This update IS compatible with savegames from v0.98.0+! VIDEO DEVLOG 72 YEARS ISLAND TIMELAPSE ENGINE: - Construct 3 updated to r449-4. GRAPHICS: - Young animals have a more distinct color variation based on age and species. - Snow effect on trees slightly improved. AUDIO: - (Sur
This update IS compatible with savegames from v0.98.0+! GRAPHICS: - (Survival) Player shadow from fire is softer, and only enabled at setting Shadow = High. - (Survival) When calling pet, the character emits a visible sound wave effect. AUDIO: - (Survival) Added an additional com
This update IS compatible with savegames from v0.98.0+! SYSTEM: - The game should now use the discrete GPU by default, greatly improving performance on some laptops; this is a temporary workaround as it's still stuttery on some systems, and will be fully and finally fixed in v0.9
This update IS compatible with savegames from v0.98.0+! ENGINE: - Construct 3 updated to r449-3. AUDIO: - Water splash sounds (both player and animals) volume reduced, pitch increased, and added some pitch variation. - (Survival) Added more variation to the footstep sounds, based
This update IS compatible with savegames from previous v0.98.0! ---> FULL CHANGELOG <--- OVERVIEW: Hi survivors! I’m not done yet with 0.98 . This update brings new mechanics and balance changes, especially for the AI . Animals now make smarter choices in fights, react more
Hi survivors! I’m not done yet with 0.98. This update brings new mechanics and balance changes, especially for the AI. Animals now make smarter choices in fights, react more consistently in groups, and are harder to cheese. As always, there are more changes than the ones listed here, so make sure to read the full changelog for every detail. Have fun playing!
- (Survival) Added a new music track for night time - "Still Nature" by Samuel Oddamo.
- Textures upscaled/improved:
...... Tree, Thatch and Fern.
...... Path, shelter and cave terrain.
...... Nest and Didelphodon lair.
...... Triceratops carcass.
- Reworked camera manual zooming system, making it as smooth as Didelphodon's fur, and made several improvements.
- Made several small formatting improvements to the mouseover info and hints, for clarity and QoL.
- Added a new option in the control settings to directly toggle the crafting/building menus with a key (default G and B).
- Skill-progress decay tweaked and several skills rebalanced: ...... Skill-progress no longer decays while sleeping, and decay rate globally reduced by 25%. ...... Skill-progress decay rate is no longer amplified by Stamina <50% (up to 2x), but by Sleep Debt (up to 3x if severe!). ...... During fishing, Melee skill is now also abundantly gained with a successful attempt. ...... Fishing skill is now also passively gained during the fishing action, not just with a successful attempt, and increased the gain from catching a fish by 25%.
- Reworked how weapon/tool condition affects damage and action speed. The scaling now uses the item’s quality (max condition) instead of its current condition. For example, a Spear at 55/80 uses 80 for the multiplier. This holds until the item drops below 50% of its max (40/80 here); below that threshold the multiplier tapers gradually, reaching half of its original value as condition approaches 0 (where the item breaks). This (1) aligns with the repair rule (repairs only allowed at <50%), so items keep full efficiency until you actually need to fix them, and (2) slightly buffs damage and action speeds overall, since gear is rarely at full condition for long. The same logic applies to the heat bonus from clothes and Bedroll.
- Improvements to the Taming system: ...... A tamed animal, if small enough and close to the character, will fall asleep in the player's shelter, instead of freaking out because trapped inside it (fire will still scare it). ...... While sleeping, the tamed animal will not instantly seek the player after reaching 50+ Stamina, but will keep sleeping for as long as it needs. ...... Tamed Troodon will no longer flee when stealing a fruit/mushroom from the player, but will simply eat it. ...... Tamed T-Rex/Troodon, if strong enough, will defend the player when the latter is attacked (this is primarily a fix, since it was supposed to be like that). ...... Added popup text next to a tamed animal when it helps the player in combat.
- Alpha male Triceratops can now "banish" younger males before they become a threat to their reproductive success: ...... Juvenile males old enough may be chased or killed by adult males. ...... If they successfully escape, they end up "banished" and will not stay with the herd; the herd will not protect them (adult males will attack on sight). ...... When they grow up, they can return to a herd and compete with other males to regain breeding rights and potentially become Alpha. ...... Predators have an easier time hunting banished young Triceratops, as they are weak and unattended.
- (Survival) Added a new AI mechanic that allows animals to "remember" how strong the player is in a fight, and flee if the damage they receive is too high compared to the one they dealt (and their remaining health). This should prevent exploits where the player would simply hide (using an obstacle or the sea) -> attack -> repeat until the animal dies while trying to reach them. They now know when to flee and keep fleeing if necessary. Animals that live in herd/pack also consider their companions to assess their chance of winning a fight, so don't expect to easily scare them one by one.
- Animals have a chance to be "crippled" after receiving substantial damage (either from the player or another animal), and keep limping for few seconds (reducing their fleeing speed drastically).
- Alpha male Triceratops will now also chase (and sometimes kill) young Ankylosaurs, if they are competing for food.
- Carnivores eating a carcass in water, if it's small enough, will carry it on dry land and then feast on it.
