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| 1s | there we go hello hello hello and |
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| 4s | welcome to another stream here at |
| 7s | strange Loop games my name is Jens as |
| 10s | you see from the neat little description |
| 12s | below here I'm working as lead game |
| 15s | developer at our cozy little global |
| 19s | global covering studio and we'll be |
| 22s | going over some more play test stuff um |
| 25s | some bugs some bug squashing um some of |
| 28s | the nasty things that have kind of |
| 29s | popped up in terms of um design related |
| 33s | to the settlements um settlement |
| 35s | features that have been seen |
| 38s | on um the recent Sea author now that we |
| 41s | are starting to get a lot of these |
| 43s | featured kind of wrapped up and |
| 44s | completed we are also seeing a lot of |
| 46s | good resulting unintended behavior and |
| 51s | player um |
| 54s | activities um in uh and and you know |
| 57s | anyone here that is playing on Z auor |
| 59s | without that annexation Carnage |
| 63s | where um Eco unintendedly turned into |
| 67s | like super uh super not combat oriented |
| 72s | but conflict oriented and driven um kind |
| 76s | of rushed through things so I think we |
| 79s | can talk about a little bit around that |
| 81s | and kind of what we want to be changing |
| 83s | with it based on the feedback and the |
| 85s | responses and and kind of how how it's |
| 86s | been used um to make it more in towards |
| 91s | the direction we want it to work in Eco |
| 94s | as well as kind of you know usability of |
| 96s | it and um a bit about kind of |
| 100s | restrictions we're we're considering and |
| 103s | looking at as well as just kind of the |
| 105s | usability of it um and so on so I think |
| 108s | we can |
| 109s | just kind of take it away with some |
| 113s | recent work from uh there we go switched |
| 118s | over and I'm hoping everyone can hear me |
| 120s | all right |
| 122s | um some uh some re recent fixes and Bug |
| 128s | squashing from Gabriel uh which is one |
| 131s | of our guys that is working mainly |
| 134s | on kind of |
| 136s | gameplay direct gameplay things like um |
| 139s | you know boat polish um the physics |
| 141s | running the boats and the usability you |
| 144s | know changing out hit boxes implementing |
| 147s | them kind of grabbing them from art |
| 148s | assets into an kind of operational in |
| 151s | game and and so on back and forth and a |
| 154s | lot of it and he's been doing absolutely |
| 156s | fantastic with uh some of the recent |
| 159s | things that we have put on his |
| 161s | table |
| 163s | um time noon that's what I was thinking |
| 167s | um so what have he been up to recently |
| 170s | Well he kind of fixed |
| 172s | Rivers um anyone that has been poking |
| 174s | their heads into 10 has seen |
| 177s | that um River generation |
| 180s | and uh Lake Generation has been wonky I |
| 185s | should say probably a good description |
| 188s | of it um you've seen the you know kind |
| 192s | of flying fish and a bit of |
| 195s | inappropriate behavior in that regard |
| 198s | and the reason for that is that this top |
| 202s | block of water that was generated |
| 206s | on um in the lakes and in the Rivers had |
| 210s | had water in them but they were not |
| 212s | properly generated because they were |
| 213s | replaced with air blocks and um below |
| 218s | the water surface you had something |
| 220s | that's referred to as encased water |
| 222s | blocks which is a way to kind of |
| 224s | compress the entirety of that water body |
| 227s | datawise to um optimize kind of ocean |
| 232s | because um interactive players are only |
| 235s | kind of doing things towards one |
| 237s | specific tile they don't need to have |
| 240s | the entirety of the chunk of data being |
| 242s | sent to |
| 244s | them um and why is is that that thing |
| 249s | not |
| 252s | there why is that thing not there oh |
| 255s | it's it's there it's just it's just way |
| 258s | too high up hang on hang on there is |
| 261s | supposed to be a work in progress thing |
| 263s | there there we |
| 266s | go |
| 269s | um |
| 271s | uh boats are done yet boats are actually |
| 272s | being and and that's something that I'll |
| 274s | also kind of cover a little bit on our |
| 277s | recent things because um that's been |
| 280s | kind of water and and boats have been |
| 281s | one of Gabriel's kind of main priorities |
| 283s | um in the last couple of |
| 285s | weeks so datawise water is basically |
| 288s | divided into two sections you have |
| 290s | surface blocks and you have subsurface |
| 292s | blocks and the subsurface blocks kind of |
| 294s | gets compressed um they don't need to |
| 297s | contain as much data being sent to the |
| 298s | client because the client doesn't need |
| 300s | to get that the animals uh or you know |
| 303s | terrain and kind of environment doesn't |
| 305s | need to know about blocks under the |
| 307s | surface because they're kind of not |
| 309s | really interacting with the environment |
| 311s | in the same |
| 312s | way um so that that entire segment of |
| 316s | code was causing a bit of a headache and |
| 318s | now it should be working and there |
| 321s | is um it's not yet deployed on the |
| 324s | branch So you you're not going to see it |
| 326s | in the play test in the nearest couple |
| 330s | of |
| 331s | days um but it is being it is being |
| 334s | posted as a PR |
| 336s | to um the play |
| 341s | test um how will that affect bow bow |
| 344s | fishing um it's it's not going to have |
| 347s | all we we have a couple of kind of |
| 349s | things that we're looking at in terms of |
| 351s | animals in general uh that I might have |
| 354s | to probably deserving a dedicated stream |
| 358s | for later that we can talk about |
| 361s | General animal |
| 363s | behavior um but yeah let me do we have a |
| 367s | river here somewhere sorry for the skip |
| 370s | bounce hop |
| 378s | and where am |
| 381s | I there I |
| 383s | am U I'm just speeding over here so here |
| 387s | we have a river the the waterfalls still |
| 390s | something that we need to look at um to |
| 392s | kind of make them angle out a little bit |
| 395s | better make them a little bit more |
| 396s | polished looking there's also a couple |
| 398s | of issues where like the water faces |
| 401s | aren't completely coherent to where the |
| 404s | water is actually is so there's there's |
| 407s | still a couple of things where where |
| 409s | these generation things |
| 411s | are looking a bit sad um but it is you |
| 414s | know progressively getting better as |
| 416s | we're tinkering with |
| 418s | it um but in on a wholesome level the |
| 422s | rivers should be looking quite fine now |
| 425s | um going |
| 426s | forward |
| 428s | and yeah so huge huge shout out for |
| 433s | Gabriel to to tackle that it's been |
| 435s | plaguing us for a bit so that's going to |
| 437s | be less flying fish in the rivers from a |
| 440s | player perspective which I'm hoping is |
| 442s | going to be a smoother |
| 445s | experience um to the second thing since |
| 449s | we are this cing water and and tinkering |
| 451s | with water uh we have the wooden barch |
| 456s | which um once again anyone that has been |
| 459s | poking around with the play test will |
| 462s | have had the exceptional experience of |
| 466s | kind of driving this thing around |
| 470s | and it has |
| 472s | been um a bit of a sad experience so |
| 476s | there's a few things that are happening |
| 478s | here uh um and I'm not sure all of them |
| 480s | are in here um yeah so one of the things |
| 484s | that we were doing is we're increasing |
| 486s | the height of the barge so it's going to |
| 488s | be sitting a lot higher out of the water |
| 491s | which will generally require some type |
| 493s | of infrastructure that the ramp isn't |
| 495s | going to go all the way down um it's |
