Teracopia

Draining energy for labor actions such as building, mining and chopping at twenty energy per game hour, so energy is the limit on work, the way health damage is the limit on danger

Making the temporary refill button work in server mode, with the server restoring all five bars to full when the button sends its refill command

Showing on each food item how much food it restores out of one hundred, while the math underneath stays in calories

Keeping the food and water maximums fixed, with no skill governing either bar

Showing the food bar as a whole number out of one hundred, with the true calorie count hidden from the player entirely

Billing healing per point of health restored instead of per hour, at twenty calories, one water, two energy and half a rest per point

Slowing healing to the realistic rate of one health every ten real minutes, a full bar in about forty game hours

Pricing conversion realistically at about forty two calories and one point three water per point of energy restored

Making healing pull from every other bar, and blocking healing entirely while any other bar sits at zero

Making conversion the only thing that drains food and water, with movement and healing costing energy directly and nothing else

Retuning the energy spend table to absolute amounts scaled realistically from walking at ten per hour, walking ten, sneaking thirteen, running twenty four, sprinting thirty seven, wading eight, swimming sixteen, with conversion dropping to ten per hour so walking still nets zero

Adding a temporary on screen button that replenishes all bars to full, for testing

Scaling the energy drain as if the max energy is always ten, so leveling stamina gives more use out of the bar instead of the same duration at a bigger size

Reordering the bars from bottom to top as health, energy, rest, food, water

Renaming the hunger metric to food

Blocking all movement at zero energy, so the player cannot move at all until energy comes back

Stopping conversion entirely while standing at zero rest, so energy and health do not rise and no calories or water are drawn

Running conversion while standing still, so energy refills from food and water while standing, with rest still draining from the conversion

Drawing the white bar readout inside the bar itself, centered, over the top of the bar fill

Giving every bar a white text readout showing only the current value, a slash, and the max value

Keeping healing running while standing still, paid from all the other bars as usual, because standing still only pauses the drains that come from activity

Starting healing on its own whenever health is not full and the requirements for healing are met, with no action needed

Taking health damage when walking with no energy, since walking costs energy and conversion normally restores energy at the rate walking drains it while food and water are present

Restoring health very slowly to mimic real life, with healing taking from all the other bars at once, calories and water and energy and rest

Draining the rest bar through that same conversion while awake, as the body keeps turning food and water into energy

Refilling energy only by converting food and water, taking from both the calorie reserve and the water bar, with no water meaning no conversion and no energy back

Giving npcs the same calorie needs as the player through their routines

Keeping food effects simple, with a well fed reserve keeping health regeneration and a few specific foods carrying a specific bonus, such as a hearty meal raising max energy for a while

Giving each food a real calorie value, with an apple at 95 calories, cooked meat at about 250 and a stew at about 450

Burning calories by activity at real life rates matched to the movement speeds, about 280 calories an hour walking, 800 running, 450 wading and 600 swimming, with a low basal burn while sleeping

Replacing the constant hunger drain with a calorie reserve under the hunger bar, a full bar holding about 2500 calories

Adding a calorie system that manages food and hunger by real calories

Removing entity elevation shading entirely, so entities draw plain with no elevation shading of any kind, and removing the entity shading toggle from the debug menu with it, leaving terrain shading untouched

Replacing the sun skew with elevation shading that changes with the time of day, so the shading rakes across the terrain following the sun position and mimics the sun shadow

Shading entities with a vertical gradient, whiter toward the top of a tall entity by the same step per level of height, baked into the pre tinted copies so it stays light

Removing the elevation blur shading completely, including its debug menu toggle

Skewing the terrain shading by the sun position for the time of day, so slopes facing the sun lighten and slopes facing away darken, promoting shadows from hills inside the existing shading

Fixing the frame rate cost of entity elevation shading by judging it in whole level steps and using pre tinted sprite copies per step instead of tinting on a scratch canvas every frame

Rounding the ends of cliff faces while keeping them connecting cleanly to neighboring cliff faces

Softening the elevation shading, so higher land is slightly less white and lower land is slightly less black

Smoothing the speed change when walking uphill and downhill, so the pace eases instead of jumping tile by tile

Applying the elevation shading effects to entities as well, so an entity takes the shading of the elevation it stands on

Slowing entities down when traveling up elevation and speeding them up when traveling down, with the energy burn rate unchanged by the elevation

Depicting steep elevation change as a natural rock cliff and downward slope instead of boxy strips

Blending the tiles that signify steep elevation change better with the tiles around them, so the change reads as a dropoff

Eliminating direct tile drawing entirely, so the terrain cache is the only way tiles are drawn and the tint can never step between two drawing paths

