about the new beta ((((SPOILER ALERT))))

[Swiyss]

DO NOT KEEP READING IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS.

 

 

 

So basically, you can find wagstaff on pearl's island apparently after killing the 3 host of horror bosses (I'm not entirely sure when, but he goes there in the late game)

Pearl now has a new point for her pearl, by giving her a map I believe.

To advance after finding wagstaff there, you gotta give him a map (I had the whole world explored, maybe you need something explored on that map that shows atleast the lunar island??). Then, wagstaff tells you to show that to pearl, and she uses a water tornado to relocate her own house to a different place. After that, you need to expand pearl's island with the new expander he allows you to craft, and use yet another new bugnet that can catch gestalts. Give wagstaff a gestalt and he'll make a terramite on the ground and probably start a new fight on pearl's island.

So, the animations are absolutely gorgeous to me. Perfect as always coming from Klei, and the design of everything is very good.

My first thought is about the new idea of pearl moving out of her house. She seems quite.. unbothered? It's maybe a bit out of place to just take her land anyways, but that's just my opinion, and it's something that can't be changed. What I think could be slightly different tho, is the fact that we're taking her whole island. 

Like, I don't mind her moving, but couldn't we make the "boss" thingy a bit further from the "main" hermit island? Like, maybe make the ocean replacement a bit further? I see a lot of people have builds on pearl's island, and this new beta would kinda either crash or destroy them. So would be a bit nicer if wagstaff initially showed up on an already prebuilt docked area instead of the island itself. This would allow us time to destroy everything important or rebuilt the island before the boss shows up. I'm not sure if the boss is going to be fought in the island itself, but we'll see. Just a warning because people DO have builds in her island.

Edited May 23, 2025 by astareus

[Radicaljoe]

6 minutes ago, astareus said:

 I'm not sure if the boss is going to be fought in the island itself, but we'll see. Just a warning because people DO have builds in her island.

So it does take over the whole island. Wagstaff uses the whole island for the arena. Which is very sad for me.

[Shining Galaxy]

I planted an Above-Average Tree Trunk for Pearl, made furniture for her with a Sawhorse, and added a Bee Box and Drying Rack for her. Now all of this is going to be destroyed, which truly saddens me. Can't we really handle these matters on the Lunar Island? Pearl's island is where she and the Crab King first met.

[Mike23Ua]

You’re playing a game that is still in active development, content can be changed, modified or removed at any time.

Players should have had some sort of clue that Klei had plans to “eventually” do more with Pearls Hermit Island based on the inspection quotes and weird sounds that can be heard from the island.

And since the next beta update part 2 is the supposedly Shadow Arch (and Shadow Stuff has mostly been limited to caves content only) I am going to go ahead and assume we will be unplugging those plugged sinkholes on pearls island and either going under ground to confront something, or force that something to come crawling out onto the surface.

Edited May 23, 2025 by Mike23Ua