A patch that adds Jinxies - an alta holiday made for fun and good-will trickery! This update also introduces Alta Toymaker crafting station and some decorative alta rechargers!

Main

• added 4 jinxies items;
• added 4 paint blasters;
• added 5 bubble toys;
• added 4 darts;
• added 4 dart boards;
• added 4 dart blasters;
• added 1 toy flashlight;
• added 1 crafting station;
• added 4 paper planes;
• added 1 toy bow;
• added 3 decorative objects;
• added 6 pieces of clothing;
• added 7 codex items;
• numerous bug, typo and tag fixes.

Jinxies

• added Jinxies event content for having fun:
  • Best Alta Recipes - a codex for learning best jinxies recipes;
  • Joy Candy - a malicious candy;
  • Mystery Candy - a random effect candy;
  • Sweet Surprise - an inedible candy;
  • Boom Snack - an edible plasma nade;
  • Cyclop's Eye - a colorable cosmetic;
  • Noface - a non-colorable cosmetic;
  • some vanilla cosmetics are also part of the show!

Alta

• added Alta Toymaker crafting station:
  • allows crafting various toys;
  • added Alta Bow - a toy bow, can be crafted in toymaker together with the Estria's Bow;
  • added Glowsticks, Fireworks, Plushies, Toy Balls, certain Figurines and Poppers to the toymaker;
  • added existing toy weapons to the toymaker;
  • added 4 Alta Painters - paint guns in different colors;
  • added 4 Darts, 4 Dart Boards and 4 Dart BLasters;
  • added 4 Paper Planes
  • added 6 codex entries that teach several recipes for the toymaker;
  • added 2 Bubble Blasters and 3 Bubble Wands;
  • added a toy Alta Flashlight;
  • added an Invisible Set of clothing.

• added more category buttons to Alta Festive Station - now it has 6 categories, 1 for each alta holiday added so far;
• added 3 Alta Rechargers - decorative objects with 1 storage slot and energy regen boost:
  • Alta Recharger;
  • Alta Security Recharger;
  • Alta Citadel Recharger.
• updated Alta Party Girl's shop inventory with newly added toys, recipes and Jinxies items.

Translation

• added several alta dialog phrases.

Other

• fixed tags on some items and objects;
• fixed tooltips for a lot of codex items;
• updated some codex items to unlock recipes for according glowsticks and some toys;
• minor bug fixes.

A patch that adds Ava Day (Friend Day) - an alta holiday celebrating friendship and connection! This update also introduces Alta Tailor crafting station and a new level-dependant prefix and parameter system for equipment and food!

Main

• added 2 food items;
• added 4 decorations;
• added 3 NPCs and tenants;
• added 1 secret merchant NPC;
• added 1 crafting station;
• added 2 codex entries;
• added 1 toy;
• numerous bug, typo and tag fixes.

Ava Day

• added Ava Day event content celebrating friendship and all types of bonds:
  • Friendship Candy - small wrapped plant-based chocolate for gifting, comes in 4 color variants;
  • Ava Cookie (perfect version - Perfect Ava Cookie) - heart-shaped cookie with gheatsyn sparkle;
  • Alta Love Poster - festive poster celebrating friendship;
  • Ava Day Poster - festive poster celebrating friendship;
  • Ava Day Gift Box - wrapped gift with crystalline bow;
  • Ava Day Gift Package - alternative gift package design;
  • Alta Cupid - a cupid-themed tenant who loves matchmaking and spreading love;
  • Alta Love Merchant - a secret merchant who sells event-exclusive items;
  • Alta Girlfriend - a tenant who celebrates love and companionship.

Alta

• added Alta Tailor crafting station:
  • allows crafting clothing, plushies, dyes and other tailoring-related items and objects;
  • added 2 new material recipes:
    • Fabric - crafted from plant fibre and ionic sap;
    • Cotton Wool - crafted from cotton and ionic sap.
• added Ceterai Helper NPC - a specialized merchant with unique colorful equipment.

Translation

• updated numerous species descriptions;
• added Ava Day content in /items/generic/food/events/ava_day/, /objects/alta/special/events/ava_day/ and /items/active/alta/toys/bows/;
• renamed android spawners to android nades;
• other typo fixes.

