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Feral Vintarians
Version 1.3.8 is now available for download in the account manager.We're back from the 4 day ReVersed Festival and it was awesome! We've met so many great and interesting fellow game developers as well as curious players. We showed our game to some 40 people or more. We also gave some interviews about our game. We're definitely looking forward to the next one.
At the festival we showed off a new animal - the wolf. Here is now the official update with it. Enjoy!
Game Updates
- Feature: Added hostile creature: Wolf - Currently very dangerous, so best avoided until there is armor / ranged weapons in the game ;-)
- Feature: Loot Vessels - random loot found in ruins
- Feature: Mega Screenshots - Hit Ctrl+Alt+F12 to make 4x resolution screenshots
- Feature: Added suffocation damage for living entities when inside blocks
- Feature: Chicken now try to avoid water and can swim out of it
- Tweak: Cattails are now edible (The Long Dark anyone? ;-)
- Tweak: Changed crosshair to black/white dot, experimental
- Tweak: Flints slightly more common
- Tweak: WorldEdit Gui - can now use mousewheel to increase/decrease number values by steps of 1 or by 0.1 if shift is held down.
- Tweak: Fixed white border issues when looking at blocks at a distance
- Tweak: Hitting an entity now plays a "Slapping" Sound
- Tweak: WorldEdit now also does overload protection on too large brushes (limited to 50 currently)
- Tweak: Updated hammer and ember block texture
- Tweak: /time set day now sets the time to 8am instead of 9am
- Tweak: Entities stop seeking players if they switch to creative mode
- Fixed: Some items/blocks disappearing when attacking an entity with them in hands
- Fixed: Placing raw and burned molds using wrong textures
- Fixed: Some wonkiness with the creative inventory
- Fixed: Rare crash when server is under heavy load
- Fixed: Crucible not adding 4 slots to firepit
- Fixed: Crash when putting a non-smeltable item in the crucible slots
- Fixed: Desync issue when working on an item on the anvil
- Fixed: Hurt color now again applied when a entity gets damaged
- Fixed: Chickens spawning in the desert
- Fixed: Crash when closing dialog with the 'X' button
- Fixed: Issues when trying to smith an axe
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Blast Mining Vintarians
Version 1.3.7 is now available for download in the account manager.In preparation for the upcoming presentation of Vintage Story at the Vienna GameDev Meetup and the ReVersed Festival here a new release that includes the long planned world edit toolbar, so that we can more easily show off the world editing capabilities of the game. This toolbar is merely an interface to already existing functionality which has been available through commands for quite a while now, but greatly improves the accessibility of these tools. We'll hope this will make for a great presentation in the upcoming week! :-)
Website Updates
- New story excerpt - Ghosts
Game Updates
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Feature: World Edit Toolbar
- A more user friendly way to use the world edit tools, does not yet support all of the features that the command line interface offers
- Hit the Tilde (`) Key on your keyboard while in creative mode to activate
- Offers some additional client side settings, such as modifying the clouds and fog density or color
- While the gui is opened the player can still place and remove blocks
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Feature: Explosives
- New resource: Saltpeter - appears on cave walls
- New resource: Blasting powder - crafted from sulfur, coal and saltpeter
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New block: Ore blasting bomb - an explosive best suited for mining ores. Crafted from blasting power, flax twine and a piece of linen. Place on the ground, ignite with a torch and enjoy the show!
- Feature: New block: Full shingle block
- Feature: New soundtrack "Midnight"
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Feature API Updates (none yet documented, bug tyron for questions):
- New generic "JsonDialog" that allows mods to create their own guis from a given sets of gui elements.
- Mods can now register and hook up to keybord events
- Added ability for particles to spawn other particles (i.e. particle trails)
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Tweak: Some modifications to the world edit commands
- Block entities are now also exported/imported
- Lake tool is now called "Flood Fill" and has a configurable search radius parameter via /we tr
- The dimensions for the Paint brush and eraser can now be set individually via /we tsx, /we tsy or /we tsz
- The Tree tool now takes a minimum and maximum size for the tree instead of a minimum and random add parameter.
