Hello everyone,
As promised, shrimps have finally come to Fishery.
It has been a long time coming. We have been promising to add shrimps, among many other things, into the game for years and I think we have cruised along on a lot of good will and trust from players who really want us to keep our word. I hope this really does help prove that we are not all talk when it comes to these promises. It may take us a while but we really are going to see this whole thing though to the end.
In this build we only have the male and female red cherry shrimp. They wander about and do shrimpy things like find food and nibble it as well as stop and rest and take it easy for a bit. They start off quite small but as time goes on they grow bigger like the fish do.
There are a few rough edges because we could not fit everything we wanted to into this update without delaying it another week. I think they are pretty minor and easily fixed. Fun can still be had with the shrimps as they are at the moment.
Some of these "rough edges" are:
- breeding is turned off. It is actually all coded and working but I really think we need another day or two of testing and fiddling to get it ready for player consumption.
- Shrimps cannot be stored in the fish storage inventory yet but they will.
- The info ui in the inventory does not display shrimp gender as well as other details yet.
- When shrimp eat they do so in a variety of positions, like swimming up to the water's surface to nibble something. We need to add another type of eating animation for when shrimps eat whilst swimming/floating in the water.
- Shrimps dont climb all over food when eating it yet. they instead eat it from the edges but our aim is to have them climbing all over it.
We are going to do another update a week from now that smooths out a lot of these rough edges and we are going to add some more shrimp colours too. We are aiming to add Yellow cherry shrimp and of course the Dream blue velvet shrimp.
We really hope you all enjoy this update. Some of you have been asking for shrimps for around four years. This is still only the beginning for them, we are going to add more animations, more behaviours, more varieties as time goes on.
As usual we wish you all a very lovely weekend and we shall see you back here next Friday with a new update.
The Fishery Team