| 497s | going to go flat forward like the |
| 499s | industrial barge is going so that will |
| 501s | go here which means you'll need some |
| 504s | type of infrastructure to kind of get |
| 506s | off the beach or get on land so so any |
| 510s | type of building material block or or |
| 512s | whatnot to just kind of get up to that |
| 515s | height |
| 517s | um yeah let's |
| 520s | do always getting that one |
| 524s | wrong let's grab a cart and let's grab a |
| 527s | steam |
| 534s | truck so here we got ourselves a little |
| 537s | cart and get this bad boy up on |
| 544s | here and then we're going to run down |
| 547s | and get our little steam truck |
| 551s | here and get this bad boy up here as |
| 555s | well and then we are going |
| 559s | to close this |
| 564s | up and as you can see kind of because |
| 568s | it's slightly higher out the water it's |
| 569s | a little bit less stable um so |
| 573s | General kind of behavior in turning and |
| 577s | and swirling around the kind of the |
| 579s | physics implications of the |
| 582s | um um some of the vessels is something |
| 585s | that we're looking at for kind of effect |
| 588s | and |
| 589s | transition however as you can see here |
| 593s | these two vehicles that are sitting on |
| 595s | top of the barge is now stationary |
| 598s | they're not drifting they're they're not |
| 600s | swirling around they're not stuttering |
| 602s | or janking around in any way they are |
| 605s | actually fir set on the vehicle |
| 609s | itself and that has been |
| 612s | a something that has taken way too long |
| 615s | to um to yeah all thanks to the flex |
| 619s | tape uh no it's been something that's |
| 621s | been plaguing us for a long time and |
| 623s | we've been segment throughout 10.0 |
| 626s | development it's been bouncing back and |
| 629s | forth between different people to kind |
| 631s | of try different approaches to how we |
| 634s | want to handle this in terms |
| 637s | of um the landbased vehicles are working |
| 640s | on a different physic layer than the |
| 643s | boats the boats are kind of coming up |
| 645s | with a good measure of um merging the |
| 648s | two or being able to interact with the |
| 650s | two without one kind of overtaking the |
| 652s | other causing conflicts and and |
| 656s | issues um and |
| 658s | Gabriel finally figured out the solution |
| 661s | that it's no longer uh it's both no |
| 664s | longer sinking into the barge which was |
| 666s | another issue um so the the the |
| 668s | landbased vehicles were kind of half |
| 670s | sliding down it down uh through it um |
| 674s | but it was also kind of stuttering |
| 675s | around and and flying a bit all over the |
| 678s | place so that should all be working |
| 681s | quite nicely now um so that is couple |
| 685s | of um critical bugs in terms of being |
| 689s | able to deliver the boats in a in a lot |
| 691s | more polished |
| 694s | State um and I'll also be going over |
| 697s | some of the kind of calorie cost |
| 700s | consumption for using the vehicles to |
| 702s | make sure that they're not overly |
| 705s | excessive costs in terms of calories |
| 708s | versus kind of Transportation measures |
| 710s | in between the wooden barge Contra the |
| 713s | um the wooden transport and and so |
| 718s | on |
| 721s | [Music] |
| 723s | um I think there was something else as |
| 726s | well |
| 730s | but outside of that we've had a whole |
| 734s | Myriad of Crash fixes done |
| 737s | um um some changes some some internal |
| 741s | changes based on feedback |
| 744s | um and just general General bug |
| 747s | squishing a plenty it's been it's has |
| 749s | been absolutely fantastic things are |
| 751s | progressing really quickly and they're |
| 753s | really |
| 756s | efficient |
| 760s | um um is the amount of slots in boats |
| 763s | going to increase compared to cars or |
| 764s | how is the balance of boats versus cars |
| 767s | going on General |
| 769s | um canoes are probably not going to be |
| 772s | that much increased they're they're |
| 774s | probably going to be sitting around the |
| 776s | same I |
| 777s | did um |
| 781s | I I did Bunch up uh and yeah you you can |
| 787s | get into the vehicle but it is locked |
| 789s | while the ramps are |
| 793s | um pulled up so the ramps are what's |
| 797s | going to be determining whether or not |
| 800s | this thing |
| 801s | is um physically locked or not so you |
| 804s | know you need to pull up the ramps to be |
| 806s | able to go anywhere um as soon as you |
| 810s | kind of lower the the ramps you |
| 813s | can um interact with |
| 817s | it um it's not really liking it way too |
| 821s | much so you know things that are in |
| 826s | progress um I think it's because I'm way |
| 828s | too not collided with land I know there |
| 831s | was some premonitions |
| 834s | there uh was wondering because I can see |
| 836s | scenarios where you'd let someone get on |
| 838s | the boat in their truck can stay in it |
| 840s | yeah that's absolutely possible |
| 844s | um so that is uh that is definitely |
| 847s | doable like you can jump in on the barge |
| 849s | and and you know you have another guy |
| 851s | driving it you can just kind of Shuffle |
| 852s | in trucks um on it and as soon as those |
| 856s | gates are up um it's locked it up |
| 860s | completely and the second thing that has |
| 862s | happened is that we've also |
| 864s | extended |
| 866s | um Extended the height of the ramps as |
| 868s | well so they're slightly longer which |
| 871s | means it can be uh a bit further out |
| 873s | into |
| 876s | um uh a bit further out into the |
| 881s | um ocean rather than having to really |
| 884s | get close and snuggly uh what happens if |
| 886s | I don't own the truck and I try to pick |
| 889s | up the barge I would believe that the |
| 891s | truck just falls into the ocean at the |
| 898s | moment |
| 900s | nope I think they might be they might |
| 903s | actually be |
| 904s | teleporting which might not be a good |
| 906s | thing |
| 912s | um yeah that's an interesting one |
| 922s | uh wonder I |
| 924s | wonder well 0 Z is on land so |
| 927s | that's not a thing I think it just |
| 929s | popped |
| 933s | um uh steam trick which is what I |
| 937s | expected out of |
| 939s | it um |
| 944s | oh o it's it's it's out there |
| 949s | spicy did it just fall down the cliff |
| 952s | and I didn't see it or where did it go |
| 957s | the investigative Force |
| 962s | yeah there we go um I think what |
| 965s | happened was it unloaded from the chunk |
| 968s | so when it loaded the chunk back in it |
| 970s | popped them back in |
| 974s | um but yeah so this is things that are |
| 977s | in progress |
| 979s | and um hasn't really passed QA yet um so |
| 984s | you |
| 986s | know all all all alive eventful things |
| 992s | um but yes a lot of a lot of bug |
| 994s | squashing and as you can see you fixed |
| 996s | you know 10 bugs and you create one or |
| 999s | two more uh how to mess with your |
| 1001s | friends send their vehicles flying by |
| 1003s | loading them onto a |
| 1006s | barge uh no but it's uh it's been going |
| 1011s | quite good and as you can see |
| 1013s | here uh it's also throwing me some |
| 1017s | errors as well with um it's failing to |
| 1020s | set parents for the um the wood cart and |
| 1022s | the steam truck due to explosion |
| 1027s | here um but yeah no so you know a couple |
| 1031s | of couple of critical bugs that getting |
| 1034s | some some good attention and |
| 1037s | um some some good progress |
| 1041s | on |
| 1044s | uh yeah you can move you can move |
| 1046s | vehicles with |
| 1047s | control |
| 1050s | um I would assume in its current |
| 1053s | iteration I would assume that it's do |
| 1055s | it's going to do the same |
| 1056s | thing uh because what happens is that |
| 1059s | the vehicles that are on top of the |
| 1060s | barge are being parented by the barge so |
