Gene analyzer: allows you to analyze plant genetic material without the requirement to pull out tables and repetitively try and search for genes
Gamemodes: saves now default to Gardener (regular gamemode), but new saves can be set to Geneticist to disable money
Inventory system: chartreu now have backpacks, which provide up to 8 utility slots which they can use, press Q to open a radial menu of things
Dedicated grab key: press G to grab and drop items on the ground
Compressed save files: game save files are now compressed by default
Mutations: mutations can cause radical changes to occur within a gene, genetic instability is the chance of mutations to occur, which can rise with inbreeding or external factors
Settings: you can now customize your settings, enable/disable autosave, tweak resolution, etc
Grass: beautiful grass is now available for chartreu to walk on
Music and Sounds: six new tracks (4 gameplay 2 menu) have been added to the game, composed by @pigeonbeans on Soundcloud, and several other sound effects to common item interactions have been added
Minor changes
Credits have been added on the main screen
Plant data backend has been overhauled to support the addition of more genes easily
Petal color gene has been divided into 3 genes (for HSV)
Petal angle, scale and stem width genes have been added
Pots now snap to the build grid
Interact system now factors in distance with dots.
Trowels can now take soil from other pots, and can now uproot plants if dirt isn’t within it
Interaction backend has been overhauled
Minor UI theme changes (notably to font size)
Movement has been polished, tapping WASD will cause chartreu to look at the direction rather than moving toward it immediately - this can be tuned in settings (under DAS)
A command line argument has been added to instantly load into a savefile (—savefile).
Minor ambient occlusion has been added to make the game look less flat.
Plant buyer buy time extended from 10:00 to 15:00
Bug fixes:
Fixed a plethora of crashes especially related to seeds
Fixed delete save button not deleting the save
The game now uses Jolt Physics rather than the default Godot physics for stability.
The plant buyer has an improved color comparison algorithm.
Drying time has been tweaked to be more fun.
Saving and other serialization have been refactored to allow easier migration from now on. Old save files cannot be ported over.