Blub Emporium Beta 1T -
Frozen Companionship! 1T Brings Ice Sculptures, Loyal Boulder Buddies, Cherry Blossoms, and many balance changes. Also here is the introduction of "Seasonal" Items with the Jack 'o Lantern and the new leaderboards to see where your friends're at.
ITEMS AND RESOURCES:
- Added "Steampunk Table" (Table).
- Added "Ship Window" (Window).
- Added "Luxurious Ship Window" (Window).
- Added "Big Pumpkin" (Farm Deco).
- Added "Jack-o'-Lantern" (Farm Deco).
- Added "Micro-Farm" (Emporium Special).
- Added "Metal Bar" (Divider).
- Added "?????? ???????????????" (Farm Deco).
- Added white, fairy floss, along with all base colour picket fences (Fencing).
- Added "Cherries" (Resource).
- Added "Cherry Sapling" (Plant).
- Added "Cherry Stand" (Shelf).
- Added "Pink Petals" (Farm Deco).
- Added "Variegated Shell" (Emporium Deco).
- Added "Interior Cherry Blossom" (Emporium Special).
- Added "Boulder Buddies" (Resource).
- Added "Boulder Buddy Ridge" (Shelf).
- Added "Boulder Buddy Fabricator" (Machine).
- Added "Ice Cubes" (Resource).
- Added "Ice Sculptures" (Resource).
- Added "Ice Sculpture Display" (Shelf).
- Added "Ice Cube Hopper" (Hopper).
- Added "Ice Sculpture Carver" (Processor).
- Added "Ice Cube Freezer" (Processor).
- Added "Retro Sun" (Emporium Wall Deco).
VISUAL:
- Removed the sleepy cats' zeds while in build mode.
- Changed pebble pets' "on-head" sprite to be smaller and resemble their shelf look more.
- Made the page buttons in the main menu have the glow effect to be better visible.
- Added flowers to the lush grass icon.
- Event altars' holographic stock sprite will now render above everything when hovered/selected.
UI:
- Added visual guide showing where harvesters (lunar/multi/reaper) will affect.
- Camera binds can now be used to navigate pages in the main menu.
- Task progress prompts will now show actual progress to the nearest 10 rather than 20, updates will still occur every 20% increase.
GAMEPLAY/BALANCE:
- Added "Companion Spheres" task track.
- Added "On A Roll" task track.
- Added "Cooler Than Being Cool" task track.
- Added "Heavy-Duty Friendship" task track.
- Added "Rock and Roll" event.
- Added new rarity "Seasonal", which all items only obtainable during certain times will be categorised as.
- Added a second task to the "resource hoarding" track, and decreased the reward for the first one (3 GC -> 2 GC, 500 money -> 300 money, 30 xp -> 15 xp).
- Decreased value of marvellous mosaic tiles: 375 -> 265.
- Decreased value of mega flower: 740 -> 670.
- Decreased value of ice: 130 -> 90.
- Decreased value of spherical boulder: 440 -> 390.
- Decreased value of mine shaft: 5900 -> 5200.
- Decreased capacity of Lunar harvesters: 30 -> 10.
- Decreased level requirement of ice: 32 -> 21.
- Increased level requirement of snow: 21 -> 22.
- Increased drop quantity of farm fencing on the wheel: 1,2,2,2,3 -> 2,3,3,4,5.
- Increased price of pink cake: 22 -> 24.
- Increased XP gain of pink cake: 16 -> 20.
- Increased price of books: 8 -> 10.
- Increased XP gain of books: 9 -> 12.
- Decreased efficiency of lunar harvesters on harvest: 1.5% drain -> 2.5% drain.
- Decreased linear price increase of lunar harvest offers: +600 per owned -> +400 per owned.
- Decreased price penalty for factory expansions based on area: 25 -> 15.
BUGS/TECHNICAL:
- Adjusted positioning of the task menu shortcut button slightly to fix pixel warping at odd resolutions.
- Fixed mega flower not showing in the catalogue once purchased.
- Fixed light grey ceramic tiles being worth nothing (now worth 20).
- Fixed unread mail alert location persisting between saves if the latter file had no letterbox present.
- Corrected interior coconut palms only giving one coconut always upon harvest.
- Moonstone nodes now re-bake when harvested when in front of sky.
- Corrected Resource Hoarding II only needing 2500 resources rather than 10000.
- Task progress prompts will now not show "0%" progress.
- Fixed boulders rarely dropping their larger drop quantities when fully demolished.
- Fixed event altars not correctly loading their applicable data when loading a file set mid-event and the altar was table-bound.
- Fixed bug where events wouldn't actually give you money and xp.
MISC:
- Changed task objective of Recognition I to mention "stock" rather than "items".
- Added Steam leaderboard functionality into the game. Go to extras in the main menu, then leaderboards.
- Slightly increased time between achievement polls (4 farm ticks -> 5 farm ticks).
- Altered description of ice to reflect new purpose.
- Changed all instances of "checkered" to now be "chequered" (the correct spelling).