Wildmender November 20, 2023 Update Patch Notes
Hi Wildmenders!
In this week’s patch update, we made good strides on fixes as well as performance improvements once again. We’ve just pushed build 201 on Steam. Looking ahead, we are entering the holiday season, so stay tuned for more events and announcements.
Now, onto the patch notes.
Changes:
Performance
Thank you all for all your support and stay tuned for more updates!
In this week’s patch update, we made good strides on fixes as well as performance improvements once again. We’ve just pushed build 201 on Steam. Looking ahead, we are entering the holiday season, so stay tuned for more events and announcements.
Now, onto the patch notes.
Changes:
- Updated the text of the “Collect Copper” tutorial step to be clearer, in English and Chinese.
- Increased the health of Windmills and Water Pipes:
- Water Pipe 30 -> 50
- Water Pipe Splitter 30 -> 60
- Windmill 150 -> 200
- Fixed several achievements not unlocking for guest players in multiplayer: “Umbrella Farmer”, “An Acquired Taste”, “Technically Known As ‘Water’”, and “Desperate Times, Desperate Measures.”
- Fixed some large trees and cultivars with large size modifiers, such as the Enduring Oak, not crowding each other as intended (This also fixes these plants self-seeding too close together).
- Fixed automatic respawn sometimes failing if the player was facing the wrong direction.
- Fixed “Wraith Attack Soon” warning appearing during quests that disabled wraith attacks.
- Fixed a case where a guest player could find the object carried on their back invisible, and be unable to put it down or pick up anything else, if the hosting player reloaded a save. This issue could have affected plants, frogs, and Ancient Worker Bee Sigils.
- Fixed Serpent Statue being convertible into a Crab Statue.
- Fixed some issues with prioritization of procedural trees (led to trees not generating when they should).
- Improved navigation of Spirit Darters and Frogs to reduce them getting lost or stuck inside rocks.
- Fixed another edge case where the Titan Crab’s claw could block major locations (Ex, the Arx Altar).
- Fixed lightning strike ground decals not cleaning up correctly after the strike finishes.
- Fixed the issue of Naia’s zone revival quest starting if the player had not yet completed the Meadow Mothers quest.
- Fixed a case where the Traditional Chinese language setting could prevent sending text chat.
- Fixed the issue of a player being unable to select other Sigils Gates on the gate map while carrying multiple acorn cultivars in controller mode.
- Fixed a case where a guest player could get stuck “jumping” over the Titan Crab.
Performance
- Improved networking of inventory items and clock time (should reduce desyncs of either).
- Improved memory usage over time in long play sessions, particularly as a multiplayer host.
- Improved performance of plant and biome simulation, particularly in large gardens.
- Improved performance of single-player load, especially in worlds with lots of biome modifiers (Mothers).
- Smoothed out simulation performance so it should create fewer noticeable framerate spikes.
Thank you all for all your support and stay tuned for more updates!