Hello everyone! We've been working on finishing up the last island and polishing/balancing lately so the news updates have been a little sparse, but progress is being made and we plan to release it sometime later this year. With that said, here's a bit of a sneak peak. (Subject to change!) In the top left, we have these energy bars. [img]https://i.imgur.com/5VYup9P.gif[/img] The red one is essence which is used for upgrades. These aren't required for progression, but just adds something extra to do. With each enemy you beat, you get essence. Get enough and you can upgrade any item type permanently. With each unique item upgrade, the item gets some stats, you unlock the item cosmetic for customization, and your max essence increases by one allowing you to store more or do higher tiers of upgrades! This can give an incentive to gather many different items to increase your essence cap or try and unlock all the item cosmetics or even help you beat a boss you are struggling on. [img]https://i.imgur.com/ZtJxN5G.gif[/img] Below the essence bar, we have energy bars for different combat class styles to help with class diversity, however if you become skilled in a trait, it can potentially help you in other combat styles, you just might not be able to train it to higher levels when working on a different class. [img]https://i.imgur.com/bVTVteK.png[/img] In the overworld, you'll explore and unlock new places or features which can give you access to new things. For gathering, you might reach a destination like this [img]https://i.imgur.com/kcZqEX7.png[/img] Then enter and get a similarly looking themed gathering area like so: [img]https://i.imgur.com/J02lc4i.png[/img] You'll notice that there are two levels for gathering. One is the zone level, the other is the skill itself. When you reach a new zone for the first time, you might be good at mining, but inexperienced at the area. As you level up in mining or in the zone itself, you unlock new points to put into your choice of talents. As you can imagine, the mining talents will affect everywhere regarding mining, whereas the points in that zone are specific to just that zone. [img]https://i.imgur.com/MhQbD6Z.png[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/n48ZZ2O.png[/img]