Game Development: Artifacts & Artifice

[jorb]

We've been developing for a while (holidays and whatnot. Apologies for the delay), and here's what's new.

Artifice
Most clothes now have one or more equipment slots.
Equipment slots hold Artifice items.
Artifice items and slotable equipment both have proficiency alignments, and intrinsic difficulty spans.

Hold an artifice item, right-click a piece of equipment with available slots, and choose "Slot into".

There's a random die-roll to determine if you succeed with the artifice or not. If the proficiencies in the artifice item and the target equipment match, and if you have high values in those proficiencies, your chance of success increases toward the easy end of the difficulty range.

If the artifice succeeds, the equipment now provides the effects presented by the artifice item.

If the artifice fails the artifice item is consumed, and one slot in the target equipment is permanently broken.

The objective is to kit and tool an optimal suit of gear and equipment, combining the artifice items as you best see fit. A piece of gear can only hold one of each type of artifice item.

Relevant artifice effects
Most obviously all existing attacks have been given a type. For each damage type there is a corresponding defense stat. The existing ones are presently:

Common Combat Power/Defense (includes all other types)

Concussive Power/Defense
Blunt Power/Defense
Impact Power/Defense
Piercing Power/Defense
Feral Power/Defense

All animal attacks are considered Feral. Other existing attacks present their types.

When determining damage, a comparison is made between the power of the attacker, and the defense of the defender, and the damage is modified accordingly: Up if the attacker has more, and down if the defender has. Whenever (and at whatever level) the attacker's power and the defender's defence values match, the final attack damage remains unmodified.

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Obviously this system will in time be expanded with plenty of more different types of effects, both combat related and civilian.

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Random fixes
Fixed a bug where you could have christmas stockings within christmas stockings.
Increased HP by ~10x on houses, windmill, smelter, stampmill, bread oven, kiln
Increased HP by ~3x on Torchpost and Brazier
Increased HP by ~4x on Walls
The combined effect of defense towers in clusters now scales asymptotically towards the effect of fifteen freestanding towers, as opposed to previous five.
Made Torchpost cheaper
Corpses now turn into skeletons after 30 minutes. This is a temporary fix until we make bodies carryable.
When summoning a player by his homestead, you can now only summon in positions from which you can draw an unobstructed line to the homestead object. This should fix the problem of summoning over walls.
Summoning now only possible on walkable tiles.
You can now walk through authority objects.
Clay troughs are now destructible.


Enjoy!

[Mushibag]

Thanks!

[alloin]

first yaay thnx

edit: second !

[fiveous]

Stronger structures, nice. Prevents more raid. May not be much but is is something! More updates the better!

[JinxDevona]

Fanfriggintastic! An actual function for clothes, new items to make, and fixes to many things that will help D. Thank you Jorb & Loftar!

[thorop]

Sweet good work

[webgecko]

Will post to bugs forum but I cannot light a torch now from a lit stone fireplace.

[Onionfighter]

I cannot fill a bucket from a barrel.

[tweenprinc3ss]

When summoning a player by his homestead, you can now only summon in positions from which you can draw an unobstructed line to the homestead object. This should fix the problem of summoning over walls.

Huge.

--And thanks a ton for all your hard work on the game! I am excited about where things are going!!

[staxjax]

Nice.

Going to have to test out these defenses, seems like they were increased way too much. We shall see.