UI scaling has been fixed, no longer can it cause your UI to disappear
Gabby now follows a bit better when recruited (and also counts as a fish)
Fixed various journal entry links
Added a backdrop to the chat for bright backgrounds
Fixed a few places that some translations would break and display empty characters
Fixed a notable interaction between Cardinal bottom rock and money bag

Added Korean Translations for achievements

Updated Bird related hunting things

Added a smarter Vessel selection ('F') with multiple player vessels
- If you have nothing selected or a non-vessel selected, the FIRST selected vessel will always be the closest vessel! Continued presses will cycle

The legendary YELLOW PATCH is here alongside 1.0! The jumps out of Early Access finally with so many fancy features you really just need to check it out yourself!

Yes, I did jump 3 version numbers. I swear I planned it out to be almost exact, but I think the game was actually readier than I knew, so sweet!

By the time of this post, TDS will be 40% OFF, the biggest discount ever to celebrate the launch!!!

ADDITIONALLY! The TDS - OST is now available as a purchasable soundtrack if you want to support us! You'll get the full soundtrack, plus some bonus tracks (in the form of original mixes) B)!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3535840/TDS__OST/

It'll also be a neat addition to the collection if that's your fancy, love a little group of colors... lol
Finally, I will start this off by saying my absolute thank you to everyone that had played during the Early Access of this game! It's been an amazing time and while I don't have anything concrete planned past this point in development. Things like mods, localization, and more are going to get support into the long future. And obviously if things turn out well for the game, I'd be happy to entertain more TDS :D

Bottom line, thank you for playing. I am very proud to have completed this!

Lets get into the update:


NEW LANGUAGE OPTIONS - new localization for 10+ languages in the game have been added! THIS IS STILL A WIP as we need VOLUNTEERS to help finish it properly! But all in all this will let more folks enjoy TDS to it's fullest and has been a long work in progress to get it right. Enjoy the game in new languages, namely: English, Français, 简体中文, 日本語, 한국어, Deutsch, Español, Polski, Português, русский, Tiếng Việt, Italiana and more!

A FULL overhaul across the game has been done to accommodate languages, alongside waiting for all the text to be finalized as all led to this moment! Yay!

4* NEW MAPS! - Rounding off the end half of the game into POST-GAME! You can reach the top and seek the great thing that you've been searching for the whole adventure! With the BIGGEST maps yet!

NEW - POST GAME - ALTERNATIVE (TURBULENT) MAPS. A majority of maps have been given a TOTAL REMIX with lighting, visuals, and layout to give a totally new form of gameplay on familiar grounds. Most are harder in comparison to their normal forms, some of totally different Tide severities! 20+ Maps gain this!

NEW - JOURNAL - A complete guide to most of everything in the game! With more than 400+ entries related to mobs, towers, maps, and more! A great guide for upgrades as well! Coming with greater detail than you'd find normally, you can view the Journal for basically anywhere in the game. Also included is some well rounded flavor text... and a little... story for you story enjoyers... Yeasss.
You will unlock entries pretty naturally over time as you encounter them! So explore away!

7 New Cardinals! Including the legendary SAND FILLED BOX Cardinal, which enables Sandbox mode after you get into the POST GAME!!!

NEW - POST GAME - The MIXED Cardinal. Utilize a superior and varied defense using a 5th Cardinal of ANY type. With minor restrictions, this Cardinal allows for a mix of different types otherwise not useable during the normal part of the adventure and increase your capabilities significantly!

NEW - LEADERBOARDS and MAP SCORING. During the later half of the game, you will unlock LEADERBOARDS. Any map prior and future will expose a SCORE depending on a wide variety of factors! The idea is not to limit a playstyle to any particular form as multiple aspects can contribute to a High score! And not only that. Mastery of a single map will also not be the only factor to your place in a leaderboard. It will be the TOTAL progress and performance across all maps! Including Alternate maps, that will grant you a very large total score!
Frustrated maxing out a single map? No worries! Try a different map and chip up your score overtime! Or don't! It will allow you to enjoy the whole game without worry.
There is a DAILY and MONTHLY leaderboard in the case you want to see the most 'active' players scores rather than a whole as well!

NEW TIDE FORMAT (Severity) - Tsunami. The most intense and varied Tide layout yet! Encounter the hardest of foes in this 4 Tide gauntlet. That's right. Only 4 Tides... Can you conquer the Tsunami?

New Enemy Variant - Molten Enemies. These enemies explode with a very particular Tint. Towers and Units that are effected will slowly lose their power... PERMANENTLY. So be careful with your front line!

New Boss Enemy - Bulwark. The most intense and fearsome foe in all of TDS...

NEW ability to PING locations in game! Using the hotkey G, or pressing the button in the top left, you can ping any location for other players to see! or even just for yourself!

NEW DIFFICULTY MODES! You can now select the 'Treated' or 'Toned' Difficulty setting at the start of the game, and change them anytime in the settings! Toned is the TDS you already know and love, being now labeled as the 'Hard but Recommended' Mode, and Treated being the easier mode that alters some core elements of the game to make them significantly... Well... Easier! If it's a tough game, do feel free to try it out!

