• Added PRIX
  
• Fixed a bug where the "TImed" achievement could not be achieved. If you already meet the criteria, you will need to complete a run on any course for the achievement unlock to be triggered

October 18, 2025

Hey everyone,

First of all, thank you to everyone who has added Monkey Jump to their wishlist and taken the time to play the demo. Your feedback means a lot to us reading your thoughts, ideas, and experiences has been an incredible part of this journey. As a small but passionate team, it’s truly an honor to see how much you care about the game and to hear your suggestions firsthand.

Over the past weeks, we’ve worked hard to improve stability, refine the experience, and prepare the foundation for the upcoming Early Access launch. This update focuses on usability, gameplay balance, and smarter AI behavior.

Changes & Improvements:

Mission System Added: A new mission system now guides player progression during matches.

UI Overhaul: The entire interface has been redesigned for a cleaner and more consistent visual style.

Library Visuals Updated: Steam library art has been refreshed to match the latest design direction.

Banana Count Adjusted: (optional emoji kaldırılabilir) Reduced for improved pacing and balance.

Wolf AI Improvements (new updates added daily): The AI system has been refined for more responsive movement, awareness, and decision making. We’re continuously improving it every day to make encounters feel more dynamic and unpredictable.

Lobby Rework: The lobby has received new visuals and atmosphere to create a more polished experience.

Map Fixes: Several minor bugs and geometry issues have been resolved.

Our priority remains the same to create a fun, stable, and replayable co-op experience built around teamwork and tension. We’re continuing to test, improve, and listen. Your feedback helps us evolve Monkey Jump in the right direction.

Thank you again for supporting this project from the very beginning. We’ll keep working hard to make every update worth your time.

The Echo Forge Dev Team

• Fix item drop off to open storage not dropping from the agent at the right position. This was causing a lot of physics issues with other items in storage.

• Fix agents being able to succeed movement tasks at any range if their path was cutoff, now they fail the task and complain

• Fix build pieces that still had mesh filters using temporary mesh: 3508, 7004

• Add new important notice at start of new games to recommend doing the tutorial

• Add new game setting option for always showing the cursor when the Builder UI opens, on by default

• Add support for a large format modal window in popup manager

• Increase number of default workspots to 9 on build pieces and have them position based on the bounds, this should reduce the possibility of workers not being able to construct the build piece due to not finding a path to a workspot

• Change agent bark dialogue queue to only add unique new entries

• Add new hint for how to deal with workers who may be stuck and trigger more hints throughout the tutorial

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• New swimming audio

• Loot updated

• Brought back CONTROLS in the main menu. Sensitivity and intervened mouse controls back in.

• Spawn at start dock locations cleaned up. Shouldn't land in the water

• Removed JOIN on server. You must be invited. This is a quick fix on the public joining private servers until resolve.

Gameplay Changes

-Improved UI (can hold down hotkeys for actions)

-Weapon/Spell range circles appear to show range of effect

-New area music

-New battle music

-Improved party/NPC follow UI

-Vision range circle in effect

-Fixed bug that player moves when drinking/eating from inventory screen

-New area "Abandoned Building" and revamped "Library"

-More feedback for some actions/auto-actions

-Items that can be picked up are now more clear

-Exits to other zones made more clear

(Can't call it AI anymore)

• Grunts can now shoot over obstacles a bit easier. I want to do a dedicated animation for this eventually but for now if the grunt's muzzle is obscured the projectile will spawn up at eye height.

• Cut down the pathfinding cooldown for the headless Cyborg Chargers so now they'll actually run straight at you even from a short distance. Originally they only updated their destination every second or so for out of fear all the navigation queries would have a performance impact.

• The mechs now angle their arms independently to track you so they'll be a lot harder to exploit up close.

Previously, items inside dig blocks were not displayed in the “Item Catalog (2-key/4-key)” and were also not affected by <Sprouting Magic / The Harvest (Chapter 8-1)>. This has been fixed.

(However, this fix does not apply retroactively to existing save data.)

We've known about this issue for several years, but the fix was so tedious we kept putting it off.

(Because it required applying the fix to every existing stage and then updating the game.)

Usually, when we implement such a large-scale fix, some nasty bug pops up. But thanks to our wonderful and dedicated players who usually report them promptly on Discord, etc., any major errors should be fixed within a day or two.

Hello Everyone,

This is a big one... after more than 100 hours of work, I can finally say that all known crashing issues have been fixed. It’s been a tough month tracking down the causes across so many different player setups - from old PCs to high-end rigs - but at last, it’s done.

Im terribly sorry for how long it took to fix, really wish I could go back in time... seeing the games review score drop from the 90s to the 70s over these crashes was heartbreaking. I truly hope that with this fix in place, the score will rebound, as these days an indie game can’t really grow without a Very Positive rating. Fingers crossed. I`ll continue working on the game no matter what though.

And I also want to thank everyone for your patience and support. Even after the 7th update, nearly a third of players were still affected by crashes. Ad your reports, shared logs, and feedback are greatly appreciated.

And with this major hurdle out of the way, we can finally return to the usual weekly updates - got so much exciting stuff on the horizon. A lot of polish to mid and late game, new nations for Sandbox, new features - and so much more...

And let’s take a closer look at what today`s 9th update has in store - a lot of other solid fixes and improvements.

