Atomicrops news & patch notes

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Why hello there, farmers!

• Added 'Classic Mode' - Miss seed scrolls? Hate that nerdy worm? Enjoy all the new content and bug fixes in Deerly Beloved, but with the classic farming system. Compete against other classic enthusiast in separate Classic Leaderboards. To enable Classic Mode, interact with the Phonograph near the Dailies Butterfly. Note: there is no classic mode for Oregacrow.

• Balancing - Butcher's Bayonet does more damage and always drops 1-4 fertilizer
• Bug fix - Zombies can now damage player
• Bug fix - Fixed frog shop not refreshing properly between runs
• Bug Fix - the worm's crop leveling item pools save and load properly
• Bug Fix - Classic labels added
• Added 'Participation Trophy' to classic mode

• Increased King Squirrel's seed drop amount from 100 to 200

• Restored classic inventory sort order while playing classic mode
• Fixed inventory icon issue when switching from classic mode to default mode

• Bug Fix - fixed a bug related to seed drops that would result in game-breaking behavior
• King Squirrel displays the correct amount of seed drop

NEW CONTENT
• Added 'Classic Mode' - Miss seed scrolls? Hate that nerdy worm? Enjoy all the new content and bug fixes in Deerly Beloved, but with the classic farming system. Compete against other classic enthusiast in separate Classic Leaderboards. To enable Classic Mode, interact with the Phonograph near the Dailies Butterfly. Note: there is no classic mode for Oregacrow. Balance, Changes & Tweaks
• Balancing: Butcher's Bayonet does more damage and always drops 1-4 fertilizer
• Bug fix: Zombies can now damage player
• Bug fix: Fixed frog shop not refreshing properly between runs

• Added 'Participation Trophy' to classic mode
• Bug Fix - the worm's crop leveling item pools save and load properly
• Bug Fix - Classic labels added

• Added a quest that allows 'Roll Call' achievement to be completed (can still be done even if 'Roll Call' is already unlocked)
• Changed 2 obsolete ant upgrades, they now give luck
• The Gambling shop now rarely drops a bag of 144 potato seeds

General

• Big crop system rework with lots of new upgrades
• Flowers and Sunflower Seeds do much more damage during final boss fight
• Turret Stakes will no longer drop from large bulbs camps, it will drop from common upgrade camps
• Chrono Weeds as 0.15 seconds, up from 0.1 seconds
• Infinite fertilizer effects also cause player to fertilize at maximum speed
• Removed Chrono Seeds
• Made Cornucopias slightly easier to get during surplus mode
• Updated car camps
• Added new rewards to gambling shop and reduced its initial cost
• Furryosa, Norman, and Borage's wedding ring no longer causes a specific crop to grow instantly. They now have a 10% chance to instantly mature crops when they merge into large crops in specific biomes.
• reduced growth speed bonus from Nitro from 10x to 7x
• Updated moist tile art so it can still be seen when a crop is planted on it
• Two new deervil upgrades
• Base watering speed increased by 25%
• Reduced health drops from Wasps, Vultures, Owls, and Lizards by half
• Improved animations when harvesting fruit from trees
• Can now show/hid info screen while in the loot selection screen
• Reduced chance wacker tractor will drop a tree seed
• Increased drop rate from Succulent Weeds upgrade
• King Squirrel drops 100 seeds instead of upgrade seeds
• Reduced tree drop chance
• Tilling soil action will no longer automatically chain into 'use pickaxe' action with a single button hold to avoid accidental pickaxe usage
• Sowing action for any seed will no longer automatically chain into sowing for a different seed with a single button hold to avoid accidental usage of a seed
• 'Cut weed' action and 'Till Soil' actions are the only actions that will chain together with a single button hold
• Improved art for elite skull attack
• Upgrades that appear in the special festival shop have a chance to appear again later control glyphs for inventory HUD only show up in season 1 year 1

