Archipelago EarthBound v2.3

EarthBound Archipelago Version 2.3

New Settings

• Plando- Lumine Hall Text: You can now plando specific text to be on Lumine Hall. If blank, it will be randomized as it has been. This option is hidden and needs to be manually added as plando_lumine_hall_text

Changes

• Moonside - Monotoli Building Present renamed to Moonside - West Island Present
• You can now check which/count how many melodies you've obtained on the Status menu
• The Sky Runner has been completely overhauled. You no longer require Jeff to operate it, and it will take you to the Andonuts Lab in south Winters instead of Summers. Summers can now be reached only via teleport. If you arrive at Winters with the Sky Runner, and then teleport away, Bubble Monkey at the lake will take you back to the south side.
• The "mist" Jeff-only items in Extended PSI Shuffle have been renamed to "-alizer"s (e.g. Defensalizer)
• The expanded 69-slot storage now properly saves to your file instead of having one storage for all three files
• The credits now displays your player name as the player (This only applies to the player name shown in the credits. The prayer to defeat Giygas will still be a random player in the multiworld)
• a broken Neutralizer renamed to Broken Board instead of Broken Motherboard
• Hints! You can now buy in-game hints for money at the Hint Shop. Each unique hint shop will give you one hint, at Onett, Twoson, Threed, Fourside, Summers, and Scaraba. The price of a hint starts at $100 and doubles with each hint you buy. If the hint is for a location in your game, you can spend $500 extra to send that hint to the server.
• You can no longer store items with Tracy. Instead, she tells you about your R button storage menu.
• Tweaked the scaling of PSI Fire
• Added new flavors Spearmint, Tuna, Milk

Fixes

• Fixed Threed - Cemetery Trashcan typo
• Fixed Mayor Pickle not referencing the item on his check properly
• Fixed Starman Junior's attacks not being scaled
• The credits no longer loop, instead fading to "The end...?" properly
• Fixed a bug where putting a character in Start Inventory from Pool would cause a generation crash
• Fixed a bug where the truffles in Deep Darkness didn't logically require the Piggy Nose
• Fixed a bug where Flash could very rarely end up on the favorite thing PSI slot even if allow flash as favorite was disabled
• Fixed Diamond Dog being referred to as Junior
• Fixed Jeff throwing bazookas at things (Also, the Bazooka doing super bomb damage instead of regular bomb damage)
• Fixed Poo's Progressive PSI always saying starstorm instead of his shuffled PSI if it was received from the server (Broke this when I cleaned it up in the last release)
• Fixed the winters drugstore saleswoman refusing to give you a non-inventory item if your inventory was full

Known Issues

• None so far

Tracker

The tracker has been updated for the changes to Sky Runner logic.

Archipelago EarthBound v2.2

EarthBound Archipelago Version 2.2

New Settings

• Boss Shuffle: Shuffles bosses around
• Decouple Diamond Dog: Adds Diamond Dog to the pool of shuffled bosses separately from Carbon dog
• Boss Shuffle Add Giygas: Adds Giygas phase 2 to the shuffled boss pool. This only applies to the Giygas you have to directly damage. the Prayer fight is unchanged, and the first phase will always be present as part of the final battle.
• Randomize Swirl Colors Randomizes the colors of the pre-battle swirl effects

Changes

• Beating the guardian of Lumine Hall will now automatically unlock the teleport to Lost Underworld. This prevents you from being unable to reach the Underworld if Lumine Hall is your only way to access it, and the sanctuary would trigger the credits due to sanctuary requirements and settings.
• Heavily Armed Pokey no longer uses PSI Fire
• Captain Strong will no longer stay at the bottom of the Police Department after defeating him
• Master Barf's defeat text for Poo and the Star Master now shows them using the correct level of Starstorm
• The Phase Distorter 3 transition to the Cave of the Past has been significantly sped up
• Turning in the Police Badge in Twoson now sets all of the NPCs in the police station correctly
• The "Ness's Nightmare" event location name changed to "Magicant - Ness's Nightmare" to be consistent across settings
• # and & added to font
• The keyholder in southern Scaraba will now say that Dungeon Man can be found to the southwest instead of northwest
• Apple Kid at the Cave of the Present will now tell you whether or not Giygas is required (If Giygas is required, he will tell you about absorbing the power of the Earth, otherwise he will tell you about destroying Giygas)
• scaled enemy use of PSI Rockin has been slightly adjusted
• Slightly tweaked the new PSI animations
• Talah Rama's speech has been shortened
• Options are now grouped together for better sorting
• Updated flavors Astral

