🌀 GLIDERS & GALES CHANGELOG - 0.3.5.14

The new content in this update will appear in existing worlds & brand-new worlds.

NEW CONTENT

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Glider Customisation

• 2 Glider Fabrics: Wool & Linen

  • Crafted at the Glider Stand.

  • Each tier offers improved manoeuvrability (pitch and rotation acceleration) over the previous one. 

• 9 Glider Oculi

  • Crafted at the Glider Stand using a range of common to rare resources.

  • Each new oculus holds a unique gliding bonus.

• 22 Glider Patterns

  • Acquired by gathering fabric fragments and repairing crashed gliders.

  • Applied at the Glider Stand.

  • Have no effect on gliding and are purely cosmetic.

• 6 Glider Shapes

  • Acquired by completing Glider Trials.

  • Applied at the Glider Stand.

  • Have no effect on gliding and are purely cosmetic.

• 6+ Glider Trails

  • Acquired by completing timed version Glider Trials.

  • Applied at the Glider Stand.

  • Have no effect on gliding and are purely cosmetic.

Glider Trials and Crashed Gliders

• Glider Trial Wonder Islands

  • There are 6 new trial islands, 2 per biome.

  • Complete trials to unlock new glider shapes.

  • Complete trials a second time and beat the timer to unlock new glider trails.

  • Glider Trials have been implemented with the game’s Pyrologic system.

• Crashed Gliders

  • Explore the isles to gather fabric fragments scattered around the environment.

  • Locate crashed gliders and repair them with your hammer to unlock new glider patterns.

  • Interacting with a crashed glider before repairing it will show players a hint of where its fragments are located. 

Miscellaneous Content

• 200+ Building and Decoration Pieces

  • All new pieces are unlockable via decoration pages, sketching, or creative mode.

  • Several new decorations and building pieces have been added to islands in each biome which will only be present on undiscovered islands, as well as in brand new worlds. 

    • Glider, glider trail, and glider oculus displays.

    • Tool displays.

    • Pyrologic lights.

    • Hanging rope/plant/clay pieces.

    • Clay windchimes.

    • Dinnerware.

    • Food props.

    • Wax hexes.

    • Wreaths.

    • Rare props such as books, feathers, opals, gems, and more.

    • Shelving units.

    • Wooden crates.

    • Animal fences.

    • Animal beds and cushions.

    • Animal shelters

    • Pumpkin variants.

    • Diagonal and corner stairs.

    • Garden arbors.

    • Expanded trellis set.

    • Emerald Isles leaf single bed.

    • Fallen Heights leaf furniture and rug set.

    • Fallen Heights yellow grass roof set.

    • Fully-Beamed Adobe and Clay Wall

    • Transitional walls from clay to adobe.

• 250+ Building & Decoration Pieces - Island Creator

  • The building and decoration pieces listed above, and the following pieces listed below, are available in the Island Creator.

    • Glider Race Pyrologics: rings, timed rings, reward displays, and banners

    • Glider Race structures, reward totems, platforms, and more

    • New vestige pieces and texture updates

• Quality of Life Improvements - Island Creator

  • Objects in the Island Creator can now be moved with snapping. 

  • Objects in the Island Creator can now be moved and rotated using world space or local space. 

  • Changed the local/world space key bind from SHIFT to TAB.

  • Changed the local/world space key bind from a hold to a toggle.

  • Added the '[' key bind as a way to decrease your snapping value.

  • Added the ']' key bind as a way to increase your snapping value.

• Quests

  • New quests will appear on Glider Trial islands and islands with Crashed Glider POIs. 

• UI Celebrations

  • New celebrations will appear when completing a glider trial or repairing a crashed glider. **

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ADJUSTMENTS / BALANCING

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• Changed which glider patterns are available by default.

  • All pre-existing gliders will now have one of the default patterns applied to them.

• Rebalanced the properties of the leaf glider fabric to accommodate the new higher tier fabrics.

• Rebalanced glider handling

  • When bouncing off a ledge, velocity is reset to 0.

  • Added a new rotation animation when gliding fast.

  • Slight Turbulence now only affects animation, not the actual trajectory.

  • Removed the random vertical boosts when going slowly.

• Rain will no longer cause exhaustion while gliding but will still cause instability. 

• Islands with specific icons will no longer have an icon on the table-map until the player lands on them for the first time.

• Polished the Insight Basin cutscene. 

OPTIMIZATION

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• Islands will now take slightly more time to load from their silhouette form in order to prevent some stuttering during travel. 

• The world will refresh around the player less often to help improve some performance issues. 

BUG FIXES

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• Fixed several islands with spawn points inside their geometry. 

• Fixed several instances of English text appearing when playing in French.

• Fixed an issue where the ‘Clear Corruption’ quest would be marked as completed upon dying.

  • The Clear Corruption quest is no longer repeatable.

  • The Clear Corruption quest can now only be completed if the current island was initially corrupted.

• Fixed several puzzles with incorrect logic in Fallen Heights and Red Cliff biomes. 

• Fixed issue where the game could crash when quitting to desktop or main menu.

• Fixed an issue where an error would appear repeatedly in the dedicated server console. 

• Fixed an issue where previously explored sectors were marked as unexplored for clients in the table-map when returning to a peer-to-peer or Dedicated server multiplayer game.

  • All islands and sectors discovered by any player will now update for all players. 

• Fixed several instances of islands with floating assets and missing platforms. 

• Fixed an issue where storms would occur more often than intended. 

• Fixed an issue where the camera would slowly pan to the right while the player is interacting with the glider stand in certain locations. 

• Fixed several collision issues for vestige pieces.

• Fixed collision on all adobe walls to avoid clipping for newly placed wall decorations

• Adjusted some item descriptions to remove misleading instructions or mention of cut features. 

• Fixed an issue where players could not use the sample function with the hammer while using a controller. 

• Fixed issues where moving doors in some fresco islands would not function properly for clients in multiplayer. 

• Tweaked the customisation station model.

• Bird sounds will no longer play while on corrupted islands. 

• Fixed an issue that could prevent characters brought directly from the original release of bloom and blight to a new version from spawning home islands in multiplayer.