Had some small problems reported on Discord, and a few in the anonymouse exception reporting window that I either tracked down and fixed or added some more details to hopefully better understand them tomorrow.

Heading to bed here, but I just went through the bug report forum as well and it sounds like storage chest text is not working. I will get that sorted out tomorrow among anything else I can find ːsteamthumbsupː big thanks to anyone that helps report a problem.

There does seem to be something funky with the game on Linux right now. Forcing it into vulcan with the launch command -force-vulkan seems to be a temporary fix for now.

v 1.1.0.1 2024.06.28
- Fixed the collider on some steps shining when it should be invisible
- Fixed the sign post shader
- Fixed updated weather modules not being linked to the ambient volumes settings
- Fixed a case where AOEs that don't hit any target could throw an error
- Interrupted a case where it seems the thunder sounds is not being properly populated throwing an error
- Improved logging on ItemDetailsUI.UseItem() that seems to be throwing an error
- Improved logging on TownData.CheckConstructionResources() that seems to be throwing an error

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At long last! The big performance upgrade is now live!

This was a major undertaking, upgrading not only Unity from 2019.4.40 to 2022.3.14, but also switching from the Built-in Render Pipeline to the Universal Render Pipeline. The Unity engine upgrade brought in some mandatory code changes, while the pipeline swap required an upgrade to every single material and shader used in the game. That means every texture on every monster, rock, and tree, fog, sky, water, you name it, everything had to be replaced or reworked.

What for? Performance! The game is now running much faster on my computer, over twice as fast in most cases, and I sincerely hope that everyone else is able to notice a similar increase in performance.

There are still some minor things I'm looking into, particularly the bug reporting system seems to have gone haywire with the engine upgrade, and there are some trees that seem to not be using the same shader across different parts of them causing a mismatch of colors. The biome colors overall have changed a bit as well as the post-processing systems that were previously being used to not work at all in the Universal Render Pipeline, so it was difficult to try and recreate all the same levels of saturation, brightness, and so forth.

Sometimes I would make a change to try and fix a problem with the global fog, or the targeting reticle, which ultimately I had to stop using decals for, and it would require a 3 and a half hour recompile of the entire shader library just to try something out... It was a pretty brutal experience all-in-all, but definitely worth it moving forward.

Speaking about moving forward, I'm expecting to get pretty busy in the coming months. A peer and some colleagues are planning to start putting in hours on the game as we move towards a sort of revamp of the graphics, the story, the world building, and the "feel" of the game overall. The goals of these changes are numerous and we'll get into them as they unfold, but ultimately we're hoping to take Solace Crafting out of the "solo indie developer" status to being a much more professional level quality game worthy of a modern audience. It's going to take time and money, and hopefully a fair bit of community involvement, but the game has always deserved more than my ram-shack set of skills, and I'm very excited to take the leap into working with others.

We already hit 36C (97F) where I live last week! I'm worried this year is going to be a scorcher! Please stay cool and safe wherever you may be, and I wish you all the best!

Happy Gaming!
Kyle Postlewait
Big Kitty Games

Condensed patch notes:
v 1.1.0.0 2024.06.27
- Changed the targeting and target decal projectors to a quad
- Upgrade Unity to 2022.3.14
- Switched to the Universal Render Pipeline
- Replaced shaders for all materials
- Fixed enchants using Nail, Horn, and Claw from requiring them to be of an equal tier to the recipe
- Fixed some enchanting recipes using the wrong materials

Latest beta patch notes:
v 1.1.0.0 2024.06.27
- Changed the targeting and target decal projectors to a quad
- Fixed hotbars being improperly offset
- Fixed several monster AI problems
- Fixed some small fog issues
- Fixed some small grass issues

v 1.0.5.8 2024.06.10
- Fixed single-player mobs standing still/not responding
- Fixed linux builds

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