Etheria Changelog [Archive 3]

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❄️ 12/31/2020
  • Winter Holiday Event (Part 2)
    • The event will end on January 9th. Make sure to grab all of the Merry skins along with the special items while you still can!
    • The Merry skins for Crimortar and Poigon are now available!
    • Merry Crimortar: Collect and crack open 25 Walnuts using a Nutcracker
    • Merry Poigon: Decorate the town tree with 35 ornaments
    • Collect all 8 Merry skins to unlock the event completion title: “Gingerbread Guru”
    • Once you get all 8 Merry skins, talk to Alfred to complete the final step in the event!
    • Added event exclusive items (more to come soon):
      • Peppermint Tome (Unlocks Winter Holiday crafting recipes)
      • Mistlefoe (Physical damage against opposite gender increased)
      • Walnut Shield (Physical damage taken decreased, fire-type damage taken increased)
    • Use code “HappyNewYears2021” to receive 2 Multi Crates, for a limited time only!
  • New Crafting Station: Nutcracker
  • Updated sprites for Minnart, Sperish, and Harfin
  • Began upgrading minimap (full screen map will be released in the next update)
  • Possible fix for “present lag” issue
❄️ 12/22/2020
  • Winter Holiday Event (Part 1)
    • This includes all content for Part 1 of the event. Part 2 will release in around a week. The event will end on January 9th (unless it gets extended)
    • Part 1 of the event includes 6 exclusive “Merry” skins! Part 2 will include the final 2 Merry skins along with the annual event items!
    • Merry Kindite: Help Alfred with Timmy’s Present
    • Merry Minnart: Help Alfred with Sally’s Present
    • Merry Ovelin: Spend some time relaxing by a fireplace in the snowy hills, while using a Merry skin
    • Merry Carapinch: Sometimes found after opening presents scattered around the town
    • Merry Cactikid: Build the snowman a snow friend
    • Merry Braybug: Use Alfred’s Sleigh Bells to lure to the snowy hills peaks
    • Merry Poigon: [Releases in Part 2]
    • Merry Crimortar: [Releases in Part 2]
    • To start the event, we recommend talking to Alfred. He can be found standing near the tree in the center of the main town.
    • Unlock a Merry skin to get the special “Merry” title!
  • All 20 “Jolly” skins from the Winter Holiday 2019 event have been added to the Skin Shop
    • All of these skins are 33% off for the duration of the Winter Holiday event. Make sure to grab them while they’re cheap!
  • Minnart, Sperish, and Harfin have received slight redesigns, remodels, and now use the SkinnedMesh system
    • Note that this means the Rainbow skin will be disabled when using Minnart. We are still trying to fix this!
    • Find any issues with the new system? Make sure to let us know using the “Feedback” feature in-game!
12/12/2020
  • New Etherian: Silopsis
  • New Ability: Dizzying [Getting damaged by contact attacks may confuse the opponent]
  • New Titles: Catfish, Dizzy, Upside Down
  • Sally is now a repeatable shell/pearl collection quest
    • She gives 20 Credits each time it is completed, once every real world hour
    • Timmy’s repeatable quest has been nerfed from 25 Credits to 20 Credits to match this
    • Due to time constraints, Sally’s quest always requires 15 shells and 10 regular pearls. In an upcoming update, this will change to randomize each time the quest can be repeated
  • We know there are still issues with the new SkinnedMesh system. For more details on known bugs, check the details for the 11/28/2020 update below!
11/28/2020
  • Added SkinnedMesh compatibility
    • SkinnedMeshes allow us to create higher quality Etherians that take up less memory than before, meaning they can run well on lower-end devices
    • All new Etherians will use SkinnedMeshes, and we will be updating older models over time to use SkinnedMeshes as well
  • New Etherians: Voltinch, Galvant
    • These new Etherians include the new SkinnedMesh feature, and as a result you may notice some remaining bugs when using them
    • To unlock Voltinch, “electrify” a lightning rod and wait until a Voltinch is lured to it
  • New Ability: Amp Up
    • When hit by an Electric attack, the Etherian’s speed is boosted by 1 stage temporarily
  • New Titles: Plasma, Supercharged, Storm Chaser
  • Added Harvest Cachick and Rich Flyden to skin shop rotation (currently on sale!)
