Gelatine

Released: Sep 30, 2022
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Last updated: 13 Sep 2026, 17:05 GMT

Updates & announcements

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21 Apr 2025Developer post
Slime rescue events, post boxes, updated robots
Slime rescue events Wild slimes have been captured and need your help! Imprisoned slimes can be randomly found in the desert biome, and will trigger an invasion-like event on interaction. Completing these events will award rescued slimes, which can be used to build infrastructure
03 Feb 2025Developer post
Village building upgrades
Village building upgrades This patch brings a way to upgrade village buildings, adding a form of meaningful long-term progression without directly affecting player power. First batch of upgrades Pocket Dimension - Increases your inventory capacity by 1 slot per upgrade point, up
Village building upgrades
This patch brings a way to upgrade village buildings, adding a form of meaningful long-term progression without directly affecting player power.
First batch of upgrades

[Stockpile] Pocket Dimension - Increases your inventory capacity by 1 slot per upgrade point, up to 10 extra slots
[Alchemy lab] Efficient brewing - Chance to not consume materials when crafting health and mana potions
[Alchemy lab] Bottomless bottles - 30% chance to not consume the potion item when drinking a potion
[Trading post] Fire sale - Torches will no longer cost money
Gatekeeping of boss-specific crafting
In addition to actual upgrades, crafting items from boss drops is locked behind symbolic upgrades that cost a small amount of the corresponding material.
The goal is just make it more obvious that this NPC will craft items from these boss drops.
Here are the upgrades in question:

[Forge] Stormforged arsenal - Unlocks crafting of accessories from storm essences
[Forge] Arcane craftsmanship - Unlocks crafting of items made with arcane power orbs
[Engineer's workshop] Light it up - Unlock the crafting of lamps
[Engineer's workshop] Drop-tuned innovation - Unlock recipes that require Mysterious energy cores
[Engineer's workshop] Ghost in the gears - Unlock recipes that require Advanced AI modules
Minor changes and bugfixes

Fixed a bug that prevented flower seeds from actually spawning flowers
Electric herb grinder is now significantly faster (10X the previous speed)
Fixed the size and alignment of DPS text above the damage analyzer
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30 Dec 2024Developer post
An update, i guess
Realm system / what's taking so long? The game was initially designed with just one "dimension" in mind, meaning that one savefile only had one primary world. The chaos rifts and the pineapple altar, under the hood, actually took place in the same realm, but in a small enclosed a
Realm system / what's taking so long?
The game was initially designed with just one "dimension" in mind, meaning that one savefile only had one primary world.
The chaos rifts and the pineapple altar, under the hood, actually took place in the same realm, but in a small enclosed area that's normally inaccessible to players.
As the development progressed, it became clear that having many realms as part of one world will become a core part of the game someday.
Think of it as every biome having its own realm, where you can visit newly-added biomes without having to start over, and can even create multiple "instances" of a specific biome within the same world.
Although this feature won't be noticeable right away (besides an extra-fancy teleporation effect), it will eventually allow me to add more dimensions and proper instanced content.
Other changes

The size of player bullets and the intensity of their hit effects have been reduced for the sake of visibility.
Added a trail to player's character.
More of the game's code was rewritten in C++, which may or may not lead to some performance gain.
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22 Jun 2024Developer post
Somewhat significant performance improvements
Performance improvements Some of the code responsible for lighting and world chunking has been rewritten in C++ (instead of Godot Engine's scripting language), which should (hopefully) result in considerable performance gains, especially on lower-end CPUs This should also elimina
Performance improvements

Some of the code responsible for lighting and world chunking has been rewritten in C++ (instead of Godot Engine's scripting language), which should (hopefully) result in considerable performance gains, especially on lower-end CPUs
This should also eliminate the micro-stutters when moving quickly through the world, along with the occasional freezes when using any kind of teleportation - both caused by inefficient loading/unloading of the world
Poor slime blast got reworked again

In an attempt to make the main ability more satisfying to use, it's been reworked to fire many small projectiles at a fast rate
Overdrive remains unchanged and still increases the fire rate by 400%, allowing you to fire insanely fast
Other news

Frostfire Pineapplemental got a small update and feels slightly less disgusting to fight, but only slightly
Fixed an issue that was causing the character to stick to walls and ceilings (although I could've pretended that it's intended)
The raccoon has somehow found a second trash can. This is getting out of hand, now there's two of those!
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14 Mar 2024Developer post
Ability empowerment
Ability empowerment mechanic Your next cast of Slime Blast can be empowered with up to 2 mana points, increasing the strength of the projectile with each mana point Wrecking Ball can be empowered with a mana point to immediately gain full charge of the ability If received well, t
Ability empowerment mechanic

