Encrafted 0.73.2

Encrafted Beta 0.73.0 - 0.73.2

G'day everyone! Thank you so much for playing and enjoying the Encrafted demo!! It's been absolutely thrilling seeing the game reach more eyes than anything I've ever made before! I'll continue to update and improve the game as I pave the way to fully releasing it! Don't forget to add it to your wishlist if you like it, it helps a tonne!!!

This update doesn't add any new artefacts, but it does add many quality of life tweaks and fixes, along with a lot of fine balancing. More artefacts are coming, however!

Pinning recipes is here! You can now pin any entry in the crafting guide!

By pressing the pin button on an entry in the crafting guide, you can pin it to the top.

This also means that it will show outside of the crafting guide above your crafting slots, giving you a quick indicator of how close you are to making it! You can also select any material to bring up the guide filtered to that.

Quick sending materials to the crafting slots!

If you press the hammer icon in the guide for any entry that is ready to be crafted, it will move all of the materials into the crafting slots for you! Make sure to alter the order of materials used before you do it if your build requires it.

Suboptimal draw protection

Sometimes players would accidentally draw from the bag when they were intending to look inside of it, this is particularly frustrating if you have a mostly full inventory, and the resulting draw would be wasted by only giving you 1 or 2 materials.

To help with this, the magnifying glass has hat its detection zone significantly increased. On top of that, if you try and draw when it would result in a suboptimal bag pull, it will require you to hold it down instead of just tapping it.

This holding behaviour also applies to the new game menu if it would overwrite an existing run.

Challenge round intros

To make challenge rounds more obvious, and possibly a little menacing, there's now an intro title that shows which challenge round is starting. It's accompanied by a deep brass sound for extra terror.

Heaps of balancing

While the game was likely not too hard for most on the normal mode of the demo, it likely was pretty unforgiving on the "Tough mode". This is because I've balanced the game around the lower difficulties, and tough mode has a similar difficulty to that of difficulty VII of the base game. Several things have been strengthened or weakened depending on their relative usefulness.

Notably, re-rolls are now significantly cheaper for the first few shops (previous image is the first shop), before returning to their normal price. All positive spells including incinerate and duplicate are now also much cheaper, but will ramp up to their standard price as they are used.

The Revolve spell is now 5 essence instead of 8, because it has an opportunity cost already and doesn't guarantee the re-rolled challenge round won't also be a run killer.

Three materials (an egg, a banana, and a wheat) have been removed from the Picnic bag to slightly aid with RNG in pulling, but without making bag-fixing too easy.

As for artefacts:

Debut is now 1 weight to reflect its fleeting usefulness after the beginning of rounds.

Zero Gravity is also 1 weight now because it indirectly uses up a lot of weight just to be useful.

Nuclear waste, Fancy bread, and sugar strike were all too underpowered to be built around in higher difficulties, so they were all strengthened.

Banartefact has been brought down a tiny bit in scaling speed to stop it being such a crutch tool in higher difficulties.

Cannibal has been changed to eat half as often, but be slightly stronger to prevent it from being such a necessity to feed it.

Ritual has had its strengthen rate slightly increased to better line up with its commitment to do so.

Trophy, The Magician, Collector, and Arsonist have had their scaling rates reduces to line up with how easy they are to scale and how versatile their boosts are.

Inheritance has had a boost to make it a worthy choice compared to Crystal Ball for earning essence.

Nest Egg and Training have had their effects reduced slightly because of how easy they were to stack up value on materials.

Red Carpet has had its multiplier increased to make it worth clearing out the inventory to receive a boost only a handful of times per round.

Waxing Crescent has been slightly buffed to make it a more attractive option, but not too much to prevent it from returning to its previous glory as an absolute no-brainer of an artefact.

One Trick Pony has had a slight boost to make it worth building for.

Couch is extremely useful so it's had to receive a tiny hit to its chance to activate to prevent it from being SO good.

Another pretty big change is imbued materials now give double the essence bonus. This should hopefully make them worth going for when you want to maximise essence income.

The game will continue to be balanced and improved, if you have feedback let me know on the Discord or on the Steam Discussion Boards. :) New artefacts are coming!

FULL LIST OF CHANGES:

> Beta 0.73.0 - 0.73.2:

• Increased base value of eggs: 4 -> 6

• Increased base value of bananas: 5 -> 5.5

• Changed the picnic bag to only reduce your weight by 1 instead of 2 (demo still keeps the 8).

• Changed the explorer bag to only increase your weight by 1 instead of 2.

• Changed the picnic bag to only increase your disposes by 1 instead of 2.

• Removed an egg, a banana, and a wheat from the picnic bag's starting material pool.

• Increased the amount of essence granted when selling imbued materials: 1 -> 2

• Decreased weight of debut: 2 -> 1

• Increased strength of nuclear waste: 3 / 5 -> 3.5 / 5

• Increased strength of fancy bread: 1 / 1.4 -> 1.30 / 2

• Increased strength of sugar strike: 0.5 / 0.75 -> 0.6 / 0.9

• Decreased essence price of the revolve spell: 8 -> 5

• Changed price of the duplicate spell: 8 -> 3-8 (over 4 uses)

• Changed price of the incinerate spell: 4 -> 2-4 (over 6 uses)

• Changed price of the persuasion spell: 6 -> 3-6 (over 4 uses)

• Changed price of the enchantment spell: 7 -> 3-7 (over 3 uses)

• Changed price of the shimmer spell: 6 -> 3-6 (over 4 uses)

• Changed price of the venerate spell: 6 -> 3-7 (over 3 uses)

• Changed price of the optimise spell: 8 -> 4-8 (over 4 uses)

• The shop re-roll price now ramps up from half of what it was to normal over the course of the first 3 shops.

