[Neolithic]To the End News

20220911
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[Raisin]New food: Raisin. (Some good news came from the city of Izyum, Ukraine yesterday. And the city's name means raisin. :D)
[Raisin]The bar in Liu starts to sell raisins.
[Raisin]You can now also make raisins from grapes with any cooking device that has a "heat" component.
[Raisin]Information on Wiki has been updated accordingly.
[Abandoned Mine]Expanded the Abandoned Mine area a bit to the north. (Removed previous roadblocks in this cave.)
[Abandoned Mine]Added a smelter in the Abandoned Mine
[Abandoned Mine]Changed the supply boxes in the Abandoned Mine. They are less likely to be locked. They are more likely to have stones.
[Abandoned Mine]Decreased the chasing speed of skeleton miners on the map.
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【葡萄干】新的食物：葡萄干。（昨天乌克兰的伊久姆传来了好消息。而这座城市的名字是葡萄干的意思。:D）
【葡萄干】疁城的酒吧开始贩卖葡萄干。
【葡萄干】你现在也可以用任何一种具有【加热】功能的厨具，用葡萄制造葡萄干。
【葡萄干】维基上的信息已经进行了相应更新。
【废弃矿洞】向北略微扩展了被遗弃的矿洞。(去除了这个区域此前的路障）
【废弃矿洞】在废弃的矿洞中加入了一个熔炉。
【废弃矿洞】改变了废弃的矿洞中的补给箱的生成规则，上锁的概率降低，更可能找到石料矿。
【废弃矿洞】降低了洞中的骷髅矿工在地图上的追赶速度。

Also, here is a skeleton miner from yesterday. :)

The Sales will start in about 4 hours.

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New enemy/pet: Skeleton Miner
They have a few levels of mining skills.
They appear in the Abandoned Mine of Queensmouth
They have their own item drop list. (It contains pickaxes.)
Replaced the WIP board in the Abandoned Mine is a story-related warning board.
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Added a new system module to manage shared enemy group generate code.
Optimized the recipe generation code to make them easier to maintain.
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Fixed a bug that the Skeleton Cultists may sometimes not have cultists gears in their drop lists.
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新的敌人/宠物：骷髅矿工
它们自带一定等级的挖矿技能。
它们会出现在王后镇的废弃的矿洞内。
它们有自己的物品掉落清单。（包含十字镐。）
替换了被废弃的矿洞中的施工中的告示板，改为了一个和故事剧情有关的警告板。
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加入了一个新的系统模组来管理一些共用的敌方队伍生成代码。
优化了设计图生成代码，使它们更容易维护。
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修复了一个造成骷髅邪教徒的掉落清单里有时不会出现邪教徒装备的bug。

Hi, everyone. Welcome to another week's developer's diary.

The Queen of Britain passed just about 20 hours ago before this DD was written. Another important person in our time left us. It's always sad to see a great ruler loved by her people departing from this world. I sincerely hoped she was immortal. Unfortunately, that can only be my wishful thinking. During our journey, we lost and will lose many people in our life. They went offline and never came back. Their profile photos greyed out. Their projects stopped. All that they left behind was the memory. But, at this moment, maybe the memory is all that matters. Memory is what can immortalize them. Memory is what keeps them alive in our hearts. We write down the memory of people we love on paper, in books, record them in videos, embedding them in games. and even possible to create digital copies of them in VR and the metaverse. However, we know that those are just a fragment of who they were. The person who made us have those memories is gone. The seat is empty near a dinner table; the messages will never be replied to; the games will never be played together again, and their smiles can never be seen in life anymore. That's what it is like after losing someone. That's how fragile life is. And life is simply unfair, for when we are losing beloved leaders, good friends, and people we love and care about, some despicable tyrants and villains are still around unpunished. It's still a long way to fix this.

Anyway, here we are. At a moment when people all over the world are still mourning for a queen, it will be impolite to start a discount today. Although I may not properly dedicate the next 10 days to that like people in the UK, I shall still show my respect to her. The discount will be delayed for another 24 hours.
It will still last a week. After that, with a small delay to make necessary adjustments and get approval from Steam, the game price will increase permanently as planned after the ending of the main storyline in Queensmouth.

The coincidence between the events and the namesake may be considered dark humor of fate.

