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Re: Craftable fishing nets and more
And I know its a long shot but any chance larger stationary fish traps could be included? Liistekatiska, a large wish trap made with thin strips of wood in shallow water forming a shape that lures in fish, was quite common fish trap historically in the region. It's not a long shot, actually. I've been planning to take up on that right after the net code is finished. If we are lucky they'll be included in the same release. We featured making slats (liiste) in 3.80 so more proper use for them is to follow. June 22, 2023, 07:37:27 PM |
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Re: [3.81] "Your spear strikes hard to his eye!" when standing behind target
... if you strike opponents face or eye from behind, I'd say it is safe to say that the "opponent sighs, and then lays dead".
August 11, 2023, 08:30:00 PM |
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Version 3.82 released
We're happy to announce a new version release. Version 3.82 is now released on Steam, Itch.Io and for lifetimers. This version brings you a whole new fishing method, bunch of fish life improvements and a basket of crucial bugfixes. Find the changelog below. Version 3.82 changelog ** Saved characters from version 3.80-> are compatible with this version. ** - added: retrievable broken off arrowheads Occasionally arrows do break upon hitting a target, and now the arrowheads can be also occasionally, but not always, retrieved and re-used. Only the arrows of decent or higher quality will loose the arrowheads in retrievable condition and the arrowhead itself almost always suffers from the quality degrade. If the arrow breaks from hitting a non-living target you will find the arrowhead on the ground together with the broken arrow item. If the arrow breaks upon hitting a living target the broken arrow part will drop on the ground and the arrowhead gets stuck into target's body. These stuck arrowheads are not visible to the player character when looking at NPCs/creatures, but can be found and retrieved only from the target's dead carcass. - added: lippo fishing, a new fishing method[/b] Lippo is a kind of a dip net with a long pole used for catching fish from rivers and shallow waters. Lippo fishing is foremostly practised only at certain times of the year; when the fish to be caught are migrating upstream to their spawning locations, and during the active spawning period. Fishing with a lippo in the rivers and rapids is done by standing on rocks in the river. The location is often suitable when there are several rocks around as these are the usual places where both resting and spawning river fish are around and can be caught. Additionally, a lippo can also be used from the shore if the spawning fish are noticed by the shoreline. The lippo is lowered into the water, down to the bottom, and carefully dragged around in order to catch resting or spawning fish into its hoop. Start using your lippo either by [a]pplying the lippo from the inventory or using the FISHING skill. - added: LIPPO encyclopedia (F1) entry - added: craftable lippo You can craft a lippo from [M]ake menu under [F]ishing category. A lippo is constructed in such a way that it has a wooden hoop into which multiple small birch saplings are tied to. These saplings are tied together at their open ends, so that they form a net like construction around the hoop. The hoop with this net is then fixed to a long wooden pole. The applicable character skill for crafting a lippo is NETMAKING. - added: spawning periods for the relevant fish species The following fish now have their unique spawning periods; pike, bream, salmon and lavaret. During the spawning period the fish gather up at their species specific spawning locations. This can be then taken advantage of by spearfishing or using newly featured lippo fishing. - added: splashing and water ripples from the fish activity As the fish spawn in shallow waters they do splash in noticeable way, and there are now splashing sounds to be heard and round water ripples to be seen indicating the fish activity. These are essential cues in order to find the actual fish spawning locations. There's splashing audio to be heard but you are also notified with a game message. For example "You hear a splash from the east." or "You notice a lavaret splashing in the water." And then there are modestly animated water ripples, a new visual effect that can be noticed in the water where the fish activity has taken place. - added: encyclopedia (F1) entries for PIKE, BREAM, SALMON and LAVARET You'll find information for example about their spawning periods and habitats, and the related fishing means. - improved: spearfishing It still remains possible to catch lone roaming fish with luck and patience, but now the spearfishing can be considered most effective for catching the spawning fish. Upon spearfishing you will be now