Hey Keepers,

Balance and Changes

• made final wave harder again
• added additional resource sprites
• rebalanced how fast monsters can spawn after each other during one wave and made it faster for high difficulties
• battle drones now show up as damage source
• improved stall detection
• cascading impact will now only affect rock tiles, no resources
• increased iron worm cost slightly, removed prolonged production time for meticulous worms
• assessor bundles try to stay together a bit more when flying on their own
• fixed cave seed not growing into a small tree if not visible on screen
• water and iron cave now do not produce when game is paused. Water has up to 3 water now.
• multiplayerloadout will auto persist meta state on changes
• Intensive treatment upgrade of converter is now much faster
• chosen assignment is now displayed in tech tree
• tesla orbs stats are a fixed value instead of being a percentage of shot damage now
• if multiple monsters are inside a tesla orb, damage is spread across all monsters but stun applies fully
• made loadout part of the loadout mine a bit nicer
• delivery assignments do not have repeatable upgrades now, but one big upgrade
• made drone speed upgrades a bit more expensive and quick drones have fewer shots
• shockwave hammer supplement damage is now a modifier on the base damage, to avoid having a tiny hammer supplemented with great damage and low cooldown
• halved how fast squidley would gain speed
• small performance increase
• improved many sounds
• added missing icons, fixed some icon sizes, improved some icons
• increased battle drone range
• less health for bloater
• added pause as an option to keybindings
• assessor doesn't ignore the increased tile health in the dense iron assignment any more

Bugfixes

• fixed central marker not visible for assessor if bought via upgrade
• fixed crash that could happen when using resource packe
• larger mine area in mode config to compensate languages with long texts
• fixed telemetry popup not having focus on a button
• fixed exploit with manually mining tiles that are currently being mined by iron worms
• fixed scrap repair not being purchasable
• fixed accidentally offering to shred to 3 cobalt instead of 2, if three gadgets were offered
• fixed iron worms not showing up correctly in timelapse
• fixed intro music restarting when switching scenes while looping part plays
• fixed generation of split spheres not set correctly for one of the children, resulting in cascading impact working accidentally on child spheres
• removed old rotational mining code that was causing 4 fixed pixels on the assessor
• fixed conversion with 0.5 iron not working correctly (should consume one iron)
• name for fixed cobalt mode is back
• hardened loadout against non-existant keeper skins, so it won't crash if an old skin from a mod is persisted
• fixed shopping bag achievement triggering when using remote station
• fixed minimap rendering resource drops wrongly
• fixed local not switching completely when changing language in loadout stage
• fixed cheat detection limits not fitting provocation
• fixed unbreakable rock in loadout
• added missing patch notes for v4.0
• fixed bloater not actually shrinking faster if no monsters were around
• fixed resource teleportation being audible in the whole world
• fixed artillery station visual error on exitting station
• packed drop will now also properly shred and shrink
• fixed wrong message in assignments about possibly getting another badge if beating challenge mode without having played regular mode