Dwelvers News

Dear Dwelvers community,

It is getting closer to the full release and the game is getting more and more stable for each day! This week I've been trying to prioritize the bugs focusing on those that affect the game play the most. But the biggest change to this version is the way materials are getting delivered to the production site. Now the workers tries to collect all the materials before going to the construction site, instead of taking smaller amounts at a time.

This makes a huge difference to the speed constructions can be built when they are farther away from the storage room.


All solved bugs have been moved to the sub forum "Solved bugs"

• Bug (18.10.0) - Bug (0.18.10.0) - Several workers deliver items to construction site. Better if one imp delivered all
• Bug (18.10.0) - Too many workers slacking off where there is so much work to do
• Bug (18.9.0) - Imps climbs up and down the Portal in a loop but do not enter the Surface
• Bug (18.9.0) - Cannons creating fear when firing messes with the Imps
• Bug (18.9.0) - Some enemies spawned from a Portal do not move any further
• Bug (18.10.0) - Enemies coming from waves can accumulate in the Maze
• Bug (18.10.0) - Ranged enemies can still hit my creatures behind open doors without retaliation from my creatures
• Bug (18.10.0) - You can own the Cyclotaur Maze by building a road inside it without defeating its hosts
• Can't add rock blocks in many cases.

Once again, thank you for all your support and hope you enjoy this new version :)

Sincerely,

Rasmus Ljunggren
(The only developer of Dwelvers)

Dear Dwelvers community,

Thank you all for the support you have been given me and helping me making Dwelvers as stable as it can be. As you all know my goal is to make a full release before the end of the year and the more bugs you can find until then the more I can solve.

So this week I have been focusing on fixing bugs :)

[h2]Bugs solved[/h2]
All solved bugs have been moved to the sub forum "Solved bugs"

• Bug (18.8.0) - Some maps may start with camera view placed outside the start location
• Is it just me or is mission 6 exceptionally difficult early on compared to the previous ones?
• Bug (0.18.7.0): Getting ahead of the tutorial in mission 1 can be a problem
• Bug (Beta 0.18.6.0): Mines cannot be built on fortified tiles, and tiles are automatically fortified even if there is a mine under construction on them.
• Bug or Feature? (Beta 0.18.7.0): Portals can't be entered if destroyed from above but not from below
• Bug (18.8.0) - Can select all types of different construction sites to remove at once
• Bug (18.8.0) - Selection of one type of construction site for removal allows selection of any other construction sites as well
• Bug (18.8.0): Incorrect grammar for building a Crafting Room text box
• Bug (0.18.8.0): Missing objective for building roads in Mission 3
• Bug (0.18.8.0): Two grammatical errors and visual bug during Mission 4 intro cutscene
• Bug (18.9.0) - Cannons creating fear when firing messes with the Imps
• Bug (18.8.0) - Cannot have two wall objects on the same tile

Once again, thank you for all your support and hope you enjoy this new version :)

Sincerely,

Rasmus Ljunggren
(The only developer of Dwelvers)

Dear Dwelvers community,

This week I've not been able to work as much as I normally would because one of my children has been sick. She is better now and I've taken the time I got to focus on creatures fight or flight behavior. There are many small things the creatures does that can affect the outcome of a battle, such as when they should be scared, what enemy they should prioritize, where they flee, and how fast they can return to battle.

By making improvements and tweaks to these behaviors the battle gets much more interesting and less frustrating. Read more about it below.

[h2]Improvements[/h2]

• Creatures will now flee towards their beds if possible
• Creature courage restored faster
• Creatures will now focus on one target even if being hit by many
• Creatures sleeps in their beds until fully healed
• Creatures now flees traps
• Creature attack prio changed
• Enemies starting in player prison will no longer wear equipments
• Ghost no longer flees

[h2]Bug fixes[/h2]

• Mission 4 now impossible on Impossible
• Enemies coming from waves will not try to find my dungeon again after destroying hostile objects in the vicinity
  

Thank you all for playing Dwelvers and coming with feedback, it is really helpful! And please don't forget to leave a review if you like the game ;)

Sincerely,

Rasmus Ljunggren
(The only developer of Dwelvers)

Dear Dwelvers community,

This week I've fixed something I think many of you have been longing for. There have been a lot of comments on the suicidal Imps out there and that some of you want to slap them! Well, I feel for you! I noticed that instead of actually fleeing from battle they seemed to enjoy running straight into them.

