DD# 217 The Return of Therasoids
Hi, everyone. Welcome to this week's developer's diary.
If NEOLITHIA or the Stone Age Online is a nation, nothing will serve as a better national symbol than a type of machine T-Rexes known as Therasoids. When people first saw their existence more than twenty years ago, the whole world shattered. Many thought the Stone Age was about some mystery stories with some prehistory humans, yet it actually takes place in a grim-darker future.
Now, in our current iteration of this world, they are here once again.
They have changed a lot since I cannot use their old graphics assets from the Stone Age online. They now have a whole new appearance rendered from a new 3D model, which you may have previously seen in the game "The White-Haired Witch."
You can now see them appear as enemies in randomly generated locations when you travel with the Wonderland Travel Agency, along with other machine entities. They are ever stronger than before, with much higher attributions than many other machines you have previously encountered and even the ability to self-repair. On the good hand, they may also drop better loots if you can defeat them.
You can not turn them into pets for now. But, eventually, we will get there. Just like before, you cannot capture them and turn them. Instead, you will have the ability to create your own machine T-Rexes with a lot of customization options with a device.
Meanwhile, the development of the Grand Library continues.
This time, it's more about Machiavelli's side of the story, about Virtu and Fortuna.
During this new part of the story content, you can unlock another customized tenet.
It allows you to reroll all kinds of dice rolls in the game. Because, with strong Virtu, you can be so adapted to the flow of unpredictable Fortuna. Such a feature never existed before. Meanwhile, just like Nietzsche, Machiavelli's philosophy can also trigger a lot of people. (You know that he did a great job on this when his work got banned by the Catholic Church in 1559. :P ) Thus, it gives a bonus to your emotional damage offense capability.
There are also other systems I have put in place to be revealed in future stories.
I can now turn all the in-game choices into quick-time events because you will have to "be decisive and forceful when necessary" when you follow his story.
Of course, I naturally will not let one source monopolize a whole new feature. The world needs diversity, just like Canada shall be Canada, and Greenland shall be Greenland. It will be just so boring if someone makes them all become the US. As such, you can also have other ways to enable to reroll dice-rolls. A new generic item prefix has been added.
The Fatebinder prefix allows any item that has this prefix to give you +1 generic dice-roll reroll chance. It can appear on any equipable items. Thus, you don't need to follow Machiavelli to be able to have more control over your own fate. Who knows, if you are lucky, you may even find a baguette with such a prefix from a bakery girl. :P
Oh, as I was talking about the bakery, how about we get some new food?
After all, the cooking system has not been updated for a while. So far, we got various vegetables, fruits, meat, eggs, and other things on land. It's time to have something different from the sea.
There is an old saying:
Even the simplest seaweed holds the wisdom of the waves.
Well, you cannot get nori directly from the wild. They are essentially baked and dried Pyropia or other types of seaweeds. So, you can get Pyropia instead.
There are a lot of sources of pyropia. You can purchase them from merchants. You can loot them from some sea creatures. You may even get them if you are fishing near the sea.
Of course, nori is not the only thing you can make out of pyropia.
It's quite common for people to use them to make various soups.
For example, people in China have been cooking Pyropia Egg Soup for thousands of years. (It's still common in many school or company restaurants nowadays.)
Well, technically speaking, it also provides a lot of different choices in the game, as you can cook your own Pyropia Egg Soup very differently since we have a lot of variations of eggs and water in the game. Many of your pets can lay eggs of various quality. There are also many types of water in the game, from dirty water that you can get from quite suspicious sources to holy water that you can get from an altar with the right faith tenet. With different combinations of food ingredients and the cooking skills of your teammates, you can cook quite different Pyropia Egg Soup. Maybe you can even make some demons fear your Blessed Pyropia Egg Soup made with holy water. :P
That's all for this week. More content for the Grand Library will come next.
