Patch Notes

• Workshop Worlds
  
  • Share your whole saved game to the workshop, including any structures and creatures you’ve created
    
  • Take it even further and create your own worlds and levels to share and play with others, like obstacle courses, mazes, or maybe relaxing vacation resorts! Whatever you like.
    
  • To save a world to the Workshop, use [ESC] in the game when you’re ready, then select “Export to Workshop”
    
  • To load a world from the Workshop, use the “Workshop Worlds” button in the main menu

• Lua Scripting
  
  • Use the new scriptable block and button to create your own scenarios and events inside the game
    
  • Script the objects with Lua to trigger actions or effects when used, or automatically when a game loads
    
  • Save your own mini-games or scenarios to Workshop Worlds for others to play
    
  • Find the scriptable objects in the toolbox’s Special Items tab (the bag icon)
    
  • Use “/developer 1” to turn on developer mode (and “/developer 0” to turn it off again)
    
  • Place the item and interact with it (the [E] key) to start scripting

• Added editable signs. Place them in your worlds to guide other players or leave messages.
  
• Worlds and Scripting Demos
  
  • We’ve added our own early demos of these features so you can see them in action. Grab them in Workshop Worlds!
    
    • [I]Arena Scenario:[/I] Build a creature within the time limit and use it to defeat increasingly more powerful challengers in arena battles. Upgrade your creature between rounds using the life blocks of your fallen foes and see how far you can get!
      
    • [I]Bomb Run:[/I] Push the button, then RUN!
      
    • [I]Fire Trap:[/I] Learn how to use scriptable buttons to trigger other items, like a deadly fire trap for your enemies
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  • [I]Light Switch Demo:[/I] Control the power of the sun! (a.k.a. Learn how to control lights and time through scripting.)
    
  • [I]Temple Disco:[/I] It’s a beautiful night for fireworks. Or a disco. Or both! Push the button and watch the show.
  
  
  
  
  
  • [I]Water & Sand:[/I] Exactly like it says on the tin… an empty world with water and sand, open for whatever you want to make!
    
  • Keep an eye on the Workshop for more demos and mini-games coming soon!

• Added ability to set multiplayer lobby type (public, friends only, invite only)
  
• Added ability to invite players from player list
  
• Added button to view player detail in player list
  
• Removed Nuke item from clients in multiplayer (meaning only the host can use Nukes!)

• Fixed creature's ability to break things based on the damage values displayed in editor and on tooltips
  
• Fixed horse mouth collider (that prevented attaching blocks near it)
  
• Fixed venus and llama eyes to be the correct sides
  
• Some structure items that were in the Player Items tab have been moved to the Structure Items tab
  
• Fixed a bug with editing creatures that spawned from eggs
  
• Additional minor bug fixes

Find Us at SXSW!

NEW FEATURES

• Creature breeding! Craft a hatchery to allow your tamed creatures to lay eggs.  Feed them to speed up the process. Once an egg is laid, break it for lifeblocks or let it hatch into a fully formed creature!
  
  • Tip: Keep your other carnivores away from hatching eggs! Eggs are delicious, after all.
  
  
• New Love Potion item in Creative Mode. Instantly tames a creature! Find it in the food tab (burger icon) of the toolbox.
  
• Creative scenario spawning: Adventure Mode scenarios can now be triggered in Creative Mode by throwing a scenario egg. Find the eggs in the toolbox’s special items tab (the bag icon)
  
• Creature voxels: when building creatures and stacking like blocks, they will now form a solid object. Create walking houses with ease!

IMPROVEMENTS

• The water bucket can now water plants to make them grow faster. Best results if watered periodically!
  
• Added distance filtering to the “Join Game” menu. This will allow players to join a game outside of nearby regions. (Keep in mind, latency will increase when doing so.)
  
