Game Development: Gongalong!

[jorb]

We've been developing, and here's what's new.



New Implementations
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• Added "Gong Stand", a decorative "instrument"/piece of furniture. Right-click to activate, and right-click again to whack. No two metal types sound quite alike!

Key Fixes
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• Reworked the crafting input selector a bit. Input slots are now highlighted in red if they lack input. You can hover over an input slot to highlight the item currently selected for it. You can left-click an input slot to get a cursor with which you can point at the input you would like to use for the slot. Noticed that e.g. alchemy recipes were quite unwieldy to craft.
• Did more work on the "Alchemy Book". Negative effects are now properly displayed. You can now filter your elixir list on effects and/or inputs. There is now a separate page which lists known effects on primitive alchemical inputs. (Some outstanding things left to fix: Favorites, ingredient entries for processed inputs, distinction between wound conversion and wound healing. The two pages in the book currently borrow icons from the Character Sheet.).
• Fixed a bug by which it was possible to bypass the give-hat-away timers by using Valhalla. The give-hat-away timers are now counted in objective UTC time, rather than server time. All give-away-hat timers have been removed, so if you had initiated donation of a hat, you will now have to redo that. Apologies.

Small Fixes
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• "Salt Crystal"s, "Curious Needle"s, "Ant Chitin", "Cave Louse Chitin", and "Ant Wing"s now all stack, and can be held in the "Poacher's Pouch".
• Queen Ant/Bee Wings, and all "Bugs", can be held in the "Poacher's Pouch".
• Fixed a bug by which dragging the map caused Thingwall connections to blink.

As always, if you liked what we did here: Support the patch.

Today's Patch Item, for the fair price of $7, is the "Dino Cap".

$7 This Jurassic fashion statement stands ready to put a cap on any mammalian supremacy plans!

All Gold & Silver subscribers have been awarded the "Dino Cap", free of charge.

In the Pipe
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• Our primary development direction is toward object-controlled-objects.
• Time to... like us on Facebook?
• Time to... follow us on Twitter?

UPDATE YOUR CLIENTS... for cool new Alchemy Book changes.

Enjoy!

[Regulus2424]

alright, good job with the Alchemy Book

[_Scipio]

Show us your hermitage, Jorb.

[Nightdawg]

Our primary development direction is toward object-controlled-objects.

[Audiosmurf]

Oh is crafting finally in a usable state?

[ekzarh]

Let's gooo! (5th yay!)

[Kinglazy]

Is the plan still to reset both worlds at the end of the year? I really hoped we would get an announcement to reset W16 on June.

[lamegreen]

someone gift me that hat, it's my birthday

[jordancoles]

The meteorite gong better be the Brown Note

[Audiosmurf]

If it doesn't already the gong should scare animals in a radius