Hey everyone & Happy new years!
My college studies combined with Christmas holidays as well as other projects in the works have left me quite busy recently, in spite of this I have had some time to create new features for Eternamine. While these new features aren't massive, they set the foundations to create lots of cool stuff in the future, both by me the developer and you players. This update has added & changed the following things:
Content
New chat feature
The old event text in the bottom left of the UI has been replaced with a more sophisticated chat panel. Like previously, all event texts will be displayed here but now you can see a much longer history of the messages throughout your game sessions.
This new panel also allows you to enter text as well as enter a bunch of brand new commands!
Commands
A bunch of initial commands have been added to the game, some of them are:
- /value - Check the value of all three main currencies of whichever item you're holding
- /warp - Warp to a mine/deep mine or the lobby. Command is locked by default but can be unlocked with the warp command rune (see below)
- /alias - Manage your own aliases for commands, these support command chaining, allowing a single command call to call multiple commands (using << notation).
- /timer - Call a command after a set duration, can also define repeating timers with /timerrepeating
- /say - Output text in the chat, can be combined with arguments and /setcolor to create your own unique output commands. See the official guide for this command.
And tons of more commands, all commands can be seen by using the command /help.
You can also autocomplete commands/command arguments by pressing tab as well as going through your sent messages using the arrow keys when the chat is open.
New items
Command runes have now been added and can be obtained from Geodes. These runes will permanently give you access to their respective command. There are currently 3 different command runes: Warp, Sell & SellItem
CheatZ gamemode
A new gamemode has been added which allow you unrestricted access to all commands including :
- /item - Manage items freely, give and remove whichever items you want from your inventory
- /money - Manage your money freely
- /tokens - Manage your tokens freely
- /gems - Manage your gems freely
And many more!
Contest improvement
The monthly contest has been given some well-needed improvements. They are:
- You can now see your total earned points and your current contest placement when in the contest mine
- When your contest placement changes while in the contest mine, you will receive a notification in the chat
- You can now see the results of all past monthly contests
- Issues with contest rewards not being given has been further fixed. They should no longer happen
UI improvement
Most of the UI-elements in the game (especially in the lobby) have been changed slightly to look better. You will most likely notice some changes as soon as you start playing again :)
New discord server
Previously all my game's communities have been hosted under the same discord server, but now this has changed. Eternamine now has an exclusive discord server which can be joined through this link
In this server you can be awarded roles for winning the in-game monthly contests, share commands with
The future of Eternamine
The development of Eternamine has gone on for over 2 years now, with with 1.5 of those years being regular content updates for the game. I now feel like I have reached a point in the game's development where most of what I wanted for the game is there. I do still love working on the game however, so I would very much now like to hear what you want from the game. Do you want more mines? Do you want more skills? New areas to explore? New abilities to unlock? Brand new features? Whatever it is, I want to hear your wishes for the game. So please do not hesitate to share your thoughts either in the Steam forums here or in the brand new discord listed above, I can't wait to hear them :)
Until the next update
- Seyloj