Gnomes news & patch notes

Sup Gnomies,

It's only been a couple of weeks since our massive update and our feature in TD Fest and a Daily Deal so we've had something crazy like 20,000 new players join us in the last few weeks. Welcome to all of our new Gnomies! (If you haven't already, please leave Gnomes a Steam review, it helps us more than you know!) With a lot of new players has come tons of feedback and suggestions. After returning to the game again ourselves we've also noticed a few things that we want to improve to ensure that the game is the best it can be and keeps you engaged during the early game as well as the late game. In summary, as we continue working on the game, our goal is to improve the overall gameplay experience and make decisions interesting throughout your whole playthrough. During the last update we added a lot of content which changes the balance and has allowed people to find ways to break the game that we could never anticipate. We've made a few improvements that prevent certain "degenerate" builds from being far better than anything else (don't worry, they're still crazy enough), as well as some improvements to late stage of runs so you can push further into endless without the chug. Here's the details. Balance changes

• Cactus costs 1 more gold to place and made uncommon

• Dynamite costs 1 more gold to place and made uncommon

• Green Thumb now affects crops/weeds adjacently instead of nearby.

• Maple tree is rare

• Other rarity and price tweaks

Technical

• Improved performance a lot in the late game (less lag with high numbers of entities and animations at once)

• Technical improvements to make future updates easier

Thank you all for your relentless support of Gnomes and a big shoutout to the members over on the Gnomes Discord Server for the feedback and motivation.

See you soon, Tommy & Patrick DYSTOPIAN

Sup Gnomies,

Thank you all for being so patient waiting for this update! We have been working hard to make sure we deliver a combination of unique new mechanics, challenge and vibes. If you haven't already, please leave a review on the Gnomes Steam page, it really makes a huge impact on the game's visibility which helps us keep to bringing you updates! Update 2.0 features 4 new maps, 8 new guilds and a bunch of new items, relics and achievements. Here's some more details below:

4 NEW MAPS!

8 NEW GUILDS!

OTHER CONTENT!

Buildables

• Scarecrow

• Maple Tree

• Kola Tree

• Banana

• Mulcher

Relics

• Banana Peel (Banana)

• Cola Can (Kola Tree)

• Maple Syrup (Maple Tree)

• Candy Apple

• Genie Lamp

• Spirit Burner

• Barrow Gloves

• Barrow Blade

• Olive Branch

• Enoki

• Golden Goose

• Golden Egg

• Thorn Mace

• Ghillie Suit

• Phoenix Feather

• Lab Leak

Balance

• Pepper X > now applies to crit chance over 100%

• Beehive now counts only nearby tiles

• And many, many more

Bug Fixes

• Saving and restarting in the middle of a wave resulting in glitched pathfinding

• Some pathing glitches

• And many, many more

Improvements

• More controls are listed and rebindable via controls menu

Thanks everyone who gave us feedback and playtested the latest version! If you have any issues or feel like hanging out with us and the Gnomies - come and join us on the Gnomes Discord Server

Cheers,

Tommy and Patrick

DYSTOPIAN

Sup Gnomies! It’s been a while since you’ve heard from us so we thought we would write a post to let you know what we’ve been up to! First of all, thanks for everyone who has continued to support the game while we’ve been on hiatus and welcome all the new Gnomies who have just joined us. If you haven’t already, please leave Gnomes a review on Steam, it really help us out a lot! Now let us share what we’ve been up to! We have working another FREE update that includes 4 new maps, 8 new guilds and a bunch of new relics and items to extend the game. Here is a little sneak peak of what is to come: Caves - an underground goblin mining operation that's also home to a race of mushroom-goblin hybrids. Niflheim - An icy hell where undead goblins roam the frozen wastes. City - A late stage, capitalist dystopian ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt goblin president Portal 2 - the final challenge the combines all 7 maps on page 2.

Right now we are very close being finished the update, but before we formally release anything need to get some extra eyeballs on this content to test it out for us. Anyone who is willing to give us their time and feedback is welcome to come try the new content early. If you’re interested in testing the game, please come and join us on the Discord community:

https://discord.gg/Nme8AbD4j4

Thanks again everyone for your unwavering support and massive shoutout to the community members for their continued contributions things like the wiki, translations, fan art, content and sharing Gnomes with their friends. It really makes all of the difference for us.

