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Version 3.70 (stable) released on Steam, Itch, and for lifetimers
We're happy to announce that version 3.70 has reached the stable stage and is now released and available on Steam, Itch.Io and Lifetimers will find the release at the designated forum section. If you were playing 3.70 beta versions, you should know that there's also new content added since the last beta. And if you weren't playing beta versions at all, then prepare to discover a lot. But first a little look at the key features with a few screenshots. Key features of version 3.70 The key features of version 3.70 version deal with the moon and the moonlight, fibre processing with new textilecraft skill, snow penalty for all the creatures and snow crust, lots of new character portraits, tying equipment adjustments and additions, crafting fishing rods and hooks and usage of baits, option for metric units, and so on. The list of additions and fixes is long and you can find the full changelog at the bottom of this post.  Trudging through the deep snow the escaping elk tires itself easily while the hunter gliding with skis on snow crust travels easily.  There are lots of new character portraits added, and also an option to ask whereabouts of village water supply.  The autumn nights are already dark, but during full moon there's enough light for example to go fishing - with self-made fishing rod and hooks, that is.  Textilecraft in action. We have a new batch of harvested nettles retting in the water, and prepare to spin some yarn from earlier extracted nettle fibres. Version 3.70 changelogs First, here's changelog since the latest 3.70 beta version - new content to be aware of for those who have already been playing the beta versions. 3.70 (stable) changelog - new content since 3.70-beta 3 - added: whole lotta new portraits, and specific portait categories for old men and sages A good bunch of new portraits have been added for kids, female and male characters. There are also two new portrait categories specifically for old men and sages. Portraits in these categories are exclusive for those type of NPCs and can't be associated with other NPCs nor chosen as a player character portrait. MIGRATION NOTICE: NPCs generated in the previous versions continue to appear with their previously generated portraits. - added: bowstrings as a separate functional part of a bow Bowstrings are now featured as a craftable item of their own. Bowstrings wear out in use and thus need to be replaced every now and then. Crafting any bow now requires also a bowstring item, so you need to have a bowstring ready in order to make a functional bow. * crafting a bowstring Bowstrings can be crafted from [M]ake-menu under [W]eapons category. Bowstrings are made out of multiple strands of yarn twisted together, but also thin cordage can be used for a makeshift bowstring. Upon crafting a bowstring you can select the material, yarn or cord, to be used. It's faster to make a bowstring from a cord and the required length is also far lesser, but bowstrings made out of cords are also always of lesser quality. Your textilecraft skill determines the success of making a bowstring. Due to item usage complexity bowstring crafting is hard-coded and not to be found in editable diy_*.txt file. * bowstring breakage and replacement Good quality bowstring can last up to thousand of shots or so. The lower the quality the faster the bowstring is prone to break. When the bowstring breaks a message is displayed and the bow gets described as "bow with no string". Naturally you can't shoot with such a bow anymore until a new bowstring is added. You can check out condition of a bowstring in strung bows with inventory command. Upon selecting a bow to examine you will see how the bowstring looks like. You can add a new bowstring to a bow with no string with [a]pply command. First apply the bowstring, and then select a bow to be strung with the string. - added: [a]pply command can be used to remove hook from a fishing rod or to unstring a bow Sometimes you want to remove the old fishhook or bowstring at will and it can be done with [a]pply command. To remove a hook from a fishing rod [a]pply the fishing rod on dry land. The reason for doing it on dry land is that otherwise the fishing attempt will be initiated. To remove a bowstring from a strung bow just [a]pply the bow anytime. If you try to attach a fishhook or bowstring to fishing rod or bow that already carries those item parts you'll be notified of these new removal mechanics. - added: spruce quick-bow - a simple craftable makeshift bow Spruce quick-bow is the most simple and quick to make type of a bow. It's made out of a single branch that is cut from a standing spruce tree. It goes without saying that this type of bow is not a high performance weapon, but it is efficient enough for hunting squirrels and other small game. Spruce quick-bow can be crafted from [M]ake menu "Weapons"-category. There's also SPRUCE QUICK-BOW game encyclopedia [F1] entry available for more