Release Notes for Dreadful River

0.4.157.5 (July 5th, 2023)

Fixed wrong land loot containers spawning

0.4.157.5 (July 5th, 2023)

Added river worms
Some stat fixes
Reset item comparison interface offset

0.4.157.4 (July 2nd, 2023)

Wake up sleepy crew members at game start
Boat sink state improved
Enemy boat navigation improved
River shader improvements
Added item comparison in trade menu

0.4.157.3 (June 30th, 2023)

More optimized river shader
River foam added
Added map icon for river caves

0.4.157.2 (June 29th, 2023)

New town location
Added tutorial after sail upgrade

0.4.157.1 (June 29th, 2023)

Skill menu shows current glory points
Stormy weather is less dark
Fixed quest state
Additional stats and stat fixes
Another display fix for conquered forts

0.4.157.0 (June 27th, 2023)

Stat fixes and additional ones
First iteration of the river caves system

0.4.156.2 (June 25th, 2023)

Quest tool general update
Fixed crash while saving if quest state is no longer valid
Fixed sink achievement not counting up

0.4.156.1 (June 25th, 2023)

Fixed stat tracking blocking elevator activation.

0.4.156.0 (June 25th, 2023)

Stat tracking for achievements
River system rewrite, new river hub allows you to choose the next river arm to explore
Quest system rewrite, your current raft will jump back to the begining of the river
Fixed sleepy units
Do not allow opening menus while in docking process
Skill fix
Several landscape fixes and improvements
Demo version got some extra tiles to explore

v0.4.155.1 (June 16th, 2023)

Fixed empty item spawn
Fixed recruiting too many units bug
Added skill not unlocked conditions

v0.4.155.0 (June 15th, 2023)

Interface improvements
Sprint fix for hired units
Play location fade animation again
First skill trees implemented
Fort banner display fix
Map menu enabled on land
Some item drop changes

v0.4.154.0 (June 9th, 2023)

Landing input key behavior changed
Fort system implemented

v0.4.153.4 (June 5th, 2023)

Wandering NPCs added to settelments
Time of day influences more world objects
Navigationmesh fix for end tile

v0.4.153.3 (June 4th, 2023)

Remove anchor state before docking at settlement
New item containers in ruins
Fixed floating swords of destroyed enemies
Fixed static artifact

v0.4.153.2 (June 3rd, 2023)

Enemy units are now more focused and adjust their walk speed
Vehicle movement tweaks
Some item icon additions
Fix for quest states
New enemy type added to the ruins
Some text changes
New dungeon

v0.4.153.1 (May 29th, 2023)

Reduced spawn amount of land items
Fixed activation blocking when landing

v0.4.153.0 (May 29th, 2023)

Several interaction related fixes and improvements
Player automatically rotates towards attack target
More ruin interior layouts
Added more spear types
Traders offer bigger assortment
Removed the ability to save the game while streaming in level

v0.4.152.5 (May 26th, 2023)

Recipes the player already own will not be sold or drop
New fish recipe and food item
Further unit navigation improvements
Reduced unnecessary navigation computations
Simulating offscreen unit attack animations (units will fight without you watching)
Disabled friendly fire for throwables on land

v0.4.152.4 (May 25th, 2023)

Throwables will also work on land
RSS feed changelog implementation
Village tile fixes
Removed deprecated crafting plans

v0.4.152.3 (May 24th, 2023)

Mission menu available in land mode
Fixed overlapping pause menu on land
Added end tiles
Quest system fixes

v0.4.152.2 (May 23rd, 2023)

More land AI navigation improvements
Quest system fixes
Initialize weather effects correctly after loading a save

v0.4.152.0 (May 21st, 2023)

Several new cooking recipes
Ruin interior art asset implementation
Hunger increase is less predictable
Implementation of basic artifact collection quest mechanic
Elevator bottom activation widget correctly disabled

v0.4.150.1 (May 17th, 2023)

Hunger system added (only influences health, mana and stamina regeneration at the moment)
Added dungeons entrances at ruin locations for upcoming underground additions
Increased texture sharpness for generic environment assets

v0.4.150.0 (May 15th, 2023)

New explore music track
Some locations changed
Positioning units only works when choosing a target first
Positioning correctly saved
Crafting menu categories added (some crafting items are now deprecated and will be removed with later patches)

v0.4.149.4 (May 13th, 2023)

Correctly refresh underground navmesh
Stuck button will now also reset the raft position
Upside down vehicle units fixed
Fixed animation spam of berserker and warrior units
New village docking position is now more dockable

v0.4.149.3 (May 13th, 2023)

Fixed crew member world position

v0.4.149.2 (May 12th, 2023)

Display siege engines amount on raft in trader screen
Fix floating crew member placement on raft
Additional out of level bounds generation of navmesh in dungeons

v0.4.149.1 (May 12th, 2023)

Autosave before entering ancient ruins
Remove sky light in dungeons
Fixed faulty navigation generation
Save anchor and sail state of the raft
Vehicle crew will wake up again if being pushed
Saved sleeping units will sleep again after loading

v0.4.149.0 (May 11th, 2023)

