Ultimate Chicken Horse (Switch): all the updates (latest: Ver. 1.10.06)

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On this page, you will find all there is to know about the various updates for Ultimate Chicken Horse on Nintendo Switch (originally released on September 25th 2018 in Europe, North America, and Japan)!

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Ultimate Chicken Horse – Ver. 1.10.06

Release date: June 14th 2023 (North America, Europe) / June 15th 2023 (Japan)
Patch notes:

Server refactor

After the Shellebration Update, we had more players online than ever before. (Wow, thank you!) However, our servers were not prepared for the sheer number of people enjoying the game. This resulted in players experiencing many server desync issues like endless loading screens, getting stuck in the party box, placed blocks not showing up, and lobbies randomly shutting down.

We’ve just completed a server refactor to address these desync issues and prevent them from happening in the future. It also gives us the ability to add more servers to high traffic regions whenever we have a big influx of new players. :)

We also addressed a country-wide connection issue for players in Korea. As of today, everyone in Korea should be able to connect and play online again! Thank you for your patience and bug reports – there were many Korean players who helped us solve the problem by sending us their player logs.

Downvotes removed from custom levels

We removed downvotes from the voting system for custom/community-made levels! Downvotes were not being used in a way that was useful or kind to our community, which warranted their removal. If you don’t enjoy a level, you now have the choice to upvote it or ignore it. (Note that you can still report levels that break our community rules!)

Quality of life changes

We received feedback that the game’s initial volume was too loud, so we reduced it by 20%. (Now the Horse noise is less of a jumpscare!)

Additional notes: none
Source: Clever Endeavour Games (Steam)

Ultimate Chicken Horse – Ver. ??? (Shellebration Update)

Release date: March 7th 2023 (North America, Europe) / March 8th 2023 (Japan)
Patch notes:

The Shellebration Update adds:

1 new character: Turtle

1 alternative skin: Armadillo

1 new level: Metro

3 new community-designed outfits: Helmet, Pirate Costume, and Ninja Gear

1 new music track

Lots of improvements and bug fixes!

Changelog

Added new character (Turtle), alternative skin (Armadillo), new outfits (helmet, ninja gear, pirate costume), new level (Metro), and new music

Updated the Half Unlock cheat code with new content

Migrated relay servers over from AWS to DigitalOcean

Made several online fixes to improve match stability

Improved existing localization and localized all new text

Added a delay when trying to join lobbies to avoid edge case errors

Fixed ghost lobbies where players joined and became stuck in infinite loading screens

Fixed Twitch integration issue

Fixed a constant saving bug to allow players to save more reliably

Additional notes: none
Source: Clever Endeavour Games

Ultimate Chicken Horse – Ver. 1.9.02

Release date: ???
Patch notes:

Features

Added crossplay with Xbox. All platforms can now play together!

Replaced the GameSparks server solution with BrainCloud, this now handles all player authentication, level uploads, level bans, challenge times, user bans, etc.

Added “Tournament” as a preset. These rules were suggested to us by the community.

Added new Farmhands, Syd (community manager) and SuperNimbus (team we worked with for server changes) to the credits

Bug Fixes

Fixed animal icons navigating inventory sometimes lose their costumes

Characters dance sound continues when jumping directly from dance

Lots of bug fixes involving the changes that were made to the servers

Additional notes: none
Source: Clever Endeavour Games (Steam)

Ultimate Chicken Horse – Ver. 1.8.22 – The Hippo-Party-Plus Update

Release date: September 20th 2021 (Europe, North America) / September 21st 2021 (Japan)
Patch notes:

1 new character: Hippopotamus

1 new alternative skin: Triceratops

4 new outfits: Floatie (Hippo), Cowboy Boots (Hippo), Balloon (Hippo) Jockey Outfit (Horse)

Cowboy boots: While Hippo usually has dancing shoes on, sometimes they get swapped out for these trusty boots.

Balloon: Picked up from the fairground, its name is Wilson.

