Saint’s Dragons – 0.4.9

Hello, everyone. After ALMOST A MONTH, I bring news. How long has it been, 21 days? Geez Louise, Young Sheldon Big Bang Theory-- anyway. HAPPY LATE CHRISTMAS AND MERRY NEW YEAR. I pray and hope you are going to have the most wonderful time of your life in 2026. This update introduces quite a lot of new stuff. I left it at 0.4.9 because I am still waiting on my artist to finish up Ignivorus’s texture. But all in due time, of course!

What goes on in 0.4.9:

Overall:

• New flying mechanic. Honestly, why didn’t I think of making pitching the same as banking...
• New health bars for Raevyx, Cindervane, and Nulljaw. Deliberately left out Ignivorus
• Adjusted the hitbox to match Nulljaw, Raevyx, and new Cindervane
• New gender icons
• Added compatibility for Iron’s Spells. Lightning spells won’t damage the Raevyx. Fire spells won’t damage Ignivorus and Cindervane. You can use healing spells for healing if you don’t have salmon or Hearty Dragon Meal.
• Added compatibility for Ice & Fire: Dragons and its Community Edition. Fire Dragons will throw hands with Ignivoruses. Lightning Dragons will square up with Raevyxes. Gorgon won’t be able to turn dragons into stone. This is what you mean by “compatibility”, right? I mean, I hope so.
• Added a new config for the new Ignivorus’s phase 2 abilities.
• Cindervane and Ignivorus can now cook food/smelt items for you. Ignivorus will cook/smelt faster than Cindervane. To cook/smelt, simply use press and hold G for the Cindervane to use its Fire Body, and Ignivorus to use its Fire Breath near a furnace, smoker, or a blast furnace.

Ignivorus:

• Added multi-part hitboxes for Ignivorus dragon. Much appreciated, Zazelus!
• Ignivorus now has a phase 2. Trigger it by double-tapping S.
• In phase two, the first melee is a wing slap. The second melee is a ground stomp. In phase 2, hold R to charge a 3-level fireball (Credit goes to Zazelus for implementing) and release to shoot. Double-tapping W in phase 2 performs a body slamming leap. Supernova happens instantly in phase 2, no build up. Revert by double-tapping S again
• Flying now shoots fireballs instead of roaring
• Added block falling effects for stomping and body slamming
• Reanimated some animations

Raevyx (Left it in Dagestan for 2 years and forgot about it. Now it is no longer a crime scene and more of a menace, if you will):

• New model
• New texture
• New animations
• New sounds
• Females will now have a red/black texture to be consistent
• Double-tapping W for dashing forward, dealing damage, no i-frame. And double-tapping S for just dodging backward.
• Summon Storm happens a tad bit faster for combat purposes
• When fighting by itself, it can now dodge and dash.

Cindervane:

• New additions to the model
• New texture
• New sounds + added missing sounds
• New animations
• Made it a bit smaller
• Made the bite range more reasonable

Nulljaw (this sucka is gonna get the same treatment as flying for swimming next update):

• Nulljaw can now use phase 2 when low on health in combat without the rider
• You can now breathe underwater with Nulljaw

Bug fixes:

• Fixed dragons spawning with default health when max_health config is increased - Zazelus
• Fixed dragon model pop-in when partially off-screen - Zazelus
• Optimised scanning radius for when to glide or not, saving performance
• Wild dragons can try and land normally and not get stuck mid-air
• Wild dragons landing in water can take off and fly again
• Removed hardcoded banking and pitching for wild dragons to rely on the new flying system
• Sleeping fixes where dragons would not persist sleeping state and added a delay so they won’t sleep in each other
• Fixed an issue where Raevyx’s lightning beam and Ignivorus’s fire breath aren’t smooth

NOOO STEGONAUT IS FORGOTTEN!!1!! Yeah, it is. Right now, on one hand, I wanna make it rideable and have cool attacks, on the other, it’s been doing so well as a supporter...