I've added a new section to the item template system now allowing for anything to be "unlockable" via town buildings. In other words, Tailor I now has the Mage and Cleric armor sets available for purchase. I've tentatively set the price for the 8 armor sets at T1 Uncommon resources. These sets were actually already in-game as drops from champions, but there's nothing in-game that actually tells you that, so I wouldn't be surprised if not everyone knew that!
Now, once I finish upgrading the item system to be able to treat one piece of equipment as stronger or weaker than another, we will have all the tools needed to create an endless number of equipment recipes. The displaying, storing, unlocking and everything is all automatic, so long as the item templates are there. I don't yet have an image importer setup for importing item icons from the hard disk, but I did write a JSON importer that can import text files in order to allow players to feed items into the game. If anyone is waiting on that, let me know, and I'll write some instructions on how to use it.
None of the building styles are set in stone either, I've actually redesigned them somewhat, and am working on Village+ "rank" buildings being a mix of stone and wood, etc. I'm certainly open to different styles if anyone wants to take a swing at it!
A new type of ingredient is also now required in order to construct any of the crafter buildings: Wooden Construction Supplies. This is a special item that only the Carpenter, a new type of building, can create. Currently it's just a mix of lumber and metal, and maybe that's all it should be, but I like the idea of more buildings with different purposes.
Once I get the other buildings and "ranks" in and a few recipes for each of them, I will start working on the upgraded villager system.
v 0.5.2.1 2019.06.14
- Added crafter buildings: Tailor, Leatherworker, Armorsmith, Weaponsmith, Toolsmith, Woodworker, Fletcher, Artificer, Stoneworker
- Added unlockable recipes to tailor, leatherworker, and armorsmith
- Added carpenter building that crafts wooden construction supplies needed for Hamlet+ buildings
- Deconstructing town buildings will now refund 80% (rounded down) materials used (only most recent upgrade)
- Foragers have been reset due to some bugs
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