Release Alpha V0.7.0

A new version of Stellaria is now available. Here is the list of changes:

Major change

Name has been changed from The Legend of Shrimps to Stellaria.

Added

• Improved villagers
  • When a villager is killed, it has now 20% chance to drop one of its clothes, or 80% chance to drop an item relative to its job
  • Reduced villager life from 20 to 12
  • Villagers clothes depend on their job. They also have an item in hand that depends of their current occupation
  • The number of villagers walking in the village depends on the number of available beds. This value is specific to each house
  • Villagers now come back in the village if they are too far from the city center
  • Added tastes. It has an impact when player gives something to the villager
  • Added 4 interactions available by doing a right click:
    • Trade: Exchange items and stellarcoins
    • Give: Give a gift (strongly increase reputation)
    • Ask: Ask an item (strongly reduce reputation)
    • Chat: Can give information, start a simple discussion, or start a quest

• Improved player
  • He can now jump using spacebar. It has no effect on energy
  • Added 1 new beard variant
  • Added 2 new skin variants
  • Added 2 new eyes variants
  • Added 3 new hairs variants

• Arrows are now dropped on the ground when they hit a standard element. They only disappear if an entity is hit 

• Added reputation
  • The reputation value varies for each visited village 
  • It has six level from "Leader" to "Public enemy". The default one is "Stranger". It is visible in the town hall
  • It is increased when player completes a quest, trades, or gives a gift to a villager
  • It is decreased when player asks a favor to a villager, or when he attacks a villager 

•  Added travellers 
  •  They appear in igloos, taverns, and trading outposts. And also sometimes exploring planets
  • They can give interesting tips to the player 
  •  They drop stellarcoins or slothes after death

• Added bandits
  • They appear during night, and try to attack the player
  • They are the only entities wearing a tool (bandit dagger)
  • They have 20% chance to drop a clothe after death
• Added bandit lair: They can appear on all planets, and contain bandits. This is the only place where player can find a bandit's dagger

• Added sawmill: Cannot be naturally found, needs to be built by player. Allows finding wood tools and woodpiles

• Added hunting lodge: Rare building, only appearing in forested planets. Can be used as a refuge during night

• Clothes
  • Added 18 new clothes: crimson classics bandit, explorer, cook, thug, etc
  • Several crafting recipes have been updated to make the process more accessible and user-friendly
  • Updated price of various clothes
  • Feathers and cocoa can now be used to craft new clothes
  • Black suit and chef clothes can only be found in wood closet
  • Spring skirt and spring short now have 15% chance to be found in ruins forum

• Added woodpiles
  • They can be crafted, or naturally found in sawmills
  • There are three different variants, corresponding to the three different wood types

• Added trophy hunting
  • It is a rare element that can only be found in hunting lodge
  • There are two different variants

• Patterns
  • "Pots" have been renamed "patterns"
  • Added 7 more patterns: Roman stone, woodstrip, slab stone, dry plank, marble, civilized, irradiated

• Cactus, cocoa, cotton, and sugar cane cannot grow anymore on glacial or volcanic planets
• Improved tools
  • Added punch: When a tool is used against an entity, it delivers a punch, exerting force upon the targeted entity
    • Added bandit dagger

Changed

• Added two different cursors: during game the cursor looks like a pointer, and during interactions with villagers or game menu it looks like an arrow

• Updated straw bale
  • Straw bale can now be crafted using a composter instead of a workbench
  • String is not required anymore to craft it
  • Wheat is given when the straw bale is destructed

• Items now have a shadow and a small movement when they are on the ground

• Changed various textures: farm, igloo, and widgets appearance. It has an impact on game menu

• Updated items probabilities in containers
  • Boxes now contain random items when they are found
  • Wood closet now contain random clothes when they are found

• Updated torches crafting recipe. The recipe now gives 15 torches instead of 10 using the same quantity of materials

• Crafting coal with a furnace now requires less wood, the amount depending on the variant used
  • 25 Honey maple wood -> 15 coals
  • 22 Jacobean wood -> 15 coals
  • 18 Dark walnut wood -> 15 coals

• Adjusted strenght
  • There is now +10% chance to have +1 damage per strength point (compared to +5% previously)
  • Damages is increased by +2 if player makes extra damages thanks to strenght points, and number of strenght points is above 4

• Updated sounds
  • Added cricket noise sounds during night, and birds sounds during day
  • Added tools destruction sounds
  • Added tools selection sounds
  • Added various sounds when player hits an entity depending if it holds a weapon or not
  • Updated rain and swimming sounds
  • Updated cloning sound
  • Updated capture sound

• The probability of taverns appearing in the game has been reduced
• Extension of saves files has been changed from .los to .stel
• Removed minimum power to build a building
• Cloning powder recipe updated, and it can now be traded
• Sugar cane can be found in ruins
• Padded armors now have 10% chance to be found in graveyards
• "Shrimpcoin" has been renamed to "stellarcoin"
• Entities cannot appear anymore on caves if light level is too high
• Strings can now be crafted using a spinning wheel instead of a workbench

Fixed

• Fixed collision algorithm that may fail in case of multiple entities. There was a small chance to pass through a wall or an element