LandSandBoat/server
Feb 2025 – May 2026
14 Months active
Languages Used
LuaSQLc++cppluasqlC++
Technical Skills
Configuration ManagementGame DevelopmentBackend DevelopmentC++Combat MechanicsCombat Systems
Will Buck
PROFILE
Will Buck
Over eleven months, contributed to LandSandBoat/server by designing and refining core gameplay systems, focusing on combat mechanics, quest progression, and data integrity. Leveraged C++, Lua, and SQL to implement features such as enhanced combat modifiers, elemental magic balancing, and robust quest gating, while also addressing bugs in event handling, AI targeting, and database consistency. Improved player experience by standardizing status effects, optimizing backend logic, and ensuring accurate world interactions. The technical approach emphasized maintainability and reliability, with regular refactoring and configuration management. This work established a stable foundation for future features and reduced edge-case failures across the game server.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
57%Features
Repository Contributions
74Total
Bugs
20
Commits
74
Features
27
Lines of code
1,535,208
Activity Months14
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Work History
May 2026
2 Commits • 1 Features
May 1, 2026May 2026 monthly summary for LandSandBoat/server: Delivered targeted reliability and gameplay improvements. Key outcomes include Nyzul Isle NM mechanics and pathos removal fixes; Pantin Tobe accuracy tuning; two focused commits across the LandSandBoat/server repo delivering bug fix and feature enhancement; this work enhances dungeon reliability and pet performance, reducing edge-case failures and improving player experience.
2 Commits • 1 Features
May 1, 2026May 2026 monthly summary for LandSandBoat/server: Delivered targeted reliability and gameplay improvements. Key outcomes include Nyzul Isle NM mechanics and pathos removal fixes; Pantin Tobe accuracy tuning; two focused commits across the LandSandBoat/server repo delivering bug fix and feature enhancement; this work enhances dungeon reliability and pet performance, reducing edge-case failures and improving player experience.
May 2026
April 2026
1 Commits
Apr 1, 2026Monthly summary for 2026-04: Focused on stabilizing combat encounters by fixing mob skill triggering logic to only activate when the mob's current target is valid. This prevents excessive skill spam during encounters with Angler Orobon and Tinnin, improving performance and player experience.
April 2026
1 Commits
Apr 1, 2026Monthly summary for 2026-04: Focused on stabilizing combat encounters by fixing mob skill triggering logic to only activate when the mob's current target is valid. This prevents excessive skill spam during encounters with Angler Orobon and Tinnin, improving performance and player experience.
February 2026
6 Commits • 2 Features
Feb 1, 2026February 2026 — LandSandBoat/server delivered targeted gameplay balance, stability improvements, and maintainability enhancements that strengthen the core experience and developer velocity. Key features include aggregated gameplay improvements across AI behavior, ally positioning, item modifiers, loot rewards, and stability checks to improve gameplay balance and stability. Specific changes addressed Apkallu run-away behavior (04e36b517be9d238dc9ce9d40a089f3aa59e2cc1), Dawn Phase 2 adjustments (765be7cd433f3888670dc66a5641f356568505af), item modifier corrections (f65bda686ca113afaece08d4e93d3807c2c83689), Einherjar abjuration drops (5a89192711e01ff204c0fe09364e6be242e4c8e7), and null party leader edge cases (05f4e2bec5acdaa45ceddeb11fcd268b5804bb84). In addition, code quality and tooling enhancements introduced configuration files for code formatting, linting, and documentation generation, with a focused fix for Ro'Maeve Moongates (d67285afd430c0de46319610636d70f54396248b).
6 Commits • 2 Features
Feb 1, 2026February 2026 — LandSandBoat/server delivered targeted gameplay balance, stability improvements, and maintainability enhancements that strengthen the core experience and developer velocity. Key features include aggregated gameplay improvements across AI behavior, ally positioning, item modifiers, loot rewards, and stability checks to improve gameplay balance and stability. Specific changes addressed Apkallu run-away behavior (04e36b517be9d238dc9ce9d40a089f3aa59e2cc1), Dawn Phase 2 adjustments (765be7cd433f3888670dc66a5641f356568505af), item modifier corrections (f65bda686ca113afaece08d4e93d3807c2c83689), Einherjar abjuration drops (5a89192711e01ff204c0fe09364e6be242e4c8e7), and null party leader edge cases (05f4e2bec5acdaa45ceddeb11fcd268b5804bb84). In addition, code quality and tooling enhancements introduced configuration files for code formatting, linting, and documentation generation, with a focused fix for Ro'Maeve Moongates (d67285afd430c0de46319610636d70f54396248b).
