Adventure Land - The Code MMORPG news & patch notes

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/6d1cf7d0397ec2b61c8fdf21885f3a2641b680b9.png - All the negative conditions are now affected by "stresistance" and sent as a "condition" character event - There's a new very aggressive male Harpy - Cuteness adds a negative aggro difference - this way >1 aggro values make some sense too - Bling adds a positive aggro difference - this way even peaceful monsters could attack you - New Item: Harpy Bow - along with its own crafting recipe, Harpy's both drop the crafting material and the bow itself, so it's not just low-RNG based and there'll be a slow but steady progress too I took a couple of days of this week but should get back to working on the game in 1-2 days

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/3b24f17c235b147cdda132f34d1f59e3e723a04b.png I have a new approach where I log changes digitally after I make them, instead of just taking notes and quickly visiting my notes each week during a report. With the previous approach a lot of the small changes didn't make it into the report. The update this week will likely be closer to Friday. - Bunny set now has the ID "bunny" and received 50 Cuteness bonus - Added Pink Goblin achievements - New runner function: throw_item(num,x,y) - White Egg is throwable and aggroad nearby monsters - Likely going to merge the item throwing and Merchant's Throw skill at one point and make them projectiles too - "mluck" game and character events, also a "+M" text animation for the merchants who receive an item -Snowball's freeze is pvp only now - G.conditions.pickpocket - Getting out of the bank now requires the bank to internally disconnect too, previously this was just for getting in the bank, when there's a system lag you can feel both connections. Also patched some common ways to get in or out of the bank through other means than a door. - There's a new stat called `incdmgamp` - Incoming Damage Amp. - "cursed" and "marked" skills use them - Cursed condition now decreases output by 20 - so it's much more effective against Priest's, damage output only drops to 5% by stats - "3shot", "5shot", "cburst", "cleave", "shadowstrike" has a new response format, basically it's the first hit amplified with `.targets[]` and `.pids[]` - "stomp" now returns the `.ids[]` that are hit - New Monster: Harpy - New Ability: Warp on Hit - New Feature: Flies when charging - Monsters don't spawn things now when they are disabled - Dark Mage multiplier is 64 now, and there are achievements - New Property: Impact Resistance / "phresistance" - Some monsters received varying levels of it - New "condition" character event, but it doesn't trigger for everything yet, refactoring is in progress - Status Resistance is integrated - "bad" property on G.conditions is no more, they only have "debuff" now - Monster Hunter sets have new resistance bonuses - Some classes have new resistance bonuses - Started re-balancing some monsters, once the new dynamics are set, could adjust the existing kill numbers on players if the final difficulty differences are more than 4X

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/6914c4dde6a15a052919b96cb8ad242623ce5cb2.png All NPC's are live entities now, they can be found in `parent.entities` - their ID's start with "$"'s Citizens started receiving new features, some seek a certain type of players, some attack monsters, some heal nearby players New NPC: Cunn - can follow a player between maps! At one point, each NPC will be documented, for now it's up to you to discover what they do! Priest's now have a separate `.heal` property and each classes have their own `.output`s - so Damage Output no longer affects Priest heals, yet, it's proportionally more effective on Merchants and Priests! New Skill: Merchant's Frenzy {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/c1249b5a2ff7d88a26a594101055604ca8032b1b.png Many bugfixes and improvements, including timeout corrections on attack frequency changes

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/3b7b63a948813215498091c704695c048cdb5be2.png Mainly a week with bugfixes New Feature: Split Stack! You can use the `split(num,quantity)` function in CODE or press the middle mouse button on an inventory item New Rogue Skill: Pickpocket - tries to pick a single quantity PVP marked item from a random inventory position at each use PVP marked or locked items no longer stack with each other Party DPS now has a difficulty multiplier from monsters, even indirect skills/contributions factor in the difficulty, .lucrativeness property became .difficulty as well on monsters, previously they both did the same thing by multiplying the gold drop Reworked spawns from monsters, now they only spawn at nearby players who attacked the monster

This week was filled with various small/big bugfixes that improved QoL, so decided to continue the program for one more week! There's a new feature, monsters can get bored and disengage from their targets if they are not attacked for 20+ seconds, how fast they disengage is based on RNG + their "rage" Friend Token shop is open but not populated, there's only one cosmetic currently, best not to exchange anything yet Simplified the CODE "Save As" interface, removed the codes of other characters unless a merchant is viewing the interface, and it now defaults to saving to an empty file, there's also another bugfix which made "/codes" fail on MacOS Hop Sickness no longer resets when you reload onto the same non-home server, also when you open the game, the default server is now the home server of your first character, just start and stop that character once for it to take effect Nerfed the Dark Mage's "lucrativeness" multiplier from 120x to 42x

