RivenWorld News

Hello Lords and Ladies!

We're excited to announce the release of our Animal & Hunting Update for RivenWorld! We've been working on this for the past month and are so excited to get your feedback on the newly added animals in the world.



Bear - Spawn near points of interest around the world, they do not like to travel to far away from there location, so if aggroed, they will lose interest quicker.
Boar - Very aggressive and territorial animals that spawn in forested areas around the world. If aggroed they will chase you for a longer distance.



Deer - Spawn randomly around the map and are a great source of food and leather.
Doe - Spawn randomly around the map and are a great source of food and leather.
Rabbit - Spawn randomly around the map and are a great source of food and leather.



Gather hide from animals by using a sword, once you have the hide you can dry it in our new drying station.



Find bird nests around the world, and collect feathers. These feathers can be used to craft arrows to use with your bow.



We removed the old combat system and added a new combat system that has combos & heavy attacks. We're hoping this will help combat play better without the need to select a different attack angle.



After watching how players played as King within RivenWorld we decided to remove the pre-fab castle and allow players to build their castle and keep. Once you claim the throne, you can build your own castle on top of the king's mountain. This will play into a future update for siege equipment and dark-age machines.


We've overhauled the animation system to improve all our movement, combat and other animations found in RivenWorld.


We plan on working on aggressive mobs at night and a farming system for crops and plants. We aim to have mobs and farming in RivenWorld before the end of June. We believe adding mobs and agriculture will significantly enhance the gameplay of RivenWorld and help add more immersion to the world we're creating.

Added
- AI Bear
- AI Boar
- AI Buck
- AI Doe
- AI Rabbits
- New Locomotion System for player
- New combat system (more RPG style)
- New Attack Dummy
- New Building Blocks
- New SFX for Bow & Arrows
- New SFX for Combat
- New Animations for Combat
- No Build Zone around Throne (2 Chunks)
- New resource spawn system, and world sync system for smoother performance
- If attacked while in forage or another animation it will cancel the action
- Jump to cancel forage or an animation
- Player Task system that cancels if the player moves or takes damage, planning to use this on the throne and other things.
- Forage now has a progress bar
- Tanning Rack
- Fletcher Bench
- Attack Dummy
- Wooden, Stone, Iron, and Steel Arrows
- New Animation Callback system to support more synced actions from server
- SHIFT + Double Click Support for quick transfer
- Cancel foraging using jumps
- Added scroll wheel to select hotbar


Modified
- Map update for the King's Castle removed the castle, and players will need to build their own
- Fixed Combat Hitboxes
- Removed energy use from tools and weapons until I can overhaul it
- Attempted to fix the animals not walking
- Changed durability of wood tools from 100 to 50
- Fixed Rain Collector Icon
- Fixed unable to craft wooden shovel
- Made ground layer resources only spawn in forest
- Added more animal spawn points and increased the population
- World Sync not is every 5 mills (from 50 mills)
- Moved world sync to a compressed packet
- Updated animals to move smoother and more reliably
- Fixed the unlimited node bug
- Fixed spam click for gathering
- Combat Freezing Players
- Synced Animations to match when actions complete
- Drop bag now glows
- Disabled the Drop Bag Physics so it does not roll
- Fixed "flying" pigs... I think
- Fixed animals becoming choppy if more than one player is nearby them
- Adjusted resource damage and gather rates on all trees and nodes
- Added sparkle to the drop bag
- Fixed crafting producing when output is full
- Fixed land claim refresh bug
- Fixed crafting screen update bug
- Updated in-hand item based on slot selection on inventory drag
- Fixed can't click when holding a food
- Fixed gear icon showing on crafting recipes
- Re-balanced the animal spawn numbers

Removed
- The Castle

[~ Changes, + Additions, - Deletion]

~ Fixed Underwater
~ Fixed torch to prevent frame drops
~ Fixed River Colors
~ Fixed Steel Pick yielding less return
~ Fixed Combat hit values and destruction of armor
~ Fixed water glowing neon colors

+ Added gamma/ brightness to the settings
+ Added quick select items for quality
+ Added mapping for movement to controls

Hello Lords and Ladies!

