Hotfix v0.7.5.1 & v0.7.5.2
Two things hotfixed:
- Fixed crashes related to sailing.
- Fixed crashes related to missing dialogue options.
- Fixed crashes related to sailing.
- Fixed crashes related to missing dialogue options.
Soulash 2 News
Soulash 2 v0.7.5 "Badgers & Weasels"
Greetings fellow gods,
My whole week was spent on a technical task, so the changelog will be short. I've decided to add multithreading to history simulation to animate what's happening during world generation, and eventually when more things will become interactable, also during playthrough.
I won't bore you with tech details, but here's a short video showcasing the caravan trading simulation added in this version.
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
Be aware that debug mode can slow down simulation significantly because of how much information is generated to monitor the settlements.
Eventually, when we reach v0.10, I plan to integrate the caravans into a random encounter system so we may be able to rob help them. Before that, I also planned to integrate the war/battles into the simulation display, so this was a crucial hurdle to go through that opened up many cool possibilities.
This was rather unplanned, but I'm glad I finished it. Next, I want to focus on a new magic skill and build smaller features around the upcoming v0.8 Settlement Management update planned for June.
Here's the full changelog:
[h3]Added[/h3]
- Display of caravan trading during history simulation when creating a world.
- New animals.
- 4 new special locations.
- 16 new resources.
[h3]Changed[/h3]
- Tweaked spawn rate of some natural resources.
- Party members enter fully rested into the region like the player character.
[h3]Fixed[/h3]
- Fixed Sunken Temple locations sometimes not spawning.
- Fixed an issue with Bone Dust production by Bone Sages.
- Fixed Consuming Slash ability.
- Added missing special locations conversation option to Ursan Hunters.
Have fun,
Artur
My whole week was spent on a technical task, so the changelog will be short. I've decided to add multithreading to history simulation to animate what's happening during world generation, and eventually when more things will become interactable, also during playthrough.
I won't bore you with tech details, but here's a short video showcasing the caravan trading simulation added in this version.
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
Be aware that debug mode can slow down simulation significantly because of how much information is generated to monitor the settlements.
Eventually, when we reach v0.10, I plan to integrate the caravans into a random encounter system so we may be able to rob help them. Before that, I also planned to integrate the war/battles into the simulation display, so this was a crucial hurdle to go through that opened up many cool possibilities.
This was rather unplanned, but I'm glad I finished it. Next, I want to focus on a new magic skill and build smaller features around the upcoming v0.8 Settlement Management update planned for June.
Here's the full changelog:
[h3]Added[/h3]
- Display of caravan trading during history simulation when creating a world.
- New animals.
- 4 new special locations.
- 16 new resources.
[h3]Changed[/h3]
- Tweaked spawn rate of some natural resources.
- Party members enter fully rested into the region like the player character.
[h3]Fixed[/h3]
- Fixed Sunken Temple locations sometimes not spawning.
- Fixed an issue with Bone Dust production by Bone Sages.
- Fixed Consuming Slash ability.
- Added missing special locations conversation option to Ursan Hunters.
Have fun,
Artur
Soulash 2 v0.7.4 "Ursans & Sea Travel"
Greetings fellow gods,
I've got two major additions for you this week!
First, a new civilization of humanoid bears from cold tundra regions - Ursans! These reindeer farmers are known for their berserker might.
And we've got the second most popular player request - sea travel. Special pirate locations can be discovered worldwide that allow passage over the ocean to any shore. Remember to stock up on food and water if you plan a longer voyage and bring some coins to pay the seafaring rascals.
These features will work only on new worlds as they are tied to the world generation.
Here's the full changelog:
[h3]Added[/h3]
- New civilization - Ursans (only new worlds).
- Added Sea Shores to region generation.
- New hidden special locations allowing sea travel (only new worlds).
- New fish types to catch in the sea.
- New resources in the Tundra region.
[h3]Changed[/h3]
- Bone Wraith Spearmaker has access to more spear recipes.
[h3]Fixed[/h3]
- Fixed crash related to AI chasing killed beings.
- Fixed crash related to AI attempting to attack killed beings.
- Fixed crash on taming a rabbit.
- When trading and it happens that there are no equipment slots to hold the purchased items, they are dropped under the player character.
- Fixed Fire Beetle's willpower.
- Fixed damage bonus from effects applying to abilities.
- Removed duplicated recipes in construction.
- Fixed lag related to AI not being able to fish.
[h3]Modding[/h3]
- Fixed crash in enemies datatable.
- Added an option for building maps to generate it close to the edge of the map.
[h3]v0.7.4.1 Hotfix[/h3]
- Crash on generating a region on the top edge of the map.
- Ursans take orders for items.
[h3]v0.7.4.2 Hotfix[/h3]
- Fixed rare crash during history simulation.
[h3]v0.7.4.3 Hotfix[/h3]
- Fixed crash on old worlds related to missing map file.
At this stage, I will begin working on the next major update related to managing our settlements, which is scheduled for June. Expect some improvements to the building system.
Check out TurnBasedThursdayFest, which starts today, to grab awesome turn-based games! Both Soulash and Soulash 2 participate with discounts as well.
