Majestic

v0.0.0-beta.23 - The Portal, and the chapter that went missing

The Arcane Portal now exists in the world, and the Watchers' Vault that supplies its stone is on its way. This release also fixes a bug that made Chapter III disappear instead of locking.

Added

• The Arcane Portal — a ruined structure out in the world, placed with the same isolated spacing as the Shrine and the Observatory, so finding it is a journey and not a coincidence. It spawns the bestiary's creatures day and night, which the shrines do not.
• Three blocks of the Order — Arcane Brick, Rune Block and Carved Keystone. They have no crafting recipe and never will: the Portal's walls are full of them and you cannot take any. That is deliberate.
• Two gaps in the Portal, at the front of the facade, waiting to be filled. Each needs one Carved Keystone and the rest Arcane Brick.
• The Lantern-Bearer — the hooded spirit that waits at the Portal. It cannot fight, cannot be hurt, drops nothing, and gives you a page before dissolving. Once per Portal, once per player.
• The Watchers' Vault — the warehouse where the Order kept its stone, cut into living rock far below the surface. Its structure is generated and waiting for its final piece, so it will start appearing once the build lands.

Fixed

• Chapter III no longer vanishes from the Almanac. Reading the Lantern-Bearer's page locks that chapter, which is done by ungranting the old entry and granting its twin — the one titled "III. The Sleeping Portal (Locked)". Only the ungranting was happening, so the chapter simply disappeared and the locked version never took its place. Both sides of the swap now fire.
• A stale page — one whose chapter you are already past — now burns in the player's hand in Creative too, instead of sitting in the inventory doing nothing.
• Structure generation at absolute depth. The Vault sits at y=0 and stays there instead of being projected up to the surface. This needed no library changes: omitting the heightmap projection is what pins a structure to its absolute height.

Changed

• The Almanac's Act I illustrations now match the world: the Portal and the Vault pages show the rooms as they are actually generated.

Act I is nearly complete. The Portal is standing and the ghost who hands over the last page is working — what is missing is the Vault's stone, without which the Portal's gaps cannot be filled. Expect the next beta to be the one that closes the act. Early alpha. Content is still being built out — expect changes between versions.