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Steam News20 April 20242y ago

Environmental Disturbance - Major Update

We finally reached the end of the Early Access roadmap! It was a quite a journey but we made it. The game will officially exit Early Access on May 15th.

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Full SMYS : Show Me Your Stairs update

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What changed

1 fix2 additions5 changes0 removals
  • Events
  • Gameplay
  • Workshop
addedBuilding Phase EventsTaking into account all the feedback we received since the Early Access release, what comes out of it is most players prefer playing Picking Phases than Building Phases. So to address it we decided to add special events that will randomly occur during most Building Phases.
changedBuilding Phase EventsMeadawn As the first Building Phase to have been featured in the game, we decided to keep this one as it is. That way if some players still want to without any events they can do so by disabling every other Building Phases in the game configurator.
changedBuilding Phase EventsJungle Night In the jungles of the world of SMYS lives an uncommon type of primate, the moonkey. They live by night and will come steal your stuff if you're not careful.
changedBuilding Phase EventsFrozen Canyon It's been called a canyon since the start but the ground was flat, now there are 3 different ground layouts with holes in them. It will force you to place your blocks differently to build bridges above the holes to then reach the yumyum, also you can fall in the holes obviously.
changedBuilding Phase EventsLava Chambers The lava chambers are within an active volcano that will occasionally wake up and the lava will rise up. Don't stay on the floor or you'll get burnt!
addedNew Achievement IconsEvery single one of the 52 achievements now have a dedicated icon, here is a look at all of them :

SMYS : Show Me Your Stairs changes

addedTaking into account all the feedback we received since the Early Access release, what comes out of it is most players prefer playing Picking Phases than Building Phases. So to address it we decided to add special events that will randomly occur during most Building Phases.
changedMeadawn As the first Building Phase to have been featured in the game, we decided to keep this one as it is. That way if some players still want to without any events they can do so by disabling every other Building Phases in the game configurator.
changedJungle Night In the jungles of the world of SMYS lives an uncommon type of primate, the moonkey. They live by night and will come steal your stuff if you're not careful.
changedFrozen Canyon It's been called a canyon since the start but the ground was flat, now there are 3 different ground layouts with holes in them. It will force you to place your blocks differently to build bridges above the holes to then reach the yumyum, also you can fall in the holes obviously.
changedLava Chambers The lava chambers are within an active volcano that will occasionally wake up and the lava will rise up. Don't stay on the floor or you'll get burnt!

We finally reached the end of the Early Access roadmap! It was a quite a journey but we made it. The game will officially exit Early Access on May 15th.

Building Phase Events

Taking into account all the feedback we received since the Early Access release, what comes out of it is most players prefer playing Picking Phases than Building Phases. So to address it we decided to add special events that will randomly occur during most Building Phases.

Meadawn As the first Building Phase to have been featured in the game, we decided to keep this one as it is. That way if some players still want to without any events they can do so by disabling every other Building Phases in the game configurator.

Jungle Night In the jungles of the world of SMYS lives an uncommon type of primate, the moonkey. They live by night and will come steal your stuff if you're not careful.

Frozen Canyon It's been called a canyon since the start but the ground was flat, now there are 3 different ground layouts with holes in them. It will force you to place your blocks differently to build bridges above the holes to then reach the yumyum, also you can fall in the holes obviously.

Lava Chambers The lava chambers are within an active volcano that will occasionally wake up and the lava will rise up. Don't stay on the floor or you'll get burnt!

New Soundtracks

The Vanta Black game mode and Time Attack game mode finally have their own dedicated soundtrack. All soundtracks are now done and will soon be available as a DLC for anyone wanting to further support us.

New Achievement Icons

Every single one of the 52 achievements now have a dedicated icon, here is a look at all of them :

Changelog

Features - Building Phase Events - Time Attack Soundtrack - Vanta Black Soundtrack - Achievement Icons

Fixes - Fixed AI not being able to jump to the yumyum when the first and second column were empty - Fixed Restart button in Time attack pause menu not restarting the game - Fixed grass blocking the players in Meadawn - Fixed weird hand block placement when trying to throw a block with no valid position - Fixed Vanta hammer ground VFX not being grounded

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Steam News / 20 April 2024

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