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/3397a4b5b20e0722529304e2336623a5aa934a0c.png New Code Functions: interact, use_nearest_door, enter, join, bank_swap, leave, lock_item, seal_item, unlock_item, wishlist, giveaway, join_giveaway, exchange_buy, equip_cx, set_home All Code functions now return Promise's! There are many new Game/Character events as well. There's a new "Home Server" system, when you join a non-PVP server you get a 12 minute Hop Sickness, and when you have Hop Sickness, you are not able to join events, going to restrict access to more things in the coming days, possibly second hands and lost/founds One Week Bug Bounty Program: Made an enormous amount of changes this week, couldn't test everything, so for a week, just causing an ERROR! from a server by using a method that you'd use the way it's intended, finding a malfunctioning method, or causing `parent.deferreds` to not be empty (basically an un-answered Promise) will reward a Bug Bounty Box! I'm sure there are many to be found. The player who first posts the bug to #bugs on Discord with instructions on how to reproduce gets the reward. At this point no socket method should be called manually and every method should be called through Code functions, and while playing the game normally, or while using Code functions, if you can reproduce orphan Promise's, you get a Bug Bounty Box!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/948497c8290445dc5aecd594bacf51bd9ae14e64.png Mainly a week dedicated to reworking the skill system, however one fun change I started was adding healing to Caroline, planning to add certain traits to Citizens, ways to make them follow and fight with you, for Caroline it'll be Cuteness Instead of the earlier skill cooldown logic when you transported, integrated the old character.s.penalty_cd.ms to all the cooldowns, now each time you transport 3 seconds is added to the timer and it's there to delay each skill you use, seems a bit extreme for blink etc. - so going to halve the cooldown on use in the coming days, basically each time you invoke a skill, the duration of character.s.penalty_cd.ms will halve Finally reaped the benefits of simplifying the skills system, absorbed "attack" and "heal" inside too and covered all responses to make "use_skill" return a Promise! There's a new simpler Promise response system too, they mostly all tag along with "game_response" - downside is the need to refactor the existing hardcoded responses, mainly "upgrade" - as a growing pain, the format, mainly the ".reason" of rejections will change in the meantime and will need to be re-documented (or documented) Slightly changed night lights as well, there are now night entities and night lights, starting to illuminate windows at night as well Friend token shop is here, going to introduce cosmetics jars in the shop to start with, they'll have an irregular format in `G.tokens` though, something similar to `G.tokens.friendtoken=1` - as the token format was originally just a mapping of item keys to token amounts There's now a lower glitch to put as a placeholder places where content is just not ready Thanks for all the feedback and bug reports on Discord, most made it into the game, going to visit the equip/unequip system next for Promise's

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/a8f009f7e4d08a1f1dcdaa7b5a549b85301097fc.png This week was mostly spent on refactoring the internal skills, projectiles, hit animations system. Basically there were a lot of mis-handled animations and procs, simplified the system a lot and moved everything I can to the data side. As a result G.skills, G.projectiles, G.conditions etc. are quite enriched now. Two paladin skills are live, Smash and Purify {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/1f1f22a4128b9a7bc09b2b24da5ee0d13c43b59e.png{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/9c7341e01f0b9c33e734aa02af9ad4ee21323229.png The most visible change this week is the Server Time and Day/Night Cycle, It's Night time between 0-5 and monsters can sleep - when you click on Server Time, you can practically see the event data {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/e000385072e94a1a6378a99599731874c2049b5c.png{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/6fe429715a845695c22718b42be9f46613ec72f1.png{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/9ae957fbb96517dc8509702040799b39d988fd8a.png In the meantime experimenting with lights, and how to make nights less depressing, lights are very complicated as they are very simplistic and depending on where you stay, the illumination can be illogical, so I'm leaning towards a fog of night, rather than a flat darkening which confused everyone, I personally don't like it myself either, but going to give it some time There are many other small changes and bugfixes, for example you can make a cake now