| 1062s | the barge kind of owns those vehicles in |
| 1064s | terms of like game object |
| 1068s | hierarchy which means anything that's |
| 1070s | kind of happening to the barge is going |
| 1073s | to affect its child |
| 1076s | components so what's what's most like |
| 1078s | likely needing to be done is um just |
| 1082s | making sure that if there's vehicles on |
| 1084s | the barge you can't pick it |
| 1093s | up |
| 1105s | um I'm going to boot up the play test |
| 1108s | branch |
| 1110s | and hop in on |
| 1113s | seaotter although I'm on play test I'm |
| 1115s | not on seaotter play test which is |
| 1117s | bad um yeah that that's likely going to |
| 1121s | be the case so it's going to tell you |
| 1122s | that hey you know you've got vehicles on |
| 1124s | the barge you can't pick this |
| 1128s | up uh the Warfare world yeah um yeah |
| 1133s | annexation and kind of the the so if |
| 1136s | anyone has C Curiosities surrounding the |
| 1140s | play test could you know go over that as |
| 1142s | well um there is a current live play |
| 1144s | test that's going on on |
| 1146s | seor uh and how you get into the play |
| 1150s | test um overall and and with any one |
| 1154s | preferably stay um uh connect to our |
| 1158s | Discord Channel and um keep around there |
| 1161s | to get more information on upcoming play |
| 1164s | tests as well as current and changes and |
| 1167s | kind of patches and crashes and and |
| 1168s | anything that can or or will or can go |
| 1171s | wrong on it how to get in on the actual |
| 1174s | server is you get in on Steam and you |
| 1177s | hop in on properties you go into beta |
| 1180s | Tab and then here where you can switch |
| 1182s | and select a whole Myriad of older |
| 1185s | branches you've got |
| 1187s | this uh at the current one cter play |
| 1191s | test um which is the one to be able to |
| 1193s | connect to seot and then we have white |
| 1195s | tiger play test for whenever play test |
| 1197s | is on white tiger need to make sure that |
| 1199s | that branch is selected once it's |
| 1202s | selected you can pop in and that will |
| 1203s | allow you to |
| 1212s | connect um is there any option that we |
| 1215s | can get a steam based mini skid loader |
| 1218s | in one of the updates we have some plans |
| 1222s | for some mining improvements in |
| 1227s | 10.1 um |
| 1230s | I'll I'll I'll restrain from saying |
| 1233s | anything more |
| 1234s | because kind of want to have save it for |
| 1237s | another stream but |
| 1239s | also um it's still in kind of pre like |
| 1242s | planning |
| 1243s | phase um so want to make make sure that |
| 1249s | the information as you can see here my |
| 1250s | local server is in debug so I can't |
| 1252s | connect to that however I can grab this |
| 1254s | amazing SE alter |
| 1257s | server um and I don't think I've been on |
| 1260s | this one |
| 1262s | yet we'll see we'll |
| 1267s | see |
| 1269s | um but yes so there's there's a ton of |
| 1271s | things that are preliminary planed for |
| 1274s | 10o |
| 1275s | one um one of them being a new building |
| 1279s | block |
| 1281s | um as well as some other |
| 1284s | goodies so you |
| 1287s | know stay tuned tuned and pay attention |
| 1291s | to uh to when newsletters and and de |
| 1294s | blogs and and all the other kind of |
| 1297s | media information |
| 1299s | Outlets |
| 1302s | um yeah uh Pepsi uh a new a new building |
| 1306s | block which is something that I wanted |
| 1308s | to bring up in the Stream here a little |
| 1310s | bit later to kind |
| 1313s | of um is fishing pole working on SE I |
| 1318s | don't don't think Mike pushed a PR for |
| 1320s | it yet he's working on fixing |
| 1324s | it it's one of the sad tools that kind |
| 1327s | of after all of Mike's fixes for like |
| 1329s | the the drills and everything around it |
| 1333s | um the fishing run needed some some |
| 1336s | extra love to uh to make it look nice |
| 1340s | and workable um which also meant that it |
| 1345s | didn't make it into this play test so at |
| 1348s | the moment |
| 1349s | um and as an answer to another question |
| 1352s | up there where in regards to crab pots |
| 1355s | uh still in the game they work a lot |
| 1356s | better we have they're probably working |
| 1359s | a little bit too good um at least the |
| 1362s | fish trap um but I have some more |
| 1367s | solid some more solid ways to balance |
| 1370s | that and I can actually show some of |
| 1372s | that off here in a bit |
| 1375s | um so here we can see |
| 1380s | elwin um the new spawning system where |
| 1384s | you can select different spawn points |
| 1386s | and all of these that are linked into a |
| 1388s | town is things that have immigration |
| 1392s | settings where it's allowing you to kind |
| 1394s | of start in those areas um versus kind |
| 1398s | of like a wild where it's has a |
| 1401s | pregenerated text of if there's food |
| 1403s | around |
| 1405s | or um if there's other people but |
| 1407s | they're not part of a town yet and and |
| 1409s | so on that gets filled in here so |
| 1411s | that's |
| 1413s | um quite neat um compared to the old |
| 1417s | kind |
| 1417s | of randomized you just get dumped in the |
| 1420s | world and and hope for the best uh here |
| 1424s | you have a little bit more control where |
| 1426s | you can start as a citizen of a |
| 1430s | town um but I think we're just going |
| 1434s | to spawn out here in the wild just to |
| 1436s | make sure that we're not getting |
| 1438s | involved in |
| 1439s | anywh |
| 1441s | um the new dirt road textures um just I |
| 1447s | haven't touched the road speeds yet I |
| 1450s | uh likely be uh looking at that somehow |
| 1458s | somewhere |
| 1460s | wow doesn't like me having Unity open at |
| 1462s | the same time |
| 1463s | [Music] |
| 1466s | um Unity likes to eat |
| 1469s | memory by a significant amount |
| 1478s | um I would hop in record but we need the |
| 1482s | UI for a few things here |
| 1485s | um so we're seeing a little bit |
| 1488s | of some interesting um if you use a town |
| 1492s | spawn can you put your property Stak |
| 1494s | inside this town influence area um if |
| 1497s | you spawn as a citizen of the |
| 1500s | Town yes you should be able |
| 1503s | to |
| 1506s | um there's nothing that kind of limit |
| 1509s | you to that regard outside of if the |
| 1511s | town itself has some laws and |
| 1513s | regulations to who can place |
| 1517s | property um we're seeing some neat |
| 1519s | structures some good use of water um and |
| 1524s | can probably tell yeah we can we can |
| 1527s | tell here so compared to what we were |
| 1529s | seeing earlier with the fixed Rivers |
| 1531s | here you can see that the water has been |
| 1533s | generated kind of spotted on the |
| 1538s | side and if |
| 1540s | I I grab a Dev tool um you can also see |
| 1545s | when I'm looking at Water you have a |
| 1547s | valid actual water tile that is |
| 1550s | something where Rivers can flow |
| 1554s | from uh versus the sub subwater blocks |
| 1558s | which which is the in case ones that are |
| 1560s | not working in the same way kind of data |
| 1562s | wise and they should be water blocks but |
| 1564s | they're not turning into water blocks |
| 1565s | and so on so you got a bit of a kelp |
| 1568s | lingering out out of the ocean you've |
| 1570s | got some flying fish here um so that's |
| 1573s | that should all be fixed |
| 1576s | and according to Gabriel um it's most |
| 1581s | likely possible that it is also |
| 1583s | retroactively so we might see this being |
| 1586s | fixed um at least to some |
| 1589s | extent on the play test Branch uh in the |
| 1594s | build and here you also have some of |
| 1596s | that some of the delicious copper kind |
| 1599s | of poking out a little bit in the biomes |
| 1600s | that are related |
| 1602s | to |
| 1608s | um um a skilled sniper yeah so if you if |
| 1611s | you are a member of a |
| 1613s | town um you can't place property outside |