Drawing a special cliff face along any tile edge where the height changes by more than one level, so a blocked crossing can be seen

Making the surface elevation steeper so neighboring tiles can differ by more than one level of height

Keeping every cave entrance reachable on foot, with an approach of steps of one level or less

Applying the elevation shading only in the webgl renderer and leaving the 2d fallback renderer without it

Blocking players and every non flying entity from crossing an elevation change of more than one level, with flying entities exempt

Giving every surface tile an elevation level from generation, with no cliff tiles

Shading every tile against the elevation of the tile the player stands on, with the same level normal and lower levels darker and higher levels lighter

Stepping the brightness once per level of difference with no cap, so lower tiles keep getting darker and higher tiles keep getting lighter the further their level sits from the level the player stands on

Easing the reference elevation when the player changes level so the world shifts its shading smoothly instead of popping

Setting the human walking speed to two tiles per second as the base game speed for bipedals of a characters size, with human npcs using the same speeds as the player

Setting the other human speeds in relation to the two tiles per second walk for a healthy in shape adult, sneaking at zero point nine, running at four point seven, sprinting at eight point three, wading at zero point eight, swimming at one point three and crawling at zero point five five

Setting the human speeds to thomas own estimated speeds as a fit trained runner, walking at one point eight tiles per second, sneaking at zero point eight, running at four point two, sprinting at seven point five, wading at zero point seven and swimming at one point two

Adding sprinting as a new travel speed alongside walking and running and sneaking

Raising the human walking speed by zero point five tiles per second, from one point four to one point nine tiles per second

Making energy drain match real life exertion for each activity, with a full energy bar lasting about an hour of walking, fifteen minutes of running, fifteen minutes of wading, ten minutes of swimming and ten minutes of crawling, and resting refilling the bar in about ten minutes

Setting swimming to one tile per second as its own speed

Setting wading through waist high shallow water to zero point seven tiles per second as its own speed, with walking as the only way to move in shallow water and swimming as the only way to move in deep water

Setting crawling to zero point five tiles per second as its own speed

Setting gnome walking to zero point seven five tiles per second and gnome running to one point nine tiles per second

Setting bird flight to ten tiles per second

Setting owl walking to zero point three tiles per second and owl flight to eleven tiles per second

Setting fox walking to one point eight tiles per second and fox running to seven tiles per second

Setting rabbit walking to zero point seven tiles per second and rabbit running to seven tiles per second

Setting deer walking to one point five tiles per second and deer running to nine tiles per second

Setting human walking to one point four tiles per second and human running to three point five tiles per second

Setting every speed as its own tiles per second value taken from real life for what the entity is, with no speed defined as a multiple of another speed

Matched energy regen to the walking drain

Set running at one and a half times walking with double energy drain

Gave every mobile entity walking and running speeds

Removing the refresh pacing toggle from the debug menu, with refresh pacing always on

Stamping the movement smoothing clock from when each tick falls due instead of when the tick finishes, with a debug readout of per frame movement

Adding a starvation failsafe that hands out generation jobs at the minimum budget once the queue has waited three seconds with the band off, starting with the player's own chunks

Defaulting the refresh pacing mode on for every device, with a manual toggle choice still winning

Now makes player input and player pathfinding unrestricted, processed first every tick with no band and no budget queue

Arming the next frame of the main loop no matter how the pass ends and writing the first caught error with its context into the debug menu

Adding a debug menu toggle that switches the refresh rate pacing mode on and off so the old and new timing can be compared

Making the frame pacer carry leftover time forward so the rendered rate averages the selected cap on any screen refresh rate

Making the dispatcher band sampler measure the screens true refresh rate instead of only the frames that get drawn

Setting the dispatcher band relative to the fps cap, start one below the cap and stop two below it, so 59 start and 58 stop at 60 fps, 29 and 28 at 30, 19 and 18 at 20

Now charges the entity list rebuild into the same tick

Removed the 192 step search ceiling

Now tracks the dispatcher band from the fps cap with manual debug values winning over the cap

Now gives shade and fog the last claim

Now gives cache painting fourth claim

Now gives the rest of the generation queue third claim

Now gives the nine chunks around the player second claim

Now gives pathfinding first claim

Now charges pathfinding and chunk generation and cache painting and shade and fog against one shared clock pool

Added a jobs block with running and queued and completed counts and an fps hold indicator

Now runs logic at ten hertz from an accumulator inside one frame loop

Now slices chunk jobs into sixteen terrain rows then sixteen placement rows

Removing the thick dark band inside the mini menu, so the menu entries run right up to the thin gold border with nothing in between

