Highlights
- Your nomling now celebrates updates. When a new version is out, the pet
cheers with a little up arrow beside it and announces the news in its own
species' voice (the Byteling requests "UPDATE DETECTED. PLEASE INSTALL ME",
the Hopling will bounce and say something else, etc.). Updating stays your call: one click in settings,
nothing installs on its own. - Color pickers no longer mess with your settings. Picking a screen, pet,
or shell color could shrink the settings menu back to 100% and silently
reset other preferences (pet size, mode, always-on-top). Fixed. - Dance-to-music survives audio device changes. Plug in headphones or
switch speakers mid-song and the pet picks the beat back up on its own, no
more toggling the setting off and on.
New here? Start with the v0.2.0 release
notes for the full introduction, or the owner's manual.
Downloads
| File | Notes |
|---|---|
Nomlings_0.2.1_x64-setup.exe |
Windows installer (recommended). Per-user, no admin. |
Nomlings_0.2.1_portable.zip |
Portable build: unzip, add to PATH, run nomling setup. |
SHA256SUMS.txt |
Checksums; verify with Get-FileHash <file> -Algorithm SHA256. |
Already on v0.2.0? Open settings and the update offer appears on the VERSION
row (your nomling will let you know too). Windows SmartScreen may warn because
the binaries are unsigned: click More info, then Run anyway.
Changelog (v0.2.1)
- New: update announcements. While a newer version is available (and CHECK
UPDATES is on), an idle pet plays its celebrate animation with an up-arrow
badge and speaks a species-specific line. Real behaviors (working, eating,
sleeping, alerts) and dancing still take priority, and the announcement
shows even with hints turned off. - Fixed a settings bug where using a color picker made the settings window
snap back to 100% menu scale and could silently reset pet size, pet type,
always-on-top, click-through, and the first-run flag. Cause: the live color
preview event was overwriting the panel's copy of the settings with a
partial one. - Fixed dance-to-music going deaf until toggled off and on. The audio capture
now rebuilds itself when the default output device changes, when the stream
errors, or when no usable device existed when the toggle was flipped. - Fixed antenna pixels getting cut off during the idle bounce. Teen antennas
lost their tip on every up frame, and high-floating bodies like the adult
Wispling lost theirs too. Sprite centering now measures the real antenna
pixels per frame instead of reserving a fixed number of rows. - Hint text next to the pet now starts at the very top of the window, so
longer lines that wrap stay clear of the device's keychain loop.