Bombernauts

Released: Dec 29, 2017
Platforms: WindowsmacOSLinux
Last updated: 06 Sep 2026, 16:22 GMT

Updates & announcements

12 posts

03 Oct 2016Developer post
MODS & MENUS UPDATE!
It took a while but it's here! Lots of new things to play with now! I wasn't keeping very good change notes for a bunch of stuff related to this patch, so hopefully I remembered all the stuff we changed. Here goes... Bombernauts Version 0.16.0: The Mods & Menus Update NEW MEN
It took a while but it's here! Lots of new things to play with now! I wasn't keeping very good change notes for a bunch of stuff related to this patch, so hopefully I remembered all the stuff we changed. Here goes...
Bombernauts Version 0.16.0: The Mods & Menus Update

NEW MENUS AND OPTIONS

Sick new menus yo! They're way more responsive and functional, and a lot easier to add things to now! They work fine with keyboard and gamepad and even the mouse! Give them a try!
"Customize Maps" added to the Create Game menu! You can mix and match custom map sets now!
"Customize Items" added to the Create Game menu! You can control what items show up now!
"Force Spawn Timer" added to the Advanced Game Settings. How long before you get force spawned!
"Floaty Bombs" added to Advanced Game Settings. Bombs float on lava! On by default.
"~~Smash Damage~~Damage Buildup" added to Advanced Game Settings. Smash bros style damage percents! Get bombed farther and farther and farther! Off by default.
"Force Multiplier" added to Advanced Game Settings. GO FLYING
"Server Script" added to Advanced Game Settings. MODS! See below for more info.
Passworded lobbies now show up in the lobby list with a lock next to their name. "Filter By Password" was removed.
Custom Map options enabled for Saturday Special lobbies.
Saturday Special now chooses randomly each week instead of in a set order
Quick Play now will give the option (and a warning) to join a heavily customized or saturday special lobby if it can't find one with default settings.

LUA SCRIPTING

Enabled Server Scripts. Stick a lua script into the custom_game_scripts folder and you can host a lobby with that script.
Enabled loading server scripts from workshop items. Go! Upload some mods!
See this forum for mod discussions
Sub to Saturday Specials for some example scripts

NEW HATS

Adjusted the cost of a few hats
Added a bunch of new hats!
Added a BRAIN SLIME special hat! JOIN THE SLIME ARMY TODAY
Added a Closurehead special hat for people who own Closure!
Added a Dev Hat that only me, Sven, and Brandon can have!
Added a VIP Hat for players who have contributed to Bombernauts development or the Bombernauts community!
The following players have earned a VIP hat:

Hideous, for making a couple of sweet hats
Dan Fitzgerald, for making the early access launch trailer
Xemsi, for beta testing and bug reports
Charlez Metze III, for rendering out a few 3D assets
MAN, for his announcer voice
pixeldesu, for running the Bombernauts subreddit
Hartmunt, for detailed bug reports and consistently hosting lobbies

NEW AND UPDATED BLOCKS

Added Glass and Metal Glass blocks! See-through blocks so you can stop blocking the camera with your walls!
Added Metal Springs to the editor
Added Char Blocks to the editor
Changed Mud to Tar
Updated the graphics of a bunch of tiles
Tweaked the editor UI so everything can fit on lower resolutions better.

MAPS

Updated Bumpers, ColdPit, Backboard, Blade, BouncePit, DivingPlatform, DunkTanks, Hoops, LeanTo, and Platforms with the new tiles
Added 3 new neutral maps: GlassPads, GlassHouse, and GlassHole
The game will now not choose any map that has been selected in the last 20 rounds (previously 12). This is now also enabled when using custom maps.
When custom maps and default maps are mixed, the game will switch from a 50/50 ratio of custom:default to proportional if you have more custom maps than default maps.

MISC

Renamed "Powerup Action" control binding to "Taunt"
Taunt will automatically call "-sing" with the last song you sung. Saved across game sessions.
Win messages are now randomized
Tweaked the RNG for powerup selection slightly.
Robot Colors and Hat settings are now saved on Steam Cloud instead of locally
A few other game settings (chat title, pronoun, etc) are now saved on Steam Cloud instead of locally
Settings that have been moved to Steam Cloud were reset
Added a new achievement!

BUGFIXES

Fixed an issue where you would occasionally get clipped off the map
Fixed being able to stun players who haven't spawned in yet
Fixed being able to duplicate a slime bomb held while you're a ghost
Win message font now properly displays all ASCII characters
Original post
03 Oct 2016Developer post
MODS & MENUS UPDATE!
It took a while but it's here! Lots of new things to play with now! I wasn't keeping very good change notes for a bunch of stuff related to this patch, so hopefully I remembered all the stuff we changed. Here goes... Bombernauts Version 0.16.0: The Mods & Menus Update NEW MEN
It took a while but it's here! Lots of new things to play with now! I wasn't keeping very good change notes for a bunch of stuff related to this patch, so hopefully I remembered all the stuff we changed. Here goes...
Bombernauts Version 0.16.0: The Mods & Menus Update

NEW MENUS AND OPTIONS

Sick new menus yo! They're way more responsive and functional, and a lot easier to add things to now! They work fine with keyboard and gamepad and even the mouse! Give them a try!
"Customize Maps" added to the Create Game menu! You can mix and match custom map sets now!
"Customize Items" added to the Create Game menu! You can control what items show up now!
"Force Spawn Timer" added to the Advanced Game Settings. How long before you get force spawned!
"Floaty Bombs" added to Advanced Game Settings. Bombs float on lava! On by default.
"~~Smash Damage~~Damage Buildup" added to Advanced Game Settings. Smash bros style damage percents! Get bombed farther and farther and farther! Off by default.
"Force Multiplier" added to Advanced Game Settings. GO FLYING
"Server Script" added to Advanced Game Settings. MODS! See below for more info.
Passworded lobbies now show up in the lobby list with a lock next to their name. "Filter By Password" was removed.
Custom Map options enabled for Saturday Special lobbies.
Saturday Special now chooses randomly each week instead of in a set order
Quick Play now will give the option (and a warning) to join a heavily customized or saturday special lobby if it can't find one with default settings.