Removing the connected to the server message, so the game never shows it at all

Extending the t image on the teracopia panel, the image that opens the settings, downward so its bottom edge hits the bottom of the panel and the bottom of the health bar exactly

Closing the mini menu when one of its items is selected, with the closing timed to land after the selection registers so the click is never voided

Streamlining every menu in the game

Correcting the top teracopia panel outline to match the drawn version, with no golden border across the top at all, the border running down the sides and under the bottom only, no bordered wings beside the main menu tab, and the bottom lobe hugging a smaller main menu button

Giving the top teracopia panel a golden border that traces the whole panel including the tab curve at its bottom

Curving the bottom of the top teracopia panel down around the main menu button spot, with the button filling that spot and carrying no circle border

Adding a debug menu toggle for entity shading

Making the settings button a rectangle that functions as the tab for the top teracopia panel, instead of a circle

Adding a debug menu toggle for elevation shading and a debug menu toggle for sun angle shading

Making the settings button itself the tab for the top teracopia panel, taking the shape of the tab and bubbling out to include the existing t image

Making the hud buttons slightly smaller, except the main menu button

Giving the mini menu thin golden borders with the same ninety percent fill opacity as the other panels

Adding a restart button to the main menu that restarts the game and wipes all saved game data

Showing a confirmation message before the restart goes ahead, stating that the player will lose all their data if they do it

Adding snap points to the top teracopia panel so the player can stop it per bar shown as it slides

Showing the tile name in the tool tip when hovering over a tile, with the height difference shown as well when the tile is a cliff tile

Removing the tapped entity name plate staying up on touch as well, so it goes away instead of lasting until another tap replaces it

Fixing the entity tool tip staying on screen after hovering over the entity stops, when it is supposed to go away

Flashing the perimeter of the clicked tile when the mini menu opens on it, with the same flashing effect a destination tile gets

Making tooltip text bold with no box and no border around it

Coloring tooltip text as the inverse of the color under it, so it always shows at maximum contrast against its background

Making every shown pixel of the tool tip reactive, each pixel colored against the exact spot under it rather than one sampled color for the whole tool tip

Making log out disappear the player with a poof cloud animation

Fading to total black over five seconds with input locked after the poof, then lifting the black slowly over five seconds once the title menu loads, with input unblocked at the end

Making the hud buttons larger

Removing the background box behind the movement buttons

Extending the top teracopia panel straight up to the top of the screen with no border at the top

Making the main menu button in the pull tab twice as large

Removing the slide panels for now while keeping their mechanics on record to restore later

Putting game features and debug menu buttons on the main menu, opening their own menus from there, with no slide panels for them

Opening skills and inventory as their own menus from their hud buttons, with no slide panels for skills or inventory

Placing the bottom hud buttons with the map button at ten percent, skills at thirty percent, inventory at seventy percent and feedback at ninety percent

Putting the main menu button in the pull tab of the top teracopia panel

Keeping drags and clicks on the pull tab from triggering the mini menu, so only a stationary long press on it opens the mini menu

Organizing the mini menu entries with the entity options always at the top, then the travel option under them

Renaming set destination in the mini menu to name the selected travel mode, reading walk here in walk mode and sneak here in sneak mode

Fixing the mini menu opening position so its top left corner matches the spot that was right clicked or long pressed

Opening the mini menu only on a long press or a right click, so a plain click on a hud button never opens it

Giving every panel a solid navy blue background that is only ten percent transparent

Adding a thin tab across the bottom of the teracopia panel at the top of the screen that lets the panel be slid up and hidden

Snapping the top teracopia panel gently to fully open or fully closed when it is released decently close to either position

Renaming the settings menu to main menu

Making the main menu hold only buttons, including a log out button

Changing which side a menu is on by right clicking the menu tab

Removing the peeking state so a slide panel is only closed or open

Keeping one slide panel on the left of the screen and one on the right

Swapping the spots of the map button and the feedback button in the bottom hud row so the map button sits at seventy percent and the feedback button at ninety percent

Adding the options for an entity to the mini menu when that entity is right clicked or long pressed

Using one type of mini menu with its contents determined by what is long pressed or right clicked

Keeping slide panel snap points at closed and peeking and open with no resting position between them

Keeping slide panel tabs stacked together on each side of the screen

Letting slide panel tabs be rearranged vertically with the rest of the stack following close behind when one is moved far up or down

Expanding every slide panel tab together when any slide panel expands

Making the tab of the slide panel being viewed glow like an active hud button

Switching a slide panel to the other side of the screen only once the finger dragging it is at least seventy percent of the way across the screen toward that side

