Game Development: Silken Sled

[sMartins]

Holy moly, oco loco!

[Miss_Min]

Ok. 'Overloaded' debuff annoyance time.

I am holding a thing in my hand. I am holding a different type of thing in my other hand. Neither of these things is an axe. GUESS WHICH ONE gets dequipped when I try to use an axe?

OH LOOK! It's the wanderer's bindle!

I am holding a fishing rod in my hand. I am holding a wanderer's bindle in my other hand. Oh no! I have run out of bait! But I want to continue fishing! That's ok, because I have a fully-equipped casting rod in my belt. GUESS WHICH ITEM gets dequipped to allow me to use the casting rod?

OH LOOK! It's the wanderer's bindle! Byebye fish

Ok, bored of fishing now. I come home with my bag full of fish and decide I want to spitroast one of them. Hahahahahahaha WHAT is going on here? WHY am I now holding an axe and, wait for it, GUESS WHICH ITEM GOT DEQUIPPED? (In a normal situation not involving the overloaded debuff, no axe is visible to the human eye at any point in this process. I am pretty sure that this is actually happening though).

[Audiosmurf]

Add a toggle for left or right handedness, and make belts always favour removing things in the offhand

[Rebs]

Add a toggle for left or right handedness, and make belts always favour removing things in the offhand

Yeah things should favour being replaced by other tools first instead of bindles for sure. its nice don't get me wrong but as above comment mentioned its very very easy to not realise I just switched out bindle instead of my axe for a saw and suddenly whatever I had in those slots are dropped a few seconds later. or whatever.

[Mr_Bober]

Add a toggle for left or right handedness, and make belts always favour removing things in the offhand

Would be nice, but doubt will happen. The game still choses axe over shovel to remove stumps, despite shovels having a stump removal bonus

[VDZ]

Ok. 'Overloaded' debuff annoyance time.

I am holding a thing in my hand. I am holding a different type of thing in my other hand. Neither of these things is an axe. GUESS WHICH ONE gets dequipped when I try to use an axe?

This has actually always been the behavior: it will always equip the preferred tool in the right-hand slot if possible. What changed is that this used not to be possible when overloaded (so it instead went for the left hand slot as fallback) and now that it's become possible and it will do so even if it causes you to be overloaded.

Equip the bindle in the left-hand slot and it won't happen anymore. I already switched my default bindle from the right hand to the left hand before this change to avoid having to re-equip after every tool use when not overloaded.

Add a toggle for left or right handedness, and make belts always favour removing things in the offhand

This would be an effective, if clunky (more interface options) solution as long as a tooltip explains that the toggle causes the tool in that hand to be switched automatically.

A possibly cleaner (invisible to the end-user) solution would be to check if unequipping right hand would reduce inventory size, then check if unequipping left hand would reduce inventory size, and iff only unequipping right hand would reduce inventory size prefer unequipping left instead. This would also fix the older annoyance of getting your bindle unequipped when not overloaded, as a right-hand bindle is otherwise typically preferable to a left-hand bindle (gives more space and doesn't cause overloaded on unequip until your natural inventory is fully filled).

Whatever the case, even this does not get solved at all, I much prefer the current situation over the old 'this cursed item is grafted onto your hand' approach.