Hardland Release 8 is available now!

NEW FEATURES

• The first iteration of a blacksmith; repair your broken items at the blacksmith in Town of Fortuna

• Level requirements for weapons

• Terrain rendering underneath plants and objects

• Render and simulation distance increased and adjustable from the options menu

• Plant animations can be disabled from the options menu to improve performance

CRITICAL FIXES

• Fixed a crash on Intel HD Graphics GPUs

IMPROVEMENTS

• Improved stamina handling; there is now a fixed penalty of 1 second + no negative values

• All characters are now included in the save file

• Significant physics, graphics and generation optimizations (the game may run worse if you use the longest view distance as that has been increased a lot)

• Blunderbuss projectile explodes on collision

• Inventory usability improvements

• Inventory money replication bug fixed

• Inventory bush equipping bug fixed (you can hide in the bush again)

• Major cache file size reduction (65 MB -> 5 MB)

• Fixed road texture cracks and added roadside grass

• Increased mouse sensitivity max value

• Character sliding/stuck bug fix

• Added option to disable HUD; now you can take cool screenshots without the text getting in the way!

GRAPHICS

• Improved motion blur; less artifacts and noise

• Improved fog; more colorful, better fog shadows, better integration with sky

• Improved cloud system; more volumetric look with multiple layers

• Improved shadows; mountains on the horizon shadowthe sun

• Bloom is lot stabler in motion

• Improved ambient occlusion and added large scale ao

• Corrected light fresnel for direct and indirect source

• Small tweaks

WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON:

We're gonna add portals which can take the player from location A to location B. It allows us to do special locations like the Cobold Cave:

and it will also enable us to start creating dungeons:

Stay tuned!

• Timo