Pond Revamp

• The Pond and Pond Lab have been revamped with additional puzzles, gameplay, and secrets to discover.
• New underwater caves to find and explore.
• New Pond Lab outposts.
• New Resources: Algae, Muscle Sprouts.
• New SCA.Bs to collect.

New Crafting Content

• Fin Flops+
• Diving Lantern+
• All smoothies now have a + version to unlock.

New Language Translations

• Russian, Polish, Korean, Chinese, and Brazilian Portuguese localization added.

Xbox and Windows Store Save System Revamp

• The save system for Xbox and Windows Store platforms has been refactored to be more robust and lightweight.
• New saves going forward should be more reliable when it comes to saving player data and properly uploading it to the cloud.
• The game will no longer need to do long cloud sync each time you boot it.
• Syncing between consoles should be more reliable.
  • NOTE: This will require a one time save conversion step after logging in to convert any older saves to use the new system.

New Features

All platforms

• Spear weapons can now be thrown in water.

Changes / Tuning

Movement

• The player can jump out of the water at any location instead of just the edges

Combat

• The Koi Fish can eat creatures (and you!).
• 2 handed weapons now deal slightly more damage.
• Water Boatmen now flee at a slower speed and have less HP.
• Tadpoles flee at a slower speed.
• Adjusting Dazzling Riposte; now reduces enemy defense after perfect block instead of reducing enemy attack.
• Timing in between creature attacks is now random instead of it always being the same fixed amount of time.
• Stamina regen is now reduced while you're actively holding block.
• The blocked damage percentage is now based on weapon type instead of always being 75%.

Interface

• There is now a game option to display the distance over player nameplates to see how far they are.

World

• New caves to explore in the pond.
• The Koi can now push pond foliage out of its way.
• Juice Droplets despawn after 3 days, allowing new ones to drop out of the straws in case a spawned drop somehow got lost.
• Eelgrass now respawns over time.

Buildings

• Some structures such as Foundations, Scaffolds, and Walls, now align to the ground from their corners instead of their center
• Some other buildings such as the Jerky Rack, Zipline Anchor, and Dew Catcher, now sit on their legs instead of on their center point only
• Tweaked the order of some buildings in the radial.
• The Squared Roof Corner will now block wall crenellations below it.

Crafting

• The recipe for decoy bait has been adjusted.

Bug Fixes - All Platforms

• Grid-snapping non-structural buildings on top of existing structures now work correctly.
• Underground blueprints can now be canceled, either by looking at them or with Cancel Nearby Blueprints in the Game Preview Debug menu
• Buildings can no longer be briefly placed on canceled buildings.
• Spike Strips can now be placed next to each other when snapped to a grid.
• Buildings can't be built on stuffed insects.
• Buildings can't be built on other players' unplaced buildings.
• Floating structures will stop bobbing if connected to solid ground
• The player can no longer jump while gliding
• Hedge berries will now float correctly inside the pond lab, should you somehow manage to get one there.
• Signs no longer flicker when they are being placed on walls.
• Signs can now be optionally snapped to the grid.
• Buoyant markers now float properly on the water's surface.
• Decoy Bait now properly behaves as a lure for both swimming and non-swimming creatures.
• Diving Bell Spider Chunks are now properly marked as a tier 2 material.
• Decoy Bait no longer causes non-swimming creatures to float in wacky ways.
• Fixed issue where dying in the depths would place your backpack at the starting spawn ravine.
• Koi collision better matches its animations to prevent the player from clipping into the model as much.
• Fixed random crashes with Grass Plank Storage and Weed Log Storage buildings.

Ominent Practical Technologies

• [REDACTED] recipe added.

 

0.5.0 Public Test Patch Notes for Update Build 0.5.2735 (Only noticeable across Public Test Builds)
World

• Holiday lights added to the house
• Improved lighting in the Pond / Pond lab.
• Additional pond and pond lab set dressing.

Audio

• Audio improvements for drowning.

Bug Fixes - All Platforms

• Clients will no longer experience twitchy movement when moving on large structures.
• Instances of "lame" were replaced or removed.
• Pond bubbles should pop before poking out of the surface
• Chair interaction not working for building or recycling has been fixed.