The full update log of this week:
20250315
English
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[Assets]The assets for Therasoid are ready. There is no suitable existing 2D asset. Thus, I am rendering them from 3D directly this time.
[Pet]Added sound effects for Hyenas. They will play when wild Hyenas attack or when you pet your Hyena pets. (Fun fact: they sound like human laughing. :D)
简体中文
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【美术资源】帖拉所伊朵的美术资源就位。因为没有合适的2D美术资源。所以这次是全部从3D渲染的。
【宠物】为鬣狗加入了音效。会在野生的鬣狗攻击你的时候播放。也会在你爱抚你的鬣狗宠物的时候播放。（有趣的事实：听上去像是人类的笑声。:D）
20250316
English
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[Enemy]Therasoids can now appear as enemies. (You cannot directly turn them into pets. That will be too easy for our national symbol. :P)
[Wonderland Travel Agency]Procedurally generated locations with Machine Enemies can now spawn Therasoids.
[Loot]Added an item drop list for Therasoids.
简体中文
##########Content################
【敌人】帖拉所伊朵现在可以作为敌人出现。（你无法直接把它们直接变成宠物。那样的话对于这些类似于我们国家象征的存在太简单了。 :P）
【奇幻之地旅行社】以【机械生物】为主题的过程生成的随机区域现在可能出现帖拉所伊朵。
【掉落物】为帖拉所伊朵加入了物品掉落列表。
20250317
English
##########System#################
Choices can now have a time limit. If a player makes no choice before the time runs out, it will return nil.
Added code support allows you to retry any dice rolls based on highly customizable conditions.
##########DEBUG#################
Fixed a bug that even when a character fails a dice check, they can still gain devotion when they have a faith tenet that allows them to gain devotion when successful in a dice roll.
简体中文
##########System#################
选项现在可以带有时间限制。如果在时间超过前玩家没有选择任何选项。那么会返回nil。
抛骰现在可以基于各种自定义条件允许重试。
##########DEBUG#################
修复了一个让某些有特定信仰信条允许他们在成功抛骰后获得虔诚的角色，在抛骰失败的情况下也获得虔诚的Bug。
20250318
English
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[Special Attribution] A new special attribution that adds the retry chance for all dice rolls was added.
[Faith]New Faith Tenet: Virtu and Fortuna
[The Grand Library - Floor of Philosophy]Added a new dialog option for Machiavelli. It unlocks the "Virtu and Fortuna" tenet.
[Wiki]Updated the Faith Tenet page.
##########Debug################
Fixed a bug that sometimes causes dice-roll retry chance not to go down.
简体中文
##########Content################
【特殊属性】加入了一个新的特殊属性，会追加投骰重试的数量。
【信仰】新的信仰信条：Virtu与Fortuna
【大图书馆 - 哲学层】为马基雅维利追加了1个新的对话选项。会解锁信条【Virtu与Fortuna】
【维基】更新了信仰信条页面。
##########Debug################
修复了某些情况下重新投骰的机会数量不会下降的Bug。
20250319
English
##########Content################
[Dice-Roll]When you reroll a dice, the previous failure message will now be cleared.
[Prefix]New Prefix: Fatebinder's (The item that has this prefix will increase your dice-roll retry chances. It's a generic prefix. Thus, it may appear anywhere on any item.)
[Wiki]Updated the game wiki's prefix page.
简体中文
##########Content################
【投骰检定】当你决定重新投骰子时，此前的失败信息现在会被清除。
【词缀】新词缀：织命者的（有这个词缀的物品会提供你投骰的重试机会。这是一个通用词缀，所以可能出现在任何的物品上。）
【维基】更新了游戏维基的词缀页面。
20250320
English
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[Item]New Food/Food Ingredient: Pyropia (I took a photo of a bag of dried pyropia at home and used it as its icon. :P)
[Shopping]Various Food Ingredient Vendors now sell Pyropia. (Prices vary depending on how close they are to the sea. For example, it's very cheap in Marinas.)
