Newly Added Maker Tiles:

Player Upgrades:

• Super Bomb - Upgrade that increases blast radius and damage of Honey Bombs in Hyperfocus.

• Uppercut Glove - Upgrade that breaks through blocks while rising at high speeds.

• Divekick Boots - Upgrade that breaks through blocks while falling at high speeds.

• Poison Bottle - Downgrade that cuts maximum health in half.

• Antidote Bottle - Upgrade that eliminates the effects of Poison Bottles.

Additional Tiles:

• Ceiling Climbing Surface - Overhead surface that can be climbed horizontally with Climbing Gloves.

• Ability Jammers (4) - Devices that disable collected upgrades while in the same room.

• Ability Gates (2) - Fields that completely remove or restore all collected upgrades when touched.

• Sticky Surfaces (2) - Surfaces that have properties of both Climbing and Grappling Surfaces.

• Basic Ability Disablers (3) - Generators that set basic abilities as unavailable at the start by default.

• Balls (3) - New variations that are indestructible and/or can float in water.

• Boxes (3) - New variations that are indestructible and/or can float in water.

• Dispensers (2) - New variations that dispense Floating Ball and Floating Box tiles.

• Topper Generators (3) - Places decorative moss, snow, or mud on standard block tiles in the room.

Fixes and Improvements:

New Features:

• Added Steam Achievements.

• Added Training Mode to the title screen: 15 Stages that introduce various gameplay elements.

• Added ability to flood-place and flood-erase tiles in Maker Mode, including undo/redo support.

• Maker Mode's Tile Selection can toggle between showing all tiles or categories of tiles.

• Goal screen shows badge based on clear-time* and item-collection rates.

New Animations:

• Added recoil animation to player character's hive when firing Beehive Shots and Honey Grapples.

• Added squish animation to player character's hive when dropping or throwing any form of Bomb.

Text Changes:

• Renamed the original "Climbing Surface" tile to "Climbing Surface (Wall)", and adjusted description.

• Renamed standard color "Blocks" to "Respawning Blocks".

• Updated description texts for the Environment Generators.

Additional Sprite Adjustments:

• The Starting Point tile in Maker Mode now uses its lit sprite to better stand out.

• Tweaked colors on Starting Point sprites to better differentiate from standard Checkpoints.

• Tweaked colors on floating Grapple Blocks to better differentiate from the non-floating blocks.

Additional Gameplay Adjustments:

• One-Way Platform tiles can now be used as Room entry points.

• Now able to use the map-based Warp upgrades while in Maker Mode Playtests.

• Now able to use Hyperfocus and Super Jumps while in Honey Hive form.

• Hyperfocus is now interrupted when using Honey Grapple or Honey Bomb.

• Dashing is now interrupted when the player character comes to a stop from hitting obstacles.

• Player's Bombs now deal 20 points of splash damage to enemies.

• Player's Bombs now explode when coming into contact with Ball and Box tiles.

• Splash damage from player character's Bombs now deals minor knockback to enemies.

• Splash damage from player character's Bombs now also affects Grapple Boxes.

• Super Dash now affects destructible Grapple Box, Box, and Ball tiles.

• Explosions from Pillbug Bombs (both from Lizards and Dispensers) no longer affect Enemies.

Additional Maker Mode Adjustments:

• Updated Maker Mode UI with bigger sprites in all tile-selection menus.

• Added outlines and blur effects to tile menus to improve visibility of tile selections.

• Tweaked the tile menu background colors to improve visibility of tile selections.

• The Starting Items menu now displays its All/None buttons above its header.

• Increased text size of Starting Items menu's All and None buttons.

• Increased text field size for the Tile Selection menu's description box.

• Reassigned Save and Delete shortcuts on controllers to X+RB and X+LB respectively.

• The world name now resizes based on its name length.

• Added sound effects for Undo and Redo.

• The default selection for Ball and Box tiles are now their indestructible variations.

• Adjusted the order of tiles in the Tile Selection and Starting Items menus.

• Hovering info boxes now dismiss when clicking a tile from any tile-selection menus.

• Hovering info boxes now display information about the various tile-selection menus.

• Tile Variation menu now better centers its available options.

• The All and None buttons in the Starting Items menu now request confirmation.

• Clearing a World Playtest returns to Maker Mode by default, with a separate option for title screen.

• Cleaned up some overflowing description text for the Frog and Lizard tile variations.

• Updated text formatting and wording on some popup-box dialogs for better readability and clarity.

