Isles of Etherion — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
|---|---|---|
| Beta Patch v 0.5.3 Areas | 2024-07-01 | Etherion is now made up of hundreds of areas: Areas can be defeated by killing monsters local to that area. Once an area is defeated, monsters will no longer spawn in that area. Only one area can be defeated at a time. Monsters summoned by environmental changes do not contribute to the area being defeated. The new UI will show the name of the area, its element, and whether there is a crystal in that area. If an area contains a crystal shard, a beacon will be sent out after the area is defeated, showing the location of that shard. You can now summon and unsummon Fey with the B key. All races now have Blessing of Fey, a passive skill that grant |
| Beta Patch v0.5.02 : New Item Campfire, new permanent follower Fey Starsong | 2024-02-04 | Big thanks to those who made the bug fix videos; they really help me out! I watch a lot of videos and noticed very few make it out of town due to a lack of direction. So, I made Fey a permanent follower that you can talk to at any time and in any place. I updated the tutorial and story to reflect this change. Please let me know if this helps, and if anyone is able to get to the tutorial demi-god on the crystal island. Potion shops now sell better potions for health and mana, non working potions have been removed Fixed camera clipping into voxel and other issues. Camera now fades out objects instead of running into them. Fixed a lot of the cry |
| Beta Patch v0.5.01 New guild, The Collectors (hire to loot for you) | 2024-01-03 | Updated the dynamic objects with destruction once again, each object now has its own health and density, i.e. stone is harder to break than wood etc.. A new guild can be found at the Crystal Town called The Collectors located next to the potion shop. Contract them to pick up loot for you. Followers no longer take damage from the player. Fixed a bug that caused you to respawn only at the tutorial area. Fixed a bug that caused your character to giggle around sometimes after walking on certain terrain Up next I will be focusing on Quests |
| Beta Patch v0.5 Spellstones | 2023-12-17 | Incremental sound update Incremental graphics update Loading updated fixing most crashes Mining pick should now work properly Towns updated Swimming works again Camera when gliding no longer snaps behind the character You should no longer fall through the world randomly on Death, town portal or teleporting You now must talk to dock master to purchase a airship flight to other towns, each dock still goes to a different town. Dialog should no longer cause the game to freeze for some people. Starting gliders now descend faster. Damage now breaks gliding causing you to fall Items have been updated Monsters now spawn with a buff of their element g |
| Hotfix Beta Patch 0.4.5.2.5 | 2023-08-18 | Another pass on all towns and shops, still need to update the NPC's for each town Fixed issue with MSQ acceptance outside the crystal quests Updated monsters, now gain a levels depending on how powerful the crystal shard in that area is. Making some area more dangerous than others. Fixed some issues with combat and spawning, this should improve performance for some Spawned airship now have npcs that you can talk to this will be expanded on in future updates |
| Hotfix Beta Patch 0.4.5.2.4 | 2023-08-11 | The first pass of the Crystal demi-god battle is complete. The Crystal demi-god battle can be started after completing the crystal shard chain quest. The Crystal demi-god battle will serve as the demi-god tutorial battle. The other demigods will be located on the Elemental island inside the mega-dungeons. Updated the MSQ chain quest, it should now progress correctly no matter the order you find the shards. The basic airship is for sale again in the crystal town |
| Hotfix Beta Patch 0.4.5.2.3 | 2023-08-02 | Fixed some dialog issues causing the game to stop responding Updated the Wood Town area |
| Hotfix 0.4.5.2.2 | 2023-07-13 | Fixed issue with the mouse not showing up when talking to merchants Updated Lightning town and lightning areas *Reminder that monsters max level range increases for every shard collected. |
| Hotfix 0.4.5.2.1 | 2023-07-05 | Achievements are now active for all Crystal shards, this will help me track progress. More achievements will be available as their content is finished. If you have already collected some shards you just need to enter the game with said character to get the achievements for the shards you have already collected. |
