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Hey Slugcat,
No Significant Harassment pins and plushies are available for preorders! I’m sure a lot of hunter plushies will be particularly happy to see this!
Will you bring them together?
https://sanshee.com/collections/rain-world -riv otter
Hey Slugcats
We are releasing 3 new OSTs on Steam which included unreleased OSTs from Rain World.
These were already out on James’ Bandcamp but we want to bring them to other platforms so more people can listen to them.
Here are the OSTs!
Alphas, Gems, and Junk
Ambients and Instrumentals
Songs and Rhythms
-riv otter
Hey Slugcats,
We announced these brick sets on the anniversary stream and now they are ready to preorder!
Check out the preorders here!
https://youtooz.com/collections/rain-world
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Hey Slugcats,
We released a new patch which fixes Watcher’s final ending sequence not progressing properly, Artificer’s ending sequence not triggering, and more.
If you want to read the full patch notes, I’ll list them below.
Fixed Watcher's final ending sequence not progressing properly if you visited The Prince on the same cycle that the ending sequence was triggered.
Fixed Watcher's final ending sequence not progressing properly depending on your character's position in one of the ending rooms.
Fixed some players with older Watcher save files not being able to trigger Spinning Top's ending properly.
Fixed Artificer's ending sequence not triggering sometimes.
Fixed a crash in the Shattered Terrace region affecting console versions of the game.
Fixed a crash when loading save files that was affecting some PlayStation 4 players.
Fixed echo encounters crashing the game when Rain World Remix is disabled.
Fix a Ripple Spider related crash that was affecting console versions of the game.
Fixed a bug that would cause Steam Workshop uploads to eventually fail if you updated your mod too many times.
Fixed one of the encounters with Spinning Top in Ancient Urban unintentionally awarding the player with the Void Weaver achievement.
Fixed some of The Prince's miscellaneous dialogs not triggering if Jolly Co-op was active.
Fixed Watcher's purple eye effect still being able to be triggered before Watcher actually has ripple attunement .
Fixed Spinning Top still being able to spawn inside of Watcher safari mode.
Reworked karma flower behavior with ripple spawn eggs to not overlap as much with ripple tree mechanics.
Retroactively unlocked rotted Watcher safari mod regions for players that completed the Sentient Rot ending prior to the Watcher Safari patch.
Added some extra diversity to Watcher creature spawns in Competitive arena mode.
If you run into any issues please report them here!
https://bugs.akuparagames.com/rain-world/bugs
-riv otter
Hey slugcats,
This patch adds Watcher to safari mode, improves ripple spawn pathing, and more… so much more… The patch notes are two pages long.
Safari Mode is now available for the Watcher campaign's regions and creatures (there are no new tokens to collect, the orange tokens in Watcher's campaign will unlock both arena map & safari region)
"Ripple Trees" now appear throughout the Watcher campaign's regions.
Visual polish to the ripple spawns, including a big graphical overhaul and rebalancing of the ripple jellies.
Improved ripple spawn pathing to warp points.
Better Lobe Tree and Bone Shaker positioning in rotted rooms.
Made Lobe Trees and Bone Shakers more resistant to wind currents.
Fixed Lobe Trees duplicating and having erroneous collision when reloading a room.
Fixed Lobe Trees from being able to be pulled into warp points.
Fixed a crash if you tried to create a warp point while outside of the screen bounds.
Fixed corruption erroneously appearing near the respawn room at the start of Watcher's campaign if you revisit it more than once before meeting Spinning Top for the first time.
Fixed certain music events failing to stop playing after performing a dial warp.
Fixed unplucked karma flowers still staying attached to their stems after being pulled through a warp point.
Fixed inconsistencies where one way warps or sealed warps may show wrong visuals, or sealed warps may visually reappear after being sealed.
Fixed inconsistencies in the warp map that could occur if dying on the same cycle that you sealed a warp point.
Fixed inconsistencies in the warp map where bad warps could sometimes show up on the map even though they're unusable.
Fixed warp point markers not showing up when viewing region maps inside of the hibernation screen and title screen Region menu.
Fixed some situations where the region map ends up scrolled to random or undiscovered locations on the map when the map is first opened for viewing.
Fixed "Vulnerable Jellyfish" Remix config not actually making jellyfish vulnerable to spear throws.
Fixed "Breath Time Leniency" Remix config only giving leniency to Rivulet and not to any other slugcats.
Fixed a select few creatures that would crash the game if adult Sand Grubs attempted to grab them.
Fixed a select few noise sources that could crash the game with Drill Crabs too when they tried to react to the noise.
Fixed the volume of the background audio not adjusting properly during the final encounter in Outer Rim.