- Tweak: Added hen fleeing sound
- Tweak: Added particle effects to standing lava
- Fixed: Hen walking animation not always playing while it's walking
- Fixed: A rare server crash occurring randomly (hopefully)
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We've encountered a few annoying bugs with the latest update, so this update should fix it. Version 1.3.6.1 is ready for download in the account manager.
Change Log
- Fixed: Chicken not always dropping meat
- Fixed: Crops and other patches of plants too common
- Fixed: Items disappearing when survival inventory is full (now for real!)
- Fixed: Some entities untouchable on world reload
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Smithy Vintarians
Version 1.3.6 is now available for download in the account manager.After a long break I've completed the 1.3.6 release. As always I want to be transparent about what I've been up to. Already last year my wife and I picked up a new hobby - Gardening. I have to admit, few things are as rewarding as seeing your own food grow. That however also means that the month of may is usually the busiest time of the year where we do a lot of seeding, planting, watering and overally tending to our crops. By now we grow a wide variety of vegetables, berries and herbs with our constantly expanding area of self built raised garden beds.
Anyhow, the bulk of planting is now done and I will be able to slowly resume work on Vintage Story again.
For starters, here's to videos of the 2 most significant new features: Smithing and ChickensChange Log
- Feature: The first basic implementation of the Smithing System is now complete. See above video.
- Feature: Added ruins to world generation
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Feature: Added first friendly creature: Chickens
- Includes 3 types: Roosters, Hens and Chicks each with up to 8 different textures
- Basic behaviors such as pecking the ground and staying in a group
- Hens will spawn chicks if a rooster is nearby, up to a group size of 20 chickens
- Killed roosters and hens will drop meat that can be cooked and eaten
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Feature: New Model for the drifter with very buggy animations
(will fix for next release)
- Feature: Vignette Effect (darkened screen edges) that flashes red when getting damaged
- Feature: Performance optimization - loading chunks and saving the game now noticably faster at the cost of 10% increased RAM usage
- Feature: New music track "Nostalgic"
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API Features:
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Added entity debug mode. Displays arbitrary information above entities. To enable:
.clientconfig set showentitydebuginfo 1
/entity debug 1 - Added ability to create and add entities during worldgen
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Added entity debug mode. Displays arbitrary information above entities. To enable:
- Tweak: Some weird experimentation with clouds. Please send me some feedback if they look better or worse now
- Tweak: Sound attenuation is now linear - fixes drifters hearable from very far away
- Tweak: VintageStory client and server exe files are now also digitally signed which may help with them getting detected as false positives by AntiVirus software
- Tweak: Improved tool tip texts in the graphics settings
- Tweak: Fences can no longer be jumped over
- Fixed: Entities that are underwater became invisible when the player looks at them while above water
- Fixed: Trying to change keymapps in the settings caused the list to scroll up
- Fixed: Server Exception when players typed '{' or '}'
- Fixed: Rare bug where the player suddenly could no longer control his own character
- Fixed: Recording with Fraps very laggy
- Fixed: Items disappearing when inventory is full in survival
- Fixed: Changing controls no longer causes the controls list to jump up
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Version 1.3.5.2 is now available for download in the account manager.
Looks like I've also broken the server starting, disconnected and server exiting screen
The game will still run fine though, nonetheless, here's a bugfix release.Updates
- Fixed: Loading/unloading and disconnected screens only showing a brown background
- Fixed: Game crashing when turning up music value from 0 while a world is opened
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Version 1.3.5.1 is now available for download in the account manager.
Whoops, I've broken the login screen. This release should fix it.Updates
- Fixed: Login Screen not displaying anything beyond the background
- Fixed: Durability bar of an item/block sometimes visible when it shouldn't be (cause by block picking via mouse+middle click)
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Almost Smithing Vintarians
Version 1.3.5 is now available for download in the account managerDespite our efforts, the smithing system has not just yet emerged from the complex networks of game mechanics needed to make it work. We made a few major advancements though
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There's now a Forge which lets you reheat metals and work items.