| Beta Patch 0.4.5.2 | 2023-07-03 | Fixed issues causing dialog text not to translate First pass on all MSQ Quests: Now every town has a version of Fey near the respawn crystal for that element MSQ If you already collected shards from areas without a quest chain you will now automatically complete those quests and be on the correct quest for that chain if it was uncompleted. You can take as many or all the MSQ quest chains as you want and in any order. |
| Beta Patch 0.4.5.1.5 (hotfix) | 2023-06-16 | Fixed an issue causing A and D to only turn right Added Mouse sensitivity to the options |
| Beta Patch 0.4.5.1.4 (hotfix) | 2023-06-11 | Removed the elemental resist from weapons, weapons still do type elements damage but are no longer resisted as that elemental type. Updated movement and fixed bugs causing the character to spin around when strafing or the camera shaking while walking backward. Fixed an issue causing crystal shards to be hard to target for collecting Increased basic mana and health regeneration for all races locked input when in dialog Added up or down arrows to quest and death indicators to better indicate target locations added a red circle and delay before the monster tornado spell activates giving you time to move Updated some UI graphic elements Added mor |
| Beta patch 0.4.5.1.3 (hotfix) | 2023-05-31 | You now press E to talk with Fey at the beginning tutorial Monsters can no longer reach the respawn room in the tutorial You no longer take damage for a time after respawning Procedural dungeon area have been updated when digging, will be update further in next few patches. Fixed issue with some players falling through the voxel on spawn Added more respawn crystals around the world, let me know if that helps You can no longer climb on ceilings causing camera issues Fix a sound issues causing sound to cut off |
| Beta patch 0.4.5.1.2 (hotfix) | 2023-05-26 | You can now save the game yourself from the pause menu (all normal auto saving is still in place) Your location will now save, but the first load in may default you to the tutorial cave. All non functioning quests have been removed, current quests have been fixed to display properly Dynamic events now will have a one time popup to explain how to advance them. these have also been fixed so they should progress normally. Some town dialog in autumn has been fix from displaying incorrectly. I'll be trying to finish one crystal quest line (one meaning the 7-12 shard quest chain) for MSQ per week |
| Beta patch 0.4.5.1.1 (hotfix) | 2023-05-24 | Dragon attack should have better frame rates Bow now does double the damage Grass now fades properly when the camera is near Fairy camera now zooms in more Flying races no longer suffer 2x the mana cost when casting spells while flying |
| Beta patch 0.4.5.1 | 2023-05-23 | You can now enable DLSS and Ray tracing for supported graphic cards in the video options (Ray tracing has not been utilized or optimized) Updated world graphics a bit, it may now be too dark in some areas but this will be addressed in a hotfix Crystal archers now do less damage Crystal mages now do less damage and spell duration decreased Decreased mana cost of the polymorph spell Water Globe weaves with chain lightning again Crystal Demi-God is now in beta expect updates this week to the encounter Monster spawn and frame rate should see an improvement More hair has physics Fixed UI saying Shard collected sometimes did not disappear Fixed the |
| Beta patch 0.4.5.01 (hotfix) | 2023-05-07 | Fixed UI saying Shard collected sometimes did not disappear Fixed issue keeping you from moving the camera with a controller Updated hair and eye color can now darken and lighten colors, will add a merchant in future to change hair style and color in game for existing characters. Next hotfix will add the First Demi God at the end of Crystal quest chain |
| Beta patch 0.4.5 | 2023-04-17 | Items now have a tier color as well as an elemental color. Drinking potions now slows your movement speed for each potion drank in a small time frame. Dying will now incur the cost of -20% gold but you can retrieve it from your death location. there is also an indicator for the location making it easier to get back to where you died. New spell Town portal, summon a crystal to teleport you back to the Crystal town, at the town you can use a crystal to return you to your previous location. this makes buying potions or selling items a lot easier. To obtain the town portal interact with the respawn crystal to learn. New INN is located in crystal |
