Changelog

Newer changelog

May 2025

World building

• Added Magdora village with 5 buildings

• Added a ton of furniture
• Stores now allow buying things directly off the shelves
• Changed collisions to be more precise
• The current zone now shows on screen when changing them
• Houses are now a part of the main world and their roofs become gradually transparent upon entering
• Projectiles now properly hide behind trees and tall objects while mid flight
• Changed the zone size from 320x160 tiles to 512x512
• Destroyed Magdora village and moved it to the new map in a completely different layout
• Added new terrain tiles
• Reworked all old terrain tiles
• Added texture to water with animations
• Reverted zone preloading system to avoid loading screens back to using loading screens due to too many complications not worth the fixing (especially with a lot larger zones) even when the original system took me like 40 hours :D
• Added many trees and bushes
• Added 10 rocks
• Fixed map markers to fit the new map size
• Changed the old map in UI from a lame screenshot to something manually drawn
• Enemies and gathering nodes can now be visible on the map only after exploring the current zone

Chest rework

• Chests now give specific loot based on their types
• Chests can spawn locked
• Added 18 keys and 6 key recipes

NPC routines

• NPCs can work and go to sleep now
• Routine now changes based on the current ingame time
• NPCs are now allowed to yap
• Added a system to show speech bubbles based on priority, completed quests and reputation that's not even added
• Added different triggers (random talk, player close, player leaving)
• Added conditions for short term things
• Added long term memory to npcs to remember things like gold spent, last time player visited, etc
• Added 11th condition to also allow formatting text so that npcs can say what are they selling

Status effect system rework

• Improved damage over time perfomance by a tiny bit so the the game can no longer handle just 800 distinct dots active at once but about 2.5 million
• Centralized statuses for all creatures
• Actually made sure that only Freeze spell can apply slow once enemies unfreeze and not everything possible with a freeze effect
• Removed permanent damage status effects
• Reworked Flashward lvl 2 to no longer give permanent status effects
• Added a way to track every damage over time stack individually for future spell additions
• Added simple status effects that were not in the game yet for some reason??? (increase / decrease dmg done, increase / decrease damage taken)

Bug fixes and small changes

• Animal form can no longer stay stuck in queue in permanently
• Bees can no longer become insane if there's less than 4 flowers per zone
• Removed pets automatically disappearing while in animal form
• Removed a loop hole allowing to hide a pet when in combat by doing so while animal form is active
• Pets can no longer be released while in the middle of combat
• Submerging in deep water works correctly again
• Added animations to enemy melee abilities
• Readded saving the target location for spell queue
• Clouds no longer appear in buildings
• Centralized all UI items scripts into a single one
• Fixed wrong prices and centralized it in preparation for future reputation system
• Added blueberry bush
• Added many recipe designs based on the item type they teach
• Crystals no longer drop based on the current zone but based on whatever enemies want to drop
• Enemies can no longer drop only one item but as many as the RNGesus allows
• Completely rebuilt economy for a better scaling and future changes
• Added recipes for slime gear set
• Fixed gear showing in crafting preview
• Glamour text can no longer show in tooltips of unglamoured items
• Fixed using incorrect frames for player animation after changing zone
• Chickens can now lay eggs
• Added a way to make special attacks and spells spammable if needed
• Added 8 enemy abilities
• Reworked status effect applying to remove confusion while adding increased/decreased dmg taken status effects
• Added Fortify and Armor break abilities to enemies
• For some reason I didn't notice pets could never run cooldowns again if they got hidden/died in several months (fixed now)
• Added tiny status effect icons to be readable on tiny enemy hitpoints bars
• Allowed enemies use Freeze and added it to newly added Shadow warp
• Enemies can now heal each other based on a priority system
• Fixed automatic targetting by spells
• Added social aggro to let weak enemy classes call for help,
• Added disruptor class for enemies
• Changed chicken laying eggs
• Reworked pet tank stance from "permanently holds aggro" to "gains a taunt spell"
• Fixed damage intake by pets not being affected by resistances
• "Release pet" button no longer crashes
• Setting to block showing floating numbers is no longer broken
• Added Corruption status effect

