Invasive Species Update

**Invasive Species** was the second free major update for Atomicrops.

## Patch Notes

The following information is quoted directly from the Steam page for reference, with links added to relevant wiki pages.

### New Content

* New Boss: Unfriendly Worm
* New Boss: U.F.B.
* New Boss: The Spore You Know
* New Boss: Itsy Bitsy
* Rare Blood Moon nights where new vicious enemies will swarm your farm. Watch out, lest you lose your entire harvest!
* New Alien Ant featuring additional permanent upgrades.
* New Scroll: Blood Spell: Fertilize all crops and all nearby enemies bleed fertilizer.
* New Scroll: Cataclysm: Cut hundreds of weeds, damage all enemies, expand farmable land and till soil.
* 10 New Achievements to put your skills to the test and let you unlock Topiaries.
* Topiaries - Unlock achievements to gain topiaries on your farmhouse. Topiaries provide permanent bonuses.
* Added Mandarin Chinese voice over to intro cinematic when game language is set to Chinese.

### Changes

* The wall that surrounds your farm on boss nights disables when boss is defeated.
* While sowing, if a special seed (heart beet, sunflower, rose etc.) is auto-selected, you must now click/press again to continue sowing. This should reduce accidental sowing of precious seeds.
* Expanded the area in which Pigeon Scrolls can be used.
* After year 1 slugs shoot at player when there are no planted crops.
* Time mushroom popup text now displays how much time is added.
* Art - added visual FX when crops die from burning.
* Sound - reduced assault rifle's volume by 50%.

### Balance Changes

* Balance - Increased tree fertilizer requirements - small trees require 12, large trees require 32.
* Balance - Butcher's Knife - increased fertilizer drop chance and fertilizer drop amount.
* Balance - Improved Jackrabbit - faster reload and damage scales better with Fight Stat.
* Balance - Increased Sriracha Soaker fuel capacity.
* Balance - Reduced Sriracha Soaker max stacks - less effective against bosses.
* Balance - Reduced Cattling Gun's damage bonus from Fight Stat.
* Balance - Slightly reduced Cattling Gun's rate of fire mod bonus.
* Balance - Reduced Parsniper Rifle's damage bonus from Fight Stat.
* Balance - Reduced Parsniper Rifle's Headshot mod crit chance and crit damage bonus.
* Balance - Enemies won't spawn until after the boss intro.
* Balance - Increased Megaton Tractor damage radius.
* Balance - Bundertaker - random bunny holes will periodically spawn.
* Balance - Bundertaker - added anticipation before shooting.
* Balance - Bundertaker - wider movement range.
* Balance - Bundertaker - balanced bunny and bunny hole spawn rates.
* Balance - Bundertaker - bullets are faster and more spread out.
* Balance - Bundertaker - less enemies spawn.

### Bug Fixes

* Bug fix - added sound to all gun purchases and seed bag purchases.
* Bug fix - Catling Gun will hopefully not break audio anymore.
* Bug fix - Beeson level 2 and 3 drop better seeds - they were previously not dropping any seeds.
* Bug fix - fixed possible Megaton Tractor mismatch between damage and widget.
* Bug fix - fixed sorting issue with fruits on trees.
* Bug fix - fix squirrel gun bullets playing sounds every frame when passing through walls.
* Bug fix - reduce fertilizer drop from Bramblemancer's bramble patches when fertilizer mushroom is active.

## 1.2.0 Beta

Beta testing for the Invasive Species Update began on November 13th, 2020.

### Description

Patch 1.2.0 (cooler name pending) comes packed with new content, including:

* FOUR deadly new bosses!
* A new ant, with new permanent upgrades to purchase!
* A new tier of fertilizer, more profitable than ever before!
* Lots of balance changes across the board (please let us know what you think!)
* And more!

### Update

The following changes were made on November 23rd 2020.

Thanks so much for all your valuable feedback and testing! We've just pushed a new update on to the branch. Changelog:

* Reworked Thyme - no longer lose time when damaged. New description: "Gain time, luck, and bark skin for each max health"
* Added new achievements
* Added topiaries - unlock X achievements to get permanent upgrades
* Butcher's Knife - increase fertilizer drop chance and amount
* Increase tree fertilizer requirements - small trees require 12, large trees require 32
* Mushroom boss - slightly reduced multiple rate, slightly decreased maximum possible mushrooms, slightly increased mushroom bullet spawn rate
* Reduced snail boss health by 30%
* Reduced worm boss speed slightly
* Added small graphical changes to starter gun (pea shooter) for each permanent upgrade
* Added FX when a crop is destroy by fire
* bug fix - starting gun (pea shooter) permanent upgrades work properly
* bug fix - added loot drops to alien boss

## Trivia

* The Invasive Species Update was released onto the Steam version of the game on December 17, 2020. However, it did not arrive onto PlayStation or Nintendo Switch until April 27, 2021. In addition, it did not arrive on Xbox until May 28, 2021. Reportedly, this was mostly due to online leaderboards being difficult to implement onto these platforms.
	+ This means that the former port took 131 days while the latter took 162 days.