Patch 2.8

Hello my supporting wonderful shibes!
Yesterday, I finished the patch notes for the Easter patch that went live (much earlier) yesterday and uploaded them to the dev-blog:  https://blog.dogeminer2.com/Patch-Notes-2.8/

But you are the yummy chocolate bits in my ice cream so I'm putting everything here as well:

Changes:

• Added Easter Holiday Theme / Event
  • During April, the Easter Holiday will be active in-game
  • Brand new Easter theme, art credit LaFite
  • An Easter Egg Hunt - Find all the eggs and double their bonus! Idea and art credit DimiFW
  • A dozen or so new items, not all Easter exclusive, art credit DimiFW
  • Brand new bugs, tell us all about them!
• Re-branded the T-Rex to Ð-Rex
• Updated some incorrect description strings
• Wash your hands
• Might have made some alterations to certain variables if the date is April 1st
  • Some might have noticed an increase in certain activities
  • There will be an increase of certain activities for the duration of this holiday, although with less crime than today
• Changed save file ending to .DOGE, previously .LZ
  • You can still upload .LZ files, it’s really just a change of filename for more wow
  • If you’re curious, I chose .LZ originally due to the name of the compression library
• Fixed missing pew pew’s for the shotgun
  • We live in a society
• Balance updates
  • Altered drop rates and stats to favor slightly more loot with lower stats in general
  • Pickaxe  ÐPS is unaltered from the previous change
• Pushed back how early you can get access to the D.I.A. mission
  • Somewhat. I’m not telling
• Added the requested names submitted by Patrons
• Updated a couple of supporting libraries (HowlerJS and mobile-detect.js)
• Fixed some new-found time-travel bugs where multiple cars would appear and the buttons never show
  • There is one known bug with time-travel: If you have Fast Travel on (in settings) and do two missions where you hit SKIP, the second one most likely won’t show the buttons. A temporary fix is to press SKIP to show them :)
• Accidentally made the shop display the absolute wrong DPS for all helpers
  • Upgrades remained unaffected
  • Should be all good now, though
  • There was another bug as well, but you had to have the Holiday Theme turned off
  • Luckily, with the aid of a friendly Shibe, we fixed it, yay us
• There were at least two more people I was going to credit

Also,

• I swallowed a bug
• This is the first Easter Holiday version
  • The plan is to add more content before April is over and even more features for next year
  • Definitely more backgrounds
  • Things do not usually go as planned
  • There was going to be a big April Fools feature, but then I barely made the update in time for April, bar a few bugs to fix, which took up the rest of the time available
  • At least we have a thousand ideas for next year :D
• Certain new parts of the phone and tablet modes remain untested
  • These parts are visual in nature and should not cause malfunction, if they are problematic at all
  • I do not advice anyone to use the phone layout without using a phone, or faking the use of a phone
  • There are probably some bugs with using different modes when on the “wrong” device (e.g. phone and desktop layout = stop right there, criminal scum!)

That is all she wrote. I think. Hope everyone enjoys the update! Stay safe out there!

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Patreon auth soon™

While Patreon integration is still underway, it is nearing completion. Very soon™. Credit to this achievement will go to Chipp!

To repeat, this feature is for all the wonderful Patrons of Dogeminer, so you may receive a small buff in-game, plus the ability open the Mystery Box while ads are blocked, as was suggested by you. We’ll see about other possibilities in the future too!

Patreon-rkn note:

These past couple of weeks were quite stressful, to be honest! Had a birthday to handle in addition to this update and all that is going on, on top of that, my dog had found my wallet and ripped a few bills to ....smaller bills. It went okay though. But it didn't help!

At least no one seems to have gotten got corona'd over fika (that we know of). Hope you and your families are all safe and sound in these weird times.

Crunching the update out messed up my sleep schedule a bit, gotta re-adjust, fun! I had plenty of days before where I did less though; thank you executive function-disorder. Deadline motivation is strong. I'll definitely need a small break this weekend wow. Usually don't take weekends off, but I fear if I do not, I would burn out - neither of us want that I think, too much work to do on Dogeminer!! :D