Steel Armor
* (Add) Steel armor has been added to the game (recipes). Helmet, Boots, Chest, Hands and Legs. Five pieces, as opposed to three for the Copper armor, and two for the Leaf armor.

Recipes
* (Change) Some changes:
– Brick ingredient is 1 Dirt (down from 5).
– Steel ingredients are now 1 Iron and 1 Coal.
– Wooden Pickaxe no longer requires any Copper Coins.
– Wooden Pickaxe ingredients have been adjusted, 2 Trunks (down from 3), 5 Leaves (down from 10).
– Tree Trunk ingredient in “Wooden Block” is now 1 (down from 2).
* (Fix) In the Make Recipe code there was a possibility of using the old “qItems.GUID” field, without the queue record being retrieved.

Saving
* (Update) “Save” button enabled in the menu and now calls the “SaveGame” function. So you can save the game and IF (planning to fail) the game GPFs, your progress is saved.
* (Add) The standard quick-save “F5” key now saves the game.
* (Update) “SaveGame” function now lets you know the game was saved by putting a message on the game screen.

Interface
* (Update) Messages that were previously at the bottom left of the screen moved up to accommodate for the XP bar.
* (Fix) When a Tool is unequipped, the HUD is now notified correctly.

Game Items (Including Items)
* (Change) Removed the Items queue from the World class. Replaced with a series of Groups in the Game class AND a memory file for the “Game Items”. Game Items are made up of Armor, Weapons, Items, Trinkets and Tools. MASSIVE CHANGE. REALLY COOL. COOL BANANAS EVEN! UPPERCASE!

Item Pickup
* (Change) Removed the check on whether you were doing something else (and so were not allowed to “pickup” because of the GPF that would happen, because of the global items queue – which has been replaced with the memory file).

Durability
* (Change) Durability of some items changed. Flyswats down from 50 to 15. Wooden Pickaxe down from 50 to 30. Stone Pickaxe and Stone Sword down from 300 to 150. More adjusting will come as we find balance in the .. course?

Recipes
* (Fix) “Make All” button was only ever making one if the item was not stackable.

GPFs
* (Fix) Moved the “Z” key logic out of the Notifications and into the Event embed code .. Means that the Z key will now only work if no other keys are being pressed (or actions being done). Removes the GPF of global queue accessing. Obviously would be better to actually Critical Section the global queue. Obviously.

Harvesting
* (Update) The density or life of a block is now shown when harvesting.
* (Update) Big change to the POWER function, which retrieves how much density to remove from a Block. This has led to an overall increase in Power (now includes the STR calculation).

Block Life!

Durability
* (Add) Durability added to Items (includes Weapons, Tools and Armor). Armor functionality not in yet. Weapons and Tools – Yes! Go team!
* (Add) Durability level shows on HUD (Inventory coming).

Item Durability

Help
* (Change) Url changed from the wikia page to https://ballikin.com/manual/.

GPFs
* (Fix) Shoddy dodgy coding had led to the possibility of a global queue being accessed at the same time from two or more places (without any of the wonderful Critical Section magic). Silly boy. I hope I’ve tracked them down, but have a niggling feeling there’s a few more places left.

Doors
* (Update) Doors now correctly show as vertical or horizontal, and are set that way when put down (between blocks).

Block History
* (Fix) Doors could be overridden by Grass/Dirt/Sand.

Player
* (Add) Attributes added into Player structure – STR, DEX, CON, SPD, WIS, INT.
* (Add) Following attribute functionality added in: STR – Damage, Power (planned); DEX – Critical Hit, Dodge; CON – Health Regen, Total Health.
* (Add) “Base Health” added, to help with calculating Max health.

Character
* (Fix) Error in code (wasn’t remembering qItems position) when dropping items onto Equipment slots meant that incorrect items would be placed (and original would be overwritten).

Recipes
* (Fix) When “Create All” clicked, was added all into one Inventory slot, regardless of whether the item was stackable or not.

Recipes
* (Update) Overhaul of the interface. Similar to the inventory, better placement, images for what is being made and for the ingredients.
* (Add) Filter for Recipes upgraded to include weapons, armor and tools (along with blocks and items).

The New Recipe Interface

Doors
* (Add) The invaluable Wooden Door has been added! When CLOSED it is impassable (not for long), when OPEN it’s .. open.

A couple of doors to keep out the bad guys!

Sentients
* (Change) Attack radius changed, and standardised (uses globals rather than actual number in code).

Block History
* (Update) Worked on the code, although it’s hard to know .. a bit too complicated. Placed blocks (eg. Wooden Crates) would go missing on save/load.

Bad Snails
* (Add) A new mob has been added .. watch out! Bad snails (they have red eyes, thusly, evil) come out at night (and hide away in the day). They have super-enhanced tracking ability, and won’t give up easily!

Mean and nasty, covered in slime .. Bad Snails!

Player
* (Fix) On dying, the current health of the player is now set to their max health (as opposed to the level 1 beginning health).

Character
* (Change) Removed the Creating and Harvesting abilities.
* (Change) Harvesting, Creating and Combat (potentially) receive experience.
* (Add) Experience bar appears next to the health bar on screen.
* (Add) Popups added for Health and Experience bars.

The Experience Bar and it’s Popup

Items On Ground
* (Change) Only those that are visible will be drawn.

Harvesting
* (Change) Levels adjusted down for Coal, Copper, Iron, Silver, Gold.
* (Change) BIG CHANGE .. No more Harvesting Ability, so all Harvesting checks are made against the Character level.

