A new year, a new build! Sorry it's a couple weeks late, mostly due to issues actually building the game and not content stuff. Which I suppose goes for the build itself as well: not too much new stuff, but it's [strike]now compiled using Game Maker's YYC (YoYo Compiler), which should hopefully help improve performance a not insignificant amount [crosses fingers].[/strike] [REDACTED] Unfortunately, said issues building affected osx the most and haven't yet been satisfactorily overcome, so the Mac version is still built without the YYC and as such won't see any performance changes for the better this time around. Most of this past month was spent getting the YYC working nicely, working on Anticropolis stuff, reordering and the optimizing level generator, and an embarrassing amount of time being sad on holidays. Hopefully finally gettin' this build out will lift my spirits a bit though! The main visible features in this build are soups - which can be made by boiling bottles of non-slime corpses with water in them - and spices, which are sometimes found on tables and can be used to improve food. Neither soup nor spice stuff is nearly finished yet, but it's a start and will hopefully prove an interesting addition that grows over time. Really I just didn't want to put out a build with nothing new to play with in it, after so much work doing invisible backend stuff. At the moment there are four 'spices'. What they do is up to you to find out. Also relevant: I've hired an animator to help lighten the load on me and speed up the production of all the new frosty enemies that'll be coming to the icy depths of the Anticropolis (and beyond!) His name is John and he's rad. Everybody say "Hi, John!" You can check out some of his other work here: http://imgur.com/a/HNtO7 and follow him on twitter at @bigbooty2dcutie EDIT: Temporarily went back to a non-YYC build for Windows, hoping to fix an issue where the game is just a black-screen. Unfortunately this means the game won't have the performance improvements I had hoped using YYC would impart. Fixes Humanoid enemies no longer use potions or eat potatoes Crash upon throwing bottled charge stars Crash upon throwing charge stars dropped by grumbul tank guards Grumbul Tank guards causing repeated non-fatal crashes Undead followers sometimes appear at the wrong position when going to the next floor Loudness of byat wings unaffected by sound volume setting Loudness of boulders rolling unaffected by sound volume setting Bottled mushrooms still burn and give off gas Several pathfinding-related crashes New Stuff Make Soup! Spices! (WIP) [strike]Now compiled with YYC, which should give a significant performance improvement[/strike] Two new status effects New music in ceiling trap transitional stage Changes Made a couple reputations slightly easier to achieve Byat meals wear off after 2 floors, rather than lasting forever Food queue gradually empties after a period of not eating anything Removed COMBO input mode for class abilities Wizard throw better aligns enemies to the tiles when grabbed Next Build TO-DO Leaderboards?