World Mechanics Additions and Changes
- Starting rooms and NPCs configured at base for demo.
- Configured scrapper base build tree.
- Starting monster spawners and monster locations configured for demo. Working to balance spawning rules.
- Worked to balance demo resource distribution and scavenge difficulty. As a rule, piles such as trash, wreckage, rubble, and so forth are easier to scavenge than intact objects like a train car or building shell, but provide fewer resources.
- Added more studyable objects as a reward in harder-to-reach zones. Once studied, these provide path max levels in the shop.
- Viewing now provides stat exp and a prestige award.
- Rift closing is now a speed-only action (no skill check required).
Ability Mechanics Additions and Changes
- Populated all civilian and combat NPC foods in the cafe, such as Megaton Meatloaf or Plasma Potluck. Each civilian food boosts that NPC’s professional skill by one per food level (which is room level). Each combat food boosts the weapon proficiency or magic affinity associated with the NPC.
- The cafe jukebox now has several different music-based environmental-stat-boosting options, such as Primordial Pizzicato or Backstab Blues.
Room Additions and Changes
- Room unlocks can now require multiple prerequisites. The mage rooms, for instance, currently require both the magic and accessory crafting rooms to be built.
- Added free drink to cafe.
- The harvesting rooms now use biomass in upgrades.
- Corpse and growth refining can now add mana to base storage.
- The Illusionarium now handles all ten terrain training simulators and the searching training station.
- Populated and distributed all missing training stations for all stats that currently can be leveled via training.
Shop Additions and Changes
- Populated shop listings for system exp for all stats that currently can be leveled that way.
Item Additions and Changes
- Goggles now need plastics, not leather.
- Rods now need composites, not metal.
- Health syringes now use redcap mushrooms.
- Rations now use berries.
- Added stamina restoration syringes.
Character Additions and Changes
- Monsters now devour corpses over time, increasing the decay rate using their constitution as speed (for now). They get flat exp for HP removed.
- Spawners now gain exp from kills made by its spawns.
- Slime corpses now decay into a slime puddle.
- Monsters should now gain exp planting or tending their monstrous growths.
- Added a scavenger combat unit (uses starter gear).
- Mages now use magic robes and accessories.
- Monsters now move based on a required ambience stat. Scout units have no requirements, and thus will move anywhere and attempt to plant their growths, which increase required ambience. If it increases enough, stronger units will start patrolling through the zone.
Stat Additions and Changes
- The camouflage stat can now gain exp, and has a trainer and shop listing.
Interface Additions and Changes
- Reorganized the primary interface. Actions should no longer “bounce” up and down lines as spotting changes.
- Added the modal dialog framework for all world objects. The goal is for right-clicking anything in the world to provide information.
The updated interface. The center pane is now split into player info, on-player actions, spotted zone info, on-zone actions, selected target info, and on-target actions. Info panes have a blue background, while actions are red. All logs are now on the right side, and progress meters are on the left:
