Edengrall News

The pickaxe and the animations are done, but other than that we didn't get any progress done because we are still busy finishing the commission that is keeping the lights on, should be done before the end of the month, so maybe we will get a little bit of proper progress before the year ends.

Sorry for the short report again.

In preparation to the exploration update we begun working on the assets to replace the current mine. I usually make all our assets, but this time I found a few decent ones in the store, we are still going to redo the materials to make them blend better in the game.



There will be two types of mining nodes, the permanent quarries and the metal veins, the quarries will always be in the same position and you can mine them as much as you want spending your stamina to gain resources, while the metal veins will spawn inside caves and in cliff walls mining them will destroy the veins, but they will slowly respawn after several ingame days.


Limestone quarry, will allow you to gather mortar (cement) and in the future when we change the building system to allow different materials you will be able to gather Limestone to build with white stone.


Stone quarry, lets you gather common stone for building.


Clay deposit, lets you gather clay to make shingles and vases

We are finishing our commissions, soon we will be back to working on Edengrall fulltime, and the money we saved should keep us working on it for a few months even if the sales remain weak. In the worst case we will find another commission mid 2025 and work part time again, whatever happens we are not giving up.

There will be very little progress during december, but after we finish our side jobs we will resume work on 2 main things:
-Removal of placeholders
-Preparing for exploration update

We want to finally get rid of the placeholder gathering locations (the mine and the wooden cart near the town's entrance) by adding proper mining nodes and cuttable trees, the work on mining nodes is halfway done, the Pickaxe is mostly implemented, but we still need some more work to get it in the game.

The exploration update need 3 main things:
-Adaptation of the grass system to allow dynamic load and unload (this will take a long time by itself)
-Proper LOD models for all plants using the imposter system (halfway implemented)
-Dynamic loading and unloading of terrain (might also take a while)

The expansion of the map will probably impact the performance, so in the worst case we will also need to optimize the game further, and squeezing more FPS out of the game is getting harder and harder.

After the exploration update we will also unlock the temperature and food spoiling mechanics, there will be a few special containers to keep food from spoiling, but the greenhouse mechanic will probably take a while to implement.

We expect to finish these by mid 2025, after that we want to finish the Fairy Colony and the special movement options they unlock.

Features:
Added Books to the library:
- Every day a few books will be available for the player to read, the interactable books will be slightly out from the bookshelves.
- Each book will grant knowledge on a critter or fish, or level your lowest skill a bit.

Changes:
Changed Darkwood textures to be softer on the eyes.

Bugfixes:
Fixed a crash related to getting in a game -> returning to title screen -> loading a saved game
Fixed a bug in the custom model section of the character creation
Fixed a couple null pointer exceptions
Fixed Axolotls not going in any aquarium, it now can be properly added to the general aquarium
Fixed the habitat hitboxes

We are almost done implementing the final museum update, the books are already spawning, but we have to finish the interactable part of it.


We also went through bug reports, so next update will have new fixes.

After this we might be able to add the Pickaxe tool and Mining nodes finally removing the placeholder mine, but no guarantees, we have a deadline on the other project for next month.

Starting from January 1st we should be back to working on the game fulltime and development of the Exploration update will resume.