LUA SCRIPTING

Enabled Server Scripts. Stick a lua script into the custom_game_scripts folder and you can host a lobby with that script.
Enabled loading server scripts from workshop items. Go! Upload some mods!
See this forum for mod discussions
Sub to Saturday Specials for some example scripts

NEW HATS

Adjusted the cost of a few hats
Added a bunch of new hats!
Added a BRAIN SLIME special hat! JOIN THE SLIME ARMY TODAY
Added a Closurehead special hat for people who own Closure!
Added a Dev Hat that only me, Sven, and Brandon can have!
Added a VIP Hat for players who have contributed to Bombernauts development or the Bombernauts community!
The following players have earned a VIP hat:

Hideous, for making a couple of sweet hats
Dan Fitzgerald, for making the early access launch trailer
Xemsi, for beta testing and bug reports
Charlez Metze III, for rendering out a few 3D assets
MAN, for his announcer voice
pixeldesu, for running the Bombernauts subreddit
Hartmunt, for detailed bug reports and consistently hosting lobbies

NEW AND UPDATED BLOCKS

Added Glass and Metal Glass blocks! See-through blocks so you can stop blocking the camera with your walls!
Added Metal Springs to the editor
Added Char Blocks to the editor
Changed Mud to Tar
Updated the graphics of a bunch of tiles
Tweaked the editor UI so everything can fit on lower resolutions better.

MAPS

Updated Bumpers, ColdPit, Backboard, Blade, BouncePit, DivingPlatform, DunkTanks, Hoops, LeanTo, and Platforms with the new tiles
Added 3 new neutral maps: GlassPads, GlassHouse, and GlassHole
The game will now not choose any map that has been selected in the last 20 rounds (previously 12). This is now also enabled when using custom maps.
When custom maps and default maps are mixed, the game will switch from a 50/50 ratio of custom:default to proportional if you have more custom maps than default maps.

MISC

Renamed "Powerup Action" control binding to "Taunt"
Taunt will automatically call "-sing" with the last song you sung. Saved across game sessions.
Win messages are now randomized
Tweaked the RNG for powerup selection slightly.
Robot Colors and Hat settings are now saved on Steam Cloud instead of locally
A few other game settings (chat title, pronoun, etc) are now saved on Steam Cloud instead of locally
Settings that have been moved to Steam Cloud were reset
Added a new achievement!

BUGFIXES

Fixed an issue where you would occasionally get clipped off the map
Fixed being able to stun players who haven't spawned in yet
Fixed being able to duplicate a slime bomb held while you're a ghost
Win message font now properly displays all ASCII characters
Original post
06 Mar 2016Developer post
STEAM WORKSHOP UPDATE!
Well... that took longer than expected! This was supposed to be the "February" update but a series of unplanned real-life-related hurdles ended up making it take a bit longer. No worries! We made the patch extra awesome to make up for it! Anyway here's the patch you've all been w
Well... that took longer than expected! This was supposed to be the "February" update but a series of unplanned real-life-related hurdles ended up making it take a bit longer. No worries! We made the patch extra awesome to make up for it! Anyway here's the patch you've all been waiting patiently for:
BOMBERNAUTS UPDATE 0.15.0, THE WORKSHOP UPDATE

STEAM WORKSHOP SUPPORT

Added Steam Workshop support for custom maps! See here for instructions.
Custom maps now store the author of the map (For existing maps you will need to open them in the editor and re-save to get your author data saved in)
Added "custom map folder" to the create game panel to let you make map sets
Added author data for all the default maps

NEW CONTENT

Added a new powerup (regular pinata): The Fire Barrel! Kinda looks like a makeshift rocket engine doesn't it?
Added a new powerup (golden pinata): Bun Bun! Nobunny crosses Bun Bun...

GAME/BALANCE CHANGES

Offscreen indicators now open up to show a camera view of players you have last-hit with a bomb. This is basically a kill cam, so you can always see who you kill even if they are offscreen
Player you have last-hit with a bomb now have a highlighted smoke trail
Increased the stun-scale when spamming bombs slightly
Stun-scale now applies to explosions too (up to 100% extra stun on yourself when you are spamming bombs, from all force sources) (this will not kick in until spamming > 2 bombs per second)
Pinatas will no longer spawn until at least 1 player has spawned
Stun is now capped to 5 seconds maximum while you are on the ground (no cap while you're in the air)
The lava now stops you if you whiff a lucha slam

SINGS

Added 2 new chat commands, "-sing" and "-fancysing". These can be used by anyone as customizable taunts. You are allowed to sing once every 120 seconds, however this timer gets reset if you get a kill. See below the patch notes for more info on how the sing commands work!

SOUNDS

Default setting for music and sfx volume is now a lot lower (this will only effect new players or playing the game on a new computer)
Fixed an issue with sound effects where some sounds being played at a lower pitch would cut off too soon (this noticablly affects fire tiles, and fixes a few pops and clicks elsewhere)
Added sound effects for players joining and leaving
Added sound effects for getting a kill and respawning
Added a real sound effect for the EMP
Added a whoosh sound effect to players when traveling at high speed

GRAPHICS

Fixed bat swipes using the old unity tons-of-polygons-quad
Fixed a few powerup graphics self-shadowing when they shouldnt have
Fixed the 1 pixel white line on the bottom of the scoreboard in some resolutions
Block rubble now gets shadowed
Fixed the bouncy block spring sometimes not showing up over the correct bouncy block
Fixed rocket graphics overriding some other powerups graphics when it launches
Oiled up the steroid arms :larm::bombot::rarm:
Black hole bomb's particles now more accurately reflect the range of its force

PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATIONS

Reworked the layout of the tilemap textures to reduce RAM and disk usage.
Optimized the file size of a number of assets to reduce RAM and disk usage.