information. - removed: primitive bow and juniper bow - newly introduced spruce quick-bow replaces these. - adjusted: villagers reclaiming heavy loads Previously villagers would crowd endlessly around items they wanted to reclaim and restock if the load of whole stack was too heavy to pick up. Now they try to pick up such loads in smaller stacks, and if that should fail also they will eventually give up. - added: craftable cords and ropes from yarn You can now craft cords and ropes from yarn. These options can be fround from [M]ake menu under [T]ying equipment category. - adjusted: cord and rope crafting requirements and applicable skill Crafting any cord or rope now also requires a branch which is used as an aid for twisting the strands firmly together. The applicable skill for crafting yarn based cords and ropes is now textilecraft. - changed: generic "cord" item name and quality The generic craftable makeshift "cord" item which is made out of strips of clothing is now called "cloth cord" and its finished quality always remains on inferior side. - updated: game encyclopedia [F1] entry for CORD and ROPE - adjusted: "Set a net" now shows only tools in "Fishing" menu - modding add: 'first word' value for [naming:] tag Using 'first word' with [naming:] tag will get value of the first word of selected material/item name. For example, material requirement and naming such as: {Cord} [remove] [name:%s product] [naming:first word] would result in finished item called 'yarn product' if 'yarn cord' was selected as the material, or 'linen product' if 'linen cord' was selected. And so on. - adjusted: fatigue accumulation when moving by watercraft Type of the vessel and implement used to move it now matters to how fatiguing it is to move by watercraft. In general it is more strenuous to move by raft than by punt. The implement used to move the vessel also matters. Shoving the watercraft ahead with sesta takes more effort than paddling. - adjusted: companions pay more attention to closing doors Companions now always try to close the doors they pass. This is to avoid them letting domestic animals, or warmth, to escape from your settlements. - fixed: possibility of NPC portrait being the same as player character's portrait - fixed: carried load unit (lb/kg) in statistics window not changing if system of measurement was changed during the gameplay - fixed: sneaking while skiing on snow crust didn't reduce the speed - fixed: dried cuts as fishing baits got used up in one single fishing attempt - fixed: [nominlen] crafting tag not calculating tying equipment stacks properly - fixed: NPC's excess bartered good might be distributed also to the village animals - fixed: auto-shortening of tying equipment in crafting recipes not always reducing the weight accordingly - fixed: boy NPC weights generated wrong and too low - fixed: plants not burning in fire Version 3.70 major changelog - since the first beta release To view all the new content in version 3.70 the full changelog is here: http://www.unrealworld.fi/370-changelog.txt -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cheers, and happy adventures! 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Re: Friendly Fire
Friendly fire adjustments are currently on the coding table so this is a good time to reply to this thread. What will be done with the friendly fire is that the NPCs will be able to reason whether there's a chance to hit a friend/companion on the missile flight path, and then refuse to take a shot if the risk is high. The friendly fire problem mostly persists with companions, although all the NPCs can suffer from it at times. The planned additions will bring a lots of new variables to the missile combat, and there will be proper dev. news post about it soon enough. When it comes to the mentions about hitting your own dog in front of you, eg. when shooting at a bear in the distance. Well, that's something that can happen, but on the contrary to common beliefs here the creature height are being considered in the missile hit calculations. And it goes without saying that terrain elevation is also considered. And the final outcome is naturally a combination of these. So, shortly, you should be able to shoot over your dog, especially if the target creature's height is greater. Assuming you're on the same elevation there should be zero problems with this - also assuming that target creature isn't prone, which also matters. So, the dog-hitting cases reported here would need a screenshots as a background information so that we could actually see what factors might interfere there. If you feel like having made an unjust accidental hit eg. to your dog feel free to follow-up with a report and screenshot and we'll investigate. See, even though there is math in place already everything can be always made more precise. To see if things work as intended I did a little tests with a dog in the shooting line, and a bear as a target. Here come the screenshots. Things worked as expected and intended for this character.  