See you soon!

Tommy and Patrick

DYSTOPIAN

Sup Gnomies,

The Steam Awards are back, and we figured… why not shoot our shot?

If you’ve ever had a run fall apart in spectacular fashion, or watched your entire plan explode after a goblin sapper left a hole in your maze, you already know the perfect category for us:

Best Game You Suck At Award

We’d really appreciate it if you could take a moment to nominate Gnomes. It helps us out a lot, and it’d be pretty funny to see the game officially recognized for the chaos it puts you through.

Thank you all for the support, the bug reports, the wild strategies, and every cursed screenshot you’ve thrown our way. If you have any issues or feel like hanging out with us and the rest of the Gnomies, come join us over on the Gnomes Discord Server.

Cheers,

Tommy and Patrick

DYSTOPIAN

P.S. If you haven't already, please leave Gnomes a Steam review, it really helps us out a lot :)

Sup Gnomies! Long time no see! We're so happy to see so many new players pick up the game and all the awesome reviews since we were last active here on Steam! (If you haven't already please leave us a Steam review, it really helps us a lot!) We have been taking a short break to restore our mana bars after well over a year of working 7 days a week on Gnomes. Now that we are well rested, we plan to get stuck back in and work on one more major content update for you guys, which will hopefully early in the new year! In the meantime, we have managed to implement some of the feedback we've had from the community. Here are the changes in our latest update:

QoL:

• Game speed now resets to 1x each day (so you don't miss the action accidentally)

Advanced Building Tweaks:

• Center selection on multiselect

• Rotate multiselect with R / Ctrl + R

• Reminder: Ctrl+C to enter copy state (drag a box with the mouse to make a selection), Ctrl + V to paste again

• Reminder: drag a box then press number key to perform mass building

Bug Fixes:

• Reduced excessive log spam in late game trample builds

• Fixed replay checkpoint to avoid hard lock when dying to relics

• Improved restart day menu

• Performance improvements for late game

Thank you all for sticking with us while we've been quiet, and a big shoutout to the mods over on the Gnomes Discord Server for holding down the fort and keeping the community safe while we were on break!

Cheers,

Tommy and Patrick

DYSTOPIAN

Sup Gnomies,

In the previous update we added 17 new languages as well as 4 new maps to the game! As a result we've been overwhelmed by huge wave of new supporters as well as the return of so many experienced players. In the last month we welcomed 15,712 new players (and 20,477 new wishlisters).

If you haven't already, please leave us a review on our Steam page, (it really helps us out a lot)

With this update we have tried to address what we can to improve the experience for as many people as possible. Check out the latest changes below:

Maintenance and Changes

Quality of Life

• Standalone Leaderboard: includes all time daily run player records and top players of all time. https://gnomes-leaderboard.live/

• Historic Daily Runs: you can now play every daily run ever (your score doesn't count)

• Retry Day: When you die, restart at the beginning of the day you died.

Performance

• Endless Mode: Improved game speed (Pathing on background thread)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed spawning massive amounts of gold coins when the goblin king kills you and you've got blood chalice

• Fixed the z ordering of coins/hearts during end of run menu

• Added cap to undo history (1024)

Changes to Items

Bugfixes and Small Changes

• Penny Bun: fixed error in description

• Ectoplasm: gnomes can no longer be blown up by sappers and nukes when using ectoplasm

• Fishing Hook: will now include the tile a gnome is standing on as well as adjacent tiles

• Balisong: maximum of -1 damage and up to -75% cooldown

• Rusty Shiv: crit chance up to 35% and cost down to 5

Shop Prices

• Powder Charge: cost reduced to 5

• Whetstone: cost reduced to 5

• Bunk Bed: cost down to 8

• Gold Top: cost reduced to 7

• Pike: cost reduced to 5

• Chanterelle: cost reduced to 6

Rarity

• Tactics Manual: uncommon to rare

• Butterfly: rare to uncommon

• Wolf Mantle: uncommon to common

• Wolf Claw: uncommon to common

• Wolf Heart: uncommon to common

• Hose: uncommon to common

Thank you all for your relentless support of Gnomes and a big shoutout to the members over on the Gnomes Discord Server for the feedback and motivation.

