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Ten years ago the seed of Crea was planted into my head. I immediately began work not knowing that it'd lead me on such an exciting and long journey. While there were many struggles along the way, as explained in my last update, there were far more wonderful moments. I would have never made it as far as I did without your support. Thank you for all of the kind words and encouragement throughout the years. As a thank you and way to celebrate all of this time, Crea will be 75% off for the next week! Be sure to share this great deal with your friends, family, enemies, and any other dressed mannequins you know.

Greetings everyone!

As some of you may had noticed Crea's updates have gotten less and less frequent leading up to the release of "Chaos Awakening". This is about to change! I'm excited to announce that Crea has a new developer helping out part-time. Andrew (Wacko) is a talented developer with over a decade of experience working on games such as Starcraft 2. All of the work Andrew is doing is completely volunteer - that's just how awesome he is. If you see Wacko around be sure to give him some love. With Chaos Awakening released we are planning out and starting development on the next major update, v1.8. Our focus will be setting the stage for bigger and better future updates. One of the major changes we are making is modernizing the custom engine that Crea runs on. With these changes Crea will run smoother on more machines including proper 4k and Mac OSX support. We are also listening closely to feedback and you can expect to see some of that addressed as soon as v1.8. Before completely moving onto the next update, I am planning to put out at least one more patch addressing issues recently reported. Thank you everyone for reporting issues so diligently and for your patience while I fix them.

Hello to all of you new players that have joined Crea's community recently! I hope you are all enjoying Crea's latest update, Chaos Awakening. I wanted to give you a bit of useful information.

Developer Livestreams

Official Discord Server

Supporting Crea

Patch v1.7.3

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• Giveaways
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Something deep in Crea seems to have been disturbed some time ago. It has been growing unnoticed and today it has broken free! A brand new update for Crea, Chaos Awakened, is now available to play! This update focuses on adding new content, bolstering bosses, balancing, incorporating player feedback and resolving many outstanding issues. This update has something for everyone. Rumors are that a new inhabitant of Crea, the Chaotician, reveals himself to those that have truly engaged Chaos.
[quote]Oh good, you are here. I needed a bit more Chaos in my life.[/quote]
Chaos has further corrupted the creatures of Crea and many new monsters can now be found roaming the world.
The corrupted Aer (Bosses) have been rejuvenated with this surge of Chaos and will undoubtedly provide a worthy challenge. Unlocking bosses is now much clearer. Their attacks and mechanics have been greatly refined. The Chaos has culminated into a new high difficultly boss only the strongest can face.
Chaos has weakened the natural healing abilities of Crea and adventurers now much look to other means to survive. Healing tonics are great for recovering health and can easily be refilled with alchemy; however, acquiring new and stronger containers prove to be costly. The Chaos Effect is wide reaching and more can be learned from here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/280520/discussions/0/1640918469750611138/

Regarding Mac OS Support

I am extremely happy to announce that Crea's latest update, Magnificent Mechanisms, is now officially released. It started out as an innocent update but slowly grew into the beast of an update it is today. So what exactly does this Magnificent Mechanisms bring?

Mechanical Wiring System

Completely redesigned dungeons

Multiplayer Enhancements

Happy holidays everyone!

It has been a few months of work since my last status update and this one has some amazing news. The upcoming version of Crea, Magnificent Mechanisms, (v1.6) is now in public beta. Much excite! There are so many amazing changes in Magnificent Mechanisms. It will undoubtedly dazzle new and old players. For now I will withhold divulging details as I want the official launch to be the highlight. At that time I will go over the juicy new features and give an extensive changelog (it is going to be huge). So far it has been tested by many players for a few months now and is very close to prime time. Now is your chance to get a first look (more like second or third) at this super exclusive (everyone can play) beta. If you do play then please join the discord and let me know how it is going. You can join by opening up the Crea game properties in Steam, going to the "BETA" tab and then selecting the "beta" branch from the dropdown menu.

Introduction

Wow! It is already May! I hope everyone is having a good year so far! Apologies for having such a long period between announcements. I have intended to post something for over two months but am only now managing to force myself to do so. In this post I want to give an update on Crea and as well as details on why this current Crea update is still in development.

Crea Development

Development Delays

Hexachain

House

Loves

Hello, I hope everyone is doing well! I wanted to give everyone an update on the progress for the next big update (1.6). While it is developing nicely; it still needs awhile longer in the oven to fully bake. So what is planned for the 1.6 update? Currently in beta, I am bringing much better unicode support to Crea and making it vastly easier to translate with the Localizer tool. This will hopefully lead to more languages added to Crea soon! The main course for the update is enhanced dungeons. "Lackluster" and "anticlimactic" would be good words to describe the current dungeon system. The dungeon modifiers and objectives will be balanced and expanded upon. Other aspects such as treasure will be rebalanced and most importantly bosses will be added to the end of dungeons. Thank you for your continued support! Happy holidays!

Hello, I hope everyone is doing well! I wanted to give everyone an update on the progress for the next big update (1.6). While it is developing nicely; it still needs awhile longer in the oven to fully bake. So what is planned for the 1.6 update? Currently in beta, I am bringing much better unicode support to Crea and making it vastly easier to translate with the Localizer tool. This will hopefully lead to more languages added to Crea soon! The main course for the update is enhanced dungeons. "Lackluster" and "anticlimactic" would be good words to describe the current dungeon system. The dungeon modifiers and objectives will be balanced and expanded upon. Other aspects such as treasure will be rebalanced and most importantly bosses will be added to the end of dungeons. Thank you for your continued support! Happy holidays!

Hello everyone! I just wanted to give a quick update on a few things.

1.5.5 Patch

• Resolved issue with activating a mod for an existing world without first selecting it which resulted in putting the world content information into a bad state that causes it to crash on load
• Fixed issue with some mods using old craft categories
• Attempt to resolve Xbox One controllers misbehaving

Pricing Availability

Update Progress

Hello everyone! I just wanted to give a quick update on a few things.

1.5.5 Patch

• Resolved issue with activating a mod for an existing world without first selecting it which resulted in putting the world content information into a bad state that causes it to crash on load
• Fixed issue with some mods using old craft categories
• Attempt to resolve Xbox One controllers misbehaving

Pricing Availability

Update Progress

From the very beginning I planned for Crea to support multiple languages. My hopes were that the community would help localize Crea and I have not been let down. There are numerous attempts to translate it including Russian, French, Japanese and Chinese to name a few. However, as Crea continued to grow these existing localizations struggled to keep up as it is extremely difficult to know what text had been added, removed, or changed. This is finally changing!

Localization Tool

Localizing Crea

From the very beginning I planned for Crea to support multiple languages. My hopes were that the community would help localize Crea and I have not been let down. There are numerous attempts to translate it including Russian, French, Japanese and Chinese to name a few. However, as Crea continued to grow these existing localizations struggled to keep up as it is extremely difficult to know what text had been added, removed, or changed. This is finally changing!

Localization Tool

Localizing Crea

Greetings adventurers! It has been awhile since we spoke last and I'm excited to bring good news - Housewarming (v1.5) is now available! In Housewarming the focus has been on improving building and adding an incentive to construct a base. You will also find many new home items and several new monsters to fend off.

NPC Housing

Building Upgrades

More Item and Monsters

More!

Moving Forward

Greetings adventurers! It has been awhile since we spoke last and I'm excited to bring good news - Housewarming (v1.5) is now available! In Housewarming the focus has been on improving building and adding an incentive to construct a base. You will also find many new home items and several new monsters to fend off.

NPC Housing

Building Upgrades

More Item and Monsters

More!

Moving Forward

Greetings Adventurers! Time has flown by since the last announcement and I wanted to update everyone on what is going on. First off, the NPC update has sadly been delayed due to real life taking over. Unfortunately it is going to be another two months before I will be able to release it. Sorry! I will try to get a smaller patch out in the meantime to fix any major issues. Apologies for not being around for the few weeks to reply. I'm going to try to be better at balancing that. Over the last few weeks I have been busy selling many of my possessions, packing up my apartment, and moving everything into storage 600 miles south of Portland in Northern California. This is all with Kelley's help and baby Kaelie... not so much help. Since arriving in California we've been visiting family and friends this last week and now we are off on a big adventure - to Sweden! For those keen readers you may remember that the talented Crea artist, Jonatan, is in Sweden. I am going to visit him and we will be starting a new project! That's right, after five and a half years working on Crea I am finally going to be working on something else. We are going to be working on a prototype at first and go from there. My plan is to focus on this new project while in Sweden and once I get back to the States in 6 weeks get back to working on Crea part time. We are excited to be starting something new and I believe that once I return to Crea it will be with a restored vigor. Again, sorry for the tease on announcing the next update and then delaying it for so long. I hope everyone is still looking forward to it when it does finally land. Thank you everyone for your continued support!

