Core Keeper (Switch): all the updates (latest: Ver. 1.0.1)

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Core Keeper – Ver. 1.0.1

• Release date: November 13th/14th 2024
• Patch notes:

Gameplay:

• Added 3 new minion tomes.
• It’s now possible to resize the affected area of shovels, water cans, hoes, and of the Roofing Gadget.
• Crafting stations can now pick up materials from chests within a 10-tile radius (chests no longer need to be directly next to the crafting station).
• Mural doors (Melody, Worship, and Mold Doors) can now be destroyed.
• Signs can now display text visually within the world, and players can toggle between visibility modes.
• New Aquarium and Terrarium objects added for base decoration.
• New loot chest for Malugaz added.
• New Coral and Galaxite Doors added.
• Workbenches are now salvageable.
• There are now dungeons leading up to the fight against Azeos the Sky Titan, Omoroth the Sea Titan and Ra-Akar the Sand Titan.
• Shift clicking items within the player inventory now moves them to the first available hotbar slot.
• It’s now possible to equip gear and items directly from the hotbar.
• Poison/Slippery Slime enemies now have neutral behavior and are no longer initially hostile.
• The Proficient Jewelry Workbench now has the option to select the Jewelry Workbench in its UI to allow for crafting earlier tiered items.
• The Distillery Table now has the option to select the Alchemist’s Table in its UI to allow for crafting earlier tiered items.
• Added boss damage bonus to character stat window.

Other:

• Wood Bridges are now hand-crafted items instead of being crafted in the Basic Workbench.
• A message is now displayed to communicate when enemy difficulty is scaled after a new player joins the session.
• The bottom wood root that gets attached to the Core when grown was moved one tile. It is now possible to plant it once again after it is broken.
• The cursor now stays centred at the same world position when zooming in or out on the in-game map.
• A simplified aim cursor now replaces the arrow when aiming with ranged weapons.
• Added square and cross-shaped patterns for naturally-spawning explosive walls.
• Minimap now shows nearby markers.
• Creative UI is now enabled by default in Creative mode.
• Added visual and sound effects when using permanent maximum health items for the first time to provide clear feedback when they are used.
• Increased randomness of unique dungeon placement for different world seeds. For example, the Glurch arena should no longer always appear south-west of The Core.
• The map biome title now updates quicker when moving between biomes that have already been encountered.
• Fixed a few text and translation issues.

Graphics:

• Wood Doors, Wood Fences, Wood Fence Gates and Robot Arms are now paintable.
• It is now possible to rotate Mannequins.
• Added visual cue for when minions are about to despawn.
• Updated minion count icon.
• Buckets now glow when carrying lava, sea water, or crystal water.
• Updated Azeos the Sky Titan’s visuals.

Game Balance:

• Rune Song sword rework:
• Buffed: heal on hit from 3 to 10;
• Added: 5% chance to gain a short 50% attack speed bonus;
• A secondary use attack that creates a trail that does damage, with 25% chance to stun;
• Removed: hp increase and chance to oneshot weak enemies.
• Fishing bait recipes have been updated to include critters.
• Adjusted spawn rate of Caveling Toilets in the Forgotten Ruins.
• Slightly adjusted damage caused by Orbital Turrets in the Shimmering Frontier.
• Slightly tweaked the amount of roots that naturally spawn in the world.
• Slightly tweaked the amount of Sledge Hammers that would spawn in the Metropolis area.
• Adjusted the prices of scanners and summoning items.
• Worm enemies now leave walls a bit slower.

Performance:

• Improved performance when initializing random number generators.
• Improved performance on boss systems.
• Reduced the number of empty entity archetypes that are created when the game loads. This improves performance when processing entities during runtime.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where the “Large Harvest” was not being applied properly.
• Fixed gray lines weirdly placed on top of Easter Egg Lamps.
• Fixed issue where some workbenches were showing the wrong rotation sprites.
• Fixed issue where some painted Wood Stools sprites were slightly misaligned.
• Fixed issue where the aggro range from Slime Bosses was a bit too small.
• The hint text when writing on signs is now correctly disabled when the sign contains any text.
• Fixed issue where minions would disappear before playing despawn animations.
• Directly interacting with placed levers or circuits should now properly update the state of these items on the server.
• Fixed & mitigated issues with colliders not getting enabled correctly around enemies after nearby spawns.
• Fixed several cases where dungeons would spawn too close together and partially overwrite each other.
• Fixed pedestals in a Temple scene in the Wilderness so that they’re generated with the correct amount of items.
• The Crystal biome is now affected by the Ore Density world setting.
• Fixed pushback on parry not working.
• Chests that can float on water (Floating Titan’s Chest, Crydra Chest and Atlantean Worm Chest) are no longer misplaced for one frame when placed.
• Boss summoning items are no longer lost if they are broken the moment before the boss spawns.
• Minions should no longer be despawned as a result of other players spawning new minions.

• Additional notes: none
• Source: Fireshine Games (Steam)

How to download updates for Core Keeper for the Nintendo Switch?

To download the updates for Core Keeper, 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;

OR

• 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.