Halloween event has returned, now with skin rewards. The goal is simple eat candy and avoid zombies, unlock skins and achievements at 50/100/150/200/250/300 score.

Some tips

• Keep it slow and calm, zombie fish react to your movement.
  
• Take use of pumpkins that act as a safe houses.
  
• When being chased take quick sharp turns, regain stamina, then swim straight away.

• Fixed a bug causing swimming animation on large fish to disappear.
  
• Fixed a bug causing Kronosaurus to attempting to attack themselves.

• Added new GFX and SFX for collisions with Sand, Wood, Ground, Coral and Grass / Foliage
  
• Clowntrigger spawns removed
  
• Dunkleosteus increased max speed -> fixed stamina spending
  
• Titanichtis increased max speed -> fixed stamina spending
  
• Pinky increased max speed -> fixed stamina spending & increased roaming so the don't just circle at spawns
  
• Tigershark -> fixed biting animation
  
• Kronosaurus -> fixed turning and navigation + smoothed out movement
  
• Mantis shrimp -> increased base speed + fixed stamina spending
  
• Knightia -> fixed swim animation & reduced speed
  
• Norway redfish -> fixed swim animation

For now you will be asked whether you want to launch the game old way or with the launcher.

As we're slowly adding modding and extensions support, the launcher comes with simple solution to DLL modding. The launcher is also targeting .Net4.8 so required framework will be automatically downloaded and installed if missing.

Cheats as used to be in game are now only enabled with the cheatmod, as to prevent accidentally using them and then not being able to finish achievements.

Cheats currently in game are:

• L + I = add points
  
• L + U = level up / fill stomach in survival mode
  
• D + X = kill self
  
• F4 = ON/OFF - AI takes control over your fish ( we've been using this to debug behaviors, but then it's quite useful or fun to play with )

Currently modded DLLs can be placed into custom folder inside the "/Mods/" folder located in the games local files.
Those with "Assembly-CSharp.dll" (if checked) will temporary rewrite "/Feed and Grow_Data/ManagedAssembly-CSharp.dll" with the one inside the mod folder, and so the game will be launched with that dll.

In close future we will be adding content modding via Unity Assetbundles downloaded by steam workshop. So far we're planning to implement custom maps, scenarios, fish and their skins.
A complete guide to creating mods (DLL and Content) with examples will be published as soon as steam workshop gets turned on.

Thanks,
As always, looking forward to next update!

Do you have what it takes to survive in the reef? Remember if you start small don't think too big. As you'll always be in sight of those who are waiting for you to make the wrong move. Keep up your endurance and distance form others. Find crevices, yet be aware of eels, to protect your offspring. Of course unless you're at top of the food chain.

Likewise last year, everybody gets to open all the gifts.
This year an especially cute gift awaits for you.

• Great white shark got new model and animations
  
• Improved biting animation across all fish
  
• Reduced length of shark bite and wiggle by 50%
  
• Reduced damage dealt by sea urchins
  
• Removed danger/battle music kicking in when getting hit by sea urchin or biting and large dead predator
  
• Decreased time required to digest from 5 to 3.5 seconds
  
• New Baby shark models for Tiger and Mako
  
• New Baby shark model for Hammerhead
  
• New Baby Goliath texture
  
• Fixed multiple bugs related to receiving stars and their upgrades in survival mode
  
• Fixed multiple visual bugs in Coral reef and made some areas nicer
  
• Moved and redistributed spawns in Coral reef so there are less overpopulated areas
  
• Tunas and Parrot fish now get afraid of bigger predators from larger distance
  
• Goliath initial acceleration increased, long lasting speed decreased

We wish you merry Christmas, happy holidays and a best wishes to the upcoming year!

In this patch we're addressing some ingame issues. Meanwhile we've had a new shark ready, so he can get into the game too.

• Fixed inability to achieve achievement King of the ocean
  
• Fixed missing Crab madness mode on Great map
  
• Adjusted scenarios where danger music kicks in
  
• Fixed animation bug on your fish after spawning
  
• Fixed animation bug on parrot fish when stopped moving
  
• Reduced overall rarity of sharks:
  
  • Tiger 2 -> 1
    
  • Hammerhead 3 -> 2
    
  • Blacktip 5 -> 4
• Reduced swimming speed by 10% of Tiger and Hammerhead, ( so mako is the fastest )
  
• Hammerhead damage -10%
  
• Hammerhead bite speed -10%
  
• Hammerheads now prefer hunting crustaceans
  
• Tiger shark damage +5%
  
• Tiger shark bite speed +5%
  
• Blacktip shark damage -25%
  
• Blacktip shark bite speed +25%

In today's update, we're coming out with first steps into Coral Reef map ( previously called Ocean map ). Which we are transforming into survival friendly form. Additionally after months of hard work with our pals Grand Beats we're proud to show off first major step towards new amazing music and sound effects.

