I wrapped up another big sprint of updates for Breakwaters, and I can't wait for everyone to try it out!
This update includes new features, new items, new creatures, new gameplay, and some user requested updates. Check out the details below.
Trophies & Driving a Turtle Titan
The Turtle Titan, Serpent Titan, and Mega Golem all now drop Trophy items you can decorate your base with. If you assemble all of the different Turtle Titan Trophies, it lets you access a fun easter egg where you can pilot a Turtle Titan around for a short time.
Red Crystals mob spawner
Red Crystals now exist in the world and can be found at night in Red Crystal Beacons.
The Beacons attract angry creatures to them though, so keep an eye open for mobs. Each night a different mob type will randomly spawn, and harder islands have harder mobs with new creatures.
The mobs also increase in difficulty with the difficulty setting in the game.
Most islands have one Red Crystal Beacon on them, be sure to track it down and harvest the crystal to build some unique items.
Shoes and Level up Potions
Shoe items now exist in the build menu. You can build Running shoes and Swimming shoes which make your sprint move speed much faster.
Fast Travel
You can now open the Fast Travel menu while you are driving a boat.
It lets you Fast Travel to any known Dock location, so build a new Dock anywhere you want a Fast Travel location to be.
Panning Minimap update
The Minimap has been updated to a constant scrolling map that tracks with the player!
Click & Hold attack
By popular request, most weapons now allow you to click-and-hold to continuously attack.
Makes harvesting rocks and trees a little less stressful on your mouse finger. ;)
Camera improvements
NPC conversation cameras received a quality of life update.
Camera movement while the character is moving through the world has also received a new quality of life update. Plus some bugs reported by users have been fixed to improve overall camera quality.
Those are the highlights, hope you enjoy the new content and features, check out the build notes below for all the details.
Thanks!
Build Notes
v0.9.75
-Level Up Potion items added to the Cooking Bench and setup as a rare loot at the large Pirate Base.
-Setup Nighttime Aggro enemy spawns depending on difficulty level and island you are on.
-Created a Larger variant of Crabs.
-Improved Ferry Boat spawn logic.
-Fixed a world map icon cleanup bug when loading worlds multiple times.
-Fixed a bug where animals might lose aggro after they get knocked back.
-Fixed a bug related to playing in online, then playing in single player and how objects would spawn in the world.
v0.9.70
-Fast Travel added to Boats! Just jump on the rudder and hit the FT button. Nearby Titans will block fast travel on Normal and Hard difficulty settings.
-Update to Teleporting loading screen to have unique visuals.
-Update to World Creation menu to show world modes as buttons instead of drop downs.
-Update to Force Respawn so it doesn't drop the players inventory like a normal death would and keeps the current health value.
-Fixed an issue with Force Respawn being used while on boats.
v0.9.64
-Click-and-hold attack turned on for most melee weapons in addition to 1 click 1 attack.
-Improved feedback in Online menu to tell the user when Steam isn't connected.
-Improved demolition hammer logic to work on objects that "cascade" their death upwards, like stone walls and stone doors.
-Possessed-Titan logic polish.
-Fixed an issue with harvesting firefly where it would let you harvest when the empty bottle wasn't currently equipped and was just in your bag. Now you need to have the bottle equipped to harvest firefly.
v0.9.63
-Polish to Turtle titan controls and online interactions
v0.9.62
-Titans and Mega Golems now drop Trophies you can place on the wall. If you collect all of the Turtle Titan trophies together it unlocks an easter egg.
-Changed the Demolition Hammer to turn player built contraptions into dropped contraptions instead of dropped resources.
-Setup a Force Respawn button in the pause screen for if the player ever feels they have gotten stuck between rocks.
-Fixed a bug in camera movement causing blending when blending was off, and stutters while moving the player across certain types of terrain changes.
-Setup a light shaft for a mission on the first island to help guide users with their next step.
-Update to the map logic so it correctly clears custom map waypoints when quitting a world and loading into another.
-Setup more menu feedback for when the game cant connect to the Steam App.
-Setup particles on dropped mission items so they stand out better on the ground.
-Fixed gamepad interaction with quit and save menus choosing the wrong button direction
-Fixed a spawn related camera bug which could put the camera in the ground for a few seconds.
v0.9.61
-Quick fix to Roshi Missions to fix a mission tag issue that could let players progress past a mission before it was completed correctly.
v0.9.60
-Improved Ferry Boat logic and Ferry Captain logic to ignore typhoons.
-Change character logic to not be impacted by typhoons if they are in a conversation with an NPC.
-Fixed a code error that could happen in rare cases.
v0.9.59
-Fixed a mission progression issue on Monster Island where some worlds wouldn't correctly spawn the ruins or Mega Golems needed for the mission. This fix will retroactively fix levels if the ruins are missing.
-Changed Creative Mode inventory logic to allow Conch to be visible in Creative Mode worlds.
-Update to the loot from the top of the Pirate Base Tower so it drops better items.
v0.9.58
-Fixed online only mission bug where Monster Island chest wasnt giving the Conch like it does in single player.
-Mega Golem logic bug improvement.
-Fixed an online only bug with the Monster Island mission chest interaction.
v0.9.57
-Improved conversations with NPC and related camera movements.
-Update to some mission text flow to improve the interaction and cleanup open missions from other islands.
-Update to make Animals and NPC not attack the player in single player games if they are in a active NPC conversation.
-Fixed Pirates not walking on boats correctly.
-Setup log notification when you have successfully stolen a pirate boat.... YAR!
-Changed Bushes to drop berries at 100% chance on death.
-Increased Arrow damage across all arrow types.
-Made clouds blend in better with the Serpent Storm cloud when they are near it.
v0.9.56
-Fixed an issue with Treasure maps sometimes showing the wrong island background image with the correct treasure location.
-Improved Treasure map feedback window text.
-Fixed a HUD item log issue where some items may be grouped with turned off versions and not show up as a notification even though it was added to the inventory.
v0.9.55
-Minimap polish.
-Fix an issue with icon refreshing in maps causing longer exit game lengths.
-Fixed an issue with the Travel menu buttons where translations would use the wrong word on the button when not using english.
-UI polish on a few confirmation menus.
-Update to MeatNFish Cooked so it provides better stat recovery.
-Fixed a inventory item swap case where it wouldn't respect max stack count in some situations.
-Update to boat rudder logic so that it resets to "zero" when a player mounts it. This helps prevent the boat from rotating when mounting in case a cannon is actively firing.
-Misc Audio polish.
v0.9.54
-Minimap now scrolls with the player movement instead of jumping to the center of the active zone.
-World Map fog-of-war now has soft edges and shows a little more space than before.
-Tuned Turtle Titan beam damage logic some more to better distribute over time.
-Changed all Boat Armor slot locations to not be omnidirectional.
-Setup Dock object to show an icon in the minimap.
-Setup visual armor panels on boats when Armor is set to a boat slot.
-Fixed a networking bug with the ClearSky Conch when its used on a client machine.