- Improvement to Drying mechanics: ...... Drying rate increased by 60% – drying Meat/Fish can now take as little as 1 day in the summer, and in ideal sun exposure. ...... Improved Meat/Fish placement on the Drying Rack, allowing more of them to be placed close together. ...... When dried, Meat/Fish become even thinner.
- Drastically reduced lag spikes happening every 90 sec (at timescale 1) or few seconds (at timescale 20).
- Fixed a collision issue causing animals to go over walls and obstacles at higher timescales (can still happen at 20x timescale, rarely at 10x).
- (Survival) Fixed a bug that caused arrows on the ground to move to the player's layer when using a Bow (on top of their quiver, and jumping with the character) (also fixes current saves).
This update IS compatible with savegames from previous v0.98.0! ---> FULL CHANGELOG <--- OVERVIEW: Hi survivors! I’m still deep into 0.99, focusing on rivers and emergent narrative. In the meantime I’ve piled up a solid batch of tweaks, improvements, and fixes for 0.98, so
Hi survivors! I’m still deep into 0.99, focusing on rivers and emergent narrative. In the meantime I’ve piled up a solid batch of tweaks, improvements, and fixes for 0.98, so here comes version 0.98.15. The list is hefty, so I’ve condensed the highlights below. As always, you can read the full changelog for every detail. Happy reading, and have fun playing!
- Increased ambience sounds variation, with 4 new looping tracks for daytime, and 2 new ones for nighttime.
- Most ambience sounds have been de-noised and balanced in volume, and starting second is randomized to increase variation when moving quickly on the map.
- Extensive enhancements to interface text formatting and colors:
...... All mouseover texts have better formatting, with more colors suggesting their state (value color depending on magnitude, "raw" for meat shown in red, parenthesis shown in gray, etc).
...... Most key hints and important values are now shown in bold and coloured (magenta).
...... (Survival) Messages text like "something is cooked" (et similia) have more varied colors indicating their context (magenta -> things happening, cyan -> things done, green -> good things, orange/red-> bad things).
...... (Survival) Survival panel texts are now coloured to improve readibility, and according to season/humidity.
...... (Survival) Character panel texts (stats) are now coloured according to their magnitude.
...... Inspected animal panel texts are now coloured according to their magnitude.
- (Survival) Added item stats in the crafting/building tooltips of most recipes, like Damage: 6/10, Bleed: 4/10 and so on, depending on item type.
- (Survival) Crafting and Building panels have been separated, and now each have its own action (having one large panel for both was becoming convoluted, especially with new future recipes).
- (Survival) Animals overview screen revamped: population thresholds now take into account island size, added more variation to text descriptions and improved formatting and colors.
- Added Egg age when inspecting it (Survival: age accuracy depending on Zoology skill, or if the player did see the Egg being layed).
- (Survival) Added a red arrow pointing towards the inspected animal, when it's off-screen.
- Deep rebalancing to Metabolism, Muscle and Fat mechanics:
...... Initial Metabolism is now your Metabolism "equilibrium", which is the value your body will tend to if other conditions don't force it otherwise (it was previously always 100).
...... Body Muscle increase calculation (from Soreness, Calories, Proteins etc) revisited to be more coherent and balanced, and drain less kcal/prot.
...... The impact of Proteins or Fat on Body Muscle decay now caps at 50%, meaning you get maximum benefits (for keeping muscle) from them long before they are maxed.
...... Metabolism has less impact on Body Muscle increase (the difference was excessive).
...... Body Fat gain rate is 5x higher when Calories reach 100% (could be considered a fix, since it was intended to work like that).
...... Body Fat decay rate from character actions is exponential, not linear (meaning high effort activities burn fat much quicker than low effort ones).
...... Muscle Soreness gain rate increased globally by 10%, and decay increased slightly when well fed.
...... Base Fullness (both solid and liquid) decay increased slightly (stomach empties a bit faster).
...... Burning excessive Proteins now releases slightly more kcal.
...... Minor rebalancing to Metabolism fluctuations.
- When the Light Fire minigame is enabled, taking damage or breaking a Stone while lighting a fire now only occurs on failed strike attempts, no longer being tied to the Firemaking skill, as landing a strike already depends on it. This makes the mechanic feel less punishing for skilled players and less random overall. Also, made additional minor improvements.
- Damage from stumbling strongly reduced, with a small chance to suffer higher damage (reduced with Athletics >100 -> from 20% chance to 0% at 110 Athletics). Also, added pain sound when getting higher damage.
- Improvements to animal nest/carcass protecting behaviours:
...... (Survival) T-Rex and Troodon will get angry when the player pulls a carcass they want to eat, and will attack (depending on how hungry and strong they are compared to you).
...... (Survival) Female Triceratops will warn the player (and possibly attack) if he/she is too close to carcass of another Triceratops, just like males do.
...... (Survival) Improved how nesting animals guard for their eggs, making them (especially Triceratops) less "telepatic", but still quite protective. Also, female T-Rex will notice when you eat her egg straight away, and react accordingly (like Triceps and Troodons).
...... Nesting animals will not abandon their nest as long as they can smell their eggs (still alive) nearby, even if they're not in the nest.
...... Didelphodon finding a carcass will call for its lair's mates, so they can all feast on it.
- Adult T-Rexes will now eat Meat pieces when they come across them.
