Solace Crafting News

A variety of requests from the community, we now have sleeping in beds to "skip" the night, I've increased daylight hours from 6-18(6PM) to 6-20, and we can now farm in planters. Planters not only remove the need to terraform for soil tilling, but allow farming indoors as well as in caves. To go with this you can now gather spores from mushrooms to farm mushrooms for healing potions. I hope to upgrade all farming related systems to make use of tier based soil when we get to cooking which will be adding a variety of new resources.



The real prize that everyone is excited about though is of course magic underwear! This patch brings in the new temperature system along with Thread Underwear and it's upgrade Silkenthread Underwear for temperature mitigation. This system is definitely planned for further expansion via potions and enchants for example.



Silkenthread is a product of one of three new resources that can be gathered from special town encounters Scale Bug Nests, Hornet Nests, and Spider Nests. (No giant spiders guarding them (yet)).

UI scaling has also been added to the video settings for those extra giant screens. along with a number of fixes like cities pretending to be villages, and material selections not resetting properly.

I'm hoping to add our first original BGM track in today thanks to our October Patreon funding, and should be getting a big batch of new building pieces in soon as well from our September Patreon funding.

The condensed patch notes are as follows:

v 0.6.0.10 2019.11.20
- Added the ability to sleep in beds until just before sunrise, if night has already begun
- Changed daylight hours from 6-18 to 6-20
- Added planters for farming above and below ground
- Added the ability to harvest mushroom spores from mushrooms
- Facilities can now be rotated in 22.5 degree increments -while- snapping

- Added underwear for temperature mitigation
- Added temperature zones: Cold 1 (snow biome), Cold 2(floating island), Hot 1(upper lava caves), and Hot 2(lower lava caves)
- Added Emberstone to lava caves
- Added 3 town encounters: Spider Nest, Hornet Next, and Scale Bug Nest

- Enlarged the main interface
- Added a UI Scaling option to the in-game video settings
- Added /resetuiscale as a console command

- Upgraded the game engine to Unity 2018.4.12

The most recent patch notes from beta are as follows:

v 0.6.0.10 2019.11.20
- Fixed plants wilting while teleporting from underground to above ground
- Fixed a growing miscalculation when loading/revisiting farmables

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

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I've added a fade out and in effect for sleeping as well as finished upgrading plants and town harvesters so that they will properly calculate for the time that passes, along with a number of bug fixes.

I'm hoping to push this patch live as the recent few patches have fixed a number of minor but annoying problems currently on the live branch. As always for safety though as even small changes can end up causing unforeseen big problems, I will push this to beta first to make sure the universe doesn't explode.

v 0.6.0.9 2019.11.18
- Added a fade effect to sleeping
- Town harvesters will now calculate time skipped during sleeping
- Planters and tilled soil will now calculate time skipped during sleeping
- Removed the "Update" button from trashbins
- Changed plant too hot/too cold altitudes to match cold 1 altitude
- Fixed the obelisk upgrade UI listing the current rarity as higher than actual
- Fixed arcane spellbook and spellbook rotation and scaling issues
- Fixed fire essences dropping as common instead of uncommon
- Fixed a bug with plants not maturing in planters

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!

Beds now offer the ability to sleep in them at night. Night is considered 20 to 5:30, with the sunrise and sunset now being at 6 and 20 instead of 6 and 18. This is still a work in progress in that it just *blips* to the next morning, when preferrably it would do a minor fade out fade in sequence. It also will skip the time as far as farming and town harvesting is concerned instead of properly calculating how long you slept and figuring out what should have been done during that time, which I will add in the next patch.

This patch should also fix the recent problems with equipping watering cans.

v 0.6.0.8 2019.11.15
- Added the ability to sleep in beds until just before sunrise, if night has already begun (WIP)
- Added the ability to rotate and snap planters
- Changed daylight hours from 6-18 to 6-20
- Fixed rotating while snapping moving per frame instead of per button press
- Fixed a bug preventing equipping watering cans

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!

Fixed some small bugs with last nights patch. Some reports of watering can problems. If still present, I will check it out!

v 0.6.0.7 2019.11.15
- Fixed ground (terrain) aimed facilities not placing properly
- Fixed wall torches not always placing properly in caves
- Fixed a bug preventing swapping worlds without restarting
- Fixed the Steam manager replicating itself with each return to the start menu (benign)

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!

Planters are now available as an alternative to tilling soil for farming with the added benefit that they can be used underground making growing mushrooms and midnight's touch now possible. Planters cannot be used to grow trees, and cannot yet be rotated, but I will add rotation tomorrow. I'd also like that they require soil to make, but I'll be getting more in depth with farming shortly after the upcoming cooking upgrade so will get into that then.

I've been having a file compression error with one of the caves I've been testing things in. I am curious to see if anyone else runs into this when saving caves while trying out the new planters.

v 0.6.0.6 2019.11.14
- Added planters for farming above and below ground
- Added the ability to harvest mushroom spores from mushrooms
- Increased the strictness at which town encounter spawns check their biome from 50% to 80%
- Facilities can now be rotated in 22.5 degree increments -while- snapping
- Fixed spellbook rotation when held

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!