Rist · 1.3.0 · Added

A Rist line above other players' heads - level, total XP, and days since their last death - written into the game's own nameplate rather than drawn beside it, so it inherits the plate's font, fade and distance rules. ShowPlate turns it off, PlateFormat is the whole of the presentation: fields, order, colours, and whether it wraps to a second line.

The HUD half was one postfix. The data half is why this is more than that: nothing about another player's Rist state is on the wire, since the server pushes a record to the peer it belongs to and to nobody else. Each client now publishes its own level, XP and last-death day onto its own character's network object, which every client in range already replicates. The server cannot publish them instead - a write to a network object you do not own is discarded in silence - so a modded client can lie about its own plate. Accepted knowingly: the plate is decoration and the server's ledger still decides every pick.

Days alive counts from the day the plate first saw a character, not from its creation. The game keeps no birthday, so every existing character reads 0 on the day this ships.

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