Game Development: Loose Velvet

[KwonChiMin]

Does it mean that there are no more "wild" slimes/boreworms? Those dwelling in caves in general. Or this concerns only miners deathtraps?

[loftar]

So you removed area mining blockage from boulders and instead you implement a new type of spawn that does the exact same thing?

Well, I mean, they spawn where monsters would have previously spawned, and I expect they would've interrupted mining anyway, so I don't think anything is made worse by this, and as such they are obviously far less common than boulders.

Does it mean that there are no more "wild" slimes/boreworms? Those dwelling in caves in general. Or this concerns only miners deathtraps?

Just the miner deathtraps.

[TheUltimateC]

screen.png

Do it already, you've been copy pasting this for years. Just pull the plug, in times of crisis innovations will arise.

[lordgrunt]

What just happened.... great patch.

[saltyfish]

With new patch my mining gets interrupted each few tiles, if not each tile (using Ard client). If it is the designed mechanics, this new thing is a game killer: your turned mining into manual-per-tile mining.
That behavior vanished in couples of hours (love change for supports!)

Other improvements to mining:
- Remove those loose rock things - they are irrelevant and just adding white noise. We already have spanning slimes, warms, and trolls.
- Fix mine level generation. Level 9 is already nerfed to the degree it can be considered useless unless you do extensive botting in search of tiny clusters of quality materials. Return some quality to deep levels, at least for stones.
- Prevent mine tile spawning boulders and critters together the same time!
- Add small delay for slimes before they aggro after they are mined out
- increase the probability finding larger star shard in deeper caverns

[vatas]

So you removed area mining blockage from boulders and instead you implement a new type of spawn that does the exact same thing?

Well, I mean, they spawn where monsters would have previously spawned, and I expect they would've interrupted mining anyway, so I don't think anything is made worse by this, and as such they are obviously far less common than boulders.

I was thinking the exact same thing.

Even if this patch can be critiqued for being just indirect rollbacks of unwanted changes and adding stuff that should've been added years ago, but devs still deserve acknowledgement that they did good this time.

[Pickard]

[*] Ore Quality variance now takes effect per tile, rather than per piece of ore. This means that, all other things being equal, all ore from any single mine tile will be of uniform quality.

So whats the difference if every tile still random quality?

Anything about slimes quantity? Still spawns 10+ groups or 5+ worms?

Does this changes affects trolls spawn?

[ChildhoodObesity]

god bless, ty for the great update

[CSPAN]

"Thank you very much."
-All of the miners

[r0ck4ev3r]

Killing it! This patch is sold all around; Loose Rock/Support's HP huge quality of life to mining. As for Ore's quality variance, it looks like a good normalization with a small sample size. <more mining data required>