Release Notes/Sauna Update

Nov 24 2020 - The Sauna Update

Release Notes — Steam Announcement — Update Video

The 15th update is out! This time we've focused on game balance, improvements and bug fixes, but there's also a lot of new stuff to discover and experiment with.

Among the highlights are a new well-hidden biome, a new building to chill in called Sauna, and changes that make Temple of the Art a bit more interesting. Biome modifiers are now communicated more clearly when entering a biome. The whole game has again been localized to ten different languages.

A large part of the user interface library used by Noita is now also available to mods, and there's a new menu that mods can use as a common location for their settings.

Creatures

• New enemy: Turvattomuusmestari
• New enemy: Kuihdutusmestari
• New enemy: Turvalennokki
• New enemy: Raukka
• New enemy: Taivaankatse

Perks

• New perk: Pinpointer
• New perk: Projectile Repulsion Sector
• New perk: Projectile Eater
• New perk: Projectile Slower
• New perk: Low Recoil
• New perk: Personal Plasma Beam
• New perk: Extra Shop Item

Spells

• New spell: Ball Lightning
• New spell: Nolla
• New spell: Accelerative Homing
• New spell: Zeta
• New spell: Phi
• New spell: Homebringer Teleport Bolt
• New spell: Myriad Spell
• New spell: Magical Explosion
• New spell: Spells to Power
• New spell: Summon Omega Sawblade
• New spell: Spiraling Arc
• New spell: Orbit Arc
• New spell: Temporary Wall
• New spell: Temporary Platform
• New spell: Summon Missile

Biomes, Areas, and Structures

• New structure: Sauna
• New dangerous props in Temple of the Art
• Spell shops in Holy Mountains have twice the spells to sell!
• New work-in-progress area, deep underground...
• New background in Coal Pits
• Slight increase in variety in the Temple of the Art layout

Balance

• Patsas enemies no longer need to breathe
• Curse of Greed advances a tiny tiny bit slower
• Sätkymestari shots make player projectiles hurt the player
• Rebalanced the Tower rewards and gave them their own names
• Certain legendary spells are not be affected by unlimited spells
• Numerous thrown, kicked or falling items deal more reasonable damage, especially with low velocities
• Kolmisilmä's shield can convert projectile damage fields in some circumstances
• Alpha spell does not automatically cast another spell
• Gamma spell does not automatically cast another spell
• Random loadouts - Slime loadout has an actually castable third wand
• Random loadouts - Eldritch loadout has the Projectile Repulsion Field perk as well as a way to dig
• Lowered the resistance bonuses from Slime blood & Oil blood slightly, changed their description to clearly state the resistance effect
• Reduced the cost of spells in Holy Mountains slightly
• Made certain new enemies not able to suffocate
• What is above is no longer exactly like what is below
• Made some spells somewhat more common
• Made Sauvojen Tuntija drop both of its rewards every time
• Rebalanced unlockable spell pools

Miscellaneous Improvements

• All localizations are up to date
• Added copies of the music machines in certain locations to further mitigate the chance of them being lost
• Music machines have more health to make them harder to detonate accidentally
• Increased changes of perk pool having all perks
• Testing a slightly different freeze effect to maybe improve performance
• Made Odd Firebolt have a more interesting flight pattern
• Tweaked a Kammi feature
• Runestones activate as soon as you throw them
• Daily run seed is fetched sooner, so the game mode menu does not have wait for it
• Attempted to make acid slightly easier to differentiate from toxic sludge
• Shop items and their price tags are properly centered
• Perk descriptions can be seen before picking them up
• Improved release notes UX

Biome Modifiers

• Biome modifier's texts are displayed more prominently
• Made biome modifiers slightly more common

Comprehensibility

• Updated some perk names and descriptions to better reflect their functionality
• Perk description can be seen before you pick them up
• Finally [sic] removed firearm imagery from certain spell icons

Perk Changes

• Certain perks that apply a one-time effect indicate this behaviour in their name & icon
• Always Cast has a maximum of 4 Always Cast spells per wand
• Improved Exploding Corpses and Exploding Gold explosions
• Attract Gold has a longer range and stronger pull
• The Oil Blood perk gives protection against fire but doesn't give resistance to damage
• Revenge Explosion perk explodes harder and can't set the player on fire, + adds a 20% explosion resistance
• The Homunculus perk can spawn homunculi in a larger variety of areas
• The Homunculi's HP scales better towards the endgame
• Added a 20% projectile damage resistance to Revenge Tentacle
• Revenge Bullets works more consistently and launches the revenge projectiles faster & with increased damage
• Clarified some perk descriptions so that they more clearly state e.g. added resistances and such
• Bounce also increases the duration of your spells
• Low Gravity applies the gravity effect to enemies as well (experimental change)
• High Gravity applies the gravity effect to enemies as well (experimental change)
• High Mana, Low Capacity should no longer be able to remove Always Casts
• Exploding Gold has a more accurate description and its explosions work properly
• Concentrated Spells increases recoil much less, to make it more useful
• Boomerang Spells increases the speed and damage of your spells
• Vampirism heals more and reduces your max hp less
• Reduced Blood Money healing somewhat
• Made Boomerang Shots not increase projectile damage for now as a placeholder fix to healing shot bugs
• Re-implemented Plague Rats rat friendship
• Retired melee-only homunculus, changed it into a Magic Arrow -shooting version
• Plague rats, friendly ghost, homunculi, etc. don't turn berserk against player or each other on various berserk situations

