Hi everyone!

The Beasts and Bees update is now available!! It wasn't planned to bee this big but we can't stop our lead dev Ben! We really hope you'll enjoy it!

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The Beasts and Bees update includes:

- 1 New Branching Path (Where could it lead?)
- 2 New Npcs
- 18 New Relics
- 1 New Celestial Weapon
- New Achievements
- New Hats
- New Blueprints
- Frogs!!
- Secrets!!!
- and more...

We'll update the below roadmap each update so you can follow our journey to the full release!



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• Quality of life:

- Added Stat popups
- Added an in-run indicator to show what shard you are on
- Adjusted pickup collection range
- Added offscreen gate indicator
- Added an exit game button to the pause menu
- Added the possibility to jump while ascending
- Added a visual effect for when your sub weapon recharges
- Added an indicator, for when are on low FPS
- Made it so certain relics and pickups will not spawn in the final area
- Added the option to skip to the end of dialogue by double tapping
- Charmed Enemy bullets will now glow blue
- Added a quick restart option in the death screen
- Added a save and quit option at the end of areas
- The Imprisoned now shows you how many relics, out of how many, you have already unlocked
- The death screen now shows what shard you are on
- The shard selection menu now shows you how many wins in succession you have on each shard
- Relics that would be useless to get in the last area, wont pop up in the last area anymore

• Tweaks:

- Changed Area 1 chests to only cost half a heart
- Reworked offering statues
- Reworked secret rooms
- Reworked Blacksmith costs (now also scaling with relic rarity)
- Increased soul gain without the chainmeter unlocked
- Increased enemy room size to encourage/force more movement
- Soul reward at the end of a run is now rounded upwards
- Added an indicator for Angers dig attack
- Added some overall tweaks to Angers fight
- The Chest lottery doesn't reward you with souls anymore
- Removed unnecassery status fx from bosses
- Rebalanced Hat rarity!
- Tweaked the appearence rate of special rooms
- Getting punished by the shop will now keep the price increase till the end of the run
- NPC audio samples don't directly repeat anymore
- Additional hp that would otherwise be wasted (from HP pickups, or healing), will now be converted to max hp
- You can now offer all your max hp at the blacksmith
- Range is now also affected by shot speed
- Weapons can not charge themselves by hitting enemies anymore
- Enemy bullets now disappear after a certain distance
- The Maggots thrown out my Mama Maggots on death, don't fly as high anymore.
- Improved pathfinding

• Relics Buff:

- Thorny rose, make it attack every enemy in the room
- Damaged ammo now also works on enemy impact
- Big bullet also increases damage slightly.
- Open Lock: Increased effect by 10%
- Knight's Helmet: Increased effect by 10%
- Lil' Chest: Chance for chests to appear now also increases with upgrades.
- Scratch Ticket: Increased chance for shops to be free by a lot.
- Red Die: Now lets you reroll shop relics up to 3 times (depending on level) without the cost increasing.
- Poker chip: Reduced damage decrease by 10% aswell as increased the "actual" critrate increase by 10% (previous number was buggy and was pretty much just a 10% crit increase)
- Tri Ragnarok: Will not trigger while enemies are invincible anymore
- Miracle: Increased chance of occuring
- Slimeball: Resets range on bounce now.
- Health Flask: Health recovery is now rounded up.
- Weights: Trajectory now dependant on range. Now also increases damage slightly.
- Solar Fragment: Range slightly increased
- Propulsion Exhaust: Slightly decreased firerate decrease
- Mighty leek: Crit chance increased by 5%
- Mini Missile: Damage increased from 20% to 30% of your damage
- Heart Lunchbox: Overall chance increased by 5%
- Ember Pearl: Damage increased
- Ritual Blade: Increased chances of another random enemy dying on enemy death.
- Winged Strawberry: Won't dissappear anymore, when dashing while there are no enemies in a room.
- Pipette: Also Increases Fire rate now,
- Shield Fairy: Rooms needed to complete for it to drop a pickup reduced by 1
- Key Fairy: Rooms needed to complete for it to drop a pickup reduced by 1
- Lifevest: Increased Chance of effect. (25->30->35) -> (40->50->60)
- Courage Trophy: Upgrades increased from 5% to 10%
- Battery: Rare -> Common

• Relics Nerfs:

- Emergency syringe now gives less damage.
- Shield Polish: Now a legendary relic
- Greatsword: Lowered upgrade benefits
- Lovely Shell: Range Increase lowered
- Pulsing Orb: Range Increase lowered
- Red Die: Common -> Rare
- Glowshroom: Common -> Rare
- Miracle: Lowered damage
- Star Hairpin: Bullets are now shot based on player position, not gun position
- Tormented Soul: Common -> Rare
- Time Capsule: Common -> Rare
- Portal: Now works the same on gamepad, as well as keyboard+mouse
- Glass Cannon: Common -> Rare
- RC Controler: It doesn't set the bullet angle anymore, but instead lerps it towards the angle, keeping multi bullets from combining

• Relics Tweaks:

- Wind up key: Now increases your orbital speed, rather than decrease it.
- RC Controller: Now upgradeable
- Moon Earrings: Added new synergies, as well as made its range also speed dependant.
- Giants Fang: Can also give you familiars now.

• Pickup Buffs:

- Buffed Soul Onigiri from half a soul segment to a full one

• Weapon Buffs:

- Grappling hook is now slightly faster and doesn't grab onto platforms anymore

• Settings:

- Added a slew of graphic options to potentially allow for a smoother framerate
- Added an option that lets you slightly adjust the camera zoom while in enemy rooms
- Added an option that lets you skip more complex inputs (holding buttons and mashing buttons)
- Added an option that lets you dash towards the cursor position
- Added an option to turn off foreground elements
- Added a proper mouse lock system, rather than just clamping the mouse position in the window
- Added an option, that lets you adjust the Relic hud

• Bugfixes:

- Misfit scarf relic didn't calculate damage properly
- Fixed Vinish jumping out of the ground immediatly when holding Peaceful Decoy relic.
- Fixed Corrupted Bullet only dealing +.5 damage on corrupted enemies, rather than +50% damage
- Fixed a bug, where familiars would, at times, not be properly affected by relics like "giants fang"

• Typos:

- Minor Text adjustements