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Guinness world record for "First open-world survival videogame"
The second world record received acknowledges UnReal World as a forefather of the genre. So... Back in 2016 we got (and proudly hold) the record for longest update support for a videogame in GWR Gamer's Edition 2017. And now, in the recently published Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2019 UnReal World gets the record for "First open-world survival videogame". Oops, we kind of created a videogame genre, but we do not regret  The book happily presented at the end of this post is a Finnish edition, and here's how GWR mentions the record in English: Quote "The second millennial decade has witnessed an explosion of open-world survival games, particularly on the Steam platform with the success of PC tiles such as DayZ, Ark: Survival Evolved and the battle-royale shooter PlayerUnknown's Battlegrouds.(Yeah, it's out-of-date info with latest updates as the books live in press-time info. And in case somebody wonders about the near future updates a new bugfix and balancing patch is actually to be released this month.) Cheers and thanks to all of you for making history and taking part in creation of a videogame genre with us.  Erkka (co-designer) at the left, Sami (creator) and Alli (the cat) at the right. And if you take a look at our previous GWR post it seems like have started a tradition with these world record promo pictures as well  
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Version 3.52 released on Steam and for Lifetime Members
Time for a small but essential patch update. Version 3.52 is now released on Steam and for Lifetime Members. Additions in the now released version are foremostly bugfixes for smoother survival, but some balancing of exploitish issues is also featured. Find the full changelog below, here's UnReal World Steam page, and the version is also available for lifetimer members at the designated forums section. Standalone installer versions at the homepage will be released in November. Cheers! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Version: 3.52 (stable) ** Saved characters from version 3.40-> are compatible with this version. ** - balanced: villagers' interest to buy boards Previously trading boards could be used an exploit as villagers did buy them without any reasoning. Now there's a cap for villagers' interest in boards and they only buy the amount they want to have as a reserve. This varies from village to village, and some villages are not necessarily interested in player character's board trading attempts at all. - added: NPCs will store the obtained timber in the village NPCs may obtain timber (eg. boards) through trading. Previously NPCs just carried the heavy loads around causing unncessary burden for themselves. Now they eventually store the timber in the village. - added: roasting meat/fish decreases its weight We tought this was featured already, but no. Now roasted meat/fish loses about 25% its weight in the process. - updated: NORTHERN BOW game encyclopedia info + image added - added: new NPC kid portrait Still not much variety with kid portraits, but if you are into portrait customization more of them can be now added for kids as well -> truegfx/kid?.png - fixed [Linux]: redundant libcurl dependency removed - fixed: character creation extra skill point issue for 0% skills Increasing and then decreasing skill for 0% level skills mistakenly allowed two points then to be spent on the said skill. - fixed [rare condition]: quest generation and companion rehire delays Long lived migrated character might encounter extremely long intervals between new quest generation and earlier NPC companions willingness to be rehired. - fixed [rare condition]: bird thief quest sages forgetting about the quest This occurred only with long lived characters. Sages involved in the quest first talked about it normally, but might not recognize the quest anymore after a while. - fixed: kids not recovering from wounds and injuries - fixed: young animal skins were worth the same as adult animals skins Now the price is reasoned according to the skin size. - fixed: when trading with NPC the accepted items they couldn't carry just disappeared from their inventory after the trade Now the excess items NPCs can't properly carry are put on the ground as a common village property. - fixed [rare condition]: aquatic birds flying still above the frozen waters This was a result of aquatic birds terrain exploration routines failing to find them new meaningful areas to check if the waters at their habitat got completely frozen. - fixed [rare occasion]: irrelevant quest related persons appearing in chat dialog Sometimes you were given chat options to ask whereabouts of irrelevant quest related persons in the village. - fixed: young animals giving as much fat as the adults Now the fat yield from young animals is more or less smaller depending on the cub/calf actual age and size. - fixed: nameless villagers ie. occasional blank NPC names - corrected typos: harvesting dialog "select select the plants..." -> "Select the plants..." northern name "Duo?gi" -> "Duongi" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- October 28, 2018, 02:09:26 PM |
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Re: "Make" trees and animal kids
Create saplings (they could be available in autumn using timbercraft menu) which can be used for growing tree. A tree would grow in two game-years. Do you mean saplings should grow to full size trees in two game-years? Why... Conifers are still saplings even after a decade. November 01, 2018, 06:20:24 PM |
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Re: The song of robbers
Oh! To me this is such a moody line that I'd leave it be. Maybe the lyrics reveals the singers identity 
November 06, 2018, 04:41:21 PM |
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Re: Woodsman won't cut it!
