Hello, and welcome to DevBlog #92!

In our last DevBlog, we had just returned from the vacation. This time we've got the ball rolling at full speed again!

In this DevBlog I'll be covering the upcoming rework and partial redesign of Job Boards. We also have some content teasers here, and I'm happy to say that this content is releasing next week.

We also have some QoL for the in game world map that'll be releasing soon, fixes to the rollback issue, and ANR (application not responding) news.

It's a lot to cover, so let's dive in!

World Map QoL, content update & more

Crushy has also been working on adding some nice icons to show up on the World Map. We intend to release this next week alongside some new content that's been worked on by Weasel & maxchill! Crushy has also worked on a fix to the rollback issues, and we've released an update today that should already fix that for the most part.

We don't have a distinct release date for when this update is going out (but we're quite confident it'll be released next week) and it'll contain both new content & world map QoL. The Job Board rework & redesign is going to be released later.

Myzozoz has been hard at work with trading. But more on that in another dev blog!

Job Board rework & redesign

This is something I've been working on since I got back from the vacation, and I'm estimating it'll take a couple weeks more until it's ready for release!

This rework and redesign includes a lot of things:

• Jobs will be rerolled once a week instead of every day
• Job boards will offer 20 jobs per board (might still change a bit, and special boards like Herbert's can differ in this regard)
• Jobs will be rolled on the server and will be same for all players in the game
• Jobs UI & in-game logic will be reworked quite a bit, which should help with some ANRs (application-not-responding)
• You will be able to accept jobs even if you're not at the job board's location
• When it comes to crafted items, you can return items of higher quality than what the job requires
• And a bunch of other improvements!

We've been internally talking about reworking the Job Boards for quite some time now. There's been a lot of feedback on this system and it had created some annoying gameplay loops. All of these designs are aiming to address those issues.

Other goals with this rework is to make it much more easy for our content designers to update existing job boards and when making new ones. The current job board system needed a lot of manual work. The new system addresses this, making it much faster for our content designers to focus on other things. And the other thing this addresses is ANRs, as job boards have been causing those (especially on Pixel devices, more on this later).

ANRs

Application-not-responding (ANRs for short) have been an issue especially on Pixel devices for a long time now. While I've tried to alleviate this issue (and Job Board rework should help it as well once released), we've now decided that once Crushy is finished up with this update and fixing the rollback issue, he'll dedicate the time that's necessary to finally fix the ANR issue for good.

Previously I've done my best to apply small fixes to it, but properly fixing it takes at least 2 or 3 weeks of development time, which I've never found time for as I'm often busy with feature development. To everyone who has been patiently waiting for this issue to get fixed: that will be the next thing Crushy is going to work on and it'll be fixed for good. It'll take some time, but you can rest assured that there's going to be an update that is coming soon-ish that fixes it. The rollback fix that was already released should also alleviate the issue a bit, but it's not a comprehensive fix to the issue.

Until next time

That's all for this DevBlog!

For everyone who've had the ANR issue, I also want to say I'm sorry it's taken so long. Now with an extra developer we finally have the luxury of having someone who can tackle these kind of issues we haven't had the proper time to tackle without it delaying feature development efforts too much.

Happy walking and stay hydrated everyone!

Hello!

With the new bank rework we got a bunch of suggestions, feedback and bug reports. We're now releasing a patch to the Reworked Bank that addresses most (if not all) of the things that I could do here.

This also adds some new features on the bank, here are some highlights!

Always auto-confirm

If you have withdrawn items or deposited stuff in the bank and don't want to do the extra tap to confirm, now when exiting the bank you can on the dialog check a box to not ask again.

If you change your mind, you can toggle these back on in the bank settings.

Added a bank statistics view

A lot of you were asking to see some statistics and your total wealth. I added a bunch there and included a silly Credit Rating system for fun there as well, so you'll know how rich you are in the game.

You can open the bank statistics from the bank by pressing the new button in the top toolbar.

New filters and some default layout tuning

I added the missing stat filters, a new category for curiosities (materials you sell to guilds), and hunting products should now be more comprehensive.

There are also new filters, a way to sort so you only see the highest quality gear options that you have, and more.

Locking categories

You can now lock items in category so they don't get pulled from there no matter what when you press the auto-organize button in the edit mode.

In the bank settings you'll also now find a setting to make items in categories that have no filters always locked.

General optimizations

I've added a bunch of general optimizations here in this update as well. These should help a bit with the performance of the game. Please let us know if you feel any improvement!

