Core Keeper 1.0.0 Full Launch Update Patch Notes

Gameplay:

• 3 new Hydra bosses: Defeat them all to gather the remaining soul powers.

  • Urschleim: The Passage boss. A challenge to be overcome.
  • The ??? boss: The final boss of the current chapter of our story.

• New combat playstyles: Mage and Warlock.

  • These have been added through new equipment, weapons, skills, talents, and character backgrounds.
  • Mage playstyle: Focuses on consuming mana to deal great magical damage.
  • Warlock playstyle: Engages in combat by summoning minions to fight enemies.

• New biome: The Passage:

  • A dangerous place at the edge of the world with roaming enemies and a big looming threat.
  • Surviving the Passage offers great rewards.

• New world generation:

  • New worlds are no longer infinite, making exploration more rewarding.
  • Worlds are now created using a seed, making generated terrain, boss arenas, and unique items appear in the same locations.
  • New world generation parameters allow players to control key features like water and ore generation, biome chaos, etc.
  • Improved world layout with more structured tunnels, rivers, chasms, etc.

• PvP: Added as an option that can be enabled through the pause menu.

  • Teams can be assigned for team battles.

• Hivemother statue replacement:

  • Replaced by a statue of Malugaz the Corrupted, who is now the third story boss.
  • Hivemother changed to an optional boss. Difficulty and crafting options have been adjusted.

• Waypoints: A new method to teleport through the world, occasionally found in key locations.

• New items:

  • 53 new pieces of equipment.
  • 8 new weapons.
  • 1 new legendary weapon.
  • 3 new Summoning Tomes for summoning different minions.
  • 3 new items that permanently increase max health.
  • New fishes in the Passage:
    • Terra Trilobite, Litho Trilobite, Greenhorn Pico, Pinkhorn Pico, Riftian Lampfish.

• New pets:

  • Pheromoth: Eggs can be found in mold biomes within Azeos Wilderness.
  • Snugglygrade: Eggs can be found in the Passage.

• New cattle:

  • Dodo: Roams in the forests of Azeos Wilderness and produces eggs when fed insects.

• New critter:

  • Drape Ray: Can be found flying around in the Passage.

• New enemies:

  • Shrooman Brute (Dirt biome).
  • Caveling Mummy (temples in the Desert of Beginnings).
  • Sulfur Worm (Passage).
  • Colossal Amoeba (Passage).

• New materials in the Passage:

  • Pandorium Ore, Calcified Shell, Cytoplasm.

• 80+ new hand-made scenes: Thanks to the creative community!

• New achievements: 7 in total.

• New colors for paint brushes: Peach and Teal.

• Skill updates:

  • Mining skill: “Self-mending alloy” replaces “Night vision”.
  • Gardening skill: “Feast for the eyes” replaces “Bottomless watercan”.

• New potions:

  • Arcane Potion: Increases magic damage.
  • Pact of Power Potion: Increases minion damage.

• Fishing updates:

  • Fishing minigame removed based on player feedback.
  • Fishing skill “Chewy Bait” replaces “Throwing Expert”.
  • Fishing skill “Angler’s advantage” changed to increase the chance of higher rarity fish.

• New item drop:

  • A Giant Bug Brain now drops from Ra’Akar, which can be used to craft the new Hydra Altar in the Solarite Workbench.

Graphics:

• Improved visuals:

  • The Core and the statues surrounding it.
  • Tree trunks.
  • Multiple hairstyles while a hat is equipped.
  • Seeds, with added color to make them more distinguishable.
  • Character creation UI.

• Display settings:

  • Added Integer Scaling display setting: Resizes the game image to perfectly align with display pixels, making everything super sharp ("pixel-perfect").

• Lighting and effects:

  • Implemented a new indirect lighting solution: More accurate, faster, and visually appealing.
  • Upgraded screen-space ambient occlusion: Now has a softer look with a smaller performance impact.

• Camera improvements:

  • Improved the smoothness of the game camera when moving.

Balancing:

• Food and potion duration:

  • Food buffs with a duration of 5 minutes have generally been increased to 10 minutes.
  • Increased the duration of Enrage Potion, Keen Potion, and Unusual Potion to 1 minute.

• Mining and fishing adjustments:

  • Balanced health and damage reduction on walls, and mining damage done by tools, reducing the hits needed to destroy walls.
  • Reduced the number of hits required to max out the mining skill.
  • Reduced the number of catches required to max out the fishing skill.

• Buff adjustments:

  • Changed starving and well-fed buffs to no longer affect movement speed.
  • Merged damage and max health conditions into one for readability.
  • Reduced max health reduction from starving to be less punishing.

• Talent adjustments:

  • Increased damage from "Taking a step back" and "Charging in" talents.
  • Reduced values from "Meticulous miner" and "Poison coated weapons" talents.
  • Increased value from the "Not so picky" talent for better balance against the "Healthy diet" talent.

• Loot and drop rates:

  • Increased the amount of materials and potions from chests throughout the world.
  • Increased visibility distance of ores with the Core Iris offhand.
  • Reduced drop chance for common valuables to avoid inventory bloat.
  • Nature and Mold Walls no longer drop any valuables or loot.
  • Increased the drop chance of the Cipher Parchment from Igneous the Molten Mass.