  Bug Fixes

• Bug Fix - oregano seeds will no longer be sold in shops or found in place of upgrades when playing as crow
• Bug Fix - bats will no longer get stuck in walls
• Bug Fix - level 2 berry sprites will display again (they have been displaying as level 1 sprites)
• Bug Fix - the mayor now celebrates during the season festival
• Bug Fix - when playing as Rye, squirrel gun and butcher knife will get 2 bonus mods if player has acquired the relevant ant upgrades
• Bug Fix - Mortar Bundits no longer have infinite range
• Bug Fix - Burn damage will no longer cause random direction knockback on enemies
• Bug Fix - fixed a visual bug that caused player to water crops randomly from across the map and caused animals and turrets to water crops without the relevant upgrades
• bug fix - large cat statue can no longer be built by completing a daily
• Bug Fix - Enemies in camps now have their positions reset each morning - this will reduce instances of enemies disappearing from camps, leaving them unable to be completed
• Bug Fix - After losing fertilizing hamster, fertilizer originates from player's position
• Bug Fix - farm animals now face the correct direction while moving
• Bug Fix - Soup Thermos was not working - it is now setup properly and works
• Bug Fix - Minimap no longer has a distant spot revealed when player enters a room like the Deervil Den
• Bug Fix - Fixed a bug that caused the hummingbird's ability to be identical to the Bee's ability. The Hummingbird now boosts neighboring crops, which is its intended behavior. (oops)
• bug fix - Fixed Ornithumpters explosion position
• bug fix - Ornithumpters idle properly when not attacking
• Bug Fix - can no longer move during boss intros
• Bug Fix - Enemy aggro state resets properly when level loads. This will reduce the chance that an enemy vanishes from a camp, leaving it unable to be completed
• Bug Fix - Updated Sprinkler Head and Growth Aura description to specify that scarecrows also gain the effect
• Bug Fix - Fixed final boss death animation when surplus mode is not unlocked setup deervil death animation
• Bug Fix - Possibly fixed bug that caused gun to stop firing

• New Boss - And you thought farming was tough, get ready for the most demanding challenge yet, marriage. The Deervil has her sights set on matrimony by combat, but forget something borrowed, something blue — this boss is coming with death and dismemberment! Defeat The Deervil at her own game to receive major treats for dealing with her tricks!
• New Epic Camps - Explore new enemy camps to uncover haunting rewards! Pry a powerful soul-harvesting scythe from a farmer's cold dead hands and discover a mutant tree with new chilling rewards
• New Friend - Someone has come back from beyond the grave to assist in your post-apocalyptic endeavors.
• New Items - Grab an Axe to chop down trees for replanting, purchase trees for those good good crops, or literally buy yourself more time in the day by nabbing a sundial!

• New Boss - And you thought farming was tough, get ready for the most demanding challenge yet, marriage. The Deervil has her sights set on matrimony by combat, but forget something borrowed, something blue — this boss is coming with death and dismemberment! Defeat The Deervil at her own game to receive major treats for dealing with her tricks!
• New Epic Camps - Explore new enemy camps to uncover haunting rewards! Pry a powerful soul-harvesting scythe from a farmer's cold dead hands and discover a mutant tree with new chilling rewards
• New Friend - Someone has come back from beyond the grave to assist in your post-apocalyptic endeavors.
• New Items - Grab an Axe to chop down trees for replanting, purchase trees for those good good crops, or literally buy yourself more time in the day by nabbing a sundial!

The Lunar New Year Steam sale lasts from the 27th of January to the 3rd of February, so make sure you dig up this deal before it dies (we’re sorry for the pun).

Reap What You Crow DLC Introduces:

• New Character: Oregacrow - With a unique progression system, this character will change the way you play entirely. Featuring a brand new Oregano crop, special Cauldrons to fill and unique upgrades to boot.
• New Weapon: Scythe - Fight up close and personal with this quintessential farming (and slaughtering) tool. Featuring a wide range of utility and combat mods.
• New Weapon: Leech - Attach this insatiably hungry creature to your enemies and drain both health and fertilizer from them. Upgrade to fire multiple leeches at once!