[h2]Improved Fleeing[/h2]
So I sat down and tried to figure out what was actually wrong here and came up with the following.

• Imps could actually be called for help into battle (which is a big bug).
  
• When imps are fleeing they try to go straight to the Dark Mother room (meaning they could run straight through enemies wanting to get there).
  
• If the enemy is close to the location they are fleeing they flee to other rooms (still could flee straight through the enemies).
  
• If there are task like digging or transporting wounded they didn't care if there was enemies nearby or in their path.
  

So the improvements I've made is the following

• Imps have their own pathfinding when doing jobs, this pathfinding avoid enemies and is also used by scared creatures in general)
  
• Imps will not do a job that is close to an enemy or where the path to the job is blocked by an enemy.
  
• If the imps starts to flee it will use a pathfinding algorithm that seeks the safest location to flee to and at the same time avoid as many enemies as possible getting there.
  

The fleeing pathfinding algorithm to find the safest place is prioritized in the following order

1. Find a location that are out of sight from all nearby enemies.
   
2. Find a location that are as far away from the enemy that is chasing you as possible.
   
3. Find a location that is as close to the nearest player owned room as possible.
   
4. If all these criteria's are meet, then stay there until you are not afraid anymore.
   

So hopefully you will enjoy these smarter imps and if you'd like you can comment on the their new behavior here.

But I also know that big changes like this always brings some unexpected behavior, so please report any abnormality you may find here at the forum.

[h2]Bugfixes[/h2]

• Bug (Beta 0.18.1.0): Creatures getting stuck on surface
• Bug (18.7.0) - The next wave shows the party that is coming next, but in reality it shows the party that appeared the last time
• Bug (Beta 0.18.7.0): Skipping mission intro reveals entire map
• Bug (Beta 0.18.7.0): Wave timer stops when all portals are destroyed, but it's not greyed out and shows the wrong message
• Bug (Beta 0.18.4.0): Creature pathfinding on surface doesn't work too well
• Bug (Beta 0.18.4.0): Enemy arrow animation is...weird
• Bug (Beta 0.18.4.0): Creatures can't reach rally flag on surface of portal #3 in mission 3
• Bug (Beta 0.18.6.0): Very difficult to get into one particular impanzee room on Mission 8
• Bug or Feature? (Beta 0.18.7.0): Can't build roads along edge of the map
• Is it just me or is mission 6 exceptionally difficult early on compared to the previous ones?
• 18.0.5 - Enemies coming from waves will not try to find my dungeon again after destroying hostile objects in the vicinity
• Bug/Feature (Beta 0.18.7.0): Not enough coal in Mission 1
• Bug (Beta 0.18.6.0): Incorrect grammar in Achievements

Thank you all once again for playing and helping me make Dwelvers better than ever before!

Sincerely,

Rasmus Ljunggren
(The only developer of Dwelvers)

Dear Dwelvers community,

Thank you once again for all your support with playtesting and coming with suggestions. I really love the discussions on the forums on how to complete the campaign at impossible. You are way better at playing Dwelvers than me :D

So another week another update, here we go!

I've mainly been focusing on balancing the waves and doing some tweaks with how the creatures battle each other. You can read more about it below!

• Creatures no longer stands on top of each other when fighting. - With the next version I've added a "force" separating creatures that stands to close to each other. This makes large groups of enemies easier to handle as they can not attack you all at once.
  
• Waves now come together - With the next version all enemies spawned from a portal will now slowly walk together towards the player. No longer will the dwarfs run first separating the group.
  
• Enemies will not drop as much equipment as before - in the next version I've added a random chance for the enemies to drop their equipment. I've learned that the crafting room looses it purpose if the player can get all the equipment from the enemies.
  
• Endless flow is now longer an option - I have removed the endless flow option and balanced the waves even more so that after wave 15 the waves will have a more logarithmic grow and not just get infinitely stronger.
  
• You can now skip mission cinematics - I added this option after request from a user.
  

• Mission 3 stuck building a bar room
• Mission 6 is too hard!
• Prisoners and ghosts all bunch up in one corner of their rooms
• Campaign - lvl 6 - Wave meter greyed out and said I needed to destroy more portals but subsequent waves spawned anyway
• Campaign - lvl 6 - No objectives after getting the gold from trade
• Issues with creatures entering portals in large quantities
• Imps don't enter the surface while creatures are rallied there

Thank you all for playing Dwelvers and please do a review if you like the game :)

Sincerely,

Rasmus Ljunggren
(The only developer of Dwelvers)