TEEFS news & patch notes

Orbiting hammer visual fix The previous patch lead to an unpleasant visual hiccup in the orbiting hammers. This has been fixed. Cheers, Swamp Donkey Interactive

The big change with this housekeeping update leading up to the big update in da sky is the rebalancing of upgrades. I have been told by multiple players that the upgrades are a bit too expensive early game and not expensive enough early game. So I have created a curve from a floor price to a ceiling price that will scale evenly (I hope) as you grow your bois in da valley. Fixes: -The intermittent hitching should be fixed -The performance should be much better all around. -No more heavy impact when opening the menu or when cycling through menu tabs. -The news reel now displays, not running over the UI. -Players can now scale their window at their discretion for maximum screen accessibility. -UI uniform stretching will be coming with a UI art refactor in the future. This is the update for now, if there are any issues, with the update, please do not be afraid to let me know. I will fix them. Until the next update, Swamp Donkey Interactive

Patch notes I have heard the feedback, and I have made the Meta upgrades within the Great Green Reset. This is not just moving numbers around, this is an entire overhaul. I hope you all enjoy! Overhaul changes: Greenskin Fiscal Memory The Old Way: start-run income calculations and milestone previews. The New Way: Just straight-up TEEFS in your pocket. You now get flat, passive income right out of the gate after a reset. Lv 1: Start resets at 2 TEEFS/s Lv 2: 5 TEEFS/s Lv 3: 10 TEEFS/s Lv 4: 20 TEEFS/s Lv 5: 40 TEEFS/s Predictive Orkonomics The Change: Completely simplified into a straightforward building discount. Lv 1 to 4: Buildings cost 2% / 5% / 10% / 15% less. Lv 5: The first 5 buildings you buy after a reset are completely FREE. Entropy Market Conditioning The Old Way: Diminishing-return smoothing (this was an ambitious attempt that just didn't land). The New Way: Every 10th building you buy now triggers a massive cashback refund based on its current cost. Refund amounts: 25% / 50% / 75% / 100% / 125% (Yes, Level 5 literally makes you profit). Industrial Momentum Loops The Change: Straightforward income boost to your minigames. Minigame Income Bonus: +25% / +50% / +100% / +150% / +200% Surplus Redistribution Engine The Change: This now just jacks up the power of your regular building upgrades across the board. Upgrade Effectiveness: +10% / +15% / +20% / +25% / +30% Note: This applies to pretty much everything—TPS boosts, cost discounts, milestone multipliers, and legacy multipliers. Market Echo Chambers The Change: Shifted away from early purchase cost smoothing. It now grants a clean, reliable global passive income multiplier. Global Passive TEEFS/s: +1% / +2% / +3% / +4% / +5% Bulk Bribery Doctrine The Change: Replaced the bulk-buy unlock/refund behavior. Now, the more regular upgrades you own, the harder you hit. Your click power scales directly with your upgrade hoard. Click Power (per 5 upgrades owned): +0.2% / +0.25% / +0.3% / +0.35% / +0.4%

Patch notes -Fought (insert god you don't like here) to get this working but my forehead and me pulled through. I hope Steam achievements are working for everyone again, and if they aren't let me know. For now, I sleep Cheers, Swamp Donkey Interactive

Patch notes Another patch to help ease the frustration of steam achievement compatibility issues with some players.

Patch Notes -Working on finding the mystery bug on why my steam achievements are not working for most users. This patch should be a step in the right direction

Patch notes -Pre-existing steam achievements should now register as active achievements for players.

Patch Notes -Added a steam achievement bridge to handle steam achievements more consistently.

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iteration 10, Steam Achievement

iteration 9 Steam achievement.

Test 8 for Steam Achievements

Patch notes Steam achievements test

Patch Notes Iteration 6 on Steam Achievements

Patch notes Steam achievements are working, or at least they better be... Or else Godot *Shakes fists at sky*

Patch notes Issues have been many, but this one should fix the steam achievements bug for everyone.

Patch notes -Steam achievements should actually be up and running again. Cheers, Swamp Donkey Interactive

Patch Notes -The first patch didn't do the trick, so here is attempt number two

Patch Notes -Fixed a bug where Steam would not retry initialization and remain disconnected for achievement tracking. Steam achievements should be working once more.

Patch Notes: Performance & Economy Update This update focuses on making the TEEFS economy smoother—both in terms of how it plays and how it looks. We’ve optimized background processing to kill "buy-lag" and overhauled several GGR meta-upgrades to give your income a serious boost. Meta-Upgrade Overhauls We’ve rebalanced and expanded several Great Green Reset (GGR) upgrades to streamline your path to world domination: • Returns of TEEFS (Major Buff): Now automatically unlocks the first "Brown Tier" building upgrade for free! o Level 1: Covers Goblin Hammer, Krump-Town Tower, Beast Tamer Kamp, Weapon Shack, and Gobo Siege Shack. o Level 2 & 3: Expands to cover your entire roster of buildings as you level it up. • Runic Trade Routes: Now boosts income for Wizzy Boi Magik Kamp, Nu Transportation Kamp, and Beast Tamer Kamp (Scaling up to +10%). • Golden Ledger Protocol: Now boosts income for Krump-Town Tower, Weapon Shack, and Gobo Siege Shack (Scaling up to +12%). • Refined Incisor Technique: Now provides a steady +1.5% per level (up to +15%) specifically for the Goblin Hammer. Performance & UI Polish • Zero-Lag Purchasing: Buying buildings and upgrades is now "deferred." This fixes the stuttering/hitching that happened during big shopping sprees. • Cleaner Numbers: We’ve removed decimals from Standard and Full notation. Your TEEFS totals now display as solid whole numbers, making the counter much easier on the eyes (and less nauseating). • Optimized Lore: The game now caches lore data rather than re-reading files constantly. Lore notifications are also bundled together, so spam-buying won't overwhelm your CPU. • UI Snappiness: Upgrade panels and hidden lore pages now refresh more efficiently, keeping your FPS high even when the UI is busy. Technical Notes • Fixed purchase-time stutter by moving non-critical work off the main click path. • Centralized lore JSON parsing into the Save Manager to prevent redundant file I/O. • Verified that Returns of TEEFS correctly bypasses currency spend logic for its free rewards.

