Updates

This is the version history and details of Cherry Forest updates since the 1.6 full release (June 30th 2023) with the complete descriptions of the #updates channel of the discord server.

1.6.31 :

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Bud Seed's map icon not staying visible on map after being dropped by hand
• The Broken Heart cooldown wasn't correctly resetting when unequipped
• Fixed a crash and missing data of certain scrapbook pages
• Added missing special info about the Forest Emblem

1.6.30 :

Changes

• Hibees Poison will now only start to deal damage after a second of being poisoned
• Added a chance to get dug Tomato Plants from Hide & Cherries' geodes
• Chances to get the Bloomprint for the Stone Lamp are now tripled until it's obtained once
• Rebalanced the Broken Heart armor :
  • Health regeneration to wearer / taken from followers reduced to 30 max (was 50)
  • Cooldown increased to 8 seconds (was 5) and is now visible in the inventory

Bug Fixes

- Refueling the Cherraduceus was activating the durability drain even unequipped - Fixed the required armor durability of the Broken Heart not matching the fuel one at times

1.6.29 :

Bug Fixes

• The Friendly Fire Pit and Decorated Log Bloomprints are once again given by default
• Floaty Hives will no longer spread abducting clouds on farming tiles
• c_spawncherrift should now show again in the console commands

1.6.28 :

Bug Fixes

• Fixed collisions with borders and missing sinking of certain Beetlegale insects
• Fixed a crash with the Beetlegale shop's Watcher when attempting to remove its missing global map icon

1.6.27 :

The Beetlegale event is back once more

• For newcomers, check out in #🔔news for more info :flytrap:
• As for experimented bug hunters, your progress is still here so you can continue it, reclaim and spend your bounty.
• Rebalanced certain item prizes in the shop
• The Vanity Chest and Beetlegale Shop are now highlighted on the map while inside the Cherry Forest

Changes

• Wirlywings can now right click to wave instead of dismounting while riding and pressing 'Force Inspect'
• Waving again to players while Wirly's sanity drain reduction buff is active will reset its duration
• Also, the buff icon on the sanity badge now fades overtime to show the duration left
• Wormwood's summoned followers lifespan can now be extanded with the Friendly Stone bursts

Bug Fixes

• The 'Bee Kind' skill now prevents Wormwood from getting attacked when collecting Bloomy Honey from Bee Boxes too
• Wolfgang's Crystaltères were invisible in hands
• Wickerbottom couldn't access the Dayliling Bud recipes with Uncompromising Mode enabled
• Fixed Glommer's Seed Bloomprint dropping while the bud knows the recipe
• Waspites were only gaining aggro near their hives but not near themselves

1.6.26 :

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash when waving as Wirly near mobs without stategraphs

1.6.25 :

Changes

• Wirlywings can now tell what mob is inside of a Friend in a Candy
• The Chinese translation has been considerably updated, thanks to Driftee

Bug Fixes

• The Beetlegale & Cherrifts events status is now properly replicated in caves
• Aquatic followers inside Friend in a Candy can no longer be unwrapped if there is no water around
• The temp recipe for the Cherrycone Flooring turf was accidently removed from the Alchemy Engine

1.6.24 :

Changes

• Parakeet & Royal Feathers can now be used in the Feather Frock
  • Uncompromising Mode compat
• Parakeet : triggers the effect of a random feather, with only 25% chance of consuming it
• Royal : immediately decrease wetness, adjust temperatures
  • And should soon (after an UM update) considerably decrease the Frock use cooldown

Bug Fixes

• Rock Lobsters were usually unable to attack after Wirly waves at them with the 'Beefy Friends' skill
• Friend in a Candy was invisible on the floor

1.6.23 :

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash when re-enabling Cherrifts while a portal was active
• Cherrifts' character equipments will now work again with the event re-enabled
• The Flux Circuit no longer work with the event disabled if it was still installed

1.6.22 :

