Refinery
- Added a new expansion: Island Expansion (Floor 2)
- Includes 45 new items, including 27 new mines, 1 new excavator, 1 new mechanical upgrader, 5 new upgraders, 5 new conveyor segments, 3 new refinery structure upgrades, and 3 new armory items
- Significantly improved the Island Expanssion (Floor 1) progression
- Added two new items to the Island Expansion (Floor 1): Seashell Collector upgrades
- Seashell Collector is now an excavator
- Remodeled the Ore Polisher, Ore Purifier, Metal Polisher, Second Ore Cleaner, Peridot Mine, Aquamarine Mine, Gem Charger, Solar Upgraders, Ceramic Pot (ore), and Coin (ore)
- Mechanical Upgrader charge is now hard-capped at 10k seconds
Research
- Added a new Research Upgrade: “Monkey Power” (Lv. 16)
- Apes together strong! Increases the maximum stored charge of the Monkey Tower.
- Added two new Research Items: Advanced Cleaner (Lv. 10+) and Seafarer’s Guide (Lv. 15)
- Adjusted the rewards for Researching:
- Research Items will now be awarded for Levels 2, 4, 6, 8, … instead of Lv. 2, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25.
- Players who should now have more research items will automatically get these items upon joining an updated server
- NeoOrb rewards for Levels 16 - 20 increased from 5 → 8
- Researching will now award Tycoon Bux
- Lv. 2: 500
- Lv. 3 - 5: 750
- Lv. 6 - 10: 1,000
- Lv. 11 - 15: 1,500
- Lv. 16 - 20: 2,000
- This will be awarded retroactively up to Lv. 16 (the level reset). At Lv. 16, the maximum reward is 17,250 Tycoon Bux.
- Research Items will now be awarded for Levels 2, 4, 6, 8, … instead of Lv. 2, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25.
- Level reset to Lv. 16 for players above Lv. 17
- These players will receive Tycoon Bux depending on their level when the update releases:
- Lv. 17 - 19: +1,000
- Lv. 20: +1,500
- Lv. 21 - 24: +2,000
- Lv. 25: +3,000
- At Lv. 25, the compensation amounts to 15,500 Tycoon Bux.
- Players who did the Back to Ore One challenge will receive the full compensation as if they were at Lv. 25, regardless of current level, in addition to an exclusive “Ruby Excavator” chat badge
- These players will receive Tycoon Bux depending on their level when the update releases:
- Lowered level cap to 20
- Base Ore Limit reduced from 500 → 150
- Limit Disregard intervals reduced
- Lv. 1 - 9 Limit Disregards will now increase ore limit by 25 (prev. 50)
- Lv. 5, and Lv. 10+ will increase ore limit by 50
- Lv. 15 and 20 will increase ore limit by 75
- Changed the price of Inverter Technology and Limit Disregard
- All players who purchased these items will have their neoorbs respec’d for free
- Lowered NeoOrb Respec price from 399 Robux → 99 Robux
- Dev Note: We will be including an option to respec using Tycoon Bux in a future update
- Clarified Mechanical Upgrader Battery description
- Increased the maximum level of Inverter Technology and Limit Disregard
- Upgrading “Limit Disregard” will now automatically apply the increase in limit
Mystery Bag
- New Mystery Bag item event: "Beach Getaway" (June 2, 2021 to June 23, 2021, 10:00 AM UTC+8)
- If you received a duplicate Mythical, you will receive a refund equal to 1 Mystery Bag (unaffected by VIP Pass or type of bag)
- If you received a duplicate xMythical, you will receive a refund equal to 4 Mystery Bags (unaffected by VIP Pass or type of bag)
- Changed the colors of Common, Uncommon, and Rare item tiers
Interface
- Added new interface sounds
- Improved the Catalog, Inventory, Settings, and Research screens’ buttons
- Research Screen will now show a complete list of rewards that will be given upon researching to the next level
- Achievements List and Feedback Screen can now be exited by switching to a different settings category
- Improved thumbnails of multiple items
- Removed Genesis Mine thumbnail
- Neon Cannon hotbar thumbnail is now the same as its inventory thumbnail
- Search bar will now take stats into account
- Game will not send a notification for reaching the Cash requirement if it already sent one within the last 60 seconds
- Achievement notification duration shortened: 15s → 5s
- Improved Gamepad controls
- Weapon hotbar is now hidden when a screen is active
- Improved selection
- Further improvements will be coming in a future update
- Improved menu blur effect
- The Research Screen can now be toggled by pressing the “R” keybind if the player is using a melee weapon
- If an item does not have a Thumbnail, it will have a generic question mark thumbnail instead of a broken thumbnail.
