Updates

Updates usually fix any bugs with the game Squid Ink but some add new content such as special Events.

   *For the latest updates, check the 'game news' just to the right of the game or view the game's forum.*

Below are the most recently added changes for Squid Ink:

## Squid Ink v1.1.4 Hot Fix

* Fixed a bug causing the 25-gram bonus of squids to not update when feeding multiple squids at once
* Fixed a bug allowing a non-zero result when manually selecting an ink for chests without one of the required squids in the tank
* Fixed the squid feed slider not saving its position
* Fixed a bug causing the Ink Orders and Puzzle Boxes statistic sections not to update
* Fixed a bug causing Pearlescent Ink to not be available to Super Mixers

## Squid Ink v1.1.4

* Companions
* Puzzle Boxes
* Daily Quests
* Prize Wheel
* New Artifacts
* New Achievements
* New Outfits
* There are now only three hotbar slots for Baits which can be changed and re-ordered
* You can now choose to manually select the recipe your Chests are based off
* Obtained Artifacts now state where they were found
* Abilities that are triggered by Chests now reset the active timer if the ability was already active
* There is now a Buy All Mixers button
* Fixed a bug causing Super Mixers to use double the Ink they should
* Increased the odds of a Client Order being given
* There is now a button the purchases or upgrades a required recipe to the required quality of an order
* Ink can now be locked to an ink order once the player has enough ink
* Fixed a bug preventing higher tier Client Orders being given
* Fixed a bug reducing the odds of your highest tier Orders being given
* Fixed a bug allowing quick cancel and replacement of Orders when the player has been offline for a long period
* Ink Orders now increase towards maximum difficulty each Sell Out, regardless of whether the player has progressed
* Ink Orders will now take into account the Ink available to be mixed and the amount of already Mixed Ink
* Ink Orders will now consider Production Level when determining the required amount of Ink
* Clip Boards no longer affect the Quick and Slow Mixing Skills
* The Shell bonus to Orders of Neptune is now more obvious
* The Ship in a Bottle Monument now allows you to open the Chests inside, instead of expel them
* There are now statistics showing how many Order Artifacts the player has of each type
* Fixed a bug causing lag spikes
* Fixed a bug not feeding all squids when ctrl-clicking
* Fixed a bug causing extreme lag when the sound is not muted
* Fixed bug not always unlocking the Sell Out tab when Business Level 101 is reached
* There is now an option to only show the news window if there is new news
* Added Close buttons to most windows
* Added more visible scroll bars to some windows
* Settings are now a consistent font size
* Various changes to UI layout
* The tutorial for Sell Out has been fixed to show the correct bonus from unspent Pearls

## Squid Ink v1.1.3a

* Added a tooltip showing your total Achievement bonus by hovering over the total Achievement progress bar
* All abilities can now be triggered with both ` and .
* The chocolate colours in the egg factory minigame have been made more different
* There is now a pause button visible on the HUD of the egg factory minigame
* The instructions of the egg factory minigame can now be seen in the game by opening the pause menu
* Dragging an egg straight from the mold to a paint bucket now paints the egg and puts it on a doily
* Everyone has been given 5 free skill tree resets
* Mixer setups now save whether the recipe in the mixer was a super mixer
* Tweezer artifacts now only trigger if the tank is full of Chests
* The tooltip when upgrading recipe quality now states that the ink quality will be converted, not sold
* There is now an option to stop inks that are in current orders from being sold by the sell all button
* The mixer setup and ink stall setup windows now have a remove all button
* A pop-up now opens when a new Ability is unlocked for the first time
* You can now give squids x Lumens
* There is now a Chest Boosting tutorial
* There is now a button in the mixing skill tree that will explain Super Mixers when clicked
* There is now a tooltip in the mixing skill tree that explains the different coloured inks
* The Volcano monument now shows the chance of a Super Mixer triggering the Volcano
* You can now hide monuments in the tank
* There is now a warning on inks in orders if your recipe quality level is not high enough
* There is now a warning on inks in orders if your ink is in the Ink Stall
* Up and Down arrows now scroll to the top/bottom of the squid, ink and monument panels
* The secondary rewards from Ink Orders now only adds the base value when Extended
* The Malnourished achievement requirements have been lowered
* The shell rewards from gift boxes have been increased
* Chests can no longer be dropped behind the ability bar
* Fixed a bug removing the Super Mixer on Sell Out
* Fixed a bug not showing the used ink in Super Mixers
* Fixed a bug increasing the distance moved by the Helicopter over time
* Fixed a bug not displaying the bonus of the Trophy monument on some achievements
* Fixed a bug giving a small bonus to squids with no Lumens
* Fixed a bug not completing the Isolate XI achievement
* Fixed a bug not applying Pot of Gold monument or Achievement bonuses to gift boxes
* Increased the number of Pearls rewarded by Ink Orders
* Increased the bonus of the Banknote and Bill artifacts
* Increased the bonus of the Super Volcano skill
* The cost of removing Lumens has been changed for removing X amounts

