Devlog #14 November — Campfires, UI and Player Animations

Hello,
Here is a summary of the improvements made in November:

🔥 Campfire

• Added embers and updated fire behavior to depend on active burning rather than fuel stock.

• Added moisture handling for campfires.

• Campfires now require a manual ignition attempt.

• Added the ability to ignite a campfire using two flints.

• Renamed the “Burn” action to “Add to campfire”.

• Improved save data to include fire state and embers.

🎣 Fishing & Food

• Added spear fishing when adjacent to water.

• Fishing now requires work.

• Introduced chunk-based fish abundance.

• Added the European perch food item.

🌱 Flora & World

• Mulberry trees now have a sprite when berries are depleted.

• Improved flora save/load to include resources.

• River tiles now use lower altitude to simulate erosion.

💤 Sleep, Work & Movement

• Disabled player movement during sleep.

• Resting and working now cancel each other.

• Fatigue now decreases correctly during sleep.

• Added walking sounds based on sub-biomes.

🎒 Inventory & Adjacent Items

• Updated inventory UI to clearly show left and right hand limits.

• Added an interface showing items on adjacent tiles.

• Added keyboard shortcuts (1 and 2) for left and right hand item actions.

• Replaced drag-and-drop with a click-to-select and click-to-interact system.

• Added a ghost preview for object placement.

🧱 Construction

• Adjacent items UI now updates after interacting with a blueprint.

• Improved blueprint interactions.

🧭 Interactions & Controls

• Enabled interactions on diagonal tiles.

• Added a hint display for available action keys.

🎭 Player Animations

• Added walking animations for left, right and downward directions.

• Fixed walking animations not triggering after resting.

💾 Save & Load

• Added save/load for body temperature.

• Improved flora and campfire save/load.

• Disabled “Load Game” when no save is present.

• Enabled saving directly from the pause menu.

🖥️ Interface

• Added detailed descriptions to need icons.

• Improved accuracy of need icon states.

• Enabled hands and adjacent items UI by default.

• Temporarily disabled the Options button in the main menu.

🤖 AI Experiments

• Added a basic deep learning agent.

• Switched to a natural-selection training model.

🧩 Bug Fixes

• Corrected temperature state errors.

• Corrected walking animation behavior after sleep.

• Various fixes related to interactions and UI updates.

💬 Thank you

Thank you for reading this update and following the development of Wildborn.