Sup Gnomes,
First of all we wanted to shout out to the wiki crew over here on the community Discord server - if you haven't already Come and Join the Gnomes Discord Server
The wiki is now fleshed out and well organized. Thank you for your contributions and thank you to those who contacted us with issues and patiently tested debug builds for us - without you it would have been much harder / impossible to track these down. Check out all their hard work here: https://gnomes.wiki.gg/wiki/Gnomes_Wiki
We also wanted to thank all the Gnomies for your ongoing support, this week we hit a really exciting milestone of 25000 Gnomies!
If you haven't already, please leave us a review, it really helps us out a lot!
What's going on in this update?
We've been busy addressing feedback and building the infrastructure to allow us to expand the game. Primarily we have focused on solving some rare video issues that some players have been suffering from. We've also put in place a new UI system that will finally allow us to localize the game into different languages. (Our next major update will feature a bunch of new languages.) We've also made a bunch of QoL changes like "click and drag box pickup of multiple entities" as well as massive improvements to the UI of the different menus.
Changelist
New Relics
Coal
Sapphire
Jackhammer (Replacing pickaxe and hatchet)
Balance
Ice Wand and Dirtmancers Wand are both now 1g to use
Mead now -100% xp but its cheaper in the shop
Gold top now -100% xp
Recycling bin is now more expensive
Sawmill now costs 8g to build
Flannel shirt is buffed
Morel now gives +1 damage per mushroom
Technical/UI/QoL
Added box select to pick up multiple gnomes / moveables at once. Hope you like this one.
Cheats mode added (click the left eye of the Gnome in the main menu 5 times to activate or deactivate)
Redid all text/typesetting,
Redid text menus,
Redid Map/Guild/Daily Run screens + Daily run new features,
Global/Friends view,
Leaderboard pages,
Performance improvements for endless - There's still more to be done but let us know if its any better
Backend changed to SDL3 - this should fix the flickering issue which several people have reported,
Loading system has been improved - the game should now launch faster and with no white screen,
Redid timestep / game tick system - should be a bit smoother, can simulate faster than framerate now
Changed some default hotkeys - speed up and down is on Q and E, end turn is now Enter so people don't get rekt for pressing accidentally space - if you liked the old hotkeys feel free to change it back and let us know your preferences
If you have any issues with the update or feel just like hanging out with us and the Gnomies - come and join us on the Gnomes Discord Server where you can chat with us directly!
Cheers,
Tommy and Patrick
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