This patch opens up a new biome for testing in the form of a swamp area above the desert!

New AI and further polish (like performance and refinement of the walkable paths) are planned for this area. In this first iteration only ambient AI can be found in the zone.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed an issue where the "play" option on the main menu would end up without a cursor if it is not be able to find a server.
• Stats: Fixed an issue where logging back into the character led to some stats being lower then before (such as current health and current stamina).
• Perks: Fixed stamina not growing to new max stamina when increased stamina perk is applied.
• Perks: Fixed oxygen not growing to new max oxygen when increased oxygen perk is applied.

Map:

• Lots of environmental polish.
• Opened a new swampy area above the desert. Work in progress.
• Adjusted waterfalls and rapids with nicer effects.

Graphics:

• Fixed milky-white rendering of some water surfaces at night.
• Added a mesh blending effect to reduce seams. Work in progress.

Known issues:

• Client performance might need further tweaking in the new biome, work in progress.
• During the last patch reports came in about server performance sometimes taking a nosedive. Looking into this.
• Deinonychus still seems to sometimes fall through the world while climbing cliffs, looking into this.
• There seems to be an LOD issue with the mountain rock meshes that make it appear more low detailed than desired.

This update adds new progression mechanics in the form of a talent tree and a "quest" system. The initial implementation defines reaching the various growth stages as goals that are rewarded with points that can be spent on the talent tree to further customise the animal to your playstyle.

This is a very early implementation and work-in-progress UI, but I hope you enjoy the new mechanics!

Features:

• Upgraded project to UE5.6.
• Added talent tree.
• Added questing, with reaching growth stages as the initial goals.

Tweaks:

• Reduced stamina drain.
• Deinonychus can now bite while climbing. This will help knock down beehives.
• Did a simple polish pass over the UI, added some borders and swapped out click sound. More planned.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed some palms near the rivers not being climable by Deinonychus.
• Fixed an issue where Deinonychus would fall through the world - monitoring this, there might be more such failure cases that need triage.

This patch focusses on further expanding the AI and making it easier to feed on them by introducing growth stages and killing them off if they get too old, ensuring a constant cycle of fresh meat.

Features:

• AI now dies of old age.
• AI can now spawn as any life stage.
• AI part of a group—especially young AI animals—can now break away from the group for exploration; use this to your advantage when hunting.
• Added breakable beehives with food loot drops to the map.
• Players spawning into the world now have 30 seconds of spawn protection from the AI, where they won't be considered prey. They might still consider you hostile if feeling threatened, or attack back when attacked. This helps prevent being ganked by the AI on spawn.

Tweaks:

• Slightly bumped overall AI count.
• Initial pass to decrease AI aggressiveness, should aggro less often and from less far away. More work planned.
• Some quick polish for Coelophysis' IK to be a bit less jank as juvie, still needs further work.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed some bleed effects spawning in the air.

Addendum:

There have since also been a few hotfixes:

• Fixed an issue where dead ambient AI couldn't be picked up and eaten.
• Fixed an issue where ambient AI was defying death by making sounds post mortem.
• Fixed an issue where dead ambient AI and items were sometimes falling through the floor.
• Fixed reeds not being placable in nest.
• Corrected server performance issue with respawning interactive foliage instances.
• Fixed various issues with the player name tags not being visible.
• Speculative fix for deinonychus sometimes falling through world while climbing.

This patch reworks the termite mound and fixes various issues with ambient ai, as well as overall featuring much more ambient ai to further make the world feel more alive and help with food needs for growing animals.

Features:

• Reworked termites with new effects and fixed various issues around their movement.
• Added scorpions as ambientai.

Tweaks:

• Increased amount of ambient AI around the map (more fish/frogs/fireflies, few more birds, added back crabs)
• Reduced time progression speed a bit during sundown/sunrise to stretch out the event.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed an issue where ambient AI wasn't exiting their escape routine and kept runnin'.

