Beasts of Bermuda news & patch notes

Character Migrations on Official Servers

+Added Character Migrations to the Official servers. Migrations allow players to move characters from one Official server to another (excluding the Combat server). Migrated characters will be marked dead upon receipt at their destination, as the process of this migration is incredibly perilous. Additionally, if players have not unlocked cosmetics on the recipient server, they will be removed from their character. They can re-equip any cosmetics removed if they earn those cosmetics on the corresponding server, or if they move their character back to a server where they own the cosmetic. This applies to cosmetics such as burn scars. Mutations such as bio will always transfer, and will not be lost. -You can have up to three characters migrating at a time -You cannot receive migrating characters on a server where you do not have an open save slot -Characters get their Favor set to zero upon migration. Note that we plan to reset Favor when we add the Favor Shop anyways, so right now it is not a useful resource and will be lost anyways. -Characters that migrate to other maps will spawn in at a randomly-selected, appropriate spawn point for that character -We have taken great precaution to ensure characters cannot be deleted or lost in this system. Characters placed into the migration system are never deleted, just archived, so if something happens and your character disappears while using this system, we encourage you to open a ticket so we can investigate and restore the character. We believe we have all the bugs worked out of this system, but this is our failsafe. -Characters are marked dead to prevent players from growing on easier servers and then transferring to higher populated servers at higher growths -We may extend it for community server usage, not to and from Officials but to and from one-another so long as both parties agree in their configs

QoL

+Swapped out generic loading widget for a Speed Deity-themed one

Balance Changes

Arganodus

+Balance: Arganodus now has 450 base health, up from 225 +Balance: Increased Arganodus' beached walk speed to 50, up from 36 +Balance: Increased Arganodus' beached sprint speed to 100, up from 65 +Balance: Increased Arganodus' dart speed multiplier to 3.0x, up from 2.3x

Bug Fixes

+Fixed: AI spawners no longer spawn unkillable instances of AI at the spawner origin +Fixed: Eggs no longer causes the player to be kicked from the server under certain conditions -Leaving and rejoining eggs causes this +Fixed: Client crash resulting from corrupted FPlayerProfile data cached in the client's saved folder that would disallow them from joining a server the profile data belonged to +Fixed: Frequent crash on the client when connecting to servers +Fixed: Attacking abandoned character pawns no longer disconnects the player from the server +Fixed: Swimming no longer holds the player in combat, preventing their abandoned character pawn from despawning +Fixed: Charge now works properly on Lurdu and Pachy as a listen server host +Fixed: Para's back kick now works properly on listen server hosts +Fixed: Sai's Spiky Shield ability now properly deducts Ability as a listen server host +Fixed: Wiehen's Tendon Tear mechanic now works properly as a listen server host +Fixed: Palaeophis' coil mechanic now works properly as a listen server host +Fixed: Applying skins from the Steam Workshop no longer crashes a listen server host +Fixed: Multiple sources of servers crashing +Reduced sensitivity on players getting kicked while eating or drinking to further reduce issues with players being kicked

+Fixed (public): You can now spend talent points you earned with Score in the Combat game mode +Fixed (public): Listen Server hosts now see weather work properly, and all weather-related console commands should now respond correctly on listen servers +Fixed (public): Listen server hosts can now see Saichania's Spiky Shield effect +Increased range a player can drink from a water source from before they get disconnected. This should prevent players from being disconnected when drinking from certain bodies of water. +Fixed (public): The "you are full" notification should now show up when you are eating meat at the correct time (update build ID) +Fixed (public): You now receive comfort bias decreases while eating spoiled meat (update build ID) +Fixed (public): Players should now lose their buffs when exiting a world event area +Fixed (public): Foliage.sav files duplicating their saved foliage data under certain conditions +Fixed (public): Grabbing now works properly on listen servers +Fixed (public): When un-hovering on a moused-over, saved skin or when closing the skin editing user interface after mousing over a saved skin without applying it, your previous skin is now properly re-applied +Fixed (public): Server-side "LogScript: Warning: Accessed None trying to read property K2Node_DynamicCast_AsCarcass_1" log spam when players eat from carcasses +Fixed (public): Server crash related to eating from carcasses +Fixed (public): Listen servers now operate in the game mode they are broadcasting properly +Fixed (public): The world event border now shows properly for listen server hosts +Fixed (public): Elasmo can now reliably eat carcasses without being disconnected from the server +Fixed (public): Common server-side crash that would happen while the server was trying to execute a save tick +Fixed (public): Listen servers with passwords now can be joined properly by other players who type in the correct password +Fixed (public): Listen server host UI now has the correct tooltips for the text fields +Fixed holes in the Primrose Saichania skin's base layers. +QoL (public): Listen server hosts, players connected to listen servers, and players editing skins on the main menu's skin editor should now have access to skins or inventory items they have unlocked +QoL (public): Reduced unstuck timer to 120 seconds, down from 300 +QoL (public): Reduced drinking, shrine pledging, and world event sound jingle volumes by 80%. These previously were considered Music sounds, but have been moved to UI. This should prevent them from feeling too loud with typical player volume configurations.

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Sharing of Saved Skins via Steam Workshop

You can now submit a skin to the Steam Workshop by pressing a new "Submit Skin" button that has been added to the user interface! This button is present on both the main menu and in-game versions of this user interface. When you select "Submit Skin," it will bring up a window where you can name your skin and input a description. Additionally, clicking the large button at the bottom will allow you to take a preview screenshot that will be used for the Steam Workshop item. It automatically will tag the Steam Workshop item as a "BoB_Workshop_Skin," a "Skin," tag it for whichever dinosaur you're submitting it for, and apply tags for all the base skins that have contributed layers to the skin.

• You can only submit skins to the Steam Workshop if you own all the skins that contributed layers to the skin.
• You can only equip skins from the Steam Workshop if you own all the skins that contributed layers to the skin. If you subscribe to skins that have layers present that you do not own, they will not show up in the Saved tab of the skin customization UI.
• Players can now save mixed / nested skins so long as they do not have any layers present that the player does not own the skins for. These skins can also be submitted to the Steam Workshop
• Skins with mutations (bio, melanistic, albino, etc) cannot be submitted to the Steam Workshop, nor saved.
• Skins you have subscribed to do not save to your USER_SKINS.sav file. They are downloaded by Steam and put in their own separate folder.
• We have unlocked true black, allowing players to customize skins with the darkest black.

*Note that while the files used on Steam Workshop are JSON files, all saved skins now have an anti-tamper placed on them. This means if anything about a saved skin is changed, the skin will no longer load. This applies to both Steam Workshop skins and skins in the local USER_SKINS.sav file. Unfortunately, due to widespread tampering of these files, we have decided old USER_SKINS.sav files will no longer be usable. Only skins saved from this patch onwards will be loadable by the game.

Admin

+Admin: The Server Manager UI should now reliably load. *Note that searching is disabled until all data has been loaded from the server, which can take some time on large servers. +Admin: Increased trace size for observer cam attachment to other players, so it should be significantly easier to aim

Sharing of Foliage Files via Steam Workshop

+Admin: Servers can now submit their Foliage.sav files to the Steam Workshop by using a new button on the Foliage Placement Tool. When submitting a file, all the foliage currently placed on the map that is not originating from a currently loaded Steam Workshop foliage file will be downloaded to your client from the server, packaged into a Foliage.sav file, and submitted to Steam Workshop. *Note that in order to do this, you must have a new permission granted to you by the server. This permission, by default, is not granted to anybody, including global administrators or game developers. This means only server owners can grant permission to obtain these files and submit them. In order to grant permission for a player to submit a server's foliage file to the Steam Workshop, this permission must be configured in the Game.ini file: header: AdminRanks=(AdminRank="PublishSteamWorkshop",RankLevel=9) AdminCommandRules=(CommandType=EAdminCommands::SubmitSteamWorkshopFoliageFiles,MinimalRank="PublishSteamWorkshop") ServerAdmins=(UserSteamId64=76561197994229267,AdminRank="PublishSteamWorkshop") +Admin: Servers can subscribe to Steam Workshop foliage files by populating a list of Steam Workshop Item IDs they wish to use in their Game.ini config file. Note that multiple files can be loaded at once, and these files can be loaded on top of a server's regular Foliage.sav file. Steam Workshop foliage files will not combine with the server's current Foliage.sav file, so both can be used simultaneously. This allows servers to use Steam Workshop files that populate specific portions of the map and then edit on the map themselves as well.

• In order to subscribe to Steam Workshop foliage files, servers need to generate a GameServerLoginToken. These tokens can be obtained by anybody who owns Beasts of Bermuda by visiting steamcommunity.com/dev/managegameservers.
• The following config variables need to be set in a server's Game.ini config file, under: header: SteamWorkshopFoliageSaveItemIDs=3668810440,3667947001, etc GameServerLoginToken=1B9E72C6ED135689167D06F0829D0868C bUpdateFoliageFilesFromWorkshop=true or false
• if bUpdateFoliageFilesFromWorkshop is set to false, the server will not check for Steam Workshop item updates each time it starts up, and will instead continue to use the local version of the workshop file.

+Vines and HotSprings have been added to the Foliage Placement Tool. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/f4c3da2e17baaa7ba1aec3ad1962a2d25481154b.jpg

Skins

+Added new Saichania Skin: Boggy by Johnathan & Natahi4

Global Optimizations

+Switched the Blank material we use to hide eaten foliage to use masked logic instead of translucent (cheaper) +Improved optimization of burned tropic trees +Improved frame hitching when loading and unloading tiles on tiled maps like Isla Titania and Temporal Drift +At far away distances, Freshwater now swaps to a fully opaque shader instead of always being translucent +Improved LODs for fresh water meshes to improve player interactivity

Temporal Drift Optimizations

+Optimization: Switched Rim Ice Material to Tiled Sections that only load in once close +Turned off material displacement interactions on the Spruce trees to see if performance improves further +Ensured all foliage was located inside landscape tiles and not on the persistent level

Temporal Drift

+Added new POI to add to the Artist's story on TD +Updated: Inland water is now different levels of dirty, with some being pristine, and some being disgusting. +Added new POI: The Elder Tree, Biggest Fir tree on the map +Upped the Scale of the Snowberries, lessened their toxicity, and removed some variations (meaning there's less of them in a clump, and therefore you will eat less of them at one given time) +Made New Redwood Trees 01 & 02 +Added Redwoods Biome to Temporal Drift +Added Glacier flow around survival shrine +Fixed: Exterior Freshwater sources not refilling when it snows +Gave Broken Eggs, Carcasses, and Carcass chunks a snow response so that the snow should indent when they are dropped in it (also works with Titania's interactive mud/sand) +Changed: TemporalIcicles now give water and water satiation to aid in land exploration +Added: Golden Rod Flowers as the new comfort foliage {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/abfb6f639261451226b91fa1554ecd9a34eb8866.jpg

Hot Springs

+Hot Springs have been added to Temporal Drift. Additionally, when a player is in one of these hot springs, they are now immune to the comfort drop associated with bad weather. Tornados and lightning are still threats, however. There is a new "In a Hot Spring" status condition that shows the player they have received this effect. +The water in hot springs is by default disgusting and gives no water satiation.

Quality of Life Changes

+All talents have been reset for this patch +Reincarnation now gives the player an option to change the reincarnated creature's gender +There is no longer a clamp on how dark a color value can be. True black (0x000000 hex code) can now be used. +While backing up, Apato and Bronto now show a status icon that indicates that you are backing up. +Temporal Drift now spawns charcoal stumps instead of sticks, which are easier to see amidst the snow. +Players can now add or subtract talents by using the Save Select screen's talent viewer +Added Comfort, Talents, Eggs and Hatchlings, Navigation, Grouping, World Events, and Incest topics in the Help Menu +Added ambient sound recordings taken from the Peruvian rainforest to Isla Titania and Rival Shores

• Salt Marsh, Mushroom Bog, Cypress Swamp, Savannah River, and the global ambiance now play morning swift bird ambiance during dawn, and cicada / cricket ambiance tracks during dusk.
• Salt Marsh has a day ambiance that is a mix of crickets and grasslands bird chirpings
• Mushroom Bog, Cypress Swamp, and Savannah River all have Peru frog ambiance added to both their night and day ambient loops. The default frog ambiance has been blended into the mix as well, but it is now quieter.
• The global ambiance now plays a mix of Peruvian song birds and other wildlife creature recordings during the day time (not dawn or dusk)
• The global ambiance now plays Peruvian rainforest night recordings during the night
• Note that the Outlands, Desert, and Titan's Rise have their original ambient tracks and haven't changed.
• These scenarios all have multiple recordings that are selected randomly and played layered onto one-another to fill in both prominent song bird or foreground creature sounds and background sounds

+Rival Shores has also been updated to include these sounds in a few biomes:

• The froggy ponds in Jungle, Desert, and the Salt Marsh area of Rival Shores now has the same ambiance as the Mushroom Bog on Isla Titania
• The Jungle biome on Rival Shores now has the same ambiance as the updated Isla Titania global map ambiance
• Rival Shores Canvas has also been updated
• DM_Caldera and DM_Caldera_Canvas now have the Titania global map ambiance across the entire map
• Volcano Bay's global ambiance has also been updated

Mechanics Changes

+Mechanics: Stamina no longer regenerates while in a freefall unless you are a Velociraptor, Changyuraptor, or Frog +Mechanics: Chinlea's food value now decreases more at larger growth sizes than previously +Mechanics: When entering the water while in flight, you now immediately enter a swimming state unless you are holding sprint +Mechanics: Skin save files from before the addition of encryption will no longer load. This was the solution we arrived at to avoid tampering of skin save files and to remove all skin save files that are illegitimate and have been tampered with. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/5f3f891a81a35638e5f9dff3e0f5c0a048910188.png

Balance Changes

Brontosaurus

+Balance: Increased Brontosaurus' Kick injury damage by 100% +Balance: Reduced Brontosaurus' Neck Sweep injury damage by 33%

Coahuilaceratops

+Balance: Coahuilaceratops no longer deals bleed with its Stomp attack

Ichthyovenator

+Balance: Ichthy now gets Storm Lord if it is touching a body of water, rather than requiring it to be in the swimming state to apply Storm Lord +Balance: Increased Ichthy's dart hitbox size by 50%

Kaprosuchus

+Balance: Kapro's Blood Rush activation sound effect now only plays for the owning client +Balance: Kapro's land sprint speed has been increased to 1110, up from 1055 (equal to Megaraptor) +Balance: Reduced Kapro's footstep sound volume by 35% +Balance: Reduced Kaprosuchus' speed gain when going downhill by 50%

Megaraptor

+Balance: Megaraptor's bleed damage has been reduced by 85% on its Primary Attack

Pachycephalosaurus

+Balance: Increased Pachy's sprint speed to 995, up from 840 +Balance: Reduced the rate at which Pachy gains speed while charging by 17%

Palaeophis

+Balance: Increased Palaeophis' water decay rate to 0.7, up from 0.6 +Balance: Increased Terrestrial and Semi-Aquatic Palaeophis' food decay rate to 0.8, up from 0.54

Parasaurolophus

+Balance: Para no longer loses its Bull buff if it is knocked into the air from a knockback effect

Pteranodon

+Balance: Pteranodon now deals neutral (1x) base damage with its Primary Attack and 2x its base sprint speed, up from 1.25x. This also means that players must now fly faster to reap the benefits of the Piercing Beak talent. +Balance: The talent Improved Acrobatics on Pteranodon no longer improves Dart +Balance: Pteranodon now has Improved Dart as a talent in the previously unoccupied talent tree location 3.1

Tropeognathus

+Balance: Landing or taking off now nullifies the Wing Beat hitbox on Tropeognathus, preventing players from using Wing Beat in the air and then landing to avoid the risks of performing a grounded Wing Beat +Balance: Tropeo's Wing Beat no longer costs more Ability or Stamina when used on the ground +Balance: The talent Swift Wings no longer reduces the cooldown on Wing Beat

Utahraptor

+Balance: Utahraptor's double jump is now significantly less effective if the player just jumped out of water +Balance: Reduced the amount jump scales with growth beyond 1.0 if you are not jumping from the ground. +Balance: Utahraptor now has Unbreakable in place of Strong Bond. Any inherits in Strong Bond will transfer to Unbreakable. +Balance: Increased Utah walk speed to 575, up from 500 +Balance: Utah's Dual Slash attack now costs 15 Stamina, down from 30 +Balance: Reduced Utahraptor's speed gain when going downhill by 50% {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/e7b78e3cee5025d9a542c4b869af147b2e4a1ece.jpg

Preening

+Added Preening as a new mechanic to Utahraptor and Velociraptor (not Changyuraptor). Preening allows you to cleanse venom and bleed damage from another player who is in your pack.

• Preening another player removes 1.5 bleed and 1.5 venom from them, per second. Multiple players can preen the same target simultaneously, increasing the rate of bleed and venom removal.
• While being preened, comfort recovery rate is increased by 400%
• While preening 4 Ability and 4 Stamina is consumed, per second, from the player providing the preening. When you run out of Ability or Stamina, the preening ceases.
• Players must be either sitting or laying down to receive preening.
• Players must be in your group to receive preening.
• Players must be nearby and in front of you to receive preening.
• You can preen any player who is in your group, though only Changyuraptor, Utahraptor, and Velociraptor have animations for receiving preening.
• Multiple players can preen the same target. If so, the rate of healing is increased.
• You can only preen other players once you are at least 0.8 Growth

Bug Fixes

+Fixed: Players losing saved characters after reincarnating or shortly after dying when the server restarted or crashed. This was a rare bug that had to happen exactly as the server was at a very specific part of the saving process, but occurred more often on servers with larger save files and more data. +Fixed: Krono now keeps its lunge HUD when lunging out of the water, and can now correctly hit players when it lunges out of the water +Fixed: Your target no longer disappears if it wanders too far away from the starting location when you are using the observer camera to follow another player's movement (2 button) +Fixed: Areas on Temporal Drift with audio cue volumes now show player footstep paths in the snow +Fixed: Utahraptor's feet now stay on the ground when it crouches +Fixed: Players no longer get disconnected from the server when trying to eat or pick up plants that are very densely clumped, or when eating with a very large eat hitbox +Fixed: Utah and Velo's feathers now look decent at low texture quality graphics settings +Fixed: Killing Malawania in a World Event no longer causes intermittent or buggy World Event buff behaviors, or causes players to lose World Event buffs +Fixed: Players who die in Deaths Blessing world events should no longer occasionally be marked dead +Fixed: After a server restarts, eggs should now remain in a player's group {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/890e7e39eb92aa7fbf5950c0b1b5de17c66c1306.jpg Thank you to the Beasts of Bermuda Testing team for the screenshots provided.

Additional Patchnote Languages

Afrikaans

+For a limited time, players will be able to earn the 2026 Spring Event skin: Primrose Saichania, as well as all previous year's Spring Event Skins: Granite Gladiator Velociraptor, Skal Archelon and Spring Guardian Apatosaurus. - The new skin was made by Krymsonfeather & A.L, with flower equips by Kari - The skins have a glowing, bioluminescent layer. - The skins unlock separate equippable cosmetic overlays: Viney Tangle for Saichania, Mossy Covers for Apatosaurus & Velo, as well as Algae Bloom for Archelon. The unlocked overlays can go on any skin of their corresponding species. - Some skins have equippable meshes: Flowers for Saichania & Velociraptor, Armor for Velociraptor, and Corals for Archelon {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/11ecd52fb68e2036a30896fd8e0a040586629862.png

Earning the Skins:

+To unlock the skins and their overlays, players need to find and collect golden dinosaur idols scattered around the map. Gathering the idols will allow the player to progress through achievements associated with earning the skins.

• Apatosaurus Idols will unlock the Apatosaurus Seasonal Skin
• Archelon Idols will unlock the Archelon Seasonal Skin
• Saichania Idols will unlock the Saichania Seasonal skin
• Velociraptor Idols will unlock the Velociraptor Seasonal skin

+ The idols will be spawning on all servers and on both Life Cycle and Free Roam game modes. + Completing the achievement on any server will unlock access to the skin and cosmetics game-wide. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/d20bc29eddd1f5b03ebcb053791da0c24c4bda36.png

Idol Collecting Tips!

• The newest skin: Primrose Saichania will require gathering 3 idols to unlock. This number got leaked through our testing servers, but we figure everyone could use a break... a spring break! So enjoy this low idol count for this season exclusively. All previous year's seasonal skins will require 35 idols to unlock.
• The idols belonging to the newest skin will have a special compass icon different from the others. It looks like a gold star-burst border pattern.
• The idols belonging to land species will only spawn on land randomly anywhere carcasses can spawn.
• The Idols belonging to aquatic species will only spawn underwater randomly anywhere carcasses can spawn.
• All Seasonal Skins are earned by collecting idols scattered around the map and returning them to a matching deity shrine.
• All idols must be gathered on the same server to complete the achievement and unlock the skin, but they can be individually gathered by different creatures or during different lives.
• Idols show up on the compass when nearby with a color themed for the deity shrine they belong to.
• Turning in an idol will show achievement progress in the top-right corner of the screen
• You should also be able to view the progress you've made towards unlocking the event skins by viewing the corresponding achievements in the achievements gallery's Limited Time Events page.

Myth: The newest type of idol isn't spawning because there is too many older event idols on the map. Fact: Each idol type has its own maximum count which is maintained by the server. The count is not influenced by the amount of other types of idols, nor will turning in other kinds of idols promote the spawning of another species' idol. There is likely 'less' of the newest idol because it is likely being utilised the most by other players. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/f54a86c23ea382c569706c720d623d795e68615d.png

Beasts of Bermuda is on Sale!

Beasts of Bermuda is participating in Steam's PvP Fest Sale! PvP Fest lasts for a full week, and for the duration of this sale, we are offering our game at a 60% discount. If you're interested in playing our game or inviting your friends, now would be a great time to do so. https://store.steampowered.com/app/719890/Beasts_of_Bermuda/

Hey everyone,

We're deploying a small patch that fixes a few bugs and also cracks down on cheats. All servers and players will need to update to the latest version of the game.

Admin

+Admin: ForceSicknessState console command now requires the GrowEntity permission, rather than developer permission +The game will now forcibly crash if -log is used as a launch parameter

QoL

+When walking in deep snow on Temporal Drift, muffled, snowy footstep sounds now play

Optimization

+The optimization of the foliage on Temporal Drift has been improved +The large ice sheet on Temporal Drift is now tiled and only parts near the player render at their highest level of detail +Improved ice material optimization on Temporal Drift

Bug Fixes

+Fixed: Charcoal is now reliably interactable +Fixed: Additional method where players could deliberately crash a server under certain circumstances +Fixed: Client mass crash related to Tendon Tear being applied to creatures that have stacking buffs like Palaeophis and Carcharodontosaurus. When this crash occurred, every client within net-relevance range would have their game crash. +Fixed: Teleports now reliably work correctly when entering them while in the walking state on Isla Titania or other tiled maps

Misc

+Updated localization texts for French, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, & Ukrainian

Hello everyone!

