Valley 1:Post-Launch Series 3 Release Notes

Beta 1.201

(not released yet; we're still working on it!)

Fixed an outdoor boss room that was too long, and was throwing errors.
- Thanks to vadatajs and GauHelldragon for reporting this.

Five new really cool, really different staircases added.
- Thanks to vadatajs for these.

Mossy Barrel death shrapnel strength-per-shrapnel from 8 => 2.
- Thanks to Moonshine Fox for showing us what a raging fox looks like after receiving 600+ damage from a barrel it could not see.

Small typos fixed in two of the mystery clues.
- Thanks to jruderman, doubtful and lavacamorada for reporting.

There's now a "Build Farms" item on the things-you-should-do list if the continent's food production is less than the settlement's food usage.
- Thanks to Ipkins for the suggestion.

Extended the apply-conditions-to-target logic to affect all parts of a multipart target entity.
- This logic is used for stuff like the bear trap slowing effect, spells with debuffs-applied-to-target, etc.
- So this fixes problems like urban mechs not being slowed down by bear traps because the "leg" part did the hitting (the body actually does the movement, in code terms).
- Thanks to Pyrrhic for reporting the bear trap vs multipart-entity problem.

Bear Traps now cause affected targets to instantly stop rather than just killing their acceleration.
- Thanks to Pyrrhic for the suggestion.

Command Flare spellgems now only give 1 shard when incinerated (they were free at certain missions, making it kind of silly that they could be burned for shards).
- Thanks to jruderman and Pyrrhic for the report.

Storm Dash and Fire Touch now only give you 1 shard when incinerated since they can otherwise be farmed from the intro mission.

Fixed a longstanding bug where building a new windshelter was not always recomputing all the distance-into-windstorm variables, causing it not to update properly.
- Thanks to jruderman for the report.

Fixed a bug where the clinging fetor projectile's strength was not being set when cast, and thus the damage calculation was following another code path and generally doing around 1 damage.
- Thanks to Misery for the report.

Fixed a bug with the citybuilding-difficulty-based scaling of the danger/difficulty of dispatch missions: those values were supposed to be _multiplied_ by 2 on Empire difficulty. Instead, Empire was _setting_ them to 2. Thus making them trivially easy for anyone, basically.
- Thanks to Ulrox for the report.

Fixed a bug in computing dispatch mission survival chance where the mood points where an intermediate result of mood/danger was being squared. This was fine for positive mood values as the idea was that if the ratio was 9:10 the actual result would be 0.9*0.9 = 0.81. The problem is that -0.9*-0.9 = +0.81, too (math class strike back!). Now it won't go below zero before that, so squaring is fine.
- Thanks to Ulrox for the report.

Fixed a bug where loot-goals lists were keeping entries from older worlds that were no longer valid (for example, a color-seeker enchant, which are no longer in the game), causing fatal errors if the player opened the escape menu (and thus the loot-goals display).
- Thanks to Leafy Greens for the report and save.

Will-o-wisp gravity now only affects you if it has "full" line-of-sight on you, meaning a straight-line (of tiles, not a literal line) has to exist from its center of mass to your top-center-point, bottom-center-point, left-center-point, and right-center-point.
- Thanks to AlexxKay for reporting and providing a screenshot of getting stuck against a wall due to a wisp getting line-of-sight on the character's pinky toe.

Fixed a couple longstanding bugs where destroyed rooms were still considered for the "insert special objects" (including chests and certain boss types) and "seed monster nests".
- Thanks to Yiab for the report and save.

Gold Boomerang is now ineligible for the increase-time-to-live and decrease-time-to-live spell modifiers because they have unintentional side effects when working with the boomerang's unique way of handling time-to-live (it waits until the time-to-live value is past a certain threshold before it's allowed to return, etc).
- Thanks to Matthew Carras for the report.

The mouseovers on the windows that tell you what a mission's rewards would be no longer tell you which modifiers the spell would have.
- Believe it or not, this is by player request. A lot of them, actually.

World map missions now have a 50% chance of rewarding (in addition to the spellgem) a building scroll. There's an even chance of a "basic" building or a "personality" building; if it can't find a valid power in the selected category it just doesn't add the extra reward.
- Note that this will not retroactively add these to the reward list of missions that spawned in earlier versions (because it can't tell at that stage whether it was an earlier-version mission or a current-version mission that didn't make the 50% roll when it was spawned).

In singleplayer, opening the escape menu now pauses the game. Exiting it via the "back to game" button will unpause it (even if the game was paused before opening the escape menu, and thus it wasn't the menu that paused it), but exiting any other way will leave the game paused. Added a note to the "local chunk is paused" message about what key to press to unpause, to compensate.
- Thanks to binaryfruit for expressing a desire that we, well, MAKE ESCAPE PAUSE THE GAME.

Fixed a bug where picking up a stack containing over 10000 total items would only pick up the first 10000 and the rset would disappear in a puff of logic.
- Thanks to Lthesaurus for the report.

Greatly improved the generation logic for both underground anachronism and journey to perfection missions so that monsters will tend to bunch up less in most cases as there are now more pillars and troughs and divides in these.
- Thanks to Misery and Pyrrhic for reporting.