Greetings from the Elteria Adventures team! We just had a huge 16.0 megapatch last week, introducing a ton of new and amazing stuff (including Wild Area, Item Rarity System and the new Private Zones), and now were kicking off the Steam Game Festival with yet another update full of goodies for everyone to enjoy.

NEW STUFF:

• Anastasias Neighbour. Added dialogues for dark Elteria Hearts (the ones that appear in the Wild Area).
• A fine addition to my soul collection. Added a new questline about collecting souls in the Wild Area.
• Statuesque carrot munchers. Added Hare Statues that you can place in your Private Zone. You can get it from Hares by trading it for a Shark Statue.
• Furniture? Funniture! Added new windows and doors, as well as paintings, wardrobes and crates (for now, these are all decorative items).

TWEAKS:

• Essentially not the same. When you break items of different quality at the Soul Altar, theyre shown separately.
• Gotta Reforge everything! Now you can Reforge items of any quality (instead of just Common items).
• We all care about levelups! Added a levelup animation.
• This breeze looks nice. Added wind effects for trees and bushes.
• What can I say except for Welcome!. The chat will now welcome you when you enter the game.
• Dieting Mimics. Mimics featured in the Architects Calling quest will no longer eat up your key.
• Scattered stars. New characters wont automatically receive Stars anymore (though they still can be obtained in other ways).
• ALL clouds should be bouncy. There are no more clouds you cant jump on under the islands.
• Enough practice dummies for everyone. The starting quest to destroy practice dummies requires less targets destroyed. Also, there are overall more practice dummies now.
• Wild does not mean gaudy. Changed the Wild item raritys color to a less saturated one.
• Ill build it right here! Added preview to the building mode.
• Precious AND gatherable. Dark, Nature and Link gems can now be gathered.
• So much easier than blowing yourself up! A glove of a high enough level can now gather Hematite and Cloudy Iron deposits.

BUGFIXES:

• Just pile them all into the grinder. Fixed a bug that made it impossible to destroy several items at the same time if they were in separate stacks in the inventory.
• Bug sprayed the magical termites. Fixed the bug during the reforge of similar items (one of which was equipped), that caused the equipped item to disappear after the reforge.
• Summoners do NOT demolish! Fixed the Demolishers pumpkee-killing quest accepting pumpkee kills using other callings.
• Changing back in three, two, one Fixed the bug that caused a player to be stuck in a polymorphed form, requiring them to re-enter the server.
• Getting exactly what youve ordered. Fixed the faulty block display while building lines.
• Its an obstacle course, not a farm! Fixed (again) unnecessary item drops on the obstacle course and the arena.
• Penguin-friendly architecture. Fixed the launchers performance issues for Ubuntu. It now also shows the server status correctly.
• And many other small tweaks and fixes

We hope these updates and our participation in the Steam Game Festival will make Elteria Adventures even more fun for you! You can discuss this update and event, as well as give your feedback directly to our development team on our Discord server! Invite your friends to play - and see you next time!

[ 2020-06-16 15:29:02 CET ] [ Original post ]

The world of Elteria is fully changeable. You can break it, you can build it. Even with basic abilities you can make holes in the world or create platforms in midair, you can throw your enemy in the wall and there will be a hole! The landscape is your weapon: shape it and use it to your advantage in fights with monsters or players! To make it possible, we use our own lighting-fast voxel engine that was in development for the last few years.

The core principle of Elteria is more game mechanics, fewer numbers. Abilities, artifacts, and enemies - all have different mechanics. The major part of gameplay is Artifact crafting. Every artifact gives you some ability and has its own way of acquisition. Equipment slots differ by the abilities given by the items going in each one, not by anatomical forms.

Players can choose one of many character classes - Callings - which give abilities too! Each has a different playstyle. There are no artifact equipment restrictions, this way many unpredictable and funny combinations can emerge. Players will need to choose artifact sets for different situations. We love to see which combinations of abilities players will invent! We will listen to your feedback and the game will be balanced and improved continuously. Three of callings are already playable and two more in development. You can expect the continuous addition of artifacts and callings.

In Elteria, you have not only the usual MMO or RPG feel, but platformer-like too! The world is made of flying islands, some are large, some are archipelagos of small ones. For ease of movement between them, there are jumper mushrooms, sunflowers, and other fun movement objects. They create a unique platformer feel while remaining a 3D open-world RPG. Some abilities allow you to move even better. Just look at that:

Almost anything you see on the screen is interactive more than in most other games. You can break it, or it wants to break you. Explosions make huge craters and break trees, you can break walls with enemies, mushrooms propel you in the air or on another island, tentacles emerge from the floor and hit you, some plants are mines, some are collectible, and of course, monsters are trying to kill you or do other fun stuff with you!

The game has a deep narrative. The following is the part of the playable character's story.


Your old world was full of misery and injustice, but suddenly strange portals started to appear in cities. You decided there is nothing to lose and stepped in. You found yourself in the lush and magical world of Elteria, filled with peculiar creatures and flying islands! After you finished staring on the massive planet in the sky, the green piglets and another floating island, you notice the large blue crystal, hanging in the air. You came to it, and suddenly, a mysterious projection of a woman appeared and started talking to you! She wants to help you. You don't know her motivation, but she seems very friendly. You have so many questions about this world...

We have also created a backstory of the Elteria World itself, called Elteria Cataclysm. In the game, the narrative will continue to evolve, being mysterious and thought-through.

Elteria once was a beautiful world inhabited by all kinds of people. It was a place similar to Victorian London – bubbling with life and constantly evolving. But everything changed with the discovery of new properties of the very fabric of reality. Civilized world was swept away by Magic Rush – every scholar dived into the new branch of science trying to make a breakthrough.
According to her theory, such object combined with a sophisticated system of gem drainage would allow opening a stable rift between worlds, giving pretty much an unlimited amount of energy. She wanted to create a utopia and to achieve this goal a research group was put together. Thus began the “Magical World” project.
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Players have their free personal Home Field. We plan to add large guild spaces. You will be able to build fortresses on islands, and on them you will be able to fight other players, to attack others, or to protect them from PvE events. There will be battlefields and leaderboards, but imagine how fun it will be to battle with other players using all these land-altering abilities!


Your main building tool is blueprints. The voxels are very small and placing each individually would be too slow, but with blueprints, you can instantly create some forms. Yes, you CAN use them in battle! Some BPs are basic forms; some are complex and rare ones even have aura effects on them. I.e., a wall which slows enemies around it. You still need materials to place BP. The material will define structure durability. You can find BPs anywhere in the world, and once you found one, it's yours.

To make full use of voxel world, we are considering adding a separate world with creative mode and no monsters, for players to express themselves fully. We are not yet sure and will evaluate the feedback later.

The visual appearance and style consistency of the game is crucial for us. You already can see day and night cycle, voxel lighting and you can expect continuous polishing of visual style.
We have written an entire gamepedia wiki about Elteria Adventures! If you are interested in detailed information about the game, check it out!