Greetings Adventurers! Time has flown by since the last announcement and I wanted to update everyone on what is going on. First off, the NPC update has sadly been delayed due to real life taking over. Unfortunately it is going to be another two months before I will be able to release it. Sorry! I will try to get a smaller patch out in the meantime to fix any major issues. Apologies for not being around for the few weeks to reply. I'm going to try to be better at balancing that. Over the last few weeks I have been busy selling many of my possessions, packing up my apartment, and moving everything into storage 600 miles south of Portland in Northern California. This is all with Kelley's help and baby Kaelie... not so much help. Since arriving in California we've been visiting family and friends this last week and now we are off on a big adventure - to Sweden! For those keen readers you may remember that the talented Crea artist, Jonatan, is in Sweden. I am going to visit him and we will be starting a new project! That's right, after five and a half years working on Crea I am finally going to be working on something else. We are going to be working on a prototype at first and go from there. My plan is to focus on this new project while in Sweden and once I get back to the States in 6 weeks get back to working on Crea part time. We are excited to be starting something new and I believe that once I return to Crea it will be with a restored vigor. Again, sorry for the tease on announcing the next update and then delaying it for so long. I hope everyone is still looking forward to it when it does finally land. Thank you everyone for your continued support!

Hello everyone! First off I want to say thank you for everyone's support the last few weeks. Many people stopped by my livestream to tell me how much they have been enjoying Crea and lots of great reviews. It really means a lot to us! I wanted to give everyone a quick update on the NPC housing and the next update for Crea. Good progress has been made on the housing with full room detection including which items are in the room. The big remaining task is getting the NPC to get the various bonuses from the items they request.
Originally I was wanting to get this update out last week but that did not happen for various reasons. One of those reasons being that I unfortunately have to move by the end of the month. Towards the end of the month and after I'm going to be quite busy. The plan is to release the 1.5 update a little before that happens which is not far off. Because of this the NPC update will just be rolled into the 1.5 update. Along with the 1.5 update I'm going to do my best to address the reported issues. Thank you everyone for your patience and support!

Since "The Enchanted" 1.4 update was released I have been hard at work fixing issues and incorporating feedback. Thanks to this feedback there are some huge changes coming into Crea!

Enchanting Enchantments

Level Progression

Character Customizations

Housing

Changes Since 1.4

• Enchanting enchantments is now possible
• New head and clothing character customizations
• World levels progression introduced
• Improved water monster movement logic
• Map markers now face the direction the item is facing
• Prevent the player from changing gear while active doing something
• Added "Auto Toolbar" option to automatically switch the active toolbar when changing mode and weapon loadouts
• Greatly reduced "Hulk" health
• Made Slam and Sky Sword skills not usable in water
• Better interactions with Lorumite Column
• Level 3 remna now drop from level 40+ monsters (was 50+)
• Warden armor is now based off of max stamina
• Support spells such as healing now target allies even if your cursor is not exactly on top of them
• More clay and soot in worlds now
• Added Sano Idol with healing bonuses
• Show which Aer the player is channeling as a status effect
• Made enchanting a bit cheaper
• Resolved issue with being able to use another weapon while a bow is drawn
• Resolved many multiplayer issues caused by having more than two clients connected
• Resolved issue where craft UI would get into a weird state if interacting with a crafting station while the craft UI is open
• Resolved issue with enchantments not being synced to client properly
• Resolved several issues with enchanter NPC in multiplayer
• Resolved issue with water and lava not rendering on the client properly
• Resolved issue with monsters teleporting to the end of a grappler
• Resolved issue with Firestorm, Sandstorm and Snowstorm not working properly
• Resolved issue with an expanded inventory getting into a bad state when interacting with an item notification
• Resolved issue with bosses being invisible on multiplayer
• Resolved issue with other players being invisible in multiplayer
• Resolved issue with renaming chests and Way Crystals in multiplayer
• Resolved issue with water not rendering properly in multiplayer
• Resolved issue with shield facing the wrong way in multiplayer while on backhand
• Resolved crash in multiplayer when joining a game where a character has a storm effect active
• Resolved crash in multiplayer while trying to show monster info
• Resolved issue with popup notifications not showing in multiplayer
• Resolved issue causing chaos craft tutorial to show up repeatedly in multiplayer
• Resolved issue with Weapons and Tools power not saving properly
• Resolved issue with lower level Beam spell not chaining
• Resolved issue with combo keyboard bindings not saving properly
• Resolved performance issue with foliage system gradually causing extreme lag
• Fixed pagoda shingles from slowly moving from original position
• Resolved issue with Impeen Wand not charging correctly
• Resolved a few issues with Silvan Anomaly
• Resolved issue with bad loot dropping from apex monster causing a constant fountain of items to pour out of its remains
• Resolved issue that allowed bosses to be fought repeatedly without leaving the realm
• Fix issue with purify anomaly spawning monsters
• No longer able to grab bosses and paragons with a grappler
• Focus now works with elemental weapons
• Do not show "Flip Item" help text for already placed items
• Focus controller input only when the Start button is pressed
• Fixed ResistStatusEffectAttribute on tooltips
• Fixed Corium Shield icon
• Fixed Precision Striker graphics

Hello! With "The Enchanted" just released now is a great time to try to join and help build Crea's community.

Thanks for the Support!

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The Enchanted

Enchantments

Equipment Redesign

Honing Combat

OMG! Content

Visual Enhancements

Much More

Moving Forward

The latest update, The Enchanted, is now live in BETA. There are many major changes in this update: enchantments, redesigned toolbar, and a new biome to name a few.
I want to reiterate that this is a beta version. Be sure to keep a backup copy of your worlds/characters before playing. You can join the beta by going to Crea properties on Steam, go to the beta tab and then select "unstable" from the dropdown menu. There are many existing issues that have yet to be fixed. They will be my focus until I get them fixed. Please be sure to report any issues you run into. Even if you are not running into any issues please let me know if you are playing the beta so I can get a better sense of how stable v1.4 is. I will save the feature highlighting for the full 1.4 release but I decided to include the changelog to wet your appetite.

Changelog 1.4

• Equipment is now enchantable with Enchantments
• Enchanter NPC is now open for business
• Redesigned toolbar
• Illuminated items and bloom
• New biome has been discovered: Mangroves
• New family of slimes moved in
• New higher level treasure chests are now lootable
• Armory has been stocked with many new shields

• Added new Chaos crafting skills, chaos effects and consumables
• Chaos crafting rebalanced
• Added simple chaos crafting tutorial
• Characters now start with being able to perform attack combos, ledge grab, sprint and move while using shields and bows
• Monsters are now momentary staggered when hit
• Sword attacks now have a larger hitbox
• Characters now have a brighter natural light
• Characters now make a "hurt" sound when hit
• It is now possible to place blocks directly ontop of the backwall
• Equipment is no longer used in crafting the upgraded piece of equipment
• Potential attributes removed from equipment in favor of enchantments
• Weapons now have a range of power values with final power determined from item quality
• Lowered level requirement for most lower level gear
• Reduced Artisan Gloves crafting cost
• Added new notifications for when boss realms become accessible
• Increased the number of monsters that can spawn at one time
• Dropped items now bounce a little
• Entering water now makes a splash
• Underwater sound ambiance added

• Resolved issue with strips of blocks not rendering
• Player can no longer change weapon loadout while defending
• Resolved several interface issues with controllers

The next major update, "The Enchanted" (v1.4), is just around the corner! As we approach the release I wanted to share details about the new enchantments.

What are Enchantments

Where to get Enchantments

How to use Enchantments

Changes to Equipment

Greetings!

Toolbar Redesign

Equipment Overhaul

Feedback

After months of hard work we are thrilled to announce the update "Interface Renovation" (v1.3) is now available! With "Interface Renovation", massive progress has been made in both stability and performance not to mention a shiny new interface.

