Book of Travels News

Book of Travels is a tiny multiplayer online RPG from developer Might and Delight (known for the likes of Shelter and Meadow), which didn't do particularly well at the Early Access release but now they have a plan to save it.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/04/might-and-delight-come-up-with-a-plan-to-save-book-of-travels

• For the next 3 months we’ll focus on more large scope tech issues.These won’t be specific bugs or glitches that are typically visible to the player, but more world encompassing system issues that need to be addressed in order for the game as a whole to be more fertile ground for us to start eradicating the comparatively smaller problems that actually are evident to the player.
  
  
• During this time we may appear to be quiet or seem inactive. This is just because we will be very busy. Since the nature of these larger scale issues don’t always make them suitable for traditional patch notes, you won’t necessarily see a typical flow of those during this period. You will, however, notice the game getting updated in the Steam client, and if an update doesn't come with the traditional patch notes – now you know why.
  
  
• After this period we’ll resume with the releasing of additional content. By this point we plan to have the game’s foundation solid enough to allow us to start growing it again. We have lots of cool things that we’re dying to get into your hands. The city of Kasa, for instance, is very close to being finished and we know you’re excited for the deeper character customisation tools that we’ve talked about in the past. But this doesn’t mean that we’ll be done with fixes, just that we can start doing both fixes and fun new content.
  

• You now get a better default server region assigned per default, based on your local time zone.
  
• Implemented gameplay effects for some of the traits:
  - Observant players will now see collectibles glimmer more often.
  - Eager players will now run slightly faster.
  - Restrained players will now have a chance of retaining a small amount of reagents when brewing tea of their wind affinity.
  - Learned players will now retain a small amount of level progress on honed skills when unlearning them.
  - Focused players will now brew tea quicker.
  - Tough players will now have more stamina.
  
• Added popups to the settings menu when you apply settings, and when you try to close the settings menu without applying the settings.
  
• Added text to “What’s the plan?” under “Why early access?” in the main menu.
  

• Solved various issues around NPCs catching up with their pathing client side (NPC server desync).
  
• Fixed various causes of the players saved position not being used when logging in.
  
• Fixed a bug that created clones of NPCs in the login lobby when logging out.
  

• Several issues around traveling with boats solved (boats sometimes disappearing when stopping or changing level, issues with syncing position of remote players when traveling).
  
• Solved a case of the player not getting correctly attached to a vehicle (causing the screen to stutter as the vehicle moves, and caused movement issues for the player after disembarking).
  
• Solved getting stuck on a boat if disembarking by walking to an interactable object.
  
• Graphical vehicle details (effects, turning components etc.) should now update as long as it is running (and not stop a little moment before stopping sometimes).
  
• Solved that the train locomotive was sometimes visually turned in the wrong direction.
  

• The red combat circle now moves with the combat participants (as intended).
  

• Players should no longer be locked after gathering reagents or petting animals.
  
• Solved that you had to sit down before logging out to be able to log out.
  
• Fixed a bug that enabled players to pick up reagents from far away when they were unable to move.
  
• Fixed animal ports walk & running speed in water.
  

• Fixed text load errors regarding signs. You should see less [CUSTOM POEM] on signs now.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused skill cards to not show the correct amount of levels the skill can achieve.
  
• Text boxes should no longer disappear if enough time has passed. They now only disappear when closed or when walking away.
  
• Fixed issues with text boxes not scaling properly to the text if the text contained prose (centered and italic text).
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the settings menu to take a long time to open.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the game to be blurred for a moment after transitioning between levels.
  
• Fixed an issue where the endeavour progress markers where not correctly closed and resetted.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the endeavour UI to pop in on spawn.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the Emote and Skill parts of the HUD to disappear when opening a menu with a hotkey on the frame as clicking to walk.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the reagent UI to not display properly after logging out and in again.
  
• Fixed a small visual bug that caused the starting equipment to be marked as newly obtained when dragging them to the inventory.
  
• Pressing Tab no longer shows the name tags of invisible NPCs (such as ghosts).
  
• You should no longer be able flip pages with the arrow keys while picking your start scenario in character creation.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused scrolling tutorials to also zoom the map.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the 'Ghost Smoke' effect to remove the ability to use emotes.
  

• Fixed interacting with endeavours sometimes does not start the progress.
  
• Fixed an issue where endeavour progress was not correctly added.
  
• Solved an issue with social endeavours where the progress icons were not displayed.
  
• Solved an issue with social endeavours where the player would slide away.
  
• Solved an issue with social endeavours where the first interaction did not count towards the progress.
  
• The Patterfoot dog should now properly give out its exchange item instead of only showing it off.
  
• Solved a case of NPCs sometimes teleporting instead of walking/running.
  