- Inventory items now have a small colored circle on top-left to indicate the item’s tier
Settings
- Added a new setting: SFX Volume
- This controls the volume of character sounds, weapon sounds, and interface sounds
- Improved the Ore Filter
- Mines that are disabled or partially disabled will now be listed down
- Mobile UI will be improved for this in a future update
- Increased suffix cap from DD to QnD
- Mines that are disabled or partially disabled will now be listed down
- Shortened research level-up screen animation
- The top-leftmost item is now autoselected upon opening a category/screen
- Improved the “Enable Shadows” setting
- Next and Previous buttons on the Music Player are now hidden if old songs aren’t queued
- Default Music Volume is now 10
- Maximum Music Volume is now quieter to match the maximum SFX Volume setting loudness
- Custom broadcast text color will now be enabled on joining if it was enabled prior to leaving
- It is now clearer whether a settings pop-up can’t be exited by switching to a different settings category
- Ore Limit appearing on the corner is now default. Players who had this disabled in the previous update will have this setting enabled.
Weapons
- Weapon Chests now only have a chance to give one of the following items: Crossbow, Crowbar, Flare Gun, Futuretech Rifle (x15 Scope), Blue Hyperlaser Gun, Knife, Minigun, Scoped Shotgun, SMG, Super Jetpack, Weak Gravity Coil, Umbrella
- A weapon in the hotbar or on hand is now required to open weapon chests
- You can no longer obtain duplicate weapons from the Weapon Chest
- If you already have all the weapons, the weapon chest will give 100 Tycoon Bux instead
- Armor will now reduce damage on bullet hits at any body part, even if it does not visually cover the said body part (excluding the Head)
- Stats Changes:
- Nerfed the SMG: DMG 17 → 9, Reload Time 2 → 4
- Nerfed Cardboard Greatsword: 10 → 6
- Frying Pan SPD: 3 → 0; Lunge: 24 → 21
- Decreased Heartcrusher’s bomb explosion volume
- Constructs can no longer be placed near the Mechanical Upgrader button
Other
- Improved loading
- Upgrading refinery upgrades, and purchasing premium items (Robux-costing items, excluding Crate Rains/Storms) will no longer be announced to the server
- Added three new achievements: Monkey Business, Novice Researcher, Adept Researcher
- Renamed “Veteran Clicker” to “Supercharged”
- Retired seven achievements: Hasta La Vista, Early Bird Gets the Worm, Unexpected Encounter, Broadcaster, Super Duper Secret Code, Unboxing Fanatic, Just One More Box
- You can no longer redeem codes for already owned items
- Temporarily disabled Frozen Hoverboard due to issues
- Various optimizations
- Optimized mine models and skins
- Heavily optimized the map
- All items have been given tiers
- Patched server-hop safe stealing
Fixes
- Fixed settings being slightly scrollable from side-to-side
- Fixed item descriptions sometimes being cut off on non-maximum interface sizes
- Fixed guns not respecting armor
- Fixed broadcast text color picker incorrectly loading the saved color for VIP players
- Fixed ore orientation issues
- Fixed Armor not reducing bullet damage
- Fixed constructs undergoing additional cooldown time regardless of whether the construct was successfully placed or not
- Fixed Plant’s Raygun
- Fix Broadcast Error 008
- Fixed Inventory categories not having a click sound
- Fixed typo on Cocoupgrader button
- Fixed an error when the mouse hovers over some miscellaneous items
- Fixed the Crossbow, Flower Crossbow, and Rifle still being visible to the player when scoped
- Fixed z-fighting with some items
- Fixed ores dropped by mines purchased prior to starting the session not appearing when the player has poor connection or connection problems while joining
- Fixed a memory leak with the “Just Chillin’!” achievement
- Fixed various memory leaks
- Fixed skyscraper mine windows being uncentered
- Fixed one of urban upgrader’s buildings lacking windows
- Fixed issue where Research keybinds do not work upon joining
- Fixed refinery wall z-fighting issues
- Fixed this patch notes not having the code beachgetawaypatchnotes
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