BitCraft Online 1.0 Patch Notes
A Fresh World
The Update brings the addition of the fresh start world, it will be selected default in the drop down on the login screen. If you want to connect to your existing character from Early Access, you can select the Legacy world in the drop down.
The new world takes inspiration from the previous EA worlds but updates it in a few ways which we believe will synergize with the other system and content changes recently released.
Some of the changes brought to 1.0 world will be rolled out to the EA2 world over the coming weeks.
Added
- Major Polish to onboarding - many of the early quests have been redone to better explain the current state of the game.
- We have also added a recommended quest flow which walks you through many of the key mechanics and systems of the game in a curated order.
- New Quest - Staking my Claim, walks players through crafting Settlement Research, and joining or founding a settlement
- Compendium Improvements
- Recipes are no longer hidden due to missing discoveries. Anything you look at in the compendium will now show all options for Obtain and Use (unless your as missing a required knowledge) regardless of if you have already discovered them
- Allow “walking” through the compendium, adding entries based on pages you visit.
- Added Biome and Placeable sections to Compendium
- Added many more interactions which now link different things in the compendium such as Placeable interact, Placeable Growth, Placeable place, Enemies which drop loot via contribution and several others. We still have plans to polish this more
- Added Hexite Reservoir. The Hexite Reservoir replaces the Hexite Deposit as a major source of hexite, however it is no longer an empire resource but an event for everyone much like the Sealed Vault from the Uncharted Islands. Hexite Reservoir can be harvested by everyone present once every 23 hours and gives hexite energy. There is at least one in each region and their times are offset, while the exact time of day will be offset over time, their time relative to each other will stay spaced. We plan to set up a similar world wide notification for these like the Hexite Vaults in the future.
- Maker trees can now be found throughout the world. These Empire resources give more benefits to certain watchtowers that they fall under creating a more interesting consideration for empires. They are only found in some biomes and we will be adding more empire resources in the coming updates.
- New Tier 2 Dungeon - Face new enemies and learn more about the lore of Starfell
- Hundreds of new icons for Equipment and Tools
- Added support for 9 Languages with a much improved in game translation and localized steam store page
Changed
- Further balance pass to homestead and township claim tech costs
- Increased minimum distance between settlement totems to 150 up from 100
- Removed Hex Coin costs from claim tech, add hexite energy cost to claim tech
- Decreased time that hexite meteors are active
- Increased exp granted through Cooking actions by 20%
- Increased exp granted through Construction actions by 40%
- Increased exp granted through picking up forestry seeds / stashes in Forestry to make them more efficient over ignoring them. Larger increase at higher tiers.
- Updated Cargo and Item Depth in Regional Banks to match Settlement Stashes
- Sped up Sagi Bird respawn time
- Rebalanced Hexite yield from meteors
- Reduced drop chance of the decorative shells that can drop from sand
- Maks now drop small amounts of hexite energy
- Hexite Tree Stumps now drop small amounts of hexite energy
- Dungeons now collapse in 2 minutes and respawn in 5.
- Renamed Dungeons (Sentinel Dungeon -> Starseeker Armory, Araknir Dungeon -> Araknir Den)
- Sagi birds now respawn faster in the safe meadows
- Adjust icons on most equipment to match its color, rarity and appearance
- Removed Uncharted content from vendors and crafting recipes
- Deployables can now be added to the action bar directly from the Vault.
- Marketplace searches now display your current region’s name and number.
- Uncharted Islands Trades are now hidden behind Uncharted Doubloon knowledge (hides the trades and recipes for players who have never had a doubloon)
- Experience popups are now brighter and include an “EXP” label.
- Profession UI now shows the profession colors and level number colors now match the tier
- Update Hexite Exchange Hexite Shard amounts to reflect end of Beta
- Disabled some Pillar Shaping options, these will be improved and re-added in the near future!
Fixed
- Fixed a longstanding pathfinding issues which could cause rubberbanding when walking along cliff edges, especially on a mount or cart
- Fixed an issue that was causing geometry to lose precision inside interiors (would look like everything was wobbly)
- Fixed Compendium tier filters not deselecting correctly
- Fixed Closet collectibles sorting order in the Vault.
- Fixed the loading screen disappearing before terrain finished rendering after a world-origin shift
- Reduced memory allocations when handling inventories and collectibles
- Fixed an issue with terrain positioning and leftover overworld geometry appearing inside interiors
- Fixed Ruined Town starting claim technology
- Removed development-only and other hidden biomes from the Compendium
- Fixed tracked quest hint sizing
- Added a warning when the Steam overlay is disabled before purchasing Hexite Shards.
- Also added guidance for macOS players having trouble clicking the Steam overlay on a secondary display.
- Fixed status effect tooltip styling in dark mode
- Fixed saved resolution settings becoming invalid after switching monitors
- Fixed expand claim tile buttons incorrectly appearing disabled
- Fixed a few bugs with Ocean platforms
- Platforms can no longer be placed near region edges.
- Terraforming on floating platforms is now prevented.
- Corner tiles on floating platforms can no longer be paved.
Premium
- Updated Store lineup to feature several returning premium cosmetics
- Awakened Series
- Everwoods Series
- Titan Series
- Swashbuckler Series
- Soiree Series
- Permanent store options
- Refreshed store ordering, product names, and bundle descriptions.