NEW MUSIC! The final set of tunes now fill TDS with the sounds of Cyan.

NEW MAP MODDING SUPPORT It is now very VERY easy to add custom maps into the game, all with their own graphics and code! And there's a dedicated guide to how to do that! If that is your fancy you can check it out here:
Modded Map Guide[docs.google.com]
SUPERIOR MODDING SUPPORT! Most if any restrictions using the scripting backend will no longer break! I've removed most (if not all) restrictions on the code runner to no longer get in the way of code manipulation. Any weird stuff will only be a result of faulty code rather than anything game-side :D

Improved map load times significantly
Changed the text when you complete a round to say 'PARTIAL CLEAR' rather than 'VICTORY' upon achieving a bronze medal or higher to clear things up

pressing F multiple times will finally cycle all the vessels under ur control (blurry photo + more)

Ballistas and Aegis now drop 3 red aura rather than the default! This should help pretty notably across the board with passive econ

Smacky's Heavy arrows price reduced & Explosive arrows price reduced
Smacky's Bomb Tower Detonate attack speed increased
Smacky's Hut Overtime now is a 75% increase (meaning it'll be 3.5x upon getting union)
Smacky's spikes drain per kill has been halved, so it can deal damage to twice as many foes as before (x2 potential damage)
Smacky's Death Mark's Cost reduced
Smacky's Miners now share the same tier as their hut. This is for specific cardinal interactions. gaining a slight amount of health
Smacky's 'Hidden Surprise' spike damage increased to 5 (8 total)
Smacky's Bramble effect damage increased to 15
Smacky's Fire Arrows has been adjusted/buffed to now deal 5 Ticks of damage, every second. Meaning it does what it's supposed to be effective at. Notably better (armor shredding)
Smacky's Explosive + Heavy arrow combo now deal damage to a wider area and can hit 25% more targets (still smaller than the regular version's explosive radius)
Smacky's Perma Wall destroyed state now has a inherent cost (but is free), this is just for consistency for selling

Sno Sno's Heater Scorch effect now has a higher cap on damage for more tanky enemies
Sno Sno's Cannon, Sno Sucker now can take sno from even farther away.
Sno Sno's Cannon, Sno Powder now will deal additional DAMAGE based on how far the enemy is that was hit, this bonus is a multiplier on top of base damage
Sno Sno's Blower now shoots slightly further.
Sno Sno's Cannon Icicles now split into TWO icicles, which can hit the same targets, effectively dealing twice the damage with a minor shotgun spread
Sno Sno's Snobox now scales damage if hitting multiple ores. It will always hit the first ore at 100% power but deal less damage for each consecutive ore. (50%/25%/17%) This should only apply to certain maps
Snobles now have a default tier of 4, and Snoble mother now has the default tier of 5. This is for specific cardinal interactions
Sno Sno's BFS Snoble Mother's attack now is considered Attack Speed and can benefit from anything that messes with this!
You can now convert the SNOBLE MOTHER into Black Sno. This is for consistency sake more than not. She will convert after consuming enough Black Sno (Not heaters)
Adjusted Sno Sno's Scorcher's description to show that it ramps in damage
Sno Sno's Thin Wall destroyed state now has a inherent cost (but is free), this is just for consistency for selling

MASSIVE BUSTER RELATED IMPROVEMENTS AND CHANGES
> GLOBAL Speed no longer has a Hard limit! This number can be 1, 100, or 1000 if you can make it! The physical actual speed is still capped and lowered a bit actually to keep performance normal. But the number can be anything. (Dogs can have absurd damage numbers now!)
> Dogs have increased base health and increase health per Tier naturally! Dogs are much more tanky later on and should be able to survive stronger foes
> Dogs have completely reworked hit box calculations, they should no longer miss enemies as they pass, and hit relative to how fast they are going rather than a fixed interval
Because of new calculations:
> Buster's Garage Big Dog has a changed effect, instead of hitting wide they now lose significantly less speed when colliding with things. Keeping most of their speed
Buster's Lap 3's health multiplier has returned, granting double capacity (compounds on Lap 1 and 2)
Buster's Checkpoint 'Tune up' now grants significantly MORE damage at 100% more
Buster's Checkpoint 'Marathon' now grants even MORE damage at 200% and grants an additional aura per hit.
Buster's Checkpoint 'Final lap' ratio that it gives other checkpoints has been increased by 15% of it's own value
Buster's Pedestal Blast Extra Zed now increases BASE damage by 2, alongside the chaining explosion effect
Buster's Pedestal Stored Charge reduced price and Maximum damage increased AND can now build into Blast Maker. This should diversify the Pedestal builds a bit as there's not a 3 long single upgrade chain anymore lol
Buster's Speed Pad Collision Course now deals PERCENT HEALTH damage based on your Dog's speed
Buster's Checkpoint Tune Up, and Marathon now increases damage 3x and 5x Respectively, and now grant 5 of each aura upon hit, rather than 2
Buster's Dog damage now scale in DAMAGE PER SPEED per Tier and a speed pad's initial max speed cap has been upped by 1. Dogs can deal 3 times as much damage as before at higher tiers with a much better scaling, this is now a displayed stat
Buster now does 5 damage normally (same with dogs now, but they now scale way faster)
this generally means that Buster themselves have fundamentally different scaling from their dogs. Being much stronger in the early Tides with a very low collision speed loss
Buster's Diesel dog's fire deals more damage

