Hi friends,
Happy Friday. Time for another update on Samphi. Think this is going to be the shortest yet! You know I’m working on chests, but despite best efforts they’re taking much longer that I’d like. This short update will just explore why.
Last week I said …
So next week shouldn’t see a new build according to the schedule, they’re every 2 weeks, but it will! I’m so close to being done with chests that there’s no point in waiting 2 weeks, we’ll just get them out.
If only. Chests are proving to be a royal pain in the ass. Each time I solve one problem another crops up. The item system needs quite a large change to accommodate chests so unfortunately it won’t be this week as I’d hoped.
For example, what happens when a player has items in a chest them moves world. There’s no chest for them, so they can go to their inventory. What if their inventory is full though? No problem, we’ll leave them in the chests. That means data for items in chests need moving from the player to the world save file. That’s done.
Now what happens when an item is already in a chest and the user collects more of it? They’ll end up with two of the same item and Samphi isn’t currently built to accommodate that.
It’s things like these that I keep running into. Chests are coming, and they’re close, but we’re just not there yet.
Since they’re not available yet this gives a good opportunity for me to get some feedback on how I intend them to work. Here’s my current thinking:
- Items placed in chests belong to the world, not the player
- If you change world you won’t have the items. If a new character joins the existing world with a filled chest they can access those items.
This will work great and the last real hurdle is allowing multiple stacks of items. How does this sound? Is this how you’d expect them to behave?
I was recently made aware of a bug in the latest build, v0.1d, that crashed the game is custom textures were enabled. That’s been patched and that version is now in the stable branch.
Hopefully next week chests will actually see the light of day in v0.1e. That’s what I’ll be working on ‘till then. Sorry it’s taking so long, it’s a bit of a mess! It feels shitty to keep saying they’re coming soon and then never delivering, but issues keep cropping up out of nowhere. So I’ll leave it as hopefully!
Hope you all have a fantastic weekend!
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