Randovania

- **Major** - Added: Factorio has been added. Shuffle the tech tree, recipes for science packs. The native multiplayer is fully supported, while Multiworld isnt'.
- **Major** - Added: Featural Hints. Echoes and Cave Story now use a brand new hint system, where hints may refer to various Features of a pickup or of a location. Read the Hints section for more details.
- **Major** - Added: Co-op as an additional Multiworld Mode. In Co-op, multiple people can share Worlds together, which means that they will share their inventory. This works for all games that support Multiworld.
- **Major** - Changed: The trick level "Hypermode" has been renamed to "Ludicrous". This new name is game agnostic and more properly describes the difficulty of this category.
- Added: Async Races can now be hosted and joined directly from Randovania.
- Changed: Updated included Nintendont to a newer version that includes the latest changes from the official Nintendont. This also means that the Nintendont configuration was reset to what it is by default.
- Changed: The "Spoiler: Playthrough" tab is significantly easier to read and follow along with.
- Fixed: The "Spoiler: Playthrough" tab is much faster when calculating the playthrough.
- Fixed: Typo in dialog about generated game hash being different from expected.
- Fixed: The map tracker now correctly accounts for door locks that have been modified statically by settings such as unlocked Save Station doors.

Door Lock Randomizer

- Added: Hint placement for seeds with individual door lock randomization now uses the resolver to help determine what to hint. This should result in significantly more useful hints in these seeds.
- Changed: When checking doors that are completely unreachable (such as uncrashed Frigate in most Metroid Prime presets), the resolver is no longer run. This should improve generation time slightly.
- Changed: The lists of weaknesses in the Door Locks preset settings tab are now sorted more naturally, and aligned with each other.
- Fixed: Bug in the revised door solver that would result in permanently locked doors being placed when they shouldn't.
- Fixed: Minor edge case where damage wasn't considered when placing permanently locked doors.

Generator

- Added: Experimental option under Generation -> Logic Settings that improves the results of generation but increases generation time.
- Fixed: Generator action weights were being incorrectly calculated.
- Fixed: When calculating reach with unsafe resources, the generator no longer ignores some valid options.

Hints

- **Major** - Changed: Hints are now placed after pickup placement, rather than during. This should result in more interesting hints in all games.
- Added: Games with hints now share a unified Hints tab in the preset editor window. New settings have been added to disable various kinds of hints.
- Added: Every game now has a "Pickup Hint Features" tab where you can view which Features apply to which pickups.
- Added: Cave Story and Echoes now have a "Pickup Location Features" tab where you can view which Features apply to which locations.
- Added: Location Features can be viewed in the Database Viewer.
- Added: 3 more generic joke hints.
- Added: The Hints Spoiler tab now indicates which location a hint is pointing to.
- Changed: The Hints Spoiler tab sorts its entries in a more helpful manner.
- Changed: Some joke hints are now shared between all games that use them.
- Changed: Hints now prioritize non-progression major items rather than progression minor items.
- Fixed: It is now properly impossible for multiple hints to point to the same location.

Resolver

- Fixed: Some seeds being considered impossible when finding a progressive item in an area where a later item in the progressive chain is required to leave.
- Fixed: Minor edge case where a seed might be considered impossible due to missing consideration of damage.
- Fixed: Some seeds being considered impossible in cases where damage requirements are spread between multiple connections.
- Fixed: A recent regression in the resolver that made it significantly slower has been fixed.

Metroid Dread

- Fixed: GUI formatting on the game page.
- Fixed: Starter Preset now has a proper description.

Logic Database

- Changed: The Silver Robot fight now have higher health requirements when doing the fights without Power Bomb or Screw Attack
- This list replaces `Flash Shift or Combat (Beginner)` from the previous set of requirements
- Without Combat tricks: Requires Flash Shift or Spin Boost, and 499HP
- On Combat Beginner: Either Flash Shift or Spin Boost, and 399HP; Or 299HP
- On Combat Intermediate: 199HP
- Or simply Combat Advanced
- Changed: The Gold Robot fight have the same upgrade to the requirements as the Silver version, except all HP requirements are 100 higher.
- Changed: The Twin Robot fights have the same upgrade to the requirements as the Gold version, except all HP requirements are 100 higher again.