February 2026
January 2026
9 Commits • 1 Features
Jan 1, 2026Month: 2026-01 | LandSandBoat/server. Delivered targeted improvements to the magic system, quest reliability, and data integrity, with a strong emphasis on balancing gameplay, stabilizing critical flows, and enabling future feature work. Key outcomes include an enhanced magic system with recast modifiers and accuracy tuning, corrected spell data in the database, and more reliable quest/world behaviors driven by fixes to event handling, NPC spawning, AI targeting, and minimum level requirements for access. Result: improved player experience, fewer in-game edge-case failures, and a solid foundation for upcoming content. Highlights include implementing recast mods for healing, enfeebling, and enhancing magic; updating Sange recast to 3 minutes; connecting Violent Flourish M.Acc mod; Tigress Strikes quest event handling fix; spell ID corrections for Self-Destruct, Diamondhide and Nerve Gas; NPC spawning logic fix; AI gambit target selection fix; Bard AF1 quest minimum level adjustment.
January 2026
9 Commits • 1 Features
Jan 1, 2026Month: 2026-01 | LandSandBoat/server. Delivered targeted improvements to the magic system, quest reliability, and data integrity, with a strong emphasis on balancing gameplay, stabilizing critical flows, and enabling future feature work. Key outcomes include an enhanced magic system with recast modifiers and accuracy tuning, corrected spell data in the database, and more reliable quest/world behaviors driven by fixes to event handling, NPC spawning, AI targeting, and minimum level requirements for access. Result: improved player experience, fewer in-game edge-case failures, and a solid foundation for upcoming content. Highlights include implementing recast mods for healing, enfeebling, and enhancing magic; updating Sange recast to 3 minutes; connecting Violent Flourish M.Acc mod; Tigress Strikes quest event handling fix; spell ID corrections for Self-Destruct, Diamondhide and Nerve Gas; NPC spawning logic fix; AI gambit target selection fix; Bard AF1 quest minimum level adjustment.
December 2025
3 Commits • 2 Features
Dec 1, 2025December 2025 monthly summary for LandSandBoat/server. Focused on delivering new gameplay interactions, tightening robustness, and improving combat balance. Key features delivered include a new Light element for the Charm status effect and a deeper Monk combat interaction: Chi Blast now applies an inhibit TP effect conditioned on the player's Penance merits. A critical stability bug was resolved by preventing negative digging coordinates, eliminating underflow risk in player positions. These changes collectively enhance strategic depth, reduce edge-case errors, and improve overall server reliability.
3 Commits • 2 Features
Dec 1, 2025December 2025 monthly summary for LandSandBoat/server. Focused on delivering new gameplay interactions, tightening robustness, and improving combat balance. Key features delivered include a new Light element for the Charm status effect and a deeper Monk combat interaction: Chi Blast now applies an inhibit TP effect conditioned on the player's Penance merits. A critical stability bug was resolved by preventing negative digging coordinates, eliminating underflow risk in player positions. These changes collectively enhance strategic depth, reduce edge-case errors, and improve overall server reliability.
December 2025
November 2025
12 Commits • 3 Features
Nov 1, 20252025-11 LandSandBoat/server monthly summary focused on delivering user-facing progression improvements, data accuracy, and balanced gameplay tuning. The work emphasizes business value through reliable quest progression, richer character equipment dynamics, and stable game balance, aligned with retail data for integrity and retention.
November 2025
12 Commits • 3 Features
Nov 1, 20252025-11 LandSandBoat/server monthly summary focused on delivering user-facing progression improvements, data accuracy, and balanced gameplay tuning. The work emphasizes business value through reliable quest progression, richer character equipment dynamics, and stable game balance, aligned with retail data for integrity and retention.
October 2025
7 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025 — LandSandBoat/server: Delivered targeted data integrity and calculation fixes that strengthen core mechanics, improve shop accuracy, and fix time-based logic. The changes enhance data consistency, combat correctness, and user experience for players and maintainers, while increasing maintainability through explicit fixes and traceable commits.
7 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025 — LandSandBoat/server: Delivered targeted data integrity and calculation fixes that strengthen core mechanics, improve shop accuracy, and fix time-based logic. The changes enhance data consistency, combat correctness, and user experience for players and maintainers, while increasing maintainability through explicit fixes and traceable commits.
October 2025
September 2025
5 Commits • 2 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025 monthly summary for LandSandBoat/server focused on stability, balance, and campaign automation. Delivered key features including Spell System tuning with Helix updates and Bastok allegiance automation, with significant reductions in spell cast times and crash prevention, aligning with business goals of smoother gameplay and faster progression.
September 2025
5 Commits • 2 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025 monthly summary for LandSandBoat/server focused on stability, balance, and campaign automation. Delivered key features including Spell System tuning with Helix updates and Bastok allegiance automation, with significant reductions in spell cast times and crash prevention, aligning with business goals of smoother gameplay and faster progression.
August 2025
2 Commits • 2 Features
Aug 1, 20252025-08 LandSandBoat/server monthly summary. Delivered two core improvements: Charm status effect integration (CHARM_I) with defined element and resistances in the combat status table, and Battlefield Entrance Actions Standardization via DefaultActions Lua files for Battlefield QMs to ensure consistent entrance behavior across zones. This work improves combat state consistency, UX uniformity across zones, and maintainability. No major bugs fixed this month. Note: planned refactor to move charm properties from mob properties to a regular immunity (TODO).