Twitch Integration

• Usernames are picked from messages instead of the whole viewer list
• Votes can be cast while game is paused
• Votes can be changed while voting is in progress
• Enable/disable all events button in options
• The perk-spawning stream event's description is accurate to what it *actually* does

Bugfixes

• UI Damage numbers support numbers that are over 2 billion
• Telekinetic Kick works with Runestones and some other objects
• Ukkoshyypiö should no longer lose its aura after 2 minutes
• Fixed Projectile Transmutation Field transmuting itself
• Fixed Projectile Thunder Field transmuting itself
• Fixed Projectile Gravity Field affecting itself
• Items could damage player if they changed faction
• It was possible to occasionally get stuck with Teleportitis Dodge
• Yes/No boxes took previous ESC press for a No
• Kammi could cause slowdowns if player has massive maximum hitpoints
• Lower 'Cosmetic particle amount' settings affected some non-cosmetic particles
• Fixed a broken text entry
• Fixed the two fish creatures being mixed-up in the progress menu
• Fixed Vault plasma cannons shooting too far
• Some biome modifiers could replace potion spawns in some cases
• Fixed Curse of Greed ignoring certain materials
• Damage field should no longer bug out when enemies die in specific ways
• Fixed some texturing bugs at the starting area
• Game mode list banners had rendering depth order issues
• Certain special ending code and progress tracking wasn't working
• Fixed Unstable Crystals teleporting oddly towards physical objects
• Fixed fish enemies having the wrong names
• Old save Yes/No message didn't specify the question being asked
• Crash - recent optimizations caused a crash when loading some save games
• Made Haavoittajamestari's status effect stop at 10 hp to prevent a hp-multiplying exploit
• Fixed an exploit that allowed still getting extra HP from enemies not meant to give it
• Fixed an ancient typo in lava reactions
• Fixed an exploit related to digging around spells in Holy Mountains
• Tower rewards disappeared at wrong times
• Twitch integration - Player immortality event erroneously stated that the effect would always last 1 minute
• Fixed a bug with find_the_wand_held( entity_id )

Modding - Features

• Added support for mod settings menus and persistent settings - see mods/example/settings.lua

Modding - Documentation

• Improved entity lua API documentation - added type information
• Improved gui lua API documentation
• Removed lua_readtable from lua API documentation (it's not part of the API)

Modding - Lua API

• Added EntityGetWandCapacity()
• Added StreamingGetConnectedChannelName()
• Added StreamingSetCustomPhaseDurations()
• Added StreamingForceNewVoting()
• Added StreamingSetVotingEnabled()
• Added ModSettingGet()
• Added ModSettingSet()
• Added ModSettingGetNextValue()
• Added ModSettingSetNextValue()
• Added ModSettingRemove()
• Added ModSettingGetCount()
• Added ModSettingGetAtIndex()
• Added GameIsBetaBuild()
• Added GuiSlider()
• Added GuiTextInput()
• Added GuiTooltip()
• Added GuiOptionsAdd()
• Added GuiOptionsRemove()
• Added GuiOptionsClear()
• Added GuiOptionsAddForNextWidget()
• Added GuiColorSetForNextWidget()
• Added GuiIdPush()
• Added GuiIdPop()
• Added GuiAnimateBegin()
• Added GuiAnimateEnd()
• Added GuiAnimateAlphaFadeIn()
• Added GuiAnimateScaleIn()
• Added GuiImage()
• Added GuiImageButton()
• Added GuiGetScreenDimensions()
• Added GuiGetTextDimensions()
• Added GuiZSet()
• Added GuiZSetForNextWidget()
• Added GuiIdPushString()
• Added GuiImageNinePiece()
• Added GuiBeginAutoBox()
• Added GuiEndAutoBoxNinePiece()
• Added GuiBeginScrollContainer()
• Added GuiEndScrollContainer()
• Added GuiLayoutBeginLayer()
• Added GuiLayoutEndLayer()
• Added GuiGetImageDimensions()
• Added GuiGetPreviousWidgetInfo()
• GuiButton() parameter order is consistent with other Gui functions. The old order is also dynamically supported
• GuiLayoutAddHorizontalSpacing() takes optional amount parameter
• GamePrintImportant() takes optional ui art parameter, made second parameter optional
• StatsLogPlayerKill() takes optional 'klled_entity' parameter
• Removed StreamingGetSettingsGhostsNamedAfterViewers()
• Added OnModSettingsChanged hook (Accessible via init.lua)
• Added OnPausePreUpdate() hook (Accessible via init.lua)
• LuaComponent - added script_damage_about_to_be_received
• LuaComponent - script_damage_received gives the id of possible projectile that caused the damage
• Streaming integration - IRC commands can be handled on the lua side (with some limitations)

Modding - Misc

• Made potion spawning use a separate spawn table, found in data/scripts/item_spawnlists.lua