SYLVA v0.2.3 Update Notes

🌲 SYLVA v0.2.3 Update Notes

Hello, Sylvans! 👋

This update focuses on multiplayer stability, the new Party System, enemy AI, Eclipse nights, world visuals, and performance.

🌐 Multiplayer

• Fixed connection timeouts while slower systems were loading the map.

• Day, time, and weather are now correctly synchronized for all players. ⏱️

• Removed unnecessary network traffic generated by hundreds of loot chests.

👥 Party System

• Players in the same world can now press P to open the Party menu and form a group.

• Party members can see and track each other’s locations. 📍

• Friendly fire is disabled between Party members. 🛡️

🌙 Time & Eclipse

• New games now begin on Day 1 at 06:00. 🌅

• Day, time, weather, and the Eclipse countdown are now saved correctly.

• Fixed the Eclipse ending early when the calendar day changed at midnight.

• Eclipse warnings are now clearer and more reliable. 🩸

🧟 Enemies & AI

• Fixed major AI issues that could leave enemies completely inactive.

• Improved Undead targeting, chasing, patrolling, and attacking behavior.

• Fixed archers not firing and enemies sometimes ignoring ranged attacks. 🏹

• Removed friendly fire between Undead and updated their glowing eyes. 👁️

• Rebalanced enemy counts during normal and Eclipse nights.

• Enemies can now damage player structures, dealing double structure damage during an Eclipse. 🏚️

☄️ Meteors

• Meteors now create mineable ore or gold rocks at their impact location. ⛏️

• Fixed meteor impacts and flames not dealing damage.

• Improved flame size, damage radius, and building collision behavior. 🔥

🌍 World & Interface

• Nights are now darker and more atmospheric, with rebalanced lighting and smoother transitions. 🌌

• Corrected more than 42,000 misplaced plants and trees. 🌲

• Improved the ocean, vegetation, shadows, textures, and resource-hit effects.

• Fixed issues with the death screen, respawning, emote menu, Party window, and HUD. 🖥️

• The compass is now smaller and fixed to the top of the screen. 🧭

⚡ Performance

• Reduced terrain components from 4,096 to 1,024.

• Reduced network load, unnecessary animation updates, and shader-related stuttering.

Thank you for your continued support and feedback, Sylvans! 💜