The Adventure Time Update

Hello Wildarians,

This month's devlog recaps the last 5 years of development, plus shows off the new features of "The Adventure Time Update", so be sure to give it a watch ^^^

We ran a 15 person playtest to get a bunch of concise QA and feedback, this is the most stable build to date and most fun build as well!

Note: there are some big progression updates so if the game feels harder, feel free to let us know if Discord! https://discord.gg/6ZTjfKuB5R

I hope you have fun with this one! Cause I've been playing a lot of Wildaria lately.

Appreciate you! 🐸

Spacefudge (RJ)

Here is the full changelog of everything new:

🚀 Major Gameplay & Player Experience Changes

• Added new Boomerang weapon (4 variants) and new throwables class (shurikens, throwing axes, throwing knives).

• Added new Crowling, Digi Mole, and Gordo pets (Gordo spawns 50% from watering big seeds).

• Added 50% XP boost to pet taming.

• Added weather reset feature and innkeeper dialogue/choice to reset day.

• Added +1, +2, +3 difficulty enemies with corresponding prefixes in enemy names.

• Implemented starting weapon and exposition save/load.

• Fixed Twen quest loop in the tutorial dungeon.

• Fixed bandit lords, dungeon bosses, boar and mole earth pound attacks.

• Fixed town animals and random wandering animals from being destroyed.

• Locked weapons and armor by level; added UI notifiers and automatic unequip when limited.

🐾 Pets & Taming

• Fixed lasso taming black screen bug; can tame Oakoo to open vine doors.

• Fixed all pet special abilities and pet follow errors.

• Made randomized pet ability attacks more common.

🌍 World & Exploration

• Added Tropical Island biome to oceans.

• Revamped world generation with larger, more diverse biomes.

• Added seeding of world objects and prototype elevated land overlay; achieved elevated lands parity with GPU map.

• Updated map colors for biomes and elevated areas.

• Fixed walking through big trees and shallow water tile triggers.

• Added custom map markers that save/load; fixed lingering miniboss markers.

• Added 3-slayer marker limit to lands.

🖥 UI & Controls

• Improved Health UI, level UI, and power bars above hotbar.

• Moved minimap controls to right stick and arrow keys; added map button and one-time map indicators.

• Added upgrade hints.

• Added windowed mode back to screen options.

• Added lock icons for hotbar and skill-locked weapons; unequipped weapons/armor when limited.

• Updated fast travel UI and dash/dodge toggle logic.

• Fixed on-hover UI, hover panel closer, chest-to-hotbar dupes, and stacking issues.

💧 Water & Environment

• Added tree reflections, water caustics, and water reflections for animals, NPCs, and buildings.

• Reworked water layer as quad to fix overlapping tile edges; made water transparent again.

• Added pixel water lapping for Water Village.

• Improved water shader and GPU map performance.

• Improved noisy desert generation with moisture waves.

⚔️ Combat & Skills

• Added throwables and boomerangs to skill tree and NPC/animal loot tables.

• Added pickaxe weapon from mole that can break poundable boulders and gems.

• Made minibosses faster and reduced attack distance.

🏗 Structures & Dungeons

• Linked Wizard Tower into the tutorial dungeon.

• Fixed dungeon camp map marker.

• Fixed objects and elevated land on top of dungeon entrances.

• Fixed Water Village arena, removed ocean cache and ruins.

• Cleaned up wizard tower elements.

• Fixed lamppost reflections and vine camera.

🏡 Items & Inventory

• Fixed upgrade bench issues: duplication glitch, leftover items, and deletion bugs.

• Added item trashcan to inventory.

• Added shift-click functionality between hotbar, main inventory, armor, and pet slots.

• Fixed gem dialogue holder scripting and scenery destroy scripting to prevent duplicate loot.

🎵 Audio & Music

• Fixed music transitions between biomes.

• Added new trippy cutscene music.

• Lowered overworld music and campfire SFX.

🔧 Technical & Performance

• Fixed crash errors including GPU shader initialization delay.

• Improved DestroyObject performance.

• Delayed map initialization until after DestroyObject scripts to prevent crashes.

• Merged PixelExploder NPC composite fix and inventory menu pausing on fader fix.

• Reapplied progression overworld changes.

• Improved world gauge progression algorithm and integrated into enemy level system.

• Updated food/animal progression based on biomes.

• Removed crowns from regular NPC generation.

• Ensured NPC damage scaling on weapons; adjusted player health scaling.