This is a small patch addressing a few bugs, as well as a few minor balance tweaks. Enjoy! :) If you want to read more about the enormous Update 2 patch, click here. Check out the change log for all the juicy bits, and if you find a bug, don't forget to report it on Discord or the Steam Forums. :)

Update 2d Change Log

Miscellaneous Changes

• Lowered "Goal Completed" sound a few decibels.
• Boosted praying actions to give 3 essence worth 3 energy rather than 2 essence worth 2 energy. (aka; now you get 9 total essence per action, instead of 4)
• Changed problem panel text for no food to also mention animal farms.
• Placing God Towers and God Walls no longer grants God XP for "Buildings Constructed"
• Corrupted buildings now spawn with a small amount of construction already completed so they can be targeted immediately.
• You can now exit the game entirely from the region/play view.
• Increased Chest Cost by 10%
• Increased Chest award-rate by 33%.
• When the game notifies you of a completed goal you completed in a previous play session, it no longer plays all the fanfare sound/particle effects, and changes "Completed!" to "Claim on Goals Panel!"
• Goals "Rise From The Grave" and "Was I a Good Boy?" now tick up even if the resurrection fails, resulting in a zombie.
• Changed "Default" crystal color to blue, so it looks less like a carrot in the UI.
• Wild Doofy Doggos now count for the "War Crimes" goal.
• Wild Doofy Doggos can now also initiate the Cullis Gate Easter Egg.
• Mend spell now puts out all fires on buildings when cast.
• Fire Elementals overall stats reduced by 33%. (The effective result is they scale 33% slower)
• Zombies now tend to get more STR than DEX stats.
• Other zombie variants now have the same stat gains as regular Zombies.
• Wood, Stone and Crystal Combobulators now generate golems 50% slower, but still require the same amount of total energy per golem resulting in less overall energy used day to day.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a rare AI crash when the AI failed to reset it's assignment during some pickup actions. (Thanks to Veldrin for the fix)
• "Dude, WTH Man" no longer incorrectly needs to be completed 4 times instead of 1.
• Removed the goal output debug information from logs.
• "Hands off me" goal no longer counts for any mob picked up.
• Fixed all tooltips, tips, and various other UI elements that suggest using crylithium for fuel, even though crylithium is no longer used that way.
• Problem panel no longer reports homes with food as not having them.
• "Touch Grass" goal now works when playing using a different language other than English.
• Fixed goals "Build All The Things" and "Tower Defense" incrementing when a god tower was placed.
• "Energy" tip no longer pops up when you build an Essence Altar.
• Doofy Doggos are now always named Moon Moon, even when wild.
• Fixed several perk names being incorrectly formatted.
• Fixed goal "Poor Weaponry" (Yes, again!)
• Corruption towers can now fire at the village again. (Note, previously constructed towers may still not fire.)
• Nephilim children now count to the "OMG" goal.
• Fixed a minor UI glitch on building overlays that would cause some health stats to render outside of the background bounds.

[ 2023-09-19 22:29:11 CET ] [ Original post ]

This is a small patch addressing a few bugs, as well as a few minor balance tweaks. Enjoy! :) If you want to read more about the enormous patch that was just released on Saturday, click here. Check out the change log for all the juicy bits, and if you find a bug, don't forget to report it on Discord or the Steam Forums. :)

Update 2c Change Log

Miscellaneous Changes

• Trash burners now release or store 5 units of energy per tick, but the ticks are now 5 times longer. This fixes an issue where burners would cause too many particles to generate late-game.
• All chest open costs now reduced by 50%. (Note, already existing chests will still have their old opening costs)
• Temporarily disabled Twitch integration due to new API changes.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a few goals not progressing.
• Fixed a resource loading issue in the engine that caused problems with some localization mods.
• Fixed missing localization tag for the comet spell cost perk.
• Updated many aspects of the Java JRE and engine to reduce some hanging that can happen for specific configurations.
• Changed all .wav sound effects to .ogg to fix an additional hanging issue some users were experiencing.

[ 2023-08-29 00:36:04 CET ] [ Original post ]

Introducing the largest update patch ever in Rise to Ruins history. Update 2, the Achievement Update. This patch adds a massive amount of new content, bug fixes, tweaks and over 100 Steam Achievements tied into a brand new goals system. I've also started live streaming development on Twitch, if you're interested, you can follow me there. I'll mostly be streaming Rise to Ruins, Rise to Ruins 2 (Yes you just read that) and Rayvo2D Engine development. But I may also occasionally Stream gaming and other random things. In addition, my wife is now officially SixtyGig Games new art intern, and she will be working on all current and future projects. If you're interested in stalking her, you can do so on Formerly-Twitter. Head over there and send her a "thank you" for making all the new achievement icons, chat bubbles, terrains and several other additions this patch. :) Finally, check out the change log for all the juicy bits, and if you find a bug, don't forget to report it on Discord or the Steam Forums. :) Alright, let's get into this! If you have any ideas on new achievements to add, or tweaks to existing ones, let me know!

Update 2 Change Log

Goals and Achievements System

• Old goal system has been removed from the game entirely.
• New goals system now has 117 goals (more may be added, post your ideas!).
• Each goal unlocks a corresponding Steam Achievement.
• Every goal is on a huge web map, and as you unlock goals, more goals will become available.
• Like the previous goals system, all goals and their progress persist through dooming the world.
• Goals can now be accessed in when in the play state (Playing in a region/map).
• Goals no longer award perks, but award a lot of God Experience.
• Free Chest Slots can be unlocked, awarding, you guess it, a free chest!
• Chests are now gained 25% faster to offset the goals no longer rewarding perks directly.

Faith and Influence System

• Villagers now gain and lose a new need, called faith, based on your and the world's actions. Anything they deem positive, they'll gain faith, negative, they lose it.
• Villagers are now less likely to panic or be confused when they have high faith and witness god doing things in the village.
• All spells now influence faith stats in some way or another when cast near villagers.
• New Building: The Essence Altar. Villagers can now be assigned as "Occultists", who will go to the altar and pray. Completing a pray action will increase the villager's faith and the villagers around them, as well as generate free essence that will be sent to an Essence Collector.
• New perks added for praying speeds.
• Lightning and Meteor (all kinds, including the spells) will now raise or lower faith depending on where it strikes, and what it hits.
• Villagers will now sometimes get a boost in faith when chatting with someone with significantly higher faith than they have.
• Villagers now gain 10 faith when they domesticate a wild doggo or take a mate.
• Villagers now gain faith when they mate, and villagers nearby gain a very small amount.
• Nearby villagers gain faith when they witness a monster killed.
• Nearby villagers lose faith when they witness another villager killed.
• Nearby villagers get a bonus to faith when they witness an elder die of natural causes. (Living a "full life")
• Villagers now conceive Nephilim children if their combined total faith is within 90% of their maximum faith.
• Lightning rods can increase faith when a lightning bolt hits them.
• A mob resurrected from the Resurrect spell get maximum faith instantly upon resurrection.
• Completely rewrote how max influence is calculated, each villager now provides a minimum and maximum amount, depending on the type of villager they are. Children offer less, while elders offer more, and Nephilims offer additional bonuses.
• All domesticated animals other than Doggos now provide 5 max influence each.
• Doggos now provide 20 max influence each.
• Doofy Doggos now provide 50 max influence each.
• The amount of total influence to the max influence bar each mob provides is now based on their faith. For example, if their faith is only 50% full, they will only provide 50% of their potential maximum influence. (Note: This only counts for mobs with faith stats, like villagers. Doggos for example, will always provide max faith as they have no faith stats.)
• New perks added for minimum influence, influence per animal and influence per villager.
• Flowers can now generate near concentrated areas of energy on the map, and where essence moves heavily through.
• Adjusted faith decay rates for all villagers.
• Standard and High Quality housing both now offer faith bonuses when upgraded.

Essence and Essence Collector Changes

• Significantly increased the speed newly spawned "resting" essence becomes active.
• Greatly improved essence colors and trails.
• Essence Collectors can no longer be fueled with or store crylithium.
• Essence Collectors now hold much more energy.
• Recolored and tweaked the Essence Collector art.
• Essence Collectors construction requirements have been increased, and now require crylithium for the first upgrade, and iron ingots for the second.
• Flowers can now be dissolved or cleared for a small amount of essence.

Reliquary and The Dead

• New Building: The Reliquary. You can store bound souls at the reliquary, binding the ghost to the general area, and maintaining their vessel.
• New Resources: Empty and Filled Eerie Vessels. Empty Vessels are made by the Occultists in the Reliquary with 1 iron and 1 gold.
• Occultists can now "capture souls", when a villager or doggo dies, they will go to their corpse and "capture" the soul, placing it in an Eerie Vessel and take the Vessel to the reliquary to store and maintain for future resurrections.
• Added all of the perks, job data and speed reductions for capturing souls where required.
• Ghost no longer wander to random buildings.
• Ghost now always try to hover around their vessel, or body.
• New Resource: Ghost Dust, can be freely sold to Catjeet Provisioners. Who knows what they want with it though.
• Ghosts not bound to a body or a vessel will eventually leave the map forever, when they do a ton of essence is released and they'll drop some ghost dust.
• Completely rebalanced when ghosts fade in and out of view.
• Doggos and Doofy Doggos ghosts now fade in significantly more frequently.
• Doggos and Doofy Doggos ghosts are much less likely to leave the world forever.
• Bound ghosts are 10 times more likely to appear at night.
• Increased durability of god dust by 5x, the same as the new ghost dust resource.
• Mobs now decay 20 times slower.

Spell Changes

• Banish spell now only confuses friendly mobs in the area if it actually banishes something.
• Banish confusion is now triggered from around the mob that was teleported away, rather than where the spell was cast.
• Dispel God Structures and Dispel Golem now can cause villagers to be confused upon seeing it cast.
• Dispel God Structures no longer panics villagers when cast.
• "Confusion" area of effect of Cold Aura increased.
• Generate Essence now has 1/4th the confusion/panic range.
• Generate Essence now costs twice as much to cast, but generates twice as much essence per cast.
• Conjure Material spell can now panic or confuse villagers.
• God Tower and God Wall spells now cause villagers to be confused or panic when cast around them.
• Grab spell now positively influences faith when you grab resources, and negatively when you grab mobs.
• Grab spell now no longer makes villagers panic when you grab resources (Note: Still will for grabbing mobs)
• Grab spell's panic/confusion range doubled.
• Harvest Spell can now cause villagers to panic if a resource is spawned right next to them.
• Harvest Spell's panic and confusion is now based on the location the resource spawned, rather than where the spell was cast.
• Holy Potatoes and Holy Wood spells can now cause panic and confusion to nearby villagers.
• Illuminate spell cost doubled.
• Illuminate spell now increases faith when cast and active, but only if cast at dusk or night.
• Recall spell now causes confusion and influences faith based on the location the actual mobs and resources left/arrived than where the spell was cast.
• Resurrect spell now only causes villagers to panic if the resurrection fails and creates a zombie. (Note: They will still be "confused" if the spell is successful.)
• Dissolve spell now has a chance to panic villagers.
• Blessing villagers no longer triggers Nephilim to be born. Now, blessing villagers guarantees that they will become pregnant the next time they coitus.
• Greatly optimized Cold Aura's CPU usage.
• Slightly optimized Flame Spell's CPU usage.
• Slightly optimized the Healing Aura spell.
• New Spell/Disaster added: Comet. A huge ice comet can now fall from the sky, causing catastrophic damage around it and digging a deep hole in the ground.
• Tripled cost of God Wall spell.
• Increased the cost, and cooldown, of the Holy Potatoes and Holy Wood spells
• Increased the cost of the Harvest spell.
• God Tower now has a 5 second cooldown.
• God Tower now also has a new spell cooldown perks.
• Harvest spell can now rarely generate trash when harvesting.

Temperature Influences

• Adjusted several spell descriptions to mention their impact on region temps.
• Meteor strikes can now slightly heat up the region for a short time.
• Blood Moons now make the region excessively hot.
• Full Moons now make the region slightly cooler.
• Eclipses now make the region very cold.
• Flame spell extremely slightly increases region temps.
• Cold aura now slightly lowers region temps.
• Storm spell now reduces the temperature when cast.

Loot box Changes

• Poking a loot box "circle" will confuse villagers and slightly increase faith, regardless if anything is uncovered.
• Moving a loot box will cause confusion at both locations, negative faith in the departing location and positive in the arrival location.
• Loot boxes being opened now positively influence faith (even when they're trashy!)
• Loot boxes idle in the village will sometimes confuse a villager.
• Loot box "circles" (before the box is uncovered) will now confuse villagers sometimes, as well as provide a tiny amount of faith.
• Uncovered loot boxes and keys now give a burst of faith, but also can cause villagers to panic or be confused in a wide area.
• Increased distance loot boxes cause panic and confusion when opening.
• Villagers now panic if a resource from a loot box right next to them, but also gains additional faith.
• Chances of a loot box being uncovered on click changed from 1 in 4 to 1 in 6.
• Slightly adjusted where resources spawn when a loot box is opened.

UI Improvements

• You can now set the resource filters to "rate", an experimental data view that gives you a rough idea how much of a resource is being consumed or generated over a given time period.
• The right hand resource bars can now be customized by opening the resource panel and selecting various types between food, water, dirty water, gold, faith and energy.
• The right hand resource bars now display a fill bar rather than just numbers.
• The right hand resource bar can now display 4 items, rather than 3.
• Increased the intensity of the mouse cursor light.
• Camp placement window now renders on the left side of the UI when the minimap is opened.
• Sound and music controls now have 25 volume levels rather than 10.
• Edge scrolling values in the settings menu now uses "O" instead of "[]" for the visual bar.
• Main menu messages now have random colors.
• "Mob rings" no longer appear when you mouse over dead mobs.
• Added a resource arrow under the mouse when you grab resources.
• The UI will no longer claim you can refine a resource at a building that can't carry it or its materials, even though the worker is allowed to refine that material.
• Fixed several UI issues related to the new Essence Altars and Reliquary.
• Areas where range is generated, but can't be used because it doesn't reach back to the main body of the village, now show up in red when viewing the range map.
• You can now change your worker's job colors to anything you want by clicking on the new color picker icon on the left hand workforce or resource management panel.
• Adjusted (hopefully) all blessed villager descriptions throughout the GUI.
• Birth console banner now displays what mob type was born.
• Easter egg logo is now 20 times more likely to appear.
• Updated silk's description to mention its use in bows.
• Improved the tooltip render boundaries math. (Note: There is an existing/known bug in high-res displays that may cause some overlap issues)
• Tweaked the Hide Topography view's red grid slightly.
• You can now view the corrupted tiles on the data map tab, including tiles under rocks, trees, etc.
• Villagers who are repairing structures will stop automatically if the building becomes fully repaired before they finish their work.
• Reworked the total gold, water, and dirty water resource counters (as well as the new faith counter) to all also show resource maximums on hover over, as well as fill bar.
• Updated copyright date on main menu.
• Completely overhauled the entire font rendering system to greatly reduce texture bleeding at some interface scale settings, and added ultra high resolution fonts for users who use 2x scaling or higher. This should mostly be apparent with 4k and similar displays.
• Added kills counter stats to mobs and objects. (Note: Known bug exists where sometimes if a mob is killed on top of a building, that building gets a "kill")
• The Perk list now extends to the top and bottom of the screen.
• You can now use the scroll wheel on the perk list.
• Added x.com social button to the main menu.
• You can now draw road selections overtop harvest resource selections.
• "Needs" thought bubbles added, rather than seeing occasional floating icons when a villager has a dire need (starving, homeless, sleepy) there is now a thought bubble that follows around the villager.
• Added new particle effects to highlighted or selected buttons.
• Re-centered console panel.
• Changed the missing icon icon to a better icon that you should never see unless I missed an icon and need to load a missing icon icon.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Clouds! A completely new clouds system has been written from scratch.
• New Building: Crylithium Firepits. Crylithium Firepits cannot be crossed by ghosts (Like Crylithium Walls), and provide more range than their regular Firepit counterparts.
• Rations now require cooked meat rather than raw.
• Rations food value increased from 100 to 120.
• Initial spawn in villagers now spawn in pre-equipped with one ration and one water bottle.
• Initial spawn in now spawns in cooked meat rather than raw.
• Improved how range and corruption resistance is generated by buildings, offering more consistent results. (And in many cases, increasing range)
• Wind and temp variations are now calculated instantly on load of a new game.
• Changed Terminate Animal Pregnancy to Tending Animals in preparation for new tending mechanics in a future update.
• "Wiser Elders" perk now also influences faith sharing.
• Mobs now make cracking/squishy sounds when they decay.
• Mobs now "pop" when poked a bit too many times, are dissolved with the dissolve spell or their soul is captured by an occultist.
• Increased the villager initial spawn in to up to 20.
• Nomads are much, much more likely to appear between days 1 and 3 to help avoid "bad RNG luck" early game.
• Nomads can no longer spawn during the morning of day 1 to prevent new players from being overwhelmed with new information. (Note: They should almost-always arrive Midday day 1 now)
• Replaced the particle effect that would generate above a resource about to be picked up, to an arrow that points down. The arrow gets increasing brighter green the closer the mob gets to the resource.
• Significantly lowered the volume of rain in the game.
• Villagers now are much less likely to work when their condition is compromised (Low hunger, thirst, overheating, etc). They also now factor in their hit points, poison and many other conditions and are less likely to work the more injured they are.
• Recompiled executable to hopefully avoid some memory allocation issues on certain machines.
• Increased animal slaughter speed.
• Reduced screenshake when smaller buildings are destroyed (Mostly for walls)
• The energy maintenance requirement for most golems is now 5 times higher. (sorry)
• The energy maintenance requirement for Cube-E golems has been doubled.
• Courier golems now have a small maintenance requirement.
• All golems now die twice as fast when the comboulator runs out of energy to maintain them.
• Doubled the amount Catjeet Provisioners restock daily.
• Made Wilhelm scream slightly over twice as likely to happen.
• You can now increase or decrease the brush size in both the play state and map editor by holding the axis lock key (Default: Left Shift)
• Wilhelm Scream is now more common when throwing male villagers into Cullis Gates.
• Throwing doggos (and especially Doofy Doggos) into a Cullis Gate is a REALLY bad idea.
• Adjusted nearly all of the panic and confusion chances in the villager's AI.
• Lightning and Meteor's panic/confusion range has been adjusted to more realistic values.
• Tons of new animations added for villagers digging, picking up and dropping resources, and many old ones tweaked slightly.
• Skirmish mode now starts with 20 +- 2 villages.
• Slightly increased how much trash is generated when builders harvest rather than the dedicated harvester jobs.
• The initial spawn in villagers now start with max hunger and thirst bars.
• Initial resource spawn in can also spawn in food and water now.
• Increased the initial spawn in resources from up to 32, to up to 64.
• There is now a 1 in 50 chance your entire initial spawn in of villagers will be catjeet.
• There is now a 1 in 200 chance your initial spawn in of villagers will also include doggos.
• Doggo houses are now upgradable, and have new art.
• Increased the amount of storage of all villager housing.
• Changed "Ellen Page" to "Elliot Page" in the villager's name list (Thanks to ArcticFox011 for catching it)
• Added tons of new speech bubbles to the game.
• Changed death subtitle "Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you." to "Sometimes you eat the rous and sometimes the rous eats you."
• Tons of new death messages added.
• Farmers can now terminate animal pregnancies when the village is completely out of proper housing for them.
• Towers and projectiles now rotate smoothly.
• Nomads can no longer spawn on day 1, to avoid overwhelming new players with too much information.
• Doggos are now more rare.
• Very slightly optimized the animal spawn rate code.
• Digging, clearing and removing road work now picks more randomized standing coordinates to work at.
• The AI now automatically resets itself when you load an old save.
• Updated the cut stone resource artwork so it looks more distinct from iron ingots.
• Added pale Blue trees, stumps and dead trees, white snow, teal grass and mushrooms to the game for future biome plans. They can currently be accessed in the map editor.
• Improved the map selection overlays in the world map.
• Halved the chance villagers and animals can be turned into a zombie after dying with blight.
• Cluckers can now do a rooster call at dawn.
• Medkits "+" symbol is now magenta-purple to avoid lawyers with too much time on their hands going after innocent developers for war crimes, or something.
• Reduced doggo bark frequency.
• Added a diminishing returns to all idle sound effects. The more of that type of mob in the area, the less each of them will make idle sound effects.
• Reduced the volume of the doggo barks.

Bug Fixes

• Corrected a minor typo in the Trashy Trash description.
• Population list panel no longer shows farm animals as unemployed.
• "Captured Animal" fake resource no longer shows up on the courier panel.
• Steamworks4j will now forcefully load the .dll files in the install folder's native library.
• "Review The Game" popup no longer appears when nonSteamMode is true. (eg; Won't show up on Utomik or GOG copies of the game.)
• Animal pens and clucker coops UI overlap issues in the building panel have been fixed.
• When an animal is slaughtered, the damage is now correctly recorded as coming from the cook.
• Fixed a bug where work decay ticks in MobBase.doWork() was not actually utilizing the input values.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Holy Golem speed perk to actually slow down the golems, rather than increase their speed.
• Hide Topography button no longer can glitch out and leave the topography partially transparent.
• Market buy and sell prices can no longer be less than 1 gold per item.
• Crash issue when trying to buy a resource from the marketplace for 0 gold fixed (See above change.)
• Fixed a bug where building's art wouldn't update when essence was sent from it.
• Lightning Rod no longer incorrectly reports it requires a rain catcher, purifier or well.
• Nephilim children now properly spawn a child Nephilim ghost when they die, rather than an adult Nephilim ghost.
• Nephilim are now properly counted in the migration system.
• Fixed an issue where Nephilim children sometimes wouldn't get their bonus lifespan stats.
• Fixed several totaling errors on the population panel.
• Mining facility's construction outline phase no longer generates a shadow.
• Fixed font scaling issues at scales higher than 2x.
• Fixed an issue where returning to the profile select screen without clicking a profile, then attempting to delete a profile, would always delete the first profile regardless of what profile appeared selected on the list.
• You can no longer click other buttons in the play state and map editor UI when the settings menu is open.
• Fixed a longstanding bug that could sometimes crash the game if a mob attempted to flee, and could not find flee coordinates (Thanks to Veldrin for the fix)
• Devine Blessing no longer shows an incorrect cast radius when selected.
• The spell (blast) radius of meteors is now properly displayed.
• Fixed a spelling error in the blessed descriptions.
• Newly born nephilim children are now properly recorded in the birth stats.
• Animals no longer constantly escape being slaughtered. Although they can still escape rarely.
• The description of the small and large fountains no longer call Water Masters "Well" Masters.
• Fixed a few crashes related to deselecting road work outside map bounds.
• Fixed a bug that would prevent spell cooldowns from saving.
• Fixed stray pixel on energy icon.
• Fixed upgrading essence collector's values being slightly off.
• Fixed (some) overlapping tool tips when the interface scale is higher than 1.
• Slightly optimized how the courier AI finds work.
• Fixed a minor bug in the road construction delivery AI that would misflag the current job task.
• Slaughter Animal AI now checks for the correct TileX/Y coordinates before picking up the animal.
• Armor and helmets now take damage when struck.
• Dying mobs that get healed, or regenerate a hit point right at the exact moment of death no longer display a health bar when decaying.
• Tweaked the god XP tally sound effects slightly, and implemented a possible fix to the "endless sound effects" bug that rarely occurs.
• Fixed the very tiny freebie XP gains for "Villager Leveling Up" that the player would get every time the world map is reloaded.
• Villagers and golems (and other mobs, where possibly applicable) retain their proper layer colors upon death now.
• Fixed an issue with storage limits on housing being wrong while it's upgrading.
• Fixed a bug that could cause the migration system to crash the game if no valid coordinates were found based on the angle of entry.
• Fixed a bug that could reduce the amount of spawn in resources and villagers at the start of the game if the camp is too enclosed.
• Fixed a minor bug in the courier delivery AI that could make an AI misfire and deliver resources a golem could not carry.
• Fixed a typo in one of the death messages.
• Fixed several data map font rendering glitches, mostly related to debug and dev tool views.
• Fixed a crash when you use a mouse with more than 10 buttons, and press any button over button #10.
• Fixed a minor issue where on >1080p displays sometimes the game window would launch overlapping the Window's start bar.
• Miscellaneous Storage no longer claims to recommend a Bowyer and Rock Tumbler before building.
• Drones no longer show work progress bars.
• "God XP jingle" stops playing when you exit the main menu.
• Fixed a bug where 2 resources could spawn in the same spot during initial spawn in, possibly crashing the game shortly after.
• Added tooltip on settings menu in the play state informing the player they need to exit to the main menu to change hotkeys.
• Cube-E Golems no longer become invisible when repairing their spawn points.
• Tweaked wood resources art slightly.
• Fixed a minor bug where migrants were counted as arriving nomads in the statistics panel.
• Decreased the background load time for sound effects for most multicore CPUs.
• Reduced the bitrate of zoomwind.wav

[ 2023-08-26 19:02:14 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! *Brushes dust off podium* Hello? *tap tap* Is this thing on? Hello? *clears throat* Ahem.. anyway.. Rise to Ruins Update 2 Unstable 4 has finally arrived, is content complete, and brings in the brand news goals system! Once Update 2 is out of testing, the new goals system will link up with Steam, adding one of the most requested features in Rise to Ruins history; Steam Achievements! This patch has obviously been a long time coming, and I'm hoping after a bit of play testing, I can get the full Rise to Ruins Update 2 out the door, activate the achievements in Steam and start work on Update 3. I am looking for plenty of feedback on the goals and achievement system, the balance, and ideas for more. Feel free to spam me anywhere that works for you with your ideas, and they may very well become official Steam achievements! I have also started streaming game development of Rise to Ruins, Rise to Ruins 2 (yes it's true!), and Rayvo2D, my new engine. If you're interested in following development more closely, you're welcome to either join the discord or follow me on Twitch. If you find a bug, you can report it on the Steam Bugs Forums or Discord! Previous Update 2 Unstable Change Logs: Update 2 Unstable 1 Update 2 Unstable 2 Update 2 Unstable 3 Update 2 Unstable 3c

Update 2 Unstable 4 Change Log

Goals and Achievements System

• Old goal system has been removed from the game entirely.
• New goals system now has 117 goals (more may be added, post your ideas!).
• Once Update 2 is fully released, each goal will unlock a Steam Achievement. (Note: I will try my best to get your test saves to unlock them retroactively, after Update 2 is released.)
• Every goal is on a huge web map, and as you unlock goals, more goals will become available.
• Like the previous goals system, all goals and their progress persist through dooming the world.
• Goals can now be accessed in when in the play state (Playing in a region/map).
• Goals no longer award perks, but award a lot of God Experience.
• Free Chest Slots can be unlocked, awarding, you guess it, a free chest!
• Chests are now gained 25% faster to offset the goals no longer rewarding perks directly.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Added pale Blue trees, stumps and dead trees, white snow, teal grass and mushrooms to the game for future biome plans. They can currently be accessed in the map editor.
• Improved the map selection overlays in the world map.
• Halved the chance villagers and animals can be turned into a zombie after dying with blight.
• The Perk list now extends to the top and bottom of the screen.
• You can now use the scroll wheel on the perk list.
• Added x.com social button to the main menu.
• Added new particle effects to highlighted or selected buttons.
• Re-centered console panel.
• Cluckers can now do a rooster call at dawn.
• Medkits "+" symbol is now magenta-purple to avoid lawyers with too much time on their hands going after innocent developers for war crimes, or something.
• Reduced doggo bark frequency.
• Added a diminishing returns to all idle sound effects. The more of that type of mob in the area, the less each of them will make idle sound effects.
• Reduced the volume of the doggo barks.

Bug Fixes

• Added tooltip on settings menu in the play state informing the player they need to exit to the main menu to change hotkeys.
• Cube-E Golems no longer become invisible when repairing their spawn points.
• Tweaked wood resources art slightly.
• Fixed a minor bug where migrants were counted as arriving nomads in the statistics panel.

[ 2023-08-23 18:12:29 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! Update 2 Unstable 3c is a minor release addressing a few bugs and balance issues that creeped up. Check out the changelogs and enjoy! If you find a bug, you can report it on the Steam Bugs Forums or Discord! Previous Update 2 Unstable Change Logs: Update 2 Unstable 1 Update 2 Unstable 2 Update 2 Unstable 3

Update 2 Unstable 3c Change Log

Miscellaneous Changes

• You can now set the particle movement back to "retro" by setting retroParticles=true in the settings.properties file.
• Houses can no longer store raw meat.
• Reliquary vessel spots can no longer have roads built under them.
• Added Easter Egg messages and sound effects when you sell a filled Vessel to a Catjeet in the marketplace.
• Occultists now check to make sure the body they need to reach isn't under threat before attempting to go there.
• Added all remaining missing perk names.
• Increased the pray speed across the board by 10%
• Boosted the amount of essence generated per pray cycle from 20-40 to 25-45.

Bug Fixes

• Reversed a change that fixes a bug that won't allow some resources make/maintain values to be set in certain panels.
• Waymakers will no longer try to clear roads in locations roads shouldn't be allowed to be placed anymore anyway. (Example: If you build a reliquary over roads, and the old roads are overtop the vessel parking spots)
• Added test AI to help with kitchen ration output.
• Applied an experimental fix that should prevent courier golems and migrants to attempt to go to a region that was recently lost to the corruption.
• You can no longer place buildings in the red cut off area of your village range.

[ 2022-06-11 23:23:58 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! Update 2 Unstable 3 has arrived! Just like Unstable 1 and 2, this patch adds a ton bug fixes and improvements, but most importantly, new content! Some of the highlights of this patch are the brand new death/ghost mechanics, the Reliquary, Crylithium Firepits, vessels, clouds, and a ton of bug fixes and other QoL changes. Next up, Unstable 4 will be "the big one" you've all been waiting for, and easily one of the most requested features of all time. The beta release of ... [spoiler]achievements! [/spoiler] Just keep in mind, I may not be able to officially enable them until full Update 2 release on the main branch. But the system will be in place, and usable. As with most of Rise to Ruins' patches, there's way too much to cover in a summary, so check out the changelogs and enjoy! If you find a bug, you can report it on the Steam Bugs Forums or Discord! Previous Update 2 Unstable Change Logs: Update 2 Unstable 1 Update 2 Unstable 2

Update 2 Unstable 3 Change Log

Reliquary and The Dead

• New Building: The Reliquary. You can store bound souls at the reliquary, binding the ghost to the general area, and maintaining their vessel.
• New Resources: Empty and Filled Eerie Vessels. Empty Vessels are made by the Occultists in the Reliquary with 1 iron and 1 gold.
• Occultists can now "capture souls", when a villager or doggo dies, they will go to their corpse and "capture" the soul, placing it in an Eerie Vessel and take the Vessel to the reliquary to store and maintain for future resurrections.
• Added all of the perks, job data and speed reductions for capturing souls where required.
• Ghost no longer wander to random buildings.
• Ghost now always try to hover around their vessel, or body.
• New Resource: Ghost Dust, can be freely sold to Catjeet Provisioners. Who knows what they want with it though.
• Ghosts not bound to a body or a vessel will eventually leave the map forever, when they do a ton of essence is released and they'll drop some ghost dust.
• Completely rebalanced when ghosts fade in and out of view.
• Doggos and Doofy Doggos ghosts now fade in significantly more frequently.
• Doggos and Doofy Doggos ghosts are much less likely to leave the world forever.
• Bound ghosts are 10 times more likely to appear at night.
• Increased durability of god dust by 5x, the same as the new ghost dust resource.
• Mobs now decay 20 times slower.

UI Improvements

• Increased the intensity of the mouse cursor light.
• Camp placement window now renders on the left side of the UI when the minimap is opened.
• Sound and music controls now have 25 volume levels rather than 10.
• Edge scrolling values in the settings menu now uses "O" instead of "[]" for the visual bar.
• Main menu messages now have random colors.
• "Mob rings" no longer appear when you mouse over dead mobs.
• Added a resource arrow under the mouse when you grab resources.
• The UI will no longer claim you can refine a resource at a building that can't carry it or its materials, even though the worker is allowed to refine that material.
• Fixed several UI issues related to the new Essence Altars and Reliquary.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Clouds!
• Rations now require cooked meat rather than raw.
• Rations food value increased from 100 to 120.
• Initial spawn in villagers now spawn in pre-equipped with one ration and one water bottle.
• Initial spawn in now spawns in cooked meat rather than raw.
• Improved how range and corruption resistance is generated by buildings, offering more consistent results. (And in many cases, increasing range)
• New Building: Crylithium Firepits. Crylithium Firepits cannot be crossed by ghosts (Like Crylithium Walls), and provide more range than their regular Firepit counterparts.
• Wind and temp variations are now calculated instantly on load of a new game.
• Flowers spawn chance is now 10 times slower.
• Essence buildup (for flower spawning mechanics) is now 3 times slower.
• Changed Terminate Animal Pregnancy to Tending Animals in preparation for new tending mechanics.
• "Wiser Elders" perk now also influences faith sharing.
• Elders sharing faith now provides a small amount of XP
• Flowers can now be dissolved or cleared for a small amount of essence.
• Mobs now make cracking/squishy sounds when they decay.
• Mobs now "pop" when poked a bit too many times, are dissolved with the dissolve spell or their soul is captured by an occultist.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that could cause the migration system to crash the game if no valid coordinates were found based on the angle of entry.
• Fixed a bug where the faith calculations were reversed, causing blessed children to be born more often.
• Fixed a bug that could reduce the amount of spawn in resources and villagers at the start of the game if the camp is too enclosed.
• Fixed a minor bug in the courier delivery AI that could make an AI misfire and deliver resources a golem could not carry.
• Fixed a bug that can cause the new flower system to crash the game if flowers attempted to generate along the edges of the map.
• Fixed an issue where flower generation would crash the game if the flower tilesets were never loaded.
• Fixed a typo in one of the death messages.
• Fixed several data map font rendering glitches, mostly related to debug and dev tool views.
• Fixed a crash when you use a mouse with more than 10 buttons, and press any button over button #10.
• Fixed a minor issue where on >1080p displays sometimes the game window would launch overlapping the Window's start bar.
• Miscellaneous Storage no longer claims to recommend a Bowyer and Rock Tumbler before building.
• Drones no longer show work progress bars.
• "God XP jingle" stops playing when you exit the main menu.
• Fixed a bug where 2 resources could spawn in the same spot during initial spawn in, possibly crashing the game shortly after.

[ 2022-06-01 22:44:41 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! Update 2 Unstable 2 has arrived! Just like Unstable 1, this patch adds a ton bug fixes and improvements, but most importantly, new content! Some of the highlights of this patch are the new upgradable doggo houses, further enhancements to the new faith system, tons and tons of new animations, the resource rate calculator, additional resource bar configurations, a new spell/disaster (a comet!), really high quality new font rendering, and a ton of bug fixes and other QoL changes. As with most of Rise to Ruins' patches, there's way too much to cover in a summary, so check out the changelogs and enjoy! If you find a bug, you can report it on the Steam Bugs Forums or Discord! Previous Update 2 Unstable Change Logs: Update 2 Unstable 1

Update 2 Unstable 2 Change Log

Resource Bar and Panel Changes

• You can now set the resource filters to "rate", an experimental data view that gives you a rough idea how much of a resource is being consumed or generated over a given time period.
• The right hand resource bars can now be customized by opening the resource panel and selecting various types between food, water, dirty water, gold, faith and energy.
• The right hand resource bars now display a fill bar rather than just numbers.
• The right hand resource bar can now display 4 items, rather than 3.

Faith and Influence System

• Flowers can now generate near concentrated areas of energy on the map, and where essence moves heavily through.
• Adjusted faith decay rates for all villagers.
• Increased Essence Altar's desirability stat to 3.
• Readjusted Cold Aura faith gains.
• Now all villagers lose a very small amount of faith when another villager dies from any cause that isn't old age. Villagers who witness the death lose significantly more.
• Standard and High Quality housing both now offer faith bonuses when upgraded.
• Villager's mates now lose 25% of their total faith if they die.
• Completely rebalanced influence amounts faith provides for all friendly mobs.
• Healing Aura now provides much less faith to villagers already fully healed.
• Now you gain additional/bonus faith if you use illuminate during an eclipse or blood moon.

Spell Changes

• New Spell/Disaster added: Comet. A huge ice comet can now fall from the sky, causing catastrophic damage around it and digging a deep hole in the ground.
• Tripled cost of God Wall spell.
• Increased the cost, and cooldown, of the Holy Potatoes and Holy Wood spells
• Increased the cost of the Harvest spell.
• God Tower now has a 5 second cooldown.
• God Tower now also has a new spell cooldown perks.
• Harvest spell can now rarely generate trash when harvesting.

Temperature Influences

• Adjusted several spell descriptions to mention their impact on region temps.
• Meteor strikes can now slightly heat up the region for a short time.
• Blood Moons now make the region excessively hot.
• Full Moons now make the region slightly cooler.
• Eclipses now make the region very cold.
• Flame spell extremely slightly increases region temps.
• Cold aura now slightly lowers region temps.
• Storm spell now reduces the temperature when cast.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Completely overhauled the entire font rendering system to greatly reduce texture bleeding at some interface scale settings, and added ultra high resolution fonts for users who use 2x scaling or higher. This should mostly be apparent with 4k and similar displays.
• Tons of new animations added for villagers digging, picking up and dropping resources, and many old ones tweaked slightly.
• Skirmish mode now starts with 20 +- 2 villages.
• Slightly increased how much trash is generated when builders harvest rather than the dedicated harvester jobs.
• The initial spawn in villagers now start with max hunger and thirst bars.
• Initial resource spawn in can also spawn in food and water now.
• Increased the initial spawn in resources from up to 32, to up to 64.
• There is now a 1 in 50 chance your entire initial spawn in of villagers will be catjeet.
• There is now a 1 in 200 chance your initial spawn in of villagers will also include doggos.
• Doggo houses are now upgradable, and have new art.
• Increased the amount of storage of all villager housing.
• Changed "Ellen Page" to "Elliot Page" in the villager's name list (Thanks to ArcticFox011 for catching it)
• Added tons of new speech bubbles to the game.
• Changed death subtitle "Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you." to "Sometimes you eat the rous and sometimes the rous eats you."
• Tons of new death messages added.
• Farmers can now terminate animal pregnancies when the village is completely out of proper housing for them.
• You can now draw road selections overtop harvest resource selections.
• "Needs" thought bubbles added, rather than seeing occasional floating icons when a villager has a dire need (starving, homeless, sleepy) there is now a thought bubble that follows around the villager.
• Changed the missing icon icon to a better icon that you should never see unless I missed an icon and need to load a missing icon icon.
• Towers and projectiles now rotate smoothly.
• Nomads can no longer spawn on day 1, to avoid overwhelming new players with too much information.
• Doggos are now more rare.
• Very slightly optimized the animal spawn rate code.
• Digging, clearing and removing road work now picks more randomized standing coordinates to work at.
• The AI now automatically resets itself when you load an old save.
• Updated the cut stone resource artwork so it looks more distinct from iron ingots.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a longstanding bug that could sometimes crash the game if a mob attempted to flee, and could not find flee coordinates (Thanks to Veldrin for the fix)
• Corrected Essence Altar tooltips.
• Devine Blessing no longer shows an incorrect cast radius when selected.
• The spell (blast) radius of meteors is now properly displayed.
• Fixed a spelling error in the blessed descriptions.
• Newly born nephilim children are now properly recorded in the birth stats.
• Animals no longer constantly escape being slaughtered. Although they can still escape rarely.
• Added missing revision tag to essenceCollector.makeshift.description
• Fixed a UI error that would make praying speed bonuses not display in some cases.
• Added perk category localization for faith perks.
• The description of the small and large fountains no longer call Water Masters "Well" Masters.
• Fixed a few crashes related to deselecting road work outside map bounds.
• Fixed a bug that would prevent spell cooldowns from saving.
• Corrected the Crystillery's description, so that it no longer mentions fueling essence collectors.
• Fixed stray pixel on energy icon.
• Fixed upgrading essence collector's values being slightly off.
• Removed previous fix that would stop sounds from playing if the sound is too far away or too quiet to be audible and re-re-calculated sound effect distance math.
• Fixed overlapping tool tips when the interface scale is higher than 1.
• Removed some debug loading data from the logs.
• Slightly optimized how the courier AI finds work.
• Fixed a minor bug in the road construction delivery AI that would misflag the current job task.
• Slaughter Animal AI now checks for the correct TileX/Y coordinates before picking up the animal.
• Armor and helmets now take damage when struck.
• Dying mobs that get healed, or regenerate a hit point right at the exact moment of death no longer display a health bar when decaying.
• Tweaked the god XP tally sound effects slightly, and implemented a possible fix to the "endless sound effects" bug that rarely occurs.
• Fixed the very tiny freebie XP gains for "Villager Leveling Up" that the player would get every time the world map is reloaded.
• Villagers and golems (and other mobs, where possibly applicable) retain their proper layer colors upon death now.
• Fixed an issue with storage limits on housing being wrong while it's upgrading.

[ 2022-04-26 22:23:17 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! A long time coming, I am happy to introduce that Update 2 Unstable 1 has arrived! This patch adds a ton bug fixes and improvements, but most importantly, new content! The biggest additions are the new essence generation and faith mechanics. Now, you no longer fuel your Essence Collectors with crylithium. Rather, you now build a new building called an Essence Altar and assign new workers called Occultists to them. These new Occultists will go to the altar and pray, upon completing a pray action, they will boost faith in the area and generate essence that can be delivered to an Essence Collector, effectively replacing the fueling mechanics that were removed with a method the player can more directly control by building additional altars and assigning more Occultists. The faith itself is a new system that bleeds over into many aspects of the game. Now villagers will gain and lose faith in you based on your or the world's actions. As their faith increases, you'll gain additional max influence to your influence bar, and they will be less likely to be confused or panic when they see you do anything. As with most of Rise to Ruins' patches, there's way too much to cover in a summary, so check out the changelogs and enjoy! If you find a bug, you can report it on the Steam Bugs Forums or Discord!

Update 2 Unstable 1 Change Log

Faith System

• Villagers now gain and lose a new need, called faith, based on your and the world's actions. Anything they deem positive, they'll gain faith, negative, they lose it.
• Villagers are now less likely to panic or be confused when they have high faith and witness god doing things in the village.
• All spells now influence faith stats in some way or another when cast near villagers.
• New Building: The Essence Altar. Villagers can now be assigned as "Occultists", who will go to the altar and pray. Completing a pray action will increase the villager's faith and the villagers around them, as well as generate free essence that will be sent to an Essence Collector.
• New perks added for praying speeds.
• Lightning and Meteor (all kinds, including the spells) will now raise or lower faith depending on where it strikes, and what it hits.
• Villagers will now sometimes get a boost in faith when chatting with someone with significantly higher faith than they have.
• Villagers now gain 10 faith when they domesticate a wild doggo or take a mate.
• Villagers now gain faith when they mate, and villagers nearby gain a very small amount.
• Nearby villagers gain faith when they witness a monster killed.
• Nearby villagers lose faith when they witness another villager killed.
• Nearby villagers get a bonus to faith when they witness an elder die of natural causes. (Living a "full life")
• Villagers now conceive Nephilim children if their combined total faith is within 90% of their maximum faith.
• Lightning rods can increase faith when a lightning bolt hits them.
• A mob resurrected from the Resurrect spell get maximum faith instantly upon resurrection.

Influence System

• Completely rewrote how max influence is calculated, each villager now provides a minimum and maximum amount, depending on the type of villager they are. Children offer less, while elders offer more, and Nephilims offer additional bonuses.
• All domesticated animals other than Doggos now provide 5 max influence each.
• Doggos now provide 20 max influence each.
• Doofy Doggos now provide 50 max influence each.
• The amount of total influence to the max influence bar each mob provides is now based on their faith. For example, if their faith is only 50% full, they will only provide 50% of their potential maximum influence. (Note: This only counts for mobs with faith stats, like villagers. Doggos for example, will always provide max faith as they have no faith stats.)
• New perks added for minimum influence, influence per animal and influence per villager.

Essence and Essence Collector Changes

• Significantly increased the speed newly spawned "resting" essence becomes active.
• Greatly improved essence colors and trails.
• Essence Collectors can no longer be fueled with or store crylithium.
• Essence Collectors now hold much more energy.
• Recolored and tweaked the Essence Collector art.
• Essence Collectors construction requirements have been increased, and now require crylithium for the first upgrade, and iron ingots for the second.

Spell Changes

• Banish spell now only confuses friendly mobs in the area if it actually banishes something.
• Banish confusion is now triggered from around the mob that was teleported away, rather than where the spell was cast.
• Dispel God Structures and Dispel Golem now can cause villagers to be confused upon seeing it cast.
• Dispel God Structures no longer panics villagers when cast.
• "Confusion" area of effect of Cold Aura increased.
• Generate Essence now has 1/4th the confusion/panic range.
• Generate Essence now costs twice as much to cast, but generates twice as much essence per cast.
• Conjure Material spell can now panic or confuse villagers.
• God Tower and God Wall spells now cause villagers to be confused or panic when cast around them.
• Grab spell now positively influences faith when you grab resources, and negatively when you grab mobs.
• Grab spell now no longer makes villagers panic when you grab resources (Note: Still will for grabbing mobs)
• Grab spell's panic/confusion range doubled.
• Harvest Spell can now cause villagers to panic if a resource is spawned right next to them.
• Harvest Spell's panic and confusion is now based on the location the resource spawned, rather than where the spell was cast.
• Holy Potatoes and Holy Wood spells can now cause panic and confusion to nearby villagers.
• Illuminate spell cost doubled.
• Illuminate spell now increases faith when cast and active, but only if cast at dusk or night.
• Recall spell now causes confusion and influences faith based on the location the actual mobs and resources left/arrived than where the spell was cast.
• Resurrect spell now only causes villagers to panic if the resurrection fails and creates a zombie. (Note: They will still be "confused" if the spell is successful.)
• Dissolve spell now has a chance to panic villagers.
• Blessing villagers no longer triggers Nephilim to be born. Now, blessing villagers guarantees that they will become pregnant the next time they coitus.
• Greatly optimized Cold Aura's CPU usage.
• Slightly optimized Flame Spell's CPU usage.
• Slightly optimized the Healing Aura spell.

Loot box Changes

• Poking a loot box "circle" will confuse villagers and slightly increase faith, regardless if anything is uncovered.
• Moving a loot box will cause confusion at both locations, negative faith in the departing location and positive in the arrival location.
• Loot boxes being opened now positively influence faith (even when they're trashy!)
• Loot boxes idle in the village will sometimes confuse a villager.
• Loot box "circles" (before the box is uncovered) will now confuse villagers sometimes, as well as provide a tiny amount of faith.
• Uncovered loot boxes and keys now give a burst of faith, but also can cause villagers to panic or be confused in a wide area.
• Increased distance loot boxes cause panic and confusion when opening.
• Villagers now panic if a resource from a loot box right next to them, but also gains additional faith.
• Chances of a loot box being uncovered on click changed from 1 in 4 to 1 in 6.
• Slightly adjusted where resources spawn when a loot box is opened.

Miscellaneous Changes

• You can now change your worker's job colors to anything you want by clicking on the new color picker icon on the left hand workforce or resource management panel.
• Adjusted (hopefully) all blessed villager descriptions throughout the GUI.
• Birth console banner now displays what mob type was born.
• Increased the villager initial spawn in to up to 20.
• Nomads are much, much more likely to appear between days 1 and 3 to help avoid "bad RNG luck" early game.
• Nomads can no longer spawn during the morning of day 1 to prevent new players from being overwhelmed with new information. (Note: They should almost-always arrive Midday day 1 now)
• Replaced the particle effect that would generate above a resource about to be picked up, to an arrow that points down. The arrow gets increasing brighter green the closer the mob gets to the resource. Significantly lowered the volume of rain in the game.
• Villagers now are much less likely to work when their condition is compromised (Low hunger, thirst, overheating, etc). They also now factor in their hit points, poison and many other conditions and are less likely to work the more injured they are.
• Easter egg logo is now 20 times more likely to appear.
• Recompiled executable to hopefully avoid some memory allocation issues on certain machines.
• Increased animal slaughter speed.
• Added kills counter stats to mobs and objects.
• Reduced screenshake when smaller buildings are destroyed (Mostly for walls)
• Updated silk's description to mention it's use in bows.
• The energy maintenance requirement for most golems is now 5 times higher. (sorry)
• The energy maintenance requirement for Cube-E golems has been doubled.
• Courier golems now have a small maintenance requirement.
• All golems now die twice as fast when the comboulator runs out of energy to maintain them.
• Improved the tooltip render boundaries math. (Note: There is an existing/known bug in high-res displays that may cause some overlap issues)
• Tweaked the Hide Topography view's red grid slightly.
• You can now view the corrupted tiles on the data map tab, including tiles under rocks, trees, etc.
• Villagers who are repairing structures will stop automatically if the building becomes fully repaired before they finish their work.
• Doubled the amount Catjeet Provisioners restock daily.
• Made Wilhelm scream slightly over twice as likely to happen.
• You can now increase or decrease the brush size in both the play state and map editor by holding the axis lock key (Default: Left Shift)
• Wilhelm Scream is now more common when throwing male villagers into Cullis Gates.
• Throwing doggos (and especially Doofy Doggos) into a Cullis Gate is a REALLY bad idea.
• Adjusted nearly all of the panic and confusion chances in the villager's AI.
• Added a faith counter to the resource panel UI.
• Reworked the total gold, water, and dirty water resource counters (as well as the new faith counter) to all also show resource maximums on hover over, as well as fill bar.
• Lightning and Meteor's panic/confusion range has been adjusted to more realistic values.
• Updated copyright date on main menu.

Bug Fixes

• Corrected a minor typo in the Trashy Trash description.
• Population list panel no longer shows farm animals as unemployed.
• "Captured Animal" fake resource no longer shows up on the courier panel.
• Steamworks4j will now forcefully load the .dll files in the install folder's native library.
• "Review The Game" popup no longer appears when nonSteamMode is true. (eg; Won't show up on Utomik or GOG copies of the game.)
• Animal pens and clucker coops UI overlap issues in the building panel have been fixed.
• When an animal is slaughtered, the damage is now correctly recorded as coming from the cook.
• Fixed a bug where work decay ticks in MobBase.doWork() was not actually utilizing the input values.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Holy Golem speed perk to actually slow down the golems, rather than increase their speed.
• Hide Topography button no longer can glitch out and leave the topography partially transparent.
• Market buy and sell prices can no longer be less than 1 gold per item.
• Crash issue when trying to buy a resource from the marketplace for 0 gold fixed (See above change.)
• Fixed a bug that would cause sounds out of range to still play, but at zero volume. (Note: There is a known issue with extremely low volume levels causing issues with this new system.)
• Fixed a bug where building's art wouldn't update when essence was sent from it.
• Lightning Rod no longer incorrectly reports it requires a rain catcher, purifier or well.
• Nephilim children now properly spawn a child Nephilim ghost when they die, rather than an adult Nephilim ghost.
• Nephilim are now properly counted in the migration system.
• Fixed an issue where Nephilim children sometimes wouldn't get their bonus lifespan stats.
• Fixed several totaling errors on the population panel.

[ 2022-03-23 01:40:09 CET ] [ Original post ]

Greetings everyone, It's time to get back on the bandwagon, and explain my current plans. Although they are always subject to change, I wanted to give everyone an update on what's been going on and where I'd like to see my company, Rise to Ruins and my future projects to go in the future. As you all know, I've taken an extended break from game development as I focused on myself and my own health, my life, and the people around me. Most of you guys who follow me on Discord or Twitter have seen several of the things I've posted or said over the past year or so. A mistake I made on my previous announcement was the timeline though. I was unaware exactly how bad my mental health actually was at the time of writing it, and thus took an enormously longer time than I expected to start recovering. The previous announcement is now only half the story, the other half is perhaps fascinating, I'm not sure. But it's another half that should be told, now that it can be. The last 2 years have been quite an experience for me, good, bad and otherwise. It's hard to articulate it, because of who I am and how I am wired. But I will do my best to explain the situation and what happened. I'm not trying to make excuses, I do not care too. That's not the point. I won't bother going over my life history again as I did in my previous announcement, but I will add some fun tidbits to it that may have some drastic changes on how everything is perceived, and I hope to give a better understanding as to what happened. The first, and extremely likely most important addition to the story is on December 16th, 2021. I was officially diagnosed with ASD Level 1, or going by a (now obsolete) term more of you will recognize; I am a twice-exceptional person with Asperger's. If you want an example of what this means, I'm basically a real life Sheldon Cooper, just a bit less hyperbolic about it. (Fellow ASD: I get many people with ASD don't like this comparison, but it's very accurate for people like myself, we're just rare even among the ASD community.) What does this mean? Well for you guys, not much. For me? Again, not much. I am still who I am, labels don't change that. I'm not magically some other person. But, it does give me clarity and explain some of my past actions, behaviors and why sometimes things just aren't in sync. As well, and most importantly, what the hell happened to me sometime in 2020. What is important to understand, is why this happened. I've been working my entire adult life, non-stop in the pursuit of success to reach a level of security and stability, I achieved that in mid 2020, 20 years after first entering the workforce and 30 years too young, and my life fell apart. (Weird right?). I now can effectively retire whenever I want, although I won't. That feeling sounds great, until you realize I'm someone with Asperger's who made survival paramount. I was burned out from 15 years of non-stop work. If you've read my previous announcement, you know my life. I've been on turbo for most of it, and I don't know how to not be on turbo. But I am not on turbo anymore, regardless I don't know how not to be. There in is the problem. In 2020, I suffered a complete emotional breakdown. I was never suicidal, but something was "super wrong". I couldn't articulate it, but something was, in fact, "super wrong". Things kept getting worse and worse, day after day. Well, I figured out what it was more recently. It was a severe Autistic Burnout brought on by probably a decade of pushing forward non-stop. I had no idea what this felt like, because I've been on turbo for so long I didn't even recognize I burned out (probably) over 5 years ago, yet I just kept on going anyway. People even asked me "How do you deal with burnout?" and my answer was a hilariously now-myopic "I just don't burn out I guess? I don't know how to stop." The first part was apparently a lie, the second was the truth. I won't pretend I can handwave away the last two years, I won't even bother trying. But now I better understand how I went from a powerhouse, doing the work of 5 developers across probably a dozen skillsets, to so mentally exhausted and broken I couldn't even open my compiler or Photoshop without feeling tired. That is ending. I feel much better, I am alive, me and getting back on track. I recognize what happened, and now I am working to a much better work/life balance, that doesn't involve me doing the work of 5 developers. Course the next and most obvious question is a resounding "What the frick now then?!" Well, gamedev stuff obviously! I have been working on a plan over the past few months for my company, and what direction I'd like to take everything. As with all good plans, it absolutely won't go to said plan, but this is what's on the board: - Reignite work on Rise to Ruins Update 2, adding achievements, a new goals/reward system, and a new essence generation/praying system. - Release the entire Rise to Ruins source code in the semi-near future, so anyone and everyone can learn, edit, or do whatever they want with RtR's base code and share it openly with others. (Note: This is NOT mod support in the traditional sense, programmers in the known probably get what I mean by this.) - A complete redesign of the Rise to Ruins website. Effectively turning it into a basic splash page, and removing the forum. (Will probably update the Steam store page too*) - Launch of the Project Mary website, my next major project that will likely take 3-5 years to complete. - Working on smaller projects, that will be done between RtR and Project Mary, these are smaller games. Things you'd normally expect to pay like $2-$5 on Steam. These won't be seen anytime soon though. - Building a new Java-based 2D Engine that is faster than literally anything else gaming related that exists in Java right now. (and yes, I already have a working prototype that is multithreaded, faster than every single Java engine that exists, and uses 'modern' OGL.) This is the engine Project Mary and my smaller projects will be based on. I will not ask for your support, but I will ask for your patience as I work through restarting work, and seeking a healthy life/work balance that will avoid all this crap from happening again in my life. Have fun gaming! I look forward to your feedback on the eventual release of Rise to Ruins Update 2. :)

[ 2022-01-11 22:33:43 CET ] [ Original post ]

Greetings fellow gamers! Many of you have probably noted an obvious slowdown in development since Update 1c was released last year. First and foremost, I would like to absolutely reassure you that development is, in fact, continuing and Update 2 is currently in work, with Update 3 and 4 already planned out. But why did this happen? Well, that's a story I thought I would never find myself in a position to tell, but here we are. So strap in! There's a lot of back context needed. In 2013 I decided to learn to program as it was the only remaining skill left I did not have to make a video game. I had no experience what so ever outside of doing mods/scripting for various games over the years. I spent 8-9 months of my life doing nothing but working at Lockheed Martin as an Avionics Technician 8-10 hours a day, and another 8-10 at home learning how to program in my language of choice, Java. After roughly a year it was time to go pro, and I started development on Retro-Pixel Castles, or eventually to be renamed, Rise to Ruins. I saved up (or have been saving up, more accurately) around $90k working at Lockheed, because I lived out of a suitcase moving from one military base to the next every 4-6 months for 5 straight years. So, I did the totally rational thing you do when you want to completely change career paths into a job with an extremely high rate of failure that you have literally zero professional experience what so ever in doing, I quit my current job at Lockheed Martin. Yes, you read that right. My first ever attempt to "go pro" happened within a year of learning to program and I quit my very secure job to do it. Despite all odds, I was successful in the attempt. I also got an Associates Degree in Psychology at a local community college and bought a house in cash (87k, near-condemned foreclosure) while doing all this because it was necessary. Thanks to my former military service I could go to college for free. In fact, they paid me roughly $1,200/mo to go on top of paying for books/tuition, it's how I fed myself in the early days of this. I also needed a place to live during this ridiculous adventure too, and reducing costs was key to my strategy working, so what better cost reduction than removing rent/mortgages all together? Long as I was in college for free and getting paid $1,200/mo to educate myself for the next 4 years, I could survive. Development on Rise to Ruins itself was blistering fast as a result, because this whole plan would implode within 4 years when my education benefits ran out. It's easily a whole story in of itself, but I'll gloss over that for brevity's sake because that's not the point of this already really long announcement. Basically I dedicated years to work, spending a good 10-14 hours a day usually 7 days a week at the height of it just chugging out patches during Early Access. Fast forward to Rise to Ruins officially releasing in October of 2019, right before the pandemic started. My plan was (and still is) to continue to support the game post release. Rise to Ruins has done me very well financially, supporting my and my wife's lives without either of us having to get outside jobs. But there's a problem. While Rise to Ruins does in fact currently support my livelihood and the entire 4 year plan became irrelevant by year 2 because Rise to Ruins' income started to support me and my wife by itself, it still isn't enough to finance the next game. The next game, code named "Project Mary", is another project that will likely take me multiple years to complete with a very long Early Access cycle. I cannot guarantee I can duplicate Rise to Ruins' Early Access success again, and Rise to Ruins' sales revenue will eventually dwindle. It must, it's just the nature of how it works in this business. So, how do I get around this problem? Money. Lots of money. Well, Rise to Ruins makes decent money, but still not enough, I can't assure it will be there forever and I am against taking money from publishers and what not. Coronavirus has entered chat. In 2020 one of the worst pandemics in human history began and to my disadvantage, only a few months after Rise to Ruins released. I was faced with an awkward problem as I was locked in my home. I needed to find proper funding for my second game and I absolutely abhor taking money from publishers. I'm a solo developer and it's going to stay that way. The pandemic amplified this problem because it limited what I could do to solve my funding issue. I knew Rise to Ruins profits couldn't sustain development for the multiple years needed to complete Project Mary, and a Kickstarter also wouldn't be right as an already successful company running a Kickstarter for funding is bad optics in my opinion. Even with full continued patch support, Rise to Ruins will eventually drop under the bar its sales support me, that's just how it works unless you have a mega-ultra-hit like Stardew Valley, Rimworld, etc that generates so much cash on the front end it doesn't matter. Rise to Ruins still had done me well, at the time of making this decision I had no debts of any kind, house and car paid off in full, and over $200,000 in my savings account. That sounds great, but it still wasn't enough to accomplish my goals and as I said previously, I felt a Kickstarter would be in bad tastes (and potentially not raise enough money anyway). I had to figure out how to generate even more cash during a pandemic without relying on Rise to Ruins, so I could work on the game without any future cash flow fears. Repeating my normal methodology of throwing my whole-everything into a problem, I dedicated a ridiculous amount of time in one of the places I thought I'd never find myself; The soulless depths of the stock market. I studied, studied, and studied more. My whole life existed for one reason and one reason alone; Learn the market and use it to secure funding for Project Mary. So uh, yeah, again in my life, against all odds, I did it. As of writing this, I have turned $200k into $2.5 million dollars. That was actually higher before the recent tech crash in February and early March, where I broke a staggering $3 million. I am now pulling back from active investing, and transitioning to a semi-active-passive thing, so I can refocus on what's important; Rise to Ruins continued development, and starting development full time on Project Mary. I should hopefully have a minimum sustained additional income of $10k/month (that's not a typo) throughout all of Project Mary's development without actually touching the $2.5 million. That's not assured, but it seems likely. This process impacted everything in my life, including my own mental health, that I'm still recovering from as I write this. Trust me folks, money doesn't buy happiness and while I have a lot of it now, the past 8 months have been absolutely exhausting and downright destructive to my mental health. I will simply need time to recover. I hope you guys can forgive the lack of patches over the last year as I went through this adventure, and have gained some understanding as to why I did it at all in the first place. But, one thing is now certain for Rise to Ruins', Project Mary's and most importantly SixtyGig Games' future as a whole: Funding Secured.

