Summary of update since From Beyond chapter and some personal comment

[WendyHater9000]

Taking Root

Release Date: April 27, 2023

    Features

    World

        Lunar Rift in Forest World

        Ryftstal

    Mechanics

        Rifts Cycle

        Planar Damage and Planar Defense

        Planar Entity Protection

    Mobs

        Grazer/Brightshade Gestalt/Deadly Brightshade

    Structures

        Brightsmithy/Punching Bag/Bright Boxer/Shadow Boxer

    Items

        Brightsmithy Kit/Brightshade Sword/Brightshade Staff/Brightshade Shoevel

        Brightshade Smasher/Brightshade Helm/Brightshade Bomb/Brightshade Husk

        Pure Brilliance

    Personal opinion:Good armor, better tool was added. Brightshade can be countered. Easy 5 star update for me.

 

Terrors Below

    Release Date: June 15, 2023

    Features

    World

        Shadow Rift in Cave World

        Miasma

        Dreadstone Outcrop

        Acid Rain

        Nitre Formation

    Mechanics

        Scrapbook

    Mobs

        Fused Shadeling/Dread Mite/Ink Blight/Jitters/Rasp/Shriek/Resting Horror

        Beckoning Hand/Charlie

    Structures

        Shadowcraft Plinth

    Items

        Shadowcraft Plinth Kit/Void Cowl/Void Robe/Umbralla/Shadow Reaper/Dark Tatters

        Scrapbook Page

    Personal opinion:Good armor, a tool that every farmer would like to have, interesting miniboss fight, easy nitre farm. 5 star update for me.

 

Host of Horrors

    Release Date October 19, 2023

    Features

    World

        Abandoned Junk

        Suspicious Dirt Pile (with tooth)

        Koalefant Carcass

    Mobs

        Bright-Eyed Frog

    Boss Monsters

        Armored Bearger/Crystal Deerclops/Possessed Varg

    Mechanics

        Lunar Hail

        More categories to the Scrapbook

    Structures

        Ice Crystaleyezer/Sawhorse/Wooden Chair/Wooden Stool/Round Wooden Table

        Square Wooden Table

    Items

        Research Notes/Scrap/W.A.R.B.I.S. Head Gear/W.A.R.B.I.S. Armor

        Auto-Mat-O-Chanic/Spark Ark/Polar Bearger Bin/Ice Crystaleyezer Kit/Howlitzer/Art?

        Table Lamp/Table Vase/Empty Frame/Pleasant Portrait/Gramophone/Records

     Personal opinion: A structure that can make you no need to deal with temperature problem. First good range weapon that nerfed Walter to    ground at that moment. A convenient portable storage for meal. A item that can sooth the farm plant. 3 interesting bosses. 2 not really useful armor. Still a five star update for me

 

Scrappy Scavengers

    Release Date March 27, 2024

    Features

    Items

        Brambleshade Armor/Embalming Spritz/Elastispacer/Horizon Expandinator

        Lunar Funcap/Scrappy Chapauldron/Scrap Wall/Slimy Salve/Stuffed Night Cap

    Structures

        Tall Chest/Tall Scaled Chest

    Objects

        Junk Pile/Teetering Junk Pile/Junky Fence/Pig/Merm Skeleton

    Mobs

        Scrappy Werepig/W.O.B.O.T.

 

    Personal opinion: Shitty boss. But W.O.B.O.T and Elastispacer are so good for base. Easier CC quest. 4.5 stars for this update.

 

Staying Afloat

    Release Date June 27, 2024

    Features

    Mobs

        Crab Guard/Crab Knight/Marotter

    Structures & Objects

        Archaic Boat/Cannon Tower/Crab King Bumper/Frostjaw Figure/Gloomthorn

        Gourmet Salt Lick/Marotter Den/Sproutrock

    Items

        Archaic Boat Kit/Cooked Nightberry/Crab King Bumper Kit/Geode Fruit

        Gloomthorn Sapling/Kelp Patch/Nightberry/Sproutrock Sapling/Surprising Seed

    Personal opinion: Better CK boss fight. Filthy meat stealing rat. New cool trees worth looking for long term world. 4.5 stars update for me.

 

 

Depths of Duplicity

    Beta Release Date: August 22, 2024

    Mobs

        Benevolent Rabbit King/Fortuitous Rabbit/Great Depths Worm/Icker/Lurking Nightmare

        Mimicreep/Ornery Chest/Possessed Shadow Atrium/Rictus/Royal Rabbit Enforcer

        Wrathful Rabbit King

    Structures & Objects

        Icker Preserve/Portable Den/Stone Chair

        Stone Stool/Stone Round Table/Stone Square Table

    Items

        Beefalo Gloom Bell/Burrowing Horn/Coat of Carrots/Gloomerang/Icker Jar

        Icker/Preserve Kit/Moon Glass Saw Blade/Nightmare Saddle/Spelunker's Bridge Kit

        Rabbit King Cudgel/Shadow Maul/Warren Wreath

    Personal opinion: Shitty 2 mini bosses added. But Nightmare Saddle and Bell is so good for beefalo riding characters. Preserve Kit is nice to have some, since dreadstone is ez to farm. I'll give 4.5 star to this update.

 

Hostile Take Over

    Release Date: June 13, 2025

    QOL

        Official geometric placement 

    Mobs

        Gestalt Guard Evolved

 

    Bosses

        W.A.R.B.O.T/ Celestial Scion

    Items

        Hermit Replacer/Celestial Gems/Arena Floor/Bug net for boss fight material

    Personal opinion: Boss fight is fun for me, they added mechanic fresh new to this game, I love it. Added a upgrade for crown, make you fully ignore sanity issue and no need to bring miner hat in case your sanity went down. And that's all for this update, two new utility items, after almost one year from last content update(if you don't count balatro as one), which is kinda bruh. I was positive at first, thinking there will be more added in post-scion world, but actually no. Hope shadow route will have a better end :)

[xhyom]

I always had the impression that the arc didn't go much further than what had been done at the beginning, as if we were going around in circles for too long, but it kind of didn't even happen like, there are basically just 2 updates focused exclusively on improving them, and a slightly more general one with some things about the rifts. Interestingly, it seems like they had a good cadence in the first year and then were completely ignored the following year, only receiving a little more attention towards the end of the year.

I think the biggest problem is that Taking Root + Host of Horrors and Terrors Below + Depths of Duplicity are separate updates, and with such a huge gap in time between each one, part 2 of these updates doesn't even feel like an update, it feels more like a correction of something that was missing in the first release, and they themselves admitted that. Basically in 2 years they only managed to correct and put into operation the initial idea— we are not very far ahead of taking root really, which was supposed to be the foundation for the next updates, I wish they had more focus and direction to make these decisions, it seems like they spent time and resources on something that didn't get off the ground, and now they are abruptly ending it. Ending abruptly but making the same mistake, which is to separate an update that is visibly one thing into two things

Seriously, if Taking Root + Host of Horrors and Terrors Below + Depths of Duplicity were released as a single update it would have been absolutely amazing and I would have been very excited for the future of the game, but they broke the rhythm so many times with absolutely random things like the Scrappy Werepig, which I still have no idea what role it plays in the story or in the game at all, seriously if someone told me it drops nothing I would probably believe it, I can't remember anyone bothering to do it.