The Fishing Update

Fishing Content Update 0.2.0

The new fishing update for Lens Island is now live on Steam for PC and Mac! This update will be surfacing some big items into your gameplay including (of course) fishing, Steam cloud saving, a new status effect system, reworked caves, rebalanced enemies, new achievements, dropping backpack on death and so much more! See below as I dive into all the new details and additions in the Fishing Update.

What does Fishing Add?

Fishing within Len's Island grants you the ability to cast for, collect, and cook various fish species that can be found across different corners of the world. Enjoy the relaxing beaches around the Island or uncover glistening rock pools hidden in the cave. Once cooked in a fireplace, you can eat the fish and discover all the unique buffs that will aid you in combat, or, take a trip to Kevin the Fisherman's shack to sell your sea creatures for a profit. While you're sitting on the dock of the Fisherman's shack, watching the tide roll away, you might smell a brand new fishy weapon splashing into the game.

+ Ability to fish in the ocean, forest ponds, rivers and cave ponds.

+ Six new fish with cooked and uncooked variants.

+ New Fisherman's shack added on the island, where you can sell fish and buy items.

+ New Fishing Rod sold at the Fisherman's Shack.

+ New Fisherman Sword sold at the Fisherman's Shack.

+ Ability to cook fish in the fireplace.

+ New status effect system granting the player effects when eating specific fish and food.

+ Added two new fishing decorations.

+ Crab crustaceans spawn on beach areas, scuttle around, and look all cute and stuff.

Grab your rod and find a calm body of water to tackle the new fishing expansion within Len's Island.

Line up, and click to cast your line into a river, pond or the ocean and watch as the reaction-based mini-game flashes a series of critical hits to ensure you reel in your catch. We will continue to float new content into the game and expand upon fishing within Len's Island over development. This update is just one small way that we will be expanding the universe and gameplay of Len's Island.

What else is new?

We also cast our nets over a series of new improvements to increase your awareness and experience throughout gameplay. See the power of your critical hits during attacks with a new screen shake effect, which can be toggled off in the menu. As your health bar gets dangerously low, your screen effects draw attention to your sinking HP with a red hue around the screen, but never fear if you do die with all those cave resources, you can find them all in the same spot you died, in your dropped backpack - super nifty!

+ You now drop a backpack on death containing any extra resources since your last save.

+ Steam cloud support added.

+ Added a new small cave beside the starter shack.

+ Added new low HP screen effects.

+ Added a new hit screen shake effect with a toggle in the menu to disable it.

+ All recycled building objects now drop resources if they don't fit in your inventory.

+ Implemented auto-walk click when striking out of range trees, rocks, and other items for resources.

+ Many more additions and improvements are listed in the full changelog.

~ Official Changelog ~

New Stuff

+ New Fisherman's shack added on the island, where you can sell fish and buy items.

+ New Fisherman Sword sold at the Fisherman's Shack.

+ New Fishing Rod sold at the Fisherman's Shack.

+ 6 new fish added with raw and cooked versions.

+ Ability to cook fish in the fireplace.

+ New status effect system granting the player effects when eating specific fish and food.

+ Special effect granted when you eat the Angler fish.

+ Re-added in Z shortcut to unequip items.

+ Can now fish in the ocean, ponds, and secret cave pond.

+ Added drop backpack on death, containing any extra resources since last save.

+ Steam cloud support added.

+ All recycled building objects now drop resources if they don't fit in your inventory.

+ Added a new small cave beside the starter shack.

+ Added new low HP screen effects.

+ Added new hit screen shake effect with a toggle in the menu to disable.

+ Added two new fishing decorations.

Changed Stuff

~ Reworked many areas of the caves and city.

~ Reworked areas around the island (updated grass in the birch forest, added fog and distance islands when entering edit mode).

~ Removed "Day in Paradise Achievement".

~ Added 4 new achievements for fishing: - Catch 1 fish.

- Catch 100 fish. - Catch 1 of every fish. - Eat 50 sardines.

~ Moved HP bar and hunger to the middle of the screen.

~ Rebalanced all enemies within the game.

~ Reduced light cost for lamps and braziers.

~ Reworked - and + overlays for all resource UI containers.

~ Rebalanced various weapons across the game.

Fixed Stuff

* Fixed issue making lattices not replantable sometimes.

* Fixed several issues with time not counting correctly.

* Fixed issues with windmill not saving inside items correctly.

* Fixed several issues causing enemies to stutter and have jittery movement.

* Fixed issues causing the Voidboar to never fire the lightning bolt attack.

* Fixed issues with Voidboar firing attacks out of sync with the animations.

* Fixed several issues with building fading and roof fading not working.

* Fixed AFK zoom out triggering sporadically.

* Fixed issues causing enemies to get stuck when a large pack is trying to navigate through a small area.

* Fixed issues with various sounds not using the menu volume settings.

* Fixed issue that made ladder-climbing not work.

* Fixed signposts triggering commands when typing.

* Fixed various collision issues throughout the caves.

* Fixed exploit that allowed you to spend resources then reload with them back.

* Fixed saving issue causing games to not save properly once exited the caves.

* Fixed some trees and mineable resources spawning inside buildings.

Enjoy the Update!

- Julian