Server/Client Update

We have recently experienced increased hacking attempts to compromise the integrity of Day of Dragons Servers. This patch attempts to circumvent the new hacking methods by adding additional account verification to users connecting to the server to prevent Steam ID spoofing/impersonation, adding additional server logging, and adding an optional password for /admin panel access.

• Added an experimental function to circumvent Steam ID spoofing.
  
• Added additional logging to servers when a player is auto-kicked for any reason
  
• Server logs now show Admin ID's when Admins use Admin commands
  
• Servers may now password protect the admin panel via config. Add sAdminPassword=yourpassword to enable password protection. By default password protection is off and /admin will still work as always. We highly recommend turning on password protection to safeguard your server from hackers. With a password the admin panel command is /admin password

KNOWN ISSUES:
Possible skin issues as we were working on new skin functionality but did not have time to fully implement it.

Hello everyone!

Welcome to another Dev Blog. This past month our team has been focusing on making the transition to Unreal Engine 5.0 along with creating content for the big 1.0 update. While the UE5 migration is now complete, we still have a lot of work to do before we are ready for 1.0. Let's turn to our Lead Developer, Jon, to hear more about what's to come...


Greetings Dragons and Hatchlings,

A few days ago I did an impromptu Dev Q&A as I showed off our dragons in UE5 with Lumen Global Illumination on the old Dune Desert landscape from Alpha. I absolutely love Lumen and the new features in Unreal Engine 5. I wish UE5 was already out 2 years ago when I began to work on the DoD Beta. It's got some great features that we are going to make full use of such as Lumen dynamic global illumination, large world coordinates, world partition, level instancing, dynamic data layers (which allow us to change the world after a quest event without changing it for those who did not progress that far yet), and a new dynamic water system - to name a few. But as I mentioned in the video, the UE5 migration is complete, and I am just working on fixing up a few minor issues, such as UI, before sending the UE5 version of the UE4 version of DoD to the Test Server to see if I missed anything.

We plan to make the UE5 version available for open testing once the closed testers comb through it to make sure everything is working as intended. Since our UE4 mega map used World Composition (which has been deprecated in UE5), we'll be bringing back the old Desert Dunes landscape from the Alpha for testing purposes (and only on the test version) until the Mega Map is ready, which will then replace it for map testing. The map is huge, 40km x 40km, if you include the Ocean. Such a large map is quite an undertaking but we're happy to have Branton with us full time working on bringing the world of Jrakhon to life.

Update 1.0 will mark the end of Early Access for Day of Dragons and the official Release for the game we decided to make post-Kickstarter and we hope our years of hard work will speak for itself when you play the release update which will be our biggest update ever. Release will include the Mega Map; new UE5 features including Volumetric Clouds and new Lumen lighting; new dynamic weather system; the new Elemental faction; new playables such as Magma, Inferno Ravager, Blitz Striker, Bio Dragon (KS exclusive); new AI such as the Swamp Snapper, Dune Weaver, Whiskered Paddletail, and the giant Sandslayer Worm; new Quest system; New loot system (dragon pearls); New skin crafting system; Improved Genetics, new Elder progression mechanic, changes to stats, and much more.

For those of you who missed the announcement in Discord, we are excited to announce that we have hired a Comic artist from our community (you might know her as Ztarli) who will be working with me and Katie in creating a Day of Dragons comic called, "Legends of Jrakhon" which will be published to our Patreon for Dragon tier subscribers. This comic will explore the lore and backstory of Day of Dragons starting in the late First Age when the Elementals arrived. Check out the cover page below.



We're excited to be working with Ztarli on creating this comic and hope our comic/lore fans will love it. To all the Patrons reading this, Thank you for making this comic possible. ːsteamhappyː

The best days are ahead of us for Day of Dragons, and we're only getting started. Following the 1.0 update we will focus on adding in the stretch reward dragons from Kickstarter and continuing to update our game and Mega Map with each major update. Thank you so much for your patience as you wait for more updates (and the big update) and thank you for believing in us when so many others doubted. We appreciate your support!

Remember, this is DoD and we have DRAGONS!

- Jonathan Slabaugh
Lead Developer for Day of Dragons

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Now onto the blog...




Branton has been hard at work creating the height map data and greyboxing the landscapes for our upcoming Mega Map. This giant map will feature a variety of biomes including temperate forests, grasslands, tropical forests, tundras, deserts, volcanic wastelands, burnt forests, and ocean environments.

