Dissolution

Hey Elfie,

Thank you for playing the game as much as you did. I’m actually shocked and amazed.

Thank you also for all the bug hunting!

You have now actually defeated all the game’s bosses. I wish there was a lot more there for you to play, seeing how much you are enjoying it.

To be honest, I am not sure when or if there will be another major update, as I am working on many other projects and I’ve now put this one on pause.

I really enjoyed building it, and testing this concept of “what would it be like to play in a world where the world itself does not exist unless you are observing it”. I think the concept came through well, but I can also see that it is just scratching the surface of what could be done.

To answer your other points:

• Both the purple beams not aligning with the obelisks, and the monsters/bosses, and potentially other entities not showing up in the codex, are due to the game having been updated after you had already started playing. A new world should not have those issues.
• The drops from the first two bosses should be able to be used at the altar, but again, because the game was updated after you started playing on an earlier save, it didn’t allow you to get use those items. But i think i might have been able to fix this one even for older saves.

Thank you again for playing it :) I’ve myself and enjoyed your journey.

Hey Elfie, unfortunately it is probably due to the map spawning logic having changed between when you started playing and now. The map got updated soon after you started playing to spawn in the first chest you open, but by then you had likely opened a few.

I’ve made an update now with better logic around it so that it should check if you have found it before or not.

Let me know if you find it now.

Where you close to a furnace when trying to craft it?

Update: I have figured out how to get more dark aura creatures!!!

Turns out I wasn't far-off with my "limit on potential spawning" theory two weeks back. If you run away from an enemy and it vanishes, the game still holds that enemy in a kind of stasis storage but - and here's the part that's strange - the enemy only "exists" somewhere near the spot it first appeared. If you exceed the maximum amount of stored enemies, the game will stop spawning new ones, leaving you free to run around (but ultimately dark aura-less).

Unfortunately, in order to solve this issue, I had to open the debug menu using the "`"/"~" key. In that menu, you can see how many enemies are currently stored in quantum space, ready to appear the next time a new space is uncovered. The enemy that will appear is limited to whatever biome you're in (or nearby), and since each of the lil desert sprite thingies count as their own enemy, they fill up the enemy total real quick. If your home base is near a large stretch of desert/wasteland biome, consider venturing into that area more to do some spring cleaning, and lowering the total enemies count in the world. You'll know you're doing it right if at random points in the game the total monster count goes up by one, which means you're about to see a new monster!

Once you have new monsters spawning, I advise moving to the patch of void that is most convenient to you, and do the usual quantum pacing strategy. Sometimes you will get the other ghosts/spirit/thingies spawning, just remember to dispatch them as they arise. Rinse and repeat, and you should eventually find the dark aura creatures! 

Happy hunting, everyone. This is Elfie, signing off! :D

Aha, I've figured out why some items aren't filling in the codex- seems you need to drop and pick them up for it to register, just crafting them doesn't seem to trigger it. Which would also explain why the monsters aren't filling in, since I can't exactly pick them up! (Now I have the mental image of my character having had enough and snapping and bodily picking up one of the monsters and chucking it into the ocean)