Tinkertown News

Dear Tinkerers!

Today we are doing something new for Tinker Tuesday. Since we're currently working on some big stuff behind the scenes we don't have a new patch today. Instead, we want to highlight our brilliant Discord community!

The Tinkertown server truly is one of the nicest places you'll find - if you're not on it you should join the cozy community there! But don't just take it from us! We asked one of our veteran moderators, Shane "Welf" van Tuinen, what it is that makes the server special.

Discord moderator Shane van Tuinen has been an active Tinkertown player since the beta

What's the best thing about the Tinkertown Discord?
"Honestly, the communication between developers, moderators and players."

What do you think being part of the community on the Discord adds to the game?
"The Tinkertown Discord community as a whole is one of the friendliest I've seen and I feel that it adds a lot to the game. You can meet new people to play multi-player with, share your screenshots with others and get new ideas for your own worlds. There is even a channel for suggesting new ideas that the developers have been actively paying attention to."

Do you have any cool ideas for what the Discord community could do in the future?
"I can see some more community events such as building contests, AMA with mods and staff, multi-player sessions with staff, and maybe a vote for a item or monster the community wants implemented next. A fan art contest would be fun too, I feel. This community has grown so much since I joined it, nearly at the very beginning of the Discord server going live, and it has never stopped being a great place to come make friends. The development team is one of the most open ones I've ever talked to and I look forward to continued growth and community developments in the future!"

You heard Shane - join one of the friendliest gaming Discords out there!
https://discord.gg/2FyMTtDqFY

Next week we will be back with some in game updates, take care until then.

Your Tinkertown team

Dear Tinkerers,

It's another Tinker Tuesday - wohooo! In keeping with our latest activities, the "Spring Cleaning" patch and the building contest with the theme "Back to Nature", it's another update focused on tending to Mother Earth!

In this one the Forest has been tidied up, removing some bushes and trees to allow for easier exploration. Please keep away from the forest monsters though! They are as dangerous as usual...

Once you’ve progressed further into the game, you will obtain new Workbenches, giving access to new recipes. To follow the games logic, we’ve moved their recipes to the Players internal crafting menu.

We’ve also added two new tracks to the Desert and Ice Biome at Night, please bop along.

The changes in a neat li'l list:

Early Access 0.16.11

• Added new night time tracks to the Ice and Desert Biome
  
• Updated Forest Biome, making it easier to explore
  
• Moved all Workbenches once unlocked to the Players Inventory-Crafting
  

Thank you for making this game and community so good!
/Your Tinkertown team

Dear tinkerers,

After an epic week of building, with the clang of hammers vibrating through Tinkertown and dust clouds in the air, our three winners in the building contest have emerged!

The theme was "Back to Nature" and we got a whole host of really good submissions - thank your for being so passionate about our game, it was great to see your creativity!

Aaaaaaaand the winner is... Our Discord user Butter_Neko_ValentinE! ːsteamhappyː

They built an oasis in the form of a butterfly, with the wings and the body making up different rooms!

We also want to celebrate our Discord user CaioSM who snagged second place!

They put together this nice word puzzle style constellation!

A big hooray also for our third place - user ¿¿¿!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQeJy-4H-OE&ab_channel=RJAranas
They took us on a house tour around the docks and to the nice fireplace.

To see all the submissions, head over to our Discord. That way you'll get noticed when we have more stuff like this!

And if you missed the contest this time, don't fret! The next one is only a few weeks away...

Good work everybody, see you soon!

Your Tinkertown team

Dear Tinkerers,

Spring is coming and we've dusted off our magic chests while singing the new song of the Mines!
We even renovated some parts of the Ice Dungeon and turned over every stone, bush, reed and pile of dirt in every biome!

Here's a list of what's been changed with this patch:

• Added a new area inside the Ice Dungeon, showing off the hookshot capabilities once obtained
  
• Added new music track to the mines to improve its ambience
  
• Added a note in the patch notes, in the case that something requires the player to create a new world in order to experience it
  
• Added a Note to Player Worlds into the World Selection, to alert if they do not support the latest changes
  
• Improved teleport transitions
  
• Fixed the magic chest and its content being inaccessible and/or unresponsive
  
• Improved tiles in biomes to work properly when placing and removing floor tiles, especially via shovel.
  
• Adjusted various droprates
  

A lot of the small stuff has been finished already and almost all of us are focusing on bigger tasks.

This might mean we will need more time for the next content update and patches, but no worries, we'll keep you up to date!

Much love,
your Tinkertown Dev Team!

Dear Tinkerers,

It's Friday! What fits better than a friendly Tinkertown building contest when the weekend vibes are flowing?

This time the theme is an important one inspired by Earth Hour - "Back to nature!" Show us your best ideas for living in harmony with nature and win the honor of having a craftable item with your name on it in the game! :O

Tinkertown is a beautiful place situated in the middle of lush green forests and sparkling blue rivers. How would you picture the bond between your character and the nature around it?



No restrictions on space or materials – get as creative as you want!

To participate in this contest, you can submit something you built in your Tinkertown world, on the theme "Back to nature". Your submssions will then be judged by a jury consisting of our development team members.

Your submission needs to be in the comments - or in our Discord here: https://discord.gg/YkgJHPbx, before next Friday 12.00 (March 31st) GMT to be considered.

The prizes are:

1st: Your name on a craftable in game item! Also the Discord role as “Building Contest Champion and 3 Steam keys for Tinkertown.

2nd: 2 Steam keys for Tinkertown

3rd: 1 Steam key for Tinkertown

All three winners will also be highlighted together with their builds on Tinkertowns Twitter, so that everyone can see your glorious builds.

Good luck! We're really looking forward to seeing your entries!

/Your Tinkertown team