[ 2021-03-15 00:03:20 CET ] [ Original post ]

This is a smaller patch full of a ton of small quality of life improvements, bug fixes and balance changes. This patch was originally going into Update 2, but I decided to break out some of the Update 2 content and move it to a smaller patch, so you can get some of the new improvements and changes early, without having to wait for Update 2 later. Enjoy! :) Check out the change log for all the juicy bits, and if you find a bug, don't forget to report it on Discord or the Steam Forums. :)

Update 1b Change Log

Miscellaneous Changes

• Essence Collectors no longer deliver essence when out of range of the village.
• Drones now only harvest resources when there is not any already available within the corruption.
• Resources now decay twice as fast on corrupted tiles.
• Non-monster buildings are now slowly destroyed if they are caught in the corruption.
• Reduced the overall amount of resources generated when a very large or highly upgraded building is destroyed.
• Blood Slimes no longer can spawn boosted.
• Blood Slimes now die slowly when they're not on the corruption.
• All slimes now will no longer regain hit points unless they're inside the corruption.
• Blood Slimes no longer level alongside the corruption or current day.
• Rock now regrows at an extremely slow rate, roughly 1/20th the rate of trees.
• Rock now remains selected after harvesting.
• Added hot key support for object upgrade buttons, but the hot keys must be assigned manually.
• The hot key for dismantling buildings is now unassigned by default, but can still be assigned in settings. This is to prevent new players from accidentally triggering a dismantle action they can't reverse, but still allow experienced players to have a hot key if they desire.
• Nerfed the Flame Spell's damage by 50%

Bug Fixes

• Range is no longer improperly generated on initial load.
• Fixed the never-ending god XP tally sound that sometimes occurs on the world map.
• Fixed a rare bug that would crash the game in the event a mob would drop off a resource to a building that has just become out of range, and still had remaining resources to drop.
• You can no longer start an upgrade on a building out of range of the village, causing the game to crash.
• Fixed a bug that would cause the mouse to move too far when you increased or decreased the priority of a building on the building list panel.
• Fixed some overlaying text on the building upgrade panel on some buildings.
• Fixed an issue where several mob related perks would not apply correctly to the mobs.
• Blight settings are now properly saved in custom game mode templates.
• If a blessed villager has twins or triplets, all of the children will be born nephilims.
• Fixed a few typos in the tool tips.
• Fixed an extremely rare bug where sometimes mobs would reset their AI, and no longer be "dead" even if they have no hit points.
• Fixed a bug that could sometimes trigger invulnerable slimes.
• Slightly optimized the building destruction code.

[ 2020-07-19 21:33:12 CET ] [ Original post ]

The Rise to Ruins soundtrack is now uploaded all over the internet, including Spotify, Amazon Music, Youtube, Google Play and more! All revenue (Less various store fees) from purchasing or listening to the soundtrack does not go to me, rather it goes to Rise to Ruins' composer, Jos Ramn "Bibiki" Garca. So if you want to support him directly by throwing a few bucks his way, be sure to buy the soundtrack! :) If you're interested in listening or purchasing the soundtrack on various platforms, you can click here to get started! Additionally, if you just want to jam out on youtube, you can find the full OST here. [previewyoutube=jOvSL2YhA4I;full][/previewyoutube] And finally, always remember, the full sound track is always available unobfuscated within the game files, in .ogg format, just poke around the /res/music folder. But buying the soundtrack online is a way to support RtR's awesome composer, and get the files in a more appropriately organized format for easy listening on multiple devices. :)

[ 2020-05-17 17:14:37 CET ] [ Original post ]

The first free post release content patch has arrived, introducing The Magic Update! This update includes a complete and total overhaul of the spell casting mechanics, as well as a ton of new spells. It also includes double the perks the game released with, a ton of bug fixes, balance changes, and general improvements. Specter mechanics have been changed quite a bit in this patch as well, so be sure to checkout the "New Walls and Specter Mechanics" category below and read it carefully! rtrheart Check out the change log for all the juicy bits, and if you find a bug, don't forget to report it on Discord or the Steam Forums. :)

Update 1 Change Log

New Walls and Specter Mechanics

• Added Crylithium Curtain Walls, Crylithium Walls and Crylithium Gates to the game. They all can block specters and ghosts from passing through them.
• Specters and Ghosts can no longer cross crystal patches.
• Regular Curtain Walls no longer block specters and ghosts from passing through them.
• All old saves before this patch get their Curtain Walls updated to Crylithium Curtain Walls automatically and free, so late game villages don't get overrun with specters after this change.
• Reorganized the walls category into two subcategories.

New Perks

• Labor Golem and Holy Golem Duration perk removed as they serve no purpose anymore.
• Tons of new perks added, more than doubling the original perk list. There are too many to list here, so just take my word for it and enjoy! :)
• Removed "perk rarity" from the game. This feature used to determine how common certain perks were, now all perks have an equal chance of being unlocked.

Spell and Influence Overhaul

• New Spell: Construct. Uses your godly powers to assist in constructing buildings, but requires the resources to already be delivered to the build site.
• New Spell: Divine Blessing. Bless a villager, causing their next born child to be a Nephilim with superior strength, dexterity and lifespan.
• New Spell: God Tower. Summons a magic bow tower with unlimited ammo. Requires a portion of your maximum influence to maintain. Can be dispelled with the Dispel Structure spell.
• New Spell: God Wall. Summons a magic wall that will help block all types of monsters, including specters, from crossing. Requires a portion of your maximum influence to maintain. Can be dispelled with the Dispel Structure spell.
• New Spell: Harvest. Automatically harvests resources from the region, dropping them on the ground for your villagers to quickly collect. Make sure you cast this in range of your village, else nobody will come pick anything up!
• New Spell: Holy Potatoes. Sprouts magic potatoes from the ground, really handy if you've just completely run out of food or want to create a new patch elsewhere in the village!
• New Spell: Holy Wood. Sprouts large erections of wood from the ground, really handy if you've just completely run out of wood or want to create a new patch elsewhere in the village!
• New Spell: Dispel Golem. Dispel a previously summoned or combobulated golem. Will work on any golem in the village, including the ones you did not summon yourself. Typically should be used to dispel labor or holy golems to regain some of your maximum influence.
• New Spell: Dispel God Structure. Dispel a previously summoned structure to regain some of your maximum influence.
• A new type of influence mechanic has been added. Now some spells can last forever, but they take up a portion of your maximum influence to maintain. For example, Labor Golems now last forever, but permanently reserve 300 points of influence on your influence bar until you dispel them, or they are killed by monsters.
• Some spells like Conjure Essence and Flame can now be continuously casted, meaning you can hold down the mouse button to continue casting them rather than clicking.
• Many of the old spells now have cooldowns, but have also been buffed or rebalanced accordingly.
• Labor and Holy Golems no longer die slowly over time, but do require influence to be maintained.
• Slightly reduced how much maximum influence the player gets per villager.
• Uncorked the influence absolute maximum, there is no longer a maximum cap on how much total influence you can have.
• Your maximum influence now uses the entire bar (visibly), but the amount of maximum influence still increases per villager.
• Influence gained per tick is now based on a percentage of maximum influence rather than a fixed amount.
• The spell select panel and spell descriptions panel have been completely overhauled.
• Revised many of the spell descriptions.
• Added a spell radius display when you have a spell selected.
• Reduced the particle count on the influence bar.
• Buffed conjure essence spell, it can now produce more resources per cast, and perks can boost it further.
• Slightly reduced influence generation rates.

Miscellaneous Changes

• New range generation "trimming" system, that will remove generated range in areas not connected to the village. Added to cut down on villagers straying away from the village and getting killed. Note that corruption resistance will still generate even if range does not.
• Increased the storage counts of equipment storage.
• Screenshot files are now tagged with the version number of the game they were taken with.
• Cleaned up some of the mouse tooltip message positions.
• Added pointer lines from selected buildings to the building's occupants or workers.
• Added lavender color trees to the game. Currently only used for the Holy Wood spell.
• Added holy potatoes to the game. Currently only used for the Holy Potatoes spell.
• A new mob type called "Nephilim" to the game, that is currently created via the new Divine Blessing spell. These new villagers have longer lifespans and boosted stats.
• Changed the pregnancy icon to look more like a rattle.
• Kitchen now increases worker's cooked meat and boiled egg refine time when upgraded.
• Updated the graveyard's tooltips.

Bug Fixes

• Added fix to buildings to prevent them from being stuck at >100% completed on load after receiving a perk that reduces construction resource requirements.
• Fixed several minor typos.
• Fixed a rare endless loop crash that could happen if monsters tried to spawn from a completely blocked in corrupted fire pit.
• Fixed a minor bug that would cause villagers to not lose hunger points when they mated.
• Fixed some animal mating issues.
• Fixed the construction outline and abandoned graphics for all gates.
• Fixed a very rare crash caused by an endless loop in the trajectory calculation code.
• Fixed a bug that was causing work speed reductions due to high wind to be calculated twice.
• Fixed a bug that wouldn't allow any golems to get their level increase perk unless the player had the wood golem level perk.
• Charmed monsters no longer threaten tiles.
• Fixed an issue where mobs would actually lose hunger, thirst and energy slower when working, rather than faster.
• Fixed a minor bug that could cause newborn animals to spawn the wrong color.
• Fixed a minor bug where catjeet elders would not show up on the population panel when the filter was set to "Elder".
• Fixed a bug where sometimes specters could be banished to inside your village.
• You can no longer upgrade the outpost while it's already being upgraded.
• Fire pit construction can now be paused.
• Fixed purple color crystals minimap color.
• Slightly modified Casas, Wyvernedge and Death Pass to add more valid animal spawn locations.
• Burner no longer trigger the energy usage tip when built.
• Doggos now count on the domesticated stats panel.
• Fixed the upgrade description panel text from overflowing on the Established Ranger Lodge description.
• Ranger lodges no longer count on the problem panel as homes with no food.
• Fixed the missing blank panels on the combobulator category on the right panel.
• Fixed a interface scaling issue with some ultrawide monitors that would cause buttons to be hidden under the UI.
• Fixed a very minor bug where the save system would claim it's converting old road map save data when it wasn't, and the data was already converted.
• Catjeet children are now counted in the children total on the population totals panel.
• Blood Moon and Eclipse countdown delay timers are now properly saved.
• Fixed a rounding issue on the perk list totals.

[ 2020-03-23 01:20:57 CET ] [ Original post ]

I am giving out up to 100 FREE copies of Rise to Ruins to anyone who Follows, RTs and replies to this post on Twitter with their "proof" they are staying at home during the #CoronavirusOutbreak! I'm not telling you what the proof is, just have fun with it. lunar2020ratinablanket Have fun, and wash your hands!

[ 2020-03-16 23:58:50 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! Update 1 Unstable 2 has arrived! This patch adds tons and tons of new perks (more than double!) as well as tosses in several bug fix and other general improvements. This is also the "Feature complete" build of Update 1. Barring any issue, Update 1 should be fully released very soon. So make sure you dig deep for those bugs! rtrheart Enjoy!

Update 1 Unstable 2 Change Log

New Perks

• Labor Golem and Holy Golem Duration perk removed as they serve no purpose anymore.
• Tons of new perks added, more than doubling the original perk list. There are too many to list here, so just take my word for it and enjoy! :)
• Removed "perk rarity" from the game. This feature used to determine how common certain perks were, now all perks have an equal chance of being unlocked.

Miscellaneous Changes

• New range generation "trimming" system, that will remove generated range in areas not connected to the village. Added to cut down on villagers straying away from the village and getting killed. Note that corruption resistance will still generate even if range does not.
• Increased the storage counts of equipment storage.
• Added "blessed" icon to the mob select and population panels.
• Slightly reduced influence regeneration rates.
• Buffed conjure essence spell, it can now produce more resources per cast, and perks can boost it further.
• Slightly reduced influence generation rates.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a interface scaling issue with some ultrawide monitors that would cause buttons to be hidden under the UI.
• Charm spell works again.
• Fixed a very minor bug where the save system would claim it's converting old road map save data when it wasn't, and the data was already converted.
• Fixed a bug that could crash the game if a blessed regular male villager impregnated a nephilim and the nephilim tried to give birth.
• Put in temporary fix for blessed nephilim child birth crashes so old Unstable 1 players already inflicted with the bug can continue to play their saves.
• If the father of a child is re-blessed after the father impregnates the mother, the father will not become unblessed when the mother gives birth.
• Fixed a bug that would allow you to attempt to cast some spells you don't meet the conditions for and not consuming the influence, but triggering the cooldown.
• Nephilim now properly live an average of 10 days longer than their regular counterparts.
• Resurrect spell cooldown now doesn't reset when you don't cast it in a ghost.
• Human Nephilim migrants no longer "become" regular humans after they arrive at the new region.
• Nephilim elders and children are no longer counted as unassigned workers list in the population list panel.
• Catjeet Children are now counted in the children total on the population totals panel.
• Nephilim are now counted in the children total on the population totals panel
• Nephilim are now tracked in the statistics panel.
• Blood Moon and Eclipse countdown delay timers are now properly saved.
• Divine Blessing no longer counts to the resurrection count goal.
• Fixed a few of the new spells not providing god XP or increasing spell cast counts for goals.
• Nephilim are now properly counted on the population panel (Yes, again)
• Fixed a rounding issue on the perk list totals.

[ 2020-03-13 19:48:15 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! Update 1 Unstable 1 has arrived! This patch adds a ton of small improvements and bug fixes, some balance changes, and most importantly a completely overhauled spell system! :) This patch introduces a ton of new mechanics that can greatly impact the overall balance of the game. So be sure to let me know in the comments what you think of all the new mechanics and how they're impacting your gameplay so I can fine tune them for the eventual full release. Enjoy!

Update 1 Unstable 1 Change Log

New Walls and Specter Mechanics

• Added Crylithium Curtain Walls, Crylithium Walls and Crylithium Gates to the game. They all can block specters and ghosts from passing through them.
• Specters and Ghosts can no longer cross crystal patches.
• Regular Curtain Walls no longer block specters and ghosts from passing through them.
• All old saves before this patch get their Curtain Walls updated to Crylithium Curtain Walls automatically and free, so late game villages don't get overrun with specters after this change.
• Reorganized the walls category into two subcategories.

Spell and Influence Overhaul

• New Spell: Construct. Uses your godly powers to assist in constructing buildings, but requires the resources to already be delivered to the build site.
• New Spell: Divine Blessing. Bless a villager, causing their next born child to be a Nephilim with superior strength, dexterity and lifespan.
• New Spell: God Tower. Summons a magic bow tower with unlimited ammo. Requires a portion of your maximum influence to maintain. Can be dispelled with the Dispel Structure spell.
• New Spell: God Wall. Summons a magic wall that will help block all types of monsters, including specters, from crossing. Requires a portion of your maximum influence to maintain. Can be dispelled with the Dispel Structure spell.
• New Spell: Harvest. Automatically harvests resources from the region, dropping them on the ground for your villagers to quickly collect. Make sure you cast this in range of your village, else nobody will come pick anything up!
• New Spell: Holy Potatoes. Sprouts magic potatoes from the ground, really handy if you've just completely run out of food or want to create a new patch elsewhere in the village!
• New Spell: Holy Wood. Sprouts large erections of wood from the ground, really handy if you've just completely run out of wood or want to create a new patch elsewhere in the village!
• New Spell: Dispel Golem. Dispel a previously summoned or combobulated golem. Will work on any golem in the village, including the ones you did not summon yourself. Typically should be used to dispel labor or holy golems to regain some of your maximum influence.
• New Spell: Dispel God Structure. Dispel a previously summoned structure to regain some of your maximum influence.
• A new type of influence mechanic has been added. Now some spells can last forever, but they take up a portion of your maximum influence to maintain. For example, Labor Golems now last forever, but permanently reserve 300 points of influence on your influence bar until you dispel them, or they are killed by monsters.
• Some spells like Conjure Essence and Flame can now be continuously casted, meaning you can hold down the mouse button to continue casting them rather than clicking.
• Many of the old spells now have cooldowns, but have also been buffed or rebalanced accordingly.
• Labor and Holy Golems no longer die slowly over time, but do require influence to be maintained.
• Slightly reduced how much maximum influence the player gets per villager.
• Uncorked the influence absolute maximum, there is no longer a maximum cap on how much total influence you can have.
• Your maximum influence now uses the entire bar (visibly), but the amount of maximum influence still increases per villager.
• Influence gained per tick is now based on a percentage of maximum influence rather than a fixed amount.
• The spell select panel and spell descriptions panel have been completely overhauled.
• Revised many of the spell descriptions.
• Added a spell radius display when you have a spell selected.
• Reduced the particle count on the influence bar.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Screenshot files are now tagged with the version number of the game they were taken with.
• Cleaned up some of the mouse tooltip message positions.
• Added pointer lines from selected buildings to the building's occupants or workers.
• Added lavender color trees to the game. Currently only used for the Holy Wood spell.
• Added holy potatoes to the game. Currently only used for the Holy Potatoes spell.
• A new mob type called "Nephilim" to the game, that is currently created via the new Divine Blessing spell. These new villagers have longer lifespans and boosted stats.
• Changed the pregnancy icon to look more like a rattle.
• Kitchen now increases worker's cooked meat and boiled egg refine time when upgraded.
• Updated the graveyard's tooltips.

Bug Fixes

• Added fix to buildings to prevent them from being stuck at >100% completed on load after receiving a perk that reduces construction time.
• Fixed several minor typos.
• Fixed a rare endless loop crash that could happen if monsters tried to spawn from a completely blocked in corrupted fire pit.
• Fixed a minor bug that would cause villagers to not lose hunger points when they mated.
• Fixed some animal mating issues.
• Fixed the construction outline and abandoned graphics for all gates.
• Fixed a very rare crash caused by an endless loop in the trajectory calculation code.
• Fixed a bug that was causing work speed reductions due to high wind to be calculated twice.
• Fixed a bug that wouldn't allow any golems to get their level increase perk unless the player had the wood golem level perk.
• Charmed monsters no longer threaten tiles.
• Fixed an issue where mobs would actually lose hunger, thirst and energy slower when working, rather than faster.
• Fixed a minor bug that could cause newborn animals to spawn the wrong color.
• Fixed a minor bug where catjeet elders would not show up on the population panel when the filter was set to "Elder".
• Fixed a bug where sometimes specters could be banished to inside your village.
• You can no longer upgrade the outpost while it's already being upgraded.
• Fire pit construction can now be paused.
• Fixed purple color crystals minimap color.
• Slightly modified Casas, Wyvernedge and Death Pass to add more valid animal spawn locations.
• Burner no longer trigger the energy usage tip when built.
• Doggos now count on the domesticated stats panel.
• Fixed the upgrade description panel text from overflowing on the Established Ranger Lodge description.
• Ranger lodges no longer count on the problem panel as homes with no food.
• Fixed the missing blank panels on the combobulator category on the right panel.

[ 2020-01-19 21:54:26 CET ] [ Original post ]

Greetings everyone! Now that Rise to Ruins has left Early Access, it's time to talk about how development will progress from here on out. As I've stated in the past, development will not end when the game leaves Early Access. But, I would like to change how patches work from here. In the past I tried to releases giant major patches. A huge part of this was up until 2019 major patches broke your save data, so I wanted to be sure I added enough content all at once to make it worthwhile to start over. But, for a large majority of 2019 save files are no longer broken when new patches are releases, and I of course don't plan to break them moving forward from here. So, what I'm going to start doing is stop releasing future patch Road Maps outlining huge patches with tons of content. Rather, I'm going to start releasing much smaller, more frequent patches and people interested in following very closely with development can either follow me on twitter, or join our discord. Although there will still be occasional big patches, it really depends on what mechanics are being added. Some new mechanics may simply be so extensive they would be nonsensical broken up into smaller parts. For example, the recent hunting patch would not have made much sense if I broke it up into smaller pieces where I added just animals, then just hunting, then just animal pens, and then just butchering/slaughtering mechanics all individually as separate smaller patches. None of those mechanics would have functioned correctly without the other parts. Just a reminder, as I said in the past all future patches will not be DLC. All future content will be 100% free, and included in the base game. Rise to Ruins will continue to get free content patches as long as I am selling enough copies to support myself and development.

[ 2020-01-02 02:26:58 CET ] [ Original post ]

Introducing the most important patch in the history of Rise to Ruins, Release 1! It's been a long ride, but I'm proud to bring you this milestone update. In less than 24 hours, Rise to Ruins leaves Early Access. But development isn't over! Expect more free content patches over the years as Rise to Ruins continues to evolve and expand into an even more complex game with deeper mechanics. For now though, check out the most extensive and important change log in Rise to Ruins history. If you're looking for the recently released "Hunting Update" change log for InDev 34, check it out here.

Release 1 Change Log

Miscellaneous Changes

• Released the game.

[ 2019-10-13 20:23:25 CET ] [ Original post ]

It's time to hunt! The final InDev version of Rise to Ruins has been released! On October 14th the game will launch out of Early Access and the next big content update you'll see after will be called the free "Content Update 1". Exciting times are ahead! :) This update introduces a massive amount of balance changes, a new hunting system, new mobs, and a ton more. The list is simply too long to summarize properly, so check out the change logs!

InDev 34 Change Log

Rangers and Hunting System

• Renamed the barracks to ranger station.
• Renamed guards to rangers.
• Two new buildings added, the animal pen and the clucker coop. Both buildings house animals that the hunters capture and return to the village. When full, excess animals are then taken by the cooks and slaughtered for meat in the kitchen.
• Rangers will now hunt for animals during midday, capturing them and taking them to animal pens or clucker coops.
• Rangers no longer patrol the perimeter of the village during the day time.
• Rangers no longer can post at outposts or barracks.
• Rangers now patrol the village during a blood moon, rather than the front lines.
• Rangers outside the village are no longer called when a village is in danger.
• Moved rangers lodge and outpost to the food and water category.

Animals and Cooking

• Four new animals have been added to the game, the clucker, entler, beefalo and rous. All four can be hunted by the rangers.
• Tons of new resources have been added, including raw meat, cooked meat, eggs, boiled eggs, raw hide, and feathers.
• Most non-monster mobs now drop meat and byproducts like raw hide upon death, including villagers and doggos.
• Doggos now only spawn on the edges of the map.
• Animals also spawn on the edges of the map.
• Wild animals try to seek out safe locations with food and water to congregate.
• Rebalanced all food.
• Doggos and other animals now require less food and water to sustain themselves.
• Doggos and other animals can no longer die of overheating or freezing.

Save System Optimizations

• The entire save system for object/building data has been completely rewritten, significantly reducing memory usage and save data size.
• Numerous changes and improvements to tons of modules have been done to drastically decrease save file size, save time, load time, and memory usage. (Note: The first time you load an old save it may take some additional time as it converts the data to the new format. I also strongly recommend loading and then saving and exiting at least once on every region just to decrease overall load time and memory usage on the world map.)

Balance Changes

• Cooks and bottlers can now manufacture with their entire workforce again.
• Doubled both the speed and damage of bows. (Resulting in 4x more DPS)
• Tripled the ammo capacity of quivers.
• Villagers now use hostile towers and corruption in their fight or flight mechanics.
• Tools now require wood boards and iron.
• Bows now require silk and wood.
• Iron armor now requires raw hide and iron ingots.
• Medkits now require silk and wood.
• Quivers now require feathers and wood.
• Heavily buffed rations.
• Rations now require a raw meat and a raw vegetable.
• All buildings that make the above mentioned resources now have had their storage changed to store those resources.
• Elders can no longer turn into zombies when blighted.
• Rebalanced zombies very slightly.
• Removed intelligence from the game.
• Removed happiness from the game.
• Completely overhauled entire resource storage system, now buildings can store fixed amounts of each resource type rather than a total of any resource types they can store.
• Completely rebalanced storage limits of nearly all buildings.
• It is now easier to push back the corruption.
• Maintaining infinite refined resources will now manufacture them regardless if storage space exists.
• Less monsters now spawn overall, but their levels increase more rapidly.
• Monster level increases extremely fast when the corruption is highly threatened. (Warning: If you pinned the corruption in your save, the difficulty may be unexpectedly much higher suddenly.)
• The corruption can now be completely destroyed, but it's extremely hard and time consuming.
• Doubled resource decay times for most resources, and tripled others.
• It now takes less trashy trash to make a trashy cube.
• Reduced farm range to 24.
• A fourth dark purple work selection color has been added to signal when a work selection has been threatened.
• When pushing back the corruption, it becomes more resistant and slower to push back the more pinned it is.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Workers now try to equip the best tools or food available rather than anything they can find.
• Loading tips moved to the main game, and now the game starts paused.
• Top popup panels no longer overlap the left panel's category buttons.
• Reduced the overlay font size slightly.
• Raw food renamed to raw vegetables.
• Slightly optimized mob rendering code.
• Perimeter generation code completely removed from the game.
• Changed Doofy Wild Doggo to Wild Doofy Doggo.
• Armorsmiths can now make leather armor.
• Wooden shield renamed to leather shield, and can also now be made by armorsmiths.
• The toolsmith can now make wooden swords.
• Villagers no longer enter a home when they claim it for the first time.
• Console banners are now smaller, 6 can be displayed at once, and they decay faster when there's a backlog.
• Tweaked the storage priority of many buildings.
• Resources can no longer be paused or banished from a building.
• Building perks are now retroactive.
• Wolfmere is no longer connected to Deepnesse
• Added a new "Make/Maintain until storage is full" option for all resources.
• Harvesting tasks are now set to maintain to storage limits by default, rather than infinite. Although the infinite option still exists if you want to use it.
• Made loot boxes more encouraged to teleport closer to the village.
• Added a "backup your saves" warning to old profiles loading InDev 34 for the first time.
• Changed the disclaimer page to remove mention of Early Access.

Bug Fixes

• Implemented possible fix for the "lazy bowyer" problem.
• Fixed a few incorrect tips and tooltip descriptions.
• Processed leftover trashy trash at the trash processor can no longer go over the storage limits.
• Fixed a typo in the Total Home Occupancy tooltip.
• Twitch integration text box now properly loses focus when you close the settings panel.
• Fixed a bug that could cause object data to not load correctly on custom user maps.
• Fixed a minor bug in damage calculations RNG that could throw an error if the mob's stats were too low.
• Fixed a very minor layer color issue with the doggo sprite animations.
• Placing walls for construction no longer automatically deletes the topography under it.
• Fixed a crash when nomads tries to visit a village and the camp/castle was destroyed.
• Sleeping AI branches now obeys the booleans that dictates if they can sleep inside or outside.
• Fixed a bug where sleep and incapacitated animations would not reset properly.
• Fixed an Ancillary on Black Coast that could not be dismantled or reclaimed.
• Implemented bandaid fix for the resourceCount crash.
• Fixed an issue with refine AI if no storage exists anywhere for the refined material (even if the building would make space once a resource is refined) production would halt.
• Fixed a crash related to the clear out resources AI by deleting the clear out resources AI.
• Send villagers goal now counts correctly.
• Year calculations fixed (Yes, again)
• Fixed a string key call in the trash AI task list.
• Fixed a bug where a monsters "breakaway chance" would fire too rapidly in the day time, possibly causing some lag at dawn.

[ 2019-10-11 16:29:20 CET ] [ Original post ]

The light at the end of the tunnel is arriving rapidly. Rise to Ruins will be launching out of Early Access on October 14th. But this ride isn't over yet, Rise to Ruins will continue to get new content as long as you're still around to support and play it. This has been an amazing several years, and the support from the entire community over all this time has been absolutely amazing. It's very rare a one man developer can launch a game of this magnitude all by himself, and if it wasn't for the support of every one of you Rise to Ruins never would have reached this milestone. Launching a game is one of the biggest moments in a developer's life, and can make or break their entire career. But, no matter what happens during the launch, thank you for allowing me to follow my dreams. Here's to more years of completely free Rise to Ruins content, and someday, more SixtyGig Games! [previewyoutube=9jK-NcRmVcw;leftthumb][/previewyoutube]

[ 2019-10-07 02:21:51 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! Unstable 4 has arrived! This patch introduces mostly small bug fixes in preparation for InDev 34 Stable to be released in early October. The game is officially in "Feature lock", all additional changes will be to gear up for the big "Release" patch on October 14th. So post all your nitpicks in the comments! Exciting times are coming. :)

InDev 34 Unstable 4 Change Log

Balance Changes

• Buffed the stats and levels of all animals except the doggos.
• Quadrupled the rate cluckers produce eggs.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Animal pens and clucker coops no longer store dirty water.
• Changed the disclaimer page to remove mention of Early Access.
• Warning panel can now be translated.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed some errors in the way point module that would cause animals to not seek out locations with both food and water.
• Fixed offset construction art on the Clucker Coop.
• Fixed the speed control tip not properly displaying the shortcut key name.
• Fixed an issue that would cause builders to "lock up" if they had a clear terrain task in a threatened area that was required to complete a building.

[ 2019-09-28 12:36:12 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! Unstable 3 has arrived! This patch introduces a ton of small changes, AI improvements and general preparation for the game's launch in October! For the next month, all additional changes will be to gear up for the big "Release" patch on October 14th. So post all your nitpicks in the comments! Exciting times are coming. :) NOTE: This patch makes extensive chances to your save data, I highly recommend backing up your profile before playing. When you launch the game, a warning panel will pop up, when it does, click "Open Install Folder" and then make a backup copy of the /profiles/ folder!

InDev 34 Unstable 3 Change Log

Balance Changes

• Cooks and bottlers can now manufacture with their entire workforce again.
• Doubled both the speed and damage of bows. (Resulting in 4x more DPS)
• Tripled the ammo capacity of quivers.
• Villagers now use hostile towers and corruption in their fight or flight mechanics.
• Tools now require wood boards and iron.
• Bows now require silk and wood.
• Iron armor now requires raw hide and iron ingots.
• Medkits now require silk and wood.
• Quivers now require feathers and wood.
• Heavily buffed rations.
• Rations now require a raw meat and a raw vegetable.
• All buildings that make the above mentioned resources now have had their storage changed to store those resources.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Rangers now hunt animals in the morning.
• Cluckers can now lay eggs.
• Animals being slaughtered no longer plays the death sound.
• Workers now try to equip the best tools or food available rather than anything they can find.
• Loading tips moved to the main game, and now the game starts paused.
• Top popup panels no longer overlap the left panel's category buttons.
• Reduced the overlay font size slightly.

Bug Fixes

• Implemented possible fix for the "lazy bowyer" problem.
• Animal domesticated this period now properly ticks up when you capture an animal.
• Fixed a few incorrect tips and tooltip descriptions.
• Missing water bottle drinking flags for new animals added.
• Processed leftover trashy trash at the trash processor can no longer go over the storage limits.
• Fixed a typo in the Total Home Occupancy tooltip.
• Twitch integration text box now properly loses focus when you close the settings panel.
• Problems panel now properly detects all food types when checking if the village has food.
• Fixed numerous areas where the game AI was only looking at raw food and rations rather than all new food types.
• Fixed an Ancillary on Black Coast that could not be dismantled or reclaimed.
• Implemented bandaid fix for the resourceCount crash.
• Domesticated animals no longer count on the population panel's unassigned workers.

[ 2019-09-11 18:45:56 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! The big Unstable 2 patch has finally arrived! This patch introduces a large majority of the new hunting mechanics, and a ton of miscellaneous changes I hope you guys will love. Check out the change log for the juicy details! NOTE: This patch makes extensive chances to your save data, I highly recommend backing up your profile before playing. When you launch the game, a warning panel will pop up, when it does, click "Open Install Folder" and then make a backup copy of the /profiles/ folder!

InDev 34 Unstable 2 Change Log

Rangers and Hunting System

• Renamed the barracks to ranger station.
• Renamed guards to rangers.
• Two new buildings added, the animal pen and the clucker coop. Both buildings house animals that the hunters capture and return to the village. When full, excess animals are then taken by the cooks and slaughtered for meat in the kitchen.
• Rangers will now hunt for animals during midday, capturing them and taking them to animal pens or clucker coops.
• Rangers no longer patrol the perimeter of the village during the day time.
• Rangers no longer can post at outposts or barracks.
• Rangers now patrol the village during a blood moon, rather than the front lines.
• Rangers outside the village are no longer called when a village is in danger.
• Moved rangers lodge and outpost to the food and water category.

Animals and Cooking

• Four new animals have been added to the game, the clucker, entler, beefalo and rous. All four can be hunted by the rangers.
• Tons of new resources have been added, including raw meat, cooked meat, eggs, boiled eggs, raw hide, and feathers. Feathers currently serve no purpose, but will in unstable 3.
• Most non-monster mobs now drop meat and byproducts like raw hide upon death, including villagers and doggos.
• Doggos now only spawn on the edges of the map.
• Animals also spawn on the edges of the map.
• Wild animals try to seek out safe locations with food and water to congregate.
• Rebalanced all food.
• Doggos and other animals now require less food and water to sustain themselves.
• Doggos and other animals can no longer die of overheating or freezing.

Balance Changes

• Elders can no longer turn into zombies when blighted.
• Rebalanced zombies very slightly.
• Removed intelligence from the game.
• Removed happiness from the game.
• Completely overhauled entire resource storage system, now buildings can store fixed amounts of each resource type rather than a total of any resource types they can store.
• Completely rebalanced storage limits of nearly all buildings.
• It is now easier to push back the corruption.
• Maintaining infinite refined resources will now manufacture them regardless if storage space exists.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Raw food renamed to raw vegetables.
• Slightly optimized mob rendering code.
• Perimeter generation code completely removed from the game.
• Changed Doofy Wild Doggo to Wild Doofy Doggo.
• Armorsmiths can now make leather armor.
• Wooden shield renamed to leather shield, and can also now be made by armorsmiths.
• The toolsmith can now make wooden swords.
• Villagers no longer enter a home when they claim it for the first time.
• Console banners are now smaller, 6 can be displayed at once, and they decay faster when there's a backlog.
• Tweaked the storage priority of many buildings.
• Resources can no longer be paused or banished from a building.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that could cause object data to not load correctly on custom user maps.
• Fixed a minor bug in damage calculations RNG that could throw an error if the mob's stats were too low.
• Fixed a very minor layer color issue with the doggo sprite animations.
• Barracks can now store ballista bolts when at max upgrade.
• Outpost can no longer store ballista bolts until its at max upgrade.
• Placing walls for construction no longer automatically deletes the topography under it.
• Fixed a crash when nomads tries to visit a village and the camp/castle was destroyed.
• Sleeping AI branches now obeys the booleans that dictates if they can sleep inside or outside.
• Fixed a bug where sleep and incapacitated animations would not reset properly.
• Fixed an issue with refine AI if no storage exists anywhere for the refined material (even if the building would make space once a resource is refined) production would halt.
• Fixed a crash related to the clear out resources AI by deleting the clear out resources AI.

[ 2019-08-25 23:20:17 CET ] [ Original post ]

Greeting everyone! Every once and a while I have to revise my road map plans. This is one of those times! After some extensive thoughts on the future of Rise to Ruins I've decided to rearrange the development scheduled a bit, and drop fishing from the next update, replacing it with some heavy rebalancing, trash system changes and AI adjustments to prepare for Rise to Ruins' launch in October! Don't worry though, fishing is still planned. It'll likely happen after Rise to Ruins releases in the many free content patches you guys will get post launch.

Rise to Ruins development will not end when the game leaves Early Access in October.

So be sure to keep posting your suggestions and opinions! I will be supporting the game and continuing on with additional 100% free content patches well after Rise to Ruins has left Early Access. rtrheart You guys have been amazing over the years, and I thank you for all your support on discord and twitter! This has been an amazing experience, and I have you guys to thank for it! I encourage you to post your nitpicky tweaks/gripes/suggestions below! Now that the game is moving into its home stretch to launch, all future patches will have a heavy focus on fixing/polishing "the little things" as I go. So now is the time to complain about all those "little things" that bug you, no matter how small! :)

InDev 34 Revised Road Map

Hunting

• Guards will be completely redesigned into a new Ranger job This new job class will combine the functions of the new rangers and the function of guards into a single job. During the day time, they will hunt animals out in the wilderness, and during night they will defend the village.
• The current outposts and barracks will be re-purposed and the barracks renamed to a ranger's station. Functionally they will remain fairly similar. This is a rename/reskin of the building to make it suitably themed with the new hunter job.
• 4 new animals will be added to the game, to be hunted. The Beefalo, The Entler, the Rous and The Clucker. They will spawn on uncorrupted land in and outside the village.
• To complement the new hunting systems, new complex foods will be added. The kitchen will be able to combine multiple combinations of foods into more complex and nutrient rich dishes.
• A new farm type will be added to house captured animals, to be slaughtered, bred or farmed as needed.
• The kitchen will now be able to slaughter animals for meats and byproducts like raw leather and feathers.
• The toolsmiths and armorsmiths will now be able to make wooden and leather tools, weapons and equipment.

Corruption Changes

• Due to [strike]rioting with pitchforks[/strike] popular demand, the corruption mechanics will be altered, allowing you to completely annihilate the corruption in a region if you're skilled enough. (But it won't be easy!)
• Monster spawn rate will be slightly re-balanced, opting to spawn higher level monsters rather than higher amounts of monsters. Although spawn counts will still increase, just at a lower rate.
• A nightly spawn cap will be reintroduced (Similar to InDev 32's mechanics), but instead, when the nightly spawn cap is reached the game will start to greatly increase monster levels.

Trash System and Resource Changes

• Resources will now take twice as long (and some, 3 times as long) to decay into trash.
• Less trash is generated overall.
• A new harvest/refine to storage limits setting will be added to the production panel, allowing your workers to only generate more resources when there is a place to store them in the village.
• The entire resource storage system will be redesigned to store specific amounts of specific resources rather than totals of all resources. For example, the lumber mill will no longer store 36 wood or boards in total, rather it can store 12 boards and 24 wood.
• Due to the above changes, many buildings will get their storage heavily buffed or nerfed accordingly.

Miscellaneous Changes

• The object/building data will be completely overhauled, reducing overall memory usage, and decreasing save and load times.
• All building perks will now be retroactive.
• Tons of miscellaneous AI and balance improvements.

[ 2019-08-24 17:51:56 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! The first unstable patch for InDev 34 has arrived! This patch introduces a ton of improvements to the save system, lower memory usage, and faster save/load times. In addition it also brings in a ton of balance changes to trash and the corruption mechanics as well as some other nice tidbits. Check out the change log! NOTE: This patch makes extensive chances to your save data, I highly recommend backing up your profile before playing. When you launch the game, a warning panel will pop up, when it does, click "Open Install Folder" and then make a backup copy of the /profiles/ folder!

InDev 34 Unstable 1 Change Log

Save System Optimizations

• The entire save system for object/building data has been completely rewritten, significantly reducing memory usage and save data size.
• Numerous changes and improvements to tons of modules have been done to drastically decrease save file size, save time, load time, and memory usage. (Note: The first time you load an old save it may take some additional time as it converts the data to the new format. I also strongly recommend loading and then saving and exiting at least once on every region just to decrease overall load time and memory usage on the world map.)

Balance Changes

• Less monsters now spawn overall, but their levels increase more rapidly.
• Monster level increases extremely fast when the corruption is highly threatened. (Warning: If you pinned the corruption in your save, the difficulty may be unexpectedly much higher suddenly.)
• The corruption can now be completely destroyed, but it's extremely hard and time consuming.
• Doubled resource decay times for most resources, and tripled others.
• It now takes less trashy trash to make a trashy cube.
• Reduced farm range to 24.
• A fourth dark purple work selection color has been added to signal when a work selection has been threatened.
• When pushing back the corruption, it becomes more resistant and slower to push back the more pinned it is.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Building perks are now retroactive.
• Wolfmere is no longer connected to Deepnesse
• Added a new "Make/Maintain until storage is full" option for all resources.
• Harvesting tasks are now set to maintain to storage limits by default, rather than infinite. Although the infinite option still exists if you want to use it.
• Made loot boxes more encouraged to teleport closer to the village.
• Added a "backup your saves" warning to old profiles loading InDev 34 for the first time.

Bug Fixes

• Send villagers goal now counts correctly.
• Year calculations fixed (Yes, again)
• Fixed a string key call in the trash AI task list.
• Fixed a bug where a monsters "breakaway chance" would fire too rapidly in the day time, possibly causing some lag at dawn.

[ 2019-06-25 01:28:20 CET ] [ Original post ]

Just slightly over 5 years ago (May 3rd, 2014), I decided to make a simple pathfinding tech demo, to prove you can design a large scale pathfinding system for thousands of creatures all at once on a large, complex map. Well, that tech demo sparked an idea, an idea that turned into what you're currently playing; Rise to Ruins. Now, after 5 years of solo development, the final InDev release is underway! (Actually, it has been underway for about 2 weeks, but hey!) Your support has been amazing over these 5 years, and I'm proud to announce InDev 34 will be the last content update before Rise to Ruins leaves Early Access In October! This primary focus of this update is (you guessed it!) to add new hunting and fishing to the game. Part of that will also mean reworking guards and adding more complex food options. There will also be a ton of tweaks and improvements done to the new save system, corruption mechanics, as well as the usual general optimizations and improvements.

Rise to Ruins development will not end when the game leaves Early Access in October.

So be sure to keep posting your suggestions and opinions! I will be supporting the game and continuing on with additional 100% free content patches well after Rise to Ruins has left Early Access. rtrheart You guys have been amazing over the years, and I thank you for all your support on discord, twitter and writing reviews on Steam! This has been an amazing experience, and I have you guys to thank for it! I encourage you to post your nitpicky tweaks/gripes/suggestions below! Now that the game is moving into its home stretch to launch, all future patches will have a heavy focus on fixing/polishing "the little things" as I go. So now is the time to complain about all those "little things" that bug you, no matter how small! :)

InDev 34 Road Map

Hunting and Fishing

• Guards will be completely redesigned into a new hunter job (Name pending, suggest one below!) This new job class will combine the functions of the new hunters and the function of guards into a single job. During the day time, they will hunt animals out in the wilderness, and during night they will defend the village.
• The current outposts and barracks will be re-purposed into hunters guilds/lodges (Again, name pending! Suggest something!). Functionally they will remain fairly similar. This is a rename/reskin of the building to make it suitably themed with the new hunter job.
• New animals will be added to the game, to be hunted. They will spawn on uncorrupted land in and outside the village.
• A new fishing hut will be added, allowing you to fish in nearby waters.
• Dev time permitting, the new fishing hut will be able to be built on the water.
• To complement the new fishing and hunting systems, new complex foods will be added. The kitchen will be able to combine multiple combinations of foods into more complex and nutrient rich dishes.
• A new farm type will be added to house captured animals, to be slaughtered, bred or farmed as needed.

Corruption Changes

• Due to [strike]rioting with pitchforks[/strike] popular demand, the corruption mechanics will be altered, allowing you to completely annihilate the corruption in a region if you're skilled enough. (But it won't be easy!)
• Monster spawn rate will be slightly re-balanced, opting to spawn higher level monsters rather than higher amounts of monsters. Although spawn counts will still increase, just at a lower rate.
• A nightly spawn cap will be reintroduced (Similar to InDev 32's mechanics), but instead, when the nightly spawn cap is reached the game will start to greatly increase monster levels.

Miscellaneous Changes

• The object/building data will be completely overhauled, reducing overall memory usage, and decreasing save and load times.
• All building perks will now be retroactive.
• Dev time permitting, workshop support will be added for custom maps.
• Dev time permitting, bridges will be added to the game.

[ 2019-06-06 07:16:23 CET ] [ Original post ]

The last planned content patch of InDev 33 is here, introducing 9 brand new maps in a brand new biome, and created by a member of the community no less! The Red Sands biome, by Shade (Give him a follow on Twitter as a thank you!) In addition to the new biome, I've also fixed a ton of bugs and improved the AI. So be sure to check out the change log! If you're interested in following development much more closely, don't forget to follow me on Twitter or join the awesome community on Discord!

InDev 33e Change Log

Miscellaneous Changes

• 9 new maps have been added to the world map, creating a brand new "Red Sands" biome to explore!
• Increased the threat range of hostile towers and mobs.
• Added several community contributors to the credits page.
• Monsters can no longer spawn from incomplete buildings.
• "Clear Resources from Road" AI added that will prevent incorrect resources from sitting on a road and stopping your way makers from upgrading it.
• New builder AI improvements that should help avoid the "Waiting for one last hit of work" taking forever because the worker tasked with the job is on the other side of the village.
• All other panels on the world map now close when the player attempts to open a chest or complete a goal.
• The total available storage resource counts on the resource bar and panel no longer count buildings with paused or banned resources.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash if you tried to place a building or draw terrain with a very tall shadow on the most-eastern or southern edge of the map.
• "Ready to migrate" no longer pops up on already established villages with migrants en route.
• Fixed a rare bug if a mob was killed while another mob was attacking it, and you saved and exited the game before the other mob's AI reset, it could cause a crash on reload.
• Fixed total years being offset by 1 day.
• Workers no longer repair abandoned buildings.
• Fixed a bug where water harvesting will not respect if a building's storage if paused or disabled when deciding to harvest more water, possibly causing an over harvesting problem.
• Fixed an issue where the game would crash with no sound device active.
• Fixed an issue where sometimes some goals that has map specific requirements on maps you didn't yet occupy would cause the game to crash.

[ 2019-05-21 02:10:46 CET ] [ Original post ]

This is a fairly small bug fix patch, correcting a few issues that creeped up in InDev 33. If you're looking for the previous "Passive Tips" update, check out InDev 33c's change log. If you're interested in following development much more closely, don't forget to follow me on Twitter or join the awesome community on Discord!

InDev 33d Change Log

Miscellaneous Changes

• Clearing terrain, roads, digging and all harvest AI now obey the new threat map introduced in InDev 33c, and should drastically cut down on villager's suicidal behavior when new work becomes available after pushing back the corruption.
• Increased the rate trash decays in the corruption.
• Decreased the rate corruption destroys natural resources like trees and food.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash if you assigned road work to upgrade to a path, and before the road was actually upgraded to a path one was generated naturally on the same tile, causing a loop in the road AI and eventually crashing the game when the AI tried to interact with that tile.
• Guards posting at a building being upgraded no longer has a very small chance of crashing the game.
• Implemented a possible fix for the rare bug that could sometimes cause resources to be generated in a building that was just destroyed, causing the game to crash next reload.
• Fixed a rare bug that would corrupt a save file if you saved and exited while you were carrying a resource your hand.
• Fixed a bug that could cause organizers to accidentally place the wrong resources in the wrong buildings, mainly keys. Credit to Veldrin on Discord.

[ 2019-05-12 20:58:59 CET ] [ Original post ]

InDev 33c has arrived, introducing a new passive tip system that should help newbies out a bunch. Now you guys get the same information, but more on your terms, rather than the prior "interrupt your game and slap you in the face with a wall-o-text" method. Now, tips will pop up when conditions are met, and float around the area that triggered them, so you can click on them when you're ready. This patch also introduces a mess of bug fixes, balance changes to trash, and the first half of a new "threat awareness" system that will greatly cut down on workers doing things in unsafe areas of the map. As per usual, check out the change log! :) If you're interested in following development much more closely, don't forget to follow me on Twitter or join the awesome community on Discord!

InDev 33c Change Log

Passive Tip System

• Most tips now pop up and hover around what triggered them, waiting for the player to click on them.
• New tip sound has been added.
• New tips have been added related to over harvesting, resource decay and walls being attacked.

Trash Re-balance

• All trash is worth 50% less "trash points", meaning it will be burned/destroyed faster.
• Trashy cubes are still worth the same trash points, but with trashy trash worth half as much, that means it takes 2x more trashy trash to make a single cube. Buffing cubes indirectly because now you can condense more trash into one cube.
• Burners are roughly 20% faster, but since trash is also worth 50% less trash will also be destroyed 60% faster (50% less points, 20% faster rate). eg; it consumes "trash points" 20% faster, and trash is worth 50% less points.
• Trashy Loot Boxes spawn rates reduced 66%.

Miscellaneous Changes

• The custom resource bar can now list up to 32 items.
• Greatly reduced the memory footprint of the new save system.
• Migration Way Station can no longer store trash.
• New threat map system implemented, that will help prevent workers from getting near towers and monsters to collect resources or build and repair roads. In a future patch, it will be utilized for many other work tasks as well.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that was preventing water bottle refining from progressing in the goals system.
• Fixed a bug that was causing some fight or flight mechanics to miscalculate.
• Fixed a bug that could cause paths to not generate on commonly walked tiles.
• Fixed processing trash goal.
• The game will no longer crash if you try to move the world map with WASD controls or edge scrolling when a game mode has not yet been selected.
• Game no longer crashes when a monster tries to spawn and no corruption exists.
• Implemented a possible fix for a very rare crash if the dedicated threads are in the middle of work when the player exits the region.
• Fixed a bug where the game would crash if couriers or migrants tried to leave a map and couldn't find an exit.
• Fixed an issue where empty profile folders from previously deleted cloud save data would be listed as "Corrupted".

[ 2019-05-10 01:49:28 CET ] [ Original post ]

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[ 2019-05-02 17:06:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

Greetings fellow and future deities! Rise to Ruins is on sale for the next 48 hours at its lowest historic price on Steam, only $3.40 (or, 66% off)! This will be the lowest price point you will see Rise to Ruins on Steam for a very long time, so if you're interested in buying, now is the time! This is part of the ultimate plan to launch the game out of Early Access later this year. After tons, and tons of community feedback between the discord, twitter, and the official forums I have settled down a game plan for Rise to Ruins' road to release. Phase one starts with this blowout sale, giving everyone "one last hurrah" to get the game at a great price and we blast our way through to leaving Early Access. After the sale is over, the game's price will increase to $14.99 for the remainder of Early Access. Phase two starts with the next two major content patches. InDev 34, the "Bio and Hygiene" update and InDev 35/Release 1, the "Fishing and Hunting" update. Phase three, one month prior to leaving Early Access, the game will hit its final price point collectively agreed on within the community; $19.99, and then have a launch discount of 30% when the game finally leaves Early Access. After release, development will not stop. As I've said in the past, these sort of games are never truly finished, there's always more to add! You will continue to get completely free content patches as long as the community is still active. Reaffirming my policy there will be no paid DLC. You will all have all the content the game will ever contain, for the single one-time asking price. It's the way I've always done things with Rise to Ruins, and that will not change. So hopefully, for the years to come Rise to Ruins will continue to expand and grow, and at absolutely no additional costs to you, you'll continue to get more and more content. I thank you all for your great reviews, feedback, suggestions, and everything else you've provided over the years during Early Access. I am looking forward to launching the game this year, and I hope you'll all stick around during and after the launch for years to come. It's because of your support that I am privileged to do my dream job, and I will continue to do my best not to let you down on the road ahead. rtrheart

[ 2019-05-02 16:56:26 CET ] [ Original post ]

Introducing InDev 33, a landmark patch on the road to release later this year! This patch introduces sweeping balance changes to corruption, an entire new trash system, tons of UI improvements and one of the most important additions to prepare for release; a new robust save system that from here on out, will no longer invalidate save data! While this patch has a ton of new content and balance changes, the real highlight here is the new save system. From here on forward to the best of my abilities, saves should no longer break between patches. So you can press on, enjoying the game with no fear of the next patch around the corner wiping your progress. Because the changes in this patch are so extensive, I urge everyone to read the change log in its entirety. Many of the changes, like the corruption and trash system, will fundamentally change how you play the game. Because this patch invalidates your save data, a "Previous Stable" branch on steam has been added. If you'd like to continue playing InDev 32e and finish out your existing game before moving on, opt into that branch! If you're interested in following development much more closely, don't forget to follow me on Twitter or join the awesome community on Discord!

InDev 33 Change Log

New Save System

• The entire save system has been converted to a more backwards compatible format, that should help saves stay valid for much longer than before.
• The save is much better multi-threaded out, dropping save time on the main thread down to less than 30ms even in end game saves for most machines.
• Many random save corruption bugs have been eliminated, due to newer more robust save validity checks.

Corruption and Spawning Rewrite

• Corruption and spawning power is now based on the current day and how much space in the region the corruption desires and cannot have because you've blocked it, rather than the old system where spawn rates were determined by the overall size of the corruption. This means that if you allow the corruption to cover half the map, the spawn rates will be lower than if you box them in a corner.
• Corruption's desired amount of land is based on the current day and total amount of buildings the corruption has built.
• Corruption resistance stats no longer exist, rather, the corruption now always avoids being near your village no matter the resistance level. It will just never enter your village, and it will very quickly recede if you try to expand into it.
• Reduced rate corruption tiles eat away at resources.
• Completely removed all global/world corruption mechanics from the game.
• A new corruption threat bar has been added above the influence bar. This bar determines the additional spawn rate increase from the baseline for the current day. The bar will increase as the corruption becomes "boxed in" and desires more land than you will allow it to have. The higher the bar, the harder the game will be.
• Corruption tiles that get pushed back may spawn monsters, regardless of time of day.
• The entire spawn rate curve has been smoothed out, and there should no longer be any significant "surprise difficulty increases", unless you purposely try to box in the corruption and make the corruption threat level skyrocket.

Trash System

• When a resource is destroyed, created or manufactured, there will be a small chance trash will be left behind. This can happen in many ways, including harvesting, building, refining, dismantling, etc.
• There are many types of trash, like "Woody Trash" and "Rocky Trash". These various trash types have some value, and can be processed at the new processor for a chance to gain some free materials.
• New Worker: "Trasher", their job will be to clean up the trash found on the ground and take it to landfills, burners and processors.
• Trash can only be stored in small, cheap to build trash bins, a landfill, in the processor, or a burner.
• New Monster: "Trashy Slimes". Trash on the ground can spawn these slimes if you don't keep up with it.
• New Building: Trash Bin. A small building that stores a small amount of trash, but when stored it can no longer spawn trashy slimes. All workers will be allowed to take trash to this building.
• New Building: Landfill. A large building for storing larger amounts of trash. But only trashers can bring trash to this building.
• New Building: Processor. Can store a small amount of trash, and when the trashers are not busying cleaning up trash, they can process certain trash types at this building, destroying it entirely, or sometimes getting free resources or "trashy trash" (worthless trash) back.
• New Building: Burner. Similar to a processor, but it will automatically (and very, very slowly) destroy trash and once fully charged, generate essence. It can not store very much trash and will never return free materials.
• Cube-E Golems have been added to the game, and are built at the new Cube-E Golem Combobulator.
• Cube-E Golems are completely automated, and will process Trashy Trash anywhere in the village into more compact Trashy Cubes, that can be used in some limited construction options (listed below), or burned in a burner.
• New Building: Cube-E Golem Combobulator. Just like other combobulators, stores up energy and spawns a golem, but consumes iron rather than wood, rock or crystal.
• New Wall: Trashy Cube Wall. Similar to stone walls, except made of trashy cubes processed by the Cube-E Golems. These walls are only built by Cube-E Golems, and not by your regular builders.
• New Building: Trashy Cube Pile. This new building serve no functional purpose, but cost an excessive amount of Trashy Cubes to build. This building can be constructed to purposely consume large amounts of Trashy Cubes. Like Trashy Cube Walls, they can only be built by Cube-E Golems.
• Rebalanced decay rates of all resources. Resources like rocks now last longer, where as resources like raw food last shorter.
• When a resource decays, it now becomes trash rather than gets removed from the game.
• New trash processing goal added.

New Road UI

• The entire old road UI has been removed, and a new one has been put in place under the new "Roads" tab on the right hand GUI.
• You can now select what road you'd like to upgrade a tile to rather than only being able to select the next possible road for that tile.
• You can now hold the accent key (X by default) to select all roads of the same type that are connected together, and upgrade them all at once in one click.

