[Game Update] - 657126

[V2C]

Changes

• Beefalos will no longer buck you off to become domesticated when you feed them while mounted.  They will become domesticated the next time you dismount and feed them.
• You can now use the Store action on portable containers in your inventory while mounted.
• Electric projectiles (including Shockscrap Shots) now have a higher hit stun rate than other projectiles.

• Walter:
  • Updated names for some ammo types and inspection strings for some Slingshot parts to give them a bit more Walter flavor.
  • Updated scrapbook entries for ammo and Slingshot parts.
  • The effects of Slow-Down Rounds no longer stack with the effects of Ickies.
  • Big Woby no longer sits unless you tell her to “Stay”.
  • Small Woby now has her own icon for the “Stay” command.
  • Added a visual effect for when the “Mark Spot” command succeeds, and a speech string for when it fails.
  • Walter players can now lock or unlock their own Woby’s pack from the “Server Commands” menu.
• Wortox:
  • Soul Decoy II will now deal some damage to the target that hit it directly.
  • Reaching Souls II will no longer make Souls attract faster, and will now make dropped Souls move towards the most hurt player nearby.
  • Soul Bastion II will now also enhance the Soul's speed provided from Reaching Souls II.
  • Knabsack's efficiency for picking up items has been increased for big hauls.
  • Knabsack may now be used as a Bug Net.
     

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Crab Guard and Crab Knight being considered a projectile after landing. Additionally, they’ll now play an animation while being released by Crab King.
• Fixed issues related to interrupting Beefalo’s “become domesticated” animation.
• Fixed sanity meter’s arrow being smaller than it should be when sleeping.
• Fixed Lurking Nightmare going invisible at certain angles.
• Fixed items sometimes being lost when infinite stacksize chests are destroyed.
• Fixed a crash when Wortox leaves a server with an active Soul Decoy.
• Fixed Picnic Casket missing from the "Storage Solutions” crafting filter.
• Fixed crash when using a Spirit Vessel on a Headstone that has a Pipspook with an active quest.
• Fixed some cases where Woby would pounce at an item but fail to pick it up.
• Fixed Woby being invisible when calling for her to return before she arrived at her destination.
• Fixed Woby failing to forage for a short period after you dismount her.
• Fixed Walter's chest marker blocking buildings from being constructed at its location.
• Fixed bug where you could not deconstruct a Slingshot modded with Scrappier Slingshot Frame.
• Burnt or deconstructed Slingshots will now return your ammo and custom parts.
• Fixed missing combat music when attacking with a Slingshot.
• Added some missing sound effects for Woby.
• Fixed hand layering in the back view of Walter’s idle animation.

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[viblym]

Really love the reaching souls change, it's a really nice change and I much prefer it over souls racing at me (considering nice inclination is not the side made with soul storage capacity changes) and overloading my inventory. It doesn't make me want to pick soul bastion however, and if I really wanted souls to chase after and heal people, I'd take that and not the soul bastion upgrade. 30 hp on a heal is nice but souls already do 20 and I'm not itching to spend affinity on a 10 extra HP when other perks are far more appealing.

Edit: The souls following others without Soul Bastion 1/2 is REALLY sad. I wouldn't get it actually.
 

Edited February 27, 2025 by viblym
Changing my comment slightly because I don't wanna just complain instantly.

[Cheggf]

A patch the day before the update is coming? 

[MrMyther]

Would love to see the Nicetrait get the ability to heal followers with souls.

Would make the healing skills that come with it far more valuable and worth running outside of multiplayer.

[Dingle]

I wonder if Soul Bastion II does anything solo now... will check when I can.

[V2C]

3 minutes ago, Cheggf said:

A patch the day before the update is coming? 

There ended up being quite a bit of code changes so we agreed it would be best to put out a hotfix anyway so we can get a head start on any bugs that come up from this build.

[Dr. Safety]

7 minutes ago, V2C said:

Fixed hand layering in the back view of Walter’s idle animation.

Nice to see the bonus bug got fixed lol.

I at least feel good knowing that you guys are aware of it, but any chance the main bug from the report will be looked at? I know it probably isn't an easy fix, and likely isn't worth the effort

[YouKnowWho142]

26 minutes ago, V2C said:

Fixed Woby being invisible when calling for her to return before she arrived at her destination.

 

I had no idea you could do this. Is it saying you can call Woby back early when you send her out with Woby Here Woby There?
Great changes as usual, I noticed a lot of the changes are from feedback I've seen here so I'm sure others will be very happy about it too
looking forward to the update tomorrow

[Mr.Soup]

Is this it for notable changes to character skills? or will we see more after the update comes out?