Dev

• improved item build script (items/buildscripts/alta/item.lua):
  • cleaned up bonus calculation logic;
  • streamlined preset parameter handling;
  • added support for cfg parameter for direct config merging;
  • improved levelShop parameter support;
  • fixed color index handling for table inputs;
  • optimized base asset merging.
• reorganized recipe groups:
  • all plushie recipes now include alta_tailor group;
  • all dye recipes now include alta_tailor group;
  • all vanilla dyes craftable at Alta Tailor;
  • all vanilla cloth materials craftable at Alta Tailor.
• updated treasure pools:
  • added Alta Impulse Rifle (level 6) to tier 6 pods with 0.01 weight;
  • rebalanced Plasmora weight from 0.02 to 0.01.
• enhanced dungeon system with ayaka-themed parkour and bridge structures.

Other

• fixed tags on a lot of items and objects;
• fixed clothing recipes only requiring 2 silk;
• minor bug fixes.

A small hotfix to address missing and undiscoverable recipes from 2.4.0c.

Main

• fixed undiscoverable recipes for Sonaveil and New Year;
• removed recipes for WIP items;
• minor typo fixes.

A small update that enhances the dendrarium assortment with new potted plants, and adds the Alta Festive Station to prepare for upcoming alta holidays - Sona's Veil and New Year!

Main

• added 4 codex entries;
• added 22 objects;
• added 24 items;
• added 2 tenants.

Sonaveil:

• added 10 Sonaveil decorations:
  • Alta Wall Scarf;
  • Sonaveil Wall Scarf;
  • Sonaveil Lights;
  • Sonaveil Poster;
  • Sona Poster;
  • Christmas Poster;
  • Sonaglobe;
  • Sonaveil Sonaglobe;
  • Snowalta;
  • Sonaveil Snowalta.
• added 2 Sonaveil clothes:
  • Alta Scarf;
  • Sonaveil Scarf.
• added 1 loot crate:
  • Sonaveil Gift - contains Sonaveil decorations, clothes, treats and the holiday spirit!
• added 1 party popper:
  • Sonaveil Popper.
• added 4 food items:
  • Sonasweet;
  • Hot Sona Milk (perfect version - Thick Sona Milk);
  • Sonaveil Pie (perfect version - Sona's Embrace);
  • Sonaveil Cake (perfect version - Sona's Love).
• added 4 snow toys:
  • Alta Snowthrower;
  • Alta Snow Cannon;
  • Alta Snow Sprayer;
  • Alta Coldthrower.

New Year

• added 6 New Year items:
  • Alta Firework;
  • Stardust Firework;
  • Alta Popper;
  • Rainbow Popper;
  • Stardust Popper;
  • Stardust Lights.
• added 3 food items:
  • Milebites;
  • Roundsalad (perfect version - Round Banquet);
  • Special Sparkles.

Alta

• added Alta Festive Station:
  • used to craft festive decorations for alta holidays, including Ceternity, Sona's Veil and New Year.
• added ABGMR2 - a food balancing system;
• fixed Alta Food mechanics like Perfect Cooking and stat balancing;
• fixed shop and loot options for secret items;
• added 8 potted plants:
  • Potted Beakseed;
  • Potted Cocola;
  • Potted Ela;
  • Potted Evara;
  • Potted Haven Bouquet;
  • Potted Ruka;
  • Potted Sonava;
  • Potted Vodakoywa.
• added 2 more festive decorations:
  • Alta Lights;
  • Ceternity Lights.
• added 7 food items:
  • Sonasweet;
  • Hot Sona Milk (perfect version - Thick Sona Milk);
  • Sonaveil Pie (perfect version - Sona's Embrace);
  • Sonaveil Cake (perfect version - Sona's Love);
  • Milebites;
  • Roundsalad (perfect version - Round Banquet);
  • Special Sparkles.
• added 6 confetti poppers:
  • Alta Popper;
  • Gyera Popper;
  • Haven Popper;
  • Space Popper;
  • Sonaveil Popper;
  • Ceternity Popper.
• added 2 fireworks:
  • Alta Firework;
  • Stardust Firework.
• added 4 codex entries:
  • Perfect Cooking;
  • Alta New Year - Lann 10;
  • The Spooks of Ceternity;
  • Sonaveil Guide.

