Solace Crafting News

This patch pushes the most recent changes on the beta branch to the live default branch. Building "free" placement mode is definitely the biggest change, giving players the ability to move building pieces freely in 3 dimensions as well as rotate them freely on all 3 axis. During "free" placement mode buildings will not attempt collision checks so they can be positioned intersecting with one another to create asymmetrical designs.



Besides building "free" mode and a host of small bug fixes and improvements there have been a lot of upgrades to the way town buildings are handled. The town interface will now show all possible buildings even for a town that has just been started so you can read the descriptions and know what's what.



Town buildings can also be repositioned freely if you need to move something around a bit. And of course custom town buildings are back and better than ever.



Not all town NPCs can be summoned in this way yet, only from crafting and harvesting facilities, but with a new placeable item called a "summoning circle" you can position and aim where your NPCs will spawn letting you create your own buildings to fit into whatever kind of a town you're building. Currently non-custom town buildings are not editable, but I have plans to change that so that all town buildings will be customizable after being placed.

There are also now 9 color "presets" that can be saved and reused for creating matching armor sets.



All in all there ended up being a fair amount of smaller audio bug fixes, quality of life improvements, interface upgrades, etc.. Today I'm getting back into adding a "material" property to items so that we can have steel tools, embersteel weapons, silk robes, and so on.

As always, before you dive into any major patch, backing up your main world can never hurt! If there are any problems I will jump right on them. Thank you to everyone helping out with beta and to everyone joining us during early access! Lots more to come!

The condensed patch notes from v 0.5.5.6 until now are as follows:

Towns
- Added the ability to reposition town buildings
- Storehouses now store using a maximum per resource instead of a single total maximum amount
- Town building descriptions will now display even for already constructed buildings
- Town buildings now carry a rank instead of separating between MinerI, MinerII, etc.
- Added Summoning Circle for positioning where town NPC will be summoned
- Re-enabled summoning NPCs from crafting and harvesting facilities

Solaces
- Changed solace storage interface similar to town storage
- Solace travel locations now show distance and tier

Crafting
- Added 9 "preset" color slots to the crafting color picker
- Added RGB inputs for crafting color picker
- Added color picker to facility color/rename interface

Building
- Building upgrades UI will now auto-select "Deconstruct" initially
- Jump (default spacebar) can now be used to engage the selected building upgrade (default now Deconstruct)
- Deconstruct with the deconstruction tool will now refund resources the same as the building interface does
- Added building "free" placement mode

General
- Added "Passive monsters" and "Passive spiders" toggles to world combat settings
- Added /lightmultiplier setting to the console and world combat settings
- Changed the main UI to scale with the height of the screen using a default of 1200x900
- Lava will now deal 20% max health as damage per second instead of insta-kill

The latest patch notes from beta are as follows:

v 0.5.6.15 2019.10.21
- Fixed a harmless error originating from the building interface due to the solace storage upgrades
- Fixed a harmless error when swapping from free to locked building mode without a structure selected

v 0.5.6.14 2019.10.21
- Fixed a bug when upgrading older worlds causing town buildings to not interact until reloaded

You may need to restart Steam for the update to begin.

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This patch adds in 9 'color presets' to the crafting window allowing you to save and reuse colors for crafting armor. It also adds RGB value inputs to the interface similar to the storage chest and sign rename interfaces. I also added a color picker to that facility rename interface.



The presets have a mouse over tooltip that say "Click to use, Shift+click to set". These presets are saved per machine, not per player or world and so are shared across all characters and worlds.

I also finished some final touches to the swamp biome that had been pushed back repeatedly, fixed a couple audio problems, and added a new setting /lightmultiplier. The light multiplier will allow you to tweak the amount of light rewarded when defeating monsters and clearing encounters.

If all seems well I will push this patch live in the next day or two.

v 0.5.6.12 2019.10.18
- Fixed the crafting color interface changing position based on screen width

v 0.5.6.11 2019.10.18
- Added 9 "preset" color slots to crafting color picker
- Added RGB inputs for crafting color picker
- Added color picker to facility color/rename interface
- Added earth elementals to swamp biome
- Added "Passive monsters" and "Passive spiders" toggles to world combat settings
- Adjusted swamp ground texture
- Added /lightmultiplier setting to the console and world combat settings
- Fixed swamp flora spawning under water (still some mangroves/etc near the shore)
- Fixed instances of monster and animal noises not properly routing through the "effects" audio mixer group
- Fixed a harmless error when moving open bags
- Fixed non-summoning facility upgrades showing building requirements
- Fixed fonts (water font, etc) not refining resources lower than their tier
- Fixed solace interface location and biome not updating as intended
- Fixed "combat settings" not turning on when clicked while looking at basic settings

v 0.5.6.10 2019.10.17
- Fixed the solace interface not switching selections properly

You may need to restart Steam for the update to begin.

