Posts by zfoxfire

Quote from ArcticuKitsu

I guess this water update shall really be that awesome if we're waiting this long. I'm painfully itching to claim a nice largish island and to see if we get boats or not to take advantage of this water update and the water.

Knowing Red, he probably has a lot of other stuff bundled in with the water update. I remember how huge the biomes update was supposed to be originally but Red ended up splitting out the re-texturing and additional trees so we had something to try out. I also remember him mentioning he took a detour to work on the new character designs (probably to work out swimming animations would be my guess) so yeah. This is going to be a big update for sure. And once its out, I'm going to start over and look for a nice beach or island to settle on.

Quote from Meltron

What?

Mooo!

From a programmer's perspective, I totally agree that backend changes should take highest priority but I think at this point there's going to be a holy war if we don't get water soon

I'm pretty sure that quite a bit of the crazy stuff we've talked about under suggestions will not be implemented in vanilla.

An overview of what is planned still can be found here:
https://www.rising-world.net/en/page/more/features.html

What is not listed is the new JAVA api which is still in the works that will open the door to modability. Right now the game is just too early in development for modding to be feasibly. Once the API is finalized then we should see some mods roll out. This API should also replace all the stuff currently done via LUA scripting which is also being phased out from what I understand.

Quote from RisingWorld17

Yes, but he said that there is no animation to the water, but that could change...

He said static water. I believe that means it wont conform to sudden terrain changes and gravity. It's just going to stay and do its ripply (animated) water thing.

Quote from george1979k

Hopefully they will mess only with wooden chests because If they eat up my wooden mansion,I will be really upset haha!

Maybe if you leave your door wide open then the rats wont tear up your wooden house to get inside. Maybe some bears will come to visit too!

Quote from Meltron

We would need some simple chests then I think. Because I have no idea how they are supposed to open these chests:

What do you mean? If a chest is wooden then I'd think a scavenger could destroy the wood to get in.

I like the idea of relying on metal chests to keep rodents out.

Hmmm.. Red hasn't been very busy on the forums the past couple of days. He must be "swimming" in code. I'm really excited and looking forward to this change. It's going to really give the whole game a fresh new look.

I mean, its definitely a great idea to get a list together of ideas like this for later on regardless if villages like this become part of vanilla or a mod.

If some NPCs do play instruments, then i'd like to see one become a Bard so I can call him spoony ;-p

I honestly doubt if Red will implement anything of this scale. However, as long as NPC support is added and custom models are supported then the rest is up to the modding community

This is great! I like the idea of various functions within a town.. My complaint on the other thread was about how minecraft villages seem rather pointless. The villagers offer items of little value to trade. Also, villages are always isolated which makes no sense in a world where rail technology exists. So if there were villages then they would be connected to others by old roads and rail lines or be on the borders of rivers or oceans.

Since this vision of a village is to be is on a grand scale and interconnected, it would make sense for village spawning to be optional since it would greatly alter the terrain generated. Many of us want the world to remain natural and are content with wandering NPC merchants.

Also, i like the idea of a library to purchase crafting books. This would address my issue in games like 7d2d where you collect boxes of parts you need but no skill learned to use them. Knowledge should always be available, even at a price.

Hopefully a way to limit creative mode to water placement will be added with the next update. I can see Silver's concern. As the toolset in creative mode is expanded upon, I'm sure it would be useful to admins to fine tune what is allowed and what isn't on the server by each player.

Thanks Red. I'll update my notes.

My only concern with the crafting books to learn new recipes is from my experience playing 7 days to die. In that game you can spend days looting and finding gun parts but if you cant find a book then you have no way to assemble them. I have two chests full of gun parts I cant to anything with because the local gun store didnt happen to have a gun schematic.

Regarding villages, if there are NPCs in there with certain trades and skills then it might be worth it to have villages, especially if we will have locked recipes and weapon quality and durability to consider. The villages in Minecraft seem largely useless because the items you trade for are not that uncommon (from my experience). So if villages do come then they better have a special purpose. If not, then I am fine with wandering merchants.

Racoons and Rats. These little critters will spawn at night near a chest and scavenge your chests for anything that is edible!

Credit goes to ArcticKitsune for this horribly evil yet good idea! :evil:

Yes, many of us have similar excitement of the possibility of exploring all the ages of technology. ARK did an ok job with primitive tools but it skipped around too quickly. I hope this game does it right. If not, atleast this game is going to be designed to be mod friendly. If we can get the diversity of mods that Minecraft has then I'm sure any remaining gaps in vanilla RW will be filled quite nicely. I like the idea of a versatile game that offers something for everybody

And no horse picture yet. I just snooped around in the jar files where I shouldn't have and saw some of the stuff that's modeled yet unspawnable.

It should be the left of the 1 which I guess on Italian keyboard is \ or |

Primitive survival is something I really hope to see and I think Red is onboard too. We've recently seen some models for more primitive and advanced tools than what we start out with so I'm hoping to see more development in the primitive. I've never played skyrim before but I like the idea of the tanning station. For a skinning knife, perhaps we can start with a bone to make a shiv and work from there. I hope that in the future we will be able to gather bones from large animals for use in making bone tools.

I thought it is worth mentioning that using steamcmd to download rising world will not download the server jar and config files. I think it downloads the client launcher instead. I used the same steam id number for rising world, 324080. I'm am just mentioning this because other games let you download the server this way and it is rather convenient so it might be nice to get this working in the future.