As promised - updated the animations for swimming. You can now swim fast - at least till your stamina lasts.
Added surface swimming - floating, slow, fast
Underwater swimming - slow, fast
Swimming turning - left, right, up, down

Swimming can be combined with other actions, like pick up items (f.e. oysters), drop items, trident fishing.

Also tweaked some crafting animations - for drinking, knife crafting, animal skinning, fire lightning.

Next to come are new crouching animations and actions - especially bow firing and some crafting actions.

February 9th 2020 Build 0.29.008:
New 3rd person camera:
- Character is moved to left
- Cam will keep greater distance when running
- Focused FOV when aiming
- Camera follows character down when crouching or sitting

Partially updated animations:
- Bow, spear, boomerang aiming a firing/throwing
- Spear Melee

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February 1st 2020 Build 0.29.005:
Partially updated animations:
- Pull and Aim Bow
- Spears Aiming
- Boomerang Aiming
Please note - it is partial update only, we will update them more
Please there is a desync between 1st and 3rd person camera - this will be addressed as well.

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January 31st 2020 Build 0.29.004:
- Reworked the structure of animations handling. Took a while but should be much more better (and faster) now for future development.
- Inplace Crafting animations such drinking from pond, or making fire do not slide anymore
- New Start Stop animations for walk/run/strafe
- Dropping Item information (items are now dropped to right instead of front, except place-able objects such as basebuilding)

Crafting actions times needs to be set up properly.

Please report any issues - especially if character gets in so called "A" pose.

WIP:
Bow shooting animations implementation
Swimming animations implementation
Crouchnig animations implementation

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January 19th 2020:
This week update brings new animations and new animations handling especially for movement:

- Walk / Run animations forward, strafing and turning
- Crouch animations forward, strafing and turning
- Added visual effect of dirt, grass, water splashes, when feat touch the specific terrain
- Added visual hit effect when cutting down bamboo or palm leafs

There are lot of new animations waiting to be added - so i will do it via small updates during upcoming weeks instead of pushing a one big update and edit the information directly here.

Work in progress:
- Smooth Start/Stop animations
- Crouch animations for picking, placing items in inventory and some crafting
- Dropping items to ground
- Aim animations for bow and spears
- Swimming animations
and more.

thank you for your support and making this possible.

Please feel free to send any bug reports or questions.

And spread the word about the game.

Duro
Game Creator

Every animal now provides different meat and other body parts.



I have updated the crafting recipes and know animals can be cut to several types and volumes of items such as various meat, lard, bones.
In future we will add furs, feathers and guts etc.
Same mechanics can be now used within any crafting recipe - so we can dismantle gadgets, weapons, vehicles, etc.

Added Items:
Meat, Small Meat, Octopus Tentacles - raw, cooked, burned, spoiled
Lard, Bones, Bone Needle, Bone Fishing Hook, Wooden Fishing Hook, Repellent Cream, Coal Soap.



Now animals drops following items and volumes when cooked:

Oyster- Oyster cooked = 10 kcal
Egg - Fried Egg = 100 kcal
Crab - Crab cooked = 150 kcal
Frog - Small Meat cooked 30% = 150 kcal
Rat - Small Meat cooked 40% = 200 kcal
Vipers - Small Meat cooked 50% = 250 kcal
Rabbit- Small Meat cooked 100% = 500 kcal + Bones
Octopus - Octopus Meat cooked = 250 kcal
Fish - Fish Steak cooked = 300 kcal
Bird´- Bird cooked = 350 kcal
Komodo - Meat cooked 60% = 900 kcal + Bones
Crocodile - Meat cooked 70% = 1050 kcal + Bones
Bear - Meat cooked 100% = 1500 kcal + Bones, Lard

We have replaced the modern aluminium MRE with US Army K Rations - so it fits with game time period.



Also I have updated the drop item to ground mechanic - now items are dropped scattered and randomly rotated.



Work in progress:

In future updates we will add fish and bird variety similar way. Also birds will drop feathers for arrows. And bones for more powerful arrow heads.

From bones you can craft fishing hook - they will increase probability of catching fish with improvised fishing tool in future. To it comes bone needle - which will be used for cloth and shelter textile covers.

