Patch Notes — v0.1.3 Update
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Fixed items disappearing when collected with a full inventory, they now stay on the ground and re-attract once space opens up
- Fixed sprinting still being possible with a full inventory
- Fixed a crash when a boss was defeated while its health bar was still active on screen
- Fixed a memory error causing the gold display to break after changing scenes
- Fixed a crash in the chat system triggered by items with no associated resource file
✨ Improvements
- Shop buttons (merchant & blacksmith forge) are now the same height as inventory buttons
- Merchant and forge button styles are now unified (rounded corners, color states, margins)
- Gold info in the merchant shop repositioned to avoid overlapping the action buttons
- Controller now detected instantly when plugged in at runtime, no restart required
- Fishing is now locked until the player has spoken to Jean the fisherman first
📜 Content
- Luke's tutorial completely redesigned: the player starts with 9 hearts, receives bread to learn how to heal, then must fight 3 Calcinés in the Ashes before the shop unlocks
- Mison's dialogue updated, now directly sends the player to Luke instead of pointing toward the village
- Jean the Fisherman now has a full quest chain of 6 progressively harder fishing quests
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