Dinotica Patch Notes

Dinotica’s Steam news mix is part changelog, part seasonal sale. This page keeps the mechanical notes so you do not have to scroll past another 50% banner. It is incomplete by nature: if a hotfix never left a public post, it will not appear here. Pair it with Full Launch Notes for 1.0 content. For Chapter 5 routing see Dark Forest. For the ranked challenge mode see Time-Space Rift. For the 200-room climb see Endless Mode.

1.9.x — rift, UI, named kits

1.9.0 / Major Update 1 added Time Rift Casual, Challenge, 2-player, and ranking; a Training Ground; a Dye Workshop; an Altar for talents and basic stats; Kapi Bee in the Capybara Store; Carrier Pigeon vouchers; a female starter outfit; Aerowing and Stormwing rack outfits.

1.9.1 — Cindarok Flame Whirl absorbs projectiles. Speedy Shield Chance 10% → 25%.

1.9.2 — negative damage display when numbers overflow; larger level-enhancement UI and text (the Steam Deck-facing readability patch in this line).

1.9.3 — Endless Mode uniformly two gates. Sacrifice Aid after damage: invincibility on two random monsters, not the whole room.

1.9.4 is still the relic math note below.

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1.8.x — automation and co-op sync

1.8.0 added Tech 22 extra Breeding Room; Tech 7 automated breeding, advanced seed box, advanced compost; Tech 8 automated workbench and smelting furnace; Auto-Save; Projectile Sync in multiplayer; workbench last-slot and food-trough fixes; Codex level display for totems and relics; a Rainbow Shit summons-over-limit fix.

1.8.2 added marker filtering in the Breeding Room and fixed Kitchen Counter workbench issues.

1.10.x — fishing, holidays, fruit

1.10.1 added a fishing station. Casual finals were tuned to guarantee Stat Fruit or Talent Clear Fruit. Challenge finals can drop those or Talent Extract Fruit. Bosses in stages 7–9 dropped Stat Fruit more often on both difficulties. Skill tweaks: Vexora’s Annihilation Barrage (faster projectiles, shorter interval), Gluttony’s Earthshaking Devour (pull miss chance fixed), Kapi Bee’s Dual Bee Pursuit Sting (splitting effect restored).

Those fruit rules matter for the Breeding Planner. The named skills matter for the Combat Tier List.

1.10.2 added Halloween decorations and an opening animation. The store post listed cross, jack-o’-lantern, tombstone, withered vine, ghost, and pumpkin carriage, plus the fishing feature in the same campaign.

1.10.3 added Christmas decorations and the Evil Snowman boss. The official Christmas film is embedded below. Cosmetics: sleigh, stocking, gift bundle, tree, snowman. Optional. Fun. Not leather.

1.10.4 fixed a chance that Floor 81 could not unlock in Casual Mode — relevant to older Endless / floor language before the 200-room 1.0 expansion.

1.9.x — relic math and the rift

1.9.4 fixed relic Cornered Beast dealing incorrect damage bonuses, and fixed monster enhancements in Spacetime Rift increasing after exit and re-entry. If an old totem guide quotes Cornered Beast numbers, throw it out. If the rift feels illegally dense, update.

How to read older marketing

Pre-1.0 posts still mention 40 pets, 40 buildings, 4 major levels, 60 bosses, 39 totems. 1.0 posts mention 50 pets, 5 chapters, 75 bosses, 31+ totems, 70 relics, Endless 200. This wiki’s Maps and Totems and Relics pages document both layers so you can see the join.

Sale posts (Winter, Spring, Easter, Summer 2026) are not patches. They do not change dung. Skip them unless you are price tracking.

After a new note lands

1. Update the client.
2. Check whether a named relic or skill moved.
3. Adjust Totem Builds if math changed.
4. Adjust breeding fruit routes if finals changed.
5. Do not rewrite Getting Started because a snowman exists.

Report bugs where developers actually read them: Steam discussions and Discord. This wiki will not open tickets for you.

If 1.0 hotfixes start arriving daily, this page will grow as short dated rows rather than as essays. Essays belong on the Review.

When a Steam card is only a discount, skip it. When a card names a fruit, a relic, a floor number, or a skill, copy that wording into your notes before the post ages out of the hub. The Breeding Planner and Totems and Relics pages are the long-term homes for those strings; this digest is the dated index.

Older Endless language (“Floor 81”) and newer language (“200 rooms”) can sit in the same save. If a Casual unlock still mentions 81, you are looking at a leftover string or an un-updated client — verify files before you assume the 1.0 expansion failed. If Dark Forest is missing entirely, you are not on 1.0.

Do not rewrite worker rankings because a snowman boss exists. Seasonal bosses are optional encounters. They can drop loot. They do not replace hunting posts. Keep Farm and Base as the settlement manual even when the news hub is full of trees.