Fie's Yellow Knight's Trailblazing effect now deals ADDITIONAL damage the farther the unit is
Fie's Rest Stop Side of Sushi now increases the FIRST shot damage up to 4x with a slightly shorter interval between 'shots', now with a visual effect
Fie's sell rate has been adjusted to 60%. AND Buster's sell rate has been increased to 75%. Since it is a hidden value on default, you can now view this in the Journal as a more 'nuanced' statistic (or see the effects in game).
Since Buster has a higher tendency for 'misplacements' it felt correct to allow Buster to benefit more from selling
Fie's Knight Sword hand's attack speed doubled, with damage reduced to match. This should let them attack more frequently again
Fie's Rest Stop - All you can eat Tier 5 - NOW WORKS! It was broken, and now can effect towers, mobs, and traps without limits
Fie's Silo Front Line Pipes now properly has it's range around the ORE that it is mining rather than itself. This should clear up any weird behaviours.
Fie's Silo Front Line Pipes now actually scale off of it's RANGE stat properly

Boutman's 1 Inch Bout's 'Decay Rate' on the ramp damage has been reduced significantly, meaning you can move between attacks much more frequently!
Boutman's Iron Fish upgrade is now fixed (Was said to be buffed in a prior patch but never actually changed! Recruited fish now gain +150% Attack rather than 25% a 6x Increase!!)
Boutman's Fish Tier 5 Bass + Bwordfish Projectile now works and Bass can now shoot if given this upgrade path

ALL COINS (Red, Blue, Yellow, Green) will now grant scaling aura based on the Tide, rather than a flat amount
Various Cardinals now operate off of TOTAL WAVES rather than being a fixed amount (still regular in Downpour 30 Tides) meaning they're more potent in other Severities, meaning their overall ability might have also been adjusted as well
Effected Cardinals:
Sport Drink
Red Coin
Blue Coin
Yellow Coin
Green Coin
Pig Named Bank
Opal Core
Rusty Pipe

Cardinal Same Day Shipping now grants some aura (once again) when it skips. It will also only skip if the time is under 60 seconds (giving an effect under certain circumstances)
Under specific circumstances, Cardinal Looped Mirror will 'Complete the wave' properly and cancel any additional units from spawning
Frail Titan's Explosive Range and Damage has been increased notably, and health reduction (for health gaining towers) has been lessened
Cardinal Aura Gavel now scales again, slightly. Dealing about 2.5x damage at a tier 5 unit
New specific interaction if you equip the Cardinal Torrid Badge with Buster on the crew
Cardinal Sport Drink's 'Permanent' stats have been normalized (aka some stats were increased and other decreased by 1%) to a 2% increase each Tide for all stats effected. To keep things simple!
Cardinal Drink Stand's accuracy increased significantly
Cardinal Great Spear's Effect increased significantly
Cardinal Broken Computer's outer range now scales with the Basin's Range stat, meaning it can be buffed
Cardinal Wave Breaker's effect is now temporary, however any damage dealt during its effect does pull over 1:1 (as per the new health rules) And it's range stat now can be buffed
Cardinal Opal Core's damage stat now can also be buffed by any effects
Cardinal Money Bag has again been adjusted! Has a new unique interaction w/ another cardinal
Cardinal The First Grade Textbook's Training Daggers now have the secondary (hidden effect) of granting 1 more aura on drown
Cardinal Cubed Drink projectile accuracy has now been boosted significantly
Cardinal Fragment's health has been reduced a bit
Cardinal Fish Bait's Gabby's health has been increased


Maybeth's Crops now yield 15 aura each, rather than 10. They grow back slightly slower (but still overall a significant increase)
Adjusted Maybeth slightly to combat a unfair interaction at Tide 30
Adjusted Woozy's first barrel slightly over
Adjusted the ore placement on Great Rapid to be less... Odd
Adjusted Enemy Boutman on Manafold to be a bit easier, he also no longer phases through the cage on Tide 15
However, Enemy Boutman no longer targets resources
Adjusted Manafold's resources to now include medium green ores

Added additional levels of UI scaling to accomodate a wider range of screen resolutions. These are limited to certain resolution sizes, but it should allow for less jank at smaller screen sizes
Slightly improved and reworked game shaders, will have a noticable effect when there's a lot of units on screen, performance should be slightly better!
Improved the Boat's visuals to now include 'locked' vessels when you don't have them
Improved artifact equipping visuals
Added a handful of unlock overrides at certain points in the game in the case clients don't have certain aspects unlocked
Various new tool tips have been added
The controller indicator now gets hidden in other menus that aren't the game one
Upon entering photo mode, the player indications now disappear