We're going to be deploying a small patch that addresses some of the cheating issues we've been seeing crop up as of lately. All clients and servers will need to update for this patch to take effect. In addition to addressing this, there are a few other things included in this update, which are listed below.

Temporal Drift

New Changes

+Added: Frog AI Shrine to TD Map +Added: Arganodus AI Shrine to TD Map +Added: Horseshoe Crab AI Shrine to TD Map +Added: New Cave near the Survival Shrine +Added several icy assets from TD to Foliage Editor: Ivan_Tea_01_Icy Ivan_Tea_02_Icy Crate_Large_mdl_Icy SM_Plains_LargeRock02_Icy SM_Plains_LargeRock_Spire_Icy SM_LCave_P_Column_14_Icy SM_LCave_P_Floor_03_Icy SM_LCave_P_Mesa_21_Icy SM_LCave_P_MiteTite_41_Icy SM_LCave_P_Rock_47_Icy SM_LCave_P_Column_62_Icy Boat_Small_mdl Dock_C_VarA_mdl SM_MH_02_House_01 SM_MH_02_House_03 SM_MH_02_House_08

Bug Fixes

+Fixed: Ensured the Playable AI have interactive snow responders +Fixed: IvanTea 01 & 02 should now be the correct color on non-Temporal Drift maps +Fixed: Biomes not working on TD to allow for 4/4 biomes visited. -Added three non-mandatory biomes (The Village + 2 Summits) to TD to help players meet their biomes trial if one biome is not triggering properly. +Fixed: Upped parameter in-land pond's cleanliness and capacity (up from 100 to 300) +Fixed: Bubbles are now reliably interactable on Temporal Drift +Fixed: Sniffing plants at night now works properly on Temporal Drift +Fixed: Several reported issues on Temporal Drift: fixing stuck-spots, floating foliage, and other misc. asset issues. (ex. Such as the rock covering a minishrine in the lake)

Additional Patchnote Languages

Afrikaans

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What's Included this year?

+For a limited time, players will be able to earn the 2025 Winter Event skin: Iceborne Kronosaurus, as well as all previous year's Winter Event Skins: Iceblight Mosasaurus, Hyperboreos Coahuilaceratops, and Winter Snowflake Parasaurolophus.

• The Iceborne Kronosaurus skin was made by A.L & Valhalla
• The skins all have a glowing, bioluminescent layer.
• The skins unlock separate equippable cosmetic overlays: Snowy Overlay for Parasaurolophus & Coahuilaceratops, Icy Overlay for Kronosarus & Mosasaurus. The unlocked overlays can go on any skin of their corresponding species.
• Event skins for Kronosaurus and Coahuilaceratops come with equippable mesh objects made by Callie. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/73eea24b81cae3bdae2df25efcccdfc951562931.png

  Earning the Skins

  +To unlock the skins and their overlays, players need to find and collect golden dinosaur idols scattered around the map.
  • Kronosaurus Idols will unlock the Kronosaurus Seasonal Skin
  • Mosasaurus Idols will unlock the Mosasaurus Seasonal Skin
  • Coahuilaceratops Idols will unlock the Coahuilaceratops Seasonal skin
  • Parasaurolophus Idols will unlock the Parasaurolophus Seasonal skin
  • The idols will be spawning on all servers and on both Life Cycle and Free Roam game modes.
  + Gathering idols will allow the player to progress through the achievement associated with earning the corresponding skin. + Completing skin achievements on any server will unlock access to the skin and cosmetics game-wide. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/70ea975884adabe4007cb9faa44102099246b761.png

  Idol Collecting Tips!

  • The newest skin: IceBorne Kronosaurus will require gathering 50 idols to unlock. While all previous year's seasonal skins will require 35 idols to unlock.
  • The idols belonging to the newest skin will have a special compass icon different from the others. It looks like a gold star-burst border pattern.
  • The idols belonging to land species will only spawn on land anywhere carcasses can spawn.
  • The Idols belonging to aquatic species will only spawn underwater anywhere carcasses can spawn.
  • All Seasonal Skins are earned by collecting idols scattered around the map and returning them to a matching deity shrine.
  • All idols must be gathered on the same server to complete the achievement and unlock the skin, but they can be individually gathered by different creatures or during different lives.
  • Idols show up on the compass when nearby with a color themed for the deity shrine they belong to.
  • Turning in an idol will show achievement progress in the top-right corner of the screen
  • You should also be able to view the progress you've made towards unlocking the event skins by viewing the corresponding achievements in the achievements gallery's Limited Time Events page.
  Myth: The newest type of idol isn't spawning because there is too many older event idols on the map. Fact: Each idol type has its own maximum count which is maintained by the server. The count is not influenced by the amount of other types of idols, nor will turning in other kinds of idols promote the spawning of another species' idol. There is likely 'less' of the newest idol because it is likely being utilised the most by other players. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/743bc1ced4b8bd7160f37bdfd6c611b421bd81bb.png

  Additional Patchnote Languages

  Afrikaans

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New Snow-themed Map: Temporal Drift

+Temporal Drift is a snowy alpine mountain valley centered around a vast frozen lake. In its unedited form, the map naturally encourages herbivore migration between ice holes in the lake for water and the surrounding mountains for food. Each fishing-hole will count as its own source so characters will not get bored of the lake. The caves are now ice-caves! The weather has been fully adjusted for this alpine biome, the map features snow, aurora borealis, and blizzards.

Recommended Capacity: 100 Players

The map is medium in size. It is intended to be a conflict-centered map due to its layout encouraging pvp interaction. However, it is large enough that it can also be easily utilized as a survival or roleplay experience for smaller population servers.

Difficulty: Hard

Unedited, this map is intended to be hard. The landscape is perilous, the nights are dark, and the land is frigid. Travel is essential, and shelter may be difficult to spot beneath the snow. True to the land of eternal winter, players will find themselves putting their skills to the test to survive in this harsh, frozen mountianscape.

Centralized Clean Water & The Debut of the Rimewrath

The largest body of water is now in the center of the map as a large frozen lake! The sea can still rise from below and flood the map. This is our first map that isn't an island with an infinite expanse around the border! Instead, the map will take you to a parameter biome called the Rimewrath, which will have unrelenting storms that ignore all comfort effects, cloud your vision, and transport you the opposite side of the map. These points are consistent, so this is not an effective way to escape combat. If both players enter the Rimewrath at the same spot, they will both exit at the same spot as well!

Interactive Material Displacement

The map is covered in special snow which uses interactive material displacement! In layman's terms, this means as you walk through the snow, the snow will respond to your character's movements. We have had this before on small stand-alone objects like mud patches on Titania, but this implementation adapts and incorporates that logic onto the landscape material itself. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/726820726170025c76fb99c66803d844341e952a.png

Music

+There are four new biome music tracks associated with Temporal Drift. These are Frigid Lake, Ice Flats, Snow Forest, and Rimewrath. Each also has an accompanying, short, entry music track that plays when the biome is entered +Added a new combat music track: Cold Blood. This is specifically for Temporal Drift. +Added a new blizzard music track: Biting Cold. This is specifically for Temporal Drift. +There is a new cave music track: Icy Cave. This is specifically for Temporal Drift.

Extra Notes

+There are floating icebergs in some of the larger lakes on Temporal Drift. The icebergs have the same logic as the raft on Titania and are found in most lakes in the Iceflats. They are to help people that get stuck on the ice during floods. +The brightness of the night on Temporal Drift follows the lunar cycle. During gibbous or full moons, the map is very bright at night. During new or crescent moons, the map is very dark at night. +Edible spruce trees and stumps have been added to the foliage placement tool +Under the ice: frozen bubbles may be eaten to get additional air added to your breathbar +When entering the Rimewrath, a frosty effect shows up on your screen. +More caves, landmarks, and POI will be added to Temporal Drift in future patches. Edit the map at your own discretion as work may be lost upon future updates.

Admin

+Added console command: SetMoonCycle. Expects a value between 0 and 1. 0 is a full moon. 0.25 is a half moon waning. 0.5 is a new moon. 0.75 is a half moon waxing. This command requires SetWeather permissions. +Added growth to the webhook combat log prints +Added XMas_Tree as an actor to the foliage placement tool

Quality of Life

+All maps now have a lunar cycle. The moon has 8 phases and finishes its lunar cycle in 8 nights. +Talent point reset has been given to every saved creature

Optimizations

+Various minor server-side CPU usage optimizations +Adjusted game-wide collision settings in a manner that should result in a moderate server-side CPU optimization

Mechanics Changes

+Mechanics: Carcasses regurgitated by the Palaeophis now count as Regurgitated Meat +Mechanics: All creatures that can eat meat now have a new dietary requirement for Regurgitated Meat. Creatures with 40% or greater of their diet consisting of regurgitated meat now have a chance of getting sick. +Mechanics: The Palaeophis can eat up to 70% of its diet off of regurgitated meat +Mechanics: You can no longer initiate an attack within 1.5 seconds of ending a Dart, a Lunge, or a Grab +Mechanics: The Asphyxiation talent now deals breath bar damage to creatures that use air as a resource for breathing underwater in place of a breath bar. Any breath bar damage is now inflicted on their Air resource, and shows up as "Air" damage in the combat log. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/11e7e1ad4964f1ce2a9a736a65c8ed1884c121cc.png

Balance Changes

+Balance: The Swift Flippered talent is now half as effective at reducing the ability drain rate of coiling Lunge and half as effective at extending the duration of Lunge -Note that with the buffs to the baseline Lunge performance in these aspects given to both Krono and Archelon, the end result is the same at 5/3 talent level. At all other levels of talent investment, this is a buff. +Balance: Elusiveness now always breaks when damage is received +Balance: Swapped talent locations of Archerfish and Herbalist on Mosasaurus +Balance: Reduced the damage reduction effect granted by the talent Hard Headed while coiling Lunge by 50%

Archelon

+Balance: Increased Archelon baseline lunge time to 1.3, up from 0.75 +Balance (public): Reduced Archelon Ability drain rate while coiling Lunge by 42.3%

Kronosaurus

+Balance: Increased Kronosaurus baseline lunge time to 1.3, up from 0.75 +Balance: Reduced Kronosaurus Ability drain rate while coiling Lunge by 42.3% +Balance: Increased Krono's base size by 25% +Balance: Increased Krono's base weight to 4200, up from 3100 +Balance: Increased Krono's base health to 2300, up from 1850 +Balance: Reduced Krono's growth rate to 0.75x base, down from 0.80x. It now matches Apato, rather than Rex +Balance: Increased Krono's base damage to 310, up from 305

Mosasaurus

+Balance: Increased Mosasaurus' base health to 1600, up from 1500 +Balance: Increased Mosasaurus' base damage to 170, up from 165 +Balance: Swapped talent locations of Archerfish and Herbalist on Mosasaurus

Parasaurolophus

+Balance: You now must remain in quadrupedal stance for five seconds before the Bull talent provides any damage mitigation. Leaving quadrupedal stance will immediately remove Bull's damage mitigation. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/7739dfbe615101d425f0b01900b63c93c75e9a89.png

Bug Fixes

+Fixed: Using the critter shrines no longer disconnects the player from the server if they do not have the PossessEntity moderator permission +Fixed: Ignored players now stay ignored between play sessions +Fixed: The Achievement UI should now work reliably +Fixed: Fish carcasses and Egg carcasses now properly save that they are from fish or eggs after a server restart +Fixed: Profanity Filter should no longer include default words +Fixed: Automatic Server messages from a previous server should no longer show on the new server when switching servers +Fixed: Shortened Utah's collision capsule to better fit through house doors +Fixed: Kapro's tail now properly reduces damage by 65% baseline, up from 50%. Note that Bruiser bypasses some or all of this effect. +Fixed: Logging out to main menu no longer resets the default values on the client for the following resources: air, stamina, ability, comfort, bias, and venom +Fixed: Client-side crash that would occur when players were wearing the Coahuilaceratops holiday cosmetic +Fixed: Save files should now properly place players at appropriate spawn points reliably when transferring the save file from one map to another +Fixed: Kapro now properly receives 35% damage from tail hits instead of the regular 50%. Note this still can be bypassed by players taking the Bruiser talent to deal more or even full damage to Kapro's tail. +Fixed: Kapro no longer deals less damage than it's supposed to when biting other players on the tail +Fixed: You can no longer spam click the Preview button in the skin customization UI, resulting in audio spam broadcasting to all other players

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What's Included this year?

+For a limited time, players will be able to earn the 2025 Autumn Event skin: Cordyceps Acrocanthosaurus, as well as all previous year's Autumn Event Skins: Servant of Charon Megaraptor and Fall Decay Tyrannosaurus.

• Cordyceps skin was made by Croww & Valhalla
• The skins all have a glowing, bioluminescent layer.
• The skins unlock separate equippable cosmetic overlays: Leafy Refuge for Acrocanthosaurus & Tyrannosaurus, and Charon's Splendor for Megaraptor. The unlocked overlays can go on any skin of their corresponding species.
• Event skins for Acrocanthosaurus and Tyrannosaurus come with equippable mesh objects.
• The Cordyceps skin also works for its subclasses: Carcharodontosaurus

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Earning the Skins

+To unlock the skins and their overlays, players need to find and collect golden dinosaur idols scattered around the map.

• Acrocanthosaurus Idols will unlock the Acrocanthosaurus Seasonal Skin
• Tyrannosaurus Idols will unlock the Tyrannosaurus Seasonal Skin
• Megaraptor Idols will unlock the Megaraptor Seasonal skin
• The idols will be spawning on all servers and on both Life Cycle and Free Roam game modes.

+ Gathering idols will allow the player to progress through the achievement associated with earning the corresponding skin. + Completing skin achievements on any server will unlock access to the skin and cosmetics game-wide. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/71de8c56c01600f91750e46771e3fa57d346c538.png

Idol Collecting Tips!

• The newest skin: Cordyceps Acrocanthosaurus will require gathering 50 idols to unlock. While all previous year's seasonal skins will require 35 idols to unlock.
• The idols belonging to the newest skin will have a special compass icon different from the others. It looks like a gold star-burst border pattern.
• The idols belonging to land species will only spawn on land randomly anywhere carcasses can spawn.
• The Idols belonging to aquatic species will only spawn underwater randomly anywhere carcasses can spawn.
• All Seasonal Skins are earned by collecting idols scattered around the map and returning them to a matching deity shrine.
• All idols must be gathered on the same server to complete the achievement and unlock the skin, but they can be individually gathered by different creatures or during different lives.
• Idols show up on the compass when nearby with a color themed for the deity shrine they belong to.
• Turning in an idol will show achievement progress in the top-right corner of the screen
• You should also be able to view the progress you've made towards unlocking the event skins by viewing the corresponding achievements in the achievements gallery's Limited Time Events page.

Myth: The newest type of idol isn't spawning because there is too many older event idols on the map. Fact: Each idol type has its own maximum count which is maintained by the server. The count is not influenced by the amount of other types of idols, nor will turning in other kinds of idols promote the spawning of another species' idol. There is likely 'less' of the newest idol because it is likely being utilised the most by other players.

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New Content

Skins

+Added New Pachy Skin: Algae Vein by Krymsonfeather & Croww +Added New Pachy Skin: King Pachy by Twilight & Natahi4

Talents

+Added twinkling animation to talent UI +Added New Apatosaurus talent: Titan's Fortitude -Removes damage reduction while whipping when investing a point, and instead applies damage reduction to your neck and front legs while using Neck Sweep or Stomp. -When fully invested into the talent, it completely removes tail damage reduction during whip attacks and instead grants a 30% damage reduction to the front half of the Apatosaurus while performing a Stomp or Neck Sweep. The damage reduction calculation functions similar to how Coah’s frill damage reduction is determined. -Inherits do not remove damage reduction on the tail while whipping, they instead apply damage reduction to the neck and front legs. This reduction will only take effect after a point has been invested. -This talent is in talent socket P3.1 on Apatosaurus -Note that negative inherits can never make you take less damage on the tail than baseline. They can, however, make you take more damage from the front while stomping. +Added New Apatosaurus talent: Accelerator -When sprinting straight forward, you will gain Frenzy stacks. -Each talent point increases the number of Frenzy stacks you can accumulate by two. Inherits increase this value by one. -Turning, walking, standing, attacking, or taking damage from another creature will cancel this effect. -This talent is in talent socket M3.3 on Apatosaurus +Added New Para talent: Bull -You gain damage resistance while in quadrupedal stance -This does not refund AP when hitting another Parasaurolophus, or when hitting a group member -This talent is in socket S3.3

Admin

+Admin: Added new console command, SpawnClone -This console command requires SpawnEntity permissions in the server config -This console command has an optional player name / ID input argument. It will accept a player's name, their CID, or their steam ID. If left blank, it will target the player who used the command. -This command duplicates a creature and places it on top of the player who used the command. It will be a perfect copy of their character, including all stats, cosmetics and skins, talents, and other relevant characteristics. -This command is designed to be used for testing purposes. Duplicating someone's character will not result in their character dying or being lost if the clone dies. - If no damage is dealt the clone will despawn after 300s +Admin: Added new console command, removeplayerfromleaderboard - This console command requires control server permissions - This console command lets server mods remove players from the leaderboard. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/3bd2845f4e9a2e396726ec3985cbbfd63ca73ce0.png

Optimization

+Optimization: Various optimizations to improve AI critter server performance. This was expensive, so servers may run noticeably better after this change if the server has AI enabled. +Optimization: Other various optimizations that will slightly improve server performance

QoL Changes

+QoL: Server admins are able to setup an automatic message and determine its interval of repetition in minutes with config variable AutoMessages=(Message="Message", IntervalMinutes=minutes, UTCTime="hours:minutes" Alert=true/false) -Admins can either set a repeating message by setting IntervalMinutes or they can set a specific time for the message by setting UTCTime -Example of repeating message: +AutoMessages=(Message="Message repeating every hour", IntervalMinutes=60, Alert=false) -Example of timed message: +AutoMessages=(Message="Message at UTC 23:40 with alert", UTCTime="23:40", Alert=true) -When setting the alert to true, the message is shown at the top of the screen similar to daily messages or server broadcasts. When setting it to false, the message is only displayed in chat. -This goes under the header in the Game.ini file +QoL: Added a configurable profanity filter to the server config. Servers can decide to censor words by adding them to a list in the config. If a player types a filtered word, it will be starred out. +ProfanityWords="example" -This goes under the header in the Game.ini file

Balance Changes

+Balance: The talent Constitution now helps you recover more quickly from both status conditions of Sickness and Recovering from Sickness +Balance: Venom and Bleed can no longer be dealt until you are at least 0.8 growth +Balance: Egg no longer counts as meat for the dietary requirements of Velociraptor, Utahraptor, Megaraptor, Palaeophis, Pachycephalosaurus, Pteranodon, and Tropeognathus. Instead, it counts towards its own Egg dietary category. This category becomes unhealthy if it exceeds 75% of the creature's diet.

Kaprosuchus

+Balance: Kaprosuchus can no longer apply the Tendon Tear debuff until 0.8 growth

Palaeophis

+Balance: If the Palaeophis' diet is 50% or more egg, it will now regurgitate egg carcasses that provide egg food instead of meat or fish. -This is to combat the Palaeophis being used as a means to feed other players off of eggs +Balance: The Palaeophis can now gain up to 8 stacks of Frenzy by default, up from 7

Tyrannosaurus

+Balance: Tyrannosaurus rex's Devastating Ambush buff now continues to charge and remains active while crouched, regardless of whether or not the player is moving or stationary.

Wiehenvenator

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Bug Fixes

+Fixed: Placeable map assets SM_LCave_P_Floor_01_Sandy and SM_LCave_P_Floor_03_Sandy no longer render with a black texture when their z coordinate is too high +Fixed: Setting the time of day in the creature editor with the sundial should no longer allow players to keep the time of day fixed to that time if they join a server after setting it. +Fixed: Getting sick above 2.5 growth and resetting your growth to 1.0 no longer allows players to earn the achievement for surviving a 2.5+ growth sickness. +Fixed: Various client and server crashes +Fixed: Underwater effects should no longer have weird screen resolution when using Fidelity FX / FSR +Fixed: Scent clouds should work again when effect quality are set to medium or low +Fixed: The Wiehenvenator is now properly referred to as Wiehenvenator on the talent UI's dino information text header +Fixed: Utah's eat and drink sounds now properly loop while eating +Fixed: Mosasaurus can no longer double jump, or jump while darting out of the water +Fixed: missing Pachy on Main Menu +Fixed: Blocking players now persists through logging out or restarting the game +Fixed: Changing keybinds no longer jams the set keybind action +Fixed: Pteranodon no longer crashes clientside when trying to play its dance emote +Fixed: As a female holding ready to lay eggs, any owned nests with eggs already placed will prompt for repair or laying eggs. +Fixed: The setalltalentinheritsto console command no longer kicks the player and dirties their dinosaur if they use it without the correct admin perms. +Fixed: Invisible Juniper trees on Titan's Rise {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/786c4de1f9260fb110fccf63c6a22dd513e6a8f9.png

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The Petite Palaeophis Campaign is now live!

How it Works

From now until Oct 25th 2025, you will be able to purchase Petite Palaeophis Plushies on Makeship's website to help reach the funding goal. After the Plushie is successfully funded, they will be shipped out to backers 2-3 months after the Campaign end date. You can find additional info about the plushie and campaign by following the link at the bottom of the announcement.

Additional Perks

• These plushies are Limited Edition and are each given a unique numbered tag, so get them before they are gone!
• Makeship has a badges system! The first 200 backers will get a gold badge on Makeship's website! Example of some Makeship Badges: https://store.makeship.com/badges/user/Seebs
• In addition, your name shows up on the 'recent supporters' section of the website and once the campaign is over all supporters' usernames are celebrates on the product's page!

In order to receive badges and statuses, you need to first create an account with Makeship. You can check shipping destinations here.

Back the Campaign Today!

All of the funds we receive from this campaign are put back into development costs! Allowing us to buy models, cosmetics, animations, music and more! You can help fund the campaign by purchasing your own Beasts of Bermuda plush using the link below: https://www.makeship.com/products/petite-palaeophis

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What's Included this year?

+For a limited time, players will be able to earn the 2025 Summer Event skin: Summer Fern Pteranodon, as well as all previous year's Summer Event Skins: Summer Lily Elasmosaurus and Waverider Lurdusaurus.

• The Summer Fern skin was made by Natahi4 & Valhalla
• The skins all have a glowing, bioluminescent layer.
• The skins unlock separate equippable cosmetic overlays: Mossy Cover for Pteranodon, Lilipads for Elasmosaurus, as well as Barnacles for Lurdusaurus. The unlocked overlays can go on any skin of their corresponding species.
• Event skins for Elasmosaurus and Pteranodon come with equippable mesh objects.

