• Added a minimap (Options > Overlay UI > Show minimap). It defaults to off.
  
• Added rarely-occurring, historic-esque ruins to the underground caves.
  
• Reordered the keybinding menu to put useful commands up top.
  
• Removed the extraneous 'Use Mutation' keybind.
  
• Removed the 'search' command. Now you automatically search when you enter a tile. Your chance of finding hidden things is based on your Intelligence.
  
• All 4 historic dungeons are now discoverable via shrines, engravings, and paintings.
  
• Waste, trash, and scum-based historic locations now occasionally contain conveyor belts.
  
• Unstable Genome no longer triggers indefinitely.
  
• Reduced the amount of qudzu in rusty biomes.
  
• Gave Mafeo some plump mushrooms.
  
• Gave apothecaries some vinewafers.
  
• Added a few more sultan shrines to historic locationts.
  
• Added a nice iron fence around sultan shrines in historic locations.
  
• Added an alternate keybind (northeast) to store an item in a container.
  
• Fixed relics sometimes generating in unreachable tiles.
  
• Fixed an issue causing blink-based relics to grant immunity to all damage.
  
• Fixed a rare exception in the Brain component.
  
• Fixed an issue with case-sensitivity on the textures folder in a mod.
  
• Added a missing acid pool type.
  
• Added a missing oil pool type.
  
• Fixed [redacted].
  

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• Whenever you start a new game, press A to open your Abilities window and bind your keys so you can use them quickly, especially Sprint, so that you don't need to press A every time you need to use something from there.
  
• On not dying of thirst: only fresh water is drinkable, and that's also money, so be careful to not spend all your water and die outside of town.
  
• On not starving: Corpses are all edible right now, so try to eat corpses all the time as you move if you find food to be an issue. Glowfish corpses only weigh 5 pounds, are plentiful in the marshes outside of Joppa, and provide a ton of satiation. Butchery is also a good way get lightweight food, but not all things can be butchered (and some things cannot be butchered at all unless you invest further down the tree, but just the basic 50sp Butchery is typically sufficient).
  
• Rebind the 'l'ook key to whatever makes sense, because you should be looking at things all the goddamn time. With the way 'l'ook targetting works, you don't have to manually aim at things, the cursor will snap to targets and rotate through them as you move (and you can still 'u'nlock your targetting on the look window as well).
  
• Seriously, rebind look. Personally, I rebound 'x' to look because I play with numpad and a bunch of abilities and stuff on the WASD area. L is too far out of the way for me.
  
• Here's a super-sturdy starter character build code (enter it in your library, New Game -> Option C -> 'E'nter Code): BJPNNMEKBBBCBPBT, a mutant Warden with Carapace + Regeneration + Night Vision + Burrowing Claws; max Carapace and Burrowing Claws before Regeneration. Note that this is not a great build in general, it's specifically a way to jump in and be harder to kill while punching things hard. Also you can dig through walls by just bumping into them!
  

• 5 mutation points - Freezing Hands. Lets you kite and kill things way stronger than you to level up fast, it has a very long range. You can beat stuff up too, and every successful hit drops the target's temperature a bit more with Freezing Hands.
  
• 1 point - Night Vision. You don't have to wait to get a Floating Glowsphere or Mining Helmet in order to use both hands (otherwise you're holding a torch or glowsphere) and it also means you don't have to use *any* slot (hand, head, or floating) to be able to see at night.
  
• 4 points - Carapace. Maxed out, this is one of the best armors in the game, and it also doesn't weigh anything. Even just 1 added point in it while leveling up means you'll have some of the best early game armor. Maxed out, it's 8AC -2DV and I think 55 cold/heat resist, which is insanely good. There's a quest in a very cold place, so this maxed + an Elastyne cap (very cheap and somewhat common, it's +25 more cold resist) means that part is easy, plus it's nice to not be frozen or burned to death in general.
  