The bear is 3 paces, 6 meters away in the south. Shot over the dog with no problem.  The bear is 16 paces, 32 meters away in the south. Shot over the dog with no problem.  The bear is 11 paces, 22 meters away in the north, and at slightly lower elevation than the character and his dog. Shot over the dog with no problem.  The bear is 16 paces, 32 meters away in the north, at lower elevation and prone. Only now the shooting angle is the kind that the dog gets hit. Well, it's true that if you imagine that you've got a dog right in front of you, very close, its body maybe touching your leg, and it's sitting still, not moving at all. Then, surely you could shoot over it even in the latest scenario. You could lean over and hold the bow over it's head. But in the game one tile is 2 meters, and we can assume there's possibility of free move. The dog isn't necessarily sitting against your leg. It can move about and even leap. If it's even a meter away and suddenly raises it's head on the moment you take a slightly blown shot to a target between 70-150 cm in height (withers height of a bear) at 32 meters away and at lower than your elevation... well, it shouldn't be an accidental hit everytime, but occasionally, for sure. If you take a shot at around 50 cm height, eg. the chest of a prone bear, 32 meters away... the propablity of an accident increases quite a bit. All in all, feel free to report the related cases you may find odd, and rest assured that the NPC missile AI will be soon adjusted for quite a lot better. November 07, 2022, 11:56:11 AM |
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Blacksmith NPCs and ordering their products
In the next version we'll be featuring blacksmith NPCs, and possibility of ordering various iron goods directly from them. You order, they'll forge, and you will then pay and obtain the item when it's ready. This will be a fundamental new addition, and although there's still lots of work to do we're hoping to have the new version out this month. Not all the villages will have a blacksmith, but it will still be easier to find one to make you that knife, axe, sword or tool you need than to run through several storehouses in several villages in a search for a missing equipment. The available blacksmith products will vary a bit depending on the cultural areas, but all the blacksmiths can make at least the most basic and essential iron goods, tools and weapons.   These are future features - not yet functional in current version 3.72.2 March 03, 2023, 06:40:59 PM |
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Re: Blacksmith NPCs and ordering their products
Great addition. I feel like the blacksmith will always want firewood delivered. Perhaps he could have work available or just a frequently offered version of the "Help with chores" quest to deliver firewood. Really looking forward to when we'll be able to have a pair of socks made! March 16, 2023, 11:32:04 PM |
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Version 3.80 released
Version 3.80 has reached stable stage and is now released on Steam, Itch.Io and for lifetimers. Those who were playing the beta version will discover new features with the improved arrowmaking and spotting blacksmith orders on the map of known areas (F6). For those who only now enter the version 3.80 it should be noted that the most fundamental addition in this version is featuring the NPC blacksmiths and the process of ordering metalworks from them. Let's take a look at the changelogs - starting with a few screenshots to highlight the latest additions since the beta.    Version: 3.80 changelog ** Saved characters from version 3.70-> are compatible with this version. ** The latest additions since the 3.80 beta: - added: pending blacksmith orders shown on the map (F6) When viewing the map of known areas (F6) villages with pending blacksmith orders are now marked with a white circle. Clicking the location will also show the pending order briefing along with the general village information. For example: "Sartolais village at Darkwoods. Blacksmith order, shovel, placed 5 days ago." And when the order has been claimed the markers will get removed. You still need to decide by yourself when to go claim the order as it's not told when it's ready, but only when the order was placed. - added: ARROWS category to [M]ake menu This category contains the arrowmaking related handcraft options. These options were previously under WEAPONS category. There are also several new options related to the arrowmaking improvements. These are explained below. - improved: arrowmaking with new arrow parts Arrows are now assembled from separate arrow parts which you need obtain or craft beforehand. The new arrow parts and improved arrowmaking procedure goes as follows: * arrow shafts Arrow shaft is a new item. Arrow shafts need to be crafted separately, after which they can be used in arrowmaking. Now the arrow shafts need to be made of either leaf tree saplings or wood slats, which is a new lumber item explained later on. Straightness of the shaft is very important in