Cashew Clicker news & patch notes

The last update added a new Font replacing the original with the "1" and "7" style issue. The font can be changes by going to Menu>Settings and clicking change font.

Minor update for some UI elements. I have added a tip window, so if you hover over some of the texts, a window will pop up with a description to clarify what it stands for. I also removed the multiplier list, making it into one button you can click, increasing the multipliers. Next weekend there will be an update adding a feature to help the early game gains of (S) points.

I just got back and settled from the holiday season and will get back to work on the bugs and balance issues. Some of the number limiters were asking for negative values or being skipped in the code. I fixed those so some people might notice a massive cut in the boosts they were being given. I also changed equations for the Autoclicker's prestige gains to slow down the curve.

Bug Fixes

Steam Achievements

• Bag achievements not being given after progress reaches 100%
• The bag achievements description error was fixed to say “Reach 100% with”

Balancing

Autoclicker Prestige Level ratios were getting out of hand much faster than intended Prestige>Autoclicker

• Gather gains (2.5% * Prestige Level) for each level.
• Clicker% gains (2.5% * Prestige Level) for each level.
• Boost Multiplier (+ x0.01) for each level.
• Boost is now limited to x3, giving a total of x5.
• Prestige Multiplier (- x0.01) for each level.
• The prestige multiplier is now limited to -8.5. This means the purple bar only increases the required amount by 50% each time you fill it.

Thank you for playing, and don't forget to report bugs.

There is a delete save bug. I believe the delete method is having a problem doing it all in one fell swoop. This is causing partial deletes which is circumventing my optimization code. This will lead to crashing if you try to click the grandfather cashew. You can play with everything else but the second you click the cashew it will crash.

What you can do

If you are looking to restart and face this issue. Do as you normally would, delete save, then go to setting and change the audio levels. The audio system have a direct save method which saves the full files instead of the crashes partial files. I understand how this is happening but came to my attention at a bad time. I don't believe anyone will be restarting but I want this up as a fix for anything in the future if this arises again.

Bug making the universal prestige upgrades to show values but in code were 0 has been fixed. Bug where prestige points are given back after spending when rebooting the game.

After much testing, debugging, and moving around, I have a stable build ready for release. However, there may still be bugs hidden in corners, so please report any you find.

New systems

Prestige

The prestige system has a tab at the top left by the menu button. Hitting this changes the left side to show three tabs(Auto, Bags, Universal). Clicking any will bring up a few buttons to boost the respective category. On the right side, it will bring up a selection precisely like the auto-clicker buy section. Here, we display that type(Auto, Bag) and its increases. Some of these upgrades are limited. The text will zero out once they max out the cost. Autoclickers also can gain prestige levels, increasing the boosts per level. You obtain new prestige currency (S) by upgrading your bags. Some prestige upgrades use these and are very expensive due to the late-game gains you are rewarded with.

Autoclicker section

(P) Gather - increase gather (P) Clicker - Gives the percentage of that auto clicker income to the clicker (S) Boost - increases the multiplier when you hit the 5,10,20,40 increases. (S) Prestige - decreases the number of cashews you have to collect to fill the purple bar and gain a prestige point.

Bag Section

(P) Sell - increase sell value (S) Prestige gain - increases % of total prestige gain (S) Max gain - increases the total points that you can gain from the bags

Universal

(P) Sell - increases all sell values (P) Gather - increases all gather values (P) Cost - Decreases all cost ratios (S) Prestige - Decreases all prestige cost ratios (S) Idle time - increases Idle time

Research

This tab displays the auto clickers and the research level “Clicker Lv##.” When you reach the amount required to start research, click on the one you want to level up, and it will begin collecting cashews to unlock it. This addition to the game adds many different ways to play and build your style. I hope that many more satisfied players will stay to play. Thank you all for playing!

Prestige Update Release Date

December 21

The Prestige and Research systems are going through the last bug tests. Minor balancing aside, I feel the mechanics are complete. The math is good, and I feel the game is now much more enjoyable.  After the Prestige Update is out, I will focus on the UI. I will work on interaction feedback so players feel more intertwined with the game. I'm also going to add/edit some art and effects so it feels less bland.

WARNING

Saves—I changed how files are saved, which means player progress will be lost. I am very sorry if you are one of the players losing progress. However, these new systems and pace should make it feel very rewarding. Thank you for playing! All feedback helps me improve on this game, so keep it coming!

Bug Fixes

-Multi-buy displaying (+5) when it should be (+1). -Percent-buy spending partial points when under 1,000 points. -The font setting is not being saved or set at the start.