  • Known SkinnedMesh bugs
    • Nametag isn’t properly attached to head
      • Unfortunately I cannot fix this on my end, so this will require a fix from Roblox
    • Model glitches when mutating
      • This is due to a known bug on Roblox’s end that is being fixed
    • Rainbow skin does not work with SkinnedMeshes
      • The Rainbow skin is temporarily disabled due to the same bug described above
      • It will still work for all older models, and will be re-enabled for SkinnedMeshes once it is fixed on Roblox’s end
    • Some attacks are rotated the wrong way or appear much larger than they should
      • We are fixing attacks on a case-by-case basis, feel free to report any broken attacks with the Voltinch line that you find!
    • Inverted/BW aren’t as effective as they used to be
      • Because Roblox doesn’t have built-in image processing at this point in time, BW will only affect the normal skin and inverted will only affect normal/exotic/elusive for SkinnedMeshes for the time being
11/14/2020
  • Halloween Event ended. Hope you all enjoyed it!
  • Updated moveset for Pheral/Pheracle
    • Sunny Day now learned at level 22
    • Psychic now learned at level 48
    • Weather Ball now learned at level 52
    • Mist Ball now learned at level 57
    • Ancient Power now learned at level 62
    • Removed Double Team
  • Normal weekly updates will begin again starting with the next update
11/7/2020
  • EXP EVENT!
    • Over the weekend (November 7th-8th), get x2 EXP when you play the game!
    • Over the rest of the week (November 9th-13th), get x1.5 EXP when you play the game!
  • Annual Halloween Event will end on November 14th, make sure to get all the Eerie skins before it’s too late!
🎃 10/31/2020
  • Halloween Event (Part 2)
    • Happy Halloween! The second half of our Halloween event includes the remaining 6 Eerie skins as well as the Event items!
    • Part 2 Eerie Skins:
      • Eerie Tadbowl [Use code Halloween2020 before the event ends]
      • Eerie Cachick [Plant, water, and harvest 3 Bone Flowers]
      • Eerie Kitsakura [Activate the Karmatic Idols, then make an offering at the Sakura Shrine]
      • Eerie Kousai [Ignore your subconsciousness after discovering a statue of Koutsuki]
      • Eerie Growdy [Get hit with a Bite or Claw attack as a Growdy, by an Eerie Growdy OR Find it rarely near the Snow Village at night]
      • Eerie Magu [Locate the Chestplate, Helmet, and Gauntlets and use them to summon Eerie Magu. Last known locations: Gauntlets near Phoenix Gaze Village, Helmet in Catacombs, Chestplate in Torn Dimension]
    • Event Exclusive Item: Phantom Grimoire
      • Talk to Autumn after unlocking all 11 Eerie Skins to get this item! You must have the event completion title “Summoner Supreme” to do this.
      • With this item, you unlock the ability to craft the following items:
        • Vampiric Charm [+10% life steal for contact moves]
        • Blood Moon Necklace [+25% EXP when defeating Etherians]
        • Skull Bracelet [+20% damage against Etherians with status effects]
        • Moonlight Locket [+15% power of Innate moves at night]
    • All 2019 Scary skins are on sale in the Skin Shop! Make sure to grab them while they’re cheap!
  • New Items: Phantom Grimoire, Vampiric Charm, Blood Moon Necklace, Skull Bracelet, Moonlight Locket, Bone Flower
    • Special thanks to Liopean for doing the artwork for all of these items as well as the items from Part 1!
🎃 10/22/2020
  • Halloween Event (Part 1)
    • It’s time for our annual Halloween Event! This year, you will have the opportunity to unlock 11 exclusive Eerie skins!