Creating
* (Change) Each Recipe now has a “Minimum Create Level”, meaning that until your character level equals or surpasses that number, you won’t see the Recipe in the list.

Repopulating
* (Add) Every 5 minutes the game will repopulate the sentient creatures throughout the world.

Currency
* (Update) For all the fiduciary gurus out there, the currency system has been born. Gold, Silver and Copper are all working together as one. So if you have a Gold coin, it effectively amounts to 10,000 Coppers (or whatever the exchange rate is).

Terrain
* (Update) Area around the Player will always be cleared when first loading the game.

Lots of internal behind-the-scenes stuff in this build. Faster saving. More sound effects .. Screeeee!

File Location
* (Change) Changed back from COMMON_APPDATA to APPDATA . Was causing some issues (not running as admin, even though installed with admin rights?, so that the FM3 UPG file was not being opened) that I’m too lazy to fix.

Installer
* (Change) Installer location for resources changed from COMMON_APPDATA to APPDATA.

Wooden Pickaxe
* (Add) Added in a wooden pickaxe. Obviously a little easier to get than the stone pickaxe.

Character
* (Update) “Quantity In Hand” column added to the Ingredients browse on the Recipes tab. Shows how much of whatever you have in your inventory.

Saving
* (Add) Save progress window functionality added.
* (Update) Block History now only saves new history, dramatically reducing the save time (was noticeable after playing for a decent amount of time).

Terrain Loading
* (Update) Made changes to code which checks if Tree is going to be within the Player and skips.

Sound Effects
* (Add) Basic “Hit” effects added in for Sheep, Pinkeyes, Demiweres and Jotun.
* (Add) “Pickup” effect added.

Only five months later!

Character Screen
* (Change) Big restructure of this window. The Equipment and Inventory sections now live in the first tab, “Stuff” (great name). Recipes live in their own tab.
* (Change) The Inventory is now, wait for it, actually like a normal game! A bunch of boxes on the screen, showing the image of the item and quantity. You can sort/order the items (drag/drop) as you wish.
* (Fix) Creating an Item from the Recipes would cause a file error to occur.
* (Add) Description field added which displays information on the selected (single-click) item, whether Equipped or in the Inventory.
* (Add) Sort button that moves items into the top of the Inventory.

Hud
* (Update) Tool section will show both Tools, if 2 are equipped.

Help
* (Change) Removed all the custom-built help sheet+tabs and replaced it with an IE internal window to the Ballikin Wikia page.

Demiwere
* (Add) A new mob has been added. The .. dun dun dun .. DEMIWERE! Beware the Demiwere and so forth. Lives in the Desert biome. Very fast. Quite aggressive, high tolerance for pain. Decent damage.

Waypoints
* (Fix) Waypoints were being populated before other things, which could result in them being overrun with stuff like trees.
* (Change) Shrunk the radius within which waypoints can appear on a region.

Trees
* (Change) The generation has been made better-good. A little randomisation of the shape and size of the trees has been added. Also, code made easier to adjust this in the future.

File Location
* (Change) Resources moved from CSIDL_APPDATA to CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA.

Pinkeye
* (Change) Pinkeye base damage is now 2 (was 1).

Jotun
* (Add) The mysterious and solitary Jotun can now be seen in the outer regions of Serenity. Be wary! They are large and can cause great damage.

Large, angry and very dangerous. The Jotun are giant-like creatures who live in solitude.

Player
* (Fix) When standing still and harvesting/attacking and not having boots on would cause your feet to disappear!

World Map
* (Add) A World Map has been added (button on HUD or the “M” key). Shows what Regions you have discovered Waypoints for and the location of said Waypoints.

The "World Map" button on the HUD (you can also press "M")

The World Map, showing Player location and known Waypoints

Saving
* (Fix) The Block History logging was growing longer the more the Player travelled about the World. Now saves much quicker (and betterer!).

Terrain Generation
* (Update) Trees should no longer spawn -around- the Player. They will still spawn around all sorts of other things though. The wonderful mystical whimsy of the Kingdom of Serenity!

Character Screen
* (Fix) Double-clicking to equip an item where there was already an item in the Equipment slot would result in the item going nowhere.

Inventory
* (Update) Inventory sorted by Name and searchable (filtered search).

Must be a slow news day. Inventory sorts by name and searchable (filtered)!

Leaf Armor
* (Add) Leaf Armor, Cap and Cuirass have been added.

Leaf Armor, Cap and Cuirass, help you go green!

Copper Armor
* (Add) Copper Armor (Helmet, Chest and Boots) is in! Huzzah!

I'm Orange!

Copper Helmet, Chestplate and Boots can be created and equipped!

Waypoints
* (Add) Each Region now has a Waypoint which when activated for the first time is saved. You can travel between Waypoints.

You can now fast travel around the World of Serenity!

Player Block History
* (Change) Water and Lava are no longer added to the history.

Recipes
* (Change) Number of Tree Trunks needed to create a Wooden Crate reduced from 3 to 2.

Damage Calculations
* (Update) The Damage calculator now takes into account the total Armor (which is a combination of your Base AR and the pieces of Armor equipped.

Gameplay
* (Fix) While holding down the left mouse button and pressing “z” to pickup items on the ground, once letting go of “z” and then letting go of the left mouse button, the Player would continue to act.

HUD
* (Update) If you are dual-wielding weapons, both of them will show in the “Weapon” icon.

HUD now shows two weapons if you are wielding them!

Sentient Movement
* (Change) The “Can I Move” logic now only looks at the “Feet” blocks where the Sentient is trying to move to.
* (Change) Pathing logic improved.