Arcane Waters is sailin' into Next Fest!

We've added new areas to explore, the ability to create outposts with your guild, a new help panel, a new event panel so you can see what's going on, and patched up some bugs!

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Guilds:

• Outposts can now be deployed and guild members can contribute materials to complete the building.

Combat:

• Enemy spawning is now updated to prevent ships from spawning too close to players in world maps
• Balanced voyage difficulty scaling of enemy ships, ship health now scales depending on number of voyage members
• Fixed bug where ability buttons and keys become unresponsive after fighting a while in land combat
• Fixed bug where engaging with a pirate skeleton boss shows an enemy with shield inside combat
• Fixed bug where pirate captain joins the minions combat even after it was defeated
• Updated burning and poison damage to proc only if the target health is greater than 0, allowing users to land a finishing blow
• Updated ability casting conditions when spamming buttons and triggering abilities while others are cooling down
• Fixed bug where user fails to join a combat that they are already engaged in after disconnecting or logging out
• Fixed bug causing duplicate player battlers when spamming pvp invites
• Reduced chance to stun on some land combat abilities.

Optimizations:

• Optimized area creation for maps to have prebaked collisions, for performance improvements
• Improved other functionalities related to generating areas for performance improvements

Ships:

• Added food cost for dashing
• Ship HP bonus perk now only applies to max HP when spawned in a world map area
• Ship storage and perk bonuses are now applied at the world spawn instead of storing in the database
• Added a cap to the amount of bot ships we will allow to be spawned in pvp matches.
• Bot ships and Sea Structures now aim slightly past their target, to help with some cases where they would often miss targets.
• Increased wave spawn interval in pvp games, so there is an interval where no ships are at the enemy tower.
• Fixed issue where bot ship cannonballs sometimes wouldn't damage enemy bot ships in pvp games.
• Bot Ships and Sea Structures now aim at the targets center more accurately.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed bug where crops are spawned in non house areas
• Fixed bug where users are spawned in same area but does not see other users due to duplicated instances generated
• Fixed bug where tutorial area is being duplicated needlessly
• Improved redirection of users between servers
• Fixed an issue where demo restrictions could cause players to be unable to progress to the next voyage map.
• Fixed issue where small sands banner would show when the waterfall secret entrance was opened.
• Fixed issue when warping to private maps
• Moved go home to list of buttons to be shown when user has character
• Fixed issue where player chop collider could block webs from finding a clear landing destination.
• Fix for penalties expiration datetime
• Fixed sometimes unable to respawn in PVP
• Fixed players being sent to single player instances if an empty one is available in their destination server
• Skeletons in the graveyard give the proper experience.

UI:

• Special suffixes are added to character names that have been deleted
• Fixed bug where pvp score in pvp board does not show to user when they join the pvp game late
• Fixed bug where perks are being reset when you fail character creation
• Perk icon colors are now updated to match the appropriate colors
• Added a confirmation panel before soulbinding an item, 2 small exception fixes
• Fixed minimap placement for buildings
• Added the notice board panel, containing the biome activity tab. Moved the pvp arena panel to a tab in the notice board
• Fixed PVP stat panel can't be closed
• Fixed player can still shoot when game is over
• Fixed Option not showing in character screen
• Fixed notice board panel remaining in the panel stack when closing it with the X button.
• Bugfixes for chat related issues, pvp stat panel and add close button for npc panel
• Replaced 'biome' by 'region' in the notice board panel
• Made steam login button become not interactable as soon as you click it
• Toggle reply button if recipient can reply or cannot reply to a mail
• Fixed recipient can reply to automated mail
• Add mail button to bottom of UI. New mail should indicate like an invite does for the friend button
• Added tooltips to the regions characteristics icons in the notice board
• "Help" panel (Added Help button to the Options Panel)
• Add friends current instance to the friends page (Added Room Instance Id)

Items / Inventory:

• Fixed bug where new crafting ingredients do not show info in the UI
• Inventory text cut off fixed, fixed typo found in ship panel
• User equip able items are now blocked if level requirement does not match, added warning in chat panel
• Fixed bug where level restricted items are reversed
• Updated UI indicator for items that are level restricted
• Fixed bug where level restriction shows up in blank equipment slots
• Fixed bug where invalid item is shown after interacting with treasure chest
• Fixed bug where weapons do not load properly for hotbar and inventory
• Disabled items no longer show in inventory panel for regular users
• Fixed level requirements on weapons not working correctly
• Removed the crop quick-grow buff that was incorrectly remaining active after tutorial completion.
• Coal takes less wood to craft
• Ingots recipe accessibility fixed
• Rusty Sword wasn't rusty enough.
• Extra skeleton parts from tutorial are worth a tiny bit more.
• Saplings are available randomly at the item shop in Port Haven.

SFX:

• Food Sfx is now added when food units in ships get reduced
• Added Sfx for achievements
• Added Sfx after winning land combat

Sprites:

• Sprite achievements are now updated, added

Maps:

• POI's are now instanced
• The Ives' Estate has been redecorated.
• New areas to find and explore.