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Hey everyone!

Welcome to our first development update for Isles of Arcana! This update focuses heavily on new content, world improvements, multiplayer fixes, and overall gameplay polish.

This update introduces several new NPCs and encounters across the world, including:

• Rotting Soldier

• Fishfolk Knight

• Silenus

• Crocodiles in swamp biomes

• Pudding mini-boss

The Arena has also received major additions with a brand new prefab, world event, and questline.

On top of that, several new craftable structures have been added:

• Stables

• Woodshed

Players can also discover a new rune puzzle, craft the new Jungle Tonic potion recipe, and experiment with new wand sound effects.

A brand new biome blending system has been implemented to help transitions between regions feel more natural and immersive.

Other gameplay improvements include:

• Reduced overworld rain frequency

• Increased resource node spawn rates in earlier biomes

• Increased bronze node spawn rates

• Increased coin pickup speed

• Equipped items are now preserved on death

• Rover can now be picked up after riding

• Glass panels now correctly count as building walls

A lot of behind-the-scenes work has gone into improving stability and performance.

Highlights include:

• Improved offscreen collision handling for buildings, gates, and fences

• Improved NPC pathfinding collision tracking

• Increased object culling range from 64 → 128

• Prefab cleanup scripts reducing prefab file sizes by roughly 40%

• Improved minecart movement and collision handling

• Minecart positions now correctly sync in multiplayer

Multiplayer has received several important fixes and optimisations:

• Fixed NPC target switching issues

• Reduced packet overhead when syncing NPC targets

• Fixed multiplayer player position saving issues

• Added lobby filtering to the lobby browser

• Fixed lobby browser positioning issues when resizing the game window

This update also includes a large number of bug fixes, including:

• Fixed cinematics overwriting player zoom settings

• Fixed rare crash when equipment breaks

• Fixed freezing effects not clearing correctly

• Fixed frost potion warmth buff not resetting after death

• Fixed cliff rendering popup issue

• Fixed street lamp placement issue

• Fixed cave sunshafts blocking object placement

• Fixed solar panel rotation wiring offsets

• Fixed greenhouse exit teleport issue sending players to the celestial realm

• Added 26 new Steam achievements

• Added new D.A.V.E jumper lead cinematic

• Added demo mode

• Added developer console and level editor settings options

Thank you all for the continued support and feedback — it genuinely helps shape the game every week. More updates are already in development!

If you are interested in helping test the game, please consider joining our Discord channel - https://discord.gg/A5w8kYZawY