To opt into Beta you only need to go to your Steam Library, right-click on Solace Crafting, select Properties, click on the Beta tab, and opt-in to the beta. The beta is not available to 32-bit users.

Interested in supporting development of Solace Crafting? Please consider becoming a patron via Patreon!

This update primarily enlarges and improves the solace interface, removing some outdated solace upgrades.

After getting sick, a three day weekend, and a hurricane, this patch is coming out a bit late. I've got one more list of recommended improvements/bug fixes to burn through tomorrow before getting back to work on more crafting.

For a quick update on the Patreon monthly contracts status, both of the artists I am working with for September and October are just finishing moving locations and things have been a bit slow, but we have new building pieces being made, and should have a contract for our first piece of original music signed off shortly! Hopefully contracts from November on we will be able to seal and complete before each month ends.

Hope everyone is happy and healthy as we head into Fall!

v 0.5.6.9 2019.10.16
- Enlarged the solace interface and added more information, as well as separated it from the inventory interface
- Changed solace storage interface similar to town storage
- Solace travel locations now show distance and tier
- Fixed several "that is not yours" problems in single player
- Fixed some instanced of unintended animations

You may need to restart Steam for the update to begin.

To opt into Beta you only need to go to your Steam Library, right-click on Solace Crafting, select Properties, click on the Beta tab, and opt-in to the beta. The beta is not available to 32-bit users.

Interested in supporting development of Solace Crafting? Please consider becoming a patron via Patreon!

I had to take a sick day today, but there were a couple one-liner bugs causing problems I was able to patch up.

For players on the beta there was a few hours yesterday in between patches where town buildings may have gone "invisible" despite being still listed in the town interface. I'd like to try and add in tomorrow a previously requested feature that will also work as a remedy for any buildings that may have gone invisible, which is the ability to reposition town buildings.

Sorry for any beta players that have run into these issue the past couple days.

v 0.5.6.7 2019.10.09
- Fixed clicking Storehouse in the town interface throwing an error when no town is present
- Fixed town ranks unintentionally resetting to Outpost

v 0.5.6.6 2019.10.09
- Fixed Hunter, Miner, Logger, Quarrier, and Siphoner not showing up properly

You may need to restart Steam for the update to begin.

To opt into Beta you only need to go to your Steam Library, right-click on Solace Crafting, select Properties, click on the Beta tab, and opt-in to the beta. The beta is not available to 32-bit users.

Interested in supporting development of Solace Crafting? Please consider becoming a patron via Patreon!

Wrapping up the recent set of town upgrades, I consolidated a lot of data and variables into better packages and added a lot more size/detail to the town and building interfaces. You can now shift-click/ctrl-click/shift-ctrl-click resources slots in the storehouse to quick-move them back and forth between inventory and storage (it gives instructions now) and the maximum storage is now per resource instead of one total sum.

I also changed the "scale" of the screen a bit. It now treats a monitor with a minimum of 4:3 in mind using 1200x900 as a base to work off of, scaling the interface against the height. I don't have it in yet, but this will make it easy to add a scale setting to let players zoom in/out the interface to their liking. And it should work better on super wide monitors.

v 0.5.6.5 2019.10.08
- Storehouses now store using a max per resource instead of a single total max
- Increased the size of the town building interface and added more details
- Added more details to the main town interface for built and not-built town buildings
- Changed the main UI to scale with the height of the screen using a default of 1200x900
- Fixed storehouse upgrades not properly upgrading town population

You may need to restart Steam for the update to begin.

To opt into Beta you only need to go to your Steam Library, right-click on Solace Crafting, select Properties, click on the Beta tab, and opt-in to the beta. The beta is not available to 32-bit users.

Interested in supporting development of Solace Crafting? Please consider becoming a patron via Patreon!