Greetings wildlife survivors,

After merely a month of no updates, 0.3.0 is finally here! Here are the patch notes:

Difficulty Options

• Added difficulty options: Peaceful, Easy, Medium, Hard, Nightmare and Custom

• Enable or disable hazards/player benefits with Custom difficulty. Adjust the gameplay how easy or difficult as you see fit.

Player Changes

• Lowered sprint cost rate by 30% (10 -> 7)

• Buffed walking stamina recovery

• Player no longer loses stamina if shift key is held while in the air

• Thirst rate reduced by 50% (0.5 -> 0.25)
  — However the thirst drain rate while sprinting might be still fairly close to the original

• Player now has a “Dodge Leap” move
  — Done by sprinting forward and pressing jump
  — The player will gain extra boost of forward momentum, useful for dodging and burst of extra speed
  — Player loses 15% stamina, 1% thirst, and 0.5% hunger per leap
  — Possible to do a simplified version of “Bunny Hopping” by timing the consecutive jumps properly to gain even more speed.

• Player light is now a point light (full 360 degrees). Difference is barely noticeable on standard resolution settings.

Enemy Changes

• High Mountain Wolf and End Road Wolf have increased acceleration, and move more unpredictably when attacking

• All wolves properly pounce at you now. They gain more speed when pouncing at you for an attack

• Wolves now have stamina and will get tired if they chase you for too long. Their chasing movement speed gets reduced by 50% once their stamina reaches 0. This will give the player an opportunity to escape.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a river texture found at the edge of the map

• Fixed an attacking script error with Canyon Wolf

• Fixed chase music from getting too loud when multiple wolves chase you
  — However the alternate, higher pitched chase music (from certain wolves) has been removed due to change of how chase music system works.

• Fixed moon transparency. (It was barely noticeable due to dark sky)

• Fixed “shadow legs” bug when you look down after Super Jumping.

• Wolves no longer enter your home if you’re inside it. They used to clip through the walls.

• Minor adjustments to the river mesh placements
  -Fixed a few more floating trees
  -Fixed river rock collisions

Quality of Life and Other Changes

• Added a pause menu with options
  — Change mouse sensitivity, volume and video quality settings

• Snowflake textures have been updated to look more like a “snowflake”

• Snowflakes should be evenly distributed across the map now. They used to only appear around the home and canyon area.

• Fog is less dense now

• Bunny compass has been added for easier difficulties

• Foods now respawn after 60 seconds when eaten

• Bunnies now have a faint emissive light to make it slightly easier for the player to see them

• Title screen background fog is a bit darker, to closely match the fog colour in-game.

• Intro level text lasts longer before fading out

• Due to updating the project to Unity 5.4, the default splash screen looks more plain.

Hope you enjoy the new patch. Have a nice day!

-BountyXSnipe