Jump-in and let us know what do you think!
One of the biggest challenges towards Survival mode was the overall ecosystem of the Reef map. Over time we filled it with a lot of different species that had no / very little participation in the overall food chain.

Some were removed some added, so far. Yet the kind of the ocean keeps it's throne.

• Dunkleosteus - removed
  
• three new Parrotfish - added ( so far they only differ randomly in coloration )
  
• Blue Tang and new three Tang fish - added
  
• Butterfly fish - added
  
• Cuttlefish - added
  
• Small destroy-able mollusk-like food - removed
  
• Sea urchin - added ( deals damage on contact ! )
  
• New animated light

Onward to the better, yet keeping the old feeling, we've updated the behavior of the most predators in the Reef map. This includes Moray eel, Grouper goliath, Barracudas and both Tiger and Hammerhead sharks. The main problem we've been facing was to create a focused role for each kind of fish. Eels correctly hide in crevices. Sharks seek and target meaty prey. Barracudas collectively strike upon smaller schools of fish.

Did you know? Bibos was originally meant to be the single-one Big-Boss of the map. However that shark eventually took over that role, as he had better resolution model :D.

• Goliath - new model & better stats
  
• Hammerhead - new model & better stats

Finally first audio rework is here! All thanks to amazing work by the Grand Beats who did all the work on music composition and sound effects. The best thing is there's more to come!

• After this update audio settings will be reset to 75%

Big shout out for them and their amazing work!

• New lighting and animations in Fish select, you can now rotate and zoom on to fish model by holding LMB and moving the cursor / scrolling with MMB
  
• Increased the power of Brightness slider setting in Graphics by 3 times
  
• Fixed / adjusted random fish movement, that caused some very active fish to shake when idling or resting
  
• FIxed a bug where King crab and his countless army would attack their own spawned eggs
  
• Fixed crabs movement bugs when ragdolls were ON
  
• Fixed mantis shrimp walk / swim bugs when ragdolls were ON
  
• Reduced mantis shrimp damage by -66% and adjusted his attacking behavior

That's all for today, have fun,
looking forward to next Update!

Are you prepared to face what it takes to survive in the Swamp?
Hatch, eat, grow and secure bright future for your offspring. Sounds easy? Take a look at what can get into your way! As the swamp water levels always change you are put in front of annoying competitors, hungry predators and tempting rewards. Observe your environment and take advantages of it.


Survival changes
Digestion & Healing processes in survival mode have been changed to appear earlier and slow down when your fish is moving. AI will no longer gain experience instantly after eating, instead attempt to rest and digest the food.

Dead-match
Since many of you have ask for this feature, coins gained in dead-match mode will now be saved with upper limit of 1000 per map. The limit is added so the gameplay won't lose the risk/gain element.
- note that this won't work after using cheats


Other changes

• Re-balanced Snakehead damage and attack speed, added Rage passive
  
• Changed Arowana hunting behavior to prefer eating babies
  
• Changed Catfish hunting behavior to prefer large fish
  
• Wachuma has been removed
  
• Ubur has been removed
  
• Raptors in swamp are enabled only in Dead-match mode
  
• Bottom dwellers ( Carp and Sturgeon ) have new passive ability that helps them to find hidden food
  
• Pikes in swamp got transformed into Muskellunge
  
• Scared fish AI now uses sprint only if a predator is facing its way.
  
• Added new option to toggle VSync on/off into Video settings, by default it is turned on

Thanks,
as always, looking forward up to next update!

Changes and Bug fixes

• Tuna - new model, removed Rage passive and adjusted stats
  
• Moved Tunas from Great map to Ocean map
  
• Moved Coccosteus from Ocean map to Great map
  
• Increased damage and rate of drowning, so just health regeneration won't stop you from dying
  
• Fixed sardines being three times as fast when playing with Ragdolls
  
• Fixed Dunkleosteus skin stats and cost
  
• Fixed Dolphin skins rendered Red/Green/Blue when playing on Simple graphics setting
  
• Fixed water rendering in deep Great map

Christmas update is coming soon!
Thanks!

Dolphins and Sailfish!
This update comes with three new Dolphins species, Swordfish -> Sailfish and sardines changes. Currently only playable in Ocean map, the dolphin comes with Ultrasonic Bang active ability that stuns prey in distance. Playable species are: Bottlenose, Shortbeaked and Hector dolphin, species can be changed in fish select or by pressing the 1 / 2 / 3 key while playing as one.

Sardines
Now have a simple swimming animation and more complex behavior. Currently only few predators, including the dolphin and sailfish, are set to actively hunt them as they're quite fast and agile.

Other changes

• Updated water shading to show light rays
  
• Fixed Great white boss, where he would focus on eating plankton
  
• Disabled Halloween
  
• Fixed inability to bite each other for Dunkleosteus and Coccosteus
  
• Fixed freezing after map loading
  
• And a bunch of micro stats balancing on other creatures in Ocean map

As always, looking forward to the next update!