Happy July! It's been scorching hot this month but this update is hot with lots of little fixes and tweaks. Like I've mentioned before, my goals for R&R going forward are finalizing a few systems, adding treasures, filling in missing dialogue and lots of bug fixes and playtesting. These past few weeks I've completed a full playthrough of Realms & Ruins: Abencor from start to finish. I took notes, squashed bugs, tweaked things and made dozens of small improvements across the game. It's starting to feel like a more complete experience but there's still some work to be done. Here's a list of all the things I've done:

•  Added dialogue to all the NPC's in Mandora, including guards. 
•  Some minor quests have been added to Mandora area
•  Refactored a main quest script on how the player receives a quest item to avoid conflicts if the player has a full inventory
•  Removed debug text from bandage ability
•  Added log message when using bandage ability
•  Added a rounding function to the bandage ability
•  Modified an animation on an NPC in Ivywood to look less stiff
•  Added a check to prevent issues entering the catacombs cave from the back side
•  Added a check to prevent the player from accidentally leaving the catacombs cave without getting a quest item
•  Added some missing door sounds to doors in the catacombs
•  Ivywood shop was missing a purchase button for torch
•  Corrected listed price for torch in Ivywood shop
•  Corrected list price for arrows across all shop UI's
•  Added sound effect when selling
•  Reported an engine bug causing spawns to not be hostile
•  Reported an engine bug causing put_entity function to cause entities to not be hostile or move 
•  Replaced some invisible walls with objects 
•  Made some erroneously wandering guards stationary.
•  Added a walking animation to a gray elf model that didn't have one
•  Fixed a transition in Mandora that placed the player on the wrong tile
•  Removed some unused navigation paths in Mandora
•  Added a missing ceiling to the Mandora Throne Room
•  Added a missing wall block near the Orcish Blacksmith
•  Added a log message when stepping in acid
•  Adjusted the stats of the "Dune Crusher" weapon to make it actually worth buying
•  Adjusted the lantern quest item to be looted from a container rather than an enemy, to avoid full inventory conflicts
•  Adjusted the Dredgemoth quest item to be looted from a container rather than an enemy, to avoid full inventory conflicts
•  Added appropriate enemy behavior to the Flaming Skeletons in the Sandstorm Temple event
•  Added a sound effect to doors in the Sandstorm Temple
•  Added a sound effect to the boss door unlocking in the Sandstorm Temple
•  Adjusted loot drop rate on enemies in the Dune Tunnels
•  Adjusted some dialogue from the Ogres in the Orc dungeons to make more sense with what is occurring
•  Fixed a transition to the mandora Bank where the playing was facing the wrong way upon entering
•  Removed a duplicate switch in Bastion of the Prism
•  Added some missing ceiling tiles in Bastion of the Prism
•  Fixed a missing navigation tile in Bastion of the Prism
•  Added a missing skybox to the Chasm and Bastion of the Prism outside maps
•  Adjusted fog color in the above to fit better with the newly added skybox 
•  Added a check to various dungeons to prevent player from entering the boss room if they are not at the appropriate place in the main quest to prevent story continuity issues
•  Added tags to many tiles to appropriately play step sounds. 
•  Changed some interactive doors in the Chasm/Orc camp to prevent the player/camera from turning in confusing ways
•  Added a sign to storage/bank buildings 
•  Added bank + appropriate scripting to the underwater city
•  Chickens now cluck
•  Cows now moo
•  Camels now....make whatever noises camels make
•  Adjusted spawn rates to make Ivywood forest less crowded
•  Added tags to all enemies in the game, categorizing them in ways that allow resistances and weaknesses.
•  Changed the reward for the Dredgemoth quest to be a unique weapon rather than a mundane sword
•  Wrote the script for special properties of the Dune Crusher weapon
•  Wrote the script for special properties of the Beastthorn weapon 
•  Fixed some broken navigation in the Sandstorm Sanctum
•  Changed some interactive doors in the Sandstorm Sanctum to prevent the player/camera from turning in confusing ways
•  Added some environmental props to Sandstorm Sanctum to account for new navigation
•  Fixed offset placement of 2 doors in Sandstorm Sanctum
•  Added music to the Dune Tunnels dungeon
•  Fixed a transition issue where the player would face the wrong direction going from the sea to the Culceth Port
•  Added a navigation POI/Landmarks to make it easier to navigate the open sea (eg a nearby port being seen on the horizon) 
•  Added a check to merchant sell scripts to prevent players from selling quest items that cannot be replaced
•  The script for slimes splitting on death has been fixed to account for areas where a slime couldn't split (walls, null space etc)
•  Fixed behavior of splitting slimes to be appropriately aggressive
•  Fixed a transition issue both to and from the Sea to the Kelp Forest. Added new effect to be a better indicator for transition points to each side 
•  Fixed a transition where there was no way to actually get to the Ship Graveyard
•  Fixed a transition in the Ship Graveyard which was erroneously going to the Kelp Forest instead of the Coral Cave
•  Fixed a transition to and from the sunken galleon dungeon
•  Made some non-combat NPC's in the sunken galleon passable to avoid the player getting stuck if the NPC moves in a compromising osition
•  Fixed a typo in a transition from the Abyss which was throwing an error on map load
•  Made the jellyfish, ocean fish and lionfish billboard sprites to be congruent with other creatures
•  Fixed an animation for the jellyfish that got stuck in a loop when attacking
•  Added a heal, bind and level up point to the underwater city
•  Fixed broken transitions into and out of the Auga Royal Chamber
•  Updated death/respawn script to account for Auga respawn point
•  Corrected the bg music in the Auga Royal Chamber
•  Corrected gold price display on Auga Merchant
•  Added a roof to the sunken galleon dungeon
•  Reduced the size of some oversized characters
•  Added a light source to a set piece in Auga
•  Corrected an incorrect offset to a prop in Auga which was causing some zfighting 
•   Fixed some erroneous sounds playing in the frost cave on certain tiles, a relic of migration from a previous build
•  Fixed a missing sound file for the frost cave beast, a relic of migration from a previous build

Phew! That's a lot. I think I'm on a good path to be done by my hopeful release timeline of later this year. There's still more work to do, but I'll keep grinding away.

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