## Squid Ink v1.1.3

* Easter Event
* Ink Orders
* Mixing Skill
* Mixing Skill Tree
* New Squids
* New inks and mixes
* New Monuments
* New Abilities
* New Artifacts and Artifact sets
* New Artifact set effects
* New Achievements
* Major balance changes
* Earned achievements now give a small bonus visible by hovering over the achievement
* Reseting recipe levels no longer costs Pearls
* There is now a window that opens at the beginning of the game that shows game news
* Chests are now unlocked at Business Level 51
* Chest boosting is now automatic and based off of your highest recipe you've had enough Shells for and the highest quality the recipe could have been upgraded to
* There is a Chest optimiser that can be turned on in the settings
* The achievement gained panel has been visually updated
* Mixers now determine if Volcano will be activated after each mix to stop save scumming
* There is now an effect visible on mixers when Volcano activates on them
* The Ship in a Bottle monument now shows the first three chests in the bottle
* You can now see and expel specific Chests from the Ship in a Bottle
* You can now hide event aesthetics
* The new artifact window now requires a specific button to close the window
* There is a setting to allow any click to close the artifact window
* Clicking anywhere now closes the Oyster pop-up
* Both the left and right control/shift now work for recipe leveling
* Fixed a bug awarding Lumens if the game is loaded on a 25th level without beating the challenge
* Fixed a typo in the mixer tooltip when the mixer doesn't have enough inks
* Fixed a spelling error on the Earring artifacts
* Renamed the Ancient Coin artifacts

## Squid Ink v1.1.2c

* The Valentine's Day event has ended
* Lumens can now be removed in X quantities and have a maximum cost to remove
* There is now a limit to the number of Lumens you can purchase, based on the number of Lumens you have found
* The bonus of Glow Sticks is now applied after other Lumen bonuses
* Quality changes for recipes now convert ink to the new quality level, rather than sell it
* There is now an option to show only coloured ink tank gains
* The squid coloured ink tooltip now shows how long a squid takes to make ink
* The Obelisk monument now also affects Challenge required ink
* The business level ink requirement for business levels over 1300 has been lowered
* There is now an option for the team management to not re-order squid panels in the squid tab
* The required number of strokes to get a gift from the Elf has been lowered
* Ink gained while offline is now counted in Business Levels
* Fixed a bug not counting Spider Squid for Glow Stick bonuses
* Fixed a bug not updating the Heavy achievements when a squid is adopted or on Sell Out
* Fixed a bug causing very old game saves to crash

## Squid Ink v1.1.2b

* The Heart baits now have hotkeys
* The Valentine's minigame now resets the bow when the game is paused
* Fixed a bug freezing on loading for some new players
* Fixed a bug resetting the Bait timer when a new bait is acquired
* Fixed a bug displaying the wrong version number
* Fixed a bug allowing inactive squid Lumens to give bonuses to active squids' Lumens
* Fixed a typo in the description of L.E.Ds and Glow Sticks

## Squid Ink v1.1.2a

* The tooltip for collapse monuments has been fixed
* The Valentine's minigame bow now has a small guide
* The Valentine's minigame bow has been moved slightly to the right
* The Valentine's minigame squids now have symbols on them for colourblind individuals
* The Valentine's minigame can now be paused with 'p' or 'esc'
* The trade tickets text has been fixed to state 5 tickets are required
* Neptune setups will no longer be allowed to load when the setup would cost more than the setup states
* Statue of Neptune can no longer be destroyed if it has blessings currently
* There is now an option to hide the rose petals in settings
* The Inability VI achievement now requires 1201 instead of 1001

## Squid Ink v1.1.2

* Valentine's Event
* Lumens
* Two new Monuments
* New Artifacts and Artifact sets
* New Achievements
* New outfits
* You can now collapse Monument panels
* Some changes have been made to login and saving to help reduce the risk of corrupt saves and losing saves
* Bail Out has had a boost
* Neptune's Statue now has dark clouds around it when he has not been prayed to
* There is now a reset button in the Neptune's Blessing window that resets your Blessings for 100 Doubloons
* Default Chest rewards (ability trigger, ability cooldowns etc) no longer open a pop-up window
* The Clarinet Monument now produces bubbles
* The tooltip for mixers now shows recipe's complete percent
* The multi-purchase recipe keys are now displayed in the upgrade tooltips
* Ability cooldown will now catch up when throttled by browsers
* Fixed a bug stopping the stroke counter going past 10 million
* Fixed a bug causing the Bait cooldown timer to freeze
* Fixed a bug causing the Ability cooldowns to be lower than they should be when loading the game
* Fixed a bug causing the Obelisk monument not to update the current required Ink
* Fixed a bug not displaying salvaged Pearls on 50th Business levels when no normal Pearls were rewarded
* Fixed a bug displaying the wrong price of mixers
* Auto feed artifacts will now only feed to 25th levels when combined with Eggs