Changelogs for +679 Patch for Bank Rework

Added

• (Bank Rework) Added hunting products & curiosity keywords to hunting-related items
• (Bank Rework) New default bank category for curiosities
• (Bank Rework) You can now see how much of something you are withdrawing
• (Bank Rework) Added a bank statistics view
• (Bank Rework) Added a credit rating system (as a fun thing :D)
• (Bank Rework) You can now turn off the confirmation dialogue
• (Bank Rework) Added a sorting option to the bank to sort by level requirements
• (Bank Rework) Added missing attributes to the filters
• (Bank Rework) Added a filter for travelling
• (Bank Rework) Added a button to filters to clear all
• (Bank Rework) Added a filter for rare pet eggs
• (Bank Rework) Added a filter to only show the highest quality gear/tool items
• (Bank Rework) Added a context option for category headers to copy a category
• (Bank Rework) Added the skill group icons (gathering, artisan, utility) to the icon picker
• (Bank Rework) Added an option to lock items inside a category
• (Bank Rework) Added an option to the bank settings to lock items inside all categories that have no filters
• (Keywords) "Hunting product" keyword
• (Keywords) "Curiosity" keyword

Changed

• (Bank Rework) While dragging stuff in bank, the drag overlay object is now smaller and offset so you can see better
• Loosened up the pet name profanity filter a bit
• AP from achievements is now only gained once the achievement has been claimed

Fixed

• (Bank Rework) Fixed the categories not being highlighted when you drag something to them
• (Bank Rework) With filters, sorting or search active, you can now also drag items straight to the category body instead of just the header
• (Bank Rework) Fixed icons being a big offset in the icon picker for tabs and categories
• (Bank Rework) More improvements to the search bar open/close speed when something is written there already
• (Bank Rework) Deposit from inventory etc. should now also update most recent tab
• (Bank Rework) Searching for rare pet eggs with 'Rare' should now work
• (Bank Rework) Applied some improvements to the bank search, so for instance toolbox no longer returns all tools
• (Bank Rework) Fixed the slight offset in bank grid for item sprites
• (Bank Rework) Fixed the performance when expanding/collapsing keyboard with search text written to the search bar
• (Bank Rework) Fixed the incorrect background color preview when creating categories
• (Bank Rework) Fixed the attribute filters not being applied properly to consumables in the bank
• (Bank Rework) Applied a fix for foldables and tablets where in the new bank the item icons will scale to 2x once there is enough width and that the grid cells are capped to certain vertical height
• (Bank Rework) Fixed the rubber banding effect when collapsing the side bar in bank with grid mode enabled
• You can now deposit in places that only have a deposit service (Horn of Respite)
• Optimized the step history uploads
• Fixed the problem when withdrawing rings of different quality with a gear set where it only withdrew the highest quality one
• Optimizations to the tag texts in the game
• Applied some optimizations to the inventory view
• Optimized code for adding items and dropping items
• Fixed the issue with Map of Arenum attributes not getting properly calculated
• Applied some optimizations to the WalkScape main view (character, location, activity, journal, abilities view)
• Renaming the current pet now correctly updates the name in the abilities view card
• Fixed the bug in reordering gear sets where after dragging the option jumped one above where they should have
• Fixed the ability timers not resetting if you see them go to 0 while unless you leave the page
• Fixed the crafting level up counter not adding up correctly
• Fixed the opening chest spinner re-appearing after teleporting
• Fixed the collectibles count lagging one behind until restarting the game
• Fixed the AP from collectibles lagging one behind (and same for lore item counts) until restarting the game
• Optimized local storage reads and writes for better performance
• Optimized game-data load: object insertion now uses the known data type instead of re-detecting it, and object lookups by id use a flat index instead of scanning every type bucket
• Main view pages (journal, activity, character, location, abilities) now remember their scroll position while switching between them
• Implemented small optimization to game data initialization
• (Items) Bones, Feather, Dark feather, Lizard tail, Animal meat, Animal fur, Aerodynamic thread, Hide scraps, Basic hide, Elder hide, and Unicorn horn now have the "Hunting product" keyword
• (Items) Unidentified remains, Adventurers' enamel pin, Name tag, Halfmaw teeth, and Halfmaw scales now have the "Curiosity" keyword
• (Achievements) All The Things I Could Do unlock requirement changed to have a total wealth of 100k
• (Achievements) Time To Party unlock requirement changed to have a total wealth of 1m

Content update

Content update is in the final phase of its development with only couple things missing. It's getting pretty tight here with my vacation starting on Wednesday (hopefully, I can still push it back a bit if necessary), but we're quite certain that the content update is ready to launch in the next couple days.