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/a31c341450c6b9833a11b61b31ec26c489f4dc1c.png Biggest addition this week is the A/B Testing daily event, also improved the information pages of the earlier events {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/b51ce20577699a46e869bfae070173007bd9ba54.png After receiving the Harpy idea on Discord, started working on a new zone, Jayson completed it yesterday, it's called Frozen Cove and it's accessible through Frozen Cave For the Goo Brawl, there's now a Rainbow Goo with the `rgoo` ID and after the next update, regular Goo's will become `bgoo`'s - the Monsters UI is slightly improved as well New Craftable Item: Bat Fang Amulet (Discord Idea) {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/499bccafaba14fca66034f85e8406e8fe1477a08.png Items now have their monster droprates listed in a new format There are many bugfixes this week, at the end of the week I started refactoring the attack and projectile / hit animation routines, ended up diving deep into G.skills / G.projectiles - It'll delay the game update yet in the end it'll simplify things a lot and enhance the data. There were many small bugs like a reflected projectile having a different hit animation, game checking attacker stats instead of projectile stats on procs, skills that don't use a weapon using weapon features etc. - when I'm done with the refactoring hopefully these will all be fixed - and when the routines are simpler, it'll allow for me to more easily integrate the better promise responses for skills

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/5b738163175e267e4a4adf54aaa925d96dd94cc5.png There's a new map called 'goobrawl' and an accompanying daily event "Goo Brawl" You can enter these new events by name with `parent.socket.emit("join",{name:"goobrawl"})` and as a reminder the event data is in the `parent.S` object, so checking `parent.S.goobrawl` in code will let you know when it's live Currently each server runs a random event around 7pm and 9pm - this will change depending on your timezone, there'll be an NPC at one point that communicates the exact timing of these events {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/47779f6dd24c88e11d06aec3493006dd260bf3f5.png Second daily event is the Giga Crab - extremely challenging, spawns Huge Crab's and only receives 1 damage if there are any Huge Crab's alive! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/af5ac35dbaeeda2fde7a43903a4c97aeab1a5570.png There's a new internal routine that analyses growth of accounts, this allowed me to add a new rule that prevents multi accounting without any debate. Basically you can run accounts for others as long as they are selfish. When their growth is charted, if they don't grow and instead transfer resources, it will result in long temporary bans {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/25a943031d2bb814fe491ec6ee166d5609765bf2.png There's a new status called Hop Sickness, this can better shape in the future, right now characters record 40 server entries, depending on your hops in the last 3 hours, your character gets an increasing Hop Sickness. The debate is going on but a simpler solution is likely to bind accounts to a single server and let that server be changes every few days, characters could still function on other servers with stats that hinder the growth 50%+ When you invite someone to Adventure Land, you now receive a "Friend Token"! The shop / exchange isn't live yet, haven't decided on what to offer, likely incredible cosmetics, Hoping to fuel some growth this way. As a reminder the invite URL's check IP's too, so even if your friend buys the game on Steam afterwards, it'll likely match Last few years haven't been too kind, I guess for all of us, last year was especially hard for me. I've lost my best friend/dog. He had a good life but it was still devastating, turns out he was my last source of motivation, took quite some time to recover. No guarantees whether I can keep it up, but I'm back and it feels good to tackle some big challenges to start with! The daily events are off to a rough start, but it's a start! I want to thank everyone who reported #bugs and #feedback on Discord, tackling those small suggestions helped me gain momentum. I'd appreciate small actionable #new_ideas as well. For example simple recipes for existing items, or suggestions to introduce planned items that never made it into the game: https://adventure.land/communityselector/pack_20 Daily Events will introduce Fun and PVP tokens to the game, some of them could just be items introduced into these shops. Other Changes:

• vorb and cyber's attributes changed
• No more G.inflation, new G.multipliers
• Snowflakes recipe
• Snippet's can now have await's in them
• Drop info at the Monster Inspect UI
• Bow of the Weaver received the Weave ability (!)
• Crafting and dismantling now propagate properties and materials with different properties don't stack.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/2b9eabd0cae5da27dda9cfc5fc9e625d59dc66c4.png The Tiger received improvements, now it just bails out if there's a >999 attack - and somehow the 100% reflection didn't initially made it into the game, now it has 100% reflection and 99% avoidance The internal calculate_item_properties(def,item) is refactored to calculate_item_properties(item,{def:def}) - second argument is optional

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/2748411cae327cefab8278a42231175ad2edef24.png Our Extended Lunar New Year event is here, each year a new legendary animal is going to join the ranks, this year Tiger rarely appears to players, he's peaceful and rewards every hit you can land! Coming Soon: Valentine's Event

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/47f7f8052cc2b8944dd29f45129d834d7b335c8f.png It's Holiday Season on Adventure Land and there are 3 new items coming soon!

