[Update] The Big Update (1.2) Changelog

Special thanks go to the Cats are Liquid testing team!

The main new stuff:

• Added speedrun mode (world specific, all worlds, also supports custom packs if the pack allows for it).
• Added world challenges.
• Added text history (available in pause menu).
• Talk prophecies that take away control can now be skipped.
• Added settings to the pause screen.
• Added liquid grates.
• Added option to allow the Companion to activate prophecies.
• Added a button prophecy which can be used to activate buttons.
• Buttons can now be automatically unpressed after a certain amount of time.
• Added item clip checks for certain items to prevent them from being placed inside room geometry.
• Added background floating stuff to title screen and a randomized theme (very important).
• Added new editor keyboard shortcuts.
• Added Discord rich presence.

Improvements:

General:

• Improved performance.
• Improved memory usage.
• Adjusted World 1, World 11, and World 12 themes.
• Adjusted fire dispenser fire spawn offset.
• Adjusted jump pad collider size and position.
• Ability ring now teleports the cat to the center if they're too far away by the end of the animation.
• Throwable items now get destroyed when going below the void line.
• Sped up cannon exit particles.
• Sped up button animations.
• Cannon build-up SFX pitch now matches the launch force.
• Adjusted NPC liquid sound falloff.
• Shortened hookshot SFX.
• Trimmed UI click sounds.
• Doubled throwable item receiver sound range.
• Optimized environment shape lines, world themes, lava shape, camera control code, environment shape decoration sprite rotations.
• Optimized certain interactions related to throwable items.
• Optimized performance of collision on certain items.
• Optimized fire and fire dispensers.
• Grammatical fixes and improvements.
• Added check to prevent unnecessary save file writes.
• Widened the playtesters section of the credits.
• Updated Discord logo.

Editor:

• Creating a new pack now automatically gives the first world a default name (World 1).
• Expanded default new room.
• Lock-to-grid is now on by default in the editor.
• Having void line in a room is now mandatory.
• Moved pack sharing inside the editor and added the requirement to playtest the pack before sharing it.
• Certain sliders in the editor now show "infinite" as an option when applicable.
• Adjusted data editor button spacing.
• Updated textures for the prophet, NPC action, hint, and tutorial shapes.
• Editing a button that's connected to an item will now automatically switch to the connected item's page.
• Better button and hit item connection process.
• Buttons now draw a line to the item they're connected to.
• The editor now prioritizes items above shapes, and the spawnpoint above all else.
• Pack end doors now act like they end a pack in the editor.
• Toggleable platforms can now activate on collision.
• Increased cannon default force value. This will not affect older packs.
• Increased jump pad default force value. This will not affect older packs.
• Adjusted editor close button position.
• Adjusted void line handle position.
• Added singular spikes back into the editor.
• Added optional spawn delay for projectile dispensers.
• Added maximum world and room limits (both set to 25).
• Room editor now spawns in a spawnpoint if it's not present in a room for whatever reason.
• Items now spawn on grid when lock-on-grid is enabled.

Custom packs:

• Added extra error checks for importing corrupted packs.
• Added community pack info UI.
• Adjusted community pack UI.
• Most recent packs now show up first in the pack list.

Fixes:

General:

• Fixed bug where item orbits wouldn't draw lines to the connected items.
• Fixed being able to jump and climb while activating the cat light ability.
• Fixed cat light ability not ignoring safe shapes.
• Fixed spores not changing color as they should.
• Fixed ability rings not switching the player to the default character when activated.
• Fixed beams not updating their end position when activated by a button.
• Fixed ice blocks activating doors even if the player wasn't in them.
• Fixed exiting to the title screen while the ability ring animation was playing causing the music to get muted.
• Fixed text prophecies stopping when an NPC died.
• Fixed non-matching mouth color when switching between characters.
• Fixed hookshot item line return indicator position not being reset properly.
• Fixed toggleble platforms sometimes not setting themselves into the proper state when switching characters.
• Fixed timed expression prophecies resetting when taking damage.
• Fixed the cat expression not returning to neutral after death.
• Fixed the cat sometimes having the wrong expression when starting a room.
• Fixed tutorials that were set to follow the player jittering when the player moved around.
• Fixed cat health expression not updating when switching rooms.
• Fixed lightning not doing proper distance checks in certain situations.
• Fixed the cat's face not acting properly after dying in a cannon.
• Fixed the cat not dying when being inside a hidden platform while it unhides itself.
• Fixed pipe exit not checking if the exit position was inside a wall.
• Fixed rare UI duplication bug.
• UI fixes.
• And many other bug fixes.

Editor:

• Fixed certain reserved characters being allowed when creating a new room or world.
• Fixed world packs sometimes getting saved with empty GUIDs.
• Fixed rare bug where creating a corrupt item would cause editor to soft lock and not load the room properly.
• Fixed item lines forgetting what state they were supposed to be in.
• Fixed being able to move hookshot item line items in the editor.
• Fixed hookshot item line not spawning an item when first created.
• Fixed undeletable items being deletable if deleted along with other deletable items.
• Fixed being able to activate multiple ability rings at once.
• Fixed hookshotting into an ability ring allowing control during the animation.
• Adjusted which items can be put inside throwable items.
• Fixed camera not resetting rotation on editor mode switch.
• Fixed item duplication not being undoable in certain situations.
• Fixed item data editor staying open on editor mode switch.
• Fixed lights acting strangely in the editor.
• Fixed attaching a hookshot wall to an item line causing the wall to temporarily disappear.
• Fixed room editor not focusing on spawnpoint on room load.
• Fixed room info showing up in front of the item palette in the editor.
• Fixed renaming a room without saving afterwards causing a corrupted room.
• Fixed bug where editor creator name could be copied from a played pack.
• Fixed being able to connect certain items to lines and orbits that shouldn't have been able to be connected.
• Fixed hidden platform component not setting hidden state on duplication.
• Fixed very thin shapes becoming practically invisible.
• Fixed items on moving item lines not following curved paths properly.
• Fixed items with spinner components on them having their rotations effectively reset when a button connected to them was hit.
• Fixed bug related to empty talk prophecy text.
• Fixed theme prophecy causing an issue with auto pipes.
• Fixed interactable buttons not updating item rotation.

Abilities:

• Fixed being able to spawn the Companion inside room geometry.
• Fixed cat ears and tail being left behind if the cat died in ice block form.
• Fixed ice blocks not doing proper horizontal space checks when spawning.
• Fixed getting stuck inside a wall if heading towards it as an ice block and changing direction just before the block was destroyed.
• Fixed the ice block being a bit too spammable.
• Fixed the cat sometimes getting stuck when transforming into solid form inside a grate.
• Fixed player being both inside and outside of a cannon if turning into liquid during a specific point in the cannon enter animation.
• Fixed being able to spam the cloud ability for unintended horizontal movement.
• Fixed dash cooldown visualizer not getting destroyed in certain cases.
• Fixed bug where the hookshot ability could sometimes be activated while the cat was dying.

Custom packs:

• Fixed player being stoppable in an autopipe while the active prophecy prohibit control.
• Fixed community pack exit soft lock.
• Fixed buttons connected to pipes causing a soft lock.
• Fixed community pack room buttons not being positioned properly if there were more than ten in a single world.
• Fixed game not removing file remnants if a pack import failed.
• Fixed certain corrupted packs not being detected as corrupted.
• Added fixes for attempting to load corrupted packs.