Full Patch Notes: 1.5.0f1

• Gun System Reworked - Guns no longer break, purchased guns are bundled with health and stats, guns have 4 tiers of rarity.
• "Gun Repair" stat is now "Gun bonus mod - Chance that a new gun will have a bonus mod."
• Some meta upgrades that relate to past gun system now contribute to the new 'Gun Bonus Mod' stat.
• Improved gun info display in info screen.
• Greatly reduced how many pigeon scrolls can be held at once initially. Farming stat increases pigeon capacity.
• Scrolls can be used anywhere - including in town. When used in town, they are queued and processed upon returning to farm.
• Pigeons appear more often.
• Pigeons cost less in shops.
• Passages between biomes that require flying contain loot. Gain a speed boost while traversing the passages.
• New gameplay toggle option - Player automatically fires at closest enemy while doing farming tasks.
• New SMG mod - Deal damage to recharge tractor faster
• New Shotgun mod - Increased range.
• New Squirrel gun mod - Squirrel ammo drops.
• New Butcher knife mod - Dual wield.
• New Assault Rifle mod - More fertilizer drops.
• New Flamethrower mods - Some enemies drop fuel - 50% increased damage - Flamethrower with water mod now has blue flames.
• New Blunderbloom mod - Shots drop ammo replenishing flowers.
• New Jackrabbit mod - Range.
• Biodegrader ground fire FX are visually more subtle to improve readability.
• Shotgun toxic spores are visually more subtle to improve readability.
• Reduced flash intensity of loot.
• Crampons consider chance to create moist soil.
• Golden Goose can no longer be shielded by elites.
• Sowing is about 30% faster.
• Mole holes only close during boss fights.

• Bug Fix - Localization - fixed missing localization for 'offer' above stat select shrines.
• Bug Fix - Fixed text issue with cat plush bonus display in the cat UI.
• Bug Fix - Farm animals should now respect the town colliders.
• Bug Fix - Killing the boss during its intro sequence will no longer soft lock the game.
• Bug Fix - Soft Fur now works after the first run without a game restart.
• Bug Fix - Player can now skip season tally after the rewards meter has been filled and the remaining points are tallying.
• Bug Fix - Watering will stop when using a hole to return to biomes. Watering will stop when leaving farm zone. Random watering from across the map should no longer happen.
• Bug Fix - Crops that merge on moist soil will no longer sometimes display a water symbol when they don't need water.

• New Achievements.
• Added Farm timelapse to end of round screen.
• Added Elite enemies that appear in increasing frequency after year 3.
• Surplus - a short mode after defeating the final boss to flex your farming power and gain more cornucopias and increase your score. Unlocked after year 3.
• Cat Plushies - Collect cat plushies to gain permanent stat bonuses.
• New stat: “Homing Pigeon” - Chance for pigeon to return when used.
• New stat: “Jump Start” - Chance to gain a charge immediately after using a tractor.
• Added more permanent upgrades to Ants.
• Added animal counts to info/inventory screen.
• New top tier cats that unlock challenges