Floatie: Hippo can’t swim, so they need this device when they go to the pool with the other animals.

1 new level: Rollercoaster

Minor Features

Ultimate Chicken Horse has been updated to Unity 2020 – some beta testers have reported a smoother, more optimized feel to the game

Added a Help and Tips section to the pause menu

Adjusted some physics for better wall experiences

Players can no longer spam the pause button, which previously let players exploit level timers and some physics

Added some new backgrounds for community level creations

Players can now delete custom levels that they have uploaded

Level Fullness is always displayed in freeplay build mode

Tons of bug fixes

Adjusted some physics for better wall experiences (smoother motion on wall slides and less likely to “bounce” off walls)

Fixing these physics problems has had a cascading effect that we believe improves the feel of the game, and makes it slightly more responsive. It does slightly change the fundamental physics of the game, and some previous advanced techniques will have to be rediscovered or adjusted.

“Follow player” camera fixed after respawns and in Sudden Death

Punching Flowers punch in the correct direction on flipped treadmills

Run Time Limit properly ends rounds when players have multiple respawns remaining

Zombies are able to pick up coins

Parkour preset properly applies block probabilities and removes trap blocks

Fixed cursor regions when using controllers on ultra-wide monitors

Added collision areas to Ballroom to prevent spawn kills from placing blocks too close

Bees give trap points

Fixed various issues with Bees respawning

Bees now deactivate when player dies and turns into a Zombie

More consistent platforms in Treehouse

Fixed some localizations so they properly appear in UI

Fixed various other localization mistakes

Zombies should no longer lock up games in certain scenarios

Twitch chat no longer overrides block probability settings

Fixed small issues with animal artwork

Challengeboard scoreboard no longer briefly shows the world record message from a previous attempt

Fixed non-slippery ice when you crouch immediately while landing

Fixed Jetpack sound sometimes never ending in the inventory

Changes

Sudden death will always have a timer

No longer able to wall jump off ceiling

Made animal dead colliders more consistent with each other

Scaffolding now has a consistent rotation speed when attached to rotating blocks for all orientations

Picked up coins won’t slow rotating platforms as you move away from the platform with the coin

Upblowers are no longer able to blow through the moving platforms that they are attached to

Slightly increased Canon level fullness cost

Additional notes: none
Source: Clever Endeavour Games

Ultimate Chicken Horse – Ver. 1.7.028 – The A·cobra·tic Update

Release date: April 8th 2020 (Europe, North America) / April 9th 2020 (Japan)
Patch notes:

Bug Fixes

Reduced redundant calls to the online servers

Improved performance in the Treehouse

Improved performance on the Space level

Adjusted the bounds of the Space level so the camera zooms out less

Adjusted the placement of unlock boxes on Space

Fixed the “Randomize” button’s text spill once pressed

Fixed poor title alignment on the Lobby list

Fixed text fit issues and grammatical errors in multiple languages

Fixed a visual glitch in the unlock message for Snake

Additional notes: none
Source: Clever Endeavour Games

Ultimate Chicken Horse – Ver. 1.7.027 – The A·cobra·tic Update

Release date: March 12th 2020 (Europe, North America, Japan)
Patch notes:

Major Features

1 character: Snake on a skateboard, with outfits!

2 levels: Space and The Ballroom

4 blocks: beehives, cannons, flamethrowers, and one-way gates

Minor Features

New paintbrush sizes in Free Play Mode allow you to paint more or fewer things at once

A “Randomize” button on the modifiers page turns on a random number of modifiers at random settings for chaotic fun

Lobbies where the host is AFK for long enough will now be marked as AFK in the lobby list

A new button in the “My Levels” view in the underground computer allows to show or hide levels that aren’t public

A Czech localization is now available

Bug Fixes

Fixed characters’ hitboxes stretching dramatically after being swallowed by a black hole.

Fixed inconsistent firing times on the hockey puck shooter when you pause the game.

Fixed the player profile dialogue sometimes persisting on the screen.

