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Major updates from 0.3.9 to 0.3.18 Jobs, mobs, quests, weather, inventory, traps, and more.

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UPDATE 0.3.18

Car Updates:

  • changed the graphics of the cab


  • fixed the sand storm overlay while driving a car
  • fixed an issue with full-screen running choppy
    • don't even ask about the fix... it is dumb.

New Enemy: Sand Worms


Sandworms! I've been waiting to put these in the game. What sand game would complete without one?

You can find them in the skeleton and bandit sections.

UPDATE 0.3.17

Robot Delivery


  • One of the most requested requests: Robot Deliverers
    • These robots will automatically fill up your trade stalls with goods.
    • Set a product and how much product you want to keep, hook up a powered switch and go!
    • May be buggy. I haven't tested it a lot. For example, I am not sure what will happen if you have multiple stalls that are selling the same good [this just occurred to me while writing this :) ].
    • Costs a little less other robots. Uses 1 power.
  • Traders
    • Have more goods to sells and more money to buy.
    • Adjusted for base level
  • Reduced that amount of particles: improve performance
  • Added the number of goods you have recently received (or lost) in the Good UI on the right.
  • Reduced the size of pop-up text

UPDATE 0.3.16

Rain!


  • Rain comes randomly (probably too often so I'll adjust as we go)
  • Rain also waters crops and makes things grow faster
  • Rain fills up the new object 'rain barrel'.

UPDATE 0.3.15

Inventory System Created

  • I've removed all your equipped gear and gave them to the orphans.
  • I have also destroyed all your armor racks and made them un-build-able.
  • Renamed your Weapon Racks to Gear Racks.
  • Inventory has drag-able slots, You can drag non-armor into armor slots for now (doesn't do anything).
  • You can drop items directly from your inventory via the drop slot.
  • Tooltips are just place holders but tell you a little info.
  • Everything is in a very 'alpha' style (aka ugly)

UPDATE 0.3.14

Boomerang:

  • You get two of them.
  • Designing them was fun!
  • Takes a little bit of a learning curve to use them but they now might be my favorite weapon to use
  • Low damage (2)
  • They will be adjusted later


Buzz Saws, Pressure Plates, Triangles, and Clouds


[this GIF shows everything that was added]

  • I forgot to change the version number :)
  • Added Saw Trap
    • Right now only does 1 damage and has a high knockback
    • Doesn't use power but will in the future. It will use a lot so you can't run it all the time.
    • Damages everything including tumbleweeds and the player.
  • Added Pressure Plate
    • Triggers a device attached to it when the player, an enemy, an animal, etc. steps on it.
    • NPCs don't trigger it.
  • Added Angled Blocks
    • Triangle wood blocks added
    • Press B to flip it
    • Hitboxes are a little off
  • Added Clouds (or cloud shadows)
    • First pass at adding clouds
    • Not really happy with the shapes, but the system is in and working
    • I had to hack together a shader to gets the clouds to mesh correctly

UPDATE 0.3.13

Camp Mate Jobs UPDATE:

  • Completely revamped the Job system
  • Added a new Item: Job Board
    • This is where you will assign everyone's jobs.
    • It can hang on the wall
    • Added a tutorial mission to make player build this


  • Removed old upgrade items (exploration and fitness)
  • Added new upgrade item (player)
    • Combined the two removed items into one menu.
    • Removed most of the camp upgrades


  • Added a new deploy-able item called camping Kit
    • Item can be built from the tool workbench.
    • This item can be put anywhere in the exploration zones. It allows you to sleep, eat, boil water, and cook food.
    • This will replace the make a camp zone/button.
    • You can pack up the camp and get it back into your inventory.


