I had to upgrade the way potions are handled quite a bit, but now the system is mostly ready to take on any and all new types of potions. For starters I've expanded the old health, energy, and mana potions to now have minor, normal, and major forms, all of which are unlocked via the alchemy skill tree. They also now also require a single stalk, which is used to determine their rarity, meaning they can now also be crafted at rarities higher than common. In order to gain alchemy skill points starting out, tannin has also been removed as a drop from trees, and is now instead an alchemy recipe that is known by default.
I've also added attack, damage, and death sounds to the 3 new types of goblins in the goblin dungeons, as well as given each of them a special type of loot... Now that I think about it, some of the loot is not set up as intended, I left it in a bit in "test mode," but these drops will open up opportunities for more enchants and potions to be added in.
I've also added 4 new buttons to the start screen: Twitch, Patreon merchandise, and tipping. Twitch is just a link to my Twitch channel, where I stream development live Tuesday-Friday. Patreon is a subscription based site designed to allow people to support content creators. The merchandise page is a work in progress, but has some hooded t-shirts, t-shirts, a mug, and a mousepad for now, all of which I get a cut for each sale. The tipping page is simply that, a way for people to offer one-time monetary support via credit card or PayPal, of which 100% goes to Big Kitty Games, none being gobbled up by the host site Streamlabs, which is the software that I use to stream. Of course none of these things are mandatory, and provide no benefit in-game, they're just good to have as options, as some people are better off financially than others, and are capable of supporting development they agree with directly, if a simple way to do so exists. In short, please don't hate me, I need money to survive too, and some people really are very generous such as our lovely Patreon supporters! Which really does help out very much.
It's a bit tough to come up with new loot and new potions to be honest, all ideas are welcome! I've got a lot of general "Strength Potion" and "Breathing Potion" and things like that lined up for tomorrow.
v 0.7.1.4 2021.01.20
- Added links to Twitch, Patreon, merchandise, and tipping to the start screen
- Added sounds to goblins, hobgoblins, and the goblin warlords.
- Added new drops: Orcish Charm, Goblin Penny, Hobgoblin Iron
- Added new potions: Minor/Major Healing/Energy/Mana potions
- Changed the recipes for potions a bit
- Potions are now unlocked via alchemy
- Potions can now be crafted at different rarities
- Fixed some animation problems with the goblin warlord
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