Hotfixes:

Since the last major patch a lot of hotfixes have gone out, but no announcement was made other than in the steam forums and the discord, so here's a rundown of all the changes so far since the last major patch release:

• Performance and stability improvements for both client and server.
• Fixed various failure cases preventing eating foliage as herbivores.
• Fixed ability system crash.
• Fixed animation crash.
• Fixed crash while placing nest.
• Limited amount of corpses.
• Reset destruction timer on items and corpses on interaction so they wouldn't despawn.
• Fixed a bug with corpse removal.
• Decreased random emote frequency for Parasaurolophus.
• Decreased AI respawn frequency to 25 minutes.
• Fixed not being able to place nest bedding foliage.
• Fixed mud and blood not being removed in water.,
• Removed F3 bug submission window for now, was causing too much issues.
• Adjusted temperatures various non-hot lakes.,
• Speculative fix for pawn sometimes being launched forward fast on landing
• Fixed AI not sprinting.
• Removed knockback from Dilophosaurus secondary attacks (was unintentionally added, wip feature).
• Fixed a bug where AI wouldn't attack while in combat.
• AI now rotates towards target to make combat look a little more realistic, might incur a bit more sliding, WIP.
• Fixed a bug where AI kept breaking off their attack.
• Fixed a bug where AI was frozen in place.
• No more insomnia - fixed AI not sleeping enough at night.
• Fixed AI not fighting back when attacked by juvies.
• Fixed AI not exiting eating/drinking and fighting back when damaged.
• Fixed character being yeeted sometimes.
• Fixed an issue where some ambient AI could not be picked up.
• Clipped wings of termite larva so they no longer fly.

Patch time!

Hey folks, this is a large patch that moves the game over to a new map (work in progress) and completely overhauls a lot of the game's systems.

It includes more world persistence (weather and ai now persist across restarts), and the AI has also been completely rewritten with added functionality such as moving in groups and participating in daycycle specific activities.

There's a lot more to be done to further polish and make their behaviour more realistic, but it should present a good first step towards a more interactive experience.

The new map initially launches with a desert biome, which we want to expand further with subsequent patches. As a result, a number of AI are currently missing, and the first patch will have Allosaurus, Deinonychus, Coelophysis, Parasaurolophus, Inostrancevia, and Sarcosuchus as the AI you can encounter.

🚧 PSA: Please reset your graphics options, changes were made to the settings.

Changes:

Map:

• All new map! Work in progress, desert biome available initially.
• Removed the wooden shelters on the new map, instead there are small hot pools and cave rock overhangs/minicaves across the map. We intend to expand this with more caves and deeper cavern systems in the future.
• Note that some areas on the new map still need further performance optimisation done, feedback welcome.

Simulation and general persistence:

• Weather is now persistent and continues after server restart (limitation: will skip through a transition that might have already started)
• Locked server-setting control of the date and lat/long, as well as locked time progression to a single day and season (summer) for the moment. This was done to simplify the effect the simulation has on gameplay while new features are coming in, intending to bring this back later.
• Large improvements to temperature simulation, for both air and water. Now also responds to weather effects (cooling less fast during cloudy weather and faster during storms and high winds).

Graphics

• Tweaked lighting at dawn that was shining through the mountain. Sadly the current way rendering pipeline imposes a tradeoff here, and it's prohibitive to fix for some far-sights (which is more apparent at dusk).
• Added experimental option for Lumen as GI (this is an expensive option).
• Added DLAA as an anti-aliasing option.
• Smoothed sun/moon rotation, fixed light snap at sunrise/sundown
• Overhauled character material shading to be more realistic

AI:

• AI can now drink.
• AI will now respect a daily schedule and attempt to hunt and sleep during their waking and resting hours.
• AI is now persistent and respawns after server restarts.
• Relationships formed between AI are now persistent for the lifespan of the AI.
• Server preset control over AI spawning reduced for the moment, as we're moving to a more persisted set-up that conflicts with a lot of the initial configuration we had.
• Fixed an issue where AI wouldn't get hungry.
• AI now tries to thermoregulate based on the environmental temperature.

Gameplay:

• Increased stamina recovery, both while sitting and while still moving.
• New experimental playable and AI: Inostrancevia.
• Experimental: The character now tries to avoid collisions while moving (deviating direction a little), this allows for easier navigation through areas with a lot of collisions.
• Added claw attack for Dilo.
• Bumped sprint speed Para.

Misc:

• Added a join button on the server preview as an alternative to double clicking.
• Updated to Unreal 5.5.
• Updated to DLSS 4.
• Bumped server restart interval upwards to 6h.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed crash on game exit.
• Fixed various server crashes.
• Fixed some ambient AI spawning a meat chunk instead of their appropriate corpse.
• Fixed various animation transition issues, there's work in progress to refactor the animation system further.
• Fixed flickering of the preview pawn during character customisation.

Performance:

• Resolved issue where cloud shadows were always rendered even if disabled in graphics options.
• Added a cinematic quality option for very high performance GPUs
• Default tick rate for the server has been raised to 30FPS, still dips however due to the increased scope in this patch and needs more polish to stabilise further. Work in progress.