- Troodon biting power reduced by 33% (against both other animals and the player), this also results in them being less aggressive.
- (Survival) Reduced materials needed to build/mantain some structures:
...... Wood Wall: 10 -> 6 Resin
...... Wood Door: 8 -> 4 Resin
...... Drying Rack: 12 -> 10 Stick
- (Survival) When placing a Fire Pit, RMB/Q/E can be used to prioritize SMALL or BIG stones, to get a bigger or smaller firepit without tinkering with the stones on the ground.
- (Survival) When stopping hovering the mouse over a craft/build recipe, stones will always return on top on leaves, so they'll no longer blow away with the wind.
- (Survival) When eaten, "fresh Fish" (>50% condition) have 2x less chance to cause poisoning.
- Fixed a serious bug causing some Didelphodons to not be assigned to their actual Lair during island generation, leading to odd glitches when come out of it.
- Fixed cases where animals only "touched" their target without registering a hit, and made their turning smoother, reducing jittery movements.
- (Survival) Fixed a (still present) character freeze rarely happening when dragging items on a Fire Pit (also fixes affected saves).
This update IS compatible with savegames from previous v0.98.0! OVERVIEW: Hi survivors! Last month, with update 0.98.8, I mentioned that there would probably be no further patches until v0.99 — a major update that will break save games and take months to complete. However, after
Hi survivors! Last month, with update 0.98.8, I mentioned that there would probably be no further patches until v0.99 — a major update that will break save games and take months to complete. However, after a few weeks of testing and feedback, I decided to release one more update to fully stabilize 0.98.
This patch mainly focuses on balance tweaks and bug fixes, but also includes a few small additions and some AI improvements. I won’t go into detail here, but I’ve highlighted the most important changes in bold within the changelog below.
Happy reading, and have fun playing!
(notable changes are in bold)
- Construct 3 updated to r449-2.
- Added effect/sound when Ankylosaurs dig their nest, and when their babies emerge from the ground.
- Minor improvements to normal mapping and reflection effects.
- (Survival) Minor improvements to crafting/building animations.
- (Survival) Drinking-from-Waterskin animation improved slightly.
- Reduced some sound latency for distant sounds (e.g., thunder, dying dinos).
- Improved panning, volume, and logic for distant animal death sounds.
- (Survival) Warning alert sound no longer triggers during Fishing/Light Fire, to avoid distractions.
- (Survival) Halting a gathering action (while scouting afar) will also stop its sound.
- Some alert sound volumes slightly reduced.
- Character breathing sound volume slightly reduced.
- Button clicking sound volume slightly reduced.
- (Survival) Factors shown on mouseover for Strength and Health recovery are now ordered by magnitude.
- (Survival) Factors shown on mouseover for Health recovery are more consistent, and now also list "Storm" when taking damage from a sandstorm or a snowstorm.
- (Survival) "Let's hope for the best" message when eating a Mushroom now triggers in a fully random fashion, instead of always being shown before poisoning.
- (Survival) Landmark name (at the top of the screen) is updated more frequently while Scouting.
- (Survival) Stone's "Discard" button now has a reddish color, to make it stand out.
- (Survival) Crit damage text will now always be shown (even with low damage), and its sound volume now scales with damage.
- (Survival) Improved specificity of hints shown when trying to light a fire under poor conditions.
- (Survival) Added a new message when taking a refreshing bath, and increased frequency of similiar messages.
- (Survival) Added a new loading hint explaining ranged attacks.
- (God) Water and Fertility texts now show, respectively, the total amount of water (all ponds summed) and the actual % of terrain fertility (fertile vs. arid soil).
- Added a new splash message at the start of the game (showing once, after some playtime) inviting the player to review, spread the word, and join the game's community.
- The Landmark text (at the top of the screen) now also displays the name of the sea you're currently in (e.g., Northern Sea).
- The Landmark texts are now easier to read, do not overlap, and are larger at lower zoom levels.
- Animal "Hibernation" renamed to "Aestivation" in summer, and "Torpor" in autumn/spring.
- Mouseover on Lairs and Stumps now also shows their condition when inspected.
- Mouseover on Nests now actually shows "Nest" and, if inspected, additional details.
- Mouseover label "Condition:" shortened to "Cond.:".
- Button shadows reduced slightly, for clarity.
- Minor tweaks to main menu's color palette.
- Poisoning from eating raw Meat/Fish now scales with its condition (and is generally reduced, with a random component added).
- Poisoning from eating raw Meat/Fish is less likely to trigger if its condition is over 75% (fresh).
- Damage from actions (bruises, cutting, etc.) no longer scales with current Health, but has been greatly reduced.
- Damage from hitting boulders/walls/trunks bare-handed was increased.
- (Realistic+ difficulty) Mouse-dragging is disabled when both hands are occupied.
- Chance to stumble now partially scales with current Health (meaning that at low Health the chance is lower).
- Slightly increased chance to score critical damage (headshot) on animals, especially for smaller ones, which were too difficult.
- Ranged skill now also extends Scouting range, allowing you to see and aim farther (base range slightly reduced).
- Melee skill increase from just swinging (hitting nothing) was reduced, but punching trees now gives an additional skill increase.
- Firemaking skill now also increases from keeping a fire going (each fuel item that turns into charcoal next to the non-sleeping player -> slight Firemaking increase).
