Posted January 11, 2025 by InvalidSpacebar
More Unique Story Islands
To kick things off for this update we have expanded upon all of the story islands by adding custom hand placed items and unique environments around where the story marker flags can be found. As a small measure we also added a few custom island names for islands with unique/funny seed numbers.
Music To My Ears
We also decided to expand upon the music player for this update to make it more versatile. The music player now opens up with the journal as well as on the pause menu, the music volume can be more directly controlled, and custom music can now be imported with a new folder in the game location.
Vending Machine Goodies
A new shop purchase has been added in the form of a reusable vending machine. This vending machine will be placed near the player spawn on an island similar to the campsite and is full of various items. Some items are for restocking player supplies (camera film, fish bait) while others are brand new (beer, cigarettes).
World Class Digging Champion
Similar to fishing we added a new piece of gear with limited use per island, the shovel! The shovel can be used on any ground near the player that is not water and has a possibility to dig up new smaller points of interest. Some of these items can even have direct use to the player by either adding money or allowing the player to jump high off of them. There might even be a piece of new hidden gear waiting to be dug up...
Points Of Interest Found
To better add variety we added 9 new points of interest making for a total of 30 now, a good amount of which have different iterations themselves. We have also made some changes with points of interest in limiting the amount that can spawn per island and having that number scale with the overall size of an island. A good amount of smaller fixes with detection radius and placement have also been made with some of the older points of interest.
Oddities Reworked
Not the largest addition by any means but still a noteworthy one in that all oddities and artifacts have also been simplified to now all be categorized as the same thing. All oddities now increase the stat for discovery and several new oddities have been added each with new effects.
The Small Things
Finally all of the little changes that always add up. To kick these things off we have updated the journal to have less words and instead pictures to display the various island stats for an easier quick glance at things. We replaced the movement lock system with a quick zoom in feature instead. Camera settings are now saved between islands, so whichever preset camera setting is selected will be saved and custom settings will be saved independently. We added an auto-pause feature if a controller becomes disconnected or window focus is lost and along with that have added a mute out of focus audio option. A mass variety of smaller fixes have also been added up: fixes with movement jitter, fixes with the camera height camera option, fixes with the resolution settings, and fixes with jumping and using a controller.
Well this time it's been even longer since the last update, but we've just been busy with life. We don't know how much more we will update the game in the future as aside from adding more variety of things to find the game is pretty feature complete. Maybe if a crazy demand to update it more comes through from Mr. Video Games we'll focus on it more, but for now we are focusing on our next game. Yet again though we thank everyone for the support, take care, see you next time and have a good 2025!