__Update 0.2.21__

**New Features**

- Added first part of the main quest: **A Fateful Encounter**. This quest can be started on Frontier's docks.

- Added more companion functionality, including a new main quest companion

- You now require a verified contact email to log in. This can be changed in the account settings menu

- Quest menu: Press Q to toggle. This menu will show you your current started and completed quests. Click on a quest to show the details of your previous and current tasks. The toggle next to the quest menu will show or hide it from the task hud. Bounties and quest zones will always be shown.

- Task hud quest tracker: You can now hide toggleable quests and not track them in your side bar.

- Mouse hover label: Added a label next to the cursor when hovering interactables that would show their default interaction. Its transparency can be adjusted in the settings

- Crafting menus now have a default craft amount dropdown

**Balance**

- Revamped metallic crafting exp and levels: copper now starts at 10, bronze+ tier is now crafted at 10 levels higher

- Rebalanced laser gun weapon stats

- Added an antipoison mixology recipe. The consumable does nothing yet.

- Adjusted plank and trough crafting levels and exp.

- Bug nets now require logs instead of planks to craft

- Added Rat People enemy

- Revamped crop levels, exp, and seed values

- Farmer robbery: removed lv60+ seeds, and reduced chance of higher tier seeds

- Capped overkill exp to 2x the enemy's health.

- All burning status tick rates increased to 3 (from 2).

- Added new mixology recipe type: Crushes, Delights, and Slushies

- Added many new harvestable plants, such as thistles, water lily, and globemallows

**Other Additions**

- Added town name signs

- Added new icons for the account settings buttons

- New characters now start with half health.

- Added a food eating/heal tut to the intro boat.

- New quest NPCs around south Boia

- Darb and Lisa are now in under deck of the boat. Lisa will sell you another Kinesis for 10 caps if you lost it

- Improved Trailhead island quest info

- Added music to intro boat

- Companions can now be dismissed by right clicking them

- Various mapping changes, notably in Caldwell and Rustwater

- New vial pack icons

**Bug Fixes**

- Fixed Sandworm music playing over the ambient music instead of replacing it

- Fixed selected server changing when available servers update

- Fixed barber "show equipment" toggle

- Fixed water vial filling animation

- Fixed some funky water edge tiles

- Updated Boia minimap to be in line with the world