Lard can by combined with coal to make soap, which will be used once diseases are implemented. Combination with mint will craft repellent cream to prevent mosquitoes and malaria in swamp.
Also Lard will be used as waterproof for body and furs.

Currently we are working on following upcoming updates:
- Animation and movement Update
- Aiming animation Update
- 3rd Camera rework for better aiming (over the shoulder)
- Birds Variety Update
- Fish Variety Update

Important - Language localization
As we have added lot of items and crafting recipes and plan to add even more - I prefer to translate it from English to other supported languages at once when those items are added. This will save a lot of development time. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Have fun a thank you for you support.

Juraj (DuroBulo) Bachar
Game Creator

Happy New Year 2020

And thank you for all your support

Juraj (DuroBulo) Bachar
Game Creator

AreaZ - only few days left to get your copy on Steam with 20% Sale for 14.39 USD / 11.99€.
Last updates brought bears, komodos, crocodiles, rabbits, rats, frogs and crabs. Meat and bones update coming soon as well variety of fish and birds.

Happy Holidays wherever you are.

Added some seasonal items and meal

Lets have some tea!

You can make tea with echinacea herb. Also mint herb was added to the game. Tea will restore 20 points of health.

You will need bottle with hot water and echinacea flower.

This mechanics will be used for soups and stews in future.

Also sticks were added. They can be used in campfire. Or to get ant larvae from anthills for you fishing rod.

Added some mountains in background - as reference for future maps of areaz.

Updated to new version of Unreal Engine - so some unexpected bugs might occur. Please report them to us.

Lot of fixes:
Health items from drifted lootboxes give 20 health now
Empty bottle does not display message to drink
Fire Kit now needs stick in right hand
Fix of bow "doubleshot" and arrow to fire collision.

The game is now on 20% sale on Steam - so grab your copy.

Added new animals:

Bear (replaced), Rabbit, Rat, Viper, Bamboo Viper and Crab.
All drop temporary fish steak until "Meat and Bones" update is released.

Bear
Thanks to your Early Access support I was able to replace former bear to this new one. It is better looking and has more animation available. And made him more dangerous - be aware of its powerful pawn attack that will you strike down.
Bear as predator will actively hunt you upon sight (KoS)



Rabbit
Rabbit was previously spawned in traps only. Now it is standalone prey to be hunted and killed for meat.



Rat
Similar to rabbit, rat can be hunted. It is not easy due its size.



Vipers
Viper and Bamboo Viper will attack you only if you come to close. Can be lethal to unaware survivor - so watch your step. Brown Viper prefers dry lands, where Bamboo Viper can be found in swamp.



Crab
Similar to rabbit, crab existed as trap spawn. Now it is standalone animal. Its very tricky and will quickly bury himself in sand when scared.

I would like to thank all players that have supported this game on EA release. Thanks to this we can increase the quality of game to next level.

Work In Progress for upcoming weeks:

- Character Movement Animations replacement - especially turning
- Character Combat Animations replacement - especially bow shooting and spear
- New 3rd Person Camera - for better sight especially when shooting. This should also solve the issue with 1st/3rd camera angle desync.
- Birds update - seagulls and more
- Fish update - more variety of fish
- Meat and Bones update - Small animal meat, large animal meat, raw, cooked, dried, spoiled. Bones for knife, arrows heads, and fishing hook.
- Herbs and Sticks - Healing Echinacea, Mint Repellent, Sticks for fireplace.

Have fun.

Best regards

Juraj (DuroBulo) Bachar
Game Creator

Big reptiles are coming in.



Crocodile and Komodo Varan added as dangerous predators.
Crocodile can be met in swamp. Be very careful when you hear water slashes as he might swim toward you. When swimming, it will leave mud whirl trails in water...



Komodo Varan lives in jungle. Will attack only if you are too close... Might plunder your camp and eat your food.
Both are really dangerous to a counter.



Both animals drop "fish steaks". This will be changed in "Meat and Bones Update"

Get the game with 20% off on Steam Autumn Sales (Black Friday).

Lot of new content coming in every week.