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Earning the Skins

+To unlock the skins and their overlays, players need to find and collect golden dinosaur idols scattered around the map.

• Pteranodon Idols will unlock the Pteranodon Seasonal Skin
• Elasmosaurus Idols will unlock the Elasmosaurus Seasonal Skin
• Lurdusaurus Idols will unlock the Lurdusaurus Seasonal skin
• The idols will be spawning on all servers and on both Life Cycle and Free Roam game modes.

+ Gathering idols will allow the player to progress through the achievement associated with earning the corresponding skin. + Completing skin achievements on any server will unlock access to the skin and cosmetics game-wide. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/50dbb05259b59d282f5fde0d3aa7e80c62e87eab.png

Idol Collecting Tips!

• The idols belonging to land species will only spawn on land randomly anywhere carcasses can spawn.
• The Idols belonging to aquatic species will only spawn underwater randomly anywhere carcasses can spawn.
• All Seasonal Skins are now earned by collecting idols scattered around the map and returning them to a matching deity shrine.
• All skins require gathering 50 idols each. All idols must be gathered on the same server to complete the achievement and unlock the skin, but they can be individually gathered by different creatures or during different lives.
• Idols show up on the compass when nearby with a color themed for the deity shrine they belong to
• Turning in an idol will show achievement progress in the top-right corner of the screen
• You should also be able to view the progress you've made towards unlocking the event skins by viewing the corresponding achievements in the achievements gallery's Limited Time Events page

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Added New Playable Creature: Utahraptor!

+Added Utahraptor as our newest addition to Beasts of Bermuda's roster! The Utahraptor is a rather large raptor who specializes in having an agile, quick playstyle. It's a very fast runner and an excellent jumper. It can hit hard when it needs to, but is quite fragile. It's designed to be easy to play, using a basic, simple kit. Hunt carefully, preferably in a large pack.

Moves and Abilities

+The Utahraptor's Primary Attack deals moderate damage with a quick snap of its jaws. +The Utahraptor's Secondary Attack utilizes your claws and feet to slash at your prey. This attack inflicts a large amount of knockback damage, but leaves your prey relatively unharmed. Use this attack to push away pests, or bully around larger creatures. +Utahraptor's Ability Key allows it to use Dual Slash -Dual Slash is a hard-hitting attack that deals both substantial base damage and injury damage. It also deals knockback. -Dual Slash has a cooldown, so time it wisely!

Passive Abilities

+The Utahraptor can jump once again while in mid-air. If you are holding directional movement keys while performing an aerial jump, you will perform a boosted jump in that direction. Use this additional, aerial maneuverability to escape dangerous situations, reach high places, or to stay on top of your prey.

Skins and Customization

+The Utahraptor has three tail plumage variants and four head plumage variants the player can choose to equip. These can be found under the 'Character' tab of the customization screen. +Added New Utah Skin: Bluebilled by Gamevideosforlife & Natahi4 +Added New Utah Skin: Bluejay by Twilightwolf & Gamevideosforlife +Added New Utah Skin: Duck by Natahi4 & Pixeldeer +Added New Utah Skin: Fawn by Val & Pixeldeer +Added New Utah Skin: Frosted by Omnomnomnivore -Added Heterochromatic eyes to Frosted Utah +Added New Utah Skin: Lupin by Twilightwolf +Added New Utah Skin: Mysa by Val +Added New Utah Skin: Vulture by Val

Stats

+Utahraptor's sprint speed is 1135, making it the fastest land creature in the game +Utahraptor has a growth rate and scaling stats that match the Pachycephalosaurus +Utahraptor's base health is 425 +Utahraptor's base damage is 80

Misc

+The Utahraptor can group with the Horseshoe Crab and the Frog by default +The Utahraptor's default group limit is 8 +The Utahraptor has a taunt emote. It is unlocked by having champion hunt points +The Utahraptor has a dance emote. It is unlocked by owning the Beasts of Bermuda OST on Steam {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/71a96f02bac2619eabea6ae2bd4bb3892af2527a.png

Pachycephalosaurus

+The Pachycephalosaurus now has a new model and new set of animations +The Pachycephalosaurus has new sound effects for charge loop, dance, eat, and taunt

Skins and Customization

+The Pachycephalosaurus now has four quill variants the player can choose to equip. These can be found under the 'Character' tab of the customization screen. +The Supporter Warpaint cosmetic has been redone for the Pachycephalosaurus on its new model. Any owners of the Pachycephalosaurus Supporter Warpaint will have access to the new version of this cosmetic. +The Pachycephalosaurus has a taunt emote. It is unlocked by getting all water sources +The Pachycephalosaurus has a dance emote. It is unlocked by owning the Beasts of Bermuda OST on Steam +Added Pachy Skin Remake: Riverrock by Val +Added New Pachy Skin: Spinehowl by Pixeldeer and Natahi4 +Added New Pachy Skin: Hothead by Krymsonfeather and Natahi4 +Added Pachy Skin Remake: Yemen by Soals and GamevideosforLife +Added New Pachy Skin: Tropical by Omnomnomnivore and Natahi4 +Added Pachy Skin Remake: Slashed Velvet by Val and Misha {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/2d4bbf9e449bf6fceda1626b09ea481e6f47f72c.png

Other New Content

Skins

+Added New Kapro Skin: Laced by Krymsonfeather and Croww +Added New Kapro Skin: Redwood by Natahi4 & Twilightwolf +Added New Ptera Skin: LanternFly by TeatimeJess and DJZ

Admin

+Admin: Servers can now assign different growth limits to different specializations. This syntax would result in Acrocanthosaurus having a growth limit of 1.0, and Carcharodontosaurus having a growth limit of 1.2. +GrowthLimits=(Type=EDinoType::Acrocanthosaurus,Limit=1.0f,Specialization=0) +GrowthLimits=(Type=EDinoType::Acrocanthosaurus,Limit=1.2f,Specialization=1) -If only specialization 0 is specified, all specializations will use the limit specified for specialization 0 -If the config file is not edited and the specialization is left out entirely, the growth limit will default to the limit for the whole species -For reference, these are the specialization indices for all relevant creatures: Acrocanthosaurus=0, Carcharchodontosaurus=1, Apatosaurus=0, Brontosaurus=1, Semi Palaeophis=0, Terra Palaeophis=1, Aqua Palaeophis=2, Velociraptor=0, Changyuraptor=1 +Admin: Toggleplayernametags now displays the group id of the player. If the player is not in a group, this data field is hidden +Admin: Banning, Unbanning, muting, unmuting, and kicking players from the server manager, the emote wheel, or the player list now properly displays this in the AdminCmdDiscordWebhook section of the Webhooks +Admins can see how many eggs a female creature is gestating with the spectate's inspect ability +Admin: Added CID to most places where player name and player steam ID are displayed on Discord Webhooks +Admin: All Discord webhooks now have a UTC timestamp on them

Mechanics Changes

+Mechanics: All creatures now align to the pitch angle of the object they're sitting or laying on +Mechanics: All land creatures are now slightly buoyant while swimming +Mechanics: Players who are resurrecting and selecting a new spawn point region for their dead creature will now properly spawn at least 750 meters away from where they last died. If there are no spawn points in the selected region that satisfy this criteria, a random one in a random region will be selected instead

QoL Changes

+QoL: All creatures will receive a talent reset for this patch +QoL: Wing Beat now displays an error to the player if they try to use the ability while it is on cooldown +QoL: Interacting with your nest while you are carrying eggs now repairs the nest +QoL: A status condition now displays when a player has their growth paused due to not entering the Gauntlet on the Life Cycle game mode +QoL: Added a 'Low Comfort' status condition that displays as a status debuff when you are low on comfort. This status condition helps inform players that they are low on comfort and may help them figure out how to remedy the situation before it kills them. +QoL (public): The remainder eggs are no longer destroyed when the number of eggs you have ready to lay exceeds the capacity of the nest you are laying in {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/29ed888e3c4598ab187fc69a613489abc1bd975d.png

Balance Changes

+Balance: Eggs can no longer grow slower than the rate at which they grow with default configs. This means servers that choose to set their growth rate config values to be slower than the default value will not see eggs grow more slowly. Servers with faster growth rates still see eggs grow more quickly as well. +Balance: Increased all sprint, swim walk, and swim sprint speeds by 8.3%, and reduced effectiveness of the Swiftness talent by 35%. The 5/3 Swiftness speed of all creatures has not changed, but all speeds when players have less than 5/3 Swiftness has been increased. The goal of this change is to make the Swiftness talent less polarizing, and to do so by buffing speeds for all creatures when they do not take Swiftness or lack max Swiftness or Swiftness inherits. Situations where creatures with Swiftness can overtake others that have not talented into this particular talent or do not have inherits in it should be less frequent and less extreme. +Balance: Acro, Carch, Ichthy, Wiehen, Ory, Pachy, Lurdu, Para, Sai, Ptera, Utah, Velo, Tropeo, Coah, Megaraptor, Archelon, and Palaeophis now have 1.3x their adult stamina at juvenile, rather than 0.85x. This value lowers back down to 100% at sub adulthood. Hatchling stamina values remain unchanged. +Balance: Significantly reduced damage output of all creatures (50% for most creatures) at the juvenile stage of growth. This damage fades back in and remains unchanged at subadult and beyond.

Auroraceratops

+Balance: Aurora can no longer use Sand Attack until growth 0.8

Carcharodontosaurus

+Balance: Reduced Carch's Voracious Bite heal tick scaling beyond growth 1.0 such that larger Carchs do not receive as much health tick scaling as before +Balance: Carch can no longer proc Voracious Bite by attacking other Carchs

Horseshoe Crab

+Balance: Horseshoe Crab now has Elusiveness in talent S3.1 +Balance: The Horseshoe Crab now has Dart, with Ichthy's dart stats. It cannot struggle. +Balance: The Horseshoe Crab now has Improved Dart in talent M3.3

Kaprosuchus

+Balance: Reduced Kapro's injury damage output by 35% under all circumstances

Kronosaurus

+Balance: Krono now has Forager in talent socket S3.3

Lurdusaurus

+Balance: Lurdu no longer requires salt in its diet

Megaraptor

+Balance: Increased Megaraptor's egg incubation radius by 50%

Oryctodromeus

+Balance: Ory can no longer use Sand Attack until growth 0.8

Pachycephalosaurus

+Balance: Decreased Pachy's Primary Attack cooldown timer to 1.0 seconds, down from 1.2 +Balance: The talent Sneaky now makes Pachy's charge start sound quieter

Palaeophis

+Balance: Palaeophis' Venom Spit can no longer apply venom above 50 on its target +Balance: Venom no longer influences Ability or Stamina regeneration while you are sitting or laying down

Parasaurolophus

+Balance: Increased size of Para's back kick hitbox +Balance: Reduced cost of Para's back kick to 20 Stamina, from 30 Stamina +Balance: Para's back kick now deals 25 base damage +Balance: Para can now use attacks immediately after using its alarm call

Wiehenvenator

+Balance: Reduced Wiehenvenator food drain rate to 0.83, down from 0.95

Graphics Changes and Optimizations

+Updated AMD Fidelity FX / FSR to 2.2.1 -Fidelity FX upscaling should look less grainy +Steam Deck: Updated the default compatibility layer Proton 9 to Proton 10 +Enabled AMD Fidelity FX / FSR for Steam Deck +Fixed: Fidelity FX upscaler now should work properly on dedicated Laptop GPUs +Ocean and weather effects are more optimized +Optimized the lowest settings for more performance on lower end hardware +Added a misc setting that allows player to forcefully show hidden graphics settings -On some GPUs the API might false tag GPU not to support certain features like FSR. Toggling this option allows player to bypass that hardware check if they know that the feature should work on their hardware {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/a70e78a50dae1f67f431e73b86587fe393d8dba5.png

Bug Fixes

+Fixed: HUD elements no longer teleport to the wrong location when editing the HUD +Fixed: Kapro's food HUD no longer swaps to piscivore after changing your game settings +Fixed: Coah's Active Defense buff is now removed after a duel ends +Fixed: Archelon no longer keeps any shield regeneration it receives during a duel from using its Spiky Shield ability +Fixed: Archelon, Wiehenvenator, and Kaprosuchus no longer occasionally trigger their Snapping Jaw, Tendon Tear, and Bone Snap abilities if you're rapidly initiating Primary Attack over and over +Fixed: The camera now zooms in smoothly and sits atop each dinosaur's hip rather than acting badly when at close zoom levels +Fixed: Kapro can no longer charge and use its Tendon Snap ability while charging or using its Brute Force attack +Fixed: Text error in Velo Intuition description +Fixed: Lurdu and Kapro can no longer damage their own eggs with Lurdu's charge and Kapro's RMB pounce +Fixed: Archelon and Elasmo can no longer gain air satiation from eating coconuts +Fixed: Palaeophis no longer takes extra damage from Wing Tear +Fixed: You can no longer heal as a Carcharodontosaurus by dueling and then forfeiting the duel with stacks active before the duel is over +Fixed: Reduced Kapro's fat morph so it no longer clips into its legs and arms while moving +Fixed: Kapro can no longer dart while charging up Bone Snap +Fixed: The Velociraptor and Changyuraptor now have the same restrictions on what objects they can sense while in flight as Pteranodon and Tropeognathus +Fixed: Scars, burn overlays, and lightning scars now properly go behind other equippable cosmetics such as warpaint +Fixed: Kapro's head tracking is no longer significantly lessened after playing your Taunt or Dance emotes +Fixed: The Palaeophis can no longer play emotes while sitting or laying down, resulting in a jam +Fixed: Standing on large underground rocks spawned around ory burrows no longer causes server-side log spam Thank you to the BoB QA Team for the images provided. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/b091c263ee368a6a531a58e28680e2bb18c97a82.png

Additional Patchnote Languages

Afrikaans

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/11ecd52fb68e2036a30896fd8e0a040586629862.png +For a limited time, players will be able to earn the 2025 Spring Event skin: Granite Gladiator, as well as all previous year's Spring Event Skins: Skal Archelon and Spring Guardian. - The Granite Gladiator skin was made by Natahi4 & Twilightwolf - The skins have a glowing, bioluminescent layer. - The skins unlock separate equippable cosmetic overlays: Mossy Covers for Apatosaurus & Velo, as well as Algae Bloom for Archelon. The unlocked overlays can go on any skin of their corresponding species.

Earning the Skins:

+To unlock the skins and their overlays, players need to find and collect golden dinosaur idols scattered around the map. - Apatosaurus Idols will unlock the Apatosaurus Seasonal Skin - Archelon Idols will unlock the Archelon Seasonal Skin - Velociraptor Idols will unlock the Velociraptor Seasonal skin - Gathering the idols will allow the player to progress through achievements associated with earning the skins. - The idols will be spawning on all servers and on both Life Cycle and Free Roam game modes. - Completing the achievement on any server will unlock access to the skin and cosmetics game-wide. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/d20bc29eddd1f5b03ebcb053791da0c24c4bda36.png

Idol Collecting Tips!

• The idols belonging to land species will only spawn on land randomly anywhere carcasses can spawn.
• The Idols belonging to aquatic species will only spawn underwater randomly anywhere carcasses can spawn.
• All Seasonal Skins are now earned by collecting idols scattered around the map and returning them to a matching deity shrine.
• All skins require gathering 50 idols each. All idols must be gathered on the same server to complete the achievement and unlock the skin, but they can be individually gathered by different creatures or during different lives.
• Idols show up on the compass when nearby with a color themed for the deity shrine they belong to
• Turning in an idol will show achievement progress in the top-right corner of the screen
• You should also be able to view the progress you've made towards unlocking the event skins by viewing the corresponding achievements in the achievements gallery's Limited Time Events page

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Additional Patchnote Languages

Afrikaans

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Added New Playable Creature:

Kaprosuchus!

The Kaprosuchus is our newest creature that has been added to Beasts of Bermuda! It is a small, semi-aquatic crocodilian that specializes in a swift, fast playstyle. It's a very fast runner and has several tools to help it ambush prey and deal damage quickly.

Moves and Abilities

+The Kaprosuchus' Primary Attack consists of dealing damage with a standard bite attack that inflicts moderate damage. Additionally, the Kaprosuchus can hold Primary Attack to use Bone Snap. Bone snap deals additional damage and applies a crippling, Tendon Tear debuff. The longer the Primary Attack key is held, the more damage is dealt and the longer the Tendon Tear debuff lasts. Be wary, as continuing to hold this ability will actively deplete your ability.

• While charging a bite, you move and turn slower. This allows you to punish adversaries that face you head-on with this debuff, while making it more difficult to apply to fleeing targets.
• The Kaprosuchus has the talent Snapping Jaw. This talent increases the duration of the Tendon Tear debuff applied by Bone Snap. It additionally decreases the ability cost, increases the damage multiplier, and reduces the movement penalty associated with charging and using this ability.

+The Kaprosuchus' Secondary Attack key allows it to use Brute Force. Brute Force is a powerful, leap-like attack that deals significantly more damage to its target if it hits. It also deals bonus injury damage. Brute Force gives the Kaprosuchus a tool to hit very hard and potentially cripple its prey before it has a chance to flee. It costs both Ability and Stamina to use and slows your movement speed by 40% while charging the attack.

• Aiming the camera up and down while holding the Secondary Attack key will allow you to adjust the angle Brute Force leaps with. Additionally, crouching lowers the launch angle. There is now an aiming cursor that shows where you will land while using this ability.
• Brute Force's leap distance does not scale with growth, Powerful Legs, or being fat. This allows the ability's trajectory to remain consistent and useful as a combat ability regardless of growth. Note that Kapro has another, similar ability specifically for mobility that does scale with growth and Powerful Legs.

+While swimming, the Secondary Attack key allows the Kaprosuchus to dart. Its dart is similar to other creatures with the ability. +Kaprosuchus' Ability key allows it to use Blood Rush

• Blood Rush adds additional damage to the next attack the Kaprosuchus successfully lands.
• Blood Rush also allows your next attack to ignore damage reduction if it hits on the tail
• Blood Rush cannot be used while in combat, so the Kaprosuchus must be prepared for the fight to get this bonus. A notification will display when you leave combat on the Kaprosuchus, informing you that Blood Rush can be used once more.
• Blood Rush's damage does not scale with other abilities that add damage such as Bone Snap or Brute Force. It does scale with growth, damage talents, and other conditions that modify damage such as being grabbed.
• The Talent Thirsty for Blood increases the damage Blood Rush adds to an attack

+The Kaprosuchus' Special key allows it to perform a large, high-angled hop. This ability can also be aimed by tilting your camera up or down, and it has an aiming cursor that indicates where you will land while using this ability. Crouching lowers the launch angle. While charging this ability, the Kaprosuchus moves 20% slower. -This ability scales with both Powerful Legs and Growth, allowing it to go much farther as it gets bigger. It costs only Stamina. You may find the Kaprosuchus in surprising places due to usage of this ability! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/2d6e14d9c77d9a9b90462f497101aeea439763c2.png

Kapro-Specific Talents

+Added Replenish as a new talent to Kapro's talent tree in socket S3.1

• Replenish grants stamina to the Kapro on a successful attack. At 5/3 this grants 37.5 Stamina per attack

+Added Thirsty for Blood as a new talent to Kapro's talent tree in socket M3.1

• Thirsty for Blood increases how much damage Blood Rush adds to your next successful attack. It also reduces the cost of Blood Rush and increases how long the buff lasts until it expires.

Passive Abilities

+Thick Tail

• -Thick Tail grants the Kaprosuchus 65% damage reduction on its tail rather than the standard 50%

+Thick Scutes

• Thick Scutes grants immunity to venom. This applies to both the venom damage type and to the Palaeophis' Venom Spit ability and its associated status effect
• Thick Scutes additionally grants 50% damage resistance to damage being dealt by serpents such as the Palaeophis.

+Lazy

• The Kaprosuchus can eat a lot, far surpassing being full. This takes overeating to the extreme, allowing the Kaprosuchus to gain substantial amounts of health and weight at the expense of mobility.
• It also can go a very long time without eating.
• Note that to take full advantage of Kapro's Lazy trait, the talents Resilience and Tough Stomach are highly recommended. Otherwise, the comfort drop from being this overweight will likely result in your death.

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Stats

+Kapro has a growth rate and scaling stats that match the Pachycephalosaurus +Kapro has a base food value of 125 +Kapro has a max food value of 300, which is higher than any other creature in the game +Kapro's base health is 425 +Kapro's base damage is 65 +The Kaprosuchus is primarily a meat eater, but it can occasionally eat fish without getting sick. A diet too rich in fish may make you sick via the dietary mechanic, as it has a max fish allowance in its diet.

Skins

+FireBelly by Twilightwolf & Natahi4 +Leopard by Valhalla +Swamp Runner by Pixeldeer & Novacaine +Mangrove by Callie +Seaspray by Novacaine & Valhalla +Banded by Gamevideosforlife & Novacaine +Marbled by Nonyapie & Natahi4

Misc

+Added Kapro taunt emote

• The taunt emote requires visiting all major deity shrines on the map

+Added Kapro dance emote

• The dance emote requires owning the BoB OST

+Kapro lays nests where the eggs get buried after they are laid. This functions similarly to the Archelon nest. It does not have to be laid on or near a beach. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/42befd1c877a29dd7f47039f43cd9715be3579a5.png

New Titania Map Expansion: Cypress Marsh

Cypress Marsh is a mysterious and misty biome located behind Titan's Rise. Its a semi-aquatic focused area that connects to the ocean biome: Eroded Coast. It trades good food and water for poor visibility and unpredictable marshy terrain. +Cypress Marsh features a unique biome soundtrack +A thick fog covers the biome both day and night, making it perfect for ambushes +The largest body of water in Cypress Marsh does not have a banner (or a mark on the compass) to prevent confusion while traversing the biome. This main watersource is infinite but does not provide satiation. However, there are many small pristine water sources across Cypress Marsh and the Eroded Coast to drink from instead that do provide satiation. +Cypress Marsh features a special water Post Process effect which makes the water look dirty and murky when below the surface. All animals are at an equal visual disadvantage to this biome-specific murkiness. There are also chunks of algae floating in the water at some locations. +Creatures now get covered in algae from the top-down while breaching in swampy water +There are 3 mini land shrines and 3 mini aquatic shrines in Cypress Marsh. +There are various types of AI in Cypress Marsh +Cypress Marsh features various unique POI and environmental story telling

Other Map Adjustments:

+Fixed bad collision on burnt Tropic Trees +Improved LODs on the Kapok Trees +Replaced the mammoth bone assets on Titania with lore-correct theropod bone assets +Added some more broken building structures to the Orchard Ruins at Outlands +Cypress Marsh Trees, Roots, and Stumps are now in the foliage tool and interactable on Titania. Stumps, Roots, and dead trees can be knocked over, but not eaten. Cypress Trees with leaves can be eaten when playing as correct species type and growth. +Increased compass scent radius by 75% on Isla Titania to accommodate for map expansion {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/86c3a662384b0e69846c803bedb406ed5bf8171d.png

Other New Content

Earnable, Equippable Cosmetics

+Each creature can now earn an equippable burn overlay if they are caught on fire by a forest fire and manage to survive.

