To celebrate, the game is now also on a sale, so it's a great time to get the game if you haven't already and to invite friends to play with you.
As mentioned in the release announcement, the game will continue to grow in content and is still in early access. So keep playing, giving feedback and help shape the game!
To put a few words and numbers on how far it has come, some of the changes are:
- Complete graphics overhaul, updating almost all base textures
- A bunch of accessibility features like zoom level and interface size
- Twice the amount of bosses to defeat and reworked boss fights
- Over twice the amount of monsters, over 3 times the amount of enemies
- Twice the amount of items including weapons, trinkets and armor
- Major performance improvements
- Big improvements to multiplayer, hit detection, lag etc.
- Completely new music
You can see a full changelog further down (it's very long).
Again, thank you to everyone who's been playing, sharing and giving feedback. It's been a big help and please continue to do so!
I've also updated the store page with new screenshots, gifs and an updated trailer you can check out here:
In this next stage of early access, some of the more demanding features will start to get more attention. Modding being the big one, but also additional platform support and more progression content.
For everyone who's been playing experimental, you can check out the changelog for v0.20.38 at the very bottom.
If you're still playing on v0.19, I highly recommend starting a new world. There has been a bunch of changes and new world generation that you will benefit from.
Full 0.20 changelog
Additions
Added completely new music.Added interface size setting.
Added zoom levels. Can be changed using new zoom controls or in general settings.
Added a completely new tech tier and workstation.
Added a deeper caves, reached by defeating Pirate Captain.
Added boss health bars. Can be toggled in interface settings.
Added new desert themed boss.
Added new boss in deep caves.
Added new deep snow cave boss.
Added ability to craft using nearby inventories inside workstations.
Added 7 new achievements.
Added door auto open/close.
Added world difficulty option.
Added Polar Bears to snow biome.
Added Polar Claw trinket.
Added wall torches.
Added attack animation to vampire.
Added Goblin mob.
Added rope item.
Added wooden fence gates.
Added map icons for ladders going up.
Added ability to feed flora to cows and sheep for a drop.
Added rare imported cow and sheep to Traveling Merchant shop.
Added Farming Scythe.
Added Traveling Pawnbroker.
Added anglers bait.
Added "No settler" option to prevent settlers to move into a room.
Added swamp rock cave rock and floors.
Added Mummy mob.
Added sandstone and swampstone walls and doors.
Added swamp larva bait.
Added snow and swamp variations of crates.
Added Sand Spirit mob.
Added Mummy Mage mob.
Added Heavy Hammer weapon.
Added Ancient Feather trinket.
Added Mining Charm trinket.
Added Cactus Shield trinket.
Added quartz ore to desert caves.
Added quartz armor set.
Added Quartz Staff magic weapon.
Added Vulture Staff summon weapon.
Added Vultures Burst ranged weapon.
Added Vultures Talon melee weapon.
Added Magical Quiver trinket.
Added Ninjas to snow cave mobs.
Added tooltip about quartz ore to demonic pickaxe.
Added tungsten ore and bars.
Added a set of tungsten tools.
Added a set tungsten weapons.
Added life quartz ore.
Added Life elixir, can now permanently increase max health up to 300.
Added skeleton mobs.
Added deep cave spirit mob.
Added Bone Hilt trinket.
Added Elderly Wand magic weapon.
Added Fire Stone trinket.
Added Depths Catcher fishing rod.
Added buff when close to settlement flags that reduces mob spawns.
Added Tungsten Armor set.
Added Ectoplasm item.
Added Treasure Potion.
Added Shadow Bolt magic weapon.
Added recipe for Wood Boomerang and removed it from chest loot.
Added sound effects to many more weapons.
Added Life Pendant trinket.
Added stone path recipe.
Added Shadow Beam magic weapon.
Added Reapers Call magic weapon.
Added Reaper Scythe melee weapon.
Added Death Ripper ranged weapon.