order to make fine arrows so the quality of the finished shaft matters a lot in the arrowmaking. * arrowheads Arrowheads are now unique items and need to be obtained or crafted separately, after which they can be used in arrowmaking. There are two new iron arrowhead items called "broadhead" and "arrowhead". These can be obtained from the village blacksmiths. There are also new "stone arrowhead" and "bone arrowhead" items which can be crafted by the player character. * arrowmaking As mentioned before, arrowmaking options can be found under "Arrows" category in the [M]ake menu. When you want to craft a tipped arrow there is only one generic "Arrow" option for that. This single option is used to craft an arrow with any type of arrowhead, except the blunt arrow. The arrowheads to use is selected first and this determines the following requirements and if the outcome is (a regular) arrow, broadhead arrow, stone tipped arrow or bone tipped arrow. There are naturally also options for crafting the arrow shafts and arrowheads. And those are what you should go for first, and then assemble the arrow from the parts you've gotten. There are also new game encylopedia (F1) entries for the new arrow parts; arrow shaft, broadhead and arrowhead. * blunt arrow crafting requirements In addition to new features there are also changes to old arrowmaking options, such as making a blunt arrow. Blunt arrows are now crafted from a slender tree trunk. One trunk is enough for several arrows, if you want to craft a batch of them at once. Moreover, blunt arrows don't need feathers anymore and thus become the simplest arrows to craft. Historically there's been both kind of blunt arrows, with and without feathers, but with enough challenge brought in with the new arrow parts we've now chosen them to be featherless. Blunt arrow graphics and game encyclopedia (F1) entry has been updated accordingly. - added: wood slat, a new lumber item Slat is a narrow flat piece of wood split from a board. As mentioned above, slats are used as raw material for making arrow shafts. Slats can be crafted via "Lumber" category in the [M]ake menu. - added: arrowhead and broadhead as new blacksmith products As briefly mentioned above these two types of iron arrowheads can be now obtained from the blacksmiths. All the blacksmiths everywhere can make arrowheads. - fixed: entering fortified village from the west located the character on the wall - fixed: NPCs might build a fire on prepared soil - fixed: game freezes with the sequence disabling background music and quitting The additions featured already 3.80 beta release: - added: blacksmith NPCs and ordering metalworks from them Blacksmith is a new NPC type who you can meet in the villages. Blacksmiths can produce different kind of metalworks on demand. This is a fundamental addition which will make a big difference to obtaining iron tools and weapons. Blacksmith products are culturally dependent and can range from fishhooks to swords. There's also variety among the levels of blacksmith expertise. All the blacksmiths can produce the basic tools needed for the every day life of their local culture, but only the few talented ones can forge more demanding items, like a sword. * All the cultures do have blacksmiths, but their areal availability varies. Not every village has a blacksmith, but in general there are several within each cultural area. * You can ask villagers if there's a blacksmith around. The option for this is found from "Ask for help/company" chat mode. If their blacksmith is a highly skilled one villagers are proud to let you know that right away. * Ordering something from a blacksmith is initiated by talking to them. Ordering options become available upon greeting a blacksmith, or can be found from "Ask for help/company" chat mode. * Blacksmiths vary in their expertise, but all of them can produce at least decent quality items. The more talented blacksmiths can produce fine or even masterwork items. They will let you know the level of their expertise and outcome of their goods loud and clear. * Not all the blacksmiths will produce the same items, and the cultural variety makes the most difference there. Also, only the few most talented blacksmiths will be able to forge the most demanding items, such as swords, helmets or specialized knives such as Kaumolais knife or Skramasaksi. * It should be clear already that metal armours are not really known or used by the local cultures, so blacksmiths do not produce those - except for helmets. So the availability of NPC blacksmiths doesn't change the fact that metal armours do remain as rare imported goods, as they should be. * Of the swords, a few talented blacksmiths may produce broadswords and shortswords but the other types of swords found in the game are of foreign origin and remain to be rarely found as imported goods. The northern peoples aren't familiar with swords at all, so to find a sword forging blacksmith one has to seek among the wealthy western cultures, or at Kaumo and Reemi. * You can order one item at a time, which