[doug27fani]

34 minutes ago, V2C said:

Changes

• Beefalos will no longer buck you off to become domesticated when you feed them while mounted.  They will become domesticated the next time you dismount and feed them.
• You can now use the Store action on portable containers in your inventory while mounted.
• Electric projectiles (including Shockscrap Shots) now have a higher hit stun rate than other projectiles.

• Walter:
  • Updated names for some ammo types and inspection strings for some Slingshot parts to give them a bit more Walter flavor.
  • Updated scrapbook entries for ammo and Slingshot parts.
  • The effects of Slow-Down Rounds no longer stack with the effects of Ickies.
  • Big Woby no longer sits unless you tell her to “Stay”.
  • Small Woby now has her own icon for the “Stay” command.
  • Added a visual effect for when the “Mark Spot” command succeeds, and a speech string for when it fails.
  • Walter players can now lock or unlock their own Woby’s pack from the “Server Commands” menu.
• Wortox:
  • Soul Decoy II will now deal some damage to the target that hit it directly.
  • Reaching Souls II will no longer make Souls attract faster, and will now make dropped Souls move towards the most hurt player nearby.
  • Soul Bastion II will now also enhance the Soul's speed provided from Reaching Souls II.
  • Knabsack's efficiency for picking up items has been increased for big hauls.
  • Knabsack may now be used as a Bug Net.
     

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Crab Guard and Crab Knight being considered a projectile after landing. Additionally, they’ll now play an animation while being released by Crab King.
• Fixed issues related to interrupting Beefalo’s “become domesticated” animation.
• Fixed sanity meter’s arrow being smaller than it should be when sleeping.
• Fixed Lurking Nightmare going invisible at certain angles.
• Fixed items sometimes being lost when infinite stacksize chests are destroyed.
• Fixed a crash when Wortox leaves a server with an active Soul Decoy.
• Fixed Picnic Casket missing from the "Storage Solutions” crafting filter.
• Fixed crash when using a Spirit Vessel on a Headstone that has a Pipspook with an active quest.
• Fixed some cases where Woby would pounce at an item but fail to pick it up.
• Fixed Woby being invisible when calling for her to return before she arrived at her destination.
• Fixed Woby failing to forage for a short period after you dismount her.
• Fixed Walter's chest marker blocking buildings from being constructed at its location.
• Fixed bug where you could not deconstruct a Slingshot modded with Scrappier Slingshot Frame.
• Burnt or deconstructed Slingshots will now return your ammo and custom parts.
• Fixed missing combat music when attacking with a Slingshot.
• Added some missing sound effects for Woby.
• Fixed hand layering in the back view of Walter’s idle animation.

 

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Will we have a twitch drop tomorrow?

Edited February 27, 2025 by doug27fani

[Fyffnuft]

Is this the update that will bring major changes to Wortox, which will come on the 27th, or will there be another update soon?

[Echsrick]

51 minutes ago, V2C said:

Wortox:

• Soul Decoy II will now deal some damage to the target that hit it directly.
• Reaching Souls II will no longer make Souls attract faster, and will now make dropped Souls move towards the most hurt player nearby.
• Soul Bastion II will now also enhance the Soul's speed provided from Reaching Souls II.
• Knabsack's efficiency for picking up items has been increased for big hauls.
• Knabsack may now be used as a Bug Net.

this time its not "no wortox?" this time is yes wortox!

[Dingle]

2 minutes ago, Echsrick said:

this time its not "no wortox?" this time is yes wortox!

MAYBE Wortox!

[Echsrick]

Just now, Dingle said:

MAYBE Wortox!

nah, if maybe then no ! but -

[_mylilsunshine_]

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Electric projectiles (including Shockscrap Shots) now have a higher hit stun rate than other projectiles.

not that anyone has ever used electric darts before, but i'm glad waltuh is bringing in changes that benefit the Constant  

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Updated names for some ammo types and inspection strings for some Slingshot parts to give them a bit more Walter flavor.
Updated scrapbook entries for ammo and Slingshot parts.

flavor? i love flavor yum v2c my goat
 

Edited February 27, 2025 by _mylilsunshine_

[IAmAFurrz]

59 minutes ago, V2C said:

Soul Decoy II will now deal some damage to the target that hit it directly.

at least now it does something ig. still lasting longer does nothing for him or the decoy and neither does the damage work in tandem with the longer lasting part

1 hour ago, V2C said:

Reaching Souls II will no longer make Souls attract faster, and will now make dropped Souls move towards the most hurt player nearby.

neat ig, dont know it was so requested

1 hour ago, V2C said:

Soul Bastion II will now also enhance the Soul's speed provided from Reaching Souls II.

the most nothing burger of the all the skills gets another nothing added to it 

1 hour ago, V2C said:

Knabsack may now be used as a Bug Net.

finally this got added  . one good change

[aoka404]

41 minutes ago, V2C said:

There ended up being quite a bit of code changes so we agreed it would be best to put out a hotfix anyway so we can get a head start on any bugs that come up from this build.