Added Ammo Box trinket.
Added Shadow armor sets.
Added palm trees to desert biome generation.
Added spruce trees, will generate along with new oak trees.
Added smaller surface rocks that generate along big rocks.
Added sand variation of surface rocks.
Added swamp grass, mud and willow trees to swamp biome generation.
Added snowstone, obsidian and deep stone walls and doors.
Added a small icon to trinkets that's disabled by another one.
Added expand/collapse button to workstation lists.
Added show hidden checkbox to all workstations.
Added new dungeon trap type.
Added more wall variations of traps and a chance for random traps to cave chest rooms.
Added Demonic Spear weapon.
Added small set bonuses to copper and iron armor.
Added Slime mob to swamp biome.
Added hit sound to all mobs.
Added ability to populate your settlements with villagers.
Added tile place previews, just like when placing objects.
Added a new critter system that spawns ambient animals.
Added Rabbit to forest/plains biomes.
Added Squirrel to forest/plains biomes.
Added Snow Hare to snow biome.
Added Crab to desert biome.
Added Slug to swamp biome.
Added rare vulture mask cosmetic item.
Added 3 birds types.
Added Frog to swamp biome.
Added Scorpion to desert biome.
Added Duck, will spawn in water.
Added server setting to allow clients for more desync control (default on).
Added jumping ball mount.
Added small amount of camera shake to various events. Can be disabled in graphics settings.
Added wheat crop.
Added calves and lambs.
Added feeding trough.
Added Plague Doctor cosmetic set.
Added Surgical Mask cosmetic item.
Added new quickbar on right side of toolbar when inventory is open.
Added a new questing system.
Added show quest markers interface setting (default on).
Added Mining Potion.
Added Building Potion.
Added Crawling Zombie.
Added a bunch of quest items.
Added Boxing Glove gun.
Added Construction Hammer trinket.
Added Telescopic Ladder trinket.
Added Tool Extender trinket.
Added Toolbox trinket.
Added Infinite Water Bucket.
Added Infinite Rope.
Added Force of Wind trinket.
Added Spider critter to caves.
Added Mouse critter to caves.
Added rare Giant Cave Spider.
Added cave spider gland material item.
Added Spider Armor set.
Added Spider Boomerang.
Added Venom Staff.
Added completely new player team system.
Added Snow Wolf.
Added Cryo Flake mob.
Added Glacial Ore and Bars.
Added Glacial Shard item.
Added Icicle Staff.
Added Glacial Armor sets.
Added Glacial Bow.
Added small areas with a bunch of crates and vases in caves.
Added controls to use armor set ability.
Added Glacial Boomerang.
Added Void Armor sets.
Added enchanted version of mobs in the dungeon.
Added commands for giving and clearing buffs for players.
Added Empty Pendant item that increases max trinkets.
Added Spiked Boots trinket.
Added Spiked Bat Boots trinket.
Added Frost Stone trinket.
Added Frost Flame trinket.
Added smart mining.
Added Ice Pickaxe.
Added settlement quest tiers, get unique items based on quest tier.
Added Void Pouch item.
Added Pawnbroker settler.
Added the ability to track achievements.
Added Calming Rose trinket.
Added trash cursor when holding down trash key.
Added Coin Pouch.
Added random lava blob effects.
Added Summon Foci trinket.
Added Spider Staff summon weapon.
Added Mesmer Tablet trinket.
Added Inducing Amulet trinket.
Added show damage over time text interface setting.
Added Homestone and Waystones.
Added Hysteria Tablet trinket.
Added Frenzy Orb trinket.
Added Caveglow plant.
Added Greater Health Potions.
Added different log types.
Added oak, spruce, pine and palm furniture sets.
Added bench object.
Added cabinet object.
Added dresser object.
Added clock object.
Added candelabra object.
Added chest open and close sounds.
Added a bunch of new dungeon furniture.
Added Desert Village biome.