- Shift + right click with coal or lignite to refill fuel
- Right click with a torch to ignite
- Shift + right click with ingots or plates to place for heating
- The current work item can now be picked up, reheated and placed back on the anvil using right mouse click and shift+right mouse click
- Working an item on the anvil with the hammer is now mapped to the left mouse button instead of the right one. Any item now may override the left mouse button default behavior.
- Added some fancy particle effects when working a hot piece of metal
- I've started implementing smithing recipes and a (currently useless) dialog for selecting the desired smithing recipe.
- Hot blocks/items now also glow in the gui, in the players hands or when dropped on the ground
I'll also make a tutorial video once the smithing system is complete.
Updates
- Feature: New Block: Forge. Can be used to heat ingots and plates to working temperature for (incomplete) smithing on the anvil. Requires coal as fuel and a torch for igniting the coal.
- Feature: Added blocks basalt and obisidian. Added new behavior where mixing lava and water creates these 2 blocks.
- Feature: Added ability to change any client configuration at runtime through the command .clientconfig
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Feature: Variable Sampling Pixel Rate. Enables two things:
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0.5x Sampling rate: 50% performance gain at the cost of reduced graphics quality for ultra low end hardware. Set via
- .clientconfig set ssaa 0.5
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2-4x Sampling rate: Very laggy but allows making massive screenshots (e.g. 7680x4320 pixels). Set via
- .clientconfig set ssaa 2
- .clientconfig set scaleScreenshot 0
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0.5x Sampling rate: 50% performance gain at the cost of reduced graphics quality for ultra low end hardware. Set via
- Feature: "Rock Quarrying" Mining all the blocks around a Rock block will now drop the rock itself.
- Feature: Reworked world generation component responsible for spawning patches of plants/blocks/stuff. The world generator should now spawn many plants/flowers/crops more commonly again. Also patches of blocks now also spawn more likely together with forests, shrubs or other patches.
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Feature: Performance Improvements
- Improved speed of Terrain Collision detection by 15%: Gives a nice FPS boost when 300+ Entities are loaded
- Improved chunk tesselation speed by 4%: Makes chunks load a bit faster
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Feature: New API Method
- IBlockAccessor.GetBlocks() - retrieve blocks from within an area. Runs faster than when calling .GetBlock() many times
- OnBeginAttack/OnAttacking/etc.: A collectible may now also override the block breaking action via left mouse click.
- Tweak: Hitting Enter in the Chat Window now unfocuses it immediately. Previously you had to hit enter twice which was unintuitive.
- Tweak: The Sky is now less white in creative mode by setting the correct sea level.
- Tweak: Hitting the F1/F2 keys in creative mode now decreases/increase the speed by 1 instead of setting it to a fixed value of 1 or 5. Holding the Ctrl-Key changes the speed in steps of 0.1
- Tweak: Players now start with 8 bread until there is enough survival content that prevents starving
- Tweak: Added Luma render pass. Improves anti-aliasing quality done by FXAA
- Fixed: Badly randomized topsoil grass transitions
- Fixed: Gold and Silver ore not smeltable
- Fixed: Gold and Silver ore deposits now spawning anywhere. Now spawn as subdeposits in quartz
- Fixed: Right Ingot on a double mold block not retrievable with right click
- Fixed: Crash when calling /bir remap
- Fixed: Bloom shader effect affected by blocklight/sunlight
- Fixed: Metalplate missing blockside shading
- Fixed: Coopers Reed in water having only 1 visible diagonal side. Now renders as a full cross again.
- Fixed: Either Water flowing too slow or lava flowing too fast
- Fixed: Some behavior and graphical glitches with water/lava
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Forge block and hot ingot on an anvil
More richly decorated worlds due to improved block patch generator
Fixed badly randomized grass tinting
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There's now a Forge which lets you reheat metals and work items.
