Today, we are releasing a small-ish update focused on bug fixes primarily, but also improving some user experience items and addressing some common complaints.

More to come as always!

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New

• There is now a world cursor, showing the tile you are selecting for actions.

Improvements

• Increased crafting range for adjacent containers to include corners.

• You can now excavate when there are no open tiles below you (except in the case of deep water).

• Increased the render limit on human equipment. (Thanks tr1ger1n86!)

• Ascend/descend now appears at the top of the action menu.

• Shippers will now move to lit or unlit lighthouses in the case they ever get lost at sea.

• Added a slight background to messages so you know where game screen actions cannot be performed and where message dialog actions can be.

• You can now preserve some items that are not edible.

• Clay filters now mention what type of water they deal with. (Thanks Treahblade!)

• You now "place down" vehicles instead of building them.

Balance

• Motes now receive minimum magical property value rolls.

• Motes now drop less frequently on non-aberrant creatures.

• Ectoplasm, wisp dust, and magical aspect/essence now take slightly more time to decay.

• Added a hard merchant cap to each island.

• Increased restock rate slightly for merchants.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed "exude" items not working properly when multiple of them were in a container at the same time. (Thanks Daxtfer!)

• Fixed everybody sleeping in a multiplayer game not properly fast-forwarding time. (Thanks Khadgar!)

• Fixed "Start with None" crafting recipes not working properly.

• Fixed "Reset Unlocked Crafting Recipes" option not working. (Thanks Khadgar!)

• Fixed scarecrow scare radius not being used properly when attempting to spawn creatures. (Thanks Hiran!)

• Fixed some potential errors happening when burning items. (Thanks Echora Tallit!)

• Fixed some actions not saving the magic item's unique name.

• Fixed shippers getting stuck in some situations finding the port. (Thanks Vinn!)

• Fixed dug items not gaining any magical properties. (Thanks kustoxv2!)

• Fixed a multiplayer desync related to creature commands

• Fixed various UI issues when playing as a client in a multiplayer game.

• Fixed NPC dialogs staying open while you move away from NPCs when in multiplayer.

• Fixed an issue where you couldn't place vehicles down in some cases even though you could ride them.

• Fixed NPCs waiting around forever if a multiplayer client leaves while talking to them.

• Fixed containers not updating weight when crafting. (Thanks kustoxv2!)

• Fixed "Creature Idols" not assigning a territory to the creatures it spawned, causing issues with milestones. (Thanks Markus Faust!)

• Fixed reinforcing items with Persistence, losing durability. (Thanks kustoxv2!)

• Fixed being able to "ride" a vehicle that is too damaged to match the functionality of placing it down.

• Fixed a desync with shipper's inventories. (Thanks Khadgar!)

• Fixed a hidden milestone never being revealed.

• Fixed some specific crafts not needing fire to disassemble them. (Thanks Kulze!)

• Fixed being able to disassemble items without fire when they should have required it as per their original recipe. (Thanks Rheo!)

• Fixed trapping not granting kills for quests.

• Fixed recipes unlocking normally with Rouseabout. (Thanks Markus Faust!)

• Fixed winterberries decaying into two twigs.

• Fixed consuming returning disassembled items with the wrong magical properties.

• Fixed Persistence items getting incorrect values from doing specific actions like dismantling, digging, etc. (Thanks tr1ger1n86!)

• Fixed autosave timing not being accurate. (Thanks tr1ger1n86!)

• Fixed repairing sometimes using the fallback to tinkering when it shouldn't have been.

• Fixed ranged actions moving tiles when standing on top of a doodad. (Thanks kustoxv2!)

• Fixed most actions not working with "Target Hovered Tile" and certain ranged actions like casting and throwing moving to perform the action.

• Fixed the idle bind descriptions being outdated. (Thanks Feral Grumpicorn!)

Technical

• Improved recipe crafting performance slightly.

• Reduced the time it takes to save the game on large saves.

Modding

• Fixed "human.turnEnd()" event not always being emitted.

Mods

Debug Tools

• Fixed a multiplayer desync when updating creature tamed state.

• Fixed the durability not accounting for "Persistence" items.