Hello There, Castaways! 🏝️

🏆 Event Winners

• 1 physical copy of Gnart Tigermoth (Earthlock comic);
  
• 1 physical copy of Clay Orchid and the Stormdog (Earthlock comic);
  
• 2 Ikonei Island Steam keys;
  
• The right to suggest 1 new emoji for the server. It can be Halloween/Holidays-themed, represent a specific game character/object/action, or whatever you'd like! It just needs to be Ikonei Island related.
  

🎉 Giveaway Winners

• Sporeo
  
• Telomina
  
• Wolfspectre
  

💙 Make Sure To Join Our Wholesome Community

Bug Fixes:

• 
  Companions of level 2 & 3 are now able to destroy resource nodes of level 2 & 3 respectively, allowing progression again. 
  
• 
  Maximum health increase provided from fixing shrines is no longer lost when loading a saved game.
  

Notes:

• 
  You will not need to start a new save if you have encountered these bugs - it should be fixed after reloading your previous save.
  
• 
  When loading a save for the first time after updating the game, you might be at 3 filled hearts. Eating food or Resting will refill the missing hearts.
  

Hello there, Castaways! 🏝️

📜 Rules

• You must take a screenshot alongside your pet companion(s) and submit it on the Discord channel #scrittershot-challenge. In its description, categorize it as [creative], or [wholesome], or [funny], as we will be awarding the funniest one, the most creative one, and the most wholesome one;
  
• You should submit the screenshot from the game as it is, without edits or hiding the UI;
  
• You are allowed to submit multiple screenshots, in more than one category. But you can only win in one of them;
  
• Feel free to react to the screenshots and show some love! Your reactions will help with the final judging. You can also talk about the submissions using threads;
  
• Send text messages through threads only (to keep the channel clean);
  
• The deadline is October 31st, 2 PM CST.
  

🔍 Judging

• Creativity, wholesomeness, and how fun it is, respectively for each category;
  
• Rules validation;
  
• Reactions to the submission piece.
  

🏆 Prizes

• 1 physical copy of Gnart Tigermoth (Earthlock comic);
  
• 1 physical copy of Clay Orchid and the Stormdog (Earthlock comic);
  
• 2 Ikonei Island Steam keys;
  
• The right to suggest 1 new emoji for the server. It can be Halloween/Holidays-themed, represent a specific game character/object/action, or whatever you'd like! It just needs to be Ikonei Island related.
  

📸 Happy Scrittershoting

Hello There, Castaways! 🏝️

Ikonei Island's First Major Update!

🐸 Huge Creature Pass

• Improved locomotion animations for all companions (Stormdog, Otterlot, Longhorn, Axepecker, and Bibi);
  
• Improved creature summoning and dismissing;
  
• Improved Hogbunny dismiss animation;
  
• Extended animations for playing with the creatures;
  
• Improved idle animation for Stormdog.
  

🏘️ Home Sweet Home

👩‍🌾 Easier Farming

• Seed Pods

  
  
  
  
  
  • Monsters now drop Seed Pods instead of Seeds, based on what region they’re in
    
  • These Seed Pods can be used to craft the different seeds that the enemies no longer drop
    
  • Petals refined in the Cutter now make Pollen Bags directly, no longer creating Pollen
    
  
  

• Plant Definitions

  
  
  
  
  
  • Uprooting a plant now gives the relevant Seed Pod back
    
  
  

🧰 Get Fishing & Digging

• Watering Can

  
  
  
  
  • Watering ability has had its radius reduced
    
  • Activate animation on water pump when refilling the Watering Can
    
  
  

• Fishing Nodes

  
  
  
  
  • Added more fishing nodes in multiple areas
    
  
  

✨ Tutorials, New Audio Options, Enhanced Inventory, & More!