will be payed for after it's ready. Upon confirming your order you can ask what the blacksmith would like as a payment from your current inventory, but you don't have to have enough goods for the payment yet upon placing an order. When the order is then being bartered for, even if you wouldn't have enough goods at first you can cancel the trade and come back to try again with more wealth. * Meanwhile your order is being made you can ask the blacksmith how is it coming along. They will give you an estimation about the remaining production time. Depending on the item the production times vary from few days to a month. * If you don't come claim your order within half a year it will be given away. This may naturally lower your reputation among the blacksmith, and the village. - added: BLACKSMITH game encyclopedia (F1) entry Village blacksmiths and ordering their goods described in short. - updated: culture and weapon related game encyclopedia (F1) entries All the culture descriptions have been updated with relevant blacksmithing information and assorted corrections. Certain sword and axe descriptions have been updated to emphasize that those are foreign weapons not known by the local cultures. - added: villagers can tell about sages and blacksmiths in the neighbouring villages Upon asking villagers if there's a sage or blacksmith around, and if there is not, they will now let you if there's one in the vicinity or neighbouring villages. You will then be given directions how to reach the village in question. - added: animal droppings Certain animals now leave visible droppings, i.e. feces, that can be found in the terrain on zoomed-in map level. The droppings aren't featured for all the animals, but for those whose droppings are commonly noticeable and relevant. For example the following wild animals can leave droppings: hare, fox, badger, lynx, wolf, reindeer, elk and bear. The domestic animals such as sheep, cows and pigs also leave droppings. The droppings of different species look a bit different, and upon looking at the droppings with game commands you will be told which animal's droppings it is. For example: "You see here an elk droppings." If the droppings are somewhat recent, less than a day old or so, you will be also be told that it's fresh droppings in question. Even if you wouldn't be able to specify their age the droppings work as an indicator of the animal presence at the area. The droppings may remain visible for weeks, but will eventually disappear. - added: using animal droppings as fertilizer Using animal droppings as fertilizer isn't necessary, but it's possible - if you feel like it. You can either spread droppings on the ground before preparing the soil and planting your crops, or spread them around after the planting. In the former method the droppings are then mixed in the soil upon preparing it, which is better. The fertilizing effect is simplified and any amount of droppings will help a little. You don't have to fertilize every tile of the field, but just quite casually spread the droppings here and there. This extra fertilizing helps plants to sprout and grow more succesfully, so somewhat higher yields can be expected from the fields fertilized with droppings. The effect isn't too dramatic though, since the slash-and-burn agriculture in use already includes fertilization with the ash from the burned woods. When collecting droppings they appear under a new "Miscellanous" item category in character's inventory. - added: SMOKING and FIREPLACE game encyclopedia (F1) entries These will explain the smoking and fireplace heating up processes. In the cookery menu SMOKING encyclopedia entry dialog is shown at Smoking option. - fixed: getting "carry too much" pick up restriction even if the character's inventory wasn't really full - fixed: possibility of de-hairing bird skins, or already de-haired skins It was redundant, and confusing. Now the game notifies you about this being needless. - fixed: animals and NPCs drowning in shallow waters or small puddles The issue made NPCs occasionally drown in village wells or puddles, or the animals drown in shallow shoreline waters if they were moving about there a lot eg. when tied in place. - fixed: quest journal sometimes showing excess NPC portraits on the latter pages - fixed: meadsweet flowers tile missing - text corrections: a good bunch typos and grammar corrected, some messages rephrased. Cheers! May 22, 2023, 08:03:52 PM |
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Craftable fishing nets and more