Fixed some creatures failing to be sedated by nearby echoes.
Fixed Overseers and ripple spawns being able to be killed by Thermal Relay's zappers.
Fixed the extra cycles you get from Pebbles in Hunter's campaign not persisting if you died or visited an echo immediately after getting the extra cycles.
Fixed slugpups sometimes spawning inside shelters that aren't accessible to the slugcat you're currently playing with.
Fixed the Dragon Slayer passage being glitchy if you changed the enabled state of More Slugcats and Watcher DLCs mid-playthrough.
Fixed some progression data persisting after resetting your save file that wasn't meant to persist (like Watcher character profile art, and tutorial flags).
Fixed the special Watcher title screen illustration reverting to the normal Watcher title screen illustration if you entered and exited from Expedition mode.
Fixed a softlock that could potentially happen if holding a directional key while Hunter's intro cutscene was loading.
Fixed not being able to trigger most of the music triggers in the game when playing Inv's campaign.
Fixed some broken spawns in some of the arena maps in Competitive mode.
Fixed a few dangerous Watcher creatures which didn't trigger the threat music when hostile.
Fixed Scavenger Templars and their packs never wandering a region if the wrong scavenger became the leader of their pack.
Adjusting some Watcher music triggers to tweak levels of repetition or frequency of playback, and to fix a few that wouldn't trigger at all.
Made it so you can still return to the hibernation screen after seeing a Watcher dream sequence.
Added protection against flame jets when sitting inside of pipe entrances or traveling through a pipe.
Made Weaver Threads display every time a sealed warp is visited on a cycle, not just on the first time it is visited.
Improved the swimming and pipe traversal behavior for Frogs and Rats.
Made it so multiple frogs can attach at the same time to larger creatures.
Improved the path following for Sky Whales.
Improved the collision handling and interaction between creatures and sloped terrain.
Improved Yellow Lizard pack behavior by having them no longer treat dead lizards in their pack as active members of the pack.
Some nerfs to Basilisk Lizards and Blizzard Lizards, fixed softlock with Blizzard Lizards inside of shelters.
Made creatures more actively try to avoid touching shelled Barnacles.
Added more varied inter-creature relationships for creatures.
Modified Loach's diets.
Some visual polish to Spinning Top despawning and ripple spider spawning.
Improved the speed that rooms bake for region modders.
If you run into any issues please report them here!
https://bugs.akuparagames.com/rain-world/bugs
-riv otter
Every day in March, there will be a new Rain World prompt for you to draw!
If you post on Twitter, Bluesky, etc. be sure to use the hashtag #RWArtMonth!
There is a special channel for Rain World Art Month channel in the Rain World Discord if you would like to post or support the artists!
The Yetee is sponsoring Rain World Art Month with various prizes for giveaways! If you want a chance to win some Rain World merch, be sure to keep an eye out! I’ll give more information on the first giveaway next week in the Discord!
Videocult will be streaming on March 27th. We are still figuring out the details on this stream, but I’ll share once I know more.
-riv otter
Hey slugcats,
We brought back the wonderfully talented artist @kelocitta to design the cover!
Get your own copy here!
https://blackscreenrecords.com/collections/rain-world
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Hey slugcats,
This patch includes multiple fixes including Jolly Co-op, the electric death effect failing to kill the player, restoring Artificer’s ability using the special key, and more!
If you would like to read the full patch notes then read them here!
Restored Artificer's ability to explosion jump using the Special key.
For Jolly Co-op mode, fixed Remix's drowning meter often not displaying properly for Player 1.
For Jolly Co-op mode, fixed only one of the players having a glowing light source around them while underwater.
For Jolly Co-op mode, fixed a 2x speed glitch that would happen in most iterator cutscenes if multiple players entered the room simultaneously.
For Jolly Co-op mode, fixed Rubicon's karma sigils not working for any players other than Player 1.
Tweaked creature sedation mechanics inside shelters to make it slightly more lenient for the player to escape when there's aggressive creatures inside the player's shelter.
Fixed adult sandgrubs crashing the game after killing one, if you unloaded then reloaded the room its corpse was in.
Fixed certain hypothermia mechanics not working if only Watcher was enabled and not More Slugcats.
Fixed Watcher's statistic screen crashing if More Slugcats was disabled and certain affected creatures were included in the creature kill tracker.
Fixed a few edge cases where the unlockable token tracker would display a token that didn't actually exist or wasn't obtainable.
Fixed the popcorn plant sandbox unlockable in Farm Arrays not being obtainable by Rivulet or Saint.
