Devlogs
v1.53
Posted July 30, 2026 by Mizzy
#updates
Version 1.53
Release Date: July 24, 2026 Rendering & Performance
- Improved asset prewarming and overall loading performance.
- Loading now occurs behind the animated Mizzy Pray splash screen.
- Splash animation now updates independently every 200 ms.
- Reduced rain and puddle rendering overhead.
- Weather effects are now disabled inside dungeons.
- Fixed rain and snow flickering.
- Optimized dungeon fog rendering without requiring a full map scan each frame.
Display & Input
- Game now launches in borderless fullscreen mode.
- Added Alt+Enter fullscreen support.
- Added a fullscreen toggle to the Settings menu.
- Removed the temporary startup window displayed during launch.
- Fixed fullscreen mouse coordinate scaling across all menus.
- Restored inventory tooltip and hover detection while in fullscreen.
Multiplayer
- Fixed stale remote player appearance data after login.
- Newly connected players now correctly see existing online players.
- Added smooth interpolation for remote player movement.
- Removed visible tile-to-tile movement snapping.
- Visual Effects
- Fixed paperdoll and vanity overlay animation issues.
- Item effects now apply exclusively to paperdoll layers.
- Base body, skin, face, and player sprites are no longer modified by cosmetic effects.
- Cosmetic overlays now synchronize correctly for both local and remote players.
- Paperdoll effects are supported on armor, vanity items, weapons, offhand equipment, and applicable hair layers.
Elemental Effects
- Reworked Fire, Blue Flame, Ice, and Earth overlays for improved visual quality.
- Ice now displays a frost armor effect with falling snow particles.
- Earth now uses a stone and dirt themed armor effect.
- Fixed Ice overlay flickering and unstable rendering.
Premium Effects
- Reworked Phase, Twilight, Void, Midnight Rainbow, and Midnight Rainbow Black effects.
- Improved animation quality, particle density, and visual clarity.
- Void now renders animated afterimages while leaving the player stationary.
- Added hair rendering to Void afterimages.
- Cosmetic effects no longer modify the base player sprite.
Auras
- Fixed aura positioning throughout the game.
- Added four procedural aura styles: Solar Pulse, Prism Radiance, Crimson Corona, and Verdant Resonance.
- Added animated outline and particle effects.
- Added shop previews and ownership support.
- Lanterns no longer receive aura outlines.
- Supporter Shop
- Improved Supporter Shop and Diamond Cosmetics navigation.
- Added dedicated categories for vanity items, auras, item effects, and familiars.
- Added procedural previews for outline auras.
- Added premium aura purchasing.
- Fixed aura names displaying incorrectly.
- Separated aura purchases from standard cosmetic effects.
Dungeons
- Added larger room-based dungeon layouts with maze generation.
- Added animated entrance and exit portals.
- Dungeon entrances remain until completion.
- Exit portals now appear only after defeating the dungeon guardian.
- Dungeon guardians are now boss encounters.
- Added dungeon completion rewards and entry requirements.
- Added fog of war with explored-area memory.
- Added combat chambers that seal until enemies are defeated.
- Added hidden reward chests, puzzles, switches, pressure plates, levers, crates, statues, boulders, and environmental obstacles.
- Improved dungeon progression, puzzle difficulty, and maze generation.
- Fixed dungeon door orientation and switch behavior.
- Added automatic regeneration for outdated dungeon layouts.
- Traps
- Traps now deal damage and display floating damage numbers.
- Added knockback to spikes and ninja stars.
- Added retracting spikes with timed safe intervals.
- Added proximity-triggered arrow traps.
- Added bouncing ninja stars with obstacle collision.
- Added vertical rolling traps.
- Added hidden pitfalls with reveal animations.
- Fixed trap knockback and movement reconciliation.
- Corrected projectile orientation and removed unnecessary trap tiles.
World & Visuals
- Added structural depth shadows beneath scenery and terrain.
- Added clustered grass, pebbles, and environmental ground detail.
- Improved contact shadows and foreground layering.
- Limited environmental decoration to appropriate outdoor terrain.
Gameplay
- Added the Fishing mini-game.
- Added Raw Trout, Raw Salmon, and Raw Crab.
- Added cooking recipes for cooked trout, salmon, and crab.
- Added the Crab Pot lure.
- Crab Pots can be crafted at Crafting Level 15.
- Crab Pots can be used at Fishing Level 15.
- Stability & Systems
- Fixed interactions incorrectly triggering special movement jumps.
- Fixed dungeon jumps and trap knockback returning players to previous positions.
- Fixed dungeon entrance and exit teleport placement.
- Fixed missing generated dungeon maps.
- Fixed anti-cheat falsely detecting YouTube window titles.
- Disabled general telemetry while retaining dungeon telemetry.
- Fixed the builtins UnboundLocalError during the main game loop.
- Added safer cache invalidation for paperdolls, overlays, and aura composites.
- Verified all modified client modules compile successfully.
- Reduced minimap-related frame loss.
- Improved delayed NPC movement.
Performance
- Improved cache management for cosmetic rendering.
- Reduced unnecessary rendering overhead across multiple systems.
Files
FinalStepasy.apk 451 MB
FinalStepasy.exe 248 MB