Developer posts and news about this game.
* Several crashing bugs were fixed in the client and server. * A change to crafting attribute made the last crafting contest not working. It should be working now. * A new pet has been added to the world called a Crafting Cat. - It's a super cute oscillating ocelot or oscilot (te
* A new pet has been added called the Combat Kitty. It's a pretty serious cat. * All combat pets, clones, and purr pets now have a Peace command. This will teleport your pet to you and stop any combat for the pet. * The server hardware has been changed from a cloud server to dedi
The server is back online!
The servers are going to be down for a few days. The current server provider tried to do a bait-n-switch on me, and so I need to switch now. Sorry for the lack of notice.
This change has some internal server changes as well as some nice client asset changes. * A lot of internal changes were made on the server to get ready for server instances threads. Currently, all instances share the same thread, so this limits the number of instances. Once this
This is a major release since we are adding a new animation system to the client. In the coming weeks, you should be seeing new things in the game. For now, I only added a new pet which uses the new animation system. It's a cute little frog pet that will loot for you.
This release is more tweeks for the appearance system. * The Wolf Hell Hound ability has been given a nice visual upgrade. * Many of the critters that used the old oscillate effect have now been fixed up to use the new appearance system. * Clare has submitted a Kitty Sheriff Star
Now that the client appears to be stable, I've been able to concentrate on making the appearance system better. * Rendering efficiency has been increased. * Animated meshes should appear on the map faster. A lot of things were done to make this happen. * Examining a player in gam
More things have been done to stabilize the client with the appearance customization: * The client is now built as a 64-bit executable instead of a 32-bit one * Several crashing problems were found and fixed * Previously, when a mesh was loading, the player saw themselves as a sh
After ten years, I decided that Secondhand Lands needed a face lift with some nips and tucks. Previous updates have concentrated on lighting shaders and other visual aspects such as water. This release concentrates on player customization. As the title suggests, this is just the
* Fixed a potential crasher on the client when loading a non-existent static mesh. * Fixed up all chalices on quest giving NPCs. * Fixed up Indie's cloud of doom. * Fixed market display of items posted - Tokens now have a label. - Tokens are the tokens instead of the gold value.
* More rendering changes have been made - Water reflection and refraction are now correct. - Non-collidables are a little more advanced. * You might notice some new meshes in the game. More will appear too. Just realize that 2hl was developed ten years ago when fixed pipeline and
* This patch mostly changes a lot of the client internal rendering. - Occlusion queries have been removed. - The engine paints the z-buffer first and then runs the shaders normally. - Water reflection and refraction both use the same method. - Although it sounds bad to run the re
* Non-collidables (those weeds on the ground) have better lighting. - They use the diffuse lighting in a more correct and realistic way. - Some non-collidables have specular and emissive lighting. - They look more purdy(sic). * All particle effects on skinned meshes were broken,
* All the skinned/boned meshes in the game have had their lighting enhanced. I won't go into details unless asked. * The evil crystal that was crashing clients in the Lord Sittish area has been fixed. * A lot of static meshes such as houses had some corrupted normal vectors. They
* Chibi Crucifixion has a minimum of 25 points of damage so it won't heal your opponets. (yeah, that was happening...) * Sheep skins are only usable by wolves. * Halos are now emissive and shiny in sunlight and point lights. * The Drainer is now a light source when it blinks on.
his is a simple little patch where I increased the amount of lights per terrain sector quite a bit. (10-20 depending on how nice your 3d card is). You will probably notice an added 5 seconds during start up where terrain shaders are being prebuilt. Previously, these shaders were
The main theme of this patch is the completion of the Rabbit Hole release. However, the rabbit hole will not become officially active until I have a few sessions of player testing. If you'd like to participate in this testing, then listen to the Steam community forums for details
* A lot of internals were changed so that the maps are loaded mostly from the server. The client no longer keeps copies of most of the maps. * Two client crashes were fixed.
* A lot of internals were changed so that the maps are loaded mostly from the server. The client no longer keeps copies of most of the maps. * Two client crashes were fixed.