Emerald Woods - The River [0.3.2]

A new version of Emerald Woods, the chill no-combat solo farming, building, and exploration roguelike where you can die, is now available!

Play for free for now (online/windows) at https://slash.itch.io/emerald-woods, we are still in an “Earlier Access” phase, so let us know any suggestions you have in the discord!

Many thanks to the new Early Supporters! Your names will soon be found in a different document generated randomly in the Genco stations. If you want to join them, you can still become an Early Supporter!

Due to a breaking bug with recipes using liquid ingredients being broken (and hence the onboarding with players being unable to brew coffee (injustice!)), I decided to push forward the release of 0.3.2 quicker than expected.

Besides the fix, this version comes with important improvements in the procedural generation that required big internal changes; I am adding more control to the placement of irregular “sectors” in the map, and now I’m attaching data to them, thus allowing things like, for now, berry forests of different types of berry (not just Ouvlurin), and in the future will allow defining different flora and fauna in a much more precise way. We’re going to need this as we continue introducing biomes and then it’s no longer acceptable to randomly place the habitats.

However, the biggest visible change in the terrain is the addition of a wide river meandering through the land; the roadmap to v0.4 has a lot of water-related things, and this is just the beginning of it. It’s still stillwater, behaving just like a stretched lake, but that will change pretty soon.

Some other small but important fixes based on the latest playtest runs where are bundled: animals will no longer spawn in the darkness of the mountains (there was an issue where they could spawn in tilled ground which was catastrophic for underground farms), and the logic for the portable light sources has been changed so there’s more control over the geometry of their light radius, which has been increased significantly so underground caverns should be easier to lit.