Animyst
A Scarier World
-Chickens attack??
-PLAYERS CAN NOW DAMAGE SAME FACTION BUILDINGS THAT ARE NOT GROUNDSKEEPER PROTECTED. This is to allow people to clear out unwanted random building pieces.
-More portals!
-Fixes to the new Feral Soul that can be found in two of the Caverns.
-Experimental Health Bars above damaged players.
-Small bug fixes and lighting adjustments.
Broken Bottles
-Bottles now look broken when you break them!
-Improved and more informative Loading Screens. UI fixes
Candle Rod
-Fixes to the new Feral Soul monster.
-Changes to the recipes for "Sky Mote" and "Leg Energy"
-"Sky Mote', "Leg Energy" and "Candle Rod" will not drop on death. Now player's will retain vital items that help with mobility and visibility.
Soul Claw
-Added a new monster, the Feral Soul
-Fixed the jittering shadows on High and Normal graphics quality
Patch Notes for Update 12/28/2020
-two separate systems for populating the top world with monsters: One to add creatures randomly to the open desert and one to densely populate the oasis and town areas
-Players are no longer protected in their enemies capital city
-UI to show players when they are in a safe zone
-Addition of a new docile monster
-Addition of an emotes system. Players can hold Y to express themselves with new animations. Holding Y now lets you see a mirror view of yourself.
-Slight decrease to player movement speed for combat smoothness
-Fixes to building damage, raiding and the Crumbler
-Ember Ghosts are more difficult with a heavy damage ranged attack added.
-New sound effects added for the player, mobs and environment
-Leveling system employed. Players that build a Groundskeeper can gain levels and accrue slight stat bonuses. Gathering, mob killing, and pvp all increase the player's level faster. Every day that a player's Groundskeeper stands, they gain one free level, even when not online. Destroying someone's Groundskeeper with reduce their level to zero.
-Some items previously found on town vendors have been moved to your Crafting menu.
Update 8/19/2020
+ Birthstone, Sand Circle, Gnat, and Spore are now more plentiful
+ Optimizations to city lights
+ Fixes to Crumbler - more to come on this front
+ Fixed stam not regenerating behind GUI menus
+ Fixes to Gore Rift loot
+ Players will now drop Teeth and Blood when they die in either Dome
+ Golden Rift will now drop Givings (first one is this upcoming Sunday)
+ FPS locked at different quality settings, this should help with unpredictable sensitivity issues
+ Visual changes to several gatherables
+ Optimizations to pre-game menu screen scene
+ Created two new trailers for our Steam store, replaced all screen shots and overhauled text
Join us this Sunday for the first weekly Golden Rift! It will be running all day
The New World is Here
The third world is finally ready and open for play. This update represents the last six months of work between Ded and I. There will be some bugs to fix, and some mechanics to finish off, but this is the beginning of the fulfillment of Animyst's potential.
All buildings and player inventories are being wiped. This is the first and last time in our history that there will be such a complete wipe. Of course, those who support us on Patreon will keep their custom, limited edition skins.
We are so excited to see you all in game, and hear your ideas about how to perfect the new incarnation of our beloved game.
-Tarpit
Patch Notes for Update 8/12/2020
+ Replaced the second game world with the final gameworld of Animyst
+ Full implementation of player Visor (V) which guides players through the massive wasteland. This is especially key since we have scrambled the content areas and the Drought together in this world.
+ Full implementation of our dual Faith (factions) system with regard to player damage.
+ Creatures of Faith now only agro players incarnated into their enemy Faith
+ Addition of doubled inventory space per player, one for Cursed and one for Friend incarnations
+ New loading screens, from start to spawn
+ Night time now negates Faith-specific damages basically creating a PVP free-for-all time
+ Segregation of all creatures in underground caverns. Siloing them here will allow us to fully optimize the mob battle experience and art design of creatures. Expect many more changes to come to these underground areas before we bring creatures above ground to populate the main world.
+ New gui art and borders
+ implementation of portal system to replace the (mostly) removed G menu
+ T has become autorun
+ implementation of Elder Forges. These will burn Ancestors' Flesh and elemental magic to produce items in the higher tier of the crafting system, including Amber.
+ The Drought Banker will be nowhere in the world until someone crafts one. This is the one place that you may share inventory space between your two toons (Cursed & Friend)
+ Addition of the empty handed projectile spell where you throw a bone at your opponent.
+ Dividing of bottles into dual Faith designs.
+ Addition of new chat messages reflecting night time coming and going.
+ Changes to lighting settings.
+ Changes to quality settings
+ Changes to jump animation
+ Changes to building system so that each Nation Faith builds on their own half of the map
The Third World is Almost Done!
We are less than a week away from the release of the third gameworld of Animyst. There will be no fourth! This is the biggest, deadest, most comprehensive update ever and we think it represents the beginning of the beginning of what Animyst was always supposed to be.
Thank you for being patient! It's taken longer than we thought, but we are days away and so excited to play along side you all.
Bear with us for a few more days and then go crazy with us for the first week of the third, and last world!
Tar
The Roaring Twenties Update
+ Addition of the Visor, (V), which inherits the functionality of the Crumbler that shows building HP, and sky flares of various zones
+ Auto-run on T
+Added Faith (factions) damage system. Within the your Faith friendly fire will hit stam. This mode is toggleable by the dev team, and currently set to off.
+ Added the Golden Matriarch to Cathedral, who gives basic combat items for free, on a significant cooldown. Bring your new friends to her for early game self defense items
+ Added several new colors of flags for casual partying
+ Many improvements to Animyst anti-hacking, including several layers of active, third-party defense, and several custom punishments which will be devastating to recieve
+ Added custom chat messages for shaming of the worst hacking offenders
+ Added a kicking and banning system for GM's to use whenever necessary
+ Improvements to server data management to mitigate crashes
+ Crumbler reduced to building functionality, losing the data readout to Visor
+ Significant cost reduction of Thrones
+ Several crafting and inventory bugs fixed
+ Changes to player model textures of both faiths
The Cursed Ones Update
+ Added buttons to spawn screen to incarnate as Cursed One or as current model
+ Adjusted multiple cosmetic items to fit the Cursed One player model as well as the current model
+ Golden Rift now travels to all Rift locations
+ Skeleton NPCs now have the ability to scroll through multiple text fields with E
+ Added multiple hint giving and story telling NPCs to Cathedral and Sympathy