Billowing dark fog eminated out of newly formed cracks in the ground. A large structure emerged from under our feet, causing just a bit of chaos as the black fog overtook the campgrounds.
The smoke cleared to reveal a dark building of stonework construction. Dirt and pebbles sifted their way off the sides of the structure as the sound of rattling chains filled the air. A hanging wooden sign on a double iron chain reads: "Chemistry Lab"
Introducing the Chemistry minigame!
Discover recipes and gather your ingredients. Throw them on the burner in the lab and brew 'til it's ready. But be careful! If you let it sit for too long, it may get destroyed, forfeiting all those hard-earned components!
Thankfully, there's a friend nearby who may be of some assistance.
- Combine Components and create Concoctions!
- Collect Recipes to unlock new concoctions to brew
- Careful not to over-brew your concoctions, or they may get destroyed!
- Chisel is hanging out in the Chemistry Lab. Perhaps it can be of assistance…
Head to the Lodge to get started! And speaking of the Lodge…
The Lodge has moved! Visit the Lodge at https://lodge.camp
(If you've previously added it to your phone's home screen as an app, you will likely want to delete and re-add it from the new location!)
The Lodge has seen a few redesigns before, but this is by far the biggest. Rewritten from scratch to be faster and easier to use than ever, it is jam-packed with new functionality.
- Faster. Way faster. Like, ZIP ZAP ZOOP
- Themes! Head to the settings page to choose a theme that works for you.
- Fully custom themes coming eventually™️
- World Ticks are now called Turns. Each Turn is still one real world hour
- A new unified search navigation for Camper profiles, items, flowers, and more!
- New item detail pages include information about the item, such as:
- If it's in the camp store stock rotation
- If it is currently in stock at the camp store
- What loot containers it can be found in
- If its a loot container, whats possibly inside
- New flower detail pages include information about the flower, such as:
- How long it takes to grow
- How much silkwater per turn it consumes
- If it regrows when harvested or not
- The range of VCs you may receive when harvesting
- The loot pool of items you may receive when harvesting
- Hotkey support on desktop
- Press Ctrl+K to open nav and search
- Arrow keys to navigate search results
- Enter to go to the page
- Camper trading card collection pages now display which cards that camper is still missing
There are so, so many more changes to the Lodge that I cannot possibly list them all. But before we wrap up here, I've got MORE.
What's that I hear? Is it… joy?
The days are short but the stars are bright: it's ✨ STELLARVIBE ✨
Each year, the Astral Campgrounds celebrates Stellarvibe as we enter the cozy season. This is our THIRD annual Stellarvibe 🩶
This year, Beeatrice has brought us a gift: Joyroot Seeds! This curious plant grows real fast and is known to spread like wildfire. They don't produce much in the way of a flower, but I hear Gillroy just stocked a recipe for something that may be helpful in that regard.
Plant some Joy, and who knows? Maybe we'll still find ourselves some gifts to give!
The Astral Campgrounds RPG is now called Camp Game!
- The Silkwater Jug and Silkwater Barrel items are back! Find them in Gillroy's shop.
- Gillroy's shop has twice as many items available at any time, as well as an expanded stock rotation
- The market do be fluctuatin'! Gillroy's shop stock now has variable pricing changing every day! Keep an eye out for great deals (or bad ones!)
- You can now use items on plants in the Botany skill
- New item category: Components - items primarily used as ingredients in the Chemistry skill
- Several items have been recategorized as Components, such as most harvested flowers
- New item category: Concoctions - items produced as a result of the Chemistry skill
- New item category: Recipes - discover and redeem these to learn new Chemistry Concoctions!
- Discord
/portent command loot pool expanded
- Renamed Misc items to Trinkets
- Value adjustments for most items
- Adjustments to the stats for most flowers