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InDev 23 Unstable 3 has been released! This should be the final Unstable release before pushing the stable patch. Unless something goes horribly wrong, you should be seeing the next stable release very soon. So bug test this patch to death!
The biggest highlight of this update is a cool surprise for any of you not following my twitter. This patch brings in something not on the original InDev 23 road map, Nomads! Nomads are a new mob that will sometimes visit your region and try to make their way to your village. If they survive, they'll join the village! Aside form Nomads, this patch also introduces a ton of balance changes and bug fixes, as well as the Golem AI/Combobulator rewrites. So, be sure to checkout the change logs below before jumping into your next world. :)
You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)
InDev 23 Unstable 3 Change Log
Nomads
- Nomads are a new mob that will sometimes visit your region. When they do, they'll attempt to fight their way to your village, and if they survive, they'll join!
- You can increase your chances of nomads visiting by building a large village with a strong defense and plenty of housing.
- Nomads spawn between levels 4 and 6, and are usually well equipped.
- Nomads tend to spawn in large groups, and those groups get larger as the days pass.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug that would sometimes allow spawners to be placed in illegal locations. This also indirectly fixed a crash when monsters tried to wander to a radiance pool that was incorrectly deleted by the spawner being illegally placed over top of it.
- Fixed a crash after reloading if a mob is en route to pickup a resource that either decayed or was consumed before the mob arrived.
- Fixed the worker counts for the Large Ancillary while it is under construction.
- Fixed a minor graphics mistake in one of the Castle's upgrade phases.
- Fixed a crash when trying to find a more suitable home, but the home no longer exists when the villager arrives.
Spawning System Changes
- Overall monster spawn creation rates have been cut roughly in half.
- Fire spreading on objects has been nerfed significantly.
- All spawners now have twice as many hit points.
- Spawners take twice as long to build.
- Spawners no longer use an RNG, but rather charge up over time until they have enough energy to spawn.
Miscellaneous Changes
- Only up to 5 mobs at a time can attack another mob. This is to prevent massive swarming of single targets and reduce path finding lag caused by large amounts of golems.
- Golem Combobulators have been completely rewritten and rebalanced, and they now use the same new charge up system the spawners do, but require energy to charge.
- Raw food has been nerfed slightly, raw food only provides 3 uses instead of 4 (for 30% total rather than 40%)
- Rations now provide only 3 uses instead of 6, but provide 15% food per use instead of 10% (For a total of 45% rather than 60%).
- It now takes longer for villagers to consume food.
- A notification banner is now displayed when a villager grows up.
- Banner message are now no longer in all-caps.
- Reduced overall reproduction rates for villagers. This is to balance out the new Nomad system bringing in a secondary source of new villagers.
- Added three new songs; Finder, Farewell and Feather.
- Updated the help/loading tips.
InDev 23 Unstable 2 Change Log
Ancillary Building
- The Ancillary provides additional building slots for your village, as well as a new worker type called an "Organizer".
- Organizers can store or deliver any resource in the game, but can not build, harvest or do any other work.
- You can only build a set amount of Ancillaries, based on how upgraded your Castle is.
- Ancillaries can store any resource in the game.
- Each Ancillary can be upgraded 4 times, each upgrade providing additional building slots, storage space, and organizer job slots.
Bug Fixes
- Destroy terrain hotkey now works properly when your castle is under construction or upgrading.
- Added some missing particles to a few of the upgrade stages for the castle.
- Fixed the blocked flags on under construction walls. Walls were flagged blocked in situations they should not have been.
- Fixed a bug that would cause builders to upgrade buildings using the wrong materials.
Miscellaneous Changes
- Changed the Lumber Shack artwork somewhat.
- Changed the upgrade and dismantle text and button positioning on the bottom GUI.
- The castle can now store any resource in the game.
InDev 23 Unstable 1 Change Log
Upgrade System
- Buildings can now be upgraded by clicking on the building and clicking on the "Upgrade" button in the bottom object panel GUI.
- Currently the only building that can be upgraded is the Camp (Eventually turning into a Castle!).
- In the future, nearly all harvesting, refining and manufacturing buildings will be able to be upgraded, increasing how much they can store and how many workers they provide.
Construction Limits
- You now have a maximum buildings cap, and when (or before) you reach that cap you'll need to upgrade your camp (Formally Village Center) to gain additional building slots.
- Wall do not count to your building limit, but firepits do!
- All buildings count as "1" to your build cap regardless of size or functionality, so replacing less useful buildings with more efficient ones is desirable late-game (For example, replacing Tents with Hovels)
Performance Settings
- Map tiles are now loaded on-demand, rather than all at once on initial load. This significantly reduces memory usage, since only the tiles actually needed are loaded into memory.
- Decreased overall load times.
- Slightly improved range map generation performance.
- The Dissolve spell particle effects have been reduced.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a crash when trying to equip a resource in a destroyed building after reloading the game.
- Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause monsters to try to equip items in the village buildings.
- Fixed am minor bug causing particles to be rendered half a pixel offset from their desired location.
- Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause sound effects to not play when they should.
- Fixed a bug that would sometimes return the wrong aggro/line of sight results.
- Fixed a bug that would rarely cause the game to freeze if a villager was dropped in a previously inaccessible area.
Miscellaneous Changes
- The Camp (Formally Village Center) can now be destroyed.
- Fixed a crash issue if the Camp (Formally Village Center) is destroyed/removed with walls in range of the village.
- Fixed credit theme, now it correctly plays Main Theme Piano again.
- Updated Bibiki's name in the credits.
- All living things generate essence when destroyed.
- Essence can now be "sucked into" the mouse, increasing the influence bar.
- Influence regeneration is no longer tied to village happiness.
- You now start with your influence bar 1/4th full.
- The Dissolve spell is much more effective now, and dissolves all natural resources instead of just crystals and dead bodies.
- Villagers break away from being confused faster.
- Villagers now react to your godlike abilities, either getting confused or panicking when they see you casting spells or picking up things.
- Particles in the air now have a slight shadow behind them.
- Increased scale of the splash screen.
- Villagers can now be knocked out if something is dropped on their head.
- Rarely, villagers will be knocked out when you drop them.
- Clicking reclaim on an abandoned object now properly sets it's position on the priority list to the bottom.
- Radiance pools no longer consume energy stored unless they're in-use.
- Flipped the "take from" and "send to" limbo spell button icons in the GUI.
- Essence now emits from decaying corpses slowly.