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Halloween event is extended and I'm really happy with the reception

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It wasn't an easy month however our spotlight on r/MMORPG and the influx of new players have been very very motivating

https://www.reddit.com/r/MMORPG/comments/qas8dy/adventure_land_the_code_mmorpg/

Finally have a bit of momentum going on, hoping to maintain and grow it

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/75c7745a342615aecc8184986ba55b0fcae5455b.png Halloween event is live! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/060f2c2c4482c687c58b1f87904da218c9903ab9.png There's a new buff system, .cbuff in G.monsters - defeating a monster provides different buffs to different levels of players New boss Slenderman, new Priest Mace, new cosmetics, 2 new Lolipop Mace's that pop are coming soon! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/e57515635dd4cb86da3bc7641f477180885a0f3a.png Also looking for feedback regarding fish, they'll occupy an inventory space each, so you'll be fishing and going to Desertland to exchange the fish, thinking of exchanging fish to a random interval of tokens each, and there'll be a token shop As an example, a rare fish could give 1-5000 tokens, so even if you catch one, there's an added layer of randomness

A slow week, most noteable addition this week is a misc addition: Offspring - they adopt random properties from their parents, I'll announce if/when they are integrated. Initially this seemed like a good idea but I'm not sure any more 2 other unfinished changes this week, a better limitations enforcer to prevent abuse of using characters above the limit, the change included a server to server communication system. The second one was mailing all the giveaway items and limiting the entry to 1 per authorized buyer. I was in a car accident, nothing major but my car was damaged, lost a lot of time this week and sadly will lose more as anything car related is a hassle, avoid buying a car if you can :) Halloween is coming soon and Adventure Land's Spotlight on https://www.reddit.com/r/MMORPG/ is on 18th! It will show up on the sidebar this week!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/6baa61278e5b420140bc1fb857085aa5a34f7cd1.png As a short recap, continuing from Week 121's Thoughts, forcing progress is the better option, going to try and add 1 little thing to the game every day whenever there's nothing else on my plate : Procs like freeze/burn now roll when a projectile is launched and other attributes are adopted by the projectile itself so weapon swapping etc. doesn't affect things anymore : Buff Orbs: These Orbs will provide specific buffs like fire/freeze resistance, only one buff will be active at a time, Orbs will be scattered and hard to reach : Enriched mining, a slightly better animation, a misc zone in the beach cave and introduced nuggets as drops : Warrior skill: Dash - to dash over obstacles or just dash forward {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/88816a14610ce8e999bca9a02c6e8987c961c1f3.png Maps are getting new zones that can be blinked or dashed to {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/c9370173838d45ac720d2efe743251fe2bf29be6.png{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/cbaab1179ca9f4c72d541bde63b928f43fc5f791.png As far as open sourcing goes, I've received a lot of honest and constructive feedback this week on Discord, most of the pro's in my mind were eliminated, and the cons that remain are amplifying the hard parts of developing a game that other developers play, it won't be easy to collaborate as collaboration wasn't on my mind when I was developing the game - so delayed the decision for a while

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/01751e35eb772dcec641740e414ef09d91acbe7e.png Jayson has been working hard, there's a new Desertland map coming soon, the complexity of the map is going to increase too Mainland also has a new upcoming look with a lot more detail {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/643c4a7cc4b71bc3e01b95af2a0085de425e4c16.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/eb4616005d36aa21e69f11b00649e1712148a0f9.png

I've come to a point where I can't force progress, what worked in the past doesn't work anymore, it's been like this for a while, maybe the problem is approaching things quantitatively - if I stop trying to force progress, a natural flow of development could occur - or maybe my limited creative capacity has caught up and now its dragging things The obvious solution was to open source the game, as pretty much every player wants to develop the game too. The right/hard way to do this was to re-write the entire backend codebase in NodeJS, as releasing it in Python 2.7 wouldn't help anyone - as Python is obsolete now. This approach, which I intend to do at one point, will allow anyone to create their own MMORPG and experiment with the genre in minutes I think I'm going to build up to it and do things the easy way tho, open source the game as it is, see whether the game can progress creatively with a community effort - and if there's interest, then re-write the backend in NodeJS