• There is a corresponding achievement in the achievement gallery under the cosmetics section that shows how many creatures currently have earned the overlay
• This cosmetic unlocks game-wide if earned on an Official server.
• The Burn scar overlays can only be earned if the player survives a fire that has not been spawned with console commands. Note using 'spawnfire' during a forest fire will mark all active fires as console-spawned, and the achievement will not work in this case either. Touching lava and being caught on fire by lava during a forest fire will also not grant the achievement.

+Each creature can now earn an equippable lightning scar overlay if they are struck by a naturally occurring lightning bolt

• There is a corresponding achievement in the achievement gallery under the cosmetics section that shows how many creatures currently have earned the overlay
• This cosmetic unlocks game-wide if earned on an Official server.

+Surviving sickness at or above 2.5 growth now rewards the sickness overlay for the creature that got sick. This sickness overlay is equippable on the Character customization screen.

• It equips to the same texture slot as the burn and lightning overlays.
• There is an achievement in the achievement gallery that displays how many creatures you have gotten sick and survived on. All creatures can earn a sickness overlay. Completing the achievement requires surviving a terrible sickness (2.5+ growth) on all creatures.
• Note that Pachycephalosaurus can earn the achievement, but currently has no sickness overlay.

Skins

+Added new Velo skin: Harrier by Twilightwolf {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/439f2f3e7215b73bba7cce54f5432b0b2580a5f6.png

Admin

+The console command SetAllTalentInheritsTo now dirties a creature

Quality of Life

+Talent points have been reset for this patch +Added Velociraptor dance sound +The Palaeophis now removes any visual dirtiness effects such as mud or sand after shedding its skin. It also dries it off. +Renamed the Pteranodon Idle2 animation to Shake in the emote action wheel. Using this animation now dries and cleans the Pteranodon +Using the Shake emote as the velociraptor now dries and cleans the Velociraptor +While not mousing over any talents, the dino information that shows up on the dino select screen now also shows up on the talent screen. Note that all dino information has been updated to be relevant and up-to-date +Added two additional save slots to all player save profiles, bringing the total save slot count up to 12, from 10

Streamer Mode

+Added Streamer Mode toggle in the gameplay settings

• Toggling it on automatically randomizes own name, hides global chat, uses only friend's steam avatars and hides server's name
• Streamer mode now changes other players names to their ID in player list, chat and in group. This is only visible to the streamer. ID can be used for /invite etc.
• Streamer mode now changes group names to random dino species name from that group in the group finder. This is also only visible to the streamer
• Player colors and badges are now hidden while in Streamer Mode
• Leaderboard names are now hidden while in Streamer Mode

Dino Customization UI Edits

+The Dino Customization UI has been edited to make it easier to find various cosmetic options while creating a new creature.

• The voice pitch, preview growth, and update camera view options are now immediately visible to the player on the left side of the screen.
• After selecting a skin, additional cosmetic options that can be added to the character are now also visible on the left side of the screen. This includes holiday or warpaint overlays, velo / changyu plumage options, usable model morphs, and any other cosmetic options available to the player.
• Pressing the back arrow or the escape key will hide the left panel with the customization options, allowing the original UI setup to be viewed instead.
• The color wheel that displays when a color-customizable equippable item is added to a character can now be closed, allowing the player to get back to the growth preview and voice pitch options
• These changes were made as we realized players were not finding these options very easily.
• Note that most of these changes are for the creature creation screen, not the customization screen accessible while playing a creature.

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Balance

+Balance: You can no longer dart while Tendon Tear is active +The talent Vigilance also gives an additional effect:

• Vigilance reduces how much venom damage is received from all sources. This also shortens the duration of Venom Spit's blind effect. With max talents invested, it mitigates these by 67%.

+The talent Burrow Master now has an additional effect:

• Increases the rate at which you regenerate Ability, Stamina, Comfort, and Health while in a burrow. With three points invested, these match their resting regeneration rates.

+The talent Snake Senses can no longer sense players that are in a burrow +Balance: Flyers are no longer knocked out of flight if hit by a gliding velo or changyu while flying +Balance: Increased the speed threshold at which flyers will transition into a swimming state when diving into the water. This means you enter a swimming state sooner than before. +Balance: Wing Beat's status diminishing returns timer is now 15 seconds, down from 30. Note this applies to both Archelon and Tropeognathus

Archelon

+Balance: The talent Snapping Jaw also reduces the base Ability cost of Archelon's charged bite attack

Oryctodromeus

+Balance: Increased Ory's base bite damage to 30, up from 25 +Balance: Increased Ory's base health to 145, up from 125 +Balance: Increased Ory's swim sprint speed to 370, up from 250 +Balance: Increased Ory's swim walk speed to 233, up from 150 +Balance: The Oryctodromeus is no longer immune to Tendon Tear +Balance: Added Metabolism and Hydration to Oryctodromeus' talent tree in talent sockets S3.1 and S3.3

Pachycephalosaurus

+Balance: Pachy is now considered a Piscivore, which means it can eat Chinlea and other sources of fish without getting sick

Palaeophis

+Balance: The Palaeophis is no longer immune to Tendon Tear

Pteranodon

+Balance: Pteranodon can now cancel their dart by releasing Secondary Attack (RMB typically) +Balance: Increased Pteranodon's base damage to 40, up from 35

Tropeognathus

+Balance: Tropeognathus now has Improved Dart in its M3.1 talent socket +Balance: Tropeognathus can now cancel their dart by releasing Secondary Attack (RMB typically)

Velociraptor

+Balance: The Velociraptor (all Specializations) is no longer immune to Tendon Tear +Balance: Reduced Velociraptor Specialization's healing rate by 20% +Balance: Reduced Changyuraptor's healing rate by 35% +Balance: Changyu's stationary turn rate is now 230, down from 272.5 +Balance: Changyu's sprinting turn rate is now 170, down from 190 +Balance: Reduced Velo and Changyu's damage scaling below 1.0 growth such that hatchlings and juveniles deal less damage than before {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/04b2d219f25f31ecbd40777480bff42f988b766d.png

Bug Fixes

+Fixed: Being hit while climbing as velo/chang should no longer cause the creature to fall through the map +Fixed: Velo's climbing tutorial prompt shouldn't pop up again if player has climbed +Fixed: Velo no longer jams if it mates while climbing +Fixed: The preview creature on the dino selection screen now properly adjusts itself so it sits properly on the ground while adjusting the growth slider +Fixed: Server crash related to AI. The server log would print 'Container has changed during ranged-for iteration!' AI should now be able to be enabled without this crash occurring. +Fixed: Server crash related to stumps being removed on the map. The server log would print 'Container has changed during ranged-for iteration!' with a note above about FoliageControllerBase.MULTICAST_RemoveStump +Fixed: Server crash related to burrow networks deconstructing. The server log would print 'Container has changed during ranged-for iteration!' but on line 2l6. +Fixed: Equipped cosmetic items now properly unequip when you remove them through the Character Customization UI after having just opened it with cosmetic items already equipped +Fixed: Certain equippable cosmetic items such as elder eyes and supporter eyes now properly stay equipped on Acro/Carch and Apato/Bronto +Fixed: Trying to take off from a swimming state immediately after being hit by another player no longer results in your stamina immediately draining to zero +Fixed: Changyuraptor now plays its glide animation when it is selected while on the dino select screen +Fixed: Pachy should no longer gain plant diet from secret snackies gores +Fixed: Elusiveness' invisibility effect no longer breaks when you successfully deal damage to another player while having 4 or more talent points in Elusiveness +Fixed: Newly reincarnated creatures are no longer lost if the server restarts or crashes before doing a save tick Thank you to the BoB QA Team for the provided screenshots.

Additional Patchnote Languages

Afrikaans.txt

+Fixed: The Coahuilaceratops Hyperboreos skin now unlocks game-wide rather than server-wide if earned on a community server. Note that you may need to log onto the server you earned the Coahuilaceratops Hyperboreos skin for the skin to then be available game-wide. Also note this same error was present with the Mosasaurus Ice Blight skin as well. +Fixed: Velo can no longer spam RMB while out of resources, causing it to spam sounds and attempt to play its animation +Fixed: Velo's pounce sound no longer causes a stutter when the sound is stopped +Fixed: Velo Skin Kākāpō to have Macrons in the name +Added Velos to main menu Warpaints +Due to popular request the Jewelry-only version of the warpaint dlcs now has the option to switch on the glow layer Titania +Fixed: Mud and sand improperly handling subsurface scattering +Fixed: Lens flare causing water graphical problems

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New Velociraptor

+The Velociraptor has been given an entirely new model and set of animations

Gliding

+The Velociraptor can now enter a gliding state if the jump key is pressed while the velo is already in the air. While gliding, the crouch and jump keys offer control of the pitch angle. Note that holding jump only mildly improves pitch angle. +While gliding, holding the sprint key will further improve pitch angle while gliding +Releasing all movement keys while gliding will cause the glide to end, placing the player into freefall +While gliding, pitch angle gradually becomes more and more angled downward. The longer you glide, the harder it is to stay aloft. +Entering freefall and then re-entering a gliding state will refresh the pitch angle decay, allowing you to begin a fresh glide. Each time this is done, the stamina cost of doing so doubles. The baseline cost is 10 stamina, so it will cost 10, then 20, then 40, then 80, and so on to re-enter a glide. This is reset when the player touches the ground, enters a body of water, or enters the climbing state {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/08033860063f7e8d7a518e4e14cddb6f3c730229.png

New Velociraptor Specialization: Changyuraptor

+The Changyuraptor, a specialization of the Velociraptor, is a quad-winged gliding specialist with feathered pantaloons +The Changyuraptor and Velociraptor share skins, animations, and sounds. The Changyuraptor, however, has its own unique model +Changyuraptor and Velociraptor can group by default. If servers wish to keep them separate, it can be done by editing the appropriate settings in the server's config file +Changyuraptor is substantially better at gliding than Velociraptor. It is, however, a slower climber. +Changyuraptor has slightly less health, damage, and weight than Velociraptor +The Changyuraptor can use its pounce while gliding by holding down and releasing the right mouse button. It can do this to gain altitude while gliding +Added new talent to Changyu's talent tree in talent socket M3.1, Sugar Glider -Sugar Glider decreases how much more Stamina each successive re-entry to glide costs during one flight -Sugar Glider also decreases the baseline Stamina cost of entering glide +Added new talent to Changyu's talent tree at socket M3.3, Updraft -Updraft also increases the maximum pitch angle you can fly at while holding the jump key +Added Airborne Ambush as a new talent to both Velociraptor and Changyuraptor talent trees in socket P3.1 -This talent greatly increases damage dealt while pouncing or gliding. +Baseline, Velociraptor can now use an ability called Intuition. It allows dodging the direction of your current movement keys when quickly pressing and releasing the Secondary Attack key +Added new talent, Intuition, to Velociraptor's talent tree in socket S3.1 -This talent greatly reduces the cost of using Intuition -The baseline cost of dodging is 30 Ability and 30 Stamina, which reduces significantly with talent points invested -Note that if you flick the camera up or down quickly while using this ability, you can control the pitch angle you launch at when using dodge. +The Velociraptor and Changyuraptor have multiple tail and crest plumage options you can choose from. There are, in total, 4 tail options and 3 crest options. Choosing no crest or tail plumage is also an option. -Note that you won't have any crest or tail plumage by default. Crest and tail plumage can be added by going to the Character part of the skin customization UI +The Velociraptor now has a dance emote. It requires owning the BoB OST on Steam to use +Added Velociraptor taunt emote. It requires 100% in the Hunt Points Trial. +Added both Velociraptor idle variant animations to the emote action wheel +Added velo fat, skinny, incest, elder, and baby morphs {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/5c9ecc22ef69e28888bd2938cc55af9cd8574255.jpg

New Skins

+New Velo Skin: Redtail by Valhalla and Twilightwolf +New Velo skin: Snow Leopard Remake by Valhalla (originally by Misha) +New Velo Skin: Skua by Twilightwolf & Pixeldeer +New Velo Skin: Chimera by Valhalla +New Velo Skin: Nuclear by Pixeldeer & Natahi4 +New Velo Skin: Charged by Omnomnivore +New Velo Skin: Carved by Valhalla & Natahi4 +New Velo Skin: SunBather by Callie +New Velo Skin: Kākāpō by Soals +Added Velos Elder Eyes +Added Velo Supporter Warpaint + Supporter Eyes Cosmetics

Misc Velo Changes

+Velociraptor can now enter the climbing state while gliding by pressing the Ability key +Velociraptor now enters the climbing state by using the Ability key

Winter Event 2024

+For a limited time, players will be able to earn the new Coahuilaceratops Hyperboreos skin. Previous Winter-themed cosmetics and skins can also be earned once more at this time. -The Hyperboreos skin was made by Valhalla and Gortys -The skins have a glowing, bioluminescent layer. -The skins unlock separate equippable cosmetic overlays. The Hyperboreos skin unlocks a snowy overlay and equippable icicles. The unlocked overlays and items can go on any skin of their corresponding species. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/743bc1ced4b8bd7160f37bdfd6c611b421bd81bb.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/73eea24b81cae3bdae2df25efcccdfc951562931.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/70ea975884adabe4007cb9faa44102099246b761.png

Earning the Skins:

+To unlock the Hyperboreos skin and its Overlay, players need to find and collect Coahuilaceratops-themed idols scattered around the map. +To unlock any previous Winter-themed cosmetic and associated overlays or other equippable items, players need to find and collect appropriately themed idols scattered around the map.

• The idols will match the dinosaur type the cosmetic corresponds to. This Winter, you can earn cosmetics for Mosasaurus, Parasaurolophus, and Coahuilaceratops.
• Gathering the idols will allow the player to progress through achievements associated with earning the skins.
• The idols will be spawning on all servers and on both Life Cycle and Free Roam game modes.
• Completing the achievement on any server will unlock access to the skin and cosmetics game-wide.

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Idol Collecting Tips!

• The idols will be found scattered across land and sea, spawning randomly anywhere carcasses spawn.
• The Coahuilaceratops Hyperboreos skin and any previous Winter-themed, earnable skin can now be earned by collecting idols scattered around the map and returning them to a matching deity shrine.
• All skins require gathering 50 idols that correspond with their dinosaur type. All idols must be gathered on the same server to complete the achievement and unlock the skin, but they can be individually gathered by different creatures or during different lives.
• Idols show up on the compass when nearby with a color themed for the deity shrine they belong to
• Turning in an idol will show achievement progress in the top-right corner of the screen
• You should also be able to view the progress you've made towards unlocking both the event skins by viewing the corresponding achievements in the achievements gallery's Limited Time Events page

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Mechanics Changes

+Nest Raiders can now get food out of empty looking or incompletely filled carcasses dropped by juvenile dinosaurs that would otherwise be non-interactable or have very little food value. Full carcasses do not provide additional food to baby snatchers. -Carcasses cannot contain more total food than the creature that dropped it ate in total. This was added a while back to combat self-feeding behaviors and to make fresh spawns not an enticing kill for players to hunt, but it also adversely affected the Nest Raider talent. The above change allows only Nest Raiders to bypass this mechanic, getting access to the full carcass value of food regardless of whether or not the dropper of that carcass ate food or not before dying. Full 5/3 Nest Raider allows 100% access to all the remaining, unfilled food value that would otherwise be absent in a carcass. Lower point values of Nest Raider only allow partial access. Nest Raiders eating from a carcass will deplete the hidden Nest Raider food first. -Nest Raiders will see carcasses with more meat on them if they contain this hidden food that only they can interact with and eat. -Legging a carcass does not pull Nest Raider food off the carcass. It always stays with the original carcass. +Disabled Ability key climbing toggle from controls settings. The Ability key is now always used to enter the climbing state.

QoL Changes

+QoL: Improvements to how the moon direct light is handled. It should now be brighter and easier to see at dusk and dawn on all maps. +QoL: Public branch Velociraptors now get a specialization reset. Skins from public branch should select the best-matching new velo skin. +QoL: Servers now spawn a world event immediately upon booting up. The first world event has no countdown timer and is immediately active. Additional world events will continue to spawn as normal. +Added Shape_Plane_Snow and SM_Cube_Snow to the foliage placement tool

Music

+Added looping Save Select and Dino Select music tracks to their respective UIs +Added new Near Combat music. This music plays when you are near members of your group that are engaged in a fight but are not in the fight yet yourself. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/2e055e87b8b1ccb4e2253ef299fa6aa3d4b1e18c.png

Balance Changes

+Balance: The talent Resilience now adds comfort for beached aquatics +Balance: The talent Arboreal now increases the rate at which you regenerate Ability, Stamina, Comfort, and Health. With full talent investment, these match their resting regeneration rates. +Balance: The talent Wing Tear now also applies its damage increasing effect to Velo and Changyu if they are gliding. Note that Velo and Changyu are injury immune, meaning no additional injury damage will be dealt.

Changyuraptor

+Changyuraptor's base bite damage is 25. Velo's is 33 +Changyuraptor's base health is 110. Velo's is 125 +Changyuraptor's size is 110. Velo's is 120 +Changyuraptor's gliding stats are substantially better than Velo's +Changyuraptor's sprint speed is 760. Velo's is 815

Elasmosaurus

+Balance: Elasmosaurus now has Out of Element in its P3.3 talent socket

Kronosaurus

+Balance: Kronosaurus now has Out of Element in its P3.3 talent socket

Megaraptor

+Improved Megaraptor Slash Attack hitbox

Mosasaurus

+Balance: Mosasaurus now has Out of Element in its P3.3 talent socket

Palaeophis

+Balance: Palaeophis now has the same dietary requirements as Mosasaurus, and cannot eat fish food without risking getting sick +Balance: Palaeophis is no longer considered a piscivore. This means Chinlea give substantially less food and give negative comfort bias when eaten. +Balance: Regurgitating now costs 25 Ability Power baseline. The talent Ready to Run reduces this cost. +Balance: The Palaeophis can no longer use its primary attack while darting, resulting in it doing more damage than intended +Balance: Adjusted how venom damage is calculated such that the Palaeophis cannot deal more venom damage than it would with a 2:1 weight advantage vs its opponent. This prevents it dealing very high levels of venom damage to very small weight class creatures such as Velociraptor and Oryctodromeus.

Saichania

+Balance: Saichania now resists 50% of all venom damage

Velociraptor

+Balance: Velociraptor now has Tough Stomach in place of Adrenaline +Balance: Reduced Velociraptor pounce leap stamina cost to 25, down from 40 +Balance: Velociraptor no longer consumes stamina while coiling its pounce leap +Balance: Velociraptor can now continue to hold its pounce leap indefinitely until RMB is released. Pressing other movement keys will cancel the pounce leap. +Using pounce leap with insufficient stamina results in a shorter leap +Balance: Sturdy now activates when above 75% health, rather than 90% health +Balance: Increased Velociraptor climbing speed by 33% +Balance: Increased Changyu and Velo heal rates by 60% +Balance: Velo can no longer use its pounce while blinded by Sand Attack +Balance: Increased Velo's base damage to 33, up from 30

Bug Fixes

+Fixed GPU-related clientside crash +Fixed: A rarer but similar instance of growth loss and reversion of save state to a previous version of a saved character being possible. +Fixed: Sacrificing at a shrine now properly marks the dead creature as having sacrificed to the shrine and awards proper Trials points. It also fixes a sacrificed creature not receiving a boost to their Trials in that deity category for the purposes of reincarnation. +Fixed: Tyrannosaurus rex's Devastating Ambush ability no longer prints Devastating Bite in the log when consuming stamina +Fixed: Creatures spawned by the creature select screen now properly despawn if you take an egg while the screen is in use +Fixed: Pressing the Talent button while in an egg no longer jams the camera +Fixed: Growth now properly un-pauses if you die with your growth paused +Fixed: Attacking eggs no longer grants enemy-ship with yourself +Fixed: Ichthy's animations now work properly in the main menu creature editor +Fixed: Game should no longer crash randomly or when sniffing other creatures when effects are set to higher or above +Fixed: Preview animations now work on the main menu's customization preview editor +Fixed: Typo in scent tooltip for sea anemones +Fixed: Velo can now climb properly while carrying another player +Fixed: Attacking eggs no longer makes the Near Combat music play for grouped players +Fixed: Motion blur should now be disabled regardless of graphics settings {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/ce5ff197df5f5def694fdd08e404841baff0b978.png Thank you to the BoB Testing Team for the provided images.

Additional Patchnote Languages

Afrikaans

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New Content

Carcharodontosaurus Specialization

+Added a new specialization to the Acrocanthosaurus class. The specialization is the Carcharodontosaurus +The Carcharodontosaurus uses the same skins as the Acrocanthosaurus and behaves similarly to how we implemented the Brontosaurus as a specialization of the Apatosaurus class -All other specialization-specific stuff that we did for bronto should work for carch +See the Balance Changes section of the patch notes for Carch's stats. Note that Acro's stats have changed as well to better-differentiate it from Carch and adjust its balance point a bit. +Added new mechanic to Carcharodontosaurus: Voracious Roar and Voracious Bite -The Carcharodontosaurus has Voracious Roar as an ability rather than Intimidating Roar. Voracious Roar is activated by pressing the Ability key and costs 35 Ability. When activated, yourself and all nearby group members (carch and acro only) receive a temporary buff called Voracious Roar. This buff lasts 20 seconds, then 10, then 5, and then cannot be used any longer for one minute. -While Voracious Roar is active, attacks dealt by any player with the buff against any ungrouped player will result in receiving the Voracious Bite buff. Voracious Bite is a stacking, heal-over-time buff that lasts for a duration of time. This buff resets its timer and increases its stack count each time the player deals another successful offensive attack. -Carcharodontosaurus, by default, receives 3 stacks of Voracious Bite each time it succeeds in making an attack while Voracious Roar is active. Acrocanthosaurus receives only 2 stacks. -Voracious Bite's healing is reduced by bleed and hits a 50% reduction when the player has 100 bleed. -Voracious Bite does not activate if the Carcharodontosaurus' attack struck a player who had Spiky Shield or Evasive Maneuver active -Carch's Voracious Roar status icon now shows up above the Carch's head while it is both active and on cooldown on non-owning clients -Note that support toggling whether or not specializations that share the same dino type can group has been added. By default, Carch an Acro will not be allowed to group with one-another on Officials due to balance concerns. This can be changed in a server's Game.ini config file if a server wishes for them to be able to group. More details are located in the Admin section of the notes. +Carcharodontosaurus has a talent tree identical to Acrocanthosaurus, with only one difference. +Replaced Improved Intimidating Roar with Voracious Roar on Carch -Increases how much healing you personally receive from your Voracious Bite healing -Increases how long the Voracious Bite Heal over Time effect lasts on your character. -Reduces the cost and increases the duration the Voracious Roar Buff that gets put on both you and all nearby party members -Increases how many stacks of Voracious Bite you can have going at once. Talent points increase it by two, and inherits increase it by one. +All saved Acrocanthosaurus have received a specialization reset +Added new Lurdu Skin: Siliquosa by Pixeldeer & Natahi4 +Added new Acro Skin: Rouge by Callie +Added new Apato Skin: Genetic Stripe, by Valhalla

Fall Event Skins!