• Removed ambient vegetaskulls (purple skulls) from later years.
• Improved victory screen.
• Improved selecting cats in the Atomicats UI left panel with mouse.
• Player can now press and hold to buy tier 1 cats, upgrade cats and reroll cats.
• Cat UI now remembers selection of 'Upgrade' and 'Reroll' button so they can be spammed.
• Victory screen art varies based on year.
• Balanced season harvest reward requirements.
• In the victory/game over screen, the online/local leaderboard tab selection state will be remembered between runs.
• Renamed 'Motivator' to 'Carrot Tractor' Carrot Tractor rework - new description: "Become invincible for 2 seconds. Energizes all friends and turrets. Holds two charges. Summon a new Carrot Tractor as another Carrot Tractor is dying for bonus invincibility time."
• Reduced cost of upgrading and rerolling cats.
• Reduced cost of tier 1 cat Increased chance of acquiring better tier cats as a victory reward.
• Tier 6 cats are possible to gain as a victory reward.
• Luck affects chances for higher tier cats as victory reward.
• Harvest Shield and Sow Shield destroy vegetaskulls.
• Roach bodies no longer deal damage.
• Red circle damage indicators adjusted for players feet.
• Player can now stand near red circle indicators and not receive damage if feet are not in the circle.
• Gamble shop can now drop top tier pigeon scrolls, farm animals, pickaxes, and fertilizer.
• Gamble shop good items are much rarer.
• Gamble shop cost increases 2 times faster per use.
• Balance - Reduced player's hitbox by 30%.
• Balance - Reduced speed of all beeson and clamped their max speed so they will no longer snap back to group at unreasonable speeds.
• Balance - Toned down bat movement in later years.
• Balance - Reduced luck's affect on health drops.
• Balance - Limited max number of slugs that the Slug Boss can spawn.
• Balance - Megaton Tractor can no longer kill some tree monsters in one hit.
• Balance - Reduced heart beet drop chance each year.
• Balance - Snail boss - Increased knockback distance required for snail boss to break away from consuming crops.
• Balance - Psychoactive Weeds (Cutting weeds decreases enemy bullet speed and increases move speed) reduces bullet speed by 50% instead of 70%.
• Balance - Psychoactive Weeds effect is shorter and requires more weeds or flowers to reach max effect duration.
• Balance - Lard (Reduce enemy bullet speeds.) reduces enemy bullet speed by 20% instead of 30%. Balance - Reduced enemy bullet speed no longer effects enemy bullet range for most bullets.
• Balance - Lard and Psychoactive Weeds together no longer reduce enemy bullet speed to nearly zero.
• Balance - Reduced health of final boss by 20% in later years.
• Balance - Difficulty of final boss fight ramps up faster.
• Balance - Demon Vegetables during final boss fight fire lines of bullets and have increased range in later years.
• Balance - "Soil pH Meter" now does: "Weeds that grow on soil have a 50% chance to be a flower instead."

• Bug Fix - Maybe fixed a bug that would cause some enemies to spawn next to player, leaving no time to react. If it still happens, please let us know!
• Bug Fix - Fixed possible bug that would cause beeson to lag behind group and snap back to group at high speeds.
• Bug fix - Fixed misplaced tree in farmhouse.
• Bug Fix - Drones and friends will no longer attack bats that aren't aggro.
• Bug Fix - Art - Fixed sorting issues with some cats.
• Bug Fix - Player can no longer receive damage when the boss warp hole grabs the player.
• Bug Fix - Can no longer use tractors in Deervil Room
• Bug Fix - Sowing seeds will no longer be cancelled by weed growth.
• Bug Fix - Tractors no longer charge while in deervil room.
• Bug Fix - Coffee Cup (Become energized by killing enemies) now works properly with all guns and player abilities.
• Bug Fix - Tractor Boss can no longer leave a tire behind when killed.
• Bug Fix - Volcano and Cherry Bomb explosion hitbox matches damage indicator correctly.
• Bug Fix - Entering Deer room now pauses night progression and the dawn helicopter.
• Bug Fix - Dandelion collectables properly increase a random stat.

• New Achievements.
• Added Farm timelapse to end of round screen.
• Added Elite enemies that appear in increasing frequency after year 3.
• Surplus - a short mode after defeating the final boss to flex your farming power and gain more cornucopias and increase your score. Unlocked after year 3.
• Cat Plushies - Collect cat plushies to gain permanent stat bonuses.
• New stat: “Homing Pigeon” - Chance for pigeon to return when used.
• New stat: “Jump Start” - Chance to gain a charge immediately after using a tractor.
• Added more permanent upgrades to Ants.
• Added animal counts to info/inventory screen.
• New top tier cats that unlock challenges