April 2025

Added glamour

• Every collected item now unlocks as a skin
• Skins can be applied to any other equipment of that type
• Added preview to the glamour window
• Player model in preview can now be turned around
• Added filtering by name and background to the preview
• Items no longer need to be equipped to change their glamour

Gathering upgrade (continuing from March)

• Added 12 plants
• Added 24 materials
• Added ethereal dust
• Added 5 plants that produce food
• Plants now give more materials based on if it's a day or night
• Added 45 recipes for all consumables
• Added cooking ingredients

Combat rework

• Extremely improved casting visuals
• Added particles to explosions, trails and casting
• Completely changed meteor model
• Added cast timers to all offensive spells
• Moving no longer breaks spell casting but casting slows down the player
• Removed global cooldown as it's no longer needed when damage spells aren't instant anymore
• Changed spell targetting
• Your weapon no longer likes water and will actively try to avoid being in it
• Broke half of the game to do this but it's worth it
• Changed meteor lvl 2 from increased speed to damage increase based on target's distance from impact epicentre
• Reworked teleport - changed animation to fit the new system more, reduced range from 5 to 4 tiles and increased speed from 15 tiles/s to 80 tiles/s
• Reworked Plague, Plague Surge and Thunder orb into fast projectiles from being instantly applied to the target
• Migrated all other spells to the new system
• Changed graphics of all shields
• Changed the item generator formula for a linear stat growth
• Percentage based stats are now used as rating which converts into percentage based on the level
• Adjusted tooltip to include the conversion

Bug fixes and small changes

• Added Hivebender
• Added Grassy staff
• Item preview now shows gold obtained from trading as well
• Sell / throw away buttons are now always the last ones in context menu
• Mechants are now visible as map markers
• Fixed gear visuals not loading until player moves
• Added other 5 essence nodes
• Fixed crafting in batches taking more material than it should
• One recipe item can now unlock multiple recipes
• Fixed something but I forgot what
• Added death screen
• Guidance now also shows the distance to the target
• Quest markers are now clickable again
• Fixed pets not submerging properly
• Fixed input window literally not even opening

March 2025

Rewriting enemy AI script (for the 6th time so far)

• The previous version was supposed to be better with a new structure but it's actually worse
• But I didn't really do anything new.. at least it can run more animations
• And 200 slimes at once in combat now run at 50 - 100% more FPS, yay :D

