Ants Took My Eyeball

• [p]Fix a crash that would occur if you die on the same frame as you're hitting an enemy with Carrion Club.[/p]
• [p]Fix Doctor Antstrong not taking any damage from a couple of weapons such as Zap Ray.[/p]

• Improved level loading times. Depending on your machine, you may see even multiple seconds shaved off of all loading screen times.
  
• Improved performance (FPS) across the whole game. However, if your FPS never dipped below 60 in the past, you won't see a difference, because the game is capped to 60 FPS anyway.
  
• Fixed time slowing down when FPS falls below 60. Now the world is simulated using a dynamic time scale, which means that the game will behave mostly the same even if the framerate falls below 60.
  
• Fixed a crash that would rarely happen when killing a worm type enemy.
  

• Acid Sponge
  
• Ammo Clamp
  
• Hex Amulet
  
• Necromantic Powder
  
• Volley Chip
  
• Critical Confetti
  
• Party Hat
  
• Birthday Candle
  

• Mystery Gift
  
• Cake
  
• Boom Balloon
  

• Reduced clutter and chaos.
  
• Adjusted balance.
  
• Added a lot of sound effects.
  
• Improved lighting.
  

• Doubled the health.
  
• Made the speed boost more dangerous.
  
• Slightly adjusted the level layout.
  

• Changed the electric elite projectiles to be smaller and last for a shorter time and slowly move towards the target.
  
• Changed the poison elite’s poison cloud to last for a shorter time.
  
• Changed the explosive elite corpse to explode slightly faster.
  
• Changed the ice elite slow effect to last a bit longer.
  
• Added more platforms to soul arenas.
  
• Fixed some typos.
  
• Fixed Ritual Dagger not working on cable plugs.
  
• Improved aim assists for weapons that shoot projectiles in an arc.
  
• Fixed explosive weapons not critting properly.
  
• Fixed Orbital Spinner keeping on spinning even when the game is paused.
  
• Fixed a bug where a gadget item wouldn't be thrown if the gadget activation button was tapped very quickly.
  
• Fixed pathfinding issues where Mato would either get stuck in place or move back into itself.
  
• Fixed Mato being able to move through walls while Burning or Blazing.
  
• Updated Phantom Barrel’s description to match its behavior more accurately, as it only works with direct projectile hits.
  
• Fixed minor issues with the Hideout Renovations UI.
  
• Fixed Helmet Worm sometimes not deflecting projectiles with its helmet as it’s supposed to.
  
• Fixed a rare crash that would happen when a Hard Beetle was killed.
  
• Fixed player being able to prevent Fly Twins from getting to their weapons at the beginning of the fight.
  
• Fixed projectile deflection fields sometimes not deflecting projectiles.
  
• Fixed homing projectiles sometimes homing towards unintuitive and inaccessible targets.
  
• Fixed carried items jumping around and looking all silly sometimes.
  

New items

• Halberd -> Royal Halberd
  
• Stinger Shiv -> Poison Shiv
  
• Mandibular Scimitar -> Deathfang Blade
  
• Webbed Stick -> Spider Stick
  

• Submachine Gun -> Advanced SMG
  
• Laser Repeater -> Charge Repeater
  
• Acid Spray -> Acid Soaker
  
• Saw Launcher -> Shredder Launcher
  
• Snowball Gun -> Iceball Gun
  
• Zap Ray -> Death Ray
  
• Cracker Gun -> Mega Cracker Gun
  

• Salvo Cannon -> Inferno Cannon
  
• Ancient Beam -> Prism Beam
  
• RPG Launcher -> FPG Launcher
  

• Crystal Warhead
  
• Crispy Chili Oil
  

Other changes

• Fixed an issue with being able to damage bosses during cutscenes, leading to a crash.
  
• Enabled movement while throwing items and weapons.
  
• Ammo boxes no longer destroy explosive projectiles and other powerful projectiles.
  
• Increased gold values for Treasure items.
  
• Increased final boss health.
  

• Rusty Rifle
  
• Flamethrower
  
• Icicle Gun
  
• Lightning Gun
  
• Pesticide Gun
  
• Poison Lobber
  
• ARP1
  
• Atomic Malcom
  
• Twin Flak
  

• Zanmushiken
  
• Brutal Falchion
  
• Tesla Sword
  
• Fire Axe
  
• Stinger Spear
  
• Arikiri
  
• Sinister Scepter
  

What's next

• Fixed game crashing sometimes when you throw a ranged weapon right after firing it.
  
• Fixed reload speed bonus of some trinkets not always working as intended.
  
• Fixed Adrenaline Amplifier's icon having a wonky offset when dropped to the ground.
  

New items

• Golden Antenna
  
• Scrap Extractor
  
• Cicada Shell
  
• Rusty Gear
  
• Small Bell
  
• Panic Engine
  
• Adrenaline Amplifier
  
• Ancient Quiver
  
• Sturdy Soles
  
• Activated Carbon
  
• Sterile Glove
  
• Pocket Knife
  
• Matchbox
  
• Venom Gland
  
• Block of Tofu
  
• Shrunken Ant Head
  
• Action Hero's Bandolier
  
• Ice Armor
  

• One More Bullet
  
• Titanium Screw
  

• Ritual Chisel
  
• Mirror Key
  

Other changes

• Reworked Volatile Porcelain trinket to work when destroying pots in general rather than just when they're thrown.
  
• Buffed Carrion Grip gadget.
  
• Buffed Blast Ring trinket.
  
• Fixed Status Effect backgrounds not visible in the player HUD.
  

Thirteen new gadgets

• Lit Sneakers
  
• Insecticide Can
  
• Orbital Spinner
  
• Gourmet Mushroom
  
• Love Letter
  
• Mini Hive
  
• Lickable Battery
  
• Sticky Mines
  
• Crystal Fist
  
• Cursed Tablet
  
• Carrion Grip
  
• Coin Shaped Die
  
• Explosive Decoy
  

Four new trinkets

• Monstrous Skull
  
• Heavy Pommel
  
• Premium Toolbelt
  
• Forgemaster’s Tongs
  

Balancing changes

• Gadget points now require more kills to get than they used to, but most gadgets use fewer gadget points when activated.
  
• Buffed Cleaver melee weapon.
  
• Buffed Adamant Spear melee weapon.
  
• Buffed Bolt-Action Rifle ranged weapon.
  
• Buffed most gadgets, including Rock, Anti-Ant Grenade, Poison Flask, Bile Sack, Dynamite Bundle, Shield Soap, Helping Hand, Turbocharger, Impact Thruster, Freeze Grenade, Serrated Javelin, Throwing Axe, Golden Cross and Kunai.
  
• Nerfed Invincibility Generator gadget.
  
• Buffed Razor-sharp Stinger trinket.
  
• Reworked Vengeful Harmonica trinket.
  

Miscellaneous changes and fixes

• Reworked item and entity throwing. Items now fly in a nice arc, and throwing melee weapons is easier and more effective.
  
• Drastically reduced most Hideout Renovation gem costs.
  
• Added new voices for players 2-4.
  
• Added Crit Pots that drop critical orbs when destroyed.
  
• Improved normal pot graphics to better reflect whether they contain gold or not.
  
• Fix game getting unpaused if the player’s controller gets disconnected while the pause menu is open.
  
• Pause the game automatically if all players’ controllers are disconnected.
  

• Fixed a crash cased by using Forbidden Blade.
  
• Fixed potential soft lock if you kill Mato in one shot.
  
• Fixed Cursed and Slowed status effects causing a chain effect of lots of damage in a short period of time.
  
• Fixed a bunch of weird stuff happening if you slow down time a lot for example by drinking multiple Slow-Mo Potions in quick succession.
  
• Fixed Clock timer resetting if you save and quit and continue at a shop.
  
• Fixed Trinket Printer's menu overflowing when you have a lot of available trinkets in it.
  
• Fixed letterbox bars sometimes being drawn on top of menus and hiding them underneath.
  
• Fixed player name clipping in the top right corner of menus.
  
• Made the poison cloud disappear when you kill Mato.
  

• Acid elemental: Drops acid when hit.
  
• Electric elemental: Creates a ball of lightning after taking enough damage.
  
• Gold elemental: Slow but strong and drops lots of gold when killed.
  
• Imu Mygga cultist: Heals itself if it hasn't been damaged for a moment.
  
• Saint Rekoil cultist: Explodes when killed.
  
• Aave Sirkka cultist: Respawns nearby dead bodies as ghosts.