notified about the ongoing fish spawning periods. The messages will tell if the chosen location might be good considering the spawning fish, or if the spawning might be going on elsewhere. These are hints to consider in order to find a good spot, but you are naturally free to try out your spearfishing luck also regardless of the spawning periods and locations. There are also some changes in the spearfishing messages thorough the process. - changed: rain visual effect slightly softened with randomized alpha blending - added: ROUNDSHIELD encyclopedia (F1) entry - updated: FISHING ROD encyclopedia (F1) entry with a bit of baiting information - fixed: not being able to use withes as tying equipment when crafting skis - fixed: encyclopedia tooltips in the inventory not displayed for items with additional item part descriptions Tooltips were missing for items such as "Hunting bow with no string" or "Fishing rod with iron hook". Now the base items (ie. "Hunting bow" and "Fishing rod") are properly parsed in these cases too and the tooltips displayed accordingly. - fixed: Old Man's Punt quest dialogue confusions The quest progression dialogue had gotten tangled with blacksmith related dialogue. - fixed: NPC archers could shoot arrows from beyond player character's visible range - fixed: NPC archers could use and shoot back the arrows that had originally hit them - fixed: blacksmith product price estimation oddities Quest rewards were discounted from the final blacksmith product prices, but the blacksmiths didn't bring this up in their dialogue which caused confusion and wrong estimations. This was most notable when quest reward would compensate for the whole price and resulted in blacksmith trade preference being blanked (ie. "..give me your .") Now blacksmiths will speak about how much the possible reward compensates, and give items truly for free with applicable rewards. Blacksmiths might also have given wrong price estimation for batch of product because of not calculating the number of finished items properly. - fixed: blacksmiths failing to produce ordered items Blacksmiths often failed to produce ordered items because of carrying too much load. This prevented the ordered items to be added in their inventory. Blacksmiths kept building up the excess load because the items they got as a payment weren't never removed and restocked from their inventory. Now blacksmiths will restock their inventory before attempting to carry the finished ordered item. - fixed: usage of TEXTILECRAFT from the skills window or via hotkey not working for migrated characters - fixed: TEXTILECRAFT skill not improving for migrated characters - fixed: Chat command causing fade to black after being forcefully woken up by an NPC Cheers! October 09, 2023, 07:45:11 PM |
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Hafting additions completed with shovels
The work with upcoming hafting features is completed now. In addition to spear and axe hafting we added hafting and wear out mechanics also for the shovels. This means shovel hafts will also wear out over time and will eventually break. And yes indeed, when the shovel haft breaks the remaining shovel blade can be then hafted again to assemble a new working shovel. Wooden shovels are an exception, as they are made out of single piece of wood and do not feature a separate haft. Wooden shovels will wear out too, but when they break they are of no use anymore - other than maybe used as a firewood. Now we'll move into some bugfixing and adding random lesser features and then start to wrap things up for a release. Version 3.83 will be released this month. Stay tuned. February 05, 2024, 05:29:40 PM |
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Version 3.83 beta for Windows released
The work with new version, 3.83, is soon finished and we hereby ease the anticipation with an early beta release for Windows. Thus, version 3.83 beta for Windows is now available on Steam, Itch.Io and for lifetimers. Once the Windows version stability is confirmed, wrapping things up for Linux and OS X will follow and we aim to have have 3.83 stable version released this month. The most notable additions in version 3.83 are weapon/tool hafting and the haft wear out mechanics, and pausable arrowmaking and tanning. Here's the changelog: Version 3.83 (beta) changelog ** Saved characters from version 3.80-> are compatible with this version. ** BETA NOTICE: This is a beta release. There are likely bugs, things are still somewhat under construction, and some of the listed improvements will be tweaked and polished further in patches to follow. - added: hafting spears, axes and shovels - and their separate heads and hafts Axe and spear items now consist of two parts; the heads and hafts. Shovel item now also consists of two parts; the iron blade and haft. Wooden shovel is an exception as it's made out of single piece of wood. Haft refers to the wooden handle or shaft, which