Giving every slide panel three states, closed and peeking and open, with a swipe or touch on a closed panel bringing it to peeking

Making the debug menu slide panel behave the same as the other slide panels

Making the feedback button fully functional inside the client, so a player writes a message in the game and hits send and the message is stored on the server

Letting slide panels be dragged from the panel itself and not only from the tab

Now makes the three lines in the slide panel tab icon uniform in length and thickness and spacing

Now starts every slide panel tab at the center right side of the screen, stacked so no tab sits on top of another

Now bases the decision to move a slide panel to the other side of the screen on the finger position instead of the position of the tab

Now makes every slide panel tab the same size with the same text size and the text centered in the tab

Split volume into music, bird calls, footsteps and other effects sliders

Drawing a slide panel that is not closed over the tabs of all other slide panels it happens to cover

Moving the inventory button out of the misc settings and converting inventory into a slide panel

Anchoring the mini menu by its top left corner at the mouse pointer position, the same position used to line up the tooltip, when right clicking or long pressing to open it

Fixing the debug menu speed reading to include the elevation pace, so it shows the actual speed on slopes instead of the flat ground base speed

Coloring the fps hold indicator red in the debug menu

Keeping the debug menu title in place while the rest of the debug menu scrolls under it

Removing the mode active text from the debug menu

Replacing the arrow in slide panel tab names with a three line icon placed before the name on right side panels and after the name on left side panels

Letting slide panels be dragged all the way across the screen

Extending the slide panels down to just above the top of the hud buttons

Showing the detected screen refresh rate in the debug menu

Increasing how often the fps readout in the debug menu refreshes without costing performance

Capitalizing the words Live and In Progress in the game features slide panel key

Removing the planned section and the planned key entry from the game features slide panel

Shifting a slide menu tab out of the way vertically when a dragged tab runs into it and shifting it back to its original position once that position is free again

Keeping the menu in place while its tab moves vertically unless the tab would travel above or below the menu, where the menu moves with the tab

Letting a slide menu tab be dragged vertically to reposition it while the menu is open as well as while it is closed

Spacing the arrow of each feature drop down in the game features panel one character space from the feature title

Keeping a slide menu tab at the vertical position it is dragged to while the menu is closed when the menu opens and closes

Making each feature in the game features panel a drop down with an arrow at its right that toggles the reveal of its bullets, keeping the legend at the top of the panel and making the bullets of each feature scrollable when expanded

Renaming the debug slide panel and its tab to the debug menu

Hiding both slide menus while the title screen is showing and keeping them inactive until the game starts

Renaming the panel and its tab to game features

Gaining the closed tab repositioning and the tab based closing through the shared slide panel controller

Now bakes a fresh board snapshot into every publish

Now shows the key legend above the board

Now scrolls the features board inside the panel

Now keeps the panel at half the screen width and three quarters of the screen height at most

Added a left side pull tab labeled game features that mirrors the debug menu mechanics

Closing the panel when the tab sits close to the screen edge

Judging whether a gesture closes the panel by the position of the tab

Dragging the tab up and down the screen edge while the panel is closed to reposition the tab along the menu without opening the panel

Now drags the panel with a drag on the menu body itself just like holding the tab

Now closes the panel on a tab tap from any partial or full open position

Now opens the panel fully on a tab tap while it sits fully closed

Now snaps the panel closed when the tab is dragged into the strip just left of the right screen edge

Now sleeps only while the panel sits totally closed

The debug menu now stays at whatever partial pull position it is released at

Fixed the sign error in the release math that made closing unreachable

Dragged the debug menu tab rightward past the threshold and snapped the panel closed

Now cycles option lists and clamps numeric values with the steppers

Replaced every dropdown and text field with arrow steppers

Now sets world time and pixels per tile from the panel with live rebakes

Now reads out the mouse tile and the target tile

Now lists sounds currently playing

Now marks chunk loads and unloads on the graph

Now shows a real time fps graph that samples only while the panel is open

Grew the panel so the last row never clips

Centered every row

Wrapped long text instead of clipping

Fixed the panel box so live values never resize it

Now caps the panel at half the screen width and three quarters of the height

Now runs the panel only while open

Now slides panel and tab as one unit

Attached a labeled pull tab at the top right corner

Removed every button that opened debug

Added a feedback panel that reports honestly while no webhook is connected

Floated five separate orbs across the bottom with run, a placeholder, settings at center, feedback and the world map at the far right

Removed the settings orb fan out

Kept the chat system, its messages and its start messages in place

Hid the chat box with a display rule only

Added a typable input row at the bottom of the chat box with keypad dismissal on enter or outside tap

