[UNSTABLE] Pleased Giraffe Patch Notes

Colony System

• Colonize your worlds! Create a home, decorate it nicely, then place a Colony Deed to attract a tenant!

• The type of NPC who moves in will depend on the type and quality of the home’s furniture and decorations. Decorating a room with several objects from the same theme (such as a biome or material tier) will attract a tenant themed to match!

• Keep your tenants happy and they’ll periodically offer you gifts, some cosmetic and some very useful

New Outpost Store: Frögg Furnishings

• Sells Colony Deeds as well as a variety of furniture in many themes

• The set of specialty furniture available will rotate each (out of game) day, so make sure you keep coming back to see the full selection

• Each furniture set can be used to attract a particular tenant that fits its theme

Improvements to NPCs

• NPCs will now interact with each other and with many different objects in the world. Depending on their personalities they might get sad, excited, fall in love or do all kinds of different things in different situations!

• Added many unique NPC dialogue options and updated some old ones

• Further improved NPC movement and pathfinding

• NPCs now switch between ranged and melee weapons in combat depending on their available energy, range, and whether they can reach the player

• Groups of NPCs now coordinate in combat to attack from different positions and divide themselves between ranged and melee

Surface Biomes and Sub-Biomes (Tiers 1 - 4)

• Major visual improvements to background parallaxes

• All biomes have several types of unique critters (60+)

• Added a huge number of biome-specific microdungeons (450+)

• Added many new biome-specific cosmetic armors and other items

• Randomly generated monsters will now have color palettes that generally match the biome they spawn in

Universe and Planet Generation

• Redesigned terrain to be more interesting and varied across all world types

• Reduced the number of open caves on the surface, improved cave blending

• Greatly increased the number of dungeons that can spawn on worlds and prevented dungeons from overlapping each other

• Added ores in the background layer

• Improved the appearance of planets in the navigation screen to better indicate the biome and surface liquid, added some visual variety to gas giants

Challenge Rooms

• You can now find portals underground that lead to small instanced challenges. Defeat enemies, navigate dangerous traps or solve puzzles to earn great rewards!

• Challenge portals disappear shortly after you enter, so you won’t be able to enter through the same portal twice.

Inventory and Merchants

• You can now sell items to most merchants for a portion of their value

• Added an ore merchant to the Outpost where you can purchase raw materials at an inflated price

• Added a third inventory tab for objects (similar to the materials tab)

• Added a sort button to the inventory window to sort items into their appropriate tabs

• Items will not be automatically picked up into the hotbar and materials and objects won’t be automatically picked up when their respective tabs are full

• Added an indicator to inventory tabs when they contain new items

• Added an animation to highlight newly picked up items