Fixed a notable bug that caused Buster to take double damage from sources

Fixed an issue where the game would 'kick you out' if entering a pause state too soon after a game starts
Broken computer's effect no longer overlaps with other potential broken computer effects, leading to unusual time behaviours
Fixed a small bug that caused save files to very very slowly increase in size whenever switched
Fixed some minor bugs with UI animation not playing correctly
Fixed a few areas that stopped animating when the game was paused
Fixed a spot in Blasthead that went 'out of bounds'
Fixed a spot in Bountyward that allowed placement
Fixed an issue that prevented clients from viewing the 'enemy direction' line at the start of a tide
Fixed a small issue not allowing the 'menu' to be clicked when entering the map setup
Fixed an issue where clients wouldn't be gaining unlocks of certain maps upon viewing them for the first time
Fixed an issue where the 'enemy path' trail would not appear for clients
Fixed some visual issues related to Black sno and Rich sno not appearing when they should be
Fixed a bug where Tempered enemies would aggro themselves if hit by the core 'bomb' on a round start
Fixed an issue that effected Fie's True Wall not removing the effect when its done
Fixed an issue that prevented Controller players capability to back out of a 'ready' state
Fixed various Client-Sided UI bugs that led to overlapping ui, hidden ui, etc.
Fixed various Client-sided visual things such as the path indicator at the start of a Tide, button layouts, and more
Once again, plenty more fixes that were never recorded :P

As always, will be monitoring the game pretty closely in the coming days for any issues and such! So make sure to join our Discord to be part of that!

Hello! I'd just like to jump on here to say the next and final major patch of Early Access is soon approaching! The YELLOW patch brings every last promised feature and our first full fledged standalone project to the finish line!

First I'd like to say, thank you everyone that gave us a chance here in Early Access. As our first major title here on Steam, it does mean the world to me. And it's been a great start to something!
through our games like neonKnights and even earlier ones like Boost Vector, I am so happy I have been able to make a living off of making games for everyone. And I hope even past this Early Access that TDS will live on to great heights!

While I be the first to say that I don't have any direct and major plans Past Early Access. I am going to be in full support of anything TDS such as Mods, localization, and obviously fix-ups long into the future. And that's also to say that it cannot change! Because it can!

So what's coming?

The YELLOW patch brings with it a great amount of the late game, and many MANY things to do past the end of the great adventure.
There are various new maps in play! Some of which are the BIGGEST maps we've ever seen.

These maps also come with a brand new layout and enemies to boot. With literally the most epic and intense Tides you've encountered thus far. It will truly be a challenge.

Alongside that a new set of ALTERNATIVE MAPS are coming into the game! Totally remixing and altering the visuals and vibes of maps you already know! Double time! Double game!

Alongside all of that. Feelin' like you want a score to chase and things to best yourself at? With a newly formatted and fleshed out LEADERBOARD system you can do just that! The game will take into account a great deal of parameters to determine a score, on each map! Which all contribute to a grand total score.

Obviously the regular additional content is coming, maps, cardinals, and more.
Plus,
every part of the game has been adjusted, touched, tuned, and made better this patch. And I'm excited for everyone to try it out!

This patch comes with a long-promised feature of adding a full controller support to the game on default! It was much larger than I thought it would be! But results in a rather seamless experience! (Imagine doing work to make it so folks never realized you worked on it! Amazing!)

NEW

CONTROLLER SUPPORT! - A full game adjustment! Plug in a controller at anytime during the game and it should work!

Added new 'hotkey-ing' to most menus, pressing ESC will usually back out of them now!
Added a new 'Reset Tutorial Tips' Button into settings for the few cases this might be wanted! It'll also replay the tutorial in the case you are in the main menu
Added on-screen indication whenever the game 'saves' the game! Which generally happens upon exting/beating maps and the start of the overworld!
Added new 'Next Upgrades' indicators whenever you hover over an upgrade! This will tell you the next upgrades coming up, and make the branching abit more clearer!
Added new 'blips' on the Upgrades tab that give you a brief view of the upgrades the unit might have already!

FIXES/CHANGES

Fixed a bug with waypoints appearing as doubles in certain regions
Fixed a bug with upgrades being able to double up when pressing hotkeys at the same itme
Cardinal Money Bag no longer pierces, but now deals damage in an area. It no longer applies multiple ticks of donation aura when hitting things (abit of an oversight!)
Fie's 'Secret' Knight's scaling has been reduced by 75%
Fie's Wall now is considered a 'offensive' tower, gaining the effects of Paper Tower/Rusty Pipe/Etc. (Still bugged sorta, they do not grant any damage boost still, still working on it)
Fie's Silo gun generation now PAUSES rather than resets upon changing ores/rerouting/etc. (Relevant for maps like Maybeth)
Buster's Pure Ex now scales with enemy current health, this is less effective towards healthier targets, but lasts significantly longer at lower healths
Edited the Elite variant names of various enemies to be more 'on theme' with the weapons thing going on
Hyper -> Superheated
Chaos -> Fractured
Various Overworld and general control fixes/improvements!
Other bugfixes, tbh I forgot bc of hyperfocusing on controller :P

This update brings, as the title says, a massive amount of QoL features and extra balancing to help keep the game funky fresh!

