Hello, everyone! We've had a trickle in of requests or bugs so we wanted to do an update, but not quite worth calling a new version, I don't think! 1.17.2 Notes · Gallimimus and Tarbosaurus were corrected to be clappers, not slappers. Sorry about that! · Nemegtosaurus neck animation orientation was fixed to be much more horizontal. · Dipteris' producing fruit has been fixed. · UI should now sca…
Thank you to everyone who has submitted bug/crash reports, and even tried the new patch to make sure it fixed their issues. Always great to have confirmation when it's something we haven't had happen in-house. :) New things love to sneak in with other updates! So, here's the hotfix patch notes for today: · Fixed quite multiple instability issues and crashes. · Fixed a possible crash that could…
A new patch is now live! Major features include a crash fix, adding baby versions of select dinosaurs, and tweaks to help with balance. Read the full patch notes: · We’ve fixed a major crash that had to do with audio. Thank you to everyone who submits crash reports on a crash — this allows us to narrow it down. This one fix is about 80% of all crash reports. · Juveniles now count as part of the…
Okay everyone, hotfix update #2! We made some changes based on requests and improving the save system that introduced a couple crashes that we've been working to fix. As they say in game dev, "99 bugs on the list, fix one bug, pass it around, 123 bugs on the list." Thanks to everyone who submitted bug reports, sent us saves, etc. so that we could fix these as quickly as possible. Patch Notes fo…
Hotfix to Patch 1.16 is now live! The main thing is fixed to fullscreen that caused issues for some people yesterday being debugged more based on your feedback. Those that had issues, please let us know if this fixes it for you! "i'm glad you guys fixed all these issues so soon, but after the update my zalambdalestes are killing and eating my deltatheridium, wasn't this supossed to be fixed?" Y…
Hello, everyone. Thank you again for your incredible feedback on the forums. Patch 1.16 is now live! 1.16 Patch Notes: · As we mentioned, we need to spend time fully fixing fullscreen, but for right now we've made windowed fullscreen support more resolutions and reverted back to how it used to be to help with this. · Insectivore eating has been re-balanced and should be much more stable! They w…
Thanks to everyone for an awesome first ~21 hours since we launched Cretaceous Mongolia. The team has watched some awesome YouTube videos of people playing it together, giggling away! We shared Best in Slot and Seri's videos yesterday, but also saw this one today that was just hilarious: So on that note, thank you all for your bug reporting and feedback on the forums. Given this was paired with…
We got a little hyped about the new Cretaceous Mongolia DLC, so now you get TWO announcements in one day! Coming up in about 10 minutes, 3 EST, our Creative Director Caroline and our "Get a Bunch of Art and Sound Stuff Done" guy Kevin are going to do a live stream of the new biodome! Link for our Live Stream Also, we're not nearly as entertaining as Seri or Best in Slot, so I suggest you go che…
Okay, the new patch is here! It supports the DLC so you will need to upgrade before you can use the new Cretaceous Mongolia. The rest of the improvements in this patch: Improvements for Hunting Failure Rates Thank you to all who contributed their experiences on the forums to help us diagnose this and look for specific scenarios. First, background on why animals can fail hunts to begin with: pre…
The highlight: we're approved by Steam and ready to release THIS FRIDAY at 9 am PST. Now, to those that were concerned about how long it took, we had a few delays due to personal situations like Hurricane Irma (picture of how we protected gear in our bathrooms - then we sandbagged it in!) and our Creative Director getting married and taking time off for her honeymoon. Now, on to the Cretaceous…
Hello, everyone! We've been excitedly prepping for our new Cretaceous ecosystem. Our Creative Director, Caroline, has been calling up unsuspecting academics and asking them questions for a video game, to which some have been surprisingly open! And now, we want your feedback! Species Research Board First, we have put together a public Trello board with the species we are currently planning on us…
The winner is... Cretaceous Mongolia, including Flaming Cliffs! This ecosystem includes the Velociraptor, Protoceratops Deinocheirus mirificus, Plesiohadros, and more! Image by PaleoGuy on Deviant Art. This ecosystem includes what YouTuber Best in Slot refers to as "danger floof," or the Therizinosaurus, which is my favorite: Image by Sergey Krasovskiy Now, several people noticed that it ended…
Today we have a big announcement… We’re about to begin work to add a dinosaur biodome to Tyto Ecology! This has been our most-requested addition, and we're thrilled that our art team is finally about to have the resources and time to pull off a new biodome highlighting the Cretaceous Era! It’s really important for us to be as scientifically accurate as possible, so we have three pretty specific…
Our next update is now available to download as a free content addition... babies! Previously in the game, all babies (not yet mature animals) were half-sized versions of the adults. But of course, many babies look quite different from their adult counterparts, so we've been working on an update that would allow us to all squee at baby cuteness. With this update, the baby phase lasts the first…
