Dear Players,

This update brings key Steam features that have been requested for by the game's wonderful players for long now!

Steam Achievements, Cards, Stats and Cloud Save have all been added!

Along with these comes several key improvements to the game itself, to help make your experience of enjoying these Steam features much better!

Complete all 16 achievements today!


Complete the Monarch Butterfly Male & Female Lifecycles (both of which are different!),


The game has been vastly improved to make it easier for players to complete these achievements.

Above: Chemical Vision reworked to make completing the Praying Mantis Lifecycle easier for this!

To view all achievements, launch the game and open the Steam overlay (Shift-Tab)

Trading Cards have been added at last!

Monarch Butterfly, Jumping Spider, Praying Mantis, Ladybug and Grasshopper are the five cards that can be collected (along with their foil card equivalents).

Badges that can be crafted include "Wee Sapling" (Level 1), "Swift Climber" (Level 2), "Verdant Riser" (Level 3), "Ready To Bloom" (Level 4), "The Glorious Sun" (Level 5) and "One With Nature" (Foil Badge).

Several Emotions have been made available including:
Monarch Butterfly, Viceroy Butterfly, Blue Mud Dauber, Dragonfly, Ladybird Beetle, Leafhopper and
Ant.

Several interesting Stats have been added to Nature & Life - Drunk On Nectar!
These include:

• Nectar Drunk (in milliliters!)
  
• Num Hunts
  
• Num Escapes (from Predator)
  
• Number of Random Maps Generated
  
• Num Lifecycles Completed
  
• Num Moults
  
• Num Spring Survival Completion
  
• Num Items Planted
  
• Num Nature Items consumed (Pollen Grains, Beltian Bodies)
  
• Time spent Painting!

Future updates will make it easier for players to track their curious statistics!

Above: Nectar trails seen using the new "High Contrast" Chemical Vision!

Cloud save has now been enabled for DoN!
All your save files will be automatically synced across your computers using Steam's Cloud Save feature. ~
As a reminder, save files are located in the following location:
%localappdata%\DoN\Saved


Lifecycles now has a new "World Generation" menu allowing players to enter Random Map Seeds.

Tooltips with detailed information are now provided to help players not familiar with the concepts of Random map generation and Random Seeds,

As a reminder, players can no longer change the "Ecology Preset" for Lifecycles.

You can still use Custom Ecology Presets for all other modes like Survival Sim / Create & Design - Nature (formerly Nature Sandbox) / Face Off / Free Explore.

The Pause Menu now includes a new "Regnerate Map" menu which provides players with complete control over how you restart a new game.

Players can now choose to either Restart using the same World Seed (effectively regenerating exactly the same map again)
or they can set a new "World Seed" which will produce a completely new map altogether!

If you like a particular random map (eg: something with lakes, rolling meadows, etc) then you can remember that seed and reuse it again in any game mode!
Future updates will make it easier for players to Bookmark and manage your Favorite World Seeds!

To help players complete your Achievements more easily, Chem Vision has been dramatically improved!

It is now actually helpful in visually tracking prey that you would otherwise have missed.

Particularly indispensable for the Praying Mantis Lifecycle, where you are scouring the vast "Mantis Tree World" for extremely tiny prey.

Unlike the previous chem trails which were hard to see against the game's bright and colorful foreground, the new Chem Vision emphasizes the chem trails by isolating them visually, thus making it easier to find prey!

Spiders are now always tracked so long as they are in range, making it much easier to complete the "Three Nests Three Eggs" quest for the "Sweet Nectar Drinker" achievement!

Blue Mud Dauber Survival Quest, for Sweet Nectar Drinker Achievement is now much easier to complete and more fun to play!


Adult Jumping Spiders now use exactly the same camera system as the tiny instars!

Previously the adults used a very different system that was originally designed for the "Lady Love" Creature Quests.

This in turn means that the "Lady Love" Creature Quest is a lot more fun to play and easier to control.
I managed to beat my all time score (now 38 seconds!) and secured #2 position on the game's leaderboard in just a simple casual run!

Why don't you try out the improved "Lady Love" Creature Quest for yourself, right now! :)


The Ladybug Creature Quest is now so much more fun to play and easier to complete!

