The closer we get to feature-completeness of the non-linear levels the more wacky mechanics we can experiment with and reach our design goals.
One of them is introduction of The Essence of The Elders buff exclusive to Cra'Than evironments. Even though it was designed to make Cra'Thanos boss fight quicker and easier, it can be found in The Twisted Betrothal and Cra'Than environments as well, spawned by Holes. It has a very short 5 second duration, 90% shorter for each stack, but it stacks +50% buff to damage, movement speed and range. It also temporary reduces all zooid health by 50% with each stack turning your (enemy) sipho into a glass cannon. We have already seen players stacking it to ludicrous stacks and having fun with that.
Following Holes spawning a new buff, Tentacles have received a bit of brain and will react to things touching them. We hope that these environmental gimmicks bring more to the table and makes visiting Cra'Than areas play out differently than usual.
Version 0.7.15f2

• Zooid unlock pickup is now a trigger and is possible to pass-through
  
• Zooids also try eating consumables with Trigger colliders
  
• Zooid pickup needs to be charged-up to pick-up instead of being instant pick-up
  
• Twisters now only check for pushable layer - doesn't affect decorations
  

• Tweak Cra'Than boss 2 arena
  
• More robust save upgrade process for very old saves. Save game version in saves
  
• Hide Tentacle debug text behind debug option
  
• Tweak Cra'Than Boss 2 arena
  
• Make Tentacles react to things touching them
  
• Essence of the Elders buff has stronger but shorter effect. It also decreases max health
  
• Color zooid max health in tooltips according to positive/negative change
  
• Fix buff descriptions showing +- for negative effects
  
• Zooids with lower max HP than normal will decay as if they were damaged at their normal HP
  
• Cap minimum value of zooid health at 1
  
• Rename Energy Regenerated Per Second to Energy Regeneration
  
• Make Sniper projectile 50% faster
  
• Cra'Than Holes now only spawn The Essence of The Elders and Snacks
  
• Tweak Cra'Than first boss fight arena to allow fitting 3 zooid wide Siphos on sides
  
• Add The Essence of Elders powerup
  
• Fix Spike trying to update pooled graphics connectors
  
• Replace whitespace with underscores in itchio upload version tags
  
• Fix enemy flee direction - fixes enemies clumping up at (0,0) coordinates
  
• Handle rotated camera in growth mode UI correctly
  
• Hide sonar in growth mode
  
• Reward more nutrition for killing larger enemies
  
• Only pull consumables which can be consumed
  
• Allow eating consumable if it provides no nutrition while Sipho is full
  
• Include tag to version of builds uploaded to itch