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Nugget standing in the reworked tropical valley biome.

#ElysianEclipse V 0.5.5 is here!

This version is available to test for aquatic tier or higher supporters and will become completely free once the next version drops.

Patchnotes for all 0.5.x updates: www.elysian-eclipse.com#/wiki/V_0.5_...

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I'm guessing this is going to take the entire month. I will only work on this a few hours per day, or else I'll go insane. Maybe we can throw in the promised art contest somewhere inbetween, while I'm busy with the migration. Let's get started. Oof.

I'm going to quickly release 0.5.5 now, which will contain the terrain generation for the updated Tropical Valley and the new Rocky Hills biome (pictured above) in their current state. I will then directly start working on 0.6.0, which will be the render pipeline migration.

Post by @wauzmons · 12 images 💬 7  🔁 5  ❤️ 42 · Please read and cast your vote! · So it's been 1.5 months now since I started migrating to the new render pipeline and I'm starting to get sick of this. I just can't seem to make…

For reference, here are the results of the previous attempt: www.tumblr.com/wauzmons/751...

Now we are pretty much forced to do the migration. But now I also have some actual experience with URP and more time to work. So it is going to be faster and prettier this time. At least I hope so.

If you remember, I already tried to port EE to URP once, back in 2024. This involved reworking all shaders and took almost 2 months. The end result looked pretty bad in places, so the community voted to revert it.

Unity has finally deprecated the render pipeline used by #ElysianEclipse, which means that we have to switch to the Universal Render Pipeline (URP) to continue receiving updates.

Kibby standing on a hill in the new rocky hills biome.

The time has come. Usually the big updates like 0.4.0 or 0.5.0 each contained the foundation of a new stage. 0.6.0 is going to be something way less fun though.

A screenshot of the biome, described in the post, featuring a huge mountain and two beaches.

The tropical valley, will be the first biome to receive a rework. It will be much bigger and sandier. The mountains are higher and have more natural shapes with visible erosion. Still work in progress. Vegetation is disabled at the moment.

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A procedural landscape covered in dry, rocky hills.

I'm working on a new terrain generation prototype for a lot of different creature stage biomes! V 0.5.5 will include at least one reworked and one new biome. New plant editor updates have been pushed back a bit in favor of this.

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A crabfish swimming through an aquatic stage area. The tooltip for its age reads: Juvenile Age Get older to unlock more inventory space, as well as new social interactions. 435 / 2,400 (18.13%) Next Reward: 4 Inventory Slots Active Rewards: 8 Inventory Slots

The stat system has been reworked. Health and damage values are now much higher, making them easier to balance without needing decimals. Furthermore age and skill levels now have proper tooltips, letting you see the exact rewards you get.

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Time to copy RuneScape's XP rates to torture completionists.

A notification popup of getting 5 fishing experience, after catching a Wiwaxia. The sidebar shows experience bars for different skills. Evolution is at level 20, while Fishing is at level 1 with some progress to level 2.

Instead of having just a single level, your species can now earn experience in different skills! These grant bonuses like permanent stat increases. Reaching new stages will also unlock more skills.

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Blorb and Kibby sitting on a bench in a space station. A golden statue of Blorb, aswell as several signs are visible in the background. One sign shows a Wooblor microbe. Another shows Blorb holding a "pls give me all your money" sign. And the last one reading "WauzTech". An energy core is positioned in the center of the room. It looks like a minature star.

#ElysianEclipse V 0.5.4 is here!

This version is available to test for aquatic tier or higher supporters and will become completely free once the next version drops.

Patchnotes for all 0.5.x updates: www.elysian-eclipse.com#/wiki/V_0.5_...

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Space Station Test | Elysian Eclipse - Spiritual Successor to Spore YouTube video by Wauzmons | Elysian Eclipse

Blorb Station constructed. Space Duck deployed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jDz...

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Blorb standing on a white cube, floating in space. Everything is completely empty, except for the glow of the galactic plane and other distant lights.

Blorb has been sent to the new space stage prototype. Here he will construct a space station, the Blorb Station™, which will serve as hub for testing space stage mechanics. Wish him luck, as he ventures where no Blorb has gone before!

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A red plant with a twisted stem and thorny branches. The stem ends in a broad cap, which branches into a circle of tentacles with a bush in its center.

Some more progress on the plant editor. You can now create twisted tree trunks. The "cap" of this plant is a work in progress version of one of the first fungus parts.

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A simple bamboo hut, made in the hut editor. The chimney is selected and the inspector shows a selection of different materials for it. The selected material is marked with a checkmark icon.

The material selector is here! It lets you change the material of the individual regions of hut and plant parts. It even lets you change the leaf shape of foliage. Here, I used it to create a bamboo hut.

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- The camera now focuses on the center of the mount, instead of staying on your creature.

- The camera's zoom and rotation range automatically adjusts, so big mounts don't cover too much of your screen.

A crabfishing flying through the sky at dusk. The camera is zoomed out further than the usual maximum.

I made several improvements to mount and camera controls:

- The mount will now try to land by itself, when you jump off while being in the air.

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Before: Hard edges on letters. Titles and buttons use small caps.

Elysian Eclipse now has new fonts! The text is now more stylized and rounded, especially for headings. Small caps have been removed completely to make everything more consistent.

Here is a before and after of the archive.

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The same system will be used when controlling a space ship in the upcoming prototype.

Also, dismounting has been turned into an ability on the hotbar, so you can trigger it with both the hotkey or the mouse.

A garfield-like creature, riding on a crabfish. Two additonal health and energy meters are shown on the HUD. Mount health has a horse icon, while energy has a carrot icon. The hotbar contains the dash and dismount abilities. The space between them is filled with empty slots.

Mounts now have their own ability hotbars! While riding the crabfish, you can let it perform a spin dash, just like in aquatic stage. Its health and energy are shown too while riding.

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A bunch of creatures on a beach, each shaped like one of the digits of 2026.

Happy New Year! So, this is it. The first year ever, I'm not employed anymore and can fully focus on Seven Ducks Studios. 👀

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A hut with a two-layered thatch roof. The top layer has a triangular window, while the bottom layer has multiple round windows that are partially hidden under the layer above.

The sub-part system has been added to more parts. You can now for example place windows on both layers of this roof and they will be automatically rotated correctly. Previously only the top layer was clickable and you couldn't attach parts to it at all.

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Now I want to put one of these on a creature to see how it looks... xD

Two trees. One with long, red leaves, shaped like a sphere. The other with curvy, green leaves, shaped like a big dome.

While I've been busy with space stage, @roseae.bsky.social has been experimenting with some more leaf types.

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