Cheers,

Tommy and Patrick

DYSTOPIAN

Sup Gnomies,

Holy smokes you guys have overwhelmed us with all of your support! We have been working really hard in the background to get you this update. There's a lot of you that asked for more of a challenge and here it is. Update 1.3 features 4 new maps and a bunch of new items, relics and 17 new achievements.

If you're enjoying the game, we'd really appreciate it if you left a review on Steam. It helps us a ton and goes a long way in supporting the game. Here's what's new in this update:

New Maps

• STEPPE

• SEWERS

• ENCHANTED

• UNDERWORLD

New Guilds

• PRISONERS

• FORAGERS

• BEEKEEPERS

• MONKS

• PHALANX

• DEMOMEN

• GAMBLERS

• CAPITALISTS

New Relics and Items

• Shackles

• Ectoplasm

• Berserker Ring

• Briar Heart

• Pepper X

• Ice Skates

• Church

• Monk Robes

• Shiitake

• Barrows Armour

• Penny Bun

• Ancient Seal

• Fleam

• Tree House

• Temple Bell

• Full Moon

  Here is some of the crazy stuff you guys have been doing on the new maps!

Thanks everyone who gave us feedback and playtested the latest version! If you have any more issues or feel like hanging out with us and the Gnomies - come and join us on the Gnomes Discord Server

Cheers,

Tommy and Patrick

DYSTOPIAN

Hello Gnomies,

Welcome to all of our friends who are joining us from around the world! It's has been a tireless few months of development which makes us so excited to reveal our Global Language Support update.

We want to say a huge thank you to our friends at Gamersky, AllCorrect and the Gnomes Discord Server for their passionate effort and support! We couldn't have done this alone.

The work is still far from done, so if you spot any bugs, incorrect translations or want to give us feedback, let us know over on the Gnomes Discord Server.

Here's what's new:

Global Language Support:

• Simplified Chinese

• Traditional Chinese

• Japanese

• Korean

• German

• French

• Polish

• Turkish

• Russian

• Italian

• Spanish

• Portuguese

• Thai

Localized Title Screen Art:

• Simplified Chinese

• Traditional Chinese

• Japanese

• Korean

Bug Fixes:

• Trophies now show correct high scores

• Crashes related to copy and paste function fixed

Thanks everyone who reported the bugs! If you have any more issues or feel like hanging out with us and the Gnomies - come and join us on the Gnomes Discord Server

Cheers,

Tommy and Patrick

DYSTOPIAN

Hello Gnomies,

Firstly, thanks for all of your support over the last couple of weeks and welcome to all of the new Gnomies who picked up the game during the Steam sale. If you haven't already, please leave Gnomes a review on Steam (it helps us more than you can imagine!)

If you've managed to conquer all of the maps in the game we've got great news for you. We're currently seeking playtesters for our next content update. If you're interested, come and join us on the Gnomes Discord Server and let us know you'd like to try out the new content!

Todays update is some performance, balance and QoL improvements.

• Coal and Fools Gold now give a maximum of 4 gold per day (increased by 1)

• Improved FPS performance (should drastically stabilize late game)

• Added copy + paste build function and area build function (see .gifs below)

Coming soon:

• New maps

• New guilds

• Localization across 11+ new languages including: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Italian, Turkish.

If you have any issues or feel like hanging out with us and the Gnomies - come and join us on the Gnomes Discord Server and let us know you'd like to try out the new content!

Cheers,

Tommy and Patrick

DYSTOPIAN

Sup Gnomies,

Just a quick hotfix addressing some of the issues in the latest update:

• fixed jackhammer volume (soz about your ears Gnomies)

• fixed jackhammer not giving gold

• fixed achievements (again)

Thanks everyone who reported the bugs! If you have any more issues or feel like hanging out with us and the Gnomies - come and join us on the Gnomes Discord Server

See you soon!

