By Mod EdHey there Levlans!
I got back yesterday from my short little break which was amazing, but I am so excited to be back working on Levla again, it truly is my favorite thing to do in the world right now.
So it's time for another patch, and unfortunately it is not the content patch yet. There were a few things I needed to get out of the way first before I could fully dive into the new content.
While I was gone we had a surge of new users (we're currently averaging 700+ daily active users!!!) and with that came a lot of bug reports, which is what I'm mainly targeting in this patch, along with some QOL updates I collected from the Discord server.
Let's get into it!
Upcoming Community Event
Before we jump into the changelog, I also want to announce that we're planning an optional community event in our Discord server once we hit 1,000 users, and it's coming with some unique cosmetics and rewards.
Super excited about that, and I hope I see you there!
QOL & New Things
Adventure Queueing
An annoying issue that has existed in Levla since the playtest is the scenario where your character is on an adventure and you have full stamina. What are you supposed to do then?
This has led to a bad UX pattern where some of you skip or delay completing habits and todos just to make sure you don't lose the stamina you'd be rewarded.
It's a problem that needs to be handled carefully, and the first line of defence rolled out in today's patch: you can now queue adventures, which will automatically start once your current one completes.
Free users can queue one adventure in advance (1 active + 1 queued), while members can queue up to 5.
This might see a rebalance soon, but I think it's a fair starting point. It should also help you spend less time on Levla's game side, since you can now queue a lot of adventures in advance.
Let me know in Discord what you think and how it feels to use!
Bank Placeholders
A new bank setting has been added, which you can enable from your bank settings, called Bank Placeholders. What it does is keep a "ghost slot" of an item once it leaves your bank.
Great for bank sorting and management, and for making sure things always end up in their intended slots and tabs.
Thank you for the suggestion!
New Reward Overlays
In this patch I also wanted to implement some new features that were suggested in Discord, specifically popups that show when you've advanced a tier in a guild or unlocked something new from leveling up a skill.
As I started designing and implementing these, I realized there were a lot of inconsistencies in our UI when it comes to reward overlays, so in the same sweep I redesigned and reimplemented all of them.
They're now queued as well, so instead of a bunch of them popping up one after another, they're all connected in one sweep, which in my opinion looks great. You can of course skip them too.
Some of them come with prettier redesigns and even confetti. If that's not your thing, you can disable it in the settings, and you can also disable the level up and guild tier advancement popups individually.
Hope you like them as much as I do, and if not, let me know so I can revisit it in an upcoming patch!
New Effort Level: Ask me Later
In this patch you can also toggle a new option when setting the effort of a habit or todo, which will allow you to set the effort it took to complete on completion rather than in advance, this is especially nice on those tasks that might be more difficult on some days compared to others!
Other Changes
- NEW: When in an adventure, the old "Session" (which was redundant since "Time Left" showed the same thing) has been replaced with an estimated time of completion
- NEW: When "idle" is toggled while viewing a user's profile, it now displays their idle set
- NEW: Searching items anywhere in the trading post now uses fuzzy search
- NEW: Using compost on farming patches now gives you back a bucket
- NEW: You can now see your total level at the top of the skills screen
- CHANGE: Vials of water now have infinite stock, but the price went up by 15 coins
- CHANGE: A bunch more improvements to the new user experience here and there
- CHANGE: The "For You" in the adventure sheet now also shows the levla tutorial until completed, as it is a better recommendation system than anything else.
- ???: Surely a bunch of other things I forgot to document
Bug Fixes
Habits & Todos
- FIX: Pressing undo on a sticky habit completion no longer takes it down to 0 visually
- FIX: Snoozing no longer skips habits that reoccur every X days
- FIX: You can now complete todos in advance (scheduled for a future date)
Adventures & Combat
- FIX: Combat forecasting now takes "eat to full" consumed food into account
- FIX: Dungeon playback is no longer super fast
- FIX: The fight start sheet is now scrollable
- FIX: In focused adventure mode, completing habits and todos now properly shows their rewards
- FIX: In focused adventure mode, you can now properly complete all types of habits and todos
- FIX: You can now press the haul to view the haul during gathering adventures
- FIX: Coins received from gathering adventures now properly show in your characters inventory
- FIX: The "For you" can no longer recommend adventures that are no possible, e.g adventures locked behind quests or bounty level.
Character & Avatar
- FIX: The avatar no longer renders the wrong hair, equipment and other characteristics
- FIX: The character now renders the weapon after doing a thumbs up animation
- FIX: The home screen no longer shows the wrong selected facial hair color
- FIX: Crafting quality is no longer ignored on profile highlighting
- FIX: You can now select accounts when logging in with Google, so it no longer locks you out of a certain account
Items & World
- FIX: Cleaned up some old remains of the previous weapon and armor tier naming
- FIX: You can now drop duplicate quest items
Android
- FIX: More text clipping issues resolved
- FIX: The leaderboard search now opens the keyboard properly
- FIX: Live/countdown notifications are no longer cleared on cold starts
- FIX: More sheet buttons no longer render under the native tab navigation
- FIX: Lots of polishing
Other
- FIX: The edit bio sheet no longer renders behind the keyboard
- FIX: You can now select accounts when logging in with Google, so it no longer locks you out of a certain account
- FIX: Capes not working on the Frame B bodytype
- FIX: Issue where your character would drink potions that didn't stack
- FIX: Visual animation glitches
- FIX: Complete habit/todo now properly skips the stopwatch/timer when done from the details view.
- FIX: Issue where completing a habit from the details view would block touches/presses.
Alright that's all for todays patch, I am now going to deep dive into some lore writing, see you in the next patch which will be our big content patch!
