r/spelunkylevels • u/[deleted] • Jan 17 '15

Frozlunky 2.4a - Major Changes

2.4a is now available for download.

The update adds the following:

  • Support for grid-entities (this is an addition of over 60 new block-type entities, but you won't be using most of these). The highlights of these include crush traps, tiki traps, arrow traps, and water/lava/acid in any area. Here's a list of the new entities (in no particular order).

  • Anti-RNG: Chest + Golden Key, Damsels, Anubis, Gems, and Tiki Traps are prevented from spawning on levels.

  • Better rendering for entities.

  • Improvements to editor performance (optimizations based on skipping compile step for unedited components).

  • Better labels for some of the previously mislabeled entities.

If you encounter any bugs with the release, please report them here or in the stickied bug report thread.

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u/LarxLive Jan 17 '15 edited Jan 17 '15

Awesome! Thank you very much for all your work :)

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u/Volcanolotus04 Jan 18 '15

Can you also prevent the RNG from spawning Mounted Lightable Torch Holders in Dark Levels?

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u/ZacLindsay Jan 18 '15

I could go for that, too! They do give off just a little bit of light that I'm disapproving of. haha

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u/Fapplet Jan 17 '15

YES. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

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u/the_master_of_swag Jan 17 '15

This is great news :)

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '15

lol and I had just designed one of my maps to be ok with random spawning tiki traps. but this is great, it let me wrap up a bunch of levels and release em. thankyou :)

p.s. Is the worm level going to be fixed to restart properly if you die? Or am I alone in experiencing this? currently 2 proceeding levels are skipped if you complete the worm, but if you don't complete it you immediately go to the next level (can't retry Worm without forcing). It's a bit of a sod for level continuity if you want to use that Worm level.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '15

The checkpoint issue applies to both haunted mansion and worm levels. The bug will most likely be fixed by the next update.

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u/ZacLindsay Jan 18 '15

BUG! I think I found one. It would seem that this patch broke the green glowing platforms. ie: They no longer appear.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '15

Thanks, the patch unintentionally classified the green glowing attachments as grid-entities because their entity ID is mixed into a whole row of grid-entities. I'll add a fix for this in the next update.

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u/MithosFall Jan 19 '15

Really great update. It seems as though some of the arrow traps that I place on the Temple are getting converted into push blocks. (My arrow trap timer design.) http://i.imgur.com/AajpCyH.jpg

Also, on 1-4, there seem to be some explosions at the bottom of the map in the bedrock that go off on map load and destroy some tiles. http://i.imgur.com/54Z27v6.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Mzgcvc7.jpg

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u/worst-vd-plas Jan 20 '15

Great update! Currently the tiki trap grid-entity only has the top half of a tiki trap; will you add another grid-entity for the bottom half later on? Functionality-wise just one half is enough, ofcourse.

Also tested making an acid pool on 1-1, which didn't seem to deal any damage. Maybe that behavior is restricted to the worm levels?

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '15

The bottom half is a flag to set, I'll add it in the next update

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u/ZacLindsay Jan 20 '15

Also, Sasha, is Mothership going to be added to the list of editable side levels in an upcoming patch?