📖 🎨 The artbook for my first game A Thousand Bees will come as a small DLC together with the game. I always loved HAVING game artbook, and now I can MAKE them! 🎉

It’s been a while, but we’ve been hard at work on preparing for our exit from early access. Mark your calendars, we’ll be leaving Early Access on February 21, 2018. This update is our last major patch before our 1.0 release, although we’ll still be releasing some minor patches before then to fix any serious issues. This update consists of a ton of bugfixes and polish, as well as a number of new features.

New/Balance

New difficulty scaling:

Character starting stats are now consistent no matter how many players you have

Monster damage and health scales up with additional players

Monster health increases by 50% for each additional player

Monster damage increases by 10% for each additional player

Numerous tweaks to enemy difficulty

Added some new spells: Charm, and Summon Monster

Elemental enchant damage on weapons now scales with weapon damage

Elemental enchants now affect Rod spells

Added ability to remove certain positive status effects from the status menu

Improved game loading screen and speed

Removed disclaimer from NetMenu

Homing arrows now eventually lose rotation speed

Improved online packet compression

Identified Identify scrolls no longer work on identified items

Magic Rods now trigger by holding the attack button

Before, players needed to press the [Interact] button

Players can now switch facing direction with a charged bow by double tapping a direction

Before, players needed to press the [Interact] button

Removed old up/down tooltip indicators, replaced by controller-specific sprites

Added a few frames of delay before BoulderTraps trigger

Affinity levels are now visually displayed in-menu

Forest

Reworked Forest’s Plant Boss (again)

Ruins

Added SFX

Reworked Demon Knight

Improved summoning animations of Cultists

Forest Temple

Added SFX

TikiMan AI improved

Arrow traps now have a more visible animation

Improved Chimera Boss attack tells and behavior

Fixed monsters spawning on Sawblades or Pendulum Axes

Improved level generation and room variety

Tower

Added SFX

Imps can now drown

Improved Fishman and Imp AI

Players can now jump through collapsing platforms (like normal platforms)

Improved level generation and room variety

Factory

Added SFX

Improved level generation

Polished enemy and boss behavior

Volume slider values are now based on a non-linear scale

Numerous optimizations

Pathfinding calculations are now spread out over more than one frame

Added a collision detection broadphase based on a bounding volume hierarchy

Improved cache coherency of critical sections of code

Bugfixes

OMP - Online Multiplayer

Fixed being unable to enable player controllers after disabling one

Fixed some AI targeting bugs in the Forest

Fixed Fleaman being able to see stealthed units

Fixed some issues with grappling hook code and netcode

Fixed BossGoblinKing’s charge attack effects persisting after death

Fixed Boulders sometimes not correctly squishing enemies

Fixed Piranha and DiveBomber dealing damage while frozen

Fixed an issue with fast-moving entities not behaving identically to non-fast moving entities

Fixed poltergeists getting set on fire

Fixed elemental damage causing CombatText to spawn when dealing 0 damage

Fixed numerous cases of entities animating while frozen

Fixed broken Lurker frozen animation

Fixed title screen animation offsets being unsynced

Fixed NetMenu having a pressable Host Steam Game button when Steam is not loaded/detected

Fixed some offset and fade issues with pause menu

Fixed skeletons being able to roll

Fixed GrappleHook sometimes spawning with attributes and being equipable

Fixed explosions or dig effects not being reflected in minimap

Fixed some issues with Forest level generation

Fixed a memory leak of some entities not being cleaned up on level transitions

OMP: Fixed player damage sound effects not being synced properly

OMP: Fixed numerous issues with status effect client/server sync

OMP: Fixed netcode of Rogue’s Shadow Affinity

OMP: Fixed netcode of Knight’s affinities

OMP: Fixed critical combat damage not appearing correctly

OMP: Fixed fast weapons not animating correctly for other players

OMP: Fixed crash related to an edge case in swinging weapons

OMP: Fixed a crash related to using wands and teleporting

OMP: Fixed interpolation issues with ice shards

OMP: Fixed netcode of electricity arcs

OMP: Fixed instantaneous blinks or teleports looking strange

OMP: Fixed netcode of magic wands

OMP: Fixed clients timing out sometimes when connecting to a new server due to connecting too early

OMP: Fixed a bug that prevented players from joining a new game after disconnecting from one.

OMP: Fixed netcode of chaos magic effects

OMP: Fixed an issue with healing potion effects being duplicated

OMP: Fixed mimic’s attack cooldown not resetting correctly

OMP: Fixed some visual issues with Boulders

OMP: Fixed Wisps hurting players more than once

OMP: Fixed double use text appearing after using a magic scroll

OMP: Fixed stack items’ quantity not being properly synced

OMP: Fixed players not properly dropping held units when hanging on a ledge

OMP: Fixed interpolation issues with other players crawling off of ledges

OMP: Fixed some visual issues with Slime’s lunge attack

OMP: Fixed some particles not being drawn when they should