Our Level Designer, Zaicho is now moving on to blocking out the points of interests and large landmarks of the different biomes. Once the areas have been blocked out, he will go back and rebuild the landmarks and add detail to the overall environment. We are very excited to see this massive landscape coming to life.

Here are some of the points of interest we have begun blocking out.









Our animation team is working on bringing to life the remaining creatures for the 1.0 update. Please keep in mind that all of the animations are WIP and not yet finalized.

We have come into more complications with the Inferno Ravager, so it will be a little time before we are able to show its tweaked animation set. However, Karly has begun working on the Bio Dragon. The Bio Dragon's movements are inspired by deer and hares as you can see in the two animations below.


Bio Dragon Walk Animation


Bio Dragon Trot Animation

We are also working on bring some of the AI creatures to life, including the dangerous worm species and the passive Dune Weavers.

The Sandslayer worm and the Dune Weaver will both be found in the Dangerous Dunes of the Mega Map. The Dune Weaver is a passive AI and its only defense will be curling into a ball and hoping its hard armor like scales will be able to protect it. The Sandslayer worms, however, are another story. These large, carnivorous worms will hide under the sand and snatch up any dragon who comes too close. Only the bravest dragons will dare travel into the worms' territory to reclaim the treasures they hold.


Slayer Worm Idle Animation


Dune Weaver Roll Up Defense Animation


Dune Weaver Walk Animation




The next dragon we will be adding to the model room is the Ice Behemoth. This will be the biggest dragon to join the line-up yet.



Up until now, the model and images you have seen of the Behemoth has been of a female. Males of this species will sport a dangerous set of horns used to spar for the attention of the extremely rare females and to fight the Snowslayer Worms that live in their territory. We are still in the process of designing these deadly weapons.

Check out the image below for some of the possible ideas.



Our VFX and Model team has also been working hard on perfecting and feathering the Feathered Zygovo Dragon. This micro-class dragon will be completely covered in feathers. To give the feathers a realistic feel, our VFX artist, Flicker, has created a unique set of feathers for it and will be placing each feather card by hand. This will be a lengthy process, but will be well worth it for a natural looking feather placement.


(be nice to him, he's naked in this picture)

Check out the images below to see just a handful of the feathers Flicker created for the Zygovo.



With the large ocean waters of the mega map, one fish will not be enough. Our Concept Artist, Xilev, designed an oceanic species of fish and our Environmental Asset Artist, Brigade, created its model. This new fish species is inspired by real life salmon, tuna, and dolphin fish. It will be found in the coastal waters that boarder the continent and will be the main food source of the Singe Crest.






That is just some of what our team has created this month. We will continue working towards the 1.0 update and we thank you for your patience. Game development can be a very slow process and we couldn't have done any of this without your support! Check out the community spotlights below and see you for the next dev blog!




Our next Q&A livestream has not yet scheduled. Stay tuned and watch for updates to find out when the next one will be!





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Hello everyone!

We apologize for the gap in Dev Blogs over the past few months. A mixture of life events and the release of the Flame Stalker had our attention focused elsewhere. But, we will try to once again give monthly updates on the development process of the game.

As some of you may or may not be aware, we have recently changed the development timeline on our Trello Roadmap. This is because we are making the switch to Unreal Engine 5.0! With this change, we are working on some exciting new content, some of which we know you have been asking for.

Read about the reasons behind the switch to UE5 from our Lead Developer below.


Greetings everyone. I hope you are all doing well this summer.

Before I talk about UE5, let me address the elephant in the room... oh wait, that is not an elephant, it is an Inferno Ravager. Many fans have asked, "When is it coming out?" The answer to that question is Update 1.0. Obviously, the follow up question is, Why? Why was it pushed back? Well, when we finished it's animation set, much was broken. The adult back legs were too short for walking/running, the baby arms were too short as well, many of the animations were unusable. It simply did not meet my quality standards so we had to go back and fix a lot of things on the Ravager. Understand that this is our first Wyvern. The body is much different than a dragon since its wings are also its front legs/arms. With a dragon, we had the ground stuff figured out from the Acid Spitter Drake, just add wings. But with a Wyvern, it is our first Wyvern and to quote a friend, "Mistakes were made" but were fixing those mistakes and plan to release the Ravager with update 1.0. One of the things we had to do with it is go back to the drawing board and decide how it would stand on all 4's, how it would walk, etc. This is one of the reasons we hired Xilev, our 2D Sketch Artist who helped us conceptualize those things in these awesome sketches seen below.





