Beta 2.0.4 Released

We’re coming at you again this weekend, hitting you with another fairly large patch. We’re nearly at “Zero Bugs™” now, and we hope to keep it that way. “Early Access®” doesn’t have to mean “Buggy Access©”, now does it?

We showed some love to Mac OS X this patch as well as added some additional modding support. We cleaned up a lot of inconsistencies as well. Like most of these patches, nearly everything came suggested/reported from the forums and community. Thanks again all!

Bugs

• Fixed error when preserving items that can decay but have no uses (Ectoplasm).
• Fixed weight calculations when storing items in containers in containers in containers in…
• Increased item sprite capacity to 16384 (from 512). You should now theoretically never have hidden items/objects on screen again.
• Fixed an issue where most Mac OS X hardware displayed Wayward darker than intended.
• Drinking snow from the ground is now consistent with drinking unpurified water.
• Fixed scroll wheel zoom sensitivity on Mac OS X.
• Fixed the raft counting weight while using it.
• Fixed the raft not passing a turn when you stopped using it.
• Fixed a bug where gathering treasure on top of a cave entrance would show a snare graphic. Wat?
• Fixed the alternate font not being anti-aliased on Mac OS X.

Balance

Further refinements to skill to talent increments (many skills lowered).

Improvements

• You can now collect chests, traps, walls, doors, and most player-made objects without hurting yourself (if you don’t use a tool).
• Stoking Fire has been added to the Starter Quest. Other misc improvements/wording fixes in Starter Quest.
• Normalized/balanced stoke fire values (and increased in most cases).
• Starting fires no longer requires a fuel item. As such, the starting state of a fire is much weaker.
• Lighting campfires, kilns, furnaces, etc. now produce only enough fire as what was provided by the tinder/kindling. You will need to stoke the fire further.
• Torches and built torches (doodads) now function the same in terms of decay/length and burning into ash.
• Adding “Fuel” to torches now gives decay based on their Stoke Fire value instead of a randomized amount.
• Improved overall readability of text, quality of icons on hover, and other misc UI tweaks.
• Replaced fonts for those with better multilingual support and readability.
• Min/max durability now effected by disassembled item’s min/max durability. Max durability of crafted items now effected by consumed item’s min/max durability as well.

Modding/Mods

• Added additional rendering hooks (GetAmbientColorCave, GetAmbientColorDay, GetAmbientColorNight, GetAmbientLightLevel, PostRenderWorld, PostRenderPostProces, PreRenderPostProcess).
• Added BaseMod.getIndex and BaseMod.getPath for ease of mods to load custom assets.
• [Developer Tools] Added a day-night slider. Dialog now automatically resizes as needed.
• [Reincarnate] Fixed weight not resetting on death.
• [Balancing Tools] Now locks monsters in place.