• Item adjustments:

  • Adjusted several items (e.g., Glow Tulip, Scholar set, Fireball Staff) to use magic-related stats.
  • Some weapon projectiles now bounce off walls, objects, and creatures.
    • Sticky Stick projectiles: Bounce up to 3 times.
    • Galaxite Chakram projectiles: Bounce up to 4 times.
    • Throwing daggers: Windup attack adds up to 10 bounces.
  • Moved some crafting options between Alchemy Table and Distillery Table for better progression.
  • Adjusted materials required for some potions.

• Combat changes:

  • Increased attack speed for equipment and consumables to be a more competitive stat.
  • Reduced portal charge-up time to half of its previous duration.
  • Recall idols now drop from more destructibles throughout the world.
  • Buffed damage of all melee weapons to make them more competitive with ranged weapons.

• Boss and item changes:

  • Slightly increased the minimum number of items dropped by bosses.
  • Increased stack size to 9999 per item slot.
  • Reduced the number of hits required to max out the melee skill.
  • Reduced melee damage gained from the Miner's equipment set bonus.

• Gemstone availability:

  • Mimites now have a small chance to drop Jungle Emeralds, Desert Rubies, and Ocean Sapphires.
  • Small Sun Crystals also have a small chance to drop these gemstones in their respective biomes.

• Durability adjustments:

  • Adjusted durability of weapons and tools to match their attack speed.
  • Weapons and tools from old saves may be reinforced or have adjusted durability after the update.

• Seed drop rates:

  • Reduced seed drops from destructibles in Azeos Wilderness and Desert of Beginnings.
  • Increased seed drops from enemies and crates in the Dirt biome.

Audio:

• Ambient sounds: Increased the volume of several ambient sounds.
• Sound effects:
  • Changed the sound effect for harvesting crops.
  • Improved audio for hitting explosive walls.

Bug Fixes:

• Networking:

  • The game now uses a server-authoritative networking model with client-side prediction, solving various multiplayer bugs, especially with poor network connectivity.

• UI and visuals:

  • Fixed a bug where text from the Core speaking would sometimes appear behind adjacent objects.
  • Fixed an issue where the shortcuts window would not show shortcuts correctly in Thai.
  • Fixed a bug where non-helm items would appear in the wrong slot for a few seconds when quick-moving using shift-click.
  • Fixed a bug where the "A Good Life" achievement would trigger for other players instead of the player feeding the cattle.
  • Fixed a bug where the Mold Tree received its own shadow under ceiling light.
  • Fixed a bug where certain objects (like pillars) appeared very dark under ceiling light.
  • Fixed a bug where boss damage reduction had no effect on some projectiles shot by bosses.
  • Fixed a bug where no error message was shown when a non-existing Game ID was provided.
  • Fixed a bug where a too-short Game ID caused an error.
  • Fixed an issue where map markers were not positioned pixel-perfectly, causing them to render weirdly.
  • Fixed an issue where the wrong colors on player clothes would be shown when eating a Spooky Pop Candy.
  • Fixed a bug where conditions on creatures would show up while hovering them in the player’s inventory in creative mode.
  • Fixed a bug that made some areas in the Wilderness spawn with normal tilled dirt ground instead of tilled grass.
  • Removed an evil stray pixel in the Lava Rock Block sprite.
  • Fixed a bug that caused certain tiles to be visible through water in the Water Well and Mold Well.

• Gameplay mechanics:

  • Hoed nature ground no longer appears on the map, similar to other hoed ground types.
  • It is now possible to open cracked eggs by right-clicking on them in the hotbar.
  • Fixed an issue where enemies would sometimes attack murals with melody signs.
  • Fixed an issue where breaking the Crystal Snail shell would not drop any ore in casual mode worlds.
  • Fixed a bug where players could dodge and parry at the same time, causing unexpected behavior; now, parry takes priority over dodge.
  • Players are no longer stunned if parrying an attack that would otherwise stun them.
  • Conditions that are triggered when mining wall blocks, like the “Pick and run!” talent, no longer trigger if 0 damage is dealt to the wall block.
  • Fixed a multiplayer issue where players using rotated beds appeared to be sitting on the bed.

Other:

• Merchant changes:

  • The Cloaked Merchant no longer sells the Flintlock Musket but now sells the summoning item used to resummon the ??? boss, available after defeating the ??? boss once.

• World management:

  • Players can now export and import worlds via mod.io.

• User interface improvements:

  • Added a loading indicator at the bottom right of the screen during game loading.
  • Updated credits.
  • Renamed the wall category in creative mode to “block” and moved base building walls to the base building category.
  • Added an inventory sort button to the player's inventory UI.
  • Players unlock the souls UI directly after talking to the Core and activating the statues, without needing to wait for the full dialogue.
  • Improved the ordering of items in the creative mode UI.
  • Added an option in UI settings to show keyboard numbers on the hotbar.

• Creative mode additions:

  • The craftable Skeleton decor now has 2 slots like the Deceased Explorer.
  • Added Ancient Coins to the creative mode under the Other/Currency category.

• Gameplay improvements:

  • Shrooman enemies no longer attack cattle.
  • The scene containing the Thread of Fate is now guaranteed to spawn in the Desert biome for new worlds.
  • Beach Blocks and Desert Blocks can now be smelted in the Glass Smelter.
  • Implemented rumble feedback on controllers, triggered by various in-game actions.
  • Items in the hotbar can now be used or consumed by right-clicking on them.
  • Made Glowbugs placeable on pits.
  • Changed the tiles that the Grubzooka and Burnzooka can destroy.
  • Reworked the pick-up system for a more stable animation when players pick up items.

• Network and performance:

  • Ping value now shows only the network round trip time to the host or server instead of the full processing and network delay.