So that's why it has been pushed back and we are committed to making it right before releasing it instead of releasing it and then fixing it later. But enough about that, let's talk about the other thing.

Most of you have heard the big news that Day of Dragons will be switching to Unreal Engine 5. This is extremely exciting for us because of all the open world tools that UE5 offers to game developers and how Day of Dragons will use them. Let's look at some of these tools.

World Partition. World partition means no portals. The old world composition system of UE4 meant to make a huge world I had to load all the maps on the server and then load and unload each map on the client using portals. With World Partition, we can simply create the huge world and the engine takes care of loading and unloading the areas and actors that are too far away for you to see or interact with, freeing up resources and memory. I love it.

Large World Coordinates. LWC uses 64bit floats instead of 32bit floats for world coordinates meaning that we no longer need to use client origin rebasing to make up for the lost precision and accuracy of movement and projectiles being synced over the network. 64bit precision allows for very far distances from origin (0x,0y) that 32bit cannot offer. In 32bit UE4, precision begins to take a hit after only 1500 meters from origin (center of the world) and for our 16km map, the farther you got from origin, the more lag/desync you would experience. LWC will fix that.

Lumen Global Dynamic Illumination. UE5 introduces an amazing upgrade to its lighting system with Lumen. FINALLY we will be able to use dynamic lighting (needed for real time-of-day simulation) without losing color accuracy, shadow accuracy, and shading/ambient light accuracy. Lumen gives us the accuracy and beauty of static lighting with dynamic lights such as the sun and moon directional lights which move during time of day transitions. Lumen is going to make our world look accurate and beautiful. I cannot wait to play the new map using Lumen lighting.

Volumetric Clouds. UE5 has something our fans have been begging for, volumetric clouds that you can fly into and above while First Flight is playing just like in the movies. ːsteamhappyː We'll make it scalable for players on low-end machines and allow you to switch to 2D clouds if needed, but for those with good PC hardware, ACTIVATE FLUFFY CLOUDS!

There's other cool features too including their new water/river/ocean system, better animation tools, new physics system, etc. Playing DoD in UE5... well, it's going to be awesome.

- Jon Slabaugh
Lead Developer




Now onto the juicy stuff!



Concept Artwork created by Xilev

One of the exciting changes coming to the game will be the new skin system. The updated skin system will allow us to use a broader range of colors when designing each skin as well as use different patterns designed by our 2D Skin Artist(s) and then translated into 3D using Substance by our Technical Artist. Here is our first example of a new Shadow Scale skin pattern designed by our 2D Artist, Xilev and brought to life by our Technical Artist, Flicker.


Upcoming Shadow Scale Skin Pattern top view


Upcoming Shadow Scale Skin Pattern bottom view

We will be combining this new skin system with the new nesting system in update 1.0. Dragons who invest fully into the Breeding tree will be able to craft skins using color swatches derived from the dominant/recessive color genes of the parents as well as any unlocked colors to apply as a color mutation in the egg. This feature and more will be included in the next update to our nesting system.







The world of dragons is about to become quite a big larger. With the current Forgotten Forest Map, the world is 16 x 16 km square. While for most games this would itself be an extremely large map, flying makes traveling from one edge of the map to the other too easy. We originally wanted to remedy this by creating four separate 16km maps and having a portal system to transport players from one biome to another through our mega map system. However, with the release of Unreal 5's open world tools, our plans have changed.

With Unreal Engine 5.0, we are creating one mega continent containing multiple biomes without needing to use portals. This new mega map will be a minimum of 32-40 square kilometers, or four of the current maps combined.


Concept artwork of possible mega continent design

This new mega continent will host not only the five originally planned biomes (the Forgotten Forest, Lava Lands, Winter Winds, Shimmering Caverns, and Dangerous Dunes), it will also contain tropical, canyon, ocean, and island biomes which were being planned as an expansion map later down the line. However, our island biomes won't all be surrounded by water. Players will be able to live on floating islands located in different parts of the map, as well.

Below, check out the video of our Level Designer, ZaichoThePsycho, walking you through just a small section of the upcoming map as well as images of more areas to come.





8k x 8k Coastal Region


8k x 8k Gulf Region

8k x 8k Canyon Region






Big Dragon Rig


Blitz Striker Rig

New dragons are also getting prepped for gameplay. The still-to-be-officially-named Bio Dragon is now completely rigged along with the Blitz Striker. The Bio will be the next dragon to be animated.

