Smash Hit Museum news & patch notes

Welcome, wannabe archaeologists.

First of all, thank you for the support and the warm reviews. It really means a lot.

The game and the store page are now localized into 19 languages.

Now your non-English-speaking grandma, little siblings, and friends can join the stone smashing.

If you notice anything odd in your language, join our Discord and let us know. Everything has been reviewed, but localization is always tricky. Especially short descriptions, single words, and jokes.

In this patch we have also fixed some bugs:

• Autoclicker related issues (texts, tickets moving out of the way when using autoclickers)

• Some money related bugs (purchasing too many ticket refreshes)

• Settings many getting bugged for some users

• Added dx12 and vulkan support (may fix some startup crashes)

• Camera shake generally lowered when too many things happens at once

• Getting stuck if you exit the game while in prestige menu

See you later, treasure hunters,

<3 Inki and Bearologist

PS: We did not originally plan additional content for the game. However, many of you have told us you would love to see more. We are open to discussion. Let us know on Discord and we will see where it goes.

New features and main updates

Professor Finley

• Chatty lil fella with fins

• Keeping you company

• Tries to give you very useful tips (keyword: tries)

Prestige tree got overhauled, which will require you starting a new game, we have provided 3 options:

• New game

• New game but refund some tickets based on your previous progress

• Continue (not recommended, but hey, your choice)

New prestiges

• Auto collect different loot types

• Auto repurchase stones

• Extra visitors (addition)

• Even more visitors (multiplier)

• Refresh tickets (endgame)

• Some upgrades are now locked behind prestige

Progress menu

• Collects and shows a lot of info about your progress

• Don’t forget to check out all the important top secret info

Achievements changes

• 1st day -> reach 2nd day

• 1 week -> reach day 7

• 1 months -> reach day 14

• 100k hits -> 50k hits

Some “Lunatics” played the game on Linux and reported that an unsupported platform is not working as intended… (love ya <3).

• Changed “mouse held down” builtin functions to instead rely on mouse up/down events which got pointed out as possible solution

• Prestige tree now has this

• Auto hammer now has this

Rebalanced numbers (upgrade, stone, rebuy stones, incomes… everything)

• The game has way more structure to it now through better crafted balance and progression, it still could use some polish but that’s for later

Quality of life changes and Else

Prestige tree zoom now works as it should even when hovering and icon and also not jumping around like Prof. Finley would like to..

Prestige now costs way more, based on how many levels you’ve bought.

Prestige upgrade does not show up until you have collected at least 3 tickets, but now you get a text saying you need 3 (after you have collected at least 1… a tad bit confusing the way I wrote this..).

Right click Zoom

• Right click to zoom in while in game

• Many of you requested it!

Added option to disable stone pieces (good for performance, bad for looks).

Artifact income details

• Opening the artifact details by clicking on the 3d models on the desk opens up a detail overlay which now shows their income math breakdown

Tons of bugfixes and changes, not limited to, but most notably

• Lucky coin $10 showed up all the time

• Flying text shows up as blocks

  • May still happen, we tried to apply 2 different fixes but could not ever reproduce it :/

• Inconsistent collection/stone names

• Income text did not calculate incomes properly (one job it had..)

• Can not spend money on perfect stone until you have actually unlocked it

• Some achievements have new names

• Loot gets stuck way less frequently now in the table and flies out more consistently

• Artifacts levels went from 1->11 instead of 1-10.. I’m not a mathematician, clearly.

• Upon quitting the game, everything gets collected from the table

• Tons of number texts have proper formatting now

• More consistent color scheme for texts

• Double damage is now 10 times damage and it was calculated separately for every piece hit instead of per hit.. Which made it hard to see how it works

• Save file is now more organized looking, moved all lists and long stuff to the end, so those who like editing save files now gonna have an easier time doing so

• Various texture updates

• New icons

• Perfect stone texture

• Stones are now locked behind prestige upgrades

• Prestige purchase and deny shakes less violently

• Perfect stone deny sound and animation was missing

• Coin and Ticket were both counted as mineral pickups too

• Perfect stone purchase ticket number format is now inline with the others

PS 1: not many of you seem to understand “Depth”, and we will figure out how to describe and call it better, but we refuse to call it “Penetration” after the amount and quality of jokes we got for that internally.

Lets just call it “Vertical area” as someone said it on youtube.

