• Creature Hats!
  Creatures can now wear hats from your inventory — including a persistent egg hat if you don’t claim it after hatching.

• Open World
  The entire map now loads automatically as one giant connected world — no more waiting for world generation.
  Multiplayer players can freely explore any zone; they’re no longer locked to the host’s zone.

• Fast Travel Panel
  Added an in-world Fast Travel panel, accessible through the main menu, to quickly travel between zones.

• Battle Scaling for Wardens
  Warden and Keeper battles now automatically scale in difficulty based on your current shard count.
  

• Gameplay Improvements

  • Overhauled real-time combat: proper armor and deflect stat calculations, plus new dodge and crit chance mechanics.

  • Remote players now correctly sync Parry and Deflect moves.

  • Major backend balancing: higher-level creatures are less likely to die to much lower-level creatures.

  • New Bond Mechanic: creatures may break the bond and resist capture based on rarity.

  • Added trainer camps across the map — battle more than just Wardens!

  • Improved pet switching: Battle HUD now has buttons to switch pets or flee.

  • Better pet positioning in battles — no more pets sitting inside each other!

  • Added starting zone selection for new characters.

  • Added lava and water detection for mounts:

    • Earth/Fire mounts grant lava immunity.

    • Flying mounts ignore water and lava damage.

  • Mount improvements: flying mounts now have air jumps, boosted forward jumps, and sprint animations. Mount sprinting rolls have increased power.

  • Revamped UI: Dialogue, Quest, Shop, and Inspect panels all improved.

  • Inspect panel now shows full evolution tree with level requirements.

  • Added “earned shards” panel to the bag.

  • Increased player inventory size.

  • Added full party heal option at town statues (“Pray”).

  • Improved pet level-up visual effects and evolution effects.

  • Balanced and cleaned up SFX for summoning, leveling up, and healing.

  • Fixed various menu control bugs.

  • Balanced creature viewer sizes.

  • Fixed various sound/music balancing issues.

  • Improved split-screen lighting and remote zone NPC loading.

  • Added new town notifications and creature vault notifications.

  • Various behind-the-scenes optimizations for zone preloading.

Thank you for all your helpful feedback and support! Sorry I took so long!