The Feathered Zygovo is also getting tended to. We are currently working on feathers, textures, and tweaking the look.


Feather placement test on the Feathered Zygovo

Other dragons are also getting some tweaks. After issues that arrived during the animation process of the Inferno Ravager (which has temporarily been placed on hold due to walking issues due to leg length), we are going through all of our wyvern models and changing the leg to wing length ratio. This will prevent the dragons from having legs that are way too small for their bodies.

The Singe Crest was the first to receive the new portions and now has a more suitable leg length (and smaller feets).


Tweaked wing and leg length on the Singe Crest

We plan to release the Inferno Ravager along with the Bio Dragon, Blitz Striker, Sandslayer Worm, and Magma Elemental in update 1.0 which will debut on Unreal Engine 5.

On the VFX side of development, our team has been preparing for the transfer to UE5. Our VFX in UE4 were built in Cascade and UE5 uses Niagara, and so Flicker had the task of converting all current UE4 FX over to the new particle system. Unlike most animal survival games, Dragons use a lot of visual fx for their element abilities, so making Niagara versions of our VFX particles was required. VFX has also been working on creating the damage skins for the remaining modeled creatures as well as some other projects.


Bio Dragon damage vfx


Cave Cutter damage vfx


Dune Weaver damage vfx

For Environmental Assets, we are nearly finished with our next two set of corpses. The Swamp Snapper corpse will be added in the next update. Since this AI has a unique body plan, he will be getting his own yummy corpse for dragons to snack on.


Wyvern corpse model WIP


Swamp Snapper corpse model WIP

After the corpse are completed, our Environmental Asset Artist will move their to creating the nests for the next set of dragons as well as starting some new projects to create special environmental landmarks for the new mega map/continent.

With new diets soon to be added to the game, we will need food sources for these dragons as well. The Bio Dragon is a nectarivore and will need a plant to drink from. Our concept artist is currently working on designing the Bio Flower and it will then be sent to Brigade to bring to life. This current design is inspired by Columbines and Passionfruit flowers.


Bio Dragon Flower WIP concept





That's all for now. Our Lead Developer, Jon, was able to do an unscheduled Dev Q&A. If you haven't seen it yet, we suggest you check it out!




Our next Q&A livestream has not yet scheduled. Stay tuned and watch for updates to find out when the next one will be!





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Server/Client

This patch fixes a vulnerability allowing hackers to compromise the server as well as increase server performance.

• Updated FS textures & UV resolution
  
• Tweaked network settings to improve network performance
  
• Increased crit chance bonus for nest genetics on PvE servers
  
• Made improvements to AI server performance
  
• Fixed a vulnerability that allowed hackers to run server commands without the admin panel

Server/Client

This small patch attempts to fix the server lag players are experiencing when the server capacity is over 60 players as well as improve food detection of small corpses such as Thornbacks.

• Improved Server Network Performance to reduce lag
  
• Improved detection of small food sources for all dragons
  
• Implemented speed hacking cheat detection/resolution

Server/Client Patch

This patch grants all players access to the Flame Stalker Dragon - our second starter dragon, as well as fix many issues and make improvements based on community feedback.

The Flame Stalker Dragon is now spawnable for all players.

• Fixed all reported Flame Stalker skin issues
  
• Added missing sleep sfx
  
• Added Flaming Mushroom to Forgotten Forest
  
• Flame Stalker eyes now glow properly in PvP mode
  
• Underwater grass can no longer be set on fire
  
• Improved Flame Stalker's food detection hit box
  
• Improved ground fire SFX
  
• Flame Stalker Hatchling and Juvenile emote animations should now blend out properly
  
• Flame Stalker can now use heat vision while flying but not while boosting, but costs more stamina
  
• Slightly increased Flame Stalker fly speed
  
• Slightly increased Flame Stalker fire breath damage per second
  
• Fixed an issue where peers were not seeing fire in the same direction as the owning player
  
• Heat vision and ground fire SFX are now affected by SFX volume slider
  
• Fixed an issue where Fire breath would not do damage if the fire was not moving
  
• Fire breath now targets correctly to the reticle
  
• Added new Flame Stalker skins

• Updated Canyon region of Forgotten Forest beta map
  
• Improved ambient lighting on Forgotten Forest beta map
  
• Players kicked for latency now properly get the "Desynchronization" message and should no longer need to restart their game to join the server
  