Mainly spent working on the tutorial, not much to show this week yet

This week was mainly dedicated to working on the new player experience, first character of a new player now emits the aura for 7 days, but it didn't seem like enough - I hoped interaction with non-afk players could improve the experience It was sad that most new players didn't even discover upgrade or compound, so started by adding 3 new tutorial steps, kill a goo, upgrade and compound - and looking at new players from yesterday, indeed it seems to be a move in the right direction, now most of them do basic upgrades There's also a new first drop logic, for the first character of a player, it includes 90,000 gold, 3 rings and a belt for the time being - so the tutorial steps can be followed immediately {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/a8c229dfe144b34fa704ce35f50514212fa47c0d.png{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/d3826ce042f376b7755ec9e0e2ca5eaae335d554.png{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/347307be0cfa0703d342bec0541a36caf25fe54b.png{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/f0c0770e237e02febd86c6390cf64b4ef6d252f1.png I guess a next stage could be to introduce the multi character aspect of the game, and maybe provide an interactive merchant code that visits the characters, collects items, upgrades, compounds etc. Added "Warpstomp" to "xmagex" - Warps and stomps - Both the Crypt and Lair adversaries have armor/resistance's now too Ice Golem now becomes an announced boss like Franky If you are fighting the same monsters, now all skills that directly check for the party consent will work if you are not in a party

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/bb9f7b65f91756653b5046fb666153f0c8bcb72c.png The instance "Lair of the Dark Mage" is ready {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/3a910ca2c9736c7439e7506d2b7cc8f914e982ea.png There's a new ring that adds the "Zap" ability, shoots a 200ms cooldown ray that deals 200 pure damage As with everything, this instance will get balanced a lot too, I plan to introduce more common orbs that drop easily One noteworthy experiment this week was NexusNull's suggestion of a new approach to disappearing texts, the last phase was more readable yet a bit awkward after getting used to the current look of things, as texts moved with entities too - shelved it for now, but the new name tags etc. were also shelved experiments at one point, I think the next stage of disappearing texts will be free texts, yet once a text overlaps another text, the text above will move faster so they quickly clear each other, also dot damage's should have a lower priority and fly away fast into a random direction when this happens I think the most noteworthy addition this week will be the "NewCharacter joined Adventure Land!" realm announcements, instead of #game_events, they will also publish to Discord/#general - similarly level>=80 announcements will be realm announcements too, but won't get published to #general - I suspect the new announcements could get bugged and spam the game or bring down a server etc. - so best to be on the lookout In addition to this, new players have an aura that lasts an hour, the aura emits for a day, it's a small incentive to visit them from time to time {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/34b9dc883f4647542f7cff3661c920e04af62ca8.png

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/455efa7e3e688d5db79eceaf375ab90e860613f5.png There's a new instance coming soon to Winterland {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/fca160f66364a988bcc35746b2f024f6a2e70c5c.png Where you battle a Dark Mage that goes through 4 stages {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/519ceb1aee105e3baa5e268e434aaf73fb0eb7f7.png There's also a new island with the Ice Golem dropping the key to the dungeon, Ice Roamers also drop the key but not as frequently The big news this week is the auth bug NexusNull discovered and shared to be fixed, a big thanks to NexusNull and number_e for their help - the bug was allowing any account to be accessed Many many weeks ago, again during the Summer, I had a strict work/life schedule that worked very well, however it fails in Winter as the lack of sun is usually demotivating, at the weekend I started this strict approach once again, and after a long while started making progress The bad news is, there will be a 20 day full lockdown here, starting Wednesday night, so I'll lose at least 2 days this week while preparing - best case scenario the update could happen closer to weekend, feel free to suggest new items and new dynamics, the Mage goes through a Ice / Fire / Nature / Darkness change, basically there are 4 variations, and after each one is defeated, the one after that spawns, there's a new "respawn_as" property in G.monsters

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/ed58d161267d46a33231972510f8bcdbdee45dcc.png Winterland received it's new look, there's also a new path connecting sections above the Arctic Bee's - Planning to add a rare spawn below ice roamers where a Mage will have to blink-in and magiport others Items break now, so if you are Fishing/Mining, it should be part of the code logic {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/5210fb0d839912d48f3e7946906a517d0701de38.png There's a new emotion, a single heart, currently a rare drop from Mining: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/528eb8939a3ba7b95dbdc4b9ad38fd2d4721d7f5.png There's also a change to the tanking contribution calculation, so it's a good time to take another look at .pdps values Spent some time re-visiting the code-syncing system, fixed a mac app store issue thanks to feedback, and there's a new warning if you introduce a 2 files with the same slot number - However I believe there's still a race condition-ish bug remaining that's wreaking havoc when it's triggered - There's a new article that's also integrated to the load/save interface: https://adventure.land/docs/guide/code/8-code-slots-and-files {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/bf540d8d97f36668354bdac888c38bfadcdfcbe8.png