Your next cast of Slime Blast can be empowered with up to 2 mana points, increasing the strength of the projectile with each mana point
Wrecking Ball can be empowered with a mana point to immediately gain full charge of the ability
If received well, this will become a core mechanic of the game's combat and will eventually be applicable to all skills in the game
Talent tree reorganized for the 20th time

The talent tree screen - hopefully - no longer looks like it was designed by a blind hedhehog
Frozen Orb, Ultimate Regeneration, Instant Teleportation and Great Combinator have all been temporarily removed until these are reworked and re-introduced in a better form
You might think that at this point I have no idea what I'm doing, and you'd be exactly right
Minor changes

The character should automatically climb onto 1-tile-high obstacles
Vertical slopes no longer slow down the character's movement as much as they used to
Slime Blast auto-attacks by default, since playing without auto-attack kinda sucks
Trees in the forest biome now have random height and colors, to make the biome look less bland
Slightly adjusted the positioning and tint of biome backgrounds
The character will always face the direction they're shooting in, even when moving in the opposite direction
Quest description window is now 2% less ugly
All quest descriptions have been rewritten to maximize the amount of cringe experienced by the user
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27 Dec 2023Developer post
Christmas mini-boss: Festivius, the Festive Dragon
It's a bit weird to release a Christmas update after Christmas, but here it is anyway! New mini boss: Festivius, the Festive dragon The summon item can drop from elementals or loot containers in the snow biome, as long as the player doesn't already have the item The boss can drop
It's a bit weird to release a Christmas update after Christmas, but here it is anyway!
New mini boss: Festivius, the Festive dragon

The summon item can drop from elementals or loot containers in the snow biome, as long as the player doesn't already have the item
The boss can drop two new pieces of cosmetic headwear - a green ribbon and a red ribbon - to give the character a more festive look
Due to time constraints, that's all the boss drops for now :(
Villager slimification

All villagers (except the raccoon) are now slimes, which is important for the game's narrative direction moving forward
Other

The game's base resolution has been increased, to make the graphics look more crisp
The camera will now smoothly follow the player, rather than always being anchored to the center of the character
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23 Nov 2023Developer post
New ultimate ability - Overdrive
New ultimate ability: overdrive (Q) Note: I feel like the existing ultimate abilities didn't feel "ultimate" enough. An "ultimate" ability should make the player feel really strong, and not just do an extra 2% damage to the boss. Previous ultimate abilities have been removed from
New ultimate ability: overdrive (Q)
Note: I feel like the existing ultimate abilities didn't feel "ultimate" enough.
An "ultimate" ability should make the player feel really strong, and not just do an extra 2% damage to the boss.

Previous ultimate abilities have been removed from "ultimates" and turned into regular abilities that cost mana.
There is now a single ultimate ability called "overdrive".
The new ability has its own keybind and its own UI element, so it doesn't need to be moved to the action bar.
While overdrive is active, your attack speed and mining speed are increased by 400% (which is really fast!).
Future patches will introduce new gear items that improve this ability (e.g. reduced cooldown, longer duration, multiple charges, ...)
Action bar

Village teleportation ability is now on the action bar by default
Skills and items on the action bar will now show tooltips when hovering over
Dash ability update

Dashing now costs 1 mana
This still allows the player to dash very often with almost no cooldown, but at the same time provides an incentive to avoid thoughtlessly spamming dash, as mana can also be used on damaging abilities
UI

Fixed various UI-related and font-related issues that were introduced in the last patches because of my spaghetti code :(
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14 Nov 2023Developer post
Auto-save feature + key bind changes
Auto-save This feature is long overdue and should've been added much earlier, but it's finally here! The game will auto-save after every major event (i.e. after defeating bosses or invasions), as well as every 5 minutes during gameplay. You can also manually trigger a quicksave b
Auto-save

This feature is long overdue and should've been added much earlier, but it's finally here!
The game will auto-save after every major event (i.e. after defeating bosses or invasions), as well as every 5 minutes during gameplay.
You can also manually trigger a quicksave by pausing the game and selecting "Quicksave" in the pause menu
Action bar and key bindings

The default keybindings have been changed. The bottom action bar is now using the number row (1, 2, 3, ...) , while the top action bar is using the function row (F1, F2, F3, ...)
Firstly, this addresses some people's concerns about the W keybind being very unintuitive
More importantly, it frees up Q, W, E, R and T for some brand new actions coming in the next patch.
Action bar key bindings will be reset when you launch the game for the first time after the patch.
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05 Oct 2023Developer post
Cosmetic items & Engine update
Engine The game has been filly migrated from Godot 3 to Godot 4 The performance on lower-end hardware should be a bit better now This also means brand new bugs and issues, yay! Cosmetic items! Two new types of items - Headwear and Dyes - have been added, and can be equipped to cu
Engine

The game has been filly migrated from Godot 3 to Godot 4
The performance on lower-end hardware should be a bit better now
This also means brand new bugs and issues, yay!
Cosmetic items!

