A minor performance update and hopefully a small fix to a rare, but big issue 🔥

🏋️Performance Upgrade
We have done a little tweaking in hopes of improving the performance specifically in the village.
For those interested, according to some analytics, it seems that the main eater of frames in the village are the shadows.
With that in mind, we tweaked values and changed settings, and noticed some improvements on our PCs.
Since our PCs are pretty high end, we are hopeful, that these changes will improve the FPS for anyone who had bigger issues in the past.

📜 Save File Breaking
We had an issue, hiding deep inside a single quest, related to a specific kitchen upgrade, that had a missing quest link.
We believe this may have been the cause for some people to get a damaged save file.
The issue has been very difficult to reproduce, but we are hopeful that this will have taken care of it.
That being said, this does not restore save files that have been damage.
We hope that anyone experiencing any problems with their save file will communicate this with us.
It is very important to us, that Delicious Dungeon is a playable experience without any issues that ruins a play through.
Should we hear about more issues related to broken save files, we are considering to create a tool that can fix them.

Happy Holidays to everyone that celebrates!
Have a wonderful time! ⛄

The Delicious Dungeon OST is now live on Steam!
Irene Chan made all the music! All the love to her ❤️

The soundtrack contains all 24 songs used in the game AND on top of that, 2 extra tracks that we (hopefully) use in the future for new bosses.

In total it's about 50 minutes of amazing music 🔥

Hope you guys enjoy it.
🎵🎶🎵

Patch 1.01
Some fixes to bugs and issues you guys have found. Thanks for playing and bringing these things to our attention! ❤️

‼️Bug Fixes‼️

📜 Order Deletion
Due to a missing check, it was possible to delete orders that you didn't give up to yourself.
That is now fixed and you should only be able to delete your own orders.

🍽️ All Dishes Unlockable
There was an issue with the second to last dish in the game the dish after the Layer Cake (Lasagna).
That is now fixed and you should be able to unlock all 25 dishes in the game.

💬 Cook Book Guide Dialogue
Almost not a bug, but we fixed the dialogue for the Cook Book Guide.
Before, when you talk to him the first time, he shows you with [Unlock Recipe] that you have new recipes to unlock.
That went away, once you entered any conversation path. We fixed that and he now always shows the new recipes you can unlock.

🇬🇧 🇩🇪 Translations
Lots of translation fixes. Hopefully we got them all this time 😛
Keep posting if you find any other missing ones.

🌺 Botanist Selection
The Botanist did not have all the non meat items in the game before.
That is now fixed and he will always offer anything you are eligible to loot.

🍰 Milk and Sugar
The drop rate of milk and sugar was wrong.
The Demor and Maldemos enemies (the big versions of the Beses and Bosos), were supposed to always drop milk and sugar.
Now they do so abundantly.

Calling all gaming gourmands! We are thrilled to announce that Delicious Dungeon, an exciting combination of cooking and rogue-lite gaming is now available on Steam! Experience the thrill of battling through a dangerous dungeon while satiating your culinary cravings. It's time to spice up your gaming library with some truly delicious fun.

We are finally releasing Delicious Dungeon into the wild!!

We are so grateful to our current community of Delicious Dungeon players for their continued support and enthusiasm while we were still working on the game.
And, a special welcome to all of our new players who we hope will enjoy all that Delicious Dungeon has to offer and help us make it even bigger and tastier!
Thank you all for being a part of our quirky group of dungeoneers and cooks!

If you would like to exchange your experience or just want to talk to the developers of Delicious Dungeon, then join our discord server!
https://discord.gg/nfWGKFUSVE

Grab yours now while it's hot and ready to serve, and let's bring some flavor into gaming together!
We hope you enjoy this delicious journey.
Thank you all for playing!

Hello everyone!

We are very close to being done with the game and we plan to release it soon!
We have closed the Beta and are at this point focusing on getting the word out.

Your support means a lot to us. We are very happy and feel immense privilege in getting this chance.
We hope you will end up playing and enjoying the game once it is released!

With all the love ❤️
Digital Cauldron

‼️ Disclaimer ‼️

Nearing the end
We are slowly but surely reaching a point where we are comfortable with state of our game. As long as no major issues arise over the coming weeks, that will make us reconsider, we plan on finishing development very soon. Thank you to all tester, we appreciated your work.
P.S.: We would appreciate additional testing for our helper systems (Restaurant and dungeon helpers) and the later boss fights (Leviata, Maldemos).

As always please consider joining our discord server if you want to be part of the beta test crew!
Invite link: https://discord.gg/nfWGKFUSVE


‼️ Reworks and Additions ‼️

Dungeon
-Reworked the loot system, making it not totally random but having more drop chances for items the player currently needs
-Firefly nests now heal the player, giving more incentive to kill them
-Reworked visuals for the buff Chase gives the player in the dungeon making it more clear

Enemies

Improved Leviata
-Peck attack now tracks the player and is a lot faster
-Wind walls start small and scale up
-Flight attack accuracy increased
-Added missing sound effects for tornados and wind walls

Improved Rotog
-Polished visuals for stomp to better visualize the damage area
-Fixed minor issues with attacks not working properly

Improved Karkor Gianta
-Improved timing of the stomp hitbox
-Enrage bury attack is now faster

Improved Bosra and Besma
-Fixed Besma getting stuck when stunned or killed before changing phase