Tenants

• added 2 new tenants:
  • Alta Sonaveil Girl;
  • Alta Sonaveil Merchant.
• updated winter holiday tenant dialogues and rent loot tables.

World Generation

• made moonstone and moondust materials tillable and plantable so that ayaka trees and alterash crops can grow on them;
• made Gyera Pods spawn half as frequently in Alterash Park biomes.

Dev

• added a base alta dungeon to be used for easier dungeon creation;
• updated object IDs for 2 secret objects;
• enhanced the world.json dictionary with more alkey words;
• separated this changelog into separate files for each major update.

Other

• added a Liquid Extractor recipe for tonnas;
• fixed Liquid Extractor recipes for gheatsyn shards, ionic sap, isoslime balls, ionice cubes, and yaara roots to not cause errors;
• fixed item and colony tags on a lot of items and objects;
• minor bug fixes.

Happy Spooky Season! This introduces spooky stuff to the mod to celebrate alta version of Halloween - the Hallowing Ceternity!

This patch also adds more tenants, produce seed upgrades, support for two popular augment mods, as well as a resource recycling mod and a Halloween mod. This patch also fixes a lot of typos. A lot.

Main

• added 3 sets of vanilla produce seed upgrades:
  • Neonmelon
  • Oculemon
  • Crystal Plant (Carel)
• added 2 secret statues, 1 plushie, and 1 figurine;
• added 26 NPCs and tenants;
• added 6 Ceternity candies;
• added 2 alternative Jack O' Lanterns:
  • Neonjack - made from neonmelon
  • Yaajack - made from yaara orb
• added 3 festive posters:
  • Ceternity Poster - to celebrate Hallowing Ceternity
  • Halloween Poster - to celebrate Halloween
  • Harrowing Poster - to celebrate The Harrowing from Elithian Alliance mod
• added support for Augment Crafting Table and Craftable Augments - augment recipes from this mod are now available in these stations;
• added support for Liquid Extractor Reborn - some resources from this mod can now be used for liquid extraction;
• added support for Spooky Synergy - alta candy, cookies and monster masks can now drop as loot from reward bags patched by that mod.

Tenants

• added more unique dialogue to existing tenants;
• added 30 unique rent loot tables for tenants;
• added 26 new tenants:
  • Alta Banana;
  • Alta Dino Girl;
  • Alta Gold Knight;
  • Alta Househead;
  • Alta Plantain Girl;
  • Alta Shark Cosplayer;
  • Alta Albino Shark Cosplayer;
  • Alta Snow Girl;
  • Alta Warm Girl;
  • Alta Shadow Gardener;
  • Alta Floran Prisoner;
  • Alta Slimegirl;
  • Alta Stone Gardener;
  • Arigaran Merchant;
  • Arigaran;
  • Yaaviling;
  • Yaara Shaman;
  • Yaara Sprout;
  • Yaarafinger;
  • Yaaraling;
  • Aric Ghost;
  • Alta Ceternity Girl;
  • Alta Halloween Girl;
  • Alta Harrowing Girl;
  • Alta Spooky Girl;
  • Alta Ceternity Merchant.

Other

• added and updated some very special objects;
• added long descriptions and alta descriptions to many items and objects;
• added converse dialogue groups to a lot of themed NPCs;
• fixed Warped Hive sapling, eco, pod, and boosted harvest loot table;
• fixed incorrect effect in the Combat Power Augment;
• fixed critters being unable to climb slopes;
• updated Alta Scanner to be able to show multiple authors;
• updated Tiled tilesets with new objects added before this version;
• huge number of typo fixes;
• huge number of item tag and colony tag fixes;
• minor bug fixes.

A patch that fixes a progression loop with dendrarium codex entries, and brings support for the Growing Trays mod.