Changes

• The "Cherrifts" event is now disabled by default. Be warned :
  • Portals, clouds and hives of the event will despawn as soon as you re-enter your world
  • And items of the event will be put in limbo but not deleted
  • You can recover them and continue to play with the event by re-enabling it in world configs
• Added the Rosy Scepter and Box of Roses skin for the Geo Scepter and Lunch Box
• Ponds of the Cherry Forest are now slippery as well
• Decorated Logs and Friendly Fire Pit recipes are unlocked by default once more
• Fixed the Pacifier not being craftable after reading the Bloomprint, both of these fixes are retroactive
• As Willow, Crystalline Blast will now show its cost in embers (3)
• Fixed certain Cherrift character items not using the right appearance on Crock Pots

Bug Fixes

• Decorated Logs and Friendly Fire Pit recipes are unlocked by default once more
• Fixed the Pacifier not being craftable after reading the Bloomprint, both of these fixes are retroactive
• As Willow, Crystalline Blast will now show its cost in embers (3)
• Fixed certain Cherrift character items not using the right appearance on Crock Pots

1.6.Cherrifts :

Changes

• Cherrifts Islands will now pop in the ocean (April Fool's event !)
  • They (currently) require no activation but aren't passively growing
  • The landed clouds around have abducting abilities that suck most items into the rift's portal, forever
  • Portals will grow in size from these items, especially if they are fertilizers
  • Very peculiar fruits will fall from the portal when it grows
  • Each survivor can cook some unique equipment from them, when added to their favorite recipe or ingredients
  • Waspites and their hives that drip clouds will spawn around the mainland while Cherrifts are up
• Wirlywings Skilltree :
  • Slightly reduced the light radius from 'BFF I'
  • Also already befriended and carried Cherrylings will now be affected when learning perks
  • Carried Cherrylings will keep their Acid Rain light radius and appearance
  • Followers will skip their eating anims from Lunch Box foods with 'Sharing Is Caring'
• The Lunch Box is no longer dropped when opened, and food is now tossed instantly
• Cherrylings no longer max their loyalty from a single food item, but 25%
  • To compensate the max follow time has been increased from 1 day to 1.5
• Added a new Backpack skin: the Cherryling Pack
• As well as Elastispacer upgrade looks for the Vanity Chest & Geo Coffer skins
• A new farming theme will play in the Cherry Forest with Seasonal Farming Theme
• An extra geode will drop in Hide & Cherries if players scored 100%
• Watchers' health will regenerate overtime, especially while sleeping
• The Embalming Spritz can now be used on Cherry Forest's plants and trees
• Tweaks to Mimic & Royal Darts :
  • Reduced amount of Mimic Darts crafted from 3 to 2
  • Also replaced Twigs by Flint and reduced Cut Reeds cost
  • Loot duplication will only work once per target, mobs no longer have their specific limits
  • The restriction to replanted Lureplants still apply
  • Reanimated Skeletons are no longer immune to it
  • However this will only work once per Ruin Cycle for the Fuelweaver
• And some changes to the Bee Smoker:
  • Fuel will deplete faster into Cherrift / Waspite Clouds and under the rain
  • Re-added certain items as fuel for Bee Smoker (accidently removed for twigs, grass, etc...)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed certain animation glitches from the Lilyhouse and Cherryling Fountain sculpture
• WIP content from the 1.7 update is no longer displayed in the scrapbook

1.6.21 :

Changes

• Reduced the cost of multiple crafting recipes from Wirlywings' Crafty Candies skill.
  • Some are even cheaper than the cooking method now
• Added 2 new records to play in Gramophones : Floral Flurry and B.I.B (Business is Blooming)

Bug Fixes

• Bloomy Honey buff could cause a crash on load if its stack went missing somehow
• Fixed a client desync from some pot chiseling recipes added as compatibilities with Island Adventures
  • Their crafts have been removed but we'll add them back once it's figured out
• The Bloomkeeper Hat skin was missing its Belongings menu icon

1.6.20 :

Changes

• The cherries' projectile properties are now split into a different entity for when they are loaded into cannons
  • This patches a recent issue that prevented them from being planted
• Firing cherries into cannons will now cause them to be roasted

