v0.3.2

What’s Changed

Improvements and bug fixes to things added in v0.3.0.

🚀 Features and Improvements

• player can now change maps when standing on map exit locations by pressing 'm'

🐛 Bug Fixes

• graphical glitch showing caret after window resize resolved by dependency update

🧰 Maintenance

• updated dependencies

Full Changelog: v0.3.1...v0.3.2

v0.3.1

What’s Changed

Improvements and bug fixes to things added in v0.3.0.

🚀 Features and Improvements

• server now backs up the world every 60 seconds
• server will try to load from backup on start, else create a new world
• player can now choose which item to drop
• player can now choose which stats to increase on level up
• added messages for picking up and dropping items
• monster collision checking with other monsters now exists
• improved monster movement, wandering, and return to spawn behaviour
• monsters now change target if attacked
• entities can now be attacked by multiple entities in the same tick
• system messages now have colours
• health regen now only applies when out of combat

🐛 Bug Fixes

• don't send drop item request to server if player inventory empty
• don't send pickup item request to server if nothing to pickup
• prevent entities from occupying the same tile by accident
• stop monsters from following disconnected players
• fix players not disappearing when disconnecting
• combat can no longer occur after player has moved away from target
• fix potential server crash when calculating loop sleep duration
• client map download now via tcp to avoid issues with large data over unreliable connections on udp

🧰 Maintenance

• updated dependencies
• code tidying and more sensible module names
• server tick ecs systems streamlined for efficiency
• collision detection more efficient
• ecs systems and various iterators now run multithreaded where possible
• converted all nested vecs to ndimensional arrays for better performance

Full Changelog: v0.3.0...v0.3.1

v0.3.0

What’s Changed

The combat, stats, levelling, and inventory update!

🚀 Features and Improvements

• PvE combat with monsters
• PvP combat with players
• player stats now actually used:
  • str increases damage
  • dex increases accuracy
  • con increases health and regen rate
• player sidebar now displays and updates values in realtime
• death and respawning for players and monsters
• exp gain, levelling up, and stat gains
• inventory system
  • picking up items
  • dropping items
• default weapons and armour (used in combat calculations)
• system messages and combat notifications displayed in bottom of client window
• look command changed to L key
• client window can now be dynamically resized
• a slightly larger default map with more variety

🐛 Bug Fixes

• gracefully logout without causing server errors (only if you use ctrl-q)
• look command now displays monster name correctly
• look command now shows underneath items in all situations
• no longer crashes when player enters top row of map

🧰 Maintenance

• clippy::cargo and clippy::pedantic warnings resolved
• network code efficiency improved (no more MaxPacketSize issues)
• CHANGELOG.md added
• dependencies updated
• link time optimisations enabled for release build
• a lot of code refactoring and tidying

Full Changelog: v0.2.2...v0.3.0

v0.2.2

What’s Changed

🚀 Features and Improvements

• feat: enable large map data (#74)

🧰 Maintenance

• chore: update dependencies (#74)
• chore: refactoring and tidying of messaging code (#74)

Full Changelog: v0.2.1...v0.2.2

v0.2.1

What’s Changed

🧰 Maintenance

• chore: updated dependencies
• chore: updated edition to 2021

v0.2.0

What’s Changed

🚀 Features and Improvements

• feat: initial implementation of monsters (#14)
• feat: ability to load monsters and spawns from .json assets (#14)
• feat: player and monster stats (#14)
• feat: stat window and map location display (#14)
• feat: implemented look command (#14)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• fix: fixed bug with logged out player being collidable (#14)

🧰 Maintenance

• chore: updated dependencies (#14)
• chore: updated logo (#14)

v0.1.1

What’s Changed

🚀 Features and Improvements

• feat: support multiple players (#9)
• feat: connectivity improvements (#11)
• feat: added --debug logging switch (#11)
• feat: implement player rejoin & check if player exists (#12)
• feat: bind to 0.0.0.0 by default for simplicity (#12)
• feat: implemented collisions between player entities (#13)
• feat: added DisplayDetails to entity updates (#13)

🧰 Maintenance

• chore: better exception handling (#9)
• chore: updated some dependencies (#9)
• chore: refactored method locations into appropriate modules (#13)
• chore: limited pub methods to pub(crate) (#13)

v0.1.0

What’s Changed

🚀 Features and Improvements

• feat: implemented client/server (#8)

v0.1.0-alpha.3

feat: use release-drafter.yml

v0.1.0-alpha.2

feat: add the ability to load a map from a file (#3)

* feat: add the ability to load a map from a file