Spell system rework

• Spells no longer have 5/6 levels but 1-3
• Removed all spell levels that improved numeric values and thus were really boring (like +5% dmg). From now on, spell levels will change only the mechanics of spells
• Light and nature spells are no longer support only and both elements will get their own damage spells
• Spell tree is no longer based on spell type but it's split by elements where each element branch now has its own damage, defense and utility spells
• Added Divine Hammer as the first damage light spell
• Old spell changes in detail:
• Fireball - Removed all levels. Old lvl 6 (dot), moved to lvl 2
• Divine aegis - Removed all levels. Old lvl 5 (dmg reduction on hit), moved to lvl 2
• Meteor - Removed all levels. Old lvl 5 (increased speed) moved to lvl 2
• Frostbolt - Removed all levels, added increased projectile speed if the player is moving
• Regeneration - Removed all levels except 5 (dmg reduction), moved to 2
• Teleport - Removed all levels. Old lvl 2 (iFrames while teleporting) is now baseline. Old lvl 3 (teleporting doesn't interrupt casting) moved to lvl 2
• Flashward - Removed all levels. lvl 5 (dmg increase) moved to lvl 2. Recharging mana on hit (old lvl 3) is now baseline and it's scaling based on dmg taken
• Eradication beam - Removed all levels. Old lvl 3 (moving while channeling) is now baseline. Old lvl 5 (slow on hit) moved to lvl 2
• Shadowlight barrier - Removed all levels. Old lvl 3 (shield for both barrier types) moved to lvl 2
• Fire barrier - Removed all levels. Old lvl 5 (increase dmg based on dmg taken) moved to lvl 2. Old lvl 3 (recharging mana on hit) will be moved to enchanted book
• Ice barrier - Removed all levels. Old lvl 5 (dmg reduction) moved to lvl 2
• Tempest strike - Removed all levels. Old lvl 5 and lvl 3 (stun) moved to lvl 2
• Plague - Removed all levels. Old lvl 3 (reduced dmg done by enemies) and old lvl 5 (enemies take more damage) merged and moved to lvl 2
• Deathbolt - Removed all levels. Old lvl 3 (more damage for amount of targets) is now baseline, lvl 5 (instakill chance) moved to lvl 2
• Thunder orb - Removed all levels. Old lvl 5 (stun) moved to lvl 2
• Mind control - Removed all levels. Old lvl 3 (pet stances) moved to lvl 2, Old lvl 6 (pet stances upgrade) moved to lvl 3. Old lvl 5 (immortality after death) moved to enchanted book
• Freeze - Removed all levels. Old lvl 5 (slow after unfreezing) moved to lvl 2
• Rebalanced all spells
• Fixed bleed not removing itself on enemies who are over 99% of hitpoints
• Added secondary elemental effects for nature and light spells
• Added poisoned arrow
• Added ghost arrow

Added essences

• Added essence collecting nodes
• Added 18 elemental essences as a new long term consumable effect

Crafting rework

• Redesigned crafting window
• Improved QoL
• Added recipe filters and sorting
• Added a much better way to show material tooltip
• Improved perfomance with a lot of recipes
• Equipment can now be crafted as well
• Changed provision bonus to "firepit bonus" and it's effect to "give X% more stuff"

Gathering upgrade

• Added bees
• Added beehives
• Bees can now pollinate flowers
• Added collecting honey from beehives

Bug fixes and other changes

• "Throw away" button is now throwing items away instead of throwing errors

• Slowing frozen enemy no longer breaks the freeze
• Pets can now be transfered to the pet bank from the quickswap window anywhere and without the pet trainer. Apparently this existed for a few months as a bug but it's a feature now
• Enemies are no longer imunne to damage when they have no resistances
• Items with elemental stats/enchanted can now be bought back from vendors with those stats intact
• You can no longer accidentally interact with NPCs when in menu
• Fixed Mind Control's lvl 6 damage boost for pet damage stance scaling too stupidly
• Added slime as a loot
• Added a way to see all worn items (not just the weapon anymore)
• Added a full set of slime armor
• Added corrupted trees
• Changed the graphics of crystals
• Meteor can no longer overshoot its target
• Enemy tooltip no longer shows weird numbers as the enemy resistances
• Added corrupted mushrooms
• It's no longer possible to see map markers through the fog of war when moving
• Enemy souls can no longer give 0 stats
• Added more mining nodes
• It's no longer possible for 2 floating numbers to appear if an enemy projectile hits an immunity
• Enemy spell cast now cannot be interrupted by quickly running around them
• Elements in enemy tooltip changed from showing damage increase / decrease to elemental resistances
• Added animation to Mind Control
• Changed Fireball, Meteor and Frostbolt graphics and lightning
• Fixed player not turning to their Mind Control target while casting it
• Mining nodes are no longer level locked but they give 30% more material after reaching a certain gathering level
• Fixed a very interesting way in which it was recalculating skill points after resetting skills
• Staff light now shows the current casting progress
• Fixed Plague Surge counting passive enemies for the increased Plague duration at level 2
• Big objects (like trees) now become transparent if something (like enemy or player) is behind them
• Spells can now detect these big objects and appear as if they're flying behind them
• Fixed consumables not removing their effect after their timer runs out
• Camera shaking no longer breaks when you move
• Fixed inventory not being able to intake over 2 stacks of items at once
• Added dev room
• Added level up animation
• All creatures can now be visibly on fire and stunned
• Fixed empowered elemental damage even on enemies with this element neutral
• Teleport spell no longer teleports you to the wrong spot

