Hi everybody! Just have been doing some tweaks and bugfixes to the lure while I'm working on main alpha 6 content -

• New - The lure now animates a bit while floating in the water, it also now wiggles/splashes when you reel (While I was tweaking the lure decided to get this in to just make it nicer in the water)

• Change - Tuned the fishing rods overheat durability back to 5 seconds, from 4 seconds! Was a interesting little test but feedback so far felt they preferred the 5 seconds. We'll look back again at this when we introduce more elements to the fishing mechanic

• Bug Fix - The fishing line rope would be in the wrong position for a millisecond before attaching to the lure properly, fixed this finally it's a ancient bug

• Bug Fix - Lure would slide on the water like ice when you toss it with enough force, it now lands and stays firmly where it lands

• Bug Fix - Ocean/Waterfalls would overlap the particle effects of the fishing rod, fixed

  

Hi everyone - This update was a bit focused on the Ocean Biome, where I noticed we were having some big gameplay balance issues because there was no 'Garbage Item' in the region yet to balance out getting constant hits. I've added in some new fish to the fish family to help balance this out, and lots of other changes below -

• New Fish - Sardine! (Ocean)

• New Fish - Poison Sardine!? (Ocean)

• New - Inventory System will not switch inventory while you have your lure out - So you don't accidently put away your fishing rod mid-fishing

• Change - Ocean Biome has had a massive shift in balance - There was no garbage/mediocre catches before and it was always good hits. The sardine and poison sardine will now balance it out. Please keep me posted! I kept the balance around what the Pond was for the Poison Carp and Carp.

• Change - Fishing Rod Durability - Lowered the fishing rods durability as it had too much from what players were telling me! Reduced it by 20%, we'll see how this feels. In the future I'm going to attempt to make the fishing mechanic more interesting, so I don't want to over-tune this yet.

• Change - Grouper got a facelift! The old art was a prototype and he finally got some love to match the games artstyle

• Change - Dog Poop now only lasts 1 hour instead of 3 hours

• Change/WARNING - Audio - The audio manager was accidently making half of the slider almost silent - Changed it now so that if you slide it to 0, then it mutes, but has a better gradual audio. Hopefully I don't blow anybodies eardrums with this fix! This will not affect new players starting on this version, I made sure the games default audio isn't super loud.

• Bug Fix - Lure would fall through the ground/terrain specifically, but not other objects - It now gets destroyed when touching the ground

• Bug Fix - Fixed the overall collision on the ocean and cove region so that the lure isn't falling through the world

• Bug Fix - Ocean Cove area would have fish floating in the air if you caught them close to the water

Sardine, very adorable but you'll get sick of him real quick fishing in the ocean -

Poison Sardine (As a note, you can compost this into Ocean Bait)

Grouper finally got his proxy art removed and has a decent look now, his face is very " I've seen things "

Foil... Poison Sardine...? Because...? The beta-players/community asked for previous garbage items to still have foils, so we'll keep to the theme! Ironically very hard to catch (0.5%)