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Warbell v0.18.0

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@miskibin miskibin released this 03 Jul 20:52

Warbell v0.18.0 — The Map Overhaul

A big world-building release. The island was rebuilt from the ground up to have real character
dramatic mountains, roads you can actually follow, a living swamp, and hand-placed landmarks worth
stopping to look at. First-person also grows up into a real combat mode.

New — the island overhaul

  • Bigger, denser island. The map grew ~10% and the extra room went into detail, not empty
    space — the five biomes finally have breathing room around the castle, fortress, and rival town.
  • Real mountains. The rock biome is now a tiered mesa of sheer cliff walls and flat shelves;
    the snow massif has a sharper peak and a walkable coastal ridgeline. Cliffs are genuine walls now
    — you enter the highlands through authored passes and canyons, not by strolling up a gentle slope.
  • A lake waterfall. A river spills off the rock highland cliff into the lake below — a
    far-visible landmark with motion and sound.
  • Roads that read as roads. Routes now have packed-track cores, edged verges, and wheel ruts
    instead of a faint tint you couldn't see. Signposts stand at every junction pointing to named
    destinations, and the roadside is dressed with cairns, wayside shrines, fences, and wrecked carts.
  • A living swamp. Hummock islets with murky standing water between them, dead trees rooted in
    the water, a sunken tower ruin and boat wreck, boardwalk roads on stilts over the bog, drifting
    mist, and night-time wisps and glowing mushrooms.
  • Places worth staring at. Hand-placed set-pieces along the roads at walking intervals — wayside
    shrines, a gallows on the approach to Gnashfang Hold, a burned cabin, a fresh grave, standing
    stones, a ruined watchtower — plus farmland and fences around the towns, smoke columns over camps,
    and framed cliff-edge overlooks composed as vistas.

Combat & camera

  • First-person is now a real combat mode. The sword and shield move naturally — idle breathing,
    a walk-bob, and turn-sway so the weapon no longer feels glued to the screen. Attacks and blocks
    have proper first-person poses instead of a whole-body swing crossing the lens.
  • Melee readability in first-person. Orks now hold at a readable distance instead of pressing
    right up against your eye, and the first-person view is a touch wider so an enemy fills less of
    the frame.
  • Punchier hit feedback. Floating damage numbers read more clearly, and combat impact is
    sharper.
  • Cinematic free-roam camera. A toggleable smoothed free-fly mode for filming and screenshots.

Under the hood

  • Placement now respects roads — camps, chests, and ruins no longer land on top of a route.
  • Villager work reassignment is throttled per tick, smoothing out a busy town.

The Windows installer is self-signed, so SmartScreen will warn "Unknown Publisher" — click
More info → Run anyway. A proper code-signing certificate is on the list.

Full Changelog: v0.17.0...v0.18.0

Full Changelog: v0.17.0...v0.18.0