• Fixed a crash on the loading screen that would close the game

• Fixed additional crash on the loading screen – affecting a very small number of players

• Fixed loading screen crash related to point light

• Fixed game getting frozen on the loading screen – requiring a PC restart

• Fixed a crash during combat when player is about to win defense of his city

• Fixed a major issue when winning battles and having to wait a minute for victory to register

• Fixed a rare major issue when after winning a battle player could still not get a win

• Various campaign progression fixes – fixing last situations where player can rarely get stuck

• Byzantine Empire is now playable in Sandbox mode

• Byzantine Empire has 6 playable and 8 total lords

• Unique starting conditions for Byzantine King and Lords with a very large number of assets

• Various fixes to Byzantine Empire assets, relations, starting conditions

• Visual performance in RTS battles in large cities improved by up to 15 FPS

• Scrolling speed on the world map is smoother now

• Shaved off additional 1-1.5 seconds from most loading screens on all systems

• Disabled some odd light in the army camp and large city houses

• Improved the look of Slavic king portraits

• Fixed some issues when loading hamlets with double walls

• Final Crusades battle vs Fatimids now shows a quest at the start of the battle

• Improved Russian localization

• Improved Chinese localization

• No longer playing Low Food voiced notification in naval battles

• Added flags to small stone gatehouse – so it’s easy to identify it

• Player lord character is now more clearly marked in diplomacy screen

• Play Victory/Defeat sound when end battle window is opened

• Further reduced frequency of AI attacks on player (please note – in existing campaigns it will take a few months to take full effect)

• Greatly reduced penalty for leaving battle – it now only damages some units, without removing any

• Winning battles is now faster in most game modes

• Player can now choose to stay and loot or leave the battle

• Rebalanced ranged units – a bit less effective in some situations now

• Stone resource is a lot harder to acquire now, requiring bigger investment to build up large city

• RTS mode stone income decreased by 25%

• World Map stone income decreased by up to 35%

Attention: Brain Storage. This game only refers to events and characters from the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and fictionalizes character events. Do not criticize if you do not like it.

1. Emperor Ling of Han:Originally an emperor in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, he passed away at a young age after failing to personally conquer the Xianbei tribe and succumbing to alcohol and sex. After being reincarnated by the player through time travel, he began a new life, fighting against various forces in the palace with intelligence and courage. Outside the palace, he met the Holy Maiden of Taiping Sect, Zhang Ning, and incorporated her into the harem. Subsequently, he secretly formed an organization of bad people and became a bad marshal, expanding his power. At the same time, he fell in love with the assassin Diao Chan of the Star Moon Organization. Due to Diao Chan's other identity as the courtesan of the Autumn Moon Tower, Emperor Ling of Han lingered in the harem and Autumn Moon Tower, continuing to create the impression of being addicted to alcohol and sex, and debauched.

2. Empress Dowager Dong:After the execution of Wang Meiren with a cane, the scheming family personally raised Liu Xie, the son of Wang Meiren, and regarded this child as the perfect puppet to control the court. Every night when teaching Liu Xie at Yongle Palace, he would point to the wall and say, "Xie Er needs to remember that this dragon throne needs the support of his grandmother to sit firmly." Under the phoenix pillow, there was a blood oath silk sent by the Yuan family, on which Yuan Wei personally wrote, "I wish to make Prince Xie the ruler of the world.

3. Empress HeThe Avengers who crawled out of the cold palace still have scars on their temples from when they were dragged. Now he has poured all his ambitions into his son Liu Bian, and privately asked the palace maid to tell Prince Liu Xie, 'Don't forget who your true enemy is who killed your mother.'. Every time the emperor visited other concubines, she would bite the silk quilt until blood seeped from the corner of her lips. But in the morning, she smiled and painted peony makeup on the bronze mirror, saying, "I want to see who can laugh until the end

4. Liu Biao:The infatuated person kneeling outside the Zhonghe Hall in the rain, holding a dagger. When he heard the emperor say 'Jingzhou needs pure ministers', the dagger fell to the ground with a bang. On the day of leaving the capital, I deliberately took a detour around Jiaofang Hall. Through the partition wall, I heard the sound of Empress He coaxing my child. I remembered the days when I had met Empress He and Emperor Ling of Han. Suddenly, I snatched my attendants' wine bags and drank them heavily. I shook the jade steps that I had not sent out before and threw them into the Luo River, saying, "Liu Jingsheng will never enter Luoyang again in this life

5. Xu Rong:A sorrowful and indignant general who firmly believes in the complete downfall of the emperor. During a night patrol, it was discovered that there were black shadows flashing on the roof of the Autumn Moon Tower. Upon investigation, dozens of black clothed men were seen kneeling and bowing towards the man in dark armor. When the man turned around, half of his face was revealed, revealing that he was the emperor who should have been lying on the knees of a drunken beauty. Xu Rong hurriedly hid in the shadows, his nails digging into the blue bricks of the palace wall: "Your Majesty... how many scenes have you acted in

6. Yang Guifei: A concubine in the imperial harem who does not compete or compete, staying quietly in the deep palace like pale ink on rice paper, counting the begonias and arranging the aftermath all day long. When the emperor comes, he bows his head and offers tea, and all rewards are silently stored in the treasury. When the imperial consort was vying for favor, she only buried the petals of the old year's plum blossoms and wrote a memorial before she could finish. The tea stains left by Empress He's trusted confidant were already carefully wiped clean by the pot of clear water under the moonlight. When the moonlight shines through the corridor, I always hear her whisper to the swallows' nest, 'Helpless flowers fall, familiar swallows return...'