Bug fixes:

• Third Pillar reappearing if you take the item instead of the Automon
  
• Game freezing when you evolve a Stranglie in a way that causes inventory overflow (now extra items just get discarded)
  
• Switching items between Stranglie and another Automon causing incorrect item positions and blank items in the inventory
  
• Swole Champion assaulting you at every opportunity
  
• Swole and Creepypasta Champion abilities being active after dismissing them, until you quit
  
• Probably fixed a random ass crash that could happen when moving Automons around as Creepypasta
  

The Automonniversary Update is here!

Vague description of the update for the busy people:

• 1 new Automon elemental type!
  
• 10 new Automons! Or I guess 11 if you could that one ability... 12 if... Okay, I'll shut up now
  
• 1 new playable character
  
• 11 new Achievements
  

Detailed description of the update for those who really have nothing better to do with their time:

Automons:

• Swole type added. Type bonus: +2/4/6% ATK buff when hit
  Strong against: Rock, Steel, Ice. Weak against: Fire, Wind (you ever tried punching a bird?)
  Resists Rock, Steel, Water. Weak to Fire, Poison
  
• 10 new Automons added: 5 commons, 3 uncommons, 1 rare, 1 ultra rare
  

• Ladybuff is now Wind/Swole, ability power from 5/10/15/20 to 4/6/8/10
  
• Blamtern is now Water/Swole, ability power from 150/300/350/600 to 150/225/300/375
  
• Frenmon is now Steel/Swole, ability power from 3/6/9/12 to 3/4.5/6/7.5
  
• Angrus is now Fire/Swole, ability power from 33/66/100/133 to 30/45/60/75
  
• Chadoom is now Electric/Swole
  
• Punchic HP 70 -> 50
  
• Meishowl SPD 130 -> 125
  
• Mobird SPD 95 -> 90
  
• Chilock DEF 150 -> 140
  

Areas:

• 3 new areas added, 1 per regular difficulty tier
  
• 1 endless area added
  
• Most areas got their Automons changed
  

Bosses:

• New music track when fighting your past self, composed by MammothPlant!
  
• Swole Boss and Champion added
  
• Player-made Champion now has its character abilities (applies only to Creepypasta and Swole, since only they have in-combat abilities)
  

Characters:

• "You but Swole" added: Take matters into your own hands, but your Automons come out in a random order. Unlocked by "Transform Adyel", whatever that means
  

Items:

• Steak added (Swole type enabler)
  

Other:

• -Rest and Release icons changed to make text more visible
  
• -Updated Steel attack sound
  
• -Ability timer bar looks less horrendous
  
• -Fixed badge tooltips showing when dragging Automons over them
  
• -Fixed û̶̟̄͑̈̀'s ability crashing the game
  
• -Learned how to spell Ethereal
  
• -Fixed HP-based abilities not updating when holder gains HP due to enemy death (using Fork for example)
  

The Automonniversary

Here's what's (probably) coming:

• New Automons!
  
• New elemental type, and all the side stuff that comes with it (new areas, new boss, new badge, new item, new Pretty Good Three team compositions that include the new type, etc)
  
• At least one new character, but hoping for 2
  
• New achievements
  
• If time allows, Steam trading cards and all the fluff around it like badges, emotes etc. If not this update, it'll come soon after
  

What else?

Bug Fixes:

• Being able to select items equipped by enemies and move them to inventory
  
• Game crashing when you catch an Automon to evolve it while it's holding an item and your inventory is full
  
• Beating the game not awarding "Won" checkmark in the Autodox
  
• Some odd behaviour regarding party box selection and items (boxes should not be selected unintentionally anymore)
  
• Game crashing when you right click an empty party box
  

Other:

• You can now swap items by clicking on an equipped item while another is selected (previously you had to click on the Automon's party box)
  

BIG Stuff:

• Items added! 63 items can be obtained through various means. They can be one time use or held by Automons
  
• Alternate playable Characters added! 4 new characters can be unlocked and selected when starting a New Game from the main menu
  (They are also unlocked from achievements so you don't have to meet the requirements again if you played the game a bit)
  (If you have neither a second character nor a second difficulty unlocked, you won't see the character selection screen when starting a new game)
  