Patch 1.13 is out with a major update to our saving system that will greatly improve reliability in case of file corruption or unusual circumstances (like reports of power going out, etc. that then lost biodomes for people). When you launch after the upgrade, it will convert all your save files, which means the first load will be longer than usual. So far we've had two users report issues -- on…
Thanks to everyone who tested 1.13 for us, it's now ready to launch! New Species Red junglefowl. It's the Chinese New Year today, and Year of the Rooster! To celebrate, we added the red junglefowl to the Himalayan biodome. The red junglefowl is thought to be ancestral to the domestic chicken. We're thrilled to have this adorable new feathered insectivore in the game. Clouded leopard. We added t…
We have an exciting upcoming patch for you all! We're introducing new species that solve problems for ecosystem balance and we're removing a species (milkweed) that didn't quite make sense to keep around. We also made changes to the way that our game handles saving. However, we need your help to test if our methods of removing milkweed from your biodome and compressing your save files are safe.…
We know you all have been waiting, and the Alaskan Tundra DLC is now live! The Alaskan tundra is a harsh landscape with short summers and long, freezing winters. Most plants grow very low to the ground to withstand high winds, and many animals have white coats to blend in with snow during the wintertime. Despite its unforgiving climate, the tundra is still home to a wide variety of flora and fa…
We've learned so much from our community here on Steam for Tyto Ecology, and are proud to say we are now live with Tyto Online for Early Access! Launch week 20% discount brings it down to $19.99. On full launch next year we do plan on Tyto Online being subscription for a simple business model to constantly put out more content, so this is a discounted pre-purchase for the first 3 months that al…
Hello, everyone. We wanted to give you an update on our progress with game content updates we're working on! Alaskan Tundra Ecosystem First, we're working on a brand new biodome DLC, with the Alaskan Tundra Ecosystem! We decided to do this one because when you look at the biomes of the world, arctic tundra represents a gap in our current offerings and is a unique experience. It's been requested…
Hello, all! Now's the time to prompt your friends who haven't played Tyto Ecology yet to get on it. We're doing our FIRST SALE since we launched the game, 30% off with the Halloween Sale through November 1st. If you looked at Tyto Ecology around launch and it's been sitting in your Wishlist ever since, here's a summary of some of the major updates we've done over the last 5 months, based on the…
Some of you should be feeling pretty smug right now! We had a Discussion Thread with players trying to guess the next release. We were surprised when people starting guessing right with such little information to go off! This patch is a pretty simple one. We're introducing the Burrowing Owl and lowered the volume of the Gila monster a little bit. Below you can find some screen shots and a GIF.…
Hello, friends! Thanks to some cool things happening around our company, this update got pushed a little later into the day. Below, you'll find the patch notes and, once in-game, you'll find the newly added Green Iguana! Thank you everyone for the continued support. We hope you find the Iguana as adorable as we do. Let us know your thoughts in the comments and as always, happy building! Patch N…
It's the moment you've all been waiting for! (Right?!) The Gila Monster is now available in the Mojave Desert. And the even better news is that the Gila Monster helps eat your Deer Mice and Desert Kangaroo Rats! It's a relatively slow-eating small predator, so don't expect it to handle the population by itself, but it's definitely a nice addition with its small prey and insect eating niche! Pat…
We've been leaving some hints that we've been working on another project, and are thrilled today to tell you all about Tyto Online, the game that this company was originally founded to create. Tyto Online is an educational MMORPG where you explore a futuristic, alien planet as you solve problems and complete quests, learning real-world science with your friends. Company History & Background In…
Full Patch 1.10 is now live! Thanks so much for the help from our awesome community on testing it as we got ready to go live. This is a pretty major feature update, definitely the largest that we've done since launch. We hope you've been enjoying the art update that went out last week ahead of this! Updates to Predator-Prey Relations! · Your predators may now fail hunts! Well, technically the p…
Hello awesome community, As many of you know, we've been working on Patch 1.10 with many very significant changes. We are still working on balancing those, but since we have an art update just sitting here, we figured we'd go live with that now, with the full Patch 1.10 soon to come! So, what does this art update mean? · Every texture for plants and animals from your original 3 biodomes (desert…
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