[Loot]Benboer and Baboer can now drop Pyropia.
[Item]New Food/Food Ingredient: Nori
[Cooking]You can heat Pyropia to make Nori.
[Cooking]New recipe: Pyropia Soup (Pyropia + Water with something that can heat food. If you use holy water, you will get the blessed version.)
[Wiki]Updated the cooking page.
简体中文
##########Content################
【物品】新食物/食材：紫菜（我对着家里的一袋干紫菜拍了一张照作为图标。:P）
【购物】各种食材商人现在会贩卖紫菜。（根据他们靠近海的距离会有价格变动。比如，在玛丽娜斯会很便宜。）
【掉落物】奔波尔和灞波尔现在可能掉落紫菜。
【物品】新食物/食材：海苔
【料理】你可以加热紫菜来获得海苔。
【料理】新食谱：紫菜汤 （紫菜+水，通过可以加热食物的料理器具制作。 如果你用圣水，会获得受祝福的版本。）
【维基】更新了料理页面。
20250321
English
##########Content################
[Cooking]New recipe: Pyropia Egg Soup (Pyropia + Egg + Water with something that can heat food. If you use holy water, you will get the blessed version.)
[Fishing]You may now get pyropia when fishing in the Marinas areas.
[Fishing]You may now get pyropia when fishing in the Qinuyi areas. (Including the underwater tunnels.)
[Wiki]Updated the cooking page.
简体中文
##########Content################
【料理】新食谱：紫菜蛋花汤 （紫菜+蛋+水，通过可以加热食物的料理器具制作。 如果你用圣水，会获得受祝福的版本。）
【钓鱼】你现在可能在玛丽娜斯附近钓鱼的时候获得紫菜。
【钓鱼】你现在可能在奇奴伊附近钓鱼的时候获得紫菜。（包括海底隧道区域。）
【维基】更新了料理页面。
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If NEOLITHIA or the Stone Age Online is a nation, nothing will serve as a better national symbol than a type of machine T-Rexes known as Therasoids. When people first saw their existence more than twenty years ago, the whole world shattered. Many thought the Stone Age was about some mystery stories with some prehistory humans, yet it actually takes place in a grim-darker future.
Now, in our current iteration of this world, they are here once again.
They have changed a lot since I cannot use their old graphics assets from the Stone Age online. They now have a whole new appearance rendered from a new 3D model, which you may have previously seen in the game "The White-Haired Witch."
You can now see them appear as enemies in randomly generated locations when you travel with the Wonderland Travel Agency, along with other machine entities. They are ever stronger than before, with much higher attributions than many other machines you have previously encountered and even the ability to self-repair. On the good hand, they may also drop better loots if you can defeat them.
You can not turn them into pets for now. But, eventually, we will get there. Just like before, you cannot capture them and turn them. Instead, you will have the ability to create your own machine T-Rexes with a lot of customization options with a device.
Meanwhile, the development of the Grand Library continues.
This time, it's more about Machiavelli's side of the story, about Virtu and Fortuna.
During this new part of the story content, you can unlock another customized tenet.
It allows you to reroll all kinds of dice rolls in the game. Because, with strong Virtu, you can be so adapted to the flow of unpredictable Fortuna. Such a feature never existed before. Meanwhile, just like Nietzsche, Machiavelli's philosophy can also trigger a lot of people. (You know that he did a great job on this when his work got banned by the Catholic Church in 1559. :P ) Thus, it gives a bonus to your emotional damage offense capability.
There are also other systems I have put in place to be revealed in future stories.
I can now turn all the in-game choices into quick-time events because you will have to "be decisive and forceful when necessary" when you follow his story.
Of course, I naturally will not let one source monopolize a whole new feature. The world needs diversity, just like Canada shall be Canada, and Greenland shall be Greenland. It will be just so boring if someone makes them all become the US. As such, you can also have other ways to enable to reroll dice-rolls. A new generic item prefix has been added.