- Reduced Building skill gain from action progress (all structures) and from completing Fire Pit (stones are too easy to farm, and Fire Pit can be used to cheese Building).
- Max that can be carried in each hand: Berries 3 -> 4, Pine Cones 2 -> 3, Healing Mush 2 -> 3.
- Condition for actions to be "halted" now takes into consideration the actual distance of the camera from the character, instead of whether it is on-screen or not.
- Dried Meat decay rate slightly reduced, allowing it to last a bit longer.
- When breaking a big Stone, the resulting small ones have a slightly randomized condition, instead of being the same as the original.
- Body Muscle decay slightly reduced (higher mitigation from Body Fat).
- Solid Fullness given by Taxus Berry slightly reduced.
- Liquid Fullness reduction rate slightly increased.
- Light Fire action will no longer cause Breath to reach 0.
- It's now possible to add multiple animals consecutively, instead of clicking on "Add Animal" every time.
- Female T-Rex and Ankylosaur will emit a low-frequency mating call when in heat and far from males, prompting a distant male to migrate to her area.
- Female T-Rex, when in heat, if it spots a sleeping male will reach him and wait for him to wake up in order to mate (or fight). This will hopefully help T-Rexes reproduce more efficiently.
- Triceratops will now actively wander close to their nests to better guard them, though not as closely as T-Rexes or Troodons.
- (Survival) When hit by a ranged attack while sleeping, animals no longer instantly identify and chase the player from afar. Instead, they may simply wake up and panic without knowing the source.
- Hibernation ambient temperature threshold for predators was tweaked, in order to make them less active throughout winter and summer.
- Didelphodons will "maintain" their Lair over time, if there is sufficient population to overcome its natural decay.
- Improved herbivore logic for selecting trees to eat.
- Made some minor tweaks to animal hunting/fleeing AI, for more reasonable outcomes.
- Meat consumed from carcasses by T-Rex was slightly reduced.
- Taxus trees are now disadvantaged when growing close to the coast; therefore, they will more likely grow and thrive in the interior part of the island, which means that, in order to find Taxus Berries, you'll have to move away from the coast, creating more variety in the survival strategy. Island generation will also reflect this change (only for new games).
- Tree energy bonus from pond proximity will now also affect Taxus trees.
- Trees no longer receive energy from pond proximity if on sandy soil.
- Palm trees now receive some energy from being on sandy soil.
- Seed storing mechanics (in animal dung) were rebalanced to give some advantages to Taxus and Palm seeds.
- Vegetation is now always visible in snapshots, even when playing with "Hide Vegetation" mode.
- Tree shadows have their intensity reduced in "Hide Vegetation" mode, and shadow reduction when the player moves beneath a tree is gradual, not instant.
- Thatch is now severely damaged or destroyed by the Asteroid impact (depending on how well it's supported).
- (Survival) Structure blueprints (shown while building) are less visible, especially at night.
- Items inside caves are no longer always "dry": if there's enough rain they turn "humid".
- Lightning strike chance/frequency from humidity and high temperature increased.
- Tweaks to Landmark assignments:
...... Changed "Inner Land" landmark to be set closer to the coast, instead of deep inland.
...... Added "Central Land" landmark, assigned to the innermost part of the island.
...... Added "Cave" landmark, assigned to cave terrain (obviously).
- Increased initial pond/bed size, as well as initial fertility and vegetation for all starting seasons (only applies to new games).
- Several improvements to island shape and terrain generation (only applies to new games).
- Volcanoes are no longer generated too close to each other (only applies to new games).
- Caves are no longer generated too close to each other (only applies to new games).
- Number of Caves was reduced even further on bigger maps (only applies to new games).
- Added a chance of a wildfire happening at the start of the game.
- Tweaks to aridity soil energy balance.
- Melting snow gives 20% more water to ponds.
- Fire propagation chance on Taxus trees is much lower, meaning forests with plenty of those will have some kind of "herd immunity" from wildfires.
- Fire propagation range on vegetation increased, especially due to wind.
- Updated the manual page about Difficulty.
- Some visual effects are disabled when the camera is fully zoomed out.
- (Survival) Fixed a serious bug causing the character to become stuck when dropping/picking an item onto a Fire Pit, and in some other rare circumstances (also fixes affected save games).
- (Survival) Fixed a rare bug causing the snoozing sound to become permanent (and sometimes making the character controllable while sleeping) if sleeping was interrupted by a T-Rex grabbing the character.
- (Survival) Fixed T-Rex becoming stuck with the attacking action/animation if the character dies while grabbed by the dinosaur.
- (Survival) Fixed a potential exploit that allowed the save button to be unlocked in Rogue-lite difficulty.
- (Survival) Fixed shivering sound "trtr" looping during pauses/menus.
- (Survival) Fixed an instance where the character would grab items in the right hand even when it was full, when swapping them from the left hand before attacking or doing some actions.
- (Survival) Fixed Drinking stopping too soon while auto-repeating, even when more hydration was needed.
- (Survival) Fixed mouseover tooltip on Insulation listing "Fur" as "Hide".
- (Survival) Fixed drinking not happening if interrupted right after the drinking sound, which should intuitively signal that it did.