💯 Quality of Life Improvements

• Improved flow at the beginning of the game
  
• Better player economy (balancing pass)
  
• Improved farming abilities (easier to tile, target, and otherwise tend to farm)
  
• “Add All” items action when interacting with construction alters and refineries
  
• Added “Drop Items” action from inventory
  
• Added tracking of work orders
  
• Sleeping in a bed enabled during daytime
  
• Workbench prompts and map markers disabled until the first shrine is fixed
  

🛋️ Decorations

• Added 11 more decorations to the various shops with an “Outdoor” theme
  
• Added animations for the 11 new decorations
  

👊Combat

• Monsters
  
  
  
  
  • Removed multiple monster spawners at the beginning of the game
    
  • All monsters have had their health reduced
    
  
  
• Weapons
  
  
  
  
  • Club area of effect damage has been increased
    
  • All weapons have had their damage increased
    
  
  

💬 NPCs

• Added an alternative speaking animation for the octi pilot, Milas Morgenshell
  

💎 Resource Gathering

• Wild Flowers
  
  
  
  • Uprooting Flowers now always give Petals
    
  • Uprooting Leaf Bush now always gives Leaves
    
  
  
• Amri Machines
  
  
  
  • Amri Machines now drop more loot, as well as Amri
    
  
  

🎒 Inventory

• Increased max inventory size from 56 to 70
  
• Increased starting inventory slots from 16 to 20
  
• Updated inventory menu, chest menu, and sell chest menu to be 10 slots wide
  
• Moved health bar and currency counter in the inventory menu to fill empty space
  
• Reduced max slots in Duffel Bag from 24 to 20
  
• Increased max slots in Tall Bag from 56 to 60
  
• Increased starting slots in Sell Chest from 24 to 30
  
• Increased amount of slots InventoryUpgrade pickup adds from 8 to 10
  
• Added 2 slots to the equipment bar
  
• Added keyboard mapping buttons for selecting slots 9 and 10 to the remapping menu
  

👀Visuals

• Improvements to various particle systems
  
• Creatures have VFX to indicate their mood change
  
• Made path towards longhorn more pronounced
  

📝GUI

• Tutorials added
  
  
  
  
  • Basics
    
  • Pirate Camps
    
  • Combat
    
  • Farming
    
  • Housing
    
  • Crafting
    
  • Resources
    
  • Creatures
    
  
  
• Added patch notes button to the main menu screen
  
• Added new icons for emotes, tools, and placeables
  
• Seeds now have their own category in the crafting menu
  
• Updated visuals keyboard input icons
  
• Scaled-down map icons slightly
  
• Added “thank you” message when submitting feedback
  
• Clicking outside an opened submenu in the main menu now closes the opened menu
  
• Added dropdown menu to audio settings
  
• Mouse sensitivity slider added
  
• Page indicator for equipment bar added
  

🎮 Input/Controller

• Space Bar no longer opens inventory
  
• Picking Up items moved to X on Controller, Right Mouse Button/F on Keyboard
  
• Tools, Weapon, and Combo moved to the Left Mouse Button.
  
• Players can now talk to statues and pick up items while having tool or weapon equipped
  
• Pollinate and Watering moved to the Left Mouse Button
  
• Tools and weapon usage moved to the Left Mouse Button
  
• Creature abilities moved to the Left Mouse Button
  
• Stomp Tile moved to Right Mouse Button / X
  
• Otterlot Fishing ability moved to Left Mouse Button / A
  
• Pick Up moved to Right Mouse Button / X
  
• "Cancel" moved to Spacebar
  

🎶 Audio

• Optimized music system with more dynamics, and changes between regions
  
• New Audio Silence system on the menu that lets players choose if the music will play constantly or with pauses in between while exploring
  
• New Explore Music for areas where the Shrines have yet to be repaired
  
• New Combat Music for areas where the Shrines have yet to be repaired
  
• New Misophonic Slider - Players can tone down snores, eating, and other foley sounds
  
• New sounds for all new placeable objects
  
• New creature sounds
  
• Navigating menu sounds updated
  

➕ Miscellaneous

• Player can now rotate the character in the inventory menu with the right stick
  
• General improvements to AI and pathfinding. (Enemies & Companions)
  

🐛 Bugs Fixes

• Fixed multiple areas where players could get stuck
  
• Fixed issue causing the player to be unable to craft the Pebbleput Pants
  
• Fixed typo in dialogue relating to the first Pirate Camp
  
• Plants will no longer block the ability to till the ground
  
• Various texture bug fixes
  
• Players can no longer spam-feed companions
  
• The knockback effect when attacking a resource node was only triggered sometimes
  
