Patch 1.0.10 - World Generation / Progression Update

[h2]Patch 1.0.10 makes a fundamental overhaul to the world generation algorithm.[/h2]



[h2] We're excited to showcase full village generation for the first Era! [/h2]

• Villages now spawn with houses, torches, roads, town halls, and cooking stations
  
• Singular village type exists at this time, but will spawn randomly
  
• Future patches will include seed variations
  
• Some villages will spawn with specialists such as blacksmiths
  
• All villages will have cooking stations, rest beds, and tavern shops
  
• Villages include custom music tracks
  

[h2] In addition to village generation, we added over a dozen new resources for harvesting! [/h2]

• New ruleset includes denser forests
  
• New rock assets
  
• New Ruins assets
  
• Resource depletion rates will now vary based on size
  

[h2] Players can now gain experience and leveling through world interactions! [/h2]

• Level progression is marked on the bottom left corner of your screen
  
• Enemies will drop experience points that are absorbed by the player
  
• Most interactions will provide experience, including resource depletion and cooking
  
• No stat changes are present in this build, but in the future they will be class dependent
  
• New locations will be marked with a discovery event panel
  

[h2] Lastly, we expanded and improved upon saving to include all customizable game elements! [/h2]

• Experience and level
  
• Keymapping
  
• Graphics, sound and gameplay options
  
• Depleted resources, cooking ingredients and cooked dishes
  
• Tasklist entries and discoveries
  

[h3]Attention Steam Deck players ⚠️[/h3]

If you are playing Skyclimbers on Steam Deck we have opened a new branch optimized for Deck.

Use this password for the Beta branch: valvesteamdeck

This Beta branch build is between 10.9.1 and 1.0.10, with some but not all new features.


[h3]Added [/h3]

• Reintroduced village spawning to world generation algorithm
  
• Added new village assets and props (tavern, houses, landscapes, fences, banners, torches, etc)
  
• Added new depletable trees (dead trees, stumps, oak variants)
  
• Added new depletable mossy stones
  
• Added new ruin assets (larger, more detailed ruin structures)
  
• Added full screen/windowed options to pause menu
  
• Added "alert" state for Yagi AI before chase or attacking the player
  
• Added save support for graphics settings
  
• Added save support for audio settings
  
• Added save support for gameplay settings
  
• Added save support for player progression (experience and level)
  
• Added wind animations for trees
  
• Added dissolve effect and additional VFX to despawning voidlings
  
• Added generic footstep SFX for invalid surface textures
  
• Added decal rendering system for road pathways and village accents
  
• Added location discovery events
  
• Added player experience system v1 (gain xp through resource depletion, cooking or combat)
  
• Added SFX and VFX on exp gain
  
• Added season, temperature and time of day data to player HUD
  
• Added temperature and time notation options to pause menu
  
• Added new audio event for when player is riding a mount
  
• Added texture streaming to improve texture quality and performance
  

[h3] Fixed [/h3]