REVISION 31A UP IN EXPERIMENTAL BRANCH: NOW WITH REVISION 31B

A handful of modest bugfixes:

• FIXED: cultist_power variable typo meant cults were powerless
• FIXED: coconut curry now properly requires chillies
• FIXED: can no longer cook fishperson steak out of fishperson steak; requires raw fishperson meat.
• FIXED: sugar can now be eaten raw
• FIXED: crop crash (when attempting to harvest spoiled/corrupted crops)
• FIXED: animals are no longer attracted to human civilization
• FIXED: buried corpses should no longer upset people
• FIXED: consume_food hooked up properly
• FIXED: stumps from chopped trees can be cleared properly now.
• FIXED: chance to plant evil crops was out of whack with intended
• FIXED: eldritch transformation cannot be interrupted
• FIXED: can no longer have conversations with axe murderers
• Cultists can build stone OR wood shrines
• shrinebuilding & transformation gives notification
• people will run away from murderers
• shrines are now randomly rotated
• Conscription button now says “conscript unit” or “retire unit” and shows appropriate image depending on context.
• Cleaned up Fishpeople butchering/eating humans
• Assembling Gabions no longer requires a shovel (so soldiers will not drop their weapons to assemble gabions)
• Assembling Gabions will never be prioritized over fighting
• Soldiers will now run to pick up their weapon in all cases
• “Military Training” will encourage soldiers to value fighting more
• Farming job utilities more or less equalized
• Made it slightly more likely for fishpeople to get butchered, especially by morbid colonists
• Giant Beetles are now “armoured”
• Added more animals to biomes
• Made upsetting things in general slightly more maddening
• Spruced up some placeholder death descriptions
• Fishpeople get mad when their people are killed (unless they’re raiders, which are fair game)
• Fishpeople can destroy gabions
• Gabions and crops now have hitpoints
• Alerts generated when fishpeople destroy crops or gabions
• Misc. chair/table improvements
• Beds now have restfulness bonus (applied every 3 seconds while sleeping); in short, better bed = less sleep needed.
• Reduced absurdly high search range for the fishpeople’s “Butcher Human Corpse” and “Eat Human Flesh” jobs
• “Military Training” should allow soldiers to hold their ground better in combat (unless they’re really upset)

 

Which issue with stockpiles in particular? I've been "a combination of taking a day off and then HORRIBLY, VIOLENTLY ILL" so I'm a little out of the picture.

 

No, there are a handful of save/load bugs that haven't been tackled yet, and that's one of them.

 

There was a line that sets a herdanimal's "gameAIPreferences" to humans to "-10". I thought, hmm, this seems to be doing the opposite of what it says it should do so I tried making it "10" -- and now it works. It must be getting inverted somewhere!

 

Damn. I'll look into it!

 

More cult balancing in REVISION 31B:

*FIXED: fleeing from murderer corpses
*FIXED: cooking and recooking longpork tag error
*FIXED: ai_damage was double inherited, leading to all kinds of problems
*FIXED: shrine rotation (maybe)
*FIXED: melee_combat w/o weapon didn't properly set melee_combat tag
*balance: murderers get automatic Frontier Justice
*balance: axe murder requires madness
*balance: axe murder requires having built a shrine
*balance: shrine building requires madness
*balance: shrine building reduces shrine power
*balance: death of a cultist will reduce cult_power
*fixed typo in tutorial
*fixed typo in place_shrine.fsm
*balance: reduced madness requirement for some cultist acts
*balanced shrine counter cost downward
*yet more balance for cultist acts
*log ticker for murdering

 

Ah, this is a known problem (and not addressed in the fixes for 31A or 31B) -- it is on The Big List and we'll be looking into it.