can break over time or upon damage. When the haft breaks the separate head remains, and can be hafted again. Hafting is a process of attaching axe or spear head, or shovel blade to a new haft, making it a complete working weapon or tool. For hafting, there are now new craftable "axe haft", "spear haft" and "shovel haft" items. In reality the haft shape and proportions do vary depending on the axe or spear type, but in order not to make things overly complex the two generic spear and axes hafts work for all the different types of spears and axes. The different axe and spear heads now also exist as separate items. For the axes there are handaxe head, carving axe head, broad axe head, woodsman's axe head and so on. And for the spears there are kaumolais spear head, northern spear head, and so on. Blacksmiths still sell these weapons readily hafted so the heads aren't commonly found on their own. When the haft breaks the head and broken haft do drop on the ground, along with pause prompted game message. You can then carve a new haft and haft the head to assemble a working weapon or shovel again. The broken hafts are of no use and are best utilized as firewood. Crafting hafts and the process of hafting can be found from [M]ake menu under a new [H]afting category. The following self-explanatory options are available there: * Axe haft * Spear haft * Shovel haft * Haft a weapon or tool * Remove the haft The first three options are used to craft a new haft, followed by the actual hafting option to assemble a working weapon or shovel. You may also remove the haft at will for example to replace worn out haft early on. However, removing the haft may damage it a little bit so it's not recommended to do unless necessary. Both crafting the haft and hafting task itself require CARPENTRY skills. The haft quality and success in hafting has significant impact on the finished weapon or tool usability. Poor hafting may result in lowering the item quality even below the head quality itself. Thus the finished axe, spear or shovel quality now refers to overall usability with the used haft, and the success in hafting. On the other hand, you may also manage to raise the finished weapon quality higher than the head quality itself with a perfect and perfectly fitted haft. There are new game encyclopedia (F1) entries for the relevant topics: AXE HEAD, AHE HAFT, SPEAR HEAD, SPEAR HAFT, SHOVEL BLADE and SHOVEL HAFT - added: hafts wearing out in use Hafts of the axes, spears and shovels now wear out in use, and will eventually break. Axe hafts wear out in all the regular woodworking and timbercraft tasks where they are used. Shovel hafts and wooden shovels wear out in digging pits and preparing the soil. Spear hafts mostly wear out in combat. In all the cases the wear is relative to the task the weapon or tool is used for. Thrusting a spear into a large moving animal such as elk or bear may put the haft under serious strain. Likewise, felling big timber is more strenuous for the axe haft than doing casual carving. The haft wear out level can be noticed in character's inventory with the progressing wear bar. Hafts are in the risk of breaking apart when they've worn to about 80% of the original condition. Accumulating haft damage can also lead to decrease in the axe or spear overall quality. - modding add: new crafting requirement entries {Hammering tool} This defines requirement for a tool that is used to hammer things in place. It's used in hafting an axe. The butt of an axe is commonly used as a hammering tool, but clubs, pieces of firewood or stones can be also used as a substitute. {Axe or carving knife} This defines requirement for a tool used in rough woodworking and carving. It's used in crafting hafts to carve out their rough shape from a slender tree trunk. Axe is the preferred tool here and always the best option, but usage of knives is allowed as a substitute - even though they make the task significantly slower. The common woodworking axes such as handaxe, carving axe, and woodman's axe are the most suitable ones. If a knife is used the sturdy ones such as skramasaksi, northern knife, kaumolais knife or hunting knife work the best. Both of these entries can be utilized in diy_*.txt and biy_*.txt modding at will. - modding add: [nowear] and [wearpct:num] tags to specify haft wear out accumulation rate Axe, spear and shovel hafts wear out also when they are used as tools in crafting or building tasks. There are these two new tags to customize the wear accumulation rate as the intensity of tool usage varies depending on the task. [nowear] tag means that the used tool doesn't wear out at all. [wearpct:num] specifies custom wear out percentage rate (1-100) in relation to the highest rate (100) where tool is used intensely during the whole task. Examples: {Axe} <Carving axe> [nowear] Here an axe is needed, preferably a carving axe, and it doesn't wear out at all in the said crafting/building