| 1617s | of the town |
| 1618s | because any property that you place down |
| 1621s | is is under jurisdiction of that |
| 1626s | settlement it's part of the drive |
| 1629s | for having people rent property versus |
| 1632s | owning it um so you might want to be |
| 1635s | renting property in another |
| 1639s | town |
| 1643s | um General water manipulation and |
| 1646s | interact ability has been improved but |
| 1648s | it's still not 100% where we want |
| 1651s | it um it's behaving a lot better in |
| 1654s | terms of water removal |
| 1657s | um and or when you're kind of placing |
| 1660s | stuff down like here where you have you |
| 1662s | got ramps into the water where they're |
| 1665s | actually uh visibly not like they're in |
| 1669s | water they're visibly not having kind of |
| 1670s | air pockets and gaps |
| 1673s | around um as you can see from the um the |
| 1675s | dock blocks here as |
| 1677s | well so if you remove these blocks |
| 1679s | there'll still be water blocks in |
| 1682s | them uh there's a canal on the server on |
| 1684s | one of the long thin |
| 1688s | Islands |
| 1690s | um oh yeah over there I see it I'll do |
| 1694s | some teleport |
| 1706s | teleportation |
| 1710s | let |
| 1711s | that load in |
| 1715s | um while that is while that is loading |
| 1717s | in we can take a look at the |
| 1720s | um some of the maps here in the world |
| 1723s | layers um |
| 1726s | annexation was a topic that has recently |
| 1731s | erupted in explosions almost |
| 1735s | seemingly um we have we have any |
| 1738s | countries that are valid or has has yeah |
| 1743s | um there we |
| 1745s | go so we had a case up here |
| 1748s | where um one of the towns annexed |
| 1751s | another town here and the town that got |
| 1754s | annexed didn't exactly merge with the |
| 1758s | other town |
| 1760s | because um you have some some some basic |
| 1764s | rules and regulations towards influence |
| 1767s | profit properties so each settlement |
| 1770s | tier can only have a certain amount of |
| 1772s | cultural properties and cultural |
| 1774s | properties is where the general Town |
| 1776s | influence is spreading from so if a |
| 1779s | server has a restriction of three |
| 1783s | cultural properties in that town it'll |
| 1785s | pick the three properties that has the |
| 1788s | highest cultural value um so if you're |
| 1791s | if you're annexing a a |
| 1794s | settlement as a town um |
| 1798s | in this case another town um you don't |
| 1803s | gain those three influential |
| 1806s | properties because they'll be below the |
| 1809s | threshold for being the new ones uh |
| 1813s | which would shift your old influence |
| 1815s | which would also be bad but it means |
| 1818s | that you got one one property here in |
| 1820s | the middle you got one over here that is |
| 1822s | the foundation and then you got one over |
| 1824s | here that is kind of the next extension |
| 1827s | so in instead of gaining this as a |
| 1829s | cultural property as well as whatever |
| 1831s | else they could have |
| 1833s | had um it lost its influence because the |
| 1837s | cultural property isn't valid |
| 1840s | anymore which then meant that it broke |
| 1842s | the influence radius which then meant |
| 1844s | that the the claims on that property |
| 1847s | were no longer part of the settlement |
| 1849s | because they were outside the range of |
| 1850s | the influence which kind of imploded on |
| 1855s | itself um so one of the the um one of |
| 1858s | the restrictions that we're looking at |
| 1860s | adding is just removing the ability to |
| 1862s | claim or Annex same tier settlements so |
| 1866s | towns can't Annex towns |
| 1869s | because |
| 1870s | um one of the main driving reasons for |
| 1874s | the annexation mechanic in itself is |
| 1876s | that it should always be used as a last |
| 1880s | resort and it should all it it should |
| 1882s | only ever |
| 1884s | be |
| 1886s | um |
| 1891s | okay the generally um it it needs to be |
| 1896s | available at certain tiers or in certain |
| 1898s | interactions because you don't want to |
| 1900s | have say a um a town or a state SL |
| 1904s | country that is going full Rogue and |
| 1906s | just wants to destroy the world and and |
| 1908s | are this massive Behemoth industry that |
| 1910s | doesn't care about pollution so the |
| 1913s | general population on the server needs |
| 1915s | to have some way to interact with that |
| 1918s | or subjugate it to a point where they |
| 1920s | can enforce laws and regulations to curb |
| 1924s | this |
| 1925s | Behavior the downside with |
| 1929s | that yeah whan did it for science um the |
| 1933s | downside of that is that it can become |
| 1935s | very |
| 1936s | predatory um |
| 1939s | and it can also |
| 1942s | promote like in in lack of EOS combat it |
| 1946s | promotes an aggressive kind of |
| 1948s | civilization behavior of destroy the |
| 1951s | other town so they can't beat us so you |
| 1955s | push out your influence and you destroy |
| 1957s | the other Town um to prevent them from |
| 1961s | growing too influential or or you know |
| 1964s | whichever possible scenario comes in |
| 1967s | here um so some of the ideas that we've |
| 1969s | been spoking around with is um |
| 1972s | introducing some type of upkeep cost um |
| 1975s | as well as rebalancing um significantly |
| 1978s | rebalance the values for |
| 1980s | cultural uh upgrades so the idea being |
| 1984s | that you need to have a country to be |
| 1986s | able to Annex |
| 1988s | towns but you need to really it takes a |
| 1991s | longer time to reach a country and it |
| 1994s | also takes a lot more investment to |
| 1995s | reach a |
| 1997s | country |
| 1999s | um to make it to a point where it's |
| 2002s | preferable to just join the country and |
| 2004s | help you know join together and and |
| 2006s | build that country rather than just a |
| 2008s | town killing another town to force the |
| 2011s | country on |
| 2013s | it um so there's a lot |
| 2015s | of a lot of discussion about what type |
| 2019s | of things we want to be introducing and |
| 2021s | and what we're looking at in terms of um |
| 2024s | like upkeep cost where things like a |
| 2027s | town costs a certain amount to add to a |
| 2030s | country but annexation has a a much |
| 2032s | higher multiplier for that cost and and |
| 2034s | so on or having some sort of like |
| 2036s | cultural upkeep required so each Town |
| 2039s | reduces the amount of that gives you a |
| 2042s | negative penalty for culture so you want |
| 2045s | to be you want to be looking to add more |
| 2048s | cultural towns you don't want to just |
| 2050s | force Annex all of these smaller towns |
| 2053s | just because you |
| 2055s | can um and that's a lot of things based |
| 2058s | on feedback that coming on play test um |
| 2061s | both either due to um just players |
| 2064s | reporting it or things that we notice |
| 2067s | while looking looking at it |
| 2069s | um which is one of the reasons why this |
| 2071s | play test has turned out absolutely |
| 2073s | fantastic um things are being tested |
| 2077s | things are being broken and things are |
| 2078s | being fixed in a more secure state so we |
| 2082s | are seeing significant improvements um |
| 2084s | compared to you know play test for four |
| 2087s | months ago where everything kind of |
| 2089s | caused explosions versus now it's only |
| 2092s | kind of real |
| 2094s | obscure Oddities that are causing |
| 2096s | explosions |
| 2099s | so we're working we're working to |
| 2103s | a a very nice |
| 2107s | stable uh build wise um we're having |
| 2111s | less General less support needed |
| 2116s | um with each week that passes in terms |
| 2119s | of um just critical or high priority bug |
| 2122s | fixes so it's been it's been going quite |
| 2125s | nicely um everyone in the team team is |
| 2128s | absolutely super ecstatic for all the |
| 2131s | interest and all the Super Active |