GAME FIXES

Fixed larger bombs not spawning in the correct location
Fixed minor issue with shuffling RNG (used for powerups)
Fixed an issue where bomb-player collision wasn't registering unless a player threw a bomb in the past second OR got hit twice in a row with bombs
Fixed double respawning if you get a double kill as a ghost
Fixed larger bombs not being effected by ice, mud, or springs
Added additional error handling and logging in the server code. Please send me a debug log if you were host and another player couldn't connect after being lagged out.
Fixed an issue with LeadBomb+Wrecking Ball+any splitting powerup that could orbit you sometimes

EDITOR/CUSTOM MAP FIXES

Fixed map editor being able to sometimes place extra blocks while trying to save a map
Fixed an issue in the editor where it would sometimes not save a level (and subsequently break the save dialog)
Fixed an issue in the editor where double-saving a file would mess up the path in the save file dialog
Added additional error handling to the editor load/save file dialog (should be no more breaking with a messed up path)
Custom map sets will now ignore empty folders (you do not need the seasonal folders anymore if you don't want any seasonal levels. Just neutral is fine.)
The default built-in custom maps folder has been renamed from "default" to "sample" (because the default setting is now "all sets", which would be confusing) (this effects new installs of the game only)
The game will now avoid loading bad custom map data* (too large, too small, wrong filesize for dimensions, wrong file extension) and will hide any "empty" map sets from the list of available map sets. *note that this is not actually checking the contents of the map, such as making sure tile values are correct and levels have spawns, so it is still possible to make garbage maps that pass the test. I'm not looking for bug reports related to those, just ones that crash the game or cause it to seizure out when loading.
Fixed the game seizuring if it failed to find a custom map

HOW THE SING COMMANDS WORK
First of all, in sandbox mode there are no limitations or cooldowns songs, so this is the mode you should be in to test these! In a real game, these commands have a 120s cooldown, and can't be longer than 10 seconds or have more than 100 notes. Try these 2 sample commands first: -sing {4,2,0,2,4,4,4,x,2,2,2,x,4,7,7,x,4,2,0,2,4,4,4,4,2,2,4,2,0} -fancysing {(1,0,500),(0,2,250),(1,-2,400),(2,0,1000),(1,3,500),(0,2,250),(1,-2,400),(2,0,1000)} -fancysing {(0, 3, 0)(0, 8, 150)(0, 3, 0)(0, 8, 150)(0, 3, 0)(0, 8, 150)(0, 3, 0)(0, 8, 150)(1, 1, 0)(1, 6, 300)(1, 1, 0)(1, 6, 300)(1, -2, 0)(1, 3, 300)(1, -2, 0)(1, 3, 300)(3, 1, 0)(3, 6, 300)} "-sing" is a list of pitches (with 0 being C3). Valid ranges for pitches are -40 to 40, with an "x" indicating a rest. Each note lasts for a quarter second. Simple songs are very easy to make with this command, however if you want better control over timings you'll want to use the fancysing command "-fancysing" is a list of sets of 3 numbers, each representing 1 note. The format is (sound, pitch, delay). Sound is 0-4, with each number representng a different sound clip to use. Currently it's 5 different "la" sounds, however we may add more in the future. Pitch is the same as in "-sing", however "x" as a rest is not enabled here (just use a delay on the previous note, or a pitch outside the valid range). "Delay" is how many milliseconds to wait before playing the next pitch. You can use 0ms delay to play notes at the same time for chords. In both commands, the commas and parenthesis are optional, however if you use spaces to separate things the note list should surrounded in brackets {} or quotes "" I expect people to create and share all sorts of crazy sings they come up with. Eventually I will integrate this into the game better so people can save them and play them automatically as a taunt without having to paste stuff into the chat, but for now this is pretty fun as is. (Special thanks to Sven Bergström and Andreas Jörgensen for helping with the patch)
Original post
06 Mar 2016Developer post
STEAM WORKSHOP UPDATE!
Well... that took longer than expected! This was supposed to be the "February" update but a series of unplanned real-life-related hurdles ended up making it take a bit longer. No worries! We made the patch extra awesome to make up for it! Anyway here's the patch you've all been w
Well... that took longer than expected! This was supposed to be the "February" update but a series of unplanned real-life-related hurdles ended up making it take a bit longer. No worries! We made the patch extra awesome to make up for it! Anyway here's the patch you've all been waiting patiently for:
BOMBERNAUTS UPDATE 0.15.0, THE WORKSHOP UPDATE

STEAM WORKSHOP SUPPORT

Added Steam Workshop support for custom maps! See here for instructions.
Custom maps now store the author of the map (For existing maps you will need to open them in the editor and re-save to get your author data saved in)
Added "custom map folder" to the create game panel to let you make map sets
Added author data for all the default maps

NEW CONTENT

Added a new powerup (regular pinata): The Fire Barrel! Kinda looks like a makeshift rocket engine doesn't it?
Added a new powerup (golden pinata): Bun Bun! Nobunny crosses Bun Bun...

GAME/BALANCE CHANGES

Offscreen indicators now open up to show a camera view of players you have last-hit with a bomb. This is basically a kill cam, so you can always see who you kill even if they are offscreen
Player you have last-hit with a bomb now have a highlighted smoke trail
Increased the stun-scale when spamming bombs slightly
Stun-scale now applies to explosions too (up to 100% extra stun on yourself when you are spamming bombs, from all force sources) (this will not kick in until spamming > 2 bombs per second)
Pinatas will no longer spawn until at least 1 player has spawned
Stun is now capped to 5 seconds maximum while you are on the ground (no cap while you're in the air)
The lava now stops you if you whiff a lucha slam

SINGS

Added 2 new chat commands, "-sing" and "-fancysing". These can be used by anyone as customizable taunts. You are allowed to sing once every 120 seconds, however this timer gets reset if you get a kill. See below the patch notes for more info on how the sing commands work!

