Blight
The Last Plague: Blight officially enters Early Access!
It's been a wild ride building this game out over the years and I am eternally grateful to everyone that has participated in the journey with their testing, feedback and support at some point along the way. While the game has reached a solid milestone in terms of content, this is only the beginning. So much more is still coming to the game, and if you've been around at least some of the time in the past few years, you know that I stop at nothing to get new features, enhancements and fixes out as fast as possible.
Thanks again for all the amazing feedback over the years, you have helped the game become what it is today. I have so many suggestions written down still, I will continue going through it all during the next few weeks and months.
My immediate goals are to finish up the character customization feature and add full controller support, as well as adding new languages such as Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. For more of the roadmap, check out the roadmap forum post here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1564600/discussions/0/2961670721755834442/
Update v0.8.11
New Features:
- Added new auto pickup feature (default key T) - holding this button will have your character automatically move towards nearby items in a small radius to pick them up, only if they can fit in your inventory. Note that the check for making sure they fit will ignore the normal pickup process of auto-unequipping held items to make space for large items like firewood. This works best for picking sticks/leaves from freshly felled trees
- French localization option!
- Remaining time display for fire pits and other similar structures is tinted red if it starts to get low for more obvious hint
- Any damaged buildings will now show orange labels if using "show nearby items" to help identify which need repair more easily
Fixes:
- Fixed issue where fire pit and other fuel burning structures would show extra phantom fuel time to add that doesn't reflect what items are in the fuel inventory area
- Fixed missing OpenGL shaders on Linux. If you have issues running the game normally (which uses Vulkan by default), you can add the launch option "-force-opengl" in Steam to start the game in OpenGL
- Better fix for your character starting and suddenly stopping the pickup process of certain items if you ran towards them
- Add missing deer meat cooking recipes
- Fixed chamomile flower collection task not counting dried chamomile flowers
- Fixed rare error that could happen during autosaves that would corrupt the list of discovered items/buildings in your journal catalogue
- Fixed a bunch of uncaught errors. Thanks to everyone who opted in to anonymous usage statistics! Has helped a lot to isolate a lot weird and rare issues
Balance:
- Reduced late game hostile creature amounts, removed weaker hostile creatures entirely in the late game to avoid cluttering. This will mostly apply to games started after this update
Other Changes:
- Reworked settings UI rows to have more consistent sizing regardless of the text label's length in different languages
- Increased saturation of the different item label categories to help make them stand out more: green for plants, brown for burnable objects like sticks, red for clay, and blue for ore rocks
Update v0.8.10
Fixes:
- Fixed steel bear trap not being placeable
- Reduced errors related to the saving process if it takes too long
- Removed the delete game button after deleting a game in the host game window since there is no longer a game selected to delete
- Fixed one chunk not loading properly breaking all future chunk loads until a restart/rejoin
- Fixed game join not working consistently if connection isn't fast enough to receive chunk data within a certain amount of time
Other changes:
- Reduced amount of duplicate events sent for anonymous statistics collection
Hotfix v0.8.9
Fixes:
- Fixed clicking "Quit" in the main menu not exiting and locking up the game in some cases
Update v0.8.8
Fixes:
- Fixed some items/buildings still getting wet in caves when it rains outside
- Fixed right click to add to stockpile/add fuel to fire causing your character to walk infinitely if you are far enough away initially
- Fixed chunk generation/saving issues (ex. no disk space) preventing that chunk from ever loading later. Now these failed/corrupted chunks will be regenerated
- Fixed clicking to pickup something while running ending abruptly before the pickup completes due to flawed distance calculations
- Fixed issue that could block the game exiting relating to cleaning up stockpiles in the game shutdown process
- Added error catching in interaction processing to hopefully avoid cases of stuck animations
Other changes:
- Added consent dialog for anonymous usage statistics, with new privacy settings window for it
- Added new "sort horizontally" button to inventory along with the existing "sort vertically" button
- Added a new "drop item (hold)" key bind that allow you to hold it and click items to instantly drop them
- Added a "move", "move half" and "move one" cursors that show when hovering over an item with the relevant keys pressed to better indicate what will happen
- Added a "discard all" context menu option for things like dirt in your inventory to get rid of all of it quickly
Balance:
- Increased natural stick generation near trees
- Increased tin ore rock generation near rocky outcrops and cliff faces
Update v0.8.7
Fixes:
- Reworked terrain collision mesh generation process to avoid potential crash-causing concurrent access when digging up terrain materials like clay and dirt
- Fixed rare case of mushrooms dying off if they grow into their final phase while unloaded due to you being far away enough. The logic to check for protection from the sun was failing for these cases
- Removed stack size amount from the animal harvesting queue items to avoid any confusion
- Strengthened protections against objects/characters falling through cave floors and being put back on top of the terrain above the cave
