New Systems
Equipment Enhancement
Use Beast Ethers to upgrade your gear quality from Normal → Refined → Special → Beast. Each tier boosts your weapon and armor stats. Beast quality triples your equipment's base stats!
Gem Sockets
Beast Ether Enhancement attempts have a rare chance to add a gem socket to your item (max 2 sockets per item)
Beast Ether Drop
Every NPC in the game has a rare chance (0.5%) to drop a Beast Ether. When one drops, all players on the server are notified
Casino & Slot Machines
Visit the new Casino map! Play slot machines with spinning reels, progressive jackpots that grow with every spin, and spectator mode so you can watch others play
Water Prison Technique
Trap enemies in a sphere of water. Larger sphere for boss-sized enemies**
Rock Fist Technique
Erupt a stone fist from the ground that launches enemies into the air
Lightning Palm Technique
Toggle-based technique hand-anchored VFX and a devastating dash-attack on melee hit
Equipment Aura FX
Beast quality weapons glow with a fiery aura visible to all players
Events System
Tournament/event system with phases, scoring, and rewards (early version)
Combat & Gameplay
Other changes:
Elemental damage system (Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, Lightning) Boss AI improvements dodges, repositions, uses jutsu strategically, no longer freezes in mid-air during attacks Body Substitution buff now displays visually Severing Wave looping sound effect New players spawn with a Wooden Torch Death ghost orb appears at death location Inventory, Techniques, and Controls panels are now mutually exclusive opening one closes the others Item throw preview shows when dragging items outside inventory "Jump" label added to controls help screen Casino has camera bounds -v camera stays inside the building Music caching - no re-fetching when returning to a map Equipment tooltips show quality-scaled stats with base value comparison Progressive jackpot display on slot machines with live updates across all machines New Casino interior map with safe zone Bound Camera option for interior mapsFixes
Fixed rock fist prediction snaps and air-stuck bugs Fixed players getting stuck in water prison after minimizing the game Fixed NPC Y-stacking on respawn Fixed equipment lights flickering on equip/unequip Fixed duplicate texture/sprite loading across FX systems Fixed fish visibility through water Fixed death respawn on neighbor tiles Fixed slot machine session not clearing on disconnect Fixed prop visibility disappearing when re-entering maps Fixed placed lights persisting into wrong mapsVersion 0.4.0 is now live