novafarma/CHANGELOG.md

NovaFarma - Changelog

Version 2.5.0 (2025-12-08)

🎮 Major Features

Elite Zombies 👹

• Added Elite Zombie enemy type (dark red with glowing pink eyes)
• 50 HP (2.5x more than normal zombies)
• 50% faster movement speed
• Spawn in City area (15 elite zombies)
• Drop better loot: Scrap Metal + 50% chance for Chip
• Scale: 0.2 (smaller but deadlier)

City Content 🏙️

• City Wall (Obzidje): 15x15 fortified city with stone walls
  • WALL_EDGE tiles on perimeter (solid collision)
  • Pavement interior with ruins
• Treasure Chests: 3 chests in ruins with random loot (2-4 items)
  • Interact with 'E' key to open
  • Loot: scrap, chips, wood, stone, bones
• Zombie Spawners: 2 dark portals in city
  • Visual: Dark stone with red glow
• 5 Ruin Structures: Scattered throughout city
• Arena: Boss battle area at (75, 55)

Roads & Navigation 🛣️

• Gray Stone Roads: Connecting Farm (20,20) and City (65,65)
  • Horizontal road from farm
  • Vertical road to city
  • L-shaped path
• Signposts: 3 wooden navigation markers
  • Farm signpost: → (points to city)
  • City signpost: ← (points to farm)
  • Crossroads signpost: ⇅ (both directions)

Farm Starter Zone 🌾

• Cleared Farm Area: 16x16 tiles at (20, 20)
  • All trees and rocks removed
  • Green grass terrain
• Starter Resources: Treasure chest with initial items
• Fence Posts: 4 corner markers for farm boundary

Seasonal System 🌸☀️🍂❄️

• 4 Seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter
  • Each season lasts 7 in-game days
  • Visual overlays with season-specific colors
• Season Indicators: Emoji icons in UI clock
  • 🌸 Spring (green tint)
  • ☀️ Summer (yellow tint)
  • 🍂 Autumn (orange tint)
  • ❄️ Winter (blue-white tint)

💥 Combat Polish

Visual Effects

• White Flash: Enemy flashes white → red when hit
• Knockback Effect: Enemies get pushed back on impact
• Floating Damage Numbers: Red numbers float up showing damage dealt
  • Font: Courier New, 16px, bold
  • Fades out while rising

🔒 Collision System

Tile Collision

• Dynamic solid Property: Each tile has solid: boolean
• setSolid(x, y, true/false): Runtime collision modification
• isSolid(x, y): Check if tile is solid
• Solid Tiles:
  • water, MINE_WALL, WALL_EDGE, ORE_STONE, ORE_IRON, lava, void

Decoration Collision

• Enhanced Pattern Matching: Case-insensitive checks
• Blocked Objects:
  • All trees (contains "tree" or "sapling")
  • All rocks (contains "rock" or "stone")
  • All signposts (contains "signpost" or "sign")
  • Structures: chest, spawner, ruin, arena, fence, house, gravestone, bush, hill

⚙️ Performance Optimizations

Rendering

• 60 FPS Target: Explicit FPS configuration
• Pixel-Perfect Positioning: Math.round() for player x/y
• Camera Lerp 0.1: Smooth camera following
• NEAREST_NEIGHBOR Filtering: Crisp pixel art (no blur)

Culling

• Viewport Culling: NPCs outside camera view aren't rendered
• Distance Culling: NPCs far from player (>30-50 tiles) hidden
• AI Skip: Invisible NPCs skip AI updates

🎨 New Assets

• elite_zombie.png - Elite zombie sprite
• chest.png - Treasure chest
• spawner.png - Zombie spawner portal
• signpost_city.png - City direction marker
• signpost_farm.png - Farm direction marker
• signpost_both.png - Crossroads marker
• city_wall.png - City wall texture
• road_tile.png - Road/pavement tile
• farm_zone.png - Farm area overview

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed inconsistent tree/rock collision (some were passable)
• Fixed merchant scale (now 0.2 vs 0.5 for player/zombies)
• Improved decoration collision detection with case-insensitive matching

📝 Technical Changes

• Added initializeFarmWorld() method in GameScene
• Added setSolid() and isSolid() methods in TerrainSystem
• Enhanced placeStructure() to support chest, spawner, signposts
• Added season tracking in WeatherSystem
• Improved NPC.takeDamage() with visual effects
• Added WALL_EDGE terrain type

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Version 1.0.0 (Previous)

• Initial release
• Basic farm mechanics
• Zombie combat
• Day/night cycle
• Save system