Just a preface, this patch, compared to the last few, are much more up and down with Vessel balancing for those who care! Notable touch ups for our lovely Fie once more.

0.6 QoL Mid-Way Patch
New Discovery tab! this tab will record your travels, cardinals, and unlocks relative to when you unlock them! And also act as a guiding hand to your adventures. This should a pretty helpful tool for mainly newer players! But also very helpful for returning players aswell! (You might need to rediscover a few items if you're returning!)

The 'Docks/Fast Travel' System has been overhauled! You can now travel from ANY buoy (Yes they're called buoys) to any Stilled map! from ANYWHERE! Not only that, but there are more waypoints to travel to including Buoys for traveling between whole regions.
More information and visuals such as difficulty and medals have been added to help give a sense of both accomplishment and spatial awareness across the world. The Buoys are organized by distance to also help with this!

New Save Slots and more Robust save/load! I've created a new menu to manage, change, and start multiple new save slots! Found in 'Extras', You can do everything you might expect save slots would have!
There's also a 'Auto Save' feature in the small case your saves STILL get funny, there's a backup that saves your last real save state! And a *backup* to that backup that you can apply IN GAME!
AND even though I triple checked everything worked, there's an ADDITIONAL backup with your old data called "Oldversionbackup.es3" to restore to case this doesn't work!
- Note: you WILL need to at least press 'embark' once to convert your save to the new system, otherwise the save screen will appear blank!

New Cardinal
Fragment - Have the Artrio Barrier survive to at least Tide 20

Greatly improved overworld UI! Many aspects have been made streamlined and added buttons to better communicate these features!
Access your equipment right away from anywhere!

Revamped Overworld tutorial sequence! There shouldn't be any more confusion with the start for people with all new tutorial prompts and tabs to help guide folks along! (Hopefully) A much better time to get friends on board :3

Hovering over command/build buttons now will show their corresponding Shortcut key if they have one!
There are now specific buttons on screen for the pause menu and 'focusing' the vessel in a match! These were the only two items that didn't have direct controls (outside of camera controls)

Buoys information now scales with distance! Making certain UI elements much easier to see when the camera is zoomed out more

Fie's Silo Circular Routing now has a limit gaining 50 aura (PER TYPE, PER SILO) which is obtained at roughly 1000 Aura (5%) This shouldn't really effect it's capabilities, but will keep her eco in more line with other vessels late game
Fie's Silo Front Line pipes range has been increased by 1.5 and is now always visible
Fie's Silo made abit more expensive, BUT the Flow upgrade now ticks an extra 25% more on resources
Fie's Rapid Response Buff now lasts twice as long 10 -> 20s
Fie's Silo Old Pipes no longer has a downside, and acts as a pure x2 your mining

Fie's Shop starting attack speed has been reduced
Fie's Shop Side of Calamari damage has been increased to 8 (Inbetween spikes and bramble)
Fie's Shop Side of Ramen heal rate has been reduced to 3 per tick
Fie's Shop Side of Sushi effect increased by 50%

Fie's Knight Commander's Base health multiplier increased by 50% and Damage multiplier increased by 25% Cost increased by 50
Fie's True Knight's range improvement has been reduced
Fie's Lone Knight's Damage increased by 15%
Fie's Convoy costs has been reduced by 750 total
Fie's general keep pricing adjusted, generally 'multi knight' items have been made more costly
Fie's Battalion Damage buff increased by 25% (double)

Fie's Orange Knight attack speed reduced by 10%
Fie's Yellow Knight attack speed increased by 10% & Commander effect increased by 25%
Fie's Purple Knight base damage reduced by 2 (equivalent to Shotguns) HOWEVER:
Fie's Purple Knight's special effect now INCREASES base damage alongside the death bombs

**Important!** General, non enhanced Knights now start at 75% Commander buff effectiveness HOWEVER:
Fie's Knight Trailblazer stays at 100% and commanders will enhance this to 150% with commanders themselves being 200% effectiveness!

Fie's Sword Hand reworked now does a massive Slash upon entering the range, but with a much much slower attack speed. (Usually would end up doing 1 attack per encounter)

Fie's TRUE wall's effect has been changed! It now will TELEPORT and DAMAGE any enemy that first hits the Wall, returning them to their basin. This effect PROPAGATES
Fie's FAKE wall propagations now will Inherent the stats of the wall that it is propagating FROM. So both the resistance and health will be gained! and can be compounded on more!
- I found the armor effect kinda boring (dare I say alittle lazy on my part) and obviously too strong for the late game. So here's a potentially also funny busted ability!