Now, let's talk about this week's updates.
This week are mostly getting more content in 3D printings and new items.
Previously, item generation, 3D printing/crafting, and loots are three different systems. They are separated and disconnected. With the introduction of crafting recipes, they are now joined in functions.
You can find crafting recipes for many different items with diverse functionalities.
From primal weapons like stone axes that can be easily crafted with stones and wood to more complex chemical explosives like gunpowder. Yes, the recipe for gunpowder. It requires all the major ingredients just like the gunpowders you can make in real-life. I just didn't tell you the exact percentage of how you need to mix them in the game to avoid you going BOOM if try that in real-life. It's a really bad idea. Trust me. :D
With the gunpowder in place, it's only natural to be able to craft ammo for different firearms next. Thus, you can also find recipes for them dropped by certain enemies.
There are also many other recipes related to the game stories. You can find recipes for plastic clothes and pants from the Boss characters in the basement of the 3D printing store where a miserable soul seeking perfection is still lingering.
You can also find how to craft the "apologize letters" (items that can drop enemy aggro) from the loots of defeated business people and their zombie versions. It's way too often in our society for many humble business people struggling to climb the pyramid of cooperation to apologize for things that are not even their faults.
Very big cotton swabs that were supposed to be used in COVID-19 tests can now be found in the quarantined neighborhood. They are so big that can be used as spears. Another dark meme for the ongoing endless tests in China under a stupid zero-COVID policy.
You may find all the recipes on the wiki: https://neolithia.fandom.com/wiki/3D_Printing


Meanwhile, bandits start to appear in the deserts of Egypt. But, as they are human, maybe you can find ways to reason with them.

That's for this week. Hopefully, we will have more joyful news next week.

Today's changelog:
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You can now intimidate the bandits in Egypt to make them run away from you without a fight. (Intimidation/Speech skill check.)
You can now pay some money to the bandits in Egypt to make them leave you alone.
Both of those actions may fail, and result in a battle.
Big Cotton Swabs can now be found in the supply boxes in the Committee Office of the Quarantined Neighborhood.
Slightly increased the number of the supply boxes that may spawn in the Committee Office of the Quarantined Neighborhood.
New 3D printing blueprints: Apologies Letter
Business people and zombies in business suits may drop this recipe.
Zombie dogs may now drop bones.
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Added script support to allow attaching a window that displays currently owned money when selecting a customized number to pay for something.
Adjusted the text-drawing area of the money window so that the number of money currently owned will be less likely to be scaled down.
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Fixed a bug that makes the Stone Axes recipe not generated correctly.
Fixed a bug that some certain ammo recipes are not generated correctly.

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New weapon: Big Cotton Swab (Can have prefixes. Can recycle for cotton. A meme weapon for all the COVID nucleic acid tests.)
The infected people in the Quarantined Neighborhood of Liu may now drop Big Cotton Swabs.
Changed the battle background of the Committee Office of the Quarantined Neighborhood.
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新武器：大型棉签（可以有各种前缀。可以回收获得棉花。这是一件关于核酸检测梗的武器。）
在疁城被隔离的小区的被感染者身上可能掉落这种棉签。
改变了被隔离的小区的居委会办公室的战斗背景。

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New item: Stone Axe (Can have prefixes)
New 3D Printing Blueprints: Stone Axe (The materials to make this item is relatively cheap and easy to get. Thus, it may be good for gambling for prefixes.)
The crazed survivors, the homeless, and the Queensmouth scavagers may now drop the recipe of stone axes.
Added one new playable male character variation.
New enemies in Egypt: Bandits. (They have guns.)
They may drop all ammo recipes.
You can collect their corpses and harvest their souls just like other human enemies in the game if you so wish.
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新的物品：石斧（可以带有词缀）
新的3D打印蓝图：石斧 （用于制造该物品的原料非常容易获取并且价格也相对便宜。因此，适合用于大量生产直到获得满意的词缀。）
发狂的幸存者、无家可归者、王后镇的拾荒者可能掉落石斧的设计图。
新增了一个新的可以使用的男性角色造型。
埃及区域加入新的敌人种类：强盗。（他们有枪）
他们可能掉落各种子弹的设计图。
如果你想要的话，可以收集他们的尸体，收割他们的灵魂，就像游戏中遇到的其他人类敌人一样。