Hardland Release 16 is available now!

FEATURES

• New big landmark in the Random Desert World:

(Eastern Port)

• New interior location:

(Broken Horn tavern aka the Outlaw tavern)

• New story characters: Praakh and Rogue Merchant

(Praakh can be a powerful ally... or enemy)

• New type of story triggers:

  • Harming or killing a character can trigger events

• Barry's Field polished and moved to the bigger Random Grass World

• Traveling Merchant supplies are random generated

• Added more characters who can sell items:

  • Cobold bartender
  • Market traders

• 16-bit image support for landmark heightmap "brushes":

  • Means the accuracy is 65536 steps instead of 256 steps which reduces the amount of visible steps in several terrain features

• Random generation speed improved

• More robust road generation

(Still has some height glitches which will be fixed later)

• Landmark name randomization improved

• Grass color is tinted towards the ground color

• Added support for landmarks in the shoreline (Barry's Field and Eastern Port are the first examples)

• Shore shape generation improved

• New objects:

  • Large ship
  • Large crates
  • Terracotta vases
  • Pastry stand
  • Some small objects

• Inventory shows item prices

• Inventory icons for almost all the remaining items (please mention item name if you find any missing icons - Sugar Wand is one at least, thanks fletcherkali for the tip!)

• Trading Posts connect Eastern and Western Provinces

• Destruction of many items improved: tables, bottles etc.

• Town of Fortuna location and quests polished

• Food items heal you again

• Lots of balance tweaks

• Dozens of bug fixes including the save game crash

WHAT'S COMING NEXT Random Snow World gets its first big landmark called Snow Peak, here's a small teaser of the work-in-progress version that Sampo has been working on:

We'll also look into performance issues and see what can be done on that side. Until next time!

Cheers, Timo