Good morning, everyone! We’ve officially rang in the New Year of 2022. While we hope everyone is well, some of our staff has had a bumpy start to 2022 so far. New years handed us Covid, a broken arm and hand, and other medical issues - setting us up for a rocky start in January. While we haven’t yet resorted to living in a bubble we have had to delay our big announcement for just a little longe…
Good morning community! Last month we let you know that we would be doing a featurette about the Characters, both Player and Non-Player characters. This is primarily what this month is about. Yet it is a bit longer than a featurette. We are also including an update to our development on the Character side. So grab a cup of coffee and sit back. This month's article is focused on some of the joys…
Good morning everyone! We hope you have had a good summer so far. This update is going to be going over what we have done in the last 60 days and our current progress. This has been quite the adventure, however, working in the new design into the game and keeping the same original theme and style has been a lot of fun. It is even more fun seeing this start to take shape on Dev. So, without furt…
Good morning community! June is here, and so is our monthly update. Today’s update will cover both May and June. These last two months have been quite busy and have gone by way too fast. We have a lot of information to share with you, especially since we have begun this next sprint. This month's article update focuses on three areas. The best part is, the players will be able to see and interac…
Good morning community! Spring has sprung, the team is busy with spring cleaning so to speak. Happy Easter, Spring Equinox, and Passover. We hope you are enjoying a safe and joyous day with those close to you. Today’s article will not be a particularly long one, but we will cover multiple topics. Let’s hop right in! READ OUR PATCH NOTES FOR BUILD: A.00.03.16 HERE ISSUES AND FIXES: In Patch A.00…
ROADMAP & GAME UPDATE A.00.03.41 Good day community! We hope everyone is having a great Friday. Our team is wrapping up February with a small patch and heading into March by releasing the updated Roadmap. PATCH A.00.03.41: Today we launched a small, but major patch. Read our patch notes HERE . We focused on the major and some minor bugs that appeared after our Container update. During this upda…
Good morning community! This morning the server came down for Patch A.00.03.40 . This patch primarily focused on bug fixes, and clean-up now that the Container System has been added. You will also be able to preview some of the new items for the Lunar New year that will be made available to the players once the Item and Crafting System is done. READ OUR PATCH NOTES FOR BUILD: A.00.03.16 HERE CO…
Good day community! We hope everyone is well and eager to start a productive year off with us. On Wednesday 13 January 2021 we will release Patch A.00.03.16 . This will take place at 10:00 am EST (2 pm GMT) . Once the server is back online we will inform you here. Below you’ll find a list of known issues and a link to our patch notes. CONTAINER SYSTEM: The container system and all subsystems un…
HAPPY HOLIDAYS! HAPPY HOGMANAY, MERRY CHRISTMAS, MERRY YULE, HAPPY HANUKKAH, HAPPY KWANZAA, BOXING DAY! Happy Monday community! We hope that everyone is well, and excited to hop into today’s topic. As promised on the 25th, today's article will cover the upcoming patch, and supporting information. First, we’ll review the update itself, the challenges we faced, what to expect next, and a tentativ…
HAPPY HOLIDAYS! HAPPY HOGMANAY, MERRY CHRISTMAS, MERRY YULE, HAPPY HANUKKAH, HAPPY KWANZAA, BOXING DAY! We wanted to give you a quick but informative update during this special time. We know posted news has been sparse for the last 6 weeks as we have been very busy, but we really enjoyed all of the one on one with our community. This is more a teaser of what is to come than anything, however, w…
Good morning community, Happy Halloween, Dia De Los Muertos, Samhain, and Diwali! This month's update is a progress report. Since our last post, the team has been hard at work. As the progress continues with the new container and inventory system, we have also been able to identify a lot of issues that have plagued The Repopulation and opened up some of the bare bone causes for inventory bugs i…
Good morning community! Our apologies for being slightly behind our normal posting schedule this month. You may have noticed this month is a familiar topic. You may notice there are not as many images for this update because this article is focused on what we have completed and will be pushing to the test server in the next few weeks. This is a technical update and will be covering two topics.…
Good morning community! It has been another busy month of development for the team. So let's jump right in and discuss recent work, the coming Container System and supporting subsystem Items and its tiers. These systems will not be implemented for some time, but we want to help familiarize you with the coming changes. Before we transition into our main topic I'd like to touch on the continued w…
Good Day community! Before diving into this month’s article we’d like to wish everyone a happy, and safe Independence Day. It has been a very productive six months for our team. This month we are going over a) this year’s recap, b) the Item system and c) our updated roadmap. Looking back, it has been a great year. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀1ST AND 2ND QUARTER RECAP: The first three months of the year wer…
