Stone Rage - Animal Play Patch

Hello Stone Ragers!

We have been out on Early-Access since August 29th now and we have added quite a lot of content over the last few months and with this big patch we are introducing our USP to the game. Which is the summoning of animals via totems and being able to control and play as deadly creatures such as the saber-toothed tiger or the mighty mammoth. What do you need in order to play an animal in the world of Stone Rage?

First of all you'll need to set foot into the world and perhaps build your shelter somewhere safe from intruders. Craft your totems and stone circles and place them close to each other and then gather the needed ingredients to summon an animal and to shape-shift into the beast. We have added several abilities and game balance preventions tied to stamina to prevent overpowered animals. You're not invincible while playing as an animal! You can still die so make sure to defend yourself beforehand. Playing as animal tied to a certain time limit. If that expires, your animal will disappear and you return to your human form. You can break the link early. In this case, your animal will enter a sleep state and you can control your human character.If your animal is dead, you will have to summon a new animal and add new ingredients to the totem again. As for the female human character. We'll add her with our next upcoming patch! She needed some more polish.

This is our first introduction of our playable animals. Expect a lot more in the future updates. We heavily rely on players feedback and we would like to ask you to give us feedback on our discord channels so we continue to fix and improve our systems! Also by sharing the word about Stone Rage you tremendously help us out and the development.

Feature Highlight:

Control and play animals

Totems and Stone Circle needed to summon your animal

Introducing AI Kelenken

Redwood biome

Palisade models

Tipi hut

Character Texture Pass

New underwear (for censoring) model introduced with next patch.

Full Patch Log 0.3.5:

Additions

Added sabertooth and mammoth as playable animals

Added Stone Circle to summon animals

Added totem mechanics

Added ability system for animals

Added new aggressive AI animal Kelenken to our world

Added new beginner tutorials

Added new redwood biome

Added new POI system

Added new IK solution

Added OST to ingame-play

Added damage camera effects

Added starter items upon spawn: biface and hammerstone tool

Added entire new footstep sounds and new gore/blood sfx

Added new palisade models and gate (gate: very wip)

Added new farmable items on the map (indrico, bones, skulls)

Added new items with kelenken drop: feathers

Added new tipi hut

Added new craft category: Totems

Added patch notes on main menu leading to steam news hub

Fixes

Updated and fixed several game balance issues

Updated characters textures

Changed spawn locations again and moved to forests

Changed mammoths AI behaviour to aggressive!

No construction restriction on the small island anymore

Nerfed animal drop when farming

Fixed several rock collisions

Updated character thirst, hunger and stamina stats

Edited several UI icons (totems, etc.)

Updated AI volumes and navmesh to increase animal spawns in forests, etc.

Moved blocking volumes, expanding regions a bit more

Fixed hut destructions (wrong mesh bug)

Demolished destructible actors not blowing up like a nucler bomb anymore

Fixed AOE damage

Added snow tree bark for our upcoming snowy regions

Further preparations for the snow biome

Fixed/improved birches upon cutting (collision issues)

Fixed an issue where the crafting panel would sometimes show the ingredient color incorrectly

Added and updated new footsteps impacts for character and animal

Updated lots of audio and sound effects in our world

Better sound cues for sabertooth attacks

Redwoods trees drop redwood log now (no big usage yet)

Fixed inventory tooltip now properly removed when not needed

Fixed repair desk ui overlap issue

Fixed character body temperature now saves and loads correctly

Updated bandage output

Fixed Main Menu Music looping now

Updated HowToPlay tutorial

Fixed bow-release sound effects

AI animals don't use any idle state anymore

Updated credits

Fixed possible server crashes

Wipe info!

All servers will be wiped because of monthly content update! We only wipe monthly, unless some gamebreaking bugs occur which forces us to wipe again. Monthly wipes with forced patches are mandatory.

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Roadmap and Suggestions

Many of you have contributed heavily over on our Discord and a ton of your suggestions have made it on to our Trello . We hope that you will continue to provide us with your thoughts as we move forward. If you’re not on our Discord, we encourage you to join!

Support

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mountainwheelgames We are an independent small studio of 7 developers. We made a PATREON page and we allow patreon contributions from anyone who wants to further support us and the development of Stone Rage. All the funds will directly go to the developers who are working extremly hard on Stone Rage. This will tremendously help with putting more time into the game since we all have still fulltime jobs next to Stone Rage. Every penny helps us to get closer to finishing "Stone Rage"! Thank you!

Social Media Links: Discord: https://discord.gg/4HBXU7k Twitter: https://twitter.com/mountainwheel Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stone.rage/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StoneRage/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MountainwheelGames Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/stone_rage/ SR Website: https://stoneragegame.com/

All the best, Thank you for all your support and love! Marco Muellner, Project Lead Stone Rage

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