🚧 PSA: This release had to come out early and a little under-cooked due to recent server issues that seemed to be plaguing the old build. As a result, these current issues are known and still present in this build:

• After logging in, there's 5 seconds of very diminished performance while the game executes some important tasks. This is known and being worked on.
• The new experimental vertex paint application has some last minute bugs with what appears to be replication, sometimes added paint doesn't seem to properly make it down to the client. Already being worked on but time got cut short with this expedited release.

There might also be bugs or crashes we haven't managed to catch yet, so please do report anything you come across.

With that out of the way, on to the content! The patch includes bugfixes and polish, as well as experimental climbing for Deinonychus. Details below.

Further public service announcements:

1. Your settings might be jumbled with this move, due to changes in the codebase. Reapply your graphics preset and double check your options.
2. Some settings around collision have changed, if you have issues please let us know.
3. If you had a previously grown character and the skin customisation is wrong, respawn the character. Some preset settings changed in the game.

General:

• Updated to Unreal 5.4
• Temporarily removed admin scanner drone from the admin menu, needs rework after project restructuring.

Features:

• Experimental Climbing - Deinonychus can now climb (press/hold glide button onto a surface). Jumping off is done with the jump button. Use at your own risk, this feature is still every experimental and unrefined.
• Experimental material effects - Mud, sand, water, and blood material effects can now appear during gameplay on your character. There is a current known issue with reliability/replication of the effect, and it might not fully work on all animals yet. Also needs further work to polish fidelity, this is a big work in progress feature.

Performance:

• Improved render thread performance thanks to the update to UE 5.4.
• Optimised memory usage
• Optimised package size

Graphics:

• Experimental - Added Virtual Shadow Maps option, DX12 only. Currently only recommended for very powerful systems and after carefully tweaking your graphics settings. Provides much better shadows but needs further tuning to be performant.
• Fixed flickering with transitions between day and night.
• Fixed intermittend flickering/shimmering on grass with DLSS.
• Slightly rebalanced lighting to be brighter in various weather types. More work on this remains, there's stills scenes where the shadows are overly dark.
• Slightly rebalanced foliage lod bias for performance across the various graphics presets.
• Fixed missing shadows on some meshes (mostly rocks/cliffs).

Locomotion:

• Increased gravity to make jumping feel more realistic.
• Fixed issue with animation movement direction sometimes feeling incongruent with the actual trajectory.
• Aquatic motion tweaks.
• Cleaned up sarcosuchus jump.
• Improved smoothness of going over un-even terrain, though upgrading/adding further polish to the IK and surface alignment in general is something that we want to pursue.

Bugfixes:

• Various bugfixes for ambient ai food.
• Fixed termite mound attack key prompt not being accurate.
• Fixed termite mound not being attackable for some animals.
• Speculative fix for termite mound sometimes not spawning a larva.
• Adjusted brightness RainDark weather preset.
• Fixed Sarcosuchus losing textures when zoomed out.
• Fixed a bug where dynamic shadows wouldn't come back on after sunup.
• Fixed Coelophysis repeating the get up animation after breaking sit.
• Fixed an issue where the loading screen wouldn't automatically end.
• Speculative fix for getting stuck in rocks when logged out on top of them.
• Fixed AI not disengaging when their target was destroyed.

New patch is out!

There's a large movement overhaul for all the playable animals in this patch, details below. Feedback welcome, in case something broke let us know.

Dilophosaurus and Sarcosuchus also got customisation with this patch. If you previously had one of these characters on the servers, you'll end up with an incorrect skin until you restart. Roll a new character in that case.

Features:

• This patch includes the next step in adopting the new movement system. All playable animals have now been moved to their new configuration. This change opens a lot of doors for the game, but more work to polish the new locomotion is needed. There's a few intermediate downsides. Firstly, gliding has been affected somewhat in terms of fidelity but still exist as a mechanic. Secondly, vaulting sadly has been disabled with this patch, pending a rework. More work on all of this is planned.
• Added a dash mechanic that increases speed while decreasing maneuverability, default input key is X. Deinonychus can combine this with gliding to dive through the air (make sure to release before landing).
• Added customisation for Dilophosaurus.
• Added customisation for Sarcosuchus.