Stamina requirements have been greatly relaxed, allowing players to complete the "Plants Say Thank You" Achievement more easily, for which you need to complete the challenge in under 4 minutes!

Personally I managed to beat my all time best and reach #2 spot on the Leaderboard, just in a quick casual test.

Why don't you try bettering you Leaderboard score right now! :)

This update features core CPU improvements to the underlying engine that should provide a smoother experience for all players across the board.

This update also features a cleaner HUD and improved fauna icons as well.

Importantly - It is now actually possible to understand the gameplay mechanics - such as how a prey saw/felt/smelt you / etc, simply by keeping your eye on the HUD's new Fauna Icons!

The following bugfixes were made, among several other minor improvements as well

• Random map seeds fixed (was broken in previous build)
  
• Fixes to Benchmark tool
  
• Pause menu duplicate entries fixed (for Praying Mantis Lifecycle "Skip Tutorial")

Thanks as always to the game's wonderful players for your support and enthusiasm through all these yerars.

It is deeply appreciated!

I sincerely hope that you enjoy this update of the game. Good LucK!

With Love,
Venugopalan Sreedharan
Developer of Nature & Life - Drunk On Nectar

Four are the Rivulets of DoN,
Manifold are their forms within!
To Play Survival / Casual / Fantasy / Design is Fun,
Come now, give these a quick spin!

Dear Players, this is the biggest Presentation Update for Nature & Life - Drunk On Nectar yet!

Featuring a new 3D Menu World at the centre, this update brings DoN's various game modes under a single cloud (or four of them to be precise!), with clear guidance for new players.

Survival, Casual, Fantasy and Design are the Four Quadrants of DoN's new 3D Menu World.

New players will now find it much easier to gain a quick overview of what the game has to offer,
while experienced players will find themselves getting much more out of the game than ever before.

Read on to learn more!

Lifecycles, Survival Simulation & Face Off are the game modes under the Survival Quadrant.

The "Menu World" plays a visual skit for each mode as you hover your mouse over the button,
giving players a hint of what to expect within!

Important changes here include:

1) Separate rosters for each mode.
For example, "Face Off" roster features combinations that more likely to be interesting and fun for players.
Similarly, "Survival Sim" features fauna in a specific order based on the likely enjoyment of players!
Lifecycles order is unchanged.

2) Random Map / Preset selection is no longer available for Lifecycles.
This allows the Lifecycles experience to be strictly designed to ensure a more uniform experience.
Note that all Lifecycles maps are still randomly generated; players just can't modify the internal preset anymore.

Create & Design - Nature (formerly Nature Sandbox) & Planetary Ecology are the game modes under the SANDBOX Quadrant.

"Create & Design - Nature" is envisioned as an overhauled version of the previous Nature Sandbox.

Better User Interface, Tutorials (presented as "Sandbox Quests") & Editing Workflows are the improvements planned in this space.

"Creature Quests is the sole game mode currently featured in Fantasy quadrant.

Fantasy Quadrant is envisioned as a collection of experiences that are not intended to be realistic or educational.

This provides a formal leeway for the game to provide players with more traditional gameplay experiences, deriving inspiring from the vast assortment of classic gaming experiences that are already proven to work and well-loved by players.

Story, Adventure, Platforming are the potential elements that this Quadrant could encompass in the future.

Free Exploration is the sole game mode currently featured in this quadrant.
Zero Hunger & Infinite Stamina allow players to try out different creatures at their own pace.

While DoN's current Free Exploration is a very simple experience, when combined with random map generation (as well as procedural generation of world flora), interesting emergent experiences often unexpectedly arise, so do give this mode a try some time!

In the future Free Exploration will attempt to provide much larger play areas, greater flora and ultimately - biome diversity. Mini-games to encourage exploration and enrich the overall experience are also being considered.

That's it for this Presentation oriented update!

I hope the new 3D Menu World inspires both new and experienced players to get the most of this game!

Thank you so much for supporting Nature & Life - Drunk On Nectar!

With Love,
- Venugopalan Sreedharan
(Developer of Nature & Life - Drunk On Nectar)