Performance Improvements

Interface Renovation

Visual Improvements

Issues Resolved

• Running Crea on older Windows OS is now much more stable.
• Players no longer fall through the ground when teleporting to a new realm in mulitplayer.
• Resolved issue with massive slowdown in other realms
• Mac OSX 10.12 inputs has been fixed

Maintaining Momentum

The next Crea update (v1.3) is available on the unstable (beta) branch!

Hello again, I hope everyone has been doing well! Apologies on the delayed status update. I have had my head down for a little too long now. We have been hard at work on reworking the UI (User Interface) to use our own solution and have made some great progress. Unfortunately getting this update out is taking longer than I initially hoped but for good reason. Since we were have to reimplement all of the UI we are taking this opportunity to redesign some things and polish it up. So far we have been focusing on the more complex interfaces such as the toolbar, research and crafting. Things are looking fantastic thanks to Jonatan's keen eye. Here is a sneak peak at the new talent and research UIs.

The crafting interface has been completely redesigned and is much improved. We made quite a number of changes to that so I will save the details for my next post. Spoiler: Chaos Crafting is looking very sexy now! The foundation is more or less complete now including UI zooming and controller support. There are still a few more UIs to redesign and then implement. Once those are done I will spend a bit more time on smoothing out the performance in a few other places. Then we'll finally be onto testing this bad boy. We are still a few weeks away from getting this update out but it is looking glorious and is well worth the wait! Thank you everyone for your patience thus far. <3 Out of all of the UI dialogs in Crea, which one would you like to see given some love and why? Let me know in the comments!

Hello! It has been a few weeks and so I just wanted to give an update on what is happening. I have been completely focused on implementing the new system and have made great progress with it.
It may look exactly like the existing inventory but this one is completely driven by my new system! Up to this point I have dedicated myself to building the UI system's foundation. I am nearly complete with it and will start converting all of the UI over very soon. As far as performance gains go, I wont know the exact numbers until it is finished but I can say it is looking very promising. At the moment it looks like the UI will be around 10 to 100 times faster! In other words, it will no longer be an issue. I should be able to get this optimized version of Crea out in a few weeks. With all of the major code changes there are several new issues that must be squashed. Thank you everyone for your patience in the meantime and feel free to join in the development streams to check in on the progress of things.

Hello everyone! I wanted to give an update on what I've been working on and what to expect regarding the performance issues that many players have encountered. A quick summary would be that I am making some major changes that should greatly alleviate performance issues. Here are some more details for those interested. Performance issues primarily stem from heavy usage of Python scripting and the UI library solution.

TLDR

Python Migration

User Interface Rewrite

Hardware Performance Issues

End Transmission

After 9 months of working on convincing her to join the team I am pleased to announce that baby Kaelie has signed on! She will undoubtedly bring much to the team! I'm sure it is a little weird seeing a baby announcement here on Steam but there is good reason for it. Crea was for the most part a husband and wife project with myself, Jasson, doing the programming/design and Kelley doing the artwork. It has nearly been 5 years since we started working on Crea and we've shared a great deal of our lives through the process. We've now been working on Crea for the majority of our marriage! Kaelie is our latest project we've been working on and couldn't be happier to announce her 1.0 release. Also for any of those who may be concerned, you may rest assured that she is not a clone of any sort. Apologies for anyone running into issues right now. I will do my best to get around to them when I can but I do ask for your patience. Thank you everyone for your continued support!

We are excited to announce that Crea's latest update, "Rebirth" (v1.2), is now out! Rebirth brings several new key features along with an abundance of changes making this Crea's biggest update ever!

Death Penalty

Anomaly Events

Character Rebirth

Player Feedback

• Inventory and toolbar are now expandable
• Combat and movement "feel" has been given love
• Key rebinding has been improved and now includes support for mouse and numpad
• Treasure chest capacity has been increased

Bug Fixes

State of the Game

It has been a long time coming and I am extremely pleased to announced that @eldrone (Jonatan) is joining Siege Games fulltime. For those not familiar with Jonatan's work, he is a very talented developer who has been working at this small company Mojang up until now. Jonatan has been a long time supporter of Crea dating all the way back to Crea's Kickstarter in July 2012. I originally attempted to recruit Jonatan back in September 2013 and it has only taken 3 years to convince him! Worth it! Over the past few month's Jonatan has been working a day a week on Crea's 1.2 update. He has reworked many of the core graphics, helped refine the combat and many other polishing touches. So with 1.2 you will already get a taste for his work and what is to come.
Moving forward, Jonatan will continue to touch up the graphics while we also make a push on the content front. Expect some amazing updates to Crea in 2017!

Hello everyone! It has been awhile since the last update and I thank everyone for their patience. The wait is nearly over and for those brave souls you can jump into the new update by switching over to the unstable branch. I have done limited internal testing and already caught and fixed several smaller issues. Now I need your help testing everything more thoroughly. We were initially going to do a closed test first but in hopes to expedite things I've decided to move it into unstable now. Thank you to those that did reply to our survey! Please let us know if you do play on unstable. This will help give us an idea of the stability of the update. While testing if you run into any problems please take to the Issues Forums and provide as much detail as you can. Please prefix posts with "[unstable]" to help us out. Also be sure to check out this post for further information such as how to include files (this helps a great deal!). http://steamcommunity.com/app/280520/discussions/0/618460171327332986/ A full list of changes will be released when the update officially lands.

Hey everyone! We're nearing the time to release our next big patch, and we decided to do a big multiplayer playtest in order to iron out the bugs! As such, we're aiming to do a huge multiplayer test or two before the stable release of Version 1.2.0 in addition to our normal testing.

Features

Death Penalty

Combat Tweaking

Anomalies

Polish!

Hello! Just throwing up the changelog for this small 1.1.4 patch. Potentially will release more patches leading up to the huge update in December. Have a great weekend!

Changelog

• Potentially resolved issue preventing players with older versions of Windows from playing Crea 1.1.
• Resolved issue with the "!" (new item) showing up when it should and causing some UI havoc.
• Fixed the name of Condensed Chaos (previously was incorrectly named "Contained Chaos") that should clear up progression

Hello everyone! It has been a few months since Crea's launch and I thought it was time to share what is planned for Crea's future. It is an exciting time for Crea as we change up some of the team and plan for many amazing changes and new content.
Inventory will soon be expandable to show all items

Immediate

Short Term

Long Term

Out of nowhere a new issue has popped up which is teleporting players up into the sky and dropping them to their death. FUN! I spent a good chunk of yesterday and today trying to track this down. I have pushed an update with a temporary solution as well as some additional debug logging. Instead of being teleported into the air you will now simply pass through the block. This should only happen on single slope blocks. Here is what it should look like while passing through a single slope block. If your character doesn't move vertically while going over the block then please take to this forum thread and post your logs.

After substantial work the 1.1 update has finally graduated from the unstable branch to public! The rest of this post is mostly a repeat from the previous one. The 1.1 update focuses on reworking the progression in Crea. The researching system has completely been reworked and is now the backbone of progression in Crea. Researching will send you on sort of mini-quests to go find new materials so that you can learn new recipes. Bosses are tied to researching too to help make discovering them easier.
The way you access several of the bosses has changed. Additionally bosses now have set levels and a set order that you fight them in. The bosses themselves have not really changed since I'm holding off on that for a later update. You can read about what we have planned by checking out the Crea Roadmap. Next up, which is already underway, is the 1.2 update that is focusing on polishing the interface, enhancing play experience, and incorporating player feedback. You can watch the progress of it here!

