Public Test Patch Notes for Update 0.7.0

[Shyla]

New Crafting Content

• Added Stair Railing: Sprig Railing, Acorn Railing
• New Stairs Added: Acorn Spiral Stairs
• New Scaffolding: Bracket Scaffold
• New Floors Added: Grass Half-Floors and Weed Stem Floors
• New Item: Firefly Hanging Lantern
• New Items: Wall-mounted Zipline Anchor
• New Item: Shinobi Sneeze, a smoke-screen escape item
• Mounted Head Trophies can now be crafted for all of the flying creatures: Mosquitos, Fireflies, and Bees

New Features

All platforms

• You can relocate any non-grid building you have made without destroying and rebuilding it (Lean-to, Storage, Workbench, etc.).
• When you are crafting, any items in nearby storage will be available as crafting ingredients without requiring you to put them in your backpack.
• You can place hauling items (Grass Planks, Weed Stems) on Ziplines using the "Drop" action when pointing at the line.
• Player characters have new and improved stagger animations.

Changes / Tuning

Systems

• Hunger and Thirst effects have been reworked:
  • Bonuses now activate at 80% or higher instead of 90% or higher.
    • Hunger Bonus heals you over time.
    • Thirst Bonus increases your stamina regen.
  • Penalties now activate at 20% or lower instead of 0%.
    • Hunger Penalty caps your max stamina at 50%.
    • Thirst Penalty reduces your stamina regen.
• Repair Recipes have been reworked:
  • Armor Glues have been removed.
  • Armors now take ~20% of their initial ingredients to repair.
  • Weapons now take 1 quartzite + a minimal amount of their initial ingredients to repair.
• Gas Masks now take durability damage in gas hazards.

Other

Combat

• Bandages now heal much more HP, but over a much longer period of time.
• Mosquito Needle has the life-steal ability slightly decreased.
• Bees now have two additional attacks.
• When you are wielding both a shield and a canteen, the Block input will both drink from the canteen and block.
• Weevil shield durability doubled.
• Bratburst and Splatburst deal more damage.
• Pollen Shot now adds slightly more stun damage to bow attacks.
  • Note: This is not a % chance to stun, this allows bows to deal stun damage in addition to normal damage.

Interface

• Lasting (applied by gear or mutations) and temporary status effects appear in the Status UI.
• Added "Any Weapon" HotPouch slot type and changed the defaults of the first four slots to be "Any Weapon" instead of "Any Melee Weapon".
• Save games that are older than five update versions will be marked with an "Ancient Save" warning.
• The block meter is slightly smaller and scooted to the right.
• Equipped shield durability is shown in the HUD.
• Equipment rating gauges have been converted visually from a regular bar to a nugget-based bar.
• More icons are described in the Icon Legend in the OS tab.
• The 'day' count in the OS tab has been embiggened.
• More of the map screen is unlocked by default now.
• Brown and Yellow added to the icon customizer color array.
• A few additional icons added to the storage and trail marker icon customizers.
• Adjusted the storage interface for reasons.
• Adding 'analyzed' status to storage interface.
• Contrast adjustments to the Ghostmint SCA.B flavor.
• High Contrast SCA.B flavor applies a dark backing to the HUD SCA.B.
• Bringing your teen back from the hunger or thirst danger zones will cause SCA.B to play a happy sound.

World

• Interacting with a dropped backpack will now instantly do a loot-all action. If any items are still leftover because your inventory is full, then the dropped back UI will open.
• Removed the pre-placed zipline anchors from the paint can and the oak tree lamp.
• Thistle plants have been reworked
  • Thorns are now harvested directly instead of requiring a hit with an axe.
  • Each thistle plant no longer provides an infinite amount of thorns
  • Thorns respawn on the thistle plant after a set amount of time

Buildings

• Building placement is no longer allowed while gliding, zipping, or in combat.
• Pebblet Foundations now require more pebblets than clay to build.
• Sap Dripper has been overhauled:
  • A final mesh has been created.
  • The recipe has been changed to match the new mesh.
  • Sap Dripper is now properly considered a wall-mounted building for placement purposes.
  • Placement should be a lot more lenient, allowing easier and more consistent placing.
  • Item will now spawn 1 sap every 5 hours and can hold up to 5 sap in total (previously spawned 1 sap every 24 hours).

Crafting

• Berry Chunks can now be dried into berry leather on the Jerky Rack.

Creatures

• Larva will now explore a larger area of the backyard.
• Larva can now burrow.
• Creatures now take much longer to fully regen when out of combat.
• Gnats should be less interested in spamming the player with boops.

 

Bug Fixes - All Platforms

Top Community Issues

• Fixed Fireflies not flying down to the yard correctly after loading a game.
• The game will no longer lag when placing or removing buildings on saves with huge numbers of buildings.
• Grid buildings can no longer be placed entirely under the terrain.
• Fixed save game screenshots sometimes looking corrupt.
• Fixed "Toggle Crouch" option sometimes not saving and taking effect.

World

• Land-only buildings can no longer be placed on water in certain situations
• Buildings such as Fences and Ramps will no longer snap strangely to subsequent buildings
• The underside of a Buoyant Foundation can no longer support other structures.
• Palisades will no longer be invalid when placed on some rock surfaces.
• Diagonal walls at 90-degree angles will now support each other.
• Walls will no longer randomly lose crenellations when loading a save.
• Fixed a few cases where snapped structures might be incorrectly detected as invalid.
• BURG.L Quest UI will load correctly for clients when they are the first player to access it.
• CPU / Networking performance improvements by the flooded sprinkler area.
• Multiple overlapping gas hazards no longer stack their damage.
• Removing the 'O' binding from the inventory screen that opened the deprecated inspection popup.

Items/Equipment/Resources

• Feathers and Hedge Berries will no longer occasionally disappear when loading a save.
• Ziplines will no longer block flying creatures.
• Sap Catchers can no longer be placed on Buoyant Foundations.
• Fixed consumed items not showing up on your character model in the inventory screen.
• Fin Flops+ now behave properly when dropped from the player's inventory.

Creatures

• Fixed several cases where mosquitos would sleep in incorrect locations.
• Flying creatures are now much less shy about flying through the grass.
• Creatures will now wake up when damaged by hazards.
• Creatures properly fade out at far distances for clients now.   
• TAYZ.T's in the pond lab will be more aware of their surroundings.
• Fixed sleeping creatures teleporting on clients after they've been woken up (most visible if you wake up a Wolf Spider from sleeping).
• Reduced the annoyingness of gnats.    

UI

• The camera will no longer start in first-person when loading a save in which the player was gliding or zipping.
• "Inventory Full" will no longer be misleadingly displayed when trying to haul an item while swimming.
• Fixed some scrolling and display issues in the "Recipes Used In" section on the Crafting screen.

Audio

• 'Theft in progress' SFX played upon opening the UI while in combat has been replaced new SFX.
• SCA.B crying about hunger and thirst will play a specific sound for each instead of either for both.

Bug Fixes - Xbox Platforms

• Fixed audio issues after suspend / resume.

Bug Fixes - Steam Platform

• Logging into an Xbox Live account that was previously logged into with a different Steam account will no longer fail the login step. 
• Removed HDR tab from the Options screen.

Bug Fixes - Windows Store Platform

• When there is a new update available, the game will properly tell you when trying to access Multiplayer instead of presenting a generic "Multiplayer Error" message.
• Removed HDR tab from the Options screen.

Ominent Practical Technologies

• Due to the recent discovery of [REMOVED], [WITHHELD] has been updated accordingly. 

[Shyla]

0.7.0 Public Test - 2911 to 2915 Changes (Only noticeable across Public Test Builds)

Changes / Tuning
Buildings

• Wall- and ceiling-mounted buildings can now be placed from further away.
• All leaves and branches should be "Buildable".

Bug Fixes - All Platforms

• Fixed Building Placement controls not acting reliably on gamepad.
• The player will no longer teleport if standing on a building when it's relocated.
• Fixed the recipe unlocks for all flying creature head mount trophies.
• Fixed the recipe unlock for Acorn Spiral Stairs.
• Buildings will no longer fail to relocate on clients when relocated off of another building.
• Sap Catcher no longer overlaps the player during placement.
• Shinobi Sneeze has updated audio, VFX, animation, and item icon.
• Fixed burrowed larva creature size being too small.
• Fixing a tab clicking issue on the Options screen.

[Shyla]

0.7.0 Public Test - 2915 to 2917 Changes (Only noticeable across Public Test Builds)

Bug Fixes - All Platforms

• Fixed crash interacting with Ant Eggs.
• Updated SFX and VFX for Shinobi Sneeze.

[Shyla]

0.7.0 Public Test - 2917 to 2923 Changes (Only noticeable across Public Test Builds)

Bug Fixes - All Platforms

• Player characters should no longer be invisible on respawn.
• You can now hold to eat mushrooms that haven't been picked.
• The old Armor Glue recipes should be removed from the crafting list.
• Removed the "Hold" text for the items you can tap to pick up and hold to quick consume.