SOUNDS

Default setting for music and sfx volume is now a lot lower (this will only effect new players or playing the game on a new computer)
Fixed an issue with sound effects where some sounds being played at a lower pitch would cut off too soon (this noticablly affects fire tiles, and fixes a few pops and clicks elsewhere)
Added sound effects for players joining and leaving
Added sound effects for getting a kill and respawning
Added a real sound effect for the EMP
Added a whoosh sound effect to players when traveling at high speed

GRAPHICS

Fixed bat swipes using the old unity tons-of-polygons-quad
Fixed a few powerup graphics self-shadowing when they shouldnt have
Fixed the 1 pixel white line on the bottom of the scoreboard in some resolutions
Block rubble now gets shadowed
Fixed the bouncy block spring sometimes not showing up over the correct bouncy block
Fixed rocket graphics overriding some other powerups graphics when it launches
Oiled up the steroid arms ːlarmːːbombotːːrarmː
Black hole bomb's particles now more accurately reflect the range of its force

PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATIONS

Reworked the layout of the tilemap textures to reduce RAM and disk usage.
Optimized the file size of a number of assets to reduce RAM and disk usage.

GAME FIXES

Fixed larger bombs not spawning in the correct location
Fixed minor issue with shuffling RNG (used for powerups)
Fixed an issue where bomb-player collision wasn't registering unless a player threw a bomb in the past second OR got hit twice in a row with bombs
Fixed double respawning if you get a double kill as a ghost
Fixed larger bombs not being effected by ice, mud, or springs
Added additional error handling and logging in the server code. Please send me a debug log if you were host and another player couldn't connect after being lagged out.
Fixed an issue with LeadBomb+Wrecking Ball+any splitting powerup that could orbit you sometimes

EDITOR/CUSTOM MAP FIXES

Fixed map editor being able to sometimes place extra blocks while trying to save a map
Fixed an issue in the editor where it would sometimes not save a level (and subsequently break the save dialog)
Fixed an issue in the editor where double-saving a file would mess up the path in the save file dialog
Added additional error handling to the editor load/save file dialog (should be no more breaking with a messed up path)
Custom map sets will now ignore empty folders (you do not need the seasonal folders anymore if you don't want any seasonal levels. Just neutral is fine.)
The default built-in custom maps folder has been renamed from "default" to "sample" (because the default setting is now "all sets", which would be confusing) (this effects new installs of the game only)
The game will now avoid loading bad custom map data* (too large, too small, wrong filesize for dimensions, wrong file extension) and will hide any "empty" map sets from the list of available map sets. *note that this is not actually checking the contents of the map, such as making sure tile values are correct and levels have spawns, so it is still possible to make garbage maps that pass the test. I'm not looking for bug reports related to those, just ones that crash the game or cause it to seizure out when loading.
Fixed the game seizuring if it failed to find a custom map

HOW THE SING COMMANDS WORK
First of all, in sandbox mode there are no limitations or cooldowns songs, so this is the mode you should be in to test these! In a real game, these commands have a 120s cooldown, and can't be longer than 10 seconds or have more than 100 notes. Try these 2 sample commands first: -sing {4,2,0,2,4,4,4,x,2,2,2,x,4,7,7,x,4,2,0,2,4,4,4,4,2,2,4,2,0} -fancysing {(1,0,500),(0,2,250),(1,-2,400),(2,0,1000),(1,3,500),(0,2,250),(1,-2,400),(2,0,1000)} -fancysing {(0, 3, 0)(0, 8, 150)(0, 3, 0)(0, 8, 150)(0, 3, 0)(0, 8, 150)(0, 3, 0)(0, 8, 150)(1, 1, 0)(1, 6, 300)(1, 1, 0)(1, 6, 300)(1, -2, 0)(1, 3, 300)(1, -2, 0)(1, 3, 300)(3, 1, 0)(3, 6, 300)} "-sing" is a list of pitches (with 0 being C3). Valid ranges for pitches are -40 to 40, with an "x" indicating a rest. Each note lasts for a quarter second. Simple songs are very easy to make with this command, however if you want better control over timings you'll want to use the fancysing command "-fancysing" is a list of sets of 3 numbers, each representing 1 note. The format is (sound, pitch, delay). Sound is 0-4, with each number representng a different sound clip to use. Currently it's 5 different "la" sounds, however we may add more in the future. Pitch is the same as in "-sing", however "x" as a rest is not enabled here (just use a delay on the previous note, or a pitch outside the valid range). "Delay" is how many milliseconds to wait before playing the next pitch. You can use 0ms delay to play notes at the same time for chords. In both commands, the commas and parenthesis are optional, however if you use spaces to separate things the note list should surrounded in brackets {} or quotes "" I expect people to create and share all sorts of crazy sings they come up with. Eventually I will integrate this into the game better so people can save them and play them automatically as a taunt without having to paste stuff into the chat, but for now this is pretty fun as is. (Special thanks to Sven Bergström and Andreas Jörgensen for helping with the patch)
Original post
23 Oct 2015Developer post
OCTOBER UPDATE!
Bombernauts OCTOBER UPDATE is here! This one is BIG! (previous version patch notes here ) There are 2 MAJOR new features in Bombernauts now! Saturday Specials and unlockable cosmetic hats! I'll go over how both of those work here. SATURDAY SPECIAL! A crazy new game mode every wee
Bombernauts OCTOBER UPDATE is here! This one is BIG! (previous version patch notes here) There are 2 MAJOR new features in Bombernauts now! Saturday Specials and unlockable cosmetic hats! I'll go over how both of those work here.
SATURDAY SPECIAL!
A crazy new game mode every weekend! If you play Bombernauts on a Saturday (Saturday Midnight to Sunday Noon, Pacific Time), a new game mode called "Saturday Special" will be available from the main menu. This mode will feature a different variation of the Bombernauts rules every weekend, from interesting powerup setups to different win conditions or even something completely unique! They may be great, they may be terrible, each week is an experiment and we hope you have a... blast... If you play a full round of Saturday Special, you will unlock a RANDOM HAT for your robot! You can equip these hats onto your bot in the Garage.
HATS!
There are 2 ways to unlock hats. The first is to play a whole round of Saturday Special, as mentioned above. You can earn 1 random hat drop per week this way. It does not matter if you win or lose, as long as you were there for the whole round. The second way is through Hat Tokens. You can earn up to 3 hat tokens per week by playing regular mode, they unlock at 5, 15, and 30 wins. You can then exchange your hat tokens in the hat collection for whatever hats you desire! (There is a good chance hats will be reset before the game exits early access, but if this happens I will make sure everyone who unlocked hats before then gets rewarded for it) Both of these new features are meant to make it easier to find people to play with, by encouraging people to all play on Saturdays, and encourage people to keep playing throughout the week to earn their tokens. In addition, there is another awesome facet of Saturday Specials which I have not mentioned yet,
CUSTOM GAMES!
Saturday special game modes are all created with simple Lua scripts. This is the first step towards full custom game mode support, where people will be able to create their own custom game modes, however making the API for this flexible and stable enough is going to take a lot of work. Saturday Specials are a way to test out features for custom games while also providing people a reason to come and play every week. When custom games are eventually opened up for anyone to create, all the saturday specials will have their source released as sample code to build off of. This will probably happen towards the end of early access. The first Saturday Special will be "Power Stacks!", you can no longer spam bombs, but you get a new random stack of powerups to through every 4 seconds! If you're curious, the Lua script for it looks like this. But that is STILL not all! We added a bunch of other powerups, bugfixes, and balance changes, and here they are!
VERSION 0.13.0