• 2 points - Burrowing Claws. Hand mutation, so you can't take it with Freezing Hands. Lets you break through any wall in the game once you get it to a higher level, also gives you some added AC. If you love exploring and/or having more loot, take this. You literally bump into walls to break them down. May take more than one attack, may take several hundred if it's lower level and you're trying to break through a fulcrete wall.
  
• 5 points - Regeneration. Heals you over time, but fast. Also lets you regrow limbs that get, uh, misplaced. I used to take this on every character but once you get comfortable, it's really not necessary. It's nice though, for sure, especially if you take it with Carapace; it's very basic but a huge amount of survivability.
  
• 4 points - Triple Jointed. Agility boost and chance to dodge projectiles and attacks at the cost of strength. If you like stabbing things, *a lot*, take this. Personally, not a fan, but a lot of people do some crazy things with this for high-dodge (DV) stabber builds, especially since there's an attack-when-you-dodge skill with Short Blades.
  

• 2 points - Mental Mirror. For two points, you never need to worry about mental attacks, like confusion or sunder mind. This means you can fully ignore Willpower (unless you want it because you're going for an Esper build). Per the linked guide above, this is actually a bad choice for a real esper. If you're hybrid at all, maybe worth it in your eyes to ignore willpower.
  
• 4 points - Time Dilation. Lets you attack and move faster than enemies close to you. Bullet time!
  
• Speaking of, Esper builds are really good but harder to get started with than a physical build. Esper costs 1 point and locks you into Mental-only mutations. They cannot take any physical mutations but are vastly stronger later. Someone else can chime in with an esper build, I've never spent the time to really get them off the ground. The general idea is focusing on Ego (because all Mental mutations get your Ego mod as a free level-up) and then only spending your mutation points to get new mutations, which will always be new mental powers, which will instantly be boosted by your Ego. You still need some Willpower (at least 16) because Willpower affects their cooldowns. Again, the guide linked above is very useful.
  

• -3 points - Amphibious. This is a physical defect that gives you 3 more mutation points. It means you consume 67% more water. Once you get a handle on the economy and learn how to make money, this is basically 3 free mutation points (ee the "What's worth selling?" section below) though it will very possibly kill you dead if you struggle to earn water.
  
• -3 points - Ravenous. The food version of Amphibious. I used to take this instead of Amphibious, until I realized 67% more water weighs a lot less than 67% more food.
  
• -2 points - Beak, if you're not an esper and newer. You get an extra attack and lose 1 ego along with the ability to use a face slot. Face slot is very useful, but if you're new you can go without it if you want 2 more points and don't feel confident enough to handle Amphibious or Ravenous.
  
• -3 points - Evil Twin. This is a mental defect that has a chance, every time you zone in somewhere, to spawn an Evil version of yourself from another dimension that tries to kill you. If you're confident you can take yourself on, go for it. IMO only worth it if you're an Esper.
  

• Weapon-wise, bronze and iron everything sucks rear end except for Long Swords and Iron Daggers. Handaxes suck to sell, battle axes and maces aren't worth that much for the weight (and honestly long swords aren't that much better).
  
• Armor-wise, pretty much no body armor, shield, helmet, glove, or boot is worth picking up in the early game. Once you're mid to late game this is still somewhat true unless it looks like it's got special modifiers or is lightweight.
  
• Muskets, Desert Rifles, and Short Bows are all really heavy
  

• If you see a merchant nearby or can easily ferry stuff to it, literally everything, even the not-worth-selling stuff above. This refers to times when you may meet a traveling Dromad merchant near a dungeon or place you're exploring so you can just basically pick something up and turn it into money nearly instantly.
  
• Every melee weapon that is Steel or better if you have the carry weight. This includes Steel, Carbide, Folded Carbide, fulcrete, crysteel, and more. Basically, the name will be in color (or in Steel's case, bright white).
  
• Every pistol, and every rifle except the Musket.
  
• I usually hold on to them, but the bracelets and neck-rings that Snapjaws carry. They're actually worth a lot.
  
• Artifacts (except the Metal Folding Chair) as even crayons sell for a ton compared to their weight (1 pound)
  

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