February 2025

Stats upgrade

• Removed life leech (trying to balance it worked too well at leeching my life as it seems it can be only either broken or useless)
• Added torment, havoc and precision
• Added elemental resistance to enemies
• Reworked enemy tooltip
• Enemy tooltip can now also be shown while in combat by holding ALT
• Reworked item tooltip
• Reworked damage intake for everything to allow elemental interactions
• Reworked floating damage numbers
• Added elemental power, resistance and penetration to player
• Combined attack speed and casting speed into haste
• Added enchanting

Map rework (continuing from January)

• Added fast travel
• Added context menu for map markers
• Added guidance for markers
• Added fog of war
• Added custom markers

Quest system rework

• Code is now rewritten to introduce more funny bugs and prevent future spaghettification
• It's now obvious which quest tab is clicked on
• Added guidance, switching quest tracking and canceling quests buttons to the quest journal
• Quest items can now be thrown away and collect quest spawners will respawn only what's missing back while preventing camping on a single spawner

Bug fixes and other changes

• Training dummies now show DPS taken instead of HP on their HP bars
• Added Soul of luck
• Fixed crit chance not updating properly in UI
• Fixed lvl 5 Plague surge increasing Plague's duration stupidly
• Changed base mana regeneration from percentage of the mana pool per second to 10 per second
• Renamed auto/quick saves are now automatically transfered to manual saves
• Added glow outline based on rarity around items
• Added dev console
• Fixed item generator bug that wasn't even a bug
• Fixed weird fireball lvl 6 dot damage scaling
• Fixed spells not adjusting their global cooldown to haste in their tooltip
• Certain spells no longer shoot from the player's body but from the tip of their staff
• Recipes now get destroyed after learning them (I have no idea how did this even stop working???)
• Fixed consumables resetting their type when selling and rebuying them from a vendor
• Staff no longer hides if there is anything in the spell queue
• Interacting with stuff now has animation (and it's now used for gathering flowers too)
• Added petting (very important)

January 2025

Map rework

• All quest markers are now generated automatically
• Added zoombar to the map
• Zoombar now has + and - buttons
• Map markers can now automatically scale based on the zoom
• Added map changing
• (And spent another 28 hours just to do it without loading screens)
• ... and 12 more hours to fix bugs that came from it (that I know of)
• Removed respawning after death (too OP and strong abuse potential)
• Added map marker filters for enemies, town services, quests and gathering nodes
• Added automatic database updating to track globally visible markers (quests, portals, etc)

Ability bars upgrade

• Updated spell tooltip - added skill type and radius/range
• The main ability bar now shares the same keybinds for both spell sets
• Added 2 more ability bars
• Ability bar abilities are now clickable

Bug fixes and other changes

• Changed dragonfly transformation into wolf form
• Fixed pet stances not resetting when resetting the spell tree
• Added "reset to default" button to settings
• Fixed pets taking way too much damage from poison
• Food with periodic shielding is now refreshing the shield even when the older one isn't fully depleted
• Wolf form now automatically changes into a beaver form while in water
• Added enemy souls
• Fixed what objects stay in front of or behind other objects in the game world
• Animal form can now be used in combat but for a high cost
• Fixed pets not generating properly (again)
• Normalized size of the top bar of UI windows
• Tooltips can now move around the cursor if a part of them could be hiding outside of the screen
• Broke quests by trying to fix them only to realize they weren't broken so I actually had to fix them after
• Rewritten spell tooltips for clarity and more info
• Redesigned main menu
• Fixed pets also doing insane damage with poison
• Fixed items with value 0 being sellable
• Fixed quest not removing themselves properly if another save is loaded
• Added a button to turn on/off quest log displaying on the right side ingame
• Added Eternity
• Fixed broken equipment loading
• Added "active" in quickswap window if pet is active
• Added keybind modifiers (shift, ctrl, alt)