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where checking the Sphinx after unlocking the pyramid would do nothing instead of displaying the no problem here message
• Fixed the Sentry Robot using a bottle rocket that doesn't actually act like a bottle rocket
• Fixed Carbon Dog having an unscaled fire attack
• Fixed the Cute Li'l UFO being unscaled in Dungeon Man
• Fixed a bug where the ability to remove duplicate key items wasn't properly checking storage
• Fixed the Care Free Bomb 'firing' a super bomb
• Fixed Apple Kid's +2 sanctuary goal text using a non-indicated text pause
• Fixed Giygas Phase 1 not being scaled
• Fixed Talah Rama's location being checked before his dialogue finished
• Fixed some jank on local Progressive Poo PSI
• Fixed broken text on the Twoson antique shop if it was selling a local Teleport

Known Issues

• None so far

Tracker

• Fixed Milky Well and Rainy Circle's completion flags being swapped

Archipelago EarthBound v2.1

EarthBound Archipelago Version 2.1

New Settings

• PSI Shuffle:
  Shuffles learned PSI. Poo's Progressive Poo PSI is the Gamma/Omega level of that slot, Ness's 'Favorite Thing' slot still uses favorite thing as the name, Ness's favorite thing is renamed to PSI Wave in other slots. PSI Starstorm in other slots will use Delta/Lambda/Alpha/Omega for its levels, Shields are shuffled amongst Ness/Poo and Paula, PSI category does not change and Recovery PSI is not affected.
  • None: PSI is normal
  • Basic: Shuffles PSI that the characters learn.
  • Extended: Shuffles PSI that characters learn along with Jeff's items, along with bombs.
• Allow Flash as Favorite Thing: Allows PSI Flash to be shuffled into Ness's Favorite Thing PSI slot
• Progressive Weapons: Bats, Fry Pans, and Guns will be progressive. Shops and drops are not affected.
• Progressive Armor: Bracelets and the Other equipment slot (besides ribbons) will be progressive. Shops and drops are not affected.

Changes

• The client will now refuse to patch your rom if the player's APWorld version does not match the generator's APWorld version. You can also not connect to a server with a wrong-version ROM.
• Random battle backgrounds will no longer generate glitchy inverted backgrounds
• Randomized franklin badge protection and the starting location are now written in the spoiler log
• Some NPCs with locations have had their dialogue updated.
• You can now give yourself more than 12 Goods items in start inventory only if Remote Items is set to true
• Tweaked enemy EXP scaling

Fixes

• Fixed the Gigantic Ant paralysis not scaling
• Fixed shuffled enemy drops using the inverse of the Prefixed Items option
• Fixed a bug where setting Magicant Mode to Optional Boost while Giygas Required was false would fail to generate
• Fixed Lumine Hall text getting truncated on very long texts
• Fixed Lumine hall text just being weird and starting over partway into it
• Fixed a bug where taking the Runaway Five bus from Twoson to Threed would disable random enemy spawns
• Fixed a bug where you could throw away key items if Poo's starting item was another copy of that key item
• Fixed a bug where triggering the Magic Cake cutscene without being able to teleport to Onett would play the sounds of Pokey knocking on the door while on the black screen.
• Fixed Lucky Sandwiches not received from your own world not being properly randomized(?)
• Fixed Magicant locations having their vanilla items if Magicant was set to Optional Boost
• Fixed one of Thunder and Storm's attacks not scaling properly
• Fixed a bug where donating to the Happy Happy Village donation lady after receiving her check but while Carpainter was not defeated would leave her textbox on screen
• Fixed Magicant locations registering as checked in the client even if they weren't actual locations in the multiworld
• Fixed a bug where receiving a character for yourself on the Monkey Caves - Monkey Power location would play their join dialogue with no textbox
• Fixed Poochyfud never displaying his text for before you give him the Wad of Bills
• Fixed a bug where having Poo in the start inventory would not give you a character or teleport on the Poo Starting Item location
• Fixed some NPC locations using the original item name if you didn't have space for or refused the item
• Fixed minor formatting bugs on some locations if your inventory was full
• Fixed a bug where I think automatic character scaling wasn't working correctly with multiple EarthBound seeds?
• Fixed a bug where the Twoson tunnel would be unable to be exited from the Threed side and cause issues
• Fixed a bug where returning to Lumine Hall after completing it would give you the melody for Fire Spring
• Fixed the Onett Mani Mani statue checking your inventory for space even if the item was for another player

