Atomicrops (Switch): all the updates (latest: Ver. 1.6.1 / Next: Ver. 1.7.0)

On this page, you will find all there is to know about the various updates for Atomicrops on Nintendo Switch (originally released on May 28th 2020 in Europe and North America, and September 17th 2020 in Japan)!

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Atomicrops – Ver. 1.7.0

Release date: TBA
Patch notes:

NEW CONTENT

Added ‘Classic Mode’ – Miss seed scrolls? Hate that nerdy worm? Enjoy all the new content and bug fixes in Deerly Beloved, but with the classic farming system. Compete against other classic enthusiast in separate Classic Leaderboards.

To enable Classic Mode, interact with the Phonograph near the Dailies Butterfly. Note: there is no classic mode for Oregacrow.

Balance, Changes & Tweaks

Balancing: Butcher’s Bayonet does more damage and always drops 1-4 fertilizer

Bug fix: Zombies can now damage player

Bug fix: Fixed frog shop not refreshing properly between runs

Additional notes: none.
Source: Bird Bath Games (Steam)

Atomicrops – Ver. 1.6.1

Release date: ???
Patch notes:

Atomicrops – Ver. 1.6.0

Release date: ???
Patch notes:

General

Big crop system rework with lots of new upgrades

Flowers and Sunflower Seeds do much more damage during final boss fight

Turret Stakes will no longer drop from large bulbs camps, it will drop from common upgrade camps

Chrono Weeds as 0.15 seconds, up from 0.1 seconds

Infinite fertilizer effects also cause player to fertilize at maximum speed

Removed Chrono Seeds

Made Cornucopias slightly easier to get during surplus mode

Updated car camps

Added new rewards to gambling shop and reduced its initial cost

Furryosa, Norman, and Borage’s wedding ring no longer causes a specific crop to grow instantly. They now have a 10% chance to instantly mature crops when they merge into large crops in specific biomes.

reduced growth speed bonus from Nitro from 10x to 7x

Updated moist tile art so it can still be seen when a crop is planted on it

Two new deervil upgrades

Base watering speed increased by 25%

Reduced health drops from Wasps, Vultures, Owls, and Lizards by half

Improved animations when harvesting fruit from trees

Can now show/hid info screen while in the loot selection screen

Reduced chance wacker tractor will drop a tree seed

Increased drop rate from Succulent Weeds upgrade

King Squirrel drops 100 seeds instead of upgrade seeds

Reduced tree drop chance

Tilling soil action will no longer automatically chain into ‘use pickaxe’ action with a single button hold to avoid accidental pickaxe usage

Sowing action for any seed will no longer automatically chain into sowing for a different seed with a single button hold to avoid accidental usage of a seed

‘Cut weed’ action and ‘Till Soil’ actions are the only actions that will chain together with a single button hold

Improved art for elite skull attack

Upgrades that appear in the special festival shop have a chance to appear again later
control glyphs for inventory HUD only show up in season 1 year 1

Bug Fixes

Bug Fix – oregano seeds will no longer be sold in shops or found in place of upgrades when playing as crow

Bug Fix – bats will no longer get stuck in walls

Bug Fix – level 2 berry sprites will display again (they have been displaying as level 1 sprites)

Bug Fix – the mayor now celebrates during the season festival

Bug Fix – when playing as Rye, squirrel gun and butcher knife will get 2 bonus mods if player has acquired the relevant ant upgrades

Bug Fix – Mortar Bundits no longer have infinite range

Bug Fix – Burn damage will no longer cause random direction knockback on enemies

Bug Fix – fixed a visual bug that caused player to water crops randomly from across the map and caused animals and turrets to water crops without the relevant upgrades

bug fix – large cat statue can no longer be built by completing a daily

Bug Fix – Enemies in camps now have their positions reset each morning – this will reduce instances of enemies disappearing from camps, leaving them unable to be completed

Bug Fix – After losing fertilizing hamster, fertilizer originates from player’s position

Bug Fix – farm animals now face the correct direction while moving

Bug Fix – Soup Thermos was not working – it is now setup properly and works

Bug Fix – Minimap no longer has a distant spot revealed when player enters a room like the Deervil Den