Main

• added support for Growing Trays:
  • alta fertilizers can now be used with the mod and have a low chance of being consumed and high fertilizing value;
  • organic ME materials can also be used with the mod, with a high chance of being consumed and a lower fertilizing value.
    

Other

• fixed an issue that crashed the player to main menu when eating produce or medicine;
• minor bug fixes.

A quick hotfix to address smaller issues coming from 2.4 initial release.

Main

• fixed spacing and positioning on all crops;
• added missing recipe and treasure entries for new items.

Alta

• added a separate item pool for Alta Christmas Girl's shop;
• added more unlocked recipes to codexes and crops;
• updated tool recipes to reflect progress stages properly with according types of recipes;
• made the Alta Dendrarium recipe to be available in the Alta Crafting Station.

Other

• fixed icons for Aya and Yaavi seeds;
• moved Aya and Yaavi seeds to the seed tab;
• Arilings and Hunter Flowers now drop themselves when captured with a bug net;
• fixed grass blaster item tags;
• minor bug fixes.

An update that brings you the Dendrarium - a farming & botanics station with new and improved tools, saplings, flowers, fertilizers and more!

Crafted at the tier 1 Alta Crafting Station, you can use it to craft farming tools, discover and upgrade saplings, pot 20+ flowers and plants and craft other botanics-related items, including extracted 4 crop seeds, 8 grass seeds, 6 flower pots, 6 eco pods, 40+ upgraded crop/tree saplings, 2 plant-like critters, 5 tillers, 5 watering cans, 6 sprinklers, 7 wood cutters, 10 fertilizers and 10 codex entries.

Some of the tools are upgradeable at the Weapon Upgrade Anvil.

The update also adds 8 new cooking stations for specific food types!

Finally, the mod is now available on Nexus Mods!

Main

• added Alta Dendrarium.

