Update Information:
No need to grind your gears waiting any longer, the WX-78 refresh is now up on the beta branch! Let's take a look at what's new.
WX-78 Changes
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- WX-78 can create circuits that can be installed to unlock special abilities.
- WX-78 can unplug their circuits by utilizing a Circuit Extractor. Unfortunately, this means losing any charge that the circuits were taking up!
- WX-78 learns how to construct circuits by scanning organics with their Bio Scanalyzer.
- The Bio Scanalyzer also produces Bio Data, which is used to create circuits, alongside material from the scanned organic.
- WX-78's circuits are powered by their electrical charge meter. The meter restores itself over time, and can also be restored by other means.
- If WX-78 gets too wet, they begin losing electricity. If they run out of electricity, they begin to lose health.
- WX-78 also loses electricity when they are starving, as they no longer have the energy to maintain their charge level.
- WX-78 can eat gears to regain health, sanity, and hunger. If WX-78 dies, they will drop some of the gears that they have eaten.
- Clockworks are less aggressive towards WX-78.
Other Changes
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- New HUD effects have been added for when learning recipes.
- Improved creature AI when a group of creatures are running together.
- Reeds will now regrow during Spring after having been burnt.
Wurt and Merm Changes
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- When Wurt wears the Seawreath or Garland, the sanity effects are flipped.
- Improved how hats look on Wurt
- Moose/Goose and Bearger no longer knock items out of Wurt’s hands, because of her strong grip.
- The Clever Disguise now lasts for 15 days.
- Abandoned Merm followers will now return home after some time.
- Merms now play a hungry animation when their loyalty is low.
- Feeding Merms will now also improve the loyalty of a few nearby Merms.
- Merms no longer tolerate their leader murding a fish.
- Merms that are followers will defend other nearby Merms when they are attacked.
- Merms will stop mining and chopping if their leader gets too far away.
- Merms no longer get hurt from eating kelp or durians.
- Frogs are no longer aggressive towards Merms.
- The Merm King’s eating animation duration is now based on the quality of the food.
- The Merm King now gives bonus Gold Nuggets when given an ocean fish.
- The Merm King now gives Cut Reeds instead of Rot when given a fish.
Bug Fixes
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- Fixed Deerclops’s attack damage when hitting multiple targets.
Notes for Modders
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- Mod Release ID: R21_REFRESH_WX78
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