Hi Wildarians,

After running another medium sized playtest in March.

We've been sinking our hearts into fixing the performance issues, addressing feedback of getting lost in the world, and improving the experience of the pet taming minigame.

• Performance has improved greatly, but we will continue to iron out frame drops.

• The new Windrill will be worked into the overarching questing of the world, giving the player more of a goal on the side of nature.

• New Wildapedia quest completion rewards will give those completionists a more rewarding goal.

• New Dungeon and Boss really adds mystic to Oceans.

Simply update the demo and have fun adventuring. I know I have been more than ever 🐸

Join us on Discord[discord.com]

Come chat with the devs and leave playtesting feedback.

Happy Adventuring,

Spacefudge (RJ)

• Added Olm Boss Fight

  • In Ocean Dungeon

  • Stage 2 mechanics introduced (shared health, activation gating, healing spring, stoneskin removal)

• Added Ocean Dungeon

  • New entrance, layout, and transitions

  • Dungeon objects and environmental polish

• Added Windrill Structures

  • Fully destructible with health, animations, particles, and rewards (Mana Gear)

  • Spawn with NPCs, bandits, and fungaloids

• Added Fungaloid Enemies

  • New mob type, not a pet, infected npc

  • New reward Fungal Heart

• Added Wildapedia Quest Line - 4 Quests

  • Rewards tied to completion progress

  • Includes Living Blade weapon

• Added to Mana Compass

  • Pointers to nearby points of interest when held

• Added New Collectibles

  • Mana Gear - DEF Upgrade

  • Fungal Heart - DMG Upgrade

• Added Map Markers

  • Markers for caves, arenas, and mini-POIs

• Added Arena & Cave Marker Visibility

• Added Winddrill Variants

  • Regular and dilapidated states with persistence

• Added New Audio

  • Ocean dungeon music

  • Taming SFX

• Charging Boomerangs now use a spiral attack

• Throwables now trigger a blast attack

• Enemy projectiles now spin

• Improved boss screen shake behavior based on distance

• Enemies reset health on player death

• XP only drops if player or pet contributed damage

• Harvesting foliage now goes directly to inventory

• Minerals (Mana Gear, Fungal Heart, Gemstones) can now be used in upgrades

• Major balancing pass on the taming minigame

• Added:

  • SweepingScale system for varied movement patterns

  • Lasso Movement Assist (smoother navigation)

  • Repel system to prevent close-range cheesing

• Added elevated terrain NPC/animal spawns

• Improved dungeon and overworld transitions

• Improved water rendering and layering in Ocean Dungeon

• Added save/load support for destructible structures

• Added inventory hotbar numbers

• Increased item hover readability

• Added pull hint in Wizard Tower

• One-time indicator improvements (armor, pets, tutorials)

• F1 now hides UI + tooltips + health bars

• Rebalanced:

  • Pet taming progression and effects

  • XP drops and level caps

  • Starting area difficulty (easier near villages)

• Increased XP from NPCs

• Major world generation optimization:

  • Cached land + noise sampling per chunk

• Improved object pooling:

  • Reuse objects without full deactivate/reactivate

• Reduced physics overhead across systems

• Optimized:

  • Water reflection system

  • Chest manager

  • Tile refresh + chunk unloading

  • Destroy scenery logic

• Improved Advanced RuleTile system:

  • Caching improvements

  • Prebaked configurations

• Reduced frame spikes from object deactivation batching

• Migrated enemy AI wander logic off state graph for better performance

• Reduced lag spikes from map/chunk updates

• Fixed armor level initialization

• Fixed GPU map initialization issues (biomes/elevation)

• Fixed lasso not consuming properly

• Fixed map marker offset issues

• Fixed scene fade timing showing loading artifacts

• Fixed Advanced Rule Tile corruption

• Fixed elevated collider null bug

• Fixed tile trigger issues (paths, villages)

• Fixed jumping elevation validation

• Fixed Divoros segment deletion bug

• Fixed dungeon lighting/color issues

• Fixed item name update bug

• Fixed stone sign sprites

• Fixed Mac FMOD build/plugin

• Fixed compass pointer orientation and icon issues

• Fixed multiple console errors

• Fixed biome triggers when leaving dungeons

• Fixed player/pet water state when transitioning rooms

• Fixed exponential harvest item bug

• Fixed reflection and rendering issues

• Fixed path tile validation blocking water incorrectly

• Fixed water mesh renderer disappearing on scene transfer

• Fixed Olm boss logic and loot drops

• Fixed various sprite issues across enemies and objects

Hello Wildarians,

This month's devlog recaps the last 5 years of development, plus shows off the new features of "The Adventure Time Update", so be sure to give it a watch ^^^

We ran a 15 person playtest to get a bunch of concise QA and feedback, this is the most stable build to date and most fun build as well!