1.1 Changelog

Features

• Completely reworked research system to be simpler, clearer and provide more direct progression
• Bosses now have fixed levels and a set order
• Added experience bar to toolbar UI
• Added in tracking new items for travel, research, and craft systems and highlight them (!) on the UI
• Implemented potential performance boost for longer play sessions related to UI
• Reduced number of UI Views which decreases CPU and memory usage
• UI is now only rendered when it is fully initialized
• Upgraded engine compiler resulting in a 5-10% performance boost

Changes

• Reorganized the craft categories and subcategories
• Added item grouping in craft UI to better organize items within subcategories
• Weapons and equipment are now ordered by level in Craft UI
• Genus items can no longer be downgraded when crafting (Lumber cannot be used instead of Refined Lumber but Premium Lumber can)
• Remna items upgradable to the next tier by combining 3 through crafting
• It is now possible to bulk chaos craft
• It is no longer possible to bulk craft unique items such as equipment
• Tweaked craft TP yield, craft level, equipment level, recipe ingredients and ingredients' quantity for most items
• Crafting station icon is now tinted red when it is unavailable and has a help tooltip
• Equipment will no longer use persistent attributes when determining the name which makes the names more interesting
• Negative stat modifiers now have their own special prefixes
• Renamed Researcher NPC to "Scholar"
• Scholar now only provides translating scrolls service
• Removed scraps
• Removed Innovate, Scrap Master, and Scavenge skills
• Scrapper now only scraps equipment and yields materials based off of the provided item
• Executing a keyboard shortcut involving tab and one or more modifier keys (such as alt+tab) will no longer change the players loadout
• Paragons now only appear after defeating the first boss
• Give some feedback to the player when unlocking the first boss
• Changed how some of the bosses are unlocked and reached
• Bosses are now immune to damage over time effects such as Burn and Poison
• Reworked TP gain algorithm making it still possible to gain small amounts of TP when performing lower level actions
• Slightly increased ore frequency and greatly increased clay frequency in worlds
• Significantly increased amount of experience required to level at higher levels

Bug Fixes

• Resolved crash that would occur infrequently when picking up unique items
• Resolved crash that would occur when attempting to load items that are no longer valid items (typically caused by mods)
• Resolved crash that could occur when attempting to render the ground
• Potentially resolved crash when joining a multiplayer game due to the merchant wares not being synced properly
• Resolved crash caused by the grabbed item getting into a bad state
• Resolved crash due to dropped item physics not being cleaned up properly
• Resolved crash that could occur when joining a multiplayer game due to incorrectly reading other player's gear loadout
• Resolved crash due to client destroying a realm before it should have
• Potentially resolved crash caused by an entity attempting to move in a realm after the realm has been destroyed
• Resolved crash when attempting to get the next lore book page beyond the last page
• Resolved issue with characters being replaced when a character with the same name is created
• Resolved issue with tutorials not working on client
• Resolved issue with monsters jumping extremely high
• Resolved issue with Beam spells not damaging bosses
• Potentially fixed a rare issue where Baritus would become stuck in his current empowered form
• Resolved issue with Quaridin's sometimes getting in a stuck state
• Resolved issue where breath spells would not deal damage to spawners or foliage
• Resolved issue where a spell could sometimes be cast multiple times before going on cooldown
• Resolved issue with Lobber arrows not exploding
• Resolved issue with the Blood Rain bow not applying the blood rain effect
• Resolved issue with Aersword not granting stat bonuses
• Resolved issue with Tutela Virge's shield not working properly
• Resolved issue where magic bows could not use ranged skills
• Resolved issue where the Ensnare skill could be cast using any weapon, but only worked properly when using a bow
• Resolved issue where you could begin another action while casting a spell, thus removing the movement constraints from the second action
• Fixed Zweihander graphics
• Resolved issue with stamina still draining when jumping into water while sprinting
• Resolved issue with sound effects continuing to play while the game is paused
• Fixed typo with lore book notification being incorrect for Lanteed
• Added missing dungeoneer outfit flavor text
• Resolved issue where crystals would sometimes not display their renamed name on the map
• Resolved issue where trees could be planted on non soil tiles

After much work the next Crea update is now on unstable and it is a big one. Initially I was planning to release a 1.0.16 but I grew bored of working on bugs for 1.0.16 and took a day off to work on new stuff for 1.1. Next thing I knew 1.1 was almost done and it no longer made sense to release a 1.0.16 update. Whoops! As I've said before, 1.1 focuses on reworking the progression in Crea. In order to achieve this I decided to simplify the researching system and make it the backbone of progression. Researching will send you on miniquests to go find new materials so that you can learn new recipes. Bosses are tied to researching too to help make discovering them easier.
The way you access several of the bosses has changed. Additionally bosses now have set levels and a set order that you fight them in. The bosses themselves have not really changed since I'm holding off on that for a later update. You can read about what we have planned by checking out the Crea Roadmap. Keep in mind this update is on Unstable for now. Please let me know if you are playing it so I can get an idea of how many people are helping test it. If you run into any issues be sure to report them. There are some significant changes and while I did my best to test them and do backwards compatibility tests I likely missed a few. If you world or character saves get messed up be sure to restore them with the automatic backups.

1.1 Changelog

Features

• Completely reworked research system to be simpler, clearer and provide more direct progression
• Bosses now have fixed levels and a set order
• Added experience bar to toolbar UI
• Added in tracking new items for travel, research, and craft systems and highlight them (!) on the UI
• Implemented potential performance boost for longer play sessions related to UI
• Reduced number of UI Views which decreases CPU and memory usage
• UI is now only rendered when it is fully initialized
• Upgraded engine compiler resulting in a 5-10% performance boost

Changes

• Reorganized the craft categories and subcategories
• Added item grouping in craft UI to better organize items within subcategories
• Weapons and equipment are now ordered by level in Craft UI
• Genus items can no longer be downgraded when crafting (Lumber cannot be used instead of Refined Lumber but Premium Lumber can)
• Remna items upgradable to the next tier by combining 3 through crafting
• It is now possible to bulk chaos craft
• It is no longer possible to bulk craft unique items such as equipment
• Tweaked craft TP yield, craft level, equipment level, recipe ingredients and ingredients' quantity for most items
• Crafting station icon is now tinted red when it is unavailable and has a help tooltip
• Equipment will no longer use persistent attributes when determining the name which makes the names more interesting
• Negative stat modifiers now have their own special prefixes
• Renamed Researcher NPC to "Scholar"
• Scholar now only provides translating scrolls service
• Removed scraps
• Removed Innovate, Scrap Master, and Scavenge skills
• Scrapper now only scraps equipment and yields materials based off of the provided item
• Executing a keyboard shortcut involving tab and one or more modifier keys (such as alt+tab) will no longer change the players loadout
• Paragons now only appear after defeating the first boss
• Give some feedback to the player when unlocking the first boss
• Changed how some of the bosses are unlocked and reached
• Bosses are now immune to damage over time effects such as Burn and Poison
• Reworked TP gain algorithm making it still possible to gain small amounts of TP when performing lower level actions
• Slightly increased ore frequency and greatly increased clay frequency in worlds
• Significantly increased amount of experience required to level at higher levels

Bug Fixes

• Resolved crash that would occur infrequently when picking up unique items
• Resolved crash that would occur when attempting to load items that are no longer valid items (typically caused by mods)
• Resolved crash that could occur when attempting to render the ground
• Potentially resolved crash when joining a multiplayer game due to the merchant wares not being synced properly
• Resolved crash caused by the grabbed item getting into a bad state
• Resolved crash due to dropped item physics not being cleaned up properly
• Resolved crash that could occur when joining a multiplayer game due to incorrectly reading other player's gear loadout
• Resolved crash due to client destroying a realm before it should have
• Potentially resolved crash caused by an entity attempting to move in a realm after the realm has been destroyed
• Resolved crash when attempting to get the next lore book page beyond the last page
• Resolved issue with characters being replaced when a character with the same name is created
• Resolved issue with tutorials not working on client
• Resolved issue with monsters jumping extremely high
• Resolved issue with Beam spells not damaging bosses
• Potentially fixed a rare issue where Baritus would become stuck in his current empowered form
• Resolved issue with Quaridin's sometimes getting in a stuck state
• Resolved issue where breath spells would not deal damage to spawners or foliage
• Resolved issue where a spell could sometimes be cast multiple times before going on cooldown
• Resolved issue with Lobber arrows not exploding
• Resolved issue with the Blood Rain bow not applying the blood rain effect
• Resolved issue with Aersword not granting stat bonuses
• Resolved issue with Tutela Virge's shield not working properly
• Resolved issue where magic bows could not use ranged skills
• Resolved issue where the Ensnare skill could be cast using any weapon, but only worked properly when using a bow
• Resolved issue where you could begin another action while casting a spell, thus removing the movement constraints from the second action
• Fixed Zweihander graphics
• Resolved issue with stamina still draining when jumping into water while sprinting
• Resolved issue with sound effects continuing to play while the game is paused
• Fixed typo with lore book notification being incorrect for Lanteed
• Added missing dungeoneer outfit flavor text
• Resolved issue where crystals would sometimes not display their renamed name on the map
• Resolved issue where trees could be planted on non soil tiles

Greeting! Apologies for such a long delay between updates. Have no fear though for I have been hard at work on the 1.1 update and have some great changes coming soon. I will write in full detail about everything going into 1.1 when it lands. For now I will tease that 1.1 focuses on reworking Crea's progression mainly focusing on redesigning the researching system and how you progress through the bosses. There are also tons of bug fixes that will be included. I took a good chunk of time thinking about the next several updates and updated the public Crea Trello. You can take a look at what we have planned, what we're currently working on, and all the lovely issues we're working through. In other news, Crea officially has two new developers working on it part-time. Jonatan is working one day a week and is focusing on smoothing out the combat and movement as well as polishing various things. Josh is working 20 hours a week while going to college and is spending his time on fixing bugs and soon other parts of the updates. Both are extremely talented and passionate about game development. Crea is lucky to have them on the team!

