Upcoming Changes

Coming soon to Ralph's Myth is an overhaul to the Fishing, Mining, and Crafting systems currently available.

The current systems as they are now are very barebones in terms of their available content so I've been hard at work making them better and fleshing out their overall design. Let's start with crafting.

Crafting (and Cooking, and Alchemy, and more...)

The initial system for crafting has some misdirected objectives, such as having recipes that bypass certain steps, creating useless items and giving less purpose to craft. Alongside that, you wouldn't get a new crafting recipe at every level, making the window to the left of the menu almost useless.  This has all been changed. You will now always get a minimum of one new recipe every level. A Game Manual entry will be added to show what you unlock at each level.

For now though, here's a sneak peek.

As you can see here, you'll also be given access to much more items to craft using the resources that currently have little or no use. Armors will not be found in chests as often to give incentive to craft them instead. Weak Gemstones can be made from Survival Crafting as well. To make higher level augments, you must use an Alchemy Table.

Cooking sees the most expansion, thanks to the expansion of the Fishing System. You'll be able to cook many recipes and all different types of food. Food has more benefits over simple potions and bandages that you might normally craft to reward you for your time spent cooking. Battle Buffs are extremely common, increasing some stats for a number of battles which help you win the harder fights you might come across. 

Some recipes require a quest to be completed or started before you're able to create them. So be sure to do your side quests!

Fishing

These systems have seen improvement I thought not capable of my skill set, but that was the skill set of the past. Developing Ralph's Myth has been a constant learning experience and I've made progress working with RPG Maker I never thought I'd continue to see. Now, enough gassing my own ego, let's explain the new systems.

When you load a saved game, your Mining and Fishing levels will be reset due to the new system created. Worry not, all your collected items will remain in your inventory.

As it was before, the lake would contain 5 different fish for you to catch. Same with the sea. With this new system, the type of fish available for you to catch is based on your current fishing level. A manual entry will be added to explain what fish you can catch at which level. Not to mention, instead of only catching fish, you have a small chance to catch 'junk' items. These 'junk' items are actually useful crafting materials you may normally forage through your adventures!

This system introduces more fish, such as Sunfish, Perch, Eels and more! This system also introduces a brand new item to enhance your fishing game. Lures! Lures will be explained in a later update.

Mining

The Mining system is a little different, but visually looks the same to fishing.

More ores have been added to the mining system, which will be available for you to mine soon, provided you have the right level. That's correct, you will require certain mining levels to be able to mine specific ores and gems. More early game content will be provided to those who had their levels taken away from them as a means to catch up.

Each ore type has a unique chance for you to obtain a gemstone. Gemstones are used in alchemy to create powerful augments.

Every 5 levels, the maximum amount of ores you can gain from each rock mined increases by 1. This means at level 5, you have a chance to obtain 2 pieces of Iron Ore instead of only 1. This increases the amount of experience you gain per action as well.

This is only a simple overview of the improvements currently being made to these systems to make the core gameplay features more enjoyable for you, the player. Look forward to the upcoming update which will introduce these upgraded and updated systems to make Ralph's Myth a greater experience!