There’s maybe no higher setting than some woods or a forest that simply sucks ass. Only a complicated, scary, perhaps generally enchanting mess of nature that’s unimaginable to navigate. As we speak’s newest replace for Peak simply so occurs to current such a visage, with towering, stunning timber, and but once more an exquisite sense of scale.
This new replace is, appropriately, referred to as Roots! I am positive I needn’t clarify to you the which means there. Apart from the large previous timber, there’s additionally new nasties like spiders and large beetles that may spoil your pilgrimage to the highest, and, by the appears of the replace’s trailer, a fungal zombie an infection that takes over your compatriots’ our bodies. Genuinely conceptually horrifying stuff for a recreation so cutesy. I prefer it!
The Roots biome comes with 11 new badges to earn too, and a few biome-specific gadgets too, like Shroomberries which have random results, a few forms of fungi, and another, secret gadgets. There’s additionally some new gadgets to be discovered throughout all biomes, just like the rescue claw (does what it says on the tin), the checkpoint flag (does what it says on the tin), and the E book of Bones (does what it says on the tin?).
You will additionally discover that cooking has been overhauled. In keeping with a Steam publish concerning the replace, “much more non-food gadgets will now Really Do One thing when cooked,” for one. As soon as cooked toxic berries will probably be suitable for eating, whereas toxic mushrooms will not be. And cooked “usable however non-food gadgets comparable to bandages will not grant Additional Stamina.”
There are just a few bug fixes too, and apparently the divorce courtroom has permitted Bing Bong to go to his youngsters on weekends, which is an odd sentence to have written as part of my job, however hey ho, I’ve bought payments to pay. The Roots replace is on the market proper now, so have at ye.