• Removed ambient vegetaskulls (purple skulls) from later years.
• Improved victory screen.
• Improved selecting cats in the Atomicats UI left panel with mouse.
• Player can now press and hold to buy tier 1 cats, upgrade cats and reroll cats.
• Cat UI now remembers selection of 'Upgrade' and 'Reroll' button so they can be spammed.
• Victory screen art varies based on year.
• Balanced season harvest reward requirements.
• In the victory/game over screen, the online/local leaderboard tab selection state will be remembered between runs.
• Renamed 'Motivator' to 'Carrot Tractor' Carrot Tractor rework - new description: "Become invincible for 2 seconds. Energizes all friends and turrets. Holds two charges. Summon a new Carrot Tractor as another Carrot Tractor is dying for bonus invincibility time."
• Reduced cost of upgrading and rerolling cats.
• Reduced cost of tier 1 cat Increased chance of acquiring better tier cats as a victory reward.
• Tier 6 cats are possible to gain as a victory reward.
• Luck affects chances for higher tier cats as victory reward.
• Harvest Shield and Sow Shield destroy vegetaskulls.
• Roach bodies no longer deal damage.
• Red circle damage indicators adjusted for players feet.
• Player can now stand near red circle indicators and not receive damage if feet are not in the circle.
• Gamble shop can now drop top tier pigeon scrolls, farm animals, pickaxes, and fertilizer.
• Gamble shop good items are much rarer.
• Gamble shop cost increases 2 times faster per use.
• Balance - Reduced player's hitbox by 30%.
• Balance - Reduced speed of all beeson and clamped their max speed so they will no longer snap back to group at unreasonable speeds.
• Balance - Toned down bat movement in later years.
• Balance - Reduced luck's affect on health drops.
• Balance - Limited max number of slugs that the Slug Boss can spawn.
• Balance - Megaton Tractor can no longer kill some tree monsters in one hit.
• Balance - Reduced heart beet drop chance each year.
• Balance - Snail boss - Increased knockback distance required for snail boss to break away from consuming crops.
• Balance - Psychoactive Weeds (Cutting weeds decreases enemy bullet speed and increases move speed) reduces bullet speed by 50% instead of 70%.
• Balance - Psychoactive Weeds effect is shorter and requires more weeds or flowers to reach max effect duration.
• Balance - Lard (Reduce enemy bullet speeds.) reduces enemy bullet speed by 20% instead of 30%. Balance - Reduced enemy bullet speed no longer effects enemy bullet range for most bullets.
• Balance - Lard and Psychoactive Weeds together no longer reduce enemy bullet speed to nearly zero.
• Balance - Reduced health of final boss by 20% in later years.
• Balance - Difficulty of final boss fight ramps up faster.
• Balance - Demon Vegetables during final boss fight fire lines of bullets and have increased range in later years.
• Balance - "Soil pH Meter" now does: "Weeds that grow on soil have a 50% chance to be a flower instead."

• Bug Fix - Maybe fixed a bug that would cause some enemies to spawn next to player, leaving no time to react. If it still happens, please let us know!
• Bug Fix - Fixed possible bug that would cause beeson to lag behind group and snap back to group at high speeds.
• Bug fix - Fixed misplaced tree in farmhouse.
• Bug Fix - Drones and friends will no longer attack bats that aren't aggro.
• Bug Fix - Art - Fixed sorting issues with some cats.
• Bug Fix - Player can no longer receive damage when the boss warp hole grabs the player.
• Bug Fix - Can no longer use tractors in Deervil Room
• Bug Fix - Sowing seeds will no longer be cancelled by weed growth.
• Bug Fix - Tractors no longer charge while in deervil room.
• Bug Fix - Coffee Cup (Become energized by killing enemies) now works properly with all guns and player abilities.
• Bug Fix - Tractor Boss can no longer leave a tire behind when killed.
• Bug Fix - Volcano and Cherry Bomb explosion hitbox matches damage indicator correctly.
• Bug Fix - Entering Deer room now pauses night progression and the dawn helicopter.
• Bug Fix - Dandelion collectables properly increase a random stat.