Thank you all for the awesome support. We've recently reached 10,000 copies sold in the 4 months of Early Access, and it's been an absolutely incredible experience for me to be able to spend my full time working on the game of my dreams. It's all thanks to you, and I hope you're as excited as I am for what's yet to come!
Enjoy your bear hugs,
Artur
I've got two major additions for you this week!
First, a new civilization of humanoid bears from cold tundra regions - Ursans! These reindeer farmers are known for their berserker might.
And we've got the second most popular player request - sea travel. Special pirate locations can be discovered worldwide that allow passage over the ocean to any shore. Remember to stock up on food and water if you plan a longer voyage and bring some coins to pay the seafaring rascals.
These features will work only on new worlds as they are tied to the world generation.
Here's the full changelog:
[h3]Added[/h3]
- New civilization - Ursans (only new worlds).
- Added Sea Shores to region generation.
- New hidden special locations allowing sea travel (only new worlds).
- New fish types to catch in the sea.
- New resources in the Tundra region.
[h3]Changed[/h3]
- Bone Wraith Spearmaker has access to more spear recipes.
[h3]Fixed[/h3]
- Fixed crash related to AI chasing killed beings.
- Fixed crash related to AI attempting to attack killed beings.
- Fixed crash on taming a rabbit.
- When trading and it happens that there are no equipment slots to hold the purchased items, they are dropped under the player character.
- Fixed Fire Beetle's willpower.
- Fixed damage bonus from effects applying to abilities.
- Removed duplicated recipes in construction.
- Fixed lag related to AI not being able to fish.
[h3]Modding[/h3]
- Fixed crash in enemies datatable.
- Added an option for building maps to generate it close to the edge of the map.
[h3]v0.7.4.1 Hotfix[/h3]
- Crash on generating a region on the top edge of the map.
- Ursans take orders for items.
[h3]v0.7.4.2 Hotfix[/h3]
- Fixed rare crash during history simulation.
[h3]v0.7.4.3 Hotfix[/h3]
- Fixed crash on old worlds related to missing map file.
At this stage, I will begin working on the next major update related to managing our settlements, which is scheduled for June. Expect some improvements to the building system.
Check out TurnBasedThursdayFest, which starts today, to grab awesome turn-based games! Both Soulash and Soulash 2 participate with discounts as well.
Thank you all for the awesome support. We've recently reached 10,000 copies sold in the 4 months of Early Access, and it's been an absolutely incredible experience for me to be able to spend my full time working on the game of my dreams. It's all thanks to you, and I hope you're as excited as I am for what's yet to come!
Enjoy your bear hugs,
Artur
Soulash 2 v0.7.3 "Stability"
Greetings fellow gods,
This week, I worked hard to solve some technical issues I've been putting off forever: x64 architecture migration and UTF-8 character rendering.
The x64 migration solves our lack of memory to build bigger worlds and regions. It improves the game's stability and will unlock more z-levels to play around with, going up and down.
The UTF-8 support is limited to European and Russian alphabets for now, as these were the most commonly requested. This is a major step forward in creating a modding system for translations. However, it will take more time to do it properly - we still need at least a partial entity update to override only the text fields while keeping the mechanical properties unaffected.
There have been some additional major improvements to the generation, mainly dwarven and elven settlements, to make it easier to traverse and find specific buildings we need. The dwarven rooms will now be closer together and expand below the ground instead of to the nearby mountains.
And something that has been requested for some time now, we can filter known beings by skill name to find the desired trainers!
Here's the full changelog:
[h3]Added[/h3]
- Added support for searching by skill name in the Knowledge Beings tab, which will find all known beings with the searched skill above 10.
- Added support for European and Russian special characters rendering.
- Added auto rest action when performing a basic attack without stamina.
- A few new natural resources were added to the grasslands, forests, and mountains.
[h3]Changed[/h3]
- Updated the engine and game architecture to x64, fixing the out of memory issues related to big maps.
- Improved text sharpness.
- Improved road generation to make the world less cluttered.
- Changed dwarven settlement generation to generate rooms closer together and go deeper underground rather than spread over multiple hills on z-level 0.
- Dwarven and Elven settlements now generate multiple flights of stairs connecting z-levels.
- Z-level position of buildings is shown when asking for directions in settlements.
- Mushrooms changed to be gatherable to unlock as resouces found in the region.
- Gathering is now a forbidden action at human, dwarven and mushmen settlements.
- Removed the debug console window when starting the game.
- Added info to Bedroll and Pillow that they are used from backpack.
[h3]Fixed[/h3]
- Fixed rare crash on region map generation.
- Fixed crash related to Hunter's Stew and other foods, giving special bonuses.
- Fixed rare crash related to exiting regions.
- Fixed rare crash related to escaping AI characters.
- Fixed rare crash on character creation.
- Fixed human settlements falling into ruin during the early generation phase.
- Fixed bonus max potential from age being provided too soon for older races.
- Fixed skills from mods not unloading once the mods were disabled.
- Walls of rooms are no longer carved out in Dwarven settlements.
- Fixed missing corridors connecting some buildings in Dwarven settlements.
