Planet Centauri News

Sorry for the quality of the gif, something goes wrong but you got the idea!






Adds:
- 4 new companion orbs (craft)
- 3 unique companion crafted using the orbs dropped by bosses,
you can press R on them and pay with a relic (currency) to unlock their true potential
- 2 terrain transmutation grenades (craft)
- New configuration file type: ConversionTable (used for transmutation grenades)
- Basic new shader for blending and transparency: "colored"
- Afterglow dynamic configuration for bullets
- Added multiple lua APIs:
- Passive pets configuration
- Bullets configuration
- Color blending in render states (rendering)

Changes:
- Recycler 'add auto' options will not add equipment with runes

Fix:
- Monsters are not visible in the incubator
- Fixed lasers visual on death

Engine:
- Fixed crash if tamed monsters (ex: chicken) received exp and level up.
- Unique monsters don't loot the expected loot/currencies.
- Water blocks are not updated if a neighboring chunk is loaded.

Holy cow already 3 1/2 months seens the last patch! Sorry but it was a pretty hard one to made.

Changelog 0.13.8

Adds:
- Spawn override system for events (will be used to create invasions, special monsters,  give more controls about the spawn system and so more possibilities, unlock new npc etc...) 
- New event block: spawn_override
- Special NPCs with a shop system (fully moddable, in lua)
 - Soulgems seller (level 1, 2 and 3) in caves
 - Seals seller (level 1, 2 and 3) in caves
 - Bazar (in caves 1 and 2)
 - Mimic shop (in caves)
 - Mushroom collecter (level 1 and 2)
 - Seeds shop
 - Chlorio (in caves 1)
 - Monster mystery eggs
- New rare currency: reroll slots number
- New unique dangerous monsters (with auras and special bufs).
They rarely spawn in their associated biome.
You can loot the new currency on them randomly.
- New totems
 - Blessing Totem: pay with souls to bless the world.
 The type of world bless is indicated on top of the totem.
 - Curse Totem: when you touch it's aura, it will curse the world.
 Then you can pay with souls to get a powerful buf.
- New craft station: altar of blessing
- Trigger system on entities (with lua bindings)
- Global events entries (containing the same json code as event blocks)
- New lua bindings (used for the shop and the new totems)

Changes:
- Soulgems are fireproof (not destroyed by lava)
- Legendary items are fireproof
- Reworked seeds tables dropped from grass, some seeds are no longer dropped by grass
- In the console, set the cursor to the end of the line when using up/down

Fix:
- Healing preset crash the preview in custom magic creation
- Healing spell show continuous 0 damages
- Invalid items entries "crash" the game when clicked/thrown
- Standard skeleton don't have the right color (sand color instead of white) 

Documentation: http://centauri.onidev.fr/config/spawn.html http://centauri.onidev.fr/config/monster_def.html http://centauri.onidev.fr/events/event_spawn_override.html

Modding:
It's possible to create new shops in PlanetCentauri/assets/moddable/Monsters/Shops.

Our discord! http://discord.gg/planetcentauri

ps : new items will come soon!

Sorry for the lack of preview gif, video are too big to be transformed into gif so we can't upload them here. Check the links!

black hole : http://streamable.com/4s5uqa
Gravity : http://streamable.com/1pamun
Spell attack : http://streamable.com/25cp2l

Adds:
- Aura system: a circual AoE that can be assigned to any entity, can be modded with config files
- 14 totems (added in lua):
- Burning totem lv1 and lv2 with a small burning aura
- Poison totem lv1 with a small poison aura
- High gravity totem, with an aura that increase gravity for the player
- Pulsed totem, high recoil and blast damage
- Healing totem that heals monsters in the AoE
- Slow totem with an aura that inflict Slow
- Haste totem with an aura that inflict Haste
- Stop regen totem with an aura that disable healing
- Umbra totem that creates a zone of darkness (3 levels)
- Fire totem that uses fire magic
- Ice totem that uses ice magic
- Electric totem that uses lightning magic
- Shadow totem that uses shadow magic
- Light totem that uses light magic (3 levels)
Note: totems will spawn rarely on the world and can't be catched

Changes:
- When crafting, the cursor item is automatically sent to the bag if you craft a different object
- Incubator ergonomy: place the gem directly in the inventory if you click on the empty slot

Fix:
- Monsters are not visible in the incubator
- Fixed lasers visual on death

Engine:
- Implementation of a quadtree to optimize collisions and damages on entities
- Lua API for auras
- lua package system to import external lua scripts from the moddable folder

Hello! New class! We are currently working on integrating the aura mechanics which will be effect zones in which variables can be changed (being slowed down, not being able to jump, taking continuous fire damage etc...) they will open up several possibilities both for the monsters and for the player!

Changelog 0.13.6d

Adds:
- new class (silver) duelist with 4 skills:
 - counter attack
 - ultimate parry
 - intimidation
 - dash attack
- possibility to walk over 1 block height walls (can be disabled in options)
- advanced graphics option to change filtering for fractional zooms (like x1.5 zoom)
- new custom shader for fractional zoom with sharper pixels than bilinear, used by default
- press twice to dash can be disabled in game options
- option to destroy feeders even if a pet is associated

Fixed:
- multiplayer: soulgem initial velocity is broken, which makes soulgems to fly away if a client throw one
- multiplayer: using hoe on dirt is not sync
- NPCs craft stations: crafts don't work
- NPCs craft stations: after save & quit, NPCs are no longer associated with the station
- many monsters are invisible in previews

Class skill:
- Intimidation: Reduces the damage inflicted by the nearest opponent by 50% and increases physical damages on it.

- Counter Attack: If take damages within 1 sec, reflects the damage on the enemy and reduces damage taken by 50%

- Ultimate Parry: Nullifies 75% of an attack within 1.0 sec, and project the enemy. Remaining 25% are reduced by 0.4% of Max SP.


- Dash Attack: Inflicts damage to opponents when dashing. DMG dealt by this skill is increased by 2% of Max SP



That's all for today, thank you for your support and do not hesitate to talk with us on our discord!
http://discord.gg/planetcentauri

Hello! This patch took some time because we also started the integration of the gamepad (and it's not easy, and it will still take some time) and we are also working on a new class that will arrive soon with another patch!

Changelog 0.13.5

Adds
- A complete game tutorial with videos (F1), totally customisable/moddable
- New chicken feeder with possibility to use soulgems inside
- Hapiness, food and energy bar added to tamed chickens/cows
- NPC's stations interface has been completely redone

Changes
- Improved performances of the windows build by 60% (moved from 32 bits to 64 bits)
- Smith: chances to get a Red item increased from 0.38% to 1.57%
- Sacrifice souls are visible if the player don't have any buff/debuff icon
- Dead chickens/cows associated to a feeder will not be lost

Fix:
- NPC pathfinding
- NPC are not sync on multiplayer
- Smith: rarity factor increased from 1.5 to 1.9
- Guns and scepters are invisible
- Chicken and cow are associated to mangers multiple times
- Belts don't update correctly the cogs connections
- Runes malus is not visible on armors
- Some UI crashes
- Refactor of entities game code to remove some random crashes

Notes:
- In multiplayer, the tutorial will automatically close if you take damages
- The windows version is now in 64bits and is compiled with the Cygwin toolchain
(required for the theora dependancies)
- 32 bits builds will not be included until the final release of the game
- Added a global game event manager, used atm only to unlock tutorial entries
- Many parts of the engine have been refactored to cleanup/fix bugs/add new features

That's all for today, thank you for your support and do not hesitate to talk with us on our discord!
http://discord.gg/planetcentauri