The Cave Update

Welcome to The Cave Update! Where every twist in a cave brings new pets, precious gems, bandits, and more. Good luck spelunking because you will need a trusty companion!

I've fixed over 100+ bugs in this update, so I hope you have more fun than ever in Wildaria.

Be sure to join the Discord if you come across a bug because there definitely are some.

Discord: https://discord.gg/6ZTjfKuB5R

Happy Adventuring,

Spacefudge (RJ)

Here is the full Changelog for those interested:

• New Caves

• Updated Dungeon generation to have specific objects for on walls vs corridor edges

• Set up a dungeon manager to swap between dungeon type

• Added new mineshaft arches mineshaft doorway cave entrances to elevated land minipois

• new cave stalagmites

• new barrels

• new wood platform

• New Peanut Food

• New Key Item

• New Bandit Boss Door

• new center room dungeon object spawning

• Got NPC Bandits spawning in dungeons

• Added new Slow movement up staircases

• added mana and stamina dmgpopup

• added new Lock and key system for cave dungeons

• Added new cave music

• new swamp and desert music

• Added bandit lord with key

• gold treasure chest as dungeon reward

• locked door to cave dungeons

• Fixed Use Item food bug

• removed save and load on room change

• fixed small mana stam popup bug

• turned off rain in cave

• Added Shadows to Elevated Land Tiles

• Fixed the Bat idle animation issues with the flying controller

• Turned off Velocity Camera to fix transition fader

• Added more validation to music to prevent doubling

• Increase aggro radius when aggro

• Added new bandit hood sprites

• Added new Colesium Main Quest to Lords Quest Line

• Tweaked item check main quests to mention the item when not having it

• Shorted the main quest dialogue to get to the point

• Troublshooting quest clearing issues

• Added new ClothingSet system to give specific npcs certain outfits - lord crown, bandits and now bandit lords - special hoods

• Updated Oak Tree top sprite

• Added a new bigger breakable boulder

• Adding blocking items to dungeon entrances and elevated stairs

• Added minipois to the same coords as elevated land to try and put them ontop

• Added new questnode sequencing logic to have the newer quest markers take over and hide the previous markers

• added seperate exit nodes

• added pet node to piglet

• increased text size for quest notification and dev console text

• Got the Full Wizard quests working and lord with the collesium quest

• Fixed projectile splats

• fixed some main quest typos

• improved player and dialogue manager script performance

• fixed wizard tower mini map

• added townhall stair movement effector

• Fixed Elevated Land Not Expanding past initial tilemap bounds

• reduced number of mineshaft cave entrances

• fixed bandit lords in caves

• added new offseting to npc and boss name plates

• removes some old sprite lights

• Updated Daynight adjusting on pixellights properly

• fixed foliage and screnery destroy scripts

• fixed build bugs preventing player from loading and entering rooms

• Fixed Build bugs with merchant manager singleton

• Got Lassoing Item working again and better than ever!

• Stopped Stamina Bar from regening when game paused

• Started reconfiguring Trailsweeper for controller support with a new Starting X choice ui and controls

• Added background to Trailsweeper

• Remade Trailsweeper for controller support- now you have to flag tiles as the player

• added controller support to the map

• fixed Aggro NPC's talking to you

• fixed NPC Clone in arena

• Improved Enemy AI Logic - Now after a pet uses their ability they either chase, wander or follow depending on the enemy, same with your pet after slaying an enemy

• made the protection logic more robust, removed flee from pet behaviour

• removed pet ability reliance on animation triggers

• Fixed the merchant list stacking on other merchants lists

• fixed a scrolltorect dropdown fidgeting bug on PC w/ mouse

• Troubleshot elevated tilemap colliders not placing properly

• Finished the controller support and icons for Trailsweeper, map, Dropdowns

• Fixed Trailsweeper Layers with the game and dialogue issues

• turned off dev console in trailsweeper

• fixed fidgeting in scrolling dropdowns

• Fixed Elevated Tilemap Colliders not clearing and not fully placing

• improved physics performance of the elevated land

• Worked on Performance improvements -

• Removed Mountain tilemap colliders

• swapped many blocking objects from kinematic to static rigibodies

• Reduced Animators by only adding to dynamic grass when destroying

• Sleep Point and ProjectileScript removed FindObjectofType,

• Performance Improvements for Item, lootmanager, and lootnamegenerator scripts

• Improved the AdvancedRuleTime Script Performance with caching, not running on ignore tiles, and prefetching neighbors

