This patch pushes the most recent changes on the beta branch to the live default branch. Building "free" placement mode is definitely the biggest change, giving players the ability to move building pieces freely in 3 dimensions as well as rotate them freely on all 3 axis. During "free" placement mode buildings will not attempt collision checks so they can be positioned intersecting with one another to create asymmetrical designs.
Besides building "free" mode and a host of small bug fixes and improvements there have been a lot of upgrades to the way town buildings are handled. The town interface will now show all possible buildings even for a town that has just been started so you can read the descriptions and know what's what.
Town buildings can also be repositioned freely if you need to move something around a bit. And of course custom town buildings are back and better than ever.
Not all town NPCs can be summoned in this way yet, only from crafting and harvesting facilities, but with a new placeable item called a "summoning circle" you can position and aim where your NPCs will spawn letting you create your own buildings to fit into whatever kind of a town you're building. Currently non-custom town buildings are not editable, but I have plans to change that so that all town buildings will be customizable after being placed.
There are also now 9 color "presets" that can be saved and reused for creating matching armor sets.
All in all there ended up being a fair amount of smaller audio bug fixes, quality of life improvements, interface upgrades, etc.. Today I'm getting back into adding a "material" property to items so that we can have steel tools, embersteel weapons, silk robes, and so on.
As always, before you dive into any major patch, backing up your main world can never hurt! If there are any problems I will jump right on them. Thank you to everyone helping out with beta and to everyone joining us during early access! Lots more to come!
The condensed patch notes from v 0.5.5.6 until now are as follows:
Towns
- Added the ability to reposition town buildings
- Storehouses now store using a maximum per resource instead of a single total maximum amount
- Town building descriptions will now display even for already constructed buildings
- Town buildings now carry a rank instead of separating between MinerI, MinerII, etc.
- Added Summoning Circle for positioning where town NPC will be summoned
- Re-enabled summoning NPCs from crafting and harvesting facilities
Solaces
- Changed solace storage interface similar to town storage
- Solace travel locations now show distance and tier
Crafting
- Added 9 "preset" color slots to the crafting color picker
- Added RGB inputs for crafting color picker
- Added color picker to facility color/rename interface
Building
- Building upgrades UI will now auto-select "Deconstruct" initially
- Jump (default spacebar) can now be used to engage the selected building upgrade (default now Deconstruct)
- Deconstruct with the deconstruction tool will now refund resources the same as the building interface does
- Added building "free" placement mode
General
- Added "Passive monsters" and "Passive spiders" toggles to world combat settings
- Added /lightmultiplier setting to the console and world combat settings
- Changed the main UI to scale with the height of the screen using a default of 1200x900
- Lava will now deal 20% max health as damage per second instead of insta-kill
The latest patch notes from beta are as follows:
v 0.5.6.15 2019.10.21
- Fixed a harmless error originating from the building interface due to the solace storage upgrades
- Fixed a harmless error when swapping from free to locked building mode without a structure selected
v 0.5.6.14 2019.10.21
- Fixed a bug when upgrading older worlds causing town buildings to not interact until reloaded
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