Read our full Article HERE . The month of May has been quite productive. We want to start this month's update out with a big shoutout to all the players new and old for their help, reporting bugs, and suggestions. Before we dive let’s begin with announcing our next scheduled patch date. Monday, June the 15th we will be launching our next patch push. The server will come down at 10:00 AM EST for…
Good evening community! We hope everyone is doing well, and not feeling too stir crazy. On the 8th we released patch A.00.02.41. On Wednesday 22 April 2020 we will be releasing a small bugfix update patch. This will take place at 10:00 am EST (2 pm GMT) . Once the server is back online we will inform you here. Below you’ll find a list of known issues and a link to our patch notes. This update i…
Good evening Community! It is once again time for an update and patch announcement! Testing on the island has been going very well. We’ve recently moved on to a new strategy to reduce some of the heightmap issues on the island. We’ll discuss these more in-depth below. As always we want to extend our thanks to the community and testers for helping us continue our work. With your help, we hope to…
Good evening community, it’s time to announce the next patch date. Push A.00.02.37 will be deployed, and the server brought down on 02/15/2020 Saturday at 10:00 AM EST (3:00 PM BST). We’ll make sure to update you when it is back online. A.00.02.39 Feedback and Updates: As always we’d like to extend our thanks to all who have taken the time to test and provide feedback. Your continued support al…
It is Game Update time! We are happy to say that we are releasing a small update that includes a few performance boosts to the mainland, a small one to the Island and a bit more detail added to the world. It is the year of the Rat. The rat symbolizes overcoming disasters and troubles. It is good for future development and prosperity and seeing the completion of projects or tasks. It is a time t…
READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE Happy New Year community, it’s patch day! Here’s to starting the New Year off on a new and exciting note, or Island in this case! A.00.02.29 PATCH TIME: Servers are going down at 10:00 AM EST (3:00 PM BST) for the A.00.02.29 Island patch and update. The estimated downtime is 6 hours. We will announce on the forum when servers are back up in the thread at the bottom of…
READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE: Holiday Update and Patch! Happy holidays! Merry Christmas, Yuletide Greetings, Happy Hanukkah, Joyous Kwanzaa, Joyeux Noël, and a Happy New Year! A.0.02.29 ALPHA GAME UPDATE We are very excited to send out the Announcement of the patch A.00.02.29. . This is the first phase of the new island and the very most basics of our content that will be coming to the game throu…
READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE: Good morning Rhyldan community, our team would like to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving, and a festive start to the holiday season. To start the season of giving off properly we wanted to bring you another early update. We'll resume a normal scheduled update schedule after the new year. Today's update article is one we've all been highly anticipating. It's time to…
Good morning community, Happy Halloween, Dia de Los Muertos, and Diwali! The majority of this month's updates are of the technical variety. We are going to focus on a few things from Server work completed to the new artwork for the island. Let’s jump in! The full article covers: The Island NPC: · Current Workflow · NPC and Mission Testing The Island: · Planned Island Phases · Island Art · sneak…
Good morning community! We hope your Friday the 13th is a safe one. While late updates can feel a bit frightening this update is less than spooky. We are happy to report on a major internal update which was completed on the 7th of September. This month’s update is primarily a technical one that will entail our collective work on the backend over the last two months. We’ll also explain the serve…
Good afternoon community! We’d like to start by apologizing for running a little behind on our update post this month. Work to clone Sarrene continues in hopes of building a super army of developers fueled by coffee. Should we succeed the game will be done three days later. Joking aside let’s get this update off to a roaring start and jump into today’s topic. We’ll be covering planned changes f…
READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE: Good day community! We hope your Friday is off to a good start, and that today’s update is a positive addition to your day. Earlier in May, we released a brief update which included news of an issue with our main office and crafting. This update will launch from those topics. The watery woes of our office endeavor have been resolved, and Sarrene has returned to her o…
April - May Update: Water Water Everywhere READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE: Good Sunday! We want to apologize for the late update. As many of you know we had a bit of an incident at the office. A water main for the fire suppression system went, and sadly, it rained down on half the office. Though it is late and not quite what we had planned, here is the update for April's updates, changes and what i…
READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE: Good evening Rhyldan! We hope you've navigated your April Fool's Day unscathed. While we enjoy a good prank we won't be dishing out any delightful jests today. That isn't to say we haven't squirreled away a few tricks and treats for later. Rambling aside let's dive into this months short and sweet update. IN GAME DISCUSSIONS: We want to give a shoutout for all the pl…
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