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• The idols will always be found on land and spawn randomly anywhere carcasses spawn.
• Both the Megaraptor Servant of Charon skin and last year's Tyrannosaurus rex Fall Decay skin are now earned by collecting idols scattered around the map and returning them to a matching deity shrine.
• Both skins require gathering 50 idols each. All idols must be gathered on the same server to complete the achievement and unlock the skin, but they can be individually gathered by different creatures or during different lives.
• Idols show up on the compass when nearby with a color themed for the deity shrine they belong to
• Turning in an idol will show achievement progress in the top-right corner of the screen
• You should also be able to view the progress you've made towards unlocking both the event skins by viewing the corresponding achievements in the achievements gallery's Limited Time Events page

QoL Changes

+Added a setting to only show friends' steam icons in player list and in group. If disabled, shows everyone's steam icons (unless profile is private, no profile picture etc.). This requires a restart to take effect. +The dawn, noon, night, deity shrine, and combat music all play on all maps now. Not just Isla Titania +QoL: Added tooltips to the Unstuck and Unjam buttons on the Escape menu so players can see the difference between the two +QoL: If you've fallen under the map, you can use the Unstuck button on the Escape menu to immediately be teleported to an appropriate spawn point. Additionally, when player is stuck under the ground the unjam and unstuck buttons are immediately available when opening the escape menu +QoL: Exiting the map's playable boundary now results in the player being moved to a random spawn point appropriate for their creature rather than in a death. Certain bugs were triggering this death condition and we'd rather handle possible out of bounds bugs with something less punitive for the player. +Minor improvements to dino shader +Brontosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus now show up as such in combat log events, on the character stat screen, and as the default name on saved entities

Optimization

+Improved various assets on Isla Titania to improve performance +Optimization: removed shadows from small meshes on all dinos {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/fe200b5ea984c3fdd5919d443fa92b0b9f2c0c25.jpg

Admin

+Added console command ClearCommandHistory that clears the history of previously used commands

Group Config

+Admin: Servers can now configure whether or not any specific dino type allows cross-specialization groupings to occur. The default value is set to true. If configured to disallow cross-specialization groupings for a specific dino type, players with different specializations will no longer be able to group with one-another. -In order to configure this value, the CreatureLimits config value in the Game.ini file can be changed to this: CreatureLimits=(CreatureType=EDinoType::Acrocanthosaurus,PercentAllowed=100.0f,GroupLimit=4,SoftCapStart=0.7f,SoftCapEnd=1.0f,HardCapGrowth=0.8f,bAllowSpecializationGrouping=false) -By default, Acrocanthosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus cannot group with one-another due to this config value being set to false. If servers wish for them to be able to group, the bAllowSpecializationGrouping value either needs to be set to true or it needs to be removed from this line of the config file, as it defaults to true when not specified. +Admin (public): Added support for different group caps for different specialization types in the server's Game.ini config. The syntax is like this: CreatureLimits=(CreatureType=EDinoType::Acrocanthosaurus,PercentAllowed=100.0f,GroupLimit=4,SoftCapStart=0.7f,SoftCapEnd=1.0f,HardCapGrowth=0.8f,bAllowSpecializationGrouping=false,Specialization=0) CreatureLimits=(CreatureType=EDinoType::Acrocanthosaurus,PercentAllowed=100.0f,GroupLimit=3,SoftCapStart=0.7f,SoftCapEnd=1.0f,HardCapGrowth=0.8f,bAllowSpecializationGrouping=false,Specialization=1) Note: Acrocanthosaurus is specialization 0, Carcharodontosaurus is specialization 1, Brontosaurus is specialization 1, Apatosaurus is specialization 0, Terrestrial Palaeophis is specialization 1, Semi-Aquatic Palaeophis is specialization 0, and Aquatic Palaeophis is specialization 2

Server Manager

+Fixed a variety of UI-related Server Manager issues +The Server Manager is now compatible with controller usage +The Server Manager should now reliably work to fetch information from the server and present it to a server admin who wishes to use it.

Mechanics Changes

+Mechanics: Bottom Walking now triggers from 50% further away from the seafloor +Mechanics: Hard-capped groups now have a growth threshold at which a player starts counting towards the cap. Previously, all players counted towards the cap regardless of growth. This allows hard-capped groups to have younger dinosaurs in their group without them counting towards the cap. By default, this value is 0.8 growth. If a player grows past 0.8 growth and that player caused the group to exceed its hard cap, they will be automatically removed from the group. -Note, this value is in the server's config settings, and can be changed on a per-species basis. The CreatureLimits array defines this value with this syntax: CreatureLimits=(CreatureType=EDinoType::Acrocanthosaurus,PercentAllowed=100.0f,GroupLimit=4,SoftCapStart=0.7f,SoftCapEnd=1.0f,HardCapGrowth=0.8f) -Players should receive a notification in chat when they are removed from a group for this reason +Mechanics: Sometimes going through portals, touching foliage that has collision, or being dropped from a grab would cause the player to die. Under these circumstances, the player is now safely logged out immediately and the player's saved character is not marked as dead. Trying to fix these has been challenging, so we're making the impact of these sorts of bugs not nearly as severe for the player as well. That is the reason for this change. +Experimental new change to Biomutations and other bioluminescent skins: -The alpha value of the bio's color picker now drives how much of the underlying skin's colors bleed into the bio. A alpha value of 0 causes it to use the underlying color completely, whereas a value of 1 uses the color of the biomutation's color picker. A value of 1 corresponds to current public branch bios, and this setting is totally optional. +Reduced good parent offspring sniff range and snake senses sniff range from 600m to 60m

Great Nesting Site

+The Great Nesting Site world event now disables the food and water drain increase associated with having the Survival Deity Blessing buff +Great Nesting Site and the Survival Deity Blessing now both close the gap between your current Good Parent level and 5/3 Good Parent by 50%. This effect does not stack, and having either buff will grant this effect. +Both Great Nesting Site and the Survival Deity Blessing add one additional Good Parent beyond this effect for the purposes of talent inherit generation. +Under all nesting circumstances, the odds of passing on inherits has been improved by 0.5 Good Parent. +The chances of getting inherits during reincarnation has been improved slightly to simulate the effects of having 0.5 Good Parent added to this mechanic as well. -Note that the above changes were made due to us findi ng a bug related to the Great Nesting Site world event. It was granting the effects of having 7.5 Good Parent for players that had 5/3 in the talent, resulting in players receiving better inherits in this world event than intended. Players can still get the same odds of passing inherits while under both the effects of Great Nesting Site and the Survival Deity Blessing. The improved odds, however, have just been spread around a bit more to make other avenues of nesting fairer in comparison. -Status condition tooltips have been updated to reflect these changes. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/e009581d19cd11b3899b40eeadd161aca0d78831.png

Balance Changes

Acrocanthosaurus

+Acro's stats have been changed a bit to better-differentiate it from Carch +Acro's base sprint speed is now 785, up from 750 +Acro's base walk speed is now 535, up from 500 +Acro's base swim sprint speed is now 425, up from 400 +Acro's base size is now 1200, down from 1300 +Acro's base health is now 1050, down from 1200 +Acro's base attack damage is now 225, down from 255 +Acro's base stamina is now 70, up from 60 +Acro's base food drain rate is now 0.72, down from 0.76 +Acro's size is now 6% smaller than before +Acro's base healing is now 24, down from 27.5 +Reduced Acro's stationary turn rate to 110, down from 125 +Reduced Acro's sprinting turn rate to 92, down from 105 +The Acro no longer deals increased damage to bleeding targets

Auroraceratops

+Increased growth rate by 35%

Arganodus

+Increased growth rate by 35%

Beelzebufo

+Increased Beelzebufo's healing rate by 100%

Carcharodontosaurus

+Carch has a sprint speed of 755. public branch Acro is 750 +Carch has a walk speed of 505. public branch Acro is 500 +Carch has a swim sprint speed of 375. public branch Acro is 400 +Carch has a swim walk speed of 280. public branch Acro is 300 +Carch has a size of 1400. public branch Acro is 1300 +Carch has a stationary turn rate of 95. public branch Acro is 125 +Carch has a sprint turn rate of 70. public branch Acro is 105 +Carch has a swim stationary turn rate of 60. public branch Acro is 85 +Carch has a swim sprint turn rate of 40. public branch Acro is 55 +Carch has a base attack damage of 290. public branch Acro is 255 +Carch has 55 base stamina. public branch Acro has 60 +Carch has 1600 base health. public branch Acro has 1200 +Carch has a food drain rate of 0.65. public branch Acro is 0.76 +Carch sitting and standing transition animations play 20% slower than public branch Acro +Carch is 10% larger than public branch Acro +Carch's healing rate is 20% less than public branch Acro +Carch's bite cooldown is 1.25 seconds, up from Acro's 1.2 +Carch's bite AP cost is 13, up from Acro's 12 +Increased Carch's max food to 125, up from Acro's 100 +Carch deals 40% less bleed damage baseline +Reduced how bendy Carch's spine is when it's looking left and right by about 30% +The Carch does not deal increased damage to bleeding targets +Carch's growth rate is now equal to that of rex

Coahuilaceratops

+Balance: Coah now has a small jump similar to Saichania's. It costs 20 Stamina. +Balance: Added a new mechanic to Coahuilaceratops. Each time it is hit from the front, it receives a stack of Active Defense. Active Defense, baseline, reduces damage by 7.5%. This can be improved by the talent Hardened Shield. Active Defense can stack up to 5 times, and behaves much like Frenzy. It lasts 20 seconds, and the timer for its expiration resets each time the Coahuilaceratops takes damage from the front. The stacking is multiplicative, meaning 5 stacks grants 0.925^5 damage reduction, not 1 - 0.075*5. This mechanic only activates if the Coah is either stationary or crouched. +Balance: Added Hardened Shield as new talent to the S3.1 socket in Coah's talent tree. It improves the effectiveness of stacks of Active Defense. +Balance: There is no longer a cap on how much comfort can be lost from a Coahuilaceratops' intimidation

Malawania

+Increased the playable Malawania's dart speed multiplier to 3, up from 2 +Increased Malawania Archerfish knockback by 100%

Oryctodromeus

+Ory's food and water drain rate now reduces by 50% while in a burrow

Palaeophis

+Reduced the Venom and Ability cost of Venom Spit to 17.5, down from 25 +Increased Venom Spit baseline range by 43% +Increased Venom Spit baseline blind duration by 43% +Reduced the effectiveness of the Venom Spitter talent by 50%. At 5/3, the effect is identical to before with the above-mentioned buffs. +Balance: Increased Aquatic Palaeophis' food drain rate to 0.75, up from 0.54 +Balance: Increased AP cost of Palaeophis' bite attack to 10, up from 5 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/a8dbf74c4305421837585076e0bb98803b609302.png

Bug Fixes

+Fixed: Severe memory leak related to the recently fixed Steam group and player list icons +Fixed: Nested skins very frequently having very low layer counts and lacking complexity +Fixed: Semi-Aquatics now receive water satiation from eating coconuts +Fixed: Semi-Aquatic and Terrestrial Palaeophis abandoned eggs now spawn on land and with not-empty water +Fixed: Aquatic Palaeophis eggs now properly grant live birth to the player when taken +Fixed: Aquatics no longer deal reduced damage when lower on oxygen. This was especially apparent when playing Life Cycle and at larger growths +Fixed: Palaeo meat food icon should no longer turn into fish food icon after graphic or HUD settings are changed +Fixed: Grabbing a creature and then turning elusive no longer turns the grabbed creature elusive +Fixed: Player list HUD elements load up properly when it's opened through save selection before spawning as any creature yet +Fixed: The Auto-Resurrection server setting and Death's Blessing world event should no longer sometimes fail to resurrect players after they die +Fixed: Player list in the creature select menu no longer results a blank screen +Fixed: Pressing escape in player list in the creature select menu closes player list and opens up creature select menu +Fixed: Hatchling palaeo no longer gets jammed after hatching while at the same time aquatic mother is holding a gore +Fixed: Korean and Japanese glyphs now show up properly in chat +Fixed: The prompt that informs you what foliage object you ate to get sick no longer says you got sick from eating a "None" under certain circumstances +Fixed: Using portals should no longer fling the player across the map at very high speeds under certain circumstances +Fixed: Successfully reincarnating or resurrecting dead dino now unselects the dino such that the player is no longer able to resurrect the creature again and again causing it's growth to get smaller +Fixed: After reincarnation the spawn or creature new button no longer select a random slot in the saved creature list and instead player needs to click a creature or empty slot first before the button reactivates +Fixed: Creatures with elusiveness should no longer turn completely invisible when it's hit by para's or malawania's ability +Fixed: Acro can no longer spam intimidating roar ability on a creature that already has intimidating roar debuff, resulting in wasted AP +Fixed: Egg Carcasses should no longer cause excess server log spam +Fixed: Abandoned egg nests will now properly get destroyed from attack instead of staying on the map and causing particle effects every time player attacked the abandoned egg +Fixed: Division by zero log spam should no longer happen when player has no points in stamina improvement or health improvement or forager +Fixed: Palaeo can now forfeit duels through emote wheel without looking at the creature it's dueling with +Fixed: Velociraptor no longer loses the ability to climb at high growths, and adjusted velociraptor's climbing speed so it won't slip off from climbable surfaces as easily at high growths +Fixed: Hatchling's or egg's POV no longer switches to palaeo's POV after it has been dropped by palaeo and then someone else picks the player up again +Fixed: Safely logging out to main menu or to quit game should save the creature as reliably as safely going back to save selection screen +Fixed: Creatures with elusiveness should no longer turn completely invisible when it's hit highlight ability like acro roar +Fixed: Various issues on Isla Titania +Fixed: Force respawning while in the death animation no longer causes the dino to perma die on auto revive servers or on deaths blessing event +Fixed: Palaeo picking up other players should no longer result the picked up character's camera to get stuck on palaeo +Fixed: Wiehenavator is no called Megalosaurus in character / O-menu +Fixed: Lurdu uses its falling animation and no longer loops its jump animation when it jumps from a high place +Fixed: First play tutorial window now properly closes with escape key +Fixed: Ichthy's distress, pain grunt, and death sounds no longer play faster when at lower growths and instead properly play their juvenile variants at the proper speed +Fixed: Aquatic palaeo should no longer spawn on land after resurrecting or reincarnation +Fixed: Juvenile calls no longer play for adult creatures when the player making the call is out of render distance +Fixed: The Father's specialization now shows up properly in the egg select screen instead of always being a copy of the mother's specialization +Fixed: Nvidia GTX 900-series and older GPUs use system RAM in addition to their VRAM to load dino textures properly on Titania +Fixed: Abandoned eggs now sort into separate categories based on egg specialization +Fixed: Eggs now show their specialization name properly in the character stat ui +Fixed: The Great Nesting Site world event now properly closes the gap between the player's current level of Good Parent and 5/3 Good Parent for the purposes of generating egg inherits. -Note that Great Nesting Site was previously able to combine with Good Parent and exceed the effectiveness of having 5/3 Good Parent in regards to inherit generation. It was never our intention to allow this mechanic to exceed what players could normally obtain through other gameplay means such as reincarnation or regular nesting. We've decided to fix this bug, making it such that 5/3 Good Parent presents the best possible odds you can get to pass inherits onto your hatchlings. +Fixed: Archelon can now earn its elder eyes

GPU Crashes

Possible fix for various GPU related crashes: +Maybe Fixed: D3D12 async crash should no longer happen +Maybe Fixed: D3D11 and D3D12 command queue crash should no longer happen +Maybe Fixed: RHI command parallel crash should no longer happen +Maybe Fixed: D3D12RHI Sync Threshold Reached crash should no longer happen +Maybe Fixed: DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED and DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG should happen less

Volcano Bay

+Fixed: Volcano Bay should no longer spam tile limit reached in the log +Fixed: AI should work properly in Volcano Bay {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/e7218f3d543db3d9e9637d2857cb7fc2f3bcea9f.png Thank you to the Beasts of Bermuda QA Team for providing the above featured screenshots.

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Afrikaans

Note this build does not change the build ID. Updated clients should be compatible with public branch servers, and clients on the public branch should be compatible with the testing servers. +Fixed (public, server): Nested skins very frequently having very low layer counts and lacking complexity +Fixed (public, client): The Wiehenvenator nails now look correct on the elder morph +Fixed (public, client): Ichthy's teeth now sit properly on the juvie morph +Fixed (public, client): Ichthy's DirtMask causing black patches +Fixed (public, client): Ichthy dance can now be cancelled with right mouse button +QoL (public, client): Lowered Coah's skin dirtyness levels +QoL (public, client): Edits to placement of the Ichthys on main menu +QoL (public, client): Made Mac compatible Splash Screen for Loading +QoL (public, client): Improved Detail Maps of Apato's Shader +QoL (public, client): Simplified the taskbar logo for BoB so it should appear less grainy

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Return of the Giants!

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Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus Specializations

In this update, players will now be able to choose between two specializations for our playable Apatosaurus creature class. Note that when the Apatosaurus is referred to in a general sense, it means the Apatosaurus creature class. When the context refers to the Apatosaurus specialization, it will be specified in this way. The Apatosaurus specialization will be very similar to how the Apatosaurus played prior to the Rise of the Earthbreakers update back in April, 2022. Its stats, attacks, talent tree, and, of course, its size have been restored to its previous glory through the new Specialization mechanic! I personally went back and found the apato update patch and took all the old stats and put them onto the Apatosaurus specialization, and we've been digging through old bob stuff making sure we got other aspects of its stats right too. It should be as similar to the original, large, slow, heavy-hitting apato with ginormous health as we could manage to get it to be. Additionally, we know a lot of players very much liked the Rise of the Earthbreakers update where we made the Apatosaurus faster, smaller, swifter, and have a wider variety of attacks such as its neck sweep and kick in place of stomp. This is why we have added the Brontosaurus specialization. Brontosaurus is a specialization of Apatosaurus that can be selected under the Apatosaurus playable on the dino select screen. It is exactly the same as public branch current Apatosaurus. It has all the same stats, the same size, and the same attacks as public branch Apatosaurus. It does, however, have a new look. Here are a few things to note about what we're doing here: The Apatosaurus specialization has stomp as its Left mouse button and tail whip as its Right mouse button. The Brontosaurus specialization has neck sweep as its Ability, tail whip as its RMB, and kick as its LMB. The Apatosaurus specialization uses the current Apatosaurus model. The Brontosaurus specialization has kick as its Left mouse button, tail whip as its Right mouse button, and neck sweep as its Ability. All Apatosaurus skins are compatible between both the Brontosaurus and Apatosaurus model, and the skins will swap seamlessly between the two. The Apato's quills on its head will map to the color customization channels used to change the Bronto's spikes. The Bronto, additionally, has a new customization layer that lets players change the color of its osteoderms. Bronto and Apato can mate just as Palaeophis can. The mother's specialization is used for the hatchlings, and all specialization-specific stuff related to Palaeophis applies to Apatosaurus as well. Bronto and Apato can group, as they're technically the same creature type internally. Apato and Bronto share the same animations, skins, and several of the same sounds.

Specialization Resets

When players log onto a saved Apatosaurus, they will be given a one-time specialization change. You have the option of choosing to stay with the Apatosaurus specialization, swap to Brontosaurus specialization, or decide later if you want to do more research. If undecided, you default to the Apatosaurus specialization until you consume the one-time specialization change. It can be accessed by opening the Character menu. There is also a console command named resetspecialization accessible through the admin permissions ModifyTalents that allows server admins to give players another specialization change. Server admins are free to use this console command however they see fit to meet the wishes and needs of their players.

Talent Inherits and Specialization Resets

The talent trees between Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus are different. I've created some new code that remaps talent point inherits from one tree to another. It handles inherit transfers in this order. First, any talent points in the new tree you have talent inherits in already will transfer over. Next, any talent points you have inherits in will try to place into the talent that replaced it on that talent's location in the talent tree, but only if that talent does not exist elsewhere in the new tree. Finally, any remaining inherits map to talents in the new tree that don't exist in the old tree. This was the cleanest and fairest way I could figure out to allow talent trees to swap while preserving a player's inherits. If you swap specializations, an inherit remap will occur. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/4f8325b9dd8fba08e6642c3ae6224b35a95ba6a8.jpg

Other New Things

+The Ichthyovenator has been given its new model! It now has an elder morph. It also has a totally new set of animations. +The Ichthyovenator now has a taunt it can play while swimming if it has visited all major deity shrines on the map +The Ichthyovenator now has a dance it can do while on land if you own the BoB OST. The dance was referenced from a video created by Arturo García, which can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FHkdCASH7I +Added Ichthy juvenile Roar, Friendly, Aggressive, Distress, Submissive, Death, and Pain sounds. They play at full value when at 0.45 growth or below. At 1.2 growth and above, they have fully faded out.

Titania

+Added offshoot cave entrance connecting Racing River to Northern Falls River. +Added flier and land player spawns on Titan's Rise (West)

Admin Changes

+Added new consolecommand, ResetSpecialization, with ModifyTalents admin permission requirement. It allows resetting the specialization on a provided player name or ID +When a specialization is reset, the player's character will be flagged as having a specialization reset available. This will show up on the Character menu. When used, it will bring up a menu that allows the player to swap specializations. Once used, it will no longer be available. +When specializations are changed, talents with inherits will remap in the following way: -Talents that exist in the tree of the new specialization will keep their inherits -Talents that replace a talent at the same socket will receive inherits so long as the talent that was replaced does not exist elsewhere in the new specialization tree -Remaining talent inherits will be transferred to any remaining talents that weren't covered in the above-two checks. If the new tree has less talents than the old tree, talents with inherits will be prioritized when being remapped.

