🏝️ Patch Notes – Navigation Overhaul, Combat Fixes, UI Updates & Crusty Bill!?

This update brings major improvements to pathfinding, gathering, tooltips, and NPC behaviors — plus some beachside surprises. Let’s dive in:

🗺️ Navigation & Minimap

• Player navigation is now entirely server-side for more accurate movement and future-proofing.
  
• Click-to-move indicator is now a circle instead of a rectangle to reflect server-based nav.
  
• Click-to-move target indicators now hide correctly when the target is reached.
  
• Max movement distance increased from 175 → 200 meters and works server-side.
  
• Minimap zoom has been added.
  
• Click-to-move range indicator now displays on the minimap.
  
• Players now more accurately reach their clicked destination.
  
• Camera no longer zooms when scrolling over UI elements.
  

⚔️ NPCs, Combat & Aggro

• Fixed issues with NPC aggro and re-aggro logic.
  
• Players now properly catch up to NPCs that slowly walk away.
  
• NPC movement when idle is now significantly less erratic.
  
• NPCs now stay within their defined roaming range.
  
• NPCs now display a roaming range indicator when hovered.
  
• Fixed combat-facing: players now correctly face gathering and combat targets.
  
• Auto-retaliate can now be toggled on or off.
  
• Player ID/order is now randomized every 1 minute (used by NPC targeting logic, may later apply to PvP).
  

⛏️ Gathering Improvements

• Gathering animations now play correctly again across clients.
  
• Fixed an issue where animations played at incorrect intensity/scale.
  
• Re-gathering the same resource now works as intended.
  
• Gathering a different resource mid-gathering now functions properly.
  
• Gathering now ends properly when your inventory is full and allows re-gathering after banking.
  
• Depleted resources now clear themselves as your "last gathering target" when they respawn.
  
• Tree stump radius reduced from 0.5 → 0.25 to improve player positioning near felled trees.
  
• Resource depletion updates now send correctly to the server.
  
• TaskOrb for gathering no longer captures mouse events or displays tooltips.
  

🧍‍♂️ Player & World Interactions

• Players can now walk through mobs and other players server-side.
  
• Fixed a bug where tooltips scaled incorrectly, causing them to appear off-screen.
  
• Items dropped to the ground are now visually represented but non-interactable.
  
• Entities spawned via /debug no longer have collision locally.
  
• Opening the Bank now also opens your Inventory by default.
  
• UI sync for skills no longer requires spawning as networked objects.
  

🗺️ Ruins of Silverglow Fixes

• Lower-level stairs in Ruins of Silverglow can now be accessed properly.
  
• The ruins no longer stick out of the world terrain visually.
  

🦀 Beach Crabs & Crusty Bill

• Added more Beach Crab spawns with tighter groupings.
  
• Introduced "Crab Cove" entrance — currently aesthetic, will be an instanced area later.
  
• Added Crusty Bill, your future guide to instanced Beach Crab content.
  
• Added Crusty Bill's Dock near Lumirath.
  

🏦 Endale Banking

• Banker Alaria Silverleaf is now properly located in Endale and reachable.
  
• Alaria now explains her future plans to open a town bank.
  

🛠️ Internal Improvements

• Development tools now better detect invalid NPC spawn groups, preventing unreachable spawns.
  

Thanks as always for your continued feedback and support. See you in-game!