Map:

• Opened up a new trail from redwoods to swamp.
• Adjusted various trail textures, should stand out more.
• Added wooden shelters to escape adverse weather conditions.
• Added small trail lighting to the main trails. These have distinct colours and represent routes across the island. The goal is for this to be a tasteful in-world guide to help navigate the island, feedback on appearance and spacing/locations welcome.

Performance:

• Rendering performance improvements.
• Server performance improvements.

Misc:

• Slightly shrank Parasaurolophus to correct size.
• Slightly grew Dilophosaurus to correct size.
• Added breath particles during cold temperatures.
• In order to make room for the expanding roster and make species selection easier, swapped out the species selector for a simple list. More UI work pending.
• Adjusted footstep sound, check your audio settings in case you want to tweak them.
• Reduced volume of windgusts.
• Lighting tweaks for Clear Skies and Partly Cloudy to make the shadows less dark, there's more work on this to be done.

Balance:

• Buffed Dilophosaurus attacks.

Bugfixes:

• Various swimming bugfixes. Please note that in some areas you might visibly be a little bit below the surface, especially as a juvie animal. This doesn't end up hurting you, it's a mismatch between the rendering of the water surface and the top of the swimming height. We want to clean that up in the future.
• General movement logic & animation tweaks.
• Fixed audio settings not persisting.
• Fixed various pickup bugs.
• Fixed some pickup animations sliding during movement.
• Fixed frog not dropping to ground properly.
• Reworked corpse pickup and fixed various associated bugs.
• Fixed brightness and scaling of various particles.
• Tweaked allosaurus aiming blend snap.
• Fixed overly bright light during character customisation.
• Fixed PBR issue with character skins, should look less flat now.
• Fixed certain areas of the landscape rendering as near pure black.

0.9.5 is now out!

This patch features various polish, and more ambient AI to liven up the world.

⚠️ There's also lot of fundamental changes to underlying systems with this patch, as well as a lighting overhaul. Feedback here is welcome, there will almost certainly need to be more tweaking and bugfixing done.

Known issues under investigation:

• During certain lighting conditions the water can seem bright/glowing.
• Day/night transition seems to currently be very fast.
• Certain footstep particles are overly bright at night.

Map:

• Further improvements to landscape rendering fidelity.
• Increased beach scatter variety.

Features:

More ambient AI!

• Various birds and small critters have been added to the game. Further polish to make their movements and behaviour more natural and dynamic planned. Check out the cloud lake forest!
• Frogs now have a physical presence in the world. Their swimming still needs to be added, for now you can find them on some of the swamp islands and cloud lake shores.

Graphics:

• Better fog scattering.

Lighting:

• Large overhaul, more refinement necessary. Feedback welcome.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed popping snow ground effect.
• Team members no longer show up as food.
• Adjusted Allo fall damage.
• Tweaked some of the grass foliage interaction to be less extreme.

Performance:

• Improved CPU performance.
• Improved VRAM usage.

Polish:

• Improved movement rotation of ambient ai to look more natural.

Misc:

• Updated to UE 5.3.2.

0.9.4 is out!

Features:

• Added foliage tinting during snow, still needs to be excluded below water, WIP.
• Experimental: Added NVIDIA Framegen (Requires 40 series GPU, DX12, and hardware accelerated gpu scheduling to be on). Reminder that DX12 can be a bit finnicky, especially if you're on older hardware or have limited VRAM.

Map:

• Improved landscape texture separation/detailing.
• Greatly improved quality of landscape texture rendering.
• Tweaked paths and layout cloud rainforest biome.
• Tweaked paths and layout lower desert.
• Increased ambient audio variety in jungles.
• Improved blending between meshes and landscapes.
• Did a pass on cleaning the mesh holes in the desert, where landscape meets the cliffs/rocks. More work to be done here, this area got a bit screwed up when we upgraded the landscape.

Performance:

• Removed distant impostor fog particles from swamp and cloud rainforest, were too much of a drain on performance. Regular HQ fog is still there, these are just individual particles that were shown at a distance. Replaced with a fog volume

Bugfixes:

• Fixed ambient AI not animating.
• Fixed ambient AI staying stuck in place and not moving.
• Fixed various spawn locations.
• Fixed menu requiring confirmation even though no settings were changed.
• Fixed overly-dark cliffs in shadows.

This update introduces wildfires on herbivore feeding fields, expands spawning of ambient AI, a slew of bugfixes, and significant performance improvements.

A few PSAs:

• We've migrated to Unreal 5.3 with this release, shoot us a message in case something unexpected breaks. Feedback welcome.
• Graphics presets have been updated, so we recommend you re-apply the appropriate preset for your hardware.
• Important note: we had a case of AMD Instant Reply causes performance issues. We recommend to have it off while playing the game if you're having trouble.

