# 🪓 Lumber Tycoon — Update Changelog
## ✨ New Features
👥 Party Up With Friends
Play Lumber Tycoon in a party and get +10% strength per friend. More friends, more power — simple as that.
⚔️ Boss Fights
The first boss is here. Details below. 👇
## 🔄 Reworks
✨ UI Animations
Added open and close animations across the interface. The whole UI feels a lot smoother now.
## ⚔️ BOSS FIGHTS
- The first boss in Area 1 is now fightable
- Entry is free — boss respawns every 3 minutes
- Rewards: defeating the boss drops roughly half your current strength in Coins
- 🐾 Focus Pet — PetCycle: there's always one pet in focus with a +10% higher drop chance. That includes the very rare ones. A widget always shows you which pet is currently in focus — so keep an eye on it and time your runs.
- 🎙️ Voice Chat: when you take on the boss with strangers, you'll automatically be put into a shared voice channel to make teaming up easier. You can mute or leave the channel at any time — it's completely optional and not required to fight the boss.
## 🔧 Fixes
- Some skill effects had somehow been unlinked — they're properly connected to their skills again
- Removed holes in the map at various spots
- Guards in some areas weren't moving — should be fixed now
## ⚙️ Under the Hood
We did a lot of technical work and reworks you won't actually see — and that's a big part of why this update took so long. For example: a completely new chopping logic for all trees, which lets us build new areas much faster going forward. Boring to read about, but it means more content, quicker.
## 🔮 What's Next
⚔️ A boss for every area — the plan is to ship one boss per area with each update. Once that's done, bosses get difficulty tiers that drop special rewards.
🎪 Events — we're working on a concept for events like you see in a lot of other tycoons (Poison etc.). We want them to actually feel good, so we're taking our time exploring how to do them right.
🏜️ Extreme Zones — roguelike-style tycoon areas. Still further out, but it's where we're headed.
## 💬 Got Feedback?
Tell us what you think about the boss fight and the PetCycle in the Discord — balance, difficulty, rewards, all of it. We read everything.
Thanks for playing! 🌲