Post March Playtest Devblog – April Update & New Playtest

🛠️ Post March Playtest Devblog – April Update & New Playtest

Greetings adventurers,

Following the March playtest, we've been hard at work improving every aspect of Mithrall based on your feedback. This update brings a massive wave of new features, UI overhauls, tool reworks, and gameplay polish.

We’re also thrilled to announce that the next playtest is happening this weekend — and this time, registrations are directly on Steam!

👉 Request Access on the Steam Page

📚 Tech Tree Rework & UI Improvements

• Improved tooltip positioning

• Tooltip now shows total crafting cost and required workbenches

• Warnings added when missing prerequisite researches

• Locked items now show costs and locked icon

🧠 Tutorial & Quest UI Improvements

• Tutorial window can now be minimized and expanded

• Close button more visible

• Two new tutorials: - Own your base (Influence Chest + Door) - Create a respawn point (Sleeping Bag)

• Quest UI now displays XP rewards with better layout

🧪 Crafting UI & System Changes

• Unknown items now appear as silhouettes in crafting queue

• Primitive crafting queue includes new icons and border timer

🎯 Quality System Rebalance

The crafting quality system was completely reworked!

Previously, players reached Masterpiece quality too quickly. With the new system, the "quality band" progresses with skill level, making higher-tier results a meaningful achievement.

💬 Context Menu System

We’ve added a brand new context menu in the chat UI!

• Mute

• Report

• Invite to Clan

• Admin actions (for moderators)

This system will soon expand across other game systems such as clan management and Influence Chests.

🧩 Puzzle Tools & Level Design Overhaul

We’ve added tons of tools to build dynamic puzzle gameplay and interactive dungeon logic:

• Player/enemy detection zones

• Pressure plates with FX and trigger logic

• Levers with sound, rotation, and reset behavior

• Delay-based logic (e.g. delayed chests after puzzle solved)

• Global FX spawner (visuals, sounds, particles)

• Enhanced dungeon receptacles and interactive sequences

Here are some puzzle showcases:

🎵 Keriathor’s Forest Music & Creature Sound Updates

Every devblog brings a new theme track — this time, welcome to Keriathor’s Forest. A blend of bagpipes and piano sets a mystical and slightly dark tone, evoking both beauty and danger.

Creature Sound Updates:

• Satyr

• Forest Imp

• Slime

• Updated sounds for Ents and Forest Drakes

🪓 New Weapons, Tools & Resources

We’ve added brand-new models for:

• Hatchets

• Pickaxes

• Swords & Greatswords

• Shields

New resource tiers (rock, wood) have been added and integrated across maps and dungeons.

📜 Questline & PvP Contracts

We’ve implemented an introductory questline with rewards like:

• Tools

• Bandages

• XP

• Knowledge Fragments

PvP missions are now live — complete contracts such as:

“Bring back X dwarven ears from fallen enemies.”

🛒 New Shop System & Mounts

Two exciting new systems:

🛍️ NPC Vendor Shops: Purchase basic gear and helpful supplies to get started faster.

🐎 Mounts are in! Players can now buy horses in the starting area and begin riding across Mithrall! This is just the beginning of the mount system — more types will come in future updates.

🐞 Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Bank items no longer vanish on reopen

• Bank UI no longer shows other players’ inventories

• Coin cost now applies when buying extra bank pages

• Quest items with improper quality now fixed

• Tablet fabricator interaction now works reliably

• UI overlaps, tutorial triggers, and health bar display cleaned up

🎮 Playtest Starts This Weekend!

📅 Dates: Mai 2 (Friday) – Mai 4 (Sunday) ⏰ Start Time: Friday at 6 PM CET

We’ve already passed 1000 signups — help us reach 2,000+ by sharing the playtest!

👉 Click here to register for the playtest

Thank you for helping us shape this world — see you in Mithrall! — The Mithrall Dev Team 🛡️