Known Issues

• None so far

EarthBound Poptracker

• Sanctuaries and the Power of the Earth now autotrack
• Fixed a bug some Poptracker update caused where Ness would be togglable

Archipelago EarthBound v2.0.2

EarthBound Archipelago Version 2.0.2

Fixes

• Fixed a game crash that would occur if Giygas used an Alpha-scaled thunder attack after his defenses became unstable.

Known Issues

• The generator will crash if Magicant Mode is set to Optional Boost and Giygas required is set to False.

Archipelago EarthBound v2.0.1

EarthBound Archipelago Version 2.0.1

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where revival would be disabled if the player died with deathlink off but deathlink mode was set to anything other than Mercy
• Fixed some bugs with PSI Starstorm (ignoring shields, badge weirdness)
• Fixed the final phase of the Giygas fight being able to have a background that disabled the prayer text

Known Issues

• None so far

Archipelago EarthBound v2.0

EarthBound Archipelago Version 2.0

New Settings

• Deathlink support
• Deathlink Mode: Controls how receiving a Deathlink behaves while in battle.
  • Instant: The player is instantly defeated.
  • Mortal: The player takes mortal damage. The player will be unable to heal or revive characters while HP is scrolling down. The
    deathlink can be dodged by running away or winning the battle.
  • Mercy: The player takes mortal damage. The player is able to revive characters or heal the deathlink damage as it's scrolling down.
    However, if the player heals by any means, the player will send a deathlink should they die from that point on.
• Presents Match Contents: Changes all present-type items (outside of lost underworld) to have an appearance correlating to the item they contain. Trashcan for filler, Present for useful, and chest for Progression. Other players' items will be represented by an Archipelago box.
• Remote Items: Changes local items to be remote, allowing for same-slot co-op and saving your own found items if data is lost. Requires server connection to play.
• Randomize Battle Backgrounds: Generates random battle backgrounds.

Changes

• Patched a vanilla bug which would cause overworld statuses and enemy spawns to be disabled if the player skipped the invisible man's exit text in Moonside
• Repel Sandwich in-game name changed to Repel sandwich to have consistant capitalization with other items
• More text choices for Lumine Hall
• Zombie Dog now scaled for Threed Undeground
• Boogey Tent is now scaled specifically for when Jeff is obtained
• < and _ added to font.
• Enemy attack scaling has been completely overhauled. Most status effects now scale by sphere, Non-PSI elemental attacks are now scaled along with PSI, and PSI can now be scaled below Alpha. No more early fire or poison trouble.
• The mouse in the Fourside department store will now give a hint for the item on the Blackout location
• Some flavors have been tweaked. [Handheld, Salt and Pepper, Potato, Lemon-Lime]
• New flavors added. [Hamburger]

Fixes

• Fixed visual glitches after the Giygas fight if Skip Prayer Cutscenes was set to true
• Fixed some filler items not respecting the Prefixed Items option (fillers were not correctly assigned to individual worlds)
• Fixed square brackets in item/player names not showing up correctly
• Fixed the Post-Belch Gift locations displaying incorrect items/player names if you received your own item after another player's item in the same textbox
• Fixed enemy PSI not replacing the correct original attack if the enemy had less than 4 PSI moves and the scaled PSI wasn't its first move slot
• Fixed a bug where an enemy death explosion would be cancelled if it was killed by reflected PSI
• Fixed a logic error where the Onett - South Road present wasn't expecting police badge if you had other access to Twoson and the Onett teleport
• Fixed the Magicant teleport not getting unlocked in the epilogue
• Fixed a bug where a couple of Prayer effects (dazzling light and heaven rending sound) would be reflected by a Flash franklin badge
• Fixed junk text pixels appearing after some long Lumine Hall texts
• Fixed a minor typo on the Saturn Valley - Saturn Coffee location
• Fixed an accessibility bug with Ness's Nightmare if Magicant Mode was set to Optional Boost
• Fixed a bug where putting Flying Man in the start inventory would break the game
• Fixed a bug where the Twosn-Threed tunnel would be locked after taking the Runaway Five bus to threed