BALANCE

triple-blast whackamole now puts the whackamole in a new position for each blast
added Elemental-Ice, Elemental-Fire, Elemental-Growth, and Elemental-Mud powerups (regular pinata set). These make a bomb replace tiles with special tiles instead of destroying tiles.
wrecking ball now has a cap on the force it can apply to the player
added a railing to the winter level, "RaceCondition"

MISC

added 5 new achievements
designed achievments are no longer hidden. It was a nice idea to make all the achievements user suggested, but we didn't quite get enough suggestions to do that, and there were gaps we needed to fill for easy/basic ones. We will still try to add as many user suggested ones as we can.
"screenshake off" setting will now still screenshake when king server smashes

NETCODE

significantly reduced packet count when initiating bombs with powerup stacks
powerups boxes/items now have their contents chosen by the server at spawn, rather than in a separate packet (no more green question mark)
disabled lobby auto-rehosting (if the host leaves the lobby is just dissolved now)
bombs/crates/etc now get cleared when the scoreboard opens (should fix the "explosion effects future levels" issue)
reduced "bomb explode" packet size
slightly reduced bomb, player, and pinata/item sync packet size

OPTIMIZATION

removed some old deprecated features from the Bomb code
removed some old deprecated features from the Player code
added an "Off" setting for Block Rubble and improved performance on "Low"

BUGFIXES

the winner animation now plays its text correctly if the winner's username has unsupported characters in it (will display ? in place of an unsupported character)
unspawned players should now be fully invisible to other players
fixed spirit bomb + wrecking ball launching you into orbit
fixed glitchiness with inner tube + wrecking ball, and when wrecking ball goes under lava without hitting the ground first
fixed an issue where you would keep sliding on growth blocks next to ice blocks
fixed an issue where gold fake-pinata particle effect was unintentionally casting shadows (and massive slowdown when stacked up as a result)
Original post
23 Oct 2015Developer post
OCTOBER UPDATE!
Bombernauts OCTOBER UPDATE is here! This one is BIG! (previous version patch notes here ) There are 2 MAJOR new features in Bombernauts now! Saturday Specials and unlockable cosmetic hats! I'll go over how both of those work here. SATURDAY SPECIAL! A crazy new game mode every wee
Bombernauts OCTOBER UPDATE is here! This one is BIG! (previous version patch notes here) There are 2 MAJOR new features in Bombernauts now! Saturday Specials and unlockable cosmetic hats! I'll go over how both of those work here.
SATURDAY SPECIAL!
A crazy new game mode every weekend! If you play Bombernauts on a Saturday (Saturday Midnight to Sunday Noon, Pacific Time), a new game mode called "Saturday Special" will be available from the main menu. This mode will feature a different variation of the Bombernauts rules every weekend, from interesting powerup setups to different win conditions or even something completely unique! They may be great, they may be terrible, each week is an experiment and we hope you have a... blast... If you play a full round of Saturday Special, you will unlock a RANDOM HAT for your robot! You can equip these hats onto your bot in the Garage.
HATS!
There are 2 ways to unlock hats. The first is to play a whole round of Saturday Special, as mentioned above. You can earn 1 random hat drop per week this way. It does not matter if you win or lose, as long as you were there for the whole round. The second way is through Hat Tokens. You can earn up to 3 hat tokens per week by playing regular mode, they unlock at 5, 15, and 30 wins. You can then exchange your hat tokens in the hat collection for whatever hats you desire! (There is a good chance hats will be reset before the game exits early access, but if this happens I will make sure everyone who unlocked hats before then gets rewarded for it) Both of these new features are meant to make it easier to find people to play with, by encouraging people to all play on Saturdays, and encourage people to keep playing throughout the week to earn their tokens. In addition, there is another awesome facet of Saturday Specials which I have not mentioned yet,
CUSTOM GAMES!
Saturday special game modes are all created with simple Lua scripts. This is the first step towards full custom game mode support, where people will be able to create their own custom game modes, however making the API for this flexible and stable enough is going to take a lot of work. Saturday Specials are a way to test out features for custom games while also providing people a reason to come and play every week. When custom games are eventually opened up for anyone to create, all the saturday specials will have their source released as sample code to build off of. This will probably happen towards the end of early access. The first Saturday Special will be "Power Stacks!", you can no longer spam bombs, but you get a new random stack of powerups to through every 4 seconds! If you're curious, the Lua script for it looks like this. But that is STILL not all! We added a bunch of other powerups, bugfixes, and balance changes, and here they are!
VERSION 0.13.0