| 2134s | participation in these play tests as |
| 2136s | well as kind of Riding the Storm and |
| 2138s | making the journey a lot smoother for |
| 2141s | everyone else once we get to a |
| 2143s | releasable |
| 2148s | state |
| 2155s | um did I have |
| 2158s | I think I have I'm not sure if we showed |
| 2161s | this I think the concept art popped up |
| 2164s | in so on I think that's like before I |
| 2168s | kind of transition off and and Trail off |
| 2171s | um there any other general questions in |
| 2175s | regards to the play test |
| 2178s | um I think the eel got pushed in I'm |
| 2182s | hoping hoping someone has kind of |
| 2185s | tinkered around with it a little bit at |
| 2187s | least least |
| 2196s | um I love the bathrooms being like half |
| 2199s | the |
| 2201s | U half of |
| 2216s | it |
| 2225s | oh |
| 2228s | boy I I I see |
| 2231s | a I see a |
| 2233s | culture |
| 2236s | padoga is that is that's what is that |
| 2238s | what we're having now look at this |
| 2240s | beautiful |
| 2243s | picture |
| 2245s | really showing off the uh the |
| 2249s | amazing amazing Artistry here whoa it is |
| 2253s | loading quite |
| 2256s | significantly can I there we |
| 2261s | go can we play nice doesn't like me |
| 2265s | teleporting into a whole whole array of |
| 2269s | here we go I see some people |
| 2272s | are poking around with uh those pictures |
| 2276s | where the most expensive things in |
| 2280s | there uh yeah so for |
| 2290s | uh don't know if it's a play test |
| 2293s | question but are there any plans to add |
| 2295s | something better than a tractor for |
| 2296s | Farmers because of how slow it is and if |
| 2298s | there's any plans on getting something |
| 2299s | that can break blocks when you tear down |
| 2301s | buildings you don't need to do one at a |
| 2303s | time |
| 2305s | um all I would say there is some |
| 2309s | discussion regarding |
| 2310s | it |
| 2312s | um the it's a bit of a problematic |
| 2316s | scenario in terms |
| 2318s | of the general transportability as well |
| 2322s | as the |
| 2323s | utility um there was some some some |
| 2325s | suggestions and I'm also tinkered with |
| 2327s | it on on my |
| 2328s | local side with having like the |
| 2331s | excavator being able to break uh like |
| 2334s | actual blocks and and you know you would |
| 2336s | wreck the block with the excavator |
| 2340s | um and the issue with it is that you |
| 2343s | then have to allow all blocks to exist |
| 2345s | and stack properly inside the excavator |
| 2348s | which then turns the excavator into a |
| 2349s | really good kind of Transportation |
| 2351s | method |
| 2354s | um which |
| 2355s | is something that we don't really want |
| 2358s | we want people to be using you know cars |
| 2360s | for transporting we don't want the the |
| 2363s | the excavator to be the best transport |
| 2365s | method to uh hall building materials |
| 2370s | kind of the kind of where and as a as a |
| 2373s | response on that whole tractor |
| 2375s | thing |
| 2377s | um it's one of the reasons why the |
| 2380s | tractor was slow down from initially |
| 2383s | because um it was well one it was way |
| 2386s | too fast in general um but it was slow |
| 2388s | down further because it was generally |
| 2390s | used as quote unquote the best method of |
| 2394s | transporting |
| 2395s | crops because because it had that |
| 2398s | huge um stack increase to be able to |
| 2403s | harvest bigger Fields more as a quality |
| 2405s | of life Improvement rather than having |
| 2407s | to kind of empty it all the |
| 2409s | time and that's a big concern for us in |
| 2411s | terms of the skid steer as well as the |
| 2415s | excavator um because to make them be |
| 2419s | [Music] |
| 2420s | usable in the scope that you'd want them |
| 2422s | to be usable when you're tearing down |
| 2424s | buildings you run the risk of needing a |
| 2428s | big enough inventory to make sense which |
| 2431s | then causes it to be a really good |
| 2433s | general transportation method of these |
| 2435s | blocks instead of using a truck you just |
| 2438s | use the excavator because it's |
| 2440s | faster |
| 2443s | um and we don't necessarily want to just |
| 2446s | hamper the the drive speed on them just |
| 2450s | for the sake |
| 2451s | of tuning down the usability as a |
| 2455s | logistical transport method |
| 2458s | at the same time we don't just want to |
| 2461s | you know massively increase the |
| 2462s | transport capacity of the trucks just to |
| 2465s | compensate for the increased capacity of |
| 2467s | the the the excavator so it kind of goes |
| 2471s | into that Rumble issue |
| 2476s | of um when you start poking in one end |
| 2479s | you got like 20 other things that are |
| 2480s | heavily infected by |
| 2482s | it um so it's you know it's things that |
| 2486s | we constantly looking at um and there's |
| 2489s | no really kind of easy solution that |
| 2492s | isn't potentially significantly |
| 2495s | impacting in other |
| 2501s | areas uh could have the excavator and |
| 2504s | the other utility vehicles poop out the |
| 2505s | materials on the ground or have a cargo |
| 2508s | attachment and so yeah and that's that's |
| 2511s | things that we are looking at um so you |
| 2514s | know it |
| 2515s | it's it's it's things that are being |
| 2517s | discussed and um kind of reviewed as |
| 2522s | time is |
| 2524s | available um could make something like |
| 2527s | like the crane but as a wrecking ball so |
| 2530s | it's it's self-contained and doesn't |
| 2532s | move yeah that's that's definitely also |
| 2534s | a possibility to kind of look over um |
| 2538s | and as I said you know all of these |
| 2540s | ideas are kind of floating around um but |
| 2544s | there's |
| 2545s | no no |
| 2548s | clearcut |
| 2550s | planned um solution for |
| 2552s | them um that's probably a bit out but um |
| 2556s | we do have some things that might be |
| 2560s | coming for for 10.1 |
| 2562s | that in some of that regard |
| 2566s | um but that'll that that's that'll be |
| 2569s | something that I'll go in on on depth |
| 2572s | more later |
| 2575s | um what date is the goal to go live with |
| 2577s | the update 10 um we don't have a set |
| 2581s | date |
| 2583s | yet |
| 2584s | um but we'll update on that as soon as |
| 2588s | we do have a date we can announce um |
| 2591s | partially it's hingent on getting some |
| 2594s | of these bugs out of the way |
| 2598s | um and just general clean up and making |
| 2602s | sure that the playthrough goes smoothly |
| 2604s | from start to finish and |
| 2608s | um everything seems you know fairly |
| 2610s | stable um and then we'll see from there |
| 2614s | oh oh God B Republic yeah um that's |
| 2617s | that's a structure over |
| 2619s | there um is that is that windmills is |
| 2623s | that what I'm seeing just just calling |
| 2625s | it right |
| 2629s | now I was hoping to avoid like Advanced |
| 2633s | Mechanical power versus basic mechanical |
| 2635s | Power |
| 2643s | but I mean you you are kind of you are |
| 2646s | kind of forcing my hand |
| 2649s | here |
| 2651s | um someone that that that didn't |
| 2654s | understand steam |
| 2659s | generation yeah I |
| 2663s | mean truth to be told |
| 2667s | it's |
| 2668s | not I'm not |
| 2671s | surprised however it's a really good |
| 2676s | performance kind |
| 2678s | of General degration thing |
| 2681s | so it's not a bad thing for performance |
| 2684s | testing |
| 2688s | um but uh like I said I'm not surprised |
| 2693s | that this became a thing as I suspected |
| 2695s | it would be |
| 2700s | um when I first introduced it so I don't |
| 2705s | know yeah thousand something |
| 2714s | something but I mean effort was made |
| 2717s | here or or or is this a case of effort |
| 2720s | was not made |
| 2722s | here |
| 2725s | um |
| 2733s | yeah um is a lar going to be able to be |
| 2737s | Aqueduct too you know what it's it's |
