Hey everyone!

We know most of you guys have moved on from Crea but we wanted to drum interest for the beta testing of our next update!

We're aiming to do a huge multiplayer test or two for this release in addition to our normal testing.

We have a couple new features for this patch that people should hopefully enjoy.


This has long been one of our most requested features, and we're finally implementing it. Now when you die in normal mode, you'll drop all your unequipped items in a bag. This bag will float around and remain there until you can reclaim your items.

We've tweaked the combat in an attempt to make it more dynamic, fun, and fair. We feel that these changes make combat feel significantly better, and hope you guys agree!

This feature has been in development for a while, but we're finally ready to release it. Anomalies are a system through which you'll be faced with randomized events that will appear within your world. Whether you're tasked with battling a giant swarm of monsters, or with battling the entropic chaos present within the world, these events should make the game more interesting and offer challenge to those who've beaten the game.

We've modified a lot of smaller aspects of the game that aren't quite immediately evident as problems, but were annoying all the same. The most noticable changes are the new minimap, and procedurally generated sky, but there are many more!



That's definitely not an exhaustive list (and there's even more for those of you who haven't been around since 1.0) and Jasson will be around closer to the tests to give a full changelist, but that should give you a taste of what we're bringing with the new update.


We're looking for testers for this patch and you guys have all been with us for a while, so we're giving you priority, but we need to know how many of you are going to be available. As such, if you plan to test our newest patch please fill out this form to tell us: https://quill.typeform.com/to/lO1Upj

The form is just so we can best organize when we should host the multiplayer playtest.

See you guys soon!

Another HUGE update. I changed how you interact with items, enhanced interacting with items experience, added lore flavor text, fixed some big bugs and much more.

Only two days left before release! Keep testing and let me know if you run into any issues. I'll keep working away on them.

• Added lore flavor text to most items
  
• Smarter controller cursor
  
• Change interact to (E), Equipment (Q), change tool size (F) as well as the controller side of things
  
• Revamped item hover text

• Guides are now shown the first time they become available
  
• Decreased TP cost for the first level of the Sword Proficiency
  
• Changed Research Desk subcategory to "Essentials" to make it easier to find for new players
  
• Lowered Lanteed spawn frequency some making Oil Slimes spawn more often
  
• Lowered the level requirement to learn skills
  
• Added new recipe sets for new armor sets
  
• Increased Bartius' attack power some
  
• Added some missing status effect icons
  
• Enhance Lore book with new page indicator, page number, and tweaked paging
  
• Boss levels are now based on defeated bosses for players instead of world

• Resolved crash on client when traveling to a new realm caused by messages getting out of order
  
• Resolved issue with overlaping items showing one highlighted but then interacting with the unhighlighted one
  
• Corrected many armor set recipes research levels
  
• Resolved issue with entity render rectangle not being calculated correctly when entity is flipped
  
• Resolved issue with character preview not working on OSX
  
• Fixed issue with treasure chests name claiming to be locked when it is not
  
• Resolved issue with Horde Realms Crystals being able to be activated multiple times
  
• Resolved issue with the UI not updating when resetting control bindings
  
• Resolved issue with items being researched multiple times (duplicate notifications)
  
• Resolved issue with researching item set recipes causing the player to not learn the contained recipes
  
• Resolved error on standalone server with Invisible status effect
  
• Resolved issue with players being able to interact with travel items (realm crystals, chaos bed, gildor crystal) multiple times
  
• Resolved issue with some realms lingering longer than they should
  
• Resolved animation issue when using an item or gadget during a second jump

We're getting awfully close to release day! Still logs of bugs to fix and I'm working feverishly on them. I really appreciate those helping out so much - PrinceOfStars, PocketWookie, ndroid, DamianKnight, Maxtor1o2, and Follower to name a few.

Keep reporting bugs! The more details you provide the more helpful it is. If you can provide a way to reproduce the issue reliably then that helps immensely. Be sure to include logs and whatever else you can.

I'll keep pumping out updates as quickly as I can. There is some overhead to creating an update though so I'm trying to mitigate that.

• Defeating Baritus will now unlock the third remna tier
  
• Lockpicks can now be used from the toolbar
  
• Lockpicks will automatically be used when interacting with a locked chest and no keys are available
  
• Chests are now named "Locked" when locked
  
• Enhanced visual style for renaming inputs

• Birds drop more feathers now
  
• Adjusted min levels for some monsters, increased the HP for bosses as they level up, and fixed Baritus drops.
  