Known Issues

• None so far

Archipelago EarthBound v1.4.1

EarthBound Archipelago Version 1.4.1

Fixes

• Fixed the Happy-Happy Village Teleport not being a logically expected method to reach Happy-Happy Village

Known Issues

• None so far

Archipelago EarthBound v1.4

EarthBound Archipelago Version 1.4

New Settings

• Randomize Franklin Badge Protection: Randomizes which attack elements get reflected by the Franklin Badge. Elements are Fire, Freeze, Thunder (normal), Flash, Starstorm, Rockin/Special, and Explosions. The badge's in-game name will change to reflect the chosen element, and you can check it in the item's help text. The item's story function (blocking lightning from carpainter) and the name in the Multiworld are left alone.
• Autoscale Party Members: If enabled, joining party members will be scaled to start at the level of the sphere they were received in, with some small variance. If disabled, all party members will join at their original level.
• Magicant Mode new choices:
• Optional Boost: Magicant will appear as a teleport, and beating it will grant a party-wide stat boost. Magicant locations are removed from the multiworld.
• Removed: Magicant will be completely inaccessible.
• Monkey Caves Mode:
• Chests: All minor items to complete Monkey Caves will be found within the tunnel chests. The 'reward' locations, usually found at the end of branches will still hold normally random items. If you waste the chest items, you will need to find them as in 'hunt' mode
• Hunt: Previous behavior. You will need to locate the minor items for Monkey Caves in the desert, Fourside, and the pizza shop from Twoson/Threed
• Shop: The Monkey outside of the Monkey caves will sell you every minor item needed to complete the caves for a fixed $500
• Solved: The Monkey Caves will start solved and the paths will be opened.

Changes

• Everdred's speech outside the Fourside cafe has been shortened.
• AP data is now properly deleted when deleting a save file.
• AP data is now properly copied when copying a save file.
• The NPC outside the Threed Hotel will give you a hint for Threed - Zombie Prisoner
• Carpainter will now appear outside the Happy-Happy village hotel and leave the HQ after receiving his item. This fixes a softlock when talking to him without the Franklin Badge after defeating Master Belch

Fixes

• Fixed a very rare bug where getting into a battle immediately after finding an AP item would cause items used in the battle to have the AP item's name
• Fixed automatic character scaling occasionally being weird, also fixes a crash that could occur in some instances of the character being placed in sphere 1 or possibly the starting inventory
• Fixed Dungeon Man - 1F Exit Ledge Present being missable if the player used the submarine without opening the present. Now, if the check is missed, you will be able to retrieve it by speaking with Dungeon Man on the top floor.
• Fixed being able to receieve items during cutscenes. This fixes characters or teleports being deleted if they were received while a character join sequence was playing.
• Fixed a bug where starting the Trial of Mu would unlock the Scaraba teleport
• Fixed a softlock that would occur if the player opened a locker containing their own item if their inventory was full
• Fixed Runaway Dog not being assigned to Twoson for enemy scaling
• Fixed Pokey appearing outside the Happy-Happy cabin after rescuing the prisoner even if he was already fought before (He will still appear if he was not fought before rescuing the prisoner.)
• Fixed a bug where completing the Twoson - Paula's Mother Location after getting the item from Everdred would give you a normal Hand-Aid instead of the randomized item
• Fixed the Happy Happy Village - Carpainter Location being tied to Carpainter's defeat rather than whether or not he has given you his item
• Fixed a leftover bug where you could lose items if inv and storage was full
• Fixed Poo's starting item leaving a 'ghost' slot until he was given an item.
• Fixed the Twoson-Threed tunnel being locked from walkinguntil after the Threed teleport was unlocked

