Hello Crafters!

How is everyone doing?

Crafty Survivors is part of the Game Devs of Color Expo, starting today on Steam! The game will be on discount through the duration of the event! For those who don't know, we are all Latin Americans at Flannel Bear Games (we are Brazilians originally, although we live in Canada now and also, we are 2 people in total, but it sounded more fun to say "we all"), and the music composer that works with us is also Brazilian.

New patch is here, bringing some heated content to the game! Yes, a Desert. That's HOT!

The 12th character, Monet, is joining the roster today! A whole new gameplay style and some of the weirdest skills we came up with so far are being introduced with the Banker! This patch brings a whole new area with different visuals, music, variants of the pesky enemies and new ones with different mechanics. And of course, some juicy materials to collect, as usual.

Monet also has her Talent Skills in the Village Systems, which can affect her gameplay in some real drastic and dramatic ways. So remember to check which ones work for you the most.

We are also adding a few Quality of Life things in this update, that actually come from a few requests in the community here and on the Discord. We hope some of these changes will help smooth the experience for some players. Check which ones they are at the Patch Notes below.

Also, an important reminder, that we mentioned a few times before:
Crafty Survivors is increasing in price soon to match the final price of the game before the release of 1.0.

Let's dive into the Patch Notes:


A new character is ready to join the Roster! The Banker is bringing in the Gold and spending it to crush her enemies in battle!

Monet's mechanics all involve the basic resource that has been in the game since the beginning: Gold. While gathering gold through battle, the Banker will be able to use her skills by spending the resource in different amounts. Most of her skills have 3 thresholds of cost that make them even more powerful depending on how much Gold she has available in the battlefield.

Some of her skills play a vital role in acquiring more Gold during the battle, while others focus on spending that Gold to deal devastating damage. There's even a skill that focus on spending Gold to earn MORE GOLD! Are you low on Gold? Monet might be the solution to making more!

The Banker's basic attack also has thresholds of power depending on the current amount of Gold the player has during battle, making it a lot stronger but a bit slower as the fight progresses.

All of her costs and thresholds scale with the current Stage the player is in, in order to make her viable in every Stage of the game, even the early ones.

Bring forth the power of Gold to trample your enemies!
With the update and a whole new area, new materials have been added to the game, so the buildings in the Village can go even further and bring more power to the Survivors.

As suggested in the community, we were able to add an indicator in the Village that will show if a building can be upgraded or not, so players won't need to click every single building to find out if they can upgrade things.

• A whole new area, the Desert, with its own Music theme;
  
• New variants of enemies, with different behaviours;
  
• New types of enemies;
  
• New materials;
  
• New field events and materials;
  
• New hazards exclusively for the Desert.

As suggested in the community, we added a percentage completion on each Area next to their names. Players will be able to have a rough idea of how much of the Areas they have left to finish them.
This indication will take in consideration the entire Area, even if the Stages are not available yet in the current version, so in the Desert, players will not be able to reach 100% of the Area for now.

• New mail to receive and find.

• Reduced the base damage of the skills Fungal Infestation, Fungal Vortex, Groundbreaking Roar and Organized Heist;
  
• Added a skill tree indicator to the skill Fungal Infestation to better show how to obtain the skills that depend on it;
  
• Impressive Stash Lv 3 change → Now increases max damage possible by 20% instead of only removing 50% of the buff when hit. This change was made due to the fact that the previous effect was creating too many undesirable situations, like players ending up with negative damage permanently.

• Adjusted some of the talent skills trees path indicators as some had a wrong size and others were lighting the wrong nodes.

• Collectables will now reactivate their merge in intervals to reduce the amount of items on the ground and improve performance for some players.

• Fixed an issue with some of the Protostar attacks that were being affected by the player’s opacity settings, making them hard to see;
  
• Fixed a bug with Sewvia Talents - Flashing Burst and Hexing Burst as they could not be levelled past the lvl 3;
  
• Fixed a bug with the skills from the Ancient Elixir that prevented them from showing up properly during a run;
  
• Other small bug fixes.

The Banker is finally out! After the debut of the building, the Bank, it has been a hint of the possibility of having the Banker in the game, which was definitely a character we started designing after we planned the building. We are organizing the order of updates to come as well to make sure everything is going smoothly as it needs to. We are not far from the v1.0 of Crafty Survivors!

After this update, we are going to take a small break, as we need a few days to recharge. I will still keep an eye on the forums here for any bugs reports or major issues that need quick fixes, just to make sure things with the latest update are going smoothly. After the small break, we will continue developing new content.

