Patch v0.4680 - Oh Look, A Shiny!

Hey ArkCoNauts!

Another big round of fixes and polish come your way today, as the quality of life passes continue. We’ve got some fun additions, including a much improved minimap system, and expansion of player inventory! We’ve also empowered the NPC’s to help protect your base, and they will now fire on enemies within range.

Headline Features:

• Formations have been rewritten to improve and expand their functionality in the near future.

• New generation/growth algorithm for all formations in all biomes, they should be a lot better!

• Minimap!

• Revamped Knowledge Tree

• Revamped Early game experience

Changes & Additions

• Moved the Full Inventory alert to below the clock

• Added sounds across the board and better animated banners

• Added full video tutorial recap accessible via codex entry granted after tutorial

• New formatting for knowledges screen

• Various theme tweaks to the crafting screen.

• Reworked science xp usage system

• Five new NPCs added

• Prevented double reloads of guns

• Added new emitters to guns

• Added a reload bonus to guns, manually reload before you run out of ammo to reload faster

• Added an audio indication as your gun runs out of ammunition

• New more detailed minimap

• All schematics use their result item name in the schematic list now

• Rebuilt formation system (plants and other world objects)

• Adjusted progression unlocks

• Creatures now can inflict a range of damage

• Creatures now have a range of health

• Gun damage range has been adjusted

• Increased player base inventory to 30

• NPCs that have weapons now attack enemy creatures in range

• Chat bubbles now have more consistent formatting word wrap

• Adjusted arklight clip

• Adjusted jelly mount stats

• Adjusted lat/long/elevation items to be more efficient (you still will require the same number of items however will not have to hunt for 3 separate items)

• Several fixes for the “Save Gilbert” quest

• Mech Anomaly no longer spawns the Mech partly underground

• Tooltips will now show if a kit needs extra stations to be equipped

• Adjusted MCP and death mechanics

• Kits have been adjusted and re-ordered

• Early kits no longer require an outfitting station

• Adjusted projectile xp requirement

• Added mouse over labels to many plants

• Added mouse over labels to creatures

• Added sounds to doors

• Added the crab mount’s jetpack sound

• Placeables now sleep/wake based on having players near them, will improve performance.

• The saw has been rewritten to perform smoother.

• Various new placeable rules to work with the new formation system.

• Fixed rules relating to system and invisible tiles in their relation to placement and removal.

• Master pod no longer has cryorods in it and will no longer produce them

• Master pod generates a regeneration buff periodically around it

• Command node was moved to rank 1 base construction

• Cryopod 1 was moved to rank 1 base construction, Cryopod 1 can now be crafted with basic workbench

Fixes

• Formations will no longer grow inside of tiles.

• Formations growth limits are now correctly obeyed.

• Numerous fixes and adjustments for NPCs, NPC animations, and NPC quests

• Corrected an issue that allowed more than one Dennis to exist

• Fixed several issues related to killing certain creatures with AoE weapons

• Corrected an issue that prevented NPC chat appearing in multiplayer

• Corrected an issue with projectiles needing optimizations