Update Information:
Staying Afloat
While Wurt and Winona hammer away on their own visions for the future, it seems the Constant's sea has seen some changes of its own. Be prepared to rock the boat in the name of progress!
Highlights Include:
- Skill Spotlight: Wurt and Winona Skillsets have been added.
- Crab King redesign: new behaviors, minions, arena, and loot.
- Sunken Chests: added new exclusive loot - Surprising Seeds and Archaic Boats.
- Marotters: new creatures found on the coastline.
- Additional Pirate Raid behavior: they can sometimes be found post-raid, carrying loot.
- Kelp Boat Patch, signs of Powder Monkeys territory on sea stacks, new ocean set pieces, a new Pearl trade, and a new Salt Lick made of actual salt!
NOTE: It looks like Xbox certification is behind a bit and should be out in a short while. We'll have that out as soon as it completes certification, likely later today or early tomorrow.
New Skins!
Who says you can't always get what you want? As always, these skins also can be weaved with spool and drop in-game, but see the spoiler below for more info on the new skins available in this update.
“Intrepid Chest” ($5.99usd)
“This Intrepid Chest contains the following skin items: Gilded Birdcage, Tallbird Eyebrella, Barbarous Helmet, Dark Talisman, Electric Eel, and Foreboding Furnace.”
“Cottage Cache Chest, Part II” ($5.99usd)
“This Cottage Cache, Part II Chest contains the following skin items: Cottage Crock Pot, Robin Egg Ice Box, Charming Salt Tin, Cloth Wrap, Hand-Carved Post, Rustic Post, Artisan Post, and Charming Cooler Chest.”
“Gardener Chest” ($5.99usd)
“This Gardener Chest contains the following skin items: Beewitching Hat, Fetching Bug Net, Beespoke Garden Hoe, Vintage Apiary, Foraging Sack, and Quaint Seed Purse.”
“Swashbuckler Loot Chest” ($5.99usd)
“This Swashbuckler Loot Chest contains the following skin items: Piratin' Bin, Makeshift Mast, Pirate Sloop, Scallywag Raft, Crossbones Trawler, and Pilferin' Winch.”
“Archaic Artifacts Chest, Part II” ($14.99usd)
“This Archaic Artifacts Chest contains all the belongings skins from the Intrepid Chest, the Cottage Cache Chest, Part II, the Gardener Chest, and the Swashbuckler Loot Chest.”
“Archaic Attire Chest, Part II” ($5.99usd)
“This Archaic Attire Chest contains Winona's Archaic skin set, Willow's Archaic skin set, Wurt's Archaic skin set, and Wigfrid's Archaic skin set.”
“Archaic Array Chest” ($16.99usd)
“This Archaic Array Chest contains all the belongings skins from the Archaic Artifacts Chest, Part II and the Archaic Attire Chest, Part II.”
Klei Fest!
In case you missed it, we have a bunch of stuff on sale right now for Klei Fest and we're offering our best sales of the year!
Highlights include:
- DST, DS, and ONI owners can score an additional discount on Mind Over Magic with new Colony Sim and Base Builder bundles.
- Invisible, Inc. turns 10 this year and we're celebrating with an Anniversary Bundle for -90% off!
- Get every Klei game in the Klei Fest exclusive Klei Fest Bundle for an additional 50% off
- already discounted prices!
- Get the lowest prices ever on Griftlands, Hot Lava, Mark of the Ninja, and several bundles!
- We've also got some new cross-publisher bundles featuring Cobalt Core, Dwarf Fortress, and more.
Check out the sale page here: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/kleifest2024
Streaming Drops!
The Rosy Eyebrella joins the Rose collection. Check out the post for more details
Rhymes With Play!
Klei Points!
https://accounts.klei.com/link/ShiftySeaSwindlers
And that's all for now!
We hope that you all enjoy the update. We'll have more news on things to come in a few weeks. We'll probably throw in a teaser or two. Who knows?
Change List:
Additions
- Added Gourmet Salt Lick, a salt lick made of actual salt!
- Added 2 ocean setpieces.
- Added a new Pearl trade: Fish Food Blueprint.
- Added new exclusive loot to the Sunken Chest.
- Added Kelp Patch, a temporary fix for boat leaks.
Changes
- Improved controller support for the Scrapbook.
- Additional Pirate Monkey behavior added.
- Improved deploy spacing.
- Stingers will try to autostack with nearby ones.
- Cannons will no longer hit structures and walls on the same boat it was fired from.
- They will still hit and hurt other things on the same boat like normal.
- Bootleg now stacks up to 10.
- Increased maximum active treasure hunts to 10 (from 4).
- Increased “Message in a Bottle”'s chance to reveal a treasure hunt mark.
- The Pirate's Bandana now also makes you turn Steering Wheels quickly.
- Salt Formations are no longer an obstacle when fully mined (boats may go over them).
- Slightly decreased Malbatross's attack range, boat push force and attack wave speed.
- Made some fish and fig based crock pot dishes better.
- Heavy ocean fish will now give an extra (or bigger) fish meat when murdered.
- Increased Gnarwail, Malbatross and Skittersquid spawn rates.
- Decreased Rockjaw damage.
- Powder Monkeys now paint Sea Stacks to show their presence.
- Merm Kings will now buff Merms anywhere in the world, including the caves from the forest and the forest from the caves.
- Added small waterproofness to Pirate's Bandana, Captain's Tricorn and Polly Roger's Hat.
- Added Message in a Bottle to Crab King’s loot table.
- Increased Strident Trident damage and uses.
- Increased Horizon Expandinator view range.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed not being able to feed Moon Moths inside Chester or Hutch.
