Changelog

Version: 0.91.76
Date: 05.26.26
  Bugfixes:
    - Added a command to force complete a research, to allow players to fix problematic research before they're fixed
    - Fixed research changes not procing on new update, typos should be fixed for existing saves

Version: 0.91.75
Date: 05.26.26
  Minor Features:
    - [INSURANCE]
      - New combat passive [Insurance]
      - Can save you from instantly dying from a large portion of damage
      - Large cooldown between uses
      - Stat improves the cooldown, and damage threshold required to activate
      - Recovers full hp on activation
      - Calculation: HP-Ratio >= 0.25/(insurance-0.975)
      - [Feedback on it's effectiveness is needed. The game has many small hits to do damage, so this may be hard to use]
      - [I may rework this to a guarantee heal, with each % accounting to hp% healed, or I may make that a separate talent]
      - 1 new talent [Insured=%cooldown reduction, %damage threshold]
      - Added new legendary gear containing new passive:
        - 1 new armor
        - 1 new equipment
        - 2 new artifacts
        - 1 new ring
      - Added 3 new personal research and expertise
      - Rituals have a very small chance of dropping the aspect(lesser artifact) and ring
      - Hives, minions, and medium tier variants all have a small chance of dropping the new ring
      - Queen and Lilith drop the new armor
      - Any boss with more then 35000 hp can drop the new equipment and essence(greater artifact)
      - High tier hives also drop all recent passive equipment
      - [Similar to previous passives added]
  Balancing:
    - [THREAT]
      - Reduced impact of threat per tick by about half
      - Heavily reduce impact of threat from hives, slightly from bosses
      - Increased threat from evo events(pollution)
      - Reduced threats influence on wave frequency slightly
      - Increased threat reduction after a wave/horde has spawned
      - [Threat seems to quickly get impossible to manage, this should help. You can also toggle peaceful mode to further adjust this]
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed a few typos with research requirements

Version: 0.91.71
Date: 05.25.26
  Minor Features:
    - [EVASION]
        - New combat passive [Evasion]
        - A chance to dodge an attack, resulting in damage being negated
        - Exact calculation for this is weird(similar to critical hits)
        - Luck will influence how often evasion procs
        - Evasion can only mitigate 75% of attacks at max
      - [Feedback on it's effectiveness is needed]
      - 1 new talent has been added [Elusive=%chance to dodge]
      - Added new legendary gear containing new passive:
        - 1 new armor
        - 1 new equipment
        - 2 new artifacts
        - 1 new ring
      - Added 3 new personal research
      - Added 3 new expertise
      - Rituals have a very small chance of dropping the aspect(lesser artifact) and ring
      - Hives, minions, and medium tier variants all have a small chance of dropping the new ring
      - Duskdancer and Beelzebub drop the new armor
      - Any boss with more then 35000 hp can drop the new equipment and essence(greater artifact)
      - [Loot patterns and implementations are exactly the same as damage amp, for now]
    - [EXP & DROPS]
      - Replaced EXP sounds with all new versions
      - EXP volume from crafting specifically is reduced
      - [Feedback on exp noises would be helpful!]
      - Small animation now plays when rare loot is dropped by bosses or caches
    - [DIFFICULTY OPTIONS]
      - There are now 2 new difficulty modes, peaceful and hardcore
      - Peaceful: 75% reduction in combat events(waves/hordes/threat increase), no world-boss, no ambush bosses
      - Hardcore: 25% increase in combat events, and threat increases
      - [This should give players the option to increase difficulty, or have a more relaxed run while still using the new systems]
  Balancing:
    - [LOOT & ENEMIES]
      - Added more loot sources for damage amp/evasion rings
      - Hives and rituals now have a small chance of dropping the damage amp/evasion equipment
      - Loot for minions/hives/rituals/variants have been altered
      - Early tier drops are phased out in later stages
      - Late game drops are increased in general
      - Hives, minions, and variants now have high legendary drop chances at higher tiers
      - Minions have been given loot, similar to variants and normal enemies(before it was nothing)
      - Minion exp rate has been increased due to their more limited use
      - Variants have been given a dynamic exp range, resulting in a big increase
      - Increased chance of drops for rituals
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed a crash with attachments/supplies and the quality system

Version: 0.91.66
Date: 05.24.26
  Balancing:
    - Added 3 new expertise for damage amp, these build directly from new research
    - Increased conduit numbers across the board, should be more abundant
    - Made damage amp equipment easier to get
    - [Damage amp is a more complex form of combative, so it should be more available to compensate]