Added Snow Village biome.
Added Cryo Staff summon weapon.
Added hit sound for training dummy.
Added door open and close sound effects.
Added pine wall and door objects.
Added sand gravel tile.
Added Dynamite Stick.
Added small rain particle effects.
Added small animation to training dummy when hit.
Added invite friends menu option in escape menu.
Added popup when receiving a game invite in main menu.
Added Swamp Shooter mob.
Added Cave Moles.
Added Explorer settler.
Added activate sounds for Void Wizard.
Added Stink Flask.
Added Overgrown Fishing Rod.
Added wild cattails.
Added ability for items to show when players are holding them.
Added animation for holding a torch in hand.
Added rain sound effect.
Added weather volume setting.
Added Banner Of Speed.
Added don't show again checkbox to EA notice.
Added movement corner skipping.
Added control for moving toward the mouse when held down.
Added small icon to spawn island in world map.
Added Trapper Zombie.
Added Trapper Hat.
Added a bunch more death messages.
Added Horse Mask costume set.
Added Hoverboard mount.
Added waystones used, homestones used, quests completed and items enchanted stats.
Added Cryo Quake weapon.
Added Cryo Spear weapon.
Added Cryo Blaster weapon.
Added Banner Stand object.
Changes
Major level render performance optimizations.Reworked particle system, optimizing and allowing more many more particles at once.
You will no longer drop your dragging item when trying to interact with something.
Optimized HUD rendering.
Reworked Void Wizard fight, now with 2 phases and animations.
Reworked Evil's Protector fight.
Increased ninja stars drop amount from ninjas.
Updated wood fence texture with shading.
Changed wall recipes to make 1 for half ingredients.
Increased price of worm bait bought from angler.
Ice will now turn into water when digging it, and can only be placed on shore water.
Changed cave chest rooms to have walls types that matches the biome.
Increased Void Apprentice teleport cooldown.
When trying to mine something you cant, you will now hear a "dink".
Changed attack speed buff tip to be more intuitive.
Reduced damage of flintlock pistol.
Increased damage of genie lamp weapon.
Items will now never despawn, instead there's a limit of 500 per map.
Many objects can now be rotated in all directions.
Updated a bunch of object textures and collisions.
Reworked NPC village generation. Should now be much bigger and not have random paths.
Removed invasion events until more content/meaning is added around them.
Demonic workstation can now craft anything from regular workstation.
You can now no longer mouse over yourself to see health and name.
Increased stack size of many items.
Significantly reduced teleport sickness time.
Reduced the recipe cost of floor tiles.
Reworked how damage reduction from armor is calculated.
Rebalanced a bunch of mobs damage due to new armor reduction.
Changed traveling NPC arrive message to "is arriving".
Changed boss spawn item recipes to use demonic bars.
Improved desync issues for projectiles.
Made you able to place floors on top of snow.
Settlers and villagers will now always close doors they open, unless players is in the way.
Updated all flower and seed textures.
Removed auto loading of server worlds, instead use "-world .." launch parameter.
Improved world time desync between server and client.
Reduced the rate that grass grows.
Updated grass textures.
Updated a bunch of tile and floor textures and added more variation to them.
Updated pine and oak tree textures.
New players will now have PvP disabled by default.
Private drops from bosses will now be dropped at boss location instead of player.
Changed Pirate Captain to drop an item for each attacking player.
Increased size of dropped items.
Changed Void Staff to have shorter range, higher damage.
Mage will now buy void shards after Void Wizard.
Workstations can now also craft inventory recipes.
Void wizard bouncing projectile will now not pierce targets.
Updated all cave rock textures and ores.
Updated a bunch of object shadows.
Dropped items will now slowly sink in liquid.
Shallow water will now have less waves.
Increased range of local maps and they will now not be consumed if nothing was found.
Water and lava will now also create stone when colliding diagonally.
Updated a bunch of wall textures.
