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Genre: Adventure, Indie

Faraway Islands

Update 0.0.1.3 - Sounds

Hello everyone


In this update I finished sound system and planting, added some new items like more types of arrow and fixed several bugs.

With complete sound system, sounds like footsteps and button clicks were added and more will be implemented in next updates.

In next update I will have to change parts of game saving code so old save files (0.0.1.3 and below) won't be functional anymore.

Complete list of new features, tweaks and bugfixes below:

Added



  • Footstep sound on grass, sand, wood, dirt and water
  • Hit sound for rock and iron plate
  • Slingshot sound
  • Second HUD slot for ammunition (arrows, pebbles, …)
  • More arrows (stick, flint, iron) that differs by accuracy
  • Arrows and other items in second slot can be switched with 'X' by default
  • Switching key 'X' in keyboard setting
  • Sapling for planting trees
  • Chance of dropping sapling from trees
  • Cottonseed for planting cotton
  • Chance of dropping cottonseed from when harvesting it
  • Sounds to all buttons in menu
  • Field is now build through building menu, not with hoe (old field will still be loaded but can be only destroyed by hoe and can't be planted again)
  • Collect sound for items on ground, berries and cotton
  • Spade durability decrease when digging
  • Sound for typing in inputboxes
  • Sound for opening and closing door and chest
  • Sound for destroying objects and buildings by hammer
  • Sound for water splash when fishing

Removed



  • Ability to equip berries and wheat
  • Ability to craft scythe (will be removed completely with future updates)
  • Creating fields with hoe
  • Defense and Misc group from building menu

Changes and fixes



  • New drinking sound
  • Switched sides of hotkey number and amount number drawn on inventory slots
  • Cotton item image has been changed
  • Bushes image and collision mask were improved
  • Cotton plant collision mask is slightly larger
  • Moving sticks or other burnable items to firepit/furnace with Shift key, did not add fuel to it
  • Ignite button in furnace interface was slightly transparent when highlighted by cursor

Update 0.0.1.2 - Screenshots

Hello everyone,


In this update I allowed steam screenshot and added daytime bar to hud so you now what time of the day it is. Then some bugfixes, saving improvements and changes to furnace functionality.

Taking a screenshots can cause a frame drop but I'm still trying to optimise it.
(when fps drops and stays at 30 it can be repaired by going to desktop and back to the game)

Added



  • Steam screenshots
  • Impossibility to load savefile from newer version of the game
  • Daytime bar to HUD
  • Proper progress simulation for campfire, firepit and furnaces after sleep
  • Preview image on slots (input, output, fuel) for campfire, firepit and furnaces

Removed



  • Chest opening and closing sound (will be added with audio system completion)

Changes and fixes



  • Chest remained open after unknown circumstances
  • Temporary island files were not deleted after saving and loading world
  • Some old systems like "chunk control" are turned off now for better performance
  • Improved terrain saving
  • Collision mask for rocks is 1 pixel smaller
  • Collision mask for trees had wrong shape
  • Fire on burning tree was drawn under tree
  • Furnaces fueling system is now the same as for campfire and firepit

Update 0.0.1.1 - Welcome

Hello everyone,


In this first update I've added welcome text to main menu with information that the game currently has no tutorial and where to find temporary Steam guide. The game is also pausable now, so your character won't starve when you are away. Other changes, tweaks and improvements are listed below.

Added



  • Pause is added to all ingame menus like inventory and character
  • Option to turn off raindrop waves in graphic settings
  • Welcome text in menu with reference to online guide

Changes & Fixes



  • Improvements in saving and loading islands
  • Key for diary (J) was functional even with diary locked
  • Minimal size of first island is increased from 40*32 to 50*32
  • Number of islands increased from 9 to 25
  • Night is slightly brighter
  • Less number of raindrops
  • Chat accepted 24 messages and was returning undefined after it
  • Fullscreen is set as default (it runs better)
  • Roof was drawn above trees
  • You could walk on raft that was not yet placed on water