Automon Changes:

• All Automons now have a 4th ability tier that can only be reached with a specific held item. It upgrades the ability the same amount that an Evolution would
  
• Mobird's ability is now: Evolves with 2 copies. Gets 1/1/1.5/(2)% more stats for evolving
  
• Rockover's ability is now: Gain 2/4/6/(8) Block when battle starts
  
• Floatox DEF from 120 to 110
  
• Noxeed's ability power from 2/4/6 to 2.5/5/7.5/(10)
  
• Vipemare's ability is now: Make a cloud on attack; It hurts inactive Automons for 2/3/4/(5)% of their current HP per second
  (Draining % of current HP means it will never kill unless the counter reaches 100 somehow. This should hopefully make Vipemare synergize with more things)
  

Other Gameplay Changes:

• Box Heal from 70% to 30%
  
• Poison Bonus from (1
• tier - 0.5) to (0.75
• tier)
  
• Wild Automon levels increased
  
• Random damage variance from 15% to 10%
  
• Effective minimum SPD is now 1, regardless of buffs and debuffs
  
• When you defeat the game and your team becomes the Champion's team, it will now use your team as it was at the beginning of the battle and not the end (effectively means that your one-use items will be preserved for the Champion's next team, and any level ups gained during the Champion fight won't apply)
  
• Exp reward for beating bosses now gives 40% more exp
  
• Difficulty 3 Champion level modifier from +10% to +5%. Also applies to difficulties above 11 - it will start from 5% and add 2% for every new difficulty level
  

Minor Stuff below, you can stop reading here

• Hovering over an Automon that has bonus stats will now toggle between full stats and bonus stats about every second
  
• Minor sprite adjustments to most Automons, mainly to make shading pop more
  
• Badges relocated to make room for items
  
• "Piercing" is a new word used whenever an attack or damage ignores DEF and Block
  
• Some font adjustments to make long ability text fit into the tooltips (by long ability text I mean Vipemare's ability and no one else's)
  
• Added a help page about items
  
• Added obnoxious arrows pointing at unread tutorial tooltips (seen YouTubers not notice them one too many times)
  

Bug Fixes:

• Area 39 having rarity odds different from the rest of endless areas
  
• Game timer not starting after the game is loaded, until an Automon is captured - now starts whenever an area is selected
  
• Defeated Wild Automons lingering on the screen after areas are loaded
  
• Fewlayering issues with tooltips and particles
  
• Graciel's effectiveness indicators not calculating correctly
  
• Player-made Champion not benefitting from "+X% Champion Levels" difficulty modifier
  
• Player-made Champion sometimes getting bonus stats on Automons that shouldn't have them
  

Changes:

• Winning a boss fight now heals your entire party for 100%. The heal reward is gone
  
• Automons you can catch after beating a boss now have 5 extra levels
  
• Pretty Good Three bosses now also offer Automons as a reward
  

Bugs squashed:

• Starters's exp requirements not updating when difficulty is changed within the game screen
  
• Player Champion Goolect not being at full health
  

Difficulty Changes:

• Endless wild Automon levels reduced
  
• Non-endless wild Automon levels reduced
  
• Non-endless boss Automon levels reduced
  
  
  
• Difficulty modifiers are now as follows:
  Difficulty 1 : Normal Mode
  2: -2 Starter levels
  3: 10% Champion Levels
  4: -15% Non-combat healing
  5: -1 Box size
  6: 15% Wild Automon Levels
  7: 1 Upgrade to a random boss automon
  8: -1 Box size
  9: 15% extra boss levels
  10: No easy areas after 15
  11 to infinity:
  +2% Wild Automon Levels
  +2% Boss Levels
  +2% Champion Levels
  -2% Healing (up to 50%)
  

Automons:

• Base HP of all Automon reduced by 5
  
• All monotype Automon abilities now upgrade with a rate of 1/2/3 instead of the regular 1/1.5/2. Florey is unchanged because it was technically already like this for him
  
• Stats of many Automons changed, scroll to the bottom of the patch notes to see the details
  

Areas:

• Legendary areas now can't appear in areas 11, 21 and 31.
  