- Overall, Fie I'd say is already in a really good spot power-wise. I just feel like there's a handful of upgrades that felt like 'gimmies' a bit too much and the over-reliance of quantity over quality needs to be touched on. She's strong, and that's great!
- It looks like alot of changes (and it is!) but it shifts alot of the power spike towards tier 4, making that much more of significant jump, making it more worth getting bigger, better buildings rather than amount

Rebound the wall building command to the Quick action button (usually right click)

Buster's Dog Diesel Dog Upgrade - The fire no longer 'ticks' on non-mobs (such as ores) but will still deal damage
Buster's Dogs Charge Pad Upgrade - Reduced the default 'max' momentum possible by 1, however, increased the momentum gained per-pad significantly (overall higher uptimes on speed)
Buster's Dogs - When passing through friendly buildings, this is now considered an 'interaction' which will slow down dogs (regardless of Mechanic's friend upgrade)

Pedestal Blink Experimental! Chain beams now target the FARTHEST pedestal rather than the closest!
Pedestal Blast now can hit more targets 50% more
The second Dog from a garage's cost now matches other 'secondary unit' tower upgrades at Tier 2
- There are nerfs here (to pretty niche interactions), but it's definitely less about the nerf and more about the 'Buster is crashing our games w/ the amount of silliness happing' fixes. Hopefully it'll be more tame but viable things to play with! But also a few improvements to Tier 4 power spikes!

Smacky's Bouncing Bombs damage increased by 2.5 (75%)
- Compared to it's counterpart, Splitting bombs, Bouncing Bomb's value is still pretty good at always x2 power, but Splitting is abit more reliable at dishing 2x - 4x on the same target which becomes relevant at this point in the game

Fixed a few overworld node issues!
Fixed blocks and placements found on Elgu Bounde
Fixed an significant issue with Boutman that prevented that 'net' trap tower from spawning into the game, making it when fishes die that tile was broken
Fixed an issue with Buster's Refuel pad allowing multiple placements on the same block
Fixed an issue with Fie's Wall lifeline allowing for multiple placements on the same block
Fixed an issue of the camera moving slow in the overworld due to fps for various reasons
Fixed a clicking issue that prevented the boat form being clicked under certain circumstances
Fixed a niche keybind that prevented the shortcut for 'Dash' to be used when Money bag is in use
Fixed interaction with Fie's wall and Beacon visually being inconsistent with it's values (the effect still works as intended)
Fixed (refixed) an issue with Buster's Final lap compounding on other final laps
General Stability improvements
Fixed a few spots in the overworld that felt clunky
General Ui improvements and visual upkeep

Probably a lot more that I forgot to write down lol

This hotfix is meant for tuning our new beloved Vessel and fixing some pretty stinky bugs!
She is to powerful, godly in-fact in some cases... While she still is, it's only in spirit... All hail Fie
0.5b

Fie's Wall Base health increased slightly and per-level health increased (which compounds on any upgrade more significantly)
Fie Adjusted Purple Grenades damage to be 1 less
Fie Adjusted Orange Rifles damage to be 1 less & reduced base health
The weapon generation for Fie's Silos is notably slower
Fie's Circular Routing has been fixed, the effect now applies 1 second after the tide converts acting ADDITIVE rather than EXPONENTIAL on existing Circular Routers. The effect has been reduced to 5%+ rather than 10%+ (we'll see if this is enough, i still enjoy the very high potentially busted behaviours of this one, so... We'll see if it can survive in current TDS economy :P)
It also has slightly increased costs
Fie's Knight Security Group's health increase has been reduced significantly
Fie's Purple and Blue Knight's Base health has been reduced a tad
Fie's Keep & Silo now has lower base health
Alongside fixing Smacky's Beacon and Fie's resistance (which still compound on one another), Smacky's beacon resistance has been reduced abit with the health increase effect being boosted

Hotkey for Fie's wall building from a existing fie wall has been bound to 5

Fixed a visual issue with the True Knight's attack
Made selection of fie's towers while knights are nearby abit ways easier
Fixed a issue with Fie's Lifeline Wall upgrade blocking enemy movement entirely
Fixed an issue with Smacky's Beacon and Fie's Resistance upgrades
Fixed a typo on one of Fie's resistance upgrade descriptions
Fixed a hitbox issue with Skyhook causing some bombs/things to not target correctly
Fixed Fie's Wall hitbox to be easier to click on
Fixed a very small potential loading issue that can occur at high loads
Fixed an issue with Hydroplane allowing building underwater

The cardinal's Processing plant and Drink Stand are now compatible
Drink Stand rework! It now costs AURA to spawn! But the effect is VERY significant. Hopefully this will differentiate it quite a bit as it's a later game building!!! Also theres actually a person running it now
Fixed Processing plant to actually have the listed effect

This marks the SECOND major update to this game! A majorly content update with some notable improvements to graphics and performance!
This patch is designed to be the great bridge between updates. Putting in some much needed content in places to really round out the experience thus far! I hope you enjoy playing through the new stuff, revisiting the current stuff, and messing around with the new Vessel!


