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Behold! The miracle of life packed into cubes. CHKN is an open world sandbox game where life itself is your strongest tool. Bring creatures to life by assembling them from body parts, each packed with its own special sauce. Cook up whatever creatures you want and don’t be surprised if your creation has a mind of its own. With Creative, Adventure, and Multiplayer modes, there is an abomination for everyone.

KEY FEATURES

Unique AI (aka the Special Sauce): You have the power to bring creatures to life by slapping blocks together, in whatever shape, size, or combination you want. These blocks of intelligent life give your creature unique personalities based on the combinations you make. No two creatures are alike...unless you make them alike. In which case, an egg will pop out of one of them. Even if it’s a cat. Because SCIENCE.
Creature Interaction. Creatures have all the feels and they’re not afraid to express them. Sad eyebrows? Your creature might be lonely. Happy smiles and farts? Your creature loves you for feeding them hamburgers. If a creature is snarling and running at you, then it’s probably too late - you’re dead.
Survival Tactics: You and your creature are starving to death. Do you feed your creature the last of your apples? Or do you cook your creature into a burger to feed yourself!?? Too much? OK.

Creatures will work better than tools at collecting resources and protecting your homestead. They’re better at fighting and cutting down trees than you are, so you’ll definitely want them on your side.
BUILD ALL THE THINGS!: Build a house! Build a farm! Build a three-headed, five-footed, llama-rantula-pus! With your creatures’ help, break apart your surroundings to craft tools and structures. Craft beds made of chicken parts and farm the land in order to survive and thrive.
Adventure, Creative and Multiplayer Modes. Modes on modes on modes.
Burps and farts. Need we say more?

DISCLAIMER

This is an Early Access game, which means it’s a little chick growing with every build. Remember raising them in school? Well, we’re that little chick under the heat lamps, confused about why we’re standing in sawdust with kids staring down at us.

But seriously. We’re just beginning with CHKN and we want you along for the ride. It’s going to be crazy and weird, but we’re going to involve you in any way possible, whether it’s asking for advice, testing out new features, or just showing us your ridiculous creations! We love hearing from you guys. Team CHKN is just a tweet, email, comment, or a very loud scream away. There will be bugs and there will be issues. Keep that in mind before you play.

FUTURE ROADMAP:

Additional creatures; dragon, goat, sheep, llama and many more.
Added abilities; flying, poison, fire breathing.
Improved AI; dogs can guard houses, ants can follow scents, etc.
Improved Multiplayer Mode.
Cactus-Man.
Much larger world, with additional biomes and points of interest.
See our full Road Map here.

Pre-Release Update v0.6.91

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First off, happy Thanksgiving to all our friends in the US celebrating tomorrow! Weve already started getting ready for our CHKN Team feast...

Step 1: Finding the right turkey or is it TRKY?

Before were full of way too much food, weve put out an update to Pre-Release with more improvements as we prepare to push to the Live branch. (Note that your previous Pre-Release saves are invalid and wont load.) Patch notes are below and, as always, bugs are expected in these work-in-progress builds so we really appreciate your help testing and reporting feedback on the Pre-Release forum . * If youre not familiar with Pre-Release, its the unstable developer branch we use for testing new stuff. More info here.

If youre not a Pre-Release tester, check out this video for a look at some of the features and updates coming to the Live branch!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVDvnlrgxfY
Well also be playing the Arena on our developer live stream today, Nov 21st @ 3:30 EST on Twitch and YouTube . Come hang out! Help us build creatures and see who comes out victorious.
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And now, patch notes!

Creatures & Abilities

Multiple body sizes added for the octopus and carnivorous plant blocks
New feather and fur block accessories added
New traits (blind, diet types) added to provide feedback when building creatures
Stuns can no longer be applied in consecutive hits preventing stun locking
Additional text added to abilities to show how to unlock them
Ability preview images implemented
Creature block voxel system re-enabled
Reviving a creature now automatically spawns it
Creature AI is now more reactive to incoming threats
Friendly creatures now attempt to walk around the player
Implemented a system to detect creature to creature collisions. (Creatures no longer run through each other.)

Crafting & Items

Chicken Armor added!
New Items: crab axe, pig slingshot, spider bow
Logs from felled trees now appear as a single log bundle so theyre easier to see
Added recipe tracking: pin recipes to add them to the HUD
Adjusted some crafting recipes for resource and progression balancing
Item recipes are now granted when first building and placing a crafting structure, or by finding crafting tomes when defeating or breaking a resource in the world
Trough removed (non-functional temp item was confusing players; may return in the future when properly implemented)
Creative mode spawn eggs are functional again

Adventure/Survival

Gameplay
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Temporary shelter added: use as a temporary respawn point
Hunger status added if low on energy
Crush damage removed if a creature collides with the player
Multiple mushroom types and pumpkins added to the world
Death message added for all damage types
Lifeshaper upgrading now requires defeating a Guardian before it can be obtained
Time based creature spawns and creature respawning implemented

Balance

Loot drops tuned
Damage dealt to trees changed
Creature block drop rates tuned
Creature fall damage tweaked
Changed stamina regen to be percentage based and added AI routines for creatures to back off and regain stamina. (Results in fights that have a natural rhythm and more creature builds that are viable!)
Poacher toughness buffed