• The default Tile selection (Solid Block) is now highlighted when entering Maker Mode.

Additional UI Adjustments:

• Updated UI for the Title screen's Play Mode sub-categories.

• The world name now displays on the Play Mode HUD.

• Updated references to the "main menu" to use "title screen" wording for consistent verbiage.

• Added firework effects when clearing a world in Play Mode or in Maker Mode's World Playtest.

• Added gamepad support for selecting rooms on the Pause menu map.

• The player character now appears in the Pause menu's Options and Loadout screens.

• If Steam is offline when clicking "Upload to Workshop", a notification displays instead of the UI.

• Clarified "Steam not connected" notification text.

• Tweaked text related to Warping between rooms on the Pause Map.

Additional Assorted Adjustments:

• The "Asteroid World Demo" stage is now an unlockable stage when clearing all Training Stages.

• Adjusted camera to settle more quickly when entering or transitioning into Maker Mode.

• Moved the custom sprite references into the "custom\Tools" subdirectory.

• Improved screen wipe performance.

• Added screen wipe when returning to the title screen from Maker and Play modes.

• Clearing a World Playtest in Maker Mode now also saves the maker's clear-time**.

• Updated default gamepad controls to better accommodate Hyperfocus-based abilities.

• Improved handling of Steam client processes when offline, and updated related notifications.

• Made adjustments to better handle corrupted data files and game crashes.

Bug Fixes: "Fixed a bug where..."

• ...the player could infinitely jump when pushing against walls in Honey Hive form.

• ...the player could initiate a ground-jump when slightly above ground in Honey Hive form.

• ...the Bear sprite briefly displayed when moving between rooms in Honey Hive form.

• ...entering a Sidestep while moving allowed continued movement without Sneak Boots.

• ...the player character skipped when moving on standard Block and Room floor surfaces.

• ...the player character skipped when moving on Gel Blocks, and on horizontal Gap and Half Blocks.

• ...the player character skipped when moving on Grapple and Climb surfaces.

• ...the player spawned above ground level onto checkpoints and caves.

• ...outline effects lingered after upgrades are collected.

• ...outline effects lingered after some projectiles are destroyed.

• ...outline effects lingered after Ball and Box tiles are destroyed.

• ...outline effects lingered after Maker Tile is destroyed in Maker Mode.

• ...Maker Mode sign effects from the cursor selection lingered after switching to Playtest Mode.

• ...the Sidestep category in Maker Mode's Tile Selection only referenced the Hazard Sidestep.

• ...the Point Warp category in Maker Mode's Tile Selection only referenced the Starting Point Warp.

• ...the Tile Variations menu in Maker Mode only showed generic descriptions.

• ...upgrades in Picture Frame tiles were still counted as upgrades in the goal totals*.

• ...entering Honey Hive mid-dash allowed Honey Dashing without having the upgrade.

• ...flipped Spike Platforms sometimes would not spawn when reentering a room.

• ...lingering enemy projectiles could prevent Gray blocks from unlocking.

• ...the outlines of upgrades were visible from within Bubble Containers.

• ...Starting Items menu navigation on Steam Deck and controllers was misaligned.

• ...a corner-case could launch a new game in Play Mode with the Maker Mode UI.

• ...a corner-case could launch a continued game in Play Mode with the Pause menu open.

• ...Undo/Redo in Maker Mode did not properly handle relocating Cave tiles.

• ...the "Return to Checkpoint" Pause menu option did not perform a screen wipe while loading.

• ...loading a New Game in Play Mode did not initialize the camera to the player position.

• ...reloading from checkpoint and exiting caves did not initialize the camera to the player position.

• ...the player character's turning animation would sometimes play when entering a room.

• ...on KO, player character did not remain in its KO animation leading into the screen wipe.

• ...the actions and inputs could misalign on the Controls menu.

• ...loading in a new game was prevented if the old save file mismatched the world ID.

• ...environmental damage could still be taken briefly during a respawn.

• ...Water Level Generators would briefly not activate when entering the room.

• ...Background Generators would not refresh properly when moving between rooms.

• ...enemy damage recoil could be dependent on player character damage recoil state.

• ...the Display Settings could not be toggled when using a gamepad.

• ...the item collection rate displayed invalid values in Playtest instead of an "unknown".

• ...some tile variations did not properly highlight the Tile Selection menu when copied.

• ...the Custom Files Validation tool would crash if a sprite directory was missing.

*Only supported in worlds generated in this version or later.
**The maker clear-time is used to determine player clear-time rankings.