Alpha 0.18.0 - Of Hunt & Prey

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Main features

New Bow weapon class, with 4 different bows, 2 ammo types, and a new skill tree with 9 new skills to choose from;

11 new animal species added for your hunter needs, and some of the existing ones got some new abilities too;

New Hunter and Tracker Armor that provides bonuses versus animals, and is in general great for bow play;

New Hunter NPC that sells all of the new equipment, and has a few new quests too;

Patch notes

Gameplay

• AP recovered per turn is now a stat that changes with injuries;

• You AP can carry over between turns up to 125;

• New weapon: “Carved Shortbow”;

• New weapon: “Hunter’s Shortbow”;

• New weapon: “Recurve Bow”;

• New weapon: “Longbow”;

• New armor: “Hunter Tunic”;

• New armor: “Hunter Hood”;

• New armor: “Hunter Leggings”;

• New armor: “Tracker Cloak”;

• New armor: “Tracker Hood”;

• New armor: “Tracker Boots”;

• New ammunition: “Carved Arrow”;

• New ammunition: “Metalhead Arrow”;

• New item: “Thread Spool”;

• New skill tree: “Bows”;

• New bow skill: “Bow Precision” - Increases accuracy;

• New bow skill: “Bow Conditioning” - Decreases stamina use;

• New bow skill: “Quick Shot” - Low AP cost shot;

• New bow skill: “Barrage” - Multi-target shot;

• New bow skill: “Target Practice” - Reduces accuracy drop with distance;

• New bow skill: “Steady Shot” - High AP shot with high chance of hitting;

• New bow skill: “Keen Eye” - Increases vision;

• New bow skill: “Hunter’s Instinct” - More damage to animals;

• New bow skill: “Maimimg Shot” - Shot that reduces movement speed;

• New survival skill: “Improvised ammo” - Allows you to craft Carved Arrows;

• New animal species: “Hare”;

• New animal species: “Boar”;

• New animal species: “Goral”;

• New animal species: “Black bear”;

• New animal species: “Fox”;

• New animal species: “Deer”;

• New animal species: “Mountain Lion”;

• New animal species: “Skunk”;

• New animal species: “Porcupine”;

• New animal species: “Jackalope” (Very rare);

• New animal species: “Auroch” (Very rare);

• New Hunter NPC profession, that sells pelts, bows and arrows;

• “Bear” renamed to “Brown bear”;

• New ability for some animals: “Ram”;

• New ability for some animals: “Claw”;

• New ability for wolves: “Warning Howl”;

• 2 new quests given by the Hunter NPC;

• It’s now required to have a knife in your inventory in order to butcher corpses;

• Settings screen now allow changing some video & gameplay settings;

• Settings screen acessible via the main menu;

• Not all animals are hostile anymore. Some have only a chance of being hostile;

• All wildlife is not persistent in the world, and should be more common;

• NPCs now wander around their spawn point, visiting points of interest;

• When outside of combat, you can now path to an action and perform that action with a single click;

• The default video mode is now fullscreen;

• When you visit a PoI, it is now revealed on the map and in the codex;

• Now song “Unworthy” by Guilherme Bernardes William;

• Actions now have different priorities for “smart use” (Single Click) while in combat and outside of it;

UI

• Improved the tooltips for several items passive effects;

• Gold in inventory now has a small icon to make it more visible;

• When you press a dialog key (E for Inventory, J for Codex, etc) with another dialog open, that dialog is closed and the new one opens;

• Fixed some weird item material naming (e.g “Coyote Pants” becomes “Coyote Hide Pants”);

• You can now scroll by dragging the scroll bar;

• Added a small skull marker on creatures whose Challenge Rating is higher than yours;

• Added option in the load menu to delete saves;

• Increased the character portrait size in the inventory screen;

• Replaced “Buy All” option in traders for a “Buy 10”;

Modding

• It is now possible to define history actions for creatures in the “creature_history_event.toml” file;

Bugfixes

• Confirming the “Split Stack” dialog no longer closes the inventory;

• Fixed some material properties not being applied to items;