Echo Field
- The Archivist’s Book now unlocks both the Echo Field and its upgrade tree. Popcorn Echo is only required to start producing Echo Popcorn.
- Added the Echo Field to Fast Travel, while retaining the arrows that guide you toward newly unlocked areas.
- Reorganized the Echo upgrade tree with more consistent spacing, clearer descriptions, and fewer crossing connections.
- Removed Permanent labels from Echo upgrade cards.
- Replaced Flock Memory with Fertile Echo, which boosts Seed production based on lifetime Echo collected instead of companion XP.
- Clarified Shared Knowledge’s Parrot XP bonus.
- Updated mushroom collection rates: Awakened Mycelium collects 1 per second, Underground Network 2 per second, Coordinated Harvest 4 per second, and Perfect Route 8 per second.
- Perfect Route now uses fewer, more widely spaced mushrooms with greater reach, covering the field’s edges and corners.
New Echo Upgrade Branches
- Added 15 upgrades connecting Echo progression with other parts of the game.
- Planting: Echo Seedbed, Shared Harvest, and Gilded Pollen improve Echo value and Seed production.
- Nest: Twig Trellis, Living Forest, and Woodland Network improve mushroom collection speed and Twig harvesting.
- Desert: Dune Offering, Sunlit Harvest, and Amber Resonance improve Echo value and Golden Popcorn harvesting.
- Fishing: Shell Chimes, Tidal Return, and Pearl Choir improve Echo value and fishing Moneta rewards.
- Mine: Mineral Roots, Resonant Peck, and Golden Veins improve Echo value and mining damage.
- Woodland Network can raise Perfect Route’s collection rate to 12 per second.
Nest & Carpentry
Nature Upgrades
- Added Living Hedges: +25% Twigs collected.
- Added Stone Paths: +50% Red Panda movement and harvesting speed.
- Added Flowering Shore: +25% hybrid incubation speed, including the egg currently incubating.
- Added Golden Glade: new trees have a 5% chance to be golden. Felling a golden tree grants an additional four times its full Twig yield.
- Added natural stone paths, flowers, hedges, and purchase effects.
- Improved crop, path, and windmill placement.
Tree Interior
- Integrated interior upgrades into the existing Nest shop as special purchases.
- Added Provisions Pantry: increases the SP bonus provided by Training levels by 50%.
- Added Flock Table: Dave’s Seed-training milestones increase Parrot damage, up to +25%.
- Added Project Bookcase: +25% Carpentry crafting XP, including automatic crafting.
- Added seating behavior for interior chairs.
- Simplified upgrade descriptions and removed unnecessary information.
Production & Storage
- Carpentry’s tool upgrade now increases Plank output instead of Twig production.
- Added Reinforced Beds and Reinforced Rows, providing up to +100% Seeds and Popcorn respectively.
- Added Covered Storage, increasing the offline limit through 9, 10, and 12 hours.
- These new improvements use Planks, with additional Wood required for Covered Storage.
- Added the active hybrid fish and its actual bonuses to the buff display.
Companions & Training
Training & Cooperation
- Field Notes now generates SP outside Expeditions and during offline progress.
- Added cooperation upgrades for Nest Twig production, Dave’s extra collections, companion XP, and Training.
- Companion XP bonuses now affect Dave and Seagull, not Sparrow.
- Reorganized the cooperation branch into a more compact, readable layout.
Dave
- Each Forage point now grants one additional pickup per peck, replacing the previous fractional progression and six-pickup cap.
- Updated collection previews and tooltips to reflect actual pickups, range, and carrying limits.
- Added a guided tutorial for Dave.
Sparrow
- Earned milestones now remain recorded through Rebirbs and Evolution.
- Improved milestone tracking for older saves and accumulated Mitoses.
Seagull
- Improved the companion menu, milestone display, and Rebirb controls.
- Hook-speed bonuses now correctly affect Seagull’s fishing timings.
- The first eligible daily Legendary catch on Expedition Floor 4 now guarantees Mariana Phantom.
- Incompatible bait is ignored for the current fishing location without clearing your selected bait.
Parrot
- Parrot Rebirb II now requires reaching Floor 6 instead of Floor 7.
- Improved Rebirb requirements, navigation guidance, and progression recommendations.
Red Panda
- You can now rename your Red Panda after its initial naming.
