The Genesis Project

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• Patch Notes·26 Apr 2026Official

  Patch 0.6.0-2

  Hey, TGP fans and players! Another patch for everyone to enjoy, squashing a handful of bugs.Sounds of traps and machines are no longer globalNon-global sound effects are now easier to hearFixed specific alchemy recipes crashing the gamePesterchum now opens and closes properlyCopying furniture copies the rotationAdded clothing to the house builder atheneumFixed some animals being randomly hue shiftedSlimer is now dominant
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• Patch Notes·13 Apr 2026Official

  Patch 0.6.0-1

  Happy 413, TGP fans and players! We've released a minor patch to celebrate this fateful occasion.Brushed the Lich's teethFixed Slimer-prototyped imp tails clipping through the sprite boundariesFixed miscolored pixels on blood, doom, hope, life, mind, rage, space, time, and void hoodiesFixed incorrectly assigned sprites on both Tavros jacketsFixed Lich and Kheprit health desyncGave Golems 45 healthGave Golittles 25 healthMade Ruby, Jade, Crystal, Golden, Kintsugi, and Magic tags decorativeAdded the Special tagGave Special Stardust the Special tagGave The Great Reset the sburb aliasGave Starsplitter the Heavy tagGave FRODJ a recipe (Frog alias || Shitty tag)Fixed Explosive Kunai's rotation when thrownFixed Needles of Tesla's pivotGave Boyz N A Line Poster the poster aliasReduced speeds of Explosive Powder, Hardtack, Mysterious Tentacle, and Tattered Fabrics to 0Gave the consort skull items the Skull aliasChanged the Ironskull recipe to use the Skull alias instead of Doomy tagRemoved the Snake aliasGave the Snake, Snake of Many Ends, Snance, and Wizard Lizard the Reptile aliasGave Cat Plush the Cat prototypeResprited Garfield and Nermal HelmetsAdded back hairs 79-86Changed Smith Corona Blotspitter's iconFixed a typo in Dead Crockerporc Drone's descriptionFixed /build and c_buildFix weirdness with stairs placed at the highest levelItems now inherit alchemy recipes based on their sprite
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• Announcements·31 Dec 2025Official

  The Genesis Project: Of Crypts and Creatures

  Hello, TGP fans and players! The day has finally come, and with it, THE UPDATE! Please enjoy version 0.6.0, of Crypts and Creatures, live now on Steam! You can also come chat with other players or find a group to play with over in our Discord. WARNING: THESE PATCH NOTES CONTAIN PLENTY OF UNREVEALED CONTENT. Peruse at your own risk! A lot of it will be WAY cooler to discover for yourself in-game! Imp walk animation Imp eating animation Updated imp animations and sprites to support wielding items Reanimated basilisks Redesigned, resprited, and reanimated gremlins Updated gremlin attack hitbox Resprited titachnids Tweaked titachnid animations Redesigned, Resprited, and reanimated kheprits Updated kheprit attack hitbox Resprited and reanimated giclopes Resprited and reanimated (heheh) liches Lich walk animation Added golem underling Added golittle underling Added prototype effects for EVERY* underling from EVERY sprite - *not ogres - Also resprited many of the existing prototype effects Removed all prototype effects from the cheat-only sprites Added new “slots” for prototype effects on several underlings Resprited and reanimated kernelsprites Resprited princesssprite Fixed minor mistakes on various sprites Updated all sprites to use a new spritesheet Updated all prototyped kernel assets to use a new spritesheet Added dialogue to all sprites which lacked it Rewrote mothsprite dialogue Degendered knightsprite dialogue Added tier 2 sprites Added 38 new dungeon pieces Replaced instances of basilisks in dungeons with golems Updated existing dungeons with new furniture pieces Dungeons now have floor and wall textures Added new dungeon puzzle system - Added new traps and puzzles to solve in dungeons Retextured lava furniture Tweaked damage of lava furniture Other furniture can now be placed in lava Added RuneWall, RuneDoor, PillarWithTorchLeft, PillarWithTorchRight, HalfStairs, Raised_Tile, and Frog Tile furniture items Added Gma, Gpa, Bro, and Sis guardians Added 86 items Add...
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• Patch Notes·4 May 2024Official

  Major Patch 0.5.2

  Hello, TGP fans and players! This patch focuses on fixing many bugs, especially ones related to multiplayer and saving+loading. It also adds a fair few items and touches up the default houses. This has been a long time coming, enjoy! Multiplayer fixes and additions Countless fixes for (multiplayer) saving and loading Reconnecting to a session in progress (both from the lobby screen and after a disconnect) Ready button in the lobby Duplicate aspects no longer break things Random seed is loaded and shared correctly, and already used for lobby randomness Client players can no longer get desynced (disabled on the host’s end) when entering a dungeon Consuming an item directly from the sylladex no longer breaks things Checkboxes for allow duplicate aspects/classes/classpects now work properly Disallowing duplicate classpects now tries to give everyone their most liked instead of least liked classpect Art, Items, and Houses Resprited 4 back hair pieces (15, 32, 37, 53) Added missing back hair dyes (2, 7, 11) Fixed 2 back hair half-dyes (6, 28) Added 62 new items Updated 1 mouth Updated 6 items Also fixed the colors on all smuppets Fixed a variety of recipes and fleshed out some missing links Completely revamped the house builder atheneum Added a dummy prototype item for Gamzee. oops! Fixed 1 animal Updated 3 animals Fixed the size of various animals Added 1 dead animal Updated 1 dead animal Updated all base houses Fixed Cat Hat and Scalemate Hood not hiding hair Tweaked Scarf description Removed the Electronic-tagged glasses from the character creator Fixed the filter mode and enabled read/write on all relevant sprites Fixed the filter mode on horses Fixed the size of Face Paint, Colored Paint, and the Hiveswap CD Deleted shrimple.png Item and Alchemy fixes Ranged weapons correctly take into account accrual and buffs Dutton’s poetry book is now readable Items made through implicit alchemy can now have descriptions and prefabs Order (a || b vs b || a) no longer matters for ...
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• Patch Notes·16 Mar 2023Official

  Patch 0.5.1-1

  Added Added 5 items Added 5 items to the character creator Added 4 recipes for items that were removed from the character creator in this patch Added 1 new icon Changed Tweaked some item descriptions Changed the Battery, hAAmmer, and Jacob's Ladder to Lightning tag Updated Robe sprites and fixed layering Updated 3 items Updated and added some alchemy recipes Updated the contents of a book Updated the stats of some weapons (Cards!!) Updated the Smuppets (4 less Smuppets overall, but the quality is better!) Completely reworked the item list in the Atheneum Fixed Fixed all hair colors Fixed Varsity Jackets back disappearing when running Fixed Axe of Life sprites having a ton of empty space Fixed Captain's Hat being blurry Fixed player symbol rendering over Overalls (and other pants) Fixed 1 fringe Fixed 1 back hair Fixed 3 item icons Fixed some incorrectly assigned Strifekinds (Golf Iron clubkind -> canekind) Removed Removed 5 items from the character creator
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