Two new types of items - Headwear and Dyes - have been added, and can be equipped to customize the character's appearance.
Cosmetics can be found by exploring the world and defeating enemies.
Bosses

Arcane Containment Unit now has a second phase with new mechanics
Storm elemental now has a longer and slightly more diverse second phase
Questing

"Find cookie" and "Catch wisps" quests have been removed, as they aren't that interesting and don't fit the "action-focused" style of the game.
General

Light sources are now brighter and transmit light further
A bunch of minor aesthetic upgrades all over the place
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01 Sep 2023Developer post
Dev update: ongoing engine migration, available in beta branch
Greetings! As some of you might know, Gelatine is made with Godot engine. This year, a new version of the engine was released - Godot 4 - and the game is currently being ported from old-fashioned Godot 3 to all-new Godot 4. In the end, this should result in better performance and
25 Jun 2023Developer post
General look-and-feel improvements
This patch contains a few small improvements to the game's overall feel. Action bar slots are now showing the remaining cooldown as a number, in addition to the cooldown animation. Tooltips now have a much more readable font. Some pixel art aesthetic had to be sacrificed, but rea
This patch contains a few small improvements to the game's overall feel.

Action bar slots are now showing the remaining cooldown as a number, in addition to the cooldown animation.
Tooltips now have a much more readable font. Some pixel art aesthetic had to be sacrificed, but readability is more important here.
Added a camera shake effect to accompany powerful events like explosions and lightning strikes
Taking damage gives much more obvious feedback and shows big red damage numbers above the player
Added a wind sway effect to trees, and slightly improved the animation of falling leaves
Slightly improved the visual and audio feedback of slime blast (primary combat ability)
Player animation speed now depends on movement velocity, rather than always playing at the same speed
Learning a talent will automatically refresh the currently selected skill to apply any possible changes
Applied a slight gradient tint to make the color scheme more pleasant (but that's subjective)
Dropped items will now be noticeably larger (with the exception of placeable tiles)
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31 May 2023Developer post
New boss - Arcane Containment Unit
New boss fight! This boss is the final boss of Act 1. The summon item can be crafted by combining one Mysterious energy core and one Storm essence, and is craftable by the Engineer. New accessories Two accessories can be crafted from materials that drop from the new boss: Enchant
Watch on YouTube
New boss fight!

This boss is the final boss of Act 1.
The summon item can be crafted by combining one Mysterious energy core and one Storm essence, and is craftable by the Engineer.
New accessories
Two accessories can be crafted from materials that drop from the new boss:
Enchanted hourglass - Reduces the cooldown of your ultimate abilities by 35%
Arcane feather - Allows you to quadruple-jump while in the air
Minor fixes

Fixed a crash caused by selecting another ability while casting Annihilation ray
Slightly reduced the effectiveness of accessories that speed up mana regen, because the gameplay starts to feel clunky and less satisfying when mana regen becomes too fast
What's next?
The game currently lacks content in areas not related to boss fights: exploration, invasion events, variety of items, etc. So the next few months will be spent on ironing out Act 1 and adding more "casual" content to the game.
Once the amount of content in Act 1 feels satisfactory, I'll be able to move onto Act 2 with new biomes and more boss fights.
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22 Apr 2023Developer post
Wrecking ball ability, new accessories, UI improvements
Wrecking Ball Slime Whip was kinda useless as a combat ability, so it's been reworked into a mining tool (although it still does damage to enemies and can still be used in combat). The reworked ability is called Wrecking Ball and can be used for destroying a small area in a singl
Wrecking Ball

Slime Whip was kinda useless as a combat ability, so it's been reworked into a mining tool (although it still does damage to enemies and can still be used in combat).
The reworked ability is called Wrecking Ball and can be used for destroying a small area in a single swing. Hold the button to charge up the ability, then release to smash the ground.
New accessories:

Magic pendant: increases mana regen by 20% (drops from elementals in the snow biome)
Storm necklace: increases mana regen by 100% (craftable after defeating the Storm Elemental)
Mana battery: increases the maximum mana capacity by 2 (craftable after defeating the Metal Core)
New passive talents:

