Patch 0.13.1 Is Out The Door!

Patch 0.13.1 has been released for all players. Please update your game when you see that this update is available to receive the following fixes and changes:

Changes

Factional Reputation / Waft Emitter / MIX.R

• The amount of extra creatures that are sent during base attacks in multiplayer has been lowered.
• Lowered the amount of negative reputation players gain when hanging around certain areas of the yard that aren't bug dens.
• Players no longer generate negative reputation with Bees by just being in the Flowerbed area.
• The max amount of flying creatures that can be attacking your base at the exact same time has been halved. No change for non-flying creatures.
• Infected Gnats no longer participate in defense events.
• Infected Wolf Spiders no longer participate in base attacks...for now.
• Defense event creatures are now much easier to stun.
• Defense event creatures now remain stunned for longer.
• Defense event creatures now have a much lower stun cooldown.
• Defense event creatures now take 3x damage from turrets (up from 2x).
• The amount of attacking creatures sent to larger bases have been decreased in size.

Turrets

• Turrets are now unlocked on earlier BURG.L chips.
• Turret recipes have been changed to require lower tier ingredients to account for earlier acquisition.
• Pollen turret now guaranteed to stun (almost) all wave creatures in a single shot.
  • The creature's stun cooldown has to lapse before they can be stunned again.
• Pollen turret now also applies a 70% movement slow for 20 seconds.
• Turrets can aim slightly higher and lower.

Combat

• The player can now attack enemies using melee through windows and over walls more reliably.

Charcoal Items

• Charcoal Torch durability doubled.
• Charcoal Torch now only requires 1 charcoal to repair.
• Charcoal Canteen durability doubled.
• Charcoal Canteen can now hold 6 drops.

Explosive Burr Trap

• Explosive Burr trap now does significantly less damage to buildings and players.
• Explosive Burr trap now does much more damage to wave creatures.
• Explosive Burr trap now has twice the explosion range.
• Explosive Burr trap can now be placed on walls and ceilings.

Armor

• All base armor Damage Threshold values increased by 10%.

Creature Cards

• Looting the last existing TAZ.T, RUZ.T, and ARC.R in the yard will guarantee regular and gold card unlocks for those creatures.
  • This will retroactively unlock for those who have already looted all of these creatures in their yard upon loading your game.
• Looting the Assistant Manager will grant you the gold card even if you had not previously PEEP'd it.
  • This will retroactively unlock for those who have already defeated the Assistant Manager without having PEEP'd it upon loading your game.

Bug Fixes - All Platforms:

Major Issues:

• You can invite players to your game and join player's games via the Steam overlay again.
• Improved memory usage on Xbox Series S to prevent out of memory crashes.
• Items will no longer gradually lose durability after multiple save / loads on difficulties that are not "Medium".

Crash Fixes:

• Fixed loading crash dealing with Ant colonies.
• Fixed client crash when joining games dealing with Quests.
• Fixed random shutdown crash.
• Fixed random crash relating to players approaching and moving away from creatures.

Other Issues:

• Black soldier ants that are part of defense events are properly lootable again.
• Grinder items properly move to the "Completed" section on complete instead of getting stuck in the "Queue" section.
• MIX.R's no longer take a long time to stop spinning on success.
• RUZ.T gold card unlocks properly now.