December 2024

Combat rework to make it more fun

• All damage spells got drastically reduced cooldowns
• Casting times also got drastically reduced
• Mana regeneration is now slower
• Mana regeneration now also depends on the amount of mana left
• Might need to make it less fun later
• A lot more spells now trigger global cooldown

Upgraded consumables system

• Optimized consumables usage
• There are no longer pathetic 2 potions but 72
• Added rejuvenation potion
• Added unlimited potions
• Added combat potions (dmg, crit dmg, crit rate, haste, cooldown reduction and mana regen potion)
• Added utility potions (wealth, dragonfly, water movement, gathering, rarity, light)
• Added food with 8 different effects
• It's now possible to cancel active potion (or any buff) effect by right clicking on its buff icon

Bug fixes and other changes

• Changed the way stat calculation works
• A tiny delay when spam buying things is now even tinier
• Fixed scaling of item icons in the vendor window
• The newly obtained item preview no longer gets stuck when opening the UI windows
• Added a firepit that can set you on fire
• Added enchanted book for fireball
• Added training dummies
• Fixed being able to have 2 pets active - if the main pet dies and the player captures another pet while still in combat, the old pet revives but the new pet stays active as well
• Pet stance can no longer be changed while in combat
• If pet triggers it's immortality from lvl 5 mind control, the pet stance now switches back to the original one and the pet no longer stays in a forced tank stance
• Current hitpoints now load from the save properly
• Spell queue can no longer keep running effectively enabling the spell to be queued for as long as is the spell's cooldown ??????? Edit: I have no idea what this means either but I'll keep it here in case I remember
• Added Thunder orb spell
• Fixed selling items not removing that item from the ability bar
• Selling items to the vendor no longer lags out the trade window
• Added enchanted book for fireball
• Added provision system to crafting
• Added an anvil and crafting via smithing can now only be done when crafting on an anvil
• Added clocks that can track the ingame time
• Very low damage done to enemies no longer disappears out of nowhere
• Added enchanted book for Thunder orb
• Fixed the "[Pet target]" text not moving based on active status effects
• Changed the way active quests are stored

October + November 2024

Added the pet system

• Added the Mind Control spell and it's levels
• Added Pet quick swap window
• Added automatic pet hiding (e.g. when transformed into a dragonfly)
• Pets now give the player stats when hidden
• Added Enemy (and Pet) classes
• Added pet stances
• Added multiple pages to the Pet bank and switching between them
• Added filters and sorting to the Pet bank
• Added context menu to pets in quick swap and the pet bank

Added environmental effects

• Added a new map layer to trigger environmental actions
• All entities can now read what type of tile they're standing at
• Added water ripples when the Player moves through water
• All entities can now submerge in water
• Added a way to let different enemies react to water in different ways (e.g. slimes create water ripples only once they touch the water surface)
• Water now decreases the player speed based on how submerged they are, dirt and stone path increase this speed

Bug fixes and other changes

• Pets can no longer turn invisible
• Game can no longer start with 0 inventory slots
• Text input window now automatically focuses on the text field on its start
• Item level is no longer being shown incorrectly
• Removed Herobrine
• Starting a new game should now actually prevent carrying over items from other saves
• Upgraded the graphics of all progress bars in the game
• You can no longer extremely rarely apply a non existent debuff
• Plague can no longer have negative stacks
• Flash ward's damage buff/debuff now works properly
• Fixed spell animations offset
• Applying a shorter debuff when longer one is active no longer breaks the timer
• Enemies no longer drop out of combat if they're close to the pet but far away from the player
• Added loot notification to briefly display all newly obtained items in the UI

Older changelog

I didn't keep track of the dates here, in fact I didn't keep track of any changes (or at least as detailed) for a while so there are some changes I've probably done (from newest to oldest)

September 2024

• Optimized enemies
• Added spells and new melee attacks to enemies
• Added The Plague, Plague surge and Death Bolt spells
• Upgraded Spell Icons

• Rewrote Enemy script (for the 5th time in total) to allow spell usage, being passive and transfering animations via Mind Control

April to August 2024

• Rewrote the Player and Enemy buff/debuff system
• Rewrote dialogue system to allow replying, autoplay, skipping and showing dialogue log.

