why mode is now 20% easier, but still 25% harder than hard mode
easy:1, normal:2, hard:4, why:6->5
new community map unchartedCave by 3xionDev!
Newtons 1st law 66->88% defense when moving fast
Newtons 2nd law 66->88% damage when moving fast
CIWS energy 20->18 per shot
rupture disables reel and tokamak
new community level shipwreck by 3xionDev
grappling hook
tech: reel - increase block damage 400%, generate 30 energy after hooking blocks
added tokamak to grappling hook
updated rope graphics
added input.up to adjust positioning while hook is attached
added images for CIWS, rupture, autonomous defense
aerostat: 25->15% reduced damage on ground
rupture unlocks explosive tech
rupture destroys blocks
autonomous defense renamed to CIWS
field emitter 6->4 base energy regen
tech: autonomous defense - harpoon tech that fires harpoons after taking damage
degenerate matter: 75->85% defense while field is active
neutronium: 90->95% defense while field is active
unified field theory no longer has field emitter as an option
grappling hook
added coupling effect - 4% extra ammo per coupling
doesn't destroy blocks, instead the player grabs blocks
doesn't automatically retract after hitting power ups
improved momentum conservation on yank and catching blocks, power ups
removed accidental 55% defense for grapple field
tech (no images yet)
autonomous defense - fire harpoons at nearby mobs
rupture - explosion on impact with map, block, mob
negative mass field has horizontal block motion by default
fixed tech sorting by "allowed tech" in experiment mode
new mob type: hopMother - hoppers that drop eggs that explode on contact and after several seconds they hatch into baby hoppers
regular hopper mobs have more life and more damage
a few bug fixes
missile Bot: +10% bigger explosions, +10% damage, +7% fire rate
plasma Bot: +40% damage, and drains 2% less energy
1st ionization energy: 8->11 energy per heal
mass-energy: defense reduction factor 0.13->0.33
neutron bomb: +25% damage
non-renewables: 78->88% damage
junk DNA: applies to all damage, not just spores
pseudoscience: adds (1-4)->(1-3) JUNK to tech pool per free research
futures exchange: 4.1->4.3 duplication per cancel
default skin has slightly more narrow legs
added ammo to gun descriptions
new community level: dojo by weird_pusheen
sound-bot: makes phonon waves
updated tech
drone repair -> von Neumann probe - if a drones ends near a block it will use that block to repair
quantum eraser -> metamaterial absorber: for each mob left alive after you exit a level there is a 17% chance to spawn a power up
uncertainty principle: extended to super balls
aperture: camera zooms in and out along with the skin animation
balanced tech:
cordyceps: zombies are much smarter, faster, do more damage, and last longer
negative entropy -> self-assembly: 1 heal per 33->25% missing health on each new level
renormalization: 44 -> 46% and +3% JUNK tech to pool
parasitism: 60 -> 83% damage
non-renewables: 67 -> 78% damage
ground state: 200 -> 266 max energy
dark patterns: 17 -> 22% damage and JUNK
eternalism: 30 -> 24% damage
stimulated emission 15 -> 17% duplication
nitinol 30 -> 22% defense
bug fixes
subway
start in an empty station
station exits are blocked by a gate that opens when you press a button
level exit spawns after you clear 4 stations
added 2 new stations (7 possible stations)
laser-bots lasers wiggle as it aims at the target
this is a nerf to iridescence and it looks cool
bug fixes
new community level cantilever
extended tech sorting to experiment
acetone peroxide does 40->33% more explosion harm to player
fleas can do up to 30% more damage before they despawn
pause menu can sort tech by keywords
tech: mechatronics - randomly add +(7 to 13)% damage
a few new images
bug fixes
cherenkov radiation damage bug fixed it does much more damage and matches the description
level: subway
replaces gauntlet just before the final boss
gauntlet moved to community map pool
subway todo:
add a few more stations
balance difficulty
find bugs
surface plasmons does 50% more damage
elasticity renamed nitinol because I bought some nitinol wire and it's neat
entanglement power up no longer shows guns or fields you already have
disabled minimal HUD for training levels
reaction inhibitor 12->11% mob max health reduction