Bug Fix – Fixed a bug that caused the hummingbird’s ability to be identical to the Bee’s ability. The Hummingbird now boosts neighboring crops, which is its intended behavior. (oops)

bug fix – Fixed Ornithumpters explosion position

bug fix – Ornithumpters idle properly when not attacking

Bug Fix – can no longer move during boss intros

Bug Fix – Enemy aggro state resets properly when level loads. This will reduce the chance that an enemy vanishes from a camp, leaving it unable to be completed

Bug Fix – Updated Sprinkler Head and Growth Aura description to specify that scarecrows also gain the effect

Bug Fix – Fixed final boss death animation when surplus mode is not unlocked setup deervil death animation

Bug Fix – Possibly fixed bug that caused gun to stop firing

Additional notes: none.
Source: Bird Bath Games (Steam)

Atomicrops – Ver. 1.5.3

Release date: February 10th 2022 (North America, Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Changes

Changed color of shadow vulture in desert zone 2 so it’s easier to see

Added Deervil Den to minimap

The Gopher holes near the bridges in farthest biomes open automatically as soon as player enters for any reason

Sprout Energy rework – Holds 3 charges, Blast is larger. Charge does not disappear when going to/from town or saving/loading.

Golden Goose drops more fertilizer and drops a lesser pigeon scroll

Added rewards to season tally

Removed scrolls from the gold and silver large bulb loot pool

Balance

Decreased difficulty of elite snowmen – they have slightly less health, bullet spread, and speed

Raised max chickens from 20 to 26 and increased egg value from 10 to 15

Whiskey Shot recharges tractor 35 seconds instead of 20 seconds

Reduced Mushroom boss reproduction rate and max mushrooms for later years

Reduced worm boss movement speed

Slug Blood Moon – decreased spawn chance for fire and banana slugs

Carrot Tractor no longer drops seeds

Carrot Tractor drops less fertilizer

Carrot Tractor combo window gets shorter each subsequent combo

Increased Sprinkler Tractor seed duplicating radius by 50%

Bug Fix

Fixed bug that would allow player to enter deervil den while being grabbed by the boss warp hole which would cause the game to softlock

Fixed bug that would apply surplus points to next run

Fixed bug that would cause Reptilian Solstice to add time to next run

Resilience can no longer cause crops to spread under Turrets when player has Turret Stakes

Fixed possible error when farm has too many crops

Fixed an issue that could cause Sprout Energy to not damage enemies

Fixed possible error when married to Waterchris

“Auto shoot while farming” option – when farming button is pressed/released it does not disrupt shooting if the shooting button is being held

Improved Golden Goose hitbox Balance

Golden Goose plays hit animation correctly –

Beeson Whisper now applies to beeson that are currently on screen

Moon can no longer be trapped in Deervil’s den

Fixed Hotwire and Whiskey Shot interaction – Damage taken from Hotwire properly adds a charge if player has Whiskey Shot

Additional notes: the release date is for the PC version of the update!
Source: Bird Bath Games (Steam)

Atomicrops – Ver. 1.5.0

Release date: May 25th 2022 (North America, Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Balance, Changes & Tweaks

Gun System Reworked – Guns no longer break, purchased guns are bundled with health and stats, guns have 4 tiers of rarity.

“Gun Repair” stat is now “Gun bonus mod – Chance that a new gun will have a bonus mod.”

Some meta upgrades that relate to past gun system now contribute to the new ‘Gun Bonus Mod’ stat.

Improved gun info display in info screen.

Greatly reduced how many pigeon scrolls can be held at once initially. Farming stat increases pigeon capacity.

Scrolls can be used anywhere – including in town. When used in town, they are queued and processed upon returning to farm.

Pigeons appear more often.

Pigeons cost less in shops.

Passages between biomes that require flying contain loot. Gain a speed boost while traversing the passages.

New gameplay toggle option – Player automatically fires at closest enemy while doing farming tasks.

New SMG mod – Deal damage to recharge tractor faster

New Shotgun mod – Increased range.

New Squirrel gun mod – Squirrel ammo drops.