Prestige Update

I really wanted to get the update out before I went on vacation, but I have not yet gotten to the final product. I will have the player progress transferred over when the update comes out. The plan is this: Points will be unassigned at release and given back to you to spend on the new system. I just want to give you a heads-up so there are no surprises. I have decided to hold off on the release until I finish all of the systems I want to add. Two more are being added and will be included in the prestige update.

Additional system coming with the prestige update

Achievement boost

You will now receive a sell price boost for each unlocked achievement. This boost is compounding, increasing by a percentage with each unlock. new% = last% (unlocked count * 1%) 1 unlocked = 101% 10 unlocked = 170% 25 unlocked = 2017% 50 unlocked = 6121950% 76 unlocked = 50,328,689,935,230% Sell Price Math (Final price = (base price * prestige boosts) * achievement boosts) $3.4 = ($1 * 200%) * 170%

Research

These unlock with milestones based on how many of one type of auto-clicker you unlock. Buy ten and unlock the first research. You will have to spend part of your cashew production for the research, slowing how fast you can fill bags. I don't have it locked in what boosts or milestones will be set yet. If anyone has questions or feedback on this plan, get in touch. I am all ears for player input. Thank you for playing, and keep clicking!

Hey guys, here's just a minor update tonight.

Settings

These buttons can be found in the settings menu. For those of you who requested a fix/change to the font, I have included an option to change it. It is a toggle switch for now. I am looking into some better fonts when I can, but I will give you the primary font. Not everyone reads the discussions and might not know the shortcut keys for exiting fullscreen. There is now a toggle switch for that.

Prestige Autoclicker

A problem with the auto clicker for the prestige buttons caused unwanted points to be spent. In the percentages for prestige, there is now a button to turn off and on the auto clicker.

Coming Week

I have a vacation next week (11/7 - 11/12). As I run this solo and don't have a laptop with the correct OS to work on the game, I can't fix any bugs. I will release an update on Monday (11/4), which will give me time to fix any bugs before I leave. I will be able to answer questions and provide assistance.

Development speed

I am sorry if the updates are getting a little thin. I only have 1-3 hours daily to work on this compared to 4-8hours at release. The Prestige update is coming along. The UI is put together, and I started balancing the auto clickers section. As I expected, it was not rewarding enough in the beginning. Adjustments were made, and it's feeling better. Thank you all for playing!

Percent Buy

Hey guys added in a Percent buy for the prestige points. Obviously selecting 50% will spend 50% of your current points. For this update I had to change values to different states so you will have some stats wiped. But don't worry your overall points will stay the same. I put in a check to make sure it returns those points to you when you boot up.

Settings Menu

I added a settings menu, this has the volume sliders, delete save and reset points functions.

Optimization

A Big issue for late gameplay is the game locking up because of how much the clicker gives you on your first click. I fixed this so if your getting over 10k cashews on your first click its turns of the progress bar checks that was causing the lock up. I am sure there will be bugs I couldn't find so like always get in touch and I'll get them fixed asap. The Prestige update is still ongoing I have a lot of coding to do on it. The UI is 90% finished so once the code is finished up I will spend a week or two redoing balance and bug tests. Thank you all for playing!

Sorry guys,

I've been working on a max buy function but unfortunately I've had to stop. For a basic excuse the math system I'm using does not have an (#^#) function allowing me to make a max buy. I can but this is a way that could become hindered by our machines (system x64) number limit.(also its inaccurate by 0.1%) So I don't want to just extend an issue. I have asked the developer of this system for help and he has given me a timeline of a month. In the mean time. I will put out a x10k multi(THIS IS HIGH PERFORMANCE) it can take anywhere from 100-1 seconds to file and "every" time you buy. Release 5pm(EST) 10/20/2024 I am so sorry for this halt in production. I will work on the UI of the prestige update in the mean time because it does have its own issues I need to solve.

We are good to click!

Sorry for the crash reports guys. Long story short I was fixing many bugs and ended up missing one that halted progress. I needed to head to bed so I reverted the build to an older one and steam was downloading it incorrectly. The good news is I got those bugs fixed and updating the game fixes the file mishap.

Bug fixes

I had a huge chain of bugs that are not noticeable until you have 100s of thousands of prestige points(Millions even). I fixed all that a player helped me find and did a few display fixes as well. - Prestige % showing (#.##E^##%) I've converted this to use the number system in place so you'll get the (K,MIL,BIL,T,A,B,C....) - Multi Buy was leaving the next x1 buy at a much higher value than it should have been. if you restarted the game you would notice it as the pre-game checks corrected it. - The cost reduction % was actually giving x100 the reduction it should have causing negative costs once you got it high enough.