QoL Changes

+Added two more save slots to all player save profiles, bringing the total save slot count up to 10 per server +Any Apatosaurus will receive a one-time specialization reset upon being logged into. This state is saved, so if the specialization swap is not used during the first login session, it will persist until the player uses it. It can be found by opening the Character menu while playing as the saved Apatosaurus. If you'd like to decide to swap specializations later, you can select the "Decide Later" button on the prompt that is displayed when you open the Character screen. Note that selecting "No" when asked whether you'd like to change your specialization will consume the specialization reset and keep you at the current specialization you are, which, by default, is Apatosaurus, not Brontosaurus. +All players will receive a talent point reset in this patch. +Updated Flier Warpaints so that the underside of the wings has pattern + bio (by Valhalla) +WIP implementation of Hungarian, Korean, Vietnamese, and Japanese localizations +Restored the Long Roar, Aggressive, Death, Idle, and Pain sound effects (for high, medium and low pitches) from the old Apatosaurus variant for the Apatosaurus specialization +Doubled the net-relevance range on the fat plant actor so they are easier to find on Apa +Added some more UI sounds to UI's that lacked them such as the keybinds menu +Added an Official Server Rules button on the Escape Menu and Save Selection that opens up the Official Server Rules list +Updated taskbar icon, and splash screen that shows when the game launches

Mechanics Changes

+Adjusted the coefficients on the talents Metabolism and Hydration such that they're less polarizing. At 5/3, they both now reduce food or water drain rate by 25% +Experimental changes to server bandwidth that may improve net performance on crowded servers {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/6b358e1b75d02708fa326e77d56cd87b57740858.png

Balance Changes

Apatosaurus Specialization

+Balance: The Apatosaurus Specialization has a walk speed of 175, down from Bronto's of 200 +Balance: The Apatosaurus Specialization has a sprint speed of 280, down from Bronto's of 470 +Balance: The Apatosaurus Specialization has a swim walk speed of 120, down from Bronto's of 200 +Balance: The Apatosaurus Specialization has a swim sprint speed of 200, down from Bronto's of 300 +Balance: The Apatosaurus Specialization has a base health of 6000, up from Bronto's of 4200 +Balance: The Apatosaurus Specialization has a tail whip damage of 333, up from Bronto's of 175 +Balance: The Apatosaurus Specialization has a stomp damage of 800 +Balance: The Apatosaurus Specialization's tail reaches further along its sides than Bronto's +Balance: The Apatosaurus Specialization has a turn rate of 25, down from Bronto's of 45 +Balance: The Apatosaurus Specialization has a swimming turn rate of 20, down from Bronto's of 35 +Balance: The Apatosaurus Specialization has a weight of 5000, up from Bronto's of 3300 +Balance: The Apatosaurus Specialization has a water drain rate of 0.5, down from Bronto's of 0.7 +Balance: The Apatosaurus Specialization has a food drain rate of 0.7, down from Bronto's of 0.8 +Balance: The Apatosaurus Specialization has a base heal rate of 27, up from Bronto's of 18 +Balance: The Apatosaurus Specialization has a model scale that is 30% larger than Bronto's +Balance: The Apatosaurus Specialization now has its original talent tree. Strong Legs has been added in the new M3.1 speed talent socket +Balance: The Apatosaurus specialization does not deal reduced tail whip damage to Saichania +Balance: The Apatosaurus specialization can now knockback Saichania with its trample +Balance: The Apatosaurus specialization is immune to creatures that are flying +Balance: The Apatosaurus specialization now ignores Coah's frill shield when attacking it +Balance: +Balance: The Apatosaurus specialization is now immune to being grabbed when above 0.9 growth +Balance: The Apatosaurus specialization is immune to trample knockback from the Bronto specialization +Balance: Further increased Apatosaurus specialization trample knockback by 100% +Balance: Increased Apatosaurus Specialization Ability pool size to 135, up from 120 +Balance: Saichania is immune to the Brontosaurus specialization tail whip knockback. +Balance: The Apatosaurus specialization now has a 25% slower Ability power drain rate while aiming its tail +Balance: The Apatosaurus specialization has a tail whip that has a 2 second cooldown, up from 1.2 seconds on Bronto +Balance: The Apatosaurus specialization tail aims differently, and whips further up alongside the Apato than previously +Balance: Added Metabolism and Hydration to the Apatosaurus specialization talent sockets S3.1 and S3.3 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/7833239170d1e8dc23692c388be7ea9a8a4bb171.png

Bug Fixes

+Fixed: Aquatic Palaeo hatchlings now properly show out of air status instead of dehydrated status after hatching +Fixed: Aquatic Palaeophis fresh spawns now spawn with full health +Fixed: Having Vsync enabled while also capping FPS should no longer cause the infamous CurrentFence + 1 crash -It's recommended to run the game with Vsync DISABLED and match max fps with the display frequency (normally 60) +Fixed: Swapping between windowed and fullscreen mode no longer causes lower-end gpus to crash +Fixed: SM_BushA_02 and SM_BushA_02_Dry no longer have collision when placed with the foliage placement tool +Fixed: The Palaeophis now exits the coiled state when grabbed, which prevents some buggy behavior from occurring +Fixed: Elasmo's lily cosmetics now disappear when you enter Elusive +Fixed: SM_Pillar_2x3 no longer improperly tiles its texture after an instance of it is undone or erased +Fixed: Freshly spawned Archelon and Aquatic Palaeophis now spawn in the water +Fixed: “There is no escape” no longer stays on screen while changing characters if it is on screen +Fixed: 'Out of bounds' message should no longer get stuck on the screen after the player dies to it +Fixed: Pressing escape in creature select and pressing escape again no longer causes the cursor to disappear +Fixed: Pressing escape to close the 'go back to main menu' or 'close game' prompt properly brings the focus back onto the character menu or main menu without needing to click the UI +Fixed: Issue where the skins would sometimes get layers locked together during nesting or reincarnation. One layer would appear to drive the texture channel of another and result in skins missing customization layers that should normally be present. +Fixed: Snake Senses no longer show stats on creatures that are using elusive +Fixed: Achievements / Mutation gallery should no longer get stuck with the back button and Escape key doing nothing +Fixed: Achievements / Mutation gallery now has proper UI hover and click sounds +Maybe fix: Steam profile icons in the playerlist should be mostly loaded for the first time once the playerlist is opened instead of everyone being question marks. +Fixed: Resetting all keybinds multiple times in a row should no longer cause some of the keybinds to turn into duplicates. For example with forward and back keybinds there should be just one W and one S keybind instead of W W or S S +Fixed: Resetting all keybinds multiple times in a row should no longer cause some of the keybinds to turn into None. For example with forward and back keybind it kept losing W and S but the left analog stick would work fine. +Fixed: Clearing a keybind and immediately setting a new one should now accept the new keybind properly +Fixed: Changing between playstation and xbox button layouts apply immediately on controls UI without needing to close the UI first +Fixed: Ichthy now plays its death sound when it dies rather than the eating sound {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/d3e2766ca50f4155701726603c94919f9b708fb7.png

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Afrikaans

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Summer Lily Elasmosaurus Event Skin

+For a limited time, players will be able to earn a unique Elasmosaurus Lily Shimmer Skin. -This skin has a glowing, bioluminescent layer -The skin also unlocks three separate, equippable cosmetics that are associated with the skin:

• Lily Hat: sits on the Elasmo's head.
• Lily Foliage: mesh additions that adds lilies, flowers, and various stick debris to the Elasmosaurus' head and back.
• Lily Overlay: fish silhouettes and lilies painted onto the Elasmo's back and head.

These equippable items can be put on any Elasmosaurus skin. Note: only one Texture-type Overlay can be equipped on a skin at a time.

Summer Event Skins Unlocking & Mechanics

Rather than have our new Elasmosaurus event skin unlocked by growth as we've done in the past, we've decided to try something new! To unlock the Elasmosaurus Summer Lily event skin and its associated equippable cosmetics, players will need to hunt for and collect Elasmosaurus-themed idols scattered around the seafloor. The Lurdusaurus Waverider skin is now earned by gathering Lurdusaurus-themed idols also scattered around the seafloor, and is no longer earned by growing to 2.0 on a Life Cycle server. Gathering the idols will allow the player to progress through and complete achievements associated with earning the skins. The idols will be spawning on all servers and on both Life Cycle and Free Roam game modes. Completing the achievement on any server will unlock access to the skin and cosmetics game-wide. Here is some more useful information about some of the nuanced details regarding how players can gather idols and earn the skins! -The idols will always be found on the seafloor and spawn randomly anywhere a carcasses spawn. -Both the Elasmosaurus event skin and last year's Lurdusaurus Waverider skin are now earned by collecting idols scattered around the sea floor and returning them to a matching deity shrine. There are Elasmosaurus idols for the Elasmosaurus Lily skin, and Lurdusaurus idols for the Lurdusaurus Waverider skin -They currently require gathering 50 idols each. All idols must be gathered on the same server to complete the achievement and unlock the skin, but they can be individually gathered by different creatures or during different lives. -Idols show up on the compass when nearby with a color themed for the deity shrine they belong to -Turning in an idol will show achievement progress in the top-right corner of the screen -You should also be able to view the progress you've made towards unlocking both the event skins by viewing the corresponding achievements in the achievements gallery's Limited Time Events page We hope you all enjoy this new means of earning our event cosmetics. Happy idol hunting!

Isla Titania

+Added several new bob-specific props around Isla Titania +Added Speed mini shrine inside the cave on Titans Rise +Added Event Nodes to Titans Rise and Ashen Island +Added AI spawns to Titans Rise

Optimization

+Optimized several server-side functions that may result in slightly improved server performance while many players are connected

Admin

+Added BP_RexTorch to the foliage placement tool as an actor +Added ApatoDoll, CoahSit, MegaraPlanter, Mosa, NestingVelo, PteraPost, and RexLamp props to the foliage placement tool

Quality of Life Changes

+Reset all spent talents +Updated idol icons to show power, survival, or speed colors +The Palaeophis no longer has to be as close to one-another to mate +The Palaeophis should now have an easier time coiling or sitting down in an arboreal nest +Added underwater sound variants for Palaeophis' roar, friendly, aggressive, submissive, distress, eat, idle to sit, sit to idle, pain low, pain med, pain high, and regurgitate sounds +Reduced volume of the world event start sound by 50% +Added the QA bug, called bugfriend, to the foliage placement tool and they can now spawn in ory burrows +Adjusted how quickly the Palaeophis gets dirty while in mud or sand {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/329eebd3a3382a8758c45c4cc389fcae38beff3c.png

Mechanics Changes

+Mechanics (public): Adjusted the amount of Stamina damage inflicted with Exhausting Bite such that it should deliver a more consistent result. Very large or heavy-hitting creatures should see less Stamina damage inflicted when attacking smaller targets, and smaller creatures should see the talent being more effective at dealing consistent Stamina damage. +Mechanics (public): Grabbing other players or dealing drown damage to them with Mosa's thrash both now count as hitting another player, which is used for assigning hunt points

Balance Changes

Auroraceratops

+Balance: Burrow Master has replaced Acrobat as the tier 5 power talent. Slippery has been replaced with Acrobat. Nest Raider has been replaced with Sand Hoarder.

Malawania

+Balance: Added Sharp Teeth to the Malawania's talent tree in the P3.3 socket +Balance: Added Stoic to the Malawania's talent tree in the P3.1 socket +Balance: Increased Malawania dart speed by 15% +Balance: Malawania now has Powerful Legs in the M3.1 talent socket

Palaeophis

+Balance: Reduced Venom Spit base regular damage to 7.5, down from 15 +Balance: Reduced Venom Spit venom damage by 50% +Balance: Venom Spit now applies Frenzy when it successfully hits +Balance: The Palaeophis now receives 30% less food from eating Chinlea +Balance: Sneaky is now where Acrobat was on the Aquatic Palaeophis, and Acrobat has been removed from its talent tree +Balance: The Terrestrial Palaeophis now has Stoic in place of Wing Tear, and Wing Tear has been moved to the new P3.1 talent socket +Balance: The Terrestrial Palaeophis can now lay arboreal nests baseline +Reduced volume of Palaeophis coil, slither, and idle sounds by 33%

Bug Fixes

+Fixed: Players can now get credit for sniffing the Axanthism mutation if they had previously completed the mutation achievement gallery before the Palaeophis patch +Fixed: SM_Bridge_A, B, and several other newly added objects no longer have very small texture tiling when instances of these objects are either erased, undone, or placed very far apart while using the foliage placement tool +Fixed: The glowing wisp that spawns in ory burrows can now properly be moved if you have sufficient Burrow Master +Fixed: The Palaeophis can no longer slither out on top of the burrow mesh after entering a burrow +Fixed: Dart no longer damages grabbed players who are in your group +Fixed: The new teleporters to and from Ashen Island now allow significantly larger creatures to pass through +Fixed: The Palaeophis no longer shakes or rotates oddly if grabbed while in the coiled state +Fixed: The Palaeophis can now properly grab larger growthed flyers when talenting into the Aerial Ambush talent +Fixed: The Aquatic Palaeophis no longer has incoming damage reduced at all times if it takes the Acrobat talent +Fixed: Being hit by Venom Spit while already blinded by Venom Spit no longer causes a movement speed desync that causes severe stuttering and rubberbanding issues +Fixed: Aquatics no longer gain Air Satiation from eating coconuts or other foliage elements that grant water sat +Fixed: Palaeo should no longer do splashes while slithering underwater +Fixed: Aquatic palaeo should no longer get jammed when it gets up from rest using jump key +Fixed: Aquatic palaeo no longer gets jammed after trying to get up from rest on land +Fixed: Semi and Terrestrial Palaeo no longer gets jammed after trying to get up from rest in water +Fixed: Seaweeds_Seaweed3_1, Seaweeds_Seaweed3_2, Seaweeds_Seaweed3_Tall no longer have collision with the Palaeophis when placed with the foliage placement tool {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/15e34e5d3531a34069e6bce9641ed7d698d54e58.png

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Afrikaans

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New Playable Creature: The Palaeophis

Welcome our the newest creature to the Beasts of Bermuda roster. The Palaeophis! The Palaeophis is our first playable snake, and, being a snake, it has come with a tremendous amount of new challenges. First of all, the Palaeophis has a totally unique mode of movement. Rather than walking or running, it instead slithers and glides along the ground. The player will notice the Palaeophis is capable of scaling very steep terrain and can even climb trees or other objects. The Palaeophis can also periscope, standing tall with its head up off the ground by holding the jump key. If the Palaeophis has insufficient contact with the ground or an object it is climbing, it will fall. The quality of your contact with the surface you're on is represented by a bar that shows up while climbing. If it goes to empty, you fall. Additionally, while playing the Palaeophis, you can choose from one of three specializations when you first spawn in. These specializations are Terrestrial, Semi-Aquatic, or Aquatic. These specializations give the Palaeophis different talent trees and baseline stats suited for its environment. The Palaeophis has a special new resource called Venom. The player can, at any time, toggle between whether or not they'd prefer to use their Venom or not by pressing the Special key. While using Venom, all attacks inflict Venom damage when they successfully hit, but it also costs some of your Venom resource to use. If you run out of Venom, you cannot inflict any more Venom damage. Additionally, Venom can only be regenerated while sitting down, so use it carefully while hunting! If you choose to toggle your Venom off, you will instead do dry bites. Dry bites inflict more regular damage but deal no Venom damage and use no Venom resource. Venom reduces the rate at which a player's Ability and Stamina regenerate and, at extreme values, may actively deplete your stamina. Ability can never actively deplete from Venom, but it can stop regenerating. Note that this is an experimental implementation of Venom and that we are open to ideas and suggestions regarding how it works. Another implementation we're considering is that it instead reduces your maximum Ability and Stamina instead. Venom heals more quickly while sitting or resting. Venom is a rather new type of status condition that the Palaeophis specializes in dealing. Venom applies a static drain to both your Stamina and Ability Power. This drain is negated from the rate at which you would normally regenerate Ability and Stamina. The more Venom you have applied to you, the harsher the drain. If the drain rate gets greater than the regeneration rate of your Stamina or Ability Power, the respective resource will begin decreasing instead. All mechanics that influence Stamina or Ability Power regeneration can help thwart the effects of Venom, such as sitting down or resting, bottom-walking, having high food, water, and comfort, or taking the Endurance and Persistence talents. Venom's degenerative capabilities have been tuned such that players with high food, water, comfort, and Persistence talented will always continue regenerating Ability Power, even with 100% All three Palaeophis specializations can shed its skin, which it can do only while sitting. Shedding your skin allows you to remove all bleed damage. The Terrestrial and Semi-Aquatic Palaeophis can enter a coiled state while on land. While coiled up, it can strike for additional bite damage or spit venom at its opponents. When successfully hitting another player with Venom Spit, they will receive a blinding effect similar to that of Ory's Sand Attack and will also receive venom damage. Only the Terrestrial Palaeophis has access to the Defensive Coil and Venom Spitter talents. The Aquatic and Semi-Aquatic Palaeophis can both use Dart while swimming. All Palaeophis specializations receive a buff called Frenzy when they successfully strike with an attack. Frenzy grants a temporary speed boost and can stack multiple times. Each time Frenzy is re-applied, the timer resets, allowing the Palaeophis to keep its speed rather high while in continuous combat. All three Palaeophis specializations can also regurgitate some of their food to gain several stacks of Frenzy. The regurgitated food will get spit up as a bile-colored carcass that never provides satiation. The Aquatic Palaeophis is 30% larger under all circumstances, has significantly higher weight and base health, and has the Elusive talent {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/89ee6551350d0c1f62f7de28732c4fb9b930ff96.png

Palaeophis Mating and Specializations

+Two Palaeophis can mate with one-another regardless of specialization. The children will always have the same specialization as the mother. If the father does not have a talent the mother does due to having different specializations, the inherits for that talent will roll twice from the mother's side. This should keep the quality of the inherits your offspring get consistent regardless of whether or not the parents have different specializations. +An Aquatic Palaeophis gives live birth like other aquatics. The other specializations make nests on land and lay eggs.

Talents

The Palaeophis has several unique, new talents that are designed to enhance various aspects of its kit. Each Palaeophis specialization has its own talent tree. +Snake Senses: Provides all the benefits of Keen Senses. In addition, with one, two, or three talent points invested, the Palaeophis can see how much venom has been applied, water, and then food of a target while sniffing it. +Venom Spitter: Increases the duration of the blinding effect of Venom Spit, increases its range, and reduces the Ability and Venom resource cost of using Venom Spit. +Defensive Coil: Reduces how much damage you take while coiled. +Ready to Run: Reduces the amount of food required to use Regurgitate, and increases how many stacks of Frenzy you gain from using Regurgitate +Snake Blood: Provides the benefits of both Constitution and Clotting as one talent +Frenzy Fortitude: Increases the maximum amount of Frenzy stacks you can have, and additionally slightly increases the speed bonus received by each stack of Frenzy. +Venomous: Increases the maximum amount of Venom resource you have. Additionally, increases the rate at which you regenerate your Venom resource. Increases how much Venom resource you receive and decreases how much negative comfort bias you receive from eating poisonous objects such as mushrooms +Lethal Fangs: Increases the amount of Venom damage you deal with all attacks. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/968c5e7a56e0e31e45703bc85e596b69ed809b49.jpg

Other Details about the Palaeophis

+You can see how much Venom resource you have by opening the Character screen. Note that your Venom resource can only regenerate while sitting down or while resting. +The Palaeophis' specialization shows up as an icon next to the gender icon on the save select screen, and shows up on the Character screen next to your gender icon +The Palaeophis has a dance emote. It requires the Beasts of Bermuda Original Soundtrack to use. +If you reincarnate as a Palaeophis, your reincarnation will have the same specialization +Palaeophis' food and water drain rates match that of the Tyrannosaurus rex +You cannot deal Venom damage to a creature that has its shield intact. This is currently only relevant for the Archelon. +The default max group size for the Palaeophis is 6 +Palaeophis from different specializations can group with one-another +The Special key toggle between dry and venomous bites has text that tells the player that dry bites do more damage +The Palaeophis does not consume venom on its bites if it misses with its bite attack or bites an AI while in venom mode +Venom for Palaeophis phases in between 0.6 and 0.9 growth. Below 0.6 growth, you deal significantly reduced venom damage +The Palaeophis responds to tail hits. The tail must be far away from the head for it to count as a tail hit +The Palaeophis regurgitates fish carcasses if it has eaten more fish than meat in its diet

Skins

+Added the following new skins for Palaeophis: -Blue Beauty by DJZ & Twilightwolf -Keelback by Natahi4 & Valhalla -Mangrove by Twilightwolf -Oxidized by Lifeon -RedHead by Natahi4 & GamevideosforLife -RedTail by Croww & Valhalla -Viper by Natahi4 & Twilightwolf -Watersnake by Natahi4 & Twilightwolf -Woma by Valhalla & Croww -Tricolor by Twilightwolf & Croww {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/ca039ce9c1e4748702f8f89e0a09170a58579f4d.png

Titania

+New Titania map expansion: Titan's Rise Titan's Rise expansion covers the entire area of the central mountain on the map. It is a mountainous biome with narrow passages, steep cliffs, high elevations, and deep winding caves. The biome offers clean water sources, but less plant life and salt. +Moved the Survival Shrine to Titan's Rise. There is now a survival minishrine and a hunter-gatherer village at the old location. +Added a high elevation ambient sound that plays around the tip of Titan's Rise and across the whole map at this height. +Expanded the ocean from Ashen Island to Outlands +Added new foliage: Torbernite_Mineral_1,2,3 It is a toxic radioactive rock which can be eaten to replenish health in exchange for heavy comfort damage.

