I made a number of bug fixes, mostly multi-player last week that I never quite got up and ended up holding onto them for the several days that it took me to finalize these bigger changes which revolve around updates to the map.
The short version is that the map can now generate any of the data that it wants to, besides monoliths, without actually generating that entire area to determine what's there.
Previously everything was reliant on the area generation methods firing and determining what all needs to spawn there based on the biome, the height, the level, etc. This meant that resource scanners would only be able to produce map data for areas that you have "loaded" into the game at least once, as the important data would then be written out to disk.
Instead, a standalone system now generates large encounters, town resources, and rare resources, in that order, using a very lightweight series of methods that doesn't require the whole terrains biome data be generated for example. This keeps the map fast, while at the same time awarding other systems access to that data in runtime. The maximum range of a scanner is 20 kilometers (roughly 12.4 miles), which amounts to around 314 square kilometers (121 square miles). Attempting to cover that distance is no longer necessary. Unless of course the scanner picks up what you're looking for, in which case you can now head straight for it.
This meant rewiring a lot of different systems, the map, trees, animals, spawning methods, saving methods, network methods, and so on. I've tested things out a bit myself, but it's always difficult to try and really exhaust all possibles by myself for every change that I make. Hopefully I haven't overlooked anything though.
There is still one problem with multi-player in where the destruction of a rare resources is not yet being reported to client maps, so even though a scanner may pick up a rare resource, if another player beats you to it and it has yet to respawn, it may not actually be there, but will still show up on the map. I will fix that tomorrow, but wanted to get this up for testing first.
v 0.7.5.3 2021.05.26
- Large encounters and town resources can now be seen anywhere on the map (previously was only visited areas)
- Rare resources can now be scanned anywhere on the map (previously was only visited areas)
- Resource scanners now work in MP
- Rare resources and town resources are now generated on a per terrain, deterministic system
- Added tooltips to the encounter and town resource map icons
- Home solaces can now be set in multi-player on a per player basis
- Added a number of safety checks in case someone tries to recall in a world where their home solace has been destroyed or all solaces are locked, etc.
- Fixed spending crafting skill points in MP causing points available to be reduced by twice the amount
- Fixed raw fish not going into campfires
- Fixed the unspent points available ! not managing itself properly in some instances
- Fixed not being able to select a structure via a solace in MP
- Fixed "show hidden" on the solace travel list showing locked and unowned solaces
- Fixed locked and unowned solace showing up on the map
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