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