## Squid Ink v1.1.1c

* Added an optional Shells per Second display to the HUD
* The squid feed slider value is now saved in settings
* Add a total Pearl cost to the Neptune setups
* The Pearl benefits display in the Sell Out window have been reordered
* The description in the Neptune's Blessing window has been changed
* The description for the Oyster monument has been changed
* Inks can now be placed in the Ink Stall at anytime after the recipe has been purchased
* Recipes can now be purchased at anytime after they have been purchased once
* Changed "shrimp" to "prawn" in the set effect bonus of treasure maps
* The Volcano monument effect now works offline
* The recipe purchase tool-tip now shows a list of the ingredients for the recipe
* There is now a counter display in the Artifact Group window
* Fixed a bug causing the default rewards from chests to give the wrong value
* Fixed a bug causing the activate all abilities button to become available when no skills can be activated
* Optimised the Power function in the main Number class

## Squid Ink v1.1.1b

* Fixed a bug causing the squid weight achievements to not update when feeding multiple squids
* Hot keys will no longer be triggered when typing into input fields
* Fixed a bug allowing you to drop bait when you have none
* Fixed a bug allowing you to drop multiple bait at the same time
* Fixed a bug not updating the squid panels of free adopted squid on sell out

## Squid Ink v1.1.1a

* Fixed a bug causing the save selection screen to crash the game
* Fixed a bug allowing squids to be adopted for free when rotated back into the team
* Fixed a bug causing squid feed price to not update when squids are rotated in/out of the team

## Squid Ink v1.1.1

* A new squid
* New inks and mixes
* The Christmas event has ended
* The Squid Eggs artifact set now has three set bonuses
* The Enchanted Rings artifact set now has a set bonus
* The Christmas Event artifact set now has a set bonus
* You are now unable to have more than 13 active squids at a time
* There is now an Artifact settings tab for quick access to sets that have options
* The way Statistics are saved has been changed and anyone with a Business level over 1100 in statistics has had this statistic reset
* You can now Sell Out at any stage after your first Sell Out
* You can now hold ctrl when feeding squids to feed all squid at the same time
* Chests will now be rewarded after re-syncing or being offline
* You can now press ` to trigger all abilities
* You can now select between Standard Scientific Notation and Engineering Notation in the settings
* There is now an option to show Scroll Bars in the settings
* Added an optional Pearls per Hour display to the HUD
* The Neptune Blessing window now shows how many of each blessing you have
* The Neptune Blessing window now has multiple setup slots
* The Neptune Blessing window will no longer stack blessings when loading a setup
* Bait can now be dropped 2 seconds before the current bait runs out
* You can now drop bait using the hot-keys 'q', 'w' and 'e'
* The default reward on chests are now scaled depending on the chest type that was opened
* The Shells reward from Business Level gifts has been scaled back on high Business Levels
* Volcano's effect and the Efficiency ability now work together
* Volcano now starts with a 25% chance to produce extra ink and does not increase
* You can now collapse squid adopt panels
* There is now an option to save squid's collapsed status across Sell Outs
* Recipes with setups loaded will no longer automatically upgrade when not in a mixer
* Mixers that are mixing inks that take too long to be counted in Chests rewards now show a warning
* There is now a warning when you upgrade quality on a recipe that will take longer than three days to produce if upgraded
* The names of Business Levels have been spread out
* Added some new Business Level names
* Added a new statistics section for Chests statistics
* Added a statistic to show number of Chests opened this Sell Out
* Added statistics to show the number of Bronze, Silver, Gold and Neptune chests opened
* Added statistics to show the number of Artifacts owned from Bronze, Silver and Gold chests
* Fixed a bug causing the ability active timer to not show when abilities are triggered by chests
* The Green Chronometer is now available in game
* Fixed a bug causing the Chicken Drumstick and Ham Hock icons to be swapped
* Fixed a bug causing the Mixer tutorial to not run when the ? button is clicked
* Fixed a bug causing Gold Timepiece artifacts to not work
* Fixed a bug that didn't count the speed of mixers in the calculation for Ink per Second
* Fixed a bug that occasionally didn't award the 5x ink multiplier on squid's 25th levels
* FIxed a bug causing the Squid tab to open on Sell Out

**Disclaimer:**

*Please be aware that changes and re-balancing to existing and future content will likely occur while I am trying to make the game as balanced and stable as possible. This is to provide you all with the most consistent and enjoyable overall experience, up until the game reaches its final version.*

## Archived Updates

* /v1.0.6 to v1.1.0
* /v1.0.1 to v1.0.5 *(oldest)*