BALANCE

triple-blast whackamole now puts the whackamole in a new position for each blast
added Elemental-Ice, Elemental-Fire, Elemental-Growth, and Elemental-Mud powerups (regular pinata set). These make a bomb replace tiles with special tiles instead of destroying tiles.
wrecking ball now has a cap on the force it can apply to the player
added a railing to the winter level, "RaceCondition"

MISC

added 5 new achievements
designed achievments are no longer hidden. It was a nice idea to make all the achievements user suggested, but we didn't quite get enough suggestions to do that, and there were gaps we needed to fill for easy/basic ones. We will still try to add as many user suggested ones as we can.
"screenshake off" setting will now still screenshake when king server smashes

NETCODE

significantly reduced packet count when initiating bombs with powerup stacks
powerups boxes/items now have their contents chosen by the server at spawn, rather than in a separate packet (no more green question mark)
disabled lobby auto-rehosting (if the host leaves the lobby is just dissolved now)
bombs/crates/etc now get cleared when the scoreboard opens (should fix the "explosion effects future levels" issue)
reduced "bomb explode" packet size
slightly reduced bomb, player, and pinata/item sync packet size

OPTIMIZATION

removed some old deprecated features from the Bomb code
removed some old deprecated features from the Player code
added an "Off" setting for Block Rubble and improved performance on "Low"

BUGFIXES

the winner animation now plays its text correctly if the winner's username has unsupported characters in it (will display ? in place of an unsupported character)
unspawned players should now be fully invisible to other players
fixed spirit bomb + wrecking ball launching you into orbit
fixed glitchiness with inner tube + wrecking ball, and when wrecking ball goes under lava without hitting the ground first
fixed an issue where you would keep sliding on growth blocks next to ice blocks
fixed an issue where gold fake-pinata particle effect was unintentionally casting shadows (and massive slowdown when stacked up as a result)
Original post
12 Sep 2015Developer post
Update 0.12.0 The September Update!
The September Update is here! (previous version patch notes here ) VERSION 0.12.0 LEVELS Neutral level "JellyDonut" adjusted to help with visibility Neutral level "DivingPlatform" adjusted to have less bouncy blocks Summer level "Plywood" adjusted to help with visibility Summer l
The September Update is here! (previous version patch notes here)
VERSION 0.12.0

LEVELS

Neutral level "JellyDonut" adjusted to help with visibility
Neutral level "DivingPlatform" adjusted to have less bouncy blocks
Summer level "Plywood" adjusted to help with visibility
Summer level "Rails" adjusted to have larger platforms
Summer level "Raft" adjusted to no longer have bouncy blocks on its lower level
Autumn level "StickyPillars" reworked
Added new Summer level "Fort"
Added new Autumn level "RoadBump"
Added new Autumn level "CloseCastles"
Added new Autumn level "Stripe"
Added new Winter level "Chess"
Added new Winter level "Slalom"
Added new Winter level "IcePlus"
Added new Spring level "Screen"
Added new Spring level "PottedPlant"
Added new Spring level "Beams"
Added new Neutral level "BoostPads"
Added new Neutral level "TwistyKnot"
Added new Neutral level "CrissCross"
(there are now 15 levels per season plus 71 neutral levels)
NEW POWERUPS

Added new powerup to the regular pinata set: The "Whack-a-Mole"! Whack it and it pops up elsewhere... and grows stronger. Much stronger.
Added new powerup to the regular pinata set: The "Inner Tube"! Hope you packed some lava-proof swim trunks...

BALANCE

Spirit Bomb now charges twice as fast
Steroid Arms now fall off when you get batted instead of after a random timer
Pinata spawn rate increased from 15-20 seconds to 10-15 seconds
Bounce Block input leniency from .16 seconds to .20 seconds
Regular Pinata now has a small chance to drop a Gold Pinata powerup
The first bounce on a bouncy block will now always go full height for players and non-ghost bombs
Baseball Bat charge force rescaled for bombs only (a no charge bat will effect bombs a lot more than it used to)
Reworked the calculation for explosion destruction radius / metal destruction radius / force radius / force power to be consistent (previously powerups were altering each of these individually, now all are calculated from one "Power" value. Destruction radius should still be the same between all of them, other variables wont. This effects most powerups differently, some nerfs some buffs)
You now die if you reach Y=1000 (1000 blocks above lava level), good luck astro-nauts.

VISUALS

Mega Bomb now has its own model
The light source on explosions now more accurately reflects the force range of the explosion
Tweaked the distortion effect on explosions especially for larger ones
Adjusted the particle effect + graphics on Black Hole and White Hole
The game now displays indicators around the edge of the screen showing the location of offscreen living players
"Low" Particle setting now disables weather effects, explosion smoke, and a few other particles. "Medium" now tones down the amount of particles on a couple effects.

MISCELLANEOUS

The game now avoids choosing the same map twice in a row (it keeps a history of the last 12 maps you played on and tries to pick a different one each time)(If you have custom maps enabled this just keeps a record of 1 previous map instead)
Pinata contents now pull from a shuffled deck instead of completely randomly. When the deck is half empty it resets it.
Match winner detection timer now resets if someone respawns (you have to survive for 4 seconds after zombifying before the game declares you the winner)
Added "Advanced Settings" menu to the Create Game panel. Moved a few options into here.
Added "Force Spawn" Game Setting. This will force all players to spawn if they haven't yet a few seconds after a game begins.
Added Powerup spawn options to the advanced game settings.
Added "Uses per Bomb Item" to advanced game settings. Grants you multiple of a powerup when you pick them up from an item.
Lobby Browser now shows game settings.
Certain game settings will now disable the lobby from quick-play joining (you can still join them via the lobby browser or invites). Currently the following settings will disable quick-play: - "None" or "Insane" item rate - More than 1 use per bomb item - Custom Maps - More than 10 max players
"Awesomeness" setting now allows for manual text mode. Burrito mode re-enabled. Future awesomeness settings will not be documented in patch notes. Perhaps I added some in this patch even? heh heh heh
Spirit Bomb now grants a chat title