PS 2: Thank you for the continued support and interest, we are absolutely amazed by it!

PS 3: And lastly, shout out to all the content creators who picked up our game out of the blue!

<3 Inki and Bearologist

A hotfix got released right now, at the end of the game your progress no longer gets wiped.

Sorry for those who had to see and get this patch too late.

Thanks for the patience and support!

Originally we have just published the game to test the waters and expected absolutely nothing out of it yet. Just wanted to see the process of getting it out and slowly getting to fix it up and expand it as demand dictates.

As it seems there is much more interest in our little game than we have anticipated and it is both exciting for us and challenging to keep up with you guys.

What is ahead?

We are working on a more refined game progression and way better balance, but it needs some time in the oven.

The prestige system is a mess as of now, but a 3rd iteration of it is coming in soon™.

Balance of also off by a mile or two. No surprise there as the prestige is at the center of that.

We will be back in bit with updates (after some New Year slumber) and hope catch up with the feedback.

Let us know on discord or the discussion page here on steam about the issues you have and we will do our best to make this into the Smashing Museum you wanted it to be.

Thanks for the amazing (and humbling...) interest in our project.

See ya and have a fantastic New Year!

Inki and the Bearologist <3

Good day Visitors and Collectors!

New day, new patch.

TL;DR Highlights

• Visitors will blurt out comments

• Income graph reworked/fixed

• Game time no longer resets on prestige

• Massive income and early-game rebalance

• Prestige progression improved and a new overall prestige progression bar

• Multiple audio bug fixes that caused performance and audio issues

• New music tracks

• Visual polish across the museum

• Tons of QoL and stability fixes

Balance

• Artifact count and loot count maximum increased by +1

• Double Damage and Double Size prestige chances drastically increased

• Early game prestiges are now cheaper

• Increased early stone incomes

• Increased coal and iron sell prices

• Keep Lucky Coin cost reduced

• Ticket and coin chances increased in early stones

• Increased early damage upgrades

• Massive income rebalance across the game

• Increased lucky coin drop chance and overall income lategame

New

• Added a prestige progress bar to show overall progress across prestiges

• New music tracks added

• Visitor notes added visitors may randomly blurt out super valuable observations

• Replaced barcodes with new ones

Visuals

• Artifact spotlight is now more intense and lights up the table too

• Upgrades now light up when hovered and clicked

• Artifact pedestals in rooms now show unlock requirements

• Prestige tree descriptions made larger for easier reading and navigation

Audio fixes

• Background music and SFX volume not properly reloading on game start

• Purchase sound playing multiple times

• Prestige node deny audio playing multiple times

• Cases where hitting loot inside stones triggered the “hit valuable” sound too many times

Fixes

• Ticket Count prestige not working properly

• One tiny stone piece sometimes become indestructible

• Unreliable object selections for some artifacts on the table

• Africa collection having two artifacts with the same ID, causing them to be mixed up across systems

• Museum display collider sizes

• Loot sometimes not flying out from stones, should be more reliable

• Lucky Coin reworked, no longer bugs out or desyncs animation for head/tail state

• Hammer hit audio deprioritized, even on high speed and older sound cards it should be ok now

• Fixed cases where loot could not be picked up

• Loot can now be picked up even when landing on taller objects

• Income graph reworked

• Income graph no longer resets between prestiges once “Keep Artifact Level” is unlocked

• Game time no longer resets on prestige

• Loot is now removed from the table on prestige

• Prevented buying multiple bricks at the same time (small delay added)

• Pressing “noooo” on Prestige confirmation turning off the main screen

• Hammer dealing no damage at level 25

Thanks for the support and the feedback, keep it coming <3

Inki and Bearologist

The progression and balance of the game got a complete overhaul after reviewing our work and receiving your feedback.

Without detailing everything, please start a new game and enjoy the experience.

Thank you for the support and sorry for the bad first impression.

PS:

We are working on UI fixes, income graph bug fixes and more progression balance.

See ya and have a nice holiday season!

Today we finally release Smash Hit Museum, a cozy but chaotic clicker-style management game,

What’s Smash Hit Museum?

Smash stones, collect artifacts, upgrade your hammer and grow your museum.

Whether you’re a looking for a bit of archeology of want to grind for completion Smash Hit Museum should be your jam!

Upgrades, prestige, clicker, idle, auto click and chill grind!

Welcome to the Museum!