Feasting and Forging - April 16, 2014
Here are the patch notes for our April 16, 2014 update. As with the previous updates, the additions we made to the game have been deliberately left vague.
 
Changes:
Tweaked visual effects for overheating.
Changed the placer icon of the Ice Flingomatic to better represent the effective range.
Giants are more powerful in general.
Changed giant loot into crafting mats instead of completed items.
Made changes to the items that can be crafted with the giant's crafting materials.
Dragonfly Armour now doesn't provide as much protection. Enemies who hit you will be lit on fire.
Down Thermantidote is now called the Luxury Fan. Increased number of uses to 15. Fires in the area of use will be put out.
Hibearnation Vest causes less hunger reduction.
Eyebrella is now a hat.
Additions:
Added additional craftables!
Added cookpot food recipes!
Bug Fixes:
Fixed a crash that happened when cookpots and drying racks burn down with food on them.
Cleaned up some Catcoon behaviours and crashes.
Cleaned up the behaviours and animations of some of the giants.
Fixed a crash that happened when using gunpowder on the g/moose egg.
Fixed improper eat prompts appearing for some characters.
Moles aren't raised dirt anymore.
Pigs have gained a taste for foods they would previously ignore.
Fixed some bugs with Webber's eating habits.
Buzzards no longer disappear when sleeping.
Vargs no longer use the Volt Goat hit sound.
Dragonfly SFX will now turn off on death.
Spiders emerging from tumble weed will now properly recognize when the player is wearing a spider hat.
Wilson's "Red Bird" inspect has been changed.
Poop no longer duplicates when trying to fertilize an invalid target.
Sanity eyes have learned to better hide themselves.
 
Hotfix 99777 - April 16
Items dropped from giants now stack to 10.
Coontail has art assets properly loaded.
Eating sanity restoring foods properly restores sanity again.
Hotfix 99845 - April 17
Added missing string for Cactus Flower.
Turned off the controller debug menu.
Fixed an issue where Chester would not transform while playing a non-RoG save file.
The Molehat no longer functions when worn by entities other than the player.
Added some missing file references.
Removed some print spam from the Deerclops brain.
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Reign of Giants - April 24 Patch Notes
Hey guys. We've made some fairly big balance changes this week. We're nearing release, so we decided to put out a patch with these changes to get feedback as soon as possible.
 
Build 100168:
 
Changes:
"Nerfed" cooling hats.
Cooling hats now cool you less.
Cooling hats now add wetness to your character.
Increased the amount of sanity lost due to wetness.
Made changes to the following recipes:
Coldfire
Coldfire Pit
Moggles
Items now get wet sooner (35 vs. 70)
Much improved the usefulness of the Ice Flingomatic.
The player now stays frozen for a shorter amount of time.
Electric Milk will now only drop from charged Volt Goats.
The Morning Star will now charge goats when they are hit.
Eating cool or hot foods now adds temperature over time instead of all at once.
Moles are now nocturnal
Tuned day lengths.
Updated the .pot files needed for translations.
Added No Day, No Dusk and No Night world customization options.
Made some changes to how WX reacts to wetness/ electric damage.
Removed the light from the heat rock.
Moved electrical doodad to the science tab.
Hot/ Cold animations now trigger sooner.
Heat rock will not cool below 0 degrees while in an icebox now.
Increased the damage on smothering smoldering items.
Hot foods now cool off over time.
Moggles can no longer be repaired.
 
Bug Fixes:
 
Fix for stewers spitting out rot sometimes.
Dragonfly will no longer get stuck if attacked while eating.
Added the "animal" tag to some creatures to fix some targeting issues.
Moggles no longer allow time travel.
Fixed a crash in deciduous tree.
Fix for deciduous trees going into the wrong season state.