Cave Creator

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Cave Creator
Rating	E 10+
Genre	Sandbox
Platforms	Computer
Media	Digital download
Publisher	Jimble
Release dates	February 25th, 2018 (?)
Creator	Jimble

Cave Creator, later known as Cave Creator+ and then Cave Creator v2, is an application made by Jimble. It is used to, with ease, create, and later also share, user-made caves to be played in Pikmin 2.

Version history

To do: Find out what happened to updates 2.3.1 and 2.3.2. Do they exist, or is 2.3.3 a simple typo? Find out what happened to update 2.4.1. Is it a simple mistake, or is there a missing version to be logged? Find and document the changes update version 2.5 introduced. Find and document any updates following version 2.8, and version 2.9.9.1. Document version 3.0 and beyond. PLEASE RECORD RELEASE DATES WHEN POSSIBLE!

Version	Changes	Date
1.0	Initial release.	Unknown
1.1	Added any missing treasures. Separated bomb rocks, eggs, hazards, and related objects from the list of enemies and bosses. Added a "check for updates" button to the help menu to automatically install the newest updates. Removed the ability to add more than one instance of the same treasure into a single sublevel. Fixed a bug that prevented becoming caught in an infinite "please use numerical characters" message loop when typing letters into the "add gate" input box. Fixed a bug that prevented being able to remove a select entity after opening a project file. Made more consistency and design adjustments.	Unknown
1.1.1	Fixed a bug where opening project files would not properly import music data.	Unknown
1.1.2	Added the Titan Dweevil to the entity list. Fixed the capitalization of Dwarf Bulbears.	Unknown
1.1.3	Added the immobile variant of the Gatling Groink. Fixed a bug where the sublevel's music did not change in the code despite clearly changing within the sublevel properties menu. Removed the Ivory Candypop Bud from the enemies and bosses list as it's an object. Removed a debugging feature that caused any enemy or boss added to the sublevel to instead be the one below it on the list.	Unknown
1.2	Added the ability to create lighting files using an intuitive color slider. Added the ability to generate random enemies, bosses, decorations, and dropped treasures. Added the ability to remove all entities or only selected entities from the add entity menu. Added a button in the sublevel properties menu to manually implement custom cave unit and lighting files. Note that this process is automatic when using the lighting designer menu. Adjusted the layouts of the add new entity and sublevel properties menus to accommodate the new features. Removed the background image from the sublevel properties menu, allowing it to load instantly. Fixed a bug that prevented being unable to add a Greater Spotted Jellyfloat to a sublevel by clicking its button in the add entity menu. Adjusted the names of vanilla lighting files to reflect their internal names. Added a link next to the lighting selection menu that leads to a selection of screenshots showcasing every used and unused vanilla lighting file. Fixed a bug where selecting Rest as the sublevel's theme in the sublevel properties menu would mutually result in silence until a boss fight. Removed the limit of the maximum room count and the corridor to room ratio. Larger sublevels result in a label appearing, warning that there is a high chance of crashing in-game due to RAM limitations. Made general design improvements. Made various optimizations and improved efficiency, despite the file size increasing by around eight megabytes.	Unknown
1.2.1	Readded the ability to add several instances of the same treasure. Added the ability to easily remove selected entities by pressing the delete key. Adjusted the bar at the top of the main menu to display a window providing details of the current version, along with Nintendo trademark and copyright information.	Unknown
1.2.2	Fixed a bug from versions 1.2 and 1.2.1 causing a crash upon opening a project file.	Unknown
1.2.3	Fixed a bug from version 1.2.2 causing the count value to display incorrectly when attempting to remove a selected entity.	Unknown
1.2.4	Adds a feature for users with advanced technical knowledge to manually fix a small mistake using a text box. When enabled, the text box turns black with white text. Adjusted how gates are added, as the program asks to input a value between one and nine inclusive. Before, the value would be set at zero, and the gate would fail to generate. Removed the one-entity limit of how many treasures an entity drops upon death. Fixed the capitalization errors in the internal names of the Withering Blowhog, buried Armored Cannon Beetle Larva, and Decorated Cannon Beetle.	Unknown
2.0	Several snapshots of this version were released from February 24th, 2018 to August 20th, 2018. Introduced a new design labelled Cave Creator+. Added the ability to edit any sublevel at any time. Added the ability to import vanilla text files.	February 24th, 2018 through August 20th, 2018
2.1	Introduced Cave Net, a way to quickly and easily share custom caves online. Added new options. Made interface and stability improvements.	October 2nd, 2018
2.2	Renamed Cave Creator+ to simply Cave Creator v2. Adjusted the main, options, treasure, and gate menus to be smaller and more simplistic. Adjusted the color of the Cave Net button to be white in dark mode.	December 10th, 2018
2.3	Added the following to Cave Net: The ability to add thumbnails, descriptions, bonus challenges to caves; A favorites menu, wherein caves are saved locally to be enjoyed again later; A new user interface.	February 26th, 2019
2.3.3	Added the following to Cave Net: The ability to post a comment to a cave; The ability to give a cave flowers, the equivalent of a like on social media platforms; Weekly Caves, where moderators select their favorite caves to showcase to the community.	March 1st, 2019
2.4	Added a countdown for the new Weekly Caves in Cave Net. Made several adjustments to the interface; in particular, improvements to Cave Net cave descriptions.	April 27th, 2019
2.4.2	Made Cave Net ensure it is running the latest version of Cave Creator before proceeding. Made some user interface adjustments.	March 26th, 2019
2.4.3	Added a provide feedback button to the main menu and cave creation screen. Readded the list of supporters, accessible from the about menu. Made several user interface adjustments, including much more refined import and export menus. Made buttons use the default cursor rather than the hand cursor.	May 28th, 2019
2.4.4	Made decimal numbers use periods instead of commas.	June 16th, 2019
2.4.5	Added support for commas in Cave Net cave descriptions.	June 19th, 2019
2.6	Added the ability to duplicate sublevels while editing a cave. Added support for custom directory routes. It is found in the options menu.	November 13th, 2019
2.7	Made every window resizeable. The components within adjust accordingly. Made the layout design more consistent. Reduced the file size from fifty megabytes to eight megabytes merely by removing unused images.	November 26th, 2019
2.8	Removed the option to set a spawn distribution weight for plants and decorations. Fixed a bug where loading a cave while already in a sublevel's entities menu would mix up both caves' entities. Updated the title screen.	January 1st, 2020
2.9.9.1	Updated the user interface to resemble Animal Crossing: New Horizons's.	Unknown

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