• Anima cost for leveling is now exponential. You will level up faster at the beginning, but slower later on.
  
• Metamorphosis levels and species' Maximum levels have been adjusted to compensate for the change in Anima costs
  
• Fixed several bugs and crashes reported by playtesters. Thanks to everyone who has submitted reports!
  

Alpha 3 Patch Notes

• Added all-new Events system. Random events can occur between waves which have a variety of effects impacting creatures and growths, or even adding optional secondary objectives
  
• Added Storm Spirits, a new spirit type that can be applied to any friendly creature or growth, giving knockback and stun effects.
  
• Added Rabbit species with 2 metamorphoses: Jackalope and Bunniloo
  
• Added Sheep species with 2 metamorphoses: Ram and Goldhorn
  
• Added Stormbud species
  
• Added new Minor Blessings for each Chrysalis
  
• The amount of time between each wave now decreases by 1 minute after each wave in a particular level
  
• Multiple bosses now spawn on the final level
  
• The number of enemy portals that spawn during waves increases for each consecutive wave in a particular level
  
• Ecos are now loaded from data files rather than being hard coded, allowing modders to add new Ecos
  
• Flame Pixie is now a permanent boon
  
• Stonequake does less damage but has a longer stun duration
  
• Solitaire flowers now have piercing shots that ignore the enemy's Defense stat
  
• Tick rate decreased and damage increased for poison and burn effects
  
• Arachnids starting Health now 25, down from 30
  
• Frog starting Health now 26, up from 20
  
• Sticky Lick cooldown down to 0.8 from 1.0
  
• Fiery Heart damage boost increased to 3 (from 2)
  
• Increased Chrysalis of Soleria starting health from 125 to 150
  
• Increased the Health and Defense gain of Strong Roots from 50% to 60%
  
• Increased the duration of damage immunity from Last Stand to 10 seconds (from 8), but increased the cooldown to 60 seconds (from 30 seconds)
  
• Lowered bonus Sylva from Chrysalis of Veridia to 30 from 50
  
• Certain abilities like Dash no longer have an animation delay before the creature begins moving again
  
• Lowered 1st metamorphosis level requirement for frogs and arachnids to 3 (down from 4)
  
• Improved jump animation
  
• Added a visual indication when effects like stun, freeze, poison, etc. are resisted
  
• Various particle animations improved
  
• Starting locations can be within a broader area now, not always close to the center of the level
  
• Creatures will no longer appear submerged in water while jumping out of water
  
• Added more ability AI - mutated enemy creatures will use more of their abilities during combat
  
• Added Range stat to ability tooltip UI
  
• "Hitched" entities such as Forest Pixies, Frost Orbs, etc. now show up in the list of Passive effects for creatures and growths
  
• Items behind large sprites are no longer blocked from being selected
  
• Sunbeams can no longer heal the Chrysalis
  
• Fixed bugs with target outline UI
  
• Fixed a UI bug where passive effect icons were shown in the wrong place on the Creature screen
  
• Fixed a bug where an enemy's health bar would not follow them while jumping
  
• Fixed a bug in the mutation system that prevented certain combinations of species from occurring
  
• Fixed a pathfinding bug when navigating over long distances
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed application of spirits to creature homes
  
• Fixed crash when loading a saved game containing eggs anywhere on the map
  
• Mac version now compatible with older MacOS versions going back to 10.12
  

Alpha 3 Patch Notes

• Added all-new Events system. Random events can occur between waves which have a variety of effects impacting creatures and growths, or even adding optional secondary objectives
  
• Added Storm Spirits, a new spirit type that can be applied to any friendly creature or growth, giving knockback and stun effects.
  
• Added Rabbit species with 2 metamorphoses: Jackalope and Bunniloo
  
• Added Sheep species with 2 metamorphoses: Ram and Goldhorn
  
• Added Stormbud species
  
• Added new Minor Blessings for each Chrysalis
  
• The amount of time between each wave now decreases by 1 minute after each wave in a particular level
  
• Multiple bosses now spawn on the final level
  
• The number of enemy portals that spawn during waves increases for each consecutive wave in a particular level
  
• Ecos are now loaded from data files rather than being hard coded, allowing modders to add new Ecos
  
• Flame Pixie is now a permanent boon
  
• Stonequake does less damage but has a longer stun duration
  
• Solitaire flowers now have piercing shots that ignore the enemy's Defense stat
  
• Tick rate decreased and damage increased for poison and burn effects
  
• Arachnids starting Health now 25, down from 30
  
• Frog starting Health now 26, up from 20
  
• Sticky Lick cooldown down to 0.8 from 1.0
  
• Fiery Heart damage boost increased to 3 (from 2)
  
• Increased Chrysalis of Soleria starting health from 125 to 150
  
• Increased the Health and Defense gain of Strong Roots from 50% to 60%
  
• Increased the duration of damage immunity from Last Stand to 10 seconds (from 8), but increased the cooldown to 60 seconds (from 30 seconds)
  
• Lowered bonus Sylva from Chrysalis of Veridia to 30 from 50
  
• Certain abilities like Dash no longer have an animation delay before the creature begins moving again
  
• Lowered 1st metamorphosis level requirement for frogs and arachnids to 3 (down from 4)
  
• Improved jump animation
  
• Added a visual indication when effects like stun, freeze, poison, etc. are resisted
  
• Various particle animations improved
  
• Starting locations can be within a broader area now, not always close to the center of the level
  
• Creatures will no longer appear submerged in water while jumping out of water
  
• Added more ability AI - mutated enemy creatures will use more of their abilities during combat
  
• Added Range stat to ability tooltip UI
  
• "Hitched" entities such as Forest Pixies, Frost Orbs, etc. now show up in the list of Passive effects for creatures and growths
  
• Items behind large sprites are no longer blocked from being selected
  
• Sunbeams can no longer heal the Chrysalis
  
• Fixed bugs with target outline UI
  
• Fixed a UI bug where passive effect icons were shown in the wrong place on the Creature screen
  
• Fixed a bug where an enemy's health bar would not follow them while jumping
  
• Fixed a bug in the mutation system that prevented certain combinations of species from occurring
  
• Fixed a pathfinding bug when navigating over long distances
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed application of spirits to creature homes
  
• Fixed crash when loading a saved game containing eggs anywhere on the map
  
• Mac version now compatible with older MacOS versions going back to 10.12
  

• Linux and Mac builds now available for playtesting!
  
• Added Sun Spirits
  
• Added Sunbud species with Sun Spring home
  
• Added new crystal metamorphoses: Piercing Crystal and Empowering Crystal
  
• Added new shroom metamorphosis: Toadstool
  
• Added new boons: Lifeblood, Natural Immunity, Natural Agility
  
• Spirit elementals can no longer cross-mutate with each other (only with non-elemental species)
  
• Non-mutated Spirit elementals can only spawn from their respective homes (Fire Spring, Frost Spring, etc.)
  
• Previously every level had rivers, now some will not
  
• Crawlers are slightly faster
  
• Rivers no longer lead far away toward the edge of the map, away from main level areas
  
• Jump and teleport abilities clear the player's previous target so they don't immediately start pathing back toward it when trying to escape
  
• Unlockable growths can't be attacked and killed while the player is unlocking them
  
• Logo/header redesign
  
• Several bug fixes and stability improvements
  
• Special thanks to ghostlyhydra456 for finding and reporting many bugs in Alpha 1. Check out ghostlyhydra's YouTube channel!