Game Development: Nickels & Dimes
Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 5:25 amWe've been developing, and here's what's new.
Mining
When you mine you now run the risk of triggering an impending cave-in, illustrated by dust falling from the mine ceiling. You can prevent the cave-in by building a Mine Support under it. You have in the ballpark of five to ten minutes to build a support before a cave in occurs. A cave in randomly collapses some mined out tiles around itself, replacing them with non-ore-yielding mineable tiles.
The chance of triggering a cave-in is affected by:
Copper Mines
Can now be found.
Alchemy Equipment
Alchemy equipment no longer runs the risk of explosions or accidents if their process no longer has any material gain for the items in it. The alchemical modification effectively stops when the maximum benefit of the process has been reached. The Pressure Cooker and the Retort are primarily affected. Point being that you can toss stuff in and just let it sit until it reaches its maximum potential without automatically losing it thereafter.
Some thoughts
We realize that alchemy is hurting at the moment, and we will be making it easier to access at least intermediate levels of purity without too much baby-sitting and hand-holding of the processes. Bare with us.
Update clients, pl0x.
Mining
When you mine you now run the risk of triggering an impending cave-in, illustrated by dust falling from the mine ceiling. You can prevent the cave-in by building a Mine Support under it. You have in the ballpark of five to ten minutes to build a support before a cave in occurs. A cave in randomly collapses some mined out tiles around itself, replacing them with non-ore-yielding mineable tiles.
The chance of triggering a cave-in is affected by:
- Proximity to unmined tiles.
- Proximity to already existing mine supports.
- Your Proficiency in Mines & Mountains.
Copper Mines
Can now be found.
Alchemy Equipment
Alchemy equipment no longer runs the risk of explosions or accidents if their process no longer has any material gain for the items in it. The alchemical modification effectively stops when the maximum benefit of the process has been reached. The Pressure Cooker and the Retort are primarily affected. Point being that you can toss stuff in and just let it sit until it reaches its maximum potential without automatically losing it thereafter.
Some thoughts
We realize that alchemy is hurting at the moment, and we will be making it easier to access at least intermediate levels of purity without too much baby-sitting and hand-holding of the processes. Bare with us.
Update clients, pl0x.