Revamped Resource Bar and New Resource List Panel

• The resource bar has been completely redesigned, and can now be customized.
• A new resource list panel has been added, inside the panel you can see the resource counts of every resource in the village, this is also where you customize the resources listed on the new resource bar.
• In both the new resource list panel and new resource bar, you can now see the total remaining storage space for that resource.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Default key for unassigning changed to "Q"
• Updated corruption tip.
• Reduced the overall autosave rate.
• All combobulators now require crylithium.
• All golem combobulators now require small amounts of energy to operate the already spawned golems.
• Golems that spawn from combobulators will slowly start to die if the combobulator runs out of energy for too long and cannot operate them.
• When a corrupted building is completely ignored by drones, or the drones cannot reach it and it has 0 maximum health, it will eventually delete itself.
• Renamed Official Maps to Legacy Maps
• Added new "Workshop Maps" pack for future workshop support.
• Removed the "WIP" pack.
• You can no longer select default map sizes as the settings were mostly pointless.
• Survival, Peaceful, and Sandbox mode now all have a season length of 7 days, instead of 5.
• Nightmare now has a season length of 7 days in the Spring and Autumn, and 10 in Summer and Winter.
• Traditional now has a season length of 8 days in the Spring and Autumn, and 6 in Summer and Winter.
• Survival, Peaceful, and Sandbox mode full moon cycles are now every 9 days, instead of 7.
• Nightmare mode full moon cycles are now every 12 days, instead of 8.
• Ancillary building cap increase provided increased by 2.
• Castle building cap increase provided increased by 4.
• New interaction tile flag system is implemented, allowing multiple interaction points on a single building, making work look more natural.
• Clearing terrain can now generate a limited amount of free resources, but also generates excess trash.
• The world tooltips now have descriptions where applicable, like when hovering over a building, or a harvestable resource.
• All resources now have tooltip descriptions.
• Crystillers can now use hammers and pick axes.
• Added the final list of patreon names to the name pool.
• Combobulators can now store a very small amount of the resource they use to spawn.
• Improved the builder's clearing AI so they will prioritize clearing terrain blocking construction.
• Removed the day length multiplier from the custom mode settings.
• Increased the amount of nomads that can spawn, when they do.
• Golems can no longer enter the corruption for any reason.
• Non-combat golems now provide god XP and goal progressions when completing tasks.
• Labor golems now live a little longer.
• Optimized the object module's work efficiency update speeds.
• Localization mods no longer load strings with old revision numbers.
• When loading a localization mod, a missing strings text file is generated in the mod's folder, listing out all missing or modified strings the modder needs to check out to get their mod back to 100% after a patch.
• Added trash tip.
• Removed "Smooth Particles" setting as it is no longer used in the new particle system.
• Removed the map size art from the GUI
• Corrected a few object's description lengths.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that could sometimes cause villagers to try to wander outside the village to pickup a resources.
• Fixed a minor typo in the harvesting goal description.
• Fixed the dirty water description and headers being flipped on some of the object panels.
• Crystal Harvesty building count in the right hand GUI now counts properly.
• Experimental fix for the color binding crash related to setting colors of newly generated particles implemented.
• Fixed some incorrect or missing shadows on the lumber mill and gates.
• Fixed a bug that would cause migrants to not arrive in a day if couriers happened to arrive first.
• Fixed mining facility construction phase shadows.
• Fixed a crash if you tried to start a new game with debug mode running.
• Added missing particles for wall construction outlines.
• Fixed a typo on the "Generate Mob Sheet" dev tool button.
• Fixed the bonus nomads rate from being off by 1 making the first perk ineffective.
• Season switch date has been offset by one, where the next season would have started on the 5th day in the previous patch, it now starts on the 6th. (Note that season length has also changed, so pre-bug fix the it would have started on the 7th day, but now properly starts on the 8th)
• Fixed an extremely rare save corruption bug caused by workers completing refining/manufacturing resource work at a building at the exact moment it is destroyed.
• Harvesting raw food from a farm now counts to the harvesting goals on the world map.
• Fixed problem panel attacking building count from counting the wrong data.
• Farm's farming speed reduction bonus is now properly applied to farmers.
• Crystal Golem Combobulators are now considered a way point for golems.
• Fixed some particle over-generation issues when you increase game speed.
• Fixed a bug where you can't sell resources to a provisioner unless you happen to have at least one of that resource in storage somewhere in the village.
• Implemented a possible fix for way makers running off and leaving the village to repair a road right as the game loads.
• Fixed an issue that could make the world map load slower with very large maps, and rarely cause GC Overlimit crashes.
• Fixed a bug that could cause courier golems to crash the game if they have no way to leave the map.
• Fixed a lag/memory issue at dawn when monsters tried to go home, if too many monsters existed on the map.

[ 2019-04-30 13:11:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! This is a fairly small cleanup patch, if you're looking for the recent juicy bits see the 26th's InDev 33 Unstable 4 release! This release is effectively a pre-release of InDev 33 Stable, barring any issues. So please make sure to play test the hell out of it! If you're waiting for InDev 33 Stable to be released, you can go ahead and start playing this one as currently no new content and changes are planned before release (Likely on the April 30th or May 1st). Exceptions being fixing any bug that may creep up. (NOTE: Current existing combobulators will need to be upgraded or rebuilt, old save combobulators do not work correctly in Unstable 4 and 5!)

InDev 33 Unstable 5 Change Log

Miscellaneous Changes

• Optimized the object module's work efficiency update speeds.
• Localization mods no longer load strings with old revision numbers.
• When loading a localization mod, a missing strings text file is generated in the mod's folder, listing out all missing or modified strings the modder needs to check out to get their mod back to 100% after a patch.
• Added trash tip.
• Removed "Smooth Particles" setting as it is no longer used in the new particle system.
• Removed the map size art from the GUI
• Corrected a few object's description lengths.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an out of range bug with the road tool that would crash the game is you scroll off the map.
• Fixed a lag/memory issue at dawn when monsters tried to go home, if too many monsters existed on the map.
• Implemented possible fix for map data going slightly out of sync with other save data during autosaves.
• Fixed an issue where world map save data wouldn't reset when changing profiles.
• Fixed road counts on the road panel.
• Fixed old golems crashing the game if their combobulator was dismantled.

[ 2019-04-28 20:48:18 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! InDev 33 Unstable 4 is here, and it is considered the "Feature complete" build before releasing stable very soon! There may be some more tweaks and adjustments before releasing stable but this build includes all planned content coming to InDev 33, so jump in and break it for me please! This build's highlight is the brand new, very long overdue, and totally awesome road UI, as well as a handful of balance changes, tweaks, and bug fixes. As per usual, check out the change log below for all the details. Let me know in the comments what you think of all the changes. Especially the new game balance. Too easy, too hard, just right? Just please note, your old save's balance may be totally out of whack, so please reframe from reporting balance issues until you start a new region! :) (NOTE: Current existing combobulators will need to be upgraded or rebuilt, old save combobulators do not work correctly in Unstable 4!)

InDev 33 Unstable 4 Change Log

New Road UI

• The entire old road UI has been removed, and a new one has been put in place under the new "Roads" tab on the right hand GUI.
• You can now select what road you'd like to upgrade a tile to rather than only being able to select the next possible road for that tile.
• You can now hold the accent key (X by default) to select all roads of the same type that are connected together, and upgrade them all at once in one click.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Added new corruption settings to the custom game mode menu and fixed spawn rate settings limits.
• Default key for unassigning changed to "Q"
• Updated corruption tip.
• Reduced the overall autosave rate.
• All combobulators now require crylithium.
• All golem combobulators now require small amounts of energy to operate the already spawned golems.
• Golems that spawn from combobulators will slowly start to die if the combobulator runs out of energy for too long and cannot operate them.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where you can't sell resources to a provisioner unless you happen to have at least one of that resource in storage somewhere in the village.
• Implemented a possible fix for way makers running off and leaving the village to repair a road right as the game loads.
• Fixed an issue that could make the world map load slower with very large maps, and rarely cause GC Overlimit crashes.
• Fixed trash processing goal.
• Fixed a bug that could cause courier golems to crash the game if they have no way to leave the map.

[ 2019-04-26 17:37:33 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! Introducing the most ambitious balance change in a long time; the brand new corruption and spawning system! Many players have complained the corruption system wasn't quite working as they wanted it to. So, this re-balance is entirely based on community feedback trying to fix many of the issues you guys complained about. The old corruption system just wasn't up to snuff, it was either too hard (if you let the corruption grow on its own), or too easy (if you exploited it). As a result, this patch introduces a complete and total rewrite of the entire spawning and corruption system. Also, the world/global corruption level system was quite simply a bad game design, and has also been completely removed from the game. This patch technically will not break your save data, but be ready for a totally different experience next time you load the game. Those of you who like to "pin" the corruption may die very quickly, I suggest giving the corruption some breathing room as fast as humanly possible, if you can. If you don't pin the corruption the spawn rates will likely be very high for a few days, but smooth out as the corruption claims the land it should have had. In addition to the sweeping corruption and spawn system changes, I've also rebalanced the trash system a bit, fixed several bugs and completely redesigned the resource bar! Let me know in the comments what you think of all the changes. Especially the new game balance. Too easy, too hard, just right? Just please note, your old save's balance may be totally out of whack, so please reframe from reporting balance issues until you start a new region! :)

InDev 33 Unstable 3b *HOT FIX* Change Log

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that could sometimes cause villagers to try to wander outside the village to pickup a resources.

InDev 33 Unstable 3 Change Log

Corruption and Spawning Rewrite

• Corruption and spawning power is now based on the current day and how much space in the region the corruption desires and cannot have because you've blocked it, rather than the old system where spawn rates were determined by the overall size of the corruption. This means that if you allow the corruption to cover half the map, the spawn rates will be lower than if you box them in a corner.
• Corruption's desired amount of land is based on the current day and total amount of buildings the corruption has built.
• Corruption resistance stats no longer exist, rather, the corruption now always avoids being near your village no matter the resistance level. It will just never enter your village, and it will very quickly recede if you try to expand into it.
• Reduced rate corruption tiles eat away at resources.
• Completely removed all global/world corruption mechanics from the game.
• A new corruption threat bar has been added above the influence bar. This bar determines the additional spawn rate increase from the baseline for the current day. The bar will increase as the corruption becomes "boxed in" and desires more land than you will allow it to have. The higher the bar, the harder the game will be.
• Corruption tiles that get pushed back may spawn monsters, regardless of time of day.
• The entire spawn rate curve has been smoothed out, and there should no longer be any significant "surprise difficulty increases", unless you purposely try to box in the corruption and make the corruption threat level skyrocket.

Trash System

• Slightly reduced the rate Trashy Slime spawn.
• Increased the rate trash in the corruption decays.
• Trashy Slime no longer spawn from trash of on the corruption.
• Rebalanced several areas where trash is generated, increasing or decreasing the rate as needed.
• Water purifiers can now generate trash.
• Decreased the spawn rate of suspiciousy trash.
• Non-trashy trash or trashy trash cubes can now decay into trashy trash over a very long period of time. (eg; Woody trash will decay into trashy trash.)
• You can no longer build/dismantle trashy cube buildings to get rid of trash.
• Boosted Cube-E golem strength and reduced dexterity.
• Trashy slimes no longer spawn in peaceful mode.
• Processors now have speed boosts.

Revamped Resource Bar and New Resource List Panel

• The resource bar has been completely redesigned, and can now be customized.
• A new resource list panel has been added, inside the panel you can see the resource counts of every resource in the village, this is also where you customize the resources listed on the new resource bar.
• In both the new resource list panel and new resource bar, you can now see the total remaining storage space for that resource.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Improved the builder's clearing AI so they will prioritize clearing terrain blocking construction.
• Removed the day length multiplier from the custom mode settings.
• Increased the amount of nomads that can spawn, when they do.
• Golems can no longer enter the corruption for any reason.
• Cube-E, Labor, and Courier golems now provide god XP and goal progressions when completing tasks.
• Labor golems now live a little longer.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed several missing text strings from the trash system.
• Fixed problem panel attacking building count from counting the wrong data.
• Water Bottlers no longer place trash in the bottler.
• Farm's farming speed reduction bonus is now properly applied to farmers.
• Crystal Golem Combobulators are now considered a way point for golems.
• Fixed some particle over-generation issues when you increase game speed.
• Cullis gates now overloads properly.
• Fixed a few minor GUI errors.
• Process Trashy Cubes goal now works correctly.

[ 2019-04-20 21:09:07 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! Trash has arrived! This build introduces tons of new buildings and mechanics all related to the trash system, as well as the usual mess of bug fixes and balance changes.This is also the first build ever released after the new save system changes, and if all goes well this version should be completely compatible with your Unstable 1 saves even though it introduces a ton of new mechanics that would have previous invalided them! The end results of the trash system came out quite a bit differently than the original road map. So as per usual, check out the change log for all the juicy details! Be sure to let me know if you encounter any issues, especially with old save data!

InDev 33 Unstable 2 Change Log

Trash System

• When a resource is destroyed, created or manufactured, there will be a small chance trash will be left behind. This can happen in many ways, including harvesting, building, refining, dismantling, etc.
• There are many types of trash, like "Woody Trash" and "Rocky Trash". These various trash types have some value, and can be processed at the new processor for a chance to gain some free materials.
• New Worker: "Trasher", their job will be to clean up the trash found on the ground and take it to landfills, burners and processors.
• Trash can only be stored in small, cheap to build trash bins, a landfill, in the processor, or a burner.
• New Monster: "Trashy Slimes". Trash on the ground can spawn these slimes if you don't keep up with it.
• New Building: Trash Bin. A small building that stores a small amount of trash, but when stored it can no longer spawn trashy slimes. All workers will be allowed to take trash to this building.
• New Building: Landfill. A large building for storing larger amounts of trash. But only trashers can bring trash to this building.
• New Building: Processor. Can store a small amount of trash, and when the trashers are not busying cleaning up trash, they can process certain trash types at this building, destroying it entirely, or sometimes getting free resources or "trashy trash" (worthless trash) back.
• New Building: Burner. Similar to a processor, but it will automatically (and very, very slowly) destroy trash and once fully charged, generate essence. It can not store very much trash and will never return free materials.
• Cube-E Golems have been added to the game, and are built at the new Cube-E Golem Combobulator.
• Cube-E Golems are completely automated, and will process Trashy Trash anywhere in the village into more compact Trashy Cubes, that can be used in some limited construction options (listed below), or burned in a burner.
• New Building: Cube-E Golem Combobulator. Just like other combobulators, stores up energy and spawns a golem, but consumes iron rather than wood, rock or crystal.
• New Wall: Trashy Cube Wall. Similar to stone walls, except made of trashy cubes processed by the Cube-E Golems. These walls are only built by Cube-E Golems, and not by your regular builders.
• New Building: Trashy Cube Pile. This new building serve no functional purpose, but cost an excessive amount of Trashy Cubes to build. This building can be constructed to purposely consume large amounts of Trashy Cubes. Like Trashy Cube Walls, they can only be built by Cube-E Golems.
• Rebalanced decay rates of all resources. Resources like rocks now last longer, where as resources like raw food last shorter.
• When a resource decays, it now becomes trash rather than gets removed from the game.
• New trash processing goal added.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Survival, Peaceful, and Sandbox mode now all have a season length of 7 days, instead of 5.
• Nightmare now has a season length of 7 days in the Spring and Autumn, and 10 in Summer and Winter.
• Traditional now has a season length of 8 days in the Spring and Autumn, and 6 in Summer and Winter.
• Survival, Peaceful, and Sandbox mode full moon cycles are now every 9 days, instead of 7.
• Nightmare mode full moon cycles are now every 12 days, instead of 8.
• Ancillary building cap increase provided increased by 2.
• Castle building cap increase provided increased by 4.
• New interaction tile flag system is implemented, allowing multiple interaction points on a single building, making work look more natural.
• Clearing terrain can now generate a limited amount of free resources, but also generates excess trash.
• The world tooltips now have descriptions where applicable, like when hovering over a building, or a harvestable resource.
• All resources now have tooltip descriptions.
• Crystillers can now use hammers and pick axes.
• Added the final list of patreon names to the name pool.
• Combobulators can now store a very small amount of the resource they use to spawn.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a save backwards compatibility issue loading resource color types stores in objects.
• Fixed mining facility construction phase shadows.
• Fixed a crash if you tried to start a new game with debug mode running.
• Added missing particles for wall construction outlines.
• Fixed a typo on the "Generate Mob Sheet" dev tool button.
• Fixed the bonus nomads rate from being off by 1 making the first perk ineffective.
• Season switch date has been offset by one, where the next season would have started on the 5th day in the previous patch, it now starts on the 6th. (Note that season length has also changed, so pre-bug fix the it would have started on the 7th day, but now properly starts on the 8th)
• Fixed an extremely rare save corruption bug caused by workers completing refining/manufacturing resource work at a building at the exact moment it is destroyed.
• Harvesting raw food from a farm now counts to the harvesting goals on the world map.

[ 2019-04-12 00:19:17 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! The first working build of the new Rise to Ruins save system has arrived! This is a major first step in bringing backwards compatibility to your save systems, so future patches will greatly minimize the risk of your saves becoming obsolete. It also opens the door to add Steam Cloud support when InDev 33 stable is completed. It is very likely this new system may have save bugs to work out, and could even corrupt your saves, or crash. Keep in mind a lot of this system is designed specifically to keep your saves from corrupting in the future, as an oddball side effect of that, that means a lot of times you can load the game with corrupted or missing data and it'll still load just fine (resetting the corrupted or missing data back to default so you can chug forward). Thus, you need to do more than just check if the save loads. Make sure everything is just as you left it. So please, if you find anything "wrong" in your data when you reload, please let me know as soon as possible, even if it has no direct impact on your game play. In addition to the save system, this patch also includes a bunch of random small fixes. So be sure to check out the change log. :)

InDev 33 Unstable 1 Change Log

New Save System

• The entire save system has been converted to a more backwards compatible format, that should help saves stay valid for much longer than before. (Note: Due to still being in development, there's a risk that Unstable 2, 3, etc, may still break data as kinks are worked out.)
• The save is much better multi-threaded out, dropping save time on the main thread down to less than 30ms even in end game saves for most machines.
• Many random save corruption bugs have been eliminated, due to newer more robust save validity checks.

Miscellaneous Changes

• When a corrupted building is completely ignored by drones, or the drones cannot reach it and it has 0 maximum health, it will eventually delete itself.
• Renamed Official Maps to Legacy Maps
• Added new "Workshop Maps" pack for future workshop support.
• Removed the "WIP" pack.
• You can no longer select default map sizes as the settings were mostly pointless.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a minor typo in the harvesting goal description.
• Fixed the dirty water description and headers being flipped on some of the object panels.
• Crystal Harvesty building count in the right hand GUI now counts properly.
• Experimental fix for the color binding crash related to setting colors of newly generated particles implemented.
• Fixed some incorrect or missing shadows on the lumber mill and gates.
• Fixed a bug that would cause migrants to not arrive in a day if couriers happened to arrive first.

[ 2019-03-22 19:46:57 CET ] [ Original post ]

InDev 33 development has been underway since the release of InDev 32e a few weeks ago. But now's the time to tell you what it's all about! This primary focus is to update the save system, bringing in a much more robust, faster and more backwards compatible system. I can not guarantee that this new system will make all your saves backwards compatible forever, but it will help tremendously in keeping them valid for much longer than before. Hopefully the average player will never have to deal with obsolete saves again. Sadly and ironically though, this is such a fundamental rewrite it will destroy all your save data when the patch is finally released. This patch is also going to introduce a few new mechanics and some UI rework. One being a complete redesign of the road UI, making the entire system much more streamlined and easy to use. The other, is a new "Trash system", as part of the first phase of the hygiene update you'll be seeing more of in InDev 34. As usual, check out the road map below for the details! As always, there will be some additional content added outside of the road map, time permitting. I encourage you to post your nitpicky tweaks/gripes/suggestions below! Now that the game is moving into its home stretch to launch this year, all future patches will have a heavy focus on fixing/polishing "the little things" as I go. So now is the time to complain about all those "little things" that bug you, no matter how small! :)

InDev 33 Road Map

New Save System

• The entire save system will be converted to a more backwards compatible format, that should help saves stay valid for much longer than before.
• The save system will be better multi-threaded out, dropping save time on the main thread down to less than 30ms even in end game saves for most machines.
• Many random save corruption bugs will be eliminated, due to newer more robust save validity checks.
• Steam Cloud saving will be enabled.

Trash System

• When a resource is destroyed, created or manufactured, there will be a small chance trash will be left behind.
• A new "Waste Collector" (Name pending) worker will be added, their job will be to clean up the trash found on the ground and take it to trash bins, landfills and processors.
• Trash can only be stored in small, cheap to build trash bins, a landfill, in the processor, or a grinder.
• Trash slows down movement speed as well as lowers constitution if they're around too much trash for too long.
• New Building: Trash Bin. A small building that stores a small amount of trash, but when stored inside it does not cause any penalties to the villagers around it. All workers will be allowed to take trash to this building.
• New Building: Trash landfill. A large building for storing larger amounts of trash. But only "Waste Collectors" can bring trash to this building.
• New Building: Processor. Can store a small amount of trash, and when the waste collectors are not busying cleaning up trash, they can process trash at this building, destroying it entirely. Sometimes, the process will give the player back some free resources.
• New Building: Grinder. Similar to a processor, but it will automatically (and very, very slowly) destroy trash and generate essence but can not store very much trash and will never return free materials.

New Road System UI

• You will be allowed to select a specific road type when placing road work down, rather than one type at a time. You could place up to what you want built and they will continue to work until they've reached that upgrade level.
• A new "upgrade all connected of this type" tool will be added, where you can select a single road type, and all roads of that same type connected to it will automatically be selected for upgrade.
• (Time Permitting) Better traffic data will be added, so you can see where high traffic areas are and plan your roads more effectively.

[ 2019-03-11 18:20:48 CET ] [ Original post ]

Greetings fellow deities, Rise to Ruins is planning to launch out of Early Access this year. Release 1 will be a huge milestone for Rise to Ruins' nearly 5 year development cycle! I've put a ton of work into this game, and I'm proud to finally see it complete enough I can call it a "ready" in 2019. But here's the thing; Development won't end. I have no intention on stopping development once the game leaves Early Access, nor do I plan to stop anytime soon. As long as you are all here supporting my work, I will be here to support it too. After Release 1 expect plenty of additional content over, hopefully, years of future development. Before release, I have a few more major patches planned, one of the most important ones being a complete redesign of the save system that will hopefully nearly eliminate your saves becoming "obsolete" and having to reset your progress. As for content, I am planning a bio, hygiene, trash, fishing, hunting, and cooking systems, as well as workshop support for custom skirmish maps and a fundamental redesign of the corruption system before release. All of these will likely span 3-4 major patches throughout the year, starting with InDev 33, introducing the new save system. As for post release content, I'm still planning a procedural map generator, more holy/religion things, bridges, building walls on water, more equipment, spells, monsters, per-map difficulty/weather, more goals, perks and a ton of other content I couldn't even begin to list out in a single post. So while the game is going to be released this year, it'll never be done. There's always more to add, and I'll be here to add it. For the nitty gritty business side of things, roughly a month prior to release, Rise to Ruins will increase it's price and the standard 50% discount price will change to 33%. Although what that price will be is still somewhat up in the air, and I'd love to hear your feedback down in the comments what you think the price should be. I thank all of you that have stuck with this long journey, working alone has been both an overwhelming challenge and very rewarding, I am grateful for all of your support all along the way. Without your support, I couldn't have made this game what it is today. It's because of you I get to live my lifelong dream of being a game developer. rtrheart

[ 2019-02-24 05:41:21 CET ] [ Original post ]

The likely final InDev 32 series patch has been released! This patch is mostly optimizations and a complete overhaul of the entire particle system. Although it does include several gameplay tweaks and bug fixes, so checkout the change log for all the juicy details! Early reports from some "In-house" testers on discord are claiming great frame rate improvements! Let me know down in the comments how much better (or worse?) the game is running for you compared to InDev 32b. :)

InDev 32d *HOT FIX* Change Log

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash when trying to upgrade roads before the tile set data for the next upgraded road type was loaded into the game.

InDev 32c Change Log

Particle Engine

• Particles can now be more than just 1x1 pixels/dots, they can be all shapes and sizes, and even animations. As a result, almost all the particle effects in game have been updated/improved.
• Particle data is no longer saved with your save data, previously, some "long lasting" particles like blood splatters were saved.
• All particle and emitter logic has been shuffled off to a new dedicated thread, users with at least 4 CPU threads (Dual Cores with Hyperthreading, Quad Cores or better) should see a very nice performance boost as a result.

Miscellaneous Changes

• An eclipse and a blood moon can no longer happen on the same day.
• Workshop Uploader tool now allows you to select predefined tags.
• Fire Elementals now take much more damage when it's raining, or when thrown in water.
• Fire Elementals no longer take water damage when being grabbed and hovering over water.
• Initial batch of migrant and courier spawns when starting a new region are now arrive nearly 3 times faster than before.
• The Barracks, Outposts and Equipment Storage can now all store wood swords and wood shields.
• Mobs no longer "Scream" when they die of natural causes.
• Hide Topography button re-enabled.
• Hide Topography now shows a "ghost image" of the topography rather than hiding it completely.
• The hide topography shortcut now works in play mode.
• Added building and tile counts to the right panel.
• You can now use the farm and road tools as soon as you place the building for construction.

Bug Fixes

• Static tower damage is now correct in the GUI.
• Implemented a short term fix to prevent translation mods from corrupting save data if there's a comma in a goal description.
• Red Crystals generate particles again.
• Missile, Combobulator and several other particles are no longer generated when not in view of the camera.
• Fixed a theoretical crash related to lighting striking outside the map.
• Road type upgrade text when using the road upgrade tools are now properly translated when a language pack is loaded.
• The perk "Dundar's Determination" now displays correctly in game.
• Fixed a bug where migrants could crash the game trying to leave the village if there's no available space tiles on the map to leave.
• Fixed a minor statistics bug for courier resources delivered per day.
• Tweaked the text color coding system slightly so it does not crash when incomplete color codes are inputted at the end of a string. (This only applies to localization mods with incorrectly formatted strings)
• When the migration panel is manually active, selecting a Courier Station now properly overrides it with the Courier panel.
• Game will no longer crash when you try to change game states while the debug menu (F3) is enabled.
• The farm and road work tools no longer gray out when your only building is being upgraded.

[ 2019-02-22 20:14:25 CET ] [ Original post ]

This patch is fairly small, it just covers a few hiccups from InDev 32's release. If you're looking for the big change log from InDev 32, check out this announcement. Note that this patch also allows localization modders to translate the loading tips, and as a result, all previously 100% completed translations are now hovering around the mid 98% range.

InDev 32b Change Log

Localization Modding

• All loading tips can now be translated.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Adjusted red sands terrain slightly.
• Mobs "complain" more when grabbed.

Bug Fixes

• You can no longer place abandoned buildings or auto-built buildings on topography, without the topography being auto-erased.
• Fixed a rare bug where a mob can get "stuck" on the player's hand when grabbed.
• Fixed a bug where you could not draw the accent layer on the base terrain.
• Fixed several minor text key errors. Note that some of these errors, if occurred in your save before, may still exist when you load the game. Next time the game calls for the text they'll be generated correctly.

[ 2019-02-06 01:54:49 CET ] [ Original post ]

After months of toiling, one of the most ambitious code overalls in Rise to Ruins history has been completed, and I am proud to introduce full localization modding support on the Steam Workshop! If English isn't your primary language, or, if you don't speak English at all, you can now easily download a user made language pack and play the game in your native tongue! That's not all either, this patch has a plethora of miscellaneous improvements, from better render performance, bug fixes, new tile art, a new shadow engines and a ton more! Check out the change log below for detail. If you're interested in checking out some of the new localization mods, here's a few highlights of several 100% or practically 100% completed localization mods made by the community! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1632036634&searchtext= https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1633739624&searchtext= https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1638986110&searchtext= https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1639348623&searchtext= https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1631870896&searchtext= https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1634275992&searchtext= https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1633693835&searchtext= https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1633130908&searchtext= https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1633031151&searchtext= https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1632152097&searchtext= If you've made one that isn't listed above, feel free to spam it down in the comments. :) If you're interested in following development much more closely, don't forget to follow me on Twitter or join the awesome community on Discord!

InDev 32 Change Log

Localization Modding

• All game text can now be edited by players to be made into mods.
• Steam workshop support has been added for localization mods.
• The game now supports any TrueTypeFont, and should support all kinds of character sets, including Russian, Chinese, Japanese, etc.
• A new Steam Workshop tool, created by BeepDog has been included in the game install, allowing you to upload your mods to the new workshop.
• Tons of default flags have been added to the game, created by Crowbob, for you to use in your mods. They are located in /localization/flags/.
• Word wrapping system now much more accurate.

Visual Improvements

• All terrain, roads and walls have been given over 150% more transition tiles, giving the terrain much more complexity and depth. This fixes all kinds of visual ugliness, like double-width roads "grid patterns", or 1x? trails of terrain "dotting" along the map.
• Shadow generation has been greatly improved, allowing for much more visually complex shadows in the game.
• All mobs now cast more realistic shadows.

Miscellaneous Changes

• You can now place buildings on top of most topography, and workers will clear it before starting construction.
• Building construction phases now no longer change until construction has actually began.
• The map and shadow rendering speed has been greatly improved.
• The game now uses less overall VRAM.
• Maximum game speed controls can now be changed by editing "maximumGameSpeed" in the settings.properties file. (Use at your own risk!)
• New preferred village pathfinding has been added. Villagers will now be extremely unwilling to leave the village, opting for longer paths to get to their destination, if the longer path allows them to remain in the village at all times.
• Added the finalized version of the sound track, with many improved/remastered tracks.
• Updated the bundled JRE for all operating systems to Java 8u202.
• Dropped support for 32-Bit Windows (Note: In theory, Win32 users can still launch the game via RtR.bat)
• Updated RtR64.exe's launch icon.
• Changed out several of the text based "floaters" with icons, like pregnancy and equipping items.
• Countless minor changes to various text all over the game.
• Selecting a profile now has a button click sound.
• Patreon links and icons removed from the game.
• Lowered flash rate of buttons.
• Removed the tip counter on the tip page when you have multiple tips.
• Temporarily disabled the hide topography button. (They'll be back next patch!)

Balance Changes

• Migrants now award god XP doing actions.
• Slowed down Fire Elementals movement speed, but increased their hit points.
• Night time in the Winter has been made slightly shorter, to help nerf the large bump in monsters on the 15th and 16th day.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the announcement page URL so announcements will correctly load on the main menu again.
• Fixed a bug where departing migrants were not granting god experience or ticking up the "send villagers" goal.
• The dedicated data thread very rarely crashing on exit has been fixed.
• Implemented an experimental save validation check to avoid save corruption issues on some machines.
• You can now press the "Abandon Region" button when debug view is on and you lose a region.
• Fixed a bug where resources inside the corruption's buildings were being counted in the player's totals.
• Statistics page tooltips for resources and mobs no longer show a description block containing the same value as the title.
• Fixed a few node reset issues on various A* algorithms.
• Fixed world data being wiped out if you attempted to forcefully exit the game on the loading screen.
• Added additional save validity checks to the save system

[ 2019-02-03 09:10:14 CET ] [ Original post ]

Greetings guys, after some very, very careful consideration. I've decided to shut down the Patreon. The reason being Rise to Ruins easily sustains my livelihood and a nice rainy day account that can keep SixtyGig Games running through the hard times now, so I don't feel right taking additional money from you guys! Your support has and always will be appreciated and I thank you all for your pledges, reviews and of course, buying the game. Rise to Ruins has been doing increasingly well over the last 6 months or so, and to return the thanks you gave me by pledging, I would like to return to you 2 times the amount you pledged to me since the Patreon began. Meaning, if you've pledged $10, I'll return $20! Anyone who wants to take me up on this offer, simply send me a message on Patreon with your PayPal information (Or post a comment in the Patreon announcement linked below) and I'll handle the rest! If you don't have a PayPal. I can also offer Steam gift card codes. Please, don't look at this as a negative, I greatly appreciate everything you guys have and will do! This is actually a great thing; as Rise to Ruins has become so successful a rainy day fund this Patreon set out to build is no longer necessary. :) Thank you guys for everything! I look forward to your messages. The original post can be found here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/24404678

[ 2019-02-02 05:56:58 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! Another huge step towards moving out of Early Access this year, Rise to Ruins Unstable 2 is finally here, and supports localization mods on the Steam workshop!! Players may now create their own localization mods and upload them to the Steam workshop to share with others. But in order to access the workshop before InDev 32 Stable is released, you must be a member of the Rise to Ruins Workshop Alpha group. I am also paying a bounty to translators. Anyone who can 100% translate the game accurately before InDev 32 Stable is release I will pay $200 or $300 USD (depending on the language) via paypal, or in Steam gift cards. For more information/rules/requirements check out the announcement in the work shop group! This patch also introduces a ton of small tweaks and improvements. So be sure to checkout the change log. :) Bonus; Unlike most new unstable builds, your InDev 31e saves still work with this patch!

InDev 32 Unstable 2 Change Log

Localization Modding

• All game text can now be edited by players to be made into mods.
• Steam workshop support has been added for localization mods, in order to use the workshop you must join the Rise to Ruins Workshop Alpha group.. Documentation is location in Rise to Ruins' new /localization/ folder.
• The game now supports any TrueTypeFont, and should support all kinds of character sets, including Russian, Chinese, Japanese, etc.
• A new Steam Workshop tool, created by BeepDog has been included in the game install, allowing you to upload your mods to the new workshop.
• Tons of default flags have been added to the game, created by Crowbob, for you to use in your mods. They are located in /localization/flags/.

Miscellaneous Changes

• New preferred village pathfinding has been added. Villagers will now be extremely unwilling to leave the village, opting for longer paths to get to their destination, if the longer path allows them to remain in the village at all times.
• Added the finalized version of the sound track, with many improved/remastered tracks.
• Updated the bundled JRE for all operating systems to Java 8u202.
• Dropped support for 32-Bit Windows (Note: In theory, Win32 users can still launch the game via RtR.bat)
• Updated RtR64.exe's launch icon.
• Changed out several of the text based "floaters" with icons, like pregnancy and equipping items.
• Countless minor changes to various text all over the game.
• Selecting a profile now has a button click sound.
• Patreon links and icons removed from the game.
• Lowered flash rate of buttons.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where resources inside the corruption's buildings were being counted in the player's totals.
• Statistics page tooltips for resources and mobs no longer show a description block containing the same value as the title.
• Fixed a few node reset issues on various A* algorithms.

[ 2019-01-22 00:01:34 CET ] [ Original post ]

After careful thought, I have decided to re-prioritize a bit. InDev 32 is no longer the "Improvements Update", it is now the "Localization Modding" update. The patch will still include many improvements from the original roadmap, but some of them are being pushed to InDev 33, and my original plans for InDev 33 (the hygiene update) are now being pushed to 34. I am really excited about this one! I am introducing workshop support for localization modding and time permitting, map sharing! You will be able to create your own localization mods into any language you wish, and upload them to the Steam workshop for your fellow native speakers to download. Currently, InDev 32 Unstable 1 is already released, and includes a few of the items in the road map below already. InDev 32 Unstable 2 is introducing alpha testing of the new localization mod support, hopefully coming out in about a week or two. Sadly, the biggest loss to the revision is pushing the much-requested road upgrade tools to InDev 33, but they're still planned! You'll still get them in roughly the same timeline as before, it'll just be officially in the next patch. Basically, nothing is being delayed, I am just restructuring my plans so I can push a stable release to you sooner, then work on what is effectively "InDev 32 part 2" as InDev 33 shortly after. Just like the original road map, I encourage you to post your nitpicky tweaks/gripes/suggestions below! InDev 32 (and now 33) are both squarely focused on general improvements and polish. So now is the time to complain about all those "little things" that bug you! :)

InDev 32 Road Map

Localization Mod Support

• The entire game will be completely modifiable to be localized for any language, including Chinese, Japanese, Korea, Russian, and other difficult to localize languages.
• Font will also be customizable, so you can pick the font that works best for your language.
• Full True Type Font and Unicode support will be added. The modder can customize the font settings in their mods configuration file, to fine tune it for their needs.
• Workshop support will be added for players to create, upload and update/support their own custom language files.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Time permitting, map sharing will also be added to the workshop, so players can share their custom maps.
• All terrain, roads and walls will get more transition tiles, fixing a ton of minor visual issues, like 1x? length water tiles just being a series of dots, or large areas of roads having a weird "grid pattern".
• The foundation of the code required to add bridges, as well as build future walls and some buildings on the water.
• Completely redesigned rendering engine for the map and shadows, reducing GPU load.
• New shadow system that has a 2-depth system, allowing for more refined and detailed shadows.
• Tons of minor GUI improvements.

[ 2018-12-14 18:25:06 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! Wohoo! After 2 solid months of drawing new artwork, InDev 32 Unstable 1 has arrived! This patch is almost entirely a polishing patch, but also has a ton of minor fixes and tweaks. Part of this patch was re-designing the entire shadow engine, making shadows a bit more realistic, but some of the shadow data (particularly on buildings) has not been fully converted to the new system. So, if you see any visual errors on buildings, don't worry about it! They'll be gone in Unstable 2. I hope you enjoy the improvements! Check out the change logs for all the details! The change log may be a bit short, but the changes are quite extensive to the underlining code. :) Bonus; Unlike most new unstable builds, your InDev 31e saves work with this patch!

InDev 32 Unstable 1 Change Log

Visual Improvements

• All terrain, roads and walls have been given over 150% more transition tiles, giving the terrain much more complexity and depth. This fixes all kinds of visual ugliness, like double-width roads "grid patterns", or 1x? trails of terrain "dotting" along the map.
• Shadow generation has been greatly improved, allowing for much more visually complex shadows in the game. (Note: Many buildings are still not using the new system. They will next patch.)
• All mobs now cast more realistic shadows.

Miscellaneous Changes

• You can now place buildings on top of most topography, and workers will clear it before starting construction.
• Building construction phases now no longer change until construction has actually began.
• The map and shadow rendering speed has been greatly improved.
• The game now uses less overall VRAM.
• Maximum game speed controls can now be changed by editing "maximumGameSpeed" in the settings.properties file. (Use at your own risk!)

Balance Changes

• Migrants now award god XP doing actions.
• Slowed down Fire Elementals movement speed, but increased their hit points.
• Night time in the Winter has been made slightly shorter, to help nerf the large bump in monsters on the 15th and 16th day.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the announcement page URL so announcements will correctly load on the main menu again.
• Fixed a bug where departing migrants were not granting god experience or ticking up the "send villagers" goal.
• The dedicated data thread very rarely crashing on exit has been fixed.
• Implemented an experimental save validation check to avoid save corruption issues on some machines.
• You can now press the "Abandon Region" button when debug view is on and you lose a region.

[ 2018-12-05 22:51:20 CET ] [ Original post ]

InDev 32's development has begun! Every so often, I plan one of these polishing and improvement updates. The main focus of this update isn't to add any new core mechanics, but to improve on the existing foundation. Unlike regular updates, these improvement updates do not have extensive detailed road maps. Most of the updates are miscellaneous changes that just make things "better", and a lot of it comes from your feedback. So, be sure to post down in the comments with your minor gripes and nitpicks about, well, anything! The following road map is not a complete list in any way, this is just the "Big stuff" I'll be working on in addition to a ton of optimizations and small improvements, as well as what you suggest down in the comments that I can find time to work in.

InDev 32 Road Map

Miscellaneous Changes

• All terrain, roads and walls will get more transition tiles, fixing a ton of minor visual issues, like 1x? length water tiles just being a series of dots, or large areas of roads having a weird "grid pattern".
• A new road UI will be added, that allows the player to much more easily place roads.
• The foundation of the code required to add bridges, as well as build future walls and some buildings on the water.
• Time permitting, walls and gates that can be built on the water.
• Completely redesigned rendering engine for the map and shadows, reducing GPU load.
• New shadow system that has a 2-depth system, allowing for more refined and detailed shadows.
• Tons of minor GUI improvements.

[ 2018-10-03 14:18:27 CET ] [ Original post ]

Greeting everyone, To both celebrate a wonderful week long sale (Thanks guys! ːrtrheartː), and to kickoff the new Steam Broadcaster box I've setup on the store page, I'm giving away $10 Steam gift card codes every 4 hours 3 times a day, starting at noon, every day until I run out! The codes will be pasted in the steam broadcast chat roughly around Noon, 4PM and 8PM every day, central standard time. If you're interested, simply stick around on the store or broadcast page chat and wait for the code-drop! Both chats are linked, so pick whatever works best for you. Store Page link Broadcast Link As of writing this, the first code will be released in about 20 minutes! Good luck guys. :)

[ 2018-09-26 16:39:46 CET ] [ Original post ]

Greetings everyone! InDev 31b has just been released, and it includes a bunch of small balance adjustments and bug fixes, most of it based on your feedback! Check out the change log for all the details. :) If you're interested in following development much more closely, don't forget to follow me on Twitter or join the awesome community on Discord! By player demand, I have also recently setup a Patreon to support SixtyGig Games' "Buy once own everything forever" no paid DLC philosophy, if you'd like to check it out.

InDev 31b Change Log

Miscellaneous Changes

• Uncompressed all resource data, decreasing load times and fixing some issues with certain malware and virus scanners.
• Re-positioned some tool tips to prevent them from overlapping relevant data.
• You can now manually disable mouse map zooming in the settings.property file.
• Increased how many migrations per day the migration way stations provide by 2.
• Increased the bonus levels of all golems.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where sometimes very rarely migrants and courier golems could get trapped behind the corruption.
• Fixed a bug where some sound effects wouldn't completely mute when the sound was muted in the settings menu.
• Fixed a minor typo on the selected mob panel.
• Changed the way interaction point coordinates are given, to prevent situations where the mob can reach the building, but not the interaction point causing AI slowdowns/freezes.
• Fixed a bug with road delivery that can cause an endless loop in the AI if the road worker can not reach the road tile he was assigned to.
• Fixed a rare bug that would sometimes cause goals to not progress.
• Fixed an issue where en route migrants were sometimes not being displayed in the world map on some maps.
• Fixed the XP gain amount for courier delivery goals.
• Resurrection goal now awards god XP properly.
• Fixed bugged crystal harvestry on Whestcastle map.
• Fixed an issue where some sound effects would partially ignore the sound settings.
• The camp now shows up on the world map again.
• Fixed an issue where placing the camp incorrectly would "Start" a region even if nothing was actually started.

[ 2018-09-25 22:38:44 CET ] [ Original post ]

It's here! The culmination of nearly 4 solid months of hitting the grind stone, introducing the largest patch in the history of Rise to Ruins; InDev 31! This patch is a major step forward to reaching Rise to Ruins "Release 1", and leaving Early Access! This patch introduces so much new content I'm not even sure where to start. But, for a short list, we've got; Goals, Perks, Chests, God Experience, Migration, Couriers, new tool tips, more music, borderless full screen, resolution settings, a hardware cursor, a metric crap ton of bug fixes, balance changes, huge improvements to all of the worker's AI and so much more I probably forgot to mention in this huge run on sentence. So, check out the change log! InDev 31 is a huge balance changer, so let me know in the comments or on the forums what you think, and give me your suggestions where you think balance could use a little tweak. If necessary, I'll see what I can do in InDev 31b to further improve the balance of all the new mechanics. Rise to Ruins' light at the end of the tunnel is finally showing. I hope that the game will leave Early Access in the first quarter of 2019. But that does not mean development will stop. As long as all of you awesome players are still around playing my game, I will still be adding content to it. But, I think we're reaching a point the game can be called "release ready". A very proud moment for me, as Rise to Ruins will be my first game shipped, and I've loved the crazy ride. If you're interested in following development much more closely, don't forget to follow me on Twitter or join the awesome community on Discord! By player demand, I have also recently setup a Patreon to support SixtyGig Games' "Buy once own everything forever" no paid DLC philosophy, if you'd like to check it out.

InDev 31 Change Log

Chests, Goals, God Experience and Perk System

• You now gain a reward chest for every 5 days of gameplay on any region.
• Chests have random perks in them, like "Farelle's Constitution" offers a global 5% max hit points bonus to all your villagers, on all regions.
• Chests are opened with "God Experience". This experience is gained through normal gameplay. The better your village is doing, the more experience you'll gain.
• There are 5 levels of chests, each level cost +80% more experience to open than the previous level, but has more perks.
• You can only have 8 chests unopened total, once you fill your chest bar you must open a chest to gain more.
• All perks, chests and experience gained is persistent through resetting your world with the Doom World panel. Meaning you get to keep all your perks even if you reset your progress! If you want to reset your perks progress, you must delete your entire profile.
• You now have 10 goals slot, that will unlock slowly as you play.
• Unlocking a goal will reward god experience, and completing unlocked goals will award perks, god experience and can reduce global corruption levels.
• Goals you do not wish to complete can be reset, and the unlock counter for a new goal will start.
• You can beat the game now. Assuming you figure out how to survive at least 1 year, on every single region in the entire game without losing any of them. >:)

Corruption System

• Corruption has been completely rewritten. Corruption spawn and spread rates are now based on the global world day, not the individual region's day.
• A new corruption threat bar has been added to the world map view, the higher the bar fills, the more dangerous the entire world is.
• A local corruption threat bar has been added to the region select screen on the world map, giving you a general idea how strong the corruption is on that specific region.
• Completing some goals and migrating to new regions reduces the corruption world wide.
• Baseline spawn rates have been slightly increased, to help offset the corruption reduction when migrating and completing goals.
• Monster spawn levels and types are now based on the world day.

Migration System

• You can now send villagers from one village to another connecting village or new region via the new migration tab on the left panel.
• You now will only get "freebie" villagers and resources on your first region. After, you must send migrants to connecting regions to establish them.
• When starting a new connected regions you will get up to 25 migrants as soon as you place your camp. After, you will get anywhere between 10 and 15 a day until all incoming migrants have been completely exhausted. During this time you can still receive nomads as usual.
• New Building; The Migration Way Station. It enables access to the new migration tab so you can send villagers to nearby regions as well as increases your maximum amount you may send per day.
• When sending migrants to new regions, the villagers will become migrants in the morning, and actually leave at midday.
• The village will only send healthy, young and single adult villagers out of the village.
• The world map now allows you to start anywhere you want for your first region, but blocks expanding into other regions unless you send migrants there first.

Courier System

• New Building: Courier Station. This new building will spawn courier golems that can be used to deliver resources to nearby regions. Upgrading the building will increase how many parking spots the station has, how many golems it can spawn, as well as reduce spawning costs.
• New Job: Courier supplier. These new workers will bring resources to the spawned courier golems that are parked in the courier stations, to eventually be delivered to nearby regions.
• You can send an unlimited amount of resources every day assuming you have enough golems, and the resource is set on the new courier panel on the left hand side of the screen. Setting the "Daily" value will cause the golems to try to send as many resources as you selected out every day, where as the "Send" value will try to send that many resources in addition to what you have daily sent at that day.
• Courier suppliers will supply parked golems in the courier stations with resources to deliver all day long, but courier golems can only leave the village during the midday.
• When a courier golem arrives at the connected region, they will drop off their resources and try to park at that region's courier station. If a courier station does not exist or there is no parking available, they will destroy themselves.
• Both organizers and labor golems can also supply courier golems.

AI Improvements

• Way Makers can now carry multiple resources at once to roads.
• Workers will no longer steal resources assigned to road construction.
• The Way Makers, Provisioners, Farmers, and the behavior for equipping resources in general now are much better at finding the nearest resource to work with.
• Farmers now plant resources in the closest available open farm tile.
• Villagers no longer steal food from other starving villagers.
• Tweaked and cleaned up the storage AI a bit.
• Cleaned up several AI branches, removing some unneeded fail states.
• Added experimental path finding movement costs that attempts to reduce how often monsters and villagers walk in a "single file line", trying to make them spread out more naturally.
• Villagers will now ignore "threatened" resources in dangerous areas. (Like mob drops at your front lines, during the night)
• Improved stuck pathfinding to avoid getting trapped as often.
• Villagers no longer work to the point of bursting into flames when doing refining jobs.
• Decreased the chance guards will flee.
• Completely rewrote panic and flee mechanics to pick more intelligent coordinates. (AKA: They run to the village now)
• Completely rewrote builder construction AI to be much more intelligent where it decides to pick up resources to deliver, as well as when to harvest.
• Farmers can now plant new seeds during the extreme heat in the summer.
• Minor improvements to several AI branches, making them fast-fail if their destination buildings are destroyed.
• Cleaned up some of the coordinates selection code in the AI.

Save Rollback

• Completely rewrote how save data is handled, allowing for rolled back up to 8 saves.
• This system is not used to correct game play mistakes, this is used to fix corrupted save files! Rolling back a perfectly working save is not advised and can cause other problems. The intent of this system is an emergency quick fix if your save data is completely ruined.
• To access the save rollback menu, hold left shift while viewing your region on the world map, or in the skirmish load menu.

Display Modes

• The game can now be played in borderless full screen. Although on Mac and Linux, some versions may still display your task bars.
• When using traditional full screen (the old style), you can now change the game resolution.

Interface Changes

• The mouse is now a hardware cursor.
• Added a completely new tool tip system, nearly all buttons in the game now have descriptive tool tips explaining what that button does.
• Map tile tool tips no longer can pop up behind the GUI.
• The catjeet laborer hire menu is now displayed even if no laborers are available.
• Reworked a large amount of the world map GUI to support the new data in migration system.
• Hid the mouse and overlays when you use the hide GUI button.
• You can now move the map and zoom on the main menu.
• Removed the splash screen from the game entirely.
• Re-added the save-only, data views and hide topography buttons to map editor.
• Added the required building's name to enable a tab to the disabled tabs on the left panel.
• Fixed render ordering of the map buttons so they are not under the buildings on the world map.
• Reworked the "You Lose/Abandon Region" GUI.
• Updated program icon.
• Added the unemployed villagers panel to the migration tab.
• The grab button now properly shows the grave key ` itself, and no longer spells out "GRAVE".
• When the catjeet are out of resources to sell, the sell values now turn red rather than say "Empty".
• Changed motivate land spell description.
• The workers supplied and build range provided is now side by side in the object panel GUI if both exist.
• Aid building category has been renamed to Civics.
• Way Maker Shack moved to the Civics panel.
• Added more death messages.

Miscellaneous Changes

• All new Patreons names added to the game.
• When your population hits zero, you now "lose" the region and are ejected to the world map.
• Nomads and provisioners now arrive and leave on the edges of the map rather than random locations.
• Nomads and provisioners can no longer arrive in locations that can not reach the village, unless the village is completely blocked off.
• Nomads are now slightly more willing to pathfind to the village once they spawn.
• Removed Limbo from the game entirely, as it has been replaced by the migration system.
• Main theme on the main menu no longer loops.
• The game will no longer save until the region has actually been "started" by placing down your camp.
• Time is now frozen until you place your camp.
• Added new world map tips for the migration system.
• When starting a new game, the game now picks a random location in the center of the map as the default map position.
• Added better essence return coordinates data, making everything look more visually centered on the buildings as essence is being brought in.
• Improved all of the out of bounds code for the game.
• Added a new food type, melons, but it is currently not used on any official map.
• Buffed guards defense and damage a bit.
• Resources on the ground now sparkle if a mob is en route to pick it up.
• Slightly remastered the SixtyGig sound, Goodbye Retro Sky, Lost Soul and Sunken Hope tracks.
• Added new tracks; A Way to Freedom, Crops of Nowhere, Endless Drought and Wild Desert.
• Improved the load time transitioning between game modes slightly.
• Old Lootbox sparkle locations now slowly vanish over time if you don't uncover them.
• Nomad spawn counts are now based on the world day rather than regional day, meaning in new villages you should be getting larger batches of nomads in earlier days.
• Holy Golem's spawn level is now based on the world day, not regional day.
• Tons of improvements to how system modules are loaded into the game.
• Buffed the conjure essence spell a bit.
• Boosted how much intelligence affects work speeds.
• Villagers now gain a small XP bonus when awarded XP, based on their intelligence level.
• Made monsters slightly less likely to attack walls and topography to offset the new AI spreading behavior.
• Static tower energy cost has been increased.
• Doubled doggo spawn rates in all game modes.
• Slightly buffed wood and crystal golems.
• Flipped the damage modifier lean of ranged damage to make DEX more important than STR.
• Slightly nerfed motivate land spell, increasing cost and reducing effectiveness.
• Farms now grow food roughly 12.5% faster.
• Rewrote how death messages are loaded, putting them in an external text file.
• Completely rebalanced the static tower. It now shoots slower and consumes more energy, but does much more damage per shot.
• Upgraded golem combobulators now spawn much higher level golems on average, but their maximum level was reduced slightly.
• Wood golem combobulators now can spawn an extra golem.
• Stone golems take a little longer to spawn.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash if lake water levels dropped while a road was under the water.
• Max upgraded and filled crystal harvestry light map fixed.
• Fixed some minor font rendering issues on the world map.
• Fixed some minor collision map issues on the golem combobulators.
• Fixed some very minor size issues on the left panel GUI.
• Corrected some page buttons on the GUI from double-rendering.
• Fixed a few typos in the help system.
• Fixed a typo on the kitchen description.
• Doggos will no longer freeze the game if they try to deliver a resource to a building covered in corruption.
• Fixed a typo in the attract tower description.
• Monsters can no longer spawn on top of topography.
• Fixed numbers in village efficiency panel from not rounding off correctly.
• Fixed the "ghost building" bug that would sometimes cause the tilesets of destroyed buildings to not be removed from the game.
• The organizer job description no longer flies off the GUI.
• Fixed a bunch of incorrect plural resource names.
• Fixed plural name for drones.
• Fixed a bug where adult catjeet were not counted in the villager totals on the population list panel.
• Fixed a very rare crash when a villager is seeking medical attention and the posted medic's building is destroyed before the medic unassigns itself from their posting job.
• When a labor golem carries a resource, it is now counted in the village totals.
• You can no longer use zoom while the game is paused.
• Fixed golems showing up with gendered name colors in the population list.
• Loot Boxes can no longer be moved while they are opening.
• Fixed a bug where sometimes a villager would crash the game if he was trying to coitus but couldn't reach his home.
• You can no longer attempt to start a new game in skirmish without a map selected.
• Fixed a crash when trying to use recall on resources and the castle has been destroyed.
• Fixed a crash when right clicking on the world map before selecting a game mode, if no game mode has ever been selected in the past.
• You can no longer click off the custom game mode configuration page when you have not actually accepted a configuration yet.
• Fixed a rare crash when dismantling towers near an active attract tower.
• Fixed a bug that allowed static towers to shoot targets on the opposite sides of curtain walls and topography.
• Fixed recombobulator build requirements.

[ 2018-09-16 14:09:49 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! This is (hopefully) the final Unstable release for InDev 31, and best of all, it does not break your Unstable 5 saves! InDev 31 Stable is due out on September 16th. Unstable 6 is bringing in a ton of balance changes, bug fixes, and fleshes out the goals and perks system a bit. Many of the balance changes are thanks to your guy's feedback! Your feedback is vital! I need feedback on all of the new systems introduced in InDev 31 as a whole. There's a lot of new mechanics in play here, and it will no doubt be completely out of whack in some areas and need some adjustments. Post down in the comments or on the forums with your experience. Did you gain chests too fast? God experience too fast? Goals are too hard, too easy? Not enough or too many perk rewards? Let me know so InDev 31 Stable can be as balanced as possible. :) I hope you guys are all enjoying the new systems brought into InDev 31. I think it's a huge step forward to finally leaving Early Access! Bonus: I may continue to add more goals and perks before InDev 31 is released, so feel free to give some suggestions for both down in the comments!

InDev 31 Unstable 6b *HOTFIX* Change Log

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a few goal configurations that would not count any progression.
• Villagers can now mate again.

InDev 31 Unstable 6 Change Log

Chests, Goals and Perks System

• The amount of perks and goals has been roughly doubled since Unstable 5.
• Changed "win" requirements to a full year per region.
• God XP is now gained when a courier leaves the region.
• Nearby connected regions can now be pulled for the goals system goals.
• Stockpile goal greatly reduced when selecting manufactured resources, and slightly reduced when selecting harvestable materials.
• Tons of small balance changes to the existing goals were made.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Added a completely new tool tip system, nearly all buttons in the game now have descriptive tool tips explaining what that button does.
• Map tile tool tips no longer can pop up behind the GUI.
• The new hardware mouse can now scale to 2x and 3x based on the set interface scale.
• God XP is now gained by throwing resources and mobs into the cullis gate.
• The catjeet laborer hire menu is now displayed even if no laborers are available.
• When the catjeet are out of resources to sell, the sell values now turn red rather than say "Empty".
• Changed motivate land spell description.

Balance Changes

• Increased maximum initial migrant spawns from 15 to 25.
• Increased maximum migrants per day from 5-10 to 10-20.
• Buffed the conjure essence spell a bit.
• Boosted how much intelligence affects work speeds.
• Villagers now gain a small XP bonus when awarded XP, based on their intelligence level.
• Made monsters slightly less likely to attack walls and topography to offset the new AI spreading behavior.
• Static tower energy cost has been increased.
• Reduced the amount of couriers that can arrive at once, to prevent resources from being dropped off and decaying before they are used.
• Doubled doggo spawn rates in all game modes.
• Courier golems now only bring wood and rock on day 1, if available.
• Slightly buffed wood and crystal golems.
• Flipped the damage modifier lean of ranged damage to make DEX more important than STR.
• Slightly nerfed motivate land spell, increasing cost and reducing effectiveness.
• Farms now grow food roughly 12.5% faster.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed wording of the grab resources goal.
• Fixed a bug where adult catjeet were not counted in the villager totals on the population list panel.
• Fixed corruption power math. Some cases villages were being locks at abnormally high level corruption power.
• Fixed the headless-only spawns when you reload a save.
• Fixed "Spell Cost" perk display from displaying that it increases, rather than decreases, spell cost.
• Drop spell no longer shows up on the "Cast Spells" goal.
• Housing no longer provides house slots before it is constructed, if you have the efficient housing perk.
• Fixed a bug where the grab resources goal wasn't being counted in most situations.
• Fixed a very rare crash when a villager is seeking medical attention and the posted medic's building is destroyed before the medic unassigns itself from their posting job.
• When a labor golem carries a resource, it is now counted in the village totals.
• You can no longer use zoom while the game is paused.
• Fixed golems showing up with gendered name colors in the population list.
• Loot Boxes can no longer be moved while they are opening.
• Fixed a bug where sometimes a villager would crash the game if he was trying to coitus but couldn't reach his home.
• You can no longer attempt to start a new game in skirmish without a map selected.
• Implemented possible fix for the incorrect GUI positioning on initial load.
• Fixed a rare crash caused by a courier golem's building being destroyed while they are en route to park.
• Fixed a crash when trying to use recall on resources and the castle has been destroyed.
• Fixed a bug causing the ranged damage perk to not work if you don't have the melee damage perk.

[ 2018-09-07 15:35:02 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! With this release, InDev 31 is now feature-complete! Introducing Unstable 5, and the new goals system! InDev 31 Stable will likely be released September 16th. Over the next two weeks and some change, I will be fleshing out the new goals and perks systems, as well as balancing all the new systems introduced Unstable 1 through 5. This means over the next two weeks your feedback is vital! I need feedback on all of the new systems introduced in InDev 31 as a whole. There's a lot of new mechanics in play here, and it will no doubt be completely out of whack in some areas and need some adjustments. Post down in the comments or on the forums with your experience. Did you gain chests too fast? God experience too fast? Goals are too hard, too easy? Not enough or too many perk rewards? Let me know so InDev 31 Stable can be as balanced as possible. :) Bonus: I will be adding more goals and perks before InDev 31 is released, so feel free to give some suggestions for both down in the comments!

InDev 31 Unstable 5b and 5c *HOTFIX* Change Log

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bunch of incorrect plural resource names.
• Fixed some spawn rate math in the corruption module.
• Fixed a crash when receiving certain goals while playing on some regions.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Due to already being partially completed at the time of this patch, added the first draft of the new tool tip system to the left hand panel of the game. The rest of the GUI will get the same treatment in Unstable 6.
• Reduced chest opening costs an additional 25%.

InDev 31 Unstable 5 Change Log

Goals System

• You now have 10 goals slot, that will unlock slowly as you play.
• Unlocking a goal will reward god experience, and completing unlocked goals will award perks, god experience and reduce global corruption levels.
• Goals you do not wish to complete can be reset, and the unlock counter for a new goal will start.
• You can beat the game now. Assuming you figure out how to reach day 10, on every single region in the entire game without losing any of them. >:)

Corruption System

• Corruption has been completely rewritten. Corruption spawn and spread rates are now based on the global world day, not the individual region's day.
• A new corruption threat bar has been added to the world map view, the higher the bar fills, the more dangerous the entire world is.
• A local corruption threat bar has been added to the region select screen on the world map, giving you a general idea how strong the corruption is on that specific region.
• Completing goals and migrating to new regions reduces the corruption world wide.
• Baseline spawn rates have been slightly increased, to help offset the corruption reduction when migrating and completing goals.
• Monster spawn levels and types are now based on the world day.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Nomad spawn counts are now based on the world day rather than regional day, meaning in new villages you should be getting larger batches of nomads in earlier days.
• Tons of improvements to the save system underlining code.
• Tons of improvements to how system modules are loaded into the game.
• Holy Golem's spawn level is now based on the world day, not regional day.
• Reduced chest open costs by 25%
• Added god experience gains when a villager dies of old age.
• Added god experience gains when you open a loot box.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed efficient housing perk.
• Fixed nomad amount perk.
• Fixed plural name for drones.

[ 2018-08-30 19:39:40 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! Unstable 4 is here and as per usual, full of all kinds of goodies. This is the second-to-last content patch before finishing InDev 31, with Unstable 5 being the new goals system. Unstable 4 is introduces the new "Perks" system. Now, you will gain reward chests slowly as you play, that can be opened with god experience that is rewarded on how well you play. Inside, are perks to help out your village like "+5% maximum hit points" and other bonuses. These bonuses are global, and you keep them when you doom your world and start over! In addition, there were also a ton of AI chances, bug fixes and a new revamped save system. So make sure to check out the change logs for all the juicy details. The changelog may look a little light on words, but this is actually a huge patch, so be sure to provide feedback on the new perk system! There's a lot of new mechanics in play here, and it will no doubt be a little out of balance and need some adjusting. Post down in the comments your experience. Did you gain chests too fast? God experience too fast? Not enough perks, too many perks? Let me know!

InDev 31 Unstable 4b and 4c *HOTFIX* Change Log

Bug Fixes

• Fixed marketplace stock not loading correctly. (Note: To force reset your provisioner's stock, open profiles/profileX/saves/worldMap/ and delete all files ending in .resourceData)
• Chests can no longer be opened if you lack the god experience required.
• Monsters can no longer spawn on top of topography.
• Fixed a bug when you hit the "escape" key when exiting the world map it wouldn't save your world map data properly.
• Fixed a few minor save loading issues with the chest system when switching game modes.
• Fixed numbers in village efficiency panel from not rounding off correctly.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Improved the load time transitioning between game modes slightly.
• Re-balanced chest perk amounts and costs a bit. (Note: Existing chests won't be affected)
• Tweaked the opening chest GUI a bit.

InDev 31 Unstable 4 Change Log

Chests, God Experience and Perk System

• You now gain a reward chest for every 5 days of gameplay on any region.
• Chests have random perks in them, like "Farelle's Constitution" offers a global 5% max hit points bonus to all your villagers, on all regions.
• Chests are opened with "God Experience". This experience is gained through normal gameplay. The better your village is doing, the more experience you'll gain.
• There are 5 levels of chests, each level cost +80% more experience to open than the previous level, but has more perks.
• You can only have 8 chests unopened total, once you fill your chest bar you must open a chest to gain more.
• All perks, chests and experience gained is persistent through resetting your world with the Doom World panel. Meaning you get to keep all your perks even if you reset your progress! If you want to reset your perks progress, you must delete your entire profile.

Save Rollback

• Completely rewrote how save data is handled, allowing for rolled back up to 8 saves.
• This system is not used to correct game play mistakes, this is used to fix corrupted save files! Rolling back a perfectly working save is not advised and can cause other problems. The intent of this system is an emergency quick fix if your save data is completely ruined.
• To access the save rollback menu, hold left shift while viewing your region on the world map, or in the skirmish load menu.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Added the unemployed villagers panel to the migration tab.
• Added new song, Endless Drought.
• Old Lootbox sparkle locations now slowly vanish over time if you don't uncover them.
• The grab button now properly shows the grave key ` itself, and no longer spells out "GRAVE".
• Minor improvements to several AI branches, making them fast-fail if their destination buildings are destroyed.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the "ghost building" bug that would sometimes cause the tilesets of destroyed buildings to not be removed from the game.
• Fixed a crash when a monster drops equipment on the main menu.
• The organizer job description no longer flies off the GUI.
• Fixed courier golem parked icon on the courier panel.
• Fixed glitch where if you go into the settings menu and click "ok" while borderless full screen is already enabled, it'll disable it regardless of what settings are set.

[ 2018-08-18 23:43:46 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! Unstable 3 has arrived, and is chalk full of AI improvements galore! The focus of this patch was to refine a lot of the AI behavior trying to fix some of the annoying issues that creep up occasionally. I hope you guys enjoy it all! The change log may be short, but the code behind all these AI changes are quite extensive, so be sure to report any issues you may have! :)

InDev 31 Unstable 3 Change Log

AI Improvements

• Way Makers can now carry multiple resources at once to roads.
• Workers will no longer steal resources assigned to road construction.
• The Way Makers, Provisioners, Farmers, and the behavior for equipping resources in general now are much better at finding the nearest resource to work with, similar to the changes seen for builders in Unstable 2.
• Farmers now plant resources in the closest available open farm tile.
• Villagers no longer steal food from other starving villagers.
• Tweaked and cleaned up the storage AI a bit.
• Cleaned up several AI branches, removing some unneeded fail states.
• Added experimental path finding movement costs that attempts to reduce how often monsters and villagers walk in a "single file line", trying to make them spread out more naturally.
• Villagers will now ignore "threatened" resources in dangerous areas. (Like mob drops at your front lines, during the night)
• Improved stuck pathfinding to avoid getting trapped as often.
• Villagers no longer work to the point of bursting into flames when doing refining jobs.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Buffed guards defense and damage a bit.
• Cleaned up some of the coordinates selection code in the AI.
• Resources on the ground now sparkle if a mob is en route to pick it up.
• Slightly remastered the SixtyGig sound, Goodbye Retro Sky, Lost Soul and Sunken Hope tracks.
• Added new tracks; A Way to Freedom, Crops of Nowhere and Wild Desert.
• Updated program icon.

Bug Fixes

• Doggos will no longer freeze the game if they try to deliver a resource to a building covered in corruption.
• Fixed migration data not saving during an autosave.
• Fixed courier station upgrade descriptions.
• Fixed a typo in the attract tower description.
• Fixed missing tile flags on melons.

[ 2018-07-28 04:02:10 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! The courier system has arrived! InDev 31 Unstable 2 is here, and in addition to the new courier system, also comes packed with a bug of improvements to the AI, some bug fixes, and quite a few other things. Check out the change log!

InDev 31 Unstable 2 Change Log

Courier System

• New Building: Courier Station. This new building will spawn courier golems that can be used to deliver resources to nearby regions. Upgrading the building will increase how many parking spots the station has, how many golems it can spawn, as well as reduce spawning costs.
• New Job: Courier supplier. These new workers will bring resources to the spawned courier golems that are parked in the courier stations, to eventually be delivered to nearby regions.
• You can send an unlimited amount of resources every day assuming you have enough golems, and the resource is set on the new courier panel on the left hand side of the screen. Setting the "Daily" value will cause the golems to try to send as many resources as you selected out every day, where as the "Send" value will try to send that many resources in addition to what you have daily sent at that day.
• Courier suppliers will supply parked golems in the courier stations with resources to deliver all day long, but courier golems can only leave the village during the midday.
• When a courier golem arrives at the connected region, they will drop off their resources and try to park at that region's courier station. If a courier station does not exist or there is no parking available, they will destroy themselves.
• Both organizers and labor golems can supply courier golems.

Migration System

• Rebalanced the requirements for villagers to be able to migrate away from the village. Many more villagers should now be available.
• Migration way station migrations per day have been increased.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Completely rewrote builder construction AI to be much more intelligent where it decides to pick up resources to deliver, as well as when to harvest.
• All new Patreons names added to the game.
• Added better essence return coordinates data, making everything look more visually centered on the buildings as essence is being brought in.
• The workers supplied and build range provided is now side by side in the object panel GUI if both exist.
• Improved all of the out of bounds code for the game.
• Aid building category has been renamed to Civics.
• Way Maker Shack moved to the Civics panel.
• Added a new food type, melons, but it is currently not used on any official map.
• Decreased the chance guards will flee.
• Completely rewrote panic and flee mechanics to pick more intelligent coordinates. (AKA: They run to the village now)
• Farmers can now plant new seeds during the extreme heat in the summer.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed some minor collision map issues on the golem combobulators.
• Fixed map editor not saving maps on exit.
• Fixed some very minor size issues on the left panel GUI.
• Corrected some page buttons on the GUI from double-rendering.
• Fixed a few typos in the help system.
• Fixed a bug that would cause some of the AI to crash if a building or target resource was nearly out of bounds of the map.
• Fixed a typo on the kitchen description.

[ 2018-07-17 03:30:43 CET ] [ Original post ]

Greetings fellow deities, I've decided to do some GUI overhauls after InDev 31 Stable has been released, and I'd love to get some feedback from you on what you would improve! Rise to Ruins has a ton of mechanics. It's somewhat the bane of this genre's existence that we all seem to have cluttered and over complicated GUIs, but I've always strived to make it as streamlined as possible, and I think it's about due for some improvements. Here are some tentative plans coming down the pipeline after InDev 31 is released;

• The resources bar on the top of the GUI will be compressed down to only one row, and only display harvestable and low level refined materials by default. (Wood, rock, crystal, boards, stone and crylithium), but will have a "Customize" button that can be clicked to add/remove any resource you want.
• New, larger, tooltips will be added all over the GUI, allowing you to highlight over some of the more confusing areas and get a description of what the GUI is trying to explain to you. For example, if you moved your mouse over the "Maintain" text in the production panel, it will say something like "This is the total amount of resources you want to always keep on hand in the village, keep in mind this also counts resources that are currently equipped by your workers."
• The harvesting button on the bottom left will be compressed down into a single button you can click on, opening a context menu to select specific resource types, but will remember the last selection so you can single click to reselect a previous selection.
• The "Harvest Food" and "Harvest Water" will be broken up into two buttons.
• a "Harvest All" button will be added.
• The entire road system's GUI will be rewritten. More on that later! :)

GUI work is complicated from a development standpoint, and it is excessively difficult for someone used to using said GUI all day everyday (aka: me!) to see the less obvious flaws and nitpicks. As such, I'd love to hear your gripes and solutions to those said gripes. If it's something I can reasonably manage, I'll move it into the UI patches. :) So, give me that feedback! ːrtrpickaxeː

[ 2018-07-11 06:22:43 CET ] [ Original post ]

Greeting everyone, throughout the Steam Summer Sale I will be live streaming Rise to Ruins game play. You're welcome to check it out on Twitch or on the Steam Store Page. If you're interested in chatting, I highly recommend heading over to twitch, I'll be chatting with the fans the entire time. If your focus is just checking out gameplay, the Steam side will be chat/webcam free streaming pure unedited gameplay. :) Oh, and Rise to Ruins is 50% off! ;) Hope to see you there throughout the week!

[ 2018-06-21 17:06:25 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! InDev 31 Unstable 1 has arrived, this is the first release of the InDev 31 series, covering the brand new migration system, and tossing in a ton of technical changes to the game's various display modes. Check out the change log for details! You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 31 Unstable 1 Change Log

Migration System

• You can now send villagers from one village to another connecting village or new region via the new migration tab on the left panel.
• You now will only get "freebie" villagers and resources on your first region. After, you must send migrants to connecting regions to establish them.
• When starting a new connected regions you will get up to 15 migrants as soon as you place your camp. After, you will get anywhere between 5 and 10 a day until all incoming migrants have been completely exhausted. During this time you can still receive nomads as usual.
• New Building; The Migration Way Station. It enables access to the new migration tab so you can send villagers to nearby regions as well as increases your maximum amount you may send per day.
• When sending migrants to new regions, the villagers will become migrants in the morning, and actually leave at midday.
• The village will only send healthy, young and single adult villagers out of the village.
• The world map now allows you to start anywhere you want for your first region, but blocks expanding into other regions unless you send migrants there first.
• When visiting a new expanding region you get up to 15 migrants as soon as the camp is placed.

Display Modes

• The game can now be played in borderless full screen. Although on Mac and Linux, some versions may still display your task bars.
• When using traditional full screen (the old style), you can now change the game resolution.

Interface Changes

• Reworked a large amount of the world map GUI to support the new data in migration system.
• The mouse is now a hardware cursor.
• Hid the mouse and overlays when you use the hide GUI button.
• You can now move the map and zoom on the main menu.
• Removed the splash screen from the game entirely.
• Re-added the save-only, data views and hide topography buttons to map editor.
• Added the required building's name to enable a tab to the disabled tabs on the left panel.
• Fixed render ordering of the map buttons so they are not under the buildings on the world map.
• Reworked the "You Lose/Abandon Region" GUI.

Miscellaneous Changes

• When your population hits zero, you now "lose" the map and are ejected to the world map.
• Nomads and provisioners now arrive and leave on the edges of the map rather than random locations.
• Nomads and provisioners can no longer arrive in locations that can not reach the village, unless the village is completely blocked off.
• Nomads are now slightly more willing to pathfind to the village once they spawn.
• Removed Limbo from the game entirely, as it has been replaced by the migration system.
• Main theme on the main menu no longer loops.
• The game will no longer save until the region has actually been "started" by placing down your camp.
• Time is now frozen until you place your camp.
• Added new world map tips for the migration system.
• When starting a new game, the game now picks a random location in the center of the map as the default map position.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash if lake water levels dropped while a road was under the water.
• Max upgraded and filled crystal harvestry light map fixed.
• Fixed some minor font rendering issues on the world map.

[ 2018-06-20 13:21:10 CET ] [ Original post ]

Thanks to Valve's introduction of publisher pages yesterday, SixtyGig Games' official publisher page is now live! Please take the time to run over there and give it a nice juicy follow. Thanks! ːrtrheartː https://store.steampowered.com/developer/SixtyGigGames

[ 2018-06-19 12:33:09 CET ] [ Original post ]

InDev 31 development has begun! (Actually, it started about 2 weeks ago, but who's counting?). InDev 31 is going to be a major step to reaching Rise to Ruins Release 1, hopefully sometime this year. The overall goal of InDev 31 will be introducing a new way to move resources and villagers around the world map, as well as giving the world map some purpose. The world map will now have goals the player needs to meet. The more goals that are met, the more global bonuses the player will receive for all the villages under his control. The idea is to encourage the player to spread out and eventually take over the entire map as part of an overall endgame/metagame that will be played alone-side the core gameplay in each region. I'm really excited for this update, as I feel the mechanics being added are the last major content vacuum in the game before Release 1 is possible. Will the game be considered finish? No, of course not. There's still a ton of fish to fry before Release 1. But no worries, even after Release 1 development is not ending when the game leaves Early Access. :)

InDev 31 Road Map

World Map Goals and Mechanics Changes

• Goals will be added to the world map for the player to accomplish. The goals will be all sorts of different things. Like "Maintain 3 villages with a population over 50", "Control an entire biome on the map", or "Have at least one village survive to day 80".
• For every goal you achieve, you will unlock a perk. These perks can be anything from +5% harvesting, increased birth rates, increased hit points, carry capacity, unlocking new buildings/upgrades, unlocking new spells, etc.
• Every goal achieved will lower the global corruption threat, allowing older villages to survive much longer than before.
• You have to maintain the goals, if a goal is lost you will lose the perk you gained and the corruption will become stronger.
• You will now only be able to visit your first region for free (Getting free villagers/resources when you place your camp). After, you will spread out from the region selected outwards using the villagers from your initial camp, and won't be allowed to visit those regions until enough villagers have been sent there to establish a new village. (See below)

Migration and Trade Systems

• A new exploration building will be added, that will allow you to send villagers out into nearby connected regions. The more upgraded the building, the more you will be able to send each day.
• Villagers sent to nearby regions will be in a sort of "stasis" until the player decides to visit the region they were sent to. Once they visit that region, the villagers sent will pop up as soon as it is safe. (Dawn through Midday).
• You will be able to send villagers to a region regardless if it is or isn't occupied, allowing you to share villagers between established villagers, or start new ones.
• A new trade outpost building will also be added, this building will open up delivering resources to other villages by way of the Catjeet (Or possibly, a new mob type, time permitting). The Catjeet will act as "delivery men" and take resources from your village to the assigned region for a small fee.
• Same as the villagers mentioned above, Catjeet that leave the region will arrive at the delivery region next time you visit.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Limbo will be completely removed from the game, replaced with the migration system mentioned above.
• Skirmish Mode's initial villager spawn in will now work like the World Map does, giving you villagers only after you place the camp, and spawning them directly on the camp with some free resources.
• Time permitting, an "abandon the region" mechanic will also be added, instantly sending the entire village out in all directions to any connecting region. How this will work is still to be determined.

Revamped Display Settings

• Borderless full screen will be added, currently works on all tested Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 machines. Linux and Mac work as well, but the task bar is still being displayed. Sadly, this may be an unavoidable issue. But I will try to work it out.
• Fixed resolutions will be added, so you can change the full screen resolution of the game to anything you want, rather than your set desktop resolution.
• The original full screen mode will still exist and can be toggled in the settings menu, for players who prefer non-borderless modes.
• The game will now use a hardware cursor!

[ 2018-05-31 03:13:03 CET ] [ Original post ]

InDev 30e has been released. Barring any issues that need hot fixed, will be the final InDev 30 series release, and development on InDev 31 will be starting immediately. Most of this patch is a complete revamp of the main menu almost entirely from scratch. But, there's also some new music, a few bug fixes and other interface changes. Check out the change log! :)

InDev 30e Change Log

Interface Changes

• The entire main menu has been reorganized, moving a majority of the buttons to the left side.
• Added transitional zooming to the game, now when you zoom in and out, there is a transition period that makes zooming feel smoother, as well as some sound effects if you zoom in and out quickly.
• Interface scaling settings can now be set in the settings menu, rather than having to edit settings.properties manually.
• The interface scaling settings now refuse to make the interface larger than what will fit in the window, preventing situations where the GUI may become unusable as a result.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Updated song Sunken Hope.
• Added new song Be Water My Friend.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that still allowed players to cast spells on the edge of the map and into the void, that should have been prevented in InDev 30d.
• Fixed a typo on the maintenance building description.
• Walls, gates and fire pits are no longer completely invulnerable.

[ 2018-05-23 16:42:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

InDev 30d is finally here, featuring a ton of miscellaneous changes, two new buildings, and a cleanup to the world map interface to prep for some big changes in InDev 31. A large majority of these changes were as a result of your suggestions on Twitter, these announcements and the forums. I hope you guys enjoy it all! Some of the content in this patch was actually slated for InDev 31, but you're getting it a bit early (because why not, right?). Let me know down in the comments what you think!

InDev 30d Change Log

World Map Interface Changes

• Active villages now have little buildings placed around the area of the region on the world map, the amount depends on the size of the village.
• All of the region "dots" have been removed.
• Region squares show up around the mouse as you move around the world map.
• Clicking on a region will focus the map selection panel to it.
• The entire map selection panel has been reworked and streamlined.
• Now, when a region is lost, you can no longer visit it.
• Arrows now bounce above active regions, so you can quickly find where you were playing.
• Made minor adjustments to the region positions on the world map.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Added all new Patreon's names to the village name pool and credits.
• A new building has been added, the Maintenance Building. It provides Maintainers who can repair buildings, roads, dismantle things as well as clear terrain and dig holes.
• The "Key Shack" building has been added, a dedicated storage space for suspicious keys.
• All other buildings that could previously hold suspicious keys, can't anymore. Only the Key Shack can store Suspicious keys now.
• Builders can now switch to the build AI as soon as they drop off a resource, streamlining building and cutting down on weird task assignment issues that would sometimes occur when a building is nearly completed.
• Axis lock buffer setting added to settings.properties, you can now adjust how many pixels the mouse must travel before axis lock (left shift) activates.
• You can no longer cast spells on the edge of the map and into the void.
• Water fountains now store 4 times as much water, catch water slightly faster, but have had their range generation reduced.
• Loot boxes now have a subtle lean towards moving in the direction of the village when poked.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed some AI crashes related to posted medics and guards when their host building is removed or destroyed.
• Possible fix for the "ghost building" bug, that would leave the tiles for a building that was recently destroyed, has been implemented.
• Fixed a bug that would cause a building that just started upgrading to be invulnerable.
• Fixed a bug that could cause an endless loop if a provisioner could not leave the village.
• Fixed the interaction point on the way maker shack being off by 1 during it's first upgrade.
• Fixed a bug that would sometimes make way makers try to repair roads that don't exist.

[ 2018-05-17 13:15:45 CET ] [ Original post ]

This is one of the largest optimizing patches ever released for Rise to Ruins, featuring massive performance gains mid-late game. If you're one of the lower speced or extreme late-game users, you're going to love this update! This patch also introduces a large number of balance tweaks based on your feedback of InDev 30. So be sure to look over the change log. :) Let me know down in the comments how your performance is, as well as suggest additional balance changes!

InDev 30c *HOT FIX* Change Log

Big Fixes

• Large fire pits no longer give corruption resistance.
• Fixed lightning targeting issues causing them to "miss" lightning rods occasionally.
• Implemented possible fix for medics posted lists returning invalid mobs that are no longer actually posted to clinics, causing crashes.
• Ghosts now properly do not appear the moment a mob who can spawn a ghost is killed.
• Guard flee mechanics adjusted, so they will stop running away as often.

Corruption System

• Reduced permanent corruption amounts per day in nightmare mode.
• Slightly increased corruption spread rates in nightmare mode.
• Reduced permanent corruption amounts per day in traditional mode.

InDev 30b Change Log

Corruption System

• Corruption can now push its way into low corruption resistance areas when it has been bottled up for a long time.
• You can now see the raw value of the corruption resistance tiles when using debug view.
• Monsters now have a 1 in 4 chance to not spawn at a building in the corruption, but rather a random coordinate inside the corruption.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Lowered the search radius for picking up extra resources slightly.
• Gave guards a 50% buff to defense, and a 25% buff to damage.
• Amount a mob is lit on fire reduced 25%.
• Adjusted the aggressiveness of most mobs.
• Increased Laborer hire price by 50%
• Catjeet laborers spawn 3 times less often.
• Halved the blood slime spawn rate during a blood moon.
• Small blood slime can now spawn during a blood moon.
• Villagers now panic 30% more often during a blood moon.
• Only a maximum of 2 disasters can occur in the same day.
• Make/Maintain settings now work correctly for dirty water buckets.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Optimized the ranged combat AI a bit.
• Fixed a bunch of minor typos throughout the game.
• Added some particle culling code to the particle system to keep particle counts from getting out of hand.
• Reduced the duration of blood particles.
• Optimized how resource values of buildings are stored, removing the actual resources from the game, optimizing various aspects of the code game wide.
• Completely rewrote how a majority of mob AI flags are stored in game, reducing save time and memory usage while reducing CPU usage when initially spawning.
• Fixed a bug in the projectile trajectory code that could cause an endless loop in some very rare scenarios.
• You can no longer select maximum upgraded roads to upgrade.
• Optimized the collision line of sight code in the collision module.
• Optimized some of the essence collection and distribution code.
• Fixed multi-threaded path finding, was not running correctly in the previous patch.
• Added a third dedicated core for lighting and range updates.
• Slightly optimized the lookup code for refining and harvesting data on objects.
• Optimized a lot of the object lookup code.
• Optimized object priority list sorting/grouping code.
• Did some experimental changes to the game loop timing to smooth frame rates in high-load scenarios. (Note, this can cause some rubber banding effects moving around the map if your system is extremely bogged down)
• Fixed a very rare crash bug when a villager tries to pickup more resources while the destination building becomes no longer available.
• Villagers will no longer remove banned resources from a building under construction, if the building requires those resources.

[ 2018-05-04 19:12:05 CET ] [ Original post ]

I'm proud to bring you one of the biggest, beefiest content filled game changer patches in Rise to Ruins history; The Life is Precious update! This update has a metric crap ton of changes, including many that were suggested by you guys. Villagers can now carry multiple resources, they can grow old, medics have been reworked, the spawning system has been completely gutted and replace with the new corruption system, and the entire game has been fundamentally rebalanced. Check out the ridiculously extensive change log below! The amount of changes this patch has thrown Rise to Ruins balance in the blender, and it may not quite be where we all want it yet. I'm asking everyone to provide tons of feedback about their experience. Let me know what you think. Compared to InDev 29, is it too hard, too easy, just right? What would you change? If you want to go the extra mile, hop into custom mode and make up your own brand of what you think survival and nightmare mode should be, and share your settings! This patch is a massive balance changer, unlike any patch before it. Even after extensive tweaking on the Unstable branch, it may still need additional adjustments. So it is imperative you let me know how your play sessions are going so I can adjust things in the inevitable minor patches before starting in on InDev 31! :)

InDev 30 Change Log

Corruption System

• The entire spawn system has been completely replaced with the new corruption system. Now, a corrupted area will spawn on the map once you place your camp, slowly consuming the world around you.
• A new mob has been added, the "Drone". Drones are mostly harmless, but will build corrupted buildings and maintain roads inside the corruption.
• Monsters no longer spawn or attack during the day time. They now start attacking at dusk, ramp up at night, and return back to the corruption during the day.
• A large majority of the monsters inside the corruption will despawn during the day. (Note: Boosted monsters never despawn.)
• Added a new "corruption resistance" range for the village that will push back and prevent corruption from spreading, that works differently than normal range and ignores all blocked tiles. Some buildings do not provide this range at all, like fire pits. You can see your village's corruption resistance using the data views panel.
• Monster spawn rates are now tied to how many days you have survived, the size of the corruption, and how many buildings are in the corruption.
• Several new corrupted buildings have been added, including hostile towers inside the corruption that will fire on villagers and golems.
• You can not cast spells inside the corruption.
• Monsters spawn when graveyards are damaged by the player.
• Skeletons now do not start spawning until day 5.
• Specters now do not start spawning until day 12.
• Fire Elementals now do not start spawning until day 16.
• Small slimes now no longer spawn until day 2.
• Regular slimes now no longer spawn until day 4.
• Zombies now no longer spawn until day 3.

Multi-Carry and Worker AI

• All villagers can now hold between 2 and 8 resources at a time based on their strength. They will gain 1 additional resource per 50 strength, and always be able to carry a minimum of at least 2. The formula is (STR/50)+2. This applies to labor golems as well.
• Harvesting AI has been modified to sometimes drop a resource on the ground. The chance they'll take resources home increases the more resources are in the area.
• Rearranged the farming AI to make it a much higher priority to do farm harvesting and tending tasks.
• Medics have been completely rewritten, they now "post" themselves at clinics, barracks and outposts and wait for injured and sick villagers to arrive.
• All of the delivery and construction harvest AI branches have been reworked and rearranged to better manage resources and make sure buildings get completed in the correct priority order if the resources are available to do so.
• Lowered the priority of dirty water in the farm to high, so the water purifier gets more dirty water.
• Reworked some AI branching that made some AI branches not fire as often as they should, like water bottle refining.
• Changed priority of clean water buckets in fountains and house from very high to high, to encourage more water buckets to make it to the bottlers.
• Cooks can now distribute rations again.
• Chanced all housing and barracks raw food priority to "high" so that kitchens get food before housing.
• Mobs will now abandon their task if the building they are in route to is destroyed or removed.

Aging System

• Human villagers can now live up to a maximum 40 days, catjeet 35, and doggos 15.
• Villagers can now become wise elders late in their life, for humans this is age 35 and catjeet 30. Doggos never become wise, and will remain young hearted goofballs until they die.
• Elder villagers can chat with lower level villagers, offering them a massive XP bonus so they can level up faster.
• A new Life Expectancy statistic has been added, and as you'd expect, how long your villager should live.
• A new Lifetime Constitution stat has also been added, that starts at maximum, and anytime your villager's well being is poor either from thirst, hunger, unhappiness, healing from injuries, taking damage, poisoned and a million other factors, their lifetime constitution will go down permanently. When this happens, it can lower their Life Expectancy.
• You can never recover constitution or life expectancy, so take care of your villagers!
• Villagers can die before they become elders if they live an extremely hard life and their life expectancy drops below the minimum age to become an elder.
• Rarely, when nomads spawn some of them can arrive already as elders.
• Mothers can now die giving childbirth if their lifelong constitution is low, unless they visit a clinic to give birth.
• There is a small chance the child can die during child birth.
• Mothers now take 25% of their total current hit points in damage during child birth.
• Mothers have a 50% chance of losing 1 day of life expectancy during child birth unless they visit a clinic.

Lootbox Changes

• You can no longer find keys harvesting resources.
• The chance you can find a loot box harvesting resources has been increased.
• Finding keys when trying to uncover lootboxes is now slightly more common.
• Lootbox settings can now be customized in the custom game mode menu.

Sweeping Balance Changes

• Doubled the length of a day.
• Rebalanced the stats of nearly every friendly mob in the game.
• Reduced the amount of nomads that spawn, as well as their chance to spawn.
• Starting villagers in a new region on the world map have been reduced to about 12.
• Starting resources in a new region on the world map have increased to 32.
• Starting villagers in skirmish mode reduced to 10-14.
• The amount of starting villagers in Limbo have been reduced to 19-29 in survival and nightmare.
• The monster spawn rates in survival, nightmare and traditional have been reduced.
• Farms now grow slower.
• Wild food now grows and spreads 2 times slower.
• All food items now provide more overall food.
• Almost all job slots provided by all work buildings has been cut in half.
• Occupancy maximum for housing has been cut in half.
• You now gain twice as much maximum influence per villager.
• Halved the doggo spawn rates.
• Rebalanced the length of nighttime in both Summer and Winter. Summer nights are now longer, and Winter nights are now shorter.
• The mob level hard cap has been raised to 200.
• Reduced the speed health is regenerated when in a house.
• Tripled the duration of poison, blight and dysentery, but also reduced damage taken by them by two thirds, resulting in the same amount of damage over a much longer period of time.
• Increased Cold Aura spell cost.
• Charm spell cost has been reduced by 25%, and the failure chance removed.
• An eclipse can no longer happen the same day as a full moon.
• Slimes now heal 3 times slower.
• Blood slimes now heal 2 times slower.
• Reduced range generated by outposts.
• Housing now requires rock for the first and second upgrades.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Added all new Patreons' rewards to the game.
• Monsters no longer wander to radiance pools.
• The base village range of all towers provide has been increased by about 50%. (Note: This is not firing range)
• Reworked how the interface autoscaling works to get slightly better results.
• There are now a small amount of particles that generate when a mob gains XP.
• When a mob gains a level, there is no longer a message in the console, and the sound is localized to where they leveled instead of being global.
• There are now some particle effects when a mob levels.
• Changed how essence is generated from objects, making the output more varied in appearance.
• When the game needs to find an open space to force drop a resource, the location is a bit more randomized now.
• Increased the rate light levels transition.
• You can now advance the passage of time in sandbox mode if you enable debug mode.
• You can now set the clock to 16x speed if you enable debug mode.
• Survival Island map tweaked slightly.
• Removed map "Bottleneck" from the Official Maps list.
• Increased the range provided by the forge.
• Nomad settings can now be customized in the custom game mode menu.
• There is now a 1 in 50 chance that a fire elemental will spawn when a meteor hits.
• Radiance pools now slowly generate energy the player can steal with their hand.
• Radiance pools no longer use cut stone, but require more rock and crystal.
• Removed the single-threaded settings from the game, as they caused more trouble than they helped in almost all scenarios.
• Updated many of the tips.

Interface Changes

• A new statistics panel has been added to the game, showing tons of daily statistics about your village.
• All GUI code has been completely gutted and reorganized, most of the changes will be transparent to the player. But pretty much everything under the hood was redone.
• Updated the mouse lock icon.
• Spells on the spell bar will no longer stay highlighted even if no spell is selected.
• Right clicking to add/remove workers now adds and removes plus or minus 5, rather than 10.
• Lowered the "low villager count" warning in the problem panel from 10 to 5 villagers.
• Changed the description of the crystillery so it fits in the description box.
• You can now access the reset AI function by holding down left shift on the selected region panel in world map view, and the load game menu in skirmish.
• Tips popping up now cancel the current task, to prevent accidental clicking.
• Pausing the game hides the entire GUI now, but you can interact with the new statistics panel, the main menu panel, settings, and see the clock.
• Keys are no longer listed as "Rare wood drops" in the resource production panel.
• Players now get subtle warnings the time of day period before a full moon, eclipse or blood moon.
• Updated copyright date on main menu.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Multithreaded the autosave system, reducing save time substainally for multicore processors.
• Removed even more erroneous names from the name list.
• Wrote in a system to remove erroneous names during runtime, preventing them from causing problems.
• Catjeet nomad children are now in the correct mob group.
• Fixed a bug that would allow workers to "overfill" the farm while it is being upgraded.
• Heavily optimized the provisioner price update and stock increase code. This should completely eliminate the "New day" lag some players have been having.
• Fixed a rare crash when a mob is harvesting a resource and it the tile decays before he completes his work.
• Fixed crash when casting mend on walls that were completely blocked on all sides.
• Fixed a minor bug that would make laborers leave the marketplace too quickly sometimes.
• Fixed a minor shadow generation glitch on the construction phase of the rain catcher.
• Fixed a few minor errors in the water artwork.
• Compressed all sound effects a bit, increasing load times and shrinking the game's initial install size.
• Tons of code cleanup to the input code for the game.
• Reworked all the code related to coloring mob sprites in game, cleaning up a lot of minor issues with recoloring mobs.
• Fixed the statistics panel from rendering incorrectly with interface scale settings other than 1.
• When selecting a terrain while making a new map, you no longer unselect the map size.
• Fixed mining facility upgrade descriptions.
• Fixed a minor typo in the catjeet laboror's tasking AI.
• Fixed a typo in the debug screen, that was showing the topography layers flipped.

[ 2018-04-22 13:11:44 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! InDev 30 Unstable 5 has been released, this patch is a feature complete build of what will practically be InDev 30 stable, due out on April 22nd. This patch is fairly small, mostly tying up loose ends and fixing last minute bugs, as well as throwing in additional balance tweaks and adjustments. This patch is also still compatible with both Unstable 4 and 4b saves! You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 30 Unstable 5 Change Log

Corruption System

• Increased the range of all corruption towers.
• Increased the amount and rate of monsters that spawn from the graveyards when attacked.
• Monsters that are spawned from attacking graveyards will now auto-attack the attacker.
• Monsters will no longer spawn from graveyards when damaged by any other means that are not from towers or mobs. (eg; Disasters)

Miscellaneous Changes

• Reworked how the interface autoscaling works to get slightly better results.
• Added elderly lists to the population panel.
• Updated many of the tips.
• Pregnant villagers now use clinics to give birth, removing the chance of death and losing lifetime expectancy.
• Average age and life expectancy added to population list GUI.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an endless loop bug because of range generation errors on low-desirability buildings.
• Fixed day length setting in custom mode.
• Fixed radiance pool essence coming from the wrong tile.
• Fixed radiance pool firing the "Energy" tip.

InDev 30 Unstable 4b *HOT FIX* Change Log

Aging System

• Villagers all have been given an additional 10 years of life.
• Doggos have been given an additional 5 years of life.
• Rebalanced/Nerfed the rate constitution drops.
• Halved the chance villagers can die from child birth.
• Now mothers have a 50% chance of losing 1 day of life expectancy during child birth, rather than a guaranteed chance of losing 1 or 2.

Big Fixes

• Fixed world map edge scrolling settings.
• Fixed a minor range generation issue that could result in some AI getting stuck in an endless loop trying to deliver something.

InDev 30 Unstable 4 Change Log

Aging System

• Human villagers can now live up to a maximum 30 days, catjeet 25, and doggos 15.
• Villagers can now become wise elders late in their life, for humans this is age 25 and catjeet 20. Doggos never become wise, and will remain young hearted goofballs until they die.
• Elder villagers can chat with lower level villagers, offering them a massive XP bonus so they can level up faster.
• A new Life Expectancy statistic has been added, and as you'd expect, how long your villager should live.
• A new Lifetime Constitution stat has also been added, that starts at maximum, and anytime your villager's well being is poor either from thirst, hunger, unhappiness, healing from injuries, taking damage, poisoned and a million other factors, their lifetime constitution will go down permanently. When this happens, it can lower their Life Expectancy.
• You can never recover constitution or life expectancy, so take care of your villagers!
• Villagers can die before they become elders if they live an extremely hard life, and their life expectancy drops below the minimum age to become an elder.
• Rarely, when nomads spawn some of them can arrive already as elders.
• Mothers can now die giving childbirth if their lifelong constitution is low.
• There is a small chance the child can die during child birth.
• Mothers now take 25% of their total current hit points in damage during child birth.
• Giving birth instantly lowers the mother's life expectancy by 1 or 2 days.

Corruption System

• Added a new "corruption resistance" range for the village, that works differently than normal range and ignores all blocked tiles. Some buildings do not provide this range at all, like fire pits, making them useless to push back the corruption.
• You can see your village's corruption resistance using the data views panel.
• Global monster spawn rates have been reduced by about 33%.
• Corruption no longer creates new spots on the map.
• When monsters despawn, they drop all their equipped items on the ground so the next spawn cycle of monsters can pick them back up.
• Skeletons now do not start spawning until day 5.
• Specters now do not start spawning until day 12.
• Fire Elementals now do not start spawning until day 16.
• Small slimes now no longer spawn until day 2.
• Regular slimes now no longer spawn until day 4.
• Zombies now no longer spawn until day 3.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Patreon credits/names data updated.
• Medics have been completely rewritten, they now "post" themselves at clinics, barracks and outposts and wait for injured and sick villagers to arrive.
• Rebalanced the length of nighttime in both Summer and Winter. Summer nights are now longer, and Winter nights are now shorter.
• The mob level hard cap has been raised to 200.
• There are now a small amount of particles that generate when a mob gains XP.
• When a mob gains a level, there is no longer a message in the console, and the sound is localized to where they leveled instead of being global.
• There are now some particle effects when a mob levels.
• Raised the doggo spawn rates back to what they were in Unstable 2.
• Rearranged the farming AI to make it a much higher priority to do farm harvesting and tending tasks.
• Slightly increased farm growth rate.
• All villagers, catjeet and doggos stats have been halved. (Roughly back to what they are in InDev 29f)
• Carry max now goes up by one per every 50 STR rather than 100.
• The base village range of all towers provide has been increased by about 50%. (Note: This is not firing range)
• Removed the single-threaded settings from the game, as they caused more trouble than they helped in almost all scenarios.
• Reduced the speed health is regenerated when in a house.
• Tripled the duration of poison, blight and dysentery, but also reduced damage taken by them by two thirds, resulting in the same amount of damage over a much longer period of time.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Reworked all the code related to coloring mob sprites in game, cleaning up a lot of minor issues with recoloring mobs.
• Permanent corruption increase per day settings are now properly saved in custom mode.
• Fixed a bug that can cause the game to enter an endless loop if a monster despawns while being attacked.
• Fixed the statistics panel from rendering incorrectly with interface scale settings other than 1.

InDev 30 Unstable 3 Change Log

Corruption System

• Decreased traditional mode spawn and corruption spread rates.
• Increased spawn rate of monsters in survival and nightmare mode.
• The amount per spawn multiplier has been decreased, coupled with the above change, this should show a more steady and consistent increase in spawn rates.
• Increased the amount of "starting spread" corruption has, making the initial starting corruption spot a bit bigger.
• Monsters now spawn when graveyards are damaged, except from hail.
• Corrupted fire pits are now built less often, causing other corruption buildings to be built more often.
• Made some minor tweaks to how corruption picks a start spot, encouraging them to spawn farther away from the village that previously.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Now you can interact with the speed controls, settings, save and exit or look at stats while paused.
• Charm spell cost has been halved, and the failure chance removed.
• Reworked some AI branching that made some AI branches not fire as often as they should, like water bottle refining.
• Changed priority of water buckets in fountains and house from very high to high, to encourage more water buckets to make it to the bottlers.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed blood moons from not triggering blood rain/slimes.
• Compressed all sound effects a bit, increasing load times and shrinking the game's initial install size.
• An eclipse can no longer happen the same day as a full moon.
• Fixed some tips not correctly popping up at the right time.
• Tons of code cleanup to the input code for the game.
• Fixed a crash if a monster tried to despawn but was trapped in a 1x1 open area.
• Fixed a bunch of AI flow issues.
• Fixed a bug when a mob died carrying a resource the resource on the ground would be ignored by all other workers until the game was reloaded.
• Halved the doggo spawn rates.

InDev 30 Unstable 2 Change Log

Corruption System

• Now, the game will randomly corrupt your save files. The chance this happens increases the longer you survive, in an attempt to increase end game difficulty.

Better Corruption System

• Due to overwhelming negative feedback, the game no longer will randomly corrupt your save files the longer you survive in an attempt to increase difficulty.
• The entire spawn system has been completely replaced with the new corruption system. Now, a corrupted area will spawn on the map once you place your camp, slowly consuming the world around you.
• A new mob has been added, the "Drone". Drones are mostly harmless, but will build corrupted buildings and maintain roads inside the corruption.
• Monsters no longer spawn or attack during the day time. They now start attacking at dusk, ramp up at night, and return back to the corruption during the day.
• A large majority of the monsters inside the corruption will despawn during the day. (Note: Boosted monsters never despawn.)
• Monster spawn rates are now tied to how many days you have survived, the size of the corruption, and how many buildings are in the corruption.
• Several new corrupted buildings have been added, including hostile towers inside the corruption that will fire on villagers and golems.
• You can not cast spells inside the corruption.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Doubled the length of a day.
• All of the delivery and construction harvest AI branches have been reworked and rearranged to better manage resources and make sure buildings get completed in the correct priority order if the resources are available to do so.
• Increased the rate light levels transition.
• Monsters no longer wander to radiance pools.
• You can now advance the passage of time in sandbox mode if you enable debug mode.
• You can now set the clock to 16x speed if you enable debug mode.
• Survival Island map tweaked slightly.
• Nerfed food values slightly.
• Lowered the priority of dirty water in the farm to high, so the water purifier gets more dirty water.
• Removed map "Bottleneck" from the Official Maps list.
• Increased the range provided by the forge.
• Nomad settings can now be customized in the custom game mode menu.
• There is now a 1 in 50 chance that a fire elemental will spawn when a meteor hits.
• Radiance pools now slowly generate energy the player can steal with their hand.
• Radiance pools no longer use cut stone, but require more rock and crystal.
• Increased Cold Aura spell cost.

Interface Changes

• You can now access the reset AI function by holding down left shift on the selected region panel in world map view, and the load game menu in skirmish.
• Fixed copyright date on main menu.
• World overlay GUI elements no longer display behind the GUI panels.
• Tips popping up now cancel the current task, to prevent accidental clicking.
• Pausing the game hides the entire GUI now.
• Keys are no longer listed as "Rare wood drops" in the resource production panel.
• Tips no longer pop up associated with monster's buildings.
• Players now get subtle warnings the time of day period before a full moon, eclipse or blood moon.
• Fixed a typo in the debug screen, that was showing the topography layers flipped.

Lootbox Changes

• You can no longer find keys harvesting resources.
• The chance you can find a loot box harvesting resources has been increased.
• Finding keys when trying to uncover lootboxes is now slightly more common.
• Lootbox settings can now be customized in the custom game mode menu.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Heavily optimized the provisioner price update and stock increase code. This should completely eliminate the "New day" lag some players have been having.
• Fixed some issues with sell resource and deliver resource AI branches not switching to the correct AI branches when failing.
• Fixed a rare crash when a mob is harvesting a resource and it the tile decays before he completes his work.
• Fixed crash when casting mend on walls that were completely blocked on all sides.
• Fixed a minor bug that would make laborers leave the marketplace too quickly sometimes.
• Fixed a crash when the delivery or selling AI would fail and try to repeat itself, sometimes returning incorrect values for the new assignment.
• Fixed a minor shadow generation glitch on the construction phase of the rain catcher.
• Fixed a few minor errors in the water artwork.
• Fixed a bug where you could not hide the camp placement panel in sandbox.

InDev 30 Unstable 1 Change Log

Multi-Carry

• All villagers can now hold between 3 and 8 resources at a time based on their strength. They will gain 1 additional resource per 100 strength, and always be able to carry a minimum of at least 3. This applies to labor golems as well.
• Harvesting AI has been modified to sometimes drop a resource on the ground. The chance they'll take resources home increases the more resources are in the area.

Sweeping Balance Changes

• Increased the stats of all friendly mobs and villagers by about 80%
• Reduced the amount of nomads that spawn, as well as their chance to spawn.
• Starting villagers in a new region on the world map have been reduced to 12.
• Starting resources in a new region on the world map have increased to 32.
• Starting villagers in skirmish mode reduced to 10-14.
• The amount of starting villagers in Limbo have been reduced to 19-29 in survival and nightmare.
• The monster spawn rates in survival, nightmare and traditional have been reduced.
• Doggo spawn rates have been halved.
• Farms now grow food 4 times slower.
• Wild food now grows and spreads 2 times slower.
• All food items now provide more overall food.
• Almost all job slots provided by all work buildings has been cut in half.
• Occupancy maximum for housing has been cut in half.
• You now gain twice as much maximum influence per villager.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Added all new Patreons' rewards to the game.
• Changed how essence is generated from objects, making the output more varied in appearance.
• When the game needs to find an open space to force drop a resource, the location is a bit more randomized now.

Interface Changes

• A new statistics panel has been added to the game, showing tons of daily statistics about your village.
• All GUI code has been completely gutted and reorganized, most of the changes will be transparent to the player. But pretty much everything under the hood was redone.
• Updated the mouse lock icon.
• When selecting a terrain while making a new map, you no longer unselect the map size.
• Fixed mining facility upgrade descriptions.
• Spells on the spell bar will no longer stay highlighted even if no spell is selected.
• Fixed a minor typo in the catjeet laboror's tasking AI.
• Right clicking to add/remove workers now adds and removes plus or minus 5, rather than 10.
• Lowered the "low villager count" warning in the problem panel from 10 to 5 villagers.
• Changed the description of the crystillery so it fits in the description box.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Removed even more erroneous names from the name list.
• Wrote in a system to remove erroneous names during runtime, preventing them from causing problems.
• Catjeet nomad children are now in the correct mob group.
• Fixed a bug that would allow workers to "overfill" the farm while it is being upgraded.

[ 2018-04-18 19:11:35 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! InDev 30 Unstable 4 has been released, this patch should be a near feature complete build of InDev 30. There's a few loose ends to tie up, and very likely even more balancing I'll need to do based on your guy's feedback. But we're almost there! I am planning to release InDev 30 Stable sometime around the 20th to 22nd. :) The meat of this patch is adding the final mechanic on the road map to the game; the aging system! Now your villagers can die, but how long they live is based on how well you take care of them. Whenever they're starving, dehydrated, homeless, or even just depressed and unhappy, they will permanently lose days off their life. So it's up to you to take care of them! If they get old enough, they will become elders and stop working. But they'll be able to chat with their fellow villagers, "sharing wisdom" and giving them a nice little XP boost. As stated the last two times, because the corruption system (and now, aging system!) has made such a large impact on the game balance, I'm asking everyone to continue to provide some feedback. Let me know what you think. Is it too hard, too easy, just right? If you want to go the extra mile, hop into custom mode and make up your own brand of what you think survival and nightmare mode should be, and share your settings! You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 30 Unstable 4b *HOT FIX* Change Log

Aging System

• Villagers all have been given an additional 10 years of life.
• Doggos have been given an additional 5 years of life.
• Rebalanced/Nerfed the rate constitution drops.
• Halved the chance villagers can die from child birth.
• Now mothers have a 50% chance of losing 1 day of life expectancy during child birth, rather than a guaranteed chance of losing 1 or 2.

Big Fixes

• Fixed world map edge scrolling settings.
• Fixed a minor range generation issue that could result in some AI getting stuck in an endless loop trying to deliver something.

InDev 30 Unstable 4 Change Log

Aging System

• Human villagers can now live up to a maximum 30 days, catjeet 25, and doggos 15.
• Villagers can now become wise elders late in their life, for humans this is age 25 and catjeet 20. Doggos never become wise, and will remain young hearted goofballs until they die.
• Elder villagers can chat with lower level villagers, offering them a massive XP bonus so they can level up faster.
• A new Life Expectancy statistic has been added, and as you'd expect, how long your villager should live.
• A new Lifetime Constitution stat has also been added, that starts at maximum, and anytime your villager's well being is poor either from thirst, hunger, unhappiness, healing from injuries, taking damage, poisoned and a million other factors, their lifetime constitution will go down permanently. When this happens, it can lower their Life Expectancy.
• You can never recover constitution or life expectancy, so take care of your villagers!
• Villagers can die before they become elders if they live an extremely hard life, and their life expectancy drops below the minimum age to become an elder.
• Rarely, when nomads spawn some of them can arrive already as elders.
• Mothers can now die giving childbirth if their lifelong constitution is low.
• There is a small chance the child can die during child birth.
• Mothers now take 25% of their total current hit points in damage during child birth.
• Giving birth instantly lowers the mother's life expectancy by 1 or 2 days.

Corruption System

• Added a new "corruption resistance" range for the village, that works differently than normal range and ignores all blocked tiles. Some buildings do not provide this range at all, like fire pits, making them useless to push back the corruption.
• You can see your village's corruption resistance using the data views panel.
• Global monster spawn rates have been reduced by about 33%.
• Corruption no longer creates new spots on the map.
• When monsters despawn, they drop all their equipped items on the ground so the next spawn cycle of monsters can pick them back up.
• Skeletons now do not start spawning until day 5.
• Specters now do not start spawning until day 12.
• Fire Elementals now do not start spawning until day 16.
• Small slimes now no longer spawn until day 2.
• Regular slimes now no longer spawn until day 4.
• Zombies now no longer spawn until day 3.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Patreon credits/names data updated.
• Medics have been completely rewritten, they now "post" themselves at clinics, barracks and outposts and wait for injured and sick villagers to arrive.
• Rebalanced the length of nighttime in both Summer and Winter. Summer nights are now longer, and Winter nights are now shorter.
• The mob level hard cap has been raised to 200.
• There are now a small amount of particles that generate when a mob gains XP.
• When a mob gains a level, there is no longer a message in the console, and the sound is localized to where they leveled instead of being global.
• There are now some particle effects when a mob levels.
• Raised the doggo spawn rates back to what they were in Unstable 2.
• Rearranged the farming AI to make it a much higher priority to do farm harvesting and tending tasks.
• Slightly increased farm growth rate.
• All villagers, catjeet and doggos stats have been halved. (Roughly back to what they are in InDev 29f)
• Carry max now goes up by one per every 50 STR rather than 100.
• The base village range of all towers provide has been increased by about 50%. (Note: This is not firing range)
• Removed the single-threaded settings from the game, as they caused more trouble than they helped in almost all scenarios.
• Reduced the speed health is regenerated when in a house.
• Tripled the duration of poison, blight and dysentery, but also reduced damage taken by them by two thirds, resulting in the same amount of damage over a much longer period of time.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Reworked all the code related to coloring mob sprites in game, cleaning up a lot of minor issues with recoloring mobs.
• Permanent corruption increase per day settings are now properly saved in custom mode.
• Fixed a bug that can cause the game to enter an endless loop if a monster despawns while being attacked.
• Fixed the statistics panel from rendering incorrectly with interface scale settings other than 1.

InDev 30 Unstable 3 Change Log

Corruption System

• Decreased traditional mode spawn and corruption spread rates.
• Increased spawn rate of monsters in survival and nightmare mode.
• The amount per spawn multiplier has been decreased, coupled with the above change, this should show a more steady and consistent increase in spawn rates.
• Increased the amount of "starting spread" corruption has, making the initial starting corruption spot a bit bigger.
• Monsters now spawn when graveyards are damaged, except from hail.
• Corrupted fire pits are now built less often, causing other corruption buildings to be built more often.
• Made some minor tweaks to how corruption picks a start spot, encouraging them to spawn farther away from the village that previously.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Now you can interact with the speed controls, settings, save and exit or look at stats while paused.
• Charm spell cost has been halved, and the failure chance removed.
• Reworked some AI branching that made some AI branches not fire as often as they should, like water bottle refining.
• Changed priority of water buckets in fountains and house from very high to high, to encourage more water buckets to make it to the bottlers.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed blood moons from not triggering blood rain/slimes.
• Compressed all sound effects a bit, increasing load times and shrinking the game's initial install size.
• An eclipse can no longer happen the same day as a full moon.
• Fixed some tips not correctly popping up at the right time.
• Tons of code cleanup to the input code for the game.
• Fixed a crash if a monster tried to despawn but was trapped in a 1x1 open area.
• Fixed a bunch of AI flow issues.
• Fixed a bug when a mob died carrying a resource the resource on the ground would be ignored by all other workers until the game was reloaded.
• Halved the doggo spawn rates.

InDev 30 Unstable 2 Change Log

Corruption System

• Now, the game will randomly corrupt your save files. The chance this happens increases the longer you survive, in an attempt to increase end game difficulty.

Better Corruption System

• Due to overwhelming negative feedback, the game no longer will randomly corrupt your save files the longer you survive in an attempt to increase difficulty.
• The entire spawn system has been completely replaced with the new corruption system. Now, a corrupted area will spawn on the map once you place your camp, slowly consuming the world around you.
• A new mob has been added, the "Drone". Drones are mostly harmless, but will build corrupted buildings and maintain roads inside the corruption.
• Monsters no longer spawn or attack during the day time. They now start attacking at dusk, ramp up at night, and return back to the corruption during the day.
• A large majority of the monsters inside the corruption will despawn during the day. (Note: Boosted monsters never despawn.)
• Monster spawn rates are now tied to how many days you have survived, the size of the corruption, and how many buildings are in the corruption.
• Several new corrupted buildings have been added, including hostile towers inside the corruption that will fire on villagers and golems.
• You can not cast spells inside the corruption.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Doubled the length of a day.
• All of the delivery and construction harvest AI branches have been reworked and rearranged to better manage resources and make sure buildings get completed in the correct priority order if the resources are available to do so.
• Increased the rate light levels transition.
• Monsters no longer wander to radiance pools.
• You can now advance the passage of time in sandbox mode if you enable debug mode.
• You can now set the clock to 16x speed if you enable debug mode.
• Survival Island map tweaked slightly.
• Nerfed food values slightly.
• Lowered the priority of dirty water in the farm to high, so the water purifier gets more dirty water.
• Removed map "Bottleneck" from the Official Maps list.
• Increased the range provided by the forge.
• Nomad settings can now be customized in the custom game mode menu.
• There is now a 1 in 50 chance that a fire elemental will spawn when a meteor hits.
• Radiance pools now slowly generate energy the player can steal with their hand.
• Radiance pools no longer use cut stone, but require more rock and crystal.
• Increased Cold Aura spell cost.

Interface Changes

• You can now access the reset AI function by holding down left shift on the selected region panel in world map view, and the load game menu in skirmish.
• Fixed copyright date on main menu.
• World overlay GUI elements no longer display behind the GUI panels.
• Tips popping up now cancel the current task, to prevent accidental clicking.
• Pausing the game hides the entire GUI now.
• Keys are no longer listed as "Rare wood drops" in the resource production panel.
• Tips no longer pop up associated with monster's buildings.
• Players now get subtle warnings the time of day period before a full moon, eclipse or blood moon.
• Fixed a typo in the debug screen, that was showing the topography layers flipped.

Lootbox Changes

• You can no longer find keys harvesting resources.
• The chance you can find a loot box harvesting resources has been increased.
• Finding keys when trying to uncover lootboxes is now slightly more common.
• Lootbox settings can now be customized in the custom game mode menu.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Heavily optimized the provisioner price update and stock increase code. This should completely eliminate the "New day" lag some players have been having.
• Fixed some issues with sell resource and deliver resource AI branches not switching to the correct AI branches when failing.
• Fixed a rare crash when a mob is harvesting a resource and it the tile decays before he completes his work.
• Fixed crash when casting mend on walls that were completely blocked on all sides.
• Fixed a minor bug that would make laborers leave the marketplace too quickly sometimes.
• Fixed a crash when the delivery or selling AI would fail and try to repeat itself, sometimes returning incorrect values for the new assignment.
• Fixed a minor shadow generation glitch on the construction phase of the rain catcher.
• Fixed a few minor errors in the water artwork.
• Fixed a bug where you could not hide the camp placement panel in sandbox.

InDev 30 Unstable 1 Change Log

Multi-Carry

• All villagers can now hold between 3 and 8 resources at a time based on their strength. They will gain 1 additional resource per 100 strength, and always be able to carry a minimum of at least 3. This applies to labor golems as well.
• Harvesting AI has been modified to sometimes drop a resource on the ground. The chance they'll take resources home increases the more resources are in the area.

Sweeping Balance Changes

• Increased the stats of all friendly mobs and villagers by about 80%
• Reduced the amount of nomads that spawn, as well as their chance to spawn.
• Starting villagers in a new region on the world map have been reduced to 12.
• Starting resources in a new region on the world map have increased to 32.
• Starting villagers in skirmish mode reduced to 10-14.
• The amount of starting villagers in Limbo have been reduced to 19-29 in survival and nightmare.
• The monster spawn rates in survival, nightmare and traditional have been reduced.
• Doggo spawn rates have been halved.
• Farms now grow food 4 times slower.
• Wild food now grows and spreads 2 times slower.
• All food items now provide more overall food.
• Almost all job slots provided by all work buildings has been cut in half.
• Occupancy maximum for housing has been cut in half.
• You now gain twice as much maximum influence per villager.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Added all new Patreons' rewards to the game.
• Changed how essence is generated from objects, making the output more varied in appearance.
• When the game needs to find an open space to force drop a resource, the location is a bit more randomized now.

Interface Changes

• A new statistics panel has been added to the game, showing tons of daily statistics about your village.
• All GUI code has been completely gutted and reorganized, most of the changes will be transparent to the player. But pretty much everything under the hood was redone.
• Updated the mouse lock icon.
• When selecting a terrain while making a new map, you no longer unselect the map size.
• Fixed mining facility upgrade descriptions.
• Spells on the spell bar will no longer stay highlighted even if no spell is selected.
• Fixed a minor typo in the catjeet laboror's tasking AI.
• Right clicking to add/remove workers now adds and removes plus or minus 5, rather than 10.
• Lowered the "low villager count" warning in the problem panel from 10 to 5 villagers.
• Changed the description of the crystillery so it fits in the description box.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Removed even more erroneous names from the name list.
• Wrote in a system to remove erroneous names during runtime, preventing them from causing problems.
• Catjeet nomad children are now in the correct mob group.
• Fixed a bug that would allow workers to "overfill" the farm while it is being upgraded.