| 2743s | not it's not a |
| 2747s | um not a bad |
| 2750s | idea um spoke on uh no more annexations |
| 2754s | in between towns um so you avoid the |
| 2757s | cultural Wars in between kind of the |
| 2759s | same settlement |
| 2760s | here but is there an option to Friendly |
| 2763s | merge to towns generally speaking no |
| 2767s | because of that inherent distance |
| 2769s | because you're not going to be able to |
| 2771s | stretch the influence that far in the |
| 2775s | capacity that you would need to kind of |
| 2776s | Encompass one and the |
| 2780s | other |
| 2783s | um so the general notion is kind of to |
| 2786s | com to combine two towns you would |
| 2789s | create a nation and then you would start |
| 2792s | using the nation as the general push as |
| 2798s | well so towns inherently have an issue |
| 2803s | with going that that step over |
| 2807s | um but it's looking pretty neat I'm I'm |
| 2812s | hoping hoping things stay somewhat |
| 2815s | stable and and cat doesn't blow things |
| 2819s | up |
| 2821s | completely |
| 2824s | um how to uh how to grab and and eat |
| 2829s | sand on |
| 2832s | uh I mean I guess it's more likely that |
| 2835s | that Pepsi or Elma destroys it but you |
| 2837s | know cat's probably there on a corner |
| 2841s | and wreck something on the spare time um |
| 2846s | but no it's it's all the GMS have been |
| 2848s | doing absolutely fantastic |
| 2850s | um they've been putting up with some |
| 2856s | um I fix it after they break |
| 2859s | it |
| 2862s | uh now it's uh they they've been putting |
| 2865s | up with a lot of player Antics and |
| 2867s | they've been absolutely fantastic um |
| 2870s | helping out and making sure that things |
| 2873s | are staying as sane as as they can be um |
| 2878s | in regards to kind of getting to know |
| 2881s | these new mechanics getting to know the |
| 2883s | limitations of |
| 2885s | them um and everything surrounding it so |
| 2889s | it's it's been really nice um overall |
| 2891s | I'm |
| 2893s | I'm quite happy with how things are |
| 2896s | coming along |
| 2898s | um on on the subject matter since I'm |
| 2902s | seeing a lot of flags here |
| 2904s | um hope everyone is enjoying the new the |
| 2908s | new kind of brick SL Lumber recipe um I |
| 2912s | was tempted to drop in like plant matter |
| 2915s | SL straw in the brick recipe as well to |
| 2918s | kind of make |
| 2920s | that um growth based as |
| 2923s | well um outside of the |
| 2927s | lumber um to can have like straw being a |
| 2929s | byproduct from corn and wheat and and |
| 2932s | whatnot |
| 2934s | um it's a bit of a prep ation thing so |
| 2937s | let me |
| 2938s | know um let me know your thoughts on |
| 2941s | that and uh in one of the discussion |
| 2943s | Chats on |
| 2945s | Discord um so there's there's a couple |
| 2947s | of tuning for those recipes that we can |
| 2949s | be looking at um kelp bricks flax bricks |
| 2953s | give |
| 2955s | give uh speaking of crops is there any |
| 2957s | discussion plans regarding more claim |
| 2959s | plots for Farmers um generally speaking |
| 2961s | worldwide you have like if you join a |
| 2964s | town and then you join |
| 2966s | country and then you join out you join |
| 2970s | up with a federation you you you |
| 2974s | generate the same amount of |
| 2978s | claims um |
| 2981s | as um as you would if you read most of |
| 2986s | the skill Scrolls in nine or you know |
| 2988s | pre1 |
| 2991s | versions |
| 2993s | um but there is nothing to kind of |
| 2996s | prevent you from being able to legislate |
| 2998s | in in terms of |
| 3000s | towns um to kind of legislate districts |
| 3003s | to do that same thing which I don't |
| 3006s | think I've |
| 3008s | seen a lot of experimentations of |
| 3013s | yet um I don't think we |
| 3017s | see I don't yeah there we |
| 3020s | go there's there's not a whole heap load |
| 3023s | of of General districts |
| 3036s | um uh new weakness sunflower |
| 3044s | Haven no don't look um but there's |
| 3048s | there's there's a lot more |
| 3050s | utility |
| 3053s | um with the granularity of of settlement |
| 3057s | tiers um that gives you more leeway to |
| 3061s | be able to |
| 3062s | do |
| 3064s | um to do like districts for |
| 3066s | self-regulated Farms inside the town and |
| 3069s | and so on so forth that way you can make |
| 3071s | Farms without using claim papers at all |
| 3074s | as long as you're farming inside the |
| 3075s | influence radius of your |
| 3077s | town um versus you know actual private |
| 3082s | property um there's also the whole issue |
| 3085s | of |
| 3086s | like governments should be looking out |
| 3088s | for their Farmers because that's how |
| 3090s | they guarantee that their local area has |
| 3094s | food |
| 3096s | um so a lot of a lot of the |
| 3100s | general |
| 3102s | um kind of property disputes and |
| 3105s | property issues that you run |
| 3107s | into um is kind of shifted around who |
| 3112s | has the responsibility because |
| 3114s | previously pre0 you were directly |
| 3118s | reliant on technological progression to |
| 3121s | get papers which meant if you didn't |
| 3124s | read skill Scrolls you would never get |
| 3127s | any new papers to use as |
| 3129s | properties while with settlements all |
| 3133s | you need to do is talk to your local |
| 3136s | mayor or talk to your local uh you know |
| 3139s | shifton or |
| 3141s | or mayor or um president or or whichever |
| 3145s | tier settled you're in um to be able to |
| 3148s | buy papers or subsidize papers if you |
| 3150s | have a certain need for them over other |
| 3153s | players and or how they choose to |
| 3157s | dispense the papers inside that |
| 3159s | settlement so so claim |
| 3162s | papers outside of you needing tech |
| 3165s | progression to be able to unlock a new |
| 3168s | tier of settlement to kind of bump |
| 3173s | it |
| 3174s | um |
| 3178s | you don't have that you need to unlock |
| 3182s | all the skills individually which means |
| 3183s | a lot less progression is needed to |
| 3185s | acquire the same amount of skill papers |
| 3187s | as |
| 3189s | before um so the the problem kind of |
| 3193s | shifts around and and and are you know a |
| 3195s | different responsibility Now versus |
| 3197s | before um which means it can also be |
| 3200s | solved in a lot of new ways then you |
| 3203s | kind of you were kind of stuck with |
| 3205s | always having to learn all the skill |
| 3207s | Scrolls |
| 3209s | somehow um to be able to get that land |
| 3212s | that you can now get |
| 3220s | elsewhere um I feel that being a farmer |
| 3222s | is a strong incentive to also becoming a |
| 3224s | mayor so you have ways to prevent crop |
| 3226s | thefts yeah I |
| 3229s | absolutely um but I mean the same thing |
| 3231s | can be said about you know mining |
| 3233s | smelting uh being able to kind of |
| 3235s | dictate your own mining district and and |
| 3237s | whatnot or as logging you know being |
| 3240s | able to prevent people from cutting down |
| 3242s | trees in certain areas or the entire |
| 3244s | town and and so on so forth so it opens |
| 3247s | up a lot of depth to gameplay |
| 3249s | regulation I guess I should |
| 3253s | say |
| 3255s | um so there's you know it it's it's also |
| 3259s | boiling down to a lot of player |
| 3261s | responsibility of you have the option to |
| 3264s | do it but someone actually needs to take |
| 3268s | up the responsibility to do |
| 3270s | it |
| 3272s | um which is where you know you can run |
| 3275s | short or oh you know I I'll just not |
| 3279s | bother with it and just you know kind of |
| 3281s | do my thing and not |
| 3283s | worry |
| 3285s | um so you know you we're mainly aiming |
| 3289s | at giving tools to the people and then |
| 3291s | if people decide to use the tools they |
| 3293s | can improve their their own read |
| 3296s | sustainability or situation |
| 3298s | significantly by dabbling with |
