Calm Before the Storm

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Calm Before the Storm
Theme	A fresh coat of paint, a new character, and back-end systems to make development much easier.
Date	10/31/2022
Game Version	1.5

The Calm Before the Storm update is an Ocean themed update of Uncompromising Mode. It's the second update to include an update poster.

New Additions

• Wathom, The Forgotten Parody:
  • Apex Predator
  • Gets amped up with adrenaline
  • Causes animals to panic
  • The faster he goes, the harder he falls

• Added Reed Suit.
• Added Brine Balm.
• Added Crude Cannonballs.
• Added Figgy.
• Added Magnerang.
• Added Wind Turbine mast upgrade.
• Added Portable Boat.
• Added Rocky Hide.
• Added Rock Hide Armor & Sludge Sack.
• Added Sea Sludge.
• Added Sulfur Extract, Sludge Bumper, Driftwood Boat Corks, Sludge Plug and Thermal Vent.
• Added Sorrel, a type of foliage in the Hooded Forest.
• Added Uncompromising Mode Super Spawner, Dev Capture, Tile Flag. Added c_umss command to quickly spawn set pieces created with these tools.
• Added new mysteries at sea.
• Added Hooded Forest biome and Melancholic Skull setpiece for Island Adventures.
• Added Stuffed Peeper Poppers and Hardy Peepers
• Added Fishing Net
• Added Scorpion burrows in the oasis desert, replacing Scorpions spawning at random while in the biome.

Balance Changes

Reworked Bosses

• Bee Queen
  • Added the Hand Held Hive, a new cursed item available through the Veteran's Curse.
  • Bee Queen relies on bee formations instead of mindless attacks.
  • Added several new types of Bee Guards, which each have different responsibilities in the fight.

• Ancient Guardian
  • When injured, Ancient Guardian calls on the power of Them to protect him.

Character Changes

• WINONA
  • Winona can now convert lanterns and Miner Hats to electrical power.
  • Electrical Lanterns and Miner Hats have a longer lifespan but require electricity, such as generators and lightning rods.
  • Added Power Cells, which can charge electrical items and never spoil.
  • Added the Toolbox, which is a box, that can hold tools! Wow!
  • Optional config changes:
    • Reduces the Catapult's health to 300, removed it's health regeneration, and reduced damage to 24.
    • Winona can repair walls and catapults with tape.

• WINKY
  • Added more of Winky's quotes.
  • Takes 10 extra damage from catcoons.
  • Winky's rats now have the Companion tag.
  • Winky's rats always default to follow the nearest Winky if they were spawned by a player-made burrow.
  • Winky's rats are now unfriended when attacked by their owner.
  • Winky's burrows can no longer be made on farm tiles.

• WORMWOOD
  • Increased Wormwood's extra fire damage from 1.5x to 1.75x
  • Wormwood no longer attracts bees when blooming.

• WILLOW
  • Bernie now has 80% resistance against shadows.
  • Holding Bernie keeps shadow creatures from attacking, unless they're already hostile.

• WANDA (OPTIONAL CONFIG)
  • Alarming clock damage reduced to 51/68/127.5
  • Second Chance Watch
    • Now gives health penalty
    • No longer breaks when haunted by Wanda
    • Recipe changed to: 3 Time Pieces, 2 Living Logs and 1 Long Pig.
  • Wanda now takes more damage against shadows.

Mobs

• Reduced Bat health to 50.
• Increased telegraph time for Koalefant's Disarm attack.
• Trepidation no longer hugs the player while following.
• Trepidation now remembers players who have gone insane near it/attacked it.
• Reduced Abominamole health to 350.
• Added new optional Slurtle/Snurtle changes:
  • Increased armor drop rate to 75%;
  • Increased attack speed by 60%;
  • Decreased health by 50%.
• Creeping Fears shadow spikes now spawn and attack faster.
• Rats now rarely stunlock players, instead of 100% of the time.

Items and Misc

• Optional Beefalo changes: Riders now take 50% of the original damage in addition to the beefalo.
• Buffed Shield of Terror:
  • Damage increased to 59.5;
  • Resistance increased to 85%;
  • Health increased to approximately 735.
• Sleeping now only restores Max HP if below 25% penalty.
• Increased Glass Cutter's shadow damage by 5.
• Increased time between pig torches at Pig King respawning from 60s to 12min (1.5 days).
• Increased default Night Terror chance to 40%.
• Reduced Widow's Claw damage to 17.
• Changed Rat Mask recipe to use 3 Beard Hair instead of Rat Tails.
• Changed Striding Trident recipe to use 1 Gnarlwail Horn and 2 Bone shards instead of 3 Gnarlwail horns.
• Added Top Hat to the Magic filter.
• Added Walls to Winter filter.
• Tweaked Hermit's Fish food trade: Cost reduced to 1 bottle, gives 3.
• Buffed nautopilot: Increased max velocity by 10x, max range by 2x and catch up speed by x1.33.
• Bug Zapper AoE no longer stuns.
• Reduced Pick/Axe damage to 27.5
• You now get put back to land much faster if void walking.
• Sunglasses now provide the same sanity as the Tam o' Shanter.
• Tweaked some recipes:
  • Naught Lock now gives 4 Gold instead of 1 Cut Stone.
  • Slobber Lobber gives 1 less meat.

