I'll be traveling later this week so I thought I'd get the next update out the door early!

This new server release launches SEVERE and EXTREME worlds for your exploratory pleasure. What does this mean?

- SEVERE or EXTREME environmental conditions matching that of the new weather machine (e.g., much faster/stronger heat, cold, and supernovae)
- A higher ratio of dungeons to bunkers
- A higher ratio of hostile mobs spawned vs peaceful ones
- Teleporters cannot be placed in EXTREME worlds

And a bonus:

- Slightly more new worlds overall!

Hope you enjoy that 20-30 second supernova interval XD

Hey folks, we are now LIVE on the Google Play store as an open beta! Play your same account on Steam and Android (and still iOS too!)

Good luck adventuring!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bytebin.deepworld_android

Fun update today! We are introducing the BRASS and DIAMOND WEATHER MACHINES:

BRASS WEATHER MACHINE:
- Control the day/night cycle - make it fast, slow, realtime (and set your time zone!), or always day or night.
- Control the rain cycle - normal, always raining, or never raining.

DIAMOND WEATHER MACHINE:
- Control the environmental danger level
- "Pleasant": no environmental damage (including supernovas)
- "Dangerous": standard acidity / heat / cold / supernovas
- "Severe": double heat & cold damage / supernovas
- "Extreme": quadruple heat & cold damage / supernovas

This item is available only in the shop for now, but it will be craftable in a future update.

OTHER UPDATES:
- Added combat accessory blueprints to loot! You can now craft all three scopes
- To go along with the weather machine, we've made heat & cold affect players with high survival again (e.g., no more total immunity). Your time to thirst / frost is now a sliding scale from 5 minutes to 30 minutes, depending on your skill level. "Severe" and "Extreme" weather machine settings shrink that duration as well as causing more damage. Who's ready for some survival worlds??

Lots of work on the universal client lately, most of it to prepare for Android support (our android build is currently in alpha). A lot of that was mobile-specific, but moving forward there will be more things that benefit all platforms (performance and missing features like emotes, etc.) So look out for that soon!

This release also links up unity's error reporting, so hopefully we can figure out why the game starts to glitch out randomly for some people.

*Lots* of changes today related to our discussion of Deepworld being too competitive and rare-focused. Please read if you're interested:

https://forums.deepworldgame.com/discussion/27928/what-is-deepworld

Also releasing some formerly forgotten-about items!

- All chests and sacks now provide loot to anyone within 5 seconds of opening (*mech chests still require raiding participation)
- Non-premium players can now loot anything, but premium players still get double crown loot
- Added mayflower and autumn paintings to bunkers
- Added all musical instruments to bunkers
- Added onyx protector blueprint to loot (craft giga protectors)
- Added Grandmaster and Legendary Recycler achievements
- Added mayflower, gong, and nessie to shop
- Added camo facepaint to loot
- Made loot spawn more often in sacks and crates
- Made rare mounted heads and paintings spawn more often
- Made onyx spawn more often
- Made empty caves spawn less often
- Made weak mobs a little weaker

Couple new things for the weekend!

NEW ITEMS:
Platinum Cane (craftable)
Brass Spawner Blueprint (lootable)

NEWLY CRAFTABLE ITEMS:
Small Spawner

NEW ACHIEVEMENTS:
Grandmaster Ghost Hunter (kill 2,500 ghosts!)
Legendary Rebel (kill 10,000 ghosts!)

Dropping a hot new blueprint and a couple other changes today. Work on an Android client continues, and just for fun I started to work on procedural dungeons again ... they would really spice things up if I can make em work!

NEW ITEMS:
Platinum Net (craftable)
Diamond Protector Blueprint (lootable)

NEWLY CRAFTABLE ITEMS:
Large Protector
Mega Protector

NEWLY PURCHASABLE ITEMS:
Rabbit foot

NEW ACHIEVEMENTS:
Grandmaster Rebel (kill 500 brains!)
Legendary Rebel (kill 2500 brains!)

Time for the next batch of science!

NEW ITEMS:
Lathe (craftable, serves as a steam-powered crafting machine)
Brass Clock Blueprint (lootable)
Diamond Clock Blueprint (lootable)
Onyx Clock Blueprint (lootable)

NEWLY CRAFTABLE ITEMS:
Stopwatch
Pocketwatch
Onyx Pocketwatch

Be sure to visit http://forums.deepworldgame.com for more discussion!

(Oh, and updates are really happening these days, we just haven't been cross-posting here. But I will be sure to post all server and client updates here now!)

Few fixes after some people had issues on 3.4.0:

- Fix issue that caused screen to go black after fullscreen / resize
- Fix UI becoming gigantic on retina screens

Yeahhhhh I know we've been silent for a while. We got full-time jobs, and then other full-time jobs, and, well, making indie games is a challenge sometimes :) But! We finally got some fixes and new content happening. So grab this beta, it fixes a couple little things and adds support for some new items. More fixes in the pipeline as well.

- Fix /tp command
- Fix world machine graphics
- Add support for new fossil items and clothing