1.6.19 :

Changes

• Loottables of infectable hives / bee boxes are no longer replaced by the infection but Honey does convert into Bloomy Honey still in those cases
• Ivyscus will now despawn even if their hive was removed without being destroyed or burnt
• Cherry Trees now have the simplemagicgrower component

Bug Fixes

• Stacks of the Bloomy Honey's buff will not increase over the max health limit of it
  • This would cause a crash when the buff ends

1.6.18 :

Changes

• Added waving flavor quotes to the Nightmare Werepig and Frostjaw

Bug Fixes

• The "cherryarea" biome tag was gone missing since recently when retrofitting
• The Royal and Parakeet Quill Floats couldn't be casted in the Frostjaw's fishing hole
• Fixed the missing action string from harvesting Bloomy Honey on Bee Boxes
• Fixed a crash caused by candies if their buff wasn't applied correctly

1.6.17 :

Bug Fixes

• Building Lilyhouses would crash the game
• Fixed a rare crash from waving with the Wave Mastery II skill activated

1.6.16 :

Changes

• Beefalos are no longer affected by the Cherraduceus movement speed while riding
• Increased the chance for bloomy bird eggs from 1 to 2 %
• Followers actions now impact the Forest's Reputation of the leader
• Main Difficulty setting now double reputation loss on hard, only for actions that account multipliers
  • Ex: chopping trees, but not throwing cherrylings

Bug Fixes

• Seeds spoiling in a Cherryling's inventory should no longer cause a crash
• Turning Chester into its cheerful state no longer require the Eyebone to have its default state, only Chester
• Lumpy Treeguards couldn't turn bloomy

1.6.15 :

Bug Fixes

• Improved the previous fix for random setpieces and mods that replace entities used in them
• Fixed a crash in the Bloom-pot Scrapbook page

1.6.14 :

Changes

• The Beetlegale event is no longer active. During that time, the Vanity Chest will remain but the shop and uncaptured bugs have disappeared, trials can no longer be started as well
• Added the Cherrycone Flooring at the Alchemy Engine
  • This is a 1.7 Turf that was in the files for a long time so we're adding it from survival with this temp method
• Added Cherry Forest "Things & POI" to the Scrapbook for the Host of Horrors beta, many pages got completed too

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash when Bloomprints or Pot Sketches somehow loose their recipe after loading
  • They should also manage to find the recipe back in such cases
• Fixed a crash with mods that delete entities that could generate in random Set Pieces (like stumps)

1.6.13 :

Changes

• The Friendly Fire Kit / Pit installation no longer make use of the upgrade/r components for better mod compatibility
• The kit can now be placed on modded firepits too
• Added the Tropicottage skin for the Birdhouse, enjoy

Bug Fixes

• The Life Blossom Hedge skin as well as some others should no longer cause fps to drop while deploying them

1.6.12 :

Beetlegale Changes

• Added a new config to force disable the event while it's on by default if desired
• The guaranteed spawn of bugs needed in trials will be less frequent to benefit looking in the right places
• Trials will still award you a few coins if you were close from completing it
• They can also be stacked until commenced
• Light-Light Nets now loose 5% of its fuel when catching a bug
• Purtle no longer remove sanity when stepped on (only Greetle now)
• Most Beetles now eat a type of food on the floor, useful to lure them on baited Flytraps or clean areas
  • Greetle : Junks | Purple : Veggies | Pearoach : Seeds | Golden Beetle : Minerals | Ladybug : Meat
• Ladybugs will now chase and kill nearby Fruit Flies
• Bug spawn tweaks :
  • Royal Dusters no longer spawn on rainy days,
  • Dawnsky Moth no longer require sunny days to spawn,
  • Winter Wings also spawn during dusk and are common (was uncommon and day only)
• Creature homes (Pig Houses, Catcoon Dens...) no longer count as structures to prevent Beetles from spawning
• Captured event Butterflies no longer return home so they can be dropped for decor just like Beetles
• Gooseberry & Wild Rose Bushes from the event shop can be planted in Bloom-pots