Note: there are some big progression updates so if the game feels harder, feel free to let us know if Discord! https://discord.gg/6ZTjfKuB5R

I hope you have fun with this one! Cause I've been playing a lot of Wildaria lately.

Appreciate you! 🐸

Spacefudge (RJ)

Here is the full changelog of everything new:

• Added new Boomerang weapon (4 variants) and new throwables class (shurikens, throwing axes, throwing knives).

• Added new Crowling, Digi Mole, and Gordo pets (Gordo spawns 50% from watering big seeds).

• Added 50% XP boost to pet taming.

• Added weather reset feature and innkeeper dialogue/choice to reset day.

• Added +1, +2, +3 difficulty enemies with corresponding prefixes in enemy names.

• Implemented starting weapon and exposition save/load.

• Fixed Twen quest loop in the tutorial dungeon.

• Fixed bandit lords, dungeon bosses, boar and mole earth pound attacks.

• Fixed town animals and random wandering animals from being destroyed.

• Locked weapons and armor by level; added UI notifiers and automatic unequip when limited.

• Fixed lasso taming black screen bug; can tame Oakoo to open vine doors.

• Fixed all pet special abilities and pet follow errors.

• Made randomized pet ability attacks more common.

• Added Tropical Island biome to oceans.

• Revamped world generation with larger, more diverse biomes.

• Added seeding of world objects and prototype elevated land overlay; achieved elevated lands parity with GPU map.

• Updated map colors for biomes and elevated areas.

• Fixed walking through big trees and shallow water tile triggers.

• Added custom map markers that save/load; fixed lingering miniboss markers.

• Added 3-slayer marker limit to lands.

• Improved Health UI, level UI, and power bars above hotbar.

• Moved minimap controls to right stick and arrow keys; added map button and one-time map indicators.

• Added upgrade hints.

• Added windowed mode back to screen options.

• Added lock icons for hotbar and skill-locked weapons; unequipped weapons/armor when limited.

• Updated fast travel UI and dash/dodge toggle logic.

• Fixed on-hover UI, hover panel closer, chest-to-hotbar dupes, and stacking issues.

• Added tree reflections, water caustics, and water reflections for animals, NPCs, and buildings.

• Reworked water layer as quad to fix overlapping tile edges; made water transparent again.

• Added pixel water lapping for Water Village.

• Improved water shader and GPU map performance.

• Improved noisy desert generation with moisture waves.

• Added throwables and boomerangs to skill tree and NPC/animal loot tables.

• Added pickaxe weapon from mole that can break poundable boulders and gems.

• Made minibosses faster and reduced attack distance.

• Linked Wizard Tower into the tutorial dungeon.

• Fixed dungeon camp map marker.

• Fixed objects and elevated land on top of dungeon entrances.

• Fixed Water Village arena, removed ocean cache and ruins.

• Cleaned up wizard tower elements.

• Fixed lamppost reflections and vine camera.

• Fixed upgrade bench issues: duplication glitch, leftover items, and deletion bugs.

• Added item trashcan to inventory.

• Added shift-click functionality between hotbar, main inventory, armor, and pet slots.

• Fixed gem dialogue holder scripting and scenery destroy scripting to prevent duplicate loot.

• Fixed music transitions between biomes.

• Added new trippy cutscene music.

• Lowered overworld music and campfire SFX.

• Fixed crash errors including GPU shader initialization delay.

• Improved DestroyObject performance.

• Delayed map initialization until after DestroyObject scripts to prevent crashes.

• Merged PixelExploder NPC composite fix and inventory menu pausing on fader fix.

• Reapplied progression overworld changes.

• Improved world gauge progression algorithm and integrated into enemy level system.

• Updated food/animal progression based on biomes.

• Removed crowns from regular NPC generation.

• Ensured NPC damage scaling on weapons; adjusted player health scaling.