Solace Crafting News

Had a small bug with a big impact last night. Unfortunately it was not a problem in the Unity editor, only after exporting the executable, so I completely missed it trying to get yesterdays announcement out in like 20 different languages! It was a quick fix though as soon as I woke up and saw people yelling at me =D Which is always much appreciated, no joke. Player reported bugs are my most precious commodity.

v 1.0.4.2 2023.07.02
- Fixed a post-export only bug causing skills to not load

You may need to restart Steam for the update to begin, or you can verify file integrity to trigger it.

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Now supporting 30(31) languages!

(Please note that for non-English news posts, this has been translated with Google Translate and may contain grammatical errors)

Steam itself does not actually support 31 languages, so I cannot mark the game as available for all of the languages that have been added, but the complete list of supported languages is as follows:

Afrikaans
Arabic
Bulgarian (under repair)
Catalan
Czech
Danish
German
Greek
English
Spanish
Finnish
French
Hebrew
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Dutch
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese (Brazil)
Portuguese (Portugal)
Romanian
Russian
Serbian
Swedish
Turkish
Ukrainian
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese

As the initial translations are made using machine translation there may be some words or phrases that can be improved in any particular language. Because of this, the language files are stored separately from the base game files in a folder called LanguageFiles, and can be editted directly. Soon I will setup a public git repository, allowing players to submit corrections to help improve the localizations for others. We also ran into a problem with the Bulgarian files, but will have them up shortly. We've also added a new function that will automatically switch to the language that a new players OS is using when they are opening the game for the first time, but that didn't quite make it into this patch and likewise will be added in soon.

If there is anything missing from the translations please let me know and I will make sure they get added into the system.

Happy Gaming!

Condensed patch notes:

v 1.0.3.1 -> 1.0.4.1 2023.07.01
- Vastly improved and expanded multi-lingual support
- Made player fired arrow graphical components a bit slower and a bit larger
- Improved the targeting reticle shader
- Added over 30 new monster abilities including visual and audio effects
- Upgraded target projector
- Monster abilities can now show an indicating projector
- Added or improved the audio and graphical effects of around 60 spells and abilities
- Fixed a multi-player storehouse bug where special resources wouldn't show up
- Fixed camera collision on cave entrances
- Fixed an issue with buildings and facilities in dungeons
- Fixed a problem where tombstones and buildings might not save properly in dungeons upon death or leaving
- Fixed lighting not updating correctly when entering a world encounter as an mp host
- Fixed lighting and sky breaking when leaving world encounter as an mp host
- Fixed an item dupe glitch
- Fixed a projector layering issue
- Fixed a couple multi-player invisible equipment bugs
- Fixed an issue with armor sometimes being invisible to others in mp
- Fixed the harvesting tools of others being invisible in mp
- Fixed resources not despawning after being harvested
- Fixed a new resource respawn check method happening too often causing performance problems and crashes
- Fixed scroll bars and text input problem in the start menus, character, and world creation
- Fixed monster tier trying to calculate itself prior to level causing loot to drop as tier 0
- Fixed a bug with monster damage over time abilities
- Fixed a bug that could lock player movement
- Fixed a bug for persisting effects
- Fixed a harmless multiplayer specific error
- Fixed resources respawning inside of buildings
- Fixed an error with shrines
- Fixed an error with ward skills
- Fixed loot disappearing with the clearing and removal of small encounters

You may need to restart Steam for the update to begin, or you can verify file integrity to trigger it.

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There are just a few last minute things we're still tweaking with this build but the sale is upon us! So I'm going to push things as they are to beta, probably for less than 24 hours, and will push this branch to the live default build tomorrow to make room on beta for the full controller support branch that is also nearing completion.

I've never added the languages supported by Solace Crafting to the Steam page, because they only really supported each language 50-60%. We're now more like 95% and finishing up the last little bits, so tomorrow I will make a post in each language and turn on the tags in Steam. Not overly exciting if you're primarily an English speaker, but there are a LOT of gamers around the world that don't speak English. Once everything is in and working well, I will setup a public git repository specifically for the purpose of allowing community members the ability to improve translations in languages they are familiar with.

