Candy Cane Lasso, speeding around on a snowboard, and more. 🎄🎮
Out Oct 13!



#TheGrinchChristmasAdventures
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• Correction of the sound of wasps that would not stop playing even after they no longer existed in the scene;
  
• Correction of camera movement in certain parts

For all those who purchased the game during early access, OMG will update itself automatically. Please note that all your saves will be deleted, so that everyone starts from the same brand-new base!

The whole team hopes that this last version will meet your expectations. We can only thank all the players who took part into the early access, who have helped, advised and supported us throughout this year. Thank you so much <3

Don't hesitate to give your feedback on our official discord : https://discord.gg/WP67vd6u

Our Kickstarter is live! You can support development and get one of these great rewards:

• Game key
  
• Game+ key
  
• CG pack
  
• Game guide
  
• Early access
  
• Exclusive discord channel access
  
• Lore book
  
• After stories
  
• Poster prints
  
• Pinup wallpapers
  
• Your NPC in the game

Check it out here.

★ Update: Noah’s 4th Path

A Dreamwalker fleeing from the truth – Update for Noah’s 4th path

Crazy Moon – Dreamlight – Morpheus

 

- Introduction: In the hour of the Blood Moon you nurture distorted memories and carry out your revenge.

- Attack type: magic attack

- Range: long-range

 

Eldrit Seeker Collection for Noah’s 4th Path

- Added the collection for Noah’s 4th Path.

- Synergy attributes will be added later.
★ Elios Pass Season 4

Season 4 of the Elios Pass has launched! Complete daily missions and receive useful rewards for your development.

Each season lasts 12 weeks and after the end of the season you can no longer receive rewards.

* Elios Pass Season 4 starts after the maintenance on 4th October 2023 and ends at 8:59 AM on 27th December 2023.

 

1) Elios Pass Instructions

- You can enter by clicking on the Elios Pass icon at the top of the screen.

- You can complete daily and weekly season missions to earn more Season Pass EXP. Upon reaching the corresponding levels, you will receive (free) normal rewards or (paid) premium rewards.

 

2) Elios Pass Cash Items
 

3) Using Tenebrous Option Tickets

* Information on how to use Tenebrous Option Tickets as a reward for Elios Pass Season 4.

* What is a Tenebrous Option Ticket? The ticket allows you to grant the Shadow Option’s max. value to one piece of Tenebrous equipment.

1) Right-click to select a piece of Tenebrous equipment from the inventory to which you want to grant the option.

(You have to identify the shadow option before you can use it on the armour.)

2) Click on the field with the Shadow option to be used (◆, ◆◆, ◆◆◆). (You can only select one field.)
3) Once you’ve decided on a Shadow option, click ‘Grant’.
★ Characters

All

Dark Destroyer’s Gloves and Dark Butcher’s Gloves now match their icons.

 

Elsword

Hands are now displayed correctly when equipping specific tops and gloves.

 

Aisha

1) The ELS Beach Look Shoes’ laces are now displayed correctly again.

2) White Dragon: Serbius Hairstyle is now displayed correctly again.

3) Optimised the size of the Star Academy Shoes.

 

Eve

The equipped Snow Fox Top is now displayed correctly again.

Nasod Empress

When using the summoner skill Freed Will: Nasod Empress, everything is executed correctly even after 10 seconds of uninterrupted skill use with reduced skill costs.

 

Chung

When equipping the School Pool Shoes, Chung’s outline is displayed correctly again.

 

Ara

Asura

The tool tip of ‘Spirit Summoning: Fox Spirit’ changes as follows:
 

Elesis

Patrona

The ‘Subconscious’ buff is executed correctly again upon resurrection even in special cases.

 

Lu/Ciel

While wearing the Lord Chesterfield Top, Lu’s waiting movement [MEGA CAKE] My Dear Sweet (Bonus Dance) is displayed correctly again.

 

Rose

The Landrunner RX-78’s effect Flying Sparks has been modified.

Bloodia

During the Giant Growth state, the Falcon Shot skill is executed correctly again and the revolvers return after the throw.

 

Ain

Florere

The Master Skill Cut-In is now displayed correctly again.

Regnator

1) The Master Skill Cut-In is now displayed correctly again.

2) The character is displayed correctly again after using the [Switch] Liberatio Campus skill.

 

Laby

Luxury Wedding Gloves are displayed correctly again when equipped.

 

Noah

1) The equipped Belder Academy Leg Guards (School Route) is displayed correctly again when entering a dungeon.
2) The Eldrit Seeker Collection menu is displayed correctly again.
★ Dungeon/PvP/Field

1) The treasure chest in Clamour’s Memory stage 1-1 is displayed in the correct spot again.

