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Beta v 0.5.4.3

In preparation for more recipes and resources I have added 15 new equipment slots: jewelry (2 earrings, 1 necklace, and 2 rings), crafting clothes, and harvesting clothes.

Also a requested feature by several players, the player icon on the map now shows what direction you are facing. To coincide with this I've turned on keyboard turning while the map is open so you can realign yourself while the map is open.

I've also added a "defense rating" and "offense rating" to the adventuring stats window. These are rough estimates of what level monster you should be able to handle with your current equipment and stats. This does not take skills into consideration and automatically bases itself off of whatever you primary damage output is (melee/ranged/magic).

v 0.5.4.3 2019.08.16
- Added icons for the recently added crafting skills
- Added defense and offense ratings to adventuring stats
- Added the ability to turn with the keyboard (default Q & E) while the map is open
- Added harvesting clothes, crafting clothes, and jewelry equipment slots
- Added crafting professions stats window
- Changed the player icon on the map to display player direction
- Changed two-handed weapons to apply double the speed reduction from any applicable crafting skills
- Increased minimum armor of non-simple armor to 1
- Fixed enchanted building supplies not forcing the magical essence ingredient to tier 0
- Fixed a lot of new items printing their number instead of name when dropped/picked up
- Fixed the console command /help requiring a space after it
- Fixed crafting speed skills adding speed to equipment instead of reducing it
- Fixed recipe details showing all tool strength types
- Fixed repeatedly clicking on tools increasing their strength and speed

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!

Beta v 0.5.4.2

Sorry for the pause in development, but I'm back home after visiting my family overseas, and back on the job!

This patch brings in a number of fixes for terraforming, building snapping, and the new crafting skills.

v 0.5.4.2 2019.08.13
- Changed town building snapping to step 1m at a time instead of 3m horizontal and 1.5m vertical
- Changed all terraforming changes to be slightly lower than listed to keep buildings from sometimes spawning a millimeter beneath flat ground
- Fixed grass not updating after terraforming operations
- Fixed monsters ignoring terraforming changes when spawning in terraformed areas
- Fixed crafting skills not saving/loading properly
- Fixed right-clicking an edible item to eat it throwing a harmless error
- Fixed a spelling error

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!

Beta v 0.5.4.1

Lots of new weapons and shields in this patch along with some fixes to the recent town additions. I have not had the time the past couple days to create unique icons for each of these new items and the new skills, so this will be added to beta for now, where it will have to sit for a while as I am going to be out of town until the 10th.

This finalizes a few system though that now make it quite easy to add new equipment either known, as a drop, or unlockable via towns or skill trees. Both the stats for the new items, and the benefits of the new crafting skills will no doubt need some balancing over time, and definitely more crafting skills are still needed for all professions.

v 0.5.4.1 2019.07.29
- Added 34 new weapons/shields learnable via town crafters and crafting skill trees (stats/icons are a wip)
- Added 12 new crafting skills (stats/icons are a wip)
- Map markers will now clear per terrain prior to it loading forcing all yet present markers to refresh
- Fixed magical essence not making it's way into the storehouse
- Fixed Magic Siphon town building not automatically positioning itself
- Fixed Enchanter NPC displaying as Null
- Fixed Town and Terraforming buttons in the inventory working in multi-player (both are currently disabled in multi-player)
- Fixed Coal Mines, Limestone Quarries, and Magical Siphons not properly giving the option to deconstruct in the town interface

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!

Beta v 0.5.4.0



A new town resource and two new town buildings to handle it are in allowing crafting all the way up to enchanted construction supplies. This patch also fixes a bug that was stopping towns from upgrading past Hamlet status, cause Village, Town, and City buildings to never make it to the buildings list.

NPC are back on, and I've also added Enchanter I-IV, though it's just a placeholder building, and they don't teach anything yet.

v 0.5.4.0 2019.07.24
- Town NPCs are spawning again
- Added Enchanter I - IV (WIP)
- Added Enchanted Stone town resource to snow biome
- Added Magical Siphon and Siphoner town buildings for gathering Magical Essence from enchanted stones
- Halved drop rate of schematics from quality 0 (normal) monsters
- Fixed swapping between bow animations and default animations making the player enter a T-pose for one frame
- Fixed towns not upgrading beyond village

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!

Now live, v 0.5.3.7

Mostly small bug fixes and a number of upgrades to multi-player connecting, pushed now live from the beta branch. Beta update soon to follow. The condensed patch notes since the last live patch are as follows:

v 0.5.3.7 2019.07.23
- Added /targetframerate to console commands
- Turned off demon pathing
- Enabled multi-player in non-beta builds
- Multi-player saved games are now bound to client's Steam ID (if server requires it, default: yes)
- Login attempts using a character name already registered to a different Steam ID will report: "Kicked: Save name + Steam ID mismatch"
- Login attempts to servers using a different version than clients will report: "Kicked: Game version mismatch"
- Login attempts to a server requiring a Steam ID with a client not connected to Steam will report: "

Latest patch notes from beta are as follows:

v 0.5.3.7 2019.07.23
- Enabled multi-player in non-beta builds
- Fixed headless multi-player servers trying to save the local player
- Fixed a bug stopping connecting from the server list

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

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