Other Changes

• Shrimp Dens will spawn from time to time in rivers or the lake setpiece there are too few
• The Birdhouse Bloomprint is no longer learned by default for the Dayliling Bud
  • Instead you may now find it within a rare Bloomy Egg of a Bloomy Chaffinch / Catbird in a Bird Cage
  • Bloomy birds can be captured with traps or any other methods...
• Added a new Bloomprint for an alternative Papyrus (x2) recipe made of petals and blossoms
  • You may find it in the biome's own Saplings / Grass if they grew as Bloomy
• Erasing a Pot Sketch now gives many Petals instead of a Cheerful Blossom
• Removed the Random Setpiece worldgen setting
  • Their content will now be filled according to other worldgen settings to respect their density
• Hybridization Elucidations can now transform Treeguards back into Trees
• Bolting Forget-Me-Lots can also be returned a growing medium stage with the book
• Brightshades can now target transplated Cherry Forest Grass & Saplings plants
  • Plants in Bloom-pots cannot be targeted by Brightshades
• Players can now avoid the Hibees Queen Bramble snares by hiding (using Bush Hat, Snurtle Shell...)
• Cherraduceus no longer does its running fx at 0%, only skin particles
• Added various improvements to worldgen and features of CF with Island Adventures (pot plants, birdhouse loot, etc...)
• Increased cooking priority of most recipes requiring cherries

Bug Fixes

• Some Beetlegale tasks were getting progress despite failing to catch swift bugs
• Flytraps now drop the Bloomprint of bugs captured if they were going to drop one
• Beetlegale Bugs could spawn out of their time requirement if they were previously met
• Cherrylings no longer run away from Gestalts
• The Trusty Friend skill effect on pigs was affecting all types of followers
• Corrected some remaining typos and missing quotes
• Added the missing sounds of some rank icons when clicked on them
• Fixed some skins visuals and missing images in Belongings screen
• The area fire protection during the Hibees Queen boss fight could protect weeds and explosives
• Trials paper would still show when dropping the backpack they were inside
• Grass could still potentially wither with Grasscadas on them due to delayed withering tasks

1.6.11 :

Beetlegale Changes

• Added a new trade at the Beetlegale shop to repair your Cherry Cap
• You can also buy Beekeeper Hats now
• Flytrap cost 12 less coins
• Light-Light Nets have less durability
• Beetles will avoid to spawn in player bases
• Grass will unwither and will stay fresh when a Grasscada spawn on them
• Fire Needles no longer attack Wormwood with the Bee Kind skill
• Mossquito will also explode when they attack you
• Fruitflies can now be captured with Bug Nets and may be required in summer Expert Trials

Other Changes

• Captured Fruitflies can be planted into a random weed
• Cherry Gems and Butterdragons refuel the Cherraduceus x4 more to match recent durability change
• Added new pretty skins for the Beekeeper Hat, Crock Pot, and Scaled Chest
• Flowers of the Cherry Forest now have their own examination lines
  • Some characters may even identify the species
• Increased the Royal Mantle spoilage reduction in pockets to 50% (was 25%)
• Random setpieces no longer generate plants on Pighouse's roads

Bug Fixes

• Far uncaptured bugs wouldn't despawn when reloading the world
• The default Walking Cane speed of the Cherraduceus was unintentionally removed at 0%
• Cherrylings were not getting names when befriended sometimes
• Their stem was also sometimes not returning when they lost their hat
• Woodrang slowing petals weren't visible
• Cicadas were missing death animations
• They could also spawn on Hide & Cherries props
• Combining Acceleration & C.H.O.N.K. Circuits on WX-78 was blocking damage further

1.6.10 :

Bugfixes

• Cherry Shrimps can no longer be given to the Merm King (nothing was happening so you were just loosing it)
• Fixed Cherrylings causing a crash when running away from certain un-reachable targets
• Fixed a duplication of the combat component changes