Version: 0.91.65
Date: 05.23.26
  Minor Features:
    - New combat passive [Damage Amp]
      - Applies a amplifying damage boost over time, as you deal damage
      - Resets back to 0 after 2 seconds of dealing 0 damage
      - Can be scaled via max damage% or by speed of amplification
      - Amp scales once per 30 ticks or twice per second
    - 2 new talents added for damage amp [Conduit=Damage% Max][Reactive=Speed of Amp]
    - Added new legendary gear containing new passive
      - 1 new armor
      - 2 new equipment
      - 2 new artifacts
      - 1 new ring
    - Added 3 new personal research that provide these new passives
    - Rituals have a very small chance of dropping the aspect(lesser artifact) and ring
    - Hives, minions, and medium tier variants all have a small chance of dropping the ring
    - Ambereye and Pride drop the new armor
    - Any boss with more then 35000 hp can drop the new equipment and essence(greater artifact)
    - [I plan on adding a lot more combat passives similar to this update]
    - Code around damage calculations has been altered slightly, small performance improvement
  Balancing:
    - Due to code changes, crit_triggers now have a 30 tick delay. Need feedback on if it needs buffed...
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed localizations of some recently added content
  Info:
    - There is a bug with an unknown mod causing the dangerous research machine to crash on startup. Let me know on discord if you run into it.

Version: 0.91.05
Date: 05.22.26
  Minor Features:
    - Added another later game ritual
    - Added 3 new late game rings
    - [These rings should be a bit more powerful, but spawn at half the normal rate as usual.]
  Balancing:
    - Healing items increased by ~10-15%
    - Companions base hp increased ~10-15%
    - Some rituals now generate further from the spawn area
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed recipes disappearing in certain situations(Hopefully)
    - Fixed expertise completed color

Version: 0.91.03
Date: 05.22.26
  Balancing:
    - Initial delay before wave/hordes increased to 6 minutes
    - Threat influence on wave/horde rate reduced by ~10%
    - Reduced chance of horde spawning instead of wave by ~20%
    - Waves/hordes threat reduction on spawn increased
    - Threat multiplier from hives/rituals reduced by ~30%
    - Threat increase per tick reduced by ~50%

Version: 0.91.02
Date: 05.21.26
  Bugfixes:
    - Right click crash on rings fixed

Version: 0.91.01
Date: 05.17.26
  Major Features:
    - [GUI REWORK]
        - GUI visuals have been nearly entirely reworked. This is a big change, and deviates from the usual themes of Factorio.
        - All GUI menus had elements changed or removed to improve clarity, and reduce clutter
        - HUD GUI elements have been replaced to be thematically consistent with the overall mod
        - Talents/bonuses/etc... now display in a more compact and readable manner
        - Artifact menu is properly working and displaying info
    - [RINGS]
        - Rings have been added to the game
        - Each rings takes up a weapon slot, and provides strong bonuses. They have no attacks
        - Can stack as many rings as you have weapon slots
        - Rings can be upgraded, up to tier 6, through high material and time cost(These are meant to be end-game investments)
        - Legendary rings can be dropped from the newly added rituals
        - New jewelry crafting machines can be used to upgrade rings
        - Around 10 ring variations to start, each upgradable to some extent 
        - Rings can provide talent/attribute/crit/leech/thorn bonuses
        - [Early game->Small % supplement, Late game->Core stat items. Can be stacked and mixed/matched]
    - [RITUALS]
        - Rituals have also been added to the game, similar to caches
        - Small, fast acting hives with new minions and spawns
        - A new source of exp, materials, and loot
        - No chance for boss spawns, the hives themselves are tough enough
        - Rituals will increase your threat, so be careful of how many you destroy
        - [A combat oriented, low risk, medium reward system. Less of a gamble compared to caches]