It seems companions are a bit too afraid of bear skull pines and won't fell any trees if there's bear skull pine even relatively close by. As a workaround you can take the bear skull(s) off the trees here at your homestead and bring them somewhere way further away. Or then you just have to rely on companions tree felling assistance further away from the bear skulls. Fixed - persists in 3.52 November 06, 2018, 04:57:43 PM |
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Version 3.52 released on the homepage
Version 3.52 standalone installers have been now released on UnReal World website, at Downloads section. Additions foremostly bugfixes for smoother survival, but some balancing of exploitish issues is also featured. Cheers! Here's the changelog: Code: [Select] Version: 3.52 (stable)
November 12, 2018, 11:16:47 AM |
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Life hurts
You know what... During the past two decades it hasn't been too many times that I have been on a sick leave, or unable to work on the game due to medical condition, wounds or injuries. But now a week ago I fractured my shoulder when falling of the horse during horseback archery training. Doctors orders are to wear arm sling for the next two weeks. After that a new x-ray will reveal how the recovery goes. Luckily no operation was needed. I just have to rest and wait, and so do you. So, I'll enter on a sick leave now and report back after two weeks. I am mostly unable to answer to emails or at forums, but we'll try to handle the urgent cases somehow. Not to worry, I will survive. Game development and archery endeavours to be continued when the doc says so. My current wounds and injuries screen looks like this 
December 01, 2018, 06:15:00 PM |
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Season's recovery greetings
There went the winter solstice here in the Northern Hemisphere, and we're heading towards the increasing daylight. I've also got my fractured shoulder off the sling by now, but the recovery continues. All the movements are painful, and I'm increasing the range of motion bit by bit. The official sick leave has been extended until January 2019, and my absence from the forums continues. But you'll be fine, and I'll be back eventually. Thanks for all the warm words and understanding and wishes. Winter Sale is going on at Steam so once again it's good time to grab UnReal World for yourself, or gift a friend into the Far North. And lastly, huge big seasons greetings to each and everyone of you, from the tiny dev and the winter tree. Merry whatever, fellow adventurers!  December 24, 2018, 12:34:53 PM |
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2019, here we come, slowly but steadily.
The time has come for me to start reaching back into the development chambers after the sick leave. My fractured shoulder is still far from fully healed, but computer work seems doable, so here we come development year 2019. Slowly but steadily that is, as the priority remains in exercising the injured arm a lot to increase mobility - rather than to get it stiff from the office work. Oh boy, little did I know how slowly fractured shoulders heal. In the original injury topic somebody made a remark that this might be my hardcore first hand research on injuries and recovery. Well, yes, going through this actually got me thinking of going through game's recovery rules in case of fractured joints. I've been of the arm sling for five weeks now but it will still take months before I can shoot a bow again, and raising the injured arm above the shoulder level is a feat I have been doing reliably only for a week or two. And there's no way I can do it with carrying load of more than few pounds, so any hard work that requires both arms is out of the question. It also takes time to learn to move the arm 'normally' again, as the early pain didn't allow all the proper muscles to be used with some arm trajectories. It is easy to understand how easily deformed body postures are born.But here I am, dedicated to work on the arm and the game as much as possible during the 2019. I've gone through the swamp of e-mails lately and hopefully answered to everything urgent - but if you miss a reply, please do re-send your e-mail. Getting back on the track with the forums will take a bit longer, but soon enough you can expect replies to pop up here and there. Luckily my physiotherapist has also given me permission to ski, just guaranteed that I do not fall on the injured arm in any circumstances. 2019, here we come.  January 28, 2019, 06:49:56 PM |
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Re: 2019, here we come, slowly but steadily.
Sami, it's great you are recovering well and could go out skiingThat's hare tracks. Quote 2. What a beautiful setting, is that a cabin you use for fishing?It's not my property, but a simple sauna cottage of neighbours. Surely been used for fishing back in the day, as there are old tridents hanging on the outside walls. Quote In my part of the world (Michigan) it is -16F (-27C) and very windy. Yeah, I've heard from the news that US seem to be freezing here and there. Take care, JEB. February 02, 2019, 01:53:02 PM |
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