- (Survival) Fixed snapshots showing a screen blur effect while the character is sleeping.
- (Survival) Fixed pushing speed caused by sand/snowstorms on the player while moving or jumping being influenced by frame rate.
- Fixed Landmark text briefly showing the wrong Landmark while taking a snapshot.
- Fixed minor inconsistencies with some game effects (normal mapping, reflections) at resolutions other than 1080p.
- Fixed text boxes (map name, landmark name, animal name) showing extreme text sizes at resolutions other than 1080p.
- Fixed fire particles not always being visible during pauses or when taking snapshots.
- Fixed a minor issue causing tree canopies' Z order to sometimes be inconsistent with their age/size.
- Fixed the game menu once again being visible for a millisecond while returning to the main menu.
- Fixed some interface elements not adjusting to ultra-widescreen resolutions.
- Fixed some minor discrepancies in vegetation and animal collision boxes.
- Fixed some minor issues related to buttons.
This update IS compatible with savegames from previous v0.98.0! OVERVIEW: Hello there! Unless major bugs or balance issues arise, this will likely be the final update for version 0.98. The next update, version 0.99, will take several months to develop and will break savegame comp
Hello there! Unless major bugs or balance issues arise, this will likely be the final update for version 0.98. The next update, version 0.99, will take several months to develop and will break savegame compatibility. This is necessary in order to migrate the game to a new and better wrapper (WebView 2), and will hopefully be the last time saves become incompatible (knock on wood).
Version 0.99 will also introduce a completely reworked tutorial and an optional emergent narrative system, designed to give the game a stronger sense of progression and something similiar to a lore. It will not rely on AI, but is entirely custom-built and will require a significant amount of work.
As always, feel free to leave feedback and report potential issues: I'll make sure to patch asap if necessary!
- (Survival) Fish/Insects population mouseover tooltips now show ">" after Fish/Insects, instead of ":" (example: "Fish> FEW").
- (God) Added hour/min counter next to day, and rearranged other counters.
- Minor interface fixes.
- Stamina consumption reduced globally by 10%.
- During Fishing, it's now possible to prompt a manual attempt with click/key even if the mini-game is disabled.
- In Realistic+ difficulty, most actions will now "pause" while scouting far away from the character, and resume as soon as the scouting ends.
- It's now possible to progress during Light Fire action while scouting (previously it would simply not progress / minigame would not allow striking).
- Pine Cones have a very low chance of storing six nuts, instead of 5 max.
- Added a new Manual page explaining Survival's Difficulty.
- Updated Manual Fishing page.
- Minor improvements to the Manual.
- Fixed a small bug with the newly added resolution setting.
- Fixed minor issues.
This update IS compatible with savegames from previous v0.98.0! Here the full patch notes of v0.98.7, which focuses on Rogue-lite difficulty, adds an auto-fishing option, and several balance tweaks and fixes: AUDIO: -(Survival) Drinking sound will stop when the action is interrup
-(Survival) Drinking sound will stop when the action is interrupted.
- Made several improvements in tooltips text formatting, adding uppercase and/or color to some words (like items or game concepts).
-(Survival) "Quit-save" renamed to "Rogue-lite", to better reflect its purpose.
-(Survival) When another "Rogue-lite" save is present, a tooltip alert will notify that starting a new "Rogue-lite" game will overwrite the previous one.
-(Survival) Reverted a previous change that doubled the Proteins bar length (without affecting actual Proteins).
-(Survival) Proteins mouseover tooltip now shows a value that's double (max 100 instead of 50, by default), and added the "cap" next to it, also removed reference to "gr" (for proteins) and "ml" (for hydration).
-(Survival) The green arrow next to gathered item will disappear as soon as the item is moved, instead of gradually fade.
- Several minor tooltips and UI improvements.
-(Survival) "Fishing" and "Light Fire" mini-games are now separate options.
- Anti-savescum system for "Rogue-lite" difficulty improved to prevent accidental save loss: the game will now detect when the player tries to quit by either closing the game window or alt-tab/task manager, and save beforehand (instead of deleting the save as soon as it's loaded). If trying to quit with Alt+F4 the save will still be deleted (sorry, no fooling around :P).
- Added a setting next to the "Catch Fish" action button, allowing to set the chance above which your character will automatically attempt fishing (if related mini-game is OFF).
- Clicking on a Spear or Arrow stuck in an animal will instantly drop it on the ground, if the character is close enough.
- Muscle Soreness decay rate reworked in "Realistic" / "Rogue-lite" difficulty: it now scales with total Soreness (as in "Normal"). Previously, the decay would nearly halt close to 100%, making full recovery impossible.
- During crafting / building actions, components and materials will shift position and rotation to visually represent their usage in the construction process.
- Pine Cone nuts calories gained are now reduced fron Pine Cone condition, just like other food (still, no risk of Poisoning when "spoiled").
- Improved cracking Coconut animation when using a Hatchet.
- Minor improvements to fishing mini-game difficulty.
- Tree trunks healing rate reduced to 20%! It was too quick, and trying to fell a tree over multiple sessions would result in the tree healing to max HP.
- Stumps will no longer gradually reduce opacity as they deteriorate, but will become greener and darker, and then fade.
- Minor terrain ecology balance tweakes.
- Terrain zones arrangement slightly improved (only applies to new games).