Disable raft menu in case dialog is started
Deactivate raft menu when zooming in from loadscreen
Removed 24 FPS display option
Music system fix
Slowed down enemy boats a bit
Some raft sail size adjustments
Various river tile adjustments
Set magician trader to the correct trader type
Destroy visible equipment of sold units instantly
Some ruin asset fixes

v0.4.148.3 (May 9th, 2023)

General vehicle refactoring and optimization

v0.4.148.2 (May 8th, 2023)

Fixed repositioning of melee units not working
Fixed bug of two or more units using the same raft slot
Lighting improvements

v0.4.148.0 (May 8th, 2023)

New tiles
Raft menu also shows raft level and siege weapons
Cleanup of unused raft repositioning save data
Player raft can add siege weapons
Enemy vehicles now use different speed values
Changed world lighting system
Implemented several methods to improve performance
Throwing anchor in location menu without closing the trade

v0.4.147.1 (May 5th, 2023)

Tutorial responsiveness no longer influenced by time dilation and system will stop if nothing is tutorialized
Fixed overlapping screen settings menu when exiting with Escape
Removed some unnecessary vehicle components after destruction and movement improvements

v0.4.147.0 (May 5th, 2023)

Introduced floating enemy siege towers
Applied trade filter to all service types
Additional inventory category
Fixed priest healing the dead issue
Enemy vehicles improved
Music system improved

v0.4.146.3 (May 4th, 2023)

Fixed not consuming consumables from the potion menu

v0.4.146.1 (May 3rd, 2023)

Trader now only buy specific items
Removed lower sail board if no sail is available

v0.4.146.0 (May 3rd, 2023)

Some performance improvements
Added categories to inventory menu
Fixed empty item slots in inventory menu
Consumables can now be used from the inventory menu
Music system fix another try

v0.4.145.1 (May 2nd, 2023)

Fixed vehicle changes not correctly translating to shipping build
Reducing player raft bounce

v0.4.145.0 (May 1st, 2023)

Savegame optimizations
Rewrite of the river unit spawner system
Removed initial vehicle in range rotation
Vehicles now follow their target again but slow down near it
Other rafts poles will not influence the camera
Restored outline for player raft pole
Another music system fix
Floating explosives are now more bounceable, more chaotic and less dangerous

v0.4.144.0 (April 28th, 2023)

Starling gear can be found in ancient places
Adjusted Ancients exit elevator ramp to the correct height
Display stamina mana next to unit health bar if below 50%
Some land AI adjustments for walking over obstacle movement
Fixed enemy sail boat movement behavior
New axe and shield models
Roadmap now also shows playable but not fully implemented features
Final music controller fix
Display real time days played at save game slot label
Gatehouses can now be walked through
Reduced enemy units on sail boats
Get off that bonfire!

v0.4.143.2 (April 25th, 2023)

Fixed huge world coordinates for crew positioning target arch effect
Fixed distant boat flickering rotation issue
Made later player rafts less bulky
Restores units not using the secondary item slot
New icons for warlock and priest

v0.4.143.1 (April 24th, 2023)

Fixed broken secondary equipment slot

v0.4.143.0 (April 24th, 2023)

Some priest fixes
Berserker class introduced
New sword weapon models
More responsive units
Several fixes got fixes

v0.4.142.0 (April 21st, 2023)

Priests will now start healing allied units
Different visual effects for refilling health, stamina and mana
Fixed music playback gap problem caused by the game time dilation
New battle music track

v0.4.141.0 (April 18th, 2023)

Character sprint movement implemented
Basic land AI navigation avoidance system
Do not allow crew to stand on the bonfire
New ancient creature
Several audio and art asset improvements for the ancients
Animation system refactoring

v0.4.140.0 (April 16th, 2023)

Using anchor from menu closes menu again
Removed location distant docking bug
Inventory controls work on land
Request different tile system if something goes wrong loading old tile from save

v0.4.138.2 (April 14th, 2023)

Fixed sail hoist bug
Fixed too small icons bug
Fixed spawning of invalid river tile

v0.4.138.1 (April 14th, 2023)

Changed default save game path to fix write protected program folder issue. New folder is: ..\AppData\Local\DreadfulRiver\Saved\
Refreshed all data assets to fix missing names and icons in build - hotfix
Built game without debug systems (shipping configuration)

v0.4.138.0 (April 14th, 2023)

All enemies deal 30% more damage
Halls of the Ancients first sneak peek
First dungeon music tracks
Removed settlement distant docking bug
Character texture adjustments
Added wildlife wolf enemies
Fixed sliding movement of hit actors
Raft sail size scales more accurately with raft size
More efficient despawn system for spawned actors
Alert actors will no longer stop navigating if they can not see the enemy
Fixed broken landscape material for village level

v0.4.137.4 (April 3rd, 2023)