Updated all doors, can now be custom rotated and is easier to see.
Grass tiles will now not be dropped, but increased chance of seeds.
Surface and cave ruins will now use biome appropriate walls and floors.
Updated dungeon style completely.
Updated metal bar textures.
Increased boss health scaling when there are multiple players significantly.
Improved bouncing projectile desync.
Updated all potion textures.
Updated a bunch of weapon and tool textures.
Updated all mob shadows.
Changed dungeon island entrance structure.
Passive/farm animals is not able to pass doors or gates on their own.
Updated pathfinding, making mobs able to find longer paths and faster.
Settlers are now able to find much longer and complex paths, making it harder for them to get stuck outside their house.
Updated wood fence texture.
Updated all tile item textures.
Updated loot crate textures.
Armor stand now has a tip about how to quickly equip items from it.
Increased loaded map area before clients spawn in, fixing a bunch of potential issues.
Updated farm land texture.
Void Wizard will always drop either travel scrolls or recall scrolls.
Reworked post processing completely, optimizing and adding new functionality.
It's now not possible to quick trash items that's locked.
Changed achievements and stats to make it more obvious you can select different stats.
Reworked mob spawn logic to allow for more diversity without sacrificing spawn rate.
Debug menu tools are now much more intuitive to use.
Updated sheep texture.
Removed confusing place tooltip on flowers.
Increased width of inventory crafting area, adding one more column.
Updated cactus texture and added random variation.
Wood bed can now be crafted in workstation.
Reworked and refactored packet handling.
Moved PvP and team settings to new quickbar button.
You will now have half health on respawn instead of full.
Pressing escape while having a float "selection" menu open will now close it.
Updated all buff textures.
Boss health scaling will now be based on percentage health, but never decrease the scaling.
Reduced island travel distance.
Riding boats will now increase island travel distance.
Tweaked mob movement to handle surfaces like ice better.
Updated void shard item texture.
Updated wool and leather item textures.
Increased ninja robe armor slightly.
Rebalanced armor values, making the different tiers more clear.
Updated cactus sapling item texture and changed its name to just Cactus.
Boats now accelerate much faster.
Inverted keep inventory on death world setting.
Raised players eye position when looking south slightly.
Reworked UI sprites, solving a few issues.
Optimized shaders.
Pressing inventory key will now close island map if open.
Hostiles will now much more consistently walk towards their attackers.
Reworked how the game handles mob hits, reducing possible desync.
Demon Heart now increases health to 200.
Items found/dropped at pirate islands are now sold by Pirate settler.
Knockback will now not cancel any current movement.
Decreased mobility cloak bonus slightly.
Floating text now has an outline and a small animation.
Human/Settler mobs now have 30 armor.
Changed how slows are calculated.
It's now no longer possible to place a tile on the same type.
Doubled chat message character limit.
Duplicate trinkets equipped will now show later ones as disabled.
Missing trinkets window will now show item icons instead of just names.
Renamed inventory move modifiers to make it more clear what they do.
Reworked trails, should now be slightly more optimized and smooth.
Adjusted the grow chances of different tiles like grass and snow.
Reworked part of inventory system to allow for more item functionality.
Reduced coin stack size to 1000.
Changed crafting guide to open from right click.
Death timer will now use the highest of all attackers.
Increased boss death timer to 20 seconds.
Crafting guide is now opened by pressing right click on it.
Summoned mobs will now knock mobs away from the owner.
Reduced Baby Zombie knockback.
Reworked all mob movement. Will now be more accurate and can move in any direction.
Reworked how summoned mobs behave, move and attack.
Optimized a bunch of rendering, mainly particles and projectiles by up to 4 times faster.
Expanded version migration system to allow for migration of items and mobs.
Reworked sound position/direction.
Summoned attacking mobs will no longer show their name on mouse hover.
Adjusted rock object top collision. Should prevent weird enemy pathfinding in caves.
