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Progress update v 0.4.2

While upgrading cave generation to a deterministic system, partially for multiplayer support, I made a few improvements to them including adding a navmesh generation system so that monsters can now be added in. I also limited cave depth to a maximum of 20 caves, still quite large, which means there is now a known end to each cave. Along with this new location ripe for treasure and the new procedural towers screaming for more rewards I started working on more monsters and more loot. New monsters I've got, and quite a few more that I would like to get in, but having grown immensely from who I was as a developer 12 months ago, I'm much more interested in building modular, component based systems that I can "plug" and "unplug" with ease. This opens the doors to user content (modding) but also makes things much much easier for me once the systems are set up nicely. Resources The first system I added was for resource spawning. I can now add resources to any biome with only a few numbers to dictate necessary information like their spawn rate. In order to make sure this works I changed the ore nodes from being the same no matter where you go.
The above is the new large ore node model, different now from the medium and small ore nodes. Ore is now also handled very differently for each biome. In the grass biome there are no large nor medium nodes, and small nodes only spawn at 10% the base rate. However, in the mountains, for example, small medium and large nodes can all spawn, with the large nodes having up to as much as 70 ore per node. This all is handled with only a few lines of code now that the system works the way it does. Monsters Next up came adding new monsters, which now too can be accomplished with only a few lines of code. To make sure things are working I've added in two new monsters: the Ice Golem, and the Rock Golem.
Items The real reason for adding new monsters in though is of course to create new loot. So I finally got my hands dirty and built an external file friendly item creation system. This way I can add new items into the game very easily using a pre-made template to just fill in a few fields such as item name. That also means that anyone else will be able to add new items into the game by simply creating them, and putting them in a folder I've for now set as Solace Crafting/Mod Files/Items. The items that I add into the base game will be built-in and not present in the folder when it goes live, but it will be the first of several doors to be opened soon allowing players to add and share their own content. The item template file is in ini format, and will automatically ignore any data that it doesn't care about. For example there are a few entries for consumables, but if you're adding a sword you can leave them blank, or delete them entirely, the system won't be using that data in runtime. Loot One drawback to this system, as things were, was that I didn't have an easy way to define what drops where. So I built one! Up until now Solace Crafting has used a "loot table" system, where when loot is to be generated it will pick one or two items off the appropriate pre-defined loot table. Now it instead categorizes loot by biomes and monster names assigning a drop rate to each item individually. In short, that means that any given monster could have any number of a dozen possible drops on them, though it's more likely they will only have one or two basic drops. Each item will be calculated for each chance individually. This new loot system of course also only requires a few lines of code, or a new item template, to add it into the game. The final section of each item template offers the ability to define biome specific drop rates, including multiple biomes, or all biomes, as well as the ability to define name specific drops, so that our new Rock Golems can have a chance at dropping their own specific resource. It ended up being a lot of small steps that are all intertwined and I let more than a week pass by without an update! I still need to make a few tweaks to the loot system, then I should be good to add 6-7 new monsters complete with new resources for each of them. We had a good discussion about monsters on our Discord server, and everyone was pretty much in agreement with my stance that we don't want gory and disgusting in our game and so I'm sticking with elemental and golem types for the most part, for now, though I'm pretty sure a giant spider and giant snake will be coming in. There may be a "no giant spiders" button for those that really don't like spiders (I know a guy, it's not me), as again this is all designed to be sort of "plug-and-play" though the question was: how can you disable giant spiders if they're the only thing that drops venom sacs? What we came up with, and is something that has been requested before, was an option to make monsters passive. That combined with the already possible settings of extremely low monster health and damage, and you would effectively be in "safe" mode but still be able to "harvest" monsters for specific ingredients when needed. I hope to get a beta patch up tomorrow with all the new goodies, though I still need to work on building Item Recipe and Enchant Recipe templates so that I can make those new ingredients be worth the adventure!


[ 2019-02-15 13:57:54 CET ] [ Original post ]

Solace Crafting
Big Kitty Games Developer
Big Kitty Games Publisher
2018-01-16 Release
Game News Posts: 416
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🕹️ Partial Controller Support
Mostly Positive (776 reviews)
The Game includes VR Support
Public Linux Depots:
  • Solace Crafting Linux [2.77 G]

Background


My name is Kyle Postlewait (35) and I got into game development years ago because I can't find the game that I want to play. I am not a veteran game developer. I do not have any published AAA titles. I am self-taught and I make mistakes. Having said that, I'm tired of survival crafting games being abandoned, focusing only on PvP and guns, or turning into major time sinks. I quit my day job in February of 2018 to focus on Solace Crafting full-time, and am doing everything I can to make a great fantasy survival RPG despite the tremendous challenge that is game development. Please don't buy into early access expecting a fully polished AAA game and then give it a bad review. In return, I promise to make sure that this game is NEVER ABANDONED. If sales are more than enough for me to survive, then I can hire more help. First and foremost I will always work to secure financial longevity and legal stability, and maintain all intellectual rights, never selling power to sponsors, publishers, or anything that could endanger continued development.