New Butcher knife mod – Dual wield.

New Assault Rifle mod – More fertilizer drops.

New Flamethrower mods – Some enemies drop fuel – 50% increased damage – Flamethrower with water mod now has blue flames.

New Blunderbloom mod – Shots drop ammo replenishing flowers.

New Jackrabbit mod – Range.

Biodegrader ground fire FX are visually more subtle to improve readability.

Shotgun toxic spores are visually more subtle to improve readability.

Reduced flash intensity of loot.

Crampons consider chance to create moist soil.

Golden Goose can no longer be shielded by elites.

Sowing is about 30% faster.

Mole holes only close during boss fights.

Bug fixes & QoL Improvements

Bug Fix – Localization – fixed missing localization for ‘offer’ above stat select shrines.

Bug Fix – Fixed text issue with cat plush bonus display in the cat UI.

Bug Fix – Farm animals should now respect the town colliders.

Bug Fix – Killing the boss during its intro sequence will no longer soft lock the game.

Bug Fix – Soft Fur now works after the first run without a game restart.

Bug Fix – Player can now skip season tally after the rewards meter has been filled and the remaining points are tallying.

Bug Fix – Watering will stop when using a hole to return to biomes. Watering will stop when leaving farm zone. Random watering from across the map should no longer happen.

Bug Fix – Crops that merge on moist soil will no longer sometimes display a water symbol when they don’t need water.

Additional notes: none.
Source: Bird Bath Games (Steam)

Atomicrops – Ver. 1.4.1

Release date: September 1st 2021 (North America, Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Player moves faster in farmhouse lobby level (where the cats live).

Game sounds no longer sometimes play in pause menu.

Music volume decreases to 10% while in pause menu.

Bug Fix – fixed possible error while using Cat UI.

Bug Fix – fixed possible error during final boss fight.

Bug Fix – maybe fixed possible error when daily run timer resets in farmhouse.

Bug Fix – Fixed possible error when Borage does watering work.

Bug Fix – fixed possible error when viewing leaderboards.

Bug Fix – Fixed possible error when fighting final boss.

Bug Fix – fixed error when exiting run during boss intro.

Bug Fix – Fix possible error when using the minimap.

Bug Fix – fixed possible error when loading into town.

Bug Fix – fixed possible error while fighting alien boss.

Bug Fix – fixed possible error when viewing leaderboards.

Additional notes: the release date is for the PC version of the update!
Source: Bird Bath Games (Steam)

Atomicrops – Ver. 1.4.0 (Feline Good Update)

Release date: July 8th 2021 (North America, Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

New Content

New Achievements.

Added Farm timelapse to end of round screen.

Added Elite enemies that appear in increasing frequency after year 3.

Surplus – a short mode after defeating the final boss to flex your farming power and gain more cornucopias and increase your score. Unlocked after year 3.

Cat Plushies – Collect cat plushies to gain permanent stat bonuses.

New stat: “Homing Pigeon” – Chance for pigeon to return when used.

New stat: “Jump Start” – Chance to gain a charge immediately after using a tractor.

Added more permanent upgrades to Ants.

Added animal counts to info/inventory screen.

New top tier cats that unlock challenges

Balance, Changes & Tweaks

Removed ambient vegetaskulls (purple skulls) from later years.

Improved victory screen.

Improved selecting cats in the Atomicats UI left panel with mouse.

Player can now press and hold to buy tier 1 cats, upgrade cats and reroll cats.

Cat UI now remembers selection of ‘Upgrade’ and ‘Reroll’ button so they can be spammed.

Victory screen art varies based on year.

Balanced season harvest reward requirements.

In the victory/game over screen, the online/local leaderboard tab selection state will be remembered between runs.

Renamed ‘Motivator’ to ‘Carrot Tractor’ Carrot Tractor rework – new description: “Become invincible for 2 seconds. Energizes all friends and turrets. Holds two charges. Summon a new Carrot Tractor as another Carrot Tractor is dying for bonus invincibility time.”

Reduced cost of upgrading and rerolling cats.

Reduced cost of tier 1 cat Increased chance of acquiring better tier cats as a victory reward.

