We are happy to announce that Northern Lights version 0.1.4 is now LIVE on STEAM and comes with a lot of improvements and fixes to both performance and mechanics!
Changelog 0.1.4
- Improved overall performance and usability of world objects' user interfaces
- Improved animal fat harvesting and usage mechanics
- Improved hitboxes for picking up items (rocks, sticks etc.)
- Arrows can now be taken back
- Spruce bark is now stacking in inventory
- Paper stacks now show as materials
- Cold affliction now won't trigger randomly when outside
- Treatment panel buttons now pulse when the items are available for consumption
- There are now more pinecones scattered through world
- Save system now only keeps last 5 autosaves
- Clothing now only gets wet while outside
- Certain items now go into their containers when looted (bullets into ammo boxes etc)
- Added some missing localizations
- Balancing of hunger stat
- Balancing of encumperance stat
- Balancing of vodka hydration loss
- Balancing of food poisoning treatment
- Balancing of cold affliction
- Balancing of food poisoning affliction
- Balancing of drying and wetting speed for items
- Balancing of loot spawning
- Balancing of quest loot spawning
- Balancing of carcass spawning numbers
- Balancing of cooking recipes
- Fixed issue causing poisonous herbs to sometimes show as 0% poisonous
- Fixed issue causing rain coat to not be equipped on character
- Fixed issue causing pelts to not be takeable after placing to cure
- Fixed issue causing quests to not trigger credits on ending after cutscene
- Fixed issue causing credits to not exit to menu after playing ingame
- Fixed issue causing cursor to show for 1 frame when interacting with non-ui based objects
- Fixed issue causing snow to render on top of campfires
- Fixed issue causing botulism/foodpoisoning to add 0% to risk causing them to trigger wrongly
- Fixed issue causing canned food to not yield recycled can
- Fixed issue causing socks to not be placeable
- Fixed issue causing batteries to last 1 minute
- Fixed issue causing lantern light to light too high
- Fixed issue causing snow render volumes to break when buildings are scaled
- Fixed issue causing particle render volumes to break when multiple buildings loaded
- Fixed issue causing save manager to detect non-save file as saves causing game to break
- Fixed issue causing trap to spawn carcass on load even when it shouldn't
- Fixed issue causing tracked craft quests to display requirements multiple times in journal
- Fixed issue causing nature water to miss watercollision
- Fixed issue causing items to not dry in inventory
- Fixed issue causing impact particle in interiors to be red
- Fixed issue with weather station interiors
- Fixed issue with old town interiors
- Fixed various issues with ending quests
- Fixed various localization issues
MadGoat Team wishes you a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
P.S. We want to remind everyone that Northern Lights is in its first days of Early Access so there might still be a lot of bugs to be ironed and a lot balancing to be done.
Because of this, we encourage everyone to use the Report A Bug button found in the Game Menus in order to reach to us about possible issues! Also don't forget to join our Community and Discord Server where we have chats dedicated for feedback and new ideas!
Thank you for reading and for all your support and understanding!