Solace Crafting News

This patch is still largely focused on multiplayer though I didn't quite get to finish two major things that I'm working on, mostly the way that map and resource data are transferred to clients.

There are however quite a few bug fixes that have been added into beta since the last live patch. Despite the remaining problems with multi-player, I'm hoping to push this build live pending some more testing to be sure that there's nothing in particularly game breaking, such as the tailor's cap bug that came in with the last beta patch.

The repositioning of town buildings was not saving villager data properly, causing errors to be thrown in some cases. This also caused villagers to be re-rolled with each placement. This patch should fix that so the same villager returns in the case of repositioning and without any errors.

Farming was doubling vegetables in the case of sleeping in a bed while they grow, and they were returning T0 regardless of where/what was planted. The current system, though we will be going through some changes in the near future with farming as a whole, will reduce a seeds tier to match the tier of where it's being planted if the tier of the soil/planter is lower.

v 0.6.1.7 2019.11.30
- Fixed a multiplayer tower bug
- Fixed planted vegetables and herbs multiplying while you sleep
- Fixed planted vegetable harvests not award the proper tier
- Fixed repositioning buildings throwing errors
- Fixed players that had learned the "Tailor's cap" recipe being unable to craft since (temporary) removal of the recipe

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!

Recently I patched into the beta our first original piece of music, made by the duo known as Pixel Noise. You can take a listen to it and read a bit about what they had to say about the track and their vision for future works in regards to Solace Crafting on our Patreon page:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/31916443

There are also a variety of new buildings pieces in the works and hopefully much more to come!

There was a problem causing the official dedicated server to not save the world files properly resulting in a world wipe with each restart, though client (player) data was saving properly. I have fixed this so buildings and solaces should save and reload properly, though last night's shenanigans were not saved and have been wiped once more unfortunately.

The day is still young, I just wanted to push this up as soon as possible to be sure any further changes will be saved properly. I will add to this post if I am able to put out further patches for today as expected.

edit: Added 0.6.1.4
edit: Added 0.6.1.5

v 0.6.1.3 2019.11.25
- Fixed dedicated servers having problems saving non-client (world) data
- Fixed a chat bug
- Fixed the server object showing it's name near the start

v 0.6.1.4 2019.11.25
- Fixed resource scanner range upgrades asking for rare essences
- Fixed facility upgrade rarity borders not showing up properly
- Fixed some facility upgrade item names clumping up
- Fixed multiplayer animations
- Fixed mutliplayer audio
- Fixed multiplayer recall
- Fixed non-dedicated multiplayer hosts not being able to save nor save & quit

v 0.6.1.5 2019.11.25
- Fixed mutliplayer hunger and thirst
- Fixed multiplayer audio being universal
- Fixed auto-harvest throwing a warning
- Fixed the landing (after jump) animation throwing an error on multiplayer

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!

With the recent update of some of the networking tools I use there was a couple of new bugs making multiplayer unplayable. I fixed a number of them and improved a couple other problems with multiplayer and am going to take a look at some more of the reported problems over the next few days to try and get multiplayer to a more stable situation.

The official server is currently running beta, and will kick non-beta users. I'm looking to setup a beta specific server branch as well.

v 0.6.1.2 2019.11.24
- Fixed multiplayer chat
- Fixed multiplayer invisible mobs
- Fixed dungeon doors

v 0.6.1.1 2019.11.23
- Added the ability to spawn town buildings across the network when hosting a saved game (MP towns are a wip)
- Added who gathers what to town encounter mouseover descriptions
- Improved multi-player facility/interactable interactions
- Fixed client-side network objects not positioning themselves properly
- Fixed a few smaller multiplayer bugs/warning
- Fixed the stone club tutorial not updating with all possible "withdraw" options

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.

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

This patch includes our first original background music track thanks to the two very friendly guys known as Pixel Noise, who found me back when I was just getting started. I want to write more about it and them on Patreon tomorrow, but wanted to first get the track in-game so that beta testers can give it a listen in-game before we share it online.

I'd like to over time have different music for each biome, but for now we've only go this one track, so it will simply start playing within 4-8 minutes of in-game play, and repeat every 8-16 minutes after that, as long as you're above ground and it's daytime. Those numbers might need some adjusting, but we'll see.

I've also added in some background noise for cave spelunking. I think it's a bit too loud, but I exported before turning it down further. I will probably half the volume of it tomorrow, but we'll see what people think.

v 0.6.1.0 2019.11.20
- Added background music that will start playing randomly when above ground during the day
- Added cave ambiance

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!