Lightsmith

New features:

• Lots of new sounds (with more to be added soon)
  
• Several new quests
  
• More guidance in the form of quests and pop-up tips
  
• NPC portraits
  
• New dialogue UI
  
• Yard opened up at beginning of game
  
• Luminars will steal light if you linger too long in the forest - beware!
  
• Shrines replenish a small bit of light after Dawns Relic Quest
  
• New area to enter - mines! (after the Ore quest for Patrick)
  
• Town map available at community board below Builder's Society
  
• Leash now has a visible rope between the Lambent and the player
  
• New Night Dial in town tells you time of day and day of the week
  
• Shops now have open and close times and days
  
• Machinist table added
  
• New furniture tiers for crafting
  
• New resources to collect and craft with
  
• Item stack can be split
  
• Controller input on scroll views now works
  
• A bunch of other little things you'll likely find as you play
  

Bug fixes:

• Lots of little bug fixes
  

Notes:

• Some people mid quest may lose some or all quest progress. We have done our best to mitigate this but cant account for every scenario - please let us know if this happens to you so we can fix!
  

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New features:

• More beds! Sleeping in better quality beds gives you a well rested status, giving more max light.
  
• Cauldrons added! You can now craft this new bubbling crating station
  
• Potions! Only a few available to craft right now, but they have some cool effects and more will be coming.
  
• New ingredients and crafting recipes to support potions.
  
• Added new plant mechanics - trees, grass and other plants won't always grow in the same spots.
  
• Smaller plants like straw and the newly added plants no longer require an axe to harvest.
  
• Did you hear that? Footstep sounds have been added so you can hear the sound of feet scurry and stomp in the darkness.
  
• Cloud saves added! Many of you will be happy about this one.
  
• New stats and status mechanics implemented with plans for more related features to come.
  

Bug fixes:

• Inventory improvements for crafting benches (furnace, light forge etc.)
  

Notes:

• Loading an old save with items in furnaces may remove all the items in the furnace.
  

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Bugfixes

• Fixed issue with Lambents spawning/despawnign in animal pens
  
• Lambents try so much harder to stay in their animal pen - they will now take being tamed much more seriously
  
• You can now place items in any order in Furnace/Lightium Forge and Mixer
  
• Fixed furnace stations from showing progress bar when there was definitely not enough ingredients - should reduce trust issues in inaminate objects.
  
• Fixed furnace duplicating items during rest - no more freebies
  
• Fixed a bug in Dawns Relic quest, where one of the items spawned early
  
• Doors that NPC's use will no longer make their open sound over the whole outerworld map
  
• Improvements to item bar which should also fix the bug that froze your inventory bar in the past
  
• Fixed NPC spawning - sometimes NPC's got stubborn and didn't want to roam around the world
  
• Fixed many typos
  

QOL

• Sound should correctly play when near edges of map
  
• When mouse selecting inventory items on hud all actions you would expect to happen will now happen
  
• Furnace type items now show their name when using them
  
• Animal pathing improved
  
• Added a particle effect in the dark so you can see items - so sparkly!
  
• Shops now fade out things you cannot sell to them, and the amount you can sell for will be on each item you can sell
  
• Inventory button now also closes inventory
  
• Furnace arrow now highlights when when items are valid
  
• Furnace make sound every time an item is crafted
  

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New Features

• New customization options during character creation
  
• New types of items for your Lightory (formerly your factory) for both wall and floor slots
  
• Lots of new items and materials to collect and craft with
  
• New quests to complete
  
• Journal added to make keeping track of quests and tasks easier
  
• A brand new area to explore - Ruins and Lake
  
• Introduction of animal taming and breeding
  
• New outside building area to unlock
  
• Two new NPC's to meet and interact with - Avario and Ashleah
  
• Better scheduling system for NPC's
  
• NPC buildings updated - new NPC's can start to move in
  

Quality of Life Updates

• Better smelting menu for the furnaces that allows queuing up of craftable resources
  
• New split-out version of the inventory menu
  
• Re-balanced respawn rates of resources
  
• Added NPC nameplates for unnamed NPC's
  
• Improvements to NPC paths for walking
  

Bugfixes

• Updated save migration
  
• Lots of map bug updates
  
• Updated tilemap tearing
  

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Fixes

• Quest items do not despawn on rest
  
• Hall options fixed in Patrick's dialogue
  
• If the Dawns's Crypt quest is in the Collect Key state it will restart (This is to fix a bug in it"
  

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Fixes

• Dialogue update on many character to make some instructions more clear
  
• Stacks of items being taken correctly during crafting
  
• Removed misplaced tiles in the world
  
• Added keybinding for the toolbar left and right binds
  

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Fixes

• Patrick quest conversation loop - you can now hand in the quest and his dialogue loops correctly
  
• First item in stack quest updates - quests correctly register stacked items you need to craft to complete them
  
• Balance for Lambent feeding - light matter drops much sooner after feeding
  
• Minor conversation updates
  
• Metal bar stack size - metal bars now stack 10 like lightium bars
  
• Fix Lightcore quest - now registers the activation of the lightcore if you activate it before or after the quest section
  

Features

• Changed game art and assets to have color (it looks so good!)
  
• Added tool balancing: lower grade tools will take longer to cut/mine resources
  
• Added options screen in game so you can change audio levels and key/button binds mid play
  
• Added the ability to place furniture on the floor and walls
  
• Changed furniture placement to be more accurate
  
• Furniture placement guide now shows you the size of the item you are about to place
  
• Added Lambents: Little animals that you feed that will produce light matter
  
• Light drain occurs over 15 minutes still, but it now has a curve so it stays brighter for longer
  
• Improved the sell experience to shop venders
  
• Two new shops to go and explore
  
• Updated NPC pathing to allow them to walk anywhere but prioritize paths
  

Bugfixes

• Small optimisations that should improve game performance on slower machines
  
• Furniture placement disappears once furniture is placed.
  
• Dropping and using stacked items will take from the selected slot first.
  
• Movement optimizations
  
• Save migration improved
  
• Corrupted saves will now report the devs so we can diagnose
  

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Bug Fixes

• Quest saving now works
  
• Brian has his light back
  
• Martha quest text fixed to show correct numbers
  
• Save format updated
  
• Brian gives quest correctly
  

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