- Fixed rare issue where unloading and loading a chunk too quickly would break the chunk until a reload
- Fixed being able to climb on top of certain colliders like bushes and the fire pit's fuel
- Fixed a cause of shelter structure state being lost resulting in the level of protection going away when you are inside, including for things like mushrooms that require a sunless environment. Also added a potential recovery mechanism in case you have a save where this is already the case
- Fixed medium post collision box being horizontal instead of vertical causing placement to be more difficult near the player
- Fixed mushrooms not drying out if not watered
- Fixed workbench items getting wet even when covered by a roof
- Fixed deer and boar remains labelled as "wolf remains"
- Fixed large flame particles for limestone burn pile
Other changes:
- Bedroll is flatter to make it easier to step over
- Reworked plant info UI properties to be a lot more consistent with the plant's actual growing state. Plants will no longer show growing status when the condition is falling due to sunlight issues
- Tweaked look of morning mist to be less intense
- Moved the "enemies are nearby" message to show up on top of the time speedup control box rather than on the player to make it clearer that the speedup was stopped
Update v0.8.6
Fixes:
- Fixed error popup when trying to start a new game when using certain languages/locales on your computer
- Fixed hearth furnace fire particle effect size
- Fixed scrap wood stockpile floating issue
- Fixed preserved food showing "drink" context menu option instead of "eat"
- Fixed tooltip for cooking results showing values of the fully contaminated item instead of its current contamination level
- Removed task for creating bronze anvil since it is no longer in the game, instead explaining to use a tree stump
- Fixed smoke rack contents getting wet in the rain when covered by a roof
Other changes:
- Added new right mouse button quick place interaction for stockpiles if you have any items of that stockpile in your inventory, to bypass having first open the UI to move the item in
- Reduced thirst cost of preserved items
- Added scrap wood recipe for tall items like shovels and paddles
- Sorting inventory is blocked when interacting with something, similar to all other inventory actions
- Changed sorting for crafting recipes hammer tool selection to prefer stones over flint pieces
Update v0.8.5
Fixes:
- Fixed planted mushrooms and plants disappearing after a few days even though they are well watered and taken care of. Note that this only applies to mushrooms and plants planted after this update
- Add checks against edge cases that could make the stockpiles unresponsive or display the wrong item count
- Increased candle wick item collision to prevent it from continuously falling through the terrain
- Fixed plank rotation when sawed from felled trees
Other changes:
- Crafting list now waits to update the list of recipes until all your queued recipes are done to reduce the chance of accidental clicking on a just reordered recipe
- Added a sound and changed the text to red when you don't have space to pick up something to make it more obvious
- The shelter building task is moved to after waking up on the second day to reduce the overload of information for new players
- Added a hint to explain fast forwarding during crafting
Update v0.8.4
Features:
- Added sort button to your main inventory. For now it will always sort largest items at the top to smaller items at the bottom. Will continue to improve later
Other Changes:
- Added a cap to tinder and kindling slots for fire pits and other fuel burning structures. Note: only fuel burning structures built after this update will have this feature
- Made wind ambient sound much quieter
- Made UI button sound quieter and added new sound for main menu buttons
- Removed requirement to be close when placing stockpiles or shelter posts as the placing process automatically moves you closer regardless
- Added chromatic aberration toggle in graphics settings
Fixes:
- Fixed animation getting stuck if crafting a queue of recipes with different animations associated (ex. ripping up dogbane followed by smashing a large stone)
- Reworked digging and terrain gathering (ex. dirt or clay) to avoid expensive pathfinding updates that could lead to a full game crash. Please let me know if you still see crashes!
- Fixed rain still affecting you and items in caves
- Fixed error when assigning subsequent tasks after skipping the main camp set up tutorial task by sleeping early
- Fixed missing localization for Quick slot 4 in controls settings
Balance:
- Increased tin ore rock generation
- Reduced materials required for stick walls and clay tile roof
Update v0.8.3
Features:
- New "drop item" key bind that defaults to the G key (unless you've already set it something else). It will drop the off-hand item first if present before the main hand item
Fixes:
- Fixed extreme glow coming from objects like sand or bonemeal stockpiles
- Fixed the "Add from inventory" button not working properly for certain structures like very tall roofs
- Fixed stockpiles getting wet in the rain even when covered by a roof
- Fixed clove plant dig up interaction to be L.Ctrl+LMB instead of just LMB
- Fixed wolf disappearing when at a certain not too far distance
- Fixed invalid "last harvested date" value in the plant UI if you dug up and replanted a wild plant before gathering from it
- Fixed plants not growing properly if dug up without gathering first and then being replanted
- Fixed fermentation of berry juice taking longer than it takes to decay within a covered jar
- Fixed crafting recipes that require containers to mix liquids in not properly refreshing when selecting a different container
Other changes:
- Digging up plants will alter the terrain texture below them
- Added stockpile support for pine cones and empty pine cones
- Mud mortar takes a bit longer to craft