The flat world, created by a testmod that will probably be available as a default

This week, we created our very own Steam Workshop page! Screenshot available below. It's only available internally, but it's relatively functional. Integration of the Workshop was slightly easier than expected. A lot of the required settings can be adjusted in default Steam Workshop menus, so we don't need to develop our own UI for them. In our private testbuild, it's now possible to upload mods to Steam Workshop from Colony Survival, and we can also download them into the game again. And of course, another important new functionality is the fact that it's now possible to select only specific mods to use in a world, making it a lot easier to regularly play both modded and unmodded worlds, and to experiment with combining multiple mods.

We've received multiple reports of people who missed the flatness of 0.6.3 worlds. As a result, Zun's testmod is an adjustment of the world generation, resulting in a nearly entirely flat world. We might make this option available as a default mod. For 0.7.2, we'd like to make extra settings available to modders, which will allow us to upgrade the flat-world mod into a full terrain generation customizer.

A release date of Friday next week is a definitive possibility. The Monday afterwards is another option (December 1) or the following Friday. This will give modders the possibility to configure their Workshop pages in time for Christmas :)



To make myself more useful for updates that rely mainly on programming/Unity skills instead of new textures and objects, I've continued to 'level' these skills and I really do feel like I'm making progress. I got quite a lot of encouragement as a result of last week's blog so thanks a lot :D

My little project is far from perfect or complete but I'd like to share some GIFs again:

• Lots and lots of projectiles
  
• Making custom smoke/explosions
  
• Crazy experiment