Other New Stuff

+Added Power, Survival, and Speed Deity music tracks to the deity shrines on Isla Titania +Added new Pachy skin: River Rock by Valhalla +Added new pachy materials + new detail mask for scutes and body Keratin, by Valhalla +Added new mutation: Axanthism: the inability to produce yellow pigment, often resulting in blue, black and white coloration on feathered and scaly animals. Axanthism is a similar rarity to its opposite: Xanthochromism (excess of yellow pigment). {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/b76831e9473e127a294d77c21933ad922cdb98ff.png

Admin

+Admin: You must now have mod permissions on a server to search for a player by their Steam ID in the player list +Admin: Using ResurrectPlayer on a player's dead creature now causes it to spawn at a random, appropriate spawn point rather than resurrecting where they died +Admin: Added a new server config variable. bDisableLeaderboard. When true, the Leaderboard is disabled on the server. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/7658cf826ea1b91d99c2fda5cc0ac988a1e28cec.jpg

Foliage Placement Tool

+You can now add a z offset to the eraser. The up and down arrows now also move the eraser up and down +Using the arrow keys to move an object's placement location up or down now properly updates the Z offset text field in the Foliage Placement Tool's UI +Added an AI Spawn Inhibitor actor to the Foliage Placement Tool. Any AI spawners within the green sphere of an AI Spawn Inhibitor will no longer spawn AI, and will also destroy any AI currently active from the spawner when the inhibitor is placed. +Seaweeds_Seaweed2_1, _2, and _3 no longer have collision +The Foliage Placement Tool Kapok tree can no longer be knocked down +Disabled SM_pine_j and SM_pine_j_winter from the foliage placement tool due to issues these foliages were having +Added the following sets of objects to the Foliage Placement Tool: DEC_SM_Cliff 1 to 7 SM_AncientCoin 1, 3, 7 SM_DebrisSmall A, G, I, J SM_DecorPillar A, B SM_EntryDecor SM_EntryRock 1 to 3 SM_EntryTotem SM_Generic_Rock A to E SM_GroundStone 1 to 7 SM_MushroomNucleus A to H SM_Archway_9x6 SM_Bridge A, B SM_Ceiling_Main SM_Floor 3x3, 3x6, 6x6 SM_Floor_Piece A to D SM_Pillar 2x3_A, 2x3_B, 2x6, 3x6 SM_Wall 2x6_A, 2x6_B, 4x3_A, 4x6, 6x6 SM_Wall_Corner SM_WallArchway 12x3, 3x3, 3x6, 6x3 SM_WallRock A to C BaseRock 1 to 16 BaseRockFlat 1 to 16 UCX_WoodBridge 1, 2 WoodPillar 1 to 3 Rock 1 to 10 RoundStone 1 to 9 +Added SM_LCave_P_Floor_Terrain 01 to 09 and Hill to the Foliage Placement Tool +Added Dry Tropic trees to placeable foliage +Fixed: All solid objects placed with the foliage placement tool with a number that starts with a non-zero digit immediately after an underscore no longer causes server-side log spam and causes the client's location to appear glitchy and rotation to appear rotated upwards on non-owning clients. Examples include SM_LCave_P_Mesa_12, SM_LCave_P_Column_48, and any other object with similar nomenclature. It's unknown if other objects may also have had this issue at times. It was an uninitialized variable being used in part of the name of these objects that caused random and problematic behavior. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/274390bbda6880eb0bd8fbb5ebc9250c96a2845f.jpg

Mechanics Changes

+Mechanics: Capped the number of abandoned eggs that can be present on the map for each species to 12 so servers aren't flooded with unwanted eggs +Mechanics: Malawania no longer aggro to the Archelon on sight unless they are 0.55 growth or bigger +Mechanics: Increased model growth scaling for all growths 1.2 and beyond. +Mechanics: Added a new status condition called Near Parents. You must be below 0.7 growth and near one of your parents to receive this buff. While this buff is active, you receive a comfort boost and are more resistant to the effects of weather. +Mechanics: You now have the option to bless for either 30 minutes or 60 minutes at deity shrines for all blessing types +Mechanics: Reincarnation now should more reliably give you inherits in the talents you've invested into if you would otherwise have gotten a below-average set of inherits. It has extra bad luck protection added into it now. This bad luck protection accounts for the quality of your Trials, making the bad luck protection stronger on dinosaurs that have higher quality Trials. It also accounts for creature growth, so creatures with more talent points invested should now more reliably get a solid count of inherits after reincarnating. +Mechanics: Increased the rate at which players gain talent points on Free Roam such that all talents can be maxed out at 3.6 Growth. +Mechanics: All players now have two additional save slots. These save slots will automatically show up on your save profile and work exactly as other slots. +Mechanics: Added the Leaderboard mechanic to the Free Roam game mode. Players will see their growth updated on the leaderboard each time they log off of a creature while on Free Roam. The Leaderboard still functions the same on Life Cycle. Note it can be disabled via a new server config variable. +Mechanics: The talent, Arboreal, now allows you to lay Arboreal Nests if you cannot do so baseline if you have 3 points invested into the talent; including inherits. +Added new keybind: Special 2. This keybind now toggles the Venom resource for the Palaeophis. The Elusive ability is now bound to the Special key for the Palaeophis. -Note you may need to reset your keybinds to see the new Special 2 keybind

Quality of Life

+QoL: You can now choose to keep your inherits when reincarnating, allowing players to just reroll their skin if they wish to do so +QoL: Improved Pachy walk animation, added banking to its sprint and charge, made the headbutt animation more extreme +QoL: Straightened out Tyrannosaurus' back when its walking +QoL: +The talent UI now separates core talent points from bonus talent points in its UI text. This shows the player how many talent points they will receive upon reaching 1.32 Growth, and describes any talent points earned beyond this to be bonus points. The UI also now shows you what growth you must achieve to get your next talent point. +QoL (public): Lowered volume on Pteranodon sleep, Velo sleep, Sai idle, Pachy idle, and Beelzebufo broadcast roar sounds by 50% +When Ory or Aurora enters a burrow, prompt for stance switching is shown +QoL: The ready to hatch prompt now has the ability key specified in the prompt +Added Playstation controller button toggle in the controls settings +Added icons for mouse keys +Lowered the sandiness/muddiness etc. height on tall creatures +Reset all talents, and transferred inherits in Mosa's Powerful Jaw to Adrenaline +Added Console Command list to Help Menu {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/b229916986f130b06d8fc0a12145efadb93483b3.jpg

Balance Changes

+The Clotting talent now also increases the rate at which you heal venom +Acro, Ichthy, Wiehen, Pachy, Ptera, Rex, Velo, Tropeo, Coah, Megaraptor, each Palaeophis specialization, Elasmo, Mosa, Krono, and Archelon now all have Keen Olfactory in the S-3.3 talent of their tree. It now additionally improves the sensitivity and range of detecting other creatures on the compass while using scent

Apatosaurus

+Balance: Apato takes 35% less venom damage from all sources +Balance: Improved Apatosaurus kick hitboxes +Balance: Increased Apato's Neck Sweep attack base damage by 25% and further increased injury damage from this attack by 50% more

Elasmosaurus

+Balance: Increased Elasmo's max camera zoom distance by 20%

Ichthyovenator

+Balance: Increased Ichthy's base health to 825, up from 750 +Balance: Increased Ichthy's base bite damage to 105, up from 95. This also increases dart damage. +Balance: Increased Ichthy's claw swipe base damage to 140, up from 125

Mosasaurus

+Balance: Reduced the Ability, Stamina, and Breath cost of Mosasaurus' Dart by 40% +Balance: Increased Mosasaurus' thrash drown damage by 30% +Balance: Mosasaurus' thrash no longer deals any damage type other than drown damage +Balance: Mosasaurus now has Adrenaline in place of Asphyxiation, and Asphyxiation has replaced Powerful Neck. The talent Powerful Neck no longer has any application due to the removal of thrash damage. +Added new talent: Archerfish. Archerfish allows a Mosasaurus to spit water at another creature, knocking it back and inflicting a small amount of damage. This ability is activated on the Special key. Holding the Special key down displays an aiming cursor that turns blue if the attack will hit a target. You can Water Spit while swimming if your head is near the surface of the water. Additionally, you can use Water Spit once after leaving the water. After using it once while out of the water, you must return to water to use it again. More talents invested into the talent greatly increase the range and knockback power of the ability. Can hit multiple targets at once. Hits in a 30 degree cone in the direction you're looking, but cannot be used while looking backwards. Close targets will be hit with a wider cone angle. -You can now cancel Water Spit by pressing RMB or LMB while aiming Water Spit -Note that this talent has been added in a new talent socket, located in the Survival part of the Mosasaurus' talent tree. It is a tier 3 talent, and allows you to go from Thick Hide to Forager while bypassing Strong Bones. -If knocked into the air by Water Spit, you are immune to fall damage until you land -The Malawania playable critter also has Archerfish

Pachycephalosaurus

+Balance: Increased Pachy charge hitbox size and moved it down so it hits smaller creatures more easily

Saichania

+Increased Sai's swimming turn rate by 20%

Velociraptor

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Bug Fixes

+Fixed: Wie's identification ability now properly shows bleed, injury and venom levels +Fixed: Wie's identification no longer has two shadow backgrounds behind food value +Fixed: Tendon Tear no longer starts charging again and activates twice if you have LMB held down right when the currently active charge bite ends its animation +Fixed: Acro swim idle should feel less stiff now +Fixed: Apatosaurus No Jewelery Variant's Glow +Fixed: Wiehenvenator can now apply Tendon Tear to grouped players if they are dueling one-another +Fixed: Issue where grabbed players would sometimes disconnect from the grabbing creature's jaw and float around +Fixed: If a player gets disconnected from a server because it has not yet initialized, it no longer tells them they have been banned. +Fixed: Resting Cooldown is no longer removed upon death, allowing players to rest for longer than intended if they died in Death's Blessing world events +Fixed: The Dangerous Location and Point of Interest music tracks now properly attenuate their volume in response to the in-game music volume slider +Fixed: Steam Deck's Proton layer to support devices with over 16GB of RAM +Fixed: Player can no longer click hud items when the chat is open to cause the venom icon to appear +Fixed: Player can no longer resize the hud elements by opening chat and right clicking on hud elements +Fixed: Pressing T while in the save select talent tree preview no longer causes the cursor to disappear +Fixed: Aquatics no longer take a breath of air if they're already at 100% air while out of water +Fixed: Being kicked by a para while you are transitioning between a sitting, standing, or lying state no longer results in a jam that prevents you from sitting back down again +Fixed: Servers under very heavy load no longer start blocking all attempts by players to deal damage +Fixed: Tornado should no longer crash the server when it dies to natural causes (dehydration) +Fixed: Possessing a tornado with possessentity should no longer crash the client +Fixed: An issue that would cause carcasses and fat plants to be much more likely to spawn in the middle of the map rather than along the edges +Fixed: Carcasses, fat plants, and abandoned eggs can now spawn on Isla Titania's Ashen Island +Fixed: Moving HUD elements should be easier now. The new location should match the cursor location better and moving HUD elements long distances should no longer make them go out of screen +Fixed: Excessively loud ambient sounds while loading into a server +Fixed: Sai's taunt cue sound should now broadcast properly to other players +Fixed: Archelon no longer appears in the Herbivore tab on the main menu's creature editor +Fixed: Main menu properly closes when Creature Editor is selected +Fixed: All main menu buttons should have proper UI click sound and on hovered sound +Fixed: Players no longer quickly teleport to the map origin and back under certain circumstances when being released from a grab +Fixed: Elasmo's head and body movement now transitions smoothly when it looks behind itself and back and forth

Additional Patchnote Languages

Afrikaans

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Spring Event Skin

For a limited time, players will be able to unlock and earn the Archelon Skal Spring Event skin. The skin has two separate bioluminescent regions, one on the body and one on the shell. This skin comes with two equippable cosmetic items that can be added on top of any Archelon skin: 1. A pink algae overlay with barnacles. 2. A coral growth mesh item for Archelon's shell. Both cosmetics (plus the event skin) can be equipped at the same time. The pink algae overlay cannot be used simultaneously with other texture overlays such as the Archelon Supporter Warpaint Overlay. The coral growth, however, can be used simultaneously with overlay-type cosmetics.

Changes to Event Rewards Unlocking

In order to unlock the Archelon skin and its associated equippables, players must grow to 2.0 on a Life Cycle server. This skin will unlock on a per-server basis unless the skin is earned on an Official server. This means players have the option of earning the skin on a server of their choice, or earning the skin game-wide if unlocked on any Official Life Cycle server. This is to ensure game-wide unlocking is earned on a consistent difficulty and to improve the security of player rewards data. You will also be able to earn last year’s Spring Event skin: Spring Guardian Apatosaurus! This skin requires unlocking by growing an Apatosaurus to 2.0 Growth on Life Cycle

Mechanics Changes

+Mechanics: Slightly adjusted the food drain rates of most creatures to better-balance their relative performances in Life Cycle +Mechanics: Deity pledges and deity blessings are no longer removed upon death +Mechanics: The Wiehen's identify ability now shows armor next to health if it is relevant +Mechanics: Tendon Tear can no longer be applied to members of your own group {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/f58a235191f0d93c7f997ea7be92098df6a3b4b8.png

Balance Changes

+Balance: Velociraptor, Apatosaurus, Kronosaurus, and Archelon now incurr less weight when picking up inanimate objects +Balance: Increased AI Frog and Auroraceratops carcass drop sizes by 50%

Acrocanthosaurus

+Balance: Acro's Intimidating Roar effect is no longer stronger or weaker based on its size compared to the size of its target +Balance: Reduced Acro's jump Stamina cost to 15, down from 32

Archelon

+Balance: Increased the amount of Ability and Stamina damage received when hitting the Archelon's shell counter ability by 25% +Balance: Reduced Archelon's Ability drain rate by 50% while it is holding its charged bite attack +Balance: Tough Stomach is now in Archelon's survival talent slot 1.2, replacing Weather Resistance +Balance: Forager is now in Archelon's survival talent slot 2.2, replacing Tough Stomach +Balance: Hard-Headed is now in Archelon's survival talent slot 3.1, replacing Forager

Coahuilaceratops

+Balance: Increased Coahuilaceratops' stationary turn rate to 95, up from 85 +Balance: Increased Coahuilaceratops' sprint turn rate to 60, up from 55

Ichthyovenator

+Balance: Reduced Ichthy's base health to 750, down from 850 +Balance: Reduced Ichthy's base primary attack damage to 95, dowm from 110 +Balance: Reduced Ichthy's secondary attack base damage to 125, down from 140

Oryctodromeus

+Balance: Increased Oryctodromeus' breath bar time by 50%

Velociraptor

+Balance: Increased Velociraptor's swim walk and swim sprint speed by 33% +Balance: Increased Velociraptor's coiled jump power by 15% +Balance: Velociraptor is now immune to fall damage +Balance: Increased max player carry weight of velo by 25%, making it easier to grab group members and enemy players +Balance: Increased Velociraptor's breath time by 50%

Bug Fixes

+Fixed: mesh holes in Acrocanthosaurus model. This has resulted in some minor changes to the model. +Fixed: Mosasaurus' Ice Blight, Tyrannosaurus' Fall Decay, and Lurdusaurus' WaveRider, seasonal event skins should now mix properly when nesting +Fixed: The Archelon is now oriented properly in the main menu's creature editor +Fixed: The Tyrannosaurus rex no longer plays the idle2 animation while in the main menu creature editor, which caused an issue +Fixed: Counter now properly reflects secondary damage types back at the attacker {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/971c19b1bce8d45d9ca70ef6130ec66d92fae55c.jpg

Additional Patchnote Localizations

Afrikaans

Mechanics Changes

+Mechanics: Archelon's counter no longer heals shield when you are hit by a group member unless you are dueling that group member. +All morphs have been reset on all saved creatures +Mechanics: After dying, the radius for preventing you from logging onto nearby creatures is now 750 meters, up from 500

Balance Changes

+Balance: Reduced the amount of Ability and Stamina damage inflicted after hitting the Archelon's Counter ability by 75% +Balance: Increased Mosasaurus thrash damage by 10% +Balance: Reduced Acrocanthosaurus' healing slightly +Balance: Wiehenvenator now continues to drain Ability after its bite is charged fully +Balance: Archelon now continues to drain Ability after its bite is charged fully

Bug Fixes

+Fixed: Players should no longer fail to receive a resurrection after dying while auto-revive is enabled or while in a Death's Blessing world event +Fixed: After resurrecting, reincarnating, or selecting a fresh spawn, you should no longer occasionally be unable to log onto that creature due to it being near where you last died if the spawn point it selected was near the edge of where your death location was +Fixed: Archelon and Wiehen can no longer generate AP while holding its bite attack by pressing and releasing the Scent key +Fixed: Elasmo can now move while the Ability key is held down after having eaten from a carcass +Fixed: Eggs no longer become destroyed if a player logs out or disconnects while in an egg. Instead, they should remain available to be possessed by another player +Fixed: Mosa no longer deals dart damage to a player it is grabbing if that player is in the same group as the mosa +Fixed: Thrash ticks no longer trigger repeats of dart damage if a Mosa grabs and thrashes another creature while dart is active +Fixed: Trinkets no longer float in the air after being dropped near deity shrines +Fixed: Clientside crash that would occur if the player attempted to set their game to run in windowed mode while playing without their GameUserSettings.ini file containing HudSettings for Venom +Fixed: Issue where arboreal nests could be laid outside the world bounds on Isla Titania, resulting in a wide array of server issues +Fixed: Situations where players may instantaneously die in a rather random way by standing on invalid floors or other scenarios +Fixed: Morphs no longer pass to children from parents +Fixed: Mosa's thrash damage is now mitigated by the Slippery talent {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/5646165a20a09d02b56780ff2d684976b2312097.png

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Added New Playable Creature: Archelon!

The Archelon is a new playable creature that has been added to Beasts of Bermuda! It is a large, aquatic prehistoric sea turtle with a diet consisting of eating plants and fish. It has a playstyle geared towards defensive gameplay and is balanced around living in an environment filled with large, threatening, aquatic predators. It has numerous mechanics and ways it can survive in these treacherous waters!

Moves and Abilities

+Its Left Mouse Button, when clicked, does a simple, standard bite, inflicting moderate damage for a small amount of Ability Power +The Archelon can hold the Left Mouse Button down while in water or on land to charge its bite. The longer the Left Mouse Button is held down, the more damage the bite will deal. This can be held up to 3 seconds and will deal up to 4.2x its base damage when the bite hits. -While charging a bite, you move and turn slower. This allows the Archelon to deal substantial damage when approached while limiting its ability to deal damage while pursuing other creatures -Archelon has a talent called Snapping Jaw that increases the damage multiplier and reduces its cost. +The Archelon has a Lunge ability on the Right Mouse Button similar to that of Krono, but it behaves differently. It cannot be broken by receiving damage while it is charging. It does not deal any damage. It charges significantly faster, costs less, and does not travel quite as far as Krono's. +While swimming, the Archelon can beat its flippers forcefully to cause damage and knockback. Try hitting a mala with it. It's hilarious. -If you are looking to the left, you will swing the left flipper first. Otherwise, you will swing the right flipper first +Added Counter to Archelon -Counter is now on the Ability key -Archelon's counter has different stats than Sai's. It lasts 5 seconds, costs 50 ability power, and reflects 25% of the incoming damage back at the attacker. -Archelon's counter also reflects significant stamina and ability power damage at the attacker, causing the attacker to see ability power/stamina loss if it hits the Archelon's counter. This is designed to punish poorly timed hits by exhausting its adversary. -You cannot bite, lunge, or do vocal calls while the counter is active https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/811484736212041758/1207686501194801263/image-91.png?ex=65e08cb3&is=65ce17b3&hm=9c64dc164f0cfda46f3147d5a96000c2e96cfc1e0e9609de367e41e8666c18da&=&format=webp&quality=lossless

Shell Integrity

+The Archelon has a special shell integrity resource that protects its health from being lost while it is being attacked. +Shell Integrity shows up in the UI as a blue, turtle shell-like overlay that goes atop your health globe +You can see how much Shell Integrity you have in the Character menu. It shows up next to Health +There is a talent in the Archelon's tree called Armored Shell. It increases the maximum amount of shell integrity you have and causes more incoming damage to be redirected toward reducing your shell integrity. +Archelon's shell integrity absorbs 60% of incoming damage by default. This value goes up to 73% when Armored Shell is at full talent value (5/3). Injury damage is calculated after incoming damage is absorbed by shell integrity, so having your shell integrity take damage results in a substantial reduction in incoming injury damage. +Shell integrity heals passively until it hits its max value. It is not influenced by resting, sitting down, or bleed damage. It is influenced by food and air. Shield heals while not in combat. +Archelon has 800 shell integrity by default. It scales with growth and increases with the Armored Shell talent. No other stats influence shell integrity +When shell integrity is lost or gained, it will show up in the combat log alongside damage-related events.

Diet

+The Archelon's diet consists of seaweed, kelp, anemones, shellfish, chinlea, and the Arganodus. It has a diet that requires both foliage and fish food to balance properly. The Archelon cannot interact with red meat carcasses but can pick up and eat fish carcasses such as those dropped from the Arganodus.