Tier 6 cats are possible to gain as a victory reward.

Luck affects chances for higher tier cats as victory reward.

Harvest Shield and Sow Shield destroy vegetaskulls.

Roach bodies no longer deal damage.

Red circle damage indicators adjusted for players feet.

Player can now stand near red circle indicators and not receive damage if feet are not in the circle.

Gamble shop can now drop top tier pigeon scrolls, farm animals, pickaxes, and fertilizer.

Gamble shop good items are much rarer.

Gamble shop cost increases 2 times faster per use.

Balance – Reduced player’s hitbox by 30%.

Balance – Reduced speed of all beeson and clamped their max speed so they will no longer snap back to group at unreasonable speeds.

Balance – Toned down bat movement in later years.

Balance – Reduced luck’s affect on health drops.

Balance – Limited max number of slugs that the Slug Boss can spawn.

Balance – Megaton Tractor can no longer kill some tree monsters in one hit.

Balance – Reduced heart beet drop chance each year.

Balance – Snail boss – Increased knockback distance required for snail boss to break away from consuming crops.

Balance – Psychoactive Weeds (Cutting weeds decreases enemy bullet speed and increases move speed) reduces bullet speed by 50% instead of 70%.

Balance – Psychoactive Weeds effect is shorter and requires more weeds or flowers to reach max effect duration.

Balance – Lard (Reduce enemy bullet speeds.) reduces enemy bullet speed by 20% instead of 30%. Balance – Reduced enemy bullet speed no longer effects enemy bullet range for most bullets.

Balance – Lard and Psychoactive Weeds together no longer reduce enemy bullet speed to nearly zero.

Balance – Reduced health of final boss by 20% in later years.

Balance – Difficulty of final boss fight ramps up faster.

Balance – Demon Vegetables during final boss fight fire lines of bullets and have increased range in later years.

Balance – “Soil pH Meter” now does: “Weeds that grow on soil have a 50% chance to be a flower instead.”

Bug Fixes & QoL Improvements

Bug Fix – Maybe fixed a bug that would cause some enemies to spawn next to player, leaving no time to react. If it still happens, please let us know!

Bug Fix – Fixed possible bug that would cause beeson to lag behind group and snap back to group at high speeds.

Bug fix – Fixed misplaced tree in farmhouse.

Bug Fix – Drones and friends will no longer attack bats that aren’t aggro.

Bug Fix – Art – Fixed sorting issues with some cats.

Bug Fix – Player can no longer receive damage when the boss warp hole grabs the player.

Bug Fix – Can no longer use tractors in Deervil Room

Bug Fix – Sowing seeds will no longer be cancelled by weed growth.

Bug Fix – Tractors no longer charge while in deervil room.

Bug Fix – Coffee Cup (Become energized by killing enemies) now works properly with all guns and player abilities.

Bug Fix – Tractor Boss can no longer leave a tire behind when killed.

Bug Fix – Volcano and Cherry Bomb explosion hitbox matches damage indicator correctly.

Bug Fix – Entering Deer room now pauses night progression and the dawn helicopter.

Bug Fix – Dandelion collectables properly increase a random stat.

Additional notes: the release date is for the PC version of the update!
Source: Bird Bath Games (Steam)

Atomicrops – Ver. 1.3.2

Release date: May 10th 2021 (North America, Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Bug fix – fixed issue that could cause leaderboard display name clashes with display names on other platforms.

Additional notes: the release date is for the PC version of the update!
Source: Bird Bath Games (Steam)

Atomicrops – Ver. 1.3.1

Release date: April 28th 2021 (North America, Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Bug Fix – Fixed issue that caused multiple eligibles to stack in town after loading a save file

Additional notes: the release date is for the PC version of the update!
Source: Bird Bath Games (Steam)

Atomicrops – Ver. 1.3.0 (Doom and Bloom Update

Release date: April 15th 2021 (North America, Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

New Content

New Location: Deervil’s Den. Offers unique upgrades that grant immense power, at a huge cost.

New Tractor: Motivator – Become invincible for 5 seconds. Enemies in an area drop fertilizer and seeds. Energizes all friends and turrets. Holds two charges.

