Edengrall News

Living tress are progressing well! The tree already grows from a sappling to full tree, the leaves change color and texture during the seasons (unlike crops that change based on when they were planted), they are affected by wind and by the player moving through the leaves.



Next we will add the Axe, make them cuttable, add collision (including in the branches), flowers and maybe fruit too.



While my brother worked on the techinical side of the tree shaders I made a new critter, meet the Shonshon, a cute and funny, cat and bunny hybrid



It spawns on caves during late summer to autumn, and as most other critters of their type, yes they are edible too.

We have started the work on the new trees, they will be cuttable, plantable, grow over time, be affected by wind and change colors with the seasons, we are unsure if fruit tress will come in this update or not, depends how hard it will be to implement, but i think it will work out.



We have started the tests on the new shader for the leaves using simple bushes. The shader can turn a very simple topology into fluffy leaves, here how the test bush model looks like without the custom shader.



This will not only make modeling a lot easier, but will halve the size and complexity of the models used, in comparison, this is the model we are using for bushes currently



We also got the Axe model done and I made the animations, haven't tested them yet ingame, but should be working



The trees we are making will slowly grow in the grasslands and in forest biomes and will be the source of wood, so players won't need the placeholder cart anymore.

Other than the trees we have fixed a few bugs this week and added a new critter, you can find the Sllia on shallow waters during autumn

Features:
Added new Autumn underwater critter
Bugfixes:
Fixed fish culling incorrectly in certain situations
Fixed axolotl swiming animation in the aquarium
Fixed some placed critters incorrectly giving experience when collected back

Bugfixes:
The toolbar no longer attempts to reset to defaults when continuing from main menu
Fixed missing Reiko entry for the Gobu quest, stopping it from completing
Fixed a rare index out of bounds in the building screen
Fixed ores and crystals spawning inside the town walls, this will regenerate all foreageables

Sorry it took more than "just a few days", replacing the placeholders led to some bothersome bugs, but it should all be working now.



V0.74.0.0 ~ 17.01.2025 ~ Unity 2020.3.46f1

Features:
Mining Pick implemented (will appear in your inventory on older saves)
Permanent gathering spots for stone, limestone and clay added
Metal, Quartz and Salt now spawn as mineable nodes inside caves and around cliff faces.
Added new rare critter that spawns during spring nights at grasslands

Changes:
The buildable forge and Eduron's Forge now use the new crafting system, the forge recipes are also different now.
Wild plants that are not ready to be harvested now notify you with a message when you have the sickle equipped
Placeholder skills for crafting have been removed and replaced with Smelting and Smithing skills.
Placeholder mining skills have been replaced with Mining and Pickaxe skills
Tutorial step 13 remade it now asks the player to harvest wild forageables, it also shows the player where to find them.
Tutorial step 14 removed for now, it will be remade and re-added on next update.
Cement is now made at the Forge using limestone
Tart now requires Jam, Fruit, Conserve or Gelatin as filling, instead of accepting all solids
Vastly optimized the grass cutting algorithm
Old mine replaced by the new mining system

Bugfixes:
Fixed the lighting for placed critters
Fixed a null pointer bug related to some placed critters