The Isle of Elanor
The Isle of Elanor Released
After two years of work, the first Early Access builds of the Isle of Elanor are now available on Steam.
I will be releasing feature updates to Early Access every Friday.
See the Road Map in the Elanor Steam discussions to see what features will soon be appearing.
Live Stream for The Isle of Elanor.
Please join in the fun and download the demo.
There will be many demo updates prior to the June event.
Mining
New dungeon now available using a new cave tileset.
You can now mine ore from breakable ore blocks in the new dungeon.
Some maps are now created when the player enters the map. This speeds up creating the world, and also allows for an infinitely large world map size.
Hinges can now be crafted using the anvil.
Crafting Updates and Deliver Quests
Metallurgy makes an appearance. You can now craft items with the anvil. Coming soon: the furniture machine will allow for the crafting of furniture items, but first we need to be able to craft nails, hinges, etc.
Crafting machines now allow for the selection of a number of recipes. Recipes will be discoverable items.
Carissa and Calen now have "deliver quests" available via dialog. Eventually such quests will be randomly generated.
Fish and New Mob
Fish now appear in bodies of water. Eventually, you will be able to catch the fish you see, using a spear, net or rod.
Added Seed spitter mob to the dungeon.
Fixed some a critical crafting bug that had completely broken crafting of items from workshops.
Health potions are automatically consumed on click when your health is below max.
Relationships
Added relationships tab to the Main Menu. You must first speak with an NPC to form a relationship.
Fixed slow downs that were occurring on the player's map.
Added Attitude UI to the gift dialog. You can see an NPCs current attitude and how gifts effect that attitude.
Coming soon: click on an NPC in the relationships tab to see their Spouse, Parents and Children.
Sleeping, Alchemy and Gifting
If you become dehydrated in the game, select your Watering Can and right click on yourself. This is a placeholder for proper drinks.
The player can now sleep. You can select to sleep until morning or sleep for 8 hours. Eventually, you'll be able to sleep in other locations, such as an Inn in a town.
Added 2 more Potions.
Added initial version of the Gift Dialog. Eventually, this dialog will display information about the NPC's attitude to the player.
Combat Refinements
The fire surface that spawns after killing a fire slime now acts as a light source.
The Bash Strike skill now stuns an NPC for a short time. This makes Bash Strike more useful. You can combo Bash Strike with a couple sword swings before the NPC recovers from the stun.
Calen and Carissa now leave the player's house and map during the evening and return to their homes. This is in preparation for the allowing the player to sleep. All NPCs will return to their homes during the night.
Live Stream of the Isle of Elanor
Let's see if this works.
Combat and Dungeon Map Updates
In preparation for adding new monster types, it was time to fix bugs with combat and refine the dungeon map. The old dungeon map was fairly boring.
Updated the dungeon map. This map is more representative of a map that might actually appear in the game, although this map will certainly not be the first available dungeon map.
Added loot boxes to the dungeon map.
The monsters in the dungeon are randomized. Although there are currently two slime types to choose from.
Fixed quite a few combat bugs that prevented the player from swinging their sword.