A new major update for Lured In is out now! This is one of our biggest updates yet, with tons of new features and improvements!

What's New

Bait

As we continue to add more and more fish, it becomes tricky to catch the ones you actually want. This is where bait comes into play! Now you can equip a type of bait, and target a specific fish. For example, Koi like worms. With those equipped, you're way more likely to catch Koi instead of Orandas (which like crickets). This system does NOT increase the rarity of fish, but acts like a filter.

Alongside bait also comes some improvements to fishing, including some new visuals, an equipment bar on the right, and the ability to jig (with right click or B on controller).

Breeding Tank

Sometimes its pretty annoying to have to travel to a place, just to catch one weird specific early-game fish. Now, you no longer need to with the breeding tank! This lets you place two fish inside, and for a research fee, breed them together and get another fish! The speed of this tank can also be upgraded.

Custom Rooms

It has always been a bit difficult to truly customize your shop, since every room looked the same. This is no longer the case! Now you can click on the palette icons, and customize each room to your liking. You can swap out the walls and floors with new materials and colors. Want a rock themed room? Now you can! I'll continue to expand out this system in the future with even more custom settings.

Better Inventory

Once again, as we get more fish, older systems become annoying. The inventory was definitely one of those. With Reel Business, now you can search for specific fish, alongside minimizing their stats panel to clean up your list a bit more. You can lock them too, just so you don't accidentally sell your super valuable fish.

New Unlocks

We always get new ascensions, upgrades, and research with every update, but this one has loads! You can unlock fish transportation, to retain some of your fish on ascension. You're also no longer limited to one active lure with Multi-Lure. It was sad how your researchers couldn't throw away all their belongings like customers dropping donations, so now you can buy Breakthroughs to collect research bonuses.

Tired of coming all the way home just to drop off your fish? Now you can get the Fish Retrieval research, which lets you send them all back from your keepnet for half the travel cost!

Thanks for reading, and feel free to report any issues on the forums, or over on the Discord. Thanks!

Changelog

Additions

• Added the ability to hold shift and move your camera faster with WASD

• Added research test tubes that drop from scientists in your lab (can be unlocked with an ascension)

• Added a new room to the aquarium, which can be unlocked with level 2 of the research upgrade

• Added in a breeding tank, with lets you create new fish

• Added the ability to search for fish in the inventory

• Added the ability to lock a fish from being sold in your inventory

• Added the ability to collapse a fish panel in your inventory

• Added another level of moving truck for keeping your room designs

• Added an on-screen keyboard for controller

• Added the ability to customize your shop appearance more, with a way to swap out your floors, walls, and lighting with different presets

• Added in bait, which lets you target specific species

• Upgraded the visuals of the fishing rod to show your bobber and lures

• Added the ability to select multiple lures at the same time (alongside ascensions to get more slots)

• Added a reeling sound that plays while reeling in

• Added some ambient sound when close to the doorways in the building

• Added the fish transportation ascension, which lets some fish persist on ascension (rarer fish are more likely to disappear)

• Added new splashes and sounds to the fishing mechanics

• Added the research requirement indicator on the bottom of the tackle panels

• Added a panel on the left side of the screen in the fishing zone that shows your current lures and bait

• Added the ability to "jig" or bob your hook up and down in the water with right click/B on controller. It has a very minor increase to fishing speed when done

• Added Trafish Scott

• Added preferred baits to all fish

• Adjusted the rate of ascension gathering. Now, the curve is less logarithmic (adjustable in the future), making early game a little slower, and end-game faster

Changes

• Made it so the move to tank button gets its text wrapped

• Made it so the bobber now stays visible at all times

• Made it so your ascension is now calculated automatically using your total earned amount, and the number of unlocks. This means if I change the cost of an ascension, your remaining amount will automatically correct itself.

• Changed the theme of all tab containers to look more in-line with the style of the game

• Changed the improved bait upgrade to Chum, and added in a new upgrade for your bait called Improved Bait

• Updated all translations

• Updated the list of all translation contributors

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the tutorial complete text was not being translated

• Fixed an issue where researchers could cause a crash on ascension

• Fixed an issue where the text underneath upgrades that require other upgrades was broken