Fall is upon us, and dark things might lurk around the corner.

We have updated Creatures: The Albian Years, and you should see Steam downloading and applying the update automatically.

Here is a list of what we did:


Creatures 2 Hallowe'en Pack

This pack of seasonal COBs for Creatures 2 was initially developed by Creature Labs back in the day, but has not previously been included in Albian Years. It adds the following injectable items:

Decorations
Devilish critter
Ghost
Jack'Olantern
Pumpkin Pie
Skeleton
Witch


Updated files

We'd like to extend our thanks to community member EemFoo who unearthed some updated COB files from Creatures 2 life kit #1. These are official files made by CreatureLabs back in the day that should be more stable than the versions previously included.


Creatures 1 Christmas Pack 2

This pack of seasonal cobs for Creatures 1 was developed by Creature Labs and originally released in late 1997. Previously, only the first Christmas Pack was included in Albian Years.

This adds the following files to inject:

Christmas Cards.COB
Christmas Cracker.COB
Christmas Fireplace.COB
Christmas Incubator lights.COB
Christmas Lights.COB
Christmas Pudding.COB
Christmas SnowStorm.COB
Christmas Streamers.COB
Christmas Tinsel.COB
Incubator lights.COB
SnowStorm.COB

The readme containing a description for all of these objects has also been added to the main directory. Check the file "Xmas Pack 97.txt" for more information!

It also adds a new Santa Norn that you can import.


We have also continued our efforts to increase the stability of Creatures 2. There is a potential fix that may help reduce the amount of crashes related to DirectX errors, though this will require more testing on our part before we can set it live.