Fixed ghosts having an excessive number of corpses.

Fixed an issue where a local player might behave strangely in the treehouse when a remote player quits the game

Fixed being able to push around characters that are sitting on the couch.

Fixed corpses triggering blocks they’re on every time the game is unpaused.

When playing in Free Play mode alone, clearing the level will now reset it, just like dying would.

All blocks now have their explosion animation when destroyed by a bomb.

Fixed block explosions not being aligned with flipped blocks.

Fixed ? boxes interacting with players after they opened

Made it easier to hold B to give up or retry while going through teleporters

Fixed honeyed tennis ball shooters not shooting in saved levels

Fixed ice / honey and barbed wire sometimes refusing to be placed next to each other

Fixed upblower wind particles appearing when the wind effect is interrupted by blocks overlapping with the upblower

Fixed upblower wind particles sometimes looking longer than the wind effect

Fixed arrows not exploding when hitting Ghosts with the Projectile Explosions Modifier

Fixed destruction animations for blocks that were missing them

Fixed crumbling blocks loading with incorrect damage level in multiple scenarios

Fixed players getting caught on the Iceberg ship walls

Fixed color distortion on the yellow recolor of Red Panda

Fixed player character names sometimes showing as “Press” in the Treehouse

Prevented unlock UI from getting mirrored along with the Flip Left/Right Modifier

Fixed page flip buttons from being reversed along with the Flip Left/Right Modifier

Fixed an issue where re-created lobbies wrongly carried on the Modifiers tag

Fixed the run timer not stopping between players in Shared Controller

Additional notes: none
Source: Clever Endeavour Games

Ultimate Chicken Horse – Ver. 1.6.061

Release date: June 20th 2019 (Europe, North America, Japan)
Patch notes:

Turning into a Ghost will keep the Challenge Mode timer running until you give up or fall into a pit, allowing your dead body to complete the Challenge

Fixed bug with Dead Hop that could cause a 0:00:00 time to be recorded in Challenge Mode

Fixed bug that allowed respawning characters to trigger coin pickup from a distance

Fixed an issue with shift-rotated platforms moving incorrectly when placed

Prevented way tiny characters from being stuck at the edge of the blank level

Prevented players from placing goal and end blocks on blank level in such a way they are no longer selectable

Fixed an issue that allowed host and client to have different modifier presets loaded

Fixed a bug that allowed respawning in challenge mode

Prevented scoreboard from being stuck on

Allowed players to cancel placement of blocks that are unplaceable, but also ignore bounds in Free Play

Fixed bug that allowed colliding crouching characters to make each other fly, or die

Improved unlock system to better handle players who have played various maps online, before working on their own unlocks

Ensured that level unlocks are removed for players who leave the lobby

Fixed Doomsday modifiers reset during challenge mode

Fixed Doomsday modifier reset when used with Shared Controller Couch

Fixed Doomsday sound effects not being controlled by in-game volume settings

Prevented paper airplanes from permanently disabling teleporters

Made falling crumbling blocks and projectile explosions pause, so they can’t be exploited in challenge mode

Additional notes: none
Source: Clever Endeavour Games

Ultimate Chicken Horse – Ver. 1.6.050

Release date: March 27th (Europe, North America, Japan)
Patch notes:

Improvements

Improved the diagonal input on analogue controls sticks, so it better matches the result of holding up and sideways on keyboard.

Jetpack dispenser will be infinite, instead of only 4 jetpacks per round.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug that caused all of the blocks in the level collapsing into 1 spot, the game lagging, and sometimes crashing. Caused in online games by all clients leaving the game.

Fixed jetpacking upwards into certain ceilings or blocks killing you. This is most notable in the underground area of Jungle Temple.

Fixed Characters getting pushed up into blocks or ceilings have their colliders set to crouch, making them 1 block high, allowing them to sometimes fit in places they shouldn’t in certain complex modifier + level designs.

Fixed certain combinations of Ghosts, and deaths that led to the UI not displaying correctly.