  Minor Features:
    - A temporary migration script has been added to help with compatibility between versions. No full guarantee though
    - Companion rework, see balancing
    - Enemies now spawn using a chunk based system. Gone(hopefully) are the days of enemies spawning on top of your base
    - Because enemies now spawn further away, and more predictably, enemy horde/wave sizes have increased.
    - [Enemies spawn in one direction. Less spread out defenses, less need for auto defenses, allowing you to actively defend everything]
  Balancing:
    - [COMPANIONS]
        - Tier 1 companion material cost by another ~25%
        - Tier 3-6 companion material cost reduced by 75%
        - Companions now stack in inventory
        - All supplies material cost reduced by ~55%
        - Pierce companions had their pierce damage improved and range/fire-rate improved by ~25-35%
        - Suppressive companions had accuracy slightly improved and fire-rate slightly improved 
        - [Companions really should be spammed and less investment, treated as cheap minions]
    - [ARMOR & EQUIPMENT]
        - Tier 1-2 armor material cost reduced by another ~15-20%
        - Tier 1-3 armor % resistance increased ~5-10%
        - Tier 4+ armor negative traits reduced ~10-15%
        - All legendary armors now have an equipment inventory by default
        - Many early tier armors now contain a "pocket" sized equipment grid, more armors overall have grids
        - Tier 1-3 equipment have had their material cost reduced ~25-50% but now require a small amount of basic-research
        - [This should give early game armors a boost in usefulness, and push the importance of equipment]
    - [WEAPONS]
        - Tier 1 weapons had cost reduced by ~35%
        - Increase most projectile sizes by another ~5-10%
        - Handcannon and Auto pistol cost reduced by ~20%, dps reduced by ~5%
        - Charge rifle and arc rifle range increased. Arc rifle damage increased
        - Reduced high caliber pierce damage slightly
        - Enemies again had their AI changed to focus on players(fixed a command issue that ignored player position updates)
        - Pierce weapons had their slowdown increased, but damaged increased to compensate. ~10%
        - Suppressive weapons had their movement slow reduced, more on the smg's. ~10-15%
        - [Pierce->Bosses, Burst->Ad-Clear, Suppressive->Mixed]
    - [OTHERS]
        - Nerfed hp bonus from strength and investment by 1
        - Nerfed defense bonus from strength by 0.005%. You should stack more sturdy + good armor for tanky stats
        - Personal research cost increased on average
        - Increased healing from consumables by ~25%
        - Increased exp from consumables by ~15%
        - Waves now spawn ~10-20% more enemies
        - Enemy variants have been buffed another ~25%
        - Threat multiplier on hive kills have been reduce ~25%
        - Threat active increase per tick has been reduced by ~60%
        - Threats influence on wave/horde spawnrate has been reduced by ~25%
        - Cache noise functions have been altered, caches should spawn a bit more spread out
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed crash from evo event horde spawn
    - Fixed duplicating attributes and talents on rare occasion
    - Fixed out of bound value error on high talent amounts
    - Fixed crash when player was dead and enemy ai commands finished
    - Fixed occasional crash on enemy death
    - Fixed exp bug with research queue/unqueue system
    - Completed expertise now appear at the bottom of the expertise list
    - Fixed some projectiles still damaging allies
    - Item info panels now properly show crit-triggers/leech/thorns
    - Fixed a few more missing localizations
    - Fixed some weapons stopping your movement entirely
    - Rituals, and caches now have different map colors from typical enemy structures
    - Cache decorations and overall random spawning has been made more consistent
    - Fixed player death causing some bonuses to duplicate

Version: 0.9.095
Date: 05.12.26
  Minor Features:
    - Threat has been entirely reworked, and now includes a gui bar! Threat will now adjust based on actions, and rise overtime, until enemies have spawned.
    - HUD is now adjustable, with a small tab on top. Along with some adjustments to size.
    - Added a small system that inserts filler ammo when a cevo weapon is added. Cevo weapons use no ammo, but need them in slots to use hotkey swapping
    - Exp and warning sounds can now be adjusted in mod-settings, so you can turn them down if needed
  Balancing:
    - Most projectiles received a 10% damage increase, and 30% size increase
    - Boss spawns for evo events have been normalized across the board
    - Waves are a bit strong
    - Variants now provide stronger stats, hopefully they stand out more(will be expanding in the future)
    - Threat increases from actions are larger, but the decreases are now consistent
    - Threat now rises overtime, and scales as you kill bosses/encounter evo events
    - Pierce weapons had their accuracy increased another ~10%
    - Hordes now focus the player significantly more, meaning your base progress should be easier
    - Companions tier 1-3 had material cost reduced ~35% and damaged reduced ~10%. Ideally these are more spam/aggro then core damage
    - Tier 1 companions now have slightly improved aoe
    - Personal Research cost increased by ~10-15%
    - Tier 2 armor material cost reduced ~15%
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed crash with enemies spawning off nauvis in some cases
    - Fixed crash with companion supplies, when more then 1 was added
    - Fixed issue with some companions not registering in ai
    - Fixed localization for companions, technology, and some new systems
    - Partially fixed bug spawn logic, so they now attack bases less, focusing on the player instead
    - Fixed some companion combat bugs with modified companions
  Info:
    - Added tooltips for supplies/attachments, modifications cannot be undone
    - Tutorial on first weapon equip