- Fixed Merm King eating veggie-type fish.
- Fixed Horizon Expandinator sometimes not showing the on screen overlay when repeatedly equipping and unequipping the hat.
- Fixed crops not getting protection from wildfires when watered.
- Fixed not being able to unlock Marble Sculpture scrapbook entries.
- Fixed some Spilagmite’s scrapbook entry issues.
- Fixed Mosquito’s explosion damaging creatures in inventories or containers.
- Removed unused “Grooming Station Kit” item entry from the scrapbook.
- Fixed Gnarwail not being able to run away from threats properly.
- Fixed W.O.B.O.T. trying to pick up Traps and Bird Traps.
- Fixed Lune Trees regrowth only happening during spring. It’s now based on the moon phase.
- Fixed being able to plant new Mushrooms in Mushroom Planters after reading “Horticulture, Abridged” or “Horticulture, Expanded”.
- Fixed boat bumpers not playing the proper animation when repaired or damaged.
- Fixed being able to try upgrading Spider Dens placed on boats.
- Fixed Tail o' Three Cats affecting creatures in containers.
- Fixed Bootlegs pulling up the map when doing other actions than trying to toss it.
- Fixed a crash related to Night Lights respawning.
- Fixed Living Logs not screaming when being eaten without being stacked.
- Fixed Frostjaw giving more than one Frostjaw Figure Sketch.
- Fixed the camera zooming out when the player spawns.
- Fixed Knobbly Trees failing to grow to Above-Average Tree Trunks when saved offscreen.
- Fixed issue with overlapping Above-Average Tree Trunk’s canopy shadows.
- Fixed Malbatross destroying boat bumpers.
- Fixed bug with Spider Den webbing appearing over the ocean when placed on boats or when docks are broken..
- Fixed chopping down Above-Average Tree Trunks making all nearby Mossy Vines fall.
- Fixed world resource regeneration placing items too closely to other items.
- Fixed Enlightened Shard light turning on when storing spores in it on the inventory or in containers.
- Items on boats should not be destroyed when nearby ice tiles crack.
- Fixed Crab King music playing while he is inert.
Notes for Modders
- The mod release ID for this patch is R34_OCEANQOL_WINONAWURT.
- Added AddEmergencyBrakeSource and RemoveEmergencyBrakeSource to boatphysics component for locking a boat’s position in place.
- Component farmsoildrinker will now correctly send the ms_unregistersoildrinker event in its OnRemoveFromEntity.
- Component complexprojectile now has a helper function SetHorizontalSpeedForDistance that can calculate its needed horizontal speeds to reach a set distance given the current component’s configuration values.
- Fixed a debug string outputting incorrect data for dsp component.
- EntityScript:GetBoatIntersectingPhysics() added to help alleviate boat intersection tests.
- TECH_SKILLTREE_BUILDER_TAG_OWNERS in constants can be used to remove the need to save tags on characters for preloading equippable items.
- Strident Trident will no longer damage undamageable targets.
- Fixed unused animations blown_pst_idle and blown_pst_dead in bananabush and berrybush animations.
- File storage_robot_common has been made more accessible.
Notes Since last Beta Hotfix
Changes
- Exotic trees no longer grow fruits on the wrong turf.
- Shoddy Tools, Slightly Less Shoddy Tools, Swamp Brawler Helmets and Swamp Warrior Helmets may now be deconstructed using a Deconstruction Staff.
- Lunar Merm will revert to regular Merm when their leader dies. Shadow Merm will vanish when their leader dies.
- Added more inspection lines for Winona when looking at skill tree craftables that are not learned yet.
- Nearby Flowers will be uprooted when leaving behind a Rose as Winona.
- W.I.N.bot will now switch to sleep mode if there is nothing to pickup, and reactivate when there is. (If the player drops W.I.N.bot onto the ground in an inactive state, it will not automatically reactivate.)
- W.I.N.bot will return to its deploy point when it is very low on battery. It will not reactivate automatically until it has recharged at least 50% of its battery.
- Deploying most structures will now require the same spacing whether you place the larger or smaller one first.
- Reduced the required spacing for placing some structures.
- Crab King geysers return, to keep the area clear before he ices up the area.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed Exotic Tree saplings failing to grow offscreen sometimes.
- Fixed world resource regeneration placing items too closely to other items.
- Fixed Mutated Merms dropping too many items on death.
- Fixed Crab Guard and Crab Knight not drowning when put to sleep while hopping from/to boats.
- Fixed crash when giving Merm fish.
- Fixed crash when using burnt Communal Kelp Dish.
- The Tool Sheds, Armermrys and Communal Kelp Dishes can burn properly now.
- The Merm King now updates his appearance if his equipment is stolen by a thief.
- Fixed Merm working sounds when using tools.
- Fixed Merm King buffs not forwarding to other shards during rollbacks and some loading states.
- Fixed missing mine effect when merms with no tool equipped mine something.
- Fixed some issues with the creation and deletion of the visual FX used by Wurt's Mudslingers.
- Fixed Crab King music playing while he is inert.
- Fixed a rare crash when picking up the W.I.N.bot.
- Lunar and Shadow Merm loyalty should not expire.
- Survivors wearing a Clever Disguise are not Merm enough to use the Communal Kelp Dish to gather followers.
- Fixed Shadow Merms spawning when they shouldn’t.
- Fixed W.I.N.bot and W.O.B.O.T. getting stuck ignoring a valid item to pick up in many cases.
- Fixed the Rose-Colored Glasses being able to be equipped by other characters.
- Fixed LEDs not lighting up when Handy Remote or Portasol are recharging.
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Fixed missing floating states for W.I.N.bot and Portasol.
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