| Dynamic Dialog is now live! | 2023-03-17 | Dynamic dialog (still not fully complete) NPC can now have hearing and vision and have different dialog depending on things like time of day weather season etc. also if the player does something like break a fence next to them or knock over a tree or something. Followers can now tell you about the area they are in, for now, they just know about the crystal islands and the fire islands but have the rest in a coming patch. To talk to any NPC just press F near them. Fire spells now burn tress and monster that die from fireballs will catch on fire The same is true for any spell with different effects depending on the element of the spell Tornado |
| Patch V0.4.4.4 is now live! | 2023-02-16 | I apologize for the long delay I was working on the new dialog system for the NPC it's not finished yet but I didn't want to go too long without an update. I will now return to my regular update schedule Fireball should cause fewer frame drops when cast Monster respawn time has been reduced The monster level scale has been adjusted Updated the Dialog system and non-destructive interaction system, some NPCs vendors may be inactive until the next hotfix Fey Starsong now gives you a quest for each of the Crystal Elemental shards. Started adding the net code for multiplayer, no timeline on when multiplayer will be available |
| Update delay | 2023-01-04 | My family and I have covid so there will be a small delay until the next patch, I apologize for this delay |
| Hotfix V0.4.4.3.3 is now live! | 2022-12-21 | Fixed a bug causing crashes when spell weaving or just fighting large groups of monsters you should be able to go crazy now with no issues let me know |
| Hotfix V0.4.4.3.2 is now live! | 2022-12-20 | Recalibrated enemy levels a bit, please keep informing me on difficultly and include how many shards you have collected. Shrine Guardian now dies properly Second tutorial monster no longer spawns until you get closer and has had it level adjusted Tutorial exit should now be more visible |
| Hotfix V0.4.4.3.1 is now live! | 2022-12-17 | Mining pick should work again Putting points into mana cost will lower the cost instead of raise it Monster difficulty raised a small amount Pirate Airship should no longer vanish when your flying it, but all airships need s few more update before they all work as intended |
| Patch V0.4.4.3 is now live! | 2022-12-16 | Tier 2 gear has been added and is dropped from elites or Boss mobs these offer extra effects like mana regen and health regen for armor and status effects for weapons the rest of the gear tiers are also complete but I wanted to add in one at a time to make sure all the effects are working properly. Adjusted monster levels to be more in line with player levels A new spell Crystal Locator can now be acquired from a shrine in the forgotten ruins next to the crystal shard, this spells creates a small crystal that flys in the direction of the lever for those hard-to-find levers (let me know if this is helpful or overkill) A new spell Crystal Excha |
| Hotfix V0.4.4.2 is now live! | 2022-12-05 | I apologize for the 2 updates in one day Fixed The flying issue that has been affecting some people for awhile, when pressing T to fly it would drop you out of the air after about a second. It should work well now if anyone had this issue could verify that it's fixed on their end I would appreciate it! |
| Hotfix V0.4.4.1 is now live! | 2022-12-05 | Comparing Items in your inventory updated for better visibility. Cape shoulders and pickaxe now display properly Updated some spell descriptions and changed the locked spells icons An issue with some people having issues toggling flying mode is still being worked on |
| Patch V0.4.4 is now live! | 2022-12-04 | Holding shift when flying no makes you fly faster Holding the left CTRL now blocks damage blocked based on the Blocking stat Spells can now be upgraded to level 100 Now only Spell damage gains a bonus from spell power Staffs now shoot homing bolts and the damage is based off spell power Pressing T when falling from large heights now allows you to fly normally Your last character played should now be displayed properly in the character select screen Some new gear looks for females have been added and will change with different chest items, gear for males will be added on the next hotfix Clouds have been added Mana and health potions now give a |
| Hotfix V0.4.3.8.2 is now LIVE! | 2022-11-21 | Fixed bows showing up at the wrong scale or in the wrong locations, bows in your inventory might not show up after the patch but future bows will Changed popup damage to better indicate elemental damage, crits and immune |
| Hotfix V0.4.3.8.1 is now LIVE! | 2022-11-20 | Fixed flying races not being able to cast spells when flying To fast fly now hold shift The Shrine that gives you the resonator spell in the tutorial now appears correctly |