Wayward Beta 1.9 Released!

Life’s been busy, but thanks for sticking around. Beta 1.9 has been released and it’s full of all of our great Weekly changes as well as a giant list of other things. Some of the more exciting things include vulnerabilities and resistances being revealed in combat, a fix to that annoying invisible rotten meat bug, a couple new survival food items, and being able to change directions while moving with your mouse without needing to de-click and changing directions. That’s just scratching the surface though, make sure to read below.

Play Online:
http://www.unlok.ca/wayward/

Downloads:

Windows (Mirror #1) (Mirror #2)
Linux 32-bit (Mirror #1) (Mirror #2)
Linux 64-bit (Mirror #1) (Mirror #2)
Mac OS X (10.7+) (Mirror #1) (Mirror #2)

Just like beta 1.8 previously, 1.9 contains all the fixes/changes/additions from the intermediary versions and some brand new stuff as well, this time quite a lot. You can expect everything from 1.8.1-1.8.6 and the following:

Bugs

Fixed a bug where:

• De-spawning would stop to function properly after awhile in a game/session.
• Using quick-slotted items with hotkeys would bypass sling/bow equip restrictions and cause containers not to work.
• Quickslotted items would not restock if thrown from the item menu.
• 0 durability items being blocked from crafting if they were just required (and not consumed).
• Dying while rafting would cause the player to become stuck on respawn.
• Invisible rotten meat would keep spawning in a player’s inventory if they had some meat with a 0 decay in the first spot of a container, in the first spot of their inventory. You can see how this one was hard to track down!
• Filters would not work in Safari.
• Items would disappear if you tried to use “Drop (All) In Opened Container” when not facing the chest.
• Closing a container with the “X” would not actually close the container via game logic, possibly causing some container errors.
• Fists and throwing items with no damage type would result in no vulnerabilities and resistances being applied.
• Players could get different items back after they just placed a tile. For example, getting shale from a pile of gravel they just placed down.

Improvements/Changes

• Randomized events will now happen more frequently.
• Acceleration on movement slowed down on turning to produce more accurate facing movements.
• Slowed down monster de-spawn a bit (although, it’s much faster than before due to a bug fix).
• Items you cannot craft are displayed with a red border instead of a very low opacity.
• If a container breaks from throwing, the items inside now scatter around the point of impact.
• Decreased the durability on branches, bones, and wooden poles to promote crafting of higher tiered items for gathering/fighting.
• You can now turn while moving with your mouse and holding down, instead of having to de-click, and then changing directions.
• Increased vine whip durability.
• “A Spear” is now “A Stone Spear”.
• You now always have a chance at doing at least 1 damage to a creature.
• Resists and vulnerabilities re-balanced across all creatures.
• Fixed some grammar issues with combat messages.

New

• A couple new survival food related items added.
• Added a couple missing translation texts including recipe skill, equipment type, damage types, and dialog titles.
• A pick-up option was added to the action menu for doors.
• Inspecting an aberrant monster will now reveal it’s abnormal.
• Combat messages will now reveal effectiveness of what you are using to damage a creature.
• New fancy webkit-only scroll bars!

Developer/Technical

• Item CSS is now generated dynamically instead of via CSS. This will improve modibility and changing of items on the fly.