It’s that time again, and this time we’re looking at the first of two wintery/Christmas updates that will hit Samphi over December. Let’s get right to it!
So, in last week’s update I showed the new tree and the new snowy weather system*. (It will be leaving in January) The new colour is a little different than the last, and has some more detail, so the items that are made of wood have been updated to match. A small update, but it brings everything together nicely.
*If you want to turn off the snow just enable custom textures in the settings menu then restart. All sprites will default back to normal. This option is available while it’s purely an aesthetic change. Once weather is tied to mechanics it won’t be able to be altered as it’ll be part of the game.
Fences are back in the game and they actually work! Instead of me rambling on here’s a YouTube video showing me creating one and getting animals in it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIP0nEAu2hA
So they’re back. All you’ve got to do is place your posts, right click an animal to tether them, lead then in, right click again to untether. Simple! For now they will just graze in the pen, but later we’ll add reproduction and milking and things! In fact sheep can now be sheered, so you could use this to keep them contained and get an unlimited supply of wool!
What’s cool about fences is that as well as keeping things in they keep things out! So if you’re tired of sheep and pigs wandering into your house …
There’s been a long running bug … we’ll not really a bug, more just bad behavior, where animals could climb up huge vertical distances. That’s been fixed now so the animals around the level can only climb up 1 block at a time.
Here’s the complete changelog for 0.2h now available in the beta branch:
- Recoded fences
- Added new tree sprite
- Added first weather system
- Brought winter to Samphi!
- Fixed issues with animals climbing up steep edges
Since v0.2j is now in beta, v0.2i will be moved to the stable branch.
Not sure yet! I have a metric shit ton of University work these next two weeks, semester deadlines, so I think I’ll play it by ear. So, the contents of next update will be a surprise! Any suggestions then throw them in a comment. :)
Enjoy snowy Samphi and building pens/fences for your houses and animals!!! Ciao.
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