Runika: A World of Little Legends

And I'd also like to say thank you for the incredible number of wishlists! Ever since Runika appeared on the personal calendar, the numbers have just been going BRRR !! <3 But now, have fun exploring! ATTENTION: Spoilers ahead! Mana A little chain of mana orbs is now visible as soon as you can hold mana. I had planned this element for a very long time and now it's finally in the game. There are several new items to discover that interact with mana! Summoning Altar You can now re-summon bosses at the summoning altar. You can also summon regular enemies and even animals. For each of these, you need summoning crystals. You can buy these from Jolana after finishing the main story. In Jolana's tent, you can use your mana to craft unaspected crystals inside the magic circle. Jolana then exchanges these for summoning crystals of your choice. Rumor has it there are aggressive chickens! Potions You can now brew health, stamina, and mana potions of varying strengths. The corresponding value is refilled immediately. So that the potions are useful in different situations, drinking them is noticeably faster than, for example, eating food. As is customary, you of course get the empty bottle back after drinking a potion. Key Bindings This was long overdue, I know! You can now adjust the in-game controls at any time in the newly reworked settings menu. Crafting from Chests Crafting tables and furnaces now also use resources from chests placed to their left or right. As shown here, one chest can even be used by two tables at the same time, for example when they share many resources. Lunari & Mimari With the Lunari and the Mimari, you now have two new peoples to choose from. Both come with their very own background stories. The Lunari, for example, come from a moon in eternal darkness. In the shadow of a cosmic dust ring, all life on the Lunari's world derives from the warmth deep inside their moon. The Mimari are a peace-loving people, easily recognized by their large, rabbit-like ears. It is therefore no surprise that they have become excellent hunters. New Hairstyles A few new hairstyles were also long overdue! A handful of new variants, from short to long, are now available in character creation. Equipment Abilities Many items now grant you unique perks. Hats and other headwear become especially interesting because of this. With the right items you can tailor your character exactly to your playstyle or the situation at hand. • Shadow armor: +20% movement speed • Bandana: -50% stamina consumption while running • Gold hoop: -10% merchant prices • Beret: +30% building speed • Leather headband: 50% chance for +1 damage • Toxic green slime armor: 25% chance to avoid damage • Jar full of dirt: Removes the movement penalty in shallow water. • Glow mushroom bottle: Removes the movement penalty in shallow water and glows. • Iron hoop: +100% magnet radius • Chef's hat: Increases hunger and satiation restoration when eating by 25% • Cherry earrings: Increases health regeneration by 15%. • Bright red bow charm: -50% mana consumption • Wizard hat: Increases mana absorption from the environment by 100%, where applicable. New Languages I came up with a special translation process to make French, Spanish, and Portuguese (Brazil) available. Please give me feedback on the quality, since I don't speak these languages myself. From many spot checks it looks quite good, but since each language contains well over 2000 translations, it's not possible for me to check everything. Go'rath, the Aether Blight Go'rath is big and mean, which is very fitting for not spoiling too much here! As the final boss of the game, Go'rath offers you a very special fight that once again differs greatly from the previous bosses. Finale and Credits After the grand finale of the story, there are still credits. Here I also say thank you to the many people who supported me on this project. But don't turn off the game just yet, because there's more afterwards! Some things you'll only get to discover or use now. New Objects • Over the course of the story, you can learn the recipes for aether equipment. • In the Adventurers' Guild you can now find a hidden water wand. • In the Adventurers' Guild you can finally buy the Adventurer's Brew! • You can now collect lily pads and use them as organic bridges. • You can now craft village entrances. • You can now craft decorative beer barrels. • You can now craft cages. • You can now plant wisteria. • You can now craft gravestones. • You can now craft cherry earrings. • You can now buy a wizard hat from Jabbar. • You can now buy a chef's hat at the Adventurers' Guild. • The shadow armor and the pink dress are now available at the Adventurers' Guild. • You can now craft decorative logs and place things on top of them. Architecture Objects • You can now build and tear down decorative dilapidated huts. New Features • Wells built on water now irrigate a larger area. • You can now plant cacti yourself and harvest prickly pears. • Portraits now update during dialogues with multiple NPCs. • In character customization, some peoples now have a selection of different ears. Graphics • Cherry trees now drop blossoms. • The male variants of the standard clothing and tunic have been improved. • The menu for creating a game world now also uses the book design. • The portrait of Ranulf has been improved. • Some object shadows have been improved. • On respawn, an animation now shows the restoration of the health points. • Some path spritesheets have been slightly reworked. Adjustments • When researching recipes, you now also directly receive the researched object. • The character's appearance in character creation is now shown wearing the standard clothing, to better highlight the differences. • The default eye color of the Awa has been improved. • The position of the settings menu has been improved. • Sao now offers quest-relevant blueprints in case you lose them. • You can now mine basalt stone. • The map now stays open when switching scenes. • You can now break down almost all objects in Wealdheim. • In the library there is now a hint about ghosts. • So that natural flower fields look nice for a long time, plants spawned by the world now only grow in the presence of the player. • Potted plants now also require soil. • Magic dust now splits animals into two baby animals. • When you open the game menu, the game is now paused. • New guild tasks have been added. • Restocking now not only fills up stacks in your chests, but also moves everything from your inventory into the chest if such an item is already in there. • Eye colors have been improved. • When you pour water into a hole, it now spreads out as well. • Wood and stone tools now also work the ground instantly. • You are now already slowed down on the edge between land and water. • The guidance to the player's house has been improved through graphic and landscape adjustments. Gameplay • The buildings menu now has tooltips and improved quick-move behavior. • Objects now indicate through corners on the ground when you can interact with them. • If you accidentally closed the user interface with F1, it can now also be brought back with Esc. • In static scenes, the building radius is now red. • When an object cannot be placed, this is now accompanied by a sound. • The soul flames in the Rift now follow you. • The sorting order in chests has been improved. • You can now also sort your inventory. • The sorting order of recipes has been improved. Technical • The biome preview when creating a world now shows a larger area and is computed multi-threaded. • An issue with the sprite atlas caused lag when opening the inventory. • Path spritesheets are now rendered more efficiently. Bugfixes • A caching error in the chunk manager could lead to incorrectly rendered cliffs. • The aether blade and aether armor had incorrect repair materials configured. • The repair table was not yet fully translated. • When placing objects in water, the correct sound is now played. • The sign in front of the stairs in the Adventurers' Guild could still be interacted with even after the upper floor had been unlocked. • When dropping stackable objects, the number of held objects was not updated if not all objects could be placed. • After completing a building, the remaining items were returned to the inventory but were not immediately updated visually. • In some cases the wrong spawn animation was played. • The double-roof house had the build preview of the carpentry. • Bombs did not recognize bridges and behaved as if they were in water. • Some objects could be duplicated by blowing them up with bombs. • When expanding the player's house, objects could sometimes be placed on the stairs to the first floor. The interior of the new ground floor is now positioned so that this no longer happens. • It could happen that fields were briefly blocked for placing objects. • Blueprints for buildings displayed a build radius. • In the intro, it could happen that the character's eyes flickered wildly upon waking up. • Wooden steps caused internal pathfinding errors. • In some situations, Tari would no longer move. • There were internal errors with "overshooting animations". • Shift/Caps Lock prevented quick selection in the inventory. • The birch sapling was not displayed correctly. • In some cases, the aetherite tablet and the architecture book could lose their contents. • The rendering order of the bed sprites was sometimes out of order. • The tower-building quest was sometimes instantly completed in full. • Fence gates now dynamically align with their surroundings, which fixes a misalignment bug. Coming Soon • Full Release!