October 10 - Creature Spotlight: Water Grek
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving everyone! I don't know how many other countries celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving, but we sure do here in Canada. No worries though, on Canadian Thanksgiving EVERYONE is Canadian! Unless you don't live in Canada, of course.
This week was a mix of multiplayer and combat. And this:
We've been building stuff on the freebuild server. Once combat is nicely finalized I'll be setting up a little pvp tournament, with prizes. This will serve as our stage, and a nice little showcase of what you can do with the new tileset. Even more tilesets are on their way!
Creature Spotlight: Water Grek
Originally believed to be the result of runaway adolescents falling into elemental plane portals, Greks are a permanent, persistent, and problematic fixture of the world. Fiercely territorial, racist, and dumb, Greks are simply best left alone, and can be scared off from most raids with a sufficient defense.
Water Greks make their homes on beaches and scuba dive for wreckage and scrap to build their homes in the shallow water. Water Grek homes are made out of a mix of rocks, clay, and rotting wood. They haven't developed gills like a lot of water elemental creatures, so they're forced to use snorkels or the rare scuba gear they can manage to steal from humans. Though not smart enough to upkeep them, even a broken rebreather is a badge of pride amongst their kind. They like to decorate themselves with different clam shells and barnacles, and can range from a beautiful kaleidoscope of colors, or a rotten mish-mash. A constant nuisance to fishermen, Water Greks will often try to poke holes in boats that they see as a threat to their shallow domain. Plus, it makes for more wreckage and scrap to plunder later.
Most of the patch notes
- GREK
- New smelter model and texture
- Changed inventories to be server-side only
- Fixed a bunch of multiplayer inventory issues
- Fixed some crafting issues in multiplayer
- Started on chest improvements
- Fixed some spawn issues in multiplayer
- Flowers now work properly in multiplayer
- Lots of combat tweaks. Dodging works a bit better and is clearer. Started on blocking and shields.
- Added dodging. Dash to the side with good timing to avoid attacks. Though, there's nothing to really test it on yet. Except maybe each other?
- Fixed bug where placeables would consume double
- Fixed bug where certain placeables wouldn't appear
- Rejiggered combat abilities to allow for toggles
- Jumping, attacking, and dodging now requires stamina
- Fixed bug where saplings would immediately grow
- Fixed server error with certain interactions
- Added minor feedback for exhaustion
- Redid a bunch of animations, they shouldn't get as frozen anymore
- Changed swing speed for attacks and changed animation speed to match
- Fine-tuned dodging a bit
- Fixed multiplayer issue where players would have difficulty attacking each other
- Temporarily changed dungeon brick to be a smelter recipe until new craft UI
- Time of day properly syncing in multiplayer
- Stopped windows from opening while chatting
- Tweaked multiplayer movement
- Fixed server error for player death
- Inventory items properly decay now in multiplayer
- Added failsafe error detection for inventory desync
- Items that depend on certain terrain (bushes, solar stills, etc) now properly sync when ruined
- Fixed error where newly joining clients couldn't properly target existing clients
- Eating and using stuff on yourself now properly syncs
- Fixed some errors relating to object interaction in multiplayer
- Fixed server-side issue where blocks weren't being used up when placed
- Other players are hidden when customizing character appearance
- Items now properly appear in other player's hands in multiplayer
- Prevented clients/servers from attempting to pause in multiplayer since it didn't work anyway
- Fixed issue where loose rocks would be destroyed
- Fixed issue where trees and bushes wouldn't sync properly when destroyed
- Fixed error for factories that don't emit light
- Fixed issue where certain items wouldn't get cleaned up properly when destroyed
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