Artaria

- Added: Accessing the top pickup in Screw Attack Room with a Shinespark by going down through the water basin. Requires either Screw Attack or Morph Ball and Gravity Suit.
- Added: Logically flipping the Screw Attack Room Spinner and using Shinespark to immediately reach the left side platform. Requires Highly Dangerous Logic or Screw Attack.
- Added: Accessing Start Point 2 in Screw Attack Room using a Shinespark. Requires either Screw Attack or Morph Ball and Slide.
- Added: Damage Boost with Spin Boost to get Missile Tank 1 in Melee Tutorial Room, before X are released, using Highly Dangerous Logic.
- Changed: Flipping the spinner in Screw Attack Room when by going from the door to the transport is now logically possible also after having flipped the spinner, unless Highly Dangerous Logic is enabled.
- Changed: All other connections in Screw Attack Room that are only open before flipping the spinner are now only logical when Highly Dangerous Logic is enabled.
- Changed: The conditions that depends on not having blown up the blob in Screw Attack Room are now only logical when Highly Dangerous Logic is enabled.
- Changed: In White EMMI Arena: Reaching Door to EMMI Zone Spinner (Middle) from Door to Central Unit Access (Charge) with Spin Boost now requires Wall Jump (Beginner).
- Changed: In EMMI First Chase End: Reaching Door to Teleport to Dairon (Top) with Spin Boost now requires Wall Jump (Beginner).
- Changed: In Screw Attack Room: Reaching Next to Upper Tank from Total Recharge with Spin Boost no longer requires a Wall Jump trick.
- Changed: It is now logical to access the Chain Reaction Device after ending the Chain Reaction sequence. This also means climbing the Chain Reaction Room later has slightly fewer requirements.
- Changed: Using the Stand On Frozen Enemies trick to get Missile Tank 1 in Melee Tutorial Room now requires Highly Dangerous Logic.
- Changed: Fighting Corpius without tricks now requires 198 damage, down from 199. This makes the fight logical on Strict Damage strictness with 1 Energy Tank.
- Changed: The connection in Arbitrary Enky Room directly from Start Point to Dock to Teleport to Dairon is now always logical when having Morph Ball.
- Changed: The two Blobs in Arbitrary Enky Room now use the same event for logical purposes.
- Fixed: Using Speed Booster to Shinespark to the top pickup in Screw Attack Room now requires Door Lock Rando to be Disabled.

Burenia

- Added: In Main Hub Tower Bottom: Reach from Alcove Across Grapple Block to Ledge above Grapple Block using Spin Boost.
- Added: In Main Hub Tower Bottom: Reach from Water Space Jump Platform to Door to Save Station South Access (Lower) using Gravity Suit, Spin Boost and Movement (Beginner).
- Changed: In Main Hub Tower Bottom: Reaching Door to Save Station South Access (Lower) from Above Screw Attack Blocks with Spin Boost now requires Wall Jump (Beginner).
- Changed: In Main Hub Tower Bottom: Reaching Ledge above Grapple Block from Water Space Jump Platform using Spin Boost now requires either the Grapple Block Event or Wall Jump (Beginner).

Cataris

- Added: The pillar in Moving Magnet Walls (Small) can now be crossed with Spin Boost and Wall Jump (Intermediate).
- Changed: The Energy Part pickup in Thermal Device Room North no longer requires the Varia Suit if the "Cataris - Lower Lava Button" event has been triggered.
- Changed: The blob in Z-57 Heat Room West (Right) now requires the Varia Suit to be destroyed.
- Changed: Using Spin Boost in conjunction with the Slide Jump to reach the upper part of the Experiment-Z57 room now requires Wall Jump (Intermediate).
- Changed: Using Spin Boost to do the First Blob event in Z-57 Heat Room West (Left) now requires Movement (Beginner).

Dairon

- Changed: Reaching the tunnel at the top of Central Unit Access with Spin Boost now requires Movement (Beginner), but remains trickless with Space Jump.

Elun

- Changed: Using Cross Bombs to get past the Fan in Fan Room left to right has been increased from Movement Beginner to Intermediate, and a video has been added to the database.

Ferenia

- Changed: Using Cross Bombs to get past the Fan in Fan Room right to left has been increased from Movement Beginner to Intermediate, and a video has been added to the database.

