This update focuses on cooking, food progression, world polish, quality-of-life improvements, and several interaction fixes.

Cooking & Food

• Added the initial cooking system for fish.
• Added cooked fish XP values across tiers.
• Added cooking burn chance.
• Added food eating for health restoration.
• Added food scaling so higher-tier foods restore more health.
• Added recipes that combine lower-tier foods into stronger food items.
• Added food shop support up to Tier 3.
• PineFoodBowl now stacks correctly.
• Fixed fishing cage recipes incorrectly requiring logs instead of wood components.
• Fixed a typo for Mackerel.
• Health regeneration no longer resets over-healed health, and now reduces overheal gradually instead.

Fishing

• Added fishing spots up to Tier 40.
• Added a level 10 fishing spot to Lumirath.
• Added a level 20 fishing spot to Steelstead.
• Added a level 30 fishing spot to Endale.
• Added level 10, 20, 30, and 40 fishing spots to Seren Haven.

World & NPCs

• Added a Steelstead banker NPC.
• Added a Seren Haven banker.
• Added a Seren Haven teleport.
• Reworked tree bakes with GPUI, especially around Steelstead.
• Tested individual tree bakes around Lumirath and neighboring terrain.
• Adjusted HDRP lighting settings for Arachnid and Steelstead areas.
• Removed ground items near spawn and moved them to the dev island.
• Fixed terrain height mismatch warnings.
• Fixed NPC nameplates blocking clicks on nearby interactable NPCs, such as bankers.

Settings, Audio & Performance

• Added a render distance slider, defaulting to 250.
• Fixed music and audio slider behavior.
• Music volume now uses a 0-100 value range instead of 0-1.
• Fixed music skipping when loading dungeons.
• Terrain and scenery now load once during the menu/loading phase.

Skilling & UI

• Updated skilling nodes with clearer task descriptions.
• Most skilling nodes now have in-world icons, with pine trees as an exception where not every tree receives a marker.
• Skill orbs now update when levels change.
• Fixed an issue where creating a bonfire could consume a log even when the bonfire could not be created.

Items & Crafting

• Venom Crescent can now be assembled from 10,000 Venom Crescent Parts at any crafting table.
• Venom Crescent can now be broken down into 10,000 Venom Crescent Parts at any crafting table.

Movement & Interaction

• Minimap click-to-move is now more reliable across terrain height differences.
• Fixed click-to-move issues around elevated terrain, including past the rope bridge in Endale.

Banking, Shops & Inventory

• Withdrawing more of an item now works correctly when adding to an existing stack in a full inventory.
• Fixed bank transaction overflow issues.
• Fixed shop transaction edge cases involving max cash overflow.
• Shop errors now provide clearer chat feedback when an item cannot be sold there.
• Fixed shop confirmations staying open after leaving shops.
• Fixed a dropped item pickup order issue with stacked items on the same tile.

Bonfires & Woodcutting

• Bonfires now despawn properly.
• Adjusted bonfire burn range so players stay closer to the bonfire.
• Bonfires can now auto-select a log from the inventory when used.
• Fixed tree felling continuing after all gatherers leave.

UI & Controls

• Fixed ESC closing all open windows but still opening settings.
• Escape/Start now hides banks, shops, skilling recipes, NPC dialogue, and confirmation dialogues.

Networking & Sync

• Fixed duplicate client connection callbacks after relogging.
• Improved late-join sync for NPC IDs and names.