2 Commits • 2 Features
Aug 1, 20252025-08 LandSandBoat/server monthly summary. Delivered two core improvements: Charm status effect integration (CHARM_I) with defined element and resistances in the combat status table, and Battlefield Entrance Actions Standardization via DefaultActions Lua files for Battlefield QMs to ensure consistent entrance behavior across zones. This work improves combat state consistency, UX uniformity across zones, and maintainability. No major bugs fixed this month. Note: planned refactor to move charm properties from mob properties to a regular immunity (TODO).
August 2025
July 2025
3 Commits • 1 Features
Jul 1, 2025Monthly work summary focusing on key accomplishments and improvements for LandSandBoat/server in 2025-07, emphasizing reliability in core gameplay, progression gating, and movement mechanics.
July 2025
3 Commits • 1 Features
Jul 1, 2025Monthly work summary focusing on key accomplishments and improvements for LandSandBoat/server in 2025-07, emphasizing reliability in core gameplay, progression gating, and movement mechanics.
June 2025
3 Commits • 2 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 LandSandBoat/server: delivered key feature enhancements, fixed critical spawn bug, and improved pet capabilities, driving gameplay responsiveness and reliability.
3 Commits • 2 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 LandSandBoat/server: delivered key feature enhancements, fixed critical spawn bug, and improved pet capabilities, driving gameplay responsiveness and reliability.
June 2025
May 2025
8 Commits • 4 Features
May 1, 2025Month: 2025-05 — LandSandBoat/server: Delivered a set of core feature enhancements focused on combat balancing, elemental magic, and system refactors to improve gameplay richness and maintainability. Key deliverables include elemental magic enhancements (new item modifier IDs, FUTAE improvements, ENHANCES_ELEMENTAL_SEAL multiplier, ELEMENTAL_DEBUFF_EFFECT), refined spell mechanics for enfeebling duration and absorb TP (ENF_MAG_DURATION with floor handling; AUGMENTS_ABSORB_TP), kick attack damage recalibration via a dedicated autoattack formula, and a time-system overhaul with ENHANCES_MONSTER_CORRELATION and a new timer library affecting quests and NPC interactions. These changes establish a stronger combat loop, reduce maintenance risk, and enable future features.
May 2025
8 Commits • 4 Features
May 1, 2025Month: 2025-05 — LandSandBoat/server: Delivered a set of core feature enhancements focused on combat balancing, elemental magic, and system refactors to improve gameplay richness and maintainability. Key deliverables include elemental magic enhancements (new item modifier IDs, FUTAE improvements, ENHANCES_ELEMENTAL_SEAL multiplier, ELEMENTAL_DEBUFF_EFFECT), refined spell mechanics for enfeebling duration and absorb TP (ENF_MAG_DURATION with floor handling; AUGMENTS_ABSORB_TP), kick attack damage recalibration via a dedicated autoattack formula, and a time-system overhaul with ENHANCES_MONSTER_CORRELATION and a new timer library affecting quests and NPC interactions. These changes establish a stronger combat loop, reduce maintenance risk, and enable future features.
April 2025
12 Commits • 6 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 monthly summary for LandSandBoat/server: - Implemented core combat system enhancements and data integrity fixes, delivering improved balance, predictability, and player experience. - Focused on key features that increase tactical depth and reliability across combat scenarios, with attention to performance and maintainability.
12 Commits • 6 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 monthly summary for LandSandBoat/server: - Implemented core combat system enhancements and data integrity fixes, delivering improved balance, predictability, and player experience. - Focused on key features that increase tactical depth and reliability across combat scenarios, with attention to performance and maintainability.
April 2025
February 2025
1 Commits
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 — LandSandBoat/server: Data integrity and reliability improvements for RoE event handling. Fixed incorrect mob ID for Mahjlaef the Paintorn in the RoE server global configuration, preventing mis-triggering of events and progression issues. Commit: 06c1c650071ddd4255c260fde9df2d1dedfc57cd. Impact: more accurate event triggers, fewer downstream issues, and more predictable gameplay progression. Technologies/skills: configuration management, Git-based version control, RoE server configuration, data integrity validation.
February 2025
1 Commits
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 — LandSandBoat/server: Data integrity and reliability improvements for RoE event handling. Fixed incorrect mob ID for Mahjlaef the Paintorn in the RoE server global configuration, preventing mis-triggering of events and progression issues. Commit: 06c1c650071ddd4255c260fde9df2d1dedfc57cd. Impact: more accurate event triggers, fewer downstream issues, and more predictable gameplay progression. Technologies/skills: configuration management, Git-based version control, RoE server configuration, data integrity validation.
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Quality Metrics
Correctness91.2%
Maintainability89.8%
Architecture88.4%
Performance89.4%
AI Usage20.2%
Skills & Technologies
Programming Languages
C++LuaSQLc++cppluasql
Technical Skills
AI programmingBackend DevelopmentBug FixingC++C++ developmentC++ programmingCode quality assuranceCombat MechanicsCombat SystemCombat SystemsConfiguration ManagementDatabase ManagementDevOpsDocumentation generationFeature Implementation
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