Ghavoran

- Fixed: The connections to fight the Golden Robot no longer require the X to not be released when doing the fight normally. This doesn't change what is logical, but makes it easier for the generator and resolver to release the X.

Metroid Prime

- Fixed: A very precise situation that could lead to pickups not being sent properly.

Logic Database

Phazon Mines

- Fixed: Metroid Quarantine A: Getting the Missile Expansion via using the Spider Ball Track now requires Morph Ball.
- Fixed: Ore Processing: Getting from Door to Elevator Access A to Door to Storage Depot B via Power Bombs, Space Jump and L-Jumps now requires Morph Ball.

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

- Removed: Relative hints will no longer be placed.
- Changed: Legacy multiworld sessions where an Echoes hint points to a Cave Story item may have very slightly altered wording.
- Changed: A legacy relative hint pointing to a Nothing will now always refer to it by name.
- Changed: Keybearer hints may refer to pickups using different categories than before.
- Fixed: Seeds with individual Door Lock Randomizer enabled should see more door variety in the lategame.
- Fixed: When using the new experimental generator setting to consider possible unsafe resources, the Starter Preset can once again see Missile Launcher placed in the GFMC Compound crate.
- Fixed: Translators will no longer be hinted by hints of their own color.
- Fixed: Cannon Ball and the multiplayer pickups can no longer be selected as starting pickups, since they did not work in-game when doing so.
- Fixed: A very precise situation that could lead to pickups not being sent properly.

Logic Database

Agon Wastes

- Changed: Mining Plaza: Climbing the room with Screw Attack and no Space Jump bumped up to intermediate movement.
- Changed: Trial Grounds: Climbing the room with Screw Attack and no Space Jump bumped up to intermediate movement.

Temple Grounds

- Changed: Temple Assembly Site: Reaching the pickup location with Screw Attack and no Space Jump lowered to beginner movement.

Metroid: Samus Returns

- Fixed: One Area 8 theme from not being included in music shuffle.
- Removed: Enabling the automatic item tracker is no longer a cosmetic option, as it is now forced to always be enabled.

Logic Database

Area 4 Central Caves

- Fixed: Starting in Spazer Beam Chamber now places Samus in the correct room.

Area 4 Crystal Mines

- Fixed: Renamed the room "Gamma Arena" to "Gamma+ Arena".
- Fixed: The Gamma+ Metroid being classified as a Gamma Metroid, thus having the wrong requirements.

Area 5 Tower Exterior

- Fixed: Starting in Screw Attack Chamber or Zeta Arena Access now places Samus in the correct room.

Area 5 Tower Interior

- Fixed: Grapple Shuffler - Coming back up from the pickup if it was reached via a Melee Clip.

- Added: It is now possible to focus the game images in the "Games" tab via a Keyboard.
- Added: Experimental option under Generation -> Logic Settings that makes an early check if the game is unbeatable due to options such as starting location, transports etc.
- Changed: Wording on the Door Locks preset tab to be clearer.
- Changed: The main Randovania window now doesn't have an unnecessary border.
- Changed: The highlighted button in the cosmetic options is now `Accept` instead of `Reset to Defaults`.
- Changed: Node details in the Data Visualizer now have word wrap.

AM2R

Logic Database

Main Caves

- Added: Mining Facility Alpha Nest Access now has a Spider Ball method of crossing the room from either side.
- Added: Mining Facility Gamma Nest Access now has a Spider Ball method of crossing the room from either side.

Metroid Dread

- Added: There is now a preset option for each region that will remove all of its light sources when enabled, making the game very dark.

Logic Database

- Fixed: A typo in the event name Artaria - Prepare Speedboost in Map Station has been changed from Prepare Speeboost in Map Station.
- Changed: Various locations listed below are altered in ways that improve the quality of generation and resolution. What is and isn't in logic should remain unchanged.

Artaria

- Added: In White EMMI Introduction: Climb from Door to Teleport to Dairon (Lower) to Door to Teleport to Dairon (Thermal) by grapple-jumping on the falling magnet platform.
- Added: It is now logical to blow up the Proto EMMI blob in Melee tutorial from the right, with Wave Beam, Diffusion beam or a Pseudo Wave Beam (Intermediate) using Morph Ball, Wide Beam and Charge Beam.
- Changed: The logic surrounding the Single Use Slide in EMMI Zone Dome now makes it so that the event nodes remain logically accessible after collecting the event.
- Changed: It is now logical to go back to the event node for blowing up the Proto EMMI Blob from the right.