    • In Part 1 of this event, we’ve released the following skins:
      • Eerie Eletoid [Summon with the Hallows Spellbook, Torso, Heart, Brain, Arms, and a Wisp of Life Essence]
      • Eerie Spectrability [Brew a Potion of Instability with a Cauldron and test its effects]
      • Eerie Chambrr [Find and collect after burning down enough trees to cause it to awaken]
      • Eerie Huskot [Collect and carve 5 Pumpkins to create Jack O’Lanterns]
      • Eerie Duram [Summon with the Hallows Spellbook, 15 Bones, 5 Soul Fragments, and a Horn Fossil]
    • If you’re looking for places to start the event, search for the orange beacon in the sky! This is directly above Autumn. Figure out how to scare her to get started on unlocking Eerie Eletoid and Eerie Duram! If you’re having trouble, you may want to start with a different skin like Eerie Huskot. Head to the farm and harvest enough pumpkins, then use a machete to carve them into Jack O’Lanterns to unlock the skin!
    • Part 2 of the event will release between October 29th and October 31st with the remaining Eerie skins.
    • Part 2 will also include event exclusive items, which will only be obtainable during the annual Halloween Event. Don’t miss out!
    • All 2019 Scary skins have been reintroduced to the Skin Shop, and are on sale for a limited time only! Grab them while they’re cheap!
10/17/2020
  • Our annual Halloween event releases in the next update! Hype!
    • This is part of why the last couple of updates have been smaller than usual
  • Mobile players can now move the camera while an attack is selected
  • Willow trees (in Murkwood Swamp) can now be burned down
  • Added beehives to various trees around the map
    • Beehives can be knocked down with an Innate attack, and gives 0-3 Honey when harvested
  • Honey Harvester title can be unlocked again
  • Legendaries spawn in smaller groups now
    • There must be at least 20 players for 2 to spawn at a time (increased from 10 players)
  • Entropy Orb price reduced from 80 credits to 50 credits (sell value reduced from 40 credits to 25 credits)
  • Sunflowers can now be sold for 3 credits each
  • Sunflower Seeds and Seashells can now be sold for 1 credit each
  • Updated localization table with new strings from updates
  • Fixed an issue where Ocean Chests would say "You found: " if your inventory is already full
  • Possible fix for an issue where you could get stuck into a Private Match without an opponent
  • General bug fixes
10/10/2020
  • Use code “SpookySeason2020” for 300 Credits!
    • Better start saving up for the Scary Skin collection, which will return to the Skin Shop in just a few weeks!
  • Added custom StreamingPauseMode system
    • First, we disabled the current Pause Mode. This used to make a “Gameplay Paused” notification appear if not enough content was loaded around you to play. We used it because without it, players would fall through the world when they spawned in
    • Next, we set up the custom system. What this does is it freezes your character whenever you teleport long distances until it detects that you are above solid ground, and once it does it unfreezes you. This includes spawning in, using portals or doors, and entering private matches
    • This should make the game at the very least playable on low end devices. I personally have been testing with a 1st generation iPad Air, which would get stuck in “Gameplay Paused” with the old system, and now it can actually play the game!
  • Fixed clipping issues with Kindite, Sizzlit, and Magmantle
    • This involved changing the union eyes into decals, which both look cleaner and take significantly less memory!
  • Fixed swim animations for Minnart, Sperish, and Harfin
    • They use the exact same animations as the walking animations, just rotated so that they face forwards when you swim. The idle swimming animation is the same as the normal idle animation
  • PS: Our annual Halloween event is in development! We expect it to be released in about 2 weeks
10/3/2020
  • New Etherian: Phesquerade
  • New NPC: Timmy
  • Repeatable mini-quest: “Demonstration”
    • Use whatever attack Timmy requests and then talk to him to complete the demonstration.
    • Completing Timmy’s demonstration gives Phesquerade, as well as 25 Credits. It can be done once every hour (in real time).
  • Bag now uses a spritesheet to reduce overall memory consumption
  • New images for all Vouchers, Empty Vial, Vial of Venom, and CPU [by Liopean!]
