Update Information:
The proverbial barrel of monkeys has opened in the constant. Come and see what business has been unleashed on the DST Beta branch.
Access the Beta here.
New Features
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- New Moon Quay Island and inhabitants.
- Ocean Privateers.
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New upgrades for boating:
- Grass Boat
- Kelp Bumper
- Shell Bumper
- Cannon and Cannonballs
- Rudder
- Polly Roger's Hat
- Docks
- New perspectives on life.
Changes
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Map controls will now be more intuitive.
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Zooming will now focus on the cursor.
- An option in the advanced settings can be used to disable this feature.
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Zooming in and out will now be smooth.
- An option in the advanced settings controls how fast zooming is.
- Rotating the map will be around the current location and not the player.
- Controllers will see a smooth directional panning experience.
- Panning the map will try to keep a portion of the map visible on the center of the screen.
- Some mods that interact with the map or create new map instances may need to be updated for some of these features to work.
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Zooming will now focus on the cursor.
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Favorite food bonus now takes into account Warly’s spices.
- Mods that require a spiced food will still function as expected. Having an affinity for a spiced variant and a regular food item will use whichever gives the most benefit.
- Cactus and Oasis Cactus have been added to world regrowth.
- Reeds and Cactus now have settings for world regrowth.
- Big Woby will now eat the food given to her instead of staring at it.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed Malbatross death animations and ocean based attacks when the Malbatross is over a boat.
- Fixed particle emitters from emitting during a crash screen.
- Panning the map with the mouse will now follow the cursor accurately and precisely.
- The map will update its texture size to fit a newly resized window.
- Fixed Merm King bonus to loyalty time not being applied.
- Fixed a rare crash with the Clean Sweeper.
- Fixed bird cages having invisible birds in various situations.
- Fixed profile flair and profile backgrounds turning themselves off when navigating between the two menus.
- Fixed Winona taking food penalties when trading items.
- Fixed Birchnut trees dropping Birchnuts on the wrong side.
- Fixed friendly shadow tentacles not spawning on boats.
- Fixed highlights not showing on clients for the Houndious Shootius, Deck Illuminator and Lightning Conductor.
- Fixed Walter’s Camper’s Tent having the same descriptions as the Tent Roll.
Notes For Modders
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- The mod release id for this beta is R22_PIRATEMONKEYS
- Lots of changes have been made to the tile system, see the thread Tile Changes and More
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player:CanSeeTileOnMiniMap(tx, ty)
- Both client and servers can use this to roughly detect if a player has etched away the unexplored areas on their minimap.
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player:CanSeePointOnMiniMap(px, py, pz)
- This is a convenience wrapper which uses the underlying tile for precision.
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