- Fixed elven Grey Watchers and War Dancers building name generation.
- Removed the "Tree Background" option from ask for direction conversation options in eleven settlements.
- Items with negative food value are no longer consumed automatically.
- Swapped the tooltip descriptions of Analyze Speed and Analyze Weakness.
[h3]Modding[/h3]
- Added producers list in datatable of resources.
- Crafting recipes can once again be assigned to races.
I hoped to introduce the new civilization today, but unfortunately, we had to postpone it due to technical difficulties (laptop broke down). We've also begun working on port special locations to allow for a way to pass the oceans, so hopefully, we'll be able to bring in both next week.
Thank you to everyone who helped test the beta branch of x64! Please swap back to the main one now, as I'll remove the beta branch in the next few days.
Have fun,
Artur
This week, I worked hard to solve some technical issues I've been putting off forever: x64 architecture migration and UTF-8 character rendering.
The x64 migration solves our lack of memory to build bigger worlds and regions. It improves the game's stability and will unlock more z-levels to play around with, going up and down.
The UTF-8 support is limited to European and Russian alphabets for now, as these were the most commonly requested. This is a major step forward in creating a modding system for translations. However, it will take more time to do it properly - we still need at least a partial entity update to override only the text fields while keeping the mechanical properties unaffected.
There have been some additional major improvements to the generation, mainly dwarven and elven settlements, to make it easier to traverse and find specific buildings we need. The dwarven rooms will now be closer together and expand below the ground instead of to the nearby mountains.
And something that has been requested for some time now, we can filter known beings by skill name to find the desired trainers!
Here's the full changelog:
[h3]Added[/h3]
- Added support for searching by skill name in the Knowledge Beings tab, which will find all known beings with the searched skill above 10.
- Added support for European and Russian special characters rendering.
- Added auto rest action when performing a basic attack without stamina.
- A few new natural resources were added to the grasslands, forests, and mountains.
[h3]Changed[/h3]
- Updated the engine and game architecture to x64, fixing the out of memory issues related to big maps.
- Improved text sharpness.
- Improved road generation to make the world less cluttered.
- Changed dwarven settlement generation to generate rooms closer together and go deeper underground rather than spread over multiple hills on z-level 0.
- Dwarven and Elven settlements now generate multiple flights of stairs connecting z-levels.
- Z-level position of buildings is shown when asking for directions in settlements.
- Mushrooms changed to be gatherable to unlock as resouces found in the region.
- Gathering is now a forbidden action at human, dwarven and mushmen settlements.
- Removed the debug console window when starting the game.
- Added info to Bedroll and Pillow that they are used from backpack.
[h3]Fixed[/h3]
- Fixed rare crash on region map generation.
- Fixed crash related to Hunter's Stew and other foods, giving special bonuses.
- Fixed rare crash related to exiting regions.
- Fixed rare crash related to escaping AI characters.
- Fixed rare crash on character creation.
- Fixed human settlements falling into ruin during the early generation phase.
- Fixed bonus max potential from age being provided too soon for older races.
- Fixed skills from mods not unloading once the mods were disabled.
- Walls of rooms are no longer carved out in Dwarven settlements.
- Fixed missing corridors connecting some buildings in Dwarven settlements.
- Fixed elven Grey Watchers and War Dancers building name generation.
- Removed the "Tree Background" option from ask for direction conversation options in eleven settlements.
- Items with negative food value are no longer consumed automatically.
- Swapped the tooltip descriptions of Analyze Speed and Analyze Weakness.
[h3]Modding[/h3]
- Added producers list in datatable of resources.
- Crafting recipes can once again be assigned to races.
I hoped to introduce the new civilization today, but unfortunately, we had to postpone it due to technical difficulties (laptop broke down). We've also begun working on port special locations to allow for a way to pass the oceans, so hopefully, we'll be able to bring in both next week.
Thank you to everyone who helped test the beta branch of x64! Please swap back to the main one now, as I'll remove the beta branch in the next few days.
Have fun,
Artur
Soulash 2 x64 beta testing
Greetings fellow gods,
I could use your help. There's a new temporary beta branch for the x64 version of the game that is planned for deployment on Thursday. If possible, please switch to it and check if there are no issues on your machine, as the underlying libraries have been updated.
The current x32 version will not be supported once the new version hits the default branch, as it can't handle the amount of RAM the game needs on large worlds, causing instability and save corruption.
To switch to the beta branch, right-click on the game on Steam, select Properties -> Betas -> Beta Participation, and select "beta_x64." The game will be updated automatically.
Current save files are compatible with the new version.
Thank you for your time,
Artur
I could use your help. There's a new temporary beta branch for the x64 version of the game that is planned for deployment on Thursday. If possible, please switch to it and check if there are no issues on your machine, as the underlying libraries have been updated.
The current x32 version will not be supported once the new version hits the default branch, as it can't handle the amount of RAM the game needs on large worlds, causing instability and save corruption.
To switch to the beta branch, right-click on the game on Steam, select Properties -> Betas -> Beta Participation, and select "beta_x64." The game will be updated automatically.
Current save files are compatible with the new version.
Thank you for your time,
Artur