Patch Notes - v0.5.9

Patch notes for game version 0.5.9 (June 10, 2026)

World & Generation

• Added pre-generated worlds so new games load faster without live worldgen.

• Runtime worldgen has been temporarily disabled as it caused some issues on certain older hardware. (Though it will keep functioning for old worlds.)

• Added main menu UI for selecting and loading pre-generated worlds.

• Improved floating island generation in the Plains biome, and added some new rewards to them.

Mining & Digging

• Reworked digging/mining — smoother targeting, faster digging, and improved behavior.

• Improved Shovelpick placement gizmo so it doesn't obscure what you're doing as much.

• Updated terrain mining durations and tool tier requirements for several voxel types.

Combat & Abilities

• Added Poison Dagger Throw ability with new VFX.

• Added visual model for the Poison Coated Shiv.

• Added Magic Missile VFX and SFX.

• Added wind, frost, poison, and fire hand-casting SFX.

• Fixed Shockwave ability VFX and SFX.

• Improved Rend ability VFX.

• Fixed fireball SFX.

• Fixed targeted ability telegraphs not rendering on ceilings.

• Fixed swimming direction being locked to forward while casting abilities.

• Added ability icons for Hoe, Shockwave, and Teleport.

Intro, Quests & NPCs

• Fixed the House Party quest not completing when talking to or summoning Elder Krug.

• Tweaked Krell NPC casting animations.

• Fixed intro dialog lore text in several places.

• Polished the intro sequence with some new animations, dialog and props.

• Fixed multiple bugs in the intro scripting.

Mines & Minecarts

• Updated mine POI visuals, cobwebs, improve rail trackbed colliders, and cave generation noise.

• Changed some mine interior visuals.

• Improved minecart behavior and added minecart SFX.

• Added ability icons related to minecart-related changes.

Audio

• Added water, swimming, door opening, and chest opening SFX/VFX.

• Added Zyrrhak boss fight music.

• Fixed many SFX category assignments so sounds play in the correct contexts.

• Added area-based audio reverb for more atmospheric sound.

• Added various UI interaction sounds.

• Fixed audio tracks sometimes ending prematurely.

UI & Menus

• Updated main menu with a new game logo and layout fixes.

• Added a dark background behind dialog text for better readability.

• Fixed dialogs incorrectly appearing when the speaking entity is out of range.

• Added "Coming Soon" labels to some unavailable crafting recipes.

• Updated app icon.

• Fixed some minor UI rendering issues when textures haven't loaded yet.

• Fixed some UI layout issues in certain menus.

Visuals & Models

• Fixed a lot of models incorrectly receiving decals (projected textures, telegraphs, ...)

• Updated VFX for poison dagger throw.

• Improved visuals for several abilities.

Miscellaneous Bug Fixes & Stability

• Fixed slimes and other creatures sometimes facing the wrong direction.

• Fixed lantern rope length behavior.

• Fixed an issue where mobs would not appear to have certain status-effects client-side, causing a desync in max-HP and some similar issues. This primarily affected creatures spawned by the Wave-based Aetherium Conflux.

• Improved physics behavior to allow stepping over small obstacles to reduce players & creatures getting stuck.