Today, Pugstorm has added several Core Keeper updates to the game, and we have the complete list here. The updates consist of improvements, modifications, and fixes. Therefore, the update caters to life quality, animation, and general fixes. Below are the official Patch Notes Core Keeper 0.5.2.4 update.
Core Keeper 0.5.2.4 Update Patch Notes
Quality of Life:
- Improved loading of lights when moving through the world: If a light is not ready to render (waiting in the shadow update queue), an economic alternative will be used until it is. This significantly reduces popping when loading many lights at the edges of the screen.
- Improved the light optimization system: In previous game versions, lights would selectively turn off when there were too many in a small area. The update introduces an economic alternative way of rendering lights instead, and the Light Quality graphics setting determines how many “real” lights function. Hence the economic alternative replaces almost all lights, leading to a significant performance boost when setting Light Quality to Low.
Art and Animation
- Modified the tone mapping used in the game, resulting in better colors for pixels with very intense lighting.
- When the bloom is enabled, the bloom threshold value will result in less hazy visuals.
- Improved ceiling hole/light edges.
- Updated hairstyles #6 and #8 and cleaned up stray pixels.
- Improved Firefly visuals (less flickering)
- Updated Flower Crown to display the player’s full hairstyle.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed missing emissiveness on Lava Chests.
- Updated the Japanese translation for the Chef’s Jacket.
- Fix sorting order issues of the different character parts.
- Fixed Root shadows to look correct during Christmas and Valentine’s seasons.
- Fixed a bug where equipment such as the King Slime Crown that glows would not emit light when placed on the Mannequin.
- Fixed a bug where not all recipes would appear when using the ingredient filters in the Cook Book.
- Fixed Caveling Scholars not healing.
- Fixed performance regression when there are lots of nearby objects.
- Fixed a bug where crafting 10 times more items holding ctrl would revert when crafting for objects that gave more than one item per craft.
The game is available for PC. More updates, including Core Keeper 0.5.2.4, are available on the Steam page.