Today the Confection turns 4 years old. Happy birthday, Confection! As a desserted land, it only makes sense for some birthday content to fit in, right? It's not much, but maybe at the 5 year mark there'll be something even bigger!
- Rollercookies will rarely spawn as a birthday variant, appearing near the beginning of December
- Ever wanted to wear a cake on your head? They have a small chance to drop the Top Cake vanity item!
- To celebrate 4 sweet years, the original Rollercookie will uncommonly spawn as well!
Unfortunately that's it as far as birthday stuff goes. I spent too much time working on touching up previous content, so that's worth checking out too!
- Cherry Crumbs, which strangely were never listed outside of recipes, which I thought I fixed awhile back.. anyway.. are now Cherry Shells, with a brand new look! ->
- Cherry Bombs are finally updated too. The original sprite wasn't even intended for the Confection but for a different game project! ->
- Cherry Arrows have a new look and are now known as Cherryburst Arrows ->
- Cream Ice is now Blue Ice, dripping with blueberry juice, made from awhile back ->
- The Golden Ticket is now even more referential, now known as the C-cret Ticket ->
- Taffy Apple actually has some taffy on it now, with some peppermint bark ->
- As requested, the Wonker's less gross and better fits the Confection theme ->
- Wonker is now known as Wild Willy
- Super huge difference with the worn Wonky set ->
- The Neapolinite sets have been touched up, showcased by Hazel and Copper! ->
- Inventory pieces updated as well -> , -> , -> , -> , -> , ->
- Headgear piece has a new look, if you didn't notice
- Wild Airy Blue example made even sparklier! ->
- Meowzer's laser now actually looks like a laser, and not a flag ->
- Rollercookies now come in a chocolate with white chip variant
- Grouped the ordinary Rollercookies into one image to save image cap space
- Iscreamers have a more compact form, with tweaked vanilla and cotton candy colors, and pumpkin getting blue eyes ->
- A new weapon, the Candlelighter, which finally acts as an alternate to the Flamethrower
And still, there's so much more that needs tweaking and touching up! But that's it for now. Or maybe first.. as a birthday bonus, some trivia:
- As said above, the old cherry bomb graphic was originally intended for a game project involving Azure. Four years ago, I was lazy and I think only slightly modified the stem maybe, but it never really fit the Terraria-style.
- Similarly, the Pop Rocket's fired rocket was also a power up for said game project.
- In case it wasn't obvious to those who know the character, Icecream Gal is a more generic and simplified design of my character Azure.
- The Confection would have been ready by December 1st, but four years ago it was Cyber Monday, so I waited a day to let the Cyber have its related, but unassociated special day!
- I may have mentioned this before, but the Confection was originally going to have pink scooped grass. Then I went for a white scoop design, then went with a cream color, and years later, went with cream-colored candied grass instead.
- All the neapolinite helmets originally were all vanilla colored, as all other multi-helmet sets follow the same color schemes, but the neapolinite set allowed the possibility of different appearances with the same material.
- The first tree designs involved a more tentacle-like design which wrapped around giant cones that held icecream scoops. One of the cones from this scratched design was resized and edited to become the Iscreamer's cone, back when it still had one.
- Another thing I'm sure I've said, but the biome was known as "The Creamery" when under development, never as a serious name but as a place holder. It wasn't until I think I heard the word Confection or Confectionery on TV that came instantly as the new name.
- The creamwood furniture set was made during a sprite contest ages ago on Terraria Online I believe, as Daimera once pointed out, which was repurposed as a furniture set for the Confection.
- As quite a few have pointed out how the Confection is "too silly even for Terraria," and made the comparison to Light vs Dark, Life vs Death, Chaos vs Order, and then Spice vs Sweets.. well.. this is obviously a fan biome, and if the Confection was ever a real Terraria biome along with the Sensation, then I'd imagine these biomes only becoming available after a playthrough of a Corruption or Crimson playthrough, perhaps by the time when hardmode is unlocked, where the game unlocks the evil biome selector. If I had my way, I'd also probably lock Crimson behind this wall (of flesh) as well, as I think Corruption-Hallow makes the best first Terraria experience.
Some planned things to come:
- Every rollercookie, even the newest recolors, will be given a unique texture. The pumpkin and chocolate with chips were kind of last minute additions!
- Rollercookie-themed mount is coming!
- Confected Islands..
- Some AI changes to make some mobs more unique
- And..
There's still a lot to touch up on, and a lot more I want to add to this biome, even after all these updates and years! I also have other biomes I need to update as well, and as you can tell from my signature, quite a few more biomes to be made! There is also a huge boss overhaul project I'm wanting to work on, which ties in with a big biome overhaul as well, along with something with the endgame. It's.. it's a lot of work! I don't know if I'll ever finish it all, but I can try!
For now, you might be able to expect some Holiday-related Confection updates, but I'm really wanting to get the big Gully update done, a small Depths one, and then finally an alternate Dungeon biome in time for my 1,337th post (because that matters soooo much). You
might be able to expect a new Corruption alt and Hallow alt in the future too.. but I think I'm getting ahead of myself! If only spriting didn't take so much time!
Anyway.. thank you for a sweet four years of Confection!
And as always, the update will take a bit before the main posts update.