Fixed Dead bodies being duplicating when retrying in challenge levels with the Ghosts modifier turned on, leading to levels filled with bodies and system slowdown.

Fixed an issue where sometimes a player couldn’t pick up a jetpack from a jetpack dispenser.

Prevent Dead Hop after holding B to retry in challenge levels.

Fixed an issue with a certain special characters in save file names.

Fixed issue with crumbling blocks saving in an incorrect save state

Fixed Doomsday sound effects not being controlled by in-game volume settings

Prevented dying from resetting the retry indicator in challenge mode

Fixed a bug with blocks that were targeted with duplication highlighting afterwards

Fixed an issue with multiplayer + challenge time + deadhop being completely inaccurate

Fixed issue allowing arrows and other projectiles to pass through dead bodies

Allow mirroring of punching flowers and ensured they save correctly now

Fixed some issues with German localization overlapping in some UI

Fixed an issue that prevent crouched characters from picking up coins

Fixed a bug where some indestructible blocks would not connect to each other with the indestructible connector

Prevent teleporters from re-teleporting characters after a respawn

Prevented characters from respawning in start zone if it is covered with doomsday lava

Fixed bug that allowed some blocks to be attached to the endzone in the blank level

Fixed the camera jumping around when a non-local player finished the level, but the local users had local player only view enabled

Fixed the Parkour Preset so that it doesn`t contain any traps as intended

Additional notes: none
Source: Clever Endeavour Games

Ultimate Chicken Horse – Ver. 1.6.040

Release date: March 4th (Europe, North America, Japan)
Patch notes:

Features:

Skins! You can now unlock alternate costumes for all 9 animals!

Modifiers! Create unique challenges and game modes with 20 modifiers: Gravity, Jump Strength, Multi Jump, Player Collisions, Walljumps Disabled, Move Speed, Game Speed, Frictionless Mode, Post-death behaviour (Zombie, Ghost or Dead Hop), Character Size, Jetpack Mode, Invisibility, Dance Invincibility, Moving Block Speed, Projectile Rate of Fire, Projectile Speed, Projectile Explosions, Mirror Level, Doomsday Meteors and Doomsday Lava

New Items: Jetpack and Jetpack Dispenser.

New Paintbrush tool to change the color set pieces after they’ve been placed in Free Play mode

The treehouse now has a Random level selection sign to the right of the well

Respawns: Grant each player a number of lives and then choose to respawn automatically when you die or manually by holding the Retry button

New Party Box Modes: Standard, Disabled, Auto-Pick

Bug Fixes and Improvements

Improvement: Many blocks can now be both rotated AND flipped. Hold the Sprint button while pressing the flip/rotate buttons to use the other transformation. Flip the spinning saw! Rotate the hockey puck shooter!

Improvement: Double Party Box can now be enabled for any number of players

Improvement: Crumbling block damage can be selected in the inventory book in Free Play mode

Improvement: Crumbling blocks will now be restored to their original damage level when resetting in Free Play mode to make it easier to build and test challenge levels

Improvement: Getting kicked from AFK will no longer bar you from re-entering a lobby

Fixed issues with underground computer screen not being restored properly upon return to treehouse

Fixed graphical and input issues with tablet screen transitions and scrolling

Fixed issue with Twitch integration sometimes showing “Connection successful” when there is no connection

Fixed an issue where pausing while using the wardrobe could cause a floating cursor to appear

Fixed issue with arrows and other projectiles sometimes disappearing in mid-air after a few rounds

Fixed issue where animals could fall into the party button and become trapped under it

Fixed potential infinite loop when creating a custom level in Nuclear Plant

Fixed issues where the incorrect Music and Ambient track names were displayed in the Inventory book after loading a custom level in Free Play

Fixed an exploit that could be used to cause moving blocks not to move in Challenge Mode

Fixed an issue that could cause incorrect placeholder text to be used when sharing a Challenge Time via Twitter