Fixed a few edge cases where delivering some pearls in Expedition Mode wouldn't actually properly add those pearl to More Slugcat's Collections menu.
Fixed the end of cycle electric death effect failing to kill the player in situations where it should.
Fixed the end of cycle electric death effect rendering incorrectly on PlayStation and a few other related graphical effects.
Fixed medium and large Centipede spawners in Sandbox mode not spawning the correctly sized centipedes.
Fixed angry Noodleflies being able to still accurately track Watcher's location while Watcher is camouflaged.
Fixed the scavengers that spawn in Artificer's tutorial failing to spawn on subsequent Artificer playthroughs after the first.
Fixed one of the Karma Flowers in Drainage System not spawning when More Slugcats was enabled.
Fixed some parts of lizards' bodies not being graphically affected when the lizard is covered in mud.
Fixed some improper layering between region gate graphics and other graphics.
Nerfed the amount of time that Saint gets stunned by Snail pops, and made it so extended Saint exhaustion from stuns can't continuously stack on each other.
Changed the arena maps that are unlocked via The Surface region to have blizzard end of cycle threat instead of rain.
Watcher can now progress the Scholar passage after obtaining the mark.
If you had fully cured a region of sentient rot prior to the v1.11.5 patch, you can now properly mark it as cured by returning to the affected regions and hibernating once inside of them.
If you run into any issues please report them here!
https://bugs.akuparagames.com/rain-world/bugs
-riv otter
Hey Slugcats, We released a patch which fixed a large number of memory leaks issues that could lead to the game crashing randomly over an extended play session, made a large number of miscellaneous performance optimizations, and more.
This might be the longest patch notes I have ever received. It takes up almost two pages in the Google Doc I am reading from. If you would like to read the full patch notes, you can read them below!
Fixed a large number of memory leak issues that could lead to the game crashing randomly over an extended play session (especially on the Nintendo Switch version).
Made a large number of miscellaneous performance optimizations that should improve frame rates with some creatures or in certain areas of the game.
Fixed color palettes rendering incorrectly inside ripple rifts and within the Migration Path region on the Nintendo Switch version of the game.
Fixed flashing graphical artifacts that could randomly occur on the Nintendo Switch version of the game in the presence of Sentient Rot floater particles.
Fixed graphics sometimes glitching out for a single frame, or sand terrain colors glitching for a single frame, when switching between rooms or screens on the Nintendo Switch version of the game.
Fixed some graphics and particle effects unintentionally rendering with solid square borders on PlayStation and Nintendo Switch versions of the game.
Warp points now pull important key items from a larger radius so there's less chance of them accidentally getting left behind.
Relocated a couple player-generated warp target destinations so they won't ever spawn above bottomless bodies of water that can swallow player's important items after traveling through the warp.
Fixed pearls not getting brought through the portal into Ancient Urban sometimes.
Fixed the map icon still showing a region as being rotted even after all rooms in that region have had their rot purified.
Fixed rot lizards still remaining as rotted on subsequent cycles even after the rot has been purified from the room they spawned in.
Fixed the Prince not giving the player the mark during Watcher's final ending sequence if the game was set to certain languages.
Fixed additional issues with key item trackers that could cause the game to crash if loading into a room adjacent to another room with a tracked key item.
Fixed rooms containing void spawns crashing the game in Jolly Co-op mode if Player 1 got killed in a way that despawns their corpse.
Fixed the "Friends Sheltered" counter on the statistics screen always incrementing every cycle when Jolly Co-op is enabled, even if a friend wasn't sheltered that cycle.
Fixed an occasional crash with Drill Crabs due to their data in the save file being saved incorrectly.
Fixed one of the Watcher tutorial messages not having been translated outside of English.
Fixed adult and baby sandgrub spawning working improperly in Sandbox mode, where the number of adults/babies placed didn't match the amount of adults/babies that actually spawned.
Fixed two of the dens in the Drill Site arena being impossible to enter.
Fixed incompatibility between the Region Kit mod and Watcher's Vortex arena map.
Fixed Sandbox mode issues shortly after disabling Watcher in Remix Menu, due to the Peach lizard sandbox unlock still being present in the absence of Watcher.
Fixed the player needing to visit the Prince throne room more times than necessary, if they had previously visited the throne room with an insufficient ripple level.
Fixed a possible unintentional Game Over scenario during Watcher's final ending due to ripple creatures.
Fixed certain Downpour tutorials never displaying if you had previously been shown the starvation tutorial during other slugcat campaigns.
Excluded certain minor creatures like batflies, leeches, and coalescipedes from spawner tracking, which could cause the no creature spawning glitch to still occur in certain scenarios.
