Today's patch cleans up a few loose edges brought about by recent patches include new icons for the new enchants, but more importantly I've added a feature that lets you "use any acceptable" resources when paying for something. Currently this is only implemented with recipe unlocking, but I think it should be available wherever resources are used.
The picture above is showing that the Enchanter wants 1x T0 Common Amethyst and 1x T0 Common Sapphire to teach me the recipe I've selected, but that I have (0) of them. Now, if I opt to "Use any acceptable resources," it will look through my inventory and find the cheapest match(es) it can find. In other words, they must be the same kind of item, and at least or better the same tier and rarity. In this case I have (10) T5 Uncommon Sapphire and Amethyst on me, so it is going to use 1x of each of them if I click learn.
This does not yet search through bags, though I will set it up to also be able to do that as well.
I've also added a couple of new commands, for dedicated servers. If you've ever opened the servercfg.dat file, you may have noticed these lines:
"allowAdmin": false,
"adminPassword": "password",
"allowModerator": false,
"moderatorPassword": "password",
By default, admins and moderator are turned off, but they can now be turned on and a password can be saved in the config file. Currently the moderator role does not have any abilities, but I assume in the future it will be nice to have a less powerful role that can for example maybe only mute, or maybe kick players from a server when necessary, both of which are also currently not available actions, but they will most certainly need to be implemented at some point. The admin role has full access to all console commands and should not be given to anyone you don't trust.
Two common admin commands that I've used are:
/admin mypassword /forcesave
and
/admin mypassword /serverbroadcast some message
These commands are issued in-game from a client connected to the server. There is also a windows-only command prompt script provided publicly by Facepunch, the creators of Rust, though I have been reluctant to implement it as I've always hosted my dedicated servers on Linux. At some point I will very likely implement that as well, which would allow anyone with access to the actual server itself to simply type commands into the console without having to log on as a client.
Another tweak I added to this patch is a slight smoothing to mouse movement. It's practically unnoticeable during normal game play, but when there is a lag spike, such as an auto-save, it now greatly reduces the "spin" that these uncommon but extra long frames can cause. Ultimately improving performance and finishing the multi-threading of the save methods will reduce if not eliminate entirely the majority of such lag spikes.
I was not able to notice the smoothing during normal game play, but I know some people are much more sensitive to those kinds of things than I am. If there is a need to I will make the amount of smoothing available as an in-game setting.
PS: I had a mild fever off and on for the past 4 days, and still have a nasty cough, but am feeling much better today. I was hoping to get this up last week along with a few other things, so I've got some catch up to do this week!
v 0.7.7.7 2021.10.05
- Added /admin password & /moderator password commands
- Added smoothing to camera mouse movement reducing the "spin" from lag spikes
- Added icons for the new enchants
- Added "Use any acceptable" button to recipe unlocks
- Improved the town crafter recipe unlock interface
- Fixed the icons for the updated claw, nail, fang, and horn resources
- Improved the performance of a lot of building pieces
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