Real quick regarding myself and the lack of updates recently, I've had a lot of issues in and around my family that more or less prompted me to take some time off, and I made my annual visit to see my friends and family in the USA earlier than usual this year. Now, families members are all on the mend, the scary stuff is behind us, and I am back in the driver seat trying to properly piece together the work that Caj and Newbery have continued working on throughout my absence.

More soon!

v 1.0.4.0 2023.06.30
- Vastly improved and expanded multi-lingual support
- Fixed a multi-player storehouse bug where special resources wouldn't show up
- Fixed camera collision on cave entrances
- Fixed an issue with buldings and facilities in dungeons.
- Fixed a problem where tombstones and buildings might not save properly in dungeons upon death or leaving
- Fixed lighting not updating correctly when entering a world encounter as an mp host
- Fixed lighting and sky breaking when leaving world encounter as an mp host
- Fixed an item dupe glitch
- Fixed a projector layering issue
- Fixed a couple multi-player invisible equipment bugs
- Fixed an issue with armor sometimes being invisible to others in mp
- Fixed the harvesting tools of others being invisible in mp

You may need to restart Steam for the update to begin, or you can verify file integrity to trigger it.

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.

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My apologies for the gap in Steam news posts!
April was a mad house for me including hospital visits, house problems, pet problems, and my family visiting from the US for the first time in 8 years! But my personal life aside, work carries on, and we've got quite a few things not only on the current beta branch, but more behind the scenes eager to move onto the beta branch once we can push these changes live.

The main feature of the recent several patches is the introduction of 30 new monster abilities, most including new audio and visual effects to go with them. This and the recent reworking of the majority of player abilities as well has introduced a few combat bugs that I am still trying to ensure get squashed before all of these changes are pushed live.

Once we are done with this branch, I will be introduce the first wave of full controller support, and we are also working on improved multi-lingual support as well.

v 1.0.3.7 2023.05.10
- Fixed resources not despawning after being harvested

v 1.0.3.6 2023.05.02
- Improved the targeting reticle shader
- Fixed a new resource respawn check method happening too often causing performance problems and crashes
- Fixed scroll bars and text input problem in the start menus, character, and world creation
- Fixed monster tier trying to calculate itself prior to level causing loot to drop as tier 0

v 1.0.3.5 2023.04.28
- Added over 30 new monster abilities including visual and audio effects
- Upgraded target projector
- Monster abilities can now show an indicating projector
- Fixed a bug with monster damage over time abilities
- Fixed a bug that could lock player movement
- Fixed a bug for persisting effects
- Fixed a harmless multiplayer specific error
- Fixed resources respawning inside of buildings

v 1.0.3.3 2023.03.28
- Fixed the UMA database having been inexplicably wiped
- Fixed an NRE related to new controller support assets in the start menus

You may need to restart Steam for the update to begin, or you can verify file integrity to trigger it.

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.

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Lot's of new spell and ability animations and sounds have been the main focus of this patch. I have had a crazy week, and apologize for not posting a bunch of fun pictures to go with this. Had some hospital visits and emergency house reform and all kinds of stuff, kind of back to normal on a sunny Tuesday now though.

Once these changes have been tested out more thoroughly I will push the changes live with some screenshots and more information.

For the record, full controller support is coming along nicely.

Happy Spring, and happy gaming!

v 1.0.3.2 2023.03.26
- Added or improved the audio and graphical effects of around 60 spells and abilities
- Fixed an error with shrines
- Fixed an error with ward skills
- Fixed loot disappearing with the clearing and removal of small encounters

v 1.0.3.1 2023.03.08
- Fixed stuttery movement for ranged monsters / improved it for melee
- Refactoring Monster AI
- Fix for ability hotkeys not working

You may need to restart Steam for the update to begin, or you can verify file integrity to trigger it.

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.

Join us in Discord!

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

Check out the bug / suggestion tracker