Underworld Idle news & patch notes

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The game has been released! Release! In general, the core of the game was ready quite a long time ago, but the planned faction of robots, as well as 'hanging' bugs prevented the release from early access. But now the game is finally out :) This update itself is not too big. The thing is that you want to come out of the early access with the most stable version, so the number of changes in it is minimal.

Changelist:

• Fixes: corrected some grammatical and stylistic errors.
• Added free starter pack (junkyard).
• Holding shift now also affects the battery button on the energy screen.

Version 0.71

• I'm preparing the game to go from early access to full launch! Full release does not mean that the game will no longer be updated, rather it is a sign that the basic structure of the game is ready.
• A special bonus has been added: the offline boost. This is some kind of offline calculation (but extremely approximate, in the form of a three-second bonus to all factions). The idea is inspired by Antimatter Dimensions :)
• Fixed a bug that made it possible to complete a challenge via soft reset.

Previous bugfixes: https://steamcommunity.com/games/1540960/announcements/detail/3654141654855432440 https://steamcommunity.com/games/1540960/announcements/detail/3660898323265123875

Version 0.70

• Fixed a rune prism bug that caused the prism to have no effect on crystal #2.
• Fixed a bug that caused the warlock contract to not always give 1500 dark mana after restart.
• Fixed '0' in pearl names.
• Reset gears now remove gears from the robots faction.

Version 0.68 - Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the game save to be written to the clipboard by itself.
• Fixed a bug causing energy not being restored offline if the first crystal is not activated.
• The robot faction book is placed in a more appropriate place.

A new special offer has been added. It's made as a DLC, so it will have a regional price and will be associated with a Steam account (instead of being associated with a save).

Game updated!

Added robot faction

In order to open the robot faction, you need to visit the rusty world. Robots create a resource "Power boost", which, in turn, increases the efficiency of crystals. Robots are not reset on normal restarts (but are reset when traveling through worlds).

Added Rusty World

The Rusty World -- the final world in the game. It unlocks the robot faction, and, in a sense, its completion could be considered as the game finale. The robot faction, however, will also be unlocked to all other worlds after that.

Game updated! Version 0.63

• A dark world has been added. The dark world provides a special bonus: activation of each crystal reduces the difficulty of the world. After completing the dark world, this bonus will apply to all worlds (including the very first world).
• The current world difficulty can now be seen in the upper right corner of the junkyard ( this applies if the difficulty is not 1).

Game updated! Version 0.62 Five new challenges have been added to the Hall of Fame. 4 of 5 added challenges will be hidden at first, you will have to complete 'Challenge #4' to unlock them.

The game has been updated! Version 0.61

Changelist:

• Added new contract that increases the maximum level of the base contracts (A, B, C, D, E, F).
• Added new contract that allows you to get the essense.
• New world added: Undead world
• New mushrooms added (to get them you have to visit the undead world)
• the 'Rumors' spell now slightly reduces the difficulty of the world (in the first world this extra effect does not work)

Version 0.60b It's not a huge update, but I hope it allows me to slowly get back to work.

List of changes

• Added secondary contracts and the regular contract that opens them.
• Added a dead man's piggy bank, a analogue of the infernal piggy bank, which allows you to get more prestige of the undead when you restart.
• Added setting: additional offline recalculation. It will help to recalculate offline if computer goes to sleep mode. And maybe fix other problems with energy regeneration. This setting will be ON by default.

The game has been updated!

Version 0.59

• Added new mechanics: Deep Oyster and Power of Pearls. Now you can buy deep oysters for raw mana (like buying fire spheres for gems). It took a long time to develop this mechanic, because raw mana existed for a long time without an additional bonus, so the new mechanics had to be built into the game very carefully.
• Added a new contract for drowners.

Version 0.58

Changelist

• Golden Gates: The difficulty of the world now has no effect on souls from the Break The Bond spell.
• Added remaining description texts for units.
• Fixed a bug when buying a contract after revisiting the world.
• The Сontract B of the Warlocks does not negate the free d'Esperance in the water (and later) worlds.
• Partially solved the problem with expanding the game window in the new world (or during the plague).
• And a few more bugfixes.

The game has been updated!

Version 0.57

Added tab: Golden Gates. You need 1000 gold or more to open this tab. Through the golden gate you can enter other worlds. Entering a new world gives certain bonuses, which are kept between worlds. The new worlds have a higher difficulty (it depends on the type of world).In fact, the golden gate is the second level of restart in the game. Now 2 worlds have been added: the water world and the fire world.

In addition:

• Extra Options: Added option to disable special screen effects (plague, worlds)
• Arena: fixed water ring, fixed formula description

Version 0.56

• Bugfixes
• Arena Mode. Added a new hero: the Warlock. When reborn, this hero boosts money received from monsters (this is a permanent bonus for all heroes).

The option to increase gold will be needed for the new Golden Gate mechanics, which is currently in development. It is planned that the Golden Gates will be the second level of prestige in the game.

Version 0.55

• Arena graphics have been partially updated.
• A new tab has been added to the settings menu ("Save problems"). If you have ever had problems saving the game or losing progress, pay attention to this tab. If everything is okay, you can ignore this tab.
• Fixed a bug with the same name of mushrooms.
• Fixed the ring of greed bug and a few other minor bugs for the arena.
• Bugfix: time spell to grow a bone mushroom did not use energy.