Introduction

Initial Research System

Feedback on Researching

• Too many items consumed for no clear reward
• Seemingly random - a blackbox
• Unclear when an item can be researched. Sometimes it can and other times it can’t
• Players don’t learn what they can actually craft which defeats original design purpose
• No clear progression
• Too many items hidden behind researching

Redesigned Researching

Conclusion

Hello everyone, just trying to keep up with the status updates! Right after publishing the last update I got on a plane and flew to the East Coast to visit a friend; a trip I have been postponing for months. I will be away from the computer for the first time in quite awhile and will be doing a camping trip for the next few days. Apologies in advanced for the delayed responses and lingering issues. Once I'm back I will get back to it. Speaking of when I'm back, I have been redesigning the research system and along with it a substantial amount of the other "progression" in the game. The current state of Crea is disjoint in large part because development was very incremental and organic. Now that Crea is released I'm taking a step back and looking at the bigger picture. I don't want to get into it to much yet but I can give you all an idea for now. Researching will no longer require researching individual materials and recipes will no longer be partially learned. Instead recipes will be grouped up into logical sets and researched all at once at the expense of a few materials. The recipes and materials will be known upfront and after researching a set new sets are unlocked. There are many many changes coming soon which I will be sharing as we get closer to them. For now though, I will continue to focus on resolving issues so that everyone can have a good experience playing Crea. Thanks again for your patience and help!

New update with some more fixes! I will move this to stable tomorrow once it has had a bit of time to prove itself.

Changelog

• Resolved several issues with dungeon pathing Enhanced dungeon generation overall with some more variety and more interconnectedness
• Resolved issue with item locking not working on clients properly
• Resolved issue with jump bonus gained from "On Jump" equipment attribute and "Speedster" dungeon modifier not working on clients
• Resolved issue with stacking to nearby chests not updating the toolbar
• Resolved issue with consuming the last of a locked item leaving the item slot locked in the inventory
• Resolved issue with character getting into a bad inventory bag state and not being playable anymore
• Resolved issue with Battle Ranseur permanently giving character Attack power
• Resolved issue with Paralyze status effect breaking some monsters and bosses
• Switches now always appear on the front layer
• Resolved issue with placed items claiming to be in the original position even after they have been moved (such as treasure chests)
• Resolved regression with character creation not working right since modular animation change
• Resolved regression causing launching Crea on OSX to just get a black screen
• Added mention of increased block placement reach for Pickup Reach Boost
• Animals are now always level 1

There are many enhancements and a plethora of bug fixes that have been accumulating on unstable. After much baking time I believe it is safe to promote the unstable branch to stable. Unfortunately I do not know how many players have been on the unstable branch so the exact stability is somewhat unknown. I am around all day and ready to put out any fires that may occur. If you do run into any new problems then don't hesitate to report it and, as usual, I will be streaming development so you can report it live. I am continuing to focus on fixing bugs but am starting to mix in some of the more requested features (such as inventory management). There will be many more bug patches coming over the coming weeks. I am hopeful that within the next month we'll see nearly all of the known bugs resolved. While the remaining bugs are resolved I am going to begin to incorporate feedback and polish the existing systems and content. I will write an extensive post about all of that in the somewhat near future but I don't want to get too far ahead of myself. For now, you can find all of the changes going live on stable today below!

Changelog

Features

• Added item sorting and inventory stack nearby
• Added ability to lock inventory item slots to keep them from being sorted and stacked
• Added support to quick transfer items to and from merchant
• Huge rework of data syncing for multiplayer
• Trees, plants and remna fountains now simulate time passed while it was unloaded (no more leaving and coming back to saplings)

Changes

• Replaced "Deposit" treasure chest option with "Sort"
• Changed all LV+ variation item recipes to be learn through the scroll instead of having to research them individually
• Expanded Treasure UI view size some
• Do not flash menu items when it is already open
• Only have thick moss grow on natural stone (not stone brick)
• HP and SP now stay at the same percentage when switching loadouts (Tab)
• Added Poison Spear Scroll to Zabis horde realm loot pool
• NPC names are now localizable
• Removed white boarder on Lorumite Wall icon
• Added automatic image redirection for images in the coremod directory

Bug Fixes

• Resolved issue with client being able to levels skills at lower levels than they should
• Resolved issue with storm skills (Windstorm) not working in multiplayer
• Resolved issue with water not being animated on clients
• Resolved issue in multiplayer that would cause other players to be invisible
• Resolved issue causing multiplayer sync slowdown
• Optimized data sent to clients
• Resolved regression issue with grappler being invisible on clients
• Resolved issue with some bosses being invisible in multiplayer
• Resolved multiplayer issue with other players sometimes being invisible
• Smoothed out grappler on the client so it is not nearly as jumpy as before
• Show Light Orb cooldown on client
• Properly limit sell shop to 12 items
• Fixed some issues with Falxian Altar
• Added missing description for Magic Boost status effect
• Resolved issue with items on quickbar not having a cooldown on the client
• Resolved issue with items on the shift + quickbar not updating with to how many items are in the inventory
• Resolved issue with illusory gear not resetting veil timer properly and automatically reapplying veil when it is removed
• Resolved issue with chest's inventories not being synced properly anymore in multiplayer (regression)
• Resolved regression where using a grappler or Beam spell would result in a crash on multiplayer
• Resolved issue with player animations on clients not playing correctly (usually showing multiple arms)
• Resolved (mostly) issue with client getting stuck in edge grab animation on server
• Resolved issue with some spawners during world generation being overleveled for the region they are in
• Prevent HP regen during Nullify Heal dungeons
• Fixed issue with Berserk skill SP tick triggering every 1 second instead of every 3 seconds
• Potentially resolved one of the cases where dungeon generation would result in an incompletable floor
• Resolved issue with Light Orb not following the player to new realms
• Fixing Wand Proficiency level descriptions
• Resolved seemingly random crash caused by foliage growing
• Resolved crash when renaming a treasure chest and quickly leaving the chest

Another day, another group of bug fixes. Thanks to Premium for bringing a regression to my attention. Hopefully this will be the next stable release!

Changelog

• Resolved regression where using a grappler or Beam spell would result in a crash on multiplayer
• Resolved issue with player animations on clients not playing correctly (usually showing multiple arms)
• Resolved (mostly) issue with client getting stuck in edge grab animation on server
• Resolved issue with some spawners during world generation being overleveled for the region they are in
• Resolved issue with client being able to levels skills at lower levels than they should
• Prevent HP regen during Nullify Heal dungeons
• Fixed issue with Berserk skill SP tick triggering every 1 second instead of every 3 seconds
• Potentially resolved one of the cases where dungeon generation would result in an incompletable floor

Another unstable update is here with lots of changes! I'm really hoping this version is the next stable release. You'll find there are some highly requested features included such as a "stack nearby" and "sort" options as well as the ability to lock item slots in your inventory. Right now the only thing holding it back from being so is multiplayer stability. Since the huge multiplayer rework I have been doing my best to track down any regressions and I think I've got them all but I need some brave souls to test it out and report back to me first. Please let me know if you are playing Unstable and if things are working out for you (or not). I will be streaming development as usual so if you run into any new issues you can report them there.

v1.0.13 changelog

Features

• Added item sorting and inventory stack nearby
• Added ability to lock inventory item slots to keep them from being sorted and stacked
• Added support to quick transfer items to and from merchant

Changes

• Replaced "Deposit" treasure chest option with "Sort"
• Changed all LV+ variation item recipes to be learn through the scroll instead of having to research them individually
• Expanded Treasure UI view size some
• Do not flash menu items when it is already open
• Only have thick moss grow on natural stone (not stone brick)
• HP and SP now stay at the same percentage when switching loadouts (Tab)
• Added Poison Spear Scroll to Zabis horde realm loot pool

Bug Fixes

• Resolved issue in multiplayer that would cause other players to be invisible
• Resolved issue causing multiplayer sync slowdown
• Resolved regression issue with grappler being invisible on clients
• Smoothed out grappler on the client so it is not nearly as jumpy as before
• Show Light Orb cooldown on client
• Properly limit sell shop to 12 items
• Fixed some issues with Falxian Altar
• Added missing description for Magic Boost status effect
• Resolved issue with items on quickbar not having a cooldown on the client
• Resolved issue with items on the shift + quickbar not updating with to how many items are in the inventory
• Resolved issue with illusory gear not resetting veil timer properly and automatically reapplying veil when it is removed

Hello everyone! It has been awhile since I released an update to stable and wanted to give everyone an update on where everything is at. Unstable has received several updates while I iron out the kinks in the new multiplayer code. I think it is getting there but still needs a bit more work before it is ready to be considered fully "stable".

