REVISION 28 UP

Revision 28 is now uploaded to Steam for Earliest Access purchasers. The following is the changelog:

• Removed "chop log directly into a plank" and "cut stone directly into bricks" due to micromanagement. (Build a Carpentry Workshop, already!)
• Added icons for Lingonberry and Saskatoonberry preserves crate commodities
• Subtly re-organized building icons to suggest a build order
• FIXED: added default melee attacks for very unconventional weapons (caused rare scripterrors)
• added a seed memory to each new colonist (to normalize moods a bit at start of game)
• vaguely improved and massively cleaned up harvestable Nature objects (oreNode, tree, forageSource, and clearable) - still job assignment issues w/ stumps & new saplings though.
• harvestable nature objects will create job icon immediately rather than waiting for overseer to accept job (better feedback for player)
• memory weighting adjusted slightly (a bit less overall madness)
• Internal rewrite of stockpile code: stockpiles are now considered used/not used based on if they are empty or not, and stockpiles should no longer jam up with half-empty squares.
• Stockpiles will show their borders with a different colour model (placeholder 'til final assets are done)
• Enhanced "flee" job based on Dienes' suggestions; colonists much smarter about running away from danger
• various minor character texture fixes in
• added a bunch of new head and hair models
• made sure all tools & weapons use correct melee attack animation
• FIXED: "tin exotic caviar" job should work correctly
• FIXED: commodities no longer float in stockpiles
• FIXED: Character info window remembers its position and no longer defaults to topleft corner of screen
• FIXED: Workshop window remembers its position and no longer defaults to topleft corner of screen
• Gravesites now enabled (however the corpse picking up/dropping animation is not in yet)
• (FIXED: digging graves requires a shovel and a HUMAN corpse, not ANY corpse)
• Houses can now be renovated.
• FIXED: numerous memory leaks
• FIXED: Cleaned up memory storage for clean game exits
• FIXED: Fixed memory footprint overrun in save games (saved games still not publically available)
• FIXED: floating unremoveable job icons should no longer happen
• FIXED: dead Colonists job description is no longer stuck on what they were doing before they died
• FIXED: workshop job using tool when interrupted will no longer permanently attach tool to character's hand
• FIXED: no work party icon will not appear on dead colonists and will remove itself from colonists who die

There are obviously some things that did not make it into this revision; we decided that we did not wish to hold things up while we got things in. We will be aiming for another revision next week, probably around Wednesday so that we can nicely synchronize things with Blog Posts and all that.

 

Yep! We need a different solution, unfortunately; we're just not sure what it is yet. As it currently stands, everybody immediately goes around chopping logs directly into planks, all the time, without ever using a carpentry work shop, and then do the same thing with their bricks. "Water finds a crack," as David noted.

Remove Overseer Promotion has been removed for the same reason - rampant abuse. We had to do this with Dredmor a lot; it's all part of the process.

 

You can build a carpentry shop using only logs then get plank production going from there. (I will concede however that this is not explained very clearly.)

 

We'll just make the standing desk "optional" in the carpentry workshop for now. Good point

 

Can you explain what you mean here in more detail?

The ability to issue commands onto objects are indeed removed when a job icon is assigned (as giving more orders would be redundant / do nothing), but if the icon is there, the job is should still be awaiting pickup by an overseer.