New Item – Top tier Rain Cloud Pigeon (Spring Rain): Boost and water all crops. Grow flowers. Moisten soil.

Added Flowers – Tired of weeds? Turn them in to flowers! These beautiful plants can be harvested for a profit and are brought to your farm through a number of new upgrades. To harvest, simply walk over them or use the harvest button.

Deervil Upgrade – Crops grow 10x faster but ignite when thirsty

Deervil Upgrade – Crops don’t need water but more moles and they appear at night. Effect ends when damage is taken

Deervil Upgrade – Infinite fertilizer but wasp pursue player, effect ends when damage taken

Deervil Upgrade – Lose all max heart beets except one. Gain X heart beet seeds for each max heart beet lost.

Deervil Upgrade – Tomorrow is 2x longer but a lizard will pursue you all day.

New Upgrade – Cows can produce milk

New Upgrade – Cows block bullets and drop fertilizer when bullet is blocked

New Upgrade – Cows move faster and hold more water

New Upgrade – Nasal spray – pigs can find truffles

New Upgrade – Pigs till Moist Soil: Crops remove moisture from soil for first watering. While soil is moist, crops grow very fast.

New Upgrade – Pigs move faster

New Upgrade – Bees turn weeds into flowers

New Upgrade – Chickens have 50% chance to turn weed to flower.

New Upgrade – Flowers on Damage taken

New Upgrade – Flowers on Kill

New Upgrade – Pigs have turrets on their backs

New Upgrade – Cows have turrets on their backs

New Upgrade – Weeds grow and spread faster

New Upgrade – Weeds don’t grow on soil

New Upgrade – Flowers grow on soil instead of weeds

New Upgrade – Energize friends on damage

New Upgrade – Energize friends on scroll, tractor when energized

New Upgrade – Pet farm animals to energize them

New Upgrade – Some old weeds become flowers

New Upgrade – Scarecrows sometimes energize friends

New Upgrade – Scarecrows grow pumpkins

New Upgrade – Heart beets grow instantly and gain a heart beet

New Upgrade – Turrets and scarecrows can be deployed on hard crust

New Upgrade – Daily upgrade

New Upgrade – Always energized when at low health

New Upgrade – Continually energize friends when at low health

New Upgrade – Shoot bullet when fertilizer or seed gathered

New Upgrade – Mysterious flower (that resurrects player)

New Upgrade – Weeds have a higher chance to drop fertilize and seeds

Several New Upgrades that add 2 or 3 of specific animals, turrets, or drones

Balance Changes & Tweaks

Balance – Slightly less moles in year 1

Balance – Increased level 2 mole health

Balance – Reduced the speed at which wasp enters screen Wasp – no longer charges from offscreen

Balance – Wasps bunch up less

Balance – Hippie always turns weeds to flowers

Balance – All zaps damage enemies for 25% of current health instead of 50%

Balance – Norman’s enemy slow effect lasts 7 seconds instead of 5

Balance – Weeds appear more often and spread from old weeds faster

Balance – Weeds have higher chance to drop fertilizer and seeds

Balance – Reworked item pools – some upgrades that only appeared in certain shops will now appear everywhere.

Balance – Removed Early to Rose and Chill Beets (add time on rose/heart beet harvest) from golden bulb loot drop pool added horse to golden bulb loot drop pool

Balance – Reduced stats from rings when married

Balance – Increased rose cost per relationship level with eligibles

Balance – Reworked special loot pool and festival special shop

Balance – Reworked garden shop – sometimes sells rare items at a high price

Balance – Doubled Final Boss Health

Balance – Snail boss is more resistant to burning damage

Balance – One less upgrade camp in the world

Balance – Increased eligible rose count requirements

Balance – After year 1 guns and gun upgrade costs scale by season

Balance – Small change to season tally rewards – Small chance to get a farm animal or scroll instead of an upgrade

Balance – “Fertilizer on damage taken” upgrade drops much more fertilizer

Balance – Butterfly from “butterfly when tiling” upgrade flies twice as fast and goes much further

Balance – Mammoths from the level 2 plains move at same speed as bulls from level 1 plains to reduce unfair and unavoidable damage

Balance – Sprinkler Tractor will never duplicate heart beets or roses. Reduced chance to duplicate pumpkins and sunflowers.