With that said, I still think the "unstable" branch is better overall now for multiplayer and is pure win for single player.

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Pixel Artist

Got a ton of work done yesterday! Thanks to a few players testing on Unstable I was able to fix some bad regressions caused by the huge multiplayer changes. Along with those I got some crashes fixed up and more.

Changelog

• Optimized data sent to clients
• Resolved issue with storm skills (Windstorm) not working in multiplayer
• Resolved issue with water not being animated on clients
• Resolved seemingly random crash caused by foliage growing
• Resolved crash when renaming a treasure chest and quickly leaving the chest
• Removed white boarder on Lorumite Wall icon
• Resolved issue with chest's inventories not being synced properly anymore in multiplayer (regression)

Hello again everyone! I hope you all had a good weekend and the Steam Summer Sale has been treating you well. Since the last update I've been working away on the multiplayer. Some huge fundamental changes in the underlying multiplayer code changed. I have done limited testing which is why I am putting this on the unstable branch. Please test with the unstable and let me know how it goes. I will be continuing my efforts on multiplayer and other high impact issues for now. Thank you all for your patience.

Changelog

• Huge rework of data syncing for multiplayer
• Trees, plants and remna fountains now simulate time passed while it was unloaded (no more leaving and coming back to saplings)
• Resolved issue with Light Orb not following the player to new realms
• Resolved issue with some bosses being invisible in multiplayer
• Resolved multiplayer issue with other players sometimes being invisible
• Fixing Wand Proficiency level descriptions
• NPC names are now localizable
• Added automatic image redirection for images in the coremod directory

Hello again! I want to keep up the communication but I don't have an actual update so this will have to do. There are unfortunately still several high impact issues that I'm working through. Many of these I was not able to get enough information but with the latest version I should be able to collect nearly all crash reports automatically with hopefully enough details that I can start quickly resolving these remaining crashes. Before I get to working on those crashes though I am currently focusing on multiplayer issues some more. I believe that many of the existing issues stem from a single part of the underlying multiplayer parts of the game's engine. So I am targeting that and rewriting it to be more performant. At the very least it should help make it easier to track down these issues. Thanks again for everyone's patience and help. I am working through these as fast as I possibly can. In the future I hope to bring some additional people on the team to help speed up development so things wont move so slow and be so dependent on one person. I released an extremely small patch yesterday. I was originally just planning to include its change with the next update but I will just add it on here.

v1.0.9 changelog

• Fixed Frostbite description and Regeneration skill cooldown time
• Removed mod achievement disable notification
• Resolved issue with Eternal War weapon attribute not persisting its life drain effect
• Added extra measures to enforce automatic crash reporting
• Resolved issue with resetting Xbox One controller controls not working properly

I just released a new patch that enables achievements for all - v1.0.8

Here's the daily update! Still making good progress overall but hit somewhat of a wall with many of the high impact issues. I added in a few things into this build to help assist in tracking them down. Despite having released so many updates recently the game is still riddled with bugs and I appreciate everyone's patience and assistance. I apologize if I haven't managed to resolve an issue you're encountering. I am doing my best and will get to it as soon as I can. Be sure to provide as much information on your issue as possible so when I do start tracking it down I can quickly find the cause and fix it. Thanks! Again, I am pushing this to everyone since I will be around all day working away on Crea and can quickly respond to any issues that pop up. Please report any new issues on the Development Stream so I can immediately address them.

Changelog

• Resolved issue with server-side characters not working with Steam Cloud properly
• Resolved issue where monsters would be invincible for longer than they should
• Added better crash handling to help assist in tracking down the cause of crashes
• Resolved localization mod issue when the localization doesn't define a "lore" or "help" font
• Lowered level requirement for glove accessories
• Added missing Impact Gloves Scroll
• Greatly increased scraps yield from scrapping equipment
• Reduced number of squirrel arrows needed to craft Squirrel Quiver from 999 to 99
• Fix typo in Knockout modifier description
• Removed '.' from end of Wood Wall name
• Added achievement disable notification at the top of enabling a mod for an existing world
• Added additional profiling to help track down a performance issue

Trying to get out daily updates as much as I can. Here is another full day worth of work. I am releasing it to everyone since I will be around to fight any fires that pop up. If you do run into any new issues please report them to me on my development stream and I'll be sure to address it immediately. Once again I'm continuing to focus on multiplayer and other large impact issues.

Changelog

• Resolved issue where innovation skill was not factored in for what recipes the client could learn
• Researching now gives more consistent TP even when researching lower level items
• Resolved issue with camera not showing the side of horde realms and dungeons when zoomed in
• Fixed a few inconsistencies with treasure chest names and their locked state (needing a key)
• Resolved issue where deleting a character with the a name that is the start of another character's name would result in deleting that character
• Added more details to the Altar of Chaos description
• Resolved issue where more infusions could be used than available
• Resolved issue with Agmore Chestplate lonis seed material being replaceable
• Added scroll lock on research materials when translating a scroll is needed to finish researching that material
• Added potential fix for retina displays

Continuing my quest to rid Crea of issues! Yesterday I managed to track down and free us all from the titan known as "Exploding Base". I also took some time to get down easier to fix issues out of the way such as invisible dead trees in multiplayer and Xbox One controllers not working 100%. For now this is available on the Unstable beta branch. Today I will be continuing to work on multiplayer bugs and other high impact issues that come my way. I will be looking into performance issues again soon and try tracking down those remaining few. If you run into issues be sure to report them on the forums following this guide: http://steamcommunity.com/app/280520/discussions/0/618460171327332986/

Changelog

• Resolved "base exploding" issue caused by traveling to a region that is currently being unloaded
• Resolved crash on host when client attempts to craft using the same upgradable item twice (sword, mattock, etc.)
• Resolved issue with some trees (Dead Trees and Mushroom Trees) being invisible for clients
• Resolved issue where treasure and/or return crystal in horde realm would not be created properly
• Resolved issue with Xbox One controllers would not work 100% correctly
• Fixed join error message with version mismatch
• Lore text now supports utf-8 characters and can have its font changed
• Resolved issue with dungeon system not being cleaned up properly

Hello again my friends, I once more bring you my day's work bounty. For now this is available on the Unstable beta branch. If things are looking good in the morning then I'll release it to everyone. (and update Humble) I finally got to spend a good chunk of my day fixing multiplayer bugs and got some huge nasty ones resolved. There are still a lot of weird desyncing issues and other assorted multiplayer issues that I will be working on. Crashing when entering dungeons? FIXED! Crashing when exiting dungeons? FIXED! Host have a broken grappler in dungeons? FIXED! I will be continuing my bug onslaught tomorrow. I will be continuing my efforts on the high impact issues - crashes, performance issues and that exploding base issue. If you are having problems with any of these then join my Development Stream tomorrow and I'll personally help you.

