Slow and Steady Wins the Race

General Changes:

• Added a new "Long Hair" character customization option.

• Added keybinds to use buttons on certain menus, e.g., hitting ESC to return to the menu from the Settings menu.

• Added some new cheat-only (mainly for testing) items such as the Home Protection Sword.

• Added a new "Save" button to the pause menu, so you no longer have to wait for autosaves or quit the game to save.

• Added more Rich Presence options to Discord & Steam.

• Added a new starter house.

• Added icons to indicate autosaving and the waypoint marker.

• Added an icon to indicate when the game is autosaving.

• Added a background image to the menu.

• Added a new lamp to indicate where the player & Professor Jitters will spawn by default.

• Removed the "Save World During Save" experimental setting.

• Removed the Forge block.

• Removed the Crate block.

• Temporarily removed door blocks.

• Bricks may now only be mined with a Mana Crystal or higher tier pickaxe.

• Changed the description of the Home Protection Sword: "More American than a 9mm handgun!" --> "Smallest blade in London."

• Changed the description of the Blicky: "Nothing is more American than a 9mm handgun!" --> "Watch where you aim!"

• Changed certain textboxes/buttons to make fonts & font styles more consistent across the game.

Visual and User Interface Changes:

• Remade various textures.

• Remade the American flag texture on the menu.

• Redesigned the menu layout.

• Redesigned the world creation menu.

• Redesigned the pause menu, featuring character art, both added and unadded.

• New screen to show progress when a world is being created/loading.

• Remade trees.

Gameplay Mechanics, Balancing, and Bugfixes:

• Fixed save system not saving currencies.

• Fixed button focus issues.

• Fixed issues causing items to sometimes be transparent and have the ability to be dropped infinitely.

• Fixed some issues with breaking blocks causing lag spikes.

• Fixed some issues with autosaving causing long-lasting lag spikes.

• Fixed various bugs pertaining to the leaderboards.

• Fixed some bugs where you could hold multiple items at once.

• Fixed various duplication glitches.

• Fixed some crashes with trying to swap items in the trash slot.

• Higher tiers of pickaxes now mine faster as intended.

• Saving and loading the game is now much faster.

• Game now runs smoother.

• Balanced ore spawn rates.

• Balanced item stack limits.

• Caves now spawn much farther down.

• Reworked the catacomb structures to line the "middle" of the world.

• Enemies now despawn farther off screen.

• Added a world border that the camera/player should not be able to escape from.

• Added more recipes, some of which are used to craft new items.

• Nerfed the health of AHPG: 2500 --> 1500.

• Added 3 new weapons, including the first ranged weapons.

Technical and System Changes:

• Added levels 1 to 5 for Jack Lumber, each level increases strength and health.

• Remade world generation system (worlds are now loaded/created much faster and are much larger).

• Remade cave generation system; caves will now be much larger and connect smoother, reducing floating blocks.

• Remade much of the player controller.

• Remade Jack Lumber AI.

• Remade the developer/beta testing map.

• Remade the default enemy AI/enemy controller script.

• Remade the item system.

• Changed how the block id system works.

• Temporarily hid 'Luck' stat.

• Added support for the Steam Inventory system (although it is currently unused).

• Added a bunch of networking features in the backend to potentially add multiplayer functionality in the future.

• Added backend functionality for Quests.

• Added hit chance to certain weapons/attacks. This is for both the player and the enemies.

• Added platforms and one-way collision support.

• Moved the world/character save locations.

Quality of Life and Miscellaneous:

• Made the game less pixelated; this makes the rotation of sprites look far smoother than before.

• Added new console command "god" to enable godmode.

• Failing a boss encounter will now reset the boss. AHPG will place his spawner block back as it was once he is reset.

• Added player invulnerability frames.

• Added knockback to player and enemies when being hit by a melee weapon.

• Added limits to how far you can turn your head.

• Added stuns to enemies and the player.

• Made buttons to cycle through the leaderboards on the main menu.

• Made the game no longer fullscreen if you had the setting to fullscreen turned on and exited to the menu from a world.

• Made it so you can now delete saved worlds.

Closing Notes:

Many of these updates were backend changes, ensuring that content will be made smoother/faster/better in the future. These updates take a lot of time to make and we want to ensure that they are at peak quality. There are also various other bugfixes/other additions/removals that are not listed here.