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AreaZ Demo›Events›Udpate 0.45 Sleep, Respawn, Exploration
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Udpate 0.45 Sleep, Respawn, Exploration

AreaZ Demo · published 4 years ago · build 8612069

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Hi, all. Decided to add to game functionality you have been asking so long for:
- sleeping
- respawn instead of permadeath
- exploration mode (god mode)

You can now craft simple bed from palm leafs and liana. You can sleep on it when looking on its icon and pressing interaction - by default "F". During sleep the day time will be greatly speed up, including ocean movement. The animals speed will be not affected. You will also faster digest food to calories.
You can wake up by pressing X key, or automatically on morning at sunrise. You will also wake up if you placed your bed on unaware position on beach and got hit by rising ocean water level.

You can now choose respawn after death in game. You will respawn at beach, or on bed, you have build - placed last or has last slept on.
The game will continue, so you will keep your progress, inclusive items placed/dropped in world. You will loose all items in your inventory - so no point to run back to your corpse.

For those who would like just to explore and build - a new game mode was added - called Exploration.
Its basically god mode, where nothing inclusive animals, drown, hunger, thirst would kill you. Animals will mostly ignore you.
You will still need to acquire food to be able to craft.
Please note you can get to the parts of map, there you were not supposed to go like open sea.

This mode is also excellent for Virtual Photographers to take shots using our ingame photomode.

Hope you will enjoy it.

Thank you for your support.

Please report all issues on our discord:
https://discord.io/areaz

I will be also pleased to answer any questions.

Juraj Bachar
Game Creator

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