Balance – Changed Hotwire to “Can use tractors before they are ready but doing so has %50 chance to damage you.”

Balance – Megaton Tractor can no longer kill worm boss in 1 hit

Balance – Collectible friendly worms in soil disappear after 10 seconds if not collected.

Balance – Fat Grub (Tilling soil has a chance to drop seeds and fertilizer.) always drops fertilize when breaking crust

Balance – High tier seed pigeon scroll will no longer sow roses

Balance – Increased Wacker Tractor’s cooldown from 100 seconds to 120 seconds

Balance – Bees no longer boost sunflower growth rate

Balance – Dovecote can now drop higher tier scrolls

Balance – Moved Horse, Double-Edged Watering Can, and Backup Generator from the Golden Bulb item pool to the main pool

Balance – Moved Fertile Eggs to the Golden Bulb item pool

Bug Fixes & QoL Improvements

Improved crop and scarecrow collision – collision is softer and player is less likely to get stuck

Fertilizer dispenses onto crops much faster when player has high amounts of fertilizer

Recharge tractor mushroom will always add an extra charge to the tractor even if the tractor is holding max charges.

The harvest control (the circle that expands from the player to harvest crops) now harvests eggs and other objects that are harvestable

Ground Splats disappear much faster to avoid covering up farm tiles for too long

UI – Improved tractor ui to support displaying many charges

UI – Tractor UI color tweak to make loading bars more clear

Bug Fix – Fixed issue with player movement collision which would cause dandelion to get stuck on corners

Bug Fix – Drones and followers will choose more targets – but still will try not to aggro camps

Bug Fix – The zapping cloud drone now zaps all the enemies it should be zapping

Bug Fix – Butterfly when tilling + extra soil tilled will no longer cause 3 butterflies to spawn

Bug Fix – Turret placement indicator updates when inventory is changed

Bug Fix – Fixed cactus enemy collider size

Bug Fix – Graphics – fixed z fighting on ground blood splats

Bug Fix – Fixed shield bundits not blinking white when hit

Bug Fix – Graphics – no ghosting when objects are behind fully fertilized crops

Bug Fix – Megaton tractor can no longer kill the moon

Bug Fix – Eggs no longer work with the Double Cream Upgrade (Foraging berries charges tractor)

Bug Fix – Bundits will always play running animation when they return to their camps

Bug Fix – fixed issue with placing trees using a controller

Bug Fix – If there are no more weeds, chickens will wander instead of stand still

Additional notes: the release date is for the PC version of the update!
Source: Bird Bath Games (Steam)

Atomicrops – Ver. 1.2.1

Release date: January 13th 2021 (North America, Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Changes

Added a confirmation dialog when abandoning a run from the Farmhouse

Gopher holes near bridges open when boss walls are disabled after defeating a boss

Added slight delay after intro before Snail Boss starts shooting

Minor graphics sorting fixes

Balance Changes

Sprinkler Tractor – it now always drops a seed from each plot that has a crop on it. 3% chance for trees, heart beets and roses and 30% chance for pumpkins and sunflowers to drop a duplicate seed, otherwise they drop a random regular seed. All regular seeds always drop a duplicate.

Sprinkler Tractor – reduced radius for seed drop.

Sprinkler tractor will play a sparkly FX if a tree or special crop drops a duplicate seed. Otherwise it plays a lesser FX if a regular seed is dropped.

Removed 2 thorns from item pool, there is now only one thorn

Thorn rotates faster

Thorn orbits slightly closer to player

Slightly reduced size of the Worm Boss’ colliders

Bug Fixes

Bug Fix – Boss wall will disable when defeating Alien Boss

Bug Fix – all crops are instantly matured and harvested at the end of winter properly

Bug Fix – fixed broken Tractor UI while in town

Bug Fix – fixed issue that could break character selection menu functionality related to Robusta

Bug Fix – gophers face the player

Bug Fix – fixed issue which might have caused music to stop playing when fighting the Worm Boss

Bug Fix – stability issues related to camp spawningactive.

