by Idol » Sat Jan 16, 2010 11:17 pm
[quote="jorb"]We've been developing tonight, and here's what's new.
New Object, Spruce Bough Bed: Gather boughs from fir trees and build yourself a nice little bed.
New Object, Leanto: Build a leanto. Put objects in the leanto. If you put a spruce bough bed in the leanto, you can sleep in it. Player's will leave theft scents if they try to take objects from the lean-to if someone is sleeping in it.
I like this update because every new player starts with wilderness survival and yet couldn't do much with the skill. Foraging, hunting or fishing is needed to find anything to eat so about the only thing wilderness survival apparently gave you was the ability to build fires and baskets. Now it gives you shelter and a safer place to sleep.
Before wilderness spawning the chief problem predator on new players was other new players. You might, after hours of walking, come across some grapes and bring the grape seeds carefully back to base to begin working on amassing the points for the winemaking skill... only to log in the next time and find them gone. Similiarly it was very hard to stockpile food so that you could balance your attributes. If you had a basket full of eel and rabbit you were almost certain to log in and find it empty. So the protection of the lean-to could make a very big difference.