Nesting

+The Archelon has a special, sandy nest that resembles that of a sea turtle. This nest has several benefits and drawbacks associated with it. +Archelon's eggs are always incubated as long as they are still inside of an Archelon sand nest +Archelon's eggs cannot be grabbed or damaged while inside of an Archelon sand nest +Archelon's nest takes 50% less damage than other nest types +Once eggs are laid inside an Archelon's nest, they cannot be grabbed, even by the parents, and must be left there. +An Archelon must always lay their eggs in an unoccupied nest that has not yet been buried +The Archelon can only lay its nest on the beach near the Ocean

Other Notable Archelon Information

+The Archelon uses an air breath bar like Mosa and Krono. It does not need to drink and has no Trials associated with water +The Archelon does not receive the Beached debuff while on land +Archelon's growth rate is identical to Acro and Sai +Archelon can group with Malawania players by default +Archelon takes 50% less injury damage from all sources +The Archelon is more grab-resistant than other creatures of its size, and the creature grabbing it will tire out more easily +Added new Archelon Skin: Hawksbill by Bananabae & GameVideosforLife +Added new Archelon skin: Roof Turtle by DJZ & Triptrap +Added new Archelon Skin: CoralReef by Natahi4 & Nonyapie +Added new Archelon Skin: Cuttlefish by Omnomnivore +Added new Archelon Skin: Snowblind by Lifeon +Added new Archelon Skin: Rustic by TeaTimeJess & Natahi4 https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/721529804704448593/1206954184981872661/PachyTrinketEd.png?ex=65dde2ad&is=65cb6dad&hm=800823575b538b2e4a982c11adc28cff3911a3d4cac83f95acc5a000ab62c90f&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=1202&height=676

New Stuff

+Added new Pachy Skin: Lera by Valhalla +Added new deity shrine trinket models +Elasmosaurus now has Submissive and Distress calls

Admin

+Admin: Added a few new server config properties for the AI -These config variables go in the section +Admin: Added new server config property, DisabledAITypes -This allows servers to disable only certain species of AI from spawning -Here is an example of using this variable to disable the Frog, Auroraceratops, and Horseshoe Crab !DisabledAITypes=ClearArray +DisabledAITypes=EDinoType::Auroraceratops +DisabledAITypes=EDinoType::Frog +DisabledAITypes=EDinoType::HorseshoeCrab -The five valid EDinoType values for AI are Auroraceratops, Frog, HorseshoeCrab, Malawania, and Arganodus +Admin: Added new server config property, AISpawnRateMultiplier The default value is 1.0. Multiplies how often the AI respawn tick happens. Lower values will result in more frequent AI respawns. +Admin: Added new server config property, AISpawnCapMultiplier The default value is 1.0. Multiplies how many AIs are allowed to be active in each AI spawn region on the map. Higher values will result in more AI being present in spawn areas when at the spawn cap +The console command fillallstats will now also fill shell integrity +The console command setstats now has a shell integrity fill input argument +The console commands AddScentToArea and RemoveAllScentNodeData can now be used by admins with the ControlServer permission +Admin: Added new console command, ResetFriendships. It resets the friendships of all players currently logged into the game. Requires ModifyEggsAndNesting admin permission to use {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31308067/f8119f06247960691137c4cad652554e69ab546f.png

Supporter Warpaint and Cosmetics Changes

+All customizable wearables including the Supporter Warpaint overlays have a toggle for turning on and off both Diffuse and Bio +Added "No Jewelry", and "Jewlery Only" variants of all the Supporter Warpaint overlays +Variants of the base overlay type (no jewelry, customizable, default, and no jewelery customizable) will show up in a separate dropdown menu after the base overlay is selected +QoL: Equipable cosmetics can now be used on the main menu skin editor. The player just needs to join a game server at least once for their inventory to be saved locally to be then used for skin customization on the main menu. The inventory is saved in BeastsOfBermuda/Saved/local/usrsnapshot.snapshot +Updated Acrocanthosaurus, Ichthyovenator, Saichania, Apato, Megaraptor, and Pachy Supporter Warpaint to fix visual issues or improve quality +Adjusted Saturation of Mobility/Power Paints (Bases, Not Bio) 25% increase. +Saichania: Added Saichania's Wiggle Dance emote, made by Lifeon. The Wiggle Dance emote will unlock with ownership of the Beasts of Bermuda Original Soundtrack on Steam +Fixed: Shimmer color no longer gets locked after removing Warpaint overlay +Fixed: Custom warpaint glow color no longer resets to white when opening the O menu

QoL Changes

+QoL: The fog in Ory burrows has been replaced with a glowing orb that produces soft light +QoL: When exiting the water, a new sound now plays instead of the splash sound +QoL: Beached aquatics and the Archelon now have a special, sandy flipper footfall sound they play while traversing beaches +QoL: Changes to the Piebald mutation: The whites are whiter, and it can cover more of the body. +QoL: Question prompts can now be closed with esc-key. It also closes any other windows for quicker in-game reactions without unnecessary navigation -Players waiting for the 'Return to Main Menu' or 'Quit Game' timers now have a quicker reaction time to attack back if someone attacks them while the prompt is visible

Mechanics Changes

+Mechanics: After 2.0, Ory burrow food items no longer continue to diminish in food value +Mechanics: Players cannot request to enter an egg until a server has been up for at least five minutes. This is to give players a chance to log in and regain control of their eggs after a server restarts or crashes +Mechanics: Players cannot drop a carcass more than once in a Death's Blessing world event. Dying after having dropped a carcass once will result in no carcass dropping. This is to limit self-feeding behavior. +Mechanics: If there is a Malawania player in your group, all AI Malawania will now behave passively towards you and you cannot attack Malawania AI +Mechanics: Aquatics can no longer instantly get up from resting while swimming +Mechanics: Added a new status condition called Tendon Tear. While Tendon Tear is active, you cannot sprint or jump. Both Charge and Evasive Maneuver cannot be activated while Tendon Tear is active. It also reduces turn rate by 20%. -Creatures that are injury-immune cannot receive the Tendon Tear status condition +Mechanics: Reset spent talents for all creatures +Mechanics: Improved how knockback effects work while in the water +Mechanics: Made the omnivorous diet on Pachy and Coah easier to balance with less strict requirements https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/721529804704448593/1206953828981809172/AcroVMegaraEd.png?ex=65dde258&is=65cb6d58&hm=36e06da658b93c7b2625b95802b77dbac5e3cf154a5b61a20d80c40d06d2cfd1&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=1202&height=676

Balance Changes

+Merged the talents Scavenger and Botanist into one new talent called Forager. Forager has the benefits of both Scavenger and Botanist. Any creature that had Botanist or Scavenger now has Forager in its place on the talent tree -Any inherits a player had in Scavenger or Botanist will transfer over into Forager. +Balance: The talent Intimidation now also increases the amount of Friendship you lose when you hit other players with your attacks.

Acrocanthosaurus

+Adjusted Acro's torso curl so it doesn't look down when the player has their camera in a regular gameplay position +Further increased Acro's down bite reach +Balance: Increased Acro's healing rate by 10% +Balance: Acro's Intimidating Roar ability is now more effective against players who are larger growth than the Acro and less effective against players who are lower growth than the Acro +Balance: Acro's Intimidating Roar ability is now more effective against creatures with higher size stats than the Acro and less effective against creatures who have lower size stats than the Acro +Balance: Increased Acro's elder+ growth rate by 37.5%. It now matches Saichania's growth rate +Balance: Increased Acro sit, stand up, lie down, and wake up animation speeds +Balance: Improved the flexibility of Acro's torso while aiming its head and bite attacks +Balance: Acro's weight has been increased to 1300, up from 1200 +Balance: Acro now deals more damage to bleeding targets. This is a 25% damage boost at 100% bleed.

Coahuilaceratops

+Added large hitbox that can only interact with Chinlea so they are easier to catch

Elasmosaurus

+Malawanias are now more fearful of larger Elasmos

Ichthyovenator

+Balance: Increased the size of Ichthy's dart hitbox

Lurdusaurus

+Balance: Reduced Lurdusaurus' primary attack and dart base damage to 125, down from 145 +Balance: Swapped the locations of Improved Dart and Long Runner on Lurdusaurus' talent tree

Megaraptor

+Balance: Megaraptor can no longer use its Slash Attack while in the falling state

Pachycephalosaurus

+Balance: Increased Pachy's charge base knockback to 1850, up from 1650 +Balance: Pachy now gains 20 Ability and 20 Stamina when hitting another creature with its Charge attack, rather than losing 20 Ability and 20 Stamina +Balance: Increased Pachy's base stamina to 120, up from 110 +Added large hitbox that can only interact with Chinlea so they are easier to catch

Parasaurolophus

+Balance: Para now has the Batter talent in place of Unbreakable. Any inherits in Unbreakable will transfer over into Batter

Wiehenvenator

+Balance: Added the ability for Wiehenvenator to apply Tendon Tear by charging a bite. It can charge its bite by holding the Left Mouse Button and then releasing it. While holding it down, a charge bar will show up. When released, the more charged the bar is, the longer Tendon Tear will be applied -The full duration is a 7-second application of Tendon Tear. This goes on diminished returns and becomes shorter each time it is re-applied. Diminished Returns will wear off after 18 seconds of not receiving the Tendon Tear status condition https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/721529804704448593/1206954298685128754/ParaKickEd.png?ex=65dde2c8&is=65cb6dc8&hm=f78e919225939066ca36516e565896c94f2b707b8571de6a32acec94b3130207&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=1202&height=676

Bug Fixes

+Fixed: Logging back into a server while your character is still on the map no longer results in them dying under certain circumstances +Fixed: Sai can now reflect Elasmo's attacks while using Spiky Shield +Fixed: Closing the talent tree preview with the escape key no longer causes the cursor to disappear +Fixed: Talent tree previews in character select now show the correct dino's tree +Fixed: Placeholder text in the talents screen should no longer appear if no talent is selected +Fixed: Sai no longer jams if it is hit while countering and using a vocal call simultaneously +Fixed: Sai now plays its eating animation if eating while stationary or while picking up food and moving +Fixed: Sai no longer slides if you use its Spiky Shield while crouched and then uncrouch and move while Spiky Shield is active +Fixed: Rested Favor time no longer counts down while you have paused growth at 1.32 growth +Fixed: Velo should no longer drop held objects with the ability key when ability key climbing is enabled +Fixed: Elusive no longer breaks when you attack other players if you have 5/3 in the talent +Fixed: Carcasses now properly retain their dino type and satiate status after a server restart +Fixed: The mouse cursor should no longer cover the trial's tooltips when the game resolution is smaller than 1920 x 1080 +Fixed: Sai had no idle animation and no morphs in the main menu creature editor +Fixed: Sai/Para no longer get stuck getting up from dancing while holding movement key and attacking +Fixed: Para can no longer do its backkick while stomping, which would then allow it to repeatedly stomp faster than intended +Fixed: After submitting a bug report, the escape menu can now be closed with ESC-key +Fixed: Elasmo can now be hit while its neck is stretching to attack other players when it is at larger growth sizes. +Fixed: On-screen text spam when trying to grab a player who has Spiky Shield active +Fixed: Saichania now interacts with the muddy areas on Isla Titania +Fixed: Players should no longer occasionally spawn underneath the map on Isla Titania +Fixed: Spawn Point Inhibitors (placed with the foliage placement tool by server admins) now continue to block spawn points after a server restart +Fixed: The Malawania AI no longer notices the player if they are using Elusive unless they are closer to the Malawania. More points in elusiveness further decrease the aggression radius +Fixed: Hitting escape when looking at the talent screen in save selection should no longer disable or hide the mouse cursor +Fixed: The death message that shows up when aquatics die due to lack of oxygen no longer says they died due to dehydration. Instead, it says they died due to lack of air. +Fixed: The Saichania's Spiky Shield effect now properly scales up and down with growth +Fixed: You can no longer get disconnected for inactivity while editing skins on the main menu skin editor +Fixed: Krono can no longer use its lunge in a manner that results in it being able to attack with its bite more frequently than it should be able to https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/721529804704448593/1206767790279753798/ElasWieEd.png?ex=65dd3515&is=65cac015&hm=7c60b6e9ac2ef31d804852ddda39fd20fdee59aba431e941e7a09ac1e0531c3a&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=1202&height=676

Other Localizations

Afrikaans

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About

Each Supporter Warpaint DLC offers special eye overlays and a cosmetic overlay with three color options, plus a customizable, glowing marking.

• The color options represent the three in-game deities that players engage with. The base color does NOT customize!
• It is only equippable on the specific species of dinosaur you purchase it for.
• You can only equip one overlay cosmetic at a time on your creature.

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All the Supporter Warpaint DLCs include the following:

• Power Supporter Warpaint
• Power Supporter Eyes
• Mobility Supporter Warpaint
• Mobility Supporter Eyes
• Survival Supporter Warpaint
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Proceeds from the purchase of this DLC are used to support the game's development.

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Icy Pinecones

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Winter Holiday Shimmer Skins

+For a limited time, players can unlock and earn the Ice Blight Mosasaurus skin! -This skin comes with an Ice Cover overlay that can be applied to any other Mosasaurus skin -This skin has a bioluminescent layer -To unlock this skin, grow a Mosasaurus to 2.0 growth on any Life Cycle server! The skin will be globally unlocked and available for use on all servers once the player earns it -The event will be active for one month. Happy Holidays! -Aside from the bioluminescent layer and the ice overlay, markings on this skin can pass to offspring. With thanks to Nonyapie & Twilightwolf for making the event skin. +Players can also unlock last years Winter Event Skin: Snowflake Parasaurolophus by growing a Para to 2.0 on Life Cycle.

Updated Saichania

+The Saichania has been given an entirely new, updated model and new set of animations to go along with it.

Added Saichania Skins:

-Numbat by Triptrap & DJZ -Smokey by Spoon -Shoreline by Lifeon -Skirr by Valhalla -Blixt by Valhalla & Natahi4 +Updated Molten Shimmer Skin by Valhalla & Krymsonfeather +Sai now has its elder, skinny, fat, incest, and baby morphs +Added Sai's Idle2 variant as a playable emote +Added a dance emote for Saichania that unlocks if you have 80 or more comfort +Added a taunt emote for Saichania that unlocks if you have 100% in your Hunt Points Trial +Balance: Saichania can now use its Spiky Shield ability while swimming +Balance: Saichania can no longer be grabbed while using Spiky Shield +Balance: Saichania now has bottom walking https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/721529804704448593/1179855288417914991/image.png?ex=657b4cdd&is=6568d7dd&hm=f1d006f70cd7aa1df225169154a321c44ee59adb4824360906629e13f0b56770&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=1277&height=718

Mechanics Changes

+Mechanics: The "None" foliage option no longer hides all the shader-based foliage such as grass and inedible, small ferns on the terrain.

Changes to Life Cycle

+Food and Water decay now reverts to Free Roam values at or below 35 food/water. While above 45 food or water, the rate of decay is at Life Cycle rates. Intermediate values interpolate between the two. +While below 40 food or water, you now grow at 50% of Free Roam growth speeds. While above 50 food and water, you grow normally. Food and water at values between 40 and 50 results in reduced growth that interpolates between the two. +While below 50 food or water, players will see some damage-related stats reduce. This effect intensifies and hits maximum intensity at 40 food or water. These effects also taper in, only seeing full effect at 2.5 growth and beyond. These effects include: -A reduction in damage output. At maximum effect, damage output will lose 80% of its growth scaling increase. -An increase in secondary damage received. This includes bleed, injury, stamina, venom, and breath damage. -Player carry weight and grab size scaling lose 60% of their value. This effect fades in as the player goes from 1.32 growth to 2.5 growth, and is more severe as the player experiences increasingly slowed growth. -Mosa thrash now drops in damage output accordingly when growth is slowed or paused from food / water +The above slowed / paused growth and reduction in some damage-related stats is indicated by the presence of a status condition shown on the status display. This status condition shows reduced-growth when experiencing a growth reduction and minor stat drop. When experiencing a growth pause and larger stat drop, it displays a paused-growth status condition. -If the player receives paused growth, which requires being under 40 food or water, it will take 90 seconds to remove this status condition after the player gets both their food and water above 40. This is to help prevent players from eating up really quick to run into battle with full stats. +You see Starving and Dehydrated status conditions at 15 food or water, down from 20 +You start taking starvation or dehydration damage at 10 food or water, down from 15 -These changes were made to give players a larger playable area of food and water values while seeing paused growth in Life Cycle +The food and water decay reduction associated with the Resting buff now begins to taper off as players grow past 2.5 and loses most of its effect at 4.5 growth and beyond -This is to ensure there is some upper point on growth where players will ultimately find it very challenging to grow bigger. With all the above changes, we felt it was too easy to eat and grow during the night, resulting in significant growth inflation on Life Cycle +Aquatics do not need to keep their air above 50 to avoid slower growth or loss of damage +The food and water drain rate reduction associated with this new experimental mechanic no longer applies while sick, and only reduces 50% of the Life Cycle food / water drain rate while recovering from sickness +None of the above changes to growth rate, food drain, water drain, or damage take place unless the player is in the gauntlet +Players with paused growth due to food or water values below 40 now show this status condition by their scent message if it is present

Experimental Addition of Favor

+Favor is intended to be a new currency players can earn while participating in the Gauntlet on Life Cycle servers. Its intended use is to be the currency used for the upcoming Life Cycle store, which has now entered development. Note that right now the implementation of Favor is experimental, and while we are allowing players to earn and accumulate Favor with this patch, it will be reset to zero when we deploy the favor store. +Favor is flavored after the deities in Beasts of Bermuda, and players earn Favor with the deities by participating in the Gauntlet. There may be other ways to earn Favor in the future as well, but we're starting simple with it. +Added new Favor combat log event type such that favor gains (or losses) can be seen on-screen or in the chat log at the player's preference +Currently, Favor is awarded on the growth tick at a rate of 1 favor point per growth tick if the player is in gauntlet. This drops to fractional values if the player is experiencing slowed or paused growth -A player can see how much favor they have on a creature by opening the Character menu while playing on that creature or by viewing the saved creature in the save selection screen -Note if the server is on Free Roam, favor will not show up on the UI +Implemented rested 2x Favor Gain time -While offline, you accumulate rested time at a rate of one hour of restedness for every ten hours logged off the creature -While logged onto a creature, this rested time ticks downwards. While you have rested time, you experience a 2x bonus to favor gained. Note if you are not earning favor because you are not in gauntlet, your rested time will not tick downwards. -You can see how much rested time you have left by opening the Character UI and looking at the Favor section of the UI. It will have a triangular Favor icon with a timer on it +Favor passes on to a reincarnated creature +In a future patch, Favor will be used to purchase a variety of things from the Deity Favor shop. +Note that the current badge / Experience system is being depreciated. We're leaving it in the game since it's fun to earn the badges and observe how many of them you have, but there were several flaws with the implementation of the current badge experience system and we felt it was easier to start over with a new system rather than build upon it. https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/773461251586129950/1181811102737252402/Pachy.png?ex=65826a5b&is=656ff55b&hm=908043bbb5c935413ea1c176515bb1e6001708931cda57ebe3d6135b5b280ba1&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=1200&height=675

Admin Commands

+Added new console command for admins: ResetMaxPlayerGrowthTo, with ControlServer permission requirements -This console command allows servers to reset the growth on the save file down to a provided input value. Any creatures over the specified growth will be shrunk down to the value provided. This may allow servers to have soft resets where characters are not lost, but growth is reset if they wish to use it

Map Changes

+Redid Painting on Ancestral Plains +Redid Painting on Rival Shores +Redid Painting on DM_Caldera +Adjusted height fog on Isla Titania +QoL: Improved grass on Isla Titania +Added overcast PPS to AP and RS

Quality of Life Changes

+Updated default settings for Steam Deck +Steam Deck's default setting FPS cap is now 40 -Adjust Steam Deck's screen's refresh rate to 40 Hz for maximum battery life +QoL: Added a UI switch to toggle between using the skin overlay dlc bio and any bio currently present in the base skin. -We are currently unable to support having two or more bioluminescent layers active simultaneously on a single skin. Toggling back and forth does not remove or lose the bio present on a skin. +Velo and Ptera's feathers now ruffle up when soaked in water https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/721529804704448593/1181027216633626765/SaiBottomWalking.png?ex=657f904e&is=656d1b4e&hm=a495e5c2b6ba5fedd3108cbeab66f5fbab45a6bbb984526174c4b1bd3736419a&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=1277&height=705

Balance Changes

Apatosaurus

+Balance: Apato's tail whip now deals 75% less damage to Saichania -Saichania still reflects full tail whip damage back to the apato if hit by a tail whip

Megaraptor

+Holding Evasive Maneuver when it is already charged fully now results in stamina being drained at a rate of 12 stamina per second -The talent Evasive Maneuver reduces the stamina drain rate +Megaraptor's ability to deal bleed now starts fading in at 0.6 growth and you deal regular bleed damage at 0.9 growth and beyond

Oryctodromeus

+Balance: Reduced Ory's food drain rate by 11% +Balance: Reduced Ory's water drain rate by 10%

Parasaurolophus

+Balance: Increased Para's base weight to 1600, up from 1300 https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/721529804704448593/1180961579349590066/image.png?ex=657f532d&is=656cde2d&hm=be5e6d18aab5c8a9af26364267ded32d9afedea0189ea9f95f336cc6e08c63db&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=1277&height=702

Bug Fixes

+Fixed: Malawania critter AI carcasses now provide satiation +Fixed: Egg and storm music overlapping +Maybe Fixed: Maybe fixed the automatic keyboard opening for Steam Deck when chatting +Fixed: Chat can no longer be opened in main menu by pressing down arrow or d-pad down from Exit Game selection +Fixed: Chat can no longer be opened in options by pressing left arrow or d-pad left from back arrow selection +Fixed: Issue where under certain conditions, status conditions such as Resting, sickness, and deity blessings would behave incorrectly on the status display, sometimes resetting their cooldowns or getting stuck on the client's display +Fixed: Steam Deck with old bios or old proton now runs with high performance default settings -Steam Deck with new bios and new proton should still use high quality default settings with 40 target fps +Fixed: Steam Deck default settings should reach 60 fps in any map -Settings are now low or none with 90% resolution scale +Fixed: Eating chinlea fish as an aquatic no longer reports that it gives water from consuming a fish +Fixed: Player can now exit pause menu with escape key after leaving in-game bug report +Fixed: Escape key now properly returns player in the game while in-game bug report window is open

Additional Patchnote Languages

Afrikaans

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Fall Holiday Shimmer Skin

+For a limited time, players can unlock and earn the Fall Decay Tyrannosaurus rex skin! -This skin comes with a leafy overlay that can be applied to any other Tyrannosaurus rex skin -This skin has a bioluminescent layer that shows up on its chest and under its jaw -To unlock this skin, grow a Tyrannosaurus rex to 2.0 growth on any Life Cycle server! The skin will be globally unlocked and available for use on all servers once the player earns it -The event will be active for one month. Enjoy the spooky skin! With thanks to Triptrap and Twilightwolf for making the Fall Decay skin.

Optimization

+Optimization: Multi-threaded the UpdateSensedCharacters function in the AI sensory code. Was costing about 4-5% of server-side CPU +Fixed (public): Malawania navigation system taking up excessive RAM

QoL Changes

+Added Steam Deck native resolution 1280x800 to resolution list +Added Skip Map Tile Preload toggle in the settings -If true the tile preloading that happens with tiled maps such as Titania will be skipped when joining the server but game might have hitches when tiles are loaded during regular gameplay +Steam Deck default setting no longer change theresolution +Settings can now be closed with escape key / start (menu) button on controller if settings turn unresponsive or cursor ever disappears again +Improved camera behavior on main menu dino editor +You can now rotate the character in creature editor by right clicking and dragging horizontally. +Carcasses that came from players now say they are player carcasses in the scent text -The SpawnCarcass command has a new input argument that allows setting of this value. It does nothing but influence the text message received when a carcass is smelt +The Chased by the Storm music track now only plays if the player is near a tornado or outside with low comfort during a severe storm +QA and developer chat message icons now only show up beside local, global, group, and direct message chat messages. This prevents some situations where icons would show up at improper times

Bug Fixes

+Fixed: Apato's kick and neck sweep now deal proper injury and damage +Fixed: Thick Skull now works +Fixed: Ptera 33% injury reduction, sai 15% injury increase, and lurdu 30% injury decrease while darting were also not working +Fixed: The bejeweled Malawania skin now works properly +Fixed: AI spawners no longer spawn a single AI before shutting off if the server has AI spawning disabled +Fixed: Pressing tab in the options menu no longer makes the cursor disappear +Fixed: Player menu / group finder can no longer be opened in main menu +Fixed: Chat can no longer be opened in main menu +Fixed: Saved skins not deleting +Fixed: Elder eye not working for sai +Fixed: Inventory items crash on main menu skin editor +Fixed: Gender and baby morphs now work properly in the main menu skin editor +Fixed: Situation where underwater music audio effect was playing at an improper time or failing to play at the proper time +Fixed: Creature menu, talent menu, hud hiding, emote wheel nor escape menu can't be opened in main menu anymore which caused cursor to disappear +Fixed: Misc bad spawn point fixes on titania +Fixed: Eggs no longer crash client-side if they try to attack another player while they are grabbed +Fixed: Grammar mistake in the Blessed by the XX Deity status condition description text +Fixed: The Enhanced Growth status condition no longer incorrectly spells the word "inclement" +Fixed: Eggs now count as meat for the frog's diet https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/811484736212041758/1163265329292652595/image.png?ex=653ef242&is=652c7d42&hm=741f7bf7862fb2b85c1e3ffe8ff825f195f5562499c9b6f82f3f1ba98b7554a6&

Additional Patchnote Languages

Afrikaans