- Fixed maximized windowed mode causing stuttering on some systems.
- Fixed rare flickering of some textures (primarily mountains and trees, only applies to new games).
-(Survival) Fixed character freezing and not being able to move after some actions with low/unstable FPS (also fixed affected savegame).
-(Survival) Fixed items being placed on the wrong layer after some actions, with low/unstable FPS (also fixed affected savegame).
-(Survival) Fixed Pine Cone not giving vitamins as supposed to.
-(Survival) Fixed Light Fire mini-game initially not interrupting if conditions would prevent to successfully complete it.
-(Survival) Fixed AM/PM not visible in the Survival UI with the unit system "Imperial".
-(Survival) Fixed tree canopies being invisible for few seconds after the game takes an island snapshot.
-(God) Fixed mouseover on skeletons showing "too far away" and being transparent.
Hello survivors! To celebrate DinoSystem's 10th anniversary on Steam (originally released on June 25th, 2015), I’ve recorded a video where I talk about the game's long development journey. I explain the reasons behind its apparent stagnation, as well as my vision for the near fut
Hello survivors!
To celebrate DinoSystem's 10th anniversary on Steam (originally released on June 25th, 2015), I’ve recorded a video where I talk about the game's long development journey. I explain the reasons behind its apparent stagnation, as well as my vision for the near future leading up to its release.
[previewyoutube="Df2OJkyrkLw;full"][/previewyoutube]I plan to make more videos like this in the future: not only to share more about the game, but also because I need to practice my English, and this is a fun way to do it! 😄
There’s still a lot I want to share, so stay tuned!
This update IS compatible with savegames from previous v0.98.0! ---> FULL CHANGELOG <--- A(nother) NOTE FROM THE DEV: Before getting into the details of this update, I wanted to take a moment to share something personal again. Earlier this year, I spoke about the loss of my
A(nother) NOTE FROM THE DEV:
Before getting into the details of this update, I wanted to take a moment to share something personal again. Earlier this year, I spoke about the loss of my father. Sadly, in April, I also lost my mother.
She was a nurse for over 40 years and helped many people; both during her long career and outside of it. She was also a caring and dedicated mother. Unfortunately, she never quite understood my passion for game development, which makes continuing this project at the moment particularly hard.
Perhaps if it had been more “successful,” she might have seen its value in a different light. Maybe one day it will be, but she won’t be around to see it.
Still, I choose to hold onto the good memories, set aside what weighs me down, and move forward with my life and my work.
Now, let’s talk about what’s new in this update:
A new setting allows you to scale the internal resolution between 25% and 100%, helping the game run better on lower-end systems while preserving core gameplay and visuals. This overrides the old, binary setting with only "Desktop" and "Low" resolution modes.
Some textures have been improved to better reflect the visual style and detail of the world, especially for boulders and mountains, as well as many small items.
The ecological simulation has been further rebalanced to enhance the long-term survival and ecological dynamics.
Numerous small fixes and improvements have been made for overall stability and polish.
Those are just the main changes, for a complete list check the FULL CHANGELOG
Version 1.0 is approching... but there's still a lot to do. Thank you, as always, for sticking with this project!
Daniel
This update IS compatible with savegames from previous v0.98.0! ENGINE: - Construct 3 updated to r429. INTERFACE: - Minor new character / char. info interface tweaks. CONTROLS: - Action key (default C) can also be used to put a mouse-dragged item inside a container (backpack or q
This update IS compatible with savegames from previous v0.98.0! - Expanded the saving system with multiple slots: ...... There are now 8 manual save slots, instead of 1! ...... Saved games are named by default with the world name, but can be renamed as preference. ...... Saved ga
This update is NOT compatible with old saves! Old saves and settings are automatically deleted due to the different way the engine handles the new version. If you have a current save you don't want to lose, don't update now , but finish your game first (revert to v0.97.2 from Pro
- [Survival] Creation/info player screen now has two modes - Basic and Advanced:
...... Basic shows only body features and few info.
...... Advanced shows also skills and advanced info.
...... The first time you play, it is shown as Basic, but will remember your choice if you switch to Advanced.
- Added a new options tab - VIDEO:
...... Moved all video and graphics settings to the new video tab.
...... New video tab is transparent and UI elements are spaced out, allowing to see changes to the game visuals on-the-fly.
...... Added new settings (in the video tab) for Contrast, Brightness and Saturation.
...... GFX Quality setting (in the video tab) split in 3 settings: Shadows, Effects and Water.
- [Survival] Added Mini-Game setting and mechanics for Fishing and Light Fire actions:
...... Added a new setting for "Mini-Games"; when enabled, Fishing and Light Fire are actual mini-games, otherwise they're fully automated.
...... For Fishing, mini-game requires the player to successfully catch a passing fish: chance for a fish to spawn depends on fish population in that spot, while mini-game difficulty depends on Melee/Fishing skill, as well as other factors.
...... For Light Fire, mini-game requires the player to click the attack button at specific intervals, when the arrows overlap the red bars: arrows speed and red bars size depend on Firemaking skill, as well as other factors.
- [Survival] Added a new setting "Auto-Repeat", and reworked the auto-repeat feature with Shift:
...... The setting has 3 options - Disabled, Partial, Full:
............ Disabled - Drinking/Gathering actions will trigger once (as before); press (not hold!) Shift to repeat them ad-infinitum.
