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Quest Update Preview Released!

We have released a preview of the Quest Update for you to play on the Public Test Version. It has some cool features, but it is not fully finished yet and there is some preliminary stuff in it that will change in the finished version, but we think it's still worth trying it out.

Main features

Villages
Storylines
Character stats
Animations
NPC AI

Villages
Currently, 3 types of villages are being generated: A forest village, a jungle village with huts, and a default village in all other biomes (will be replaced). The jungle and forest villages have quests, the other ones don't have quests currently. The houses are currently just randomly placed, but they will be placed in some meaningful way in the future. There are also paths connecting the villages.

Storylines
There are now follow-up quests for some randomly generated quests. For example, in the forest there is a quest where you have to get some ingredients and then use an elixir in the follow-up quest.
We've added some code to support phasing (e.g. a village that is destroyed after an attack), but it is not yet fully finished.

Character stats
Character stats now work (except for dexterity) and are displayed in the inventory/character window.

Animations
Animations now work for some species. They exist for all characters, but not all are used yet.

NPC AI
NPCs now have ranged and melee abilities and can use casts (e.g. lightning for the Wind Elemental).

Blocks and stuff

Added fences and torches
Logs can now be placed sideways

Quests

Added new quest objective types:
- Interact with NPCs
- Interact with models (e.g. bushes)

Other

New species: Mej'it
Custom mouse cursor
Cast bar now shown below character name
Updated space ship model
Added camera outside the space ship (currently no use other than to look cool)
Changed font
Added scroll bars to UI
Added sound in background option
Added /roll chat command
Improved loot messages

Bug fixes

Fixed GPU memory leak caused by text rendering
Fixed game hanging in rare cases when interacting with NPCs
Fixed crash related to universe

Known bugs

Expect some lag, some new features are not fully optimized
There are too many NPCs, they currently overlap (different quest and non-quest NPCs spawn in the same location)

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