Added an upgrade for Dimensional Leap that doubles the maximum range of the teleportation.
Added an upgrade for Heal that causes this ability to also speed up the cooldown recharge rate of ultimate abilities.
Talent tree reworked for the 500th time

Yes, again
Let's see how long it lasts before it's reworked once more
Organizing talent trees is more complicated than I thought
Other stuff:

Stats in item descriptions now have icons next to them
Village teleportation ability is now available from the start and doesn't need to be learned.
Reduced XP requirements at earlier levels, but also increased those at later levels, which results in much faster leveling at the start of the game and less extreme level gain later on.
Merchant window looks slightly better.
Trees look less annoying
Normal tiles (dirt, stone, etc.) will no longer give any XP for mining, because that was OP
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31 Mar 2023Developer post
Ultimate abilities, Bottled XP, improved questing, and more
Questing Quests are now split into acts. Completing the final quest in the act will allow you to move to the next act. Currently there's only one act, which will culminate in a final boss of this act (which is yet to be released in a future patch). Then, act 2 will begin. The que
Questing

Quests are now split into acts. Completing the final quest in the act will allow you to move to the next act.
Currently there's only one act, which will culminate in a final boss of this act (which is yet to be released in a future patch). Then, act 2 will begin.
The quest list is now shaped like a tree, which should make it easier to understand the progression path through the act.
Quests can be completed and turned in even if the quest hasn't been unlocked yet - for example, if you manage to defeat a boss without unlocking its quest, then the quest will be completed anyway and you will be able to turn in that quest.
Village invasions

Invasion soundtracks have been replaced with more thematically fitting music.
Invasions last just a little bit longer.
Some enemies during invasions have been improved, and some have been removed completely (and will be re-added after a total rework).
XP Bottler / a way to spend extra talent points

The XP Bottler is a placeable object that can be purchased from the Merchant
You can interact with that device to put a talent point in a bottle
Bottled XP can be sold to the merchant for coins, as a way to make XP useful when all talents have been learned
Bottled XP can potentially be used for crafting in the future (but not yet)
New craftable items

DPS analyser (crafted from AI modules): can be attacked to measure your average damage-per-second. Basically an advanced training dummy.
Portable freezer (crafted from Storm essences): freezes your slime blasts, turning them into shards of frozen slime that have a much longer range and do slightly more damage.
Potion of ultimate power: instantly resets the cooldown of your ultimate abilities, but places a cooldown on all potions depending on the remaining cooldown of your ultimates
Special rewards for challenging mode

In addition to more loot, defeating a boss on Challenging difficulty will now drop a boss-specific crafting station.
These crafting stations can be used to craft all of the items that are crafted from this boss' unique drops.
Some items will have a slightly reduced crafting cost compared to crafting them at NPCs.
(note: Frostfire Pineapple's crafting station is currently useless)
Frozen orb changes

Frozen orb is now considered to be an ultimate ability and shares a cooldown with other ultimate abilities.
It no longer costs mana.
The damage of the ice shards has been increased.
Added an upgrade that allows the frozen orb to be hit twice before it disappears.
Annihilation ray

Channels a powerful beam for 2 seconds that destroys all tiles in its path.
Is an ultimate ability (which means it shares a cooldown with frozen orb).
Various tweaks

Boss health was slightly increased, because the fights still felt way too short
Metal Core's rockets (in phase 2) will have a smoother launch animation, but will reach a much higher velocity over time
Storm elemental will no longer have a permanent rain of bullets on challenging difficulty, as it's challenging enough as it is
Frostfire Pineapple's dagger attack will now give the player more time to react
Slime Jackhammer's jump functionality works much more reliably, and the sound of jumping is a bit quieter
Improved the visual effect of Heal ability
Improved the visual effect of slime blast projectile explosion
Items will now be greyed out on the action bar and will not show a placement preview if you don't have the required item in your inventory.
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25 Feb 2023Developer post
Two-phase boss fights and reworked combat
Boss fight upgrades All bosses now have two phases, with slightly different sets of abilities and a different part of the soundtrack playing during each phase Decomposer and Metal Core have a couple of brand new abilities and have been slightly changed visually Every boss fight n
Boss fight upgrades

All bosses now have two phases, with slightly different sets of abilities and a different part of the soundtrack playing during each phase
Decomposer and Metal Core have a couple of brand new abilities and have been slightly changed visually
Every boss fight now ends in a results screen where your performance is graded with a rank
Here's a preview of what the updated Decomposer looks like
Watch on YouTube
Combat rework

