Developer Livestream Notes - Friday, March 13th

FISHING POLES

• The basic fishing pole will allow you to fish in water, while more advanced fishing poles will allow you to fish in other liquids, such as lava, plasma, and chocolate.
• Lures, which will be sold at a fishing vendor, are required for fishing. A single lure will be used if you fail to catch something or if you catch a rare fish.
• Types of fish that can be caught change based upon time and biome.
• Fish can be deconstructed for different resources/materials, like the Fat Catfish, which gives a significant amount of Glim. Ancient Scales can be obtained by deconstructing fish, and are used to create boats.
• Players can fish wherever they want, but not every fish will be available in one location.
• Several fishing pole skins (dragon, candy, neon, etc.) with their own unique bobbers.

BOATS

• There will be three sizes of boats, including Clipper (smaller) and Galleon (larger).
• Boats use two slots: the boat itself, and a sail.
• The camera will unlock when players are sailing.
• Acceleration can be controlled by setting the boat's sails. Boats will have a turning radius, meaning they will be less responsive than riding a mount or moving your character on foot.
• Boats will (eventually) have cannons.
• Boats will actually float, meaning they'll behave according to buoyancy physics.
• Treasure Isles content will provide new boats through Golden Seashells, a biome-specific material.
• There will be "big oceans" to explore.
• Dracolytes will remain in their ultimate form while sailing a boat.

ADVENTURING

• These improvements will be implemented next week.
• Lair spawn rates have been increased "by a lot".
• Dungeons will reward two pieces of equipment.
• Adventuring Treasure Chests are going to be introduced. Like Chaos Chests and Radiant Caches, they are boxes that have special rewards. They will cycle every couple of weeks, and have a ~25% chance to drop from dungeons and a ~5% chance to drop from NPCs.
• A possible reward (for the time being) is the Blue/Pink Cookiephant.

PIRATE CAPTAIN

• The Pirate Captain wasn't ready to show this week, but will be previewed next week.
• Pirate Captains have a parrot pet.
• Passive/basic attack (Plunderbuss) grants Dubloons, which can be used to upgrade the Pirate Captain's cannon.
• Mouse 2 (right-click) throws down a cannon, which is controlled by the Pirate Captain's parrot.
• Keyboard 1 throws down a decoy, much like the Fae Trickster. The Pirate Captain's decoy has less HP than Fae Trickster, but explodes when it is killed.
• Keyboard 2 (Ultimate) activates a second cannon, which acts like a mortar/lobber. Both cannons can be active at once.

MISCELLANEOUS

• Fish and Ships update will release on March 24th.
• Another Hub redesign will go live next week.
• Pemborg and Infinium Pemborg will release next week.
• New shark NPCs will come with the Fish and Ships update, with unique models/animations. Parrot pirates are also on their way.
• The Bone Knight skin should be ready next week, and will be available from Chaos Chests.
• An extended Trove theme techno remix is now played when the Dancepad is ridden by a Dracolyte in ultimate form.
• Next time, things like the Neon Nightsky wings crafting quest will be harder.
• Next big update will be underground.