2) The loading screen in the secret dungeon ‘The Hollow: The Origins of Demon Energy’ is displayed correctly again.

3) In Nightmare’s Nest phase 2, certain movements outside the range of the mist no longer deal damage.

4) The wall in Flegas’ Portrait phase 2 is displayed correctly again and is visible for everyone.

5) Ember Points are calculated and displayed correctly again in Challenge Mode: Crimson Moros’ (Zones 1, 2).

★ Other

1) When completing certain Epic Quests, the illustration of Anedran is now correctly displayed in the quest event scene.

2) The requirements for the Epic Quest ‘Mysterious Man’ have been changed.

- Before: 5x Freak Tank and insert Elyanod Magic Stones into Elyanod Equipment

- After: 5x Freak Tank

3) The tool tip is now displayed correctly.

4) The colours of the buff icons of the New Moon, Full Moon and Half Moon Power Boosts have been changed to make them more recognisable as Noah when using Power Boosts.



5) Adventurers who have used up all their character slots should also have the chance to try out Noah’s 4th path, so the number of character slots will be increased.

(max. 67 slots > max. 68 slots)

6) When inserting Artefact Soul Stone, [Apply Option] can now be skipped and the option can be directly applied to the equipment with [Apply].

7) Adjusted the max. stacks of some stackable items.
8) The option ‘If the sum of all resistances exceeds 1,000: all skill damage increased’ no longer erroneously increases Battle Strength.

9) Group members can cancel the random matching again without problems, and the following error message no longer appears: ‘You do not have the status required to apply for automatic group combination.’

10) The conditions for acquiring the title of ‘Descent into Darkness’ have been modified.

Before: Solace’s Fortress without reviving with max. 30 hits and an A grade

After: Solace’s Fortress without reviving with max. 30 hits and at least an A grade

11) The Artefact equipment tooltip shows an explanation of how to use the special effect if the effect is not applied to the Artefact equipment after the option has been granted.
12) The character name is displayed correctly and in the right place in the dungeon results window again.

The v1.5.5 patch focused primarily on bringing Transmuting up to date with some of the newer item types.

Transmuting Recipes

• You can now transmute some jewelry pieces with multiple runes to create a version of jewelry with reactive procs.
  
• Added new transmuting recipes which take two items of the same type, one typically a magic variation and one a rare variation. Combining those two with the appropriate ingredient can in some cases create a Legendary piece of equipment.
  
• Added a new recipe type which can take a specific type of jewel and a flask to create consumable explosive.

Miscellaneous

• Sorcerer's Gloves are now appropriately named. Previously this item had been templated from the Cloth Gloves and improved, but the item name was showing up as Cloth Gloves. That has been fixed.

Some of you may have noticed that your ships are sinking quicker if you have set up a MOD and have installed the new Pacific update. This is not a bug, but does require a slight tweak to your MODs.

In the damage calculations, for every point of damage that gets through armour, a weapon gets a chance at scoring a critical hit.

Before, the way it was using a critical hit chance multiplier that's lower than 1 meant that non-heavy weapons were almost never scoring a critical hit. Now that it's using that value more accurately, the very high damage values in the mod mean there's also hundreds of chances of getting a critical hit, each adding a ton of extra damage, and so blowing up a ship very quickly.

If you want to dial back the damage your mod should use a greatly reduced critical hit chance multiplier for weapons with greatly increased damage. Or reduced critical hit damage, though some critical hits also have effects like disabling ship systems, which would in that case still be much more common.

Hope that helps!

Greetings, Knights!


We did it! After 25 updates and patches throughout Early Access, we made it to 1.0!



It’s been an incredible experience to see where we started and how far we’ve come and seeing our vision become a reality has been truly rewarding. Throughout this journey, we’ve been blessed to receive tons of positive feedback and support and we’re very appreciative for all the comments and suggestions to help improve the game. Ember Knights would not be what it is today without you, our amazing players!



Now, if you joined us during our Early Access, you’ll know that working with the community is what we do. If you’re new to Ember Knights, trust us when we say, just because we’ve reached 1.0, it doesn’t mean we’re done with Ember Knights – not by a long shot!

On that note, let’s take a peek at what’s coming in our 1.1 update, available the week of September 18th.


We’re in the final stages of wrapping up everything for our first scheduled postlaunch update. We wanted to take our time with this one to make sure we heard from as many of you as we could. Well, we’ve listened and we believe we’ve put together a really great update for you! Without spoiling too much, we’ve put together some highlights below.

The Praxis realm is getting a big and much needed overhaul and that includes the following:

• Rewards! They’re now all over the place and decisions matter!
  