Bosses:

• Block now can't be the first boss (thematic fail, I know)
  
• Endika, Stephen and Block are now 20% more likely to be chosen as the next boss (to offset the fact that they can't show up as boss #6, #1 and #1 respectively)
  
• Default Champions now have 3 badges of different types
  
• Ice Champion team reworked so that her secondary types are Grass and Rock instead of Wind and Rock (Wind was previously overrepresented in Champion teams, Grass was underrepresented)
  

Party bonuses:

• Wind bonus from 75% SPD to 60%
  
• Fire bonus per tier from 5% to 6%
  
• Ice bonus per tier from 12% to 10%
  
• Poison bonus reduced by flat 0.5
  

Other:

• Few words added to random seed title
  

Bug Types:

• Florey's ability not working for bosses
  
• Champion's music not stopping on loss
  

Absurdly specific stat changes for nerds:

• Ladybuff: SPD from 125 to 140, ability from 6/9/12 to 5/10/15
  
• Rathium: ability from 4/6/8 to 3/6/9
  
• Blamtern: ATK from 130 to 140, ability from 150/225/300 to 150/300/450
  
• Rockover: HP from 75 to 20, ATK from 100 to 150, DEF from 140 to 40, ability from 2/3/4 to 3/6/9
  
• Chilock: DEF from 130 to 150, ability from 7/10.5/14 to 6/12/18
  
• Pengloom: ATK from 70 to 60, SPD from 85 to 75
  
• Jazzap: ATK from 60 to 65, SPD from 130 to 120, ability from 2/3/4 to 3/4.5/6
  
• Sablead: ATK from 115 to 110
  
• Eatoad: ability from 30/45/60 to 50/75/100
  
• Fremon: ability from 3/4.5/6 to 3/6/9
  
• Chompice: HP from 130 to 125
  
• Spookorch: ATK from 140 to 150
  
• Angrus: HP from 100 to 110, ability from 40/60/80 to 33/66/100
  
• Batorm: ATK from 100 to 120, DEF from 90 to 60
  
• Floatox: DEF from 125 to 120, SPD from 90 to 85
  
• Punchic: ability from 10/7.5/6 to 10/7.5/5 (more of a bug fix than rebalance)
  
• Turtroll: DEF from 140 to 135
  
• Noxeed: HP from 110 to 100, SPD from 70 to 50, ability from 3/4.5/6 to 2/4/6
  
• Paravour: HP from 110 to 90, ATK from 120 to 140
  
• Weedge: ability from 20/30/40 to 20/40/60
  
• Fironek: HP from 130 to 125, ATK from 100 to 105, DEF from 80 to 85, SPD from 105 to 110, ability from 30/45/60 to 30/60/90
  
• Clamity: DEF from 125 to 120, ability from 40/60/80 to 40/80/120
  
• Ramblast: HP from 70 to 80, ability from 24/18/12 to 18/12/6
  
• Shiecken: DEF from 130 to 125, SPD from 110 to 100
  
• Goolect: ability from 8/12/16 to 6/9/12
  
• Armorillo: DEF from 170 to 150
  
• Butterage: ATK from 115 to 105
  
• Eelergy: HP from 220 to 210, ATK from 60 to 65
  

Update 1.1.3 released

Bug Fixes:

• Game crashing on Champion win when Goolect is on the player's team
  
• "Calculated" achievement not triggering
  
• Legendary areas having difficulty indicators other than "Don't"
  

Other notes:

• Still looking at one bug where a win might not increase winstreak if you quit to main menu and start a new game. Will likely fix later this week
  

THE big update coming later today

Major Stuff:

• Game screen is now in 16:9 resolution, there's even a never-seen-before full screen button!
  (UI has been moved around to make more sense with this change)
  
• Beating bosses will now offer the player 4 rewards to choose from: a badge that boosts the elemental party bonus by 1, one of their Automons (with upgrades removed), EXP boost or full heal
  (bosses also have their badges during the fight)
  (Pretty Good Three bosses don't offer badges or Automons. Bosses in Endless don't offer Automons)
  
• Upgrading Automons now also upgrades their abilities, up to 2 times. The second upgrade will be twice as good (or half as bad) as the default ability, and the first upgrade will be the exact middle point between second upgrade and default ability
  
• Legendary areas now appear 3 times throughout a run. All 3 have to be beaten in order to capture the legendary Automon
  (This doesn't affect Endless where they can be captured as normal)
  
• New music everywhere
  

Minor stuff:

Automons:

• Completely new abilities for Blamtern, Sablead, Frenmon, Goolect, Coldsteel, Vipemare and Chadoom.
  
