The Genesis Project

Multiplayer fixes and additions

• Countless fixes for (multiplayer) saving and loading
  
• Reconnecting to a session in progress (both from the lobby screen and after a disconnect)
  
• Ready button in the lobby
  
• Duplicate aspects no longer break things
  
• Random seed is loaded and shared correctly, and already used for lobby randomness
  
• Client players can no longer get desynced (disabled on the host’s end) when entering a dungeon
  
• Consuming an item directly from the sylladex no longer breaks things
  
• Checkboxes for allow duplicate aspects/classes/classpects now work properly
  
  
  
  • Disallowing duplicate classpects now tries to give everyone their most liked instead of least liked classpect
    
  
  

Art, Items, and Houses

• Resprited 4 back hair pieces (15, 32, 37, 53)
  
• Added missing back hair dyes (2, 7, 11)
  
• Fixed 2 back hair half-dyes (6, 28)
  
• Added 62 new items
  
• Updated 1 mouth
  
• Updated 6 items
  
• Also fixed the colors on all smuppets
  
• Fixed a variety of recipes and fleshed out some missing links
  
• Completely revamped the house builder atheneum
  
• Added a dummy prototype item for Gamzee. oops!
  
• Fixed 1 animal
  
• Updated 3 animals
  
• Fixed the size of various animals
  
• Added 1 dead animal
  
• Updated 1 dead animal
  
• Updated all base houses
  
• Fixed Cat Hat and Scalemate Hood not hiding hair
  
• Tweaked Scarf description
  
• Removed the Electronic-tagged glasses from the character creator
  
• Fixed the filter mode and enabled read/write on all relevant sprites
  
• Fixed the filter mode on horses
  
• Fixed the size of Face Paint, Colored Paint, and the Hiveswap CD
  
• Deleted shrimple.png
  

Item and Alchemy fixes

• Ranged weapons correctly take into account accrual and buffs
  
• Dutton’s poetry book is now readable
  
• Items made through implicit alchemy can now have descriptions and prefabs
  
• Order (a || b vs b || a) no longer matters for alchemy
  
• Perfectly Generic Objects can still be punched but no longer be used in alchemy themselves
  
• Fixed a couple of cases where sprite-altering tags broke things
  
• Fix infinite punching exploit
  

New Chat Commands

• /gate, to enter a specific gate on the current land
  
• /sv-enter, a multiplayer-safe way to make a specific player enter
  
• /id, to get your player ID
  

House Building

• Floors can now be added adjacent to stairs and existing floor
  
• Revise tool now shows a button for rooms as well
  
• Bottom floor of apartment houses no longer has broken walls
  

Modding

• Adding to asset bundles is now supported
  
• Completely custom echeladders are possible again
  

Other

• Character sprites no longer sometimes have a strange rotation for a single frame
  
• Proper credits page with current and past contributors
  

Added

• Added 5 items
  
• Added 5 items to the character creator
  
• Added 4 recipes for items that were removed from the character creator in this patch
  
• Added 1 new icon
  

Changed

• Tweaked some item descriptions
  
• Changed the Battery, hAAmmer, and Jacob's Ladder to Lightning tag
  
• Updated Robe sprites and fixed layering
  
• Updated 3 items
  
• Updated and added some alchemy recipes
  
• Updated the contents of a book
  
• Updated the stats of some weapons (Cards!!)
  
• Updated the Smuppets (4 less Smuppets overall, but the quality is better!)
  
• Completely reworked the item list in the Atheneum
  

Fixed

• Fixed all hair colors
  
• Fixed Varsity Jackets back disappearing when running
  
• Fixed Axe of Life sprites having a ton of empty space
  
• Fixed Captain's Hat being blurry
  
• Fixed player symbol rendering over Overalls (and other pants)
  
• Fixed 1 fringe
  
• Fixed 1 back hair
  
• Fixed 3 item icons
  
• Fixed some incorrectly assigned Strifekinds (Golf Iron clubkind -> canekind)
  

Removed

• Removed 5 items from the character creator
  

• When someone goes offline, make sure their old client player still has someone building for them
  
• Having an empty hashmap modus no longer breaks saves
  
• The FRODJ and other alchemy variants of animals now work properly
  
• Ranged weapons now work properly in the Lich Queen's room
  
• Underlings in dungeons only get grist types associated with the land
  
• You can no longer alchemize air
  

• Added tooltips to atheneum items
  
• Finally fixed robot skin
  
• Fixed undershirts not appearing in the character creator
  
• Fixed implicit recipes not giving the equip sprites of modded items
  
• Colored tag now works for all clothing
  
• Mod items now appear with the right size in the character creator
  

• Told the profanity filter to relax a bit
  
• Mods can now add to the atheneum, character creator options and loading screen lines
  
• Fixed mod items not appearing right when they're made with an implicit recipe
  
• Picking a starting house that contains consorts or imps no longer breaks the game
  
• Invisible gremlins no longer break save files
  
• Visiting the lich queen no longer breaks save files
  
• Wearing electronic clothing no longer breaks save files
  

• Woke up the Lich Queen's underling minions
  
• Make the Lich Queen dungeon work correctly in multiplayer
  
• Fixed an issue with loading games where a consort has given you a quest
  
• Fixed an issue with loading games where you're in a dungeon
  
• Added back and fixed Heart's Fluctuate and Rage's Turmoil ability
  
• Make the "fight your guardian" quest correctly appear when the game starts
  
• For modding: if you add a dungeon to the Complete folder, it will now also still generate normal dungeons
  

• Fixed a bug that caused all lands to have nakodiles
  
• Custom shirt symbols no longer sometimes show up as '?'
  
• The house creator now lets you place more than one of the same item
  
• Consort shops now let you buy more than one of the same item
  
• The Witch and Maid of Space's abilities no longer leave the target slightly stronger after it wears off
  
• Fixed a bug from the previous patch that caused the loading screen to always get stuck if your character is (secretly) wearing perfectly generic objects