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Version 0.1.08
🕑 Added 2018-04-29 07:27:25 +0000 UTC Version 0.1.08 is now live on the public branch on Steam! This branch brings in a number of new systems into the game including footstep audio, a new monster, and premade buildings to conquer and gain control of.
These towers are generated using the world-wide encounter manager meaning they exist prior to your actually visiting their location. This lets them be seen from very far away as in the picture above. If you look close there are five distant towers in this picture, the most obvious being on the horizon just above and to the right of the player. Inside each tower are multiple floors of guardians, complete with the first "hero" class mob on the top floor. Normal mobs have a 1 in 20 chance to become a champion, whereas the fire elemental at the top of each tower is always a hero, meaning it hits harder and is a lot tougher.
After clearing a tower completely the treasure chest guarded by the fire elemental opens up with an assortment of "rare" rarity loot inside. Also, ownership over the tower is rewarded to the player. This lets you place a solace inside, deconstruct, and add to the tower as you see fit. This is possible because the tower was built using the in-game building system and simply fed into the encounter management system.
Now that the system works (still some minor bugs being worked out) we can add NPC towns, abandoned buildings, and more for players to "take over," be rewarded, or destroy!
Version 0.1.08 also brought in many fixes to enchanting, and the game in general, as well as:
- An active buff overlay to show affects currently active on the player.
- Footstep audio
- An in-game console for command input, error notifications, and bug reporting
- 3 new set enchants
The complete patch list is as follow:
v 0.1.08 - 2018.04.08
- Fixed a monster navigation bug started after dying
- Fixed the "death bug," caused players to die in place and get stuck
- Obelisks are now upgradeable, the first in several steps of changes
- Solace defense demon health and damage adjusted (wip)
- 3rd party vegetation management system removed and replaced, grass temporarily ugly
- Runtime errors will now give warnings and print to the chat window
v 0.1.08a - 2018.04.08
- Fixed resources not showing up past 8km
- Fixed resources not unloading from disabled terrains after teleport
- Fixed lower quality presets decimating LOD ranges, causing things to not show up until right next to you
v 0.1.08b - 2018.04.09
- Fixed carrots spawning inside cabbages
- Increased carrot and cabbage spawn rate
- Increased stalk size
- Fixed floating monoliths
- Changed monolith guard colors
- Fixed elementals running in place
- Fixed obelisk tier upgrades not saving and loading properly
- Fixed obelisks using the wrong rarity of resources on rarity upgrades
- Fixed hotbar skills saving previously removed skills (remove them once more and they won't come back)
- Removed "Pick up" button from monoliths
- Fixed deposit all buttons on solace storage throwing errors when there is nothing to deposit
- Fixed inventory slots that stopped responding to right-clicks
- Right-clicking to transfer will now attempt to stack items before adding them to an empty slot
v 0.1.08c - 2018.04.10
- Added a console via F1. In the event of an error or exception the full stack trace will be printed in the console. Commands have been moved to the console except for /quality and /stuck
- You can now change the direction doors and shutters will open by holding down shift (the interact display explains in). This change persists after reloading and can be changed any repeatedly.
- Fixed ambient sound being unintentionally quiet
- Added footsteps (wip)
- Changed and tuned some of the movement animations
v 0.1.08d - 2018.04.12
- Added health bars to monsters and animals
- Changed combat targeting checks from a point to a 25cm radius circle
- Added a /sendconsole command to the console that will send me the text contents of the console if you are willing, should an error occur. If an error occurs it will suggest use of the command so you don't have to remember it.
- Adjusted resource rarities to new system
- Fixed a resource rarity check error that was stopping rare+ resources from showing up in the new system
- Added a fix for a possible inventory error
- Stopped footsteps in air and while in water (wip)
- Fixed some stone building materials not using their normal and ambient occlusion maps
- Change enchant rarity math so that 1 uncommon (2 slot) enchant is better than 2 common (2x1 slot) enchants, etc.
- Fixed "Light gained" going to chat window twice in some instances
- Fixed monsters "stalling" on death sometimes
- Monsters will now only agro if they have direct line of sight
- Towers will now spawn locally as the first medium point of interest
- Clearing a tower will grant exp, light, and a chest of 3-5 rare rewards
- Clearing a tower will also grant build permissions to the player effectively making it theirs
v 0.1.08e - 2018.04.13
- Fixed a rare bug when a monster leaves the active AI range
v 0.1.08f - 2018.04.16
- Added icons to temperature, fullness, hydration, health, energy, and mana
- Added an active buff/debuff display
- Added buff handling for skill descriptions (adds the protect amount and duration in skill details)
- Added a "reset controls to default" button. Warning! No confirmation prompt yet
- Added treasure chest icon
- Added a base to monoliths
- Added the Scout, Apprentice, and Disciple uncommon enchanting sets
- Updated the distant version of the first tower
- Updated skill descriptions to be easier to understand
- Turned off the storage deposit errors (they were just for testing)
- Increased tower ground flatten radius from 7 to 12
- Cleared and empty monoliths will no longer show up when revisited
- Fixed some items improperly stacking when crafting
- Upped base energy and mana regeneration from 1 to 2.5
- Stopped key listening during control settings other than for key binding
- Fixed an error with mobs trying to spawn on disabled terrains
- Fixed an error when selecting a set enchants while no item is on the enchanting table
- Fixed an error when attacking and using stomp at the same time
- Fixed an inventory error
- Fixed treasure chest throwing an error when attempting to pick up
- Fixed enchanting not leveling up when enchanting using the same tier resource as your current enchanting level
- Fixed the aim camera still moving while the inventory/etc are open
- Fixed the tooltips on the right side of the building interface not re-positioning properly
- Fixed rain going through things
- Fixed obelisk placement dummies attacking things
- Earth elemental champions now have a chance to drop an essence of stone, or uncommon stone
- Fire elemental added
- Fire elemental heroes now have a chance to drop an essence of fire, or rare stone
- Towers will now flatten the area around them a bit (wip)
- Added "Enchanting slots" description to the crafting details window
- Fixed solaces bugging when built inside conquered towers
v 0.1.08g - 2018.04.18
- Crafting stations and enchanting tables are now upgradeable
- Removed old vegetation system from project completely (was still in the start screen/game files)
- Hard-coded enchanting stat and material list positions in place (sometimes the would move for no reason)
- Fixed a bug where deleting the solace currently marked as home would send you to world zero. It will now reset your home solace to the broken solace in such cases and send you there.
- Fixed null reference error reports from the MobFinder
- Fixed the BuffUI bug hanging the timers and throwing errors
- Disabled the ability to drag and drop with any button other than the left mouse button. Sometimes right-clicking to transfer a lot of items would trigger a drag as you moved the mouse around.
v 0.1.08h - 2018.04.18
- Added direct input options for mouse and turn sensitivity. Both can now go from 0.01 to 3.0