Updated Brain on a Stick item texture.
Changed a bunch of summon item IDs.
Summon items will now show max summons on the item, same as bow/gun ammo.
Buff duration text now has an outline to make it more readable.
Training dummies now show the total DPS for a player.
Increased range of player quickstack and restock.
Damage over time will now also display in DPS when attacking training dummies.
Updated teleport sound effect.
Removed Telepads.
Made a bunch of different recipes that use stone accept any stone type.
Removed a bunch of the old wood furniture, will be replaced with spruce in saves.
Updated a lot of textures to fit with the existing outline style.
Players riding other mobs will now look like they're holding on.
Chests will now show when they're open in the world.
Increased the amount of particles when under a damaging debuff.
Increased basic chests inventory size.
When spawning in, object entities (inventories etc.) will now load much faster.
Changed how controls are handled, should now better detect "used" events on UI stuff etc.
Updated gravel tile texture.
Increased damage from lava and now scales with max health.
Reworked all AI, making it much more consistent and optimized.
TNT can now be crafted using Dynamite Stick and some wire.
Changed roar sound effect to be more distinct.
Pirates will now regen HP very fast when they can't find a target.
Reworked mob ability system.
Summoned mobs will no longer attack Void Wizard when he's not active.
Player inventory will now no longer close on exit, level change, container open etc.
Updated training dummy and armor stand texture shading.
Changed private Steam lobby type to invite only.
Made disable mob spawns world setting considered a cheat. Can now only be changed using /settings server command.
Renamed Pirate Island to Pirate Village and Dungeon Island to Dungeon Entrance.
World and travel map grid will now be much bigger at larger screen sizes.
Changed sound falloff, making it much more natural.
Removed item stand object, will be replaced with spruce display.
Updated a bunch of item textures.
Click and drag to select text is now much better when the mouse is outside the text area.
Achievements unlock time is now much more stable and will be loaded from Steam.
Changed how pathfinding checks collisions, making enemies not try to walk where they can't as much.
Updated and expanded a bunch of debugging tools.
Texture loading should now be faster, especially on lower end systems.
Camera will now reach the edge of the map (before it stopped 1 tile out).
Cursor size is now dynamic and can be bigger than the default size.
Cave Zombies and Goblins now have a small chance to drop a Mysterious Portal if you haven't killed Evils Protector yet.
Crops will now weave when they get hit.
Improved level loading of entities etc.
Updated Ostrich mob texture slightly.
Active buffs are now sorted instead of showing in random order.
Updated Lightning Hammer texture and animation.
Increased size of Wood and Void Boomerang.
Changed settings back button to cancel to make it more obvious you're discarding changes.
Updated boat textures.
Updated glass bottle texture.
Updated TNT texture.
Updated carpet textures.
Reworked carpets making them connect to any adjecent carpet.
Updated alchemy table texture.
Updated Vampire bat texture and fixed missing death particles.
Updated texture and increased damage of Genie Lamp.
Updated Blood Bolt and Blood Volley textures.
Updated Leather Armor textures.
Updated Steam controller support with new actions and added official PS4 controller configuration.
Updated explosion particle animation.
Updated a bunch of flame and smoke particle animations.
Reduced health of Pirates not spawned by captain to 100.
Rewrote Pirate AI, making them more consistent.
Right-clicking trinkets will now be much smarter and replace other trinkets that overlap.
Reduced the spawn rate of dungeon mobs.
Hiding minimap will now be saved for next load.
Made debris particles when destroying tiles/objects more visible.
Removed resolution warning above 1080p since zooming is now a feature.
Fixes
Fixed possible desync when interacting with mobs.Fixed missing sign recipe.
Fixed missing sensor and sound gate recipes.
Fixed desert underground ores being wrong rock type.
Fixed destroying a ladder would not remove the ladder up.
Fixed cave chests rooms sometimes overlapping.
Fixed health number flickering during regeneration.