• Fixed Companions Arena Quest and lords quest

• Fixed Exit Wizard quest marker

• Fixed DestroyBlockingScenery Script not destroying static rigidbodies

• Fixed Flashing anticipate to walking frames for enemies

• Added Scaling to base enemy damage based on level

• Added Special Riddles for all the animal shrines

• Seperated object clearers from colliders for buildings so you can walk through them with static rigibodies

• Fixed the PetSlot overlapping bug in build

• Fixed the dash trail lingering a bit long

• Scaled the speed of the tame mini game with the size of the Lasso Loop to make more fair. Stopped enemies moving while lassoed

• Prevented shadows from turning with stunned enemies

• Fixed 3 healthpotions dropping from every drop

• Added protections to the tilelandtriggers and dashdodge to prevent random material swapping on the player

• Concepted new shader minimap

• Fixed Oakoo pet loading

• Added M3 back to dodge

• Updated some items and shrines

• Added new settings for camera zoom and ui scale

• Implemented UI Scaling

• Fixed Closing chest with ESC or E opening inventory

• Fixed NPC AI to attack, and the Boar God AI

• Fixed EnemyHealthBar Error

• Updated Shrine Pet Food assignments and some riddles

• Fixed Boar God healthbar issue

• fixed bandit lord not always dropping keys

• fixed tree stumps getting destroyed by projectiles

• fixed gems not dropping anything also you need to use pound on them now

• Fixed Pets getting stuck in player when entering rooms

• Fixed dungeon bug that blocked doors from spawning properly

• Made enemies aggro on Friendlies

• Updated the UI Scaling and Camera Zoom Settings to limit properly and added to the main menu settings

• Updated Inventory and ALL UI to scale up and down properly

• Improved the intro animation

• updated the intro animation scene for different UI Scales

• Fixed multiple errors in mapmarker and dialogue generator

• Troubelshooting map chunks not spawing objects

• Updated Burst Weapons to Firework and made the firework projectile stype burst on impact

• Added more detail to hover tool tip - charge attack, knockback, weapon class and armor class

• improved the ui for the tooltip

• Fixed the skill tooltip showing -1

• Increase footstep sfx volume

• Fixed the Blank no object chunks in the map logic

• Added back the Real in Logic properly so the player can pull enemies around now

• Lassoes enemies wont move too

• Worked on the Tame minigame smoothing and difficulty

• Balanced Enemy Health to be lower

• Balanced Weapons to have more damage

• Balanced Tame minigame to be effected by enemy parameters more but easier overall

• Make pets follow the player if the player lassoed an enemy

• Made Player and Pet not collide

• Made Death screen less stark

• Made the Pets that are lassoed face the creature icon

• Added XP to Venus Flower

• now pets and NPCs can trigger venus flower

• Added protection to the material mismatch bug in the FlashColor script

• Added Shift+Click to push items from chest to inventory and vice versa

• Improved the intro animation with starting in the forest and paning upward and more forest

• Added Chest saving and loading to village rooms! worked on it for minipois.

• Added Wildaria Newsletter to website

• Changed Slug to Glass Slug

• Added new Snail and Ghost Crayfish animals

• Added Glow Bonnet mushrooms to caves

• Made the level cap for armor and weapon generation higher and generate more items to add a higher ceiling

• Fixed Glass Slug and Snail

• Updated the Lord Slay quest to include a town and a new way to send the player to explore!

• Updated the Mana Compass to detect ruins, dungeons and caves from anywhere + Expands the mana compass needle based on proximity

• Fixed the speed of pet ability spin attack animation so it always fires

• Fixed a interact error

• Fixed Elevated land over dungeon

• Fixed Fast Travel Text overlap

• tried to remove markers when quests turned in

• Fixed Champion Pet Attacking Champion

• Fixed Arena Round 2 text

• Fixed Mountains miniboss bug

• setmaterial interactable bug

• Added Pet Fecth Quest

• added back death screen overlay