Alpha 1.0.13 - Engine Update

[h2]This patch introduces many new rendering features, while improving performance by up to 50% [/h2]



[h2]Points of interests such as Temples now spawn with volumetric fog volumes[/h2]





[h2]Better texture scaling has been implemented on large assets such as landmark rocks and trees[/h2]





[h2]A new grass shader has been implemented with wind animation and better lighting[/h2]





[h2]Improved lighting, fog, day/night cycle and volumetrics.[/h2]



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[h2]Premiere of new rendering engine and model fidelity 🎥[/h2]





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• Share your favorite world seeds, or select one from the list for your next session!
  

[h3]Added [/h3]

• Added footstep SFX for Stagma, Direpyre, Okamito and Magmaton mounts
  
• Added birch sub-biome entity spawning
  
• Added POI spawn area time of day filters
  

[h3]Changed [/h3]

• Improved day and night cycle rendering
  
• Improved dawn and dusk transitions
  
• Improved cloud rendering
  
• Improved grass wind effects
  
• Improved volumetric lighting and fog
  
• Improved terrain generation (more visible POIs, flatter terrain)
  
• Improved memory management -- reduced average RAM usage to ~3.7GB and max RAM usage to 5GB
  
• Improved level load time
  
• Improved "building world" time
  
• Improved average frame rate
  
• Active background music fades out when player death event is activated
  
• Refactored entity spawner (biome spawning rules, time of day spawning rules, weather spawning rules)
  
• Player can only open chests from the front
  
• Updated Direpyre walk and run animations
  
• Disabled player footstep SFX when depleting a resource
  

[h3]Fixed [/h3]

• Fixed memory leak on terrain chunk load
  
• Fixed player unable to set other Sentius as active mounts after selecting Stagma
  
• Fixed Stagma and Direpyre not taking damage after reaching half their HP
  
• Fixed Yagi spawning underneath towers
  
• Fixed traveling villager NPCs spawning inside villages
  
• Fixed resource harvest loop bug
  
• Fixed wood tasklist entry bug
  
• Fixed death screen buttons not being clickable
  
• Fixed village music loop bug
  
• Fixed Stagma not dropping loot
  
• Fixed combat music restarting when AI attack dead player's body
  
• Fixed depth of field menu toggle
  
• Fixed cooking pot flames being active before player operation
  
• Fixed mesh distortion bug
  
• Fixed virtual camera and DoF not activating on NPC interaction
  
• Fixed resource harvest issues on non-spawn tiles / unique biome seeds
  
• Fixed NPC virtual camera stuck when player walks away from NPC interaction
  
• Fixed ambient audio triggers not functioning on non-spawn terrain tiles
  

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[h2]Tune in for the live stream with live commentary from the devs![/h2]



[h2]A hotfix is planned for this patch, which will fix many of the remaining bugs from 1.0.12 still present in this build.
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[h3]Also, stay tuned for the upcoming newsletter with an in-depth development and roadmap update![/h3]