• Characters now automatically learn any newly added recipes for discovered materials
  
• Vines and foliage now give less gather TP
  
• Fish are now extinct (disabled since they are broken and I don't have time to fix them atm)
  
• Increased chance for horde realm crystals to appear
  
• Increase price cost for Reincarnate dungeons
  
• Give Premium Lumber the proper quality
  
• Cut the HP for the spawners that Dormians creates in half
  
• Changed Venfear's wind attack to go through blocks

• Fixed Bejeweled Mattock recipe and attributes
  
• Resolved issue causing crafting UI to not load on OSX
  
• Handle integrity checking failure due to missing file more gracefully
  
• Better error handling when settings file is busted
  
• Fix "Core of Chaos" attribute description
  
• Resolved issue with "Ore Hunter" skill not revealing Osmium ore
  
• Resolved issue with some horde realms not properly creating reward chest and/or exit crystal
  
• Resolved issue with Aegnite horde realm crystals not always working
  
• Resolved crash when quickly leaving a horde realm
  
• Resolved issue with many monster projectile attacks dealing more damage than they should
  
• Resolved issue with grappler breaking after using it just before traveling to another realm
  
• Resolved issue with monsters still attacking the player immediately after the player becomes invisible
  
• Resolved issue with Throne Room realm not becoming accessible as soon as it should
  
• Resolved issue with corruption effect not blocking healing
  
• HUD now properly shows more than 7 status effects
  
• Resolved issue with some equipment claiming to have potential attributes when they infact did not
  
• Resolved seemingly random crash on clients when the host is unloading a region of a world with certain items in it
  
• Resolved issue with Flamethrower spell getting into a broken state
  
• Resolved issue with client experience bar not updating properly when leveling up
  
• Attempts made to resolve a crash on clients including additional logging

Thanks to everyone's bug reporting I have a substantial update here! I'll keep this short and sweet since I'm busy working on the release date announcement.

Keep reporting issues and feedback! Thanks again!

• Persist disabled achievements for worlds and characters
  
• Disallow in-game commands unless using developer mode
  
• Updated it so all items have prices now for the scavenger
  
• Updated the recipe for the bejeweled mattock
  
• Added many missing localizations
  
• Snow hare drops fur now
  
• Increased the price of silk
  
• Crates are no longer collectable
  
• Reduced animal spawn rate by a bit
  
• Changed world level distribution - small worlds increase more dramatically while large worlds are more gradual
  
• Select medium size world by default in world creation

• Resolved issue with character being interrupted when taking damage more often than they should
  
• Resolved issue with particles not using textures properly on the client
  
• Resolved issue with one of the build toolbars not working for clients
  
• Resolved issue where your character would float when the ground was destroyed underneath him on a client (multiplayer)
  
• Motd is now loaded for standalone server
  
• Resolved issue with items sometimes attempting to be collected even when there isn't space
  
• Fixed issue with some monster's attack trail (Torrend & Aegnite) not having correct transparency when monster was invisible
  
• Do not give the scavenger more lore pages if it already has one
  
• Fixed many messages being sent to all players in a multiplayer game when they should only be sent to a single player
  
• Fixed Stoneskin status effect description
  
• Resolved issue with Breath spells not working on all quickbars
  
• Temporarily disable UI zooming for OSX since it causes a crash
  
• Resolved issue with discovered items associated with characters was being saved improperly and would not work correctly when switching worlds
  
• Do not stack unique items notifications
  
• Resolved issue with torch coming back on underwater when against a wall
  
• Resolved issue with osmium not actually spreading
  
• Stack purified lumber properly

Hello everyone! Thank you for joining this beta group and spending time testing Crea. I wanted to post a quick summary of the beta testing timeline as well as mention a few other things.

This weekend I am busy working on a the release trailer as well as writing item descriptions and flavor text with Kelley and Aaron. After this weekend if things are going well in testing then I'd like to announce the release date!

Starting Monday I'd also like to start releasing near daily updates to the beta fixing issues and adding in the few remaining bits for 1.0. With each update I'll provide a changelog so everyone knows what to look out for. I may start a known issues list as well if necessary.

While playing remember to report any issues you run into in this steam groups forums. Be sure to include as many details as possible you can follow this guide:

http://steamoss.com/app/280520/discussions/0/618460171327332986/

If you're not already part of the Crea's Discord Server then you should join. To chat with other players. Speaking of other players, it would be great if some players can test multiplayer with each other.

Thanks everyone for your help!