| 3301s | them um can we expect Gabriel changes |
| 3303s | next week um I'm not going to promise |
| 3307s | too much but potentially it it really |
| 3309s | depends on the stability of the play |
| 3312s | test branch that that is being QA tested |
| 3316s | and if there's anything that is |
| 3318s | cautioning issues or is is potentially |
| 3320s | blocking migration to be pushed to the |
| 3322s | live play |
| 3324s | test uh |
| 3327s | um I would stay on just keep up on |
| 3331s | Discord and keep an eye out on the news |
| 3334s | and and the the the play test channels |
| 3339s | um but I |
| 3342s | believe he's looking at doing some |
| 3344s | improvements to the tick |
| 3346s | performance um so there might be some |
| 3349s | slight minor touchup and Cleanup in that |
| 3352s | PR but um po potentially but but I'm not |
| 3357s | going to stretch further than |
| 3360s | potentially um as a question for if |
| 3365s | these um got a few questions um the |
| 3369s | bridge here is all vanilla blocks it is |
| 3372s | new dock block dock block sets inside or |
| 3376s | forms inside the |
| 3379s | Hune uh block material so you are |
| 3381s | looking at we do this and we grab |
| 3388s | gra um you |
| 3391s | have a few |
| 3393s | new a few new forms for fences and some |
| 3397s | fence posts as well as supports which |
| 3400s | is um the blocks that you're seeing here |
| 3403s | below some of the support |
| 3406s | pillars um as well as the |
| 3410s | um the new uh platforms with support |
| 3413s | platforms without as well as plus a |
| 3417s | barrel think if it |
| 3419s | can is it not wanting to |
| 3425s | uh not wanting to show that off because |
| 3429s | of Dev tool not play |
| 3436s | nice apparently the dev tool doesn't |
| 3439s | like me |
| 3440s | today um but yeah know same thing for |
| 3442s | the ramps here as well so you got a few |
| 3444s | new ramps um some Corners to them some |
| 3446s | inverted |
| 3448s | Corners U so some of the things that are |
| 3452s | new for the um from the art |
| 3456s | guys |
| 3459s | uh fly into the water why do you want me |
| 3463s | to fly into the water |
| 3474s | cat |
| 3476s | oh yeah |
| 3479s | well why |
| 3481s | is there we go yes it's just the dev |
| 3484s | tool that |
| 3485s | is the dev tool is is not adhering to |
| 3490s | range limitations um but yeah here we |
| 3494s | have the little little bugger |
| 3498s | um yeah the the that tool is being a bit |
| 3502s | finicky um Regular hammers sh shouldn't |
| 3505s | be the case the dev tool should be the |
| 3508s | only thing that should be targeting |
| 3510s | water uh see I can't build here I'm |
| 3514s | inside inside towns it's not allowing me |
| 3518s | to build stuff inside the Banana |
| 3519s | Republic Cape |
| 3523s | Britain so that's another you know |
| 3526s | complication that players will have to |
| 3528s | deal with in terms of knowing the |
| 3530s | settlements they're under the influence |
| 3532s | the |
| 3533s | loss but here we here we go so here you |
| 3536s | can |
| 3537s | see the other form of block |
| 3542s | building |
| 3543s | um and I think as an outro we can we can |
| 3547s | sneak in sneak in something that I |
| 3549s | believe it's popped in the dev hangout |
| 3553s | at one |
| 3555s | point |
| 3557s | maybe um let me just fetch I know I had |
| 3561s | it here |
| 3564s | somewhere |
| 3566s | [Music] |
| 3568s | chat with Toby |
| 3571s | maybe |
| 3573s | yeah or |
| 3577s | no |
| 3579s | um some of the um some of the early |
| 3582s | early concept arts for the for one of |
| 3585s | the new building blocks that is being |
| 3587s | tinkered |
| 3588s | with |
| 3590s | um see if I can do that and can we |
| 3596s | move that to its own window and then we |
| 3599s | can no we don't want the menu |
| 3604s | bar we want to not CH there there we |
| 3611s | go so these these are some of the things |
| 3613s | that we're looking at uh Post 10 so this |
| 3617s | is kind of a sneak glimpse into the |
| 3620s | future of um what we're looking for |
| 3626s | future |
| 3629s | content um |
| 3633s | and |
| 3636s | as as the uh the twitch chat at least |
| 3639s | reacted to |
| 3642s | um the um this would be uh Adobe |
| 3645s | building |
| 3647s | blocks uh so we're still we're still |
| 3650s | kind |
| 3650s | of roughly checking out kind of what |
| 3653s | limitations and and what which block |
| 3655s | forms we actually want and I'll probably |
| 3657s | get chewed out by by Robert that isn't |
| 3661s | completely done with deciding this uh we |
| 3665s | we're showing off some of it but you |
| 3666s | know it is what it is it's here |
| 3669s | now |
| 3672s | um but yeah so this is this is concept |
| 3675s | made by Robert one of |
| 3677s | our one of our amazing artists that is |
| 3681s | also one of the the main responsible one |
| 3684s | for doing almost almost all of the 2D |
| 3687s | icons um across the board and a lot of |
| 3691s | the |
| 3692s | um |
| 3695s | interfaces um so the general thought for |
| 3699s | this block and this is this is where I |
| 3701s | need I need some thoughts and opinions |
| 3704s | from from the play testing as well as |
| 3706s | the general population here that pokes |
| 3708s | around with this so the idea of these |
| 3710s | blocks is that this will be your |
| 3713s | introductory um first blocks so this |
| 3715s | will be uh predetermined |
| 3719s | from like preh logs if you |
| 3722s | will um so this will be a um it's made |
| 3726s | with raw |
| 3728s | logs and Clay as well as potentially |
| 3731s | plant matter so the question in terms of |
| 3736s | methodology for tiers is either |
| 3740s | introducing this as uh as Lord sax |
| 3743s | pointed out in the chat either it pumps |
| 3746s | out at a |
| 3750s | tier5 um |
| 3753s | or if we just want to push the |
| 3757s | incrementals which is going to you know |
| 3761s | be interesting to relearn for for some |
| 3762s | of our our older |
| 3764s | players um so if we introduce this as a |
| 3768s | tier one block then would you know |
| 3770s | incrementally shuffle the rest of them |
| 3771s | so Hune would be tier 2 Lumber would be |
| 3774s | tier three |
| 3775s | corrugated would be tier four and ashler |
| 3777s | be tier |
| 3780s | five um and the general notion of this |
| 3784s | block is that it will be really cheap to |
| 3787s | manufacture and kind of use um it's |
| 3790s | intended to be your really day one day |
| 3793s | two kind of set up really quickly to get |
| 3796s | preliminary research going getting up |
| 3798s | that initial crafting table to be able |
| 3801s | to start making H logs and and uh Mort |
| 3804s | logs |
| 3809s | um and it wouldn't be tied profession |
| 3811s | which also means that hun logs and |
| 3813s | masonry stone would be tied to their |
| 3816s | profession so those will be bumped out |
| 3818s | of the |
| 3822s | workbench um so you have this as kind of |
| 3825s | like a universal neutral block that is |
| 3828s | only really built and is your kind of |
| 3832s | native starter point point and then you |
| 3836s | transition into actual manufactured |
| 3839s | professional blocks that would be tier |
| 3841s | you know H logs and and |
| 3846s | onward |
| 3848s | um to partially to to make make that |
| 3853s | early introduction to you know get some |
| 3855s | furniture up get some house |
| 3858s | points |
| 3861s | um and and so on um the workbench will |
| 3864s | is still going to be you know tier less |
| 3866s | because you need to start working |
| 3868s | somewhere um the the recipes for H and |
| 3872s | Mason stones out of them are going to |
| 3877s | disappear |
| 3881s | um bumping them out of the workbench |
| 3883s | would make it tricky to make other |
| 3884s | recipes that required to like government |
| 3886s | expansions and other crafting tables |
| 3889s | um sort of but like all of the crude |
| 3892s | rudimentary brick tables don't use |
