Devlog #11 July 2025 — Gathering, Crafting & Fluidity

🌿 Devlog July 2025 — Gathering, Crafting & Fluidity

This month, Wildborn has evolved significantly in terms of feel and interaction.

🧭 Movement and Comfort

Player movement is now more responsive: running activates instantly, and you can cancel a movement mid-way to return to the previous tile.
The camera has been stabilized, making exploration smoother and more pleasant.

🪓 Gathering and Tools

Some resources now require actual work time. A progress bar appears during actions such as cutting branches.
Trees can be harvested with the right tools — for example, a flint axe can be used to cut oak branches.

🌿 New Resources and Crafts

Added nettles, which can be gathered in the wild, and plant fibers crafted from them.
These are used to create the flint axe, an essential early-game tool.

🌊 World and Interface

The player now gets wet when entering water and dries off depending on weather conditions.
Rivers vary in width and frequency based on humidity.
A new visual effect appears when the player is sufficiently immersed, making the feeling of being underwater more tangible.
A crafting interface has been added, and construction and inventory menus have been made clearer and larger.
A placement ghost now turns red when a building can’t be placed on a tile.

🎧 Atmosphere

The first footstep sounds have been added — they change depending on the player’s speed but still need to adapt to terrain.
The character’s appearance also adapts to their state, for example when swimming.

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