Tommy and Patrick

DYSTOPIAN

Sup Gnomes,

First of all we wanted to shout out to the wiki crew over here on the community Discord server - if you haven't already Come and Join the Gnomes Discord Server

The wiki is now fleshed out and well organized. Thank you for your contributions and thank you to those who contacted us with issues and patiently tested debug builds for us - without you it would have been much harder / impossible to track these down. Check out all their hard work here: https://gnomes.wiki.gg/wiki/Gnomes_Wiki

We also wanted to thank all the Gnomies for your ongoing support, this week we hit a really exciting milestone of 25000 Gnomies!

If you haven't already, please leave us a review, it really helps us out a lot!

What's going on in this update?

We've been busy addressing feedback and building the infrastructure to allow us to expand the game. Primarily we have focused on solving some rare video issues that some players have been suffering from. We've also put in place a new UI system that will finally allow us to localize the game into different languages. (Our next major update will feature a bunch of new languages.) We've also made a bunch of QoL changes like "click and drag box pickup of multiple entities" as well as massive improvements to the UI of the different menus.

Changelist

New Relics

• Coal

• Sapphire

• Jackhammer (Replacing pickaxe and hatchet)

Balance

• Ice Wand and Dirtmancers Wand are both now 1g to use

• Mead now -100% xp but its cheaper in the shop

• Gold top now -100% xp

• Recycling bin is now more expensive

• Sawmill now costs 8g to build

• Flannel shirt is buffed

• Morel now gives +1 damage per mushroom

Technical/UI/QoL

• Added box select to pick up multiple gnomes / moveables at once. Hope you like this one.

• Cheats mode added (click the left eye of the Gnome in the main menu 5 times to activate or deactivate)

• Redid all text/typesetting,

• Redid text menus,

• Redid Map/Guild/Daily Run screens + Daily run new features,

• Global/Friends view,

• Leaderboard pages,

• Performance improvements for endless - There's still more to be done but let us know if its any better

• Backend changed to SDL3 - this should fix the flickering issue which several people have reported,

• Loading system has been improved - the game should now launch faster and with no white screen,

• Redid timestep / game tick system - should be a bit smoother, can simulate faster than framerate now

• Changed some default hotkeys - speed up and down is on Q and E, end turn is now Enter so people don't get rekt for pressing accidentally space - if you liked the old hotkeys feel free to change it back and let us know your preferences

If you have any issues with the update or feel just like hanging out with us and the Gnomies - come and join us on the Gnomes Discord Server where you can chat with us directly!

Cheers,

Tommy and Patrick

DYSTOPIAN

• VSync is now disabled by default (it can be a factor in some driver issues e.g. the flickering)
• Settings is now stored in settings.json which is human editable if you need to change settings without opening the game (If settings.json isn't there, launch the game and it will be generated)

• https://discord.gg/Bw9m5Nuna2
• https://www.reddit.com/r/gnomesthegame/

Added Video Settings Menu

• Vsync
• FPS cap
• Resize to Set Resolutions
• Removed performance bottlenecks from lategame endless

  Bugfixes

• Cactus level ups without Sombrero fixed
• Improved VFX ordering
• Huckleberry pie gives 5% xp boost
• Added screenshot option to defeated screen
• Game modes are now shown in unlock screen

• Changed Deathcap rarity to Uncommon and changed its effect to double the number of enemy chunks
• Changed Summoning Portal to require adequate population for summoned Gnomes

Patch 1.03

Some Endless Mode Performance Improvements
• Removed unnecessary logging
• Capped max number of enemies in endless mode (minimal difference to the outcome of the round but drastically improves performance) Achievements Fix
• Changed how achievements are logged. Hopefully solves the problems people are having (thank you for you patience with this)
• Achievements are now awarded at the end of each day Improved UI/UX:
• Sewer Pipe now changes appearance of swamp tiles
• Diamond Tier Trophy added for our endless loving Gnomies

Hot Fix Details

• Reworked Steam API connection which should hopefully solve achievement and leaderboard issues.
• Added ability to swap build bar items by click and dragging items to slot of choice.
• Removed GL pixel format request to increase compatibility which hopefully resolves some start up crashes.
• Added sombrero art for cactus and clarified sombrero description

Patch 1.01

• Fixed multiple shop items bug, balisong bug
• Increased OpenGL version compatibility
• Logs should be better for crash / not starting bug etc
• Fixed ordering in screenshots
• Improve steam API usage, please notify me of further issues with achievements and leaderboard
• I also recommend performing save and exit / continue on a fat endless run to manually trigger leaderboard save

Greetings Gnomies, The day is finally upon us! Gnomes has officially launched on Steam. Thank you so much for your support, feedback and kindness as a community!

