Blessed Surface update for 23 January 2020

Reki here. It’s a pretty big update. There’s a new item type, overhauled npc dialogue system, a new boss, a new miniboss, a new creature, tons of new effects on existing items, etc.

As usual, the Discord is the best place to go for technical help or discussion: https://discordapp.com/invite/e73QHcX

NOTICE: The Linux version of this update is having crash issues. I will do my best to release it at a later date. Apologies.

FEATURES:

• Rewrote most NPCs.
• Gave NPCs unique items they’ll give you after going through enough of their dialogue.
• Added keyword hints to NPCs.
• The big bell now does something interesting if you ring it at 12 o clock.
• Added many new things to see throughout the world.
• Transformation items and spines now have a dedicated auxiliary item slot.
• Parasites can now attach to you as auxiliary items.
• Added a new creature shared between Skungus Wilds and Cemetery of Bells.
• Enigma’s Corpse finisher has been reworked.
• Sunless Captain finisher now makes you wet.
• Added bone shotgun to Sunless Captain finisher.
• Added an additional projectile to Green Comet Form finisher.
• Increased speed of Red Comet Form finisher.
• Red Comet Form finisher’s tentacles now count as finishers, and are no longer destroyed by non finisher attacks.
• Ancient Cannibal finisher is now controlled with just the jump button, and can be canceled with the swap attack button.
• Ancient Cannibal finisher is now canceled when you take a hit.
• Ancient Cannibal finisher is now a lot faster and releases worms for every 10 segments.
• Hunter of Eyes finisher now collects eyes from strong creatures.
• Goop Gorger finisher is now slower and shorter.
• Goop Gorger finisher now releases goop.
• Ghost Knight’s Raccoon now counts as a finisher.
• Archive Scholar finisher now summons a magic scroll.
• Iron Bruiser balls now split into two upon hit, and give you an armor shard. Ten armor shards combine into a guard token.
• Iron Bruiser finisher only shrinks at the end of its duration.
• Ancestor of Dust finisher no longer gets stuck on terrain.
• Ancestor of Dust finisher now releases ghosts.
• Yellow-Weight Prisoner finisher shockwaves now stun, and they appear more reliably.
• Bandit Warlord finisher now has a guaranteed crit. [No other finisher can crit at all, to clarify.]
• Endgame corpse finisher has been made wider to better hit short creatures.
• Taraski Tooth swap attack has been made more consistent on max charge, and it now has a unique sound.
• Shortened Demon Bulwark swap attack.
• Added sounds to wind machines.
• Added a sound to bubble potion.
• Added an additional visual effect to bouncy status, as well as a sound.
• Added more lock blocks to the game to give more use to the recently updated key system.
• Added more chests with monsters in them.
• Improved visuals of starting area.

GAMEPLAY TWEAKS:

• NPCs now leave the area after you talk to them enough to get their items.
• Ravenous creatures can now receive the loaded buff. However, both loaded and magnetic have been made rarer for them to get.
• Random encounter bosses are now limited to one encounter per day now.
• Gunners and Barrels now behave like edible items.
• Added some random variance on barrel firing speed so projectiles don’t stack as much.
• Holding down an attack key after finisher now always performs that attack, to make longer finishers more consistent with attack queuing instead of charging another immediately after.
• Changed the sparkles on items to be easier to distinguish between equippable, edible, and temporary weapons. [I think there are barely any temporary weapon items left in the game, but it doesn’t hurt to make the distinction. Maybe more in a future update?]
• Chests no longer have a time constraint on refreshing their original contents.
• Adjusted rarity of blood types to make the common ones show up more often, and Pink and Orange less.
• Bosses now heal every 10 seconds up from 30 seconds if you don’t hit them for a while.
• Gold Monster Calamity Card now makes monsters Copper instead, to avoid confusion over them dropping gold coins.
• Boibes no longer require a finishing move to kill.
• Status effects are now removed on fast travel.
• Fogroot now removes knockback, so the sleep doesn’t instantly get woken up.
• Nerfed tentacles to only give you one tentacle per status applied. However, the achievement is easier now.
• Tentacles now grab high life enemies, so long as they are not knockback resistant.
• Frozen should now slow things more consistently.
• Getting wet now extinguishes fires.
• Getting wet should be more reliable now.
• Plague Shield only applies tentacled to player now, while still applying negative effects to enemies.
• Removed grass from Overgrowth Trimmer swap attack. [Looked weird and there’s new stuff this update that it overlaps with.]
• Goldbox Gunner stakes can now be destroyed with melee attacks, and are only solid if you step on them.
• The Oaksbane Rocket is now a lot stronger when it’s larger.
• Nerfed Chain-Walker heart passive.
• Cornet Heart trigger lasts longer now.
• Drubub Heart passive now keeps you at -85 alignment instead of -80.
• Pokeasite Heart stuns once again, since there are enough sources of poison in the game now.
• Reworked Priko Heart trigger.
• Poison Potion is now called Death Potion, to avoid confusion with the new poison status effect.

FIXES:

• Optimized recent changes to keybinds to greatly improve CPU performance.
• Rage no longer decays while finisher is charged, as intended.
• Removed a conflicting time limit with alignment super modes that was making them last only a short time.
• Fixed some creatures having double the intended Calamity Card drop chance.
• Fixed a memory leak with Grimmit Heart.
• Fixed dropping certain small items instead of putting them in inventory slots.
• Made a bunch of projectiles transfer between areas.
• Several fixes have been made to Scrapheart heart heart heart.
• Airship shouldn’t trap you against the ceiling any more.
• Belly boss water no longer stacks.
• Belly boss can no longer be pushed into the wall.
• Chests should no longer get killed by bosses. [I’m looking at you, Gob.]
• Boggot Heart should no longer make ghosts of trains, chests, or breakable blocks.
• Stopped monster mods from stacking with the same type.
• Fixed a bug causing sounds of things offscreen to play. [Should fix multiple audio related issues.]
• Enemy Goop Gorger can no longer spam his sound as fast.
• Drubub can also no longer spam its sound as fast.
• Curse Dweller Curse Charge shot no longer spams sound.
• Calamity Card deck no longer carries over to new games.
• Fixed Super Mode Calamity Card.
• You can no longer use your shield or Blue triggers during Unbreakable Guard Calamity Card. [If you be usin’ this card, you’re about to get scarred, yo yo.]
• Stopped Calamity Card text from stacking when you draw two more cards.
• Fixed a crash with Rurus.
• Fixed a crash with bouncy status effect.
• Fixed a crash with Pok Heart.
• Fixed a crash with Belly Calamity Card challenge.

REKI WRITES:

With NPC dialogue and auxiliary items in better shape, I think the only thing I’m truly unsatisfied with is the game’s multiplayer. Fleshing out multiplayer would be a big commitment that I can't really justify at the moment. As always, I'll monitor how well this update is received and make plans from there. Also, after the sale, there may be a price increase to reflect the content that's been added. That's all I've got, please enjoy the update!