Changelog

• Resolved crash when entering another realm on the client
• Resolved crash on clients (multiplayer) after leaving a realm
• Resolved a crash on the host (multiplayer) when quickly shift+clicking to transfer an item multiple times
• Resolved issue on some GPUs that would cause the game to crash upon entering multiple dungeons or saving and exiting and reloading
• Resolved issue with grapplers not working in other realms on multiplayer
• Optimized the load time for traveling to new realms
• Mining multiple blocks of the same type only play one sound now
• Limit length of seaweed and lava stalactites
• Resolved issue with bamboo bed and bamboo dresser not being learnable correctly
• Loosened requirements to obtain Corsaltus Crystal Scroll (boss item)
• Changed firey dungeons to use Soot as the material (Change size or play random dungeon to reroll current item requirement)
• Fixed Stegara's Rampage Boots (Lv40) name
• Increased distance controller cursor will target
• Attacking Target Dummies does not grant TP anymore
• Increased change and amount of TP gained from casting Heal
• Discovering new items can now grant Explore TP
• Lowered Explore level requirement to learn Shadow Folding

Wow! I am so sorry everyone that tried creating a new world in the last 2 hours. I rushed this update out before heading out to look at a few apartments. As always, I failed to test something (world generation) so it was of course broken. Moving forward, I will start employing a "Unstable" branch that player's can opt into to get the latest version. Once it has time to prove itself I will then push it to everyone. Again, I am deeply sorry and feel like a jerk. Now you can go create a world and name it "Jasson Sucks". ;) Love you all, (don't hate me) Jasson

Yesterday was a productive day with several bugs fixed. I will of course continue to work through issues as fast as I can. Progress! Today I will begin focusing on some of the multiplayer bugs. I hope to also look at the nasty "exploding base" issue. Once again, thank you all for your patience, support and help fixing these issues.

Changelog

• Resolved performance issue caused by monster spawners not being updated and maintained properly. This should fix dropped FPS from longer play sessions.
• Resolved issue with music box not working in multiplayer
• Resolved issue with previously defeated bosses since the previous patch not scaling properly. Defeating previously defeated bosses will cause them to start scaling properly.
• Resolved issue with grappler suddenly not working anymore
• Resolved issue where treasure chests with an apostrophe in its name would not correctly open up anymore
• Resolved issue with Warden items and Hunter Talisman not displaying tooltip correctly during crafting and researching
• Resolved issue with sticky throw-able items not being destroyed properly
• Changed Glow ball and Sticky Glow Ball descriptions to mention that they are throwable

Hello everyone! Time for a status update! Thanks to everyone I now know just about every issue in Crea. It is just a matter of fixing them. Thank you for your ongoing support and patience!

Windows 32-bit vs 64-bit

Performance Issues

Multiplayer Issues

Exploding Homepoint

Other Issues

Development Streaming

Update? When?

Mini Changelog

• Doubled the distance that you can use items from nearby treasure chests
• Changed quiver description to clarify its use
• Removed split platform graphic
• Balanced bosses more so they don't completely scale to your level
• Resolved issue with boss levels sometimes being higher than they should
• Resolved issue with crafting surface modifiers causing issues with saving while in the player's trash
• Resolved issue with backslash in a name would break character or world selection

Great news everyone! The next hotfix has landed and resolves several major issues. The entire family of sound bugs have been exterminated. Along with them lay many others detailed below. Be sure to check them out! One big change is that the Windows 64-bit binaries are being replaced with the 32-bit versions. This is because the Windows 64-bit build is fairly new and has proven to not be as stable as the 32-bit one. Once release has settled down I will spend time fixing up the 64-bit build. Next (tomorrow) I will be focusing on resolving the performance issues as well as the multiplayer crashes. I am working as hard as I possibly can and will keep you guys updated with the progress I make. If you would like to watch me stomping bugs then feel free to check out my Development Livestream. I am live more often than not nowadays.

Changelog

• Added in primitive quick item transfer
• Resolved issues with sfx and music dropping
• Resolved crash at startup for many players
• Resolved issue where dedicated GPU was not being used causing performance issues and crashes
• Made it possible to collect the Corsaltus Crystal
• Fixed controls on tooltip for interacting with skill on toolbar
• Clarified that Slam and Skysword are only usable midair in their descriptions
• Made it possible to place blocks on the backwall when adjacent to a block on the ground layer

Hello everyone! I wanted to give you all a quick status report on the state of things. Before I get to that, thank you again to everyone that is reporting issues and are patiently awaiting fixes. I know Crea is really buggy right now for some of you. Keep in mind that before release we had 10-15 people playing Crea at a time so when an issue was even reported it was hard to ascertain the severity - icecube or iceburg? Now we have 1000+ people crashing their ships into a few iceburgs! I'm on my lifeboat swimming out to everyone as fast as I can. You can watch me swimming frantically over on the development channel. Onto the state of things!

UI Performance Issue

Sound Cutting Out

Multiplayer Crashing

Other Issues

Feature Requests

Summary

Hello everyone! First of all thank you all for the amazing support so far. Secondly, thank you all for your patience with these issues. I know there are a few of you being plagued by some horrible issues and it pains me. I am working hard at getting these fixed up and hope to get Crea working nicely for everyone. My top priorities are:

• UI Performance issues
• Multiplayer issues (a few)
• Sound Effects issue

Changelog

• Resolved UI zoom breaking the game
• Resolved issue with dedicated server not loading settings properly
• Resolved issue with Stealth equipment attribute not working correctly in some cases
• Added in logging to help track down sfx issue
• Changed Wood Furniture Set to only require lumber to research it

Crea is now out of Steam Early Access! First of all, thank you to everyone who took a risk and supported us during Early Access (and before). Let's make the next stage of development even more successful! Now lets get some questions answered.

Will Crea continue development now that it is released?

Should I tell my friends about Crea?

Should I wait for Steam Summer Sale to buy Crea?

A 1.0 release means no bugs, right?

How is Crea different from other sandbox games?

Features

• Pages to a Lore Book are now scattered throughout the world of Crea
• Items have been infused with lore flavor text
• Dedicated Server now available on Steam
• Added 50 Steam Achievements
• Steam Trading Cards
• Introduced a forth boss
• New Ore and remna tiers can now be unlocked
• New gear tier hasa been introduced
• Enhanced item interaction
• Smarter controller cursor
• Enhanced visual style for renaming inputs
• New more powerful version of many accessories have been added

Changes

• Guides are now shown the first time they become available
• Changed Research Desk subcategory to "Essentials" to make it easier to find for new players
• Loadout buttons added to HUD toolbar
• Disallow in-game commands unless using developer mode
• Items are automatically discovered when its recipe is learned. This means unique items that are researched on discovery no longer have to be crafted to learn
• Unique items no longer have to be discovered before a recipe can have materials researched for it
• Decreased TP cost for the first level of the Sword Proficiency
• Lowered level requirements for most skills
• Vines and foliage now give less gather TP
• Characters now automatically learn any newly added recipes for discovered materials
• Lowered Lanteed spawn frequency some making Oil Slimes spawn more often
• Birds drop more feathers now
• Boss levels are now based on defeated bosses for players instead of world
• Balanced minimum levels for some monsters
• Increased HP for bosses as they level up
• Cut the HP for the spawners that Dormians creates in half
• Changed Venfear's wind attack to go through blocks
• Snow hare drops fur now
• Reduced animal spawn rate by a bit
• Fish are now extinct (disabled since they are broken and I don't have time to fix them atm)
• Added many missing localizations
• Changed Premium Lumber to have the proper quality
• Purified Lumber now stacks to 99
• Increased the price of silk
• Crates are no longer collectable
• Rebalanced item prices
• Chests are now named "Locked" when locked
• Lockpicks can now be used from the toolbar
• Lockpicks will automatically be used when interacting with a locked chest and no keys are available
• Increase price cost for Reincarnate dungeons
• Increased chance for horde realm crystals to appear
• Select medium size world by default in world creation
• Changed world level distribution - small worlds increase more dramatically while large worlds are more gradual
• Added some missing status effect icons
• Added descriptions to several items
• Renamed Gildor's Crystal to Corsaltus Crystal