spawn.bodyRect() now can add blocks mid level without any extra code
I think I found all the bugs this causes, but let me know if any blocks added mid game aren't colliding
community map - clock update:
visual overhaul,live lighting, remove pendulum overlap, move with pendulum if you stand in it, debris, trap exit only opens after completing the fight, moving elements now freeze while using time dilation
setting - minimal HUD
remove: defense bar, damage bar, tech, in game console
improved text clarity on coupling
removed tech decoupling
added cloaking and sneak attack graphics
also, the 50% defense when cloaked is now clear from the defense bar
ternary 44->83% damage but requires current gun to have ammo/3 (was any gun)
wormhole invariant: uses much less energy to pause time
standing wave has less recoil when blocking
new images
bug fixes
mob damage difficulty setting is lower
recycling now flashes green when it heals
merged cancel and research bars for single column selection
added some dark grey borders for no images selection mode
new images with midJourney V5
spores, pilot wave, standing wave
bug fixes
community map clock by Cornbread 2100
health bar is now green
added a damage bar
(I'll probably add a setting to disable this next patch)
wave gun has -15% ammo
tech phonon has +25% ammo, and +10% damage
JUNK tech stubs can now wall climb
tech: aerostat - +88% damage off the ground, but -22% damage on the ground
negative mass field required
tetherBoss now has beetle babies, and immunity
skins have a unique orb for their description card
and some new images
cloaking field has a new graphic for sneak attack on the cross hairs
new community map yingYang by Richard0820
bug fixes
tech: elasticity - skin, does "crouch landings" a tiny bit more
jump and move faster, +15% defense
(replaces squirrel cage rotor)
tech: diaphragm - skin, defense cycles between -33% and +100%
requires aperture
tungsten carbide 150->200 maximum health
but now does "crouch landings" a more
Zectron damage 80->100% and it does a bit less harm to player
flip-flop, relay switch are no longer skins
pause brings up the most recent in game console message
in game console no longer fades out it just instantly goes on and off
bug fixes
some tech come with a skin - but only 1 at a time
tech aperture - skin, damage cycles between -25% and +125%
tungsten carbide - skin, +100->150 max health
mass-energy equivalence - skin, gets a bit more benefit from defense
CPT symmetry - skin, costs a bit less energy
flip-flop, and relay switch and a few JUNK tech are also skins
some new images
bug fixes
new level: lock
it's a work in progress
I'm looking for feedback:
anything confusing?
combat too hard/easy?
it will probably feel hard because you don't know the map yet
images are now hidden by default for new players
time dilation 18->15 energy/s
bug fixes:
extended CSS media rules and power up selection code to entanglement
tech: RPG - gains the rocket jumping effects from electric armor
eternalism no longer makes tech options have 50% opacity when choosing
some new images for cloaking tech
and some images were made brighter
bug fixes
safari media rules css fixed
tech: repeater - shotgun gets another shot, and a longer fire delay
shotgun cross hairs show when fire is on cooldown
keys 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0,-,= switch to a gun in your inventory
Nerfed blinkBoss health and speed
sneaker mobs are immune to harm for one cycles after vanishing
experiment button new style
new images for energy, bots
bug fixes
card images and text scale based on browser width for smaller screens
tech Zectron - super ball can damage you, but they do more damage to mobs
superBall bullets are converted to run off generic b.superBall()
sneakers - after taking damage if sneakers are low on life they teleport to a random point from the player's history and they sneak attack again
sneakBoss - a large sneaker that can hide several times before it dies
bug fixes
card font is 10% smaller with a bit more padding on the edges
background is darker on power up selection
css border added to research and cancel buttons
JUNK images now timeout if you don't download the image in under 1 sec
and it will not even try to download an image above 500KB
and it will try a different random image if it's first attempt is too big
