Hi Wildarians!

The Pre-Alpha is here, and that means PLAYTESTING. I encourage you to go play Wildaria and use the feedback forms[wildaria.net] in the pause menu to leave feedback or join us on discord [discord.gg]to leave bug reports.

Check out the new Devlog on how Pet Taming works and the new Abilties ^

The new abilities are so fun in combat- Stoneskin, HealingSpring, and Windstep all give you class based advantages in combat whether you want to be a tank, healer, or quick rogue... OR combine them ALL into a master of all the weaponry.

A LOT of time went into implementing the feedback from early testers and bug reports, but much more playtesting is needed!

Here is the full changelog of everything new in this "Pre-Alpha and Player Abilties" Update:

• Added Unlockable Skill AbilitiesAdded HealingSpring, StoneSkin, and Windstep abilities to skill tree
  
• Added One time indicator System with Saving and Loading- added dash, charge, and pet taming tutorial tips
  
• Added POI Object Pooling to POIs, sub poi objects, and mini pois (Performance Improvement Foundation)
  
• Integrated Steam Achievements
  
• Added /NamePet Dev Command to Console to name pets in the petstatmanager
  
• Made dynamic grass destructable with a fancy grass fall animation
  
• Added Pomeranian to game
  
• Added Pet Skill Tree with - Taming Skill and Pet Riding unlockable skill with pet speed
  
• Added decoration to to skill tree panel
  
• Consolidated Credits for wildaria and added to credits tab on main menu.
  
• Added a Summoning circle in the wizard tower that holds the piglet in place for the lasso tame.
  
• fixed poiplace error lag
  
• Added tool tip stats for weapon speed and thrust to inventory hover
  
• Reduced the amount health incremenets each skill level increment
  
• Added an aggropetonEnemy trigger when player damages enemies
  
• added ocean floor dynamic grass
  
• Added Sweet Potato plant and item
  
• Adjusted world object spawning
  
• Fixed Pet death then respawn after 1 minute without breaking pet
  
• Fixed Pet Healthbar Fixed Pet hover health bar coming up still
  
• Fixed Enemy WaterCover Shaders
  
• Performance/Lag Improvements - Improved Reskin Component Performance greatly, improved setting of music parameters in fmod, fixed a lot of enemy attacking, health, projectile, health bar, ability, swordswipe errors that were causing lag spikes.
  
• Made bottom of dynamic grass slightly transparent
  
• Game Balancing based on playtesting 1.5 - reduced Xp cap per level, Reduced coin drops from minibosses, increased lasso spawn rates
  
• only mark dungeons for slayer quest markers and made sure dungeons arent in deserts or oceans ever
  
• moved pet slot under the armor slots
  
• Added fmod title card that is mandatory
  
• Added bubble pop and sfx to bubble lasso
  
• fixed bubble lasso not returning and not consuming and blocking weapon use
  
• Fixed Remove Item inventory function
  
• Fixed the Wizard quest looping - it now saves and loads properly
  
• Fixed the Game breaking black screen bug if you pause the game or open menus when transitioning scenes, by preventing pausing during those transitons
  
• Fixed Health potion second lord reward
  
• Fixed a bug with Player health when loggin out on death screen
  
• Added Death Ferry Music to death screen
  
• Fixed some lasso bug
  
• Fixed Bandits fighting each other.

Hello Adventurers!

Yesterday Ign posted Wildaria's new Release Date Announcement Trailer. We will be releasing into Early Access in August 2025. With 6 months to go an much polish going into the game - Wildaria has entered Pre-Alpha and we are looking for PLAYTESTERS!!

If you are interested in helping playtest Wildaria please join us in discord[discord.gg]!

Now on to the new Update, "Quantity of Life" refers to the new minipoi system that fills out the world with Animal shrines that act as respawn points, Redwood trees, and secret treasure chests that require pet abilities to unlock. There are more mysteries to unlock and tons of new polish and bug fixes.

Full Release Changelog:

• Created MiniPoi System that places smaller points of interest between large points of interest
  
• Created Animal Shrines that act as spawn points and have a small secret puzzle ..-. --- --- -..
  
• Created Xp Particles that glow, drop from enemies, get sucked in by the player and increment xp.
  
• Created new Tortoise Pet
  
• Remade treasure caches with their own wall and pillar sprites for forest, desert, and swamp.
  
• Added Slayer 3 quest markers from lords
  
• Fixed most of the main quest for the lord and wizard quest lines. (Spent like 20 hours on this)
  
• Added World Naming and World Deletion.
  
• added mussel patch and food to game
  
• converted monsterra to taro root
  
• prickley pear redesign
  
• Fixed Procedural Item Name doubling up
  
• Fixed NPC Weapon Sprites
  
• Reworked the enemy difficulty calculation based on more stats weighted against one another, and made the difficulty have an effect on item rarity, adjusted item rarity.
  
• Added Bubble lasso as loot drop from all animals
  
• fixed npc lord bug that breaks village townhalls
  
• Fixed the Boar Boss fight
  
• made pet health bar blue
  
• adjusted hitboxes for room transitioners
  
• Fixed issues with the water cover material and goint into the ocean and shallow water with pets
  
• added more grass in forests
  
• added pink body
  
• fixed pet name plate
  
• Fixed the NPC POI Marker system to have accurate poi to world coords (they are still off by the randomness of pois).
  
• Worked on a backup system, changing the save file structure to support save folders that had backup saves inside
  
• Fixed a boar health, enemy level bug
  
• Added new grass and animals to dungeons
  
• Added Save message that pops up when the game is being saved- transitioning between scenes, back to main menu or save button.
  
• Added Stop and Face toward the player when they are close
  
• Added Steamworks.net to project, added Steam Manager and Steam Achievements Scripting. Created sprites for 10 achievements, uploaded half to Steam.
  
• added a interact highlight item world fix
  
• Fixed not being able to mount pets
  
• fixed scenery destroy not destroying colliders
  
• fixed chest tooltop cut off top of screen
  
• adjusted pet follow logic
  
• removed blocker from dungeon
  
• Added sounds to scrolling hotbar and new hotbar indicator sprite and highlight, added sfx for inventory item pick up and place.
  
• Fixed an orc blink sprite
  
• Added new SFX for Chests, doors/entrances/exits, and solving the shrine puzzles
  
• Made mountains smaller
  
• added a fix for enemies that are being destroyed as poi children when aggroed or lassoed
  
• Added fungal firefly and boar
  
• fixed items duplicating and losing their amounts from chest to inventory
  
• Fixed Looping dialogue with npcs
  
• fixed bar furniture colliders
  
• made dismount pets closer to prevent bugs
  
• Fixed pets standing on water without water material from being spawned by player and highlighted then unhighlighted. Made players not have water material when riding pets.
  
• Fixed twens tower shadow
  
• fixed highlight item from far away
  
• fixed pets pushing you
  
• Added RedWood trees to forest biomes
  
• fixed and changes a bunch more stuff!!