Known Issues

• None so far

Archipelago EarthBound v1.3

EarthBound Archipelago Version 1.3

Changes

• The Monkey's Love and Brain Stone, unique items that cannot be thrown away, can no longer be generated as filler
• Added new text choices for Lumine Hall
• Characters are now scaled up to the level of the sphere they were found in
• Items can now be deleted from storage, the 'delete' option in the R menu has been expanded to a choice between inventory and storage deletion
• New flavors added (Blueblue, Deeppurple, Rivalry, Sugar, Faith, Wisdom)
• You are now required to have the Police Badge to travel from Twoson to Onett. There is a policeman at the entrance of Twoson you can turn it in to. Turning in the Police Badge this way clears all Onett roadblocks, and skips the Captain Strong fight.
• Big Bottle Rockets and Earth Pendant now considered Uncommon instead of Rare
• The [Bad Key Machine, Key to the Tower, Hieroglyph Copy, and Eraser Eraser] now get removed after unlocking their respective lock
• Storage has been expanded to 69 item slots instead of 36
• You can now hold Y to scroll through text automatically
• Patched the "OSS Death/Shattered Man Glitch" vanilla bug that could sometimes cause softlocks

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where sometimes the game would crash or otherwise break horribly when checking the robot transformation cutscene for Poo
• Fixed generator crashes on unreachable(?) areas, if you see any warning about everdred's house not scaling please let me know
• Fixed(?) an issue where enemy pathfinding would overwrite and corrupt AP relevant data (enemy garbage text bug)
• Fixed a logic bug where Happy-Happy Village: Prisoner Item incorrectly required Key to the Cabin
• Fixed a logic bug where Poo Starting Item was expecting truffle logic
• Fixed a bug where the Snow Wood bedroom character would sometimes print locker-related text
• Fixed a logic error where going from Tenda Village to Deep Darkness did not require the Hawk Eye
• Fixed a logic bug where the pizza requirement for Monkey Caves wasn't being applied correctly(?)
• Fixed exiting Dungeon Man placing you where he normally starts instead of at the river
• Fixed Magicant - Town Present displaying a flavor name instead of a player
• Fixed the Snake Bag Snalesman giving you a snake bag in addition to his randomized item
• Fixed several uncommon items being not classed as equipment in generation
• Fixed talking to the guy in the Fourside Museum sending the venus gift check
• Fixed minor typo on the onett mani mani statue
• Fixed a bug where the Magic Cake check would be flagged as completed if you talked to the guy in the club that tells you about the magic cake lady
• Fixed the Teddy Bear and Super Plush Bear not being in the filler pool

Known Issues

• None so far

Archipelago EarthBound v1.2

EarthBound Archipelago Version 1.2

New Settings

• New setting: Prefixed items - If enabled, will replace Broken items placed in the multiworld with their fixed counterparts
• New setting: Shuffle enemy drops - If enabled, randomizes enemy drops. Does not affect drop rate.

Changes

• Added an attempt at a crash handler, if the game ever kicks you to an Anti-Piracy screen, it's probably this preventing a hard crash. Please bug report if this happens.
• You are no longer prevented from sending items to other players if your inventory and storage are full (however, you will still not receive items yourself)
• Poo is no longer able to be placed onto himself with plando
• PP is now fully recovered if Easy Deaths is enabled
• Tiny Ruby can now be put into storage
• The Sword of Kings, Gaia Beam, and Broken Antenna can now be dropped.

Fixes

• Fixed Broken Spray Cans not getting placed
• Fixed some Broken items being placed in the wrong filler category
• Fixed Magicant teleport getting deleted (hopefully)
• Fixed a logic bug where Fourside - Venus Gift did not require the Diamond
• Fixed a bug where the Chaos Theater receptionist would move out of the way after turning in the Wad of bills
• Fixed the upper left locker in snow wood giving its item more than once
• Fixed the upper left locker in snow wood not sending a check to the server
• Fixed the Tenda Chief receiving his own item from himself
• Fixed a blank character turning in the fly honey
• Fixed the robot transfer scene checking wrong flag of Jeff's
• Fixed the Topolla lady not removing the Diamond if you give it to her from the front
• Fixed Ness's Dad saying you're not Ness if Poo has not been received
• Fixed a bug where receiving Flying Man in the Lost underworld would cause graphical corruption