Alta

• added Alta Dendrarium:
  • added unlockable recipes to dendrarium items - you'll have to progress by crafting items and unlocking new recipes;
  • added 1 codex note - Farming Note - that takes you through main dendrarium activities and unlocks initial recipes;
  • added 3 codex Alta Ebooks that go in-depth on more complex planting processes and are needed for further progression in the station:
    • Flower Lover's Guide;
    • Alta Soil Enrichment;
    • Alta Botanics.
  • added 6 codex Alta Datamasses that talk about soil-specific eco-conditions and act as Operating Systems for Alta Eco Pods:
    • Altaponics;
    • Alta Terraponics;
    • Alta Hydroponics;
    • Alta Ecoponics;
    • Alta Thermoponics;
    • Alta Omniponics.
  • added 2 Extractable Crop Seeds that cannot be found in the wild, but can be extracted in dendrarium:
    • Aya Tuber (aya seed);
    • Yaavi Sprout (yaara eye seed).
  • added 8 Grass Seeds that can be thrown on tilled ground to grow different types of grass:
    • Grass Seeds;
    • Lush Grass Seeds;
    • Flowery Grass Seeds;
    • Thick Grass Seeds;
    • Colorful Grass Seeds;
    • Crimson Grass Seeds;
    • Warped Grass Seeds;
    • Mical Crystal Seeds.
  • added 8 Omni Seeds that, unlike regular grass seeds, don't need tilled ground or dirt to apply:
    • Omni Grass Seeds;
    • Omni Lush Seeds;
    • Omni Flowery Seeds;
    • Omni Thick Seeds;
    • Omni Colorful Seeds;
    • Omni Crimson Seeds;
    • Omni Warped Seeds;
    • Omni Mical Seeds.
  • added a Grass Nade that acts as a condensed grass mix that doesn't require tilled soil;
  • added a Gyera Token to be able to unlock/craft certain loot crates:
    • Gyera Loot Crate;
    • Haven Loot Crate;
    • Yaara Loot Crate.
  • added 4 Watering Cans that, unlike regular grass seeds, don't need tilled ground or dirt to apply:
    • Alta Bucket - a fairly simple solution that isn't very effective;
    • Alta Watering Can;
    • Altan Can;
      • Astan Dew - Weapon Anvil upgrade.
    • Gyera Watering Can.
      • Iora Rincer - Weapon Anvil upgrade.
  • added 4 Tilling Tools that, unlike regular grass seeds, don't need tilled ground or dirt to apply:
    • Alta Hoe;
    • Alta Tiller;
      • Startiller - Weapon Anvil upgrade.
    • Haven Tiller;
      • Earthcatcher - Weapon Anvil upgrade.
    • Space Tiller.
  • added 4 Lumber Cutters that, unlike regular grass seeds, don't need tilled ground or dirt to apply:
    • Alta Lumber Cutter;
      • Ultrafast Cutter - Weapon Anvil upgrade.
    • Composite Cutter;
      • Reinforced Cutter - Weapon Anvil upgrade.
    • Ionic Cutter.
      • Enternia Cutter - Weapon Anvil upgrade.
    • Erkut R300.
  • added 3 Alta Grass Launchers that spread seeds without consuming ammo, together with now fixed Yaara Wand:
    • Alta Grass BLaster;
    • Gyera Blaster;
    • Haven Grassthrower.
  • added 4 more Ayaka Saplings, making it 12 in total:
    • Young Ayaka;
    • Eva Ayaka;
    • Unona Ayaka;
    • Crimson Ayaka.
  • added 6 more Tree Saplings:
    • Warped Tree - a recolored yaara node;
    • Vionora - a colorful palm;
    • Nivera - a recolored yaara node;
    • Ionic Hive Stalk - a hive tentacle;
    • Mical Tree - a recolored geode tree;
    • Azura - a striped alien tree;
    • Livira - a red alien tree;
    • Sofara - a yellow alien tree.
  • added 5 Alta Packs that contain a specific set of profession-related items:
    • Alta Farming Pack;
    • Advanced Farming Pack;
    • Master Farming Pack;
    • Gyera Pack;
    • Alta Seed Pack.
  • added 4 more Alta Vendors, making it 5 in total:
    • Young Ayaka;
    • Eva Ayaka;
    • Unona Ayaka;
    • Crimson Ayaka.
  • added 3 more Alta Botanics Merchants NPCs and tenants, making it 4 in total with Alta Gardener:
    • Alta Poner;
    • Alta Botanist;
    • Gyera Archiver.
  • added 31 crop types to existing 3, making it 34 upgradeable crops:
    • 4 produce crops:
      • Aya;
      • Gil;
      • Tsay;
      • Yaavi.
    • 16 ground-grown materials and ingredients:
      • Alternia Shards;
      • Alien Striped Wood;
      • Ceternia Cores;
      • Core Fragments;
      • Cotton Fibres;
      • Enternite;
      • Clouds;
      • Blue/Red/Yellow Petals;
      • Isoslime Balls;
      • Slime Balls;
      • Biosamples;
      • Silk Fibres;
      • Snow Balls;
      • Stardust;
      • Giant Petals;
      • Warped Hives.
    • 16 underwater (50%) materials and ingredients:
      • Crystals;
      • Milk;
      • Coral Fragments;
      • Diamonds;
      • Erchius Fuel;
      • Glow Fibres;
      • Gheatsyn Shards;
      • Larva;
      • Ionic Sap;
      • In Jellies;
      • Alta Jellies;
      • Koywa Grass;
      • Tonnas;
      • Rainbow Wood;
      • Kelp;
      • Yaara Roots.
    • these crops can be found in the wild (if they have a wild variation), bought from a merchant, or crafted from other seeds.
  • added almost 260 crop objects for different crop upgrades:
    • Wild Seed - takes less space, but can only be found in the wild and drops a normal seed instead;
    • Seed - regular seed, takes up more space, takes a long time to grow and ripe;
    • Sapling - upgraded seed, takes up less space;
    • Cultivated - upgraded sapling, grows faster;
    • Eco - upgraded cultivated sapling, very compact, takes a long time to ripe, doesn't need watering;
    • Fertile - upgraded cultivated sapling, produces a modified version of the fruit;
    • Sort - upgraded cultivated sapling, produces a different sort of the fruit;
    • Mixed - upgraded cultivated sapling, produces a different fruit;
    • Boosted - upgraded cultivated sapling, ripes fast and gives more produce than usual;
    • Eco Pod - upgraded eco sapling, compact, can be placed anywhere, no water needed, takes a long time to ripe.
    • most plants don't have all of these upgrades, just Wild Seed, Seed, Sapling, Eco, Boosted and Eco Pod.
• added 8 more food type-specific Alta Cooking Stations:
  • Alta Fermenter;
  • Alta Jellyfier;
  • Alta Kadamaker;
  • Alta Milker;
  • Alta Mixer;
  • Alta Roaster;
  • Alta Slicer;
  • Alta Spicer.
• updated shops and loot tables with new items;
• updated Alta Sapling pool by adding:
  • new ayaka variations;
  • colorful palm variations.
• updated Alta Lab Sapling pool by adding:
  • hive tree variations.
• updated Alta Ship Sapling pool by adding:
  • alien tree variations;
  • dark rock variations;
  • flesh tree variations;
  • eye tree variations;
  • geode tree;
  • mical geode tree.