  • Heavy Hitter now affects attacks with 80 or more power
  • Magnet Rise now lasts for 10 seconds, and afterwards the player has halved jump height for 4 seconds
  • Stockpile stun increased from 0.5s to 2.5s
  • Teleport cooldown increased from 7.5s to 15s, and range increased from 150 studs to 200 studs
  • Stun times for Morning Sun and Moonlight now depend on how much health was healed
  • Cocolossus can now learn Morning Sun
  • Fixed an issue that could cause Jardrix, Avien, and Snik to spawn inside objects in Murkwood Swamp
  • Fixed an issue where the new Entity system caused the attack Captivate to stop working
  • Fixed an issue where the health bar wouldn’t appear completely filled up after healing in a safe zone and re-entering combat
  • Fixed a debounce issue when using items that would let you use multiple items before their effects fully process
  • Reducing server sizes from 32 to 26 while fixing remaining issues with lag
    • More on this coming soon: we may have finally found a solution for the “Content Paused” issues
9/26/2020
  • Server size increase from 22 (4 reserved) to 32 (4 reserved)!
    • This means that there are spaces for 10 more players in every server
    • This may cause issues with lag, but based on our massive-scale testing it should be possible for all devices to handle this increase!
    • We will continue to push out optimizations to make this better
  • New nametag that makes it easier to see opponents and their health
    • Nametag displays a shield when the player is Safe (in a SafeZone without a Combat Tag)
    • Health bar is hidden if you have full health and are Safe
  • Added Elusive skin for Vampyro line
    • Other missing Elusive skins will be added soon!
  • Base Stat Changes:
    • Broxl: -10 ATK, +4 DEF
    • Warzerd: -12 SPD
    • Magu: +5 HP, +5 DEF
    • Magecci: -15 HP, +10 DEF, +5 SPD
    • Maguca: -18 HP, +5 ATK, +21 DEF, -4 NRG, -16 RES, +7 SPD
    • Lullafairy: +10 ATK, +1 DEF, -5 NRG, -15 SPD
    • Kindite: +2 HP, +7 ATK, +1 DEF, +1 SPD
    • Sizzlit: +1 DEF, +6 SPD
    • Magmantle: +5 SPD
    • Ribbomb: +11 ATK
    • Frodiary: +7 NRG
    • Detoadnate: +2 HP, +1 ATK, +2 DEF
    • Lucifyce: +25 HP, -3 DEF, -16 NRG, -3 RES, -3 SPD
    • Harfin: -9 DEF, -5 RES
    • Clovurr: +7 ATK, +3 DEF, -6 NRG, +10 RES, -14 SPD
    • Botanicat: -15 HP, +13 ATK, -5 DEF, +6 NRG, -8 RES, +3 SPD
    • Elekity: -7 HP, -2 DEF, +9 RES
    • Tesline: -12 HP, -4 ATK, -6 DEF, +6 NRG, +4 RES, -4 SPD
  • Etherians now face the same direction after mutating
    • This should help with immersion for players that are roleplaying
  • Fixed an issue where deselecting a title wouldn’t change your nametag
9/19/2020
  • New Etherians: Huskot, Snapalm, Cocolossus
  • New Titles: Coconut, Palm Tree, Tropical Tyrant
  • New Items: Coconut, Cut Coconut
  • New Crafting Station: Machete (found in the jungle!)
  • Coconut trees and coconuts are now considered OOP objects
    • Palm trees with coconuts in them can be hit with Rush attacks to make the coconuts fall down!
  • Updated Swamp area with new trees by Wolfragon
  • Etherian type changes:
    • Warzerd: Fighting/Bug → Dragon/Fighting
    • Behero: Bug → Bug/Fighting
    • Beetherion: Bug → Bug/Fighting
    • Magmantle: Fire → Fire/Dark
  • Warzerd can now learn Dragon Claw and Dragon Rush
9/12/2020
  • Bag revamp!
    • Given that the game is moving in a direction where we add hundreds of new items, it seems fitting to finally revamp the bag. The new bag displays far more items than before on a single screen with easier controls.