Early access ends when there is enough content to constitute selling the game without the above warning. Even after we leave early access the game will continue to be improved and expanded on, and has a long list of planned features post early access including other dimensions and multiplayer.

All features listed on this page are undergoing constant improvement and are subject to change.

Short description

Solace Crafting is a crafting and building heavy survival RPG focused around player crafting, building towns, and summoning NPC townspeople. With an open class system, open-recipe crafting, customizable enchanting, modular building, defensive structures, town management, distance-based difficulty, and an infinite game world, players are free to move and level at their own pace. With an uncapped leveling system you can try to push further than anyone ever has. You can try and make the ultimate sword, staff, or anything, thanks to complete control over all recipe settings. Build massive towns full of NPCs not limited by physics-based construction. Seek out rare enchants and exotic resources.

About the game

Survival
Solace Crafting starts out much like similar survival games: you need to make clothes to avoid freezing to death, you need to find food to keep from starving to death, and you should build shelter from the dangers of nightfall.
Crafting
Once you are surviving it's time to evolve. Build resource processing and crafting facilities to create improved weapons and armor. Leveling up your professions levels up your recipes and allows you to unlock new recipes and crafting abilities. Our crafting system is quite unique, allowing even the creation of custom sets. I definitely recommend you watch the getting started video available above.
Role-Playing Game
Once you're armed and ready it's time to push back against evil and it's minions. Level-up and develop your character using an open-class system of evolving skill trees. Mix melee, ranged, magic, and heals however you like. Skills are being designed with fun and visual uniqueness in mind, not minimalism and strict balance.
Solace Crafting
Crafting and placing a solace will allow you to instantly return to it from any other solace in the world, letting you create your own points of interest. Be careful though as the further you travel in any direction, the more difficult everything becomes. In order to level up a solace you'll have to defend it from waves of attackers that will try and stop the procedure. Build static defenses to help protect your solaces during upgrades.
Town Management
An upgraded solace allows you to summon townspeople. In order to summon higher level NPCs you'll need to push deeper into the wild, setting up towns of various sizes as you go.
Astral Travel (not yet under development)
When the time is right you will find your way to the Elemental Planes. Most heavily affected by the infectious anger and hatred, these have becomes dimensions of extreme danger, both environmental and sentient. You must find out where the hatred stems from and find a way to put an end to it once and for all. The Elemental Planes are also the birthplace of all resources mundane and exotic alike. Only here will you find the purest, most powerful resources for crafting and enchanting equipment worthy of a hero.

Developed by a gamer

I started learning how to make games years ago because the design decisions of so many of the games I played often made so little sense to me. Here are some of the design decisions I refined over the years that I do my best to uphold:
  • No pay-to-win, no pay-to-play, no paid DLC, no gacha or gamble mechanics
  • No metered progression
  • Level any and all professions freely, no arbitrary caps
  • Minimal sub-ingredients, minimal crafting and refining timers
  • Completely open, point and level based branching skill trees
  • Multiple, incremental skill points every level
  • Classic roles, not forced balance. Some classes may be harder than others.
  • Unlimited player levels
  • Completely open physics-based world, no off-limits
  • No "realistic" building physics that destroy everything
  • Unlimited access to parallel realities (alternate seeds)
  • Shape and color your avatars freely instead of using preset races
  • Allow alternate characters in the same world

I know how to, and will accomplish everything written here. It's only a matter of time. If the game sells I can hire help with what I'm bad at and focus on what I'm good at.
I know a lot of fans of the survival genre are pretty jaded, myself included, after so many titles have lost their leadership, changed projects, or plain given up. I'm here every day hoping to heal that sore and would very much appreciate your $15 support if any of this interests you. There are months of frequent patch notes and forum discussions between me and players here on Steam as proof that I'm capable of more than a couple new items after weeks of silence, something far too common in game development!

Multiplayer, and all of its many features will absolutely be implemented when a much more content rich single player experience has been achieved. Multiplayer like single-player will be PvE oriented and grief prevention/anti-cheat will always take top priority. Turning single-player towns into multiplayer guildhalls complete with defense quests and special achievements is something I very much look forward to, and have quite a few plans for.

Unix and Mac support will be tested and released soon.

The best is yet to come!

MINIMAL SETUP
  • OS: Ubuntu 12.04+
  • Processor: Dual Core 3 ghzMemory: 4 GB RAM
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Nvidia GTX 680
  • Storage: 8 GB available space
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