(gotta protect our friends with slow internet)
finalBoss
mine mode comes in waves
orbiters mode comes in waves, and they spawn at a radius that intersects the player
several on new level tech effects now also run on each new final Boss phase
gun stuff, many worlds, negative entropy heal spawns
perfect diamagnetism slow fall is much strong, but works better when angled like a parachute
added images to tech, field, gun cards (enable this in settings)
in progress - not all images are generated yet
images are generated by me using midJourney plus significant post processing
random research power ups are 20% more common per level
global difficulty balance: player takes a bit less damage
mutualism: 0.5->1 borrowed health for 250->300% more spore damage
harpoon can still fire when out of energy, but slower
harpoon fire cooldown no longer triggers when the harpoon returns
it's just a flat 2/3 of a second after you Fire
improved fire rate now allows you to fire many harpoons at once until you run out of energy
default harpoon rope is a bit longer
several bug fixes and undocumented changes I forgot to list
harpoon
default fire rate is 10% higher
default harpoon range 15% higher
railgun
tech: Bitter electromagnet - 33% slower charge time for railgun, 100% more density and damage
area effect damage is increased 20%, scales with bitter electromagnet and total charge
charging longer increases harpoon velocity/damage by up to 30%
contributions to charge time are more uniform between:
crouching, fire rate, Bitter electromagnet, and capacitor bank
auto aims no longer disabled on crouch
emergence 2->1 extra choice, and +8% damage, and no added JUNK anymore
cache 16->15x ammo
many-worlds 1->0 research to enter an alternate reality on each new level
finalBoss
health decays a bit faster
spawns 6 mobs at each health threshold
spawns from the different modes are reduced
boss laser damage is 25% reduced
hoppers spawn from the slime tunnel
JUNKtech: random - gives random +damage
bug fixes
plasma-bot does 15% more damage, but costs 2 research
fault tolerance 4->5 forever drones, but costs 2 research
surfactant 2->3 foam bots, but costs 2 research
missile-bot costs 1 research
shaped charge 4->3 research cost
renormalization 40->44% chance to refund research
exciton 18->16% chance to spawn
ground state 50->40% reduced energy regen
Bayesian statistics 3.8->3% damage per research, and spawns 3 research
JUNK tech: startle response - if mobs are near boost damage, and lock mouse until you press escape
when you die store a copy of all your tech
they will show up at your location in the future as a power up
this is probably buggy
CPT triggers at above 100 energy instead of above 68 energy
causality bots makes a few less bots
several tech with dynamic effects show the value of the effect in their description
mass-energy is compatible with more tech
defense works with mass-energy, but is exponentially reduced (~10%)
damage taken scales with difficulty based heal reduction
1.3x dmg level 5 hard, 2x dmg level 13 why
ergodicity: 91->66% damage, no heals -> 1/2 size heals
negative feedback 0.5% -> 1% damage per missing health
negative entropy spawn heals for 33% missing health not 33 flat missing health
this means it caps at 3 health per level
tech - iceIX freeze effect lasts 2 seconds longer, spawn 10 coupling
perfect diamagnetism, standing wave
research is less common
path integral comes with 5% JUNK
there are fewer starting power ups on why difficulty
bug fixes:
fixed the text overflow issue on small screens
decoherence: if you get a tech that is banished it stops being banished
you can now have negative research
matter wave renamed wave
tech: frequency - wave has unlimited ammo, but -50% wave firerate
tech: sympathetic resonance - when phonon waves hit a mob they make a new resonance wave
effect cooldown grows +5s with each chained resonance
uncertainty principle works with phonon wave
phase velocity works with all other wave tech, 40->35% damage
boundstate reduces wave range by 25->15%
non-renewables 88% -> 67% damage
improved fine-structure constant graphic for when you lose coupling
laser mobs pulse a laser 50% of the time for 2x damage
a bunch of bug fixes
caliber does a bit more damage at 1 stack, but does less damage at 3+ stacks
it grew mass and damage at an exponential rate before
now it's closer to the +30% damage description
new level biohazard by INOOBBOI AND THESHWARMA
enable community maps in settings
some coupling tech spawns power ups instead of directly giving coupling
fine-structure constant gives 60 coupling power ups, lose 0.5 coupling after mob collision
tech: decoupling: when ON: +5.00 coupling OFF: spawn a WIMP
(probably adds coupling drift bugs)
JUNK tech - boost - spawn a large number of boost power ups
several bug fixes
mob - flutter is no longer treated as a boss
some shotgun ammo tech upgrades will continue to fire some original recipe shotgun bullets
rivets, fleas, worms, iceIX
tech: band gap - boosts give more damage but it lasts for 1 less second
WIMPs are 10% faster
controlled explosion renamed shaped charge
bug fixes
construction mode works better with my buttons
to unlock run this and press T to enter testing mode
simulation.enableConstructMode() //used to build maps in testing mode
removed -experiment- tech because it's function was reproduced by "tech - tinker"
coupling
crystallography renamed quintessence
wormhole -> energy after eating blocks
penrose process is removed
perfect diamagnatism and standing wave -> ice IX after blocking
tech triple point removed
plasma torch -> +damage
killing one of the first 3->4 snake body mobs makes snake bosses vulnerable
shooterBoss shoots 3-6 smaller bullets
bug fixes
tech: crystallography - convert all your research into 0.25 coupling per research
tech: residual dipolar coupling - cancelling field gun or tech gives +0.5 coupling
tech: fine-structure constant - +6 coupling, eject this tech if you take damage
coupling for cloaking field now gives +33% ambush damage
tech: ambush removed
coupling for time dilation now gives +25% longer time dilation effect
about +2 seconds
coupling tech isn't well balanced yet, so give me feedback
non-unitary operator renamed to Hilbert space
bug fixes
tech: coupling - +1 coupling, coupling is a new stat that provides different buffs for each field
releasing this early for feedback about balance and bugs
removed tech Pauli exclusion
now the perfect diamagnatism coupling effect
snakeBoss tails are closer together
some bosses have a higher vision memory and response time
phonon gets 10% less ammo and 10% less damage
meta-analysis gives 2 research per use
energy drain rework
in many situations drain no longer scales with regen
this might have some bad side effects, let me know
bug fixes
made several tech effects not an arrow function
timeSkip graphical glitches might be improved
new setting: level ban list
bug fix: removed a command to preventDefault on space key, this might break something else
new boss added to level - Temple
snake tails have a lower mass and whip around a bit
auto targeting no longer works for stealth mobs
snipers, sneakers, ghosters
snipers fire more often at high difficulty, but bullets move slower at all difficulties
hoppers have move gravity, so it feels like they are hopping a bit faster
field tech: patch - after cloaking recover 75% of last health lost using that much energy
taking damage now forces decloaking
field tech: dynamic equilibrium - increase damage by 5% the value of your last health loss
foam has less velocity after a mob it's stuck to dies
snakeBoss becomes vulnerable if you remove any of the first 3 body segments
body segments have more health
bug fix: quantum eraser now removes mobs in a more random order
it used to have a too low chance to remove bosses
finalBoss pushes away things between every phase
it's much smaller in black hole phase and very hard to hit
timeBoss, shooterBoss, orbitalBoss, laserTargetingBoss have "orbital armor"
orbitals have less health and move a bit slower
orbitalBoss is slower and has more health
blinkBoss does much less collision damage
laserTargetingBoss does 2.5x damage but it's laser is only on 1/2 the time
URL builds share what mode molecular assembler is on
siphonaptera makes shotgun fire fleas
colony 37% -> 50% more stuff in sporangium
foam bullets have a +7% slow effect
about +7% damage for some foam tech
laser diode 33% -> 40% less energy cost
free-electron laser 200% -> 225% damage
extra clicks in experiment and unified field theory pause now switches molecular fab types
bug fixes
mob stun graphics is more consistent and less like mob invincibility