The current version 3.80 is now few weeks fresh and working smoothly. And we've been working on a new update for this summer. So how about just a little update about the little something upcoming? Very well. And let's do it with a sneak preview screenshots. So, what is to be highlighted now and to be featured in the next release is ... Fishing nets craftable by the player characte Player characters will be able to make fishing nets. Thinking of the mere amount of yarn alone it's not all too simple craft to collect the material for. You'll also need rocks for the weights, and birch-bark to wrap the weights with and to make floats. And then there is also a special tool required ...  Netting needle. That's the tool you'll need. It's a wooden tool for weaving the net with proper knots. As a curiosity for history enthusiasts, one of the oldest known fishing nets in the world, the Antrea Net dated to 8540 BCE, was laced with knots that indicate use of netting needle. The same kind of fishing net knots have been used by Baltic Finns in much, much later dates. UnReal World takes place around 800-1200 CE.  Netting needle.  Net weight - a decent size rock wrapped in birch-bark. Introducing pausable crafting In the next screenshot our character has started weaving the net. And after 6 hours of work the progress bar hasn't even reached the tenth of the remaining time...  Now what's that about? Well, that means in the next version we'll be also introducing pausable crafting for making a net - and for few other tasks. This will be the start of featuring a possibility to have a break in long crafting tasks and continue at will later on. After the mechanics have been tested properly it will be expanded to cover wider range of crafting. Which will make quite a difference, you'll see. So making a net won't be a task of few hours, or even few days, but can easily last for a week or more. After four or five days of weaving the net our character takes a look at the half-finished work in progress...  Luckily for us all, the upcoming version is already more than half-finished by now. July 2023 seems like good month for yet another release. These are future features - not yet functional in current version 3.80.[/i}] June 13, 2023, 07:44:36 PM |
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Version 3.81 released for OS X and Linux
Version 3.81 is now released and live for all the supported platforms; Windows, OS X and Linux. It's available on Steam, Itch.Io and for lifetimers. For highlights and changelog refer to slightly earlier Windows version release post: https://www.unrealworld.fi/forums/index.php?topic=7080.0 August 03, 2023, 06:57:14 PM |
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Spearfishing, spawning fish, and the lippo
Here we go with a brief development news about what's bubbling under at the moment. Well, a good bunch fishing related additions, we can tell you. There will be improvements to some old fishing methods and a completely new form of fishing to be featured. And to have it all done with our desired ambition we'll also feature spawning periods and habitats for the different species of fish. And these can be then taken advantage of with the old and new fishing forms. It's quite a sidetracking, snowballing bunch of additions, but slowly coming together so nicely that we can briefly highlight it already. Now pikes, breams, salmons, trouts and lavarets (at least) will be given their spawning periods and habitats. Gathering of the spawning fish can be then taken advantage of with suitable fishing means. For example pikes will come to spawn in early spring at shallow shoreline waters with rich vegetation. During that time the spearfishing from the shore can be quite succesful. As we know, spearfishing is already an existing fishing method in the game, but now it will become a bit more detailed for example with information given related to ongoing spawning periods and the chosen location.  Ingir proceeds with spearfishing and the game notifies about the chosen location being good considering the ongoing pike spawning period. Lippo is a certain kind of dip net with a very long handle, and it was used in special kind of fishing at rivers and rapids. It is a new fishing tool in the game that can be crafted by the player character, and it will be used in this newly featured form of fishing.  Ingir has arrived at the rapids with an intention to craft herself a lippo. Lippo fishing was practised especially when the certain fish, salmons or lavarets for example, gathered at the rivers to spawn. But lippo can be also used to catch roaming river fish outside their spawning period too. In this fishing method the lippo is casted into the water, down at the bottom of the river, and then moved carefully in order to scoop the fish into its net. The roaming fish in the rivers and rapids will occasionally rest beside the rocks and skerries and these are the locations where lippo needs to be used.  Ingir needed to row with a punt to reach a skerry in the rapids. Maybe there are fish resting behind the neighbouring rocks, she thinks and reaches out to pick up the lippo. These are future features - not yet functional in current version 3.81. August 31, 2023, 05:26:26 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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Re: Haft them axes, haft them spears
Ability to get them re-hafted at suitably skilled blacksmith's without quality loss chance would be nice.
January 12, 2024, 08:02:24 PM |
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