Village
-Added more animations to villagers
-Added barks to restaurant guests, commenting on the quality of the food being cooked
-Major performance upgrade in the village
-Reworked botanist shop, now restocking daily with a random amount of ingredients
-Improved balance for shop prices and dishes

Restaurant
-Restaurant helpers now cook for self-orders with a fixed time and an infinite amount, enabling players to get healing items really fast
-Lowered restaurant helper cooking times and income share
-You can now add four combinations at once
-Cooking game UI now shows inventory slots, showing the max stack size
-Included cooking difficulty in tutorials

UI
-Major performance upgrade for inventory UIs (especially the blacksmith)
-Added sorting to several inventories (first based on type and then on quality)
-Improved inventory scrolling
-Fixed weapon combo display scrolling
-Combined player weapon damage numbers to remove visual clutter and overlapping
-Improved UI navigation for the restaurant chef menus
-Improved food pictures

Saving and Loading
-Added interval based autosave and an indicator on the bottom right of the screen
-Added safety checks for old saving and loading, making it more reliable to load outdated save files

‼️ Bug Fixes ‼️
-Fixed saving issues in the intro cutscene
-Fixed restaurant guest sitting positions on bar stools
-Fixed restaurant helpers not showing the correct infos
-Blocked input while the character moves to interactions, disabling multiple interactions being triggered at the same time
-Fixed potential soft-lock when going to bed when blacksmith wants to talk to you
-Fixed blacksmith spear quest
-Fixed multiple issues with restaurant orders, the sleep recap and restaurant helpers
-Fixed opening game menu when player inventory is opening
-Fixed audio slider selection visuals in options
-Fixed maximum stack size in dungeon for items
-Fixed issues with unlocking certain dishes
-Fixed restaurant trigger positions, making it impossible to go upstairs without the upper floor appearing
-Fixed dialogue data not saving properly
-Fixed shops not unlocking items, making the shops empty

Hello lovely people!

We have had an amazing amount of people asking to play our beta!
We now have enough casual testers so we're changing our approach a little.

If you want to join our beta, join our discord and ask for a beta key!
This way we can better ensure that we get feedback from our testers. We have set up channels where you can post your bugs and issues.

Happy hunting and we hope you cook up some delicious meals!

Thanks again to all of you and we hope to hear from you!

We are happy to announce that we have over 100 Beta testers!!
Thank you so much for the interest in our game!
We hope that you find joy in the game and give us some feedback.
Feel free to join our discord [discord.gg]server, since it is the best way to reach us directly and be part of the community.

Happy hunting and we hope you cook up some delicious meals!

Once more, thanks to all of you and we hope to see and hear from you!

It's been a while, but thanks to our hard-working testers we've found a lot of bugs that we've (hopefully) fixed.

To test this theory, we have uploaded the new version of our beta build and are ready for more feedback!

tl;dr
We have tried to fix most of the hard stuck/game breaking bugs, so saving should now work pretty well, but we know there is still a bug with the kitchen helper and the combat tutorial.

And now the long list of changes for those who want to read through all of them:

Version 0.02

A note before we get into it.
First of all, sorry it took us so long to post.
We wanted to be active and instead we got hung up on lots of little things instead of just updating. We want to try to update more regularly.
One of the reasons it took so long is because with fixing some issues others ended up becoming more visible. But that should not stop us from giving you guys an updated version of the game, so here we go.
Lastly, we added a little “known issues” list you can find at the end of the change log.
Thanks, with all our heart, your support helps us a lot!
We appreciate you, with all the love in the world.

Digital Cauldron

📜 Export Logs

Added a new feature to export the games logs. This can be very helpful for us, whenever you have an error or a bug. Just press the keyboard combo Alt + E + L (easy to remember as export logs) and the game will create a folder named Logs in your game directory where a text file with a time stamp as its name will be created. You can send these logs to us when you tell us of the issue you found.

Major Fix, save files should no longer be corruptible and a save file should always be loadable, no matter what.

Fixing some double input that happened at times.

The Quality of the items dropped had a bug and did not feel quite right beyond that. We rescaled it a little bit so the games beginning would not feel as bad.

We removed any detection of your mouse position in all the UIs. You can still use the mouse as a confirmation button, but what button you hover over will no longer be affecting your selection.
Developer Note: We are still committed to improving the general mouse and keyboard input overall. This is just one of the first steps we have been taking.

Major fixing and filling of missing text and translations.

New and improved Lock on Icon.

Improved and reworked a lot of UI Elements.

You can now see the buffs you already selected for your beetle companion.

We added a lot more details to the village to make it feel even cozier and alive.

We added a few more tutorials to some functionality that wasn’t entirely clear.

Rescaled the damage of the beetle companion. It was a bit too strong early on and lost strength when you kept progressing. Now it is the other way around, the beetle starts out a little weaker, but becomes a very solid source of damage, if you upgrade him and get find a good buff combination.

We added a lot more dialogue options for most of the NPCs.

We added a lot more audio feedback all over the place (more is still to come).

Added keyboard and mouse controls for the Heat-Meter in the kitchen.


The Kitchen Chef can get you stuck when you talk to her. We have not been able to reproduce this issue consistently, so any input on the issue will be feedback (the absence of the problem on your end can also be insightful)

The Fighting tutorial can make issues, if it is not completed and you talk to the Dungeon Guild Master later.


PS: There are of course still lots of small issues present and also a lot of things we fixed but did not mention directly.
Don't let any of that stop you from posting issues you've found though. Its better to have an issue posted several times then us not knowing about it.