    • The bag should automatically resize icons to better-fit smaller screens.
    • While it’s usable on Console, better controls are still being worked on
    • Note that there may be memory issues associated with the new bag, as it forces all item images to load when opened. This should be made significantly better in the next update.
  • New Item Artwork (by Liopean) for: Sunshine Amulet, Cheese Half, Cheese Wheel, Eclipse Cuffs, Empty Jar, Paintbrush, Mortar and Pestle, Seashell Blade, Storm in a Bottle, Wisp of Life Essence, Cursed Chest, Rice
  • Fixed an issue where Explosion and Self-Destruct counted towards kill tasks on yourself
  • Other minor bug fixes
  • PS: New Etherian next update… :slight_smile:
9/5/2020
  • New Quest: Berry Bash [Leonard returns!]
  • New Etherians: Sketchop, Chromago
  • New Titles: Painter, Colorful, Artistic Genius
  • New Attack: Plagiarize (when you click on another player, it will permanently copy their last used attack, replacing Plagiarize)
    • After use, plagiarize can be re-learned at the Move Tutor, allowing you to get 4 completely unique attacks on Sketchop/Chromago
  • New Items: Paintbrush, Mortar and Pestle, Vini Berry, Lazu Berry, Red Paint, Blue Paint, Sketchop Painting
  • Shifted entire temp. userdata folder out of _G and into a dedicated module
    • As this required changes in the majority of server-side scripts, there may be some remaining bugs from the migration
  • Certain crafting recipes now show up even if you can’t craft them (i.e. if you don’t own Metal Tongs)
    • Recipes now tell you what their pre-requisite items are below the items need to craft them. Pre-requisite items are not consumed when the item is crafted
    • The “Craft” button now displays “MAX” if you have the maximum amount of the item you’re attempting to craft
  • Held Item Power Adjustments:
    • Sunflower Necklace: 10% → 15%
    • Sunshine Amulet: 5% → 15%
    • Storm in a Bottle: 10% → 15%
    • Eclipse Cuffs: 10% → 25%
    • Seashell Blade: 10% → 20%
  • Abilities “Faux Harpoon” and “Branching Antlers” merged into a single Ability “Cutting Edge”
    • Note: the description is currently inaccurate. Damage is not dealt when the player jumps (yet)
  • Fixed spawn positions for Cactikid, Braybug, and Growdy
☀️ 8/29/2020
  • Summer Event Code: Sunshine2020
    • This is a limited-time code that gives you Sunshine Elekity! Grab it quickly if you want to fully complete the 2020 Summer Event!
  • 5 New Sunshine Recipe Book Items:
    • Sunshine Amulet [Must be near an industrial furnace w/ Metal Tongs to craft]
    • Storm in a Bottle
    • Eclipse Cuffs
    • Cursed Chest
    • Seashell Blade
    • Special thanks to members of the community for suggesting these items! They have a variety of very interesting effects - try to craft them all!
  • Added Key of Greed
    • This is a tough crafting recipe! It requires a Key, Sapphire, Ruby, Emerald, Topaz, Amethyst, and Diamond at the Industral Oven while owning Metal Tongs
    • This Key will allow you to (finally) open the door in the Desert Temple! This serves as a shortcut to entering the Catacombs
    • When the Greed puzzle is successfully solved, it will automatically re-complete whenever you leave and rejoin the game. You can interact with the keyhole to reset and solve the puzzle again, if you enjoy puzzles :slight_smile:
    • Special thanks to Skyfire_NightWraith for the current mural used in the Greed puzzle!
  • New Titles: Greed, Gluttony, Sloth
    • These titles are unlocked when you successfully complete their associated “Trials”: Find the key, solve the puzzle, and open the door
    • These will not be given retroactively, so you will need to re-open the Sloth door and Gluttony door to get their titles
  • Added Remodels for Oinkoin/Moneyhog/Swinance and Ovelin/Stolem/Golven
    • Includes new artwork and updated sprites!