FIXES

Fixed an issue where bounce block jump timing was wrong if you missed a jump previously
Fixed an issue where bouncy bombs were not bouncing full height on bounce blocks
Improved error logging
Fixed an issue where the game would freeze for a second when trying to spawn a pinata when there are no tiles left in the world
Fixed an issue where Pinata position was incorrect for a split second at spawn for clients
Fixed an issue where some parts (Jetpack) were not transparent on the player's speed trail

ACHIEVEMENTS

Added Achievements! (Achievements cannot be unlocked in a sandbox server.)
All public achievements will be community suggested and voted (hidden achievements are my own >:). Check the thread here if you'd like to suggest one.
Added Follower of the King (suggested by Hammerfan)
Added Bombernaut Space Program (suggested by Mystic Asian)
Added ???
Original post
12 Sep 2015Developer post
Update 0.12.0 The September Update!
The September Update is here! (previous version patch notes here ) VERSION 0.12.0 LEVELS Neutral level "JellyDonut" adjusted to help with visibility Neutral level "DivingPlatform" adjusted to have less bouncy blocks Summer level "Plywood" adjusted to help with visibility Summer l
The September Update is here! (previous version patch notes here)
VERSION 0.12.0

LEVELS

Neutral level "JellyDonut" adjusted to help with visibility
Neutral level "DivingPlatform" adjusted to have less bouncy blocks
Summer level "Plywood" adjusted to help with visibility
Summer level "Rails" adjusted to have larger platforms
Summer level "Raft" adjusted to no longer have bouncy blocks on its lower level
Autumn level "StickyPillars" reworked
Added new Summer level "Fort"
Added new Autumn level "RoadBump"
Added new Autumn level "CloseCastles"
Added new Autumn level "Stripe"
Added new Winter level "Chess"
Added new Winter level "Slalom"
Added new Winter level "IcePlus"
Added new Spring level "Screen"
Added new Spring level "PottedPlant"
Added new Spring level "Beams"
Added new Neutral level "BoostPads"
Added new Neutral level "TwistyKnot"
Added new Neutral level "CrissCross"
(there are now 15 levels per season plus 71 neutral levels)
NEW POWERUPS

Added new powerup to the regular pinata set: The "Whack-a-Mole"! Whack it and it pops up elsewhere... and grows stronger. Much stronger.
Added new powerup to the regular pinata set: The "Inner Tube"! Hope you packed some lava-proof swim trunks...

BALANCE

Spirit Bomb now charges twice as fast
Steroid Arms now fall off when you get batted instead of after a random timer
Pinata spawn rate increased from 15-20 seconds to 10-15 seconds
Bounce Block input leniency from .16 seconds to .20 seconds
Regular Pinata now has a small chance to drop a Gold Pinata powerup
The first bounce on a bouncy block will now always go full height for players and non-ghost bombs
Baseball Bat charge force rescaled for bombs only (a no charge bat will effect bombs a lot more than it used to)
Reworked the calculation for explosion destruction radius / metal destruction radius / force radius / force power to be consistent (previously powerups were altering each of these individually, now all are calculated from one "Power" value. Destruction radius should still be the same between all of them, other variables wont. This effects most powerups differently, some nerfs some buffs)
You now die if you reach Y=1000 (1000 blocks above lava level), good luck astro-nauts.

VISUALS

Mega Bomb now has its own model
The light source on explosions now more accurately reflects the force range of the explosion
Tweaked the distortion effect on explosions especially for larger ones
Adjusted the particle effect + graphics on Black Hole and White Hole
The game now displays indicators around the edge of the screen showing the location of offscreen living players
"Low" Particle setting now disables weather effects, explosion smoke, and a few other particles. "Medium" now tones down the amount of particles on a couple effects.

MISCELLANEOUS

The game now avoids choosing the same map twice in a row (it keeps a history of the last 12 maps you played on and tries to pick a different one each time)(If you have custom maps enabled this just keeps a record of 1 previous map instead)
Pinata contents now pull from a shuffled deck instead of completely randomly. When the deck is half empty it resets it.
Match winner detection timer now resets if someone respawns (you have to survive for 4 seconds after zombifying before the game declares you the winner)
Added "Advanced Settings" menu to the Create Game panel. Moved a few options into here.
Added "Force Spawn" Game Setting. This will force all players to spawn if they haven't yet a few seconds after a game begins.
Added Powerup spawn options to the advanced game settings.
Added "Uses per Bomb Item" to advanced game settings. Grants you multiple of a powerup when you pick them up from an item.
Lobby Browser now shows game settings.
Certain game settings will now disable the lobby from quick-play joining (you can still join them via the lobby browser or invites). Currently the following settings will disable quick-play: - "None" or "Insane" item rate - More than 1 use per bomb item - Custom Maps - More than 10 max players
"Awesomeness" setting now allows for manual text mode. Burrito mode re-enabled. Future awesomeness settings will not be documented in patch notes. Perhaps I added some in this patch even? heh heh heh
Spirit Bomb now grants a chat title

FIXES

Fixed an issue where bounce block jump timing was wrong if you missed a jump previously
Fixed an issue where bouncy bombs were not bouncing full height on bounce blocks
Improved error logging
Fixed an issue where the game would freeze for a second when trying to spawn a pinata when there are no tiles left in the world
Fixed an issue where Pinata position was incorrect for a split second at spawn for clients
Fixed an issue where some parts (Jetpack) were not transparent on the player's speed trail

ACHIEVEMENTS

Added Achievements! (Achievements cannot be unlocked in a sandbox server.)
All public achievements will be community suggested and voted (hidden achievements are my own >:). Check the thread here if you'd like to suggest one.
Added Follower of the King (suggested by Hammerfan)
Added Bombernaut Space Program (suggested by Mystic Asian)
Added ???
Original post
14 Aug 2015Developer post
Update 0.11.0!
Bombernauts patch 0.11.0 is out! This is the first update with NEW CONTENT and not just bug/balance fixes! New Content: new powerup, "Spirit Bomb" added to the gold pinata set. Super powerful but takes a lot of episodes to charge up. new powerup, "Slime" added to the gold pinata
Bombernauts patch 0.11.0 is out! This is the first update with NEW CONTENT and not just bug/balance fixes!
New Content:

new powerup, "Spirit Bomb" added to the gold pinata set. Super powerful but takes a lot of episodes to charge up.
new powerup, "Slime" added to the gold pinata set. Duplicates when whacked with the bat!
added "meteors" as an option to limit game length. By default meteors begin 2 minutes after a duel has begin. They start off slow and pick up speed over time.
added a new lobby type, "Sandbox", which is invite-only and cheats enabled (see here for a list of cheats)
king server can now collect wins on the scoreboard