The Fatebinder prefix allows any item that has this prefix to give you +1 generic dice-roll reroll chance. It can appear on any equipable items. Thus, you don't need to follow Machiavelli to be able to have more control over your own fate. Who knows, if you are lucky, you may even find a baguette with such a prefix from a bakery girl. :P
Oh, as I was talking about the bakery, how about we get some new food?
After all, the cooking system has not been updated for a while. So far, we got various vegetables, fruits, meat, eggs, and other things on land. It's time to have something different from the sea.
There is an old saying:
Even the simplest seaweed holds the wisdom of the waves.
Well, you cannot get nori directly from the wild. They are essentially baked and dried Pyropia or other types of seaweeds. So, you can get Pyropia instead.
There are a lot of sources of pyropia. You can purchase them from merchants. You can loot them from some sea creatures. You may even get them if you are fishing near the sea.
Of course, nori is not the only thing you can make out of pyropia.
It's quite common for people to use them to make various soups.
For example, people in China have been cooking Pyropia Egg Soup for thousands of years. (It's still common in many school or company restaurants nowadays.)
Well, technically speaking, it also provides a lot of different choices in the game, as you can cook your own Pyropia Egg Soup very differently since we have a lot of variations of eggs and water in the game. Many of your pets can lay eggs of various quality. There are also many types of water in the game, from dirty water that you can get from quite suspicious sources to holy water that you can get from an altar with the right faith tenet. With different combinations of food ingredients and the cooking skills of your teammates, you can cook quite different Pyropia Egg Soup. Maybe you can even make some demons fear your Blessed Pyropia Egg Soup made with holy water. :P
That's all for this week. More content for the Grand Library will come next.
The full update log of this week:
20250315
English
##########Content################
[Assets]The assets for Therasoid are ready. There is no suitable existing 2D asset. Thus, I am rendering them from 3D directly this time.
[Pet]Added sound effects for Hyenas. They will play when wild Hyenas attack or when you pet your Hyena pets. (Fun fact: they sound like human laughing. :D)
简体中文
##########Content################
【美术资源】帖拉所伊朵的美术资源就位。因为没有合适的2D美术资源。所以这次是全部从3D渲染的。
【宠物】为鬣狗加入了音效。会在野生的鬣狗攻击你的时候播放。也会在你爱抚你的鬣狗宠物的时候播放。（有趣的事实：听上去像是人类的笑声。:D）
20250316
English
##########Content################
[Enemy]Therasoids can now appear as enemies. (You cannot directly turn them into pets. That will be too easy for our national symbol. :P)
[Wonderland Travel Agency]Procedurally generated locations with Machine Enemies can now spawn Therasoids.
[Loot]Added an item drop list for Therasoids.
简体中文
##########Content################
【敌人】帖拉所伊朵现在可以作为敌人出现。（你无法直接把它们直接变成宠物。那样的话对于这些类似于我们国家象征的存在太简单了。 :P）
【奇幻之地旅行社】以【机械生物】为主题的过程生成的随机区域现在可能出现帖拉所伊朵。
【掉落物】为帖拉所伊朵加入了物品掉落列表。
20250317
English
##########System#################
Choices can now have a time limit. If a player makes no choice before the time runs out, it will return nil.
Added code support allows you to retry any dice rolls based on highly customizable conditions.
##########DEBUG#################
Fixed a bug that even when a character fails a dice check, they can still gain devotion when they have a faith tenet that allows them to gain devotion when successful in a dice roll.
简体中文
##########System#################
选项现在可以带有时间限制。如果在时间超过前玩家没有选择任何选项。那么会返回nil。
抛骰现在可以基于各种自定义条件允许重试。
##########DEBUG#################
修复了一个让某些有特定信仰信条允许他们在成功抛骰后获得虔诚的角色，在抛骰失败的情况下也获得虔诚的Bug。
20250318
English
##########Content################
[Special Attribution] A new special attribution that adds the retry chance for all dice rolls was added.
