The Magical Mixture Mill (Steam) EA Update #5 (2023 September 14)

Soaked

New Content

• New Biome: Bubbling Bog
  • Enveloped in a thick layer of suspiciously green fog.
  • Swampy, bubbly water that you don’t want to spend too much time in.
  • Spooky music.
  • What’s not to love?
• New Feature: The Calendar
  • Next to the bed, you will now find a calendar.
  • The calendar shows the active weekly event, the upcoming weekly event, and how to trigger an alternative event in its place. 
  • Events last for a full in-game week and add unique modifiers for you to play into, hopefully increasing your profits.
• New Resources
  • Throbheart - A throbbing, squishy life ingredient.
  • Glowlight Nub - A very flashy and pushy soul ingredient.
  • Withersap - A sticky, nasty death ingredient. 
• Main Quest Continues
  • In order to officially become Griselda’s apprentice, you must prove yourself like never before - but not only to her.
• Weather Effect: Rain
  • Randomly occurring effect that makes everything gray and wet. How cozy!
  • Bees hate rain.
  • Bugs are more plentiful.
  • Trees and herbs grow faster.

Changes

• Updated Spawn Rules
  • The quarry is now separated into one area with mostly stone and another with mostly ore. This should result in more predictable access to mageroot.
  • Bee hives have been removed from certain areas in the Old Woods.
  • Cloud Shrooms now prefer growing inside ruined buildings.
  • Ghost Spores now prefer growing around Lifelemon Trees.
  • Noxious Bulbs are now more likely to grow closer to Petrified Trees as well as other Noxious Bulbs, making chain explosions more likely.
  • Petrified Trees prefer growing close to Noxious Bulbs.
  • Brain Fungi now grow at an increased rate after completing the quest ThePhilosophical Stone - Part 8.
• Updated detailed cost/earnings breakdown when hovering over entries on the Daily Tally screen.
• Tier 1 investments now only cost 2500 coins.
• Tier 2 investments now only cost 15000 coins.
• Updated water shaders.
• The Balanced Flavor tag is now a +25% sales multiplier for potions instead of a flat number.
• Reduced materials needed for tool enchantments - especially earlier enchants.
• Reduced potions are needed for all customer quests - especially earlier quests.
• Sorter Crate costs less coin to unlock.
• The quest Unfortunate Son - Part 5 now only requires one Antivenom Potion to complete.
• The quest The Philosophical Stone - Part 10 now also requires obsidian to complete.
• The auto-pickup range has been clamped.
• True Sight and Invisibility mixtures have been swapped according to the original design.
• Truffles can now drop from all stumps in the Old Woods.
• Wilderness is now slightly brighter at night.
• Bees chase you for a shorter time.
• Recall Services are now mentioned in the early main quest help text.
• Renamed Enlarge mixture/potions to Enlargement.
• Bank Investment Tier 2 has had its bonus text reduced.
• Workstation notifications now blink in sync.
• Swapped the order of Sorter Crate and Rusher Crate in the build menu interface.

Bug fixes

• You can now withdraw coins from the mailbox again. Sorry about that one!
• Customers should now always buy the potions that they say they buy after completing one of their quests.
• Bottler outputs having no connections should no longer result in potions randomly disappearing. 
• Cleared up some areas in the Old Woods that would cover the screen with leaves.
• All of Griselda’s daily tasks should now have the correct text and objectives.
• Reduced stutter when exiting the shop.
• Restarting the game and destroying the healing potions Griselda gives you during the quest Wakey! Wakey! - Part 2 should no longer be possible.
• The Flavorizer’s interface now properly displays flavors. 
• The work order that requires Sauteed Shrooms now actually works.
• Fixed some resources spawning in strange places.
• The world clock now displays correctly when a game is loaded.
• You can now scroll using a controller, on the Daily Tally screen.
• Griselda is no longer stuck in her sitting pose the day after she has been sitting on her balcony.
• Work order names are now updated in the quest tracker when you complete and pick up a new work order quest.
• Dr. Wook no longer steals Lapis’ dialogue line at the end of the quest The Philosophical Stone - Part 7.
• Removed an out-of-place invisible wall south of Carla’s camp.
• Crushers now correctly output pebbles when output is not connected.
• The world clock now reappears after moving a workstation
• Fixed quests that had “nil” as their objectives.