Corestone
Hydroneer
The new resource coming in 2.2...
2.1.3 Patch to fix some issues.
- Items that leave the bounds of the worlds will now return to their last dropped location.
- Bucket and Pans no longer cause items simulating physics to fly away if they're hit when the Bucket/Pan is picked up.
- Fixed issues with save file corruptions.
- Removed minor issue with stores being functional with no coins in the tray after they've been removed.
- Plant pots no longer resize randomly and their plants are now attached to the pots as intended.
Patch 2.1.2 [Vehicle overhaul + Bug fixes]
We've compiled our final patch for this year. This one includes a full vehicle overhaul as well as some much needed bug fixes.
Happy Holidays!
Full Patch Notes:
2.1.2 Patch
21 December 2022
--- Fixes
- Removed the issue where a small amount of players would have their save file completely empty while loading.
- Removed rounding issue when completing soup tasks.
- Hydro Cropper now properly saves its contents.
- Various sound fixes, water sounds are now appropriately in their correct volume level switchers.
- Soup values are now appropriate to their contents.
- Translation fixes for some store items.
- Skipping time in screenshot camera will no longer grow plants faster, but this feature will still work with the hourglass.
- Subtitle text now correctly appears in all languages with unique letters.
- Multiple currency types in a store no longer delete the un-used currency.
- Carrots now spawn slightly higher than before.
- Corn maximum scale size reduced.
- Carrots no longer roll around.
- Seed bags will no longer change size.
--- Changes
- Overhauled vehicles completely.
Patch 2.1.1 [Bug fixes, Player Suggestions]
TL;DR
We've been listening to player feedback over the weekend since the 2.1 launch and have applied some changes as well as fixes to this update, the biggest changes being:
- Rebalances to make farming slightly more rewarding.
- Cut veg can be added to a soup pot after the soup has been created.
- Seed bags can be stacked in store to make multi-purchasing easier.
- Soup contents now displays in the soup's description box.
Thanks everyone for your feedback on this update! We hope you're enjoying it :) If you are, please consider leaving us a steam review, it really helps us out.
Full patch notes:
2.1.1 Patch
13 December 2022
--- Fixes
- Request notes are no longer removed when the save is reloaded, the note for 'grandmaMax' will no longer appear.
- Items on pallet will no longer appear red after placing a pallet.
- Soup bowl weight now displays correctly when on scales.
- Certain items in the truck no longer cause the truck to fly off.
- Emeralds will now move along conveyor belts easier and will not be stuck on the edge of the gem compressor.
- Cooking pot will now always heat up when placed on the stove.
- Cut vegetables will now stack everytime they make contact, instead of if the bigger is dropped onto the smaller stack.
- Carrots will no longer clog on the seed mill.
- NPCs will no longer 'steal' items when accidentally handing them the item.
- Gem Compressor sounds no longer playing globally.
- When picking up dirt it'll no longer be added to a bucket if its in between the player.
- Soup sounds no longer playing globally.
- Fixed minor issue with collisions in the world stone stairs.
- Changed Veg Stacker description issue.
- Minor light fix on the Hydro Cropper.
--- Changes
- MAJOR CHANGE: Cut Veg can now be added into a soup pot after the soup has been created.
- Soup descriptions now display the contents of that soup.
- Increased the value of vegetables, cut vegetables, and soup (for both tasks and selling).
- Seed bags can now be stacked in the store.
- Quest markers on the map are now easier to see.
- Ember Cradle store info board no longer has collision.
- NPCs no longer hang around the area dedicated to the mod shop.
- Reduced the largest size Cut Brocolli can be to prevent them not fitting inside the cooking pot.
- Cropper collision updated to prevent the player from walking inside.
- Cropper collision update to prevent objects colliding with the step on the side.
- Grangefield equipment store now sells scales.
- Logic Lamp light size increased back to it's size before the update.
Farming Season is here!
A quick look into the update:
- Grow crops, harvest them, cook vegetables into soup, and gain a special new currency to spend in the new town: Farming Guild Tokens!
- NPCs are added to the world, they request soup, which can be made from growing crops and harvesting them. This system will be expanded upon in the next update to include mining related quests!
- Three new vehicles!
- New town: Grangefield - filled with lots of stores!
- Lots of optimisations / fixes.
- Gem Compressor rework.
- Lots more!!
Watch the dev vlog here:
Full patch notes:
2.1 Farming Season Update
9 December 2022
--- New Features
- MAJOR FARMING UPDATE
- A new town has been established filled with new stores.
- NPCs now inhabit the world of Hydroneer. They'll occasionally give out tasks for soup in return for Farming Guild Tokens.
- Grocer stores are located next to jewellers. Sell your vegetables and fish to them!
- Farming mechanics. Grow your own vegetables to turn into soup for villagers or sell at the grocer. Start by purchasing some seedbags and purchase more by completing tasks.
- Cooking mechanics. Cook vegetables into different combinations of soup!
- Lots of new items related to cooking and farming to purchase.
- New store type: Purchase items exclusively with Farming Guild Tokens! (Currency acquired by completing tasks, NOT MICROTRANSACTIONS!!)
- New buildset: Greenhouse. Purchased with Farming Guild Tokens, these new glassy pieces make fantastic greenhouses.
- Hydro Quad! A small quick vehicle with limited storage space has been added to the vehicle store.
- Hydro Roller. The perfect vehicle for levelling ground quickly. Available now in the vehicle store.
- Hydro Cropper - Farming utility vehicle used to harvest and replant crops.
- BEEP BEEP. Vehicles now have horns!
- Vehicles now have their tooltips shown while they're being driven.
- Tutorial board in Ember Cradle store to explain how purchasing items works.
- Fish Bucket which exclusively stores fish.
- New languages: Norwegian, Swedish, Danish.
--- Fixes
- Major vehicle optimisation.
- Logic Lamp no longer displays the incorrect store price.
- Removed harvester issue which causes durability to drop to -0 instead of 0, breaking some logic repair circuits.
- Greatly decreased the chance that tiny specs of dirt will appear when digging.
- Rotating an item while precision placing now has the ability for reverse directional rotation by holding Ctrl.
- Placing an item no longer sometimes makes the item blue/red after its been placed down.
- Updated old tool-tip for spanner, mentioned items that are no longer in the game.
--- Changes
- Major Gem Compressor rework. The item now compresses gems as they enter the machine if its turned on.
- Various new sound effects.
- Retextured lots of buildings throughout the game.
- Construction Hammer no longer plays animation if it cannot be used.
- Smelter and Logic Smelter no longer accepts resources that are different to the current smelted resource.
- Completely reworked the cave with visual improvements.
- Raised the brightness at night time/in shadows.
- Tools that can split items (pickaxe/saw/cooking knife) now have item badges in the description box as well as the ability to split more items.
- Creative Wand can now destroy vehicles.
- Increased dirt chunk max scale size.
- Temporarily removed Conveyor Shredder hooks from stores as they do not currently have any use. Will be added back in for 2.2!
2.1 FARMING SEASON Update Trailer! Coming December 9th 2022
[Dev Vlog] Take a look at NPCs (and other stuff) we're putting into 2.1!
[Dev Vlog] Vehicles we're adding to 2.1 Farming Update.
[Dev Vlog] Hydroneer FARMING SEASON Update - What's going to be in it?
2.0.8 Mini patch
- Removed issue where spanner hurlers would not hit their targets.
- Improved palette storage on trucks.
- Various minor optimisations.
--- Changes
- Added Conveyor Splitter Alt and Conveyor Merger Hook into the Icehelm store.