• Players can no longer be defeated while fast traveling
  
• Companions will no longer sometimes evolve when at max level
  
• Time can no longer be frozen after fixing the first shrine and then saving and loading
  
• House workbench markers no longer reappear on the map after being completed
  
• Hold to activate actions now properly update the hold progress circle when being activated
  
• The preview of the item being added to the workbench no longer gets stuck when cycling through many items
  
• Audio settings are now being saved
  
• Chest menu now says character name when trading with another player character
  
• Quests are now clickable with a mouse in the quest menu
  
• All buttons in the settings menu are now clickable with a mouse
  
• Clicking an item in the shop no longer purchases without displaying the description first
  

🔥 Ikonei Island Is Fully In Your Hands! And One Click Away:

💙 Thank You For All Your Support

General

Creatures

• 
  There’s now support for multiple active companions. Bring your whole squad with you! 
  
• 
  Companions can now be commanded to perform their actions. Bonding is no longer required, but still possible
  
• 
  Interacting with a companion moves the camera closer to the player
  
• 
  Creatures now have a “mood meter” which indicates how happy they are
  
• 
  Companions can now be nicknamed! Nicknames will appear over their heads
  
• 
  Creatures can now be fed, washed, and played with to increase their mood and experience bar
  
• 
  Improved locomotion animations for all companions (Stormdog, Otterlot, Longhorn, Axepecker and Bibi)
  
• 
  Improved creature summoning and dismissing
  
• 
  Improved Hogbunny dismiss animation
  
• 
  Extended animations for playing with creature
  
• 
  Improved idle animation for Stormdog
  

Player Housing

• 
  New player houses added!
  
  • 
    Cave
    
  • 
    Tree House
    

Farming

• 
  Tilling
  
  • 
    Easier to design farms as tilling preview should now feel more fluid and intuitive
    
  • 
    Angled tilling allows for more intricately designed farms.
    
  • 
    Tilled ground visual indicates plant water amount with darkened texture
    
• 
  Pollinating/Farming Time
  
  • 
    Pollinating plants using the Bibi and Pollen Bag yield crops immediately
    
• 
  Seed Pods
  
  • 
    Monsters now drop Seed Pods instead of Seeds, based on what region they’re in
    
  • 
    These Seed Pods can be used to craft the different seeds that the enemies no longer drop
    
  • 
    Petal refined in the Cutter now make Pollen Bags directly, no longer creating Pollen
    
• 
  Plant Definitions
  
  • 
    Uprooting a plant now gives the relevant Seed Pod back
    

Quality of Life Improvements

• 
  Improved flow in the beginning of the game
  
• 
  Better player economy (balancing pass)
  
• 
  Improved farming abilities (easier to tile, target, and otherwise tend to farm)
  
• 
  “Add All” items action when interacting with construction alters and refineries 
  
• 
  Added “Drop Items” action from inventory
  
• 
  Added tracking of work orders
  
• 
  Sleeping in a bed enabled during daytime
  
• 
  Workbench prompts and map markers disabled until the first shrine is fixed
  

Visuals

• 
  Improvements to various particle systems
  
• 
  Creatures have VFX to indicate their mood change
  
• 
  Made path towards longhorn more pronounced
  

Combat

• 
  Monsters
  
  • 
    Removed multiple monster spawners in the beginning of the game
    
  • 
    All monsters have had their health reduced
    
• 
  Weapons
  
  • 
    Club area of effect damage has been increased
    
  • 
    All weapons have had their damage increased
    

NPCs

• 
  Added an alternative speaking animation for the octi pilot, Milas Morgenshell
  

Inventory

• 
  Increased max inventory size from 56 to 70
  
• 
  Increased starting inventory slots from 16 to 20
  
• 
  Updated inventory menu, chest menu and sell chest menu to be 10 slots wide
  
• 
  Moved health bar and currency counter in the inventory menu to fill empty space
  
• 
  Reduced max slots in Duffel Bag from 24 to 20
  
• 
  Increased max slots in Tall Bag from 56 to 60
  
• 
  Increased starting slots in Sell Chest from 24 to 30
  
• 
  Increased amount of slots InventoryUpgrade pickup adds from 8 to 10
  
• 
  Added 2 slots to the equipment bar
  
• 
  Added keyboard mapping buttons for selecting slot 9 and 10 to the remapping menu
  

Resource Gathering

• 
  Wild Flowers
  
  • 
    Uprooting Flowers now always give Petals
    
  • 
    Uprooting Leaf Bush now always gives Leaves
    
• 
  Amri Machines
  
  • 
    Amri Machines now drop more loot, as well as Amri
    

Tools

• 
  New tool - Fishing Rod has been added!
  
