We're happy for both the summertime and having managed to release a bugfix patch for the significant 3.86 update just in time. See, with this post I'll be leaving for summer holidays and will get back to proper development probably sometime in august. Well, it won't be complete radio silence until then and some rainy days are surely still spent for coding, but all the activity within the development chambers will be holiday paced.
With summer comes the Steam Summer Sale, so we welcome all you new adventurers to grab the game while the discount is hot.
Moreover, after the Summer Sale 2025 there's going to be price increase to the game base price. Depending on the currency this will be probably around 25-35% range.
Well, that's for the heads up and recommendations, now let's move on to ...
Despite of the holidays at hand I'll leave you with brief news about what's coming up in the future UnReal World versions. There are basically two major things that will take the development priority from now on until they are finished. This will happen with a course of several version releases, gradually adding up elements to these.
Pausable and improved clothmaking
Making of clothes will become a pausable task, and the finished cloth quality will get assessed depending on your skills. There will be a new tailory/clothmaking skill which also features making of cloth from yarn. This brings in cloth as a new material and making of eg. linen or nettle clothes becomes possible. Shearing sheep and making of woollen yarn, and woollen clothes thereof is planned also.
Marriage / Permanent companions
The possibility to acquire permanent companions becoming a part of character's life through variety of situations. This kind of mechanics have been previously thought of mostly through a marriage system, but as we now start working on it we'll expand it to cover more possibilities - eg. permanent adventuring companions. This will be featured through quests which will be bring up many ways to pick up a permanent companion; be it a wife, husband or somebody else who is willing to accompany you as long as desired.
That's all for now.
I wish you all the best of summertime.
See you in a while.
Midnight greetings from the Far North.