Quite the explosive release. Very nice. I noticed you removed the cobalt. Is that for the sake of having no use for it, or to minimize the amount of ores we can collect in the game? Also, will the sulfur appear in already loaded chunks?
Thanks to you and the team for the hard work. It's always appreciated. Time to go give it a shot before supper. I'm sure I'll have a ... ahem .. blast. *groan*
I like the idea of eventually adding natural disasters, but they should be controlled via the settings as some might prefer not to have them at all. And unlike asking mining to be turned off in the settings which would be preposterous for a mining game, natural disasters are not a must to a mining game. But they also need to make sense, and that's one massive ball of yarn to unfurl. The idea of an underwater volcano eventually forming an island sounds intriguing.
As for bread, I've always found it funny how in a game, food is generally just that, food. We can't taste it. We can't smell it. We can't even touch it. We can only see it and "eat it." And yet, we want more from it. Combos like sandwiches, salads, pizzas, and desserts. If we're to include food recipes like in TerraFirmaCraft, maybe the food's qualities and faults should also be taken into account. This way, when tiredness becomes a factor from not getting enough sleep in the game, we can get a sugar or caffeine fix, or maybe for those who like drinking, they can have alcohol. That said, sugarcane, coconuts, cacao, and coffee beans would be nice add-ons in the future due to potential recipes. Plus milk from cows and goats, which would later bring us cheese. It would also be nice if the chickens could give us eggs, but I'm guessing that won't happen until animals can procreate.
Bells are a good idea for many reasons. For those who have built churches, they can add church bells. For those who want grandfather or grandmother clocks, they could chime on the hour, and for those who want egg timers, they can buzz when done. Later on, when string is added, we can probably even use bells with string to set basic traps to warn us of possible impending trouble, like wolves attacking our chickens, or someone entering our cave.
Well, that's my Canadian nickel's worth on the matter. Onward to today's update!
Good job on granny's cottage. Very impressive. Go with Deirdre's rocking chair. Grandma needs a nice rocking chair to knit in while looking out for Red Riding Hood and the big bad wolf.
Thank you for your help. In my Mac's case, I have to use the tilde (~) to access the console, but once in there, typing HUD did indeed toggle the heads-up display on/off for a clean screenshot.
It's funny how while there are good German-to-English translations of many aspects of the game's various guides, I found nothing in the English translations pertaining to turning on/off the HUD. Maybe I just missed it. At least it's here now in the forums for future players. Thanks again.
I know of two ways to take a screenshot inside of Rising World. One is with "Command + Shift + 3" (on a Mac), and the other is with whatever key you assign to it in Rising World. But both also display the health, food, water, tools, and what's in your hand. I've seen some screenshots in the forums that show it can be done (unless they've been Photoshopped), so I'm guessing there's a way. How can I take those clean screenshots?
Considering the seed I wound up on, which is essentially all plains, beaches, and a few mountains & forests, I'd go for a golf cart or an ATV when it comes to vehicles. Maybe a trailer to attach to them that could allow me to carry a few chests, barrels, or crates. Small enough to even go into the mines.
As for the 1 in 6 chance to get gravel, I would think it should be a lot easier to get gravel than that. The world won't (shouldn't) crash due to an over-abundance of gravel. I'm going to patiently wait to see what Red has planned for the game.
I've been pondering changing the key settings for a while. Each day, I split my gaming time between Rising World (RW) and Minecraft (MC), and each day, I find myself accidentally hitting the "I" key for my equipment in MC, and the "E" key in RW. I'm just thankful that in RW, I can access my equipment while on a ladder, and not find myself descending in the process.
That's very impressive and very nice work, Alex. Great job!
The video does a wonderful job of showing off Rising World and comparing it to Minecraft. I'm about to send a link to the YouTube video to those I play Minecraft with in Canada. I've been propping the game up with them since I started playing in August, but a friendly comparison video helps too.
If the author is on here: Good job!
With regards to gravel, what if in the future we could use the sledgehammer to produce it when we flatten stone or crush broken/dropped blocks? Right now, the only two ways that I know to get gravel are via mining it at water basins, and mining personally laid down gravel. Eleven pieces of gravel (all I had) gave me fourteen this way, so theoretically, 110 pieces of gravel could give you 140.
Or, maybe it could be generated via the block bench. One stone could equal a few pieces of gravel.
I prefer both the sledgehammer and the block bench methods.
Great work, Red! Thank you. