Bug Fixes

• Fixed adding/removing bees to a beebox/beebank not syncing up in multiplayer
  
• Fixed buttboxes just not working at all in multiplayer
  
• Fixed buttbox layout for large numbers of butts
  
• Fixed rehabeelitator not working generally after restoring any of the underwater bees
  
• Fixed queen lifespan not counting down in a certain golden location
  
• Fixed Captain just giving away striped walls until he went out of business
  
• Fixed ocean butterflies not showing a tooltip when highlighting the right panel in the book
  
• Fixed kelp/algae not showing their discovered sprites for sunken admiral page
  
• Fixed degrumpifyer drones not potentially passing that onto the queen they make
  
• Fixed degrumpifyer not using up honey
  
• Fixed Beenjamin's hints being for the wrong species in the later tiers
  
• Fixed some of the hotbar bee icons being offset slightly
  
• Fixed habitats not working for coral/underwater bees
  
• Fixed habitats not showing correct environment sprites for the new species
  
• Fixed conditions for Crystalfin being wrong
  

Balance

• Increases the radius of the lure's grab area
  
• Decreased the speed of some of the fish slightly
  

Crashes

• Fixed "variable co_core.working not set before reading it" on some quick-queen hotkey presses
  
• Fixed "sc_button_press unable to find instance for object index" when closing a pencil re-naming menu
  
• Fixed game crashing when trying to drop a fish back in deep water with right-click
  

Modding

• Tweaked api_slot_fill and api_slot_drain to prevent issues
  
• Fixed NPCs not having the correct slot position to account for the new multiplyer buttons
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Prismatic Fragment item missing a tooltip
  
• Fixed Coral Scaffold having no lore in the bee book
  
• Fixed open menus not updating position & GUI after resizing the window until you move
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed being able to hammer sludge or seaweed underwater (oops)
  
• Fixed hammer highlight showing when hovering on coral or sludge
  
• Fixed some 3.0 achievements automatically unlocking (you gotta work for that)
  
• Fixed Bumblemore item spawning in the lost+found on new 3.0 worlds
  
• Fixed not being able to place scaffolds on damaged coral near coral beehives
  
• Fixed Captain just GIVING away lamps, what is this a charity???
  
• Fixed Sunken Admiral book entry not showing kelp/algae items
  
• Fixed coral/ocean/geode solbees & butts having wrong background in the books
  
• Fixed "Lost" Butterfly just saying "lost" (he like me foreal)
  

• New NPCs! Skipper’s Dad, who loves to fish, and Director Bumblemore himself from MPCO arrive!
  
• Fishing! Make your own fishing flies and fish for 15 different species across the islands!
  
• Coral Reefs! New coral reef areas with their own bees and butterflies that need to be restored!
  
• Coral Restoration! Restore the coral through the power of bees and get some awesome rewards from Bumblemore!
  
• Deep-sea Diving! Head down to the sea-floor to discover a whole host of underwater friends
  
• Ocean Clean-up! Help Bumblemore clear the seabeds, and discover some forgotten areas in the process…
  
• Butterfly Upgrades! New butterfly related machines so you can hoard to your hearts content!
  
• More Friends! 11 new social bees, 5 new solitary bees, 10 new butterflies, 15 fish to
  
• QoL Stuff! Quick store, trash slot, a tool that lets you gather honeycomb/frames without opening menus???
  
• More Music! The wonderful SEA-sides by Mothense have been added <3
  
• More decoration! Lots more decoration items, tiles, walls and more!
  
• More achievements! 15 more achievements to ruin your 100% achievement score!
  
• Even more freakin’ bugs because there’s just one developer!!! (me) :D
  

Moon

• The phase of the moon has been added, and is shown next to the night icon at night (top left)
  
• Moon phase moves forward 1 phase with each in-game night (I like accuracy but I'm not that mean)
  
• Added Tom's Pocketwatch, given by the new moon quest, which displays the time, weather forecast (if any), and moon phase
  
• Tom's Pocketwatch counts as a key item so can also be got from the Lost+Found if you lose it
  
• You will have better luck generally during a Full Moon
  
• Lunar Bee now requires a Full Moon to appear Honeycore now only re-grows during a Full Moon (weird I wonder why)
  
• You'll find other things that rely on a Full Moon too...
  

Fishing

• Introducing The Captain, aka, Skipper's Dad, found on his pier to the south-east of Port APICO!
  
• He'll teach you how to fish and finally chill out for once ya landlubber!
  
• Added the Fly Workshop, bought from The Captain, this allows you to craft your own fly fishing lures
  
• Added Fishing Rods, bought from The Captain - use with a lure to fish in deep water!
  
• Added the Fishing Board, used to keep track of the fish you've discovered, and their bumbly variants
  
• Birbs can now drop feathers when scared off!
  

Coral Reefs

• Introducing Director Bumblemore, head of MPCO & ocean conservationist, found near the Tundra!
  
• He'll arrive after you've unlocked the Forest and Swamp gates and teach you about coral!
  
• Added various coral related items, sold by the Director
  
• You'll now discover 3 different coral reefs scattered around the oceans, in various states of restoration
  
• Gather fragments of coral and restore them in Coral Tanks
  
• Use Coral Scaffolding along with nearby bees to help regrow your coral
  
• Once you restore a coral reef new flora and flowers will grow, letting you attract coral butterflies and solitary bees
  
• Restore each of the 3 coral reefs to get some very cool items from Bumblemore!
  

Ocean Depths

• Speak to Director Bumblemore to learn about ocean diving and all the strange bugs down there...
  
• Added the Diving Helmet which lets you dive to the ocean depths (can buy from Bumblemore after 1 reef is restored)
  
• Added three different underwater areas to find and explore! Don't get lost...
  
• Added Sludge, a strange run-off from the mainland collecting on the ocean floor (gross!)
  
• Added the Filtration Hive, that allows you to use Filters instead of Frames to clean-up the mess
  
• Added the Sludge Extractor, that allows you to clean Filters and gather items from the sludge
  
• Cleaning up Sludge might reveal secrets that have been hidden a long time...
  

Bees

• Added 11 new social bees, who make their homes across the reefs and the ocean floor
  
• Added 5 new solitary bees, who can be found nesting in the reefs and deep underwater
  
• Added the Hive Tool, a craftable tool that lets you harvest honeycomb + filled frames from beehives without having to open them (ikr!!!)
  
• Apiaries now have a special visual when the frames inside are filled to save you looking (a throwback to the original concept art for APICO!)
  
• Added the Degrumpifier, a machine that allows you to remove grumpiness from bees (bought from Bumblemore)
  
• Bees buzzing around now match the color of the species in the beehive! (so many pretty colours!)
  
• Beehotels + Habitats will show a bee visiting on the overworld alongside the notice bubble when a visitor is near (for vibes)
  
• You can now use "R" to quick queen when a hive menu is hovered on PC
  
• Repopulating a species entirely will spawn some natural beehives of that species in their preferred biome (if you've already repopulated a bunch of species just put a random bee in a rehabeelitator to retrigger all of them)
  
• There's a couple of new colors of natural beehive that will spawn (you can also use Dye Station to get them - pink, lime, brown)
  

Butterflies

• Added 10 new butterflies, who flit about the coral and the sea bed
  
• This includes the competition butterfly, designed by Holli! (Congratulations again!)
  
• Added the Butterfly Box, a mass butterfly release machine, sold by Sto (doesnt affect conservation)
  
• Added the Lepidoterarium, a mass butterfly storage machine like the Beebank, sold by Sto
  
• If there is no room for new flowers, butterflies in hotels will mutate existing flowers instead
  
• Hovering a flower with a butterfly with a net now shows a preview of the butterfly species
  

Flowers

• Added 8 new strange types of flowers, found out to sea as well as deep below
  
• Variant flowers can now spread and mutate back into their original variants
  
• If there’s no room for new flowers, butterfly hotels will mutate existing flowers instead
  

General

• Added 15 new achievements to cover all the new areas of content!
  
• Added 6 new amazing music tracks - the Sea-Sides! Moths gone and freakin done it again gang
  
• 3 of these tracks you'll hear as part of the normal day/night cycle, 3 you'll only hear underwater...
  
• You can now use the quick-store button to the right of your hotbar to move inventory items into nearby crates (you can also press "Q" when not highlighting a menu to do the same thing, or "R3" on a gamepad). Quick-store will move all items in your inventory (not hotbar) into nearby crates as long as the crate has that item (and room)
  
• When opening your inventory, you now have a separate trash slot and backpack slot, free of charge! (on gamepad, use triangle/Y while highlighting the backpack slot to open it)
  
• Pressing "Delete" on MKB over an inventory slot will send that item to the trash slot for you
  
• Added new ocean-themed decor: fishing crates, worn crates, water buoys, water lanterns, new pier tiles, striped wall, and new banners
  
• Added new critters to the world, not just birds! Frogs, fish, snails, dragonflies - oh my!
  
• Character Creation & the Dresser now have a Randomise button, get ready for some crazy combinations
  
• Also added some new hat/hair options to pick from, including your own Skipper Hat!! (check the Dresser!)
  
• Gates are now visible on the map alongside the boats + NPCs
  
• On MKB you can now remap the R key (respawn + quick queen hotkey), as well as Y (butterfly book)
  
• Item stack size has now been increased from 99 to 999 (ur welcome)
  
• Alchemy Bench now shows a hint in the UI for number of recipes found vs total recipes to find (spoilers, it's 11)
  
• Banners placed on fence posts now sit slightly higher to look "correct"
  
• NPC hitboxes have been increased to make them easier to talk to / bonk
  
• Added beehotel icons to items that can be used in beehotels to help hint at what can be used/saved
  
• NPCs now have multiplyer buttons above their stock allowing you to quickly buy 1x, 5x, 10x, 20x, 50x and 99x of any stackable item
  
• You can now shift-click buy items if you have inventory room (for quick buying singular items like frames) - works for gamepad too
  
• The game will now store a backup save in "/backup" before saving (same root folder as your "/saves")
  

Balance

• Basic, treated, and honeycomb frames have an extra use each - now 4, 6, and 3 respectively (this will only apply to newly created frames after updating to 3.0)
  
• Achievement unlocks for the "3-tier" type achievements have been adjusted to compensate for the new bees/butts
  
• Flowers and sawdust bricks will now give 80s of time per item in a Smoker (used to be 60s)
  

Multiplayer

• Multiplayer has been changed so that when you join a host game you'll be able to pick from all your multiplayer characters. You can make up to 5 different multiplayer characters. (before only one multiplayer character existed per host and you couldn't pick it)
  
• Revamped the UUID system to fix the issues some people were seeing with not being able to see friends
  
• Fixed butterfly restoration status not being synced to the client
  
• Fixed not being able to use the shrine or door in the dream as a client
  
• NPC dialogue progress should now be saved for clients properly
  

Accessibility

• The accessibility menu has been redesigned, with each option having a proper description
  
• A new accessibility option has been added to help distinguise between similar bee items (“Bee Labels”). This will add the first 3 letters of the species name to any slot a bee is in.
  
• A new accessibility option has been added to allow you to modify bee lifespan/productivity values GLOBALLY. This allows you to make all bees live longer/slower or work faster/slower depending on your preference. Remember that if you make bees lifespans extremely short they might not produce anything! (Both these options will be inherited from the host when playing in multiplayer)
  

Gamepad

• Made sure PS5/Dualsense controllers can be used with a PC
  
• Made sure PS4 controllers can be used with a PC
  
• Fixed "SELECT" button not working as a menu button on PS3 controllers
  
• Fixed "VIEW" button not working as a menu button on Xbox One controllers
  
• Fixed using up on the DPAD to open the quest book also moving up 1 chapter (finally)
  

Fixes

• Fixed a bunch of butterfly effects not working properly in butterfly hotels (princess, marsh, wtempest, faded)
  
• Fixed a bunch of typos, and added a bunch of new ones I'm sure! Fixed delay of highlighting GUI elements like time of day or weather icons in top-left
  
• Fixed using a bed in a certain "special" area setting your spawn position thus softlocking, doomed to be stuck with me forever
  
• Fixed "Not enough money" error not taking into account any discounts
  
• Fixed being able to place grass in the devland (sorry)
  
• Fixed blank/empty/corrupted save files causing the game to never be able to start
  
• Fixed some button states not updating immedietely after being clicked
  
• Fixed picking up shiny butterflies not counting as unlocking the shiny butt
  
• Fixed the messenger bees not being shown flying away when using an altar
  
• Fixed being able to click on the Hivemother Door through menus/buttons
  
• Fixed Beenjamin asking for a "Behaviour Behaviour" when really he wanted a "Cathemeral Behaviour" (what a joker)
  
• Fixed Royal Trumpet not working on beehives that are offscreen
  
• Fixed the bee book intro chapters having "bee" added the chapter hover tooltip
  
• Fixed the solitary bee book overview chapter not staying stickied to the top
  
• Fixed Hivemother Door opening sequence having a yellow bg instead of a grey one
  
• Fixed a crash caused when trying to drain a raintank with a canister containing any non-water liquid
  
• Fixed credits not being visible when high contrast text is enabled
  
• Fixed guidebook scroll not scrolling enough when enough modded quests got added
  
• Fixed nana's postcard text not being visible when high contrast text is enabled
  
• Fixed NPC dialogue prompts not showing a visual highlight if you close an NPC menu mid conversation (how rude)
  
• Fixed slight delay of the "Set Sail" text not showing immedietely on character creator screen
  
• Fixed beehives that are left during the 5s of breeding and go offscreen not making the queen until they're back on screen
  
• Fixed not being able to catch Greater Dreamers or Moth(ense) when using a golden net
  
• Fixed shiny bees not doing their lovely shine animation
  
• Fixed lanterns not having any shadows
  
• Fixed "Press ESC to close all windows" showing all the freakin' time
  
• Pre-emptively fixed the fact that you could equip the rubber ring and then sail a boat through solid land (it was super fun soz)
  
• Purple dyed beehives in the Dye Station are now actually purple
  

Engine Tune-Up

• GameMaker support wouldn't fix any issues I had, as the version I was using was too old
  
• The Steamworks integration for 2022.6 sometimes just crashes on certain Windows machines, and doesn't support older MacOS versions
  
• Some issues with tiles that were getting annoying to work around, plus the sprite editor having a bug with copy/paste from aseprite (making importing assets a pain)
  

Restore The Reefs

• A coral tool to allow the player to gather fragments from existing living coral
  
• Coral tanks that take a fragment and let you adjust salinity + pH to match, when met the fragment then grows into multiple "restored" coral tiles
  
• Scaffold that can be placed on dying (dark blue) coral, which you then place the "restored" coral in. Nearby beehive action then restores the tile completely
  

What Lies Beeneath

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• Using "Filter Hives", the player can use underwater bees and special "Filter" frames like they would a normal hive but near sludge
  
• When filling these frames, the bees also clear out some of the sludge, which can then be removed from the filter in a Seperator (which acts like your Extractor but produces sludge not honey)
  
• The sludge can be further refined at a Percolator, a special machine Bumblemore has that let's you dredge the sludge for any special items you might have missed
  
• Clearing the sludge from one of the 3 underwater caves uncovers a divepoint to an even deeper cave...
  

Salted Butter

Quality Of Life

APICO 3.0 Coming Soon

MibyleDraws Joins The Gang

G.Round Playtesting

Socials Consolidation

• New areas: Dive deep down to the bottom of the ocean and discover a new bee-ome with new areas to explore that include deep-sea flora and fauna, a coral reef system, and more!
  
• New Bees: Discover, collect, build homes and breed new species of bees found only at the furthest depths of the ocean, and collect their resources for craftables and quests.
  
• New Quests: Harness the help of your newfound bee friends to restore the damaged coral reef system and clean up underwater pollution to help the bee-cosystem and its inhabitants thrive.
  
• New Fishing Mechanic: Skipper’s dad, Captain, arrives at the archipelago to teach you the ins and outs of a new mechanic — fishing!
  
• And More: New quality-of-life improvements, including inventory trash can, backpack slot, quick store to nearby chests, quick gathering from hives, new a11y options and more!
  

Night On The Tiles

Personal Chemistry

Setting The Scene