1.6.9

Wirly's skillset changes

• Catcoons could drop an unknown item with Generous Friends active and some drops rarity have been adjusted
• Increased the Hibees Poison stacks of the Budding Leader affinity by an extra +0.2 Reminder that already poisoned targets only gains half the stacks on attacks so old description is still quite accurate
• The Reputed I / II descriptions are more detailed

• Fixed a recent typo that caused Mr. Skitts to not scare Wirlywings except when emerging from obelisks
• Cherrylings would run away from players in some unintended situation
• They could also cause a crash in combat without leader

1.6.8

Wirlywings

• She now has her own Skillset, with 21 skills and 2 special affinities :
  • The left affinity is unlocked by defeating the Hibees Queen, one of its effect being craftable Bloomycombs.
  • The right one cannot be obtained before 1.7 update, so we'll keep it secret for now...
  • Her paths of skills allows you to :
    • Improve each type of follower in unique ways, and have more of them,
    • buff your personal & multiplayer abilities,
    • grant better buffs to followers with your Crock Pot candies and even craft them,
    • get a little help with the Forest's Reputation gain and loss,
    • grab Cherrylings to pick their inventory and toss them in combat (costs REP),
    • find Bloomprints more easily and even craft a new one for the Geo Scepter: a new magic weapon to bring the best out of your befriended Cherrylings
  • and more, this tree should be extremely versatile in both the construction and abilities !
• Reduced her default hood wetness resistance to 50% instead of 70%
• Added an icon on her sanity badge while the waving at player buff is active

Other Changes

• Watchers got increased health, damage, and can now cast spells on mobs as well, they have been slightly changed :
  • Cherrybombs no longer damage the environment or friendly creatures
  • The restrictive zone now loose 30% of its duration instead of going away after dealing damage, so it can attack multiple times but not the same target
• The Cherraduceus durability has been doubled, and is now lost while equipped instead of while moving, and no longer loose it faster from having more followers, but the max speed has been reduced slightly
  • I think we didn't mention it earlier but the Cherraduceus no longer breaks at 0%.
• Mobs of the mod now shows in the Scrapbook, added missing stats and info to other items as well
• Flytraps have new sounds

Bugfixes

• Wirly couldn't wave at Webber or Wurt and was using the too many friends quote in wrong contexts
• She also couldn't feed pigs with meat if waved at
• Dying followers weren't lowering Wirly sanity after reload
• Watchers could cast spells on players from extremely far away
• Gooseberry and Tomato Bushes no longer regrow on winter
• Overtrimmed Gooseberry Bushes weren't growing foliage properly
• Cherrylimes can no longer be pushed during Hide & Cherries
• Fixed the recent crash with Island Adventure and increased the island size to allow more Watcher Nests
• Fixed a potential crash with Beetles when stepped on
• Fixed a translation crash, and more bugs ~

Wirly Client Mod

• The waving keybind and HUD button can be used to befriend mobs once more
• Added an option to the keybind config to disable it

1.6.7

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug that made Mr.Skitt scare Wirly even at full sanity
• Cherrylings can be befriended from waving again, unless they fear the player due to low rep or attacked

1.6.6

Bugfixes

• Cherrylings weren't consuming seeds while making Cherry Gems, were teleported at 0 , 0 instead
• A similar issue was occurring with the Nest Hat when the egg cracked on the floor

1.6.5

Changes

• Frogs no longer attack cherry creatures

Bugfixes

• Watchers Lanterns couldn't be equipped and spawned on 0 , 0 (they should be gone)
• Cherrylings weren't running away from hostile players
• The Dayliling Bud wasn't removed from the world after dying, causing it to replicate her death loot on server load
• Certain Beetlegale insects could crash the game on spawn

1.6.4 :

Bugfixes

• Fixed a crash on newly generated world with the Beetlegale enabled

1.6.3 :

Changes

• The Watcher hosting the Beetlegale Shop now stays the same after reload
• Added the Beetlegale Bell to the shop, it allows to change which Watcher hosts the shop by offering it

