v0.1.324

Thanks for being patient I know it's been a while since the last update, this new patch was a doozy. Plenty of Quality of life for both Demo and Beta builds, and Entropy is now available for testing.

Entropy

• Entropy is now an active and regenerating threat. Rifts are the source of where Entropy will spread from. Rifts will spawn once you've entered another Plane near any Mote Field you've been collecting from.

• Entropy can be cleansed with spells (currently Riptide only) and Downpour Bastion, which will create a field of cleansing, but Rifts themselves can only be sealed with an Incineration Spire. The more planes you visit, the more aggressive the Rifts will become.

• Remember that Entropy pierces the planes, so a Mote Field on one plane can interfere with your base on other Planes.

• Entropy now persist through saves

• Intro sequence uses the new entropy system but appears close to what it was before

• Structures with power consumption will now be at 0 power if any part of their footprint is in entropy.

• The Great Portal is now capable of having the Elemental Orbs be replenished with Keystones and Catalysts. Please give feedback on the UI, there's still work to do but the main request is to make sure it feels intuitive enough.

• Collision should be fixed for the Anchor Stones near the Great Portal

QOL

• Mouseover tooltips have been significantly reworked to show more information that is contextual to whatever you are hovering over. Please give feedback on this. Mote Fields and Entropy/Rift tips coming shortly.

• Add preview arrows to all belts

• Collector specialization now shows colored text to help draw attention

• Infusion Altars will now show mismatching ingredients with a red slot if there is no research for that ingredient available

• Slight right offset to item counts while holding to prevent cursor getting in the way of held count

• Hitting escape during an interactive rebind will now unbind that key.

Tuning

• Recipe updates for diamonds, charged lodestone, quintessence

• Mana Bloom initial power area +1 radius

• Fire Wire and Thermal Tower initial power area +1 radius

• Tree of Life Research 1 and 2 tuned back to 30 and 50

• Infusion Altar now takes 100 power to operate

• Mana Flare now generates 500 Power

• Coral Pool power cost now 1000

• Air power now generates 5 per open-air tile, from 2

• Fire power buffed significantly and is now more in line with Air and Life

Art updates

• Second Shadow music track added!

• Added a thin line to the outside range of Biorhythm and Downpour Bastion

• Art polish passes for:

• Mana Pool

• Primordial Manawell

• Downpour Bastion

• Coral Pool

• Ritual Shrooms

• Reef Crafter

• All Grippers

• Vortex Miner

• Zephyrmill

• Incineration Spire

• Void Chest

Bug Fixes

• Coral Pools now save and load properly

• Fixed a variety of ways buildings could not be harvested or interacted with, mostly from interference from other Planes.

• Fixed a bad verdant stream collider

• Fixed a bug that would allow you to dupe Fire Wire

• Fixed a bug that could cause your player to get stuck if pressing Q while casting a spell

• Attempting to force game to run while in background to fix the few folks who have reported it. This is inconsistent, please give feedback.

• Fixed a bug where info text could block mouse input randomly

• Walking near a Tidal Collector should sort with the player properly now

• Fixed a variety of ways fire power could load improperly

• More defense against overlapping aspect states

• Fixed a variety of Collector Crystal FX that weren't sorting properly

• Roots under buildings should no longer break Nudge

Thanks again for all the feedback, suggestions, and bug reports, keep them coming!

~CyanAvatar