New Implementations
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- Added winter bubbles.
- Certain objects, fires, ovens, kilns, tar kilns, chicken coops, rabbit hutches, composts, and other things projecting warmth or fecundity, will, upon becoming active, begin radiating auras of varying sizes around them, within which it will not, during winter, be winter. Snow will melt, and it will, inside such auras, be possible to grow crops
- Trees inside winter bubbles will not pass from their fall stage to their winter stage, and nor their spring stage. They will, instead, remain in their fall stage, and pass from it to summer, when summer does come. (This point prolly needs some love, but the aim would be to skip the harsher stages).
- Trees which have already passed to their winter stage will be unaffected by the winter bubbles, and follow their normal course.
- The basic pitch behind this whole idea is that you should, within the locality of your settlements, be able to enjoy the blessings of eternal summer, with relatively little effort, while the wilderness beyond your walls retain their seasonality.
- Would consider pushing the functionality to several other types of objects, e.g. houses.
- Added "Mound Bed". The Mound Bed radiates a fairly sizeable summer aura around it. The bed lasts for about three RL weeks, and then decays. We intend to make it possible to plant things in Mound Beds at some point, but we're not quite there yet.
Key Fixes
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- Fixed a bug by which the catapult would sometimes fail to hit anything when hitting several targets (e.g. player standing on Hearth Fire), where one target has no possible interaction with the catapult shot. Should now look through the hit stack of objects, and try to hit at least one of them.
Small Fixes
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- Fixed a problem with discovered mine tiles being rendered as transparent on the minimap.
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In the Pipe
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- The patch schedule got confused this week, as this took some time to fix. Hoping it's enjoyable, or at least promising.
- Again urging any custom client maker who wishes to stay relevant to get with the new rendering times. Support for the old resources will be dropped at some point.
- Our primary development direction is toward object-controlled-objects.
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