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14 hours ago, Jdbener said:
Would implement different tools for each move work? It would raise the skill ceiling a bit but would turn out more realistic and gives more opportunities for smiths to refine their specific craft with specific tools providing specific effects.
P.S. why don't more people use nice what you see is what you get texturing solutions? Great work there!
It might be that we will add several new techniques and so you would a metric ton of tools filling your hotbar, we were concerned this might be a bit overkill. For now I added a tool mode dialog that you can open when hitting the 'F' key.
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I envision a "Customize Playstyle" Screen that you can reach through the create world screen with a bunch of settings such as
- Torch burnout
- Being in the Darkness kills you
- Loose inventory contents on death
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In other words the 4 default playstyles are merely default selections in that configuration list. That way we could keep the difficulty level seperate from game mechanic details such as dropping items on death - and in fact i personally would somewhat prefer if we could avoid a difficulty setting altogether, there's some good arguments against it.
We could even game-ify that custom playstyle screen. I always loved this screen in Master of Orion 2: https://strategywiki.org/wiki/File:Moo2_RaceDesignScreen.png
It gives you a fixed amount of points for postive or negative perks. Positive perks cost you points while negative perks give you more points. Unused points give you a score multiplier.This way might give the player a way more rewarding feeling when they choose their custom playstyle.
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We have Updates. Shaderific.
- Tweaked sky horizon, now takes on the fog color, making fog actually foggy.
- Tweaked Bloom and Godray shaders. Particularly the godray shader has a less overexposed sky now.
- Tweaked berry bushes and crops to appear in warmer climates as well, should be a bit more common now.
- Fixes or at least reduces the occurence of the server crashing
- Fixes player no longer able to die
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Sandy Vintarians
Version 1.3.4 is now available for download in the account manager.[Update 23.4.2017] There's currently a fairly common server crash occurring, I'm working on a fix
While I did make some more progress on the smithing system and animals, I decided against waiting any longer for these features to be ready and release an inbetween version. Since last update I added the ability for tools to have tool modes that the player can select from. This enables you to properly shape your work item on the anvil. Still missing is a forge to heat the ingot, a recipe matching system and some pretty effects.
Beyond that, we've now closed the suggestions tracker and moved all the suggestions either to the new suggestions reddit at /r/VSSuggestions or our internal tracker.
Updates
- Feature: Added falling block physics for sand and gravel
- Feature: Added Skull Cow block to deserts
- Feature: Added Max FPS Slider for manually syncing monitor refresh rate with game refresh rate for reduced stutter (38 FPS works best for me)
- Feature: Added metal plate and plate piles
- Feature: Lava now flows like water, albeit slower and emits light also when generated during worldgen
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Feature: Improved Game Performance
- Moved block and sun relighting computations into a seperate thread. This causes light sources to appear fractionally after placing them therefore however cause no more lag. This is particularly helpful while loading newly generated chunks as these can cause many updates from settling rivers.
- Fixed random heavy frame stutter while chunks are loading (due to lock contention)
- Tweak: Tools now have a higher attack power than using bare hands
- Tweak: Gravel Step sounds a bit smoother
- Tweak: Some API methods in Collectible.cs and Block.cs now marked virtual
- Fixed: Sky darkening every day at 12:00
- Fixed: Sun shine halo cut off
- Fixed: Drifters not despawning, causing them to be a pretty rare find
- Fixed: API method entitypos.GetViewVector().Z inverted
- Fixed: Game crashing when it fails to load a mapchunk, now logs an error instead
- Fixed: Stuttering problem when teleporting very far away
- Fixed: Hovering items over items in the creative inventory + hotbar key created only ghost items
- Fixed: Mipmap level now at 4 by default
- Fixed: Hunger level going down in creative mode
- Fixed: Controls Dialog getting oversized when the window is resized or the gui scale changes
- Fixed: Stove Block disappearing on world reload
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Just tried it, it works \o/
What would be pretty cool is when horizontally attached blocks would also break.
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Patient Vintarians
Yet again, I could not bring out a new release within the time frame that I hoped for. One of the causes includes my whole family catching a pretty severe cold for the second time this year, though luckily I have been spared so far. But I digress, here's some game related updates!
Game Festival
So I just got the news today that in all likelihood I will be attending the A.MAZE Game Festival Berlin to show off Vintage Story at one of their open screen booths. They accepted my submission, so I guess I should be going ;-)
Community
Since the previous game update the forums and chat have become very active, which is awesome! It's getting hard to track all the ideas floating around, so we'll probably try and find a better solution to tracking these, ideally a single place for where people can vote and sort the suggestions in various ways.
The old Chat service will be discontinued by the developers of this forum software, so I had to switch over to an alternative. Discord seemed to be a nice choice, so I hope to see you all there!
Model Creator
I've done a lot of work on the Model Creator and uploaded 7 new releases this month. The updates were mostly to improve the stability, consistency and ease-of-use when creating creature models and animations. After all, the better we can work with this tool, the faster we can churn out high quality models and animations for the game. Beyond that I also implemented the ability to export animations as animated gifs, because communication is key! Here's the first ever gif export:
By the way, if there's anyone that thinks he can do way better animations than that: I NEED YOU! PLEASE CONTACT ME!
(serious)
The model and texturing was done by saraty, which is a great first milestone for her to be able to do that.The other new feature is automatic texture reloading. Combined with a PS Action to automatically export the current image as png through hotkey, you have near instant texture reload, this should greatly speed up the texturing process since you get quick feedback on how it looks.
GameSmithing
I've got a half finished implementation for a smithing system which hit a minor road block that I have to solve first: Selecting from a list of smithing techniques. Probaby will be some special form of gui dialog. Here's a short video that demonstrates some of the ideas behind the smithing concept. It's inspired by redrams suggestions in the forums.
AnimationsI probably spent another 10 hours or more fixing the remaining bugs in the animation code, which was the last roadblock that prevent me from adding new creatures. This component was probably the hardest one to implement into the game so far, so this calls for a celebration that it's in a usable state now!
Max FPS
For anyone experiencing stutter, this new graphics setting could fix it, by manually syncing the FPS to your Monitors refresh rate. For me the game ran smoothest when limited to 38 FPS
Joshes Updates
Josh has been actively working on the ever growing list of smallish tasks. Since the last update he fixed that lava lakes are dark during initial world generation, that lava can spread like water and added the long planned cow skull block to deserts.
That's all folks! I hope to finish the new smithing system soon and make a release with it. Until then, stay classy.
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15 hours ago, Saraty said:
hmmm... I think its already fair enough to players to have clearly readable message in case alloy is correct. It would be interesting to have a possibility to screw up!
Perhaps.
1 hour ago, Saraty said:Molds are not permanent, they will break after some time!
But not yet implemented
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On 4/8/2017 at 3:18 PM, DMKW said:
Great update! Beautifully done. The music, the animation, the particle effects, the icons, all fit so well together to complete the atmosphere. It was certainly worth the extra time spent on it.
Thanks for the praise, we're glad you appreciate our efforts! :-)
6 hours ago, redram said:Very nice update! Love the steam effect when pouring the metal. Is there or will there be a chance for ingots to break? Or are they permanent once made? Cane one make a 'bad batch' of metal? Or will it only output when you have a valid mixture?
I don't think it would be a useful game mechanic to make ingots break or have bad batches. The vessel only starts smelting if you have a valid mixture in it (which the firepit gui tells you textually as you seen in the video), so you can't make a failed alloy, I find that more fair to players.
On 4/5/2017 at 11:26 PM, Jdbener said:Already better than Forge!
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33 minutes ago, Jdbener said:
- Added ability to perform a ray trace from any position to detects collisions with blocks or entities
Does that mean that modders would be able to turn off collisions on some blocks?
