Update v0.98.22 released!

This update IS compatible with savegames from v0.98.0+!

ENGINE:

• Construct 3 updated to r449-3.

AUDIO:

• Water splash sounds (both player and animals) volume reduced, pitch increased, and added some pitch variation.
• (Survival) Added more variation to the footstep sounds, based on terrain type.
• (Survival) Crafting/other action sounds improved.
• Added a small sound for mouseover on buttons.
• Button clicking sound pitch increased.
• Reduced the volume of several interface and notification sounds.

GRAPHICS:

- (Survival) Added a subtle motion-trail effect to most melee swings, and improved the existing one for ranged attacks.

• (Survival) Added a subtle motion-trail effect also for jumping.
• (Survival) Being under 30 Health will gradually cause the character's walking animation to become asynchronous (giving the idea it's limping).
• (Survival) Slightly improved the character's walking animation.
• (Survival) Slightly improved both drinking and eating animations.
• (Survival) Sneaking effect (on player's sprite) is not visible while the character is sprinting.
• Crafted items will now get progressively darker below 50% condition.
• Added particle effects when a tree "dies" of natural causes.
• Screen lightning effect intensity reduced by 33%.

INTERFACE:

- (Survival) Added character name text box in the character creation screen, which is purely cosmetic and is shown at mouseover on character (instead of "You").

• (Survival) Added back the alert "Sluggish" when sprinting while being tired, sore or bloated.
• (Survival) Added an alert message when equipped clothing is damaged or destroyed due to degradation, same for used Bedroll.
• (Survival) Auto-repeat-with-Shift hint now also shows during butchering actions.
• (Survival) Auto-repeat-with-Shift hint improved, made more specific depending on the action.
• (Survival) Call Pet button has a slightly different color, to make it stand out a bit.
• (Survival) Action warning messages (next to buttons) are now in first-person.
• (Survival) Mouseover on wetness icon is clearer about being protected by cave from rain.
• (Survival) Animal population window now shows numbers coloured, for clarity.
• Backpack and Waterskin content is now shown as 0-100, not 0-10.
• Several interface elements (like inspected animal arrow) are now fps-independent.
• Water amount (for lakes, waterskin, globally) is shown as 10x the previous value.
• Improvements to interface panels in New Game, Settings menus and Character menus.
• Added blur/bloom effects to the background loading screens, to make them less distracting.
• Map name and screenshot name are now incremental, instead of random (screen1,2,3, instead of screen5935).
• Checked Pine Cone will now show the number of nuts next to the name "Pine Cone (3)".
• Egg's age is no longer shown if it's spoiled (and thus will never hatch).
• Minor UI improvements.

SURVIVAL:

- Skin Tone and Vitamin D increase from sunlight reworked: ...... Skin Tone and Vitamin D increase from sunlight is no longer mitigated by Insulation (from clothing) but by the actual clothing size, meaning a Fur Cape and a Leaf Cape now offer the same protection from the sun, which makes the latter preferable in that scenario. ...... Instead of being constant, Vitamin D increase from sunlight is higher in the first minutes of exposure and reduces over time. This allows to gain a good dose of it in the first hour of exposure, just like in real life. ...... Vitamin D now also increases from sunlight when over 150 (up to the cap of 200). ...... Vitamin D decay rate increased by 33%.

- Toughness skill no longer increases directly by receiving damage, but by healing from it (which is also more realistic).

• The character now wakes up more often, and added messages suggesting to sleep more if conditions allow it.
• The stomach is able to introduce slightly more liquid if it's already full with solids (and vice-versa).
• Reduced Sleep Debt increase to 33% while resting in a Bedroll, instead of 50%.
• Athletics and Endurance skills increase rate reduced by 20%.
• Building skill increase rate from building increased by 12%.
• While sneaking, if trying to sprint but conditions won't allow it, the character will run normally.
• Improved character attack precision and animation.
• Eating action is slightly faster (1.3 sec instead of 1.5).
• When dying from extreme burning (lightning strike or fire) meat spawned from the character is cooked.
• It's no longer possible to scout/aim while resting in a Bedroll.
• Small improvements to item mouse-dragging.