    • Also includes remodels for the following skins:
      • Oinkoin: YOTPig, Pizza, Jolly, Hunt
      • Ovelin: Hunt
    • The new Oinkoin remodels also include our first shot at official “Swim” and “IdleSwim” animations!
    • Heritage Oinkoin has entered the Skin Shop, and is on sale for 20% off the normal price!
    • There will not be a Heritage Ovelin skin, as only the model changed, not the design
  • Improved Desert Temple and walls scattered around the Desert to help fix performance issues
    • This should also fix the issue where the Desert Temple was hollow, and could be glitched into with Rush attacks
  • Removed Player-to-Player collisions as a test
    • This patches “fling glitches” at the cost of not being able to stand on top of other player’s heads. We will be gauging the reaction to this change to see what we should do going forwards
☀️ 8/22/2020
  • 2020 Summer Event! Runs from August 22nd to September 5th.
    • In this event, you have the chance to unlock 8 exclusive Sunshine skins as well as a variety of new items!
    • Most of the new items are here to stay, but some can only be crafted with Event-Exclusive Recipes!
    • Starting in this event, we are introducing Event Recipe Artifacts. These items unlock a variety of new event-themed recipes year-round. Once the event ends, the item will not be obtainable until next year, as well as any recipes unlocked by it.
    • The Summer Event’s Recipe Artifact is the “Sunshine Recipe Book”. Unlock it by completing all of Sally’s quests and obtaining the Sunshine Pheral skin!
    • Find skins for: Mariposun, Watchbot, Clovurr, Flyden, Amenby, Mabiki, Elekity, Pheral
    • Sunshine Watchbot: “Collect parts to craft a scuba-diving Watchbot!”
    • Sunshine Mabiki: “Light 5 Tribal Torches around the map using Fire-type attacks”
    • Sunshine Pheral: “Craft the Key of the High Seas, and use it to open the massive chest in the underwater temple”
    • Sunshine Flyden: “Craft a sunstone, and use it to replace the lighthouse light”
    • Sunshine Clovurr: “Collect 5 Sunflowers”
    • Sunshine Elekity: “Redeem the code [Available on August 29th]”
    • Sunshine Amenby: “Complete Sally’s second quest”
    • Sunshine Mariposun: “Periodically attracted to grown cactus flowers”
    • You will need to collect (and craft!) items to complete this event. You can access the crafting menu by pressing C (on PC) or hitting the hammer icon in the lower-right corner of the screen
    • Summer Event titles: Sunshine (1 skin unlocked), [???] (All skins unlocked)
    • More event recipes and other improvements will be released on August 29th
  • New items: Aquamarine, Sunstone, Moonstone, Snorkel, Mask, Scuba Gear, Blueprint (Scuba Gear), Scuba-Diving Watchbot, Sunflower, Sunflower Seeds, Seashell, Pearl, Black Pearl, Turquoise Pearl, Key, Key of the High Seas, Oceanic Key Mold, Sunshine Recipe Book, Sunflower Necklace
    • Huge thanks to BaniKittyCat for all the hard work on the new item images
  • New OOP Objects: Sunflowers, Ocean Chests, and Tribal Torches. Sunflowers and Ocean Chests will remain after the event, Tribal Torches may get removed.
  • Massive design changes to the Deep Ocean Trench. Shout-out to Arcrypt: we couldn’t have done it without him!
  • Added button in teleport hub (bottom right menu) to open and view past large update notes
  • Added notification to crafting menu button when near a crafting station
  • Fixed multiple issues when trying to follow friends by using the in-game Friends List
  • Fixed an issue where a special Crates display wouldn’t appear for Explorers, when it was supposed to
  • Fixed an issue where the “Open” button in the Crates window wouldn’t appear after redeeming a Crate code
  • Fixed several bugs with the crafting menu on mobile devices. The scrolling menus should now function properly, and needed items for recipes take up less space
  • The issue where the character randomly freezes on lower-end devices is in the process of being fixed!
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