Hey Beekeepers!
Thanks again for everyone who's been playing the new demo, and for those patiently waiting for some of the more annoying bug fixes!
This update is quite a lot of performance updates and fixes, I spent a long time chillin' with the profiler and digging into a bunch of know performance drop stuff like:
- Picking up lots of items
- Having lots of dropped items sitting around
- Night-time in general
- Walking around on slower machines
There's also a bunch of QoL updates and then a butt-load of bug-fixes, enjoy!!
Changes
- Various changes to the game for performance increases
- Updated the settings menu to include an inverse scroll option, plus a bsync option (we dont know what it does)
- Added a notice on NPCs when they have something new to say!
- When fully conserving a species you'll now get written about in the local news! (issues 1-3 can be at your nans place!)
- Added new sections to the bee book when hovering over the anatomy and trait sections to make things clearer
- Added a small badges to each chapter in the bee book to mark having got a blessed bee, having got special produce, and having conserved the species
- The game will now pause when books are open, the settings/controls menus are open, or the discovery/conservation magazines are open
- While the game is paused you can't move and time will be frozen!
- The bottler has been upgraded and you can now bottle all liquids to be sold!
- Added a cap to the map/world in the demo so there's not just a bunch of empty ocean that you can complain about being empty ;)
- Added two new intro chapters to the bee book to cover the rest of the bee traits as well as inheritence
- Updated Skipper's dialogue for true gender neutral speech when directed at the player
- You can now close discovery popups with ESC
- Reduced cost of Treetaps from 10 sticks + 10 planks to 5 sticks + 5 planks, 2fer1!!
- Gamepad mode is no longer automatic based on a connected device - you need to go to the settings menu and you'll be able to toggle it from the controls section
- Updated the lamp sprite
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a performance issue with picking up lots of items
- Fixed a performance issue with having lots of dropped items sitting around
- Fixed a performance issue with night-time in general
- Fixed a performance issue with walking around on slower machines
- Fixed beehives not creating exact clones of the queen with some rescessive traits
- Fixed the map being blank lol super useful map there thanks Skipper
- Fixed microscope showing numbers being 1 off (i.e. showing a '3' but in the 4th box)
- Fixed an issue with picking up multiple items on the ground - should reduce the bit of lag you get when picking up an entire forest!
- Fixed game crashing when hammering Sir Sengir Statue and trying to place items on or near the tile where the statue was
- Fixed issue with night-time lighting not scaling with the screen
- Fixed aquatic seeds outright lying and saying that they can be planted on grass
- Fixed being able to trash your friends (why would you tho :(((((()
- Fixed progress in the bookshelf and file select screen being wrong
- Fixed the music track "Cerana" not playing anything in the jukebox
- Fixed Beenjamins hints not being told for the next undiscovered bee (so much for an expert!!)
- Fixed Jukeboxes playing at the same time as game music, game music will now pause
- Fixed fullscreen/window setting not saving on reload
- Fixed auto-sort causing random single non-stackable items when sorting a bunch of stacks of the same item
- Fixed a performance issue where lights were not being cleaned up
- Fixed a performance issue where lighting was being drawn (invisibly) in the day (like you do)
- Fixed bee 'icon' buttons in the bee and flower book crashing when clicked on
- Fixed shiny bees not showing their lil flash animation (the most important feature honestly)
- Fixed jukebox not using the music level set in the settings and just blasting music 24/7
- Fixed flowers sometimes not being marked as discovered properly
- Fixed being able to middle click on non-stackable items, destroy any other of that item in the menu (oops)
- Fixed raintank not setting filled canisters as "water" even though they get filled
- Fixed wax canisters not being able to be used in Infusers
- Added a fix to help the game resize the window to an even number when resized manually and not fullscreen
- Fixed a rogue pixel on wooden windows