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DevBlog 80 - New Update Now Live

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Greetings Founders! We've just launched our June update for CardLife and within it is a veritable bounty of new features, quality of life tweaks and bug fixes based on your feedback and our long-term vision of the game.

We've made it easier than ever before to mod CardLife with this latest build and we've added new functionality to the Enchanting Table so you can now increase stats of weapons and armour by combining them with crafting elements. Oh and that pesky curved terrain can now be flattened as well, but you can read all about that in the complete patch notes below:

 

NEW ENEMY - WILD BOAR

Our cardboard boars may look cute, but mess with this forest-dwelling creature at your peril! These are low-level enemies but they are still fairly aggressive.


 

NEW FEATURES

  • NEW Flatten Terrain Ability
    • With this update, it is now possible to flatten terrain by pressing the left mouse button. This ability only strips away the top layer, unlocking new building potential.
  • NEW Modding Folder
    • We've designed CardLife from the ground-up to allow players the freedom to change core game world aspects. You can now more easily do this in-game, by creating a folder called 'Mods' in the main CardLife installation directory. In this folder you can place custom JSON files to change core aspects of the game experience. Be careful of ordering as if jsons have conflicting values, only one mod value will be applied. Official servers will remain a mod-free zone, but private servers will be able to use as many modifications as they wish.
  • NEW Hot Bar
    • We've been doing a fair amount of internal testing with new players as of late and these hot bar changes are in response to some testers struggling to get to grips with the game. We have added a permanent hand icon to the hot bar so players always know how to empty their hands, we've added iconography to clearly define health and stamina bars and we've added a meter to hunger, so there shouldn't be any doubt how full your character is when adventuring.
  • NEW Weapon and Armour Enchantments
    • Players can now enchant their weapon, armour and tools using the Enchanting Table to grand their gear stat boosts. Various animal parts and gems can be used to enchant items.

 



IMPROVEMENTS

  • Deer and Stag AI behaviour is now more passive.
  • Now possible to escape enemies
  • Updated core game tech to Unity 2018
  • The craft button in 'Connect The Dots' menu now defaults to 'Customise' encouraging players to create something unique. To produce the default design, players now click 'Default'
  • Initial world load has been optimised and should now be faster
  • Maintenance mode - added a new method for the development team to restrict CardLife access for short periods of time in order for us to deploy new updates
  • Cave entrances now appear lighter when you approach them
  • Added a 'Collect All Button' to the dropped crate interface. Now you can pick up all your items with one simple click
  • Players are now spawned around the edges of the map, rather than random placement. This is so that players who are playing together can more easily find each other when they start

 

BUG FIXES

  • Fixed a bug when animals are engaging you, the first hit could push you underground
  • Fixed a bug for while you are mining, you could pop through the ceiling and you can simply fall through the walls
  • Fixed some instances of a bug where It is possible to force yourself through the ground by placing dirt around you
  • Fixed a bug where the text field on the permission panel broke
  • Fixed a bug where splitting items could cause issues/loss of items
  • Fixed a bug where placed map pins do not get remembered the next time you log in
  • Fixed a bug where the sound for deleting a structure didn't play
  • Fixed a bug when your inventory is full and you cannot collect items from a crate, you do not get a visible error message
  • Fixed a bug relating to when you have a full inventory, overflowing items did not appear in a death box when you went to collect them
  • Fixed a bug where the Spider's head is sinking into his body while attacking
  • Fixed a bug where the tooltip for the resistance attribute in the Inventory, is incorrect
  • Fixed a bug where the Critical Hit Damage attribute is not currently including the 50% boost stated in the tooltip
  • Fixed a bug where tweaking items between your Inventory and a storage crate can often lead to some items losing their interactivity
  • Fixed a bug where some buttons did not indicate they were interactive, via hover-over states on dialogues that were triggered
  • Fixed a bug where the crafting scrollbar for the object type on the Inventory screen was far too slow to scroll
  • Fixed a bug where the hotbar and chat, displayed for a second or two, over the top of the loading screen, just before the player spawns into the world
  • Fixed a bug where you can sometimes respawn under your bed
  • Fixed a bug where you could make your hands temporarily disappear if you start destroying some flora halfway through a punching animation
  • Fixed a bug where you could negate the visual effect for hp drain caused by starving.
  • Fixed a bug where the panting audio for running cuts out too soon upon letting go of shift
  • Fixed a bug where the currently Selected item in the hotbar was not displayed correctly
  • Fixed a bug where crafting a crafting table the customise button lights up, but doesn't function as expected
  • Fixed a bug where the text for selected enchantments doesn't match the stat on the tooltip of an enchanted item, or the user's stats
  • Fixed a bug where the attributes scrollbar could not be scrolled via the mouse wheel
  • Fixed a bug where the sprite for the "Tungsten Mechanical Drill" and "Cobalt Mechanical Drill" had been mixed up
  • Fixed a bug where the stat for durability in the crafting menu was not displaying correctly
  • Fixed a bug where the "attack cooldown" indicator displayed over the top of weapons in your item bar gets stuck, if you die mid-swing
  • Fixed a bug when enchanting, where the resource value could appear green whilst not enough resources.
  • Fixed a bug where entering third person view prevented torches from being placeable
  • Fixed a bug where if the user runs out of resources whilst crafting, it would not register until another crafting item is selected.
  • Fixed a bug where you could end up losing an item you have forged another before collecting

 

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Thanks all!

Andy, Comms Manager