Under The Weather Part 1

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Under The Weather Part 1
Theme	Spring and Summer expansion.
Date	06/30/2023
Game Version	1.0.0.0

The Under The Weather Part 1 update adds Tornadoes and Cave Floods to Spring, and Heat Waves, Smog and Pyre Nettles to Summer, along other new additions and changes.

New Additions

World Events

• Tornado
  • Every few days in Spring, a Tornado will spawn. It creates heavy rain around them, causing players in a large radius around itself to have a higher 100% water protection cap. You need 150% waterproofing to avoid the heavy rain.
  • It also creates whirlpools at sea, which move non-anchored boats.
  • Emits magic lightning randomly around itself and in a larger radius from it with less frequency.
  • Harvests Plants near it.
  • Digs up stuff that can be dug up. Ignores pickable plants.
  • Chop down trees.
  • Suck up items and throw them away.
  • Deals damage to non-players close to it.
  • Damages the caves, following the path of the Tornado, spawning waterfalls that will flood part of the caves temporarily.

• Smog
  • Burning plants during Summer releases large quantities of smoke.
  • Smog moves with the wind, reduces player max health, hurts and panics insects.

• Heat Waves
  • Wildfires are limited to heat waves only. Can only target plants and are significantly more common.
  • World temperature increases by 1.66×.

• Pyre Nettles
  • Pyre Nettles spawn in the caves throughout Summer, and grow with increased heat.
  • Fire Nettle Fronds can now be used in the crockpot.
  • Fire Nettle Fronds are now fireproof.
  • Added Smolder Spores, a mix of a hazard and Pyre Nettles' spreading mechanism.
  • Wixie can load Smolder Spores into her slingshot.
  • Added Pyre Toxin, a debuff that briefly increases player temperature and harms and panics mobs.

• Pyre Darts
  • 2 Reeds, 1 Smolder Spore, 1 Fire Nettle Fronds.
  • Applies Pyre Toxin to shot target.
  • Explodes on impact, setting fires and dealing damage (most damage to the actual target).

• Pyre Mantle
  • Recipe: 5 Fire Nettle Fronds, 1 Silk.
  • Lasts 5 days *at most*.
  • Flimsy 'armor' that provides immunity against Pyre Toxin (from outside), and makes Smolder Spores ignore the wearer.
  • Inflicts Pyre Toxin to mobs that get too close, like the plant.
  • When attacked, the wearer and attacker are both inflicted with Pyre Toxin (if they're not immune to it).
  • Inflicts Pyre Toxin to the wearer and slightly damages the item when equipped.
  • Cuts fire damage received to 1/3.
  • Slight Winter insulator and rain blocker.

Mobs

• Alpha Volt Goat
  • Alpha Volt Goats can now spawn in max capacity Goat Herds. They are a bit stronger, will actively get angry at nearby players before attacking, and have a 100% drop chance for a Volt Goat Horn and Electric Milk.
  • They have new attacks and don't like being struck by lightning!
• Nymph
  • Aphids no longer infest Giant Redwood, instead a world-side component decides when to spawn a new infesting creature, the Nymph, on a timer.
  • Nymphs are generated by the world, and appear near Infested Giant Redwoods.
  • Nearby Aphids will follow a nearby Nymph to protect it, as it has very poor self-preservation.
    • They move onscreen and offscreen to a non-Infested Giant Redwood. This tree is decided by the world component, it could be across the entire forest or right next to it, only contingency is that the tree is not already infested.
  • Once the Nymph reaches the tree, they will instantly infest it, and remove themselves and their Aphid followers.
  • Nymphs drop Beeswax on death.
  • The frequency of Nymphs appearing is dependent on how many trees are currently infested, spawning fewer with more of the forest already being infested.
  • If there are no infested trees left... Then the Nymphs can't spawn... for now.

Balance Changes

Character Changes

Wickerbottom

• Wicker's books now repair in her inventory instead of the bookcase.
• Wicker's Bee Book now wakes up all bees from all sources around her, up to 20 sources.
  • Sources include: Bee Boxes, Bee Hives and Hermit's Bee Box.
  • Bees that are awaken this way won't aggro Wickerbottom upon waking up.
  • The Book doesn't work on Dusk, Night or Winter.

Wanda

• Second Chance Watch now breaks on haunt.