We're now T-Plus 6 Days since our Early Access Release on Steam and whoo it was a roller coaster. After EA release last Friday we got a influx of players that led to server issues, causing crashes and disruptions, after pulling an all nighter Friday and Saturday we released minor patch 1.01a, and then later that week another minor patch 1.01b to address bugs and glitches within our server software.

We're proud to announce our first major update, v1.02 of RivenWorld! This update address a lot of things within the world, and will add additional areas to explore and journey into.



With this new map we've added 2 additional lakes, 1 river and a different resource node distribution to encourage exploration and adventure through the world.

The map has also been overhauled, and we've added a road system to help players navigate the world!



Along with the world update, we've added 2 new light sources, and made the night time a bit brighter so everyone can see!

Wall Oil Lamp

Oil Chandelier


Craft a bed and simply press your [q] key to bind your soul to the bed. As long as the bed is not destroyed you will respawn at your bed location when you die.


[~ Changes, + Additions, - Deletion]

Added:
+ New World Design v1.02
+ Paths around the world connection POIs
+ Added Wall Oil Lamp to Anvil
+ Added Oil Chandelier to Anvil
+ Added Player Join/ Leave Messages
+ You can now punch trees to get logs at random
+ Regen of the ground layer every 6 hours
+ Water Well
+ Rain Catching Station
+ /stuck command
+ /g command for inner guild chat
+ ESC/ TAB to close menus
+ Added carpenter bench
+ Add recipe to carpenter bench to split logs into sticks

Changes:
~ Slowed down movement when holding a weapon or tool
~ Adjusted weather system to be more fluid/ real
~ Re-distributed the resource nodes around the map
~ Moved Stand Oil Lamp to the Anvil
~ Increased the oil burn time on the lamps
~ Water Buckets have durability
~ Moved communication from UDP to TCP due to user firewall issues with NAT
~ Guild Members can now use the hammer to remove anything on guild land
~ Moved wooden materials to the carpenter bench

Bug Fixes:
~ Adjusted Fall Damage to not effect you if on the ground
~ Fixed the forge to not eat mats on server restart
~ Fixed decay
~ Loot bags now despawn after 30 minutes
~ Fixed river ambient sound
~ Fixed the king chest from deleting
~ Fixed multiple swimming bugs
~ Fixed material returns on high-grade tools
~ Fixed one-hit on armor different armor types
~ Adjusted and fixed the player hitbox


Removed:
Nothing


Thank you for taking the time to get updated on our game, and we invite you to write a review on steam if you've been enjoying RivenWorld and our progress!

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We've been hard at work since launch to release our first patch aimed to make the game more stable and fix bugs that have been reported to us. Below are the patch notes for the update.

This update requires a client update on steam.

Added:
Stations/ Objects
+ Water Well Station: This will generate passive water every few minutes that can be collected using an empty bucket
+ Rain Water Station: This will generate passive water during rain in-game
+ Respawn Bed: Respawn at your bed now, simply go to the bed and use your Q menu to select to make the bed your respawn location

Commands:
+ /stuck to respawn if you are stuck
+ /g for guild chat

Controls:
+ ESC to exit from Game Menu
+ ESC/TAB to exit from inventories and GUIs in-game

Bug Fixes:
~ Spawning in the water
~ Player editor deletes your character preview if you change weight before the height
~ Resource nodes are now respawning correctly
~ Changed river volume to use Ambient Sounds
~ Fixed the King's chest from despawning
~ Fixed the king's castle to allow people to claim the land as the king
~ Fixed claim release on shrine destroy/ despawn
~ Fixed drop bags not despawning
~ Fixed network player sync
~ Moved player sync to TCP to support more types of networks
~ Added admin commands for server owners

Removed:
Northing

Released on: 4/16/2023

Hello Lords and Ladies,

Over this past weekend, we hosted an open beta to help test RivenWorld and iron out the last bugs before release. We saw some fantastic gameplay during the open beta and are happy to announce the release date for RivenWorld into Steam Early Access!



That's right! We're releasing on April 14th, 2023 @ 2pm CST (GMT-5).

Please help us spread the word about the release, and we look forward to seeing you all in RivenWorld on release weekend!

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