Version 0.54

• Base effect of fire spheres, fire skulls, bottles of tears and dark amulets increased: +50% -> +100% to productivity.
• Units no longer need to have an upgrade to get spheres, skulls, bottles and amulets.
• Contracts related to spheres, skulls, bottles and amulets gained +1 max level.
• Added LOCAL backups.
• Infernal piggy bank has been redesigned.
• Added contract: Auto-Buy. With it, the CEO will be able to create units without your involvement.

The game has been updated! Version 0.53

• Added additional settings for Buy Max button. (Max, 10%, Next) 'Next' duplicates the behavior of the control button. These settings will be available from the beginning of the game.
• A new sub-tab, RUNES, has been added. It will be opened by collecting 35 hell ashes.
• Changed Contract: Hiring Practices -> Permanent Runes.

Version 0.52

• Added a warning about resetting the game to the challenges description.
• Hell ashes is no longer required for starting the challenge.
• The 'max' option has been added to the resource exchange menu buttons.
• Added a contract that allows to increase the maximum number of units in the list of units for all factions.
• Added new portraits and unit names.
• Fixed a bug with the chest gears not working (happened if you take the spell 'key from the chest').
• Quickfix (ver. 0.25b): fixed bug when resetting gears, fixed ash and powder exchange.

The game has been updated! Version 0.50

• Added a minigame: Arena. The arena is still in development, as it turned out to be larger than I expected. Currently there will be one hero and 23 items available, later new items and a new hero will be added.
• Added 3 new contracts.
• Fixed a bug when opening contracts.
• Added Spell: Summon a Hero (Class: Demon)
• Fixed bug with inability to load 'Load: Tokens' from cloud backup.

Version 0.49

• Added a new spell: Break the bond. With this spell, you no longer need raw mana to create blackseekers, but souls are required instead.
• Added a new spell: Ouroboros. With this spell the number of units is not reset on restart (but it has a cooldown).
• Added a contract for warlocks, allowing you to automate their upgrades.
• Added a warlocks contract allowing you to set the Time Control and Key to the Chest spells as global spells (this will not interfere with the global spell from the first page).
• Added a new grimoire page that announces the ARENA mode. The arena mode itself is currently in development.

Version 0.49b

• Added two new warlocks contracts.
• Added a new settings section (extra settings). There you can set the time between autosaves.

Version 0.48c. Small udpate.

• Added settings that allow you to use the right mouse button as shift+left mouse, and the middle button as control+click.
• Auto-recycle settings are now kept on restart. Also, a setting has been added that allows reverting to the previous variant.
• Added a setting that allows hiding the effect of the waste (popup text).
• Added two new drowners contracts. One of them allows you to automate upgrades of drowners.

The game has been updated! Version 0.48

• Added infernal piggy bank, which allows you to automatically get hell ashes. In addition, the piggy bank works offline.
• Added secondary demon contracts. Secondary contracts have no maximum level limit and their cost does not increase with level.
• Added 2 demon contracts that open the previously written.
• Added 3 secondary contracts.
• Fixed several errors in the text and a bug with button appearing.

Version 0.47g. Small udpate. Gears reset has been reworked. A separate window now opens where you can choose to reset both unit gears and boiler/obelisk/chest gears. Periodically, you will be able to get free charges for resetting. The mechanics of the junkyard search are used for this. There is 1 free charge at the start. If you have previously purchased gear resets, they will be converted to additional free resets.

The game has been updated! Version 0.47

Undead

• Added lich hall, allowing you to automate the creation of rotten dolls and soul altars. In addition, the lich collects essence, which is needed for some mushrooms.
• Added two new contracts.

Demons

• Added boiler C. When you restart the game through this boiler, you will get the waste from boiler A and perstige from boiler B.
• Added "The Countdown", which allows you to use boilers without restarting the game (after a certain amount of time).
• Added 2 contracts, basically to unlock the features above.

Mushroom Farm

• Added bone mushroom, giving +100 bone flour.
• Added ruby mushroom, which allows you to reset the cost of gems recycling.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug in the display of the number of dark amulets.
• Fixed bug with possible loss of prestige if the game is closed too quickly after restart.
• Fixed (hopefully) a known bug with the occasionally non-functioning Create button.

The game has been updated! Version 0.46

Warlocks

• Added RESTART for warlocks.
• Six basic contracts have been added.

Drowners

• Added a gift from the chest. Gift can be received after restart of drowners, if you have a certain contract. Then you can give the gift to Lilith (only to her at the moment) and get a bonus.
• New contracts have been added.
• You can now insert gears into the drowners chest (with a certain contract).

Grimoire

• Added four new spells.
• Added global spell mechanics. Global spell always works and does not take a slot in the grimoire. To create a global spell you need to make a restart of warlocks.

Bugfixes

• Fixed problem with hourly backup not working.
• Rotten mushrooms were given after any restart, but should have been given only when using the obelisk.
• It was possible to buy unavailable artifact (tokens will be returned).

Game updated!

Changelog

• Added contract to increase dark mana from mushrooms and from the contract J.
• Added a contract that enhances getting waste from mushrooms and gives a way to get additional waste when using the obelisk.
• New portraits added.
• Added artifacts (junkyard tab) as an additional alternative to gears. Nine artifacts have been added so far.
• Fixed a bug with the timer when exiting the challenge.
• A cloud backup system has been added. It can be found in the settings.