• 
  New tool - Shovel has been added!
  
• 
  Watering Can
  
  • 
    Watering ability has had its radius reduced
    
  • 
    Activate animation on water pump when refilling the Watering Can
    
• 
  Fishing Nodes
  
  • 
    Added more fishing nodes in multiple areas
    

Decorations

• 
  Added 11 more decorations to the various shops with “Outdoor” theme
  
• 
  Added animations for the 11 new decorations
  

GUI

• 
  Tutorials added
  
  • 
    Basics
    
  • 
    Pirate Camps
    
  • 
    Combat
    
  • 
    Farming
    
  • 
    Housing
    
  • 
    Crafting
    
  • 
    Resources
    
  • 
    Creatures
    
• 
  Added patch notes button to main menu screen
  
• 
  Added new icons for emotes, tools and placeables
  
• 
  Seeds now have their own category in the crafting menu
  
• 
  Updated visuals keyboard input icons
  
• 
  Scaled down map icons slightly
  
• 
  Added “thank you” message when submitting feedback
  
• 
  Clicking outside an opened submenu in the main menu now closes the opened menu
  
• 
  Added dropdown menu to audio settings
  
• 
  Mouse sensitivity slider added
  
• 
  Page indicator for equipment bar added
  

Input/Controller

• 
  Space Bar no longer opens inventory
  
• 
  Picking Up items moved to X on Controller, Right Mouse Button/F on Keyboard
  
• 
  Tools, Weapon, and Combo moved to the Left Mouse Button.
  
• 
  Players can now talk to statues and pick up items while having tool or weapon equipped
  
• 
  Pollinate and Watering moved to the Left Mouse Button
  
• 
  Tools and weapon usage moved to the Left Mouse Button
  
• 
  Creature abilities moved to the Left Mouse Button
  
• 
  Stomp Tile moved to Right Mouse Button / X
  
• 
  Otterlot Fishing ability moved to Left Mouse Button / A
  
• 
  Pick Up moved to Right Mouse Button / X
  
• 
  "Cancel" moved to Spacebar
  

Audio

• 
  Optimized music system with more dynamics, and changes between regions
  
• 
  New Audio Silence system on the menu that lets players choose if the music will play constantly or with pauses in between while exploring
  
• 
  New Explore Music for areas where the Shrines have yet to be repaired
  
• 
  New Combat Music for areas where the Shrines have yet to be repaired
  
• 
  New Misophonic Slider - Players can tone down snores, eating and other foley sounds
  
• 
  New sounds for all new placeable objects
  
• 
  New creature sounds
  
• 
  Navigating menu sounds updated
  

Miscellaneous

• 
  Player can now rotate the character in the inventory menu with the right stick
  
• 
  General improvements to AI and pathfinding (Enemies & Companions)
  

Bugs Fixes

• 
  Fixed multiple areas where players could get stuck
  
• 
  Fixed issue causing the player to be unable to craft the Pebbleput Pants
  
• 
  Fixed typo in dialogue relating to the first Pirate Camp
  
• 
  Plants will no longer block the ability to till ground
  
• 
  Various texture bug fixes
  
• 
  Players can no longer spam-feed companions
  
• 
  The knockback effect when attacking a resource node was only triggered sometimes
  
• 
  Players can no longer be defeated while fast traveling
  
• 
  Companions will no longer sometimes evolve when at max level
  
• 
  Time can no longer be frozen after fixing the first shrine and then saving and loading
  
• 
  House workbench markers no longer reappear on the map after being completed
  
• 
  Hold to activate actions now properly update the hold progress circle when being activated
  
• 
  The preview of the item being added to workbench no longer get stuck when cycling through many items
  
• 
  Audio settings are now being saved
  
• 
  Chest menu now says character name when trading with another player character
  
• 
  Quests are now clickable with mouse in the quest menu
  
• 
  All buttons in settings menu are now clickable with mouse
  
• 
  Clicking an item in the shop no longer purchases without displaying the description first
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with large save files causing long load times and potential crashes when saving.
  