  • Added gravestones
    • I kind of want to make these spawn skellies at night so you can 'farm' them for loot.
    • They work like a sign you can edit the text on them


  • Added junk piles
    • Right now there is just a junked up car
    • it can be harvested for metal and rarely plastic
    • more to come later


  • Added a new job: Scavenger
    • auto harvests junk piles

UPDATE 0.3.12

Others Updates:

  • Doors now work by walking through them. You no longer have to open or close them.
    • If you run into any strange bugs let me know
    • I might make gates the same way too
    • I changed the way fences are saved. Hopefully, you won't lose any, but you might
  • Llamas now stay seated when you get off of them (outside of a base)
  • I brought back the car/llama radar that will point to the nearest llama or car if it is off the screen.
    • I will modify this (this was in the game VERY early on)
  • Solar panels are no longer solid and can be walked through
  • Medium batteries are a thing
  • Quests and story changes are still being worked on. Once I finish the missions for Anchor Rage I'll release the 0.4 version
  • Added a few new missions.
  • Added a new companion
    • Ripley the Raider
      • Shotgun user
      • High health
      • Rage Ability: after getting hit (4 times) she will increase her firing rate for a few seconds
  • Fixed a lot of issues with gates and walls. You might have some invisible gates popping up, hopefully, I fixed all the ones in the mission maps. You should be able to enter build mode and right-click them to get rid of them.
  • Mission references a Radar Dish. I am working on the art for it so it isn't in the game yet.
  • Added in damage numbers when someone gets damaged. Let me know if you like them or want them to be different somehow.

HUD:


  • Added text versions of health and stamina

UPDATE 0.3.11

OUTHOUSES:


  • Produces 'poop' that can be used for dirt.
  • Traders will, after trading, sometimes need to use the outhouse for... reasons.
  • 2 'deposits' will create one dirt (this could be adjusted). There is a limit to how much the outhouse can hold (20 poops or 10 dirt).
  • I will probably make everyone need to poop [everyone poops]. If there is not an outhouse the campmates will poop on the ground.
  • Also, the Custodian job will clean out the outhouses (not implemented yet).
  • It is pretty slow BUT it could provide an easy early game way to get dirt.
  • I'll probably make dirt more expensive in the future.

UPDATE 0.3.10

Mission changes:

  • Tutorial missions: removed the build a weapon cabinet and changed it to talk about NPC jobs and build an upgrade object
  • Added mission to build a Veggie Pot to feed peeps

Overhauled The Path System:

  • Should improve performance by FPS or more.
  • If something looks wonky with the pathing let me know.

Refactor Shaders and Graphics

  • Changed the way objects are outlined
  • Removed the outline for interactive text
  • This should also give an FPS boost

Hunger System:

  • Camp mate hunger now decreases over time and the more they work.
  • They will have to eat to restore hunger
  • If they don't eat they will slowly lose health and die

New Items:


  • Veggie Pot
    • Place where campmates can eat veggies to heal and restore hunger. Also free healing for you.
  • Ammo Box
    • Used to refill ammo in base
  • Cotton Tree:
    • A new tree item to farm
    • Takes a long time to grow and produces 2 cloth.
    • Easy early farmable cloth method
    • Woolies are still much more efficient.
    • Haven't decided what job should do the cotton picking.
    • Harvest tool is the scythe

New Mobs:


  • Snake
    • Ranged 'venom'
      • Faster than bullets
      • Might poison or slow in the future
    • Lots of health
  • Roach
    • Melee with a bite
    • low health
    • Fast
  • Slime
    • Jumps to attack
    • Touching it hurts
    • Deadly to melee attackers
    • Probably will split after death (not added in yet)
  • Mobs of different types will attack each other Except the slimes. It only likes human flesh.

Base Raids:


  • Mob types and numbers are dependent on the base score (well really number of NPCs)
  • Mobs don't start attacking until you have at least one other person.
  • Raid times now vary from 5 to 8 minutes.
  • A warning will be displayed 30 seconds before attack.
  • Right now mobs just attack people. The idea is for them to also target crates and barrels to 'steal' goods.

Change to Market Booths:


  • Q and E now add and subtract items
  • R and F now switch items in the list
  • The price option is temporarily removed.
  • Holding shift will add 5 items
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baszermaszer
baszermaszer

Sand worm was cute! :D Whole game looks interesting. Not really for me tho, I like RPGs with turn-based combat.

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