Thank you, Mr. V2C.

[kroban]

1 hour ago, V2C said:

Electric projectiles (including Shockscrap Shots) now have a higher hit stun rate than other projectiles.

epic

[crushcircuit]

1 hour ago, V2C said:

• Reaching Souls II will no longer make Souls attract faster, and will now make dropped Souls move towards the most hurt player nearby.
• Soul Bastion II will now also enhance the Soul's speed provided from Reaching Souls II.

this is absolutely huge, thank you! i will say it seems like reaching souls II isnt really worth much on its own, you just have to commit to soul bastion all the way in order for the soul movement to do much of anything - id say the speed is pretty undertuned atm ToT again it just feels like soul bastion II exists as a reason to make reaching souls II and soul bastion I worse on their own

1 hour ago, V2C said:

• Knabsack may now be used as a Bug Net.

this is 5% per creature caught, which seems a bit much to me? i'd like to see it consume a bit less durability so you don't have to carry a stack of silk with you. if the knabsack has to be a bit more expensive in order for that to happen, i wouldn't mind. it being on-par with the normal bugnet is really underwhelming.

you also HAVE to click on any critters in order to catch things with the knabsack which is INCREDIBLY annoying. its fine if you have actionqueue, but you shouldnt have to have a mod in order to make the knabsack usable... i've also had many times where i've accidentally soul hopped instead of using it because its the same button. i prefered it before, where you have to manually pick things up normally instead of manually using the item in hand.

1 hour ago, V2C said:

• Soul Decoy II will now deal some damage to the target that hit it directly.

this buff is VERY fun, i looove the way that it makes the skills flow into eachother, i can already tell its gonna be really fun to use. it also makes it so you dont have to commit to the full branch in order to do damage with it which is really fun

i think most of my criticisms for the skill tree still apply, but decoys are so much better now. thanks for the patch ahead of time!

also, the skill tree text is still outdated - it says what the previous perks were instead, and should probably be adjusted before launch so its not confusing to new players ^_^

Edited February 27, 2025 by crushcircuit

[Joey9Baka]

Will the controller update (like wortox soul hop aiming, lock on function) come with the update tomorrow? Or will that be coming later?

[SilverSpoon]

(To be fair, there could be more to come in official release, so put away your pitchforks and torches for now.)

Edited February 27, 2025 by SilverSpoon

[V2C]

10 minutes ago, Joey9Baka said:

Will the controller update (like wortox soul hop aiming, lock on function) come with the update tomorrow? Or will that be coming later?

Controller changes will have to be something later after this release.

[Torakshik]

@V2C What are we talking about? Which containers are we talking about exactly?)

• You can now use the Store action on portable containers in your inventory while mounted.

[somethin]

33 minutes ago, crushcircuit said:

this is 5% per creature caught, which seems a bit much to me? i'd like to see it consume a bit less durability so you don't have to carry a stack of silk with you. if the knabsack has to be a bit more expensive in order for that to happen, i wouldn't mind. it being on-par with the normal bugnet is really underwhelming.

5% per critter is more than fair imo, since it's so, so cheap. Basically double the normal one with negligible soul cost, which for a tier 1 skill is pretty good.

[crushcircuit]

Just now, somethin said:

5% per critter is more than fair imo, since it's so, so cheap. Basically double the normal one with negligible soul cost, which for a tier 1 skill is pretty good.

its still a full skill point. wendy and walter have both gotten pretty damn good items for that much!

like i said, i'm fine with it becoming more expensive of a craft if it becomes a better item. the point of wanting to use it as a bug net, for me, is the ease of it, since im normally carrying a knabsack on me anyways. as it is, id still have to teleport back to my base for materials, which changes very little for me. yes it is cheaper than a normal bug net, yes it is aoe, but the main reason why i was looking forward to having it as a bug net is so that i wouldnt have to make trips back (and use more souls) if i happened to need one >_<