Patch Notes Shout out to Idle and Incremental lovers Steam group for this catch. A previous patch disabled the ability to utilize drop down menus correctly, this has been fixed. As always, Cheers, Swamp Donkey Interactive

Patch notes Data packets and transitions reinstated to overall experience. I sleep for the evening Cheers, Swamp Donkey Interactive

Patch Notes Performance & Stability Reduced Lag & Jitter: Fixed several background errors that were causing lag spikes and stuttering during gameplay. Optimized Game Build: Cleaned up internal game files, added safety guards to the UI to prevent background errors, and removed unnecessary temporary data to ensure a smoother, more stable installation. General Stability: Conducted extensive background testing to improve overall game health and added safeguards to prevent crashes during loading screens. Smoother Transitions & Loading Seamless GGR Transitions: We’ve completely overhauled how the game handles jumping into and out of GGR mode. Instead of destroying and reloading the main game every time, the game now smoothly pauses the main scene in the background. Faster Loading (Pre-loading): The game now quietly prepares the GGR assets in the background before you need them. This eliminates choppy frames and lag spikes right as the cinematic transition happens. Cinematic Polish: Fixed the visual flow so the cinematic transition into GGR mode plays flawlessly without showing the wrong screen or dropping you back into the main scene awkwardly. Fade Effects: Restored and polished the fade transition when returning from GGR to the main game. User Interface & Visual Polish Cleaned Up Tooltips & Popups: Building, upgrade, and GGR meta-upgrade information panels now consistently and neatly align right next to their respective buttons. We also added special adjustments for lower-row upgrades so their popups don't block your view! Stats Page Fixes: Fixed a frustrating bug where the left stats page would constantly flicker. The right stats page has also been updated to correctly display your GGR meta-upgrade information. News Ticker Polish: Adjusted the news ticker at the bottom of the screen so the scrolling text stays perfectly contained within its frame. Predictive Orkonomics UI: Tweaked the display for the "Predictive Orkonomics" upgrade. It will now only show your current level, preventing the text from awkwardly spilling out of its box. Streamlined GGR Tooltips: Simplified the meta-upgrade descriptions so they are easier to read at a glance. Steam Integration Achievement Fixes & Reliability: Completely verified our Steam achievement tracking and fixed a core export issue that was preventing the game from successfully talking to Steam. Any achievements you earn will no longer get stuck in a background queue—everything is fully wired up to properly trigger and pop up as you play! Bug Fixes Gray Screen Fix: Resolved a major bug where returning from GGR would sometimes trap players on a gray screen or fail to load the main UI. UI Reliability: Ensured that all core menus and interfaces reliably reappear after finishing a GGR run.

Fixed Windows export failing due to a broken rcedit setup. The project now bypasses Windows resource modification during export, preventing Godot from calling the bad rcedit path, and the build exports successfully again.

Patch Notes Launch day polish focused on stability, persistence, input feel, and late game rewards. -Fixed an issue where achievements could trigger again after relaunching the game or completing a Great Green Reset. Achievements now save properly and remain unlocked once earned. -Great Green Reset now preserves earned lore, achievements, and unlocks. Players should no longer lose long term collection progress when resetting. -Adjusted achievement requirements so several building achievements unlock at the intended counts, including the 5 building milestone. -Fixed an upgrade purchase issue affecting an upgrade around the 1,000 TEEFS cost range. Unaffordable upgrades should now stay properly disabled until the player can buy them. -Minigame rewards now scale more strongly with progress. Each owned building tied to a minigame now increases that minigame reward by 12%. -Updated minigame reward text so it shows the actual current reward value instead of a fixed amount. -Improved popup behavior. Tooltips now appear sooner and render above other UI elements more reliably. -Improved menu opening performance to reduce hitching when navigating tabs and panels. -Fixed F9 opening the storyteller panel during gameplay. F9 should now do nothing in game. -Improved hammer cursor alignment so clicks line up more closely with the visible hammer head. -Restored the orbital hammers around the tooth to their intended position. Cheers, Swamp Donkey Interactive

Patch Notes Thanks to a player's report, this patch cleans up a few quick post launch issues that flew under my radar and improves minigame progression. -Fixed an achievement ordering issue where a 5K related achievement could appear out of sequence. The duplicate 5,000 click requirement has been moved to a later milestone so achievement unlocks now progress more naturally. -Fixed an upgrade purchase state issue affecting some 1K cost upgrades. Upgrade buttons should now correctly show when an upgrade is unlocked but not yet affordable, instead of appearing available or behaving inconsistently. -Minigame rewards now scale with progress. Each minigame now increases its rewards based on the number of related buildings owned, giving minigames better long-term value as your economy grows. -Updated the Goblin Hammer minigame status text so it now displays the actual current reward amount instead of a fixed old value. Please continue to give feedback and I will address it as quickly as possible. Thanks to everyone who have even given my game a shot. Cheers, Swamp Donkey Interactive

-In game achievements now reflect Steam achievements. -One upgrade within the Great Green Reset has been fixed to accurately reflect earned TEEGS while away from the Computer.