August 17 Update — Reward Leaderboards, Discord Marketplace, Reception, Spawn Teleport, and Overlay 0.3.8

✨ What's New

🏆 Two new leaderboards—and they're worth it

Quest Leaderboard — you're ranked based on the number of contracts claimed (1 contract = 1 point, regardless of difficulty). Choose between season or all-time view, search by username, and view the leaderboard.

Survival Leaderboard — the time spent in-game riding the same dinosaur without dying. Logging out pauses the timer (you can’t inflate your score by sleeping offline), and being buried extends the streak instead of breaking it: the time already accumulated is retained. Parking your dinosaur doesn’t break the streak either. Staff members are excluded from this leaderboard only: leveling up a dino or teleporting would skew the measurement.

Runes up to 10th place. These two leaderboards award runes at the end of each season, and not just the top three:

The podium is worth exactly the same as in the kill leaderboard: first place is worth 150,000 runes regardless of which leaderboard it was earned on. The kills leaderboard, on the other hand, retains its three-tier reward system. The paytable is displayed at the bottom of each leaderboard, and your row shows exactly how much your current rank would earn you.

The “Leaderboards” menu item is a drop-down menu: Kills / Quests / Survival.

🛒 The Dino Marketplace is Coming to Discord

Dinosaur sale listings are now posted in the trading-and-resale channel, with a Buy button directly below each listing.

• The purchase is made in two steps: the first click requests a quote and displays a confirmation visible only to you; the second click actually completes the purchase. No click will charge you anything unexpectedly.
• The price is recalculated at each step and is never fixed in the message: if a store promotion starts after the listing is posted, you’ll benefit from it.
• The dino remains in the park and goes directly to the buyer’s park—no in-game actions required.
• ⚠️ New: You need an active Prime to list a dino for sale. A growth rate of ≥ 50% is no longer sufficient. “Active Prime” = at least 5 out of 10 conditions met, or an Elder Prime. The marketplace is no longer a flea market: without this rule, the marketplace would be flooded with irrelevant listings that drown out the genuine ones. Listings already posted that do not comply with the rule will be closed—no runes have been deducted and your dino has never left your park, but the season’s sale token remains consumed.

📬 Inbox Tab

Everything waiting for you is finally in one place: dino and skin gifts, completed contracts to claim, group invitations, tokens, bounties, and server announcements—with a real read/unread status and a history. Nothing gets lost in a window accidentally closed anymore. A golden “Gift to Claim” icon appears at the top of the site when something is waiting for you, and the Reception is accessible at any time from your profile menu.

🗺️ Free Teleportation When Creating a Dino

When you create a new dinosaur, a window will show you the 16 regions on the map. One teleport per life, available to everyone. You’ll be placed randomly within a 500-meter radius to avoid camping spots.

Good to know:

• Emerging from a burial grants no special privileges—it’s a revival, not a new life.
• Removing a juvenile from the park cancels the offer (otherwise, repeatedly parking and unparking = free teleports).
• This teleport triggers the hotzone map’s cooldown but is never blocked by it: after a death, you always retain the choice of your starting point.

🖥️ Overlay 0.3.8

• Hexagonal health HUD modeled after the Evrima HUD: hunger, thirst, nutrients, mutations, and blood are now displayed (blood only appears below 100%; it’s full the rest of the time).
• Life bar that fills up, colored green/amber/red, and flashes when below 25%.
• "Hide Vitals" button in Settings, for those who prefer a minimal overlay.
• Calibration Lock in Settings, locked by default: no more accidentally moving the HUD.
• Steam Login in a dedicated window: the Steam page used to appear but wasn’t clickable; this has been fixed.
• Automatic updates from the app: if you’re already on 0.3.7, 0.3.8 will install automatically without going through the browser. Older versions require one final manual download.
• Your health stats now refresh every ~12 seconds even when playing solo with the overlay open, compared to ~60 seconds previously.

🦖 Wildlife: AI units that leave their zone are automatically removed

This was the root cause of maps emptying out. An AI that strays from its zone is no longer counted by any zone: its zone then believes it is short-staffed and sends a replacement, while the original continues to live elsewhere. The total rises to the world’s cap, and nothing spawns anymore—an actual observed state: world full at 200/200, 33 creatures expired, 0 spawns.

From now on, the server detects these out-of-zone AI entities and removes them automatically every 5 minutes. They are immediately replaced within their zone: what changes is not the number of creatures, but their location—stray AI creatures that aren’t counted give way to AI creatures where they’re supposed to be. In practice, the wildlife renews itself instead of becoming stagnant.

🔧 Balancing

• Corpse spawn: growth limit lowered to 50% (instead of 75%). The map is now populated with AI creatures that are found along players’ paths: corpses are no longer the only source of food along the way. ⚠️ This adjustment is still experimental and may change based on your feedback.

🐛 Fixes

• Fauna / AI — Population cleanup was not actually removing any AI: 183 “killed” creatures remained alive with 0 HP. The full death sequence is now applied, including the corpse.
• Wildlife / AI — Removing multiple creatures in the same frame caused the server to crash. Removals now occur one at a time, with the rate accelerated to compensate.
• Wildlife / AI — On August 16, a single ghost AI was enough to freeze respawning for 20 minutes, leaving the map empty with 15 players still connected. The safeguard has been fixed.
• Overlay — The health value would flicker between its actual value and “unknown” every few seconds. Fixed.
• Quest Rankings — The table headers overlapped on narrow screens; the map view now takes over at resolutions below 1024 px.
• Teleportation — Teleporting to a region was blocked by the system’s own security measures (which only accepted a player as a destination, never coordinates). Fixed.

Have fun playing on Isla Sonora, everyone! 🦖