Development Update #18

Posted 2022-05-06 04:23:46 (edited)

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Thank you all for your patience with our short maintenance earlier today!

Hunting Changes

We are continuing some of the quality changes that began with feeding & caring today with some hunting updates!

Hunting can now be performed in any biome. If you live in a more challenging biome you may want to send your hunters to an easier biome where they might have more luck with food.

In addition to this change, you can now send out more than one hunting party at a time; up to four at any one time. This is dependent on a couple of things - your territory size, and the time you have. Your territory size defines how many hunting parties you can send out at once:

1-24: 1 hunting party
25-49: 2 hunting parties
50-74: 3 hunting parties
75+: 4 hunting parties

The time restriction is in place for all hunts, not just additional hunts. If you send your hunting party out in your home biome, then everything will feel the same as before. Beyond that, each border of land that your hunting party has to cross incurs a +15min time penalty on top of the time it takes to hunt.

For instance, if you are based in the Grasslands and want to send your wolves to the Taiga, it will take them an additional 30 minutes, increasing their total hunting time to 1 hour.

Plus Some Small Hunting Tweaks

Failed hunts now have a 33% chance for your wolves to bring a critter carcass back as a consolation prize. Additionally, the seasonal debuffs in harder biomes have been lowered to not feel quite as punishing!

Retirement

To go along with these hunting changes, we have taken into consideration the fact that when your lead wolf retires, your scouted biomes are fully reset. We have adjusted this so that two of your scouted biomes remain: those closest to your borders.

If you are in a biome with more than two scouted border biomes, it will pick randomly from the available biomes. If you are in the Glacier or Rainforest, it will pick the two closest biomes regardless of those places only having one bordering biome.

Anyone that retired before the news post and maintenance today, or yesterday (5th May) has had two neighbouring biomes unlocked, providing they had them scouted out before. If those biomes had scouts sent out already they have been adjusted to fully unlock when the scout finishes.

New Base!

Badger enemies can drop a recipe to craft a new base applicator: Base Applicator [Badger]!

This new base is a Muted Medium Tier III base. This is a base that can be bred without the applicator, just like the Fox base. It can appear during general Tier III breedings!

Base Applicator [Badger]
3x Remnant: Badger Pelt
20x Remnant: Bone
1x Remnant: Badger Skull
15x Mustelid Claws
15x Mustelid Fangs

New Markings!

Sallander is a new NBW exclusive marking you can find only on game-generated wolves whilst exploring!

Sallander comes in the following colours.
- Black
- Beige
- Cream
- Dark Brown
- Gray
- Yellow
- White

It also comes in a few combo marking colours!
- Ducat
- Silver
- Sterling
- Tuff
- Zircon

Cougar is a new raffle marking that you can only find on weekly raffle studs!

Cougar comes in the following colours.
- Black
- Brown
- Henna
- Honey
- Red

It also comes in a few combo marking colours!
- Auburn
- Dinar

As a reminder, brand new raffle markings released on raffle studs cannot be applied using Random Marking Applicators or Total Shuffles until the raffle stud is drawn and players are able to start redeeming their breedings with him. We will be sure to mention when a certain marking can start being applied! None of the new Cougar markings can be applied through Random Marking Applicators or Total Shuffles currently.

Official Wolvden Raffle!

Our latest weekly raffle is out! Each person can purchase 1 ticket at maximum to have a chance at winning a neat prize for the amazing price of 5 SC per ticket! Good luck! You can find the official raffle here!
This raffle will automatically end on 2022-05-13 at 00:30.

Raffle Stud Winners and New Raffle Stud!

Congratulations to the players that won a breeding with last week's raffle stud! You'll know if you won, as you'll have received a Game Notification in your inbox informing you of such! As a reminder, the previous raffle stud's exclusive attributes were the Henna Panda and Red Lupos markings!

Our newest weekly raffle stud has been released! His special attributes are Dust eyes and the new Black Cougar marking! Enter for a chance to win a breeding with him by clicking here!

Poll Results!

Thank you all for voting on last week's poll! We appreciate having some statistics regarding custom decor utilisation.