Cataris

- Changed: It is now considered logical to go back into Kraid's area using the normal entrance after defeating Kraid, if all the blobs necessary to go around have been blown up.

Dairon

- Changed: The logic in the Freezer is changed so that traversing the right part of the room ignores the dangerousness of turning on the Freezer generator. Meanwhile, all connections in the left part of the room that can be used before turning on the generator now require Highly Dangerous Logic.

Ghavoran

- Changed: It is now logical to go back to the event node for flipping the Super Missile Rotatable from the tunnel under it.
- Changed: It is now logical to go back to the event node for lowering the Super Missile Spider Magnet from the tunnel under it.

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

- Changed: Double Damage is now classified as a Beam instead of a Suit.
- Fixed: Typo in the Differences tab.
- Added: FAQ entry for light beam transport requirements.

Logic Database

Agon Wastes

- Added: Mining Station B: Hypermode method to open the portal without Space Jump Boots or Morph Ball Bombs.

Torvus Bog

- Added: Torvus Grove: Two expert difficulty methods to cross the upper part of this room without Space Jump Boots.
- Added: Torvus Plaza: Using Boost Ball and standables to reach the pickup without Spider or Screw Attack.

Sanctuary Fortress

- Added: Worker's Path: Advanced bomb jumps to get to the cannon platforms NSJ.
- Added: Grand Abyss: Expert extended dashes and standables to cross from the Vault side to the Watch Station side.

Ing Hive

- Added: Hive Dynamo Works: Advanced/Expert NSJ Extended Dashes to go across the gap with the grapple point.
- Added: Hive Entrance: Expert inbounds method to get to the item without Light Suit.
- Changed: Temple Security Access: Crossing the room after the gates have been triggered with only Screw Attack no longer requires Screw Attack at Z-Axis.

Metroid: Samus Returns

- **Major** - Added: Split beams and suits. When playing with non-progressive beams or suits, each individual upgrade provides a unique effect instead of providing the effects of all previous upgrades. For suits, protection against lava requires having both suits, whereas Gravity on its own just provides reduced damage and free movement.
- Changed: The hinted item after collecting the last required DNA is now dependent on the final boss. The Baby Metroid is hinted for Proteus Ridley, the Ice Beam for Metroid Queen and the Bomb for Diggernaut.
- Fixed: Prevented the block with a hidden item in Area 4 Central Caves - Transit Tunnel from being destroyed from another area, causing the item disappear.
- Fixed: Incorrect rotation of a progressive item if the previous stage of the progressive item was received without leaving the area.
- Fixed: Once you have collected all Metroid DNA, when traveling from Surface West to Surface East, a message will always appear asking if you want to fight Proteus Ridley or not. Canceling the message will load Surface East like normal. This is to prevent Surface East from being potentially inaccessible if the only entry point is from Surface West.
- Fixed: Issue where reloading an area would retain the disconnected status regardless if the disconnect message was displayed or not.

Logic Database

Area 4 Central Caverns

- Added: Transport to Area 3 and Crystal Mines: A beginner Spider Ball Clip to reach the elevator to Crystal Mines from the bottom Chozo Seal with Space Jump.

Area 5 Tower Exterior

- Added: Tower Exterior Spider Ball Clip added to traverse from Next to Teleporter to Pickup (Super Missile Tank Bottom).

- Added: Experimental preset option to place all majors or pickups logically. This makes sure pickups that are not required can be collected.
- Fixed: The map tracker no longer opens if the starting location prompt was cancelled.

Metroid Prime

- Changed: The refill pickups don't show the irrelevant explanation about how much underlying ammo will be provided.

Logic Database

Tallon Overworld

- Fixed: Artifact Temple - Using the Artifact Temple Transport now expects Ridley to be defeated first.

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

- Fixed: Error when splitting or unsplitting Beam Ammo Expansions when there are a total 0 Beam Ammo expansions.

Metroid: Samus Returns

Logic Database

Area 2 Dam Exterior

- Added: Spike Ravine - Collecting the pickup from below with High Jump Boots, Super Jump (Expert), and Unmorph Extend (Advanced).

Area 5 Tower Exterior

- Fixed: Starting in Screw Attack Chamber now places Samus in the correct room.