• Solved a case of NPCs sliding.
  
• Solved a case of NPCs animating walk/run while standing still.
  
• Solved a case of animals bobbing their heads up and down (when supposed to graze).
  

• Fixed Veiled Gate portal not teleporting the player.
  
• Skills are now properly set as unavailable when another skill is being cast. This fixed an exploit that could be used to cast skills with less reagents, less casting time and bypassing skill restrictions.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the Guise skills to not color skin-tight clothes properly (such as The Mosswalker's pants).
  
• "Fixed bugs regarding the Dyslectic trait:
  - Dyslectic characters can no longer read the Vellan language without the required skill.
  - Dyslectic now affects readable signs.
  - Dyslectic no longer affects tooltips for non-readable items."
  
• Creating a fireplace should now cancel logging out.
  

• Fixed a bug that caused mouseover sounds to play even when moving another UI element.
  
• Fixed an issue where the endeavour interaction sound would not stop after cancelling or succeeding with the interaction.
  

• Fixed a place in the Underbelly where you could fall through the terrain.
  
• Made a non-interactable fireplace in Little Slip interactable.
  

• Light should now properly affect transformed players at night.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused graphics settings to not be properly loaded.
  
• Fixed double text sign in Bat Saha.
  
• Changed the dialogue of the Masterless key Collector to avoid confusion.
  

• Combat rule change: The attack counter now counts up even when defending. This solves the previously broken dynamic where a large number of weak NPCs could overpower a strong player, and that a player could defeat any single enemy by spamming attacks.
  
• Solved more cases of faulty positioning in combat (mostly attacking when too far away from the opponent).
  
• Visual tweak: Characters now rotate faster towards each other when putting their hands on their swords before combat.
  
• Solved various triggers for the player exiting the hand on sword animation while still in the hand on sword action.
  

• Several issues with remote player movement solved (Server desync of other players moving around in the world).
  

• Fixed a bug that caused the top half of a players emotes to disappear.
  
• A merchant's inventory will no longer be sorted after moving items to and from the receive box. The player can sort manually through the filter buttons.
  
• A merchant's inventory will stay on the same page when moving items to and from the receive box.
  
• Fixed a bug in the trade screen where trading an item you have duplicates of would always trade away the first instance of that item in your inventory. Trading should now always take the correct items from your inventory.
  
• Fixed various trade bugs that caused duplicate items to behave strangely in the trader's inventory. (Ex. clicking one item would remove all items with the same name from the trader's inventory, and other bugs.)
  
• Fixed a bug that caused stacked items in trade to appear invisible after shift-clicking them.
  
• Fixed issues in trade where Shift or Ctrl-clicking stacks of items would trigger the "Cancel Trade" prompt.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the item ‘Willow Nut’ item to not have a description and disappear from the players inventory after logging out.
  
• Eating from your inventory should now decrease the amount of a stacked item visually.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused life petals to not show when regained by an endeavour.
  
• For the skill ‘Flaring Crescent’, the spawned weapon now has a proper item icon in the inventory screen.
  
• Fixed correct display of weekday in the debug menu.
  

• Teapots no longer disappear when entering a level by boat.
  
• Fixed cases where NPCs interactions and dialogues did not switch properly from night to day.
  

• The skill 'Flaring Crescent' is no longer available when the users inventory is full, since this would remove the currently equipped main hand item from the users inventory.
  
• Improved server synchronization for the passive skill 'Tricks of the Messenger'.
  
• Fixed some incorrect skill restrictions, like 'Hide in Water' requiring you to be on a road.
  

• Fixed a but that caused the weather audio to keep playing after logging out.
  

• Solved various cases of movement and positioning issues in combat.
  
• Fleeing in combat now shows the player running (as intended).
  
• Solved a case of gliding instead of running when charging at the start of a combat scenario.
  
• Solved that there was a brief pause between running to charge and attacking in combat.
  
• The red combat ring sometimes sliding over the screen after having started multiple combat scenarios at different positions in the same scene solved.
  

• Sometimes being stuck for 15-20 seconds after a level transition solved.
  
• The loading view fading out before the camera has been placed solved.
  
• Sometimes sliding slightly animation-wise when starting to walk or run solved.
  

• Fixed a visual bug that caused your inventory to not be loaded into the UI after using the Trainmasters Chest.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused interacting with drinking fountains to not work.
  
• Reduced the time the player is locked while interacting with drinking fountains.
  
• The "Hide hud" buttons are now properly greyed out if they are not interactable.
  
• The Atlas HUD button is now properly greyed out when not interactable.
  

• Fixed a bug that caused offhand items to turn invisible while being affected by the Knot of Mimarob skill.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the Fold skill to not work on unconnected (but still valid) positions.