The combat is currently in the process of being completely reworked, taking user feedback into account
A new ability is now available from the start - Slime Blast
The ability has an upgrade tree that adds extra mechanics to how it's used, with more upgrades to come later
Accessories that previously affected slime spear, will now affect slime blast instead
Other

Mana points will now be shown below the player, in addition to the health bar
Metal Core's summoning item can drop from barrels in underground ruins, if it hasn't been obtained yet
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27 Jan 2023Developer post
Improved smart cursor / moving to monthly updates
First of all, a small announcement: from this point, the game is shifting from weekly updates to monthly. The amount of work going into the game will stay the same, but the updates themselves are getting larger in scope and take more time to complete, which makes a weekly schedul
First of all, a small announcement: from this point, the game is shifting from weekly updates to monthly.
The amount of work going into the game will stay the same, but the updates themselves are getting larger in scope and take more time to complete, which makes a weekly schedule way too restrictive.
Starting next month, a new major update will be released at the end of every month.
Moving on to this week's update!
Smart cursor changes

The smart cursor is now much more obvious and intuitive, and can be toggled on and off by pressing CTRL
Trees, gems, plants and mechanical traps will now be targeted by the smart cursor
Underground changes

A new type of enemy will spawn underground: harmless wisps that drop torches on death and make it easier to locate the nearby points of interest
Gem clusters will now immediately drop gems instead of spawning an enemy, which felt a bit weird and out of place
The light from torches will now look less yellow
Boss changes

Decomposer will now shoot a spread of bullets at the end of each "laser fan" attack
UI

The health bar in HUD is now green, to make it more obvious that it represents health
You can now start the game by double-clicking the world in the list
Deleting a world now requires a confirmation
Other

Added a bit of multithreading, which should further help with performance issues on weak PCs. More optimizations coming later.
The "sprint after dashing" ability now works more reliably and won't be canceled prematurely unless you start moving in a different direction
Slightly improved AI spawning and pathfinding
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21 Jan 2023Developer post
Instant teleportation ability + slight optimization of tile loading
The Dimensional Leap ability now has an upgrade that makes the ability instant, without the need to charge it up first Dynamic tile loading has been slightly optimized, to somewhat alleviate the issues that some users are having where the world isn't loading fast enough to keep u
The Dimensional Leap ability now has an upgrade that makes the ability instant, without the need to charge it up first
Dynamic tile loading has been slightly optimized, to somewhat alleviate the issues that some users are having where the world isn't loading fast enough to keep up with the player's speed. This whole system will be completely overhauled in the nearest future, which should solve these issues entirely. But for now, this is a small temporary fix.
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19 Jan 2023Developer post
Challenging mode / No-hit achievements
From now on, every boss in the game will have three separate achievements: 1. Defeat the boss on any difficulty 2. Defeat the boss on Challenging difficulty 3. Defeat the boss on Challenging difficulty without taking any damage This should reward players for challenging themselve
15 Jan 2023Developer post
A bunch of hotfixes
Fall damage has been reduced by 50%, and the "safe" height tolerance has been increased Boss modifiers should no longer affect invasions NPCs are no longer affected by gravity FIxed an issue with automatic sliding doors not being harvestable Fixed an issue with flamethrower visua
Fall damage has been reduced by 50%, and the "safe" height tolerance has been increased
Boss modifiers should no longer affect invasions
NPCs are no longer affected by gravity
FIxed an issue with automatic sliding doors not being harvestable
Fixed an issue with flamethrower visual effect not being visible if the FPS is low enough
Dimensional Leap ability will no longer work if you try to teleport into solid blocks
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14 Jan 2023Developer post
Sprinting ability and quality-of-life improvements
This patch consists mostly of boring quality-of-life changes. And one new learnable talent. New learnable talent - Momentum - that greatly increases your movement speed for 3 seconds after dashing, as long as you keep moving in the same direction Added a shift-click functionality
This patch consists mostly of boring quality-of-life changes. And one new learnable talent.

New learnable talent - Momentum - that greatly increases your movement speed for 3 seconds after dashing, as long as you keep moving in the same direction
Added a shift-click functionality to quickly move items between your inventory and the village storage
Better sounds of damaging ore blocks with mining skills
Storm Elemental's sprite is now brighter and thus much easier to see
Tweaked the Frostfire Pineapple's attack patterns and made them more challenging, as it was way too easy compared to the other bosses
Village menu will no longer re-open after successfully placing a new village improvement in the world
The "Careless wisp-er" quest now requires only 5 wisps (down from 10), in order to keep it from feeling tedious and drawn out
Slightly improved the boss summon screen
Fixed a visual issue with village storage window being slightly misaligned
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