ANIMALS:

- Improved how animals steal food inside a Backpack: they will now take a second to try grabbing it, with a chance of success if the player stays still.

• (Survival) Tamed carnivoures have a chance to not steal Meat/Fish from a Drying Rack / Backpack, based on Tamed level (at 100% Tamed they will no longer steal it).
• When fleeing from a fire, animals will now prioritize which fire to run from based on its strength and proximity (not just proximity). In addition, they have a chance to sprint.
• Didelphodons "clan wars" are less likely to happen if their global population is dwindling.
• Didelphodons stealing food will bring it into their lair (and then eat it), instead of dropping it right before entering.
• Didelphodons will no longer exit their lair if lightning strikes nearby, and cannot be killed by it when inside.
• (Survival) Slightly improved hit animation and pushback direction when the player hits an animal.

STRUCTURES:

• (Survival) When structures are built or repaired, they will briefly flash (just like items).

OBJECTS:

- Backpack, Quiver and Waterskin max capacity now scales with their crafted quality (max condition).

• Quiver max reachable capacity (at 100 quality) increased from 10 to 12 arrows.
• Dried Meat/Fish decay rate reduced even further (by 50%) when not humid.
• (Survival) The Player can now hold 3 dried Meat/Fish with each hand, instead of 2, and they occupy less space in Backpack.
• (Survival) Dried Meat/Fish gives 20% more proteins, and add 10% less Fullness.
• Dried Meat is slightly thinner.
• (Survival) Waterskin full of water occupies a bit less space in Backpack.
• (Survival) Slightly reduced Fullness added by Pine Cone's nuts (by 15%).
• (Survival) Items dropped by carcass/other will stop if hitting an obstacle.
• (Survival) Spear bleed chance (both from melee and ranged) increased from 4/10 to 5/10.

WEATHER & SEASONS:

• Sun will now rise from east and set in the west, as it does in real life. In previous saves, some shadows and reflections may still require a new day to properly adjust.
• (Survival) Fog is slightly less bright.

OPTIMIZATION:

• (Survival) Improved crafting/building menu performance.
• Large images (main menu background, loading screens) reverted to AVIF format, for better quality.

FIXES:

• (Survival) Fixed another bug causing the character to get stuck and only able to turn around.
• (Survival) Fixed a rare bug where throwing up or getting burned during the fraction of a second before falling asleep would make the screen permanently black.
• (Survival) Fixed a new character being oversized if the previous character died while jumping.
• (Survival) Fixed unearthing Egg action changing the actual position of the egg if interrupted and resumed.
• (Survival) Fixed raw Mushroom tooltip displaying the cooked version (including the Fullness projection).
• (Survival) Fixed Pine Cone eat tooltip showing a wrong added Fullness projection.
• (Survival) Fixed MMB during Landmarks screen doing the assigned player action in addition to changing Landmark brush size.
• (Survival) Fixed sword cursor icon disappearing when after gathering actions.
• (Survival) Fixed some issues with auto-zoom.
• (Survival) Fixed some issues with arrows placement/visibility in Quiver.
• (Survival) Fixed crafting/building blueprints not updating promptly if components changed during the respective menus.
• Fixed Egg losing condition extremely fast while cooking, if under 25%.
• Fixed being able to zoom (delayed) during pause menu, options, character info screen and manual.
• Fixed shadows sometimes disappearing in the final moments of the sunset, instead of completing their gradual fade out.
• Fixed a bug affecting old saves causing cave roofs to be too opaque.
• Fixed a bug where young male Triceratops would try to defend the herd from a predator and glitch out (they are supposed to be always passive).
• Fixed a bug in the Didelphodon AI that sometimes caused them to constantly and rapidly exit/enter their lair (also degrading performance on large maps with hundreds of them).
• Fixed highlighted buttons resetting their color when changing game window mode/size.
• Fixed tree canopies not returning invisible right after taking an island snapshot.
• (Survival) Removed a debug "beep" sound when items fall off a used Bedroll.
• (Survival) Minor fixes to some animations.
• Many tooltips grammar and formatting corrections.