............ Partial - Drinking/Gathering actions will be automatically repeated until the desired resource is dropped/thirst is satiated; press Shift to repeat them ad-infinitum.
............ Full - Drinking/Gathering actions will be repeated ad-infinitum (until the desired resource is depleted, or stomach is full).
- [Survival] Added the option to remap mouse Controls, and to move with the mouse:
...... Movement, Attack and Aim/Scout actions can now be remapped and reassigned to any mouse button.
...... By default, Movement = unbinded, Attack = Left Mouse, Aiming = Right Mouse.
...... Added the ability to move holding a mouse button (disabled by default), and sprint by moving the cursor farther from the character.
...... Added new mouseover icons as hints for mouse action depending on object hovered and circumstances.
- Crafting/Building recipes unlocking system:
...... All recipes in the Craft/Build menu now start as unknown, and must be unlocked.
...... By hovering the mouse on any unknown recipe, a tooltip will give a vague hint about the item/structure and how to unlock it.
...... A recipe is unlocked by interacting with, crafting or gathering its primary component (e.g. Stone -> Stone Wall).
...... As soon as a recipe is unlocked, a purple side alert message will show up, and its button in the Craft/Build menu will be highlighted.
- Added Drying Rack and Meat/Fish drying mechanics:
...... Drying Rack needs 12 Sticks + 4 Strings, as well as 30+ Building skill (for 100% chance to be built).
...... Drying Rack recipe is discovered by interacting with a Stick.
...... Meat/Fish can be placed on a Drying Rack, and will slowly dry based on sun exposure (therefore make sure to build it in absence of any roof).
...... Depending on the weather and the Day Length option, drying a Meat/Fish can take up to 3 days.
...... Once dried, food gives no water and less vitamins/proteins, but will decay up to 6x slower!
- Sleep Bonus renamed to Sleep Debt, with expanded mechanics:
...... Sleep Debt level can be assessed by hovering the mouse over the Stamina bar.
...... As Stamina drops below 50%, when awake, Sleep Debt increase exponentially.
...... When sleeping, SD is gradually reduced.
...... Sleep Debt effects are:
............ Faster Stamina drop when awake.
............ Faster Stamina recovery when sleeping (effect increase capped at SD 24).
............ Chance of passing out at 0 Stamina.
- Improvements to Poisoning mechanics:
...... Poisoning damage happens only when the effect is added/increased, while its decay is more frequent, especially after eating a Healing Mush (which now has a bigger impact on poisoning reduction).
...... Vomiting from sickness is more frequent, but always associated with Poisoning decay (since you're emptying your stomach).
...... Sickness from severe Poisoning (>50%) can prompt skill decay too (for skills that are at -100% progression), depending on poison severity.
- Added the ability to dig up Didelphodon lairs, causing them to flee in panic or even killing some of them (at Digging skill > 100).
- [Survival] Coconut can now be cracked also with Sharpstone or Hatchet, but there's a small chance to shatter it.
- When felling a tree, the wood/resin will now dispose resembling an actual trunk, and they also drop leaves.
- [Survival] Added Fur and Fur Cape:
...... Fur is obtained exclusively from Didelphodon (instead of Hide), which drops one, sometimes.
...... Fur looks like Hide, but has a dark blue color.
...... Fur, just like Hide, must be cleaned, and when equipped as simple clothing gives more warmth then Hide.
...... Fur Cape is crafted from 3 Fur, as well as 20+ Crafting skill (for 100% chance to be crafted).
...... Fur Cape, when equipped as clothing, gives more warmth then Hide Cape.
...... Hide Cape warmth reduced slightly for balance.
- [Survival] Added String:
...... String is crafted from 3 Leaf, as well as 5+ Crafting skill (for 100% chance to be crafted).
...... String recipe is discovered by interacting with a Leaf.
...... String is now used in several existing recipes.
...... Some item sprites updated to reflect the presence of strings in their crafting.
...... To compensate for the extra work required in crafting, most tools decay rate from usage (chopping, carving, digging, etc) is reduced by 40-50%.
Those are just the main changes, for a complete list check the FULL CHANGELOG!
Daniel
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This update IS compatible with savegames from previous v0.96.0+! ENGINE: - Construct 3 updated to r376. GRAPHICS: - Added a visual feedback particle effect when a skill increases. AUDIO: - Heartbeat sound volume slightly reduced, and frequency increased. INTERFACE: - Main Menu li
This update IS compatible with savegames from previous v0.96.0+! ---> FULL CHANGELOG <--- A NOTE FROM THE DEV: This is a relatively small update to address some major issues, as well as delivering a few changes. Here's the changelog, with the important stuff highlighted in
This update IS compatible with savegames from previous v0.96.0+! ---> FULL CHANGELOG <--- A NOTE FROM THE DEV: New year, new DinoSystem update! 2023 presented many challenges and opportunities: one of my family member is very ill, we take care of him, but it's very draining
-[Survival] Character arms resolution improved.
-[Survival] Added a blur effect to tree canopies at very high zoom (only on GFX Quality = High).
-[Survival] Player droplets from wetness disappear asap after the "dry up" action.