On a better note, we already started work on the 13th character! The 2nd character of the Desert will be coming on another update to complete the newest area, with the bosses and challenges. We will probably work on the next portion of Talent Skills for the Smithing and Weaving Systems before the 13th character is released, as bundling them all into a single update will definitely take too long, as it did before with v0.8.0.

But we can finish this Update with a Sneak Peek of the next one, right?
No, it is not Newston, sorry.

Who is ready to put the GOLD to use in Crafty Survivors? Use the Bankers connections and resources to crush your enemies with the POWER OF GOLD!

Hello, crafters!

How is everyone? Summer is basically over here.

It's that time again, to reveal the next upcoming character of Crafty Survivors. The development of the new content and character has been going quite well, so it shouldn't be long before we can release the next update.

Meet:
As some people in the community have already guessed, the Banker will be a playable character. We began her concept with the release of the Bank as a building in the Village and started brainstorming her mechanics during that time, but thought she would be best as a late character than an early one because of one simple detail on her mechanic: using Gold.

Monet is the first AND ONLY character to use Gold as a resource in battle, as the masterful Banker she is. She will bring forth the power of money to fight and dominate the arena! She is a melee character with a varied sized basic attack and all her mechanics involve Gold: the more you have the stronger she can become.

Monet has different types of skills and all of them involve Gold in some way: either spending gold, earning more gold or even spending gold to earn even more. Good planning of her skills can result in massive damage and enormous amounts of gold at the end of the Stage, as some of her passives can boost her gold gain even further. But be careful not to overspend your Gold or the only gold you get at the end will be from the Boss Chest.

The amount of Gold required for her skills is variable depending on the Stage, in order to make her viable in earlier Stages as well. Balancing the requirements around her area would make her impossible to use in earlier areas and overpower her in even later Stages, so every requirement around her skills uses the End of Stage Boss Chest amount as the base for calculations for her skills, which also influences her gains.

Some of her skills even have different thresholds depending on the amount of gold the player has available and can increase the effectiveness and power of said skills even further! Even her basic attack is influenced by the amount of Gold the player has and becomes stronger as thresholds are met, turning this classy lady into a powerful fighter.

Show the enemies the power of money with the Banker and help her and the others protect their hometown!
The new area, the Desert, will also become available with the new character, with new challenges to conquer and new materials to collect. The buildings will have more levels available for them so players can power themselves up even more.

Hope everyone is excited to meet the Banker and put her money to use!

Now, an important announcement regarding Crafty Survivors:
With the current amount of content, once again the price of Crafty Survivors doesn't fit anymore on what it should be. As we stated since the beginning of the Early Access and is shown in the Store Page, the game would increase in price after certain milestones were met throughout the development process until we get to the price the game would be on Full Release. We believe it will be a good time to reach that price a short time after the release of the next character, Monet.

Why is Crafty Survivors increasing in Price?
Compared to the Early Access release version 0.1 back in March 2023, the amount of content had a major increase. There were only 4 characters available, 15 Stages in total with 1 boss, none of the current Village Systems.
The last price increase, version 0.5, had 8 playable characters with a total of 154 Skills, 67 Stages in total with 6 bosses, 6 Elixir Skills, and 8 Village Systems that allows players to customize their runs even further, with 108 talents summing up all characters in the Smithing and Weaving Systems.
The next version 0.9, will have 12 playable characters with a total of 231 Skills, 121 Stages with a brand new area, a total of 8 areas (counting the Colosseum), and 20 bosses, 21 Elixir Skills, and a total of 256 talents summing up all characters in the Smithing and Weaving Systems.

With the final version (1.0) taking the playable character count to 15 with an estimate of around 300 skills in total, 9 areas (with the addition of the last area of the game), more than 150 stages in total and more bosses to fight, possibly more than 30 bosses, an estimate of around 36 Elixir Skills, and an estimate of over 350 talents summing up all characters in the Smithing and Weaving Systems.
With all this difference in content, Crafty Survivors cannot be the same price as it currently is.

Is this going to be final price of the game?
Yes! This will be the final price of the game for the Full Release of v1.0 of Crafty Survivors.

We know that some people might not agree with this change, but we must do what we believe is the best and most fair course of action for the game and the hard work put into its development.

Thank you all again for being a part of this journey with us and playing Crafty Survivors. As the development of the Banker is being completed, I have already began the visual work on the 13th character. Hopefully the development of this new content will continue to go smoothly and it won't be long to finalize the Desert area.