tech: fleas - replace spores with little hoppers
frame-dragging - time dilation field stops time when you aren't moving or firing, +33% defense
the odds of finding this tech is low because I find it kinda annoying, but maybe you will like it
molecular assembler field energy meter is yellow
wormhole is lavender
perfect diamagnetism is blue
time dilation is green blue
pilot wave is black
new room in labs: hopBossMom
harpoon now auto targets by default, but disabled when crouched
pulse + neocognitron auto targeting also disabled when crouched
bug fixes
nail gun tech: stress concentration - if a mob has below 50% durability after taking damage
from needles or rivets near the center of it's body it dies
caliber 16->25% nail, needle, rivet size/damage
combined tech: flagella - spores move +50% faster
spores follow you if they can't find a target
shock wave stun also applies to sporangium
no longer reduces explosion size
JUNK tech: reincarnation - kill all mobs and spawn new ones
(also spawn a few extra mobs for fun)
updated pause menu and fields descriptions to new wording style
bug fixes
tech: freezer burn - if a mob is frozen while below 33% health, it dies
tech: flash freeze - if a mob is above 66% health it's health is set to 66%
snakeBoss 1st tail mob is larger and farther from boss
parthenogenesis your duplication effects extend to duplicate mobs and bosses
WIMPs do 33% less harm (because they are hard to deal with on reactor)
MACHO 66->60% defense
axion 75%-> 100% of defense added to damage
full tech wording rewrite (I probably made a few typos)
increase damage by 10% -> +10% damage
20% fire delay reduction -> +20% fire rate
taking harm -> losing health
50% harm reduction -> +50% defense
new defense text effect
extra long minus sign - -> –
bug fixes
boss orbitals and mineBoss mines are destroyed when you deflect them with your field
drones, spores and other bullets that target mobs, will not target invulnerable mobs
timeSKipBoss is a bit slower with a bit less time skipping
fixed color to better match level background colors
JUNK tech: path integral - your next tech choice has almost all possible choices
bug fixes
tech: propagator - 67% damage, lose 1/2 second of time when a mob dies
timeSkipBoss is back, maybe it will not cause bugs this time
immune to harm unless player is inside horizon
player loses time when inside horizon
snake bosses are immune to harm until your remove their tail
mob shields are 30% stronger
time dilation: retrocausality automatically grabs power ups
eternalism 50->40% damage
paradigm shift 10->16% chance to get a research when ejecting tech
reaction inhibitor 11->13% mob health reduction
recycling 1->0.5% health for 5 seconds
up to 2.5% per mob kill at normal max health
bug fixes
new reactor boss: timeBoss - after taking some damage it speeds up the passage of time
reactor level has big doors
nonrefundable tech show up in the pause menu
time dilation field - move, jump, and fire 25% faster
JUNK tech: closed timelike curve - spawn 5 field power ups, but every 12 seconds teleport a second into your future
grenade tech: flame test - grenades release a cluster of smaller explosions
grenade tech: pyrotechnics - grenades release a circle of smaller explosions
grenade tech: implosion - explosions pull things in, not out, +25% to grenade explosion damage and radius
chain reaction no longer requires vacuum bomb
bosses and mobs have much less knock back from explosions
invulnerable mobs have no knock back
alternator harpoon/grapple/railgun energy drain reduced by 100->60%
bots no longer unlock tech until you upgrade to a bot type
JUNK tech rule 30 is now sometimes rule 90 instead
disabled testing for why? mode
wave beam
amplitude 50->37% damage
propagation 50->37% damage
worms
annelids 10-120% -> about 37% damage
radiation
nuclear transmutation stacks 9x
gives 70->47% damage per stack
explosions
ammonium nitrate 27->24% damage and radius
tech: cherenkov radiation - bremsstrahlung damage is increased by 300% over 6 seconds
bremsstrahlung does 2->3 damage, and also applies to block collisions
tech: nuclear transmutation - radiation sources do 70% more damage and harm
enthalpy now drops heal power ups instead of directly healing you
foam-shot has 13->15 particles, is slower, and less spread
bug fixes