Taival Early Access: Main Story Continues!

Taival Content Update: Main Story Continues to the Jungle Temple!

Version: v0.8.0-451 Build: Stable

Hello, Goblins! A new chapter of Taival's main story is here! The adventure continues as you journey deep into the jungle in search of the second Henki Shard , hidden within the ancient temple of Runbura. But getting inside won't be easy! You'll need to find three keys , each requiring you to overcome a different challenge. Along the way, you'll discover new quests, face powerful enemies, explore new locations, and uncover more of Taival's world.

The Main Story Continues: The Temple of Runbura

Your search for the second Henki Shard leads you into the jungle, where three keys stand between you and the ancient temple of Runbura. Each key has its own story and challenges waiting for you.

The Wooden Key

Climb the Bolsius, the largest tree in the jungle, to retrieve Leig's stolen key from a bird's nest. You'll need to jump, climb, and navigate your way to the very top!

The Jungle Fight Club

Think you've got what it takes to become a champion? Enter the jungle's fight club, defeat the rookie, clear an island of undead, and help build a new club before climbing the ranks against increasingly powerful opponents. Face the Blade Dancer, the Mage, the Hunter and his boar, and ultimately Knight Evad .

The Grittie Clans

Two rival Grittie clans, the Woodsies and the Worksies, have been caught in a disagreement for centuries, and each holds half of a broken Stone Key. Get involved in their rivalry and find a way to collect both halves to continue your journey.

Enter Runbura and Face the Veinstone Prince

Once you've collected all three keys, the doors to Runbura will finally open! Explore an ancient jungle temple filled with parkour challenges, jump pads, levers, and portals as you make your way toward the second Henki Shard. But there's one final obstacle standing in your way: the Veinstone Prince , a brand-new boss waiting deep within the temple. Defeat him, recover the shard, and return it to the Henki Sanctuary to continue your adventure.

New Equipment, Abilities & Rewards

This update also introduces new equipment and rewards to help you explore and fight your way through the jungle. Jungle Glider: Take to the skies! Hold jump while airborne to glide, and hold sprint to pick up speed. Gargantuan Weapons: Looking for something with a little more impact? The new Gargantuan Sword, Hammer, and Bow are slow and heavy, but hit hard and have extended reach. Find them at the fight club's weapon trader. Grittie Doll: Transform yourself into a Grittie for a limited time with this new reward from the Feral Gritties side quest. Ringside Bell: Call a fight club champion to fight alongside you, earned through the new Club Stores side quest. You'll also discover new equipment, including the Woodsie Leaf Hat and Worksie Helm , new traders, and additional Warptrees to help you travel around the jungle.

Gameplay Improvements

Alongside the new story content, we've made several improvements to combat, movement, and exploration. Enemies now circle around players less frequently, use charge attacks less often, and reserve sprinting for when they're farther away. We've also improved movement controls, allowing you to start sprinting while already in the air and slow down when no movement direction is held. Zipline interactions have been improved as well. The fight club island also becomes a PvP area after completing the Bone Key quest, replacing the previous arena as the designated PvP location.

Performance Improvements & Bug Fixes

We've continued working on making Taival run more smoothly, particularly when exploring its large open world. This update includes: - Smoother world loading and fewer stutters while exploring. - Improved game launch times and reduced memory usage. - Optimized distant scenery and terrain rendering. - Fixes for objects repeatedly loading and unloading at the edge of view range. - Improvements to combat animations, NPC navigation, and quest progression. - Fixes for multiplayer issues affecting damage numbers, summoned companions, dropped items, and quest tracking. - Various visual fixes for caves, portals, character models, and environmental effects. These changes are part of our ongoing efforts to improve Taival's performance and overall experience throughout Early Access.

The Adventure Continues!

