Changes:
- Nerfed flamethrower dmg by 15%.
- Increased evolution scaling from leagues by 15%.
- Doubled the chance for elite biters to spawn in hard and nightmare difficulties.
- Reduced amount of iron/copper plates found in chests, but the amount now scales with leagues.
- Reduced the chance to find speed modules from chests.
- Fixed an issue where players would require launching silo in Red desert and Mysterious caves island to escape.
Changes:
- Some biters in hard and nightmare difficulties have a chance to become elite. Elite biters have 5x more health in hard difficulty and 10x more health in nightmare difficulty.
- Increased uranium-235 requirement for late game Radioactive islands. The amount required remains the same for the first occurrence of this island.
Changes:
- It's darker in the cabin and holds now.
- Slightly decreased amount of time you can stay in Maze island.
- Slightly decreased Nightmare difficulty index.
- Slightly increased amount of biters that spawn in Red Desert.
- Biters in Red Desert island now spawn every 5 mins instead of every 6 mins.
- Fixed an issue where some classes like Scout or Samurai would heal themselves when getting splashed by grenades instead of getting damaged.
- Fixed an issue where obstacle boxes in hold could spawn on top of substations.
- Fixed an issue where players could get teleported around for no reason when boat was undocking.
Changes:
- Disabled ever increasing productivity bonus from labs.
- Reduced base damage of flamethrowers by 10%.
- Slightly increased amount of ore in late game.
- Significantly reduced ore amount in radioactive island, but now the amount scales with leagues.
- Increased the minimum amount of ore gained from mining rocks in Mysterious Caves island. In addition minimum amount of ore gained there now scales with leagues.
- Increased requirements for Mysterious Caves island quests.
- Amount of resources gained from mining trees/rocks now scales with leagues.
- Biter boat spawner health now scales with leagues.
- Decreased kraken health scaling from player count.
Changes:
- From 800 leagues, islands will now have mandatory resource cost to leave, which doesn't decrease. Failing to collect resources, will cause the crew to lose.
- Killing all spawners now won't remove undock cost.
- Mysterious Caves island now has undock cost on later leagues.
- You can't stay forever in radioactive island anymore.
CHANGES:
- Prevented situation where biter wave could spawn immediately upon revealing it in Mysterious Caves island.
- Fixed "All biter bases destroyed — escape cost removed." message appearing when arriving at Mysterious Caves island.
- Fixed GUI showing resource cost to leave Mysterious Caves island. It won't need any resources to undock in late game.
- Fixed Mysterious Caves island letting you stay infinitely in late game.
- Sandworm Caldera island now has auto undock timer.
- Sandworm Caldera island now doesn't have launch rocket as resource requirement.
- Reduced maximum amount of time you can stay in Sandworm Caldera island by 20%.
- Reduced maximum amount of time you can stay in Mysterious Caves island by 20%.
- Revealing a spawner in Mysterious Caves island, reveals nearby area and spawners around it.
Changes:
- Revamped cave island: more biter nests/worms, more narrow caves (mainly to ensure starting location connected with caves).
- Disabled default coal liquefaction research.
- Dock upgrades now repeat later on (like rockets/merchants) if people haven't bought them.
Changes:
- Delayed pump and red-splitter item as requirement appearance for quest structures (now they shouldn't appear on 2nd or 3rd islands).
- Increased amount of fish caught by all fishing classes.
- Made disband crew button disabled by default
- Disabled instant concrete research and enabled crafting of it (this means nuclear buildings are now craftable and obtainable).
- Blue belts in mazes (and other minor structures) now can be rotated.
- Removed discord message "Difficulty changed to ...".
- Added explanatory text that deckhand and boatswain classes don't generate ore while at sea.
- Increased respawn speed boost duration from 17.5 -> 20 secs (This change mainly targets cave island, but a welcome change to other islands too).
- Fixed rocks giving far more ore than intended in cave island.
- Fixed cave island always having the same layout.
NOTE: Some changes mentioned here are from "test_commit"
Changes:
- Cannon upgrade is now more expensive and appears less often.
- Rocket/merchant upgrades are now on fixed location (600L: rockets, 760L: merchants).
- Fixed an error that would upgrade cannons when buying rocket/merchant upgrade in dock.
- Fixed power upgrade appearing in dock.
- Fixed an error when player killed itself.
- Fixed derp emoji not working on discord.
- Fixed respawn speed bonus not working.
Changes:
- Made quest structures return random requirement item when raffle returns nil. This happens because some items have negative weights in lambda raffle.
- Added Cave island to B and D island categories.
Changes:
- Added damage reduction to Roc Eater that forgot to add before
- Fixed an issue where "placeability_function_optional" in "try_place" could be nil (it was causing crash in debug mode)
- Fixed an issue where arrival timer would continue ticking during kraken encounter past 20 seconds (this should result in kraken encounter not being unintentionally skippable anymore when arrival timer ends)
- Fixed an issue where kraken spit sometimes would cause a crash in debug mode
- Added 4 new dev related commands
- Significantly buffed Dredger class loot
- Buffed Master Angler class
- Changed tick tack trap to troll emoji when nothing happens
code restructuring along with:
v1.2.3
• Rework of 'quest buildings' that appear on islands.
• Fixed stutter when loading certain maps, such as swamp.
• Various new player-friendly visual renderings.
• Mod prepared for translation into other languages.
• Expanded Gourmet's sense of taste.
- Coin requisitioning replaced by a 'tax' that takes only 25% of each player's coins
- Scaled up coin economy; every biter kill now provides at least one coin; rocket coin rewards now default to the second reward chest
- Deckhand nerfed
- small adjustments to wave spawning
- cannon resistance buffed
- biters now deal bonus damage at night (up to a maximum of 10%)
- uranium ammo is now properly researchable
- modular armor/equipment slightly less rare
- ship and silo pollution slightly decreased for larger player count
- kraken fire rate increased for larger player count
- kraken kill reward buffed
- ship power upgrade made cheaper
- fixed exploit of bots being able to repair cannons
- Smoldering class disabled for now
- other fixes and improvements
