New Weekly & Alpha Builds: v0.65!

Hello! I'm happy to present the latest build for weekly & alpha patrons alike. This has been an extremely busy week in Daughter of Essence Land, and partially for reasons not yet revealed.

To that end, I'll say this: there is more news to come later this week. In the meantime, enjoy this mountain of patch notes!

New to Daughter of Essence? You can become a patron or download the public build here: https://www.patreon.com/indoorminotaur

- Nym

Version 0.65 - 1-4-2019

• Added a new cove dream sequence and awakening
• Added Marlan and Moon’s return to the cove
• Merged Marlan’s inventory into Mercy’s after he returns
• Added new features and fixed a number of bugs with the fishing system
• Mercy’s Luck now factors into whether she gets a bite
• The amount of “uses” a fishing spot has is now fixed on your first interaction
• Fishing spots can no longer disappear just by interacting with them
• Added new “homemade bait” recipe, made from gorpflorps. It increases your chances of finder higher quality fish of each type
• Revised the mystery person’s sprite and essence animation from the initial dream sequence
• Fixed an issue where returning to Mar’Liore in Ch. 7 could revert Mercy to her old sprite
• Advised the player to spend Skill Points on choosing a class
• Fixed an issue where the class selection could be “skipped,” resulting in the default class
• Shadow Oil is now correctly removed from the inventory when stolen by Poppy
• Fixed an issue that prevented Peacekeeper Camille from transitioning to her recruitment dialogue
• Fixed a bug where Mercy could return to Witchdale immediately after engaging Van Ritter’s crew
• Fixed an error where Mercy would still be riding Orus on the ship after leaving Witchdale
• Fixed an incorrect reference to Hallie helping defeat the pirates
• Dalkon is now fully-recovered before fighting Van Ritter’s crew
• The sparkling rabbit purchased from Dietrich is now correctly detected in Wulfhilde’s shop
• Fixed an issue where Holden’s path was blocked by Orus during a cutscene
• Fixed an issue where Mercy would be riding Orus in the inn after a cutscene
• Hallie no longer disappears from Mercy’s room until you reach Esterholt, instead of as soon as you receive Marlan’s letter
• Essence glass is no longer incorrectly removed after leaving Gertrude’s forge
• Cooking fire recipes now only show ingredient icons to avoid text cutoff
• Fixed monster flanks, strawberries and hogfish displaying incorrect icons in the cooking fire
• Fixed a bug where player followers were enabled when returning to the manor after defeating the Night Mother
• Fixed an incorrect line of dialogue after looting the key fragment from Balgruuf’s chambers
• Fixed a portrait issue when talking to Orus in the Balgruuf Manor
• Hallie wakes up in time to catch the boat in Esterholt
• Mercy can access Aunt Agatha’s Esterholt manor room after Volda’s intrusion
• Changed a line of Joseph’s (fish vendor) dialogue
• Fixed a tile passability issue in Carvannah
• Fixed a couple of tile passability issues in Witchdale
• Fixed a tile passability issue in the bath house
• Fixed some tile passability issues in and around Esterholt
• You can now correctly fish with the iron fishing rod during the construction phase of the cove
• Fixed an issue where Mercy would still run at mounted speed after fishing while mounted
• Pressing ‘X’ or ‘Esc’ no longer defaults to the “nothing for now” option when choosing a cove upgrade
• Fixed a screen-flickering issue in Esterholt as a consequence of the parallax and image overlay images not syncing correctly
• Fixed a handful of typos
• Fixed a portrait issue when fishing in Mar’Liore after ch. 6
• Mercy can no longer read the journals in the Esterholt manor basement until she lights a lantern
• Fixing some lighting issues in and made some optimizations to the cove throne room