Additional notes: the release date is for the PC version of the update!
Source: Bird Bath Games (Steam)

Atomicrops – Ver. 1.2.0 (Invasive Species Update)

Release date: December 17th 2020 (North America, Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

New Content

New Boss: Unfriendly Worm

New Boss: U.F.B.

New Boss: The Spore You Know

New Boss: Itsy Bitsy

Rare Blood Moon nights where new vicious enemies will swarm your farm. Watch out, lest you lose your entire harvest!

New Alien Ant featuring additional permanent upgrades.

New Scroll: Blood Spell: Fertilize all crops and all nearby enemies bleed fertilizer.

New Scroll: Cataclysm: Cut hundreds of weeds, damage all enemies, expand farmable land and till soil.

10 New Achievements to put your skills to the test and let you unlock Topiaries.

Topiaries – Unlock achievements to gain topiaries on your farmhouse. Topiaries provide permanent bonuses.

Added Mandarin Chinese voice over to intro cinematic when game language is set to Chinese.

Changes

The wall that surrounds your farm on boss nights disables when boss is defeated.

While sowing, if a special seed (heart beet, sunflower, rose etc.) is auto-selected, you must now click/press again to continue sowing. This should reduce accidental sowing of precious seeds.

Expanded the area in which Pigeon Scrolls can be used.

After year 1 slugs shoot at player when there are no planted crops.

Time mushroom popup text now displays how much time is added.

Art – added visual FX when crops die from burning.

Sound – reduced assault rifle’s volume by 50%.

Balance Changes

Balance – Increased tree fertilizer requirements – small trees require 12, large trees require 32.

Balance – Butcher’s Knife – increased fertilizer drop chance and fertilizer drop amount.

Balance – Improved Jackrabbit – faster reload and damage scales better with Fight Stat.

Balance – Increased Sriracha Soaker fuel capacity.

Balance – Reduced Sriracha Soaker max stacks – less effective against bosses.

Balance – Reduced Cattling Gun’s damage bonus from Fight Stat.

Balance – Slightly reduced Cattling Gun’s rate of fire mod bonus.

Balance – Reduced Parsniper Rifle’s damage bonus from Fight Stat.

Balance – Reduced Parsniper Rifle’s Headshot mod crit chance and crit damage bonus.

Balance – Enemies won’t spawn until after the boss intro.

Balance – Increased Megaton Tractor damage radius.

Balance – Bundertaker – random bunny holes will periodically spawn.

Balance – Bundertaker – added anticipation before shooting.

Balance – Bundertaker – wider movement range.

Balance – Bundertaker – balanced bunny and bunny hole spawn rates.

Balance – Bundertaker – bullets are faster and more spread out.

Balance – Bundertaker – less enemies spawn.

Bug Fixes

Bug fix – added sound to all gun purchases and seed bag purchases.

Bug fix – Catling Gun will hopefully not break audio anymore.

Bug fix – Beeson level 2 and 3 drop better seeds – they were previously not dropping any seeds.

Bug fix – fixed possible Megaton Tractor mismatch between damage and widget.

Bug fix – fixed sorting issue with fruits on trees.

Bug fix – fix squirrel gun bullets playing sounds every frame when passing through walls.

Bug fix – reduce fertilizer drop from Bramblemancer’s bramble patches when fertilizer mushroom is active.

Additional notes: the release date is for the PC version of the update!
Source: Bird Bath Games (Steam)

Atomicrops – Ver. 1.1.15

Release date: October 15th 2020 (North America, Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Added an auto-aim option for controllers (you can disable this if you like!)

