🧭 RAR Islands Update 0.9.6

Hello, Explorer! ⛵️

I’m incredibly excited to share this update with you: it’s probably the biggest one I’ve ever released!

I can’t wait for you to dive in and enjoy all the fixes, improvements, and new additions.

The changelist is quite extensive:


Update 0.9.6

🚀 New Content & Features
  • 🏗️ New Building: Well added to Villages! Don’t forget to toss a coin for good luck!
  • 🛠️ New Skill: You can now demolish buildings (requires the new Demolition skill).
  • 🔊 New Settings
    • Sound & Music volume sliders.
    • Option to disable full screen mode.
  • 🐾 You can mark food as favorite to make it appear first when feeding animals.
  • 📌 Pin Island – new quality-of-life feature to keep track of a chosen island.
Improvements
  • 🎬 Fancy new animation for the Main Menu!
  • 🎯 Luck now influences Void Rift Treasure Chests to help obtain specific items once all related Shaper Fragments are collected.
  • 🏚️ Removed Construction Site mechanic: Villages are now built instantly.
  • 🛡️ Cloaks and Boots now lose durability inside Dungeons and break if you Flee or Exit.
  • 🏃 If your protective effect in a Dungeon expires and you carry a Smoke Bomb, you can now safely Flee without losing Gold.
  • 🏰 Improvements to a certain Dungeon to prevent it from collapsing after a specific event.
  • 📍 If a building is being tracked, it now shows an exclamation mark in the Village list.
  • 🔧 Slightly improved Explorer icon on the map.
  • 🎮 Dungeon action buttons (Pick-up, Attack, etc.) are now centered.
  • ♿ Improved accessibility on Equipment screen buttons.
  • 📚 You can now sell Food Crafting Recipes at the Bar, and any Crafting Recipe at the Library.
  • 🔁 You can view known crafting recipes directly from within other crafting recipes.
  • 📈 Crafting Recipe Level is now shown in the Tool suggestion bottom sheet.
  • 🧥👢 Cloaks & Boots durability now behaves consistently across Dungeons.
  • 🎯 Pin Island & other quality-of-life tweaks.
  • 🌟 More tiny improvements here and there!
🐞 Fixes
  • 🎨 Fixed a color glitch in settings.
  • 💎 Fixed an issue when tracking gemstones with a certain trader.
  • 🏃 Resolved a glitch with the Flee/Exit button in a specific Dungeon.
  • 🧪 Fixed an Alchemist glitch that allowed opening the shop when empty.
  • ⚒️ Fixed issues with multi-crafting, records, and badges.
  • 🏠 Resolved Villages not being built (because they are now built instantly 😜).
  • 🌀 Fixed first Echo Chamber translation confirmation glitch.
  • 📱 Attempted to fix a rare issue where returning from background caused a black screen.
  • 🧹 Various minor fixes and polishing.

A Quick Note 💬

I shared this on Discord, but I want to say it here too because I believe in being open with you all 🙂

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🧭 RAR Islands Update 0.9.5

Hello, Explorer! ⛵️

The last few days I’ve been working on the next batch of improvements and fixes for RAR Islands, and I believe the game is getting better and better thanks to all your help, reporting bugs, suggestions, etc. I may not manage to implement everything as fast as I’d like, but I’m doing my best with the time I have! 💪

Let’s jump straight into the changelist:


Update 0.9.5

  • 🚀 Improvements

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🧭 RAR Islands Update 0.9.4

Hello, Explorer! ⛵️

It’s been just over a week since the release of RAR Islands and I couldn’t be happier with all the positive feedback you’ve shared (through Play Store reviews, Reddit, Discord, and even emails!) 💜

was half-expecting to need a quick “day-one patch,” but no major issues appeared, thanks to the incredible testers who helped polish the game before launch, especially @MrDaGrover, who tested tirelessly day and night 🙌

This week, amongst other things, I’ve been trying to answer everyone who reached out and I’m super grateful for all the bugs reported, ideas, suggestions… as well as your patience on me working on these things 😄

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🧭 RAR Islands releases… TOMORROW!

Hello, Explorer! ⛵️

After years of coding, exploring, testing, and countless islands discovered…

tomorrow, RAR Islands finally sets sail into the world! 🌊


Islendari

A new era dawns across Islendari: a world of islands, myths, and echoes.

Before the sea swallowed the land, before names were spoken, the Shapers walked the earth, crafting wonders now long forgotten.

Legends whisper of an ancient Artifact, buried not by nature, but by intent…

Now, as a newly licensed member of the Explorer’s Guild, you set sail to chart the fragments of the old world…

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🧭 RAR Islands - Post VII

Hello, Explorer! ⛵

🎵 I’ve published the RAR Islands OST (together with the RAR I and RAR II tracks)!

I’m nearly as excited as when I finally publish RAR Islands!!! 😄

The album can be find in multiple platforms, but I’m sharing the links to the main ones here:

I hope you folks like it and get warmed up for the game! 💜

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