Not quite. There's a few things you could do with that but it doesn't let you control the players physics. Examples:
- A laser block that destroys whats in front of it
- A mob that damages whatever entity it is currently looking at
- Test if there is a direct line of sight between two entities
Permanently turning off collision boxes on certain blocks during runtime you could quite easily do through another way - modify the collision boxes of the block instances (aquired either by world.GetBlock(code) or iterating over world.Blocks) -
Metallurgic Vintarians
You can now finally progress to the next metal tier - bronze \o/
Took way way longer than I hoped, but now it's done at least. For the next version I will try to add some basic animal life to attain food from so starving is less of an issue.Here's a tutorial video on how smelting works now
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Feature: New Smelting System
- All smeltable blocks or items now have a new property "Temperature" that increase when being heated and drops when being cooled
- Smelting of ores now must happen inside a Vessel that is placed in the fire pit. This expands the firepit inventory by 4 cooking/smelting slots.
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Can now mix and match ores and ingots to create pure or alloyed metals. Currently available:
- Tin bronze: 88-92% copper, 8-12% tin. Double durability than copper and quite strong
- Bismuth bronze: 50-70% copper, 20-30% zinc and 10-20% bismuth. Slightly higher durability than tin bronze but somewhat weaker (slightly less damage on swords, slightly less mining speeds)
- Black bronze: 70-90% copper, 8-16% gold, 8-16% silver. Highest durability and strength of all bronze alloys.
- Added ingot molds to pour in molten metal
- Added bronze tools for bismuth bronze, black bronze and tin bronze as well as their respective crafting recipes.
- Feature: 5 new blocks: Skull Cobblestone, new Barrel with variants, Straw Bed, Crate and Bone-y Soil
- Feature: 2 new survival music tracks "Building" and "Creating"
- Feature: Eating food is no longer instant and plays an animation while eating
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Feature: Modding Updates
- Added ability to perform a ray trace from any position to detects collisions with blocks or entities
- Can now have custom, non-instant and animated uses for items/blocks
- New Event for Blocks/Items while being held by the player
- New Event for Blocks when the player collides with them
- Tweak: Changed Intro Track to use "Night To Day" again
- Fixed: Lava glowlevel and light values missing
- Fixed: Items not in general tab in creative inventory
- Fixed: Chest contents dropping while opened and the player dies
- Fixed: Crash when mods register their own blocks/items
- Fixed: Some weirdness related to loading/unloading entities resulting in odd behaviors with dropped items or drifters
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Inactive Vintarians
As mentioned 2 posts ago I've been inactive for 2 weeks, hence the lack of updates. For the last 2 days I've continued my work on implementing the bronze age, which turned out to be a lot more time consuming than I originally thought, as it requires more than just 2 new features, such as item temperature, held item animations, ore-in-container smelting, alloying as well as a new block with a custom renderer. A big part of it is now complete however, so you can probably expect a new version in 2-4 days.
In the coming update there will also be at least 2 new blocks and 2 new tracks from Hayden.
Looking forward to work on the next thing already!
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Folksly Vintarians!
Version 1.3.2 is now available for download in the account manager.At long last, a new game version. It was supposed to include the new entity animation system. It's all implemented but one last glitch remained that will require some more work to fix, but after two months fiddling with animations I wanted to work on something else again. So now with the help of Josh and Hayden we have creative tabs and ambient cave music.
I actually forgot to fix that weird texture bug with torches, so enjoy creepy torch textures with our brand new creep cave sounds! >:D
Updates
- Feature: New music track "To Dawn, from a Very Rainy Night"
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Feature: Ambient Cave music
- 33 ambient track pieces that are dynamically composed together when being in places devoid of sunlight (i.e. caves)
- Dynamically blends tracks when moving between overground and underground
- Improved music system that will allow more kinds of dynamically composed tracks in the future
- Feature: Added tabs for the creative inventory
- Feature: New blocks: Paper Lantern, Chair and Table
- Feature: New server config to enable disable spawning of creatures
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Feature: New server command /serverconfig Allows setting various sever settings while the server is running. Currently available:
- maxchunkradius: Set max view distance
- maxclients: Set max allowed players that can join
- antiabuse: Enable/Diable anticheat mode
- onlywhitelist: Toggle whitliste mode (=only allow players to join that are on a whitelist)
- entityspawning: Disable/Enable spawning of creatures (=drifters)
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Feature: Mod API updates
- Refactored API namespaces to follow a cleaner design pattern
- Added IBlockEntityContainer interface to access block entity inventories
- Added GetLightLevel() method for convenient access to a positions light leves
- Added getters for sunlight and blocklight levels in the world accessor
- Added ability to load hierarchical shapes for blocks, items and entities
- Added ability to render entities from a shape, added support to load and run animations
- Improved documentation in various places
- Tweak: Drifters no longer target player in creative or spectator mode
- Tweak: Placing stairs now are placed upside down depending on whether targeting the upper or lower half of a block
- Tweak: Increased max configurable mouse sensitivy from 150 to 200
- Fixed: Played picking up items after death
- Fixed: Game instance not fully stopped after leaving a world, causing increased memory usage and potentially other weird behavior
- Fixed: Create NPC command not working
- Fixed: A crash the sometimes occured when loading a world
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Silent Vintarians
Nobody likes delays. A series of inconveniences and other responsibilities prevented me from doing much programming on the game. And then, last week, my family including me caught quite a cold, sigh. Due to this there's no new release as of right now.
We were not inactive however:
- CreativeMD continously adds new articles to our mod documentation and took a first dive in the engine code.
- Luke has been writing several pages on the game story
- Hayden made several great cave sounds as well as a new track that will be in the next release
- Josh joined the team as game programmer
- Ivan continued his work on building dungeon sections
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And I, Tyron,
- wrote a new About us page that replaces the previous Team and Vision pages
- implemented the basics for animations in the game engine
- added a few features related to animations to our model creator tool
- been on the lookout for an Animator to make us animations. Contact me if you are interested!
For the coming 10 days I should have more time to work on the game, interupted by a 2 week period of low activity, beyond which my availability should be back to normal again.Overally my lifes situation has not changed greatly and we still have the same dedication to push the game forward as always, so hopefully in the comming week we'll have something nice to release again!
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Hunted Vintarians
Version 1.3.1 is now available for download in the account manager.
After a long and ardous journey through the depths of the engine a working creature system has come alive. Please note that this is just the very beginning of the creature/combat system that we actually have in mind. There was just so many new components and refactors required that I wanted to have them done first before I go ahead with a "version 0.0.2" of these components. The next step is probably to add support for models and animation made from the VS Model Creator. Nonetheless I hope that it will spice up your survival experience!Updates
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Feature: First hostile creature: Drifter. Includes:
- Basic but modular AI System: Wandering around, seeking players, attacking the nearest player
- Basic path traversing: Walk from point a to point b in a direct line. Ability to step on 1 high blocks.
- Powerful creature configuration: A creature is merely a json file. Creatures and can added, removed or modified by touching only those files (custom models not implemented just yet).
- Basic movement interpolation on the client. Creatures and other Players now should move smoothly
- New server command: /entity [spawn|count|removeall] [entityname]
- Custom texture as well as idle, hurt and death sounds
- 0.5 second red tinting when being attacked. Spawn particles on death.
- Basic spawning and despawning mechanic. Drifters (for) now spawn in dark areas where the light level is below 8.
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Feature: Very Basic combat system
- Ability to punch other players and creatures.
- Added attack power property to items. Swords, Knifes and Axes now have extra attack power (visible in the items tooltip)
- Durability reduction on items with durability when attacking
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Feature: Engine/Mod API Updates
- Able to register entities, ai tasks, entity renderers and particle property providers
- Able to spawn particles server side (=> broadcasted to clients)
- Tweak: In multiplayer a joining player is now regarded as spectator until the client sends a ready signal. This should prevent getting killed while still joining.
- Fixed: Item texture overlays property not working
- Fixed: Crash when trying to craft something
- Fixed: Not able to start a singleplayer world if in serverconfig.json whitelisting is turned on
- Fixed: A client crashing in a certain situations when joining a multiplayer world
Demonstration Video
(Something seems to have gone awry with the encoding. I'll upload a better quality clip tomorrow)
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Feature: First hostile creature: Drifter. Includes:
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Filmic Vintarians
Version 1.3.0 is now ready for download at https://account.vintagestory.at.
This updates comes fairly late and does not contain many new features. My body seemed slightly fed up from the intense amount of desk work so I was forced to take a longer break. Furthermore I did some major refactorings in preparation for adding creatures into the game, without any progress that I could show off.
I did add a long planned method of compression videos captured by the ingame recorder which is now done. It is pretty slow though, so I probably have to do some major optimizations there. Audio is also still not captured yet.
And finally, on Request by UmbraCreations I improved the world edit tools to offer better copy&mirror operations for creating large builds. I've made.Please note that I had to make a backwards compabtility breaking change this version. If you load an old savegame you will get thrown back to the spawn point with full health and hunger, but everything else should work fine.
Updates
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Feature: World Edit Updates (all documented on the How to use page)
- Ability to grow/shrink the selection,
- Added ability to mirror or repeat a selection.
- Coordinate Hud now shows the horizontal orientation
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Feature: Video recorder tools. Added .vrec tool to do ingame video recording, also offering video compression.
- .vrec start - Starts recording
- .vrec stop - Stops recording
- .vrec toggle - Starts/Stops recording (usefull for mapping onto a keyboad key using the Macro Manager)
- vrec fps [number] - sets the video framerate of the recording
- .vrec tickfps [number] - sets the game framerate (should ideally cause lagfree recording if set but I'm having minor troubles with it syncing up perfectly with the video frames. Setting it to the same as the video framerate will probably help with lag though).
- .vrec codec - lists all available encoders that compresses your video (install x264vfw for an mpeg4 encoder). Most encoders seem very laggy unfortunately, I probably have to optimize some more here.
- .resolution width height - Sets the game window size to given width height
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Mod API Updates
- Entity and ItemStack class now part of the API, allowing a bunch of things that weren't possible before
- Extended the Render API so that the rendering of entity items, entity players and other entities can now be rendered using the render api alone
- Tweak: Reduced sound range of all sounds
- Fixed: Hay block not blocking light
- Fixed: Some Stairs blocks causing neighbouring block sides to be come transparent
- Fixed: Rare client crash when exploring the world
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Feature: World Edit Updates (all documented on the How to use page)
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Thats Awesome! :-)
> I had problems with my building flow due to how different it is to Minecraft and of course i had to get used to the World Edit in this game. I will continue building things though.
If you provide me with some feedback, perhaps i can try make some things more similar :-)
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A bunch of bugs justify a quick fix, so here's 1.2.9.2 for you. Get it at https://account.vintagestory.at as always
Updates
- Feature: Added an API call to look at all registered world gen handlers. Should allow completely custom world generation by clearing all handlers.
- Tweak: Some API Methods now are getters instead of methods
- Fixed: Keymapping lost after every update
- Fixed: Ores not getting consumed after being smelted in the firepit
- Fixed: Client Crash when breaking blocks in certain situations
- Fixed: Client Crash when opening the chest inventory in certain situations (cause not yet known, so might still produce wonky behavior)
- Fixed: Client Crash when trying to connect to a server in certain situations (related to ingot piles)
(will fix for next release)
Archery (v1.3.9)
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Skilful Vintarians
Version 1.3.9 is now available for download in the account manager.
After playing a whole bunch of Mount&Blade I went ahead and build an archery system inspired by that, a skill tree is still lacking though. Beyond that I spent some extra focus on stability, so this build contains a lot of bug fixes. Under the hood this update also contains 2 larger updates that are not quite finished yet, but I will look forward to deliver them to you in a complete form in one of the following releases. Until then, I hope you can enjoy the new archery system and freshly added gold/silver tools!
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