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v 0.6.2.15 now live

I've been putting some things off waiting around for this and that the past few weeks, and it's just turned into a big time sink. I'm working on one last attempt at some outsourcing, that looks promising, but ultimately the real power that isn't being tapped into right now is our community. On the roadmap fishing is next in line, and I already started working on it a bit, but ever since the new year started I've been increasingly turning my head down a new direction. I'm looking to start actively working on creative mode, Steam Workshop support, and an interface in creative mode to allow players to create items, recipes, and so forth. The capability to create new items and recipes already exists, though things have changed a bit since I created the system and needs to be upgraded a bit, and there is no interface yet which will make it a lot easier to work with. Why? I've always imagined Solace Crafting as a procedural engine simply populated by default with the rules and data that I feed into it internally. I do very much look forward to adding my own main quest lines, class unlocks, unique items, and so forth. However, giving the community the tools to participate in such creative processes and facilitating the sharing and growth of those aspects are what really makes a lot of my favorite games shine. I'm imagining a number of interfaces during world creation with lists of possible encounters, monsters, biomes, loot, and more, for players to import and export freely, and turn on and off as they see fit. I've mentioned this a bit before both here and on Discord, but the time has come to really start working on it. Having said all that, this patch improves a variety of multiplayer aspects including an upgrade to the Steamworks wrapper written by Gary Newman from Facepunch, well known as the creators of Rust. This removes the need for a dedicated server to log in to Steam in order to post itself to the server lists, and will make working with Workshop easier once I get there. Resources will now also attempt to respawn every 7 days. This is also now a world setting that can be changed during world creation or from within using the console. The shaking experienced beyond 10km for multiplayer clients is also fixed.
27 new building pieces have also been added, though there are still unfortunately some problems with them that I am very aware of. A number of them do not line up properly or have gaps in them when placed next to one another. Models that do not have these problems are still in the works, though the shapes will be the same, so if you can look past the cosmetic issue for a little bit, they will automatically update when they are ready. Most of the major changes since the last live update are as follows: - Added loading progress percentages to the start screen and main game transitions - Max "Cave Resource Density" value changed from 0.8 to 0.5 - Updated Steamworks wrapper - Fruit trees watered up to the "Mature" stage will now regrow their fruit with or without being watered - Added 27 new wooden building pieces - Relaxed building obstruction box checks from 2.9m cubed to 2.6m cubed - Terraforming is no longer blocked by buildings - Steel tools now do +5 damage - Resources will now attempt to respawn 7 days after being harvested - Added "Resource respawn rate" harvesting to world settings (/resourcerespawnrate in the console) - Reduced the cost of solace power upgrades - Reduced max near terrain draw distance to 1024 (an alternative is in the works) The latest beta patch notes are as follows: v 0.6.2.15 2020.01.30 - Changed default resource respawn timer from 1 day to 7 days - Fixed a crafting experience bug v 0.6.2.14 2020.01.30 - Fixed animal attacks hitting the host instead of the client - Fixed client skills not working properly past 8km - Fixed client side monsters/animals teleporting around improperly past 8km v 0.6.2.13 2020.01.30 - Fixed crafting experience not enough to level a profession up not being applied properly You may need to restart Steam for the update to begin. Interested in supporting development of Solace Crafting? Please consider becoming a patron via Patreon!


[ 2020-01-30 06:24:57 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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