We still need to ask you for one last favour!

Nomad Idle - The highly anticipated new release by The Fox Knocks

(the) Gnorp Apologue - The legendary incremental game created by another friendly RUST developer Myco

Dwarves: Glory, Death and Loot - Another unhinged game about short dudes killing green bad guys by ichbinhamma

Sea of Survivors - Tommy’s debut title made with two of his close friends.

Patch Notes: 1.0 Release

• Locking / Unlocking items in shop feature added
• F2/F3 Screenshot features now integrate with Steam

• Windmill
• Kiss of Death
• Plutonium Rod
• Leafy Greens
• Huckleberry Pie

Will the Gnomes be available in languages other than English?

Is there plans for future Gnomes content?

Will the Gnomes include Steam Deck and Controller Support?

Will mod support/Steam Workshop be available?

Will Gnomes have Linux and MacOS support?

What game engine was used to create Gnomes and why?

Patch 0.31 Demo

Features

• Full map screenshot feature added on F3 - custom renders the entire map to a png at 1 to 1 scale for sharing runs
• Unique bosses added to each map
• Game modes added - daily run with leaderboards, random run (locked in demo)

New Relics

• Bagpipes
• Goblin Bone
• Philosopher's Spoon

Gnome Relics Cycle

• Quiver
• Pike
• Summoning Portal
• Flannel
• Fragmentation Rounds

Plant Relics Cycle

• Sun
• Chilli Jam
• Espresso
• Fairy in a bottle
• Strong Tubers
• Jack-O-Lantern
• Sombrero
• Sun
• Garlic Necklace

New Buildings

• Barrel
• Goat

Other Changes

• Pathfinding has been optimized to enable lag-free deep endless runs
• Shop balance, price adjustments etc
• Adjusted endless scaling to be exponential, with reduced scaling for sappers and witches
• logs, screenshots stored in their own folders inside the game folder
• Bug fixes
• Relics Changed
• Chanterelle (buff to use each nearby tree)
• Goblin ear (nerfed for endless)
• Corn (reworked)

• Turn Based, Tower Defense
• Shop with Relics, Crops and Upgrades
• 8 Diverse Procedurally-Generated Biomes
• 16 Starting Guilds to Unlock
• Endless Mode
• Randomized Daily Run with Leaderboard
• Hand Pixelled Artwork and Bespoke Soundtrack
• Only 30MB of Storage Required

Core Changes

• Steam Integration
• Relic slots can be purchased in the shop
• Victory Medals added
• Rework of tutorial
• Disable tutorial button added in options menu
• Rework of pathing eliminating all pathing bugs hopefully
• Lose life VFX added

New Items

• Tent
• Growth Hormone
• Hemp
• Tulsi
• Roses
• Balisong
• Berserker Amulet
• Yams
• Emerald
• Ruby
• Diamond
• Gold Nugget
• Plow
• Blood Whip
• Mirror

Bug Fixes

• Bugfix: stop garden shed counting as path
• Bug tombstone seed changing fix
• Fixed cant buy relic slots with exact amount of gold
• Fixed quantum pathing and ice broken pathing
• Reload save game ambience wasn't playing
• Some endless mode enemy pools were incorrect
• Gold top now adds gnomes to the shop pool

Maps Changed

• Mechs added to desert
• Engineers removed from the desert

Items Changed

• Emerald, Crystal flute attack speed nerfed
• Hatchet, pickaxe now targets nearby entities
• Tactics manual changed to count different unlocked gnome types
• Property deed buffed: +1damage for every adjacent house
• New art for Bodhi Tree
• Adjusted some rarities