Farming phase one
This patch brings in the first round of farming. There are pumpkin seeds on pigs, and hoes to be crafted at smiting tables now with which it's possible to start a pumpkin patch! Mostly at this point just for testing to make sure that everything is working as intended before we add more vegetables and tools.
Plants must be watered to grow and will continue to grow even when you are not around. Pumpkins take roughly 45 minutes and a watering at 15 minutes and 30 minutes to grow to full maturity. The rain will also water them, though it's not smart enough (yet) to know it's raining when you're not there.
I still want to add a watering can, and buckets for gathering water from water sources, as well as a.. well.. ːsteamhappyː
Eventually we also want to add gardening NPCs that will take care of things for you, and of course a way to get seeds from wild pumpkins rather than picking them from the hair of pigs!
Behind the scenes I've also upgraded the item database to accept scriptable objects which makes creating new items much easier, and will allow modders to add new items in the future. The pumpkin, pumpkin seeds, and hoe are already making use of this system. Eventually I will convert all items and recipes to this system, but that will take time so I'm doing it a little at a time.
v 0.3.1a - 2018.09.06
Farming
- Hoe added to Smithing -> Tools. Cannot be "equipped" but "used" from inventory (for now)
- Use a how to till a flat section of land into farmable land
- Pumpkin seeds will now drop off of pigs (for now)
- "Use" seeds to engage planting mode and plant them in tilled soil
- Water soil to make plants grow, or wait for rain (water is free for now)
- Pumpkins will grow through germination -> vegetation -> maturity -> old, 900 seconds per stage
- No penalty for "old" plants yet.
- water will dry up at 1 per 10 seconds
- Plants will mature even when you are no where near them, though they can't yet understand if it's raining if you aren't near them enough for them to be loaded.
General
- The enchanting and building interfaces will now increase level/tier at +/- 100 when holding control+shift
- Fixed the radial menu not working in some instances (boats for one)
You may need to restart Steam for the update to begin.
To opt into Beta you only need to go to your Steam Library, right-click on Solace Crafting, select Properties, click on the Beta tab, and opt-in to the beta. The beta is only available to Windows 64-bit users.