Bug Fix: During the final boss fight, sometimes the Demon Vegetable’s large radial explosion attack indicator would disappear resulting in unavoidable damage

Bug Fix: fixed text in permanent upgrade list UI

Additional notes: the release date is for the PC version of the update!
Source: Bird Bath Games (Steam)

Atomicrops – Ver. 1.1.2

Release date: October 5th 2020 (North America, Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Added missing localizations for 6 upgrades

Balance – Increased Rye’s gun repair chance to 50% from 25%

Balance – Desert Shadow Vultures charge slower and charge from closer range to make them more predictable and fair

Bug Fix – Fixed issue with Thorns not damaging some enemies

Additional notes: the release date is for the PC version of the update!
Source: Bird Bath Games (Steam)

Atomicrops – Ver. 1.1.11

Release date: September 23rd 2020 (North America, Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

New Content

Added a new secret achievement

Balance

Greatly improved the cat reward for beating year 8, 9, and 10

Flying skulls that fly vertically spawn 20% less

Upgrades that slow enemy bullet speed cause skulls to spawn less frequently which prevents them from bunching up

Enemy bullets and skulls are 25% slower when moving vertically to help prevent unfair damage when player is moving up or down

Reduced crop collider sizes by 50% and fit them better to the crops.

Fixes

Fixed an issue which would cause player to frequently get stuck on corners when moving diagonally – moving through crops should be more smooth now

Additional notes: the release date is for the PC version of the update!
Source: Bird Bath Games (Steam)

Atomicrops – Ver. ??? (Thyme Flies update)

Release date: September 17th 2020 (North America, Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

New Content

New Character: Dandelion – Flying. Starts with Cleats and Crampons, unique movement system.

New Character: Thyme – Days are longer, lose time when damaged. Starts with a pig.

New Weapon: Flamethrower – Lights enemies on fire (and crops, unless you’re careful).

New Weapon: Catling Gun – Aim, hold the trigger and watch things die.

New Weapon: Biodegrader – Flings massive explosives for great area damage.

New Tractor: Tunneler Tractor – Creates a tunnel back to your farm or breaks a crust if already on the farm.

New Upgrade: Fraidy Fert – Create fertilizer when damaged

New Upgrade: Early to Rose – Harvesting Roses increase day length

New Upgrade: Chill Beets – Harvesting Heart Beets increase day length

New Upgrade: Chrono Seeds – Sowing seeds increase day length

New Upgrade: Chrono Weeds – Cutting weeds increase day length

New Upgrade: Hotwire – No tractor cooldown but 25% chance to take damage when using a tractor

New Upgrade: Beet Drop – 25% chance to drop a Heart Beet Seed when damaged

New Upgrade: Duck Wings – Fly! (allows player to pass to zones without repairing bridges and allows them to traverse connecting passages to other zones)

New Upgrade: Bundit’s Foot – Increases luck by 50%

New Upgrade: Daily Orchard – Gain a tree every day.

New Upgrade: Shroom-mates – Mushrooms grow near the well every day.

New Permanent Upgrades – added 12 new permanent upgrades

Online Leaderboards

Daily Runs

Definitely didn’t add a secret reward which only the very best players will unlock. (PS: Remove from patch notes. We shouldn’t tease them like this.

Nobody is even gonna be able to unlock this, it’s so difficult.)

Added new tutorial popups

Added Key Rebinding

Added Streamer Mode: Replaces all leaderboard names with friendly names

Balance

Year 1 has been made easier.

Heart Beets now drop as seeds, requiring you to farm them to gain health.

Buffed Sniper Rifle damage

Increased health of tree monsters

Increased health of Gatling Gun Bundits

Reduced Rain Cloud scroll duration by half

Final boss now drops Cornucopias

Final Boss skull spawn rate ramps up slower on year 10

Final boss has less health on year 10

Misc.

When planting final crop in a 2×2 arrangement with controller, the final crop will snap into place to avoid misplacement

Additional notes: the release date is for the PC version of the update!
Source: Bird Bath Games (Steam)

How to download updates for Atomicrops for the Nintendo Switch?

To download the updates for Atomicrops, you have three options:

let the console do its thing if you have automatic downloads activated, and didn’t completely turn it off

If not…

try to launch the game from the Home Menu while being connected to the internet. You should get a prompt when doing so: simply follow the instructions on screen;

select the game > press either + or – to go to the Options page > select Software update > select Via the Internet.

To check that you have the latest version installed, simply select the game on the Home Menu, and press – or + to go to the Options: the version number is displayed just below the game title.