Cave Story

- Fixed: Curly's item in Plantation is now always sent in multiworld
- Changed: Loading a save in Jail no. 1 will now remove the block if the chest has been opened
- Changed: The helper block in Grasstown to return from east to west has been lowered by one block to make the jump easier
- Fixed: The helper block in Grasstown always spawns when it is supposed to
- Fixed: Freeware no longer crashes when alt-tabbing in fullscreen mode
- Fixed: Teleporter icons in Arthur's House now always appear in the correct order
- Fixed: Music randomization in Outer Wall now works regardless of which way you entered the room
- Added: Ikuyo and kl3cks7r have been added to the ingame credits

- Added: When exporting a game fails, for certain cases Randovania will now verify your input files for bad files. This is supported by Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime 2: Echoes.
- Added: Drag and dropping a preset file into the main window now imports it.
- Added: Options to alert the user via flashing the taskbar/playing a sound when generation completes in the Preferences menu.
- Added: Show confirmation dialog when deleting a world in Multiworld.
- Added: Show confirmation dialog when closing the main window or multiplayer session window while generation is in progress.
- Fixed: When editing the preset description after another change in a preset, the cursor position is now retained.
- Fixed: Closing the multiplayer session window while generation is in progress will now abort the generation.

Door Lock Randomizer

- Added: Experimental option that changes Door Lock Rando so that when determining which types a door can be randomized into, the algorithm searches for either side of the door using the resolver. This means some doors are more likely to have locks on them. Generation will also be faster.

AM2R

- Changed: DNA hints are now sorted. If the DNA is for your own world, it is sorted based on the region, otherwise alphabetically based on the World name.

Metroid Dread

Logic Database

Burenia

- Added: In Main Hub Tower Bottom: Get from Water Space Jump Platform to Alcove Across Grapple Block with just Gravity Suit and Movement (Beginner).
- Added: In Main Hub Tower Bottom: Get from Alcove Across Grapple Block to Door to Energy Recharge South with Gravity Suit, Morph Ball and Single-wall Wall Jump (Intermediate).

Dairon

- Changed: In Early Grapple Room: The second Slide Jump has been upgraded from Beginner to Advanced.
- Changed: In Early Grapple Room: Using Cross Bomb to cross the right gap is now under Movement (Beginner).
- Changed: In Early Grapple Room: It is now logical to get from the Door to Transport to Artaria to Door to Early Grapple Access by using just Movement (Beginner) to jump off the slope and into the tunnel, then jump into the tunnel at the end.

Ferenia

- Added: Wall Jump (Beginner) to get from Cold Room (Storm Missile Gate) to Wave Beam Tutorial.
- Changed: Opening the Storm Missile Gate in Cold Room now requires Screw Attack.
- Changed: Getting back to the door to Energy Recharge Station after opening the Storm missile Gate now accounts for needing two units of Power Bomb ammo.

Metroid Prime

- Added: A feature that removes the Boost Ball bars obstacle in Tallon Overworld's Great Tree Hall, allowing free movement between the lower and upper levels of the room.
- Changed: Damage Reduction for Starter Preset and Moderate Challenge is now set to Additive.
- Changed: Missile Blast Shields have received some Quality of Life changes: they now automatically open the door when broken, even from behind, as well as being two-way if the opposite side was a normal door.
- Fixed: Setting Screen Brightness in the cosmetic settings mismatching with what appears in-game.

Logic Database

- Changed: The Varia-only heat reduction is now done via a miscellaneous resource rather than being patched at runtime.
- Changed: Going through Morph Ball Doors doesn't require the ability to shoot a beam anymore.

Tallon Overworld

- Added: Reverse Frigate now requires Knowledge (Beginner) in every room where the door usually requires activating Thermal Conduits from the other side.

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

- Removed: The "Fewest Changes" preset was removed.

Logic Database

- Fixed: All Seeker Doors without Seekers tricks have been moved into the dock override section thus allowing the corresponding doors to get shuffled in door type rando. To find the requirements of a seeker skip, look in the description of the corresponding dock node in the data visualiser.

Metroid: Samus Returns

- Fixed: When Arachnus is configured to be the final boss, logic now requires collecting all DNA.

- Fixed: Exporting Metroid Prime 2: Echoes games when the "Coin Chest" model is used now works.