Features:

• Added the first iteration of dynamic spawning of ambient AI to complement the static spawning spots, for now lizards and fireflies.
• Overhauled performance of foliage fields to allow a larger variety of foliage.
• Wildfires! The first implementation of this natural disaster is now available, and will trigger randomly within herbivore foliage fields during warm weather. It can spread, but not beyond the foliage fields for the moment. More fire starting scenarios and expanding beyond the fields are planned as features.

Tweaks:

• Aim mode can now also look and move up/down to improve the usability while swimming and chasing fish.
• Adjusted Sarcosuchus' animation limits for looking around.
• Reduced sliding when letting go of input.
• Tweaked surface alignment interpolation speed to reduce floating on inclines.
• Polished Sarcosuchus water enter/exit transition, but still requires further work.
• Added bite collision trace during tail attack Sarcosuchus.
• Tweaked spawn preview to make character not rotate & snap.

Bugfixes:

• Improved reliability of herbivore eating, fixes a case where the removal of the plants didn't trigger correctly.
• Fixed Sarcosuchus drink and eat anims not looping.
• Fixed Sarcosuchus bask action being in the wrong place on radial menu.
• Fixed Salt Marsh spawn turning screen black.
• Fixed flickering biome preview for prairie.
• Prevented Sarcosuchus basking underwater.
• Corrected "hints" typo in controls options as well as the settings change confirmation wording.
• Temperature icons are now correctly always shown on the UI if the "Hide needs when satiated" option is false in the options.
• Fixed options requesting confirmation without having changed anything.
• AI name tag now disappears correctly when removed (swallowed/despawned).
• Tweaked bodypile that was sometimes causing temperature drop.
• Fixed various foliage fields not respecting the min-1-blooming-field-per-biome rule.
• Fixed a stretching issue that would happen occasionally while interacting with jungle grass.
• Fixed various water particles rendering pitch black at great view distances.
• Fixed Dilo not being able to emote while sitting.
• Fixed animation loop on sliding end for Allosaurus.

Performance:

• Optimised landscape rendering.
• Various rendering optimisations.
• Client game thread optimisations.
• Further modest VRAM savings.
• Optimised Ambient AI server performance.

Map:

• Increased fish in swamp.
• Fixed various locations where water was stretching and showing underwater postprocess above water. This is a workaround and a proper solution is still being looked at, reports of other locations where this happens are useful.
• Smoothed out the banks in the alpine lake to make it easier to climb out.
• Fixed water collision hitbox at swamp -> ocean waterfall.

0.9.2 is now out!

A round of polish and map changes for this patch!

Just a heads up that that we have a couple more items to fix and polish with Sarco lined up for the next patches. Further bugreports are appreciated.

Features:

• Season and the amount of days into the season listed on the status tab to make it easier to understand why temperatures are trending one way or the other.

Changes:

• Biomes now inform which species can spawn there. This will allow us to tailor each biome more to the species that call it home, and exclude poor spawn spots for the animals. More changes for the spawn flow are planned.
• Removed player spawns upperdesert and eastern alpine region.
• Added spawns within swamp.

Map:

• Fixed wetness layer on ocean.
• Added extra rivers from alpine to swamp. The new rivers might need further polishing, collision/triggers are a bit tricky, feedback welcome.
• Overhauled swamp with new watersetup that offers better interaction, fixed various improper collisions, and scattered more grass on the islands.

Tweaks:

• Added Salt Marsh biome as spawn point.
• Improved backwards walk Sarcosuchus.
• Added a return to spawn point selection button.
• Tweaked fading spawn flow.
• Reduced max brightness swamp fog.
• Grouped raven sound with ambient UI audio setting.
• Adjusted various collisions in swamp.
• Tweaked damage traces for Sarcosuchus' attacks.

Balance:

• Boosted HP Sarcosuchus.

Performance:

• Significant VRAM optimisation.

Bugfixes:

• Speculative fix for helicopter event.
• Fixed edge-case where oxygen would not stop draining while above water.
• Adjusted a couple player spawns that placed you in an obstacle.
• Fixed glitches with river surface rendering.
• Fixed packing for Sarcosuchus.
• Fixed a bug where spawning in rivers would fail to start swimming.
• Fixed a bug where sarco/dilo couldn't swim to surface in river.
• Added fallbacks to handle edge-cases where swim triggers fail.