Version: 0.9.075
Date: 05.07.26
  Minor Features:
    - Added EXP source for crafting items(This might be too strong/weak to start). This scales based on energy_required, so the longer it takes, the more exp. This is an early game exp source, not intended for mid/late game.
  Balancing:
    - EXP multiplier asymptotically reaches 3x instead of 2x, so mid/late game exp should scale higher
    - All tier 1-3(early game) weapons have their requirements reduced by ~15%-20% and material cost by ~15%
    - Most tier 1-3 armors had their requirements reduce, and their debuffs reduced
    - All companion hitboxes are increased in size
    - Companion selection boxes are now larger then their hitbox
    - All companions currently use a normalized hitbox and selection box. Should be easier to pick them up
    - 30% fire-rate increase to [magazine fed lmg, armor piercing rifle, anti-material rifle,]
    - 10% fire-rate increase to [bio submachine, low velocity lmg, low weight lmg]
    - Low/high caliber rifle, fire-rate buff, damage buff, and reduced movement slow
    - High caliber projectile now has 150% more piercing damage
    - Tier 1 bosses movement speed reduced ~20%
    - Reduced threat multiplier increased from boss kills, so threat scales more directly to evolution
    - Many attachments had firerate reductions improved(or removed), and firerate increases improved. Some had debuffs added, overall should be buffs to early attachments
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed rare crash when a draw text was called
    - Companion AI has been altered to reduce poor responses
    - Fixed incorrect text on companion pick up
    - Fixed incorrect stats on companion supply window
    - Fixed crash on supply menu when adding supply to companions
    - AI pathing resolution improved to reduce them getting stuck on trees
    - Legendary companions AI have been reworked to use the normal companions system
    - Fixed crash when removing equipment from non-player equipment grid(vehicles, spiderbot, etc...)
    - Fixed a bug with adding and re-adding armor while equipment is in the grid
    - Fixed localization for some items
    - Fixed localization for companion supply gui
    - Fixed bug with enemies spawning in space
    - Enemy horde/wave sounds now call more consistently
    - Actually fixed worms not giving exp rewards this time
  Info:
    - Added tutorial that pops up after first companion is placed down
    - Added info when threat gets increased, so players are aware of what actions increase it

Version: 0.9.06
Date: 05.06.26
  Balancing:
    - Reduced hunter's damage output by ~10%
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed companion damage crash after save load
    - Fixed companion hud toggle crash after save load
    - Due to the nature of the above bugs, you need to pick up and replace your companions, load a save from before placement, or start a new save. Sorry!

Version: 0.9.05
Date: 05.06.26
  Balancing:
    - You now start with 1 free expertise point
    - Thunderbug now has an additional attack pattern
    - Low velocity submachine gun accuracy increased ~10%
    - Basic & Advanced materials now require 1 ore to smelt(down from 3)
    - Intelligent & Self-replicating materials now require 2 ore to smelt(down from 3)
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixes for some career data checks
    - Other internal code fixes
    - Localization for new ores

Version: 0.9.04
Date: 05.06.26
  Balancing:
    - Maras Embrace/Forgiveness Increased rift spawn rates
    - Hell/necro/bug hives now grant more exp(base game hives are unaffected)
  Bugfixes:
    - Exp properly shares between players in multiplayer
    - Exp causes crash if player is respawning

Version: 0.9.03
Date: 05.06.26
  Compatibility:
    - Testing some rampant compatibility inclusions(not working)
  Bugfixes:
    - Expertise values update

Version: 0.9.02
Date: 05.06.26
  Balancing:
    - Ambush's should happen more frequently
  Bugfixes:
    - Evolution event bug
    - Ambush ai settings

Version: 0.9.01
Date: 05.06.26
  Bugfixes:
    - Crash on personal research completion
    - Several GUI crashes
    - Worms now provide exp
    - Variants now provide exp

Version: 0.9.0
Date: 05.05.26
  Major Features:
    - Initial beta release. See mod page for feature-set
  Modding:
    - This section will typically have notes of people extending this mod...
    - Docs are wip but do exist at: https://cevo.dev/docs/
  Credits:
    - RafaelMatos
    - Pixel-Banner
    - Penusbmic
    - Papoy Core
    - GandalfHardcore
    - Jcrown
    - Atelier Magicae