Hi there! We are still working on next major update Alpha 0.13 that is set to be released around the end of February. We will talk more about upcoming features in further posts, but today we want to tell you about some of the things that we released in the latest Alpha build - 0.12.3.
New building interface and tools
It's mostly still a work in progress, but we are rolling out a complete rework of building experience including new brush panel and palette interfaces that you can see on the screenshot above.
Now it's much easier and more intuitive to select brushes you want to use for building, they're separated by type, category, form and material with handy preview and responsive interface.
Each building brush is under rework too to make using them easier. For example, all brushes that have rotation now rotate along with camera direction. Along with it, we fixed a lot of bugs with every brush, moved all blueprints to brushes and many more changes and new building elements are to come in next updates.
Ghost Building
Completely new building mechanics we added in this update is Ghost Building. It gives players an ability to freely build a ghostly preview of what they want to build and then "apply" it to the real world.
Some of the advantages of using Ghost Building are: the ability to move through ghost building, which can help players reach corners that might not be able accessible when building right in the real world; ghost voxels can be destroyed without spending energy.
Many features including saving of the ghost building between sessions are to come in the future.
Material Management during building process and world regeneration
We reworked how resources are consumed when building. Every voxel and object now have a set material cost that can include different resources. Players don't need to have pre-crafted voxels or objects now and just spend their materials when building. It also allows for different voxel skins in the future and makes overall code architecture simpler and prettier.
World regeneration system doesn't touch players' buildings anymore. We are still working on the ability for players to claim a piece of world as their own, but for now we made world regeneration less aggressive in places where players are building their things.
New Monsters
This build introduces 4 new monsters, but only one of them - Mimic - is enabled on the Alpha Server. So be careful when opening those chests - they might run away from you! Other new monsters are: Garnet Armadillo, Blue Hare and Coincat. We will tell more about them when we add them on the Alpha Server.
More abilities for Artifacts
Some artifacts that didn't have an ability in the latest build now have one!
- Ancient Sing of Blessing — full-support artifact that changes player's main attack to Healing, an ability to heal allies in small area.
- Explosive Core — upon activation makes a huge explosion under user's feet pushing all enemies away, dealing damage to them and pushes the user back in an arc.
- King of the Pumpkiween is a head wear that gives it's wearer an ability to Polymorph in a pumpkin. For 5 second the user of that ability becomes a blast pumpkin that works just like normal pumpkin and explodes when enemies come near it. Explosion is harmless for the user, but deadly for their enemies!
Other cool changes
Chests interface is much better now, many bugs were fixed and it's now usable.
Link Gem have a brand new model.
A bunch of bugs were fixed and many more were added!
Stay tuned!
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