Balance Changes:

moved "ScatterBomb" from gold pinata to normal pinata
increased gold pinata chance from 25% to 30%
bouncy bomb now gains power with every bounce (not linearly)
bouncy bomb now bounces off lava too (unlike the baseball it does not come back to the stage though)

Fixes/Improvements:

fixed an issue where you could die but not become a ghost if you get pulled out of the lava before ghostifying
fixed an issue where stealthed proximity mines weren't transparent if you disabled distortion in game settings
tweaked the timings how when the game manager determines a winner
"duel" will no longer trigger if the 2nd player is sinking in the lava when it wants to start the duel
you can no longer respawn as a zombie after the game has ended
you can now use up/down in the chatbox to tab through previously entered commands
loading screne is no longer made in MS Paint

Netcode:

disconnecting now deletes all your bombs when you disconnect
a few minor fixes to the networking core
significantly reduced the packet size for spawning child bombs
Original post
14 Aug 2015Developer post
Update 0.11.0!
Bombernauts patch 0.11.0 is out! This is the first update with NEW CONTENT and not just bug/balance fixes! New Content: new powerup, "Spirit Bomb" added to the gold pinata set. Super powerful but takes a lot of episodes to charge up. new powerup, "Slime" added to the gold pinata
Bombernauts patch 0.11.0 is out! This is the first update with NEW CONTENT and not just bug/balance fixes!
New Content:

new powerup, "Spirit Bomb" added to the gold pinata set. Super powerful but takes a lot of episodes to charge up.
new powerup, "Slime" added to the gold pinata set. Duplicates when whacked with the bat!
added "meteors" as an option to limit game length. By default meteors begin 2 minutes after a duel has begin. They start off slow and pick up speed over time.
added a new lobby type, "Sandbox", which is invite-only and cheats enabled (see here for a list of cheats)
king server can now collect wins on the scoreboard

Balance Changes:

moved "ScatterBomb" from gold pinata to normal pinata
increased gold pinata chance from 25% to 30%
bouncy bomb now gains power with every bounce (not linearly)
bouncy bomb now bounces off lava too (unlike the baseball it does not come back to the stage though)

Fixes/Improvements:

fixed an issue where you could die but not become a ghost if you get pulled out of the lava before ghostifying
fixed an issue where stealthed proximity mines weren't transparent if you disabled distortion in game settings
tweaked the timings how when the game manager determines a winner
"duel" will no longer trigger if the 2nd player is sinking in the lava when it wants to start the duel
you can no longer respawn as a zombie after the game has ended
you can now use up/down in the chatbox to tab through previously entered commands
loading screne is no longer made in MS Paint

Netcode:

disconnecting now deletes all your bombs when you disconnect
a few minor fixes to the networking core
significantly reduced the packet size for spawning child bombs
Original post
07 Aug 2015Developer post
ONE WEEK OF BOMBERNAUTS
Hey Bombernauts fans! Bombernauts has been out on early access for a week now and it's been pretty fun watching people learn and enjoy the game. I found a lot of balance and other issues throughout the week and have been fixing them. I patched the game 7 times since it came out!
07 Aug 2015Developer post
ONE WEEK OF BOMBERNAUTS
Hey Bombernauts fans! Bombernauts has been out on early access for a week now and it's been pretty fun watching people learn and enjoy the game. I found a lot of balance and other issues throughout the week and have been fixing them. I patched the game 7 times since it came out!

Updates & announcements

Bombernauts Version 0.16.0: The Mods & Menus Update

NEW MENUS AND OPTIONS

LUA SCRIPTING

NEW HATS

NEW AND UPDATED BLOCKS

MAPS

MISC

BUGFIXES

Bombernauts Version 0.16.0: The Mods & Menus Update

NEW MENUS AND OPTIONS

LUA SCRIPTING

NEW HATS

NEW AND UPDATED BLOCKS

MAPS

MISC

BUGFIXES

BOMBERNAUTS UPDATE 0.15.0, THE WORKSHOP UPDATE

STEAM WORKSHOP SUPPORT

NEW CONTENT

GAME/BALANCE CHANGES

SINGS

SOUNDS

GRAPHICS

PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATIONS

GAME FIXES

EDITOR/CUSTOM MAP FIXES

HOW THE SING COMMANDS WORK

BOMBERNAUTS UPDATE 0.15.0, THE WORKSHOP UPDATE

STEAM WORKSHOP SUPPORT

NEW CONTENT

GAME/BALANCE CHANGES

SINGS

SOUNDS

GRAPHICS

PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATIONS

GAME FIXES

EDITOR/CUSTOM MAP FIXES

HOW THE SING COMMANDS WORK

SATURDAY SPECIAL!

HATS!

CUSTOM GAMES!

VERSION 0.13.0

BALANCE

MISC

NETCODE

OPTIMIZATION

BUGFIXES

SATURDAY SPECIAL!

HATS!

CUSTOM GAMES!

VERSION 0.13.0

BALANCE

MISC

NETCODE

OPTIMIZATION

BUGFIXES

VERSION 0.12.0

LEVELS

NEW POWERUPS

BALANCE

VISUALS

MISCELLANEOUS

FIXES

ACHIEVEMENTS

VERSION 0.12.0

LEVELS

NEW POWERUPS

BALANCE

VISUALS

MISCELLANEOUS

FIXES

ACHIEVEMENTS

New Content:

Balance Changes:

Fixes/Improvements:

Netcode:

New Content:

Balance Changes:

Fixes/Improvements: