Mod content by Pandaros and Xweert -------------IMPORTANT INFORMATION------------- Here's how to join the beta Expected time of official launch: in 2-3 weeks --------------------------------------------------------------- A couple of days ago, Zun started suffering a pretty severe stomach ache. He's been having this problem once or twice a year for a while now, but the pain mostly seems to disappear after a couple of hours. But not this week. The pain kept coming back in waves. Eating seemed to increase the pain. Yesterday, late in the evening, he decided to visit the after-hours doctor service at the local hospital. They completed some scans and are suspecting gallstones. He slept at the hospital and they're performing more tests and scans now. They're currently planning to keep him there until at least Monday. Suffice to say, progress was less than hoped for this week. We haven't changed our expected release date though. We're pretty happy with the state of the beta. While there are definitely things that can be improved, there do not seem to be any major problems at the moment. Here's a list of things we still want to do before release:

• Balance recipes: change the cost, food value, happiness value
• Add a compass, to make it easier to find your colonies
• The updated science menu is way more clear in regards to what you actually unlock. Unlocks that were in the past separated for clarity, can now be merged. For example crossbow bolts + crossbows could be one research, same for matchlock guns and their ammo. Kilns and bloomery can be combined too.
• Update the F1 help-menu
• Update the UI to explain why players cannot access their old worlds anymore and how they can fix that (use the 0.6.3 branch)
• Add a splash screen with some general info
• Make a new trailer

For that new trailer, we're going to need awesome colonies! We're looking for beautiful, detailed, semi-realistic towns that display all the new features in 0.7.0. Towns with walls, gates, squares, greenery, houses and buildings like temples or churches, gardens and small alleys. Towns that look awesome from a distance, but also when filmed from up close. This weekend, we'll open a new Discord channel called "#trailer-worlds-only". If you want your world to be featured in the trailer, please build a town according to the standards above, post one or multiple screenshots of it in the #trailer-worlds-only and upload the savegame-folder there!
Modders have had access to the beta branch for a long time. 0.7.0 contains a lot of extra mod support, and modders have made good use of it! Pandaros and Xweert have added fancy new systems that currently have no equivalent in the base game. They've added a system where mana is stored in tanks and carried from one place to another with pipes. One of the uses of mana is powering a hovering platform. The platform can be entered by players like the glider, automatically transporting them from one station to the next! We're very excited by mods like this one. Adding Steam Workshop support is one of the highest priorities after releasing 0.7.0. We've been thinking about adding industrial content in future updates, and we're strongly considering to add similar pipe/rail systems. Here's a video of the mod features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujKS0MVYJMU Bedankt voor het lezen! Reddit // Twitter // YouTube // Website // Discord

[ 2019-07-05 12:23:52 CET ] [ Original post ]