Tweaks, Changes and Fixes

• Added many, many new setpieces.
• Added new art for the Hooded Forest and most of the objects found within it.
• Shroom Infested Giant Trees, Hooded Town, HF Holidays and Rose Garden Hooded Forest rooms are now optional.
• Life Amulet now prevents deathblows when you were to die, instead of reviving you after death.
• Added config option to remove 4-item recipes.
• Added Mods in Menu support for Uncompromsing Mode characters.
• Boats no longer deal/take damage when colliding with other boats.
• Added new Sunken Chest presets, and a new chest variant.
• Fish now drop meat based on weight and type.
• Leaving/Going to caves now keeps most followers with you.
• Celestial Champion now can drop a Restrained Static blueprint.
• Transplanted berry bushes no longer spawn Bush Crabs.
• Bumpers no longer block placement, and their placement only gets blocked by other bumpers.
• Striding Trident and Seedshells now causes pirates to flee.
• Treeguard's root attack now creates a leak when the target is on a boat.
• Pick/Axe now chops/mines things in an AoE.
• Dark Sword drains 0.5 sanity per hit. Reduced by top hat.
• Shoals now have fish based on season.
• Sea Weed's seed shells no longer cause leaks. Reduced damage.
• Rat Score debug prints now include raid timer.
• Fruit bats now spawn from Boomberries.
• Added Bundle of Lures
• Hooded Widow has a clear telegraph when her attacks are on cooldown.
• Salt Pack now spawns salt piles on use.
• Salt piles make plants unhappy and dehydrate plants if on farm tiles.
• Snow piles make plants unhappy.
• Added config option for Pig King's guards.
• Added new Hermit trades:
  • Bundle of Lures;
  • Boat, Mast, Anchor, Steering Wheel kits;
  • Boat Patches;
  • Blueprint;
  • Sea Weed Sprout;
  • Pumpkin Cookies.
• Fish food can now be crafted at a Tackle Receptacle.
• RNE Skeletons now fall apart on death.
• Hibearnation Vest now prevents slowdown from snowstorms.
• Fireproof falsetto now costs 1 Dragonfly scale instead of a spittle fish, and provides immunity against fire.
• Widow now plays a tired animation at half health.
• Added config for Goose Moose and Wilting Dragonfly spawn years.
• Snap Traps now snap when haunted.
• Abominamoles now have a chance to spawn when digging snow piles. Snowpiles no longer spawn them passively.
• Snow Piles are now considered uneven ground.
• Picking snow piles lowers the player's temperature to freezing, instead of dealing damage.
• Snap Traps and Shiny Snap Traps now have 6 and 8 uses respectively.
• Added a loading tip about the Rat Mask.
• Glossamer saddle now takes Glommer wings instead of 68 butterfly wings.
• Stingers can now be used as fuel.
• Seedshells now cause leaks regardless of PvP.
• Important followers, such as spiders, pigs, bunnymen, small/teenbirds, etc now leave with the player exits the server.
• Added deconstruct recipes for some items:
  • Dormant Horn: 4 Cookie Cutter Shells, 2 Rocks.
  • Rain Horn: 4 Shell Fragments, 2 Rocks, 3 Spittlefish
  • Shadow Crown: 5 Nightmare Fuel, 3 Beard Hair
• Updated the legacy rain book recipe config to include some more changes, and changed its name:
  • Lux Aeterna now costs a Glow Berry instead of light bulbs;
  • Removed Lux Aeterna Redux;
  • The Angler's Survival Guide now costs Hardened Slip Bobbers instead of Wooden Ball Bobbers;
  • Practical Rain Rituals uses the old Rainy Days recipe.

FOODSTUFFS

• Changed some food recipes:
  • Surf N Turf *Fish requirement increased to 2;
  • Seafood Gumbo *Now requires 3 fish and 3 meat value to be cooked, priority increased;
  • Barnacle Nigiri *No Longer requires eggs;
  • New Barnacle Pita stats *37.5/15/8 (Hunger, Sanity, Health);
  • New Seafood Gumbo stats *100/5/5.
• Cooked Cacti now give 5 sanity, and no longer deal damage.
• Frog Legs can now be traded with Pig King.

Removed Features

• Removed Pitcher Plants.
  • As of version v1.5.1.1, Pitcher Plants are restored and retrofit into pre-existing worlds on top of a few random patches of Boomberry Plants.
• Removed webbing from Spider Queen.
• Removed Full Moon creature transformations and its related config.
• Removed Firecracker rounds (Not to be confused with the other Firecracker Rounds...)
• Removed "Can be refueled" part of the Lazy Forager's crafting tip. (Feature added to Vanilla)

Trivia

• Gearless, the person who made the update poster, joined the Developer Team this update as an artist.

Gallery

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  Wathom in a teaser gif of the update.

Credits

• Huge thanks to ShyNuke3D for an unimagible amount of feedback and bug reports; and to Electroely for some content contributions.