Changelog

• Added Farm timelapse to end of round screen.
• Added Elite enemies that appear in increasing frequency after year 3.
• Surplus - a short mode after defeating the final boss to flex your farming power and gain more cornucopias and increase your score. Unlocked after year 3.
• Cat Plushies - Collect cat plushies to gain permanent stat bonuses.
• New stat: “Homing Pigeon” - Chance for the pigeon to return when used.
• New stat: “Jump Start” - Chance to gain a charge immediately after using a tractor.
• Added more permanent upgrades to Ants.
• Added animal counts to info/inventory screen.

Balance, Changes & Tweaks

• Removed ambient vegetaskulls (purple skulls) from later years.
• Improved victory screen.
• Improved selecting cats in the Atomicats UI left panel with mouse.
• Player can now press and hold to buy tier 1 cats, upgrade cats and reroll cats.
• Cat UI now remembers the selection of 'Upgrade' and 'Reroll' button so they can be spammed.
• Victory screen art varies based on year.
• Balanced season harvest reward requirements
• In the victory/game over screen, the online/local leaderboard tab selection state will be remembered between runs.
• Renamed 'Motivator' to 'Carrot Tractor' Carrot Tractor rework - new description: "Become invincible for 2 seconds. Energizes all friends and turrets. Holds two charges. Summon a new Carrot Tractor as another Carrot Tractor is dying for bonus invincibility time."
• Balance - Reduced player's hitbox by 30%.
• Balance - Reduced speed of all Beeson and clamped their max speed so they will no longer snap back to the group at unreasonable speeds.
• Balance - Toned down bat movement in later years.
• Balance - Reduced luck's effect on health drops.
• Balance - Limited max number of slugs that the Slug Boss can spawn.
• Balance - Megaton Tractor can no longer kill some tree monsters in one hit.
• Balance - Reduced heart beet drop chance each year.
• Balance - Snail boss - Increased knockback distance required for snail boss to break away from consuming crops.

Bug Fixes & QoL Improvements

• Bug Fix - Maybe fixed a bug that would cause some enemies to spawn next to the player, leaving no time to react. If it still happens, please let us know!
• Bug Fix - Fixed possible bug that would cause Beeson to lag behind the group, and snap back to the group at high speeds.
• Bug fix - Fixed misplaced tree in the farmhouse.
• Bug Fix - Drones and friends will no longer attack bats that aren't aggro.
• Bug Fix - Art - Fixed sorting issues with some cats.
• Bug Fix - The player can no longer receive damage when the boss warp hole grabs the player.

• Reduced elite enemies health by 25%.
• Desert and plains starter zones can only have a maximum of 1 elite enemy.
• Ants display correct cornucopia cost to upgrade.
• Adjusted Cat Mod Challenge stats to increase difficulty.

• Balance - Added 10% beet drop and increased luck on Spring Cat Mod (the one that removes invincibility after damage) to help offset the added challenge.
• Split elite enemies into two variants - shielding and vegetaskull casting. No elite does both.
• Entering Surplus Mode with Hotwire removes Hotwire but adds a tractor charge for each health. Balance - Reduced elite skull speed by 20% Bug Fix - Surplus mode can no longer go on forever - surplus crop growth boost does not apply to trees and meter depletion rate ramps up faster.
• Bug Fix - Can not longer die in surplus mode.

• Added permanent bonus for beating year 10 with all cat mods on.
• Bug Fix - Carrot Tractor now displays correct invincibility duration.
• Bug Fix - Possibly fixed bug that would cause elites to spawn skulls and shields. Let us know if it still happens.
• Bug Fix - Cat plushies were not spawning if dandelion was unlocked.

• Ornithumpters can no longer be shielded.
• Surplus mode drops way more cornucopias.
• Added cat plushie stat bonus details to cat UI.
• Added achievement art (not animated yet).

• Reduced Alien Abduction achievement from 12 farm animals to 10.
• Balance - Cat mods have less effect on bulls health and quantity.
• Bug Fix/ Balance - Health drops decrease 30% by year 10 instead of increase 50%.

New Content

Balance Changes & Tweaks

Bug Fixes & QoL Improvements

New Content

Balance Changes & Tweaks

Bug Fixes & QoL Improvements