-[Survival] Improved some character animations (and now scale better with the actual action speed).
-[Survival] Side alert text notifications (showing when a stat/skill changes) are more precise and don't trigger several times in a row.
-[Survival] Structure blueprint rotation speed sligthly reduced (during build mode).
-[Survival] Added some variations to the "you're scaring fish away" message.
-[Survival] Mousehover on Stomach icon now shows "Fullness:" instead of "Total:", for clarity.
-[Survival] Stomach icon is even smaller from emptiness.
-[Survival] Damage text shown when failing to repair a tool is now violet.
-[Survival] Improved UI logic about attack recoiling.
-[Survival] Poisoning and Health damage screen effects last for longer before disappearing.
-[Survival] Sun/warmth screen effect is more visible and responsive.
-[Survival] Temperature and Health UI bars now update in a gradual fashion.
-[God] In the God UI, "beds" renamed to "lakebed".
- Landmarks map mode is much darker during night, preventing it from being exploited to increase visibility.
- Several UI screens (like character creation/info screen, loading screen) now fade when appearing/disappearing.
- Island snapshot requires less milliseconds to be taken, making it less intrusive.
- "Pine Cone" renamed to just "Cone", for simplicity.
- Added a couple new loading hints.
- Added a subtle shadow to some UI texts.
- Improvements to settings interface layout.
- Minor improvements to UI panels color.
- Inspect cursor icon made smaller.
- Removed Plug In Digital and Playful Oasis logos from main menu.
- Added the Auto-Zoom feature:
...... Auto-Zoom automatically alters the zoom level during some actions like Aim Mode, moving the camera farther away from the character, or like Crafting/Butchering/Sleeping/etc, moving the camera closer to the character.
...... Added a new "Auto-Zoom" setting, allowing to enable/disable the auto-zoom feature.
- Breath system tweaked and rebalanced:
...... Maximum Breath is now directly influenced (reduced) by Body Muscle/Fat: the heavier you are, the less breath you get.
...... Breath consumption from moving and jumping is no longer increased by body weight (as the latter now reduces max Breath), but is directly amplified by Fullness, especially if over 100%.
...... Breath mechanics tweaked to improve balance for both Normal and Realistic+ difficulties.
- While repairing an item, the chance to damage it now triggers only if failing the action, not during it, and reduced maximum damage from -5 to -3.
...... When failing to repair, chance to damage the item is 50% and is reduced with Crafting over lv.100 (down to 10% at lv.110).
- Bleeding reworked: Health loss is now always -1, but as Bleeding severity increase, the chance for the blood loss event to trigger is higher (this both for the player and animals).
- As the character is about to die (< 1 Health) a black screen starts showing, until the screen becomes fully black on death.
- Fullness is no longer calculated by stacking solid and liquid stomach content, but in a different way that allows to still eat if the stomach is nearly full of liquid, and drink if it's nearly full of solid.
- It's still possible to eat or drink with Fullness over 100% and below 110%.
- Effect of Metabolism on max Kcal/Hydration inverted: faster metabolism now increases max kcal/hydration.
- Body Muscle impact on Muscle Soreness decay reduced to 40%.
- Base Gathering chance increased by 25% for resources obtained from mushroom, stone, tree and fern.
- Chance to "waste" a resource when gathering from a fern/tree rebalanced (generally reduced, especially for fruits).
- Chance to receive damage/bleeding from some actions (es. Butchering) is now reduced even further by the associated skill (from 33% to 16% at 100 lvl skill).
- Chance to to fail crafting/building due to poor skill increased, but chance to subsequently destroy components reduced.
- Skill contribution to nearly ALL actions speed increased by 25%, this is particularly impactful for First Aid and Butchering.
- Chance to pass out at 0 Stamina decreased even further during movement and actions.
- Low Stamina alerts and blinking screen effect frequency reduced while doing actions keeping the character "awake".
- Low Stamina starts to cause slow movement penalties when below 40% (was 50%).
- Lighting fire action success chance revisited to receive less penalty from air humidity, and slightly increased base value.
- Carcass freeze penalty to butchering actions speed increased (this was actually a bug, as the value was intended to be as it is now).
- Improved melee attack precision (sometimes it did not land the attack despite the weapon hitting the target - might still happen, but less frequently).
- Improved the way the character adjusts their position before starting an action requiring a Shovel.
- Digging actions skill increase rate slightly rebalanced.
- Endurance skill increase calaculation reworked to allow the skill to raise also from moderate Breath drain (taking into account difficulty), and tooltip updated.
- It's no longer possible to plant a tree too close to another planted tree spot.
- Improved how items held by the character are dropped when it is hit by a Triceratops/Ankylosaur.
- Smaller animals will no longer collide with much bigger ones (as they can crawl below them), and will therefore also pursue food located below a bigger animal.
- Herbivores, when eating from a plant, consume 2x more of its energy.
- Animal health loss rate from starvation/dehydration increased by 50%.
- Slightly improved predators -> prey selection logic, making them a bit more proactive.
- Didelphodon health reduced to 40% (it's finally one-shottable!).
- Bleeding reworked: Health loss is now always -1, but as Bleeding severity increase, the chance for blood loss event to trigger is higher (this both for the player and animals).
- Slightly reduced chance of T-Rexes fighting before mating.