• Players who manage to fall through the map now take damage instead of fall forever
  
• Local, Group, Clan chat tabs now show colored text
  
• Players who go out of map bounds will now take extreme damage
  
• Reduced chance of applying a second and third stack of bleed if already bleeding
  
• Removed collision from tiny trees in the brush areas (Acid Spitters can now zoom zoom)
  
• Creatures swimming underwater can no longer be damaged with Fire or Acid damage types
  
• Improved server & network performance
  
• Added unique sleep SFX for all dragons

• Fixed several issues related to desync detection
  
• Fixed an issue where dropping a nest sometimes caused a client crash
  
• Fixed an issue where opening the social panel sometimes caused a client crash
  
• Fixed an issue where accepting an egg invite sometimes caused a client crash
  
• Fixed an issue where players who timeout during server join would sometimes cause a server crash
  
• Fixed an issue where the [A]lpha Class designator disappeared from Biology block in Character panel
  
• Fixed a rare issue where a player could experience an infinite black screen after loading into the server
  
• Fixed an issue where players with lower specs were being kicked for connection timeout before fully loading into the server
  
• Loading flapper should no longer stay on in the spawn menu
  
• Fixed an issue where the get up animation would play again if emoting after standing up
  
• Fixed the /mute /unmute admin chat command for offline players (for real this time)
  
• Hunger/Thirst icons now show when logging in if hungry or thirsty
  
• Fixed an Elder growth exploit

Server/Client Update

In this content update, we are adding a new playable Dragon, the Flame Stalker. This is our iconic dragon seen on our hero image for Day of Dragons. In the lore, the Flame Stalkers were the first dragons to appear in Jrakhon, with Jrakhon the Firstborne, the Dragonking. We are excited to be adding our first fire breathing dragon and our second free starter dragon to the lineup and we're sure fans will love him.

Being a new playable dragon, Kickstarter backers with the Beta Headstart perk get 7 days headstart access to the Flame Stalker. This means that for 1 week, only those with Headstart will be able to spawn a new Flame Stalker, but they can nest other players in as one. Then on April 6th when headstart is over, we will be making Flame Stalker spawnable for everyone with patch 1.M.1.

Patch 1.M.1 will also add the new Flame Stalker mushrooms to the Forgotten Forest temporarily until the Lava Lands biome has been completed.

Other highlighted features include daily elder growth ticks that anyone can claim just by logging in. These ticks grant 1 mushroom worth of growth every 12 hours making Elder attainable by all players, however, mushrooms remain the quickest way to grow to Elder.

We know you will all love this update. Thank you for your support!

The Flame Stalker Dragon has been added to the game. This dragon breathes fire and has a special heat sense ability allowing it to see heat signatures of any creature, even cloaked Shadow Scales! To breath fire, hold the Attack button. Bile drains and recharges quickly and fire breath is cheaper if your bile is full. Heat sense will turn itself off automatically, to keep it on, press your Special ability while it's active. Heat sense uses stamina but is cheaper when in the stalk stance.

• Added Flame Stalker Dragon (Headstart access, unlocks for all on April 6)
  
• Added Heat Sense ability
  
• Added Fire breath
  
• Added new crosshair for fire ability
  
• Added new Fire damage with burn chance
  
• Added new Flame Stalker skins
  
• Added new Flame Stalker emotes

A lot of new visual effects and sound effects have been added including Burn DoT. Burn DoTs apply damage overtime and each tick of burn has a chance to apply. The only way to remove burn is either wait or go in water. Also note, that if you experience frame lag from all the fire, turn down your Video Effects setting.

• Added new stackable burning fire effect and icon
  
• Added new burning HUD effect in 1st Person mode only
  
• Added many new fire sound fx
  
• Added new ground fire burning vfx and sfx effects
  
• Added missing Shadow Scale footsteps sfx for juvi/hatchie

We made some damage mitigation changes and speed tweaks to balance out gameplay with the new Dragon and also added a new way to get to Elder.

• Players are now granted 1 mushroom tick of growth every 12 hours (tracks offline players) but players may only claim one tick per 12 hours by logging in to the game for 1 minute. Ticks apply to each character individually.
  