[ 2018-04-14 15:46:09 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! InDev 30 Unstable 3 has been released, this patch is mostly balance changes and bug fixes based on your guy's feedback of Unstable 2. As stated last time, because the corruption system has made such a large impact on the game balance, I'm asking everyone to continue to provide some feedback. Let me know what you think. Is it too hard, too easy, just right? If you want to go the extra mile, hop into custom mode and make up your own brand of what you think survival and nightmare mode should be, and share your settings! You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 30 Unstable 3 Change Log

Corruption System

• Decreased traditional mode spawn and corruption spread rates.
• Increased spawn rate of monsters in survival and nightmare mode.
• The amount per spawn multiplier has been decreased, coupled with the above change, this should show a more steady and consistent increase in spawn rates.
• Increased the amount of "starting spread" corruption has, making the initial starting corruption spot a bit bigger.
• Monsters now spawn when graveyards are damaged, except from hail.
• Corrupted fire pits are now built less often, causing other corruption buildings to be built more often.
• Made some minor tweaks to how corruption picks a start spot, encouraging them to spawn farther away from the village that previously.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Now you can interact with the speed controls, settings, save and exit or look at stats while paused.
• Charm spell cost has been halved, and the failure chance removed.
• Reworked some AI branching that made some AI branches not fire as often as they should, like water bottle refining.
• Changed priority of water buckets in fountains and house from very high to high, to encourage more water buckets to make it to the bottlers.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed blood moons from not triggering blood rain/slimes.
• Compressed all sound effects a bit, increasing load times and shrinking the game's initial install size.
• An eclipse can no longer happen the same day as a full moon.
• Fixed some tips not correctly popping up at the right time.
• Tons of code cleanup to the input code for the game.
• Fixed a crash if a monster tried to despawn but was trapped in a 1x1 open area.
• Fixed a bunch of AI flow issues.
• Fixed a bug when a mob died carrying a resource the resource on the ground would be ignored by all other workers until the game was reloaded.
• Halved the doggo spawn rates.

InDev 30 Unstable 2 Change Log

Corruption System

• Now, the game will randomly corrupt your save files. The chance this happens increases the longer you survive, in an attempt to increase end game difficulty.

Better Corruption System

• Due to overwhelming negative feedback, the game no longer will randomly corrupt your save files the longer you survive in an attempt to increase difficulty.
• The entire spawn system has been completely replaced with the new corruption system. Now, a corrupted area will spawn on the map once you place your camp, slowly consuming the world around you.
• A new mob has been added, the "Drone". Drones are mostly harmless, but will build corrupted buildings and maintain roads inside the corruption.
• Monsters no longer spawn or attack during the day time. They now start attacking at dusk, ramp up at night, and return back to the corruption during the day.
• A large majority of the monsters inside the corruption will despawn during the day. (Note: Boosted monsters never despawn.)
• Monster spawn rates are now tied to how many days you have survived, the size of the corruption, and how many buildings are in the corruption.
• Several new corrupted buildings have been added, including hostile towers inside the corruption that will fire on villagers and golems.
• You can not cast spells inside the corruption.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Doubled the length of a day.
• All of the delivery and construction harvest AI branches have been reworked and rearranged to better manage resources and make sure buildings get completed in the correct priority order if the resources are available to do so.
• Increased the rate light levels transition.
• Monsters no longer wander to radiance pools.
• You can now advance the passage of time in sandbox mode if you enable debug mode.
• You can now set the clock to 16x speed if you enable debug mode.
• Survival Island map tweaked slightly.
• Nerfed food values slightly.
• Lowered the priority of dirty water in the farm to high, so the water purifier gets more dirty water.
• Removed map "Bottleneck" from the Official Maps list.
• Increased the range provided by the forge.
• Nomad settings can now be customized in the custom game mode menu.
• There is now a 1 in 50 chance that a fire elemental will spawn when a meteor hits.
• Radiance pools now slowly generate energy the player can steal with their hand.
• Radiance pools no longer use cut stone, but require more rock and crystal.
• Increased Cold Aura spell cost.

Interface Changes

• You can now access the reset AI function by holding down left shift on the selected region panel in world map view, and the load game menu in skirmish.
• Fixed copyright date on main menu.
• World overlay GUI elements no longer display behind the GUI panels.
• Tips popping up now cancel the current task, to prevent accidental clicking.
• Pausing the game hides the entire GUI now.
• Keys are no longer listed as "Rare wood drops" in the resource production panel.
• Tips no longer pop up associated with monster's buildings.
• Players now get subtle warnings the time of day period before a full moon, eclipse or blood moon.
• Fixed a typo in the debug screen, that was showing the topography layers flipped.

Lootbox Changes

• You can no longer find keys harvesting resources.
• The chance you can find a loot box harvesting resources has been increased.
• Finding keys when trying to uncover lootboxes is now slightly more common.
• Lootbox settings can now be customized in the custom game mode menu.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Heavily optimized the provisioner price update and stock increase code. This should completely eliminate the "New day" lag some players have been having.
• Fixed some issues with sell resource and deliver resource AI branches not switching to the correct AI branches when failing.
• Fixed a rare crash when a mob is harvesting a resource and it the tile decays before he completes his work.
• Fixed crash when casting mend on walls that were completely blocked on all sides.
• Fixed a minor bug that would make laborers leave the marketplace too quickly sometimes.
• Fixed a crash when the delivery or selling AI would fail and try to repeat itself, sometimes returning incorrect values for the new assignment.
• Fixed a minor shadow generation glitch on the construction phase of the rain catcher.
• Fixed a few minor errors in the water artwork.
• Fixed a bug where you could not hide the camp placement panel in sandbox.

InDev 30 Unstable 1 Change Log

Multi-Carry

• All villagers can now hold between 3 and 8 resources at a time based on their strength. They will gain 1 additional resource per 100 strength, and always be able to carry a minimum of at least 3. This applies to labor golems as well.
• Harvesting AI has been modified to sometimes drop a resource on the ground. The chance they'll take resources home increases the more resources are in the area.

Sweeping Balance Changes

• Increased the stats of all friendly mobs and villagers by about 80%
• Reduced the amount of nomads that spawn, as well as their chance to spawn.
• Starting villagers in a new region on the world map have been reduced to 12.
• Starting resources in a new region on the world map have increased to 32.
• Starting villagers in skirmish mode reduced to 10-14.
• The amount of starting villagers in Limbo have been reduced to 19-29 in survival and nightmare.
• The monster spawn rates in survival, nightmare and traditional have been reduced.
• Doggo spawn rates have been halved.
• Farms now grow food 4 times slower.
• Wild food now grows and spreads 2 times slower.
• All food items now provide more overall food.
• Almost all job slots provided by all work buildings has been cut in half.
• Occupancy maximum for housing has been cut in half.
• You now gain twice as much maximum influence per villager.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Added all new Patreons' rewards to the game.
• Changed how essence is generated from objects, making the output more varied in appearance.
• When the game needs to find an open space to force drop a resource, the location is a bit more randomized now.

Interface Changes

• A new statistics panel has been added to the game, showing tons of daily statistics about your village.
• All GUI code has been completely gutted and reorganized, most of the changes will be transparent to the player. But pretty much everything under the hood was redone.
• Updated the mouse lock icon.
• When selecting a terrain while making a new map, you no longer unselect the map size.
• Fixed mining facility upgrade descriptions.
• Spells on the spell bar will no longer stay highlighted even if no spell is selected.
• Fixed a minor typo in the catjeet laboror's tasking AI.
• Right clicking to add/remove workers now adds and removes plus or minus 5, rather than 10.
• Lowered the "low villager count" warning in the problem panel from 10 to 5 villagers.
• Changed the description of the crystillery so it fits in the description box.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Removed even more erroneous names from the name list.
• Wrote in a system to remove erroneous names during runtime, preventing them from causing problems.
• Catjeet nomad children are now in the correct mob group.
• Fixed a bug that would allow workers to "overfill" the farm while it is being upgraded.

[ 2018-04-05 18:11:36 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! The corruption has arrived! InDev 30 Unstable 2 has been released. Like Unstable 1, this patch has massive sweeping changes to the fundamental balance of the entire game. Make sure to read over the change logs carefully! Because the corruption system has made such a large impact on the game balance, I'm asking everyone to provide some feedback. Let me know what you think. Is it too hard, too easy, just right? If you want to go the extra mile, hop into custom mode and make up your own brand of what you think survival and nightmare mode should be, and share your settings! You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 30 Unstable 2 Change Log

Corruption System

• Now, the game will randomly corrupt your save files. The chance this happens increases the longer you survive, in an attempt to increase end game difficulty.

Better Corruption System

• Due to overwhelming negative feedback, the game no longer will randomly corrupt your save files the longer you survive in an attempt to increase difficulty.
• The entire spawn system has been completely replaced with the new corruption system. Now, a corrupted area will spawn on the map once you place your camp, slowly consuming the world around you.
• A new mob has been added, the "Drone". Drones are mostly harmless, but will build corrupted buildings and maintain roads inside the corruption.
• Monsters no longer spawn or attack during the day time. They now start attacking at dusk, ramp up at night, and return back to the corruption during the day.
• A large majority of the monsters inside the corruption will despawn during the day. (Note: Boosted monsters never despawn.)
• Monster spawn rates are now tied to how many days you have survived, the size of the corruption, and how many buildings are in the corruption.
• Several new corrupted buildings have been added, including hostile towers inside the corruption that will fire on villagers and golems.
• You can not cast spells inside the corruption.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Doubled the length of a day.
• All of the delivery and construction harvest AI branches have been reworked and rearranged to better manage resources and make sure buildings get completed in the correct priority order if the resources are available to do so.
• Increased the rate light levels transition.
• Monsters no longer wander to radiance pools.
• You can now advance the passage of time in sandbox mode if you enable debug mode.
• You can now set the clock to 16x speed if you enable debug mode.
• Survival Island map tweaked slightly.
• Nerfed food values slightly.
• Lowered the priority of dirty water in the farm to high, so the water purifier gets more dirty water.
• Removed map "Bottleneck" from the Official Maps list.
• Increased the range provided by the forge.
• Nomad settings can now be customized in the custom game mode menu.
• There is now a 1 in 50 chance that a fire elemental will spawn when a meteor hits.
• Radiance pools now slowly generate energy the player can steal with their hand.
• Radiance pools no longer use cut stone, but require more rock and crystal.
• Increased Cold Aura spell cost.

Interface Changes

• You can now access the reset AI function by holding down left shift on the selected region panel in world map view, and the load game menu in skirmish.
• Fixed copyright date on main menu.
• World overlay GUI elements no longer display behind the GUI panels.
• Tips popping up now cancel the current task, to prevent accidental clicking.
• Pausing the game hides the entire GUI now.
• Keys are no longer listed as "Rare wood drops" in the resource production panel.
• Tips no longer pop up associated with monster's buildings.
• Players now get subtle warnings the time of day period before a full moon, eclipse or blood moon.
• Fixed a typo in the debug screen, that was showing the topography layers flipped.

Lootbox Changes

• You can no longer find keys harvesting resources.
• The chance you can find a loot box harvesting resources has been increased.
• Finding keys when trying to uncover lootboxes is now slightly more common.
• Lootbox settings can now be customized in the custom game mode menu.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Heavily optimized the provisioner price update and stock increase code. This should completely eliminate the "New day" lag some players have been having.
• Fixed some issues with sell resource and deliver resource AI branches not switching to the correct AI branches when failing.
• Fixed a rare crash when a mob is harvesting a resource and it the tile decays before he completes his work.
• Fixed crash when casting mend on walls that were completely blocked on all sides.
• Fixed a minor bug that would make laborers leave the marketplace too quickly sometimes.
• Fixed a crash when the delivery or selling AI would fail and try to repeat itself, sometimes returning incorrect values for the new assignment.
• Fixed a minor shadow generation glitch on the construction phase of the rain catcher.
• Fixed a few minor errors in the water artwork.
• Fixed a bug where you could not hide the camp placement panel in sandbox.

InDev 30 Unstable 1 Change Log

Multi-Carry

• All villagers can now hold between 3 and 8 resources at a time based on their strength. They will gain 1 additional resource per 100 strength, and always be able to carry a minimum of at least 3. This applies to labor golems as well.
• Harvesting AI has been modified to sometimes drop a resource on the ground. The chance they'll take resources home increases the more resources are in the area.

Sweeping Balance Changes

• Increased the stats of all friendly mobs and villagers by about 80%
• Reduced the amount of nomads that spawn, as well as their chance to spawn.
• Starting villagers in a new region on the world map have been reduced to 12.
• Starting resources in a new region on the world map have increased to 32.
• Starting villagers in skirmish mode reduced to 10-14.
• The amount of starting villagers in Limbo have been reduced to 19-29 in survival and nightmare.
• The monster spawn rates in survival, nightmare and traditional have been reduced.
• Doggo spawn rates have been halved.
• Farms now grow food 4 times slower.
• Wild food now grows and spreads 2 times slower.
• All food items now provide more overall food.
• Almost all job slots provided by all work buildings has been cut in half.
• Occupancy maximum for housing has been cut in half.
• You now gain twice as much maximum influence per villager.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Added all new Patreons' rewards to the game.
• Changed how essence is generated from objects, making the output more varied in appearance.
• When the game needs to find an open space to force drop a resource, the location is a bit more randomized now.

Interface Changes

• A new statistics panel has been added to the game, showing tons of daily statistics about your village.
• All GUI code has been completely gutted and reorganized, most of the changes will be transparent to the player. But pretty much everything under the hood was redone.
• Updated the mouse lock icon.
• When selecting a terrain while making a new map, you no longer unselect the map size.
• Fixed mining facility upgrade descriptions.
• Spells on the spell bar will no longer stay highlighted even if no spell is selected.
• Fixed a minor typo in the catjeet laboror's tasking AI.
• Right clicking to add/remove workers now adds and removes plus or minus 5, rather than 10.
• Lowered the "low villager count" warning in the problem panel from 10 to 5 villagers.
• Changed the description of the crystillery so it fits in the description box.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Removed even more erroneous names from the name list.
• Wrote in a system to remove erroneous names during runtime, preventing them from causing problems.
• Catjeet nomad children are now in the correct mob group.
• Fixed a bug that would allow workers to "overfill" the farm while it is being upgraded.

[ 2018-03-31 01:51:40 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! InDev 30 Unstable 1 has been released, the first official release with multi-carry support! It doesn't look like it from the change logs, but this patch has massive amounts of underlining code changes, so be sure to give it a good run down. This is a sweeping large balance changing patch, so also be sure to provide some feedback on the new mechanics! The monster spawning may be a bit out of whack until the new spawn system is in the next unstable, but I really need feedback on the production rate/flow of the village. :) As per usual, checkout the change log for details! You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 30 Unstable 1 Change Log

Multi-Carry

• All villagers can now hold between 3 and 8 resources at a time based on their strength. They will gain 1 additional resource per 100 strength, and always be able to carry a minimum of at least 3. This applies to labor golems as well.
• Harvesting AI has been modified to sometimes drop a resource on the ground. The chance they'll take resources home increases the more resources are in the area.

Sweeping Balance Changes

• Increased the stats of all friendly mobs and villagers by about 80%
• Reduced the amount of nomads that spawn, as well as their chance to spawn.
• Starting villagers in a new region on the world map have been reduced to 12.
• Starting resources in a new region on the world map have increased to 32.
• Starting villagers in skirmish mode reduced to 10-14.
• The amount of starting villagers in Limbo have been reduced to 19-29 in survival and nightmare.
• The monster spawn rates in survival, nightmare and traditional have been reduced.
• Doggo spawn rates have been halved.
• Farms now grow food 4 times slower.
• Wild food now grows and spreads 2 times slower.
• All food items now provide more overall food.
• Almost all job slots provided by all work buildings has been cut in half.
• Occupancy maximum for housing has been cut in half.
• You now gain twice as much maximum influence per villager.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Added all new Patreons' rewards to the game.
• Changed how essence is generated from objects, making the output more varied in appearance.
• When the game needs to find an open space to force drop a resource, the location is a bit more randomized now.

Interface Changes

• A new statistics panel has been added to the game, showing tons of daily statistics about your village.
• All GUI code has been completely gutted and reorganized, most of the changes will be transparent to the player. But pretty much everything under the hood was redone.
• Updated the mouse lock icon.
• When selecting a terrain while making a new map, you no longer unselect the map size.
• Fixed mining facility upgrade descriptions.
• Spells on the spell bar will no longer stay highlighted even if no spell is selected.
• Fixed a minor typo in the catjeet laboror's tasking AI.
• Right clicking to add/remove workers now adds and removes plus or minus 5, rather than 10.
• Lowered the "low villager count" warning in the problem panel from 10 to 5 villagers.
• Changed the description of the crystillery so it fits in the description box.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Removed even more erroneous names from the name list.
• Wrote in a system to remove erroneous names during runtime, preventing them from causing problems.
• Catjeet nomad children are now in the correct mob group.
• Fixed a bug that would allow workers to "overfill" the farm while it is being upgraded.

[ 2018-03-14 05:02:28 CET ] [ Original post ]

After a nice big bloated dev cycle for InDev 29, it's time to dive in to the next big thing, InDev 30! This update will be focusing on making your villagers more important, valuable and personable as well as reduce the overall amount of monsters and villagers on the map. A lot of the overall goals of this patch is to lower the mob count on the map, while not changing the pacing or balance of the game. But, as always, there will be fresh, new mechanics as well!

If you have any requests, be sure to post them in the comments. Let me know what you want, and how you want it to work! You might just find it sneak into the next patch. :)

InDev 30 Road Map

Multi-Carry

• Villagers will be able to carry more than one resource at a time, massively cutting down on transit time to build or deliver resources. This should compensate for the villager rebalancing mentioned below and help keep the same game pacing with less villagers working.
• The amount they can carry will be based on their strength stats. The stronger they are, the more they can carry.

Aging / Lifelong Health System

• Villagers will now age and die. But through providing them a healthy, happy life you can help them live longer.
• Villagers will eventually "retire" and no longer be able to take a job, but when they chat with villagers they will impart their wisdom on them, giving them experience bonuses so they level up faster.
• Having good housing, keeping people well fed, happy and having clinics as well as many other factors will assist in extending villager's age.
• A slight chance the mother, or mother and child will die during child birth will be added. The chance this will happen will be based on the mother's age and health.

Redesigning Monster Spawning

• Monster spawning will be completely redesigned, favoring "hot zones" where monsters build large amount of spawns far away from the village, rather than randomly placing spawns all over the map.
• Much less monsters will wander around on the map in the day time, making it safer to venture out or expand.
• When monsters spawn, they will now spawn at night and almost instantly attack the village. Any leftovers when dawn arrives will return to their spawners.

Rebalancing The Village

• All village nomad and reproduction rates will be reduced, causing village growth to slow down quite a bit.
• All occupancy, job slots, farm growth, storage limits, etc will all be reduced.
• Because of the above, things like hunger and thirst will either drop slower per villager, or food and water will be worth more.
• All building requirements will be reduced (to compensate for less villagers working).
• Many work tasks will be buffed, for example, repairing will repair more per attempt.
• To balance out the lower mob counts, many of the towers, golems, and other defensive mechanics may need to be rebalanced.

[ 2018-02-06 22:53:44 CET ] [ Original post ]

InDev 29e is here, this ones a small patch, mostly in response to your guy's feedback about all the balance changes introduced into the much larger InDev 29c patch. Be sure to checkout the change log below, and if you have not played the game in the last few days you should give InDev 29c much more extensive change log a look over! Nearly all the changes in 29e are addressing 29c issues, so it's important to read them both. :)

Many of the hot keys have changed recently! Be sure to check the settings page and re-familiarize yourself!

InDev 29e Change Log

Spells Changes

• Increased labor golem influence cost a bit.
• You can no longer charm boosted mobs.
• Holy golems now get stronger as the days pass.

Big Fixes and Optimizations

• Fixed a targeting issue when a ranged mob is attacked by a tower. Sometimes it would pick an invalid target location.

Monster Changes

• Mob title bars now say "Boosted" when a mob is boosted.
• Reduced boosted mob levels and speed from 4x to 3x.
• There is now a maximum firing speed cap applied to all mobs, but this mostly effects Fire Elementals to prevent them from "machine gun" firing fireballs at ultra-high levels.
• Rebalanced Fire Elemental stats a bit, they now have less DEX on average.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Added a few more Patreon's rewards.
• Nerfed building on fire damage slightly.
• Villagers now level up roughly 20% faster.
• Increased range of Crystal golems by 50%
• Buffed and rebalanced all combobulators, they will now spawn higher level golems when upgraded, but require more resources.
• Rebalanced essence collector's build requirements a bit.

[ 2018-02-02 23:59:54 CET ] [ Original post ]

Barring no last minute issues, the final minor patch for InDev 29, 29c is complete! Unlike most minor patches this patch will break your save data! If you'd like to finish out your saves before moving to 29c, you can opt into the "Previous Stable" branch in steam. :) This patch is a huge mishmash of new content, introducing 10 new spells, quadrupling the monster level caps, extended end game difficulty, and improving a bunch of the GUI as well as a bazillion other small things. Be sure to read over the change log! This isn't a normal sized minor patch, so there's a ton of new content to check out.

Many of the hot keys have changed! Be sure to check the settings page and re-familiarize yourself!

InDev 29c Change Log

New Spells, Influence and Spell Bar Changes

• The spell bar has been completely redesigned, you now have 5 slots on the bar, and can change out the default spells.
• All spell icons have been redesigned.
• The maximum influence you can have is now based on your total population. For every villager you have, the bar gets slightly larger.
• The absolute maximum influence you can have (A full bar) per village has been increased from 2,000 to 5,000.
• New Spell: Charm - Charms a monster into attacking their friends instead, but they may not always cooperate, and could even work against you or not be very helpful. Has a high chance of failure!
• New Spell: Cold Aura - Makes the area extremely cold, cooling, slowing down and sometimes freezing nearby creatures.
• New Spell: Conjure Essence - Conjure essence out of thin air! Careful it doesn't get sucked back into your hand.
• New Spell: Conjure Material - Brings forth a raw building material, sometimes similar to the topography surrounding it.
• New Spell: Illuminate - Creates a long lasting, large light source on the map.
• New Spell: Lightning Bolt - Zap them from the heavens! Doesn't work well around lightning rods.
• New Spell: Magic Bolts - Zap monsters with some energy balls.
• New Spell: Mend - Steadily repairs golems and buildings in a small area for a short period of time.
• New Spell: Regenerate - Heals a single living creature over a short period of time. Does not work on golems, but does work on monsters! Be careful what you cast this on.
• New Spell: Summon Labor Golem - Summons a mindless golem that will do manual labor in your village until it dies.
• Healing aura now has a larger area of effect and damages zombies, headless and skeletons.

Hot Key, Control and Interface Changes

• New axis lock mode added, when holding down left shift, you can drag-and-draw all kinds of things in a locked straight line along one axis. This new axis lock makes drawing walls and roads much easier. (For those familiar, it mimics Photoshop's axis lock tool when using the pencil or brush).
• You can now click-and-hold to "paint" building placements.
• New and improved upgrade panels have been added. When upgrading a building it will now list all of the upgrades/improvements you will receive.
• Almost all building descriptions updated.
• Speed up controls default keys moved to F5 and F6.
• Harvest default keys moved from 1 through 4 to 6 through 9.
• Spell bar hotkeys have been assigned to 1 through 5.
• All new hot keys added over the last few patches can now be changed in the settings menu.

Big Fixes and Optimizations

• Fixed some possible crashes when finding resource drop locations out of bounds of the map.
• Spells can no longer be cast outside the bounds of the map.
• Catjeet children are now counted in the children totals.
• Fixed a bug where food was not being correctly calculated into final nomad spawn rates.
• Catjeet now properly spawn catjeet zombies when resurrected by blight.
• Catjeet spawn the correct ghosts when they die.
• Catjeet children now properly grow into catjeet adults instead of human adults.
• Slightly optimized the spawning code for monsters.
• Fixed mob overlays when selecting buildings, it's using the currently selected mob's color rather than the building's mob's color.
• Recombobulators no longer try to fire over curtain walls and topography.
• Temporary fixed for the monster building attack code that was crashing the game has been implemented.
• Holy Golems no longer visit recomoboulators to heal, but still use them as patrol routes.

Nomad Changes

• Overpopulation now has a much larger negative impact on nomad rates.
• Total population in general now has a negative effect on nomad rates.
• Available water now impacts nomad rates.
• Nomads now can never spawn in groups less than 3, but late game spawn counts have been reduced.
• Nomads are slightly less aggressive in combat, causing them to flee more often.
• Nomad catjeet and children, as well as nomad human children can now spawn.

Monster Changes

• Boosted monsters have been added, that can spawn at 4 times their regular level, and 4 times faster than usual. They also glow! The frequency a boosted monster can spawn goes up gradually as the days pass.
• Increased the level cap of all monsters by roughly 4 times their previous caps, and completely reworked the level spawning formula for mobs.
• Global spawnrates for monsters have been slightly reduced, to compensate for the significantly higher level monsters that will appear mid-late game.

Miscellaneous Changes

• All Patreon rewards added for December.
• Doubled the refining and harvesting speed bonuses provided by all upgraded buildings.
• Rebalanced housing, now standard and high quality give slightly more bonuses, but high occupancy has penalties.
• Lightning strikes now have a higher chance of hitting their intended targets.
• If lightning hits a building, it can no longer also hit a mob. This prevents builders from being hit while repairing lightning rods.
• Lightning "white flash" has been removed.
• Fire Elementals now move slower.
• Lowered all resistances and vulnerabilities that were 90% down to 80%.
• Now all mobs must take a minimum of 1 damage when hit, avoiding resistance calculations that result in 0 damage.
• Doggo spawn rate reduced by roughly 50%.
• Increased Doggo House occupancy to 6, and slightly buffed some of the home benefits.
• Increased Doggo House build requirements to 12 wood.
• Elemental Bolt tower now gets a slight firing speed boost when upgraded.
• Increased the energy cost of the static tower.
• Added bows and quivers to the equipment storage.
• Cleaned up the debug page a bit.
• Tons is miscellaneous GUI tweaks.
• Disasters are slightly more common in survival mode.

[ 2018-01-31 21:20:21 CET ] [ Original post ]

The first patch of 2018 has arrived! This ones classified as a minor patch, because it does not break your save data. But it's a fairly beefy minor patch, possibly one of the largest ever! This patch almost entirely focuses on adding more maps to the game, changing some old ones, finishing off the current world map and prepping for expansion into brand new biomes in the future!

InDev 29b Change Log

New Maps

• 11 new maps added; Azusa, Limestone, Nerstrand, Farley, Casas, Wilderock, Greyby, Goldmist, Loracre, Clearland, and Valencia.
• 7 maps completely remade; Silvercoast, Survival Island, Arid River, Gateway, Greenham, Quiet Forest, and Black Sands.
• 6 maps have had minor changes; Enchanted Shoreline, Springland, Strongvale, Northoak, Wheatcastle, and Merrowshore.
• Entire world map art updated to line up with all the new maps and map changes.
• Most of the old maps that were completely remade have been moved to the "Official Maps" map pack in skirmish mode.

Big Fixes

• Fixed an extremely rare crash if you try to reclaim a building and you have no camp, but have enough free building slots.
• Fixed a few illegal characters in the villager name system that could cause the game to crash.
• Fixed a bug with the mating system that was preventing villagers from mating.
• Implemented possible fix to AI redistribution crash.
• Fixed a guard patrol bug that would sometimes crash the game if the guard could not find a valid coordinate to patrol in.
• Fixed some particle position errors in the GUI when rendering golems.
• Fixed a bug that would cause the game to crash if you cast dissolve outside the map bounds.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Changed the bullet and spray tower descriptions.
• Doubled the map movement distance off the edge of the map.
• The mouse position and selection brush are now displayed on the minimap.
• Equipment storage can no longer store water bottles, but can store shields.
• Keys now spawn more often in place of loot boxes.

[ 2018-01-16 00:11:25 CET ] [ Original post ]

The Quality of Life update has been released. This is another huge content patch, and an exceptionally large portion of it is player requested content! The highlights in this patch are the new upgradable housing, farms, storage and the new marketplace system. But there's a ton of other awesome new content, like $1.99 loot boxes. (Kidding, please don't kill me!) Be sure to give the change logs a good once-over, and let me know what you think about the new patch down in the comments. I'm really excited to get this patch out to you guys, and I'd love to hear your feedback on all the changes. Also just as a friendly reminder and not a shameless plug what so ever, by popular demand, I have launched a Patreon last week. If you're interested, head over and check it out. :)

YOU MAY NEED TO UPDATE YOUR SHORTCUTS TO LAUNCH THE GAME. Some old launcher legacy code has been removed in this update. :)

InDev 29 Change Log

The Marketplace, Gold and Catjeet

• A new mob has been added; The Catjeet. They are similar to villagers in stats, but they have more dexterity, less strength, fur and a tail.
• The marketplace has been added to the game. When built, you will attract Catjeet provisioners and laborers, whom you can buy and sell resources with or hire, and become a permanent part of your village.
• Buy and sell values of items are based on supply and demand, and adjust as your or the Catjeet's stock go up and down.
• You can hire Catjeet laborers who visit the new marketplace, becoming permanent members of your village.
• New job added; The Provisioner. The new provisioners will interact with the Catjeet, processing all buy and sell requests, as well as keeping gold stocked in the marketplaces.
• Catjeet's resource inventory is global. Meaning if you sell 1,000 wood in one village, you can buy the same 1,000 wood in another later. Exception is in Skirmish mode, where each save gets its own inventory.
• Catjeet generate new stock at dawn, the more Catjeet at your marketplace, the more stock will be generated.
• The more marketplaces you have and the more upgraded they are will encourage more Catjeet to visit. Catjeet are also more likely to visit the lower the total Catjeet you have.
• A new trade panel has been added to the left hand GUI that can be used to interact with the new marketplace and Catjeet.
• Gold ore can now be harvested from rock, and smelted into gold ingots that can then be processed into gold coin sacks at the forge to buy items from the new Catjeet provisioners.

Upgradable Storage and The Storage Management System

• All old storage buildings have been removed from the game, and replaced with a new storage building that can be upgraded 4 times.
• A new gold storage building has been added to the game, to store gold ingots and coins.
• You can now pause or disable storage of resources in buildings by clicking on their icons in the bottom GUI. Setting a resource to pause will prevent any more from being added, setting it to disabled will cause the workers to remove any resources that are already inside.

Upgradable Housing

• All old housing has been removed from the game, and replaced with a single "Housing" building that can be upgraded in 3 paths, 4 times per path.
• The upgrade paths are "Occupancy", "Standard" and "Quality". "Occupancy" will only increase the buildings maximum housing size, where "Quality" will provide significantly less housing, but will give a significant boost energy, happiness and health regeneration rates for its occupants. "Standard" as you might have guessed, is a balance between the two.

Upgradable Farms

• The "Small Farm" has been removed from the game.
• The farm is now upgradable twice, starting with 6 crop tiles, then 9, and finally 13.
• Crop tiles now grow twice as fast to off-set there being less actual crops in the base farm before upgrades. Meaning the new base farm with 6 crop tiles grows nearly the same rate as the old large farm with 13, and a fully upgraded farm now grows roughly twice as fast as the old farm even though it has the same amount of actual crops.

Loot Boxes

• Loot boxes are randomly hidden all over the map, it's up to you to find them!
• Loot boxes can be opened with a key, for only $2.99 USD. You can buy them on the main menu. Buy in bulk and save! for only $100 USD you can get 100 keys!
• Just kidding.
• The keys to open the loot boxes can be found randomly in the game world when harvesting wood, water or wild food. They can also be purchased from Catjeet, and very rarely found in place of a loot box spawn. When a key is found, you can drop it on the box to open it.
• Loot boxes can get annoyed with the player and teleport away if you click on them a bunch of times.

Social System

• Villagers (and Doggos!) now have social stats, and will no longer just chat randomly. They will chat when their social levels are low or they have nothing better to do, reducing the amount of random downtime chatting.
• When their social stats are too low, they will be much less likely to work and their happiness will plummet.
• Finding a mate and coitus chances are now based on their overall social level. The higher their social, the better chance they'll accept a mate or coitus with one.
• Tons of new chatting icons have been added to the game.
• Chat AI has been partially rewritten to do a better job of finding chat partners.
• Villagers can now gain social if they're in a home with other villagers at the same time.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Removed some legacy launcher code. YOU MAY NEED TO UPDATE ANY MANUALLY MADE SHORTCUTS
• Redesigned the sprite loader system to support more mob sprites without going over the 4k texture limit.
• Fixed wood golem combobulators spawn caps during upgrades.
• Fixed a bunch of very minor errors in some of the mob sprites.
• Fixed some minor in-game mob coloring errors, mostly with ghosts.
• Removed a duplicate name from the names list.
• Slightly optimized the update loop for particles.
• Lighting now properly updates faster when speed is increased.
• Holy golems no longer emit particles while the game is paused.
• Optimized and rewrote the range and perimeter system.
• Possible fix implemented for a very rare crash if a mob is shooting something with a bow they can not reach, and the bow is taken from them misfiring.
• Fixed a rare issue where sometimes you couldn't grab or interact with a mob who was standing over a dead body.
• Fixed a crash in the guard patrol behavior that would sometimes return way points the guard can not reach, causing lag or crashes.
• Slightly optimized the update loop for the mob job module.
• Heavily optimized font rendering code.
• Optimized the light rendering code slightly during all times of the day, and greatly during midday.
• Optimized several of the mob searching algorithms, speeding up many parts of the AI.
• Optimized the AI interrupt system, improving all AI slightly.
• Fixed the motivation bolt from firing the incorrect missile type, sometimes causing crashes on load.
• Optimized many parts of the GUI.
• Optimized the way point generation system.
• Lightning now properly hits the center of tiles, rather than the corners.
• Ancient cullis gates and ancient radiance pools no longer count against the building cap.
• Villagers and doggos will no longer try to chat with monsters.
• Optimized the map AI module that controls map regrowth and spread mechanics.
• Optimized the aggro checks slightly.
• Golems no longer use crystal motivators as waypoints.
• Fixed a few minor bugs in how waypoints were generated, that may have caused some crashing issues.
• Fixed abandoned rain catcher shadow generation.
• Optimized the resource pre-sorting algos.
• Fixed extremely rare "invisible villager" bug, caused when you knock a villager out while they are in their home.

Interface Changes

• You can now selectively grab things from buildings using the grab spell, similar to how the take from limbo spell works.
• The rotation speed for the take from limbo spell type rotation is now double.
• "No Production" now says "No Production Set", to help clarify the player needs to do something.
• Redesigned the mob GUI a bit, changing most data types to fill bars instead of numbers, but you can still view the numbers by scrolling over them.
• You can now mouse over a building and mob at the same time and see both overlay GUIs.
• Lowered the default music volume, and raised the default sound volume.
• Tip panel no longer renders behind the other panels.
• Patreon link added to main menu.
• Map zoom in and out keys have been moved to the [ and ] key.
• You can now speed up and slow down the game speed with the minus and equals key (next to backspace for most people)
• Moved the resource values of buildings off the title bar, and is now only displayed on the left hand of the dismantle notification message.
• Changed the loading screen a bit.
• Cleaned up and tweaked a ton of small areas of GUI code.
• Changed the sleep icon a bit.
• Tooltips now render at the bottom right of the mouse.

Pathfinding Arrows

• Redesigned the path finding arrows that display when a mob is selected. They now show actual arrows, and are colored based on their job color.
• When a building highlighted or selected, all the mobs assigned to it are selected, light up and show their current paths. This includes buildings under construction, spawn points, homes, work buildings and many others.
• When highlighting or selecting a mob, they now light up.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Completely overhauled how water storage works, water no longer has a set storage value in buildings, everything is based on buckets, and buckets are created/destroyed as needed for space.
• Removed light blocking code from all buildings.
• Resource Limbo has been completely removed from the game, use the marketplaces!
• Reversed changes to particle sizes, now all particles are the same size again.
• Wild Doggos can now use gates.
• Decreased firing rate of static tower, and increased energy cost.
• The animation system has been completely rewritten from scratch.
• The sprite sheet loading system has been completely rewritten from scratch.
• Movement speed is now calculated into animation speed, so mob animations play faster or slower based on terrain.
• Trimmed the mob overlay down a bit.
• Slightly buffed crystal golems strength, boosting their damage and hitpoints.
• Added map Perilous Waters to the developer's choice maps, made by Mckloshiv.
• Combobulators will now stop producing golems when paused.
• Tweaked confusion behavior a bit, and they now look in the direction that has caused their confusion.
• Villagers can now get pregnant and coitus as soon as they are "generated", increasing early game reproduction rates.
• Wild doggos are more likely to hang out in high-desirability areas, and their AI has been tweaked to prevent them from wandering off as often.
• The maximum production settings are now 500, before switching over to infinite.
• Villagers are now less willing to work if they're hungry, thirsty, unhappy or have low social.
• All vegetation but crystals (Yes, the code thinks crystals are vegetation) now only spread if motivated, stopping trees from "taking over" the map extreme-late game.
• Updated all world maps with the new upgradable housing, farming and storage.
• The forge now uses even storage mechanics to prevent it from being clogged.

[ 2017-12-17 17:49:50 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! It's time for another screenshot round up! Every few updates I revamp the Steam store page, adding more recent screenshots. One of my favorite things to do is to take screenshots that you guys have made and put them up on the store. I feel they're a more personal, realistic representation of the game, and of course, it's just fun to get the community involved! If you want to submit your screenshot to the event, the higher quality the better! I'm looking for screenshots that really show off all the features of the game. These screenshots can be of anything you want, any mode, anywhere. This time around I want to do something extra though, I want to throw some testimonials up there. So if you have a review you'd like me to look at to steal quotes from, don't forget to link it down below!

The nitty gritty rules

• Must be version InDev 29 Unstable 4 or higher!
• 1920x1080 resolution is best, but I can accept some shots that are higher or lower.
• Take them in full screen mode if you can (F10 to toggle in-game).
• You can take screenshots either with the built in in-game hotkey (F2), or with Steam's overlay hotkey (F12). If you plan on uploading them to the Steam Community Hub, F12 is probably easier.
• If you want, you can also disable the GUI by hitting F4.
• Upload them to the Steam Community Hub, or upload them to a image sharing service of your choosing (imgur, for example). Make sure the images are as least compressed as possible! I can't use over-compressed images.
• Please post a link to your image in the comments below so I can find them easier!
• If you're also wanting me to use your review for testimonials, don't forget to link it as well!

The images and testimonials selected for the store will be put up on the store page, with your username on it. If you don't want your username posted, please inform me in the comments below when submitting. You can submit as many or as few as you like, and you can have multiplies selected. The higher quality the better! Have fun! Looking forward to your submissions. :)

[ 2017-12-14 21:45:27 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! InDev 29 Unstable 4 has been released, this patch is (hopefully!) the final patch before release InDev 29 Stable on December 17th. Barring any serious issues, this patch should be compatible with InDev 29 Stable saves, but I can't make any definite promises. :) This patch introduces the upgradable housing, a crap ton of optimizing and bug fixes, some balance changes, and shameless links to the newly launched Patreon. As per usual, checkout the change log for details! I will also be holding another "screenshot roundup" soon, and will be accepting screenshots that are 1080p or greater of your villages to use on the official store page. (1920x1080, full screen, on default/max settings preferred) So if you muster up some nice villages, don't forget to take a screenshot to submit for later! :)

YOU MAY NEED TO UPDATE YOUR SHORTCUTS TO LAUNCH THE GAME. Some old launcher legacy code has been removed in this update. :)

You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 29 Unstable 4 Change Log

Upgradable Housing

• All old housing has been removed from the game, and replaced with a single "Housing" building that can be upgraded in 3 paths, 4 times per path.
• The upgrade paths are "Occupancy", "Standard" and "Quality". "Occupancy" will only increase the buildings maximum housing size, where "Quality" will provide significantly less housing, but will give a significant boost energy, happiness and health regeneration rates for its occupants. "Standard" as you might have guessed, is a balance between the two.

The Marketplace, Gold and Catjeet

• Doubled the amount of stock Catjeet add to their inventory every day.
• Keys now spawn in the starter stock for Catjeet
• Catjeet starter stock is now 10 times higher.

Loot Boxes

• Loot boxes now get annoyed with the player and teleport away if you click on them a bunch of times.
• Natural loot box generation chances lowered by 50%.
• Decreased suspicious key cost in the marketplace.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Villagers can now gain social if they're in a home with other villagers at the same time.
• Miscellaneous storage can no longer store water buckets.
• Changed the sort priority on ancillaries and camps from very low to low, the same as storage buildings.
• All vegetation but crystals (Yes, the code thinks crystals are vegetation) now only spread if motivated, stopping trees from "taking over" the map extreme-late game.
• Updated all world maps with the new upgradable housing, farming and storage.

Interface Changes

• Patreon link added to main menu.
• Map zoom in and out keys have been moved to the [ and ] key.
• You can now speed up and slow down the game speed with the minus and equals key (next to backspace for most people)
• When your available stock is 0, but you have villagers with that item equipped, the marketplace now properly displays "Empty".
• Moved the resource values of buildings off the title bar, and is now only displayed on the left hand of the dismantle notification message.
• Hit points, energy and spawn timers on the building GUI have all been changed to progress bars.
• Changed the loading screen a bit.
• Cleaned up and tweaked a ton of small areas of GUI code.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Chests, ancient cullis gates and ancient radiance pools no longer count against the building cap.
• Fixed an endless loop in the provisioner AI when they have found resources to work with, but can't reach them all.
• Villagers and doggos will no longer try to chat with monsters.
• Villagers will now obey distance checks when chatting.
• Tip panel no longer renders behind the other panels.
• Gold ingots priority in the forge is now properly set to very high, so organizers will stop removing gold ingots before smelters can turn them into coins.
• Monsters will no longer attack loot boxes when they're blocking a path.
• Optimized the map AI module that controls map regrowth and spread mechanics.
• Optimized the aggro checks slightly.
• Optimized the waypoint generation system.
• Golems no longer use crystal motivators as waypoints.
• Fixed a few minor bugs in how waypoints were generated, that may have caused some crashing issues.
• Fixed map writer rendering mobs incorrectly.
• Fixed abandoned rain catcher shadow generation.
• Marketplace can now be used even if its being upgraded or under construction.

InDev 29 Unstable 3b *HOTFIX* Change Log

Big Fixes

• Fixed a lag issue when too many floater icons were generated at once.
• Fixed a bug with provisioners sometimes not hiring Catjeet laborers even though a hire order was placed and the marketplace had enough gold.
• Fixed a crash when dropping resources in the cullis gate.

InDev 29 Unstable 3 Change Log

Loot Boxes

• Loot boxes are randomly hidden all over the map, it's up to you to find them!
• Loot boxes can be opened with a key, for only $2.99 USD. You can buy them on the main menu. Buy in bulk and save! for only $100 USD you can get 100 keys!
• Just kidding.
• The keys to open the loot boxes can be found randomly in the game world when harvesting wood, water or wild food. They can also be purchased from Catjeet, and very rarely found in place of a loot box spawn. When a key is found, you can drop it on the box to open it.

Social System

• Villagers (and Doggos!) now have social stats, and will no longer just chat randomly. They will chat when their social levels are low or they have nothing better to do, reducing the amount of random downtime chatting.
• When their social stats are too low, they will be much less likely to work and their happiness will plummet.
• Finding a mate and coitus chances are now based on their overall social level. The higher their social, the better chance they'll accept a mate or coitus with one.
• Tons of new chatting icons have been added to the game.
• Chat AI has been partially rewritten to do a better job of finding chat partners.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Can now poke dead mobs again.
• Slightly optimized the update loop for the mob job module.
• Heavily optimized font rendering code.
• Optimized the light rendering code slightly during all times of the day, and greatly during midday.
• Optimized several of the mob searching algorithms, speeding up many parts of the AI.
• Optimized the AI interrupt system, improving all AI slightly.
• Fixed the motivation bolt from firing the incorrect missile type, sometimes causing crashes on load.
• Optimized many parts of the GUI.
• You can now buy and sell with catjeet even if the marketplace is being upgraded.
• Optimized the way point generation system.
• Lightning now properly hits the center of tiles, rather than the corners.
• Mobs now obey terrain depth when highlighted.
• Fixed a redistribution AI on load crash.

Interface Changes

• You can now selectively grab things from buildings using the grab spell, similar to how the take from limbo spell works.
• The rotation speed for the take from limbo spell type rotation is now double.
• Spawners now show the paths of the mob types they spawn.
• Construction projects now show the paths of the mob that are working on the building.
• "No Production" now says "No Production Set", to help clarify the player needs to do something.
• Redesigned the mob GUI a bit, changing most data types to fill bars instead of numbers, but you can still view the numbers by scrolling over them.
• You can now mouse over a building and mob at the same time and see both overlay GUIs.
• Lowered the default music volume, and raised the default sound volume.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Added harvesting and tending speed boosts to upgraded farms.
• You can now buy and sell water bottles.
• Halved the catjeet laborer's price.
• Combobulators will now stop producing golems when paused.
• Tweaked confusion behavior a bit, and they now look in the direction that has caused their confusion.
• Villagers can now get pregnant and coitus as soon as they are "generated", increasing early game reproduction rates.
• Wild doggos are more likely to hang out in high-desirability areas, and their AI has been tweaked to prevent them from wandering off as often.
• The maximum production settings are now 500, before switching over to infinite.
• Villagers are now less willing to work if they're hungry, thirsty, unhappy or have low social.

InDev 29 Unstable 2 Change Log

Upgradable Farms

• The "Small Farm" has been removed from the game.
• The farm is now upgradable twice, starting with 6 crop tiles, then 9, and finally 13.
• Crop tiles now grow twice as fast to off-set there being less actual crops in the base farm before upgrades. Meaning the new base farm with 6 crop tiles grows nearly the same rate as the old large farm with 13, and a fully upgraded farm now grows roughly twice as fast as the old farm even though it has the same amount of actual crops.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed a crash on load bug in the redistributing AI code.
• Fixed a crash in the guard patrol behavior that would sometimes return way points the guard can not reach, causing lag or crashes.
• Fixed a rare issue where sometimes you couldn't grab or interact with a mob who was standing over a dead body.
• Re-added bow to the bow firing animation.
• Possible fix implemented for a very rare crash if a mob is shooting something with a bow they can not reach, and the bow is taken from them misfiring.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Redesigned the path finding arrows that display when a mob is selected. They now show actual arrows, and are colored based on their job color.
• When highlighting or selecting a mob, they now light up.
• When a work building or home is highlighted or selected, all the mobs assigned to it are selected, light up and show their current paths.
• Optimized and rewrote the range and perimeter system.
• Decreased firing rate of static tower, and increased energy cost.
• The animation system has been completely rewritten from scratch.
• The sprite sheet loading system has been completely rewritten from scratch.
• Movement speed is now calculated into animation speed, so mob animations play faster or slower based on terrain.
• Trimmed the mob overlay down a bit.
• When a building is under construction, it'll no longer obey the storage paused and disable settings.
• Water Masters and Organizers will now only take water from water sources if the buckets are full.
• Slightly buffed crystal golems stength, boosting their damage and hitpoints.
• Added map Perilous Waters to the developer's choice maps, made by Mckloshiv.

InDev 29 Unstable 1b, 1c and 1d *HOTFIX* Change Log

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed typo in Catjeet provisioner's job title.
• Fixed rare redistribution AI crash caused by bad save data.
• Lighting now properly updates faster when speed is increased.
• Holy golems no longer emit particles while the game is paused.
• Catjeet provisioners and laborers can now use gates properly. (Note, Catjeet spawned in previous saves may still not use the gates.)

Miscellaneous Changes

• Catjeet are more willing to leave the village when they're hot or cold.
• Miners can now store and clearout gold ore.
• Wild Doggos can now use gates.

InDev 29 Unstable 1 Change Log

The Marketplace, Gold and Catjeet

• A new mob has been added; The Catjeet. They are similar to villagers in stats, but they have more dexterity, less strength, fur and a tail.
• The marketplace has been added to the game. When built, you will attract Catjeet provisioners and laborers, whom you can buy and sell resources with or hire, and become a permanent part of your village.
• Buy and sell values of items are based on supply and demand, and adjust as your or the Catjeet's stock go up and down.
• You can hire Catjeet laborers who visit the new marketplace, becoming permanent members of your village.
• New job added; The Provisioner. The new provisioners will interact with the Catjeet, processing all buy and sell requests, as well as keeping gold stocked in the marketplaces.
• Catjeet's resource inventory is global. Meaning if you sell 1,000 wood in one village, you can buy the same 1,000 wood in another later. Exception is in Skirmish mode, where each save gets its own inventory.
• Catjeet generate new stock at dawn, the more Catjeet at your marketplace, the more stock will be generated.
• The more marketplaces you have and the more upgraded they are will encourage more Catjeet to visit. Catjeet are also more likely to visit the lower the total Catjeet you have.
• A new trade panel has been added to the left hand GUI that can be used to interact with the new marketplace and Catjeet.
• Gold ore can now be harvested from rock, and smelted into gold ingots that can then be processed into gold coin sacks at the forge to buy items from the new Catjeet provisioners.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Redesigned the sprite loader system to support more mob sprites without going over the 4k texture limit.
• Fixed wood golem combobulators spawn caps during upgrades.
• Fixed a bunch of very minor errors in some of the mob sprites.
• Fixed some minor in-game mob coloring errors, mostly with ghosts.
• Removed a duplicate name from the names list.
• Slightly optimized the update loop for particles.
• Removed some legacy launcher code. YOU MAY NEED TO UPDATE ANY MANUALLY MADE SHORTCUTS

Storage Management System

• All old storage buildings have been removed from the game, and replaced with a new storage building that can be upgraded 4 times.
• A new gold storage building has been added to the game, to store gold ingots and coins.
• You can now pause or disable storage of resources in buildings by clicking on their icons in the bottom GUI. Setting a resource to pause will prevent any more from being added, setting it to disabled will cause the workers to remove any resources that are already inside.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Completely overhauled how water storage works, water no longer has a set storage value in buildings, everything is based on buckets, and buckets are created/destroyed as needed for space.
• Removed light blocking code from all buildings.
• Resource Limbo has been completely removed from the game, use the marketplaces!
• Tooltips now render at the bottom right of the mouse.
• Reversed changes to particle sizes, now all particles are the same size again.

Known Issues that will be resolved before the stable build

• The farm tip uses the old farm in the tip video.

[ 2017-12-12 23:16:32 CET ] [ Original post ]

Greetings fellow gamers, By overwhelmingly popular demand (Seriously, I get multiple requests a week!), I have setup an official Patreon for SixtyGig Games (aka the one man company behind Rise to Ruins!) I've been resistant, because I feel like you guys already support me enough by making your initial purchase, but people keep asking to donate and are disappointed when I turn them down. So I finally caved! :)

The Spill

SixtyGig Games is a DRM, DLC and microtransaction free company now and forever. All the games SixtyGig Games will make will always fit that criteria. The problem with that, is it isn't quite as easy to maintain as other business models. Once you've sold all the copies you can, you're left high and dry. You either need to make another hit game, or go out of business. Regardless though, I feel it's the right thing to do! Gamers should never have to pay more than once for the same game. That's where the Patreon comes in! 100% of the money pledged to this Patreon will be put into a special rainy-day account, so in a worst-case-scenario, SixtyGig Games can continue development on current and future projects even if the projects lose sustainability. As long as the current projects are profitable, absolutely none of this money will ever be touched. So your pledges are acting as an insurance, to keep me chugging along making great games at a low cost, with no sneaky underhanded tricks. I'd also love to hear your comments below, and how you feel about all this. I was very resistant (and hesitant) setting up a Patreon for a company that sells a video game, but people really want to throw in their support! Do not feel in any way obligated to be a patreon! But, if you're interested in supporting SixtyGig Games now and in the future, click here!

[ 2017-12-05 05:30:06 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! InDev 29 Unstable 3 has been released, introducing loot boxes! The new loot boxes can be found randomly in the world as you play, and for only $2.99 USD you can buy a loot box key to ope--- kidding! The keys for the boxes are also found randomly in the world, and can be purchased from Catjeet with in-game gold. Once you obtain a key, you can drop it on a loot box to open it. This patch also introduces the new social system, a ton of bug fixes, optimizations and a few AI and balance tweaks. As usual, checkout the change log for all the juicy details.

YOU MAY NEED TO UPDATE YOUR SHORTCUTS TO LAUNCH THE GAME. Some old launcher legacy code has been removed in this update. :)

You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 29 Unstable 3 Change Log

Loot Boxes

• Loot boxes are randomly hidden all over the map, it's up to you to find them!
• Loot boxes can be opened with a key, for only $2.99 USD. You can buy them on the main menu. Buy in bulk and save! for only $100 USD you can get 100 keys!
• Just kidding.
• The keys to open the loot boxes can be found randomly in the game world when harvesting wood, water or wild food. They can also be purchased from Catjeet, and very rarely found in place of a loot box spawn. When a key is found, you can drop it on the box to open it.

Social System

• Villagers (and Doggos!) now have social stats, and will no longer just chat randomly. They will chat when their social levels are low or they have nothing better to do, reducing the amount of random downtime chatting.
• When their social stats are too low, they will be much less likely to work and their happiness will plummet.
• Finding a mate and coitus chances are now based on their overall social level. The higher their social, the better chance they'll accept a mate or coitus with one.
• Tons of new chatting icons have been added to the game.
• Chat AI has been partially rewritten to do a better job of finding chat partners.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Can now poke dead mobs again.
• Slightly optimized the update loop for the mob job module.
• Heavily optimized font rendering code.
• Optimized the light rendering code slightly during all times of the day, and greatly during midday.
• Optimized several of the mob searching algorithms, speeding up many parts of the AI.
• Optimized the AI interrupt system, improving all AI slightly.
• Fixed the motivation bolt from firing the incorrect missile type, sometimes causing crashes on load.
• Optimized many parts of the GUI.
• You can now buy and sell with catjeet even if the marketplace is being upgraded.
• Optimized the way point generation system.
• Lightning now properly hits the center of tiles, rather than the corners.
• Mobs now obey terrain depth when highlighted.
• Fixed a redistribution AI on load crash.

Interface Changes

• You can now selectively grab things from buildings using the grab spell, similar to how the take from limbo spell works.
• The rotation speed for the take from limbo spell type rotation is now double.
• Spawners now show the paths of the mob types they spawn.
• Construction projects now show the paths of the mob that are working on the building.
• "No Production" now says "No Production Set", to help clarify the player needs to do something.
• Redesigned the mob GUI a bit, changing most data types to fill bars instead of numbers, but you can still view the numbers by scrolling over them.
• You can now mouse over a building and mob at the same time and see both overlay GUIs.
• Lowered the default music volume, and raised the default sound volume.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Added harvesting and tending speed boosts to upgraded farms.
• You can now buy and sell water bottles.
• Halved the catjeet laborer's price.
• Combobulators will now stop producing golems when paused.
• Tweaked confusion behavior a bit, and they now look in the direction that has caused their confusion.
• Villagers can now get pregnant and coitus as soon as they are "generated", increasing early game reproduction rates.
• Wild doggos are more likely to hang out in high-desirability areas, and their AI has been tweaked to prevent them from wandering off as often.
• The maximum production settings are now 500, before switching over to infinite.
• Villagers are now less willing to work if they're hungry, thirsty, unhappy or have low social.

InDev 29 Unstable 2 Change Log

Upgradable Farms

• The "Small Farm" has been removed from the game.
• The farm is now upgradable twice, starting with 6 crop tiles, then 9, and finally 13.
• Crop tiles now grow twice as fast to off-set there being less actual crops in the base farm before upgrades. Meaning the new base farm with 6 crop tiles grows nearly the same rate as the old large farm with 13, and a fully upgraded farm now grows roughly twice as fast as the old farm even though it has the same amount of actual crops.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed a crash on load bug in the redistributing AI code.
• Fixed a crash in the guard patrol behavior that would sometimes return way points the guard can not reach, causing lag or crashes.
• Fixed a rare issue where sometimes you couldn't grab or interact with a mob who was standing over a dead body.
• Re-added bow to the bow firing animation.
• Possible fix implemented for a very rare crash if a mob is shooting something with a bow they can not reach, and the bow is taken from them misfiring.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Redesigned the path finding arrows that display when a mob is selected. They now show actual arrows, and are colored based on their job color.
• When highlighting or selecting a mob, they now light up.
• When a work building or home is highlighted or selected, all the mobs assigned to it are selected, light up and show their current paths.
• Optimized and rewrote the range and perimeter system.
• Decreased firing rate of static tower, and increased energy cost.
• The animation system has been completely rewritten from scratch.
• The sprite sheet loading system has been completely rewritten from scratch.
• Movement speed is now calculated into animation speed, so mob animations play faster or slower based on terrain.
• Trimmed the mob overlay down a bit.
• When a building is under construction, it'll no longer obey the storage paused and disable settings.
• Water Masters and Organizers will now only take water from water sources if the buckets are full.
• Slightly buffed crystal golems stength, boosting their damage and hitpoints.
• Added map Perilous Waters to the developer's choice maps, made by Mckloshiv.

InDev 29 Unstable 1b, 1c and 1d *HOTFIX* Change Log

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed typo in Catjeet provisioner's job title.
• Fixed rare redistribution AI crash caused by bad save data.
• Lighting now properly updates faster when speed is increased.
• Holy golems no longer emit particles while the game is paused.
• Catjeet provisioners and laborers can now use gates properly. (Note, Catjeet spawned in previous saves may still not use the gates.)

Miscellaneous Changes

• Catjeet are more willing to leave the village when they're hot or cold.
• Miners can now store and clearout gold ore.
• Wild Doggos can now use gates.

InDev 29 Unstable 1 Change Log

The Marketplace, Gold and Catjeet

• A new mob has been added; The Catjeet. They are similar to villagers in stats, but they have more dexterity, less strength, fur and a tail.
• The marketplace has been added to the game. When built, you will attract Catjeet provisioners and laborers, whom you can buy and sell resources with or hire, and become a permanent part of your village.
• Buy and sell values of items are based on supply and demand, and adjust as your or the Catjeet's stock go up and down.
• You can hire Catjeet laborers who visit the new marketplace, becoming permanent members of your village.
• New job added; The Provisioner. The new provisioners will interact with the Catjeet, processing all buy and sell requests, as well as keeping gold stocked in the marketplaces.
• Catjeet's resource inventory is global. Meaning if you sell 1,000 wood in one village, you can buy the same 1,000 wood in another later. Exception is in Skirmish mode, where each save gets its own inventory.
• Catjeet generate new stock at dawn, the more Catjeet at your marketplace, the more stock will be generated.
• The more marketplaces you have and the more upgraded they are will encourage more Catjeet to visit. Catjeet are also more likely to visit the lower the total Catjeet you have.
• A new trade panel has been added to the left hand GUI that can be used to interact with the new marketplace and Catjeet.
• Gold ore can now be harvested from rock, and smelted into gold ingots that can then be processed into gold coin sacks at the forge to buy items from the new Catjeet provisioners.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Redesigned the sprite loader system to support more mob sprites without going over the 4k texture limit.
• Fixed wood golem combobulators spawn caps during upgrades.
• Fixed a bunch of very minor errors in some of the mob sprites.
• Fixed some minor in-game mob coloring errors, mostly with ghosts.
• Removed a duplicate name from the names list.
• Slightly optimized the update loop for particles.
• Removed some legacy launcher code. YOU MAY NEED TO UPDATE ANY MANUALLY MADE SHORTCUTS

Storage Management System

• All old storage buildings have been removed from the game, and replaced with a new storage building that can be upgraded 4 times.
• A new gold storage building has been added to the game, to store gold ingots and coins.
• You can now pause or disable storage of resources in buildings by clicking on their icons in the bottom GUI. Setting a resource to pause will prevent any more from being added, setting it to disabled will cause the workers to remove any resources that are already inside.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Completely overhauled how water storage works, water no longer has a set storage value in buildings, everything is based on buckets, and buckets are created/destroyed as needed for space.
• Removed light blocking code from all buildings.
• Resource Limbo has been completely removed from the game, use the marketplaces!
• Tooltips now render at the bottom right of the mouse.
• Reversed changes to particle sizes, now all particles are the same size again.

Known Issues that will be resolved before the stable build

• There are no new tips explaining the marketplace.

[ 2017-12-04 02:35:41 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! InDev 29 Unstable 2 has been released, featuring the new upgradable farms, some balance changes, AI tweaks, bug fixes, optimizations and general code improvements. Check out the change log!

YOU MAY NEED TO UPDATE YOUR SHORTCUTS TO LAUNCH THE GAME. Some old launcher legacy code has been removed in this update. :)

You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 29 Unstable 2 Change Log

Upgradable Farms

• The "Small Farm" has been removed from the game.
• The farm is now upgradable twice, starting with 6 crop tiles, then 9, and finally 13.
• Crop tiles now grow twice as fast to off-set there being less actual crops in the base farm before upgrades. Meaning the new base farm with 6 crop tiles grows nearly the same rate as the old large farm with 13, and a fully upgraded farm now grows roughly twice as fast as the old farm even though it has the same amount of actual crops.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed a crash on load bug in the redistributing AI code.
• Fixed a crash in the guard patrol behavior that would sometimes return way points the guard can not reach, causing lag or crashes.
• Fixed a rare issue where sometimes you couldn't grab or interact with a mob who was standing over a dead body.
• Re-added bow to the bow firing animation.
• Possible fix implemented for a very rare crash if a mob is shooting something with a bow they can not reach, and the bow is taken from them misfiring.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Redesigned the path finding arrows that display when a mob is selected. They now show actual arrows, and are colored based on their job color.
• When highlighting or selecting a mob, they now light up.
• When a work building or home is highlighted or selected, all the mobs assigned to it are selected, light up and show their current paths.
• Optimized and rewrote the range and perimeter system.
• Decreased firing rate of static tower, and increased energy cost.
• The animation system has been completely rewritten from scratch.
• The sprite sheet loading system has been completely rewritten from scratch.
• Movement speed is now calculated into animation speed, so mob animations play faster or slower based on terrain.
• Trimmed the mob overlay down a bit.
• When a building is under construction, it'll no longer obey the storage paused and disable settings.
• Water Masters and Organizers will now only take water from water sources if the buckets are full.
• Slightly buffed crystal golems stength, boosting their damage and hitpoints.
• Added map Perilous Waters to the developer's choice maps, made by Mckloshiv.

InDev 29 Unstable 1b, 1c and 1d *HOTFIX* Change Log

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed typo in Catjeet provisioner's job title.
• Fixed rare redistribution AI crash caused by bad save data.
• Lighting now properly updates faster when speed is increased.
• Holy golems no longer emit particles while the game is paused.
• Catjeet provisioners and laborers can now use gates properly. (Note, Catjeet spawned in previous saves may still not use the gates.)

Miscellaneous Changes

• Catjeet are more willing to leave the village when they're hot or cold.
• Miners can now store and clearout gold ore.
• Wild Doggos can now use gates.

InDev 29 Unstable 1 Change Log

The Marketplace, Gold and Catjeet

• A new mob has been added; The Catjeet. They are similar to villagers in stats, but they have more dexterity, less strength, fur and a tail.
• The marketplace has been added to the game. When built, you will attract Catjeet provisioners and laborers, whom you can buy and sell resources with or hire, and become a permanent part of your village.
• Buy and sell values of items are based on supply and demand, and adjust as your or the Catjeet's stock go up and down.
• You can hire Catjeet laborers who visit the new marketplace, becoming permanent members of your village.
• New job added; The Provisioner. The new provisioners will interact with the Catjeet, processing all buy and sell requests, as well as keeping gold stocked in the marketplaces.
• Catjeet's resource inventory is global. Meaning if you sell 1,000 wood in one village, you can buy the same 1,000 wood in another later. Exception is in Skirmish mode, where each save gets its own inventory.
• Catjeet generate new stock at dawn, the more Catjeet at your marketplace, the more stock will be generated.
• The more marketplaces you have and the more upgraded they are will encourage more Catjeet to visit. Catjeet are also more likely to visit the lower the total Catjeet you have.
• A new trade panel has been added to the left hand GUI that can be used to interact with the new marketplace and Catjeet.
• Gold ore can now be harvested from rock, and smelted into gold ingots that can then be processed into gold coin sacks at the forge to buy items from the new Catjeet provisioners.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Redesigned the sprite loader system to support more mob sprites without going over the 4k texture limit.
• Fixed wood golem combobulators spawn caps during upgrades.
• Fixed a bunch of very minor errors in some of the mob sprites.
• Fixed some minor in-game mob coloring errors, mostly with ghosts.
• Removed a duplicate name from the names list.
• Slightly optimized the update loop for particles.
• Removed some legacy launcher code. YOU MAY NEED TO UPDATE ANY MANUALLY MADE SHORTCUTS

Storage Management System

• All old storage buildings have been removed from the game, and replaced with a new storage building that can be upgraded 4 times.
• A new gold storage building has been added to the game, to store gold ingots and coins.
• You can now pause or disable storage of resources in buildings by clicking on their icons in the bottom GUI. Setting a resource to pause will prevent any more from being added, setting it to disabled will cause the workers to remove any resources that are already inside.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Completely overhauled how water storage works, water no longer has a set storage value in buildings, everything is based on buckets, and buckets are created/destroyed as needed for space.
• Removed light blocking code from all buildings.
• Resource Limbo has been completely removed from the game, use the marketplaces!
• Tooltips now render at the bottom right of the mouse.
• Reversed changes to particle sizes, now all particles are the same size again.

Known Issues that will be resolved before the stable build

• There are no new tips explaining the marketplace.

[ 2017-11-27 03:21:12 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! The first InDev 29 patch is here! This patch brings in the new upgradable storage buildings, the marketplace, gold and the new Catjeet mobs, as well as a few other miscellaneous changes.

YOU MAY NEED TO UPDATE YOUR SHORTCUTS TO LAUNCH THE GAME. Some old launcher legacy code has been removed in this update. :)

You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 29 Unstable 1 Change Log

The Marketplace, Gold and Catjeet

• A new mob has been added; The Catjeet. They are similar to villagers in stats, but they have more dexterity, less strength, fur and a tail.
• The marketplace has been added to the game. When built, you will attract Catjeet provisioners and laborers, whom you can buy and sell resources with or hire, and become a permanent part of your village.
• Buy and sell values of items are based on supply and demand, and adjust as your or the Catjeet's stock go up and down.
• You can hire Catjeet laborers who visit the new marketplace, becoming permanent members of your village.
• New job added; The Provisioner. The new provisioners will interact with the Catjeet, processing all buy and sell requests, as well as keeping gold stocked in the marketplaces.
• Catjeet's resource inventory is global. Meaning if you sell 1,000 wood in one village, you can buy the same 1,000 wood in another later. Exception is in Skirmish mode, where each save gets its own inventory.
• Catjeet generate new stock at dawn, the more Catjeet at your marketplace, the more stock will be generated.
• The more marketplaces you have and the more upgraded they are will encourage more Catjeet to visit. Catjeet are also more likely to visit the lower the total Catjeet you have.
• A new trade panel has been added to the left hand GUI that can be used to interact with the new marketplace and Catjeet.
• Gold ore can now be harvested from rock, and smelted into gold ingots that can then be processed into gold coin sacks at the forge to buy items from the new Catjeet provisioners.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Redesigned the sprite loader system to support more mob sprites without going over the 4k texture limit.
• Fixed wood golem combobulators spawn caps during upgrades.
• Fixed a bunch of very minor errors in some of the mob sprites.
• Fixed some minor in-game mob coloring errors, mostly with ghosts.
• Removed a duplicate name from the names list.
• Slightly optimized the update loop for particles.
• Removed some legacy launcher code. YOU MAY NEED TO UPDATE ANY MANUALLY MADE SHORTCUTS

Storage Management System

• All old storage buildings have been removed from the game, and replaced with a new storage building that can be upgraded 4 times.
• A new gold storage building has been added to the game, to store gold ingots and coins.
• You can now pause or disable storage of resources in buildings by clicking on their icons in the bottom GUI. Setting a resource to pause will prevent any more from being added, setting it to disabled will cause the workers to remove any resources that are already inside.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Completely overhauled how water storage works, water no longer has a set storage value in buildings, everything is based on buckets, and buckets are created/destroyed as needed for space.
• Removed light blocking code from all buildings.
• Resource Limbo has been completely removed from the game, use the marketplaces!
• Tooltips now render at the bottom right of the mouse.
• Reversed changes to particle sizes, now all particles are the same size again.

Known Issues that will be resolved before the stable build

• There are no new tips explaining the marketplace.

[ 2017-11-18 17:35:42 CET ] [ Original post ]

An update I've been wanting to work on for a while now is finally coming, the Quality of Life update! This update will mainly focus on fleshing out some of the mid and late game and improving upon the existing systems. The main focus will be the new upgradable farms, housing and storage. But there's also some other nice tidbits, like the new aging and trader systems! I'm really excited for this update, as it's the first in a while that steers away from working on the defense mechanics. This is a fairly large patch, and I may break it up into two parts depending on the timeline. A lot of the new features are not that technically-complex, but could take more time than expected.

If you have any requests, be sure to post them in the comments. Let me know what you want, and how you want it to work! You might just find it sneak into the next patch. :)

InDev 29 Road Map

Aging / Lifelong Health System

• Villagers will now age and die. But through providing them a healthy, happy life you can help them live longer.
• Villagers will eventually "retire" and no longer be able to take a job, but when they chat with villagers they will impart their wisdom on them, giving them experience bonuses so they level up faster.
• Having good housing, keeping people well fed, happy and having clinics as well as many other factors will assist in extending villager's age.

Social System

• The chat system will be rewritten, adding a "social" bar, similar to health, hunger and thirst.
• They will no longer chat somewhat randomly to boost happiness, rather, they will chat when their social bar is low. A high social bar will help boost happiness, a low one will make it drop.

Catjeet Traders, Marketplaces and Gold

• New Catjeet traders will visit any village that has a marketplace built.
• Catjeet traders will allow you to buy and sell goods from them, and they will stock a "global" inventory. Meaning if you sell 100 rocks from one village, you can buy the same 100 rocks in another later.
• You will also be able to buy/hire Catjeet workers, who will join your village and become part of your workforce, offering another way to expand your population.
• The Catjeet will deal in gold coins. You can get gold coins either by selling items to the Catjeet, or by mining gold ore, turning it into gold ingots at the forge, and turning the ingots into coins at one of the smithies.
• Gold coins will be an actual resource in the game, so you need to make space to hold your wealth!
• Oh, and Catjeet have tails.

Upgradable Houses

• Houses will now be upgradable and the concept of how housing works will be changed around a bit, encouraging players to build multiple house types depending on their play preferences.
• Rather than tents, shacks and hovels, you will now get to pick between different quality houses. Deciding if you want a low occupancy high quality home (faster energy regeneration and a happiness boost), or high occupancy low quality homes (slow energy regeneration and no happiness boost).
• Most houses will have roughly the same cost and physical space requirements, with some exceptions. The player just decides if they want high occupancy low quality homes, or low occupancy high quality ones.

Upgradable Farms

• Both current farms will be removed from the game.
• The new farm will have a larger build footprint than the original Large Farm, but will have 5 upgrade phases, starting out roughly the same quality as the small farm, and upgrading into something much better than the original large farm.
• Upgrading farms will give you more crop spaces, and possibly faster growth rates.

Upgradable Storage and Storage Management System

• All storage buildings are being replaced with a new buildings. Similar to farms.
• The new buildings can be upgraded 4 times. Starting out slightly worse than the original small storage, and upgrading up to being much better than the original.
• You'll be able to click on each storage building, and enable/disable certain materials from being stored there.
• There will still be resource-specific storage like we have now, as well as a catch all. But the catch all can not store quite as much overall as its resource-specific counterparts.
• A new "Gold storage" building will be added, to accompany the new Catjeet trading system and currency being added to the game.

[ 2017-10-27 06:54:55 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey again everyone, Thanks for the ridiculous amount of feedback you all provided over in the original announcement. I've read pretty much all of it, and I decided to write a nice neat follow up addressing the common feedback among all of you, since even my own comments get buried in the sea of feedback over in the other announcement. Feel free to continue providing some follow up feedback of your own down in the comments! I'm always open for more. Here's some of the hottest topics;

"The game needs endgame/a campaign!"

This ones an interesting one to address. Many people are requesting "endgame" content or a campaign mode of some kind. The problem is, this game isn't actually the kind of game that makes sense to have either. I could shoehorn in a campaign, but that really is just "forcing goals" and masking areas where the content is lacking, and I don't feel that would jive well with the nature of the game. Although a scenario mode is on the drawing board and may be implemented at a later date! Most of the time in a game like this, when people are asking for "endgame" what they're really asking is "Give me more late game content" without realizing it. That's certainly something I want to address in future patches, but that's not really "endgame". That's simply adding more late game content and pushing the content wall farther away. My plan is to keep pushing that content wall out as far as I can, with the end goal of a player never really being able to experience everything in a single village, and if they somehow do, they're probably satisfied with the hours they put in and is ready to move on to another game in their library. This goal simply takes time though, I can't make an "Endgame" patch, as that wouldn't make much sense and that's not really how all this works. Endgame is really just the content wall being hit and giving the player some arbitrary goal, that once hit, still circles back to the same problem; nothing left to do. The ultimate goal isn't really endgame, it's to avoid the content wall being hit all together. So my plan is to just keep on chugging out more content, endlessly, before and after the game leaves Early Access.

"The world map needs more purpose. I want a reason to expand and maintain more than 1 village."

Whole heartedly agree, and I will take any and all feedback related to accomplish that. :) The original game design plan did not include a world map, this was something added post Early Access. I am still wrestling with a solid plan to push forward on tying all the maps together, and would love to hear your thoughts on the matter. Keep in mind a technical limitations when providing your ideas though; The simulation can only run on one map at a time, and the passage of time can only happen on one map at a time. The villages cannot communicate with each other from a code standpoint. Each map is in "stasis" when it is not being played, only the data in the map currently being played, and the world map itself, is accessible.

"The game needs before release."

A lot of you have great ideas for future content, surprisingly a lot of your ideas are actually already planned too. But one thing I noticed quite a lot in the other announcement was many people seem to be under the impression the game's development will stop, slow down, or transition into DLC releases once the game is released. This is wrong. The game will continue to be developed, at the same pace it is currently being developed after release. The day Rise to Ruins is released will not be the day development stops, it will only be the day the community feels the game is worth the pricetag as-is, without any additional content. But development will keep pushing forward! :)

"The game needs , but I don't mind if it's DLC after release."

This sort of plays in with the feedback above about needing before release. The game will never have DLC (outside of the soundtrack). If you own the game, you will own all the content the game will ever have. You will never pay more for anything extra. Anything that could have been "DLC" will just be a free content patch in a later version of the game. So no worries! I have you guys covered there.

"Make saves backwards compatible before release."

It's planned, don't worry about this one. After release, saves will only break if there's literally no other option. But "never" is the ultimate plan.

"Each map feels the same.."

Agreed, and this will be partially resolved with the new per-map difficulty, weather, and mob spawning settings being added in a future patch. :)

"Needs workshop support!"

Sadly, modding is not planned as an official feature. Unofficially, the game is written in Java, and thus anyone with the technical skills can simply decompile the game and do whatever they want (Hint: Minecraft technically doesn't support modding either!). But, workshop support is still planned for custom maps and localization support, slated for release some time after leaving Early Access.

"Game needs language!"

There's no gentle way to really say this, but I only speak English. I can't support your native language (unless it's English!). There's too many technical and logistical problems in a game like Rise to Ruins to pull it off effectively and professionally. Thus why I am adding user-made localization support to the workshop, to allow you guys to maintain them yourselves. :) Now, before you say "But will translate the game for you!" or "I'll do it for you, no worries!", keep in mind the game is constantly in development, now and after leaving Early Access. I can't pay a professional service to retranslate parts of the game every major patch and I can't rely on fans to keep with it either, it's just not financially and logistically realistic. I apologize for it, but it's just the way it has to be. I'm a one man dev with limited time, budget and resources in this department. The best option here is to open up the workshop and let you guys maintain localization yourself. :)

"Game needs a tutorial!"

Agreed and planned. :) Thanks for taking the time to read this wall-o-text, see you in the comments. ːrtrzombieː

[ 2017-10-24 19:40:16 CET ] [ Original post ]

InDev 28c has been released. Its main focus is to flesh out the tip system a bit, adding some new tip videos to the game to help along the newbies. But it also includes a bunch of minor tweaks and bug fixes. Check out the change log for all the details!

InDev 28c Change Log

Tip System

• The tip system has been revamped, with a bunch of old redundant tips removed, new tips added, and many tips now have short video clips that accompany them, helping new players find things a bit easier.
• When a tip is active, the game is automatically paused, and will unpause when you close the tip.

Miscellaneous Changes

• All specters and slimes are now vulnerable to electric damage.
• Domesticated doggos can now be recalled.
• Thirst drops a tiny bit faster now.
• "Offline Mode" has been added to the game's settings file, you can now turn it on to prevent the game from loading twitch data, the announcement page or anything else related to accessing the internet. The setting can be found in your Profiles/settings.properties file.
• AI tasks for picking up resources on the ground will now abandon if the resource is moved or destroyed before they arrive.
• Headless now are slightly vulnerable to fire.
• Barracks and outposts can now store shields.
• Motivate land now works on farms.
• When taking a screenshot, the game will now give you the output in the console.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed some miscellaneous typos and improved some wording around the GUI.
• Fixed the tool tip names of the maximum upgraded golem combobulators.
• Fixed "Crossdressing" bug where sometimes villagers would be given the wrong gender's sprite.
• Fixed announcement category positioning.
• Fixed bug where in extremely rare cases, the farmers would try to "plant" water buckets in the farms.
• Fixed a bug where monsters would sometimes "attack" the void if they could not reach a target.
• Fixed spray tower's accuracy when upgraded.
• Fire elementals no longer attack walls, gates and fire pits if they're flagged to be dismantled.
• Mobs using ranged attacks no longer "zigzag" between two coordinates in a few rare situations, trying to find a place to fire.
• Fixed doggos not getting the correct names for their gender sometimes.

[ 2017-10-24 04:26:15 CET ] [ Original post ]

Greetings everyone, I thought I'd take a minute to write up this little announcement, and gather some feedback from fellow gamers about Rise to Ruins and eventually leaving Early Access. First of all, I'd like to preface all of this by saying I'm not releasing Rise to Ruins this year. I'm simply curious how everyone feels about the current state of the game, where it's headed and how complete you feel it is. Hopefully, the game will have a strong community for many several years, allowing me the freedom to continue to develop it at the same pace I always have. I love working on the game, and I love the community that has been built up around it. While all good things do eventually die, I'd like to extend the game's life as far out as possible. Because of the game's practically endless development cycle, I have to decide when the game is far enough in development it feels like a complete product gamers would pay for, feeling satisfied they got their money's worth. For me, the transition form Early Access to Release changes absolutely nothing in my plans, because a game like Rise to Ruins is never truly complete, there's always more cool content that could be added. Transitioning out is just a landmark moment when we tear down the ugly Early Access banner. Development will just keep chugging on as it always has, probably at the same speed it always has. But I do have to eventually leave Early Access, as game has been officially in development since May of 2014, and launched Early Access on October of 2014. I would like to leave Early Access some time next year. But, I'd also like the community's thoughts on the current state of the game. Feel free to post whatever your opinions of the game are in its current state of development, and if you'd be happy with the product as-is if it was not in Early Access. :) The main points I'm interested in are;

• If you bought the game today, as a released game, would you feel you got your money's worth?
• Does the game in its current state feel "lacking"? (Taking consideration that in this genre, there's always something to add.)
• If the game feels lacking, what is it lacking? What is missing that makes it still feel incomplete?
• If you were me, what would you do in my shoes with a currently successful game moving into year 4 of Early Access?

Feel free to answer all or none of the questions, they're not required, just some guidelines to get the discussion rolling. :) I'd love to hear all your feedback on this, no matter what you have to say! ːrtrheartː

[ 2017-10-19 06:13:31 CET ] [ Original post ]

InDev 28 is finally here, with so many new and really great content I'm excited to release, I don't even know where to start! This patch introduces Steam trading card support, a new resource management panel, doggos, more defense mechanics, new golems, ranged attacks, speed controls, and so much more! Be sure to give the change logs a good once-over, and let me know what you think about the new patch down in the comments. I'm really excited to get this patch out to you guys, and I'd love to hear your feedback on all the changes.

InDev 28 Change Log

Steam Trading Card Support

• Rise to Ruins now officially supports trading cards! Featuring 6 cards, 8 backgrounds, 10 emoticons and 6 badges!

Resource Management System

• Resource management controls have been added. You can now adjust resource production caps in the left tab (Same area as the workforce panel)
• When you click on a building that provides a job, or a villager with a job, the left panel now snaps to a summery view of what that job or building can manufacture, as well as a workforce panel to adjust worker counts.
• Most production levels are set to 0 by default, and you have the option of raising the amount you want to "Make now" or the amount you want to "Maintain".
• Setting a resource to "Maintain" tells the AI to do everything it can to keep the count at what you set. For example, if you set the AI to maintain 20 boards, it will make up to 20 boards, and only make more if the total drops below 20.
• Setting a resource to "Make" tells the AI to immediately make the amount set. For example, if you set the AI to make 20 boards, they will attempt to make 20 additional boards regardless of what maintain is set at, then stop once 20 are produced.
• The same system can also be used to control harvesting.
• Setting the values of "Make" or "Maintain" over 200 will set it to "Infinity".
• The AI still obeys storage limits, so make sure you have space or production may halt.
• You can increment/decrement the values by plus or minus 10 by right clicking.
• The totals listing in both the resource management panel and main resource list along the top of the GUI can now be sorted by resource locations, allowing you to see what resources are equipped, on the ground, in storage, etc.
• You can use left shift plus left or right click to autoset the make and maintain controls to 0 or infinity.

Speed Controls

• Speed controls have been added, you can now toggle between pause, 1x, 2x and 3x. Warning: 3x may cause performance issues on lower end machines!

Mob Ranged Attacks

• The entire combat AI was rewritten from scratch, allowing the use of ranged attacks and opening up development for future weapon and mob types to utilize the new system.
• Bowyers can now manufacture bows and quivers.
• Added bows and quivers to the game, as well as a dedicated inventory slot for them. Villagers can equip and use them to shoot at monsters from across long distances and over walls.
• Fire Elementals now can shoot fireballs.
• Crystal Golems and max level Wood and Stone Golems can now shoot magic missiles.

Doggos

• A new, and the first animal mob has been added. The doggo! Wild doggos will very rarely spawn on the map and occasionally make their way into your village
• The chance of a wild doggo on the map visiting the village will increase during the daytime, when they are hungry or thirsty and when it is raining or snowing.
• When a wild doggo visits a village, they may interact with villagers and become domesticated, take an owner and take a name, becoming part of your village.
• Domesticated doggos will follow their owner around, and occasionally help with minor work tasks, like harvesting wild food or taking resources on the ground back to storage buildings.
• Doggos, like villagers, also need to eat, drink and have a home.
• Doggos are stronger than their same level villager counterparts, but are also a lot more brave. Keep an eye on them so they don't get themselves killed in a fight.
• New Building: "The Doggo House", a very small, cheap house that houses only Doggos.

Golem Combobulators

• All Golem Combobulators have been completely redrawn, and rebalanced. They all can now be upgraded 3 times, with the final stage allowing you to pick a magic element to apply to the golems.
• Crystal Golem Combobulator has been added, this comboboulator's golem stats are similar to the stone golems, but do magic damage.
• Golem Combobulators now start by only spawning 2 golems, but gain +1 slow per upgrade, up to 5 total.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• The map tile loader has been completely rewritten from scratch.
• Tons of code cleanup in the spells, mobs and object modules, streamlining the coding process to add new.
• Fixed abandoned recombobulator image in map editor GUI.
• Fixed a few minor problem panel issues.
• Fixed 4k texture loading problem for some older GPUs.
• Fixed a rare bug that could cause a building to be "destroyed" twice if it takes damage from two sources in the same update tick.
• Fixed bug where you could still pull things out of limbo via the Cullis Gate.
• Fixed crash when trying to build or destroy roads off the map.

Interface Changes

• Spawner buildings are now purple on the minimap.
• Reorganized the defense tab into 3 sub categories.
• Readded Ancient Radiance Pools and Cullis Gates to the map editor.
• Main menu's drifting can now be disabled manually in settings.properties.
• You can now hide the place camp panel in sandbox mode without placing the camp.
• Resources are now white on the minimap.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Mobs can now drink from the lake and ocean when desperate, but will catch dysentery.
• Added a very rare random chance of an eclipse, causing nighttime behavior during midday.
• Added a purple crystal tileset to be used in future biomes.
• New resource artwork for Crylithium added.
• Improved the construction phase artwork for all walls.
• Lowered volume of the villager birth/nomad joined and village death melodies.
• Spells no longer cost influence to cast if they fail to cast.
• Varied the random standing coordinates when harvesting a bit.
• Corrected Cullis Gate construction outline graphics.
• Adjusted the pool color in Essence Collectors.
• Villagers will only try to claim a home if the homes total available slots, less the villagers already en route, is higher than 1. This prevents large groups of villagers trying to claim a home with only a few slots left in it.
• Shields have been added to the game with a chance to block, when a block is successful 100% of the damage is diverted to the shield's durability instead of the mob.
• Toolsmiths can manufacture iron shields.
• Farms can now use dirty water for crops.
• Farmers can now harvest dirty water for their farms.
• Changed priority of clean water in farms to very low, preventing wasting clean water on farms unless all other sources are full.
• Arrow Bundles renamed to Ballistae Bolts Bundles so they will not be confused with the new Quivers.
• Rewrote the entire missile system to complement the new mob range attack AI.
• Made several minor tweaks to the AI.
• Critical building repair AI now kicks in at half health, rather than a third health.
• Added a bunch of fan made maps to the Developer's Choice map pack.
• Halved the drop rate of silk.
• Harvesting AI will now bail out if it is en route to harvest something and the resource is deselected by the player.
• Total resource counts now count resources that are in inventories.
• Water Masters now refine water from the nearest source.
• Changed the Cullis Gate tip to reflect the changes in InDev 27.
• Mobs on fire can now be put out by being dropped in water.
• Mobs now flee to water when on fire.
• Mobs body heat will now drop slowly while in water or if it is raining.
• Added proper colors for the various water phases in the minimap.

[ 2017-10-15 10:22:30 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! Unstable 6 has arrived, chalk full of miscellaneous bug fixes, tweaks and improvements to prep for InDev 28 Stable's release on the 15th! :) This may be the final Unstable build before InDev 28 Stable is released, so be sure to bugtest the hell out of it. You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 28 Unstable 6 Change Log

Miscellaneous Changes

• Added a positioning arrow system to the outline of the GUI. Now villagers, golems and doggos off screen will have tiny arrows point towards them along the outer edges of the GUI. If the mob's health is below 75%, they will flash to get the player's attention.
• You can now use ALT+ENTER to toggle full screen.
• Golems now appear as orange dots on the minimap.
• Visible ghosts are now white dots on the minimap.
• Minimap mob dot borders are now slightly darker.
• Lowered arrow count of quiver to 40.
• Weapons and tools now obey their damage types in melee combat.
• Slashing damage added.
• Slightly optimized some of the AI algorithms for determining if storage or refining should be done.
• Added ranged and weapon damage to the mob GUI.
• Added new sound set system so sound sets can be applied to specific mobs.
• Added doggo sound effects.
• Resources out of range of the village are no longer counted in any of the totals.
• Added song Sunken Hope.
• Updated soundtrack DLC with all of the new songs added in the last few versions.
• When highlighting over a manufacturing resource in the resource management tab, the resource required is now displayed.
• Slightly adjusted the positioning of the right panel.
• Added smaller dismantle icons for 1x1 buildings.

Big Fixes

• Fixed a typo in the ancillary description.
• Fixed range bug over-placing when you placed buildings faster than the system updated.
• Fixed "long range" melee attacks when a mob runs out of ammo mid-attack.
• Fixed some awkward targeting bugs in the combat AI
• Fixed a minor bug when a mob is refining a resource while another is en route to store the same resource in a building with even storage flagged, that could cause the storage count to go over.
• Fixed a bug where the new resource management system would not "Obey" some tool and weapon requests because it determined the villagers did not need the item.
• Fixed the map editor's map "drift" movement.
• Removed an invalid object on map Sandy South.
• Doggos no longer trigger the new left hand snap panel.
• Fixed a bug that could sometimes cause mates to not be correctly assigned when a mob spawns into another mob type.
• Fixed a bug if a doggo became owned by a child, and the child grew up, the doggo would no longer be assigned to the child.
• Fixed a bug if a wild doggo became domesticated, their owner would "forget" who they are.
• Holy golems are not longer counted as homeless in the GUI.
• Fixed minor graphics glitch on the makeshift bowyer construction phase.
• Fixed a few miscellaneous font issues in some areas of the GUI.
• Tips are now properly enabled/disabled without restarting the game if you change the setting while playing.

InDev 28 Unstable 5 Change Log

Resource Management System

• When you click on a building that provides a job, or a villager with a job, the left panel now snaps to a summery view of what that job or building can manufacture, as well as a workforce panel to adjust worker counts.
• The totals listing in both the resource management panel and main resource list along the top of the GUI can now be sorted by resource locations, allowing you to see what resources are equipped, on the ground, in storage, etc.
• You can now use left shift plus left or right click to autoset the make and maintain controls to 0 or infinity.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Mobs on fire can now be put out by being dropped in water.
• Mobs now flee to water when on fire.
• Mobs body heat will now drop slowly while in water or if it is raining.
• Added Doggo specific names.
• Added proper colors for the various water phases in the minimap.

Big Fixes

• Fixed a bug that prevented the player from adjusting resource management values when a building is being upgraded.
• Changed the Cullis Gate tip to reflect the changes in InDev 27.
• Fixed level range caps of some the golems that were causing them to sometimes spawn a slightly lower level than they were designed to.

InDev 28 Unstable 4 Change Log

Speed Controls

• Speed controls have been added, you can now toggle between pause, 1x, 2x and 3x. Warning: 3x may cause performance issues on lower end machines!

Resource Management System

• Resource management controls have been added. You can now adjust resource production caps in the left tab (Same area as the workforce panel)
• Most production levels are set to 0 by default, and you have the option of raising the amount you want to "Make now" or the amount you want to "Maintain".
• Setting a resource to "Maintain" tells the AI to do everything it can to keep the count at what you set. For example, if you set the AI to maintain 20 boards, it will make up to 20 boards, and only make more if the total drops below 20.
• Setting a resource to "Make" tells the AI to immediately make the amount set. For example, if you set the AI to make 20 boards, they will attempt to make 20 additional boards regardless of what maintain is set at, then stop once 20 are produced.
• The same system can also be used to control harvesting.
• Setting the values of "Make" or "Maintain" over 200 will set it to "Infinity".
• The AI still obeys storage limits, so make sure you have space or production may halt.
• You can increment/decrement the values by plus or minus 10 by right clicking.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Golem Combobulators now start by only spawning 2 golems, but gain +1 slow per upgrade, up to 5 total.
• Halved the drop rate of silk.
• Harvesting AI will now bail out if it is en route to harvest something and the resource is deselected by the player.
• Total resource counts now count resources that are in inventories.
• Water Masters now refine water from the nearest source.

Big Fixes

• Things doggos have equipped in their inventory or are carrying are now properly counted when counting totals for resources.

InDev 28 Unstable 3 Change Log

Mob Ranged Attacks

• The entire combat AI was rewritten from scratch, allowing the use of ranged attacks and opening up development for future weapon and mob types to utilize the new system.
• Bowyers can now manufacture bows and quivers.
• Added bows and quivers to the game, as well as a dedicated inventory slot for them. Villagers can equip and use them to shoot at monsters from across long distances and over walls.
• Fire Elementals now can shoot fireballs.
• Crystal Golems and max level Wood and Stone Golems can now shoot magic missiles.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Shields have been added to the game with a chance to block, when a block is successful 100% of the damage is diverted to the shield's durability instead of the mob.
• Toolsmiths can manufacture iron shields.
• Farms can now use dirty water for crops.
• Farmers can now harvest dirty water for their farms.
• Changed priority of clean water in farms to very low, preventing wasting clean water on farms unless all other sources are full.
• Domesticated animals can now be attacked by monsters.
• Doggos are not as brave and will flee combat more often.
• Arrow Bundles renamed to Ballistae Bolts Bundles so they will not be confused with the new Quivers.
• Rewrote the entire missile system to complement the new mob range attack AI.
• Made several minor tweaks to the AI.
• Critical building repair AI now kicks in at half health, rather than a third health.
• Added a bunch of fan made maps to the Developer's Choice map pack.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed a rare bug that could cause a building to be "destroyed" twice if it takes damage from two sources in the same update tick.
• When a doggo is killed or teleported to Limbo, his previous owner correctly unassigns himself as owner.
• Fixed spells confusing/panicking mobs even when they don't successfully cast.
• Fixed bug where you could still pull things out of limbo via the Cullis Gate.
• Fixed crash when trying to build or destroy roads off the map.

InDev 28 Unstable 2 Change Log

Golem Combobulators

• All Golem Combobulators have been completely redrawn, and rebalanced. They all can now be upgraded 3 times, with the final stage allowing you to pick a magic element to apply to the golems.
• Crystal Golem Combobulator has been added, this comboboulator's golem stats are similar to the stone golems, but do magic damage.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Corrected Cullis Gate construction outline graphics.
• Adjusted the pool color in Essence Collectors.
• New Building: "The Doggo House", a very small, cheap house that houses Doggos.
• Villagers will only try to claim a home if the homes total available slots, less the villagers already en route, is higher than 1. This prevents large groups of villagers trying to claim a home with only a few slots left in it.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed abandoned recombobulator image in map editor GUI.
• Fixed a few minor problem panel issues.
• Fixed a very rare crash bug that was corrupting profiles. (Note: This was implemented into InDev 27e as well)
• Doggo Ghosts can now be properly resurrected.
• Fire elementals no longer die walking on frozen tiles.
• Fixed 4k texture loading problem for some older GPUs.
• Fixed the map editor GUI while in debug mode.

InDev 28 Unstable 1 Change Log

Doggos

• A new, and the first animal mob has been added. The doggo! Wild doggos will very rarely spawn on the map and occasionally make their way into your village
• The chance of a wild doggo on the map visiting the village will increase during the daytime, when they are hungry or thirsty and when it is raining or snowing.
• When a wild doggo visits a village, they may interact with villagers and become domesticated, take an owner and take a name, becoming part of your village.
• Domesticated doggos will follow their owner around, and occasionally help with minor work tasks, like harvesting wild food or taking resources on the ground back to storage buildings.
• Doggos, like villagers, also need to eat, drink and have a home.
• Doggos are stronger than their same level villager counterparts, but are also a lot more brave. Keep an eye on them so they don't get themselves killed in a fight.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• The map tile loader has been completely rewritten from scratch.
• Tons of code cleanup in the spells, mobs and object modules, streamlining the coding process to add new.

Interface Changes

• Spawner buildings are now purple on the minimap.
• Reorganized the defense tab into 3 sub categories.
• Readded Ancient Radiance Pools and Cullis Gates to the map editor.
• Main menu's drifting can now be disabled manually in settings.properties.
• You can now hide the place camp panel in sandbox mode without placing the camp.
• Resources are now white on the minimap.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Mobs can now drink from the lake and ocean when desperate, but will catch dysentery.
• Added a very rare random chance of an eclipse, causing nighttime behavior during midday.
• Added a purple crystal tileset to be used in future biomes.
• New resource artwork for Crylithium added.
• Improved the construction phase artwork for all walls.
• Lowered volume of the villager birth/nomad joined and village death melodies.
• Spells no longer cost influence to cast if they fail to cast.
• Varied the random standing coordinates when harvesting a bit.

Known Issues that will be resolved before the stable build

• None.

[ 2017-10-10 02:46:07 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! A smaller unstable patch, but one with a critical change that is necessary after some of the feedback you guys gave me on Unstable 4's new resource management panel. This patch adds a new left hand "snap" panel. When you click on a building or villager with a job, the left panel will now snap to a summery view showing all the manufacturing options that job provides as well as a worker assignment panel for that job, greatly reducing how much clicking around you need to do when adjusting job/building specific manufacturing. :) This patch also includes a few minor tweaks and adjustments, with more on the way before stable is released. Also, due to such a fast patch release, I have created an new "Old Unstable" branch that you can opt into, to continue your Unstable 4 saves until you are ready to play Unstable 5. You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 28 Unstable 5 Change Log

Resource Management System

• When you click on a building that provides a job, or a villager with a job, the left panel now snaps to a summery view of what that job or building can manufacture, as well as a workforce panel to adjust worker counts.
• The totals listing in both the resource management panel and main resource list along the top of the GUI can now be sorted by resource locations, allowing you to see what resources are equipped, on the ground, in storage, etc.
• You can now use left shift plus left or right click to autoset the make and maintain controls to 0 or infinity.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Mobs on fire can now be put out by being dropped in water.
• Mobs now flee to water when on fire.
• Mobs body heat will now drop slowly while in water or if it is raining.
• Added Doggo specific names.
• Added proper colors for the various water phases in the minimap.

Big Fixes

• Fixed a bug that prevented the player from adjusting resource management values when a building is being upgraded.
• Changed the Cullis Gate tip to reflect the changes in InDev 27.
• Fixed level range caps of some the golems that were causing them to sometimes spawn a slightly lower level than they were designed to.

InDev 28 Unstable 4 Change Log

Speed Controls

• Speed controls have been added, you can now toggle between pause, 1x, 2x and 3x. Warning: 3x may cause performance issues on lower end machines!

Resource Management System

• Resource management controls have been added. You can now adjust resource production caps in the left tab (Same area as the workforce panel)
• Most production levels are set to 0 by default, and you have the option of raising the amount you want to "Make now" or the amount you want to "Maintain".
• Setting a resource to "Maintain" tells the AI to do everything it can to keep the count at what you set. For example, if you set the AI to maintain 20 boards, it will make up to 20 boards, and only make more if the total drops below 20.
• Setting a resource to "Make" tells the AI to immediately make the amount set. For example, if you set the AI to make 20 boards, they will attempt to make 20 additional boards regardless of what maintain is set at, then stop once 20 are produced.
• The same system can also be used to control harvesting.
• Setting the values of "Make" or "Maintain" over 200 will set it to "Infinity".
• The AI still obeys storage limits, so make sure you have space or production may halt.
• You can increment/decrement the values by plus or minus 10 by right clicking.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Golem Combobulators now start by only spawning 2 golems, but gain +1 slow per upgrade, up to 5 total.
• Halved the drop rate of silk.
• Harvesting AI will now bail out if it is en route to harvest something and the resource is deselected by the player.
• Total resource counts now count resources that are in inventories.
• Water Masters now refine water from the nearest source.

Big Fixes

• Things doggos have equipped in their inventory or are carrying are now properly counted when counting totals for resources.

InDev 28 Unstable 3 Change Log

Mob Ranged Attacks

• The entire combat AI was rewritten from scratch, allowing the use of ranged attacks and opening up development for future weapon and mob types to utilize the new system.
• Bowyers can now manufacture bows and quivers.
• Added bows and quivers to the game, as well as a dedicated inventory slot for them. Villagers can equip and use them to shoot at monsters from across long distances and over walls.
• Fire Elementals now can shoot fireballs.
• Crystal Golems and max level Wood and Stone Golems can now shoot magic missiles.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Shields have been added to the game with a chance to block, when a block is successful 100% of the damage is diverted to the shield's durability instead of the mob.
• Toolsmiths can manufacture iron shields.
• Farms can now use dirty water for crops.
• Farmers can now harvest dirty water for their farms.
• Changed priority of clean water in farms to very low, preventing wasting clean water on farms unless all other sources are full.
• Domesticated animals can now be attacked by monsters.
• Doggos are not as brave and will flee combat more often.
• Arrow Bundles renamed to Ballistae Bolts Bundles so they will not be confused with the new Quivers.
• Rewrote the entire missile system to complement the new mob range attack AI.
• Made several minor tweaks to the AI.
• Critical building repair AI now kicks in at half health, rather than a third health.
• Added a bunch of fan made maps to the Developer's Choice map pack.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed a rare bug that could cause a building to be "destroyed" twice if it takes damage from two sources in the same update tick.
• When a doggo is killed or teleported to Limbo, his previous owner correctly unassigns himself as owner.
• Fixed spells confusing/panicking mobs even when they don't successfully cast.
• Fixed bug where you could still pull things out of limbo via the Cullis Gate.
• Fixed crash when trying to build or destroy roads off the map.

InDev 28 Unstable 2 Change Log

Golem Combobulators

• All Golem Combobulators have been completely redrawn, and rebalanced. They all can now be upgraded 3 times, with the final stage allowing you to pick a magic element to apply to the golems.
• Crystal Golem Combobulator has been added, this comboboulator's golem stats are similar to the stone golems, but do magic damage.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Corrected Cullis Gate construction outline graphics.
• Adjusted the pool color in Essence Collectors.
• New Building: "The Doggo House", a very small, cheap house that houses Doggos.
• Villagers will only try to claim a home if the homes total available slots, less the villagers already en route, is higher than 1. This prevents large groups of villagers trying to claim a home with only a few slots left in it.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed abandoned recombobulator image in map editor GUI.
• Fixed a few minor problem panel issues.
• Fixed a very rare crash bug that was corrupting profiles. (Note: This was implemented into InDev 27e as well)
• Doggo Ghosts can now be properly resurrected.
• Fire elementals no longer die walking on frozen tiles.
• Fixed 4k texture loading problem for some older GPUs.
• Fixed the map editor GUI while in debug mode.

InDev 28 Unstable 1 Change Log

Doggos

• A new, and the first animal mob has been added. The doggo! Wild doggos will very rarely spawn on the map and occasionally make their way into your village
• The chance of a wild doggo on the map visiting the village will increase during the daytime, when they are hungry or thirsty and when it is raining or snowing.
• When a wild doggo visits a village, they may interact with villagers and become domesticated, take an owner and take a name, becoming part of your village.
• Domesticated doggos will follow their owner around, and occasionally help with minor work tasks, like harvesting wild food or taking resources on the ground back to storage buildings.
• Doggos, like villagers, also need to eat, drink and have a home.
• Doggos are stronger than their same level villager counterparts, but are also a lot more brave. Keep an eye on them so they don't get themselves killed in a fight.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• The map tile loader has been completely rewritten from scratch.
• Tons of code cleanup in the spells, mobs and object modules, streamlining the coding process to add new.

Interface Changes

• Spawner buildings are now purple on the minimap.
• Reorganized the defense tab into 3 sub categories.
• Readded Ancient Radiance Pools and Cullis Gates to the map editor.
• Main menu's drifting can now be disabled manually in settings.properties.
• You can now hide the place camp panel in sandbox mode without placing the camp.
• Resources are now white on the minimap.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Mobs can now drink from the lake and ocean when desperate, but will catch dysentery.
• Added a very rare random chance of an eclipse, causing nighttime behavior during midday.
• Added a purple crystal tileset to be used in future biomes.
• New resource artwork for Crylithium added.
• Improved the construction phase artwork for all walls.
• Lowered volume of the villager birth/nomad joined and village death melodies.
• Spells no longer cost influence to cast if they fail to cast.
• Varied the random standing coordinates when harvesting a bit.

Known Issues that will be resolved before the stable build

• None.

[ 2017-10-01 23:59:15 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! This patch introduces two more very heavily requested features, speed and resource management controls. Both systems should be fully functional, but be sure to test the hell out of them. :) Aside from those, the patch also features a some bug fixes and miscellaneous changes. This patch also makes InDev 28 "Feature Complete" and nearly ready for release. I'll be spending the next few updates doing bug fixes, code cleanup and preparing for InDev 28 Stable. If you find any problems, please let me know down in the comments. You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 28 Unstable 4 Change Log

Speed Controls

• Speed controls have been added, you can now toggle between pause, 1x, 2x and 3x. Warning: 3x may cause performance issues on lower end machines!

Resource Management System

• Resource management controls have been added. You can now adjust resource production caps in the left tab (Same area as the workforce panel)
• Most production levels are set to 0 by default, and you have the option of raising the amount you want to "Make now" or the amount you want to "Maintain".
• Setting a resource to "Maintain" tells the AI to do everything it can to keep the count at what you set. For example, if you set the AI to maintain 20 boards, it will make up to 20 boards, and only make more if the total drops below 20.
• Setting a resource to "Make" tells the AI to immediately make the amount set. For example, if you set the AI to make 20 boards, they will attempt to make 20 additional boards regardless of what maintain is set at, then stop once 20 are produced.
• The same system can also be used to control harvesting.
• Setting the values of "Make" or "Maintain" over 200 will set it to "Infinity".
• The AI still obeys storage limits, so make sure you have space or production may halt.
• You can increment/decrement the values by plus or minus 10 by right clicking.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Golem Combobulators now start by only spawning 2 golems, but gain +1 slow per upgrade, up to 5 total.
• Halved the drop rate of silk.
• Harvesting AI will now bail out if it is en route to harvest something and the resource is deselected by the player.
• Total resource counts now count resources that are in inventories.
• Water Masters now refine water from the nearest source.

Big Fixes

• Things doggos have equipped in their inventory or are carrying are now properly counted when counting totals for resources.

InDev 28 Unstable 3 Change Log

Mob Ranged Attacks

• The entire combat AI was rewritten from scratch, allowing the use of ranged attacks and opening up development for future weapon and mob types to utilize the new system.
• Bowyers can now manufacture bows and quivers.
• Added bows and quivers to the game, as well as a dedicated inventory slot for them. Villagers can equip and use them to shoot at monsters from across long distances and over walls.
• Fire Elementals now can shoot fireballs.
• Crystal Golems and max level Wood and Stone Golems can now shoot magic missiles.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Shields have been added to the game with a chance to block, when a block is successful 100% of the damage is diverted to the shield's durability instead of the mob.
• Toolsmiths can manufacture iron shields.
• Farms can now use dirty water for crops.
• Farmers can now harvest dirty water for their farms.
• Changed priority of clean water in farms to very low, preventing wasting clean water on farms unless all other sources are full.
• Domesticated animals can now be attacked by monsters.
• Doggos are not as brave and will flee combat more often.
• Arrow Bundles renamed to Ballistae Bolts Bundles so they will not be confused with the new Quivers.
• Rewrote the entire missile system to complement the new mob range attack AI.
• Made several minor tweaks to the AI.
• Critical building repair AI now kicks in at half health, rather than a third health.
• Added a bunch of fan made maps to the Developer's Choice map pack.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed a rare bug that could cause a building to be "destroyed" twice if it takes damage from two sources in the same update tick.
• When a doggo is killed or teleported to Limbo, his previous owner correctly unassigns himself as owner.
• Fixed spells confusing/panicking mobs even when they don't successfully cast.
• Fixed bug where you could still pull things out of limbo via the Cullis Gate.
• Fixed crash when trying to build or destroy roads off the map.

InDev 28 Unstable 2 Change Log

Golem Combobulators

• All Golem Combobulators have been completely redrawn, and rebalanced. They all can now be upgraded 3 times, with the final stage allowing you to pick a magic element to apply to the golems.
• Crystal Golem Combobulator has been added, this comboboulator's golem stats are similar to the stone golems, but do magic damage.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Corrected Cullis Gate construction outline graphics.
• Adjusted the pool color in Essence Collectors.
• New Building: "The Doggo House", a very small, cheap house that houses Doggos.
• Villagers will only try to claim a home if the homes total available slots, less the villagers already en route, is higher than 1. This prevents large groups of villagers trying to claim a home with only a few slots left in it.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed abandoned recombobulator image in map editor GUI.
• Fixed a few minor problem panel issues.
• Fixed a very rare crash bug that was corrupting profiles. (Note: This was implemented into InDev 27e as well)
• Doggo Ghosts can now be properly resurrected.
• Fire elementals no longer die walking on frozen tiles.
• Fixed 4k texture loading problem for some older GPUs.
• Fixed the map editor GUI while in debug mode.

InDev 28 Unstable 1 Change Log

Doggos

• A new, and the first animal mob has been added. The doggo! Wild doggos will very rarely spawn on the map and occasionally make their way into your village
• The chance of a wild doggo on the map visiting the village will increase during the daytime, when they are hungry or thirsty and when it is raining or snowing.
• When a wild doggo visits a village, they may interact with villagers and become domesticated, take an owner and take a name, becoming part of your village.
• Domesticated doggos will follow their owner around, and occasionally help with minor work tasks, like harvesting wild food or taking resources on the ground back to storage buildings.
• Doggos, like villagers, also need to eat, drink and have a home.
• Doggos are stronger than their same level villager counterparts, but are also a lot more brave. Keep an eye on them so they don't get themselves killed in a fight.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• The map tile loader has been completely rewritten from scratch.
• Tons of code cleanup in the spells, mobs and object modules, streamlining the coding process to add new.

Interface Changes

• Spawner buildings are now purple on the minimap.
• Reorganized the defense tab into 3 sub categories.
• Readded Ancient Radiance Pools and Cullis Gates to the map editor.
• Main menu's drifting can now be disabled manually in settings.properties.
• You can now hide the place camp panel in sandbox mode without placing the camp.
• Resources are now white on the minimap.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Mobs can now drink from the lake and ocean when desperate, but will catch dysentery.
• Added a very rare random chance of an eclipse, causing nighttime behavior during midday.
• Added a purple crystal tileset to be used in future biomes.
• New resource artwork for Crylithium added.
• Improved the construction phase artwork for all walls.
• Lowered volume of the villager birth/nomad joined and village death melodies.
• Spells no longer cost influence to cast if they fail to cast.
• Varied the random standing coordinates when harvesting a bit.

Known Issues that will be resolved before the stable build

• None.

[ 2017-09-29 02:47:47 CET ] [ Original post ]

Greetings everyone, After some careful consideration, I am making a few changes to the InDev 28 Road Map. There's were few features originally slated for InDev 29 that I feel in light of some of the new content added in InDev 28, need to be pushed up a bit in priority. Normally, when I do this I just keep chugging along and I won't bother revising the road map, you just get a slightly bigger update than usual with some surprise features. Although in this case, these changes are pretty big deal, and also require me to push back a few bits of content into a future update, mainly the new defensive towers. But, after reading the changes, I have a feeling you're going to really love what's coming down the pipeline in the next few weeks. As always, if you have any suggestions, let me know in the comments! You never know what feature might sneak it's way into the next patch. :)

InDev 28 Revised Road Map

Golem Combobulators

• Golem Combobulators will get upgrade phases, each phase will increase spawn rates, golem slots and provide higher level golems.
• A new "Crystal Golem" combobulator will be added, that creates a very weak golem that does primarily magic damage.

Speed Controls

• You guys finally convinced me. 2x speed controls are being added to the game, and the previously planned haste tower and spell is now being scrapped.

Resource Management System

• A new resource management system will be added to the game, allowing the play to control resource production flow. The player will now be able to select how many resources they want created, with two different control mechanisms. A "Make Now" and a "Maintain" option.
• The "Make Now" option will tell the village to make up to exactly how much equipment you specific. For example, if you told the system to make 10 swords, it will make exactly 10 swords and then stop production.
• The "Maintain" option works similar to "Make Now", except instead of making up to a set amount and then stopping, it will always make sure there are at least the amount specified in the village at all times. For example, if you set the system to maintain 10 swords, the Tool Smiths will not create any swords until the total count in the village drops below 10, and then will try to make swords to bring the value back to 10. As long as the maintain settings are not changed, they will continue to always try to keep at least 10 swords in the village at all times.

Doggos

• A new, and the first animal mob will be been added. The doggo! Wild doggos will very rarely spawn on the map and occasionally make their way into your village
• The chance of a wild doggo on the map visiting the village will increase during the daytime, when they are hungry or thirsty and when it is raining or snowing.
• When a wild doggo visits a village, they may interact with villagers and become domesticated, take an owner and take a name, becoming part of your village.
• Domesticated doggos will follow their owner around, and occasionally help with minor work tasks, like harvesting wild food or taking resources on the ground back to storage buildings.
• Doggos, like villagers, also need to eat, drink and have a home.
• Doggos are stronger than their same level villager counterparts, but are also a lot more brave. Keep an eye on them so they don't get themselves killed in a fight.

Combat and Ranged Attacking

• "Ranged attack" code will be added to mob AI, laying the framework for villagers to use bows, as well as allow some monsters to use ranged attacks, like having fire elementals throw fireballs.
• Shields will be added to the game, giving the mob holder a chance to block and advert all possible damage.

[ 2017-09-26 04:33:32 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! The long requested bows and arrows have arrived! (Along with ranged attacks in general). I'm happy to announce InDev 28 Unstable 3 has been released. This patch completely and fundamentally overhauled the entire combat system, mainly to add in ranged attacks. Now your villagers can equip bows and arrows, some of your golems can fire magic projectiles, and fire elementals can throw fireballs across your walls! Check out the change log for all the juicy details. :) You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 28 Unstable 3 Change Log

Mob Ranged Attacks

• The entire combat AI was rewritten from scratch, allowing the use of ranged attacks and opening up development for future weapon and mob types to utilize the new system.
• Bowyers can now manufacture bows and quivers.
• Added bows and quivers to the game, as well as a dedicated inventory slot for them. Villagers can equip and use them to shoot at monsters from across long distances and over walls.
• Fire Elementals now can shoot fireballs.
• Crystal Golems and max level Wood and Stone Golems can now shoot magic missiles.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Shields have been added to the game with a chance to block, when a block is successful 100% of the damage is diverted to the shield's durability instead of the mob.
• Toolsmiths can manufacture iron shields.
• Farms can now use dirty water for crops.
• Farmers can now harvest dirty water for their farms.
• Changed priority of clean water in farms to very low, preventing wasting clean water on farms unless all other sources are full.
• Domesticated animals can now be attacked by monsters.
• Doggos are not as brave and will flee combat more often.
• Arrow Bundles renamed to Ballistae Bolts Bundles so they will not be confused with the new Quivers.
• Rewrote the entire missile system to complement the new mob range attack AI.
• Made several minor tweaks to the AI.
• Critical building repair AI now kicks in at half health, rather than a third health.
• Added a bunch of fan made maps to the Developer's Choice map pack.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed a rare bug that could cause a building to be "destroyed" twice if it takes damage from two sources in the same update tick.
• When a doggo is killed or teleported to Limbo, his previous owner correctly unassigns himself as owner.
• Fixed spells confusing/panicking mobs even when they don't successfully cast.
• Fixed bug where you could still pull things out of limbo via the Cullis Gate.
• Fixed crash when trying to build or destroy roads off the map.

InDev 28 Unstable 2 Change Log

Golem Combobulators

• All Golem Combobulators have been completely redrawn, and rebalanced. They all can now be upgraded 3 times, with the final stage allowing you to pick a magic element to apply to the golems.
• Crystal Golem Combobulator has been added, this comboboulator's golem stats are similar to the stone golems, but do magic damage.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Corrected Cullis Gate construction outline graphics.
• Adjusted the pool color in Essence Collectors.
• New Building: "The Doggo House", a very small, cheap house that houses Doggos.
• Villagers will only try to claim a home if the homes total available slots, less the villagers already en route, is higher than 1. This prevents large groups of villagers trying to claim a home with only a few slots left in it.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed abandoned recombobulator image in map editor GUI.
• Fixed a few minor problem panel issues.
• Fixed a very rare crash bug that was corrupting profiles. (Note: This was implemented into InDev 27e as well)
• Doggo Ghosts can now be properly resurrected.
• Fire elementals no longer die walking on frozen tiles.
• Fixed 4k texture loading problem for some older GPUs.
• Fixed the map editor GUI while in debug mode.

InDev 28 Unstable 1 Change Log

Doggos

• A new, and the first animal mob has been added. The doggo! Wild doggos will very rarely spawn on the map and occasionally make their way into your village
• The chance of a wild doggo on the map visiting the village will increase during the daytime, when they are hungry or thirsty and when it is raining or snowing.
• When a wild doggo visits a village, they may interact with villagers and become domesticated, take an owner and take a name, becoming part of your village.
• Domesticated doggos will follow their owner around, and occasionally help with minor work tasks, like harvesting wild food or taking resources on the ground back to storage buildings.
• Doggos, like villagers, also need to eat, drink and have a home.
• Doggos are stronger than their same level villager counterparts, but are also a lot more brave. Keep an eye on them so they don't get themselves killed in a fight.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• The map tile loader has been completely rewritten from scratch.
• Tons of code cleanup in the spells, mobs and object modules, streamlining the coding process to add new.

Interface Changes

• Spawner buildings are now purple on the minimap.
• Reorganized the defense tab into 3 sub categories.
• Readded Ancient Radiance Pools and Cullis Gates to the map editor.
• Main menu's drifting can now be disabled manually in settings.properties.
• You can now hide the place camp panel in sandbox mode without placing the camp.
• Resources are now white on the minimap.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Mobs can now drink from the lake and ocean when desperate, but will catch dysentery.
• Added a very rare random chance of an eclipse, causing nighttime behavior during midday.
• Added a purple crystal tileset to be used in future biomes.
• New resource artwork for Crylithium added.
• Improved the construction phase artwork for all walls.
• Lowered volume of the villager birth/nomad joined and village death melodies.
• Spells no longer cost influence to cast if they fail to cast.
• Varied the random standing coordinates when harvesting a bit.

Known Issues that will be resolved before the stable build

• None.

[ 2017-09-23 00:18:25 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! The upgradable Combobulators and Doggo Houses have arrived, along with a ton of hard-to-pin-down fixes and improvements under the hood that have now been resolved as well as some nice AI tweaks. :) Check out the change log for all the juicy details. You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 28 Unstable 2 Change Log

Golem Combobulators

• All Golem Combobulators have been completely redrawn, and rebalanced. They all can now be upgraded 3 times, with the final stage allowing you to pick a magic element to apply to the golems.
• Crystal Golem Combobulator has been added, this comboboulator's golem stats are similar to the stone golems, but do magic damage.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Corrected Cullis Gate construction outline graphics.
• Adjusted the pool color in Essence Collectors.
• New Building: "The Doggo House", a very small, cheap house that houses Doggos.
• Villagers will only try to claim a home if the homes total available slots, less the villagers already en route, is higher than 1. This prevents large groups of villagers trying to claim a home with only a few slots left in it.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed abandoned recombobulator image in map editor GUI.
• Fixed a few minor problem panel issues.
• Fixed a very rare crash bug that was corrupting profiles. (Note: This was implemented into InDev 27e as well)
• Doggo Ghosts can now be properly resurrected.
• Fire elementals no longer die walking on frozen tiles.
• Fixed 4k texture loading problem for some older GPUs.
• Fixed the map editor GUI while in debug mode.

InDev 28 Unstable 1 Change Log

Doggos

• A new, and the first animal mob has been added. The doggo! Wild doggos will very rarely spawn on the map and occasionally make their way into your village
• The chance of a wild doggo on the map visiting the village will increase during the daytime, when they are hungry or thirsty and when it is raining or snowing.
• When a wild doggo visits a village, they may interact with villagers and become domesticated, take an owner and take a name, becoming part of your village.
• Domesticated doggos will follow their owner around, and occasionally help with minor work tasks, like harvesting wild food or taking resources on the ground back to storage buildings.
• Doggos, like villagers, also need to eat, drink and have a home.
• Doggos are stronger than their same level villager counterparts, but are also a lot more brave. Keep an eye on them so they don't get themselves killed in a fight.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• The map tile loader has been completely rewritten from scratch.
• Tons of code cleanup in the spells, mobs and object modules, streamlining the coding process to add new.

Interface Changes

• Spawner buildings are now purple on the minimap.
• Reorganized the defense tab into 3 sub categories.
• Readded Ancient Radiance Pools and Cullis Gates to the map editor.
• Main menu's drifting can now be disabled manually in settings.properties.
• You can now hide the place camp panel in sandbox mode without placing the camp.
• Resources are now white on the minimap.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Mobs can now drink from the lake and ocean when desperate, but will catch dysentery.
• Added a very rare random chance of an eclipse, causing nighttime behavior during midday.
• Added a purple crystal tileset to be used in future biomes.
• New resource artwork for Crylithium added.
• Improved the construction phase artwork for all walls.
• Lowered volume of the villager birth/nomad joined and village death melodies.
• Spells no longer cost influence to cast if they fail to cast.
• Varied the random standing coordinates when harvesting a bit.

Known Issues that will be resolved before the stable build

• None.

[ 2017-09-09 22:28:21 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! The first InDev 28 patch is here. This patch is full of minor tweaks, as most of the work was under the hood changes invisible to the player. Because of all the under the hood changes, I'd like to make sure everything is running smoothly, so I'm releasing it into the wild a bit early. The biggest change for you guys are the new doggo mobs and several of the AI tweaks I think you'll all love. Let me know what you think of the new doggos down in the comments. :) You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 28 Unstable 1 Change Log

Doggos

• A new, and the first animal mob has been added. The doggo! Wild doggos will very rarely spawn on the map and occasionally make their way into your village
• The chance of a wild doggo on the map visiting the village will increase during the daytime, when they are hungry or thirsty and when it is raining or snowing.
• When a wild doggo visits a village, they may interact with villagers and become domesticated, take an owner and take a name, becoming part of your village.
• Domesticated doggos will follow their owner around, and occasionally help with minor work tasks, like harvesting wild food or taking resources on the ground back to storage buildings.
• Doggos, like villagers, also need to eat, drink and have a home.
• Doggos are stronger than their same level villager counterparts, but are also a lot more brave. Keep an eye on them so they don't get themselves killed in a fight.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• The map tile loader has been completely rewritten from scratch.
• Tons of code cleanup in the spells, mobs and object modules, streamlining the coding process to add new.

Interface Changes

• Spawner buildings are now purple on the minimap.
• Reorganized the defense tab into 3 sub categories.
• Readded Ancient Radiance Pools and Cullis Gates to the map editor.
• Main menu's drifting can now be disabled manually in settings.properties.
• You can now hide the place camp panel in sandbox mode without placing the camp.
• Resources are now white on the minimap.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Mobs can now drink from the lake and ocean when desperate, but will catch dysentery.
• Added a very rare random chance of an eclipse, causing nighttime behavior during midday.
• Added a purple crystal tileset to be used in future biomes.
• New resource artwork for Crylithium added.
• Improved the construction phase artwork for all walls.
• Lowered volume of the villager birth/nomad joined and village death melodies.
• Spells no longer cost influence to cast if they fail to cast.
• Varied the random standing coordinates when harvesting a bit.

Known Issues that will be resolved before the stable build

• None.

[ 2017-08-30 13:39:31 CET ] [ Original post ]

The Even More Defense Update is now underway! This update is mostly a cleanup update. There were several planned towers and mechanics that were slated to be released between InDev 26 and 27 that didn't quite make the cut due to time constraints. Mainly, this was due to content I had to add sooner than expected. The Gates, Dedicated Thread, and new Pathfinding systems were all features originally planned for the Quality of Life update, but ended up part of InDev 27 mostly out of necessity for the new guards to function correctly. So as such, I had to push back the content that is now being added in 28. :)

If you have any requests, be sure to post them in the comments. Let me know what you want, and how you want it to work! You might just find it sneak into the next patch. :)

InDev 28 Road Map

Golem Combobulators

• Golem Combobulators will get upgrade phases, each phase will increase spawn rates, golem slots and provide higher level golems.
• A new "Crystal Golem" combobulator will be added, that creates a very weak golem that does primarily magic damage.

New Towers

• Haste Tower. Increases the movement speed of all mobs (Monsters and villagers included) in the area.
• Boost Tower. A tower that will use essence to "boost" nearby tower's firing rates.
• Chain Lightning Tower. A tower that does pure electric damage that jumps from one mob to the next.
• Sticky Tower. Does no damage, but will slow down anything it hits.
• Flame Tower. Does fire damage in a small area, burning everything in its path.
• Frost Tower. Similar to the flame tower, but fires a cloud of ice. Does low damage, but slows down the enemy.

Combat and Ranged Attacking

• "Ranged attack" code will be added to mob AI, laying the framework for villagers to use bows, as well as allow some monsters to use ranged attacks, like having fire elementals throw fireballs.
• Shields will be added to the game, giving the mob holder a chance to block and advert all possible damage.

[ 2017-08-26 09:54:51 CET ] [ Original post ]

There seems to be an issue with Rise to Ruins in the last few days, and appears to be something on Valve's end and out of my control. It is causing user's save data to be corrupted when they save and exit the game. It appears Steam Cloud is erroneously syncing corrupted data for some players. In the mean time, I have disabled Auto-Cloud on my end within Steamworks, but it does not appear to be solving the problem for everybody. I strongly suggest you should disable Cloud Saving for Rise to Ruins and restart your client just to be safe. 1) In your Steam Library, right-click on Rise to Ruins and select "Properties." 2) Click the "Updates" tab. 3) Uncheck "Enable Steam Cloud synchronization for Rise to Ruins." 4) Click "Close." 5) Restart Stream. Sorry in advance for anyone who loses their data! Hopefully this issue will be resolved as fast as possible. But disabling Steam Cloud should protect you. :)

[ 2017-08-18 18:16:04 CET ] [ Original post ]

InDev 27c has been released. This is just a small patch, addressing some issues users on single and dual core processors were having with the new dedicated thread system. This patch should improve performance for users with less than 4 CPU threads, as well as give all players more control over the dedicated thread if they want to manually enable or disable it.

InDev 27c Change Log

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• The new dedicated thread added in InDev 27 will now be disabled automatically on systems with less than 4 available CPU threads (Mostly, this only effects single and dual core processors).
• Fixed a rare crash if a guard is trying to post at a outpost or barracks at the exact moment the building is destroyed.

Miscellaneous Changes

• The Ancillary's range has been increased slightly.
• You can forcibly toggle the new dedicated thread in the settings menu, but it is highly recommended you keep it set to "Auto".

[ 2017-08-16 21:28:18 CET ] [ Original post ]

One of the most anticipated stable builds has arrived! This patch introduces two of the most requested features in the community, guards and gates. Like every major stable patch, there's simply just too much to talk about! So check out the extensive change log for details on all the new AI changes, disaster system, building mechanics and tons more! This patch went a bit off the rails from the original road map. Originally, more towers, and golem upgrades were also planned for this patch, but instead you got a some major performance optimizations and gates instead! But no worries, InDev 28 will focus on cleaning up the last of the defense content that was planned between InDev 26 and 27.

NOTE: This patch also completely changes the Cullis Gate mechanics, Cullis Gates will now destroy any resources, or kill any villager or monsters thrown into it in return for some essence.

InDev 27 Change Log

Guards and Barracks

• New Job: Guards. They will patrol around your village, front lines or the perimeter depending on the time of day and try to work in groups to remove any threats in and around the village. Guards will also automatically "post" themselves at the new Outposts or the Barracks, providing a lookout that will call over more guards if danger arrives.
• Villagers can now "Call the guards" when they are attacked, causing up to the 5 nearest guards to be called over for every one monster in the area.
• New Building: Barracks. This building provides guards, and stores a large amount of equipment for them to use and gives them an alternative place to sleep. The Barracks will also gain a small bow tower when upgraded to maximum
• New Building: Outpost. Adds a small amount of guard slots, and has some storage for equipment. The maximum upgraded version also gains a small bow tower.
• Outposts now take the place of Fire Pits now, providing as much range as the old Large Fire Pit, and should be considered in place of Fire Pits when expanding the village.

Gates

• A new gate system has been added, introducing the first types of gates. The Wooden and Stone Gates. Gates allow villagers, nomads and golems to travel through them, but not monsters. This allows you to make "safe exits" in your village that circumvent your defenses.

Blood Moon

• The Blood Moon is a new lunar event that can happen in the Spring or Autumn (by default) randomly. During a blood moon, it will rain blood, generate red "Fire" lightning and spawn new Blood Slimes in the village!

Disaster System

• Tons of new disasters have been added, that can happen randomly as you play. Some disasters require certain weather conditions.
• Meteor Shower - This disaster can happen at any time, and will rain meteors down from the sky on to your village.
• Electrical Storm - This disaster can take the place of rain or snow, resulting in a massive amount of lightning and thunder, but very little rain.
• Hail - This disaster can take the place of rain or snow, but can only happen if it's cold outside. Will rain down hail onto the village, possibly damaging all buildings and mobs outside.
• Blight - This disaster will eat away at any living plant life in the area, including your farms!
• Earthquake - Shake the ground and damage anything nearby!

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed a stack overflow error with range map desirability that would cause the desirability to "roll over" on itself, returning back to 0.
• Fixed a few miscellaneous GUI typos.
• Removed some benchmark code from the object overlay system.
• In the rare event a mob is hit by another friendly mob or tower, it will not attack back.
• Fixed missing Abandoned Recombobulator Tower GUI icon.
• Cleaned up some resource placement code, preventing resources from being placed "in air" more than once at the same time.
• Fixed Ice Spray tower damage.
• Fixed some erroneous names in the mob list.
• Pathfinding is now multithreaded, boosting late game performance by offloading much of the pathfinding code to another dedicated thread.
• Village range map system has been sent off to a dedicated thread, reducing overall CPU usage on the main thread and optimizing performance.
• Fixed some response time issues with Twitch integration when Twitch's servers are running slow.
• Fixed some comparator/sorting bugs.
• Mouse wheel scrolling works in the map editor now.
• Fixed some minor tileset flagging issues.
• Fixed a crash bug in the follow mob AI when the path generated was generated before the map was updated.
• Can no longer set minimum Limbo villagers in custom mode to 0.
• Fixed some typos in the custom mode config.
• Fixed a lightning positioning glitch during storms.
• Implemented possible profile deletion bug fix that should do a better job of avoiding "Corrupted Profiles" after a deletion attempt.
• Tweaked the CPU thread pool code a bit, it now threads more efficiently on dual core systems.
• Fixed a bug where sometimes the map editor would not "clean up" the edging of the map correctly when creating a new map.
• Fixed a bug where more workers than you requested would take a job if you assigned too many too fast.
• Fixed a total worker counting error on the bottom pop out GUI when you had more workers than could fit into the box.

AI Changes

• Golems now patrol around combobulators, recombobulators, and towers.
• Golems will now visit a recombobulator if their health drops below half.
• Fire Elementals are now damaged by water and rain.
• Fire Elementals can now heal.
• Builders now re-run their harvesting task if the harvested material is not something they can use.
• Refining work is now a higher priority on the work AI branch than redistribution, making Carpenters, Stone Cutters and other refining workers more inclined to do their job.
• In the event a path into your village is extremely long, monsters will now consider attacking nearby walls or gates to get in.
• Fire Elementals can no longer cross water.
• Ghosts and Spectures can now walk through walls and small objects.
• Villagers no longer look for bandages or potions when hurt, but rather try to always keep one on hand.
• A new trading AI branch has been added to all villagers, that will allow them to trade directly with one another to get the correct tools, weapons, armor, food or anything else they may require.
• Refiners and manufacturers can no longer assist building projects.
• Nomad spawning no longer checks if they can reach the village on their own. But now requires a larger movement area.
• Slimes are no longer hostile in the daytime.
• Lightning now scares villagers.
• Water Bottlers and Cooks can no longer deliver rations and bottled water to homes or storage.
• Water Masters can now store and redistribute water bottles.
• Villagers can now flee into their home if panicked.
• Changed around Miner, Lumberjack and Crystal Harvestry AI to sort resources evenly, by priority, rather than closest by priority.

Building Changes

• Decreased range of Fire Pits.
• You can now "pull" essence out of essence collectors by hovering your hand over them.
• Nerfed Static Tower slightly.
• Screen no longer shakes when a building is damaged, only when it is destroyed.
• The Cullis Gate has been completely rewritten. You can now drop mobs and resources into it (Including monsters!), sacrificing them for essence. But if you're not careful they can overload and explode into a massive earthquake.
• Reduced the construction costs of all walls.
• Adjusted how buildings gain hit points, so weaker builders are stronger, and stronger buildings are weaker.
• Reduced overall fire damage taken by buildings.
• Golem Combobulators can no longer heal golems.
• Renamed all walls to something more accurate.
• Reduced the storage priority of Ancillaries, Camps and Large Storage to "Very low", putting specialized storage at a higher priority.

Interface Changes

• Removed golems from the population quick tab.
• Added barrack occupancy to various locations on the GUI.
• Lightning rod range can now be selected in the GUI.
• Changed "Total Buildings" in the building drop down icon to the Civic icon.
• Added total ancillaries to the building list panel
• Brought back the mouse on the splash screen.
• Death messages now pop up in the console.
• "Has been completed" and "Has been fully repaired" messages no longer pop up on the console for monster spawners.
• Many of the new disaster and blood moon settings can now be changed in Custom Mode.
• You can now select starting resources configurations in custom.
• Added or updated several of the notification sound effects.

Miscellaneous Changes

• 5 new songs: Winter is Nigh, Gloom, Sorrow, Black Raven and Underworld.
• Spectures renamed to Specters.
• Updated song: Goodbye Retro Sky.
• Reworked Fire Blast spell into a new "Meteor" spell that can generate rock.
• Tweaked and added many new particle effects.
• Essence changes colors when attracted to your hand.
• Specters have been made slightly less resistant to physical damage.
• You can no longer send golems to Limbo.
• "Take From Limbo" and "Send To Limbo" costs reduced.
• The inventory slots have been changed, now mobs can have a new shield slot (Currently unused), and the two item slots have been replaced with 3 dedicated slots of a recovery item, a food item and a water item.
• Thirst no longer goes down when it is raining.
• Lightning now does more damage to mobs, and is percentage based.
• Added a "drop resource on ground" sound effect.
• Decreased durability of tools and weapons.
• Decreased drop rate of items on all mobs.
• Added "Magic" background sounds during a Full or Blood Moon.
• Renamed some of the water tile set phases to something more accurate.

[ 2017-08-13 20:50:11 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! InDev 27 Unstable 4 has been released, and will likely be the final build before releasing InDev 27 Stable! This patch mostly polishes and balances the content added over Unstable 1, 2 and 3, but also includes a handful of AI tweaks and bug fixes. Be sure to test the hell out of it! Stable will likely be released sometime this weekend. You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 27 Unstable 4 Change Log

Disaster System

• Greatly reduced the chance a disaster will happen inside the village. Although it is still somewhat common.
• Hail and Earthquakes no longer damages walls, gates and firepits.
• Disasters now can not strike for the first 3 days.
• Earthquake and meteor has a small change of digging a hole into the ground.
• Earthquake, Meteor and any other events that can damage terrain can no longer "damage" water.
• Reduced Meteor damage.

AI Changes

• Golems now patrol around combobulators, recombobulators, and towers.
• Golems will now visit a recombobulator if their health drops below half.
• Fire Elementals are now damaged by water and rain.
• Fire Elementals can now heal.
• Builders now re-run their harvesting task if the harvested material is not something they can use.
• Refining work is now a higher priority on the work AI branch than redistribution, making Carpenters, Stone Cutters and other refining workers more inclined to do their job.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed a bug that could cause the game to crash if the barracks are built too close to a wall while being updated, and a guard tries to flee home.
• Resource Spawn Type settings are now saved in custom mode templates.
• Implemented possible profile deletion bug fix that should do a better job of avoiding "Corrupted Profiles" after a deletion attempt.
• Tweaked the CPU thread pool code a bit, it now threads more efficiently on dual core systems.
• Gates are now properly rendered in the map writer. (Shift+F2)
• Blood Rain during Blood Moon now correctly starts even if it is already raining in game.
• Fixed a rare bug that would cause monsters to attack their own spawners.
• Fixed a bug where sometimes the map editor would not "clean up" the edging of the map correctly when creating a new map.
• Fixed a bug where more workers than you requested would take a job if you assigned too many too fast.
• Fixed a total worker counting error on the bottom pop out GUI when you had more workers than could fit into the box.
• Fixed a few miscellaneous tile set issues.

Miscellaneous Changes

• New Songs, Black Raven and Underworld.
• Reduced overall fire damage taken by buildings.
• Golem Combobulators can no longer heal golems.
• Fixed the inventory item GUI overlay text.
• Added or updated several of the notification sound effects.
• Added gate opening and closing sounds.
• Added "Magic" background sounds during a Full or Blood Moon.
• Blood moon now generates a small amount of essence.
• Renamed all walls to something more accurate.
• Renamed some of the water tile set phases to something more accurate.
• Increased the amount disaster chances increment/decrement when right clicked in the custom mode settings.
• Reduced the storage priority of Ancillaries, Camps and Large Storage to "Very low", putting specialized storage at a higher priority.

InDev 27 Unstable 3 Change Log

Disaster System

• Tons of new disasters have been added, that can happen randomly as you play. Some disasters require certain weather conditions.
• Meteor Shower - This disaster can happen at any time, and will rain meteors down from the sky on to your village.
• Electrical Storm - This disaster can take the place of rain or snow, resulting in a massive amount of lightning and thunder, but very little rain.
• Hail - This disaster can take the place of rain or snow, but can only happen if it's cold outside. Will rain down hail onto the village, possibly damaging all buildings and mobs outside.
• Blight - This disaster will eat away at any living plant life in the area, including your farms!
• Earthquake - Shake the ground and damage anything nearby!

Blood Moon

• The Blood Moon is a new lunar event that can happen in the Spring or Autumn (by default) randomly. During a blood moon, it will rain blood, generate red "Fire" lightning and spawn new Blood Slimes in the village!

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed some minor tileset flagging issues.
• Fixed a crash bug in the follow mob AI when the path generated was generated before the map was updated.
• Can no longer set minimum Limbo villagers in custom mode to 0.
• Fixed some typos in the custom mode config.
• Fixed a lightning positioning glitch during storms.

AI Changes

• Water Bottlers and Cooks can no longer deliver rations and bottled water to homes or storage.
• Water Masters can now store and redistribute water bottles.
• Villagers can now flee into their home if panicked.
• Changed around Miner, Lumberjack and Crystal Harvestry AI to sort resources evenly, by priority, rather than closest by priority.

Building Changes

• Barracks can now store food, water and house guards.
• Increased range of Outposts.
• Decreased range of Fire Pits.
• You can now "pull" essence out of essence collectors by hovering your hand over them.
• The Stone Wall Gate has been added.
• Nerfed Static Tower slightly.
• Screen no longer shakes when a building is damaged, only when it is destroyed.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Removed golems from the population quick tab.
• Added barrack occupancy to various locations on the GUI.
• Lightning rod range can now be selected in the GUI.
• Reworked Fire Blast spell into a new "Meteor" spell that can generate rock.
• Changed "Total Buildings" in the building drop down icon to the Civic icon.
• Added total ancillaries to the building list panel
• Tweaked and added many new particle effects.
• New Songs: Gloom and Sorrow.
• Updated the song "Goodbye Retro Sky"
• Essence changes colors when attracted to your hand.
• Brought back the mouse on the splash screen.
• Death messages now pop up in the console.
• "Has been completed" and "Has been fully repaired" messages no longer pop up on the console for monster spawners.
• Lightning now does more damage to mobs, and is percentage based.
• Added a "drop resource on ground" sound effect.
• Village range map system has been sent off to a dedicated thread, reducing overall CPU usage on the main thread and optimizing performance.
• Increased durability of tools and weapons.
• Decreased drop rate of items on all mobs.
• Many of the new disaster and blood moon settings can now be changed in Custom Mode.
• You can now select starting resources configurations in custom.

InDev 27 Unstable 2 Change Log

Gates

• A new gate system has been added, introducing the first type of gate. The Wooden Gate. Gates allow villagers, nomads and golems to travel through them, but not monsters. This allows you to make "safe exits" in your village that circumvent your defenses.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed Ice Spray tower damage.
• Fixed some erroneous names in the mob list.
• Pathfinding is now multithreaded, boosting late game performance by offloading much of the pathfinding code to another dedicated thread.
• Fixed some response time issues with Twitch integration when Twitch's servers are running slow.
• Fixed some comparator/sorting bugs.
• Fixed a guard crash that triggers on load when it can't find a way point.
• Mouse wheel scrolling works in the map editor now.

Pathfinding Changes

• In the event a path into your village is extremely long, monsters will now consider attacking nearby walls or gates to get in.
• Fire Elementals can no longer cross water.
• Ghosts and Spectures can now walk through walls and small objects.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Outpost build costs have been reduced slightly.
• Spectures have been made slightly less resistant to physical damage.
• New Song: Winter is Nigh.
• Nomad spawning no longer checks if they can reach the village on their own. But now requires a larger movement area.
• Slimes are no longer hostile in the daytime.
• Refiners and manufacturers can no longer assist building projects.

InDev 27 Unstable 1b HOTFIX Change Log

Miscellaneous Changes

• You can no longer send golems to Limbo.
• Adjusted some wall artwork for the wood wall.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed a bug causing villagers to hardly ever chat, resulting in less of them pairing up and mating.

InDev 27 Unstable 1 Change Log

Guards and Barracks

• New Job: Guards. They will patrol around your village, front lines or the perimeter depending on the time of day and try to work in groups to remove any threats in and around the village. Guards will also automatically "post" themselves at the new Outposts or the Barracks, providing a lookout that will call over more guards if danger arrives.
• Villagers can now "Call the guards" when they are attacked, causing up to the 5 nearest guards to be called over for every one monster in the area.
• New Building: Barracks. This building provides guards, and stores a large amount of equipment for them to use. The Barracks will also gain a small bow tower when upgraded to maximum. In a future update, guards will also be able to use the barracks as a home.
• New Building: Outpost. Adds a small amount of guard slots, and has some storage for equipment. The maximum upgraded version also gains a small bow tower.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed a stack overflow error with range map desirability that would cause the desirability to "roll over" on itself, returning back to 0.
• Fixed a few miscellaneous GUI typos.
• Removed some benchmark code from the object overlay system.
• In the rare event a mob is hit by another friendly mob or tower, it will not attack back.
• Fixed missing Abandoned Recombobulator Tower GUI icon.
• Cleaned up some resource placement code, preventing resources from being placed "in air" more than once at the same time.

Miscellaneous Changes

• A new trading AI branch has been added to all villagers, that will allow them to trade directly with one another to get the correct tools, weapons, armor, food or anything else they may require.
• The Cullis Gate has been completely rewritten. You can now drop mobs and resources into it (Including monsters!), sacrificing them for essence. But if you're not careful they can overload and explode into a massive earthquake.
• "Take From Limbo" and "Send To Limbo" costs reduced.
• The inventory slots have been changed, now mobs can have a new shield slot (Currently unused), and the two item slots have been replaced with 3 dedicated slots of a recovery item, a food item and a water item.
• Thirst no longer goes down when it is raining.
• Reduced the construction costs of all walls.
• Adjusted how buildings gain hit points, so weaker builders are stronger, and stronger buildings are weaker.
• Villagers no longer look for bandages or potions when hurt, but rather try to always keep one on hand.
• Lightning now scares villagers.

Known Issues that will be resolved before the stable build

• Tips are not updated.
• Sometimes guards posted to a job will take their time before they quit.

[ 2017-08-10 22:05:03 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! InDev 27 Unstable 3 has been released. Get ready for the disasters! This patch brings in the new disaster system, some AI improvements, the guard housing system and a ton of other tweaks and changes! Check out the change log below for all the juicy details. You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 27 Unstable 3 Change Log

Disaster System

• Tons of new disasters have been added, that can happen randomly as you play. Some disasters require certain weather conditions.
• Meteor Shower - This disaster can happen at any time, and will rain meteors down from the sky on to your village.
• Electrical Storm - This disaster can take the place of rain or snow, resulting in a massive amount of lightning and thunder, but very little rain.
• Hail - This disaster can take the place of rain or snow, but can only happen if it's cold outside. Will rain down hail onto the village, possibly damaging all buildings and mobs outside.
• Blight - This disaster will eat away at any living plant life in the area, including your farms!
• Earthquake - Shake the ground and damage anything nearby!

Blood Moon

• The Blood Moon is a new lunar event that can happen in the Spring or Autumn (by default) randomly. During a blood moon, it will rain blood, generate red "Fire" lightning and spawn new Blood Slimes in the village!

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed some minor tileset flagging issues.
• Fixed a crash bug in the follow mob AI when the path generated was generated before the map was updated.
• Can no longer set minimum Limbo villagers in custom mode to 0.
• Fixed some typos in the custom mode config.
• Fixed a lightning positioning glitch during storms.

AI Changes

• Water Bottlers and Cooks can no longer deliver rations and bottled water to homes or storage.
• Water Masters can now store and redistribute water bottles.
• Villagers can now flee into their home if panicked.
• Changed around Miner, Lumberjack and Crystal Harvestry AI to sort resources evenly, by priority, rather than closest by priority.

Building Changes

• Barracks can now store food, water and house guards.
• Increased range of Outposts.
• Decreased range of Fire Pits.
• You can now "pull" essence out of essence collectors by hovering your hand over them.
• The Stone Wall Gate has been added.
• Nerfed Static Tower slightly.
• Screen no longer shakes when a building is damaged, only when it is destroyed.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Removed golems from the population quick tab.
• Added barrack occupancy to various locations on the GUI.
• Lightning rod range can now be selected in the GUI.
• Reworked Fire Blast spell into a new "Meteor" spell that can generate rock.
• Changed "Total Buildings" in the building drop down icon to the Civic icon.
• Added total ancillaries to the building list panel
• Tweaked and added many new particle effects.
• New Songs: Gloom and Sorrow.
• Updated the song "Goodbye Retro Sky"
• Essence changes colors when attracted to your hand.
• Brought back the mouse on the splash screen.
• Death messages now pop up in the console.
• "Has been completed" and "Has been fully repaired" messages no longer pop up on the console for monster spawners.
• Lightning now does more damage to mobs, and is percentage based.
• Added a "drop resource on ground" sound effect.
• Village range map system has been sent off to a dedicated thread, reducing overall CPU usage on the main thread and optimizing performance.
• Increased durability of tools and weapons.
• Decreased drop rate of items on all mobs.
• Many of the new disaster and blood moon settings can now be changed in Custom Mode.
• You can now select starting resources configurations in custom.

InDev 27 Unstable 2 Change Log

Gates

• A new gate system has been added, introducing the first type of gate. The Wooden Gate. Gates allow villagers, nomads and golems to travel through them, but not monsters. This allows you to make "safe exits" in your village that circumvent your defenses.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed Ice Spray tower damage.
• Fixed some erroneous names in the mob list.
• Pathfinding is now multithreaded, boosting late game performance by offloading much of the pathfinding code to another dedicated thread.
• Fixed some response time issues with Twitch integration when Twitch's servers are running slow.
• Fixed some comparator/sorting bugs.
• Fixed a guard crash that triggers on load when it can't find a way point.
• Mouse wheel scrolling works in the map editor now.

Pathfinding Changes

• In the event a path into your village is extremely long, monsters will now consider attacking nearby walls or gates to get in.
• Fire Elementals can no longer cross water.
• Ghosts and Spectures can now walk through walls and small objects.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Outpost build costs have been reduced slightly.
• Spectures have been made slightly less resistant to physical damage.
• New Song: Winter is Nigh.
• Nomad spawning no longer checks if they can reach the village on their own. But now requires a larger movement area.
• Slimes are no longer hostile in the daytime.
• Refiners and manufacturers can no longer assist building projects.

InDev 27 Unstable 1b HOTFIX Change Log

Miscellaneous Changes

• You can no longer send golems to Limbo.
• Adjusted some wall artwork for the wood wall.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed a bug causing villagers to hardly ever chat, resulting in less of them pairing up and mating.

InDev 27 Unstable 1 Change Log

Guards and Barracks

• New Job: Guards. They will patrol around your village, front lines or the perimeter depending on the time of day and try to work in groups to remove any threats in and around the village. Guards will also automatically "post" themselves at the new Outposts or the Barracks, providing a lookout that will call over more guards if danger arrives.
• Villagers can now "Call the guards" when they are attacked, causing up to the 5 nearest guards to be called over for every one monster in the area.
• New Building: Barracks. This building provides guards, and stores a large amount of equipment for them to use. The Barracks will also gain a small bow tower when upgraded to maximum. In a future update, guards will also be able to use the barracks as a home.
• New Building: Outpost. Adds a small amount of guard slots, and has some storage for equipment. The maximum upgraded version also gains a small bow tower.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed a stack overflow error with range map desirability that would cause the desirability to "roll over" on itself, returning back to 0.
• Fixed a few miscellaneous GUI typos.
• Removed some benchmark code from the object overlay system.
• In the rare event a mob is hit by another friendly mob or tower, it will not attack back.
• Fixed missing Abandoned Recombobulator Tower GUI icon.
• Cleaned up some resource placement code, preventing resources from being placed "in air" more than once at the same time.

Miscellaneous Changes

• A new trading AI branch has been added to all villagers, that will allow them to trade directly with one another to get the correct tools, weapons, armor, food or anything else they may require.
• The Cullis Gate has been completely rewritten. You can now drop mobs and resources into it (Including monsters!), sacrificing them for essence. But if you're not careful they can overload and explode into a massive earthquake.
• "Take From Limbo" and "Send To Limbo" costs reduced.
• The inventory slots have been changed, now mobs can have a new shield slot (Currently unused), and the two item slots have been replaced with 3 dedicated slots of a recovery item, a food item and a water item.
• Thirst no longer goes down when it is raining.
• Reduced the construction costs of all walls.
• Adjusted how buildings gain hit points, so weaker builders are stronger, and stronger buildings are weaker.
• Villagers no longer look for bandages or potions when hurt, but rather try to always keep one on hand.
• Lightning now scares villagers.

Known Issues that will be resolved before the stable build

• Tips are not updated.
• Sometimes guards posted to a job will take their time before they quit.

[ 2017-08-04 16:10:31 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! InDev 27 Unstable 2 has been released. This patch introduces the first part of one of the most commonly requested features; Gates! You can now build wood gates that allow villagers to cross, but not monsters. More gate types will be added before InDev 27 Stable is released, but for now, enjoy the wood variants! This patch also completely rewrote monster pathfinding. If in the event a maze is too long, monsters will start considering attacking your walls or gates, even if an open path into your village exists. The thicker the walls (Hint: Double Thick walls!) the more likely they'll go for your maze entrance instead. This patch is chalk full of huge code changes to the pathfinding system to complement the new multithreading, gates and monster movement restrictions. So be sure to keep an eye out for any bugs! You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 27 Unstable 2 Change Log

Gates

• A new gate system has been added, introducing the first type of gate. The Wooden Gate. Gates allow villagers, nomads and golems to travel through them, but not monsters. This allows you to make "safe exits" in your village that circumvent your defenses.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed Ice Spray tower damage.
• Fixed some erroneous names in the mob list.
• Pathfinding is now multithreaded, boosting late game performance by offloading much of the pathfinding code to another dedicated thread.
• Fixed some response time issues with Twitch integration when Twitch's servers are running slow.
• Fixed some comparator/sorting bugs.
• Fixed a guard crash that triggers on load when it can't find a way point.
• Mouse wheel scrolling works in the map editor now.

Pathfinding Changes

• In the event a path into your village is extremely long, monsters will now consider attacking nearby walls or gates to get in.
• Fire Elementals can no longer cross water.
• Ghosts and Spectures can now walk through walls and small objects.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Outpost build costs have been reduced slightly.
• Spectures have been made slightly less resistant to physical damage.
• New Song: Winter is Nigh.
• Nomad spawning no longer checks if they can reach the village on their own. But now requires a larger movement area.
• Slimes are no longer hostile in the daytime.
• Refiners and manufacturers can no longer assist building projects.

InDev 27 Unstable 1b HOTFIX Change Log

Miscellaneous Changes

• You can no longer send golems to Limbo.
• Adjusted some wall artwork for the wood wall.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed a bug causing villagers to hardly ever chat, resulting in less of them pairing up and mating.

InDev 27 Unstable 1 Change Log

Guards and Barracks

• New Job: Guards. They will patrol around your village, front lines or the perimeter depending on the time of day and try to work in groups to remove any threats in and around the village. Guards will also automatically "post" themselves at the new Outposts or the Barracks, providing a lookout that will call over more guards if danger arrives.
• Villagers can now "Call the guards" when they are attacked, causing up to the 5 nearest guards to be called over for every one monster in the area.
• New Building: Barracks. This building provides guards, and stores a large amount of equipment for them to use. The Barracks will also gain a small bow tower when upgraded to maximum. In a future update, guards will also be able to use the barracks as a home.
• New Building: Outpost. Adds a small amount of guard slots, and has some storage for equipment. The maximum upgraded version also gains a small bow tower.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed a stack overflow error with range map desirability that would cause the desirability to "roll over" on itself, returning back to 0.
• Fixed a few miscellaneous GUI typos.
• Removed some benchmark code from the object overlay system.
• In the rare event a mob is hit by another friendly mob or tower, it will not attack back.
• Fixed missing Abandoned Recombobulator Tower GUI icon.
• Cleaned up some resource placement code, preventing resources from being placed "in air" more than once at the same time.

Miscellaneous Changes

• A new trading AI branch has been added to all villagers, that will allow them to trade directly with one another to get the correct tools, weapons, armor, food or anything else they may require.
• The Cullis Gate has been completely rewritten. You can now drop mobs and resources into it (Including monsters!), sacrificing them for essence. But if you're not careful they can overload and explode into a massive earthquake.
• "Take From Limbo" and "Send To Limbo" costs reduced.
• The inventory slots have been changed, now mobs can have a new shield slot (Currently unused), and the two item slots have been replaced with 3 dedicated slots of a recovery item, a food item and a water item.
• Thirst no longer goes down when it is raining.
• Reduced the construction costs of all walls.
• Adjusted how buildings gain hit points, so weaker builders are stronger, and stronger buildings are weaker.
• Villagers no longer look for bandages or potions when hurt, but rather try to always keep one on hand.
• Lightning now scares villagers.

Known Issues that will be resolved before the stable build

• Tips are not updated.
• Sometimes guards posted to a job will take their time before they quit.

[ 2017-07-23 17:58:04 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! The first InDev 27 release is here. This patch introduces most of the new guard AI, some trading AI and a bunch of other new mechanics and tweaks. The guards still need some additional AI tweaking, but let me know down in the comments what you think thus far!

NOTE: This patch also completely changes the Cullis Gate mechanics, Cullis Gates will now destroy any resources, or kill any villager or monsters thrown into it in return for some essence.

You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 27 Unstable 1 Change Log

Guards and Barracks

• New Job: Guards. They will patrol around your village, front lines or the perimeter depending on the time of day and try to work in groups to remove any threats in and around the village. Guards will also automatically "post" themselves at the new Outposts or the Barracks, providing a lookout that will call over more guards if danger arrives.
• Villagers can now "Call the guards" when they are attacked, causing up to the 5 nearest guards to be called over for every one monster in the area.
• New Building: Barracks. This building provides guards, and stores a large amount of equipment for them to use. The Barracks will also gain a small bow tower when upgraded to maximum. In a future update, guards will also be able to use the barracks as a home.
• New Building: Outpost. Adds a small amount of guard slots, and has some storage for equipment. The maximum upgraded version also gains a small bow tower.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed a stack overflow error with range map desirability that would cause the desirability to "roll over" on itself, returning back to 0.
• Fixed a few miscellaneous GUI typos.
• Removed some benchmark code from the object overlay system.
• In the rare event a mob is hit by another friendly mob or tower, it will not attack back.
• Fixed missing Abandoned Recombobulator Tower GUI icon.
• Cleaned up some resource placement code, preventing resources from being placed "in air" more than once at the same time.

Miscellaneous Changes

• A new trading AI branch has been added to all villagers, that will allow them to trade directly with one another to get the correct tools, weapons, armor, food or anything else they may require.
• The Cullis Gate has been completely rewritten. You can now drop mobs and resources into it (Including monsters!), sacrificing them for essence. But if you're not careful they can overload and explode into a massive earthquake.
• "Take From Limbo" and "Send To Limbo" costs reduced.
• The inventory slots have been changed, now mobs can have a new shield slot (Currently unused), and the two item slots have been replaced with 3 dedicated slots of a recovery item, a food item and a water item.
• Thirst no longer goes down when it is raining.
• Reduced the construction costs of all walls.
• Adjusted how buildings gain hit points, so weaker builders are stronger, and stronger buildings are weaker.
• Villagers no longer look for bandages or potions when hurt, but rather try to always keep one on hand.
• Lightning now scares villagers.

Known Issues that will be resolved before the stable build

• Tips are not updated.
• Sometimes guards posted to a job will take their time before they quit.

[ 2017-07-14 00:26:13 CET ] [ Original post ]

Greetings fellow players, For a while now, I've been debating a paradigm shift in Rise to Ruins. This is mostly a result of everyone's feedback. There are many features in Rise to Ruins that are heavily requested, but I usually respond with a polite "no" and explain myself. The reason provided is Rise to Ruins is intended to be a Godlike Village Simulator, with as little "Village Management" as I can get away with. The core philosophy of Rise to Ruins is a "Hands off" approach, similar to some of the game's grandfathers, like the game Black and White. Many of these features requested are completely reasonable, wouldn't be hard to code in, and would make the game much more fun. They just don't fall under my vision of what a "godlike" is. A very common counterargument I hear when I tell people "no" is that "You already have a ton of direct control, like placing buildings or assigning workers". Guess what? They're absolutely correct! Would it even take away from the godlike elements to allow a little more? Likely not. My only concern is losing the godlike charm seen in games like Black and White while also adding some of the management roles seen in games like Town, Rimworld and Banished. But, I think it still can, and of course, the end goal is for everyone to enjoy playing anyway. Here's a few examples of some of the requested features I get constantly, that I turn down and the reasoning behind it. These are some of the things I may change my mind on, depending on your feedback to this post. 1. "I would like to be able to select what building can, and can't store" This one simply feels like way too much direct control. You're a god, you should not be able to explicitly tell your villagers where to store things. 2. "I would like to be able to configure my towers to attack closest, farthest, lowest hit point, or highest hit point monsters" Like above, it feels like too much direct control. It's not up to you to decide how they fire, it's up to the villagers (in reality, the AI for each tower is configured to what I feel is best. But players may disagree with my choices and want something different) 3. "I want to control storage distribution priority." Somewhat in line with number 1. Another reasonable setting. Again, I set these things based on my own personal opinion what is best, and again, this is something players may disagree with me on and want to change themselves, in-game. 4. "I want to control how much of items are made" This is a big one, currently the system uses a ton of algorithms to decide how much tools, armor, items and everything else is made. The system is completely autonomous. Just like all the others, I feel this is how it should be as a godlike, because god does not get to decide what the villagers do with their resources. Now the great thing about adding everything I mentioned, is many of these will work just like they do now anyway, the only difference is you'll be given control to change them. So while it increases micromanagement, it'll only increase micromanagement for players who decide to do it. Going down this path may result in an even more entertaining game. But it will cause a subtle paradigm shift in the long term development, pushing it a little closer to more traditional village simulators, like Towns, Rimworld, Banished and Gnomoria. Please, let me know down in the comments what you think, and vote in this Strawpoll with your final overall answer.

[ 2017-07-06 18:40:41 CET ] [ Original post ]

InDev 26d is now released, and likely the final patch in the InDev 26 series. InDev 27 is already under heavy development, but these are just some small quality of life changes and adjustments (mostly from your feedback) I decided to slip in a bit early. Most of these changes were slated for InDev 27 Unstable 1, but there wasn't much reason to hold them back from you guys. So here they are! If you're looking for the behemoth sized InDev 26 change logs a few weeks ago, check out this post. You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 26d Change Log

AI Changes

• Improved farmer AI, they will now tend and water crops more often.
• Fixed an issue where cooks would stop making rations if the ration count was greater than the population count.
• Fixed the over harvesting of dirty water when there was no where to store it.
• Rearranged the water job priorities to make keeping the water purifier stocked more important than refining clean water buckets.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Minimap can now be toggled to a 2x size.
• Nomads are now cyan colored dots on the minimap.
• Added the new official Discord server links to the game's main menu.

[ 2017-06-26 18:58:28 CET ] [ Original post ]

Greetings everyone, Due to overwhelming popular demand, I decided to jump on board the Discord train. If you're interested in joining the new Rise to Ruins discord, simply click here!

[ 2017-06-21 11:29:52 CET ] [ Original post ]

The Guard Update is now underway! This updates main focus will be, you guessed it, adding guards to the game! Guards will be mostly autonomous, creating patrol routes inside and outside your village, trying their best to keep everyone safe. When they feel their numbers are high enough, they will head out and try to clear out the nearby area of monsters and spawners, giving you room to expand in the future. Guards will also be able to train back in their barracks, leveling up slowly in their spare time. Time permitting, this update will also be adding in a handful of new towers, and rework Golem AI. As well as my usual random additional throughout development.

If you have any requests, be sure to post them in the comments. Let me know what you want, and how you want it to work! You might just find it sneak into the next patch. :)

InDev 27 Road Map

Guards, Barracks, Watchtowers and Defense

• A new guard job will be added, guards will work together and create patrol routes in and outside your village. They will also spar/train with each other in their spare time to level up.
• A barracks building will be added. The barracks will provide the guard job slots, functions as an alternative location to store weapons and armor, as well as provide alternative housing for your guards.
• Watchtowers will be added, replacing the fire pit's functionality as build range extenders, and also encouraging the guards to patrol in those areas.
• Time permitting, "Ranged attack" code will be added to mob AI, laying the framework for villagers to use bows, as well as allow some monsters to use ranged attacks, like having fire elementals throw fireballs.
• Golem Combobulators will get upgrade phases, each phase will increase spawn rates, golem slots and provide higher level golems.
• A new "Crystal Golem" combobulator will be added, a very weak golem that does primarily magic damage.

New Towers

• Haste Tower. Increases the movement speed of all mobs (Monsters and villagers included) in the area.
• Boost Tower. A tower that will use essence to "boost" nearby towers firing rates.
• Chain Lightning Tower. A tower that does pure electric damage that jumps from one mob to the next.
• Sticky Tower. Does no damage, but will slow down anything it hits.
• Flame Tower. Does fire damage in a small area, burning everything in its path.
• Frost Tower. Similar to the flame tower, but fires a cloud of ice. Does low damage, but slows down the enemy.

Disasters

• A disaster system will be added, full of random chance events that will cause all sorts of problems for you and your village, including meteor storms, earthquakes, drought, disease, and all manner of different issues.

Miscellaneous

• Fire Pits will be nerfed, but still provide some range. This is to facility the change making Watchtowers the primary source of extending village range.
• Farms will be reworked to allow them to also be supplied with dirty water, if available.

[ 2017-06-20 10:42:48 CET ] [ Original post ]

A small patch release today, mostly addressing some bugs that creeped up in InDev 26's release. This patch also introduces 3 new maps to explore and a few minor gameplay tweaks. Check out the change log! If you're looking for the behemoth sized patch change logs from last week, check out this post. You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 26b Change Log

Miscellaneous Changes

• Three new maps added to the game, Stonerock, Silvercoast and Merrowshore.
• Refining and manufacturing AI now allow workers to quits their job while refining even if they could keep working.
• Buffed crystal motivators slightly by increasing effectiveness per shot, and reducing energy costs.

Optimizations and Bug Fixes

• Fixed an extremely rare crash when a farm was removed from the game, but farmers still attempted to interact with it.
• Did some minor optimizations to the map and shadow tile refresh speeds when the map is changed.
• Fixed an "endless loop" crash when casting Earthquake on the edge of the map.
• You are no longer allowed to change the priority of hostile buildings (and crashing the game when you do).
• Possible fix for the tileset data not loading for some users.
• Re-added missing buttons on the disclaimer page.
• Fixed minimap colors for dirt and light brown dirt being swapped.
• Fixed child ghosts respawning with 0 in most stats when resurrected.
• Possible fix for ghosts living in houses if they happened to die in their home.
• Static tower damage now displayed in the GUI

[ 2017-06-10 23:58:05 CET ] [ Original post ]

Possibly one of the largest content patches in Rise to Ruins history has been released. Over 2 months in the making, I'm proud to finally release The Defense Update! This update brings in a ton of new content ranging from new towers, rebalancing, improved AI, new game modes, and a bunch more. This patch also includes sweeping changes to game performance, increasing baseline frame rates by as much at 10 times what they were for some lower end machines. Check out the change log for all the expansive changes, and let me know down in the comments what you think, as well as if you noticed any significant performance boosts! You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 26 Change Log

Game Modes

• New Game Mode: Custom. This mode lets you set a whole manner of difficulty settings, allowing you to create a game mode to fit your play style.
• New Game Mode: Nightmare. This mode is insanely, over the top difficult. Designed specifically for masochistic veteran players. There's no spawn delay, the spawn rates are higher, monsters are pre-spawned and full moons are less frequent.
• New Game Mode: Peaceful. While this mode carries the same name as the old removed Peaceful Mode (that was retooled into Traditional Mode), this mode is truly peaceful, with no monster spawns what so ever.
• Traditional mode is now a bit harder, but is still fairly easy.
• Survival mode has been very slightly nerfed, to make up for the changes making monster spawners more difficult to destroy.

Damage Type System

• Every damage in the game now has an assigned "type". Some types, like blight or poison, have residual status effects.
• Towers can now target a new monster before the old target is dead, if the new target is closer or more vulnerable to the tower's damage type.
• Mobs can be resistant or vulnerable to damage certain damage types. For example, the skeleton is now highly resistant to piercing damage from the bow tower.
• Zombies now do "Blight" damage, and can turn a villager into a zombie if they die while blighted.
• Slimes can now poison villagers.
• Being poisoned, on fire, frozen or blighted is now factored into fight or flight.
• Medics can now heal blight and poison.
• Healing aura now heals blight and poison.

Buildings and Towers

• All 4 original towers from InDev 25 can now be upgraded, increasing their damage, firing rates and sometimes range. Their final upgrades all offer additional elemental damage of some kind. For example, the final stage bow tower can be upgraded into a fire, ice or poison bow tower.
• The fire bolt tower has been replaced with a very similar elemental bolt tower, that can later be upgraded into a fire, ice or electric bolt tower.
• New Tower: The Spray Tower, a slightly more powerful variant to the Bullet Tower, very inaccurate, but has high rate of fire.
• New Tower: The Recombobulator. Will heal nearby golems. Does not work on the Holy Golem.
• New Tower: The Attract Tower. Will pull nearby equipable items to it. Useful for fetching item drops out of a monster heavy area.
• New Tower: The Banish Tower. A very expensive, short range tower that will banish an enemy that gets near it.
• New Tower: The Static Tower. Does low damage to all monsters in range, consuming more energy the more monsters that are nearby.
• New Tower: Phantom Dart Tower. A small 1x1 sized early game tower that does very low level magic damage, and can easily be built by day one or two.
• New tower: The Ballista. The ballista is a mid-late game large bow tower, with extremely long range, high damage, and a slow firing rate. It can also shoot over anything in the game (Including terrain).
• The kitchen is now upgradable.
• The clinic is now upgradable.
• New building: The Lightning Rod. This building will attract nearby lightning to it, protecting your walls and other buildings from damage. But it also has the added bonus of converting those lightning strikes into energy that can be used to power your towers and recharge your essence collectors.
• All towers can now be paused, allowing you to stop certain towers from firing all together.
• Completely rewrote the entire missile system's firing mechanics from scratch, creating a more dynamic tower system for future content.
• Crystal motivator completely rewritten into the tower code.
• Crystal motivator now costs energy to fire, and only fires at harvested crystal tiles.
• Essence Collector's first build phase no longer requires cut stone, allowing you to build it much earlier in the game, and can now be upgraded.
• Golem combobulators now require an Essence Collector to function.
• Rain Catcher range extended to 6.

Spawning

• Skeletons no longer spawn until day 4.
• Regular sized slimes can no longer spawn until day 3. But small slimes can still spawn by day 2.
• Fire elementals will not spawn until day 6. (Formally day 5)
• Greatly reduced spawn rate of spawners, but increased the rates spawners themselves spawn. (Meaning more spawners, but the same amount of monsters)
• Increased spawner build time, resource requirements and hit points.

Sound

• Tons of new sound effects have been added for spells, towers, combat, harvesting, construction and much more!
• Game world sound is now quieter the more zoomed out you are.
• Sound loading is now multithreaded.

Twitch Integration

• You can now input your Twitch channel name when you create a new profile, or in the settings menu. When your channel name is input, the game will pull your viewer's list off Twitch and use it to generate random names for your villagers based on your current viewers.

Spells

• Dissolve spell slightly nerfed when used on corpses.
• Tweaked a few spell effects to match the new sounds.
• Storm spell has been buffed a bit.
• Increased flame spell damage.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Monsters can now slowly repair their home spawners if they are damaged.
• Golems can repair their own combobulators.
• Equipment storage can now store water bottles.
• Water Bottler building now provides refining speed bonuses.
• Removed resources on the ground from movement cost calculations.
• Tool tips and other overlays no longer pop up under the interface when you scroll over them.
• Can now move the map father out along the outer edges.
• The hidden "interfaceScale" setting in settings.properties can now be set to fractional values, like 1.2, 1.3, etc.
• Added a new Earthquake spell to the game, that will damage any mobs or buildings nearby, but can generate new rock in the epicenter of the quake.
• Particles can now vary in sizes.
• Many particle, projectile and spell effects have been adjusted.
• Changed restore hunger to restore needs button in sandbox mode, healing thirst, hunger, energy and balancing body temperatures.
• Can now fire missiles in sandbox mode under the miscellaneous tab.
• Holy Golem now does magic damage.
• Added some particles to the console banners.
• Villagers can now trade food, water and bandages if they need them.
• The console banner messages now have some particle effects.
• You can now hit escape in the world map to bring you back to the main menu.
• You can no longer escape out of the game mode selection screen when you visit the world map for the first time after creating a new profile.
• Added status effects to villager pop out panel (Bottom panel, when you click on a villager).
• Removed lightning "branching" that could cause very excessive damage in some cases.
• Lightning can now charge whatever it hits, if the building can store energy.
• You can now move the map with the arrow keys, as well as WASD.
• Increased the chance mobs will wake up from being knocked out/incapacitated.
• Reduced how often villagers stop to chat.
• Decreased the speed that body temperature adjusts, allowing villagers to stay out in the hot or cold longer.
• Rebalanced start stats and level up amounts for all mobs.
• Mobs run away more often when low on health.
• Removed 2 erroneous names from the villager name list.
• Slowed down thirst decay rate for children.
• Added some new death messages and new death message subtitles.
• Generic wood GUI buttons are no longer in all caps.
• Completely removed "Stun" effects from the game's AI.
• Live stream message now pops up on the main menu when live streaming.
• Twitch link added to main menu.
• Reversed changes made that prevent building roads before the way maker shack is completed.
• When resurrected, villagers no longer start with 0 energy, hunger, and thirst.
• Added more surface to Survival Island in an attempt to make the map harder.
• Gave system panel in the main menu a box.

Optimizations and Bug Fixes

• Sweeping optimizations have been done across the entire game, giving Rise to Ruins a 4x to 10x boost in base performance mid-late game for most machines.
• Fixed a water fill level bug when using the grab tool on water sources that would cause the water to drain sooner than it should.
• Fixed an issue with fill phases not working correctly on buildings that only store energy.
• Water now connects correctly while raining if you're digging holes at the same time while the rain is filling them.
• Typing "Reset" into the Doom World input box no longer moves around the map or activates other hotkeys.
• Fixed a minor bug where the last used game mode from one profile would be set in the next, if you changed profiles after playing and have not restarted the game.
• Fixed some lightning generation positioning issues when new lightning is created.
• Completely rewrote the map tileset loader, reducing memory usage and optimizing code flow.
• Fixed overlapping data on the building priority list GUI.
• Fixed harvest food and water shortcut assignment in the settings menu.
• Fixed a few minor shadow and collision map issues on various buildings.
• Energy no longer resets when upgrading a building.
• The "No water production" tip no longer pops up when all water buildings are being upgraded or under construction.
• Optimized golem combobulators resource search system.
• Fixed a bug where the charge level of golem combobulators would reset on reload.
• Fixed some minor sprite coloring issues.
• Improved some of the mob search algorithm. Improving update logic speed game wide.
• Reduced overall mob aggressiveness, making them search for combat less, reducing CPU usage.
• Reduced how often the tick to look for food or water when hungry or thirsty runs, reducing CPU usage.
• Reduced how often mobs wander aimless, to reduce CPU usage.
• Added a slight targeting buffer/delay to tower target searching to reduce CPU usage.
• Fixed the abandoned crystal harvestry in map Enchanted Shoreline.
• Fixed monsters "Turning invisible" when using brute force pathfinding.

[ 2017-06-02 21:37:43 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! InDev 26 Unstable 5 is here! This patch is a bit light on content, but it makes up for it with absolutely huge gains in performance! This is easily one of the fastest running Rise to Ruins builds ever released, with huge gains I think you'll all love. This is also one of the last builds before releasing InDev 26 Stable. So please, test the hell out of it! :) You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 26 Unstable 5 Change Log

Towers

• New Tower: The Static Tower. Does low damage to all monsters in range, consuming more energy the more monsters that are nearby.
• New Tower: Phantom Dart Tower. A small 1x1 sized early game tower, that does very low level magic damage, and can easily be built by day one or two.
• Reduced the firing rate of Spray Towers.
• Reduced the firing rate and damage of Ballista Towers.
• Added a ring around the banish tower when it is reloaded and ready to fire.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Monsters can now slowly repair their home spawners if they are damaged.
• Golems can repair their own combobulators.
• Dissolve spell slightly nerfed when used on corpses.
• Added sound effects for all the spells in the game.
• Tweaked a few spell effects to match the new sounds.
• Storm spell has been buffed a bit.
• Removed resources on the ground from movement cost calculations.
• Tool tips and other overlays no longer pop up under the interface when you scroll over them.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Sweeping optimizations have been done across the entire game, offering an after of a 4x to 6x boost in base performance mid-late game for most machines.
• Fixed a water fill level bug when using earthquake or the grab tool on water sources that would cause the water to drain sooner than it should.
• Fixed an issue with fill phases not working correctly on buildings that only store energy.
• Fixed year display counter in custom and nightmare mode.
• Fixed Cullis Gate tileset from loading incorrectly.
• Fixed issue with weather not stopping in the map editor.
• Water now connects correctly while raining if you're digging holes at the same time while the rain is filling them.

InDev 26 Unstable 4 Change Log

Game Modes

• New Game Mode: Custom. This mode lets you set a whole manner of difficulty settings, allowing you to create a game mode to fit your play style.
• New Game Mode: Nightmare. This mode is insanely, over the top difficult. Designed specifically for masochistic veteran players. There's no spawn delay, the spawn rates are higher, monsters are pre-spawned and full moons are less frequent.
• New Game Mode: Peaceful. While this mode carries the same name as the old removed Peaceful Mode (that was retooled into Traditional Mode), this mode is truly peaceful, with no monster spawns what so ever.
• Traditional mode is now a bit harder, but is still fairly easy.

Miscellaneous Changes

• "Level up" sound is slightly quieter.
• Can now move the map father out along the outer edges.
• Equipment storage can now store water bottles.
• Water Bottler building now provides refining speed bonuses.
• Rain particles are now slightly larger.
• The hidden "interfaceScale" setting in settings.properties can now be set to fractional values, like 1.2, 1.3, etc.

Bug Fixes

• Arrow keys now work on the world map.
• Fixed an issue with almost out of range Attract Towers stealing items from each other.
• Fixed a possible extremely rare crash in a situation where you happen to load a game while it's raining before all of the sounds have completed loading.
• Fixed a bug where if a villager died from blight and was brought back as a zombie, their previous job's total worker count would erroneously be reduced by 1.
• Typing "Reset" into the Doom World input box no longer moves around the map or activates other hotkeys.
• Fixed a minor bug where the last used game mode from one profile would be set in the next, if you changed profiles after playing and have not restarted the game.
• Fixed a rare crash on load if an elemental bolt was en route to hit a monster that was killed and completely removed from the game before it arrived.
• Elemental bolt splash damage is now working correctly.
• Fixed missiles pointing the wrong direction when firing at buildings.

InDev 26 Unstable 3 Change Log

Towers

• New Tower: The Spray Tower, a slightly more powerful variant to the Bullet Tower, very inaccurate, but has high rate of fire.
• New Tower: The Recombobulator. Will heal nearby golems. Does not work on the Holy Golem.
• New Tower: The Attract Tower. Will pull nearby equipable items to it. Useful for fetching item drops out of a monster heavy area.
• New Tower: The Banish Tower. A very expensive, short range tower that will banish an enemy that gets near it.
• All towers can now be paused, allowing you to stop certain towers from firing all together.
• Completely rewrote the entire missile system's firing mechanics from scratch, creating a more dynamic tower system for future content.
• Rewrote the Ballista Tower's damage and firing mechanics. It now fires at the farthest target, and will stop when it hits it, but will pierce anything along the way.
• Decreased energy requirements for the max upgraded Bow Tower.
• Adjusted elemental bolt physics a bit to look more magical.
• Crystal motivator completely rewritten into the tower code.
• Crystal motivator now costs energy to fire, and only fires at harvested crystal tiles.

Sound Effects

• Nearly all of the original sound effects have been replaced or changed.
• Ambient background sound based on the size of your village has been added.
• Tons of new sound effects for all the towers, combat, harvesting and much more have been added.
• Game world sound is now quieter the more zoomed out you are.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed some lightning generation positioning issues when new lightning is created.
• Completely rewrote the map tileset loader, reducing memory usage and optimizing code flow.
• Fixed an issue where sometimes a Twitch user's name in your stream could pop up twice.
• Sound loading is now multithreaded.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Essence Collector's first build phase no longer requires cut stone, allowing you to build it much earlier in the game.
• Golem combobulators now require an Essence Collector to function.
• Added a new Earthquake spell to the game, that will damage any mobs or buildings nearby, but can generate new rock in the epicenter of the quake.
• Particles can now vary in sizes.
• Many particle, projectile and spell effects have been adjusted.
• Changed restore hunger to restore needs button in sandbox mode, healing thirst, hunger, energy and balancing body temperatures.
• Can now fire missiles in sandbox mode until the miscellaneous tab.
• Holy Golem now does magic damage.
• Added some particles to the console banners.
• Increased spawn rates slightly.
• Villagers can now trade food, water and bandages if they need them.
• The console banner messages now have some particle effects.
• Lightning Rod range reduced.
• Lightning Rod range now appears when it is selected.

InDev 26 Unstable 2 Change Log

Buildings and Towers

• The kitchen is now upgradable.
• The clinic is now upgradable.
• New tower: The Ballista. The ballista is a mid-late game large bow tower, with extremely long range, high damage, and a slow firing rate. It can also shoot over anything in the game (Including terrain).
• New building: The Lightning Rod. This building will attract nearby lightning to it, protecting your walls and other buildings from damage. But it also has the added bonus of converting those lightning strikes into energy that can be used to power your towers and recharge your essence collectors.

Twitch Integration

• You can now input your Twitch channel name when you create a new profile, or in the settings menu. When your channel name is input, the game will pull your viewer's list off Twitch and use it to generate random names for your villagers based on your current viewers.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed a typo in the blight death message.
• Optimized out some unused data in the map tile loader, speeding up tile data searching and lowering memory usage slightly.
• Fixed overlapping data on the building priority list GUI.
• Fixed harvest food and water shortcut assignment in the settings menu.
• Fixed a few minor shadow and collision map issues on various buildings.
• Energy no longer resets when upgrading a building.
• The "No water production" tip no longer pops up when all water buildings are being upgraded or under construction.
• Optimized golem combobulators resource search system.
• Fixed a bug where the charge level of golem combobulators would reset on reload.

Miscellaneous Changes

• You can now hit escape in the world map to bring you back to the main menu.
• You can no longer escape out of the game mode selection screen when you visit the world map for the first time after creating a new profile.
• Added status effects to villager pop out panel (Bottom panel, when you click on a villager).
• Removed lightning "branching" that could cause very excessive damage in some cases.
• Lightning can now charge whatever it hits, if the building can store energy.
• You can now move the map in-game with the arrow keys, as well as WASD.

InDev 26 Unstable 1 Change Log

Tower Upgrades and Damage Types

• All 4 base towers can now be upgraded, increasing their damage, firing rates and sometimes range. Their final upgrades all offer additional elemental damage of some kind. For example, the final stage bow tower can be upgraded into a fire, ice or poison bow tower.
• The fire bolt tower has been replaced with a very similar elemental bolt tower, that can later be upgraded into a fire, ice or electric bolt tower.
• Every damage in the game now has an assigned "type". Some types, like blight or poison, have residual status effects.
• Towers can now target a new monster before the old target is dead, if the new target is closer or more vulnerable to the tower's damage type.
• Mobs can be resistant or vulnerable to damage certain damage types. For example, the skeleton is now highly resistant to piercing damage from the bow tower.
• Zombies now do "Blight" damage, and can turn a villager into a zombie if they die while blighted.
• Slimes can now poison villagers.
• Being poisoned, on fire, frozen or blighted is now factored into fight or flight.
• Medics can now heal blight and poison.
• Healing aura now heals blight and poison.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed some minor sprite coloring issues.
• Improved some of the mob search algorithm. Improving update logic speed game wide.
• Reduced overall mob aggressiveness, making them search for combat less, reducing CPU usage.
• Reduced how often the tick to look for food or water when hungry or thirsty runs, reducing CPU usage.
• Reduced how often mobs wander aimless, to reduce CPU usage.
• Added a slight targeting buffer/delay to tower target searching to reduce CPU usage.

Spawn Rebalancing

• The global spawn rate has been reduced by about 15%.
• Skeletons no longer spawn until day 4.
• Regular sized slimes can no longer spawn until day 3. But small slimes can still spawn by day 2.
• Fire elementals will not spawn until day 6. (Formally day 5)
• Greatly reduced spawn rate of spawners, but increased the rates spawners themselves spawn. (Meaning more spawners, but the same amount of monsters)
• Increased spawner build time, resource requirements and hit points.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Increased the chance mobs will wake up from being knocked out/incapacitated.
• Reduced how often villagers stop to chat.
• Decreased the speed that body temperature adjusts, allowing villagers to stay out in the hot or cold longer.
• Rebalanced start stats and level up amounts for all mobs.
• Mobs run away more often when low on health.
• Removed 2 erroneous names from the villager name list.
• Increased flame spell damage.
• Slowed down thirst decay rate for children.
• Added some new death messages and new death message subtitles.
• Essence Collector has been slightly rebalanced and can now be upgraded.
• Generic wood GUI buttons are no longer in all caps.
• Completely removed "Stun" effects from the game's AI.
• Live stream message now pops up on the main menu when live streaming.
• Twitch link added to main menu.
• Reversed changes made that prevent building roads before the way maker shack is completed.
• Fixed the abandoned crystal harvestry in map Enchanted Shoreline.
• When resurrected, villagers no longer start with 0 energy, hunger, and thirst.

Known Issues that will be resolved before the stable build

• Tips are not updated.

[ 2017-06-01 02:40:11 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! "Hey wait, didn't you just release a patch?!" Yes, I did! But you're getting a nice little bonus patch before I dive into the next batch of new towers! :) This patch introduces 3 new game modes to Rise to Ruins. Nightmare, Peaceful and Custom. This patch also rebalances Traditional mode and tosses in a bunch of minor bug fixes and tweaks. Check out the change log for all the juicy details! You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 26 Unstable 4 Change Log

Game Modes

• New Game Mode: Custom. This mode lets you set a whole manner of difficulty settings, allowing you to create a game mode to fit your play style.
• New Game Mode: Nightmare. This mode is insanely, over the top difficult. Designed specifically for masochistic veteran players. There's no spawn delay, the spawn rates are higher, monsters are pre-spawned and full moons are less frequent.
• New Game Mode: Peaceful. While this mode carries the same name as the old removed Peaceful Mode (that was retooled into Traditional Mode), this mode is truly peaceful, with no monster spawns what so ever.
• Traditional mode is now a bit harder, but is still fairly easy.

Miscellaneous Changes

• "Level up" sound is slightly quieter.
• Can now move the map father out along the outer edges.
• Equipment storage can now store water bottles.
• Water Bottler building now provides refining speed bonuses.
• Rain particles are now slightly larger.
• The hidden "interfaceScale" setting in settings.properties can now be set to fractional values, like 1.2, 1.3, etc.

Big Fixes

• Arrow keys now work on the world map.
• Fixed an issue with almost out of range Attract Towers stealing items from each other.
• Fixed a possible extremely rare crash in a situation where you happen to load a game while it's raining before all of the sounds have completed loading.
• Fixed a bug where if a villager died from blight and was brought back as a zombie, their previous job's total worker count would erroneously be reduced by 1.
• Typing "Reset" into the Doom World input box no longer moves around the map or activates other hotkeys.
• Fixed a minor bug where the last used game mode from one profile would be set in the next, if you changed profiles after playing and have not restarted the game.
• Fixed a rare crash on load if an elemental bolt was en route to hit a monster that was killed and completely removed from the game before it arrived.
• Elemental bolt splash damage is now working correctly.
• Fixed missiles pointing the wrong direction when firing at buildings.

InDev 26 Unstable 3 Change Log

Towers

• New Tower: The Spray Tower, a slightly more powerful variant to the Bullet Tower, very inaccurate, but has high rate of fire.
• New Tower: The Recombobulator. Will heal nearby golems. Does not work on the Holy Golem.
• New Tower: The Attract Tower. Will pull nearby equipable items to it. Useful for fetching item drops out of a monster heavy area.
• New Tower: The Banish Tower. A very expensive, short range tower that will banish an enemy that gets near it.
• All towers can now be paused, allowing you to stop certain towers from firing all together.
• Completely rewrote the entire missile system's firing mechanics from scratch, creating a more dynamic tower system for future content.
• Rewrote the Ballista Tower's damage and firing mechanics. It now fires at the farthest target, and will stop when it hits it, but will pierce anything along the way.
• Decreased energy requirements for the max upgraded Bow Tower.
• Adjusted elemental bolt physics a bit to look more magical.
• Crystal motivator completely rewritten into the tower code.
• Crystal motivator now costs energy to fire, and only fires at harvested crystal tiles.

Sound Effects

• Nearly all of the original sound effects have been replaced or changed.
• Ambient background sound based on the size of your village has been added.
• Tons of new sound effects for all the towers, combat, harvesting and much more have been added.
• Game world sound is now quieter the more zoomed out you are.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed some lightning generation positioning issues when new lightning is created.
• Completely rewrote the map tileset loader, reducing memory usage and optimizing code flow.
• Fixed an issue where sometimes a Twitch user's name in your stream could pop up twice.
• Sound loading is now multithreaded.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Essence Collector's first build phase no longer requires cut stone, allowing you to build it much earlier in the game.
• Golem combobulators now require an Essence Collector to function.
• Added a new Earthquake spell to the game, that will damage any mobs or buildings nearby, but can generate new rock in the epicenter of the quake.
• Particles can now vary in sizes.
• Many particle, projectile and spell effects have been adjusted.
• Changed restore hunger to restore needs button in sandbox mode, healing thirst, hunger, energy and balancing body temperatures.
• Can now fire missiles in sandbox mode until the miscellaneous tab.
• Holy Golem now does magic damage.
• Added some particles to the console banners.
• Increased spawn rates slightly.
• Villagers can now trade food, water and bandages if they need them.
• The console banner messages now have some particle effects.
• Lightning Rod range reduced.
• Lightning Rod range now appears when it is selected.

InDev 26 Unstable 2 Change Log

Buildings and Towers

• The kitchen is now upgradable.
• The clinic is now upgradable.
• New tower: The Ballista. The ballista is a mid-late game large bow tower, with extremely long range, high damage, and a slow firing rate. It can also shoot over anything in the game (Including terrain).
• New building: The Lightning Rod. This building will attract nearby lightning to it, protecting your walls and other buildings from damage. But it also has the added bonus of converting those lightning strikes into energy that can be used to power your towers and recharge your essence collectors.

Twitch Integration

• You can now input your Twitch channel name when you create a new profile, or in the settings menu. When your channel name is input, the game will pull your viewer's list off Twitch and use it to generate random names for your villagers based on your current viewers.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed a typo in the blight death message.
• Optimized out some unused data in the map tile loader, speeding up tile data searching and lowering memory usage slightly.
• Fixed overlapping data on the building priority list GUI.
• Fixed harvest food and water shortcut assignment in the settings menu.
• Fixed a few minor shadow and collision map issues on various buildings.
• Energy no longer resets when upgrading a building.
• The "No water production" tip no longer pops up when all water buildings are being upgraded or under construction.
• Optimized golem combobulators resource search system.
• Fixed a bug where the charge level of golem combobulators would reset on reload.

Miscellaneous Changes

• You can now hit escape in the world map to bring you back to the main menu.
• You can no longer escape out of the game mode selection screen when you visit the world map for the first time after creating a new profile.
• Added status effects to villager pop out panel (Bottom panel, when you click on a villager).
• Removed lightning "branching" that could cause very excessive damage in some cases.
• Lightning can now charge whatever it hits, if the building can store energy.
• You can now move the map in-game with the arrow keys, as well as WASD.

InDev 26 Unstable 1 Change Log

Tower Upgrades and Damage Types

• All 4 base towers can now be upgraded, increasing their damage, firing rates and sometimes range. Their final upgrades all offer additional elemental damage of some kind. For example, the final stage bow tower can be upgraded into a fire, ice or poison bow tower.
• The fire bolt tower has been replaced with a very similar elemental bolt tower, that can later be upgraded into a fire, ice or electric bolt tower.
• Every damage in the game now has an assigned "type". Some types, like blight or poison, have residual status effects.
• Towers can now target a new monster before the old target is dead, if the new target is closer or more vulnerable to the tower's damage type.
• Mobs can be resistant or vulnerable to damage certain damage types. For example, the skeleton is now highly resistant to piercing damage from the bow tower.
• Zombies now do "Blight" damage, and can turn a villager into a zombie if they die while blighted.
• Slimes can now poison villagers.
• Being poisoned, on fire, frozen or blighted is now factored into fight or flight.
• Medics can now heal blight and poison.
• Healing aura now heals blight and poison.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed some minor sprite coloring issues.
• Improved some of the mob search algorithm. Improving update logic speed game wide.
• Reduced overall mob aggressiveness, making them search for combat less, reducing CPU usage.
• Reduced how often the tick to look for food or water when hungry or thirsty runs, reducing CPU usage.
• Reduced how often mobs wander aimless, to reduce CPU usage.
• Added a slight targeting buffer/delay to tower target searching to reduce CPU usage.

Spawn Rebalancing

• The global spawn rate has been reduced by about 15%.
• Skeletons no longer spawn until day 4.
• Regular sized slimes can no longer spawn until day 3. But small slimes can still spawn by day 2.
• Fire elementals will not spawn until day 6. (Formally day 5)
• Greatly reduced spawn rate of spawners, but increased the rates spawners themselves spawn. (Meaning more spawners, but the same amount of monsters)
• Increased spawner build time, resource requirements and hit points.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Increased the chance mobs will wake up from being knocked out/incapacitated.
• Reduced how often villagers stop to chat.
• Decreased the speed that body temperature adjusts, allowing villagers to stay out in the hot or cold longer.
• Rebalanced start stats and level up amounts for all mobs.
• Mobs run away more often when low on health.
• Removed 2 erroneous names from the villager name list.
• Increased flame spell damage.
• Slowed down thirst decay rate for children.
• Added some new death messages and new death message subtitles.
• Essence Collector has been slightly rebalanced and can now be upgraded.
• Generic wood GUI buttons are no longer in all caps.
• Completely removed "Stun" effects from the game's AI.
• Live stream message now pops up on the main menu when live streaming.
• Twitch link added to main menu.
• Reversed changes made that prevent building roads before the way maker shack is completed.
• Fixed the abandoned crystal harvestry in map Enchanted Shoreline.
• When resurrected, villagers no longer start with 0 energy, hunger, and thirst.

Known Issues that will be resolved before the stable build

• Tips are not updated.

[ 2017-05-25 04:19:04 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! The fairly beefy InDev 26 Unstable 3 has been released! This patch brings in some balance changes, four new towers, a couple of complete system rewrites, optimizations and an crap ton of new sound effects. Hope you like it! You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 26 Unstable 3 Change Log

Towers

• New Tower: The Spray Tower, a slightly more powerful variant to the Bullet Tower, very inaccurate, but has high rate of fire.
• New Tower: The Recombobulator. Will heal nearby golems. Does not work on the Holy Golem.
• New Tower: The Attract Tower. Will pull nearby equipable items to it. Useful for fetching item drops out of a monster heavy area.
• New Tower: The Banish Tower. A very expensive, short range tower that will banish an enemy that gets near it.
• All towers can now be paused, allowing you to stop certain towers from firing all together.
• Completely rewrote the entire missile system's firing mechanics from scratch, creating a more dynamic tower system for future content.
• Rewrote the Ballista Tower's damage and firing mechanics. It now fires at the farthest target, and will stop when it hits it, but will pierce anything along the way.
• Decreased energy requirements for the max upgraded Bow Tower.
• Adjusted elemental bolt physics a bit to look more magical.
• Crystal motivator completely rewritten into the tower code.
• Crystal motivator now costs energy to fire, and only fires at harvested crystal tiles.

Sound Effects

• Nearly all of the original sound effects have been replaced or changed.
• Ambient background sound based on the size of your village has been added.
• Tons of new sound effects for all the towers, combat, harvesting and much more have been added.
• Game world sound is now quieter the more zoomed out you are.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed some lightning generation positioning issues when new lightning is created.
• Completely rewrote the map tileset loader, reducing memory usage and optimizing code flow.
• Fixed an issue where sometimes a Twitch user's name in your stream could pop up twice.
• Sound loading is now multithreaded.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Essence Collector's first build phase no longer requires cut stone, allowing you to build it much earlier in the game.
• Golem combobulators now require an Essence Collector to function.
• Added a new Earthquake spell to the game, that will damage any mobs or buildings nearby, but can generate new rock in the epicenter of the quake.
• Particles can now vary in sizes.
• Many particle, projectile and spell effects have been adjusted.
• Changed restore hunger to restore needs button in sandbox mode, healing thirst, hunger, energy and balancing body temperatures.
• Can now fire missiles in sandbox mode until the miscellaneous tab.
• Holy Golem now does magic damage.
• Added some particles to the console banners.
• Increased spawn rates slightly.
• Villagers can now trade food, water and bandages if they need them.
• The console banner messages now have some particle effects.
• Lightning Rod range reduced.
• Lightning Rod range now appears when it is selected.

InDev 26 Unstable 2 Change Log

Buildings and Towers

• The kitchen is now upgradable.
• The clinic is now upgradable.
• New tower: The Ballista. The ballista is a mid-late game large bow tower, with extremely long range, high damage, and a slow firing rate. It can also shoot over anything in the game (Including terrain).
• New building: The Lightning Rod. This building will attract nearby lightning to it, protecting your walls and other buildings from damage. But it also has the added bonus of converting those lightning strikes into energy that can be used to power your towers and recharge your essence collectors.

Twitch Integration

• You can now input your Twitch channel name when you create a new profile, or in the settings menu. When your channel name is input, the game will pull your viewer's list off Twitch and use it to generate random names for your villagers based on your current viewers.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed a typo in the blight death message.
• Optimized out some unused data in the map tile loader, speeding up tile data searching and lowering memory usage slightly.
• Fixed overlapping data on the building priority list GUI.
• Fixed harvest food and water shortcut assignment in the settings menu.
• Fixed a few minor shadow and collision map issues on various buildings.
• Energy no longer resets when upgrading a building.
• The "No water production" tip no longer pops up when all water buildings are being upgraded or under construction.
• Optimized golem combobulators resource search system.
• Fixed a bug where the charge level of golem combobulators would reset on reload.

Miscellaneous Changes

• You can now hit escape in the world map to bring you back to the main menu.
• You can no longer escape out of the game mode selection screen when you visit the world map for the first time after creating a new profile.
• Added status effects to villager pop out panel (Bottom panel, when you click on a villager).
• Removed lightning "branching" that could cause very excessive damage in some cases.
• Lightning can now charge whatever it hits, if the building can store energy.
• You can now move the map in-game with the arrow keys, as well as WASD.

InDev 26 Unstable 1 Change Log

Tower Upgrades and Damage Types

• All 4 base towers can now be upgraded, increasing their damage, firing rates and sometimes range. Their final upgrades all offer additional elemental damage of some kind. For example, the final stage bow tower can be upgraded into a fire, ice or poison bow tower.
• The fire bolt tower has been replaced with a very similar elemental bolt tower, that can later be upgraded into a fire, ice or electric bolt tower.
• Every damage in the game now has an assigned "type". Some types, like blight or poison, have residual status effects.
• Towers can now target a new monster before the old target is dead, if the new target is closer or more vulnerable to the tower's damage type.
• Mobs can be resistant or vulnerable to damage certain damage types. For example, the skeleton is now highly resistant to piercing damage from the bow tower.
• Zombies now do "Blight" damage, and can turn a villager into a zombie if they die while blighted.
• Slimes can now poison villagers.
• Being poisoned, on fire, frozen or blighted is now factored into fight or flight.
• Medics can now heal blight and poison.
• Healing aura now heals blight and poison.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed some minor sprite coloring issues.
• Improved some of the mob search algorithm. Improving update logic speed game wide.
• Reduced overall mob aggressiveness, making them search for combat less, reducing CPU usage.
• Reduced how often the tick to look for food or water when hungry or thirsty runs, reducing CPU usage.
• Reduced how often mobs wander aimless, to reduce CPU usage.
• Added a slight targeting buffer/delay to tower target searching to reduce CPU usage.

Spawn Rebalancing

• The global spawn rate has been reduced by about 15%.
• Skeletons no longer spawn until day 4.
• Regular sized slimes can no longer spawn until day 3. But small slimes can still spawn by day 2.
• Fire elementals will not spawn until day 6. (Formally day 5)
• Greatly reduced spawn rate of spawners, but increased the rates spawners themselves spawn. (Meaning more spawners, but the same amount of monsters)
• Increased spawner build time, resource requirements and hit points.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Increased the chance mobs will wake up from being knocked out/incapacitated.
• Reduced how often villagers stop to chat.
• Decreased the speed that body temperature adjusts, allowing villagers to stay out in the hot or cold longer.
• Rebalanced start stats and level up amounts for all mobs.
• Mobs run away more often when low on health.
• Removed 2 erroneous names from the villager name list.
• Increased flame spell damage.
• Slowed down thirst decay rate for children.
• Added some new death messages and new death message subtitles.
• Essence Collector has been slightly rebalanced and can now be upgraded.
• Generic wood GUI buttons are no longer in all caps.
• Completely removed "Stun" effects from the game's AI.
• Live stream message now pops up on the main menu when live streaming.
• Twitch link added to main menu.
• Reversed changes made that prevent building roads before the way maker shack is completed.
• Fixed the abandoned crystal harvestry in map Enchanted Shoreline.
• When resurrected, villagers no longer start with 0 energy, hunger, and thirst.

Known Issues that will be resolved before the stable build

• Tips are not updated.

[ 2017-05-20 07:00:18 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! InDev 26 Unstable 2 has been released! This patch is a smorgasbord board of random new content, tweaks and fixes. Highlights for this patch are the newly added ballista tower, the upgradable kitchen and clinic and some twitch integration features for you streamer types. This patch's Twitch integration features are highly experimental, if you're a streamer, please report back with any issues you may have. :) You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 26 Unstable 2 Change Log

Buildings and Towers

• The kitchen is now upgradable.
• The clinic is now upgradable.
• New tower: The Ballista. The ballista is a mid-late game large bow tower, with extremely long range, high damage, and a slow firing rate. It can also shoot over anything in the game (Including terrain).
• New building: The Lightning Rod. This building will attract nearby lightning to it, protecting your walls and other buildings from damage. But it also has the added bonus of converting those lightning strikes into energy that can be used to power your towers and recharge your essence collectors.

Twitch Integration

• You can now input your Twitch channel name when you create a new profile, or in the settings menu. When your channel name is input, the game will pull your viewer's list off Twitch and use it to generate random names for your villagers based on your current viewers.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed a typo in the blight death message.
• Optimized out some unused data in the map tile loader, speeding up tile data searching and lowering memory usage slightly.
• Fixed overlapping data on the building priority list GUI.
• Fixed harvest food and water shortcut assignment in the settings menu.
• Fixed a few minor shadow and collision map issues on various buildings.
• Energy no longer resets when upgrading a building.
• The "No water production" tip no longer pops up when all water buildings are being upgraded or under construction.
• Optimized golem combobulators resource search system.
• Fixed a bug where the charge level of golem combobulators would reset on reload.

Miscellaneous Changes

• You can now hit escape in the world map to bring you back to the main menu.
• You can no longer escape out of the game mode selection screen when you visit the world map for the first time after creating a new profile.
• Added status effects to villager pop out panel (Bottom panel, when you click on a villager).
• Removed lightning "branching" that could cause very excessive damage in some cases.
• Lightning can now charge whatever it hits, if the building can store energy.
• You can now move the map in-game with the arrow keys, as well as WASD.

InDev 26 Unstable 1 Change Log

Tower Upgrades and Damage Types

• All 4 base towers can now be upgraded, increasing their damage, firing rates and sometimes range. Their final upgrades all offer additional elemental damage of some kind. For example, the final stage bow tower can be upgraded into a fire, ice or poison bow tower.
• The fire bolt tower has been replaced with a very similar elemental bolt tower, that can later be upgraded into a fire, ice or electric bolt tower.
• Every damage in the game now has an assigned "type". Some types, like blight or poison, have residual status effects.
• Towers can now target a new monster before the old target is dead, if the new target is closer or more vulnerable to the tower's damage type.
• Mobs can be resistant or vulnerable to damage certain damage types. For example, the skeleton is now highly resistant to piercing damage from the bow tower.
• Zombies now do "Blight" damage, and can turn a villager into a zombie if they die while blighted.
• Slimes can now poison villagers.
• Being poisoned, on fire, frozen or blighted is now factored into fight or flight.
• Medics can now heal blight and poison.
• Healing aura now heals blight and poison.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed some minor sprite coloring issues.
• Improved some of the mob search algorithm. Improving update logic speed game wide.
• Reduced overall mob aggressiveness, making them search for combat less, reducing CPU usage.
• Reduced how often the tick to look for food or water when hungry or thirsty runs, reducing CPU usage.
• Reduced how often mobs wander aimless, to reduce CPU usage.
• Added a slight targeting buffer/delay to tower target searching to reduce CPU usage.

Spawn Rebalancing

• The global spawn rate has been reduced by about 15%.
• Skeletons no longer spawn until day 4.
• Regular sized slimes can no longer spawn until day 3. But small slimes can still spawn by day 2.
• Fire elementals will not spawn until day 6. (Formally day 5)
• Greatly reduced spawn rate of spawners, but increased the rates spawners themselves spawn. (Meaning more spawners, but the same amount of monsters)
• Increased spawner build time, resource requirements and hit points.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Increased the chance mobs will wake up from being knocked out/incapacitated.
• Reduced how often villagers stop to chat.
• Decreased the speed that body temperature adjusts, allowing villagers to stay out in the hot or cold longer.
• Rebalanced start stats and level up amounts for all mobs.
• Mobs run away more often when low on health.
• Removed 2 erroneous names from the villager name list.
• Increased flame spell damage.
• Slowed down thirst decay rate for children.
• Added some new death messages and new death message subtitles.
• Essence Collector has been slightly rebalanced and can now be upgraded.
• Generic wood GUI buttons are no longer in all caps.
• Completely removed "Stun" effects from the game's AI.
• Live stream message now pops up on the main menu when live streaming.
• Twitch link added to main menu.
• Reversed changes made that prevent building roads before the way maker shack is completed.
• Fixed the abandoned crystal harvestry in map Enchanted Shoreline.
• When resurrected, villagers no longer start with 0 energy, hunger, and thirst.

Known Issues that will be resolved before the stable build

• Tips are not updated.

[ 2017-05-02 19:44:44 CET ] [ Original post ]

Greetings All, Back in the infancy days Rise to Ruins (Then, called Retro-Pixel Castles) long before the game was ever kickstarted or greenlit, I used to livestream development to my fairly small fan base. Well, it was a lot of fun! I've decided to bring that back using an entirely new channel! I'll be doing somewhat regular live streams of Rise to Ruins in my brand new channel. The followership is pretty low right since I've only done a couple of test streams, but I'm ready to bolster my numbers and invite the masses in! In the channel I'll be working on code, art, bug fixing, balancing, play testing and just about everything else related to Rise to Ruins development (or occasionally just playing games to pass the time) If you're at all interested or just want to support my work, throw me a follow! :) Look forward to seeing you guys there!

[ 2017-04-21 19:33:27 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! InDev 26 Unstable 1 patch has arrived! Most of this patch's goal is sets up the framework for the patch series, adding the new damage type system, rebalancing the spawn rates and adding upgrades to all 4 of the original towers. This patch also introduces a my shameless twitch plugs for my brand new twitch.tv channel. Whenever I am live streaming development, a indication box will pop up on your main menu. If you're interested in watching me live stream development, give me a follow! You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 26 Unstable 1 Change Log

Tower Upgrades and Damage Types

• All 4 base towers can now be upgraded, increasing their damage, firing rates and sometimes range. Their final upgrades all offer additional elemental damage of some kind. For example, the final stage bow tower can be upgraded into a fire, ice or poison bow tower.
• The fire bolt tower has been replaced with a very similar elemental bolt tower, that can later be upgraded into a fire, ice or electric bolt tower.
• Every damage in the game now has an assigned "type". Some types, like blight or poison, have residual status effects.
• Towers can now target a new monster before the old target is dead, if the new target is closer or more vulnerable to the tower's damage type.
• Mobs can be resistant or vulnerable to damage certain damage types. For example, the skeleton is now highly resistant to piercing damage from the bow tower.
• Zombies now do "Blight" damage, and can turn a villager into a zombie if they die while blighted.
• Slimes can now poison villagers.
• Being poisoned, on fire, frozen or blighted is now factored into fight or flight.
• Medics can now heal blight and poison.
• Healing aura now heals blight and poison.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Fixed some minor sprite coloring issues.
• Improved some of the mob search algorithm. Improving update logic speed game wide.
• Reduced overall mob aggressiveness, making them search for combat less, reducing CPU usage.
• Reduced how often the tick to look for food or water when hungry or thirsty runs, reducing CPU usage.
• Reduced how often mobs wander aimless, to reduce CPU usage.
• Added a slight targeting buffer/delay to tower target searching to reduce CPU usage.

Spawn Rebalancing

• The global spawn rate has been reduced by about 15%.
• Skeletons no longer spawn until day 4.
• Regular sized slimes can no longer spawn until day 3. But small slimes can still spawn by day 2.
• Fire elementals will not spawn until day 6. (Formally day 5)
• Greatly reduced spawn rate of spawners, but increased the rates spawners themselves spawn. (Meaning more spawners, but the same amount of monsters)
• Increased spawner build time, resource requirements and hit points.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Increased the chance mobs will wake up from being knocked out/incapacitated.
• Reduced how often villagers stop to chat.
• Decreased the speed that body temperature adjusts, allowing villagers to stay out in the hot or cold longer.
• Rebalanced start stats and level up amounts for all mobs.
• Mobs run away more often when low on health.
• Removed 2 erroneous names from the villager name list.
• Increased flame spell damage.
• Slowed down thirst decay rate for children.
• Added some new death messages and new death message subtitles.
• Essence Collector has been slightly rebalanced and can now be upgraded.
• Generic wood GUI buttons are no longer in all caps.
• Completely removed "Stun" effects from the game's AI.
• Live stream message now pops up on the main menu when live streaming.
• Twitch link added to main menu.
• Reversed changes made that prevent building roads before the way maker shack is completed.
• Fixed the abandoned crystal harvestry in map Enchanted Shoreline.
• When resurrected, villagers no longer start with 0 energy, hunger, and thirst.

Known Issues that will be resolved before the stable build

• Tips are not updated.
• Status effects, like poison and blight are not displayed anywhere in the GUI.

[ 2017-04-21 00:57:26 CET ] [ Original post ]

Greeting all, If you running an NVIDIA card with Geforce Experience installed there was a new bug introduced on their side that is interfering with OpenGL and/or Java. You'll need to go into your NVIDIA Geforce Experience settings and disable the "Geforce Experience Share In-Game Overlay" until they fix the problem. http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4228/~/how-to-disable-the-geforce-experience-share-in-game-overlay If NVIDIA doesn't get around to fixing this issue in a timely manner, I will look into a work around on my end. But I suspect Rise to Ruins isn't the only game affected by this, so hopefully we'll see a hot fix on their end released soon. Have fun! :)

[ 2017-04-12 18:38:12 CET ] [ Original post ]

The next major patch will focus mostly on and fleshing out the defense elements of the village. All the current towers will be getting upgrades in-line with the existing upgrade system. I will also introduce some light upgrade branching not seen in any previous buildings, where you can select what kind of upgrade you want in the tower's final upgrade stage. For example, the Bow Tower will feature the base building, and 3 upgrades. The first two upgrades will simply boost the towers base ammo capacity, damage, and firing rate, but the final upgrade will let you to select between 3 element types, allowing your maximum upgraded bow tower to launch fire, ice or lightning arrows at your enemies depending on your personal preference. This patch will also introduce a new damage type system adding resistances and weaknesses to all villagers, monsters and golems. Skeletons for example will be highly resistant to piercing damage (arrows), but highly vulnerable to crushing (stone balls). Making the bow tower mostly useless, but the bullet and sling towers highly effective. But that's not all! In addition to all the new tower upgrades, brand new towers will also be added to the game! So check out the road map below for all the juicy details. Due to the amount of towers I am planning this patch may be broken into two major stable patches (InDev 26 and 27). It mostly depends on the development time needed to add all of the new towers to the game.

If you have any requests, be sure to post them in the comments. Let me know what you want, and how you want it to work! You might just find it sneak into the next patch. :)

InDev 26 Road Map

Towers Upgrades

• All existing towers will be given 4 upgrade phases, with the final upgrade allowing you to pick from various elemental types (Fire, Ice, Poison, Acid, Lightning, etc)
• Fire Bolt Tower will be redesigned into an "Elemental" tower, doing generic magic damage at first, then upgraded into a fire, lightning or ice bolt tower later.

New Towers

• Longbow Tower. A new variant of the bow tower with exceptional range and damage, but very slow firing.
• Spray Tower. A new variant of the bullet tower, very short range, extremely high rate of fire, but very inaccurate.
• Recombobulator Tower. A tower designed to heal nearby golems.
• Haste Tower. Increases the movement speed of all mobs (Monsters and villagers included) in the area.
• Static Tower. A very short range, very low damage area of effect tower that will damage all hostile mobs in range.
• Boost Tower. A tower that will use essence to "boost" nearby towers firing rates.
• Chain Lightning Tower. A tower that does pure electric damage that jumps from one mob to the next.
• Sticky Tower. Does no damage, but will slow down anything it hits.
• Banish Tower. Teleports a hostile mob away from the village.
• Attract Tower. Fetches nearby items on the ground and pulls them to the tower.
• Flame Tower. Does fire damage in a small area, burning everything in its path.
• Frost Tower. Similar to the flame tower, but fires a cloud of ice. Does low damage, but slows down the enemy.

Damage Type System

• Everything in the game will be assigned a damage type (or types). Bow towers will do piercing damage, bullet towners will do crushing damage, etc.
• Currently planned damage types are: Blunt/Crushing, Piercing/Cutting, Fire, Ice, Water, Lightning, Acid, Poison, Disease. (Suggest more in the comments!)
• Many mobs will have resistances or vulnerabilities to various damage types. For example, a zombie may be highly resistant to disease and poison, but vulnerable to fire. While some mobs may be immune to certain damage types all together, like the Fire Elemental will be completely immune to fire, but extremely vulnerable to ice. The specter may be immune to all physical damage, but extremely vulnerable to all elemental damage.

[ 2017-04-06 12:56:59 CET ] [ Original post ]

Unless something goes horribly wrong, this is the last InDev 25 series patch. InDev 26 (The "Defense Update") is already in full swing, and has been the primary development focus since releasing InDev 25b. Mostly, this patch just cleans up a few minor bugs and tweaks some balance issues. Expect to see the InDev 26 road map in the new couple of days! If you're looking for the mega-sized InDev 25 patch change log, check this announcement. :) You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 25c Change Log

Bug Fixes

• Villagers will no longer try to deliver to, work on, or repair monster spawners that are in range of the village.
• Fixed a wall placement crash in the map editor when attempting to place a wall type not already loaded into memory.
• You can no longer "Dig holes" in the void.
• Fixed a very rare crash when way makers tried to use resources stored in an under construction building to build roads.
• Fixed a minor bug that would allow water purifiers to create more water buckets than they were actually designed to store.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Slightly increased water purifier speeds.
• Improved resource distribution of dirty water when the player has multiple water purifiers.
• Updated way maker and way maker shack descriptions to mention making man made lakes.
• The dig tool button is now grayed out until the way maker shack has been built.
• Clear and place roads buttons are now grayed out until the way maker shack is completed, rather than as soon as it is placed.

[ 2017-04-05 15:26:16 CET ] [ Original post ]

This patch is mostly a polish and cleanup patch, a majority of the work was redrawing and improving most of the existing mob animations in the game and writing a new sprite color decoder that runs under the hood, invisible to the player. Because this patch completely rewrites the sprite coloring system as well as adds (and in some cases removes) some of the color layers for some of the mobs your existing save files may have a few mob color related anomalies when rendering some of the already existing mobs. These are not bugs, and do not need to be reported. :) If you're looking for the mega-sized InDev 25 patch change log from last week, check this announcement. :) You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 25b Change Log

New Animations

• Added 2 new drinking animations for Villagers, one for drinking from fountains, the other from bottles.
• Added 3 more eating position animations for Villagers.
• Added a "Working without tools" animation for Villagers, that replaces attack animation that was being used as a placeholder.
• Drawn completely new sprite sets for Zombies, Skeletons, Ghosts and Specters.
• Zombies, Ghosts and Specters now have female and child variants.
• Changed the death animation for Golems and Fire Elementals.
• Tweaked a ton of existing animations.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Minor optimizations and code improvements to the animation and sprite system, reducing memory usage.
• Rewrote how the game generates, renders and colors mob sprite sets. Although this change was extensive, the results are invisible to the player.
• New Monsters: Child Zombies and Child Specters. Both are slightly faster than their adult counterparts, but slightly weaker.

[ 2017-03-31 12:34:05 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! It's time for another screenshot round up! Every few updates I revamp the Steam store page, adding more recent screenshots. One of my favorite things to do is to take screenshots that you guys have made and put them up on the store. I feel they're a more personal, realistic representation of the game, and of course, it's just fun to get the community involved! If you want to submit your screenshot to the event, the higher quality the better! I'm looking for screenshots that really show off all the features of the game. These screenshots can be of anything you want, any mode, anywhere. I will also be tweeting (and retweeting) screenshots as they come in on my Twitter feed. So if you want a retweet, follow and mention me (@RaymondDoerr) in a tweet with your screenshots!

For the Steam Store page

• Must be version InDev 25 or higher!
• 1920x1080 resolution is best, but I can accept some shots that are higher or lower.
• Take them in full screen mode if you can (F10 to toggle in-game).
• You can take screenshots either with the built in in-game hotkey (F2), or with Steam's overlay hotkey (F12). If you plan on uploading them to the Steam Community Hub, F12 is probably easier.
• If you want, you can also disable the GUI by hitting F4.
• Upload them to the Steam Community Hub, or upload them to a image sharing service of your choosing (imgur, for example). Make sure the images are as least compressed as possible! I can't use over-compressed images.
• Please post a link to your image in the comments below so I can find them easier!

For Twitter

• Must be version InDev 25 or higher!
• 1920x1080 resolution is ideal, but any resolution will do! Videos/GIFs are also accepted. (Let's Plays and Review videos are also fine!) but only the screenshots can make it to the store page. Although if you're after some free exposure, feel free to share anything you like!
• You can take screenshots either with the built in in-game hotkey (F2), or with Steam's overlay hotkey (F12). If you plan on uploading them to the Steam Community Hub, F12 is probably easier.
• If you want, you can also disable the GUI by hitting F4.
• Submit them to @RaymondDoerr on Twitter by just following and then mentioning me in a Tweet with your screenshots!

The images selected for the store will be put up on the store page, with your username on it. If you don't want your username posted, please inform me in the comments below when submitting. You can submit as many or as few as you like to both the Community Hub and Twitter, and you can have multiplies selected. The higher quality the better! Have fun! Looking forward to your submissions. :)

[ 2017-03-25 05:01:37 CET ] [ Original post ]

Another major game changer patch has arrived! Introducing the super sized, InDev 25 Content Patch, the Hydration Update! This update's primary focus was to bring "thirst and water" into the game. But, as usual includes a ton of other additions, tweaks and bug fixes. Check out the change log for all the expansive changes, and let me know down in the comments what you think! You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 25 Change Log

Water and Thirst System

• Villagers now have thirst, like hunger this stat will drop slowly. If their thirst reaches zero they will begin to lose hit points and eventually die.
• Being overheated or overworked will cause villagers thirst to drop faster.
• Drinking water will lower a villager's body temperature if they are overheated. Sometimes they will drink water if they're extremely hot, even if they're not thirsty.
• New Building: Water Purifier. This building will accept dirty water (Harvested from lakes) and slowly filter it into clean water the village can use.
• New Building: The Well. This building will slowly generate drinkable water year round, regardless of weather and temperature.
• New Building: Rain Catcher. This building will collect rainwater, funnel it into barrels, and will work year around, assuming it is rains.
• New Buildings: Small and Large Water Fountains. Decent sized fountains of drinkable water, villagers will visit the fountain to drink water if they don't have any water in their inventory.
• New Building: The Bottler. This building will provide new Bottler job slots, and refine water into water bottles villagers can carry around with them.
• New Job: Bottler. As stated above, they will refine water buckets into bottles. They will also distribute bottles to houses.
• New Job: Water Master. Water masters will deliver buckets of water from rain catchers and wells to other sources that need them in the village, like fountains, farms, houses and bottlers.
• Villagers will now visit water sources to replenish their thirst, they prioritize going to fountains or drinking water bottles in their inventory. If they can't find either, they will visit their house or any other water source anywhere in the village.
• Water Masters can now harvest dirty water from lakes to be taken to the water purifiers.
• The "Harvest Food" button is now a "Harvest Food and Water" button.
• Lake water can now freeze in extremely cold weather (Usually only during the Winter) making it unharvestable until it thaws.
• Water can now be drained completely from a lake, due to over harvesting.
• Water levels in lakes replenish when it rains.
• Way Makers can now clear all terrain, just like Builders.
• Water can now be cleared by Way Makers and Builders with the destroy terrain tool.
• Way Makers can now dig holes to create villager make lakes for collecting rain water, creating new water sources next time it rains. They can also be used to expand existing water sources.

Farming and Food Changes

• Crops can now be tended to and watered to help them grow faster, or resist dying. Typically meaning the more farmers you have, the faster your food production.
• Crops can now grow in the Summer, but must be well tended and watered. Otherwise they may stop growing, or even die.
• Reworked how food is eaten somewhat. Now food has a much higher use-count, but each use only counts as 1 hunger point. The final actual food value is the same.

Full Moon

• The world now has a "Full Moon" night every 7 days.
• Monsters do not attack during a full moon, unless you get too close to them.
• Essence spawns randomly all over the map during a full moon.
• Ghosts (Dead villagers) pop up very frequently during a full moon.

Season and Weather Changes

• Rebalanced weather and severe storm rates in all seasons.
• Reduced overall amount of lightning during rain.
• Midday is now longer, and Night is shorter in the Summer.
• Midday is now shorter, and Night is longer in the Winter.
• Reduced the overall amount of "High Wind".

Spawning

• Changed starting villager summon in count in the World Map to summon up to 40 villagers, rather than 32.
• Changed starting villager count in Skirmish from 21-27 to 28-32
• Reduced global spawn rate in survival mode by 10%.
• Available jobs now factor in to nomad spawn rates. The more available jobs you have (Total job slots minus Total population) the higher chance nomads will appear. If you have more villagers than job slots, it has a negative effect.
• Nomads can no longer arrive twice in one day.
• The nomad ticker now works in traditional mode again.
• Traditional mode spawn rates and spawn caps have been increased.
• Village overall population size now has a negative affect on nomad rates.

Resource Distribution Rewrite

• The resource distribution and storage AI has been rewritten completely from scratch.
• Each building now has a set resource priority for each resource they can store. For example, the Lumber Mill's priority for wood is "Very High", and the priority for boards is "Very Low".
• Organizers, and most manufacturing and refining workers can now rearrange resources in the village taking resources from low priority buildings and delivering them to high priority buildings. For example, an Organizer may take wood from a Lumber Shack and deliver it to a Lumber Mill for the Carpenters to refine, and then later take boards from a Lumber Mill to the Ancillary, Camp or Wood Storage to clear up space in the Lumber Mill for additional wood.
• All harvesters now deliver harvested resources to the highest priority buildings first, even if the building isn't the closest. For example, a Lumberjack will try to deliver freshly harvested wood to a Bowyer or Lumber Mill first, before delivering it to a Lumber Shack.
• All construction jobs now always take resources from the lowest priority buildings first. For example, a Builder will take wood from Wood Storage, an Ancillary, or the Camp before taking it from the Lumber Mill, even if the Lumber Mill is closer. This applies to Way Maker's road construction as well.
• Added additional AI flag to help prevent villagers from removing needed resources from buildings under construction to use elsewhere.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Large, detailed building and working job panels have been added to the left and right tab, detailing a ton of useful information about the building or job assignment to the player when you hover over the building or job icon.
• Improved some of the "Building Required" building overlay messages.
• Monsters no longer auto attack when in range of the village.
• Refining/Manufacturing villagers will now attempt to manufacture more resources in an endless loop until they're tired, run out of base materials or the building is at least 1/4th full of the refined resource in question.
• Renamed "Stone" to "Cut Stone".
• Adjusted the "trigger points" for fill phases in buildings somewhat.
• Moved mouse over overlay for buildings above the building rather than on top of it.
• Improved the particle generation when it is raining, now water will hit the ground and drip off terrain and buildings.
• Removed essence collecting from radiance pools. They now only attract monsters.
• Added total village energy (and now, water) to the resource bar.
• New Song added, Maxine.
• Hunger now drops about 20% slower, to help offset the demand for water.
• Peaceful mode has been renamed Traditional mode to lessen confusion for new players.
• Lowered the "rest period" essence has when it first spawns, before it is attracted to your hand/cursor.
• The "suck in" radius of essence to your cursor has been doubled.
• Lumberjacks can now store silk.
• Miners can now store iron ore.
• Slightly increased the overall resource values of most of the terrain in the game.
• Improved resource amount generation code somewhat. Some terrain, like dead trees, now have significantly less resources.
• Changed "Everything is peaceful" to "Everything is calm" during day 1's night cycle.
• Grab Objects tool removed from Sandbox Mode.
• Improved worker location selection for terrain and road clearing.
• Page up/down and back buttons now flash on the GUI when there's a page to go to.
• Removed the shadow behind floating particles.
• Hunger now drops slightly slower.
• Doubled the time between having a child and getting pregnant again is possible.
• Decreased the pregnancy chance by 50%.
• Slightly decreased the chance villagers will stop and chat.
• Increased the time a villager is pregnant to one full game day.
• Slightly deceased the chance villagers mate.
• Recall spell now works on Nomads.
• Tripled Tool and Armorsmith's refining speeds.
• Children now take 2 full days to grow up.
• Reduced the amount of high wind.
• Cleaned up some of the resource display lists in the world map GUI.
• Some buildings, like homes, now have fixed resource amounts per resource, always allowing space for a variety of resources so they won't be filled with just one.
• Made all shadows a bit darker.
• Total unassigned villagers count now factors in villagers en route to get or quit a job.
• Decreased the body temp adjustment rates by 30%. (Meaning their temp will adjust to outside temps slower, keeping them cool or warm longer)
• Added female villager sprites.

Optimizations

• Overhauled the way tileset data is loaded into the game, somewhat lowering memory usage.
• Optimized tile flag detection, increasing the general overall speed of the engine.
• Optimized many of the mob and building search algorithms.
• Increased the render speed of all overlay data maps.
• A new resource loader system has been implemented, that should decrease load times.
• Slightly optimized particle emitter system.
• Improved random number generator speeds engine-wide.
• Improved mob reach map generation by 30-50%
• Slightly improved village range map generation.
• Improved particle rendering speeds slightly.
• Doubled the overall speed of the data module, used for generating all types of overlay data in the game (Range maps, resource maps, tower ranges, etc).
• Improved tile loading memory usage slightly.
• Completely removed the Trove library from the game.

Spell Changes

• Lowered the cost of the Send to Limbo, Take From Limbo and Resurrect spells.
• The spells Magic Torch, Distract and Spotlight have been removed from the game.
• New Spell: Summon Holy Golem. A Summonable mid level golem you can summon anywhere in the map, and will destroy everything in sight. The golem will lose 5% of it's health every few seconds until it eventually dies.
• New Spell: Storm. This spell will cause a terrible thunderstorm in the area cast, and should never be cast inside the village. This spell will also trigger rain or snow. Useful in summer drought.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the rain frequency in the early days of Spring.
• Medic work now exhausts the mob correctly.
• Fixed a few minor shadow and particle map issues.
• Abandoned Crystal Harvestries can now be rebuilt properly.
• Fixed Rain sound "Stuttering/Skipping" for some users.
• Fixed a very rare crash caused by the object sorting algorithm when a game is first loaded.
• Fixed a rare crash if the game tries to find a building at a specific coordinate right as the game launches.
• Fixed resource "Hovering above head" bug when villagers are carrying something in water, tar or anything else with depth.
• Experimental fix for resource loading lag issues some users have been having due to some picky malware and anti-virus programs.

[ 2017-03-22 21:09:35 CET ] [ Original post ]

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! InDev 25 Unstable 3 patch has been released. This patch is mostly rebalancing, optimizing, and bug fixing. Assuming there are no issues, this will be the last Unstable build before releasing InDev 25 Stable. So be sure to test the hell out of it! :) This patch also includes a brand new, very experimental resource/image loader. So please be on the lookout for missing GUI elements, map tile sets, or other graphical anomalies. You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 25 Unstable 3 Change Log

Water and Thirst System

• Adjusted starting water levels slightly.
• Water bottles now cost 20 water to create, but have a water value of 30.
• Halved refine time of water bottlers.
• Increased overall storage space of water bottlers, and worker counts.

Optimizing and Big Fixes

• Greatly optimizes the new water balancing code that came along with the new water mechanics in Unstable 2.
• Slightly optimized particle emitter system.
• Improved random number generator speeds engine-wide.
• Improved mob reach map generation by 30-50%
• Slightly improved village range map generation.
• Improved particle rendering speeds slightly.
• Nearly tripled full tile swap speeds mostly used in the new water system when the water freezes over.
• Slightly optimized partial tile swap speeds, mostly used when water levels change in a lake.
• Doubled the overall speed of the data module, used for generating all types of overlay data in the game (Range maps, resource maps, tower ranges, etc).
• Improved tile loading memory usage slightly.
• Fixed map editor save file generation bug.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Harvested crops drop to a third of their previous tend amount, rather than 0.
• Farm's "Poorly tended" messages now pop less often.
• Nomads can no longer arrive twice in one day.
• Removed the shadow behind floating particles.
• Village overall population size now has a negative affect on nomad rates.
• The nomad ticker now works in traditional mode again.
• Traditional mode spawn rates and spawn caps have been increased.
• Hunger now drops slightly faster. (Still slower than InDev 24, but faster than InDev 25 Unstable 1)
• Doubled the time between having a child and getting pregnant again is possible.
• Decreased the pregnancy chance by 50%.
• Slightly decreased the chance villagers will stop and chat.
• Increased the time a villager is pregnant to one full game day.
• Slightly deceased the chance villagers mate.
• Recall spell now works on Nomads.
• Tripled Tool and Armorsmith's refining speeds.
• Children now take 2 full days to grow up.
• Reduced the amount of high wind.
• Cleaned up some of the resource display lists in the world map GUI.

InDev 25 Unstable 2 Change Log

Water and Thirst System

• Well Master has been renamed Water Master.
• Water Masters can now harvest dirty water from lakes to be taken to the water purifiers.
• The "Harvest Food" button is now a "Harvest Food and Water" button.
• New Building: Water Purifier. This building will accept dirty water (Harvested from lakes) and slowly filter it into clean water the village can use.
• Lake water can now freeze in extremely cold weather (Usually only during the Winter) making it unharvestable until it thaws.
• Water can now be drained completely from a lake, due to over harvesting.
• Water levels in lakes replenish when it rains.
• The Ancillary and Camp can no longer store water buckets.
• Way Makers can now clear all terrain, just like Builders.
• Water can now be cleared by Way Makers and Builders with the destroy terrain tool.
• Way Makers can now dig holes to create villager make lakes for collecting rain water, creating new water sources next time it rains. They can also be used to expand existing water sources.
• Made go home to eat and drink AI more logically efficient.

Resource Distribution Rewrite

• The resource distribution and storage AI has been rewritten completely from scratch.
• Each building now has a set resource priority for each resource they can store. For example, the Lumber Mill's priority for wood is "Very High", and the priority for boards is "Very Low".
• Organizers, and most manufacturing and refining workers can now rearrange resources in the village taking resources from low priority buildings and delivering them to high priority buildings. For example, an Organizer may take wood from a Lumber Shack and deliver it to a Lumber Mill for the Carpenters to refine, and then later take boards from a Lumber Mill to the Ancillary, Camp or Wood Storage to clear up space in the Lumber Mill for additional wood.
• All harvesters now deliver harvested resources to the highest priority buildings first, even if the building isn't the closest. For example, a Lumberjack will try to deliver freshly harvested wood to a Bowyer or Lumber Mill first, before delivering it to a Lumber Shack.
• All construction jobs now always take resources from the lowest priority buildings first. For example, a Builder will take wood from Wood Storage, an Ancillary, or the Camp before taking it from the Lumber Mill, even if the Lumber Mill is closer. This applies to Way Maker's road construction as well.
• Added additional AI flag to help prevent villagers from removing needed resources from buildings under construction to use elsewhere.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a minor overlay bug causing "Requires " to display when it wasn't actually required.
• Fixed a very rare crash caused by the object sorting algorithm when a game is first loaded.
• Implemented possible fix to the "Go home loop" bug that appeared in InDev 25 Unstable 1.
• Lightning strikes caused by the storm spell no longer crash the game when cast outside the map bounds.
• Fixed a rare crash if the game tries to find a building at a specific coordinate right as the game launches.
• Fixed resource "Hovering above head" bug when villagers are carrying something in water, tar or anything else with depth.
• Experimental fix for resource loading lag issues some users have been having due to some picky malware and anti-virus programs.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Peaceful mode has been renamed Traditional mode to lessen confusion for new players.
• Tending to farmland now sets the "tend amount" to maximum, instead of increasing it by 20%. This drastically reduces the amount of farmers you need to keep farms tended.
• Lowered the "rest period" essence has when it first spawns, before it is attracted to your hand/cursor.
• The "suck in" radius of essence to your cursor has been doubled.
• Lumberjacks can now store silk.
• Miners can now store iron ore.
• Slightly increased the overall resource values of most of the terrain in the game.
• Improved resource amount generation code somewhat. Some terrain, like dead trees, now have significantly less resources.
• Available jobs now factor in to nomad spawn rates. The more available jobs you have (Total job slots minus Total population) the higher chance nomads will appear. If you have more villagers than job slots, it has a negative effect.
• Changed "Everything is peaceful" to "Everything is calm" during day 1's night cycle.
• Grab Objects tool removed from Sandbox Mode.
• Improved worker location selection for terrain and road clearing.
• Optimized tile flag detection, increasing the general overall speed of the engine.
• Rebalanced weather and severe storm rates in all seasons.
• Page up/down and back buttons now flash on the GUI when there's a page to go to.
• Increased the render speed of all overlay data maps.
• A new resource loader system has been implemented, that should increase load times.

InDev 25 Unstable 1 Change Log

Water and Thirst System

• Villagers now have thirst, like hunger this stat will drop slowly. If their thirst reaches zero they will begin to lose hit points.
• Being overheated or overworked will cause villagers thirst to drop faster.
• Drinking water will lower a villager's body temperature if they are overheated. Sometimes they will drink water if they're extremely hot, even if they're not thirsty.
• New Building: The Well. This building will slowly generate drinkable water year round. Once the water purifier is added to the game, the well will freeze over in the winter.
• New Building: Rain Catcher. This building will collect rainwater, funnel it into barrels, and will work year around, assuming it is rains.
• New Buildings: Small and Large Water Fountains. Decent sized fountains of drinkable water, villagers will visit the fountain to drink water if they don't have any water in their inventory.
• New Building: The Bottler. This building will provide new Bottler job slots, and refine water into water bottles villagers can carry around with them.
• New Job: Bottler. As stated above, they will refine water buckets into bottles. They will also distribute bottles to houses.
• New Job: Well Master. Well masters will deliver buckets of water from rain catchers and wells to other sources that need them in the village, like fountains, farms, houses and bottlers.
• Villagers will now visit water sources to replenish their thirst, they prioritize going to fountains or drinking water bottles in their inventory. If they can't find either, they will visit their house or any other water source anywhere in the village.

Farming Changes

• Crops can now be tended to and watered to help them grow faster, or resist dying. Typically meaning the more farmers you have, the faster your food production.
• Crops can now grow in the summer, but must be well tended and watered. Otherwise they may die.

Spell Changes

• Lowered the cost of the Send to Limbo, Take From Limbo and Resurrect spells.
• The spells Magic Torch, Distract and Spotlight have been removed from the game.
• New Spell: Summon Holy Golem. A Summonable mid level golem you can summon anywhere in the map, and will destroy everything in sight. The golem will lose 5% of it's health every few seconds until it eventually dies.
• New Spell: Storm. This spell will cause a terrible thunderstorm in the area cast, and should never be cast inside the village. This spell will also trigger rain or snow. Useful in summer drought.

Full Moon

• The world now has a "Full Moon" night every 7 days.
• Monsters do not attack during a full moon, unless you get too close to them.
• Essence spawns randomly all over the map during a full moon.
• Ghosts (Dead villagers) pop up very frequently during a full moon.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Changed starting villager summon in count in the World Map to summon up to 40 villagers, rather than 32.
• Changed starting villager count in Skirmish from 21-27 to 28-32
• Reduced global spawn rate in survival mode by 10%.
• Large, detailed building and working job panels have been added to the left and right tab, detailing a ton of useful information about the building or job assignment to the player when you hover over the building or job icon.
• Improved some of the "Building Required" building overlay messages.
• Monsters no longer auto attack when in range of the village.
• Refining/Manufacturing villagers will now attempt to manufacture more resources in an endless loop until they're tired, run out of base materials or the building is at least 1/4th full of the refined resource in question.
• Reworked how food is eaten somewhat. Now food has a much higher use-count, but each use only counts as 1 hunger point. The final actual food value is the same.
• Renamed "Stone" to "Cut Stone".
• Adjusted the "trigger points" for fill phases in buildings somewhat.
• Moved mouse over overlay for buildings above the building rather than on top of it.
• Improved the particle generation when it is raining, now water will hit the ground and drip off terrain and buildings.
• Reduced overall amount of lightning during rain.
• Midday is now longer, and Night is shorter in the Summer.
• Midday is now shorter, and Night is longer in the Winter.
• Removed essence collecting from radiance pools. They now only attract monsters.
• Added total village energy (and now, water) to the resource bar.
• New Song added, Maxine.
• Overhauled the way tileset data is loaded into the game, somewhat lowering memory usage.
• Optimized many of the mob and building search algorithms.
• Hunger now drops about 30% slower, to help offset the demand for water.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the rain frequency in the early days of Spring.
• Medic work now exhausts the mob correctly.
• Fixed a few minor shadow and particle map issues.
• Abandoned Crystal Harvestries can now be rebuilt properly.
• Fixed Rain sound "Stuttering/Skipping" for some users.

Known Issues that will be resolved before the stable build

• None!

[ 2017-03-19 22:41:26 CET ] [ Original post ]