• Inviting friends to networked games now launches CHKN and connects automatically
  
• Added version checking to network games
  
• Added a “retrieving networked games” indicator to the “Join Game” menu
  
• Added a new background to Workshop screenshots
  
• Added a “Save Creature” screen to Workshop to allow more editing options before saving

• Added an indicator to the UI to display attack power needed to break a currently-unbreakable object
  
• Changed the player eating sound
  
• Rewrote creature ground detection to fix issues where creatures would fall through structure floors
  
• Decreased creature sliding to fix creatures walking through walls
  
• Nerfed cow leg speed to be in line with similarly-powered creatures

BUG FIXES

• Fixed issues with bad creature names
  
• Fixed particles that failed to show after a while
  
• Fixed creature bite detection for creatures with long legs
  
• Fixed a bug that caused sacks to be spawned from chests, mills, and cooking sources when leaving a chunk
  
• Fixed a server-side bug that would cause items, eggs, and Poachers become invisible over time
  
• Empty network lobbies are no longer displayed in the join list
  
• Fixed bad state settings when Ansel is active
  
• Fixed infinite item bug while crafting with an item in-cursor
  
• Fixed pathfinding on Metal Gate
  
• Fixed bug that caused creatures to get stuck when attacking eggs they could not break
  
• Feeding a creature will no longer cancel powering a mill
  
• Fixed network bug where clients changed the host's highlighted slot in the hotbar
  
• Fix to error with armors that caused players and Poachers to be invisible at times (and other errors)
  
• Fixed issues with inventory that caused sacks to sometimes disappear
  
• Fixed issue with Poacher loot that caused it to not generate correctly
  
• Fixed creature pursue calculations. Creatures will no longer get stuck trying to bite something.
  
• Improved distance check for breaking the wall in the Adventure Mode starting temple

Update: March 4th - CHKN v0.3.1a

• Fixes to directory path issue that prevented Workshop saves
  
• Creatures brought in from Workshop are now named
  
• Workshop displays last page browsed when returning to it
  
• Fixes to chunk loading that would cause loading to fail in some cases
  
• Fixes to crafting that did not allow crafting more than one item at once when clicking multiple times

New Streaming Schedule

Patch Notes

• Multiplayer is here!
  
  • Grab your friends for crazy shenanigans in Creative Mode: collaborate on creatures and see what happens, pit them against each other, or start a creature zoo of epic proportions
  
  
  
  
  
  • Brave the wilds of Foot Island together in Adventure Mode: strategize with your friends, team up against temple Mini-Bosses, and never go up against a pack of wild camelamas alone again
    
    • TIP: You can grab items from another player’s bag when they die!
  
  
  
  
  
  • Have up to 8 friends together in one game
    
  • To host a game, hit [ESC] while in your game and click "Open game to multiplayer"
    
    • TIP: To see who’s connected to your game once it’s open, hit [P]
    
    
  • To join a game, click "Join Game" on the main menu and check out the available games in the list
    
  • Find friends to play with on the multiplayer forum
    
  • Help us by reporting any bugs you find on the bug forum

• Added additional anti-aliasing
  
• Fixed layout of key binding UI
  
• Reduced nutrition of grass to be in line with other foods
  
• Moved “Workshop” button to be on main toolbar of inventory in Creative Mode for easier access
  
• Improve eating routine distance check

• Fixes to bad vertex in poacher's fingers
  
• Scan pathfinding graph on start/load of game
  
• Fixed bug that would prevent getting past the main loading screen
  
• Fix to structure and tree blocks that would get misaligned after taking damage

• Fixed issue where host player was incorrectly set which caused all sorts of errors
  
• Fixed issue with entity clean up which caused odd behavior
  
• Added height check safeguard to prevent entities from falling through world forever
  
• Fixed issue where Steam Networking didn’t respect max players

Steam Workshop

What’s Next?

NEW FEATURES

• Added Steam Workshop support for saving and loading creatures.
  
  • Show off your best creature creations by sharing them in the Workshop
    
  • Browse the Workshop to see what your fellow creators have made and get ideas for your own creations
    
  • Bring shared creations into your own games - edit them, add them to your zoo, or see whose creature is stronger in battle!
    
  • Save your favorite creatures to the Workshop in case you need to reincarnate them later
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  • Menu is accessible through the ‘Creative’ tab (sack icon) in the toolbox in Creative Mode, or by pressing the U key in any mode
    
  • Creatures can be saved via the interaction menu (E key) on the creature
  
  
  
  
  
• Added control mapping support in-game for better control over key bindings. Menu is in ‘Controls’ tab of the options menu.
  
• Removed launcher. Quality settings and resolution will be prompted on first game launch, and can also be set in options menu.
  
• Added Ansel support

BUG FIXES

• Fixed bug with water quality dropping in some cases
  
• Fixed colliders around desert ruins

Multiplayer and More on the Way!

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NEW FEATURES:

• Added advanced video options to allow fine tuning of performance
  
• “Nuke” item added to Creative Mode: clears out an entire section of land for easier building!

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Optimized game logic to run less often where possible: should see FPS improvement in areas with many creatures
  
• Made FPS more consistent by assembling/disassembling objects over many frames
  
• Optimizations to terrain streamer loading
  
• Reduced frequency of call to garbage collection which causes game to stagger
  
• Improved performance in heavy wooded areas by consolidation of tree colliders
  
• Added level of detail to terrain to decrease terrain detail for far off areas
  
• Changed default quality to beautiful
  
• Creature stats are now revealed for wild and tamed creatures when under the crosshair

• Added player stats to the inventory screen
  
• Tamed creatures now have popover UI indicators if they are hungry, injured badly, or sad
  
• Aggressive dogs near starting temple replaced with friendlier bouncing giraffes
  
• Damage reduced for player by 25% for all difficulties
  
• Drowning damage halved
  
• Added a bonus to melee range when riding with a saddle
  
• “Difficulty setting” message displayed after consecutive deaths
  
• “Too low to break” message displayed when trying to break something without the necessary tools
  
• Increased Poacher tent cooldown to 60 min
  
• Changed poacher armor and damage to be based off amount of relics player has obtained
  
• Fixed issue with poacher tent spawning that would spawn a tent every time a saved game was opened
  
• Changed mind control hat to be able to be knocked off without a direct hit if creature's health is 30% or lower
  
• Adjusted mouth animation chewing speeds for llama, cow, sheep
  
• Reanimated venus fly trap mouth
  
• Reworked animations for pig, spider, elephant, giraffe, horse, and lizard legs
  
• Improved creature neck animations
  
• Removed unused audio files to decrease game size
  
• Changed mill placement to work off of grid
  
• Changed mills to add foundations if placed on uneven ground
  
• Changed stairs to use a new mesh to improve walkability
  
• Reworked fences to fragment better when segments overlap
  
• Improved creature root motion to connect with ground better
  
• Fixed bugs and added safety checks to structures to avoid breaking save games
  
• Changed cooking to only accept logs and trunks as fuel
  
• Added messages to crafting when attempting to drag items to the slots
  
• Added ability to separate stacks of items in inventory: while holding a stack, RIGHT-CLICK to place one of the items in a slot (LEFT-CLICKing still places the whole stack)
  
• Added stucco bricks, stone bricks, glass panes, iron ingots, and smelting

• Turned down recipe resource requirements for structures
  
• Reduced armor crafting requirements
  
• Increased logs per trunk from 3 to 4
  
• Increased drop rates for vines and sap from trees
  
• Changed night sky to be brighter in biomes where it was pitch black
  
• Changed creature saddle riding to only lose control when a creature is sad or scared
  
• Allow petting and feeding a creature when riding it
  
• Added AI routines to run to and pick up a player for saddle riding by using the whistle or interaction menu

• Reduced creature rotation based off of speed and removed rotation of saddle to reduce nausea when riding
  
• Added creature edit to the interaction menu for cases when player does not have a lifeblock
  
• Halved energy burn rates of abilities for tamed creatures

BUG FIXES:

• Fix to pig and horse mouth animations that were not playing
  
• Fix to canceling treadmill related crafting queues
  
• Cactus can now be placed on tilled ground
  
• Fix to frozen creature error occurring when placing saddle and other objects on creatures
  
• Fix to allow damage to tamed creatures in Creative Mode
  
• Fix to root rotations in creature animation to improve visual fidelity
  
• Fix to allow legs to attach to the top of blocks
  
• Fix to gap with certain arm blocks
  
• Fix to rotations on eyes and mouth when root is a head
  
• Fix to errors in creature ink shooting code
  
• Fix to tamed creatures attacking new unfinished creature in build sphere
  
• Fix to failing to identify mills in areas with many colliders
  
• Fix to bad terrain rocks
  
• Fix to snake rapture creature's eye
  
• Creatures no longer pick up bombs with their mouth
  
• Fixed material on metal gate
  
• Fixed bug that allowed unlocking achievements when correct action was not performed
  
• Fixed issue where drag & drop with inventory would cause a click 2x
  
• Fixed a bug that caused plants to not spawn fruits
  
• Fixed a race condition that would occasionally clear a player's inventory on save
  
• Fix to carnivores being able to eat fruits off of plants
  
• Fixed issue with creature saddle riding that caused movement to go erratic
  
• Fixed issue where creature would look at player when riding
  
• Fixed minor bugs with death messages
  
• Fix to bug in Creative Mode where picking up a relic would add a limit to edit orb
  
• Fixed bugs in creature AI which caused creatures to turn aggressive when they should have been scared
  
• Fixed issue where legs did not respond to collisions with entities
  
• Fixed issue with creature AI that prevented creatures from forgetting a threat long after it was gone

Update: January 26th - CHKN v0.2.2a

• Fix to issues removing blocks from creatures without a life block in hand
  
• Fixed hovering and clipping issues for creatures without legs
  
• Fixed issues with torch and lantern properly connecting to walls
  
• Reduced food recipe requirements
  
• Additional minor optimizations
  
• Additional minor bug fixes

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Added terrain streaming to lower memory usage and increase frames per second
  
• The Render Distance setting is now automatically selected based off of system memory. (You can set it higher manually if it’s not to your liking once you load the game. Just be sure you’re over minimum specs, otherwise you risk crashing!)
  
• Launcher settings (Graphics Quality and Resolution) will now take priority over in-game settings
  
• Improved “Stay” command to make a creature stays put in an area until commanded to do something else
  
• Improved AI so creature will not move away as the player approaches to feed or pet it
  
• Added a “Cancel” command to the whistle, which will stop creatures from performing the current action
  
• Creatures that become untamed will no longer become aggressive immediately
  
• Buckets now display interaction text based off of crosshair's target
  
• Creature legs now animate backwards when walking backwards (no more moonwalking)
  
• Death messages added
  
• Default creature names added
  
• Optimizations to item network syncing
  
• Water and terrain culling added to increase performance
  
• The tutorial starter creature can no longer be untamed or damaged while in the tutorial temple
  
• Hoe tool degrades less quickly

BUG FIXES:

• Time spent on black screen during initial load significantly reduced
  
• Fix to creature necks not animating correctly
  
• Fix to creatures climbing trees
  
• Fix to creatures walking through fences
  
• Fix to invisible water trigger in temple
  
• Fix to allow riding even if a creature is commanded to use a treadmill
  
• Fix to bugs with multiple creatures using a treadmill that causes it to glitch out
  
• Allow beams to be seen on all LOD levels
  
• Fix to missing onboarding with the campfire
  
• Fixed negative colliders on mirrored lifeblocks
  
• Orb limit in creative mode is now unlimited as intended
  
• Disallowed save game names with invalid characters
  
• Fixes to save game corrupting bug with structures
  
• Fixes to structures not displaying the right visuals on load
  
• Fixes to structures not orientating correctly on load
  
• Fixes to the stucco roof collider fracturing neighboring blocks
  
• Fixes to not being able to pick up items with auto-pickup setting off
  
• Changes to release unused memory when a chunk unloads
  
• Fixes creature movement to slow down when approaching their target and slide less
  
• Fix to workshops returning too many logs when canceling queue
  
• Mill and treadmill animation/sounds now stop correctly when unloading
  
• Sap no longer gives maple seeds
  
• Cactus no longer edible
  
• Temporarily removed the ability to open games to multiplayer since it’s incomplete (Coming back in the next version when it’s finished and working!)

What’s New

Patch Notes

• Brand new environment: 5 unique biomes (tropical beach, forest, desert, swamp, volcanic) and points of interest to explore
  
• New wild creature combos, with unique “mini-bosses” to challenge
  
• New Adventure Mode intro experience (tutorial)
  
• 4 mysterious temples added across the map (look for the beams of light to investigate!)
  