• Swapped rarities of fairy bread and biscuit to reflect their relative complexities.

• Fixed rare case where a save file post-win could lose out on the first shop of freeplay if multiple autosaves stacked.

• Fixed nest egg's description from correctly showing the decimals of its strength.

• Never alone now only affects final products.

• Increased strength of inheritance: 2 / 3 -> 4 / 5

• Decreased strength of the magician: 0.75 / 1.25 -> 0.6 / 1

• Decreased strength of the blaze and splash: 2 / 3 -> 1.5 / 2

• Increased strength of red carpet: 1.5 / 2.5 -> 2 / 3

• Decreased strength of collector: 5 / 8 -> 4 / 6

• Decreased strength of training: 1 / 1.5 -> 0.8 / 1.25

• Increased strength of one trick pony: 1.5 / 3 -> 2.5 / 4

• Increased strength of waxing crescent: 0.25 / 0.4 -> 0.3 / 0.45

• Decreased strength of arsonist: 5 / 9 -> 4 / 7.5

• Decreased chance of couch activating: 50 / 100 -> 40 / 80

• Decreased strength of trophy: 1.5 / 2.5 -> 1.25 / 2

• Decreased weight of zero gravity: 2 -> 1

• Decreased strength of nest egg: 3 / 4 -> 2.5 / 3.5

• Increased strength of ritual: 0.2 / 0.3 -> 0.25 / 0.4

• Decreased strength of banartefact: 0.5 / 0.85 -> 0.4 / 0.65

• Increased strength of cannibal: 0.1 / 0.15 -> 0.15 / 0.25

• Fancy bread now also considers crafted toast in its scaling.

• Increased the scaling rate of the forest upgrade: 1% -> 2%

• Challenge rounds now announce their title when they begin, along with a sound cue.

• Added configurable secondary cursor action bind, which can be changed to specify what you want it to do. Defaults to sending materials to the crafting slots.

• Added configurable keybind that will sort the inventory or pin the guide entry below the cursor.

• Cannibal now eats an artefact at the end of rounds 2 and 4 rather than before every round.

• Doubled amount of essence lost per sell load with the challenge round Haemorrhage: 2 -> 4

• Enhanced artefacts that are not discovered will now show with an arrow icon rather than the question mark icon to differentiate them in the gallery.

• Enhanced artefacts in the gallery will now show as their unenhanced variant dimly if the standard variant has been discovered and they have not.

• Added ability to pin craft entries to the top of the crafting guide.

• Added ability to quickly send the materials needed for a valid entry to the craft slots via the guide.

• Added keyword term for artefacts that mention "Mimicking". Affects "Dimensional Doorway", "Miner", "Hallucination", and "Mrs. Cow".

• Selecting to filter the material that is already being filtered will instead remove the material filter.

• When starting a new run that will replace a previous run, the tick button must now be held for a short duration.

• You must now hold down the bag to draw from it if the draw would be sub-optimal.

• Fixed bug where the crafting guide's "light beam" effect that occurs when filtering materials would cap at the previous filter's entry count instead of the new one.

• Disabled interacting with the crafting slots during tutorial index 20, 22 and 66.

• Enabled interacting with the bag during tutorial index 20, 22 and 66.

• You can now draw and craft (and sell if above 1 sell load) freely during tutorial index 33 and 34.

• Buying materials will now instantly discover it if it wasn't already.

• The virtual cursor now scales its speed based on resolution to prevent higher resolution displays having a comparably slower cursor.

• Opening the Steam page from within the main menu now attempts to open it in the Steam overlay if possible.

• The link buttons at the bottom right of the main menu now have slightly wider text boxes.

• Fixed "Fancy Bread" being native to bags other than the picnic bag (and explorer bag).

• Fancy bread now requires bread to have been discovered to craft (mainly concerns the explorer bag).

• Added "game autosave" command to prevent auto-saving for debug purposes.

• Any conditioned artefacts will no longer have doubled up keyword tooltips in the cases where that would happen (previously only prevented for weightless).

• Evanescent artefacts always sell for 1 now.

• Increased the hitbox exaggeration of the magnifying glass leftwards from 20% to 50%, rightwards from 20% to 35%, downwards from 20% to 65%, and upwards from 20% to 140%.

• Added setting to change the background animation's speed (between 5% and 150%).

• Multiple console commands issued at the same time are now queued and issued a frame apart instead of instantly.

• Added "Borderless" setting into the graphics settings that makes the fullscreen mode not act as exclusive fullscreen (defaults to enabled).

• Increased default setting for craft/sell evaluation speed: 100% -> 125%

• [DEMO] The leaderboard crown icon no longer shows on the picnic bag for difficulty X (as that can't be played).

• [DEMO] The Steam button on the main menu now reminds you to wishlist the game!

• [DEMO] Added feedback form link to the main menu.