Patch Notes Page 73

v0.0.788

Added time-of-day TMX layer support for Day, Night, and Fire.
Day and Night layers now swap both visibility and collision with the live day/night cycle, so only the active layer blocks movement.
Fire now stays collision-free, keeps its Fire tile-property lighting behavior, and only renders at night.
Nighttime fire overlays now draw above the player while front-cover layers still render on top afterward.

Fixed escort and event asset loading in archive-only builds.
Escort NPC textures now resolve through the shared runtime asset resolver, so Escort.png loads from wardens_content.wpk instead of requiring loose files on disk.
Event spire texture loading now uses the same archive-aware path resolution, keeping event visuals consistent in packaged clients.
Updated build/version alignment.
Updated player-visible build string to Early Access | Build v0.0.787.

Fixed Voodoo pickup infighting damage.
Enemies retargeted by Voodoo now deal melee contact damage to other enemies while Voodoo chaos is active.
Added hit-flash and damage-event reporting for Voodoo enemy-vs-enemy contact hits so feedback and downstream systems stay consistent.
Updated build/version alignment.
Updated player-visible build string to Early Access | Build v0.0.786.

Fixed shrine activation reliability with E.
Shrine interact range now enforces a minimum reachable distance based on shrine and hero collision extents.
Prevents cases where the shrine prompt appears but activation cannot trigger because collision keeps the hero just outside the configured interact radius.
Tightened minimap wallet text presentation.
Wallet panel no longer forces a wide minimum width, removing extra trailing empty space under the minimap.
Updated wallet separator formatting for a more compact readout.
Healing shrines (mending totems) no longer block wave progression.
Living mending totems are excluded from enemiesAlive_ wave-clear counting.
Waves can now clear/advance while healing totems still exist.
Updated build/version alignment.
Updated player-visible build string to Early Access | Build v0.0.785.

Added data-driven visibility toggles for Main Menu multiplayer buttons.
data/gameplay.json now supports ui.mainMenu.showHostButton and ui.mainMenu.showJoinButton.
The Main Menu now hides Host/Join when those toggles are disabled.
Updated Main Menu navigation/rendering to match visible buttons.
Keyboard/controller focus and confirm actions now skip hidden Host/Join entries.
Fallback non-Rml main-menu rendering now only draws enabled entries.
Updated build/version alignment.
Updated player-visible build string to Pre-Alpha | Build v0.0.784.

Fixed packaged warden sprite loading and animation regressions in archive-only clients.
Local and remote hero sprite-sheet loading now uses archive-aware texture resolution instead of direct filesystem-existence checks against raw assets/... paths.
spawnHero() now keeps movement sprite-sheet animation active when movement sheets load, even if combat sheets are temporarily unavailable.
Restores expected visuals/animation for wardens including Jack, Ellis, and Maria when running from wardens_content.wpk.
Refreshed packaged test client output.
Rebuilt Release binaries and recreated packaged client output from clean output with a newly generated packaged client output.wpk`.
Updated build/version alignment.
Updated player-visible build string to Pre-Alpha | Build v0.0.783.
Updated Discord join-service test build-tag fixtures to v0.0.783 (mismatch assertion moved to v0.0.784).

Restored legacy warden mini-unit sprite assets in packaged builds.
Added assets/Sprites/Units/HeavyUnit.png, assets/Sprites/Units/LightUnit.png, and assets/Sprites/Units/MedicUnit.png back into the canonical packaged asset tree.
Archive (wardens_content.wpk) builds now include those sprites again, fixing missing/wrong mini-unit visuals for legacy unit definitions that still reference them in data/units.json.
Updated build/version alignment.
Updated player-visible build string to Pre-Alpha | Build v0.0.782.
Updated Discord join-service test build-tag fixtures to v0.0.782 (mismatch assertion moved to v0.0.783).

Fixed packaged-client asset/audio loading with encrypted archive-only builds.
initializeMusic() and initializeSfx() now resolve paths through resolveAssetPath(...), so SDL_mixer receives extracted cache paths instead of unresolved assets/... paths.
ContentArchive::resolvePath(...) now handles directory probes by prefix, so directory-based loaders (for example enemy sprite discovery under assets/Sprites/Enemies) resolve correctly when content only exists in wardens_content.wpk.
Updated build/version alignment.
Updated player-visible build string to Pre-Alpha | Build v0.0.781.
Updated Discord join-service test build-tag fixtures to v0.0.781 (mismatch assertion moved to v0.0.782).