With a new chapter of the main story, fresh challenges, new equipment, and more places to explore, there's plenty waiting for you in the jungle! Update v0.8.0 is available now! Gather your friends, venture into the jungle, collect the three keys, and discover what awaits inside the temple of Runbura. As always, thank you for your continued support, feedback, and bug reports. Your adventures help us continue building and improving Taival with every update. See you in the jungle, Goblins! Follow Taival here on Steam to stay up to date with future content updates and announcements. Join our Discord to share your adventures, report bugs, and connect with other players: https://discord.gg/xtH8DnYbCP

# Taival V0.8.0

New content - Added the next chapter of the main questline: the second Henki Shard. Find the three keys that open Runbura, an ancient temple deep in the jungle - Added the quest “The Wooden Key”: climb the Bolsius, the biggest tree in the jungle, to get Leig’s key back from a bird’s nest - Added the quests “Woodsie’s Business” and “Worksie’s Business”: two rival Grittie clans each hold half of a broken Stone Key - Added the jungle fight club questline: beat the rookie, clear the undead from the island, build a new club and climb the ranks against the Blade Dancer, the Mage, the Hunter and his boar, and finally Knight Evad - Added Runbura, a jungle temple with parkour rooms, jump pads, levers and portals - Added a new boss, the Veinstone Prince - Added the side quest “Club Stores”, which rewards the Ringside Bell - Added the side quest “Feral Gritties”, which rewards the Grittie Doll - Added fight club weapon and armor traders - Added Gargantuan weapons (Sword, Hammer and Bow), sold by the fight club weapon trader. They are slow and heavy but hit hard and far - Added the Jungle Glider: hold jump in the air to glide, and hold sprint to go faster - Added jump pads - Added the Grittie Doll, which turns you into a Grittie for a limited time - Added the Ringside Bell, which calls a fight club champion to fight beside you - Added the Woodsie Leaf Hat and the Worksie Helm - Added the Bolsius Warptree and the Runbura Warptree - Added two Grittie clan camps in the jungle - The fight club island becomes a PvP area after the Bone Key quest. The old arena is no longer a PvP area - Feral Gritties replace the old hostile gritties - Added the Noclip / Fly console command

Changes - Adjusted boss health calculations - You can now start sprinting while already in the air - You now slow down in the air when not holding a direction - Improved zipline interact bounds - Enemies circle around you less, sprint only when far away, and use charge attacks less often - Gritties called in by a clan summon now leave once their summoner is gone and the fight is over - Characters look cleaner when see-through, both while aiming a bow and in dialogue - Far-away terrain looks better and is cheaper to draw

Performance - Improved world loading to be smoother - Fixed objects loading and unloading over and over at the edge of their view range - Fixed memory use growing the longer you explore - Opening the map is lighter - Improved game launch time - Lower memory use for distant scenery - Fewer stutters from world streaming

Bug fixes - Fixed cavern terrain lighting - Fixed the dialogue camera colliding with cage bars - Fixed followers’ feet sliding: their walk and run animations now match their speed - Fixed characters sometimes getting stuck in an attack pose, twitching in combat - Fixed characters falling through the ground in areas that weren’t loaded yet - Fixed some areas of the world loading twice - Fixed distant scenery and the map showing buildings from world states that aren’t active - Fixed some very large distant objects looking broken - Fixed NPCs not finding their way after the world changed - Fixed some far-away NPCs not moving to their target locations - Fixed the Henki pet’s lines being shown as the player talking - Fixed the wrong movement animation sometimes playing after switching forms or weapons - Fixed gather quests not completing if you already had the items when the step started - Fixed a quest that failed to load stopping other quests from loading - Fixed dead enemies still taking damage - Fixed poison puddles sometimes not applying their effect - Fixed fire, glow and other effects staying after their object was destroyed - Fixed a ranged ability leaving the player stuck if it was interrupted - Fixed enemies on the ground sometimes acting as if they were stuck or falling - Fixed summoned helpers taking an old faction instead of their master’s current one - Fixed metal parts on some models glowing, and non-metal parts looking metallic - Fixed dark patches on cave walls - Fixed the view jumping when walking through portals - Fixed arrows stuck in targets jumping around for clients - Fixed floating dropped items not moving for clients - Fixed water being cut off or not being visible in certain camera orientations - Fixed damage numbers not showing for the attacker in some cases, including PvP for the host - Fixed the Lucky Summon armor effect and talisman followers not working for clients - Fixed objects that should disappear after use staying when a client used them - Fixed quest counters not updating for clients after joining