Journal

Descriptions to world entities added
Descriptions of items tweaked
Badging added to the Journal
Data organization improved

Quests & Onboarding

Tutorial quests and onboarding prompts added
Quest UI overhauled

Map

Beacon added, use to tag a location on the map
Map functional. Location of death tagged and other placed objects automatically are added to the map

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Arena

Tournament mode added to the arena
Arena camera tracking improvements
Optional night lighting added to the arena

Art & UI

Temple art tweaked
New creature head icons added to the creature builder filter for easier identification
Many missing icons added
Spear animations added
Improved sunset/sunrise lighting
Holding E while walking over items will now pickup all items
Ability to place torches removed
Hitting foliage SFX added
Effects
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Life Shaper and ability scroll FXs added
Item FX more obvious
Particle FX improvements for fire and water hose
Implemented temple checkpoint FX and creature revive polish
Stun FX improved to read clearer as a stun
Party creature death particle tweaked

UI polish

New loading screen implemented
New main menu implemented
New options screen implemented
Moved multiplayer options within tab menu
Ability browser UI reimplemented
Many other minor changes to create consistent look

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Performance & Optimization

Replaced foliage system with a new performant tech which reduces stutters
Level of detail levels reimplemented for creature animation system to improve frame rates
Improved pathfinding navmesh generation performance
Texture streaming added to the options screen; currently a beta implementation. Disable this if you have a video card with 4gb+ of ram!
World object colliders optimized
Fur settings added to the options

Bug Fixes:

Networking
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Clients stunned properly
Clients flinch when damaged properly
Party creature death and revive fixed
Client save game fixes
Weather set for clients properly
Creature names no longer reset for clients
Adventure games now always show in join lobby. Error message prevents players from joining if they did not complete start of adventure mode
Clients now get proper notifications
Guards added to prevent game from glitching if null connections are detected
Treadmills now animate properly for clients
Treadmills now show attached creatures for clients correctly
Clients now properly see health bars
Fix to clients items becoming stuck which prevents them from interacting with the world
Egg crack and stone breaking sounds can now be heard by clients
Fix to clients flashing damage indicator endlessly
Fix to doors breaking chunk loading
Fix to clients not loading world data correctly
Fix to duplicate creature created on revive
Projectiles now display properly for clients
Quests are now networked
Fix to creature tamed status not saving properly when joining or leaving a networked game
Clicking store all on chests now works properly for clients

Fix to bad rotation on crab eyes that did not allow them to see correctly

Fixed dog tail clipping inside of parent block

Graphical fix to many materials that did not handle depth correctly

Fix to obtaining multiple Lifeshapers

Fix to mechdino neck offset

Fix to elephant ear offset

Fix to chicken eye scared blend shape

Fix to hatchery texture

Sleeping creatures properly close eyes

Rain volume hooked into master volume

Ranged weapon throw height fixed

Crab claw ability animations fixed

Fix to using the whistle with the hotbar/offhand

Fixed hopping creatures becoming stuck in place

Fixed bug in damage formula that made per frame damage to become highly reduced

Fixed bugs in animation system that caused an ability to become stuck

Fix to creature building cursor seemingly randomly disappearing

Shader fixes for OSX

Rocks shader replaced (was causing server staggers on some hardware)

Fix issues where save state was not being cleared when starting a new game after playing a saved game

Bug fixes to creature revive UI

Fix to creature stat previewer showing incorrect values

Structure block removal grace period now works again

Fix to breakables not respecting what item it was struck with causing damage to be applied when it shouldnt and vice versa

Creatures will no longer eat lifeblocks

Sign structure item fixed

Loot bags can no longer be damaged

Fix to double headed creatures having bad angles

Fix to post-processing transitions that caused colors to pop instead of smoothly transitioning

Fix to temple render settings becoming stuck on infinitely

Water rendering now properly draws fog over it

Journal 3d renders for trees, rocks, bushes, and items positioning and rotation improved

Removed some duplicate/broken creatures from the default creature collection

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Known Issues:

Were aware of decreased performance on computers with integrated graphics cards (which are common on some laptops and lower-end computers) and Macs. Were working on fixes for this now.
World streaming issues can cause an incremental drop in framerate regardless of your computers specs. We have a fix ready to implement in December.
The radial UI for Observing is glitchy and doesnt always register what youre pointing at. Fix is in the works.
If you have a 4GB+ video card, textures may be blurry due to new texture streaming tech implementation in progress. Go to Options -> Performance and turn off Texture Streaming.
Autodetect will do this automatically on fresh installs of the game but current players will need to do this manually to overwrite the existing setting.
Weve been unable to replicate a bug where the game gets stuck loading while syncing creatures so we believe its been fixed through other changes. But if youre still experiencing this bug, please let us know!

Quick links for testers:

If you want to see whats new on Pre-Release, here are the instructions
Please post your bugs and feedback on our forums
You can also join us on our CHKN discord to post bugs, feedback, or questions (or just hang out!)
Check out our Trello board development roadmap to see whats coming

Thanks for helping us test all the new updates! Keep those bug reports coming and let us know what you think of the new features.

- Team CHKN
https://store.steampowered.com/app/420930/CHKN/

[ 2018-11-21 21:37:43 CET ] [Original Post]