  
  
  • Save files experiencing this issue will be fixed after the first Load & Save on the new patch version.
    
  • Depending on the size of the save file and computer hardware, the old file may take up to several minutes to load the first time.
    
  
  
• Fixed issue that could cause a crash when starting or loading a game, or at the end of the first cutscene.
  
  
  • Error message if any: (LowLevelFatalError [File:Unknown] [Line:258])
    
  
  

Hello There, Castaways! 🏝️

What Is Coming Up Based On Your Feedback 💙

• Inventory freedom! You will have more inventory space and easier ways to deal with a full inventory;
  
• Lost in the beginning? We've got you! We will provide additional guidance in the tutorial sections of the game;
  
• No more donating the items at altars one at a time. Construction altar interactions will be more streamlined and simple!
  
• And multiplayer coming sooner than you think! Stay tuned ;)
  

Make Sure To Join Our Wholesome Community 💙

Hello there, Castaways! 🏝️

Gamescom? 🎮

The Award 🏅

Stay Tuned 👀

Hello There, Castaways! 🏝️

Latest Features 🆕

• Portable Player Housing - Place your house wherever you want on the island! 🏡
  
• Optimization for Mouse/Keyboard 🖱️
  
• New Crushing Weapons and Combat Features - Get Crackin’ 💥
  
• Quality of Life Improvements ✨
  

Make Sure To Join Our Wholesome Community 💙

Hello there, Castaways! 🏝️

How to get into the hunt 🐸

1. Join our Discord server;
   
2. Go to the #announcements channel, (1) get the "Critter Fren" role, (2) your initial creature on the reactions, and (3) keep an eye on the channel! Beginning today until this Wednesday, this is where we will let you know when to start looking for the creatures (there's no fixed time!);
   
3. Saw the notification? Go! Start looking for animals/creatures emojis and frog emojis throughout the server:
   
   
   
   1. On channels names and descriptions;
      
   2. On old messages;
      
   3. And on users' statuses and usernames.
   
   (keep in mind that tweet notifications don't count)
   
4. Take screenshots of your findings and send them on the channel #📸・your-screenshots (note: do it as fast as you can, because they will be validated on a "first come, first served" basis!);
   
5. Use frogs to level up your pet friends! All of them start at level 0. Conversion table:
   
   [table equalcells="1"]
   [tr]
   [th]Level[/th]
   [th]Required frogs[/th]
   [/tr]
   [tr]
   [td]Lvl 1[/td]
   [td]1 frog[/td]
   [/tr]
   [tr]
   [td]Lvl 2[/td]
   [td]+2 frogs[/td]
   [/tr]
   [tr]
   [td]...[/td]
   [td]...[/td]
   [/tr]
   [tr]
   [td]Lvl X[/td]
   [td]+X*frogs[/td]
   [/tr]
   [/table]
   (example: if you got 3 frogs, the maximum level you can reach with a critter is 2, because you use 1 frog to reach level 1 and the 2 other frogs to reach level 2)
   
6. And keep us posted about your progression! Fill out the following template and send it by midnight CST every day of the event on the #🆙・your-progression channel.
   
   
   
   <*> [Animal/creature emoji with the highest level]: [level]
   <*> Total creatures count: [number]
   <*> Total frogs count: [number]

Rules 📜

• Participants must follow all the steps described above;
  
• Screenshots sent before the start announcement will be disqualified, as well as the participant who sent them;
  
• In case there's a draw on the time a certain screenshot is sent, the server's Community Manager will resolve it by rolling a virtual die;
  
• Screenshots and progression messages sent after midnight CST won't be considered.

Prizes 🏆

• Highest level critter category:
  
  
  1. First place: 2 Ikonei Island keys
     
  2. Second place: 1 Ikonei Island key
     
  3. Third place: 1 Ikonei Island key
  
  
• Highest number of critters found category:
  
  
  1. First place: 2 Ikonei Island keys
     
  2. Second place: 1 Ikonei Island key
     
  3. Third place: 1 Ikonei Island key

Good luck ✨