[Faith]New Faith Tenet: Virtu and Fortuna
[The Grand Library - Floor of Philosophy]Added a new dialog option for Machiavelli. It unlocks the "Virtu and Fortuna" tenet.
[Wiki]Updated the Faith Tenet page.
##########Debug################
Fixed a bug that sometimes causes dice-roll retry chance not to go down.
简体中文
##########Content################
【特殊属性】加入了一个新的特殊属性，会追加投骰重试的数量。
【信仰】新的信仰信条：Virtu与Fortuna
【大图书馆 - 哲学层】为马基雅维利追加了1个新的对话选项。会解锁信条【Virtu与Fortuna】
【维基】更新了信仰信条页面。
##########Debug################
修复了某些情况下重新投骰的机会数量不会下降的Bug。
20250319
English
##########Content################
[Dice-Roll]When you reroll a dice, the previous failure message will now be cleared.
[Prefix]New Prefix: Fatebinder's (The item that has this prefix will increase your dice-roll retry chances. It's a generic prefix. Thus, it may appear anywhere on any item.)
[Wiki]Updated the game wiki's prefix page.
简体中文
##########Content################
【投骰检定】当你决定重新投骰子时，此前的失败信息现在会被清除。
【词缀】新词缀：织命者的（有这个词缀的物品会提供你投骰的重试机会。这是一个通用词缀，所以可能出现在任何的物品上。）
【维基】更新了游戏维基的词缀页面。
20250320
English
##########Content################
[Item]New Food/Food Ingredient: Pyropia (I took a photo of a bag of dried pyropia at home and used it as its icon. :P)
[Shopping]Various Food Ingredient Vendors now sell Pyropia. (Prices vary depending on how close they are to the sea. For example, it's very cheap in Marinas.)
[Loot]Benboer and Baboer can now drop Pyropia.
[Item]New Food/Food Ingredient: Nori
[Cooking]You can heat Pyropia to make Nori.
[Cooking]New recipe: Pyropia Soup (Pyropia + Water with something that can heat food. If you use holy water, you will get the blessed version.)
[Wiki]Updated the cooking page.
简体中文
##########Content################
【物品】新食物/食材：紫菜（我对着家里的一袋干紫菜拍了一张照作为图标。:P）
【购物】各种食材商人现在会贩卖紫菜。（根据他们靠近海的距离会有价格变动。比如，在玛丽娜斯会很便宜。）
【掉落物】奔波尔和灞波尔现在可能掉落紫菜。
【物品】新食物/食材：海苔
【料理】你可以加热紫菜来获得海苔。
【料理】新食谱：紫菜汤 （紫菜+水，通过可以加热食物的料理器具制作。 如果你用圣水，会获得受祝福的版本。）
【维基】更新了料理页面。
20250321
English
##########Content################
[Cooking]New recipe: Pyropia Egg Soup (Pyropia + Egg + Water with something that can heat food. If you use holy water, you will get the blessed version.)
[Fishing]You may now get pyropia when fishing in the Marinas areas.
[Fishing]You may now get pyropia when fishing in the Qinuyi areas. (Including the underwater tunnels.)
[Wiki]Updated the cooking page.
简体中文
##########Content################
【料理】新食谱：紫菜蛋花汤 （紫菜+蛋+水，通过可以加热食物的料理器具制作。 如果你用圣水，会获得受祝福的版本。）
【钓鱼】你现在可能在玛丽娜斯附近钓鱼的时候获得紫菜。
【钓鱼】你现在可能在奇奴伊附近钓鱼的时候获得紫菜。（包括海底隧道区域。）
【维基】更新了料理页面。
Latest news from Ukraine/乌克兰小剧场
https://controlc.com/35bd819b
https://pastelink.net/zx45gsp8