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Added Taking damage now makes a thud. Your crewmates hear it too, from where you are standing. The Lighthouse's lamp clicks every time it switches on, off or changes colour, and beeps when its beam locks onto someone. The elevator door now grinds as it moves and clunks when it lo
Added A new level: the Forest. A night clearing under the stars, walled in by cliffs, with dense trees, rocks, stumps and fallen logs to run your pipes around. A trail of crystals leads the way to the resources. It has its own night sounds, crickets and owls, and your footsteps s
Added The game has its own colour palette. The world is now drawn in a fixed set of 512 colours picked from the game’s own colours, with a little colour banding left in on purpose. Menus and the HUD are not affected. The customize screen preview wears the same look, so your outfi
Added After your first day each time you start the game, a small card asks if you want to wishlist Pipe or Die. Press Wishlist Now (or the Wishlist on Steam button in the menu) and it never asks again. Changed Your headlamp beam is wider, lighting nearly twice the area at the sam
Added Getting eaten by the Angler is a scene now. The camera pulls out behind you, the lure gets slurped back into the mouth, and a fleshy membrane slams shut across the doorway with a heavy bang. Inside, you hear the room start to digest you. In the tutorial, while you carry the
No keys, no waiting. Hit Request Access on the Steam page and you're in. Pipe or Die is The co-op horror game where you build a factory. Lay pipe with up to 5 friends at the bottom of a monster-infested mine, fill crates, and make rent... or die. What's waiting down there: 11 mon
Fixed Joining a friend's game. On yesterday's build, the player who joined a host never got the job board, so the day never started for them. The host saw everything as normal. It is fixed; the joining player gets the board a little sooner than before, too. The Husk's shirt no lo
Added The Tar Man. A column of tar with eyes, asleep in a tar-coated den on the way to the ore. Every crew has to cross it. Keep your light off it: two seconds of flashlight and its eyes snap open, it hunts the rooms nearby, and if it catches you it flings you limp. Then it pours
Added Skin tone. Pick from six tones at the top of the Outfit page in Customize: pale white, white, light brown, brown, dark brown and really dark brown. Your face, hands and arms change, and your crew sees it on your miner, your body if you die, and your decoy. Five new Employee
Added Skill points. Every finished day pays the company up to 3 points based on how much of the level's max payout you hauled, plus 1 bonus point for clearing it all. Spend them on the new skill page after the day report. Lose the company and your points go back to 0. When you di
Added The lobby has a Ready Up button. The host sees how many of the crew are ready and can still start at any time. The party leader is marked with a star in the crew list. Hover over any contract or bonus on the job board for a short explanation of what it does. Your first mace
Added An Employee of the Month poster now hangs by the elevator. A different employee is honoured every shift. Teammates now see you swing your wrench every time you place a pipe. Fixed A teammate's wrench trailed slightly behind their hand. It now stays in their grip.
Added The Canary has its own warning when it picks you: a pale green flash and its chirp. The Warden keeps the amber flash and the heartbeat. Changed A piped crate now drops into the crate port first, exactly where a crate sits when no pipe is connected, then shrinks and slides i
Added A piped crate now visibly dives into the pipe when you pull the lever: it drops, shrinks and slides into the pipe mouth before it rides the line. When your air filter runs out you get a red flash and FILTER DEAD. THE MASK NO LONGER PROTECTS YOU, and the readout stays red. C
Changed The Pipe Crawler has a new paint job, on the man and on the lizard body, legs and tail. The Pipe Crawler now claws its way forward. Every limb reaches out, slams down and digs in, each leg keeps its own timing, and a wave rolls down its body. Its head moves in sharp jerks
Added The first time you launch the game, you are offered the Tutorial. Finish it once and you get 100 Pipe Bucks. You can still start it any time from the main menu. A NEXT STEP line on screen during real days for anyone who has not shipped a day yet, even if they skipped the tu
Added Push to talk. Turn it on in Settings, Voice, then hold Z to talk. You can change the key in Controls. It is off by default, so nothing changes unless you switch it on. Mute still works on top of it. A TRANSMITTING line on your screen whenever your voice is going out, with o
Fixed Crates riding through the pipes now show up for the whole crew, not just the host. Before, everyone else saw nothing until the crate popped out at the end of the line.
Added Room codes. The host can switch on a Room Code in the lobby and share it. Anyone can then join from the main menu with Join With Code. No friend request needed. The code starts hidden, so it does not end up on a stream by accident. Show, Hide and Copy sit right next to it,
Added Customization is now in the lobby. Open it while you wait for the crew, change your outfit, hardhat, lamp, pipes, tools or placement effect, and everyone sees it right away. ESC or BACK returns you to the lobby. Changed The end of day report is laid out in two columns: the