• New room types including Healing Rooms, Offering Pits, Miniboss Rooms, and more
  
• Enemy balancing and area hazard adjustments

To help a wider range of players, we’ve added another layer of difficulty options. On each save slot, you’ll have the option of selecting Easy, Normal, or Hard to better suit your experience and mood.

To add more customization to your Knight, we’ve brought back an asset we made a long time ago, even before our Combat Demo, added a bunch of improvements and polish, and made it our brand new, Ember Shrine. So long Ember Pit!



With the Ember Shrine, you’ll be able to choose your flame color and outfit independently of each other, so instead of 14 color combinations, you’ll now have 196! Keep an eye on the Shrine for more customization options down the road…



One of the first things you’ll notice is a bit of a new look for the Nexus. We’ve reworked the Weapon and Skill areas and gave the Compendium a little bit of love. You may even see a Steward catching up on some light reading.

We’ve made a HUGE number of QoL improvements which cover Skills, Relics, Endgame Modifiers, Endless Looping, Healing Rooms, Mimic King, Anville, and so much more!

As always, when 1.1 drops, we’ll include the complete patch notes and be prepared, it’s a big one!



As well as putting together the 1.1 update, we’ve also prepared a pretty significant patch for the Switch. We’ve received word from Nintendo that it’s been approved and scheduled to release today, September 12th!



This patch will include a bunch of optimizations specifically for the Switch as well as all the content and fixes currently available on PC.

We’re still figuring out the best way to keep the Switch version as current as the PC version and we’ll be putting out updates for both, as close to each other as we can, but given the differences in submission processes, we expect the Switch updates to lag slightly behind the PC updates.

Thank you for the questions regarding online multiplayer but we don’t have an update on this at the moment.


In addition to preparing the 1.1 and Switch updates, we’ve also been busy putting our thoughts together for new content and features for the future. It’s still way too early to share any big news but looking ahead at 1.2, we’re starting to work on the following:

• Wightsbury balancing
  
• Anville balancing
  
• Ember Tree updating
  
• Weapon & Mod updating
  
• New relics

Some really exciting things are in the works but we can’t spoil any of that quite yet!


An edition of Nexus News wouldn’t be complete without highlighting some of our amazing community members!

Firstly, we have to again acknowledge our Discord member, Tfeh for his amazing accomplishment of being the first and only person to finish the DEMONS challenge!



If you haven’t yet seen the run, you can check it out here:
As promised, he now gets to work with us to design a new relic! We worked together on one already but unfortunately, it didn’t play nice with our existing systems so we’re back to the drawing board. We’re planning to include this joint collaboration in our 1.2 update.

If you’re up for an incredibly difficult challenge, definitely give DEMONS a try. After all, Tfeh is likely lonely being the only person to hold the special Discord role, DEMONS CHAMPION.


Speaking of challenges and records, check out this incredible speedrun from Discord member, QuirkyTurtle!


This sub 7 minute run is currently the world record! Amazing stuff!

If you're interested in speedrunning Ember Knights, check out the official leaderboard here: https://www.speedrun.com/ember_knights


If you're looking for more information on Ember Knights, check out the player-made Wiki here: https://ember-knights-game.fandom.com/wiki/Ember_Knights_-_Game_Wiki

A huge thanks to zza675, Sky, Kif, Diamondara, and all other contributors!


Don’t worry if making videos isn’t your thing. We also love to share incredible artwork that we receive. Check out some awesome pieces below!

Arlan in deep thought, likely anticipating our upcoming dev stream where we talk Ember Knights trivia. Made by Discord member, Lost


An incredible model of a Steward admiring a Nexus flower. Made by Discord member, Bullseye Buttonmasher


Esper has a daughter!? From Discord member, Витëк


A meditating Knight by Discord member, Rush


Praxis never looked so evil. Check out this piece by Discord member, Rai


“Made in Chicory: a colorful tale!” – Discord member, Yarn


With the drop of 1.0, we’ve also been fortunate to see so many exciting gameplay videos and streams. Check out a small sample of some of our favorites below!







If you haven’t yet joined our Discord server, we’d love to have you. We’re now over 5,800 members and growing every day!

https://discord.gg/emberknights

It’s an incredible resource for game information, tips, multiplayer matchmaking, and more. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again – without a doubt, we have one of the best and most welcoming gaming communities around!



We'd like to take the time to acknowledge and sincerely thank everyone for taking the time to leave a positive review. We're closing in on 3,000 and for small studios like us, they're incredibly important. So, from all of us at Doom Turtle, thank you!




With that, I think we’ll close things off for now. Thanks for reading and your continued support!
See you next week for the release of 1.1!

Doom Turtle