Bugfixes

• Fixed some Beetle Pass tasks that weren't gaining progress properly and Bug Collection infos
• The tabs of the Bug Bag menus are no longer blocked by the front layer
• Cicadas could spawn on Watchers and Tree Guards
• Corrected some typos and inconveniences for the Spanish translation

1.6.2 :

Bugfixes

• Cherrylings wouldn't wake up after sleeping
• Watchers were all getting messy instead of only one at a time
• Cherry Tomato plants were playing a wrong animation when planted
• Fixed a possible crash during the Moon Storm and the Pacifier Bloomprint creation

1.6.1

Bugfixes

• Fixed a crash when attacking a sleeping Watcher

1.6 Full Release

Main Changes (+ last month's update)

Watchers now occupy their nests

• These wood sentinels will keep an eye out for troublemakers on windy days
• Your Forest's Reputation affect their judgment, mind your actions in the Cherry Forest
• Helping hands may receive assistance in combat, a new armor and maybe some funny hat,
• on the other hand you may get cherrybombs, squished or reaped apart on occasions

The Beetlegale is blowing

• Bugs are sprawling during this time of the year and you will be more than welcome to do some bug hunting around
• All 19 insects of the event have loot or coins for you to spend at a special Watcher's shop
• Buy better tools, get decorations, participate in trials to earn a better paycheck to spend on more stuff
  • But do save a few coins for the Bug Bag to start your bug collection and a new career...

Progress in the Beetle Pass 1st track

• Get Task Boards to complete, rank up and claim unique skins plus other surprises,
• progress and rewards follow you across all worlds with the Beetlegale activated, get them in the Vanity Chest that you will find at some Watcher Nest
  • Fear not, this is not limited in time, we will add new tracks in future major updates to switch between, and the event can be enabled manually in world's settings when you want to continue

Wirly's cooking a new perk

• She can now craft her trusty Lunch Box and make Candy Wrappers
  • The box is used to dispense stored food manually, but smartly, to feed and buff followers that need it most
  • Wrappers are ingredients used in 7 new Crock Pot recipes to share : Fruity Candies, Minty Candies, Spicy Sweets, Cacti Candies, Oblivious Candies, Enlightening Fudges, Black Hole Bonbon and Nasty Taffy
  • Anybody can cook and use the candies for their followers but only Wirly can recycle them by harvesting Wrapper Bits
• Many other QoL :
  • Her perks in Re-Forged and Re-Gorge-itated have been adjusted,
  • you can now wave to make friends by clicking on herself, the wave emote is now dissociated from the perk,
  • exanimating a follower lets you know if they are injured badly,
  • her fummhy speaking is nowwh randommh, and quotes have been redone,
  • mobs react more to Wirly befriending them.

Other Changes

• New Spanish and Portuguese translations (ty Bombobbit)
• Cherrylings & Cherrylimes got an art upgrade and more:
  • Cherry Gems are easier to produce when they carry many seeds (visible on their stem now),
  • their speed and light have been simplified to help in combat lighting + keep aggro easily
• Some fresh non-Beetle Pass free skins have been added for Wirlywings, the Mothling, Wormholes, Garlands, Pretty Parasols, Floral Shirts, Miner Hats and Chests
• Lots of little worldgen tweaks (ex: saplings / grass are now only found in pink / green areas)
• Added a bunch of compatibilities with Uncompromising Mode and fixes for Island Adventures
• Festive Tree Planters can grow Cherry Trees and snow now shows on the mod content
• Dayliling Bud no longer regrows on death but drops a seed to give back to a Daylily to get her back, she stays on disconnect too
• Thermal Stones only charge with friendly fire source if neutral
• Colourflies have been un-britished...
• and a lot more !

Bugfixes

• Wirly's fear of Mr.Skitt wasn't working with caves enabled, you may only notice that downside now
• Fixed the Bud growing multiple times from Daylilies
• Skins on the Friendly Stone are no longer lost when returning to neutral state
• All bugs / crashes that were reported and properly identified should be fixed tbf