| 3896s | uh profession rocks or you know |
| 3898s | profession blocks uh there's also going |
| 3900s | to be a bit of rewiring of those really |
| 3902s | early recipes as well um in terms of |
| 3905s | either quantity or material use to |
| 3909s | compensate for |
| 3911s | this but it will also |
| 3914s | make um like logging and Mining and and |
| 3918s | interon being in significant |
| 3921s | choices immediately out you know four in |
| 3925s | terms of progression so you can't make |
| 3929s | um as it'll change you know early tier |
| 3931s | research in in on its head like you |
| 3933s | can't make um mortared research |
| 3938s | paper without the skill for it you can't |
| 3941s | make H log papers or or you know |
| 3944s | Advanced andology papers without |
| 3947s | logging |
| 3950s | um and there's some there's some |
| 3953s | thoughts into making sure that that is |
| 3956s | also pushed for because we we have this |
| 3959s | weird Gap early on where there's a lot |
| 3962s | of |
| 3963s | interdependencies but then we have all |
| 3965s | of these kind of building options that |
| 3966s | are completely |
| 3969s | Lawless if you don't have the skills for |
| 3972s | them and for new players that's coming |
| 3974s | in it's also really confusing as to why |
| 3978s | they shouldn't be using the crafting |
| 3980s | recipe on a workbench to make the H logs |
| 3983s | why should they spend the time making a |
| 3985s | carpentry table that requires a room as |
| 3988s | well as picking a skill and spending a |
| 3990s | point on it when they can pick Mining |
| 3992s | and still be making hun logs um so |
| 3995s | there's a lot of kind of early |
| 3997s | game um new player cleanup and and |
| 4002s | more kind of giving players a more |
| 4004s | directed feel for if they want to be |
| 4008s | doing XYZ then they should be targeting |
| 4010s | XYZ um for those reasons and it'll also |
| 4014s | kind of work into the uh the upgrade |
| 4017s | module changes and and everything else |
| 4020s | to kind of make |
| 4022s | it |
| 4024s | um make it look and feel as a more kind |
| 4030s | of steadily |
| 4032s | progression regardless of the choices |
| 4034s | you're making early |
| 4037s | on |
| 4040s | um yeah because we we had an idea of |
| 4043s | introducing it as like a separate tier |
| 4045s | one material so you'd have H Mort and |
| 4048s | then Adobe as like a gather crafting |
| 4051s | block |
| 4052s | um but I'm more in favor and opting it |
| 4056s | to be like this this initial starter |
| 4058s | clean block to make Hune logs and Mason |
| 4062s | Stone be a lot more fitting in terms of |
| 4065s | How It's progressively getting involved |
| 4067s | in the economy and the the general |
| 4070s | text so we'll see what happens with it |
| 4073s | but you know just some some thoughts and |
| 4075s | some Rants and um ideas that we're |
| 4079s | looking at for post 10 kind of |
| 4082s | future um future implementations and |
| 4085s | things that are |
| 4086s | being uh revised and evaluated right now |
| 4090s | because U Robert is is poking at this |
| 4093s | right now for on our develop brand so |
| 4096s | this will it'll probably pop out some |
| 4098s | images in a couple of weeks um if not in |
| 4101s | in a code stream or something where uh |
| 4104s | you might snap up on hey these are being |
| 4107s | added and and so |
| 4111s | on |
| 4116s | uh um on SK yeah so |
| 4120s | the that's that's generally the notion |
| 4123s | so you have this kind of basic material |
| 4125s | that you quickly replace but you need |
| 4127s | this house to kind of get going um and |
| 4130s | it also has a bit of gratifying of you |
| 4132s | know you're getting stuff up you're |
| 4134s | getting a house going you're getting |
| 4135s | some furniture in um and that should be |
| 4138s | doable within you know the first couple |
| 4140s | of hours to see progression even if it's |
| 4142s | not necessarily huge leap in progression |
| 4146s | you still see you know you come in spend |
| 4148s | a few |
| 4149s | hours and you can feel good about that |
| 4153s | you know you built all this stuff and |
| 4155s | you've gotten somewhere and you have |
| 4158s | that |
| 4159s | visual um gratification of things |
| 4162s | happening in in in around |
| 4165s | um and it'll also make it more distinct |
| 4168s | as well as the rest of the server kind |
| 4170s | of technologically |
| 4172s | progresses um to deal with some of these |
| 4177s | things uh shop Lower to 0.5 would be a |
| 4180s | huge help especially for early food |
| 4182s | trade yeah and that's that's also part |
| 4184s | of part of this push for these blocks so |
| 4187s | the Adobe would be something that you |
| 4189s | build quickly you could fit in your |
| 4191s | research table your your store and |
| 4194s | things like that and you kind of get |
| 4196s | going um with the general notion of like |
| 4200s | being able to build a store a functional |
| 4204s | store within an hour of gameplay I think |
| 4207s | is the uh the kind of predetermined |
| 4212s | idea that way you can quickly get going |
| 4215s | and start bartering and trading and kind |
| 4218s | of interacting with people around you |
| 4220s | and |
| 4223s | um kind of kick things off and keep you |
| 4226s | interested and kind of get activities in |
| 4229s | the surrounding |
| 4233s | areas |
| 4234s | um makeship shop that can be used |
| 4237s | outside but limited tier items and or |
| 4239s | quantity of options yeah that it's been |
| 4241s | another topic that we've been kind of |
| 4243s | talking around with more types of shops |
| 4246s | but with inate limitations of |
| 4248s | say certain amount of quantity of |
| 4252s | sellable Goods so you know maybe limit |
| 4254s | lied to five slots 10 slots or |
| 4258s | something |
| 4260s | um yeah you know hoping you hoping |
| 4264s | everyone enjoyed the stream |
| 4266s | and um if you have any follow-up |
| 4271s | questions |
| 4273s | um and or I saw a few questions about |
| 4276s | the new brick SL Lumber recipes |
| 4280s | um any kind of General changes i' |
| 4285s | uh suggest just hopping on Discord and |
| 4287s | doing a quick search or uh asking in uh |
| 4291s | asking in the play test chat there or um |
| 4293s | either in in the so chat |
| 4297s | or um the white tiger Channel and you'll |
| 4301s | probably get a tech tree I probably |
| 4303s | posted one or twice um with the changes |
| 4307s | and and what's being impacted |
| 4310s | um sack um |
| 4314s | flow in in the campfire recipes yes I |
| 4317s | know it's missing for the fish to |
| 4319s | that'll be |
| 4320s | fixed |
| 4323s | um but just you know hit me up with a DM |
| 4327s | um if there's anything |
| 4329s | else and yeah hope everyone enjoyed and |
| 4332s | I got some got some cat helpers that |
| 4335s | decided that hey you're done with the |
| 4337s | stream now come on |
| 4341s | um very impatient um |
| 4344s | but yeah know um happy to have hosted |
| 4348s | another another Friday and another |
| 4352s | stream another day and I will catch |
| 4355s | you whenever I pop in next and let me |
| 4359s | know in chat or something if people want |
| 4364s | kind of like a a summarized video |
| 4368s | compilation what have you with like |
| 4371s | General 10.0 features will will we keep |
| 4374s | dropping out the dev blogs with more |
| 4376s | detailed posts uh for each of the |
| 4379s | segments but if there's any |
| 4382s | specific kind of I want to know all the |
| 4385s | things that are related to this |
| 4387s | particular feature in a more extended |
| 4390s | stream or or you know just in general |
| 4393s | there's a few that's out on YouTube |
| 4394s | recorded um some stuff has been updated |
| 4397s | mechanically since |
| 4399s | then um just you know drop a message |
| 4402s | drop a post |
| 4404s | and I will catch you on the next |
| 4409s | stream take care and have a good |
| 4413s | weekend |