Fixed sounds sometimes not playing when they're being played elsewhere.
Fixed sounds rarely playing really loud.
Fixed spawn house being placed on top of liquid resulting in it being destroyed on tile update.
Fixed not being able to place objects on top of pets.
Fixed quick and clumsy trinket enchantments being reversed.
Fixed buttons sometimes not in focus when hovering over them.
Fixed tool damage enchantments not working correctly.
Fixed ninja mobs teleporting too far away.
Fixed desync issues with doors, switches etc.
Fixed desync issues when placing water near lava.
Fixed some issues with health/combat desync.
Fixed wire edit selector sometimes being messed up.
Fixed recall scrolls not being consumed when used while dragging.
Fixed abandoned mine bedroom chest sometimes not having any loot.
Fixed workstation filters sometimes not saving for the same workstation.
Fixed some items showing as obtainable when they were not.
Fixed a bunch of minor issues with pathfinding causing more lag.
Fixed initial mob directions being wrong on client.
Fixed possible crash when a lot of projectiles are active.
Fixed some rare loading errors.
Fixed used player names not being updated properly.
Fixed clients boomerang attacks sometimes being ignored by server causing desync.
Fixed void apprentice sometimes getting stuck at walls.
Fixed projectile desync issues with hitting mobs that teleport on hit.
Fixed possible issues with taking mapshots, should now work on more systems.
Fixed clicking screenshot and mapshots in chat sometimes opening a website.
Fixed potential crash when mobs where swimming in liquid.
Fixed some possible inventory desync when using quick stack and restock
Fixed controls list order sometimes being messed up.
Fixed losing health to damage over time not considered in combat.
Fixed issue where rooms would not update instantly when trying to set a desired settler.
Fixed flying mobs causing grass to weave.
Fixed possible issues with levels saving removed entities.
Fixed possible issues with poison attacks now showing for clients.
Fixed minimap edge texture stretching on smaller levels (like the dungeon).
Fixed frame buffer error being logged when minimizing the game.
Fixed a bunch of issues related to running the 32 bit version.
Fixed issue with FPS counter when running above 1000 FPS.
Fixed backed up worlds not changing their identifier.
Fixed issue when loading mobs that have max health based on buffs.
Fixed some rare crashes related to entity lists.
Fixed projectiles sometimes getting stuck in the air in multiplayer.
Fixed a bunch of issues with edges of maps.
And a bunch of other smaller changes and fixes.
v0.20.38 changelog
Additions
Added new deep snow cave boss, spawn item can be crafted in advanced workstation or dropped from deep snow cave mobs.Added completely new music, 23 tracks in total playing in different biomes and situations.
Added Reaper settlement quest tier.
Added Hoverboard mount, obtained from completing Reaper quest tier.
Added Cryo Quake weapon, dropped from new boss.
Added Cryo Spear weapon, dropped from new boss.
Added Cryo Blaster weapon, dropped from new boss.
Added new boss settlement quest tier.
Added Banner Stand object, obtained from completing new boss settlement quest tier.
Added waystones used, homestones used, quests completed and items enchanted stats.
Added 7 new achievements.
Changes
Coin pouch can now be bought from Traveling Merchant when Pirate quest tier is completed.Special inventories like dressers, display stands etc. can no longer be used for nearby crafting, restock and quickstack.
Lava now deals a minimum of 20 damage to mobs.
Picking up duplicate quest items will now make the extra disappear.
Shadow Hood set now also gives a projectile velocity bonus.
Fixes
Fixed a bunch of issues with edges of maps.Fixed some smaller issues related to AI.
Fixed potential errors in level rendering.
Fixed following mobs projectiles able to hit non PvP players.
Fixed a bunch of desync issues related to using the quick action buttons in inventories.
Fixed being able to be hit by multiple projectiles on the same tick.
Fixed black pixels around textures when using up-scaled interface.
Changed files in this update