Mobs

• Fruit Bat
  • Fruit Bats are more effective at their job.
  • After catching an Aphid or Nymph, they now come back after 10s.

• Krampus
  • Krampii once again has Knockback on their main attack, but have slightly reduced attack speed and will always force taunt after doing so, unless the player is Knockback proof.
  • Krampii now have stealing priorities for equippable items.
  • Krampii will now prioritize stealing items when players get too far away. They put more effort into stealing and leaving.
  • They will now knock items out of players on attacking, and will knock even more when doing their bag attack.
  • Krampii now have their steal limit set to flat 4 items, instead of vanilla's 2 + 1~2.
  • Krampus now has a 1 second window of vulnerability when trying to exit, once he starts to get in the bag hes as good as gone.
  • Items that are stolen by Krampii can now be retrieved by opening up the Klaus Sack.

• Electrical Mobs
  • All "Magic Lightning" now deals electric type damage; 10 + shock multipliers instead of 25 base damage. If insulated, it deals 10 damage only.
  • Comingled Clockwork's shock aura now does 6.7 damage, multiplied by electric effects (1.5x + player wetness) = 10 default. WX78 is now immune to its shock aura, always.
  • Mechanical Monstrosity's projectile now deals 20 + elec mult damage instead of 30. Insulated players take 20 damage only. Other mobs take 30 damage.
  • Depths Eels now deal 25 damage when attacked up from 15, to match with Volt Goats.
  • Fixed Depths Eels double activating their retaliation effects on attacked.
  • Depths Eels' attacks now deal electric damage.
  • Depths Eels no longer add a flat 25 extra damage to their attacks.
  • Lightning Hounds' attacks now deal shock damage.
  • WX-78 receives a lightning strike from magic lightning, which deals Sanity damage ala vanilla. And an insulated WX just goes into hitstun, without any of the damage/sanity effects.

Items and Misc

• Increased sanity drain from the Night Light from 2 to 5 per fuel.
• Ancient Soul Amulet no longer contributes to rat sniffer score.
• Gore Horn no longer destroys objects on collision, now ignores rabbits and birds.
• Doubled Gore Horns fuel levels, reduced delay before it starts to regen, as well as speed to compensate for increased fuel levels.
• Reverted Bee Boxes to store up to 6 Honey, instead of 4.
• Bee Box recipe changed to 2 Boards, 1 Honeycomb and 1 Bee; from 2 Boards, 1 Honeycomb and 4 Bees.
• Max amount of Bees inside is now 1, instead of 2 (It becomes 2 during Spring).
• Only 1 Bee will naturally get out per day, making the max generation per day be 1 Honey per Bee Box, if not interacted with.
• Plague Mask now has 6 sanity/min.
• The Rainometer can now be interacted with to open the map to the Tornado's location.
• Rainometer now has an interact prompt name, and characters will say when there's no tornadoes around to track.
• Thermal Measurers will now begin glowing 2 minutes before a Heat Wave, and during one.
• The Weather Pain can now be cast on the Tornado, which will redirect its approach angle by 90 degrees for 30 seconds.
• The Set Piece "walterifgood" now has a Fur Roll and a Bedroll, instead of a Tent Roll.
• Banana Bushes, Bullkelp, Stone Fruits, and Farm Crops no longer grow during winter.
• Reintroduced Snow Pile spread, now functional. Snow Piles can't spread through Walls.
• New Snow Storm timer based system, now it lasts for 6 minutes, and the issue of relogging should be fixed. Timer should be accurate when reloading the game.
• Farm Crop seasonal changes because of Winter changes:
  • Potato - Spring, Autumn
  • Carrot - Autumn, Spring, Summer
  • Pumpkin - Autumn, Summer
  • Asparagus - Spring, Autumn
• New Hermit trades:
  • Seed Packet (1 Bottle, T1)
  • Premium Seed Packet (3 bottles, T3)
  • Boat Rudder (1 Bottle, T1)
• UM's commands now show up in autocomplete.
• Added performance settings for the tornado:
  • "Reduced" - Simplifies a lot of things, no longer works off-screen.
  • "Minimal" - Only player interactions.

Mod Compatibility

• Cherry Tomatoes don't grow in Winter. (Cherry Forest)

Credits

• Gearless, for the update's promotional art.