task. {Cutting_weapon} <Axe> [wearpct:25] Here a cutting weapon, preferably an axe, is needed. It wears out in 25% rate compared to the continuous intense axe work. Maybe the axe is needed only 25% of the time in this crafting/building task. - removed: hard staff and throwing axe These two weapons have been removed for being somewhat anachronistic and not that important. - added: pausable tanning Tanning is now pausable task allowing you to have breaks and continue at will later on. To continue paused tanning simply use the tanning option again standing beside the partially finished item. This applies only to the last and most laborous stage of the tanning process which is softening the hide with a beater. The preceeding, faster processes of cleaning the skin need to be done in one go. Partially tanned hides will remain on the ground and can be picked up only after they are finished. They are rendered with a different tint and described as "partially crafted", "half-crafted", "largely crafted" etc. when looking at them. - added: pausable arrowmaking and arrow shaft crafting Making arrows and arrow shafts is now pausable task allowing you to have breaks and continue at will later on. To continue paused arrowmaking simply use the same option to make arrows or arrow shafts again standing beside the said partially finished items. For blunt arrows this means using [M]ake -> "Arrows" -> "Blunt arrow" option. For all the other kind of tipped arrows use [M]ake -> "Arrows" -> "Arrow" option. And for the arrow shafts you would naturally use [M]ake -> "Arrows" -> "Arrow shaft". Like the other partially crafted items these will remain on the ground and can be picked up only after they are finished. They are rendered with a different tint and described as "partially crafted", "half-crafted", "largely crafted" etc. when looking at them. - changed: maximum number of arrows or arrow shafts to craft in one batch The maximum arrow or arrow shaft batch production quantity is increased up to 10 at one go. - changed: arrow shaft crafting time Now that the making of arrow shafts is pausable the time required to craft one is increased to more reasonable level of 90 minutes. - changed: blunt arrow crafting requirements Now that the blunt arrow making is pausable the time required to craft one is increased to more reasonable level of 2 hours. <br> Number of slender tree trunks required is also modified so that you can craft three blunt arrows out of one slender tree trunk. Blunt arrows are now also prone to outcome quality modifiers, so your tools and expertise determines if the finished blunt arrows will be curved or superior or something in between. - modding add: [yield:num] tag [yield:num] tag is used to specify for how many produced items the single raw material entry is enough for. Ie. how many finished items it can yield. The tag is used in diy_glossary.txt for making blunt arrows as follows: {Slender trunk} [yield:3] This means one slender tree trunk can yield three produced items ie. blunt arrows. So, for example to craft six blunt arrows you would need 2 trunks. Crafting 7-9 blunt arrows you would need 3 trunks, and so on. - enhanced: rendering of the terrain type images Terrain type images on zoomed-in map are now rendered directly to the screen using the available resolution. This makes the images appear more crisp and clear. - fixed: being able to fish facing away from the water - fixed: companions performing some tasks too fast Due to miscalculations in companion time counters they managed to complete some tasks, eg. felling trees, all too fast. The issue was mostly noticed in woodworking tasks, but you may find some other companion performed tasks also to appear in slower more reasonable pace now. - fixed: villagers not reacting if you attacked a hired companion of their own group in their own village - fixed: villagers accepting too many items if they were offered in one go during the first trade - fixed: terrain type image not updating when climbing across terrain boundary This happened only when using the climbing skill. - fixed: the fish splashing and spawning despite of the ice Occasionally you might find fish splashing in the water even at locations with ice cover. This happened if the water froze again after the spawning had already started in the open water. - fixed: Bewitched Wolf quest not generating correctly This quest might have been missing for few versions, so enjoy if it now comes your way. - fixed: triggered item traps remaining in set status This might rarely happen with loop snares and paw-boards. The graphics also show the traps being set and ready, despite of the fact that they were actually triggered already. - fixed: placing any items to a pine tree with bear skull produced the bear skull placement message ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cheers! February 19, 2024, 07:14:40 PM |
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