• Ivytant's and Tongo's abilities changed to trigger when battle starts, which means they'll keep debuffing each new enemy that comes out
  
• Pelifin now buffs SPD instead of DEF
  
• Armorillo's ability changed to trigger after a number of hits, rather than seconds
  
• Butteroast renamed to Butterage because it was displaying as Butteroas[UR]
  
• A ton of stats and abilities adjusted. There's now a smaller gap between average stats of each rarity (or in other words, commons buffed)
  
• Automons with time-based abilities now have a crude progress bar above them
  
• EXP gained from defeating Automons no longer multiplies based on their rarity, but there's now a static amount of bonus exp given for every Automon defeated (or in simpler words: early exp good, later exp bad)
  

Areas:

• Area tooltips now highlight the Automons you already have in party, with a different color if you only need 1 more to Upgrade
  
• Player-made champion can now be dismissed when you're in Area 0, with a button above the portrait
  
• 3 new areas in Endless to even out distribution of Ultra Rares
  
• Area difficulty now matters more (affects levels and rarity to a higher degree). Areas now show colored squares around them to make this more visible
  
• More difficult areas now show up less often
  
• Chance for legendaries in Endless increased
  
• Wild Automons have higher levels
  

Bosses:

• New Pretty Good Three member; Other Pretty Good Three members had their parties reworked to even out the type distribution
  
• Bosses will now try to order their Automons with more sense
  
• Bosses have more upgraded Automons
  
• Boss Automons have lower levels in the early game, but scale harder later
  

Other:

• Attacks take 6% more time to charge (mainly meant as a buff to time-based abilities and Poison)
  
• Damage now can't be less than 1
  
• Grass party bonus now heals a flat amount of HP on successful hit
  
• Wind party bonus now gives 75% SPD bonus for (tier
• 3) attacks
  
• Water, Fire, Electric and Steel bonuses nerfed; Ice and Poison buffed
  
• Autodox now has rarity indicators
  
• Area choice penalty from Difficulty 5 onwards was changed to "No easy areas after Area 15"
  
• Healing amount changed: party heal from 25% to 20%; Box heal from 50% to 70%; Rest heal from 35% to 50%, Release heal from 25% to 30%
  
• Fire no longer deals more damage to Poison
  
• Base damage of all attacks increased by 2
  
• Electric bonus now applies before DEF, which means it'll be increased or reduced by attacker's ATK and defender's DEF
  
• Splash damage from fire bonus is now capped by the defender's max HP
  
• CLOSE_WIN hidden achievement requirements changed (not telling you, it's a secret)
  
• Speed controls now unlock in Area 4 (I bet some people refunded the game after watching Area 5 Endika fight at x1 speed)
  
• Added a few words to the possible list of seeds
  
• Few new sprites to fix full screen scaling issues, including new particles for buffs and healing
  
• Music in wild areas is selected semi-randomly
  

Bug Types:

• Perfect Harmony achievement not triggering with Florey on the team
  
• Loading a run increasing the run count
  
• Restarting a run not resetting winstreak (it still doesn't when done in Area 0 or after Champion)
  
• Incorrect colors on shiny Frenmon's sprite
  
• Coldsteel moonwalking to kill you when you lose to him (in fact, now he doesn't walk at all)
  
• Release actually healing for the Rest amount
  
• Clamity's ability not triggering if HP went below 50% as a result of an on-death ability (like Bomblow's)
  
• Abilities that trigger on attack applying only after damage is dealt (matters for Turtroll)
  
• Flowey increasing the odds of Grass areas appearing (this was his original ability way back in the 1980's, it was still coded in but who would even notice, right?)
  
• Buffs being displayed before the fight starts for real
  
• Player Champion's Automon levels not updating when changing difficulty
  
• Particles lingering when quitting to menu