Another fix for whales in the Fractured Gateways region in which they could still spawn in invalid locations sometimes.
General fix for offscreen creatures like Miros Birds, etc, where they also could sometimes spawn in rooms or locations they're not meant to.
Tweaked light sources in underwater sections of Fetid Glen to make them less of a photosensitivty issue, and provide better guidance for navigation around the maps.
Made some other miscellaneous small tweaks to some Aether Ridge rooms.
Fixed the Scavenger trader in Badlands missing their trading outpost.
Fixed Rattler creatures having their graphics glitch out briefly when first entering a room with them in it.
Fixed some miscellaneous glitches that would occur depending on the timing or order of rooms getting unloaded.
Made some miscellaneous additional crash fixes and additional safeguards for crashes based on reported crash logs.
Wow, that's a long one. Congrats on reading it this far. May ton of batflies and danglefruits fill your shelters tonight.
If you run into any issues please report them here!
https://bugs.akuparagames.com/rain-world/bugs
-riv otter
Hey slugcats,
This patch fixes regions in the Watcher campaign sometimes failing to spawn any creatures, fixed tracked key items sometimes respawning in previous shelter, and more.
If you would like to read full patch notes you can read them below!
Fixed regions in the Watcher campaign sometimes failing to spawn any creatures depending on how the warp points were interacted with.
Fixed tracked key items sometimes respawning in the previous shelter that they were stored in, rather than the most recent shelter location.
Fixed the screen sometimes shaking violently or the screen going black in certain scenarios where lizards interacted badly with sloped terrain.
Fixed the Passages perk in Expedition mode freezing the game.
Fixed some information in Expedition mode's menus failing to display on certain consoles.
Fixed the Jukebox menu in Expedition mode freezing depending on your music settings.
Fixed a warp point issue with Watcher's final ending that would cause the ending to break if you replayed the ending a second time shortly after the first time playing through that ending. (For players who already are experiencing the glitch in their current save file, this won't retroactively fix it, but hibernating for at least 5 cycles before replaying the ending will also fix that issue in your current save)
Fixed an additional console-exclusive hardlock that would occur after spawning ripple rifts at higher ripple levels and hibernating in the same region as the rift(s). Or equivalently, warp points crashing if warping into a region that includes those player-spawned ripple rifts.
Fixed visual glitches that would occur when entering the void sea while in ripple space.
Fixed the void sea sequences in non-Watcher campaigns breaking in various ways if you were in Jolly Co-op mode and one or more of the characters were playing as The Watcher.
Fixed a bug that caused the wrong illustration to show on Watcher's statistics screen depending on which installed DLCs were enabled/disabled.
Improved the lighting interactions with sloped terrain.
Fixed some memory leaks in the Remix menu.
Fixed a glitched piece of level geometry in the Sinkhole arena that would instantly kill the player.
Fixed an incompatibility with the Region Kit mod that would cause the Heat Ducts region to crash the game for players using that mod.
Updated the speedrun validation strings to include info for cheat configs for Watcher and Remix.
Thanks for reporting these issues to us. If you run into any bugs please report them here!
https://bugs.akuparagames.com/rain-world/bugs
Hey Slugcats,
I know many of you modders have been asking for this and I’m glad to finally give you a new tool to play with.
I can’t wait to see what new regions will be developed!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wXg54y1X6gYFaRW1577GoW4qd68pNGfu/view
Here are the steps for the level editor.
Download the level editor
Unzip the file of the level editor
Run the exe file.
Happy making!
If you would like to learn how to mod Rain World, I would recommend joining the community run Rain World Modding Discord!
- riv otter
Hey Slugcats,
We have updated the Watcher OST to include the new music from the 1.5 update. If you already own the OST, then these songs should already be in your library!
Listen to the 11 new tracks on Steam, Bandcamp, Spotify, and Apple Music.
-Riv otter
Hey slugcats,
This patch fixes many warping issues along with a few other things! You can read the full patch notes below!
Fix for pearls and other key items duplicating inside of shelters when key item tracking is turned on.
Fix for portals not spawning or opening properly after you warp into a room adjacent to the portal (Daemon portals being a prominent issue for this case).
Fix whales in Fractured Gateway spawning in rooms or locations that they're not supposed to.
Fix the dial warp ability sometimes warping the player to a different region than the one they selected, if they had already reached a certain point of progression in the Watcher campaign.
Fix for the Watcher DLC disabling itself in the Remix menu on certain consoles after closing and relaunching the game.
Fix for Watcher achievements not getting unlocked properly on certain consoles.
Fix for the Windows Store version of the game not detecting installed DLC properly.