• Added the Dragonfly transformation spell
• Added the ability to enter buildings
• Added scrollbars all over the UI
• Added furniture, lamps and trees

• Gold drops are now visible
• Added map biome crystals
• Added inventory expansions
• Added ultrarare loot
• Expanded saving system to allow multiple saves, autosaves and quicksaves
• New game menu
• Upgraded tooltip colors
• Mining nodes with something to mine are now more visible

• Added a way to change keybinds and to turn all of the annoying stuff I added too
• Ability bar now has only a single lined bar that can be swapped
• Added a spell to change in game time

• Added portals for fast travel
• Upgraded UI design
• Added a confirmation window
• Added a system that can force load the game when it gets stuck in loading that's completely useless because my code can surely never fail

• Added the ability to visually see equipped gear
• New player model + animations
• Added more mineable materials
• Added gathering too because there wasn't enough clutter in the inventory

• Added lightning and day night cycle
• Upgraded merchants
• The game can be saved now
• Added the Tempest strike spell

• Map now turns transparent when the player moves
• Added filters, sorting, search and context menu to the inventory
• Added Fire barrier, Ice barrier, Shadowlight barrier, Divine aegis and Flash ward spells
• Changed the skill tree into an actual tree
• Slows/stuns can now determine if a newly applied stun/slow is better and if so, overwrite the old one
• Made the spell tooltip code more confusing
• Changed teleport to allow charging it up

• Added clouds
• Added buff/debuff slots to the Enemy HP bars
• Rewrote enemy script (for the 4th time)
• Rewrote quest system
• Rewrote script responsible for moving items in the inventory

January to April 2024

• Added the mining system with mining nodes, copper and iron bars

• Quests now work again
• Removed system for generating bugs
• Added proximity system to make sure the player can interact only with whatever is the closest
• Quest rewards are now visible in the reward window
• Added the ability to swap gear with a right click

• The dialogue system works again now
• Spent another 2 hours to make dialogue pull 1 line when it needs it instead of like 2 of them every time to save about 2 nanofarts of processing power

• Centralization of the "interact" system has begun
• Broke the dialogue system to reduce dependencies and to make sure it's not all over the place
• (But at least it worked unlike now)
• Added a system for generating bugs
• Added bugs manually because there wasn't enough of them

• Redrawn Frostbolt model
• Added X button to close UI windows and more buttons to open them
• Gold is now visible in the ability bar

• Rebuilt and optimized system for closing and opening windows (It's very cool now)
• Optimized items tooltip
• Created a beautiful system to check if the inventory is full

• Added tabs to crafting window
• Added a way to see the material needed for crafting
• Added a system that can do all the crafting math like crating only as many items as possible

• Added recipes
• Potions can now be used by right clicking them in the inventory
• Added a crafting window
• Turned the Enchanted books and Amulets from stat sticks into having a passive effect instead
• Added Enchanted books

• Loading the game now actually shows icons
• The screen can shake now
• Cooldowns can be saved and restarted after loading the game now

• Added a barely operational save system (it saves like 1 thing)

December 2023 and before

I have no track of what happened before this so here are some things that I (probably) added

• Added the main menu
• Added Frostbolt
• Added Meteor
• Added Fireball
• Added lame inventory (later changed it into a cool version)
• Added equipping items
• Added spell system
• Added the ability bar
• The ability bar can track cooldowns
• Added the game menu
• Added walking
• Added slimes
• Added floating numbers on hits
• Added collisions
• Added NPCs and talking to them
• Added inventory
• Added everything with enemies (following, hp bars, idle moving, spawners, etc
• Added items
• Added healing potions