- Improved the Help, Nap, and rename controls.
- Nap now grants +50% Twigs, replacing its previous Popcorn and Seed bonus.
Expeditions
Combat Readability
- Enemy tiers are represented visually through the health bar rather than additional text.
- Improved health-bar placement above enemies and bosses.
- Hovering over an enemy or holding Shift enlarges its health display.
- Improved overlap prevention when inspecting groups of nearby enemies.
- Replaced damage labels with sword icons and clearer colors.
- SP rewards now use the currency icon and appear below defeated enemies.
- Aura and Potion drops now use icons and colored amounts.
- Improved SP reward previews to reflect applicable reward bonuses.
Enemies & Areas
- Added tier-specific enemy visuals across Expedition Floors 1–9.
- Removed the orange fire effect beneath bosses.
- Fixed the Floor 8 boss disappearing during an animation frame.
- Improved enemy movement, scenery layering, and positioning around trees and obstacles.
- Rebalanced enemy health and SP progression across several depth bands, including Floors 2 and 6–10.
- Increased SP rewards for progressing into Floors 6 and 7.
- Adjusted late Floor 8 and Floors 9–10 enemy health scaling.
- Doubled the enemy population in Eden Night.
Quests & Sacrifices
- Floor quests now automatically pin when entering their area.
- Manually unpinned quests remain unpinned until a later visit.
- Improved quest reward previews.
- Updated selected major quest rewards to stack multiplicatively, while preserving previously earned reward progress.
- Rebalanced Sacrifice milestone bonuses across SP, Popcorn, Seeds, and Aura rewards.
- Milestone XVI now grants +10% Aura quantity and +10% Aura chance.
- Clarified Common Aura costs and rarity-promotion bonuses.
Parrot Totem
- Totems now return to their saved position when reopening the game.
- Preserved broken Totem and cooldown states across reloads.
- Added offline SP rewards based on eligible Totem combat performance.
Desert Progression
- Added Aura Trail, increasing Expedition Aura drop chance by 25%.
- Updated the surrounding Aura branch’s requirements and connections.
- Scouting, Shell, and Momentum now cost Golden Popcorn instead of Aura.
- These upgrades now follow a continuous cost progression and require completing the preceding upgrade before purchasing the next.
- Scouting, Shell, and Momentum now reset on Evolution rather than remaining permanent.
Fishing
- Shiny fish are now preserved through every Evolution.
- Added Normal and Shiny recommendation modes to the Fishdex.
- Shiny recommendations now prioritize expected Shiny catches rather than only the base fish’s appearance chance.
- Wooden Hook now provides +5% reel speed, with an adjusted rarity profile.
- Fishing rerolls now compare rarity only and keep the current fish when rarities tie.
- Added distinct Ocean Minnow and Basic Lure icons.
- Increased Prism Rod’s Golden Creature requirement from 2 to 12.
- Reduced Divine Rod’s Cosmic Seraph requirement from 100 to 20.
- The player now faces the water while casting and reeling.
Mine
- Added backward and forward travel between unlocked areas.
- Your selected farming area is saved separately from your highest unlocked area.
- Revisiting an area preserves its current ore’s rarity and remaining health.
- Evolution VI now preserves Mine progression and upgrades. Ore and Gold balances still reset.
- Improved ore damage visuals and cracking stages.
- Reorganized Mine upgrade spacing and hid the deep branch until Deep Mine is unlocked.
- Improved the Mine unlock guide and reduced unnecessary interface updates during mining.
Offline Progress, Saves & Multiplayer
- Improved offline harvesting calculations across companion collection, Nest crops, and Echo mushrooms.
- Improved consistency between production bonuses and offline rewards.
- Fixed errors affecting multiplayer room actions and their notifications.
- Fixed related save-import notifications.
Interface & Desktop Improvements
- Currency icons remain readable beside large upgrade prices.
- Improved price formatting, wrapping, and MAX-purchase previews.
- Removed redundant “per hit” text from the Twig Value upgrade.
- Improved upgrade-tree spacing and consistency across several areas.
- Added a visibility setting for the Parrot SP currency display.
- Improved window focus, dialog layering, and compact layouts.
- Updated localized text for the new and revised features.
- Reduced expensive overlay effects in the Linux desktop version.
- Improved Linux crash reports to retain more useful information for troubleshooting.