• Tweaked Shadow Scale mitigations and speeds
  
• Tweaked Acid Spitter mitigations and speeds
  
• Reduced the amount of food that mushrooms were giving to large dragons

• Updated Leucistic skins for Shadow Scale and Acid Spitter
  
• Added Little Dragonlings music which now plays for parents and hatchling on hatch
  
• Made improvements to flight takeoff syncing
  
• Added content for upcoming recessive gene nesting system
  
• Reworked and improved Dragon bite hitboxes
  
• Tweaked footstep sound spawn location
  
• Missing player avatars now show a DoD avatar instead of a blank white avatar in social panel

• Admins now appear Red in admin panel
  
• Fixed an issue where admin /mute /unmute commands were not working

• Fixed an issue where players could lose their dragon on Spawn menu if they did not cycle the dragons first
  
• Fixed an issue where Acid Decay could be applied on players in water
  
• Fixed an issue where status effects persisted on corpses after death
  
• Fixed an issue where players who log out with a status effect would login with a broken status effect
  
• Fixed an issue where Acid Spitters could still receive Decay if bitten by another Acid Spitter with Decaying Bite
  
• Fixed an issue where Thornbacks were always bloody
  
• Fixed an issue where corpse scent plume was not always above the corpse ragdoll
  
• Fixed issue where corpses were getting stuck in players mouths and wouldn't release

Server/Client Patch

This patch focuses mainly on fixing long-standing bugs and issues and improving server performance.

• Doubled the amount of Day time so that Time of Day is now a 2:1 Day/Night ratio. Night remains unchanged.
  
• Nights are now slightly brighter
  
• Added Player Ping to Players list in Social Panel
  
• Removed Full Screen display window option as this mode has been deprecated from Windows 10/11 and caused many client crashes
  
• Improved flight take off syncing in that players trying to take off in high latency situations should be able to properly sync and take off
  
• Improved Shadow Scale flight maneuvering to better reflect its air agility and to prepare for unique flight characteristics between species
  
• Reduced SS charge breath button hold down time from 2s to 1.5s
  
• Reduced SS charge breath subsequent charge ticks from 2s to 1s
  
• Reduced cooldown on Acid Spit from 2.5s to 2s
  
• Optimized server processes to increase performance
  
• Improved the Server's Cheat/Desync Detection
  
• Fixed an issue where pitch was not inverting properly after the last patch
  
• Fixed an issue where corpses would sometimes glitch out and not be able to be picked up or eaten
  
• Fixed an issue where some players would crash after opening the Social Panel
  
• Fixed an issue where heal ticks would break Shadow Cloak
  
• Fixed an issue where level ambiance and level music would sometimes not play
  
• Fixed an issue where hatchling movement would not replicate to the server if held longer than 5 minutes
  
• Fixed an issue where players without the Patreon Rewards Pack could enable jellies cosmetic
  
• Fixed a server crash related to corpse physics bodies
  
• Fixed a server crash where Server was unable to retrieve Steam data for a client

Server/Client Patch

This patch addresses some issues caused in the last patch. We added some new anti-cheat checks and some new options for servers. Additionally we have raised the latency cap on Official PvP servers to 400ms. Official PvE servers remain at the default 800ms.

We will continue to look for ways to track, find, and ban cheaters, hackers, and exploiters on Official servers.

• Added bUseLatencyHardCap=false config variable. By default servers use the new soft cap checking. Enable this for hard cap detection which will boot any player who exceeds server latency cap. Leave disabled to use soft cap which checks for unusual ping activity. To disable anti-cheat measures on your server, set bDisableDD=true in config.
  
• Added new methods and checks to prevent latency manipulation
  
• Fixed an issue where Admin /mute /unmute commands were not working
  
• Tweaked the server disconnection detection settings for clients

Server/Client Patch

This patch fixes a few bugs and also implements methods to prevent network exploits.

Official PvP servers now cap latency to 250ms. Players who exceed 250ms latency(ping) will be disconnected. PvE servers are now capped to 800ms allowing international players or players with WIFI or Satellite to connect to the Official US PvE servers, however, we highly recommend choosing a server close to your location and/or with low latency for the best player experience.

• Added iMaxLatencyMS=800 config variable. Range 100-1000. Default 800. Allows servers to cap the max ping per player. Server autokicks if ping exceeds allowed value. To disable, set config bDisableDD=true
  
• Added methods and checks to prevent latency manipulation and other network hacks
  
• Added additional server log entries to better track server crashes
  
• Fixed an issue where egg shells would sometimes never despawn
  
• Fixed an issue where hatchlings would lose growth progress when safelogging (for realz ːsteamhappyː)
  
• Renamed Grey KS skins back to Leumelan KS