Combined the layout buttons into one reset ui button

Now toggles settings with escape

Completed the vine wrapped tee artwork on the settings button and centered the finished letterform

Moved the hud action buttons behind the settings menu

Now holds hud scale and master mute and music and effects volumes

Combined settings into display and audio and misc sections

Now opens settings from the center bottom orb

Settled every panel on flat solid navy

Removed the gold flake trim and the molten gold trim and the mosaic trim

Laid out the hud with fps at top left and metrics at top right and chat at bottom left and a circular menu at bottom center

Restyled menus and panels and nameplates in deep navy

Now reveals names on touch

Baked a permanent name label above every entity

Now labels the first hundred tiles world spawn in the status panel

Now leaves routes and route displays untouched when the menu opens

Now keeps the menu open after a click on desktop

Now dismisses the menu on touch drag or when the mouse leaves it

Now anchors the menu at the trigger point on every device

Now searches for the nearest walkable tile on blocked taps

Put set destination first

Now opens a mini menu on tap or right click for tiles and entities

Now animates the edit mode dashed borders clockwise

Now keeps the top panel pinned at top center

Now unlocks panel moving and resizing with the edit mode toggle

Now locks every panel in place while ui edit mode is off

Sized panels and nameplates for touch

Now stores a per panel scale for the session

Added draggable hud panels with pinch and wheel and button resizing

Keeping the border switching menu in place for the border sets that will be added later

Removing every vine border set except the realistic set so the realistic vines are the only ones that exist

Adding five more vine border sets, each one a different variation of the vines in the teracopia logo

Making the realistic set the vine border style selected on startup

Adding a new vine border set based on the realistic set with whole crystals added to mimic the vines in the teracopia logo

Removing every vine border set except the realistic set and the pixel set

Now adds a realistic + crystal border style that keeps the realistic vines and draws the crystals as blue quartz crystal clusters like in the teracopia logo picture instead of the blue lines the realistic style draws now

Making the original hd vines match the realistic vines, keeping the flowers more visible and the crystals drawn as full crystal clusters, and drawing them at full detail like the realistic vine instead of limiting them to 5px

Adding a fourth border style named original hd to the title screen toggle that copies the original pixel version with only two changes, the flowers more visible and the crystals drawn as full crystal clusters like in the teracopia picture

Making the new border style the one selected on startup

Adding a third border style to the title screen toggle, a realistic vine taken from the teracopia logo itself, with dense intertwining stems and spiral tendrils and layered leaves and clustered violet flowers and large crystal clusters and gold motes

Adding a realistic version of every vine border, the title screen and the world map and the settings button and the bottom hud buttons, drawn smooth instead of on the pixel grid

Adding a single toggle on the title screen that switches every vine border between the realistic version and the current pixel version

Now keeps gameplay full bleed with no world perimeter border

Put borders on the title screen and the world map and the settings button

Gave title buttons transparent backgrounds

Cut every frame edge organic with no straight lines

Rendered motifs solid with the game showing through the gaps

Kept the background black with no motes and no outer foliage

Anchored the vine with faceted icy cyan crystal clusters

Scattered small five petal violet flowers along the vine

Drew every themed border from the pixel art reference with a thin continuous leafy green vine

Adding rate limiting and input hardening to the server, so floods of joins or inputs from one source get throttled instead of overwhelming the world

Compressing the game file in transfer and sending cache headers keyed to the build hash, so a returning player reuses the downloaded copy and only downloads again when a new build ships, with brotli compression switching on as soon as the game is served over https

Splitting the music and pictures out of the single game file into separate files with their own caching, so they stay on the player device across updates and most builds only send the code file

Sending delta state updates, so the server sends each player only what changed since the last state packet instead of the full nearby state every tick, with the packets staying readable text

Splitting the world simulation into its own process, separate from networking, so a heavy world cannot stall the connection handling

Titling the server strain meter server strain

Showing detailed but simplified latency information under the server strain meter for the player

Adding a server strain meter at the top left of the client screen, fed by the server tick time carried inside the state packets the server already sends

Stopping the local simulation from moving entities the server controls in server mode

Buffering the server snapshots and rendering entities interpolated between them at a small fixed delay, so uneven packet timing no longer doubles or steps their movement

Sending the route from the server to the client so the pathfinding line draws in server mode

Moving the game world onto the server so it runs around the clock on the vps and keeps simulating while nobody is playing

Turning the game page into a thin client that connects to the world server and draws the world the server sends it

Keeping every save on the server instead of in the browser

Sending player input to the server as commands through the controller, the same doorway npcs use for their routine input

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