Fixed an issue where the Start and Goal zones could be made to overlap in Free Play, or could overlap with hazards

Fixed issue that allowed a moving hockey puck shooter to hit itself if it was moving fast enough

Fixed issue that allowed the Jungle Temple boulder to sometimes crush animals without touching them

Made the scoreboard harder to spam during gameplay; dead players can no longer bring up the scoreboard while other players are running

Fixed issue with level thumbnails failing to download or display correctly in the underground computer

Fixed multiple issues with the Keyboard Configuration menu of the tablet not saving or loading bindings for some actions

Fixed an issue that could cause doors to drift away from the play area in Free Play mode

Fixed an issue that allowed animals to glitch-jump into a 1 block gap

Fixed the spawn location of unlock boxes in some levels

Fixed an issue that caused ice to display behind the wrecking ball anchor

Fixed an issue that could cause a player to get an AFK warning and get kicked even if the AFK timer is turned off on the host

Fixed an issue that could cause the Raccoon’s tie to flicker

Updated character crouching animation to reduce visual delay when landing and crouching at the same time

Fixed issue with cursor name visibility setting no longer working

Animal corpses can now be teleported as long as they are in movement

Fixed an exploit that allowed auto-fire controllers to do super-jumps

Fixed an issue that caused the Jungle Temple boulder not to respawn in Free Play

Fixed an issue that prevented controller users from scooting under certain obstacles as fast as keyboard users

Fixed an issue that caused the camera to zoom in on the wrong level portal when a level loads in the treehouse

Fixed an issue that caused leftover milliseconds to display when the sudden death timer completes

Fixed an issue that caused the wrong rotation to be saved for barbed wire when re-saving a level multiple times

Fixed an issue that could make it hard to highlight a piece of glue with the cursor

Fixed an issue where the blinking text caret would not appear when renaming a level in the underground computer

Fixed an issue that allowed animals to be launched by a spring after scooting underneath it

Fixed an issue that allowed players to upload custom levels without a goal block

Fixed an exploit that could cause the Challenge timer to start delayed

Fixed an issue that prevented the yellow glue indicators from displaying

Fixed an issue that could cause crumbling blocks to be damaged after the level has been reset

Additional notes: none
Source: Clever Endeavour Games

Ultimate Chicken Horse – Ver. 1.5.064

Release date: November 13th 2018 (Europe, North America, Japan)
Patch notes:

Performance optimizations that could help throughout the game

Reduced memory usage of text

Upgrade to Unity Engine version 2017

Upgraded Wwise Audio Engine to version 2018

Fixed Spectator position in blank level

Fixed unintentionally deadly part of Jungle temple

Fixed the main menu announcement image failing to load correctly in some cases

Fixed art layer order issue on Jungle Temple

Prevent linear saw blade from being glued to things

[Switch] Allow players without Nintendo Online Subscription access to the LevelNet

[Switch] Fixed various crashes throughout the game

[Switch] Video Capture has been enabled

List of changes:

upgraded game engine, should get rid of most of the crashing bugs

adds support for Video Capture

you no longer need a Nintendo Switch Online subscription to access users-generated levels in Local Play

Additional notes: none
Source: Clever Endeavour Games

Ultimate Chicken Horse – Ver. 1.5.061

Release date: September 28th 2018 (Europe, North America, Japan)
Patch notes:

Optimized Mainframe performance

Prevent glue and ice placement in a few spots it isn’t allowed

Prevent players from rejoining your lobby once they have been kicked.

Improved the visibility of Upblower on most levels

Fixed more glue stickiness bugs

Fixed some issues with Sudden Death when using the shared controller couch

Fixed the alignment of some art on rooftops so that wall jumping matches with it better.

More teleporter improvements( especially around when it is blocked and unblocked by objects)

Fixed a font issue with Turkish

Additional notes: none
Source: Clever Endeavour Games

How to download updates for Ultimate Chicken Horse for the Nintendo Switch?

To download the updates for Ultimate Chicken Horse, 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.