• Magic eggs and lifeshaper relics added: unlock the ability to build more powerful creatures by finding the lifeshaper relics in Adventure Mode
  
• New creature stat system: Important stats are displayed on screen while you build a creature
  
• Creature-powered structures: craft building blocks and higher tiered items by putting your creatures to work
  
• New whistle command radial system with contextual commands
  
• First person hands, items, and animations for better immersion when using the first-person camera
  
• New contextual interactivity system: available actions change depending on what you’re pointing at with the crosshair
  
• Brand new UI/HUD throughout the game
  
• Environmental effects for each biome added
  
• Weather: relax on a rainy evening or find your way through the rolling fog
  
• New, completely rewritten creature animation system for improved performance and visuals
  
• AI completely rewritten for improved performance and more intelligent creatures
  
• New pathfinding implementation: allows creature to accurately transverse structures and uneven ground
  
• New tools added: like the club and hammer
  
• Player armor added: craft new armor to protect yourself in the wild
  
• All new food items added: like meatloaf, donuts, sushi and, of course, PIE
  
• Procedurally generated trees: different types of trees found in different biomes for environmental variety; also provide new types of tree blocks when chopped down
  
• New plants/foliage found around the island in different biomes
  
• Game difficulty setting added: Explore in peace or challenge yourself by giving your enemies the advantage. Choose from “easy”, “normal”, or “hard”. Creative Mode defaults to “peaceful”.

• Creatures now respect diet type: herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore; they will get sick if feed the wrong food type
  
• Creatures that have been commanded to attack another creature will no longer eat the lifeblocks of their vanquished foe
  
• Creatures will now automatically help break things: start chopping down a tree, for example, and your creature will come assist
  
• Creatures can now pick items up in their mouths: they’re helping!
  
• While building a creature, removed blocks no longer fall to the floor and need to be picked up; instead, blocks are magnetized to the player and picked up automatically
  
• Cooking now requires a fuel source (like some wood) and time for the item to cook
  
• Camp fire is now a low-level tool: can only cook low quality foods (get a furnace for higher quality cooking!)
  
• Creature lifeblocks and tree blocks drop rate has been reduced in Adventure Mode for survival progression balance
  
• Tamed creatures burn energy when using abilities
  
• Breakable objects now regenerate “health” if left alone for a period of time: for example, your walls will “heal” up soon after you stop a raid on your homestead
  
• Breakable objects now have a minimal attack value required to break them, and any damage that’s too weak will bounce off: for example, your fist doesn’t do enough damage to break an iron deposit; you’ll need to use a strong creature or craft a stronger tool
  
• Drag/drop added to inventory
  
• Improved flying speed
  
• Off-hand slot improvements: now easier to use items in your left hand
  
• World interactions reworked: now based on where the crosshair was placed when you first interacted to help prevent misclicks
  
• Explicit “Rotate Block” key added when building/place (R)
  
• Can't hurt tamed creatures while riding or if multiple valid hits
  
• Tooltip descriptions added to all items
  
• Partial controller support added and inputs cleaned up (NOTE: Only tested on Windows 10 with Xbox 360 controller so far. Please let us know if you test this out and have any feedback!)
  
• Lifeblock values adjusted for progression
  
• Structure block values adjusted for progression
  
• Item values adjusted for progression
  
• All new creature leg animations
  
• Smoother chunk loading
  
• Object pooling expanded to all objects in game to help improve chunk loads

• Sound fall-off values tweaked
  
• Tooltip now stays on screen near edges
  
• Floating structure blocks fixed
  
• Optimizations to many core systems

Known Issues

• For anyone on a computer with around 4GB of RAM (min specs), there will be some memory issues: lengthy black screen and slow loading at startup, and a lower framerate while playing. We recommend exiting any other big apps while you have CHKN running to help alleviate this. We’re looking into it!
  
• Creature collision detection is still in progress, meaning that sometimes creatures collide with objects in the world (walk through a huge boulder, for example).
  
• If you’re on a 32-bit OS, you may have noticed we increased the minimum requirements to 64-bit. This is temporary! We added a lot to this build and went over the limit, so we’re researching the best way to bring 32-bit back.
  
• You may notice a change to the multiplayer menus. We’re in the process of adding Steam peer-to-peer networking with lobby support for the next update, but it’s unfinished at the moment. We recommend avoiding multiplayer for now!

Tell Us What You Think

• Bug Reports: Submit bugs to this forum and we’ll take a look.
  
• Feedback: Let us know what you think about CHKN, or post your ideas and suggestions.
  
• Share: Tweet us @chkngame or upload your screenshots to Steam. We’d love to see what you create!

More to Come

Build/Release Status

Pre-Release Testing