NEW VESSEL - Fie appears! Bringing her squad of Knights, you can create a very powerful mobile defense and control your units directly!

4 NEW MAPS - Challenge yourself with various new maps that test your TDS fundamentals! Continuing after the Grand Aquilla
5 NEW CARDINALS - Ranging from haha teehee to very nice abilities. And one challenge one for those that seek it.
NEW REGION - Explore the HIGHSPHERE... a region that feels... Unstable

GRAPHICAL/STABILITY/NETWORK IMPROVEMENTS! - Global Illumination and better networking! The game should feel a lot more smooth. And have more frames!


Added a new prefab point in the mod system "Mainmenu" will spawn prefabs into the main menu
A new localization pop-up is available on the main menu and in the settings respectively, this is for when proper translations soon come!

Improved lighting! A new global illumination feature has been added to a few maps and areas to give them abit more depth! This feature is present in graphics High + Very High, and can be turned on/off in Custom.
Keep in mind, MSAA is currently disabled when using this feature, but there is now FXAA and SMAA as additional options for anti-aliasing!
General graphical and performance improvements!
Massive performance boosts to low-end machines (hopefully). Turns out I did a silly and some maps had some oddly unoptimized effects! This is now fixed

Gridhead's layout has been revamped to be much more beginner friendly! Don't worry about the other version, it is still safe!
Various maps mechanics and layouts have been adjusted to be easier! (Details below)


'Fixed' the long-standing 'issue' of movement spamming (The sweat drop effect) this has been a bug in the game for quite some time and the source has been now fixed! It especially was notable on slower units since you could just movement spam to speed them up to your 'click per second' rate which can be unfair. So I've fixed the issue but in it's place I've added it as a more controlled FEATURE, making it alot easier to execute aswell!
Clicking repeatedly on the same spot will now have the same effect as the classic spam click effect
Clicking repeatedly on a spot will now 2.5x your movement towards that spot every few clicks! Roughly taking 3 clicks, the sweat drop is indication of this happening

Added a 'one-shot' protection for the Basin! you will receive a single additional hit if something were to destroy your basin (Cough... Excalibur)
>Generally I don't like these TRULY unexplained hidden mechanics but I do think it will make clutch scenarios in the game feel better in this regard being hardly noticeable in normal play, theres a very slight visual effect when the protection triggers

Cardinal Processing Plant Jr Conversion rate increased 1.5 Ore -> 4.5 Ore
Cardinal Sport Drink Attack speed per wave adjusted to be 4% -> 3%
Cardinal Fluffy Slippers now works with Buster's Dash ability (it was always supposed to actually oopsie!)
Cardinal Fluffy Slippers speed boost is increased by 50%
Cardinal Pig Named Bank's sell value increase is now better 5->10 (Should be 100% cash back in 10 Tides, x1.5 at 20 Tides... So on)
Cardinal Frail Titan's per tier scaling has been adjusted, dealing 500->1000 damage at Tier 5, and health penality reduced by 25%
Cardinal Wave Breaker Range increased by 1
Cardinal Torrid Badge, merchant now has 100 health and deals... some damage
Cardinal Blurry Photo's Speed debuff has been slightly reduced (aka made less bad) by 25%
Cardinal Gavel's Range adjusted slightly from 15 to 12
Cardinal Money Bag's projectile now can pierce up to 4 enemies

Buster's Dog (including him) damage per speed scaling is now considered a 'Base' value, meaning it can be effected by more damage modifiers
Buster's Checkpoint Quick Pass cost reduced & increased effect, granting roughly 0.15 'hits' per speed past 3 speed (up from 0.1)
Buster's Checkpoint Strong Start now grants triple the gain at the start, rather than double
Buster's Lap 1 and Lap 2 Resource capacity gain has been increased, with their compound effect being much more notable
Buster's Lap 3 capacity increase removed, increased the ramping effect 100% -> 200% and can now only be collected after the bar has filled atleast half way (this is a good thing as it will always have a positive effect albiet delayed)

Dog house price has been reduced and various Dog house upgrade prices have been reduced
Buster pad's speedpad circuit upgrade's reduction radius has been significantly reduced (aka its more effective)
Buster's Airtime can now fly to any position within the front of itself, including up and down as long as it has line of sight
Buster's Blink Effector now deals increased damage +25%
Buster's Burst Effector now has increased base damage
Buster's Final Lap has a special case with other Final Laps that they will only 'boost' them if they're already above the collection threshold (this is simply to prevent infinite Aura loops!)
The Dash Command for Buster's hotkey now activates instantly (but now has a 0.5s cooldown between activations)
- Buster changes geared towards spreading out his strength over a wider selection of upgrades. and making his costs more in-line with other Vessels when playing together

Boutman's 1 Inch Bout (Ramp up damage) upgrade ramps up 25% faster
Boutman's Recruiting related upgrades are now cheaper (Iron Fish, The Way of the Bout)
Boutman's Regeneration abilities buffed by 33% allowing boutman to heal much faster (Enter the Boutman, The Way of the Bout)
Boutman's Iron Fish upgrade increases fish damage by 50% more
Boutman's Shao-min hits slightly less total enemies 8->5 (the same as the AoE)
Boutmom now gains additional damage (25%) per additional Raft in play, and now has a Tooltip for what she does
- Boutman changes also focus on making the Iron-Fish Shao-min upgrade path not as dominant. Mostly by buffing the other items in terms of recruited fish and self-preservation