Bug Fixes

• Resolved crash on client when traveling to a new realm caused by messages getting out of order
• Resolved seemingly random crash on clients when the host is unloading a region of a world with certain items in it
• Resolved issue with players being able to interact with travel items (realm crystals, chaos bed, gildor crystal) multiple times
• Resolved error on standalone server with Invisible status effect
• Resolved issue with client experience bar not updating properly when leveling up
• Resolved issue with particles not using textures properly on the client
• Resolved issue with one of the build toolbars not working for clients
• Resolved issue where your character would float when the ground was destroyed underneath him on a client (multiplayer)
• Fixed many messages being sent to all players in a multiplayer game when they should only be sent to a single player
• MOTD is now loaded for standalone server
• Resolved issue with standalone name and motd not loading from settings properly
• Resolved issue with character preview not working on OSX
• Resolved issue with overlaping items showing one highlighted but then interacting with the unhighlighted one
• Resolved issue with the UI not updating when resetting control bindings
• HUD now properly shows more than 7 status effects
• Resolved issue with items sometimes attempting to be collected even when there isn't space
• Resolved issue with some equipment claiming to have potential attributes when they infact did not
• Resolved issue with torch coming back on underwater when against a wall
• Do not stack unique items notifications
• Resolved issue with discovered items associated with characters was being saved improperly and would not work correctly when switching worlds
• Temporarily disable UI zooming for OSX since it causes a crash
• Resolved issue with items being researched multiple times (duplicate notifications)
• Resolved issue with researching item set recipes causing the player to not learn the contained recipes
• Resolved crash when quickly leaving a horde realm
• Resolved issue with some horde realms not properly creating reward chest and/or exit crystal
• Resolved issue with Aegnite horde realm crystals not always working
• Resolved issue with entity render rectangle not being calculated correctly when entity is flipped
• Resolved issue with some realms lingering longer than they should
• Resolved animation issue when using an item or gadget during a second jump
• Better error handling when settings file is busted
• Resolved issue with character being interrupted when taking damage more often than they should
• Resolved issue with many monster projectile attacks dealing more damage than they should
• Fixed issue with some monster's attack trail (Torrend & Aegnite) not having correct transparency when monster was invisible
• Resolved issue with monsters still attacking the player immediately after the player becomes invisible
• Resolved issue with grappler breaking after using it just before traveling to another realm
• Resolved issue with Flamethrower spell getting into a broken state
• Resolved issue with Breath spells not working on all quickbars
• Fixed Stoneskin status effect description

Hello everyone! I very often see players referring to the wiki and every time I feel compelled to comment on how outdated it is. Lets change this! Many new players find the wiki really helpful and with 1.0 on the horizon we are about to get a huge surge of newbies. Thank you to Kirabook who has gotten the wiki this far! She is busy nowadays and needs you to pick up the torch. Go and start contributing! Feel free to join in on the Discord community and chat about it. http://creawiki.net/w/Main_Page Thank you everyone that does help out!

First of all thank, you for wanting to help support Crea! Since the release date announcement sales have increased. While this is really encouraging to see, I am here to tell you something that you probably would have never thought you'd hear a developer say...

STOP BUYING THE GAME!

• --------> 10% Launch Discount <--------
• Lore Book Introduced
• Steam Achievements
• Steam Trading Cards
• Countless bugs fixed
• Sale spike on launch day is good for Crea
• So you can tell me at the launch party that you bought the game

I am pleased to announce that Crea will be released on Steam on June 9th.
With the 1.0 release will be a massive update introduce several new features such as a new boss and gear tier, expansive mythos including a lore book, Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards, thorough modding documentation, and a plethora of other changes. Crea’s time on Steam Early Access has been great. Looking back to what Crea was at the start it is amazing how far it has come. I want to thank everyone who has helped out during Early Access. Thank you to those that reported issues. Thank you to those that provided feedback. Thank you to those that endured the unstable times. Thank you to those that shared Crea with their friends and family. Without you development would have been that much harder. Our time together does not have to stop though! That’s right! Moving onto 1.0 by no means that development on Crea is over. There are many additional features and content we would love to add as long as we have your support. Speaking of which, here are a few ways you can help us have a successful launch!

• Tell your friends!
• Share on social media
• Leave a Steam Review
• Join the 1.0 beta and help test

It is finally happening! The 1.0 beta is now live and I'm looking for players to sign up to join! 1.0 Beta Sign-ups The 1.0 beta contains all of the 1.0 features including: Steam Achievements, Lore Book, 4th boss, and a new ore and equipment tier. With the official 1.0 release we'll also be adding in Steam trading cards as well. In addition to the 1.0 beta, I've put together another weekly update with a bunch of changes and bug fixes!

Changelog

Changes

• Keys no longer drop from animals
• Lowered drop rate of keys from monsters and animals
• Decreased items in dungeon treasure chests and added keys to their loot pool
• Changed scrapper algorithm so it now produces significantly less scraps especially for materials
• Balanced Dungeoneer dungeon costs so that good modifiers cost significantly more
• Changed mattock's potential stat attributes to have higher values
• Changed Battle Cry and Berserk to work off a flat value making them much more effective at lower levels
• Agmore Sword, Artisan Broadsword, and Sylic Blade now upgrade from their proper items
• Spirit Drain spear's main attribute can now vary based off the item's quality
• Limiting items craft with unique materials to only have one crafted at a time (equipment)
• Dependent stat attributes such as '15% of DEF to HP' now automatically adjusts when the dependent stat changes
• Increased the cost of the map icons up to 500
• Berserk status effect is now removed when a character with it is loaded

Bug Fixes

• Resolving crash in multiplayer when a new inventory bag is acquired
• Resolved an issue where a screen tear would appear across the screen on some GPUs
• Resolved issue with teleporting resulting in the character getting stuck
• Resolved an issue with tiles not rendering properly
• Resolving issue with Syle breath skill not working
• Resolved issue with Focus skill not affecting critical damage correctly
• Fixing graphical issue with imbuing chamber animations
• Fixing small styling issue with craft UI
• Resolved an issue where player's could craft multiple items while only consuming one of a unique item
• Fix standalone help text regarding world size during creation
• Modding: Resolved issue with content overloading not fully replacing the original content

We now have a discord server! For those not familiar with Discord; it is a text/voice chat program that makes it easy to become part of the community. Feel free to join and start chatting away! Official Crea Discord Server Shout out to those that put this together: PocketWookie, Bandersnatch and MrPoundsign.

This update's focus is once again on bug fixes. I am attempting to resolve some of the last huge offenders such as the frequent crashes on Intel HD GPUs. Meanwhile we've been working on 1.0 features and have finished up the Lore book! It is looking fantastic and will share screenshots soon. I decided to pull one of the new additions to the game - the great tower known as Solunais.
Soon I will be launching a 1.0 closed beta and will be looking for testers. This will give us time to get a bit of feedback and have time to respond to issues. If you think you will want to help out with the 1.0 beta then watch this news section where I will be posting some details. Keep in mind that I will give priority to those who have shown to be helpful in the past. The 1.0 release date will be announced soon! I first want to make sure there aren't any massive explosions with the 1.0 beta launch.

Changelog 0.44.0

• The great tower, Solunais, has appeared!

• Resolved crash on startup on 64-bit Windows caused by Intel HD GPUs
• Potentially Resolve crash when exiting a dungeon with the "Explosive Monsters" modifier
• Fixed layout issue with Cartographer UI
• Resolved issue with visual effects persisting between sessions
• Resolved issue with tool dig area not being calculated correctly all of the time
• Resolved styling issue with crafting window when using a controller
• Fixing issue with toolbar styling not showing which item is selected while using a controller
• Resolved issue with changing controller bindings
• Log statements to help investigate a few issues have been added

• Level up by defeating enemies
  
• Learn over 80 skills through the talent system
  
• Loot and craft powerful gear with unique attributes
  
• Discover the world’s expansive mythos and history

• Defeat challenging original monsters each with their own attacks
  
• Survive by timing shield blocks and dodge rolling
  
• Vanquish by your weapon of choice: Sword, Spear, Bow, or Magic
  
• Challenge massive bosses and prepare to die

• Research materials to discover their crafting capabilities
  
• Find old recipe scrolls scattered throughout the world
  
• Upgrade equipment to carry over their stats
  
• Use chaos crafting (minigame) to create even more powerful items

• Explore massive procedurally generated worlds
  
• Quickly teleport through the use of Way Crystals, Way Shards and Rifts
  
• Delve into dungeons that not only look different but play different every time
  
• Travel to completely new Realms beyond the bounds of the main world

• Built from the ground up with modding in mind
  
• All gameplay logic and content exposed in Python
  
• Easily create new content or entirely new gameplay systems
  
• Learn from extensive modding tutorials and API documentation

• Join in on the Development Streams
  
• Track progress and what’s planned on the Roadmap
  
• Get the latest development news on Twitter

• OS: Ubuntu 12.04 x64 LTS or later
• Processor: 1.7+ GHz or betterMemory: 2 GB RAM
• Memory: 2 GB RAM
• Graphics: 256+MB and OpenGL 2.1 compatible GPU and 1024x768 resolutionNetwork: Broadband Internet connection
• Storage: 256 MB available space