New Features

Buildings

• Ladders
  • Unlocked via the Hedge BURG.L Chip
• Curved Walls, Floors, and Railings
  • 3 Curved Grass Walls
  • 2 Curved Grass Floors
  • 3 Curved Stem Walls
  • 2 Curved Stem Floors
  • 2 Curved Railings
  • Unlocked via the Pond BURG.L Chip

Creative with Bugs

• New Mode Added: Creative with Bugs
  • All the building and crafting perks of Creative mode but with all of the bugs spawned in the yard which are completely docile to you.

Photo Mode

• Photo Mode Multiplayer Support:
  • All players enter and exit photo mode at the same time; the game pauses.
  • Each player controls their character's pose and visibility.
  • Each player controls their own camera location and settings.
• Four new poses: Modish Max, Wallowing Willow, Heroic Hoops, and Perilous Pete.

UI

• Playthroughs in the Save Game UI are grouped and collapsed together making for easier navigation of playthroughs with lots of saves across multiple playthroughs.
• Building Recipes are now sorted by subcategories in the Construction radial and in the Crafting menu.
• Added a take-all option for processing buildings like the Spinning Wheel.

Music

• New combat music when fighting weaker bugs (Mites, Spiderlings, and Water Fleas).

Changes / Tuning

Combat

• Attacks can now be canceled into a block at any point during the animation.
• Attacks now consume stamina on startup rather than on the hit frame.
• Stinkbugs have a new attack.

Interface

• Attack interaction display has been updated to match the new interact UI changes from last patch for consistency.

World

• Increased the draw distance of bases for hosts on higher graphics quality.

Buildings

• Lure Traps and Spike Traps will now take damage as enemies use/interact with them.

Crafting

• "Beefy Smoothie?" can now be crafted at the Smoothie Station.

Optimization

• Improved render performance with games with lots of buildings.
• Improved CPU performance with games with lots of buildings.
• Improved rendering performance for the Xbox One and Xbox One S.
• Reduced the delay before opening the main UI window.
• Reduced the delay before opening the Building radial.
• Reduced the delay before navigating to the Data page.

Bug Fixes - All Platforms

Top Community Fixes

• Save games should now properly display the mode in the multiplayer lobby.
• Building UI's, such as the Container and Spinning Wheel interfaces, will be closed if the building is relocated too far away while they are open.
• The Crafting menu will not lag so much when switching between certain items.
• Foliage such as grass blades that is moved between patches will no longer duplicate itself.
• Promised Chipsleuth quest science rewards will now be correctly shown to clients.

World

• Underwater-capable buildings can no longer be built on bubbles.
• Floors can no longer be built entirely under the ground.
• Structures placed on floors will be invalidly invalid less often.
• The player can no longer zip off a zipline when zipping up it.
• Wall-mounted buildings can no longer be attached to dropped items.
• Structures can not be completed while a character or creature is inside of them.
• Buildings can now be placed in specific spots inside the Oak Tree where they previously couldn't be.
• Throwing grass blades or weed stems in third person no longer has most of them thrown to the side.

Items/Equipment/Resources

• Doors can now be built facing other doors.
• Weapon Wall Mounts and wall-mounted trophies no longer fall through the world when collapsed.
• Harvested flower petals will no longer spawn inside the flower.
• Spiral Stairs can no longer be placed underwater or inside blocking objects.
• Plank and Log Pallets will align to the terrain better during placement.
• Crow Feathers no longer respawn when harvesting them, walking away, and returning back.
• Crow Feathers despawn after a while if not harvested.
• Stuffed Bee now properly swings after save/load.
• Wall-mounted buildings are easier to place on Stem Walls and Palisades.
• Axes and Splatburst no longer stick to the free cam when falling.

Creatures

• Ant eggs will now hatch properly while inside inventories.
• Creatures no longer walk through walls when not looking at them.
• All types of creatures will now correctly create ripples in water.

Photo Mode

• Depth of Field now applies properly when entering Photo Mode.
• Photo Mode can now be exited even when the HUD is toggled off.
• Blocking, aiming, and charged attacks now release upon exiting Photo Mode without firing.
• Lighting in dark areas is now properly applied in Photo Mode.

UI

• The interaction UI no longer displays when on a zipline.
• Characters are less likely to appear headless when finishing a conversation with BURG.L or interacting with certain items.

Bug Fixes - Xbox Platforms

• Players with a ton of buildings built and could no longer create new save games will be able to make new saves again.

Ominent Practical Technologies

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Build 0.9.3041
Changes / Tuning

World

• Signs can be placed on walls more reliably.
• Egg hatching now plays visual and sound effects.

Bug Fixes - All Platforms

Photo Mode

• Film grain and chromatic aberration settings in photo mode now work in Low Quality.
• Photo mode free camera movement now uses remappable keyboard bindings.

0.9.0 Public Test - 3034 to 3041 Changes (Only noticeable across Public Test Builds)

• Your teen no longer randomly loses their head when playing in third person
• The "Invite Friends" button in the Player List window works again
• Bugs no longer react to player noise in "Creative with Bugs"
• Removed some unfinished recipes that were accessible in the 0.9 Public Test build
• The changes below from the prior patch notes were not actually included in the previous build and are now included in this build:
  • Save games are significantly smaller on disk.
  • Playthroughs in the Save Game UI are grouped and collapsed together making for easier navigation of playthroughs with lots of saves across multiple playthroughs.