Sno Sno's Sno Cannon Blower upgrade projectiles now scale with Range! and their hitbox now extends ever so slightly outside of their regular range
Sno Sno's Sno Box's Fall upgrade projectiles hit radius is now a point. So they should now hit their target location much more consistently (Radius 0.3 -> 0)
Sno Sno's Snoble Health drain rate increased by 25%
- Sno Sno changes are generally just to tone certain abilities. But I am looking at scalability + the Ice wall paths closer for the future!

Smacky's Death Mark's damage per kill x2.5 and made slightly cheaper
Smacky's Assassin shots made slightly cheaper
- Assassins are in a good place, just too expensive for the effect they give now! The scalability of Death Mark is better to feel more rewarding during normal play

Excalibur now has a new trick up it's sleeve. The first hit object's explosion is 3x the size and 3x the damage
Claymores are now much more spooky. If placed in the 'Death run' state (the state which they can't be hurt) they will now only trigger prematurely when there is a building. Mobs and resources no longer trigger them until their death run expires
Onagers base health slightly increased to just be a nicer number

Adjusted Map the Hunt to allow for certain buildings (such as Checkpoint) to retarget if they end up targeting the nest
Reduced the difficulty of
Manafold - Boutman is significantly weaker, added a fourth ore to the map
Teri Tori - Early Halberds are much weaker and have a longer respawn time
Blasthead - Red and Blue ores initial aura increased to 15 rather than 10
Woozy - Barrel's health reduction effect even higher, damage slightly increased in compensation
Hydroplane IX - Reduced the lag, removed the speed debuff on underwater effects
Changed the orange ore to large and evened out the water-rising to be slower (it still will end up at the same level by the end, but the tides moving up to it are easier)
Artrio Watermark - Replaced the Blue ore to Purple ore to smooth over the overall economy gain
Gridhead - NEW LAYOUT!

Adjusted the unlock conditions of Flood style maps to match the silver medal requirement, rather than requiring just as many tides completed as other maps
Most 'Debuff' and 'Buff' visual effects now persist when the visual model of a thing changes, such as Upgrading or such
Significant rework to networking and handling! Weird situations like wrong maps/wrong cardinals in multiplayer should be fixed up and the game should be much more consistent in this way
The enemy basins in general 'pulse' their enemy path much more often prior to a wave starting

Chat now should be much better to click on and automatically scrolls to the bottom of the page upon reset


Fixed an issue where some locales/mines/towers would permanently no longer be targeted by certain units
Fixed a bug with Buster's Speed pad refuel upgrade that Blocked enemy navigation, and also will remove the upgrade if the pad is destroyed/sold/removed
Fixed a Bug with Smacky's Mining Hut whereas you could obtain a extra miner if you spammed an upgrade as soon as a building spawned
Fixed an issue related to stat changing that could double/half certain stats past their originals
Fixed a spot in Bountyward that could not be walked/placed on
Fixed an issue where the UI preview of a unit stays when going into pause or other menus
Fixed some niche interactions w/ Sno Sno's wall and collection causing soft locks
Fixed a bug with Boutman's Barrel Gutter ability granting infinite spots

Clients should now be able to cycle selections for mobs on the same block similar to the host
Made saving safer when opening and closing the game quickly, it wont wipe a save (oops!)

Various backend important upgrades to code have been done, that should improve things in the long run!
Much prep work for future patches...

Finally, at the time of posting this, TDS is on SALE! While a bit late as the sale has been going on for the week prior to this update! Better late than never! :D

Hi everyone! I'd just wanted to jump on here to say that the next big patch, the Blue patch, is soon approaching! While I don't have any date to set, it might even end up as a surprise!

This update is a very important content intro that rounds off various points in the game!
What's coming?

New Maps! - Generally gearing towards the tail-end of the game, new very vibey and unique maps will dot the world!
New Vessel! Fie!
Control very mobile, very versatile Knights that can utilize various weapons that YOU create!
Graphical Upgrades!

and More...

This update serves as a in-between with the previous major patch, the RED patch, and the upcoming patch, the YELLOW patch. Bringing very much needed content to fill in much of the game's space. Whereas the next patch will be geared more towards polishing what we have during the Early Access, the BLUE patch primarily focuses on bringing in content first!

That being said, there will be smaller in-between patches (mid patches) that introduce very much needed QoL and Ease of play features that you all have been asking for! While they won't come immediately with this patch specifically, they will appear more akin to the Mod Support update.

I hope you all will enjoy the new stuff :3 Very exciting!

The Early Access Roadmap has been updated! A small tweak that moves the Journal to later point in development!

Added additional support to allow game code to be executed!
That is all... Mods for all.