Evolve
Evolve is an io game created by @ClanAtlas where you earn DNA, create your own species with cells, and survive against other players in an evolving ecosystem.
Eras are Evolve’s game versions, you can find your server’s game version / era number in the game’s main menu.
Updates from Era’s 7 onwards can be found in this post, scroll down to find the older Eras.
Era 13 (12/27/2023 - Current)
What’s new?
• Mandible (Ability) used to latch to armor or shells.
What’s changed?
• Temporarily removed Stinger from the game to rework it later.
• Viscop cooldown reduced from 6 seconds to 4.5.
• Urchins now destroy themselves if they hit a stunned or latched creature with no control. (Because of dragging players into urchins with mandible)
What’s fixed?
Era 12 (12/22/2023 - 12/27/2023)
What’s new?
• You can now instantly despawn when you have a forcefield after a new map generates.
• Elecrocyte now gives a 1 second visual warning before dealing damage and stun.
• There are now 2 max save slots, with 1 new save slot gamepass.
• Added 10 new maps.
• New Ability: Stinger (The goal is to add a new rock, paper, scissors dynamic to the ecosystem. Stingers counter apexes, little creatures counter stingers, apexes counter little creatures).
What’s changed?
• Jet is now the same thickness as shell.
• Menders no longer earn XP while forcefielded (to prevent using the readily available stacks of XP, only to rapidly despawn and repeat.)
• Changed Exotoxin cooldown from 6 seconds to 7.
• DNA crystals can now spawn twice as often.
What’s fixed?
• Fixed the invincible hydrofield hitbox.
• Fixed a bug when you returned home while confirming to spawn, locking you out from playing the game.
• Fixed a bug where you could build creatures without parts in the center.
Era 11 (12/15/2023 - 12/22/2023)
What’s new?
• Sticky tar now slowly degrades over time. Tar size can continue to grow from multiple shots and is no longer capped. However, tar grows less in size the larger it is.
• The following parts now earn XP: Drill for 1, Mace for 1, Viscop 3, Webber 2, Shooter 2. The goal is slowly integrating more XP into every part of the game rather than aging alone.
What’s changed?
• Hydrofield creators can no longer damage their own bubbles anymore.
• Menders no longer earn XP while forcefielded (to prevent using the readily available stacks of XP, only to rapidly despawn and repeat.)
• Changed Exotoxin cooldown from 6 seconds to 7.
What’s fixed?
• Bug fixes and minor performance improvements.
Era 10 (12/09/2023 - 12/15/2023)
What’s new?
• A new shutdown system that no longer results in data loss. This is the last time it should ever be a problem.
• New part at 10 DNA: Hydrofield.
• You can now click to delete parts
• You now toggle a button to rotate parts.
• Hydrofield creators can now melee their own bubbles. Meleeing the pillars in the center of the bubbles now shrink the bubble size.
What’s changed?
• Mover’s hitbox is slightly smaller now, so you can turn easier in tighter spaces
• Hydrofield cooldown nerfed from 10 seconds to 15.
• Heart regeneration nerfed from 4 to 3.5.
What’s fixed?
Era 9 (12/05/2023 - 12/09/2023)
What’s new?
• New part at 15 DNA, Heart.
• New random map.
What’s changed?
• Exotoxin health nerfed from 1 HP to 0.25. Meaningful HP for a smaller creature, but scales less when spammed on larger builds. Cooldown nerfed from 5 seconds to 6.
• Slow no longer stacks beyond 10 seconds at a time. Meaning if someone applies 15 slow to you, it will cap at 10.
• When you spawn a starter creature or load a saved creature, you no longer clear your building progress.
• Heart buffed to 0 speed change, and 4 regeneration.
• Mouths and Grazers now deal 0.25 damage a second on contact. A tiny bit of self defense, but also makes things more interesting as an option.
• Parasite speed buffed from -0.5 to no speed change to adjust to the mouth and grazer buffs.
What’s fixed?
• Webber no longer permanently slows.
• Opened up a map chunk that was closed from every side, it caused all the food to spawn in there and starve the server.
• Urchins will now instantly get destroyed within the first second if you place them inside of another creature.
Era 8 (12/03/2023 - 12/05/2023)
What’s new?
• Added new starter creatures, will add more in the future.
• Build tutorial is finished
• You no longer need to scroll to see all of your creature stats.
What’s changed?
• Lipid speed buffed from -.25 to no speed change.
• Exotoxin appetite increased from 1 to 1.5.
• Brain now costs 1 DNA instead of 2.
• Grazer health buffed from 2 to 3.
• Webber now costs 2 DNA instead of 3.
What’s fixed?
• Fixed a bug where feeders couldn’t feed other feeders and menders.
Era 7 (11/28/2023 - 12/03/2023)
What’s new?
• One new green map chunk with open space in the center with choke points.
• New ability part at 3 DNA: Pheromone.
• You can now instantly despawn before your forcefield ends (in case you spawn somewhere stuck).
• The map now has invisible walls and roof to prevent flinging out of the map.
• Webber slow puddles no longer slow the creator.
What’s changed?
• Menders now give 5 XP instead of 8, but now give 10XP when actually healing a damaged person.
• Shooter, Webber, Electrocyte, Exotoxin, and Chameleon no longer work until your forcefield is gone.
• Mace damage scales with swing speed (maximum 2), and will no longer stuns or apply knockback at very low speeds. Cooldown increased from 1.5 seconds to 2, and health nerfed from 1.25 HP to 1.
• Parasite buffed to from 1 HP to 1.5, since you often feed from spikes and jaws so, it only makes sense.
• Black open ocean tiles are slightly more open than before. And some of the densest map regions are slightly more open as well.
What’s fixed?
• The bug where you can’t despawn should also be fixed.