Added Features

- I put in a total prestige count so you know how many points in total you have. - Due to the player having a few million prestige points and only being able to spend 100 at a time i added a hold down button for the prestige buttons. This only goes at 10 clicks a second but for those not using autoclickers it will be a bit easier on you.

Coming in following days

I am working to get a Max Buy but, I am having issues optimizing it as it really chugs with the more you can unlock at once. I'm hopeful to get it out by the end of Saturday. If you have anymore quality of life suggestions hit up the Discord or start a discussion and I will read and get to them asap. Discord : https://discord.gg/HEMDtbkahg

Prestige Update (update)

I have almost all the pre balance done and will be starting the coding this weekend! I'm super excited to get this through! Thank you all for playing! Special thanks to the player(You know who you are) who helped me break the game repeatedly!

2 very important bugs have been fixed

First off I have found out that the prestige level counter was not counting the purple progress bar. I added that fix in along with a count check so each time you get on it will confirm the prestige level is correct. Secondly some bag/autoclicker values are wrong and me putting a fix up previously just got overwritten by the save file loading in. I have added a check at start to cross reference these values for any balance updates I put out. I know there are a couple values wrong giving the player a 1000x or so boost in gather and some that decreased gather by 1000x or so. I have not gotten anymore bug reports aside from those ones. I will now start my work on the prestige update. Once again I am expecting 2-3 weeks for development and 1 week for testing.

I had assigned the gathered points to the Bag upgrade not total points causing a none return. I didn't catch in testing due to the way my debug tools bypass value checks. The fix is up now and I apologize for any inconvenience.

Achievement Update!

I finished my check list for this update done last night and did a few pass throughs for bugs. I've added some quality of life additions as requested and some of the prestige update features. This Update includes 76 Achievements and 2 features of the planned Prestige Update.

Prestige add-ins

I added a +1% of total prestige point when buying new bags. I did not ad in the ability to upgrade this just yet as I want time to balance the cost increase and gain increase. I edited how many points you get from Autoclicker boosts. It is now directly correlated to the multiplier so lv5 = 1p, lv10=2p, lv20=4p... etc. My hopes is these boosts can be a temporary fix to the economy's current state until the Prestige Update is out.

Next Few Weeks

I will keep checking the boards for bugs everyday and fix them asap. You can also join the Discord and add any bugs to the bugs channel and I will give updates on each one as I work on them.

Thank you all for playing!

Hey guys I'm here to to give some timelines on future changes.

Achievements Update

I have gotten the functionality together and doing some final bug fixes and testing before I release it. Many of the Achievements have the same image. I will update these over time to be more inline with its Achievement. This Update is coming in a few days.

Now the big stuff...

I will be doing a prestige economy update. The prestige point gain has a huge jump then a hard fall off. This has been one part I've raked my brain over and trust me when I say its current state is much better than the previous version. With this change you will get a new prestige upgrades menu. Each Autoclicker will be given its own upgrade section so you have more options how you want to build your game. Yes you will have to use more points, but I will be adding in compounding multipliers to make earning back those points even faster. A new way you can get points will be the bag upgrades. When you upgrade a bag it will be giving you +1% of all total points earned. (100 = 1)(1000 = 10) This will also have a prestige store so you can increase this amount but at a great cost. This update will take me much longer to complete as its a decently sized change. I am thinking around a month to complete. However I know it will bring more life into the state of the game.

Discord

I have created a Discord Server so we can have a place to chat and talk about Cashews. Discord Link : https://discord.gg/HEMDtbkahg For now I will leave you with this announcement. I will post updates on the Prestige Update as I hit milestones or development walls to ask for your feedback.

Thank you for playing and all feedback that you give!

I have received many bug reports from friends and players so far. I will be working on them over the next few days and update the game as I go. Luckily game crashing bugs have not show their faces yet. Bugs that I know of: - Family pack was set to a wrong fill amount causing a huge gain in income then a huge lost when upgrading to the next Bag. - Autoclicker (+##) displaying incorrect values. - 5x multiplier gives a discount of costing 4 upgrades instead of 5 - Delete save doesn't remove save file causing fixes to not take effect - Idle time not providing money Player Requests - Achievements - Bag skins - Autoclicker skins I am working on getting some achievements set up and into testing. As for the skins I am no artist, but I will work on getting some bag skins together and have them mix in with the cashew well. Thank you for playing and reporting any issues. I am working as much as I can in-between my day job to make the game as smooth as possible.

Thank you for playing the game. This is my first game release and hope to help and improve as more play and give feedback. If you find any bugs let me know and ill get them fixed asap.