0.9.1 is out!

Couple small bugfixes for this one.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed server crash
• Fixed sarcosuchus' immobility during sit/sleep not being quite as immobile as intended

0.9.0 is now out, with sarcosuchus, new biomes, and temperature gameplay!

Sarcosuchus

Sarcosuchus has been added as a playable, the game's first venture into semi-aquatics!

Movement is work in progress, feedback welcome. One point of concern is still the IK which screws up a bit at certain angles.

Temperature gameplay

The game now has temperatures in the world that are important to keep in mind.

Some pointers:

• The status menu shows body temperature and environmental temperature.
• Simulation ticks ambient air and water temperatures independently, with the water retaining and losing heat more slowly.
• Weather and time of day influence the temperature as well.
• Find hotspots to warm up! The swamp is heated, as well as the lagoon around the volcano. VFX to properly show the water is hot isn't in yet, but on the todo list.
• Shade provides cooler spots.
• Getting close to other animals adds some heat (simple addition of 2 degrees per neighbour currently).
• Dense foliage also provides cover during cold weather.
• Endotherms are able to stay warm by burning food, whereas ectotherms like Sarcosuchus need to shift around their environment more. Endotherms generally don't need to worry about their body heat during most circumstances, except when the temperature drops hard (such as during a snowstorm, or a winter night).
• Your movement speed will decrease if you're hypothermic.

The system is designed to be forgiving enough not to be bothersome, but still something to keep in mind as you play in order to add some extra depth to the gameplay. Feedback welcome.

One thing to watch out for is that we haven't added enough helpful hints on the UI so you know what actually influences the temperature easily, we still want to add this.

Full changelog:

Features:

• Temperature gameplay has been added! See above for details.
• New ambient ai, snapping turtles have arrived.

Map:

• New biome! A salt marsh has been added to the beach, and the rainforest beach area  has been reworked. The salt marsh has fish as feeding opportunities.
• Iterated on volcano with hot lagoon, hotspring, and extra areas of land with a geyser (non-drinkable, will be made toxic in a future patch). This latter area is still very much so a work in progress.

Seasons:

• Each season now lasts 3 days (listed on the F7 debug screen at the moment), cycling through the year faster than before. This allows us to make seasons more impactful, but also shorter and more manageable.
• Snow now remains on the map after the weather clears up, if temperature is low.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed server crash.
• Resolved an issue preventing pack invites.
• Fixed Dilo not having any oxygen timer.
• Fixed Dilo floating too high above water while swimming.
• Fixed Dilo not triggering swimming in rivers.
• Fixed various rendering bugs underwater, we want to improve the rendering further still, especially the movement of the surface water and the underwater surface, which isn't fully proper yet.
• Fixed a couple places where nest placing was erroneously prohibited.
• Fixed aim lock ("L") for Dilo.
• Further stabilisation of the new movement system, reduced rubberbanding.
• Resolved various issues with ocean surface rendering during some weather types
• Fixed water interaction

Tweaks:

• Adjusted lighting on water particles to be less bright
• Going to and from the spawn selection is now a fade-to-black transition instead of the camera blending to the spawn location. Previous implementation was too choppy, simplified for the time being.
• Small animals like trilobites and fish are now immediately picked up when killed.
• Improved hit detection of combat with ambientai.

0.8.2 is now out!

This patch expands on the first ambient AI introduced in the last patches, trilobites, and adds more small animals that serve the same purpose.

All the details below:

Features:

More ambient AI! They're currently pre-placed (more randomisation planned) in various spots, listed below. Because of the pre-placement, they might be hard to spot in the world right now (tip: visit the cloud rainforest lake), which is something we still want to improve.

1. Fireflies can now be found around lakes. These insects will come out at night and can be killed for a quick snack. They also flee from you if you get close.
2. Lizards in jungle and deserts/prairie.
3. Fish in lakes! Just arganodus for now.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed bug where ambient AI sometimes wasn't visible even though it was active.

Map:

• Fixed a couple more places of stretching around map borders.
• Increased scatter on beach.

0.8.1 is now out!

Some polish and performance improvements in this one.
There's another update being cooked up that will add a lot more ambient ai, launching soon.

Here's the details:

Polish:

• Trilobites now respond to pawns and try to flee.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed items picked up under water falling out of mouth.
• Fixed trilobites not being re-pickupable.

Map:

• Fixed a couple instances of the landscape being distorted at the edges of the map.

Performance:

• Significant performance improvements due to landscape optimisation.