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/f2a38373a6eeb9277197d0b02c4c76c79bf0ba0f.png Not much done these 2 weeks, I hate to publish empty weekly reviews, but these 2 weeks were lost too, mainly spent time completing my home, spring cleaning/preparation etc. Completed Mining this weekend, currently just in the existing mining tunnel, you can mine mainly for gem fragments - since it's a dangerous zone, it should be a small/fun coding challenge Apart from mining, there are minor changes and bugfixes coming, the main one is heals not being reflected any more {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/62f6eae302bad3e3796b61bd3c0222fb4311ab54.png And also Winterland is going to be revamped soon, nothing major, just a renovation :)

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/e8e7f41a3bb64f013a4bdfde84b7c43d7265bcb8.png It's the Egg Hunting week :) The fishing rod is craftable now, doesn't break yet, and mobbing is nerfed And to go along with it, I managed to cram in a new feature that I've been meaning to add for a very very long time: Emotions! Basically they are like cosmetics, but they make your character show an emotion, currently the first one is an animation where you drop an egg, but upcoming ones can be small gestures, sounds, animations etc. They reside on `character.emx` You can `socket.emit("emotion",{name:"_name_"})` And they are documented at `G.emotions`

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/4d0fa21fab6db4507f54a8b2a454e4d882702b2c.png Unproductive 2 weeks for the game, I was occupied with my personal life and at the same time unsure about what to work on next, lost my motivation Documentation, Tutorial are #1 must-do's - yet working on them is so unfruitful, however, today I forced myself to work on re-visiting and documenting each function - also converting my random comments to JSDoc's - realistically there's no ETA, but it's a start Met with a friend today who's making https://colonist.io/ - didn't know he was an avid mmorpg player, his ideas and experiences resonated with me a lot, also fortified existing feedback, thinking of increasing HP's of players 3-fold in the coming days Maybe a potential next focus could be to complete the single character limited-time pvp world: https://steamcommunity.com/games/777150/announcements/detail/1723127556404218537 I wasn't very active on Discord this week, turned out to be a huge mistake, a special thanks to UhOhPolio for his bug report on Cute Bee spawn, luckily I didn't refactor `G.monsters.cbee` to `G.monsters.cutebee` as egehanhk pointed out, so those 2 bugs cancelled each other out and we avoided another endgame bug :) Talking about mmorpgs and developing mmorpgs, my desire to open source early grows, but the main issue is that Python is dead, open sourcing before refactoring the Python backend to NodeJS will just cause frustrations while the main purpose of open sourcing is to (optimistically) help the mmorpg genre by accelerating experimentation of unique ideas - Developer(s) can quickly test their ideas before they potentially invest more on them At the same time I'm working on my new project/game, it's a project that has 2 parts, so I ended up combining my collective approach to app/game development into a common framework, so If I refactor, I'll use the new JS-based libraries and framework for Adventure Land too, this will mean that a big portion of that new project will start open source as well - at this point I pause as I can't decide whether it's a good thing or bad thing, as bug finding and searching is a big part of Adventure Land gameplay for most, I'm afraid of making code public, but at the same time, making it open source will result in those bugs being found with certainty - anyway I'm just babbling TL;DR: Not much these 2 weeks, just some ideas

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/aac42512164bf46f43232ea89f56ded71487957d.png Apart from small/moderate bugfixes, this week is dedicated to Fishing, it ended up being a merchant skill, it comes with a "prelock" attribute and a 48 minute cooldown, the cooldown is set when you join a server, so you have to stay on a server for 48 minutes straight to fish {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/1393d793c6d2c12d57651c23ceb86cd37d86a05d.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/89bdf2b2c88f5952375224982bd4b9753756299e.png There's a new "zones" attribute on G.maps - Planning Mining, Farming, Gardening, maybe collecting with similar dynamics And in case you were wondering, as long as you are in the zone, facing the right way, and have exhausted the cooldown, it's just a matter of RNG and the drop table of that specific zone is in G.drops {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34225379/51b225220ce094686dccf376d5c407256eb4cfb5.png I think the merchant can have all the skills with a high cooldown, but maybe other classes could each have one such skill with a shorter cooldown if it's well received