Fix for various other glitches that were discovered linked to the user's system being set to certain languages like French or Portuguese.
Fix the Watcher final ending sequence getting interrupted or not progressing properly if the music volume was set to zero.
Fix for being able to create a portal in the same room as a sealed portal, resulting in a portal that can't be interacted with.
Fix for being unable to sleep in a shelter without maxing out your food if you had been parasitized by a frog.
Fix for frog parasitization effects being applied across all players in multiplayer contexts, instead of just the player the frog is attached to.
Fix the rain timer not being hidden in Fractured Gateways despite the region not having a rain cycle.
A few other miscellaneous safeguards against game crashes.
A few additional miscellaneous creature and item tweaks.
If you run into any issues, please report them here!
https://bugs.akuparagames.com/
-riv otter
Hey Slugcats,
If you would like to read the full patch notes, you can read it below!
Fix for the game crashing after sheltering, showing large playtime numbers, or crashing on a white screen if the regional language of the user's system was set to certain languages like French or Portuguese.
Fix frequent crashes in arena mode while playing Competitive rounds.
Fix the Watcher region screen and new warp ability crashing the game if the game's quality setting wasn't set to High Quality mode.
Fix cutscene sequences in the game crashing if the game's music volume was set to zero.
Fix an intermittent crash when Scavengers trade items with the player or other Scavengers.
Fix an intermittent crash related to frogs attaching to certain entities.
Fix the player drowning interrupting the ending sequence of Saint's campaign.
Fix Challenge 70 crashing the game.
Fix Progression menu in Expedition being empty in the console versions of the game.
Fix the karma flower in the throne room not respawning when it should, leading to potential softlocks.
Fix Dragon Slayer passage not working as intended when Watcher was set as the only enabled DLC.
Fix messages in Daemon being displayed in areas they're not supposed to.
Fix a visual bug when warping between Daemon and Outer Rim.
Fixed some minor UI inconsistencies in the console version of the game.
Removed a forced one-way path in Cold Storage.
Allow important items and tamed creatures to be brought through ripple portals even when they're on the non-ripple side.
Display warp markers on the region and hibernation maps as well.
Have the player treated as being camouflaged while in the process of a portal warp, so they don't get targeted or attacked by creatures while defenseless.
A few miscellaneous creature tweaks.
For PC, a fix for the Unity CVE 2025-59489 vulnerability has been applied.
Please submit your bugs here if you run into any issues!
https://bugs.akuparagames.com/rain-world/bugs
-riv otter
Hey slugcats,
From new regions to new creatures to new lore there are a ton to discover and explore. Here is a rough summary on what is added in this content update! I can’t reveal everything that is in this update. That’ll be up to you to find!
Arena mode support for The Watcher
New unlockables for Arena mode to be found!
Jolly Co-op support for the Watcher campaign
Retroactive Jolly Co-op support for all five of the More Slugcats campaigns which previously did not have official Co-op support
New regions
Several new creatures and items
New endings
The final chapter to The Watcher is here.
-riv otter
Hey Slugcats,
If you have been following along with the Rain World news, you might have seen that the Watcher will be receiving a 1.5 content update on September 25th!
I do want to reveal some of the features that will be part of this update! This isn’t going to be a deep dive into the content but instead a bit of a flyover on what is going is coming! If you want to remain completely in the dark about what is changing then you should turn away now.
Arena mode support for The Watcher
New unlockables for Arena mode to be found!
Jolly Co-op support for the Watcher campaign
Retroactive Jolly Co-op support for all five of the More Slugcats campaigns which previously did not have official Co-op support
New regions
Several new creatures and items
New endings
There are a couple other things that the developers have listed, but I think I’ll have to leave that for you to discover.
See you on September 25th!
- riv otter
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Hey Slugcats,
Well PC players are not left behind in the ripple with consoles. On the same day, there is also a content update alongside the console launch which includes but not limited to new asurrtcee, oerl, and redacted. The final chapter to the Watcher’s story is almost here.
- riv otter
Hey slugcats, While we’re still working on bringing Rain World: The Watcher to consoles, I have something else for you!
Nanomon are tiny, virtual pets who hang out in the corner of your screen. Train, explore, discover, and play with your Nanomon so they can evolve into the perfect companion! Only the best, most attentive trainers will help their Nanomon achieve their life goal! And yes, you’ll be able to raise and train a slugcat in Nanomon! However, there is something secret you must do in order to have the slugcat appear. Something to… decipher… For the first 100 people who decipher the code, I will give a Steam key to Nanomon! Join the Rain World Discord server and DM me (@rivotter) the last word on Discord if you are able to decipher the code! -riv otter
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