Fixed cattail generation
Added another river tile

v0.4.137.3 (April 3rd, 2023)

Fixed internal crew slot overwriting issue - hotfix

v0.4.137.2 (April 3rd, 2023)

Boat slot can no longer be used by two crew members - hotfix

v0.4.137.1 (April 3rd, 2023)

Crew stuck on land after landing - hotfix
Crew positions not saved before landing - hotfix
Inventory screen reenabled on land

v0.4.137.0 (April 3rd, 2023)

Reposition crew members on raft
Locked some menus on land
Anchor no longer cancels fishing
Fishing is not blocked by other actions
Fishing key binding added

v0.4.136.0 (March 31st, 2023)

Fixed camera stuck under raft issue
Additional ancient tiles
Spawn flint meshes on landscape

v0.4.135.2 (March 28th, 2023)

Fixed in build not properly working mesh construction scripts - hotfix

v0.4.135.1 (March 27th, 2023)

Fixed missing definition for ancient spawn set - hotfix

v0.4.135.0 (March 27th, 2023)

Ancient locations added (later used to enter the underground)
Less object construction tasks when doing level streaming to reduce loading hiccups
Map icons improvements
Updated some locations
New river tiles

v0.4.134.0 (March 24th, 2023)

Warrior melee units on land will start throwing stones if they can not reach their opponent
Basic fishing (will be further refined)
Added new environment assets which will further improve the visual quality of the game
Changed some existing locations
Update skylight after returning to main menu
More shop slots

Update v0.4.133.0 (March 21st, 2023)

Increased indirect lighting
Fixed unit raft attachment issue when hiring crew on land
Land loot can now be picked up from the raft
Spearman now keeps his perfect distance to enemies
Spearman stops attack when nobody is around
Disabled landing while in dialogue
Fixed landing sites positioning mode moving npcs around
Removed lazy unit behavior introduced with 0.4.132.0
Fixed landscape hole in farmlands environment

Update v0.4.132.0 (March 20th, 2023)

Item usefulness rating added for crew members
Crew members can equip stuff directly from the inventory screen
Force garbage collection when docking at settlements
Implemented forgotten interact key function for crafting menu
Re-added specific interact sounds for some item equipping actions
Added more item slots for potion, crafting and inventory menu
Target mode only works on enemies
Target mode also outlines wildlife actors correctly
Boars now come with different fur tones
Added some recipes that can be used for fishing (soon)
Changed some crafting icons
Off-loading units on land is now mostly more reliable

Update v0.4.131.0 (March 17th, 2023)

Another battle music track
Further Land AI pathfinding improvements for land units
Caution: Player character will now also be attacked on land without hesitation
Fix for upgrading your raft while on land
Added audio fade when loading a game

Update v0.4.130.0 (March 15th, 2023)

New battle music tracks
Some enemy sound changes
Trade menu deadlock fix
Pick up river loot without using the raft
Shopping at land locations without using the raft
Smoother wind transitions to reduce vegetation flickering

Update v0.4.129.0 (March 13th, 2023)

Reworked map menu cloud texture
Increased grass loading speed after loading save
Removed skybox recapture for more visibility
Introduced boars, spawning on land (experimental)
Added item drops for land units (experimental)
Item pick up speed increased

Update v0.4.128.0 (March 10th, 2023)

Additional river segment
Fixed hovering Krev
Start battle music only if player faction is involved in combat
Don't start up next battle music track if battle is already over
New explore music track
Equipable items now show the character class that can equip them
King stuck in lamp holding animation fixed

Update v0.4.127.0 (March 9th, 2023)

Introduced new screen settings menu
Added vertical vsync option
Added set max frame rate option
Further vehicle movement improvements
Player character attack spam enabled
First melee combat iteration
Refactored some AI behavior

Update v0.4.126.0 (March 7th, 2023)

Reduced landscape texture complexity to avoid checker pattern generation
Closed most holes in landscape mesh
Tab key no longer switches focus of viewport
Another bunch of level streaming bugfixes

Update v0.4.125.0 (March 6th, 2023)

Seasons now determine which harvestable plants grow on land
Fixed the birch tree collisions
River generation interval check to avoid loading issues
Changed river loading/streaming settings to avoid generation bugs
Some changes to the enemy boat movement, will be further refined
Added audio menu setting to adjust footstep sounds

Update v0.4.124.0 (March 4th, 2023)

King swimming improved
Collision fixes for several ruin assets
Game will now auto save when reaching a settlement
Some whoosh sounds for combat
Footstep sounds for different surfaces
Disable enemy weapons after death

Update v0.4.123.0 (March 3rd, 2023)

Character land movement controls improved
Attack possible while moving on land and directional movement
Zoom out when boarding raft
Target mode wakes up crew at night time
Fixed at times none responsive melee weapons
Raft menu responsiveness improved
Action menu for land actions introduced to access potion and crew functions
New food items added
Item tooltip positioning fix
Krev now casts spell on raft and not on king
Not yet implemented skill menu disabled
Several minor level design and graphic fixes