Translation

• new items and objects have translateable strings.

Other

• minor bug fixes.

This patch focuses on fixing a critical bug with one of the weapons found in the Koywa biome and a cape in a Stardust Merchant's shop (no more Tool Mimic errors).

It also introduces a new food balancing system called Alta BGMR2.

Finally, the patch prepares the game for the 2.4 update.

Main

• added support for Many Tabs:
  • also added a fallback alta category button for when the mod is not installed.
    
• fixed some critical and other issues.

Alta

• updated icons for Alta Tier 0 Pad, Gyera Loot Crate and Haven Loot Crate;
• updated rent loot for most Alta Tenants to make it level-dependent and more related to their character/profession;
• updated prices and rarities for most codexes;
• updated Alta Datacenter to depend on discovering blueprints:
  • all codexes now discover themselves and other items.

Translation

• fixed typos in the Ayaka Tree sapling description;
• fixed typos in the Tavriya Codex and Alta Lab Tanks;
• moved food aging strings from items/generic/food/ct_ionic_rotting.config:rotTimeDescriptions to items/buildscripts/ct_texts.config:aging.descriptions and made them a dict instead of a list.

Dev

• added a new consumable item balance system - Alta Bromatology, Gastronomy & Medicine Regulation M2, or Alta BGMR2 for short:
  • it calculates food value, rot time and effect time based on several values that keep items of the same level roughly similar in power;
  • updated default values for food, prepared food, drinks and cooking ingredients;
  • updated existing shop items, produce and cooking ingredients to reflect these changes;
  • unified and refactored food build and aging scripts;
  • improved expiry/aging/fermenting messages:
    • made them more granular (5 -> 20 messages) divided into 4 categories:
      • Fermenting (up to 30 minutes);
      • Fresh (up to 8 hours);
      • Preserved (up to 2 weeks);
      • Unexpirable (up to 256 years).
    • gave them a broader range (300 - 999999 seconds range to 10 - 8078579712, or 10 seconds to 256 years);
    • moved them to a shared translation file and made them easier to translate.
      
• added alta_loot and alta_ancient recipe groups for items that normally can only be found through loot and item anvil upgrades;
• added Alta Universal Information & Knowledge Accumulation, or Alta UIKA - a generated .json document:
  • contains information on how to obtain & use all items in the mod;
  • can be used by items in the game to access enhanced information without having to calculate it on the spot;
  • can be used for generating the wiki.
• updated Steam and Starbound Forums descriptions;
• updated the README by adding alternative text and lazy loading to images.

Other

• decreased Yaara Heart's object collision from 8x8 blocks to 7x7 blocks and added gaps in it to make it easier for world gen to spawn it;
• fixed incorrect item mimics in the Koywa Chest and in the Stardust Merchant shop;
• updated colony tags on crops;
• minor bug fixes.

A patch with minor fixes to UI and OSB SIP log errors.

Main

• bug fixes.

Alta

• fixed Alta Datacenter UI;
• fixed Alta Constructor UI.

Dev

• removed deprecated Ceiling Slime objects.

Other

• fixed loot crate icon paths;
• fixed Tonnova Tree sapling icons;
• minor bug fixes.