2026-10-24 · Studio progress

Studio progress, October 24

Reign of Valtherin: fishing can land a fish again, the Woods generator runs faster, and four new creatures moved from concept to first preview.

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REIGN OF VALTHERIN Lead game

  • Nobody could land a fish: casting set the active fishing spot, then dropping the bobber cleared it again, so the reel prompt never appeared. The bobber now spawns without clearing the spot, and a new test covers it.
  • Two loops in the automated playthrough were fixed and proven in a fresh run with 0 errors and 0 crashes: a shield step that repeated 32 times now runs once, and a Woods camp step that used to stall finishes in 11 seconds.
  • The Woods layout generator is faster with identical output: measured outside the engine, the average fell from 110 to 130 ms to 52 ms, the worst seeds from 1.2 to 1.9 s to 203 to 349 ms, and 700 seeds still build the same layouts.
  • Four new creature designs were approved as concepts and given first preview bakes. All four read as their creature, but came out lighter and flatter than the painted concepts, so none of them is in the game yet.