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Highlights

New features

• Gene analyzer: allows you to analyze plant genetic material without the requirement to pull out tables and repetitively try and search for genes
• Gamemodes: saves now default to Gardener (regular gamemode), but new saves can be set to Geneticist to disable money
• Inventory system: chartreu now have backpacks, which provide up to 8 utility slots which they can use, press Q to open a radial menu of things
• Dedicated grab key: press G to grab and drop items on the ground
• Compressed save files: game save files are now compressed by default
• Mutations: mutations can cause radical changes to occur within a gene, genetic instability is the chance of mutations to occur, which can rise with inbreeding or external factors
• Settings: you can now customize your settings, enable/disable autosave, tweak resolution, etc
• Grass: beautiful grass is now available for chartreu to walk on
• Music and Sounds: six new tracks (4 gameplay 2 menu) have been added to the game, composed by @pigeonbeans on Soundcloud, and several other sound effects to common item interactions have been added

Minor changes

• Credits have been added on the main screen
• Plant data backend has been overhauled to support the addition of more genes easily
• Petal color gene has been divided into 3 genes (for HSV)
• Petal angle, scale and stem width genes have been added
• Pots now snap to the build grid
• Interact system now factors in distance with dots.
• Trowels can now take soil from other pots, and can now uproot plants if dirt isn’t within it
• Interaction backend has been overhauled
• Minor UI theme changes (notably to font size)
• Movement has been polished, tapping WASD will cause chartreu to look at the direction rather than moving toward it immediately - this can be tuned in settings (under DAS)
• A command line argument has been added to instantly load into a savefile (—savefile).
• Minor ambient occlusion has been added to make the game look less flat.
• Plant buyer buy time extended from 10:00 to 15:00 Bug fixes:
• Fixed a plethora of crashes especially related to seeds
• Fixed delete save button not deleting the save
• The game now uses Jolt Physics rather than the default Godot physics for stability.
• The plant buyer has an improved color comparison algorithm.
• Drying time has been tweaked to be more fun.
• Saving and other serialization have been refactored to allow easier migration from now on. Old save files cannot be ported over.