General Changes:

• Added a new "Long Hair" character customization option.
• Added keybinds to use buttons on certain menus, e.g., hitting ESC to return to the menu from the Settings menu.
• Added some new cheat-only (mainly for testing) items such as the Home Protection Sword.
• Added a new "Save" button to the pause menu, so you no longer have to wait for autosaves or quit the game to save.
• Added more Rich Presence options to Discord & Steam.
• Added a new starter house.
• Added icons to indicate autosaving and the waypoint marker.
• Added an icon to indicate when the game is autosaving.
• Added a background image to the menu.
• Added a new lamp to indicate where the player & Professor Jitters will spawn by default.
• Removed the "Save World During Save" experimental setting.
• Removed the Forge block.
• Removed the Crate block.
• Temporarily removed door blocks.
• Bricks may now only be mined with a Mana Crystal or higher tier pickaxe.
• Changed the description of the Home Protection Sword: "More American than a 9mm handgun!" --> "Smallest blade in London."
• Changed the description of the Blicky: "Nothing is more American than a 9mm handgun!" --> "Watch where you aim!"
• Changed certain textboxes/buttons to make fonts & font styles more consistent across the game.

Visual and User Interface Changes:

• Remade various textures.
• Remade the American flag texture on the menu.
• Redesigned the menu layout.
• Redesigned the world creation menu.
• Redesigned the pause menu, featuring character art, both added and unadded.
• New screen to show progress when a world is being created/loading.
• Remade trees.

Gameplay Mechanics, Balancing, and Bugfixes:

• Fixed save system not saving currencies.
• Fixed button focus issues.
• Fixed issues causing items to sometimes be transparent and have the ability to be dropped infinitely.
• Fixed some issues with breaking blocks causing lag spikes.
• Fixed some issues with autosaving causing long-lasting lag spikes.
• Fixed various bugs pertaining to the leaderboards.
• Fixed some bugs where you could hold multiple items at once.
• Fixed various duplication glitches.
• Fixed some crashes with trying to swap items in the trash slot.
• Higher tiers of pickaxes now mine faster as intended.
• Saving and loading the game is now much faster.
• Game now runs smoother.
• Balanced ore spawn rates.
• Balanced item stack limits.
• Caves now spawn much farther down.
• Reworked the catacomb structures to line the "middle" of the world.
• Enemies now despawn farther off screen.
• Added a world border that the camera/player should not be able to escape from.
• Added more recipes, some of which are used to craft new items.
• Nerfed the health of AHPG: 2500 --> 1500.
• Added 3 new weapons, including the first ranged weapons.

Technical and System Changes:

• Added levels 1 to 5 for Jack Lumber, each level increases strength and health.
• Remade world generation system (worlds are now loaded/created much faster and are much larger).
• Remade cave generation system; caves will now be much larger and connect smoother, reducing floating blocks.
• Remade much of the player controller.
• Remade Jack Lumber AI.
• Remade the developer/beta testing map.
• Remade the default enemy AI/enemy controller script.
• Remade the item system.
• Changed how the block id system works.
• Temporarily hid 'Luck' stat.
• Added support for the Steam Inventory system (although it is currently unused).
• Added a bunch of networking features in the backend to potentially add multiplayer functionality in the future.
• Added backend functionality for Quests.
• Added hit chance to certain weapons/attacks. This is for both the player and the enemies.
• Added platforms and one-way collision support.
• Moved the world/character save locations.

Quality of Life and Miscellaneous:

• Made the game less pixelated; this makes the rotation of sprites look far smoother than before.
• Added new console command "god" to enable godmode.
• Failing a boss encounter will now reset the boss. AHPG will place his spawner block back as it was once he is reset.
• Added player invulnerability frames.
• Added knockback to player and enemies when being hit by a melee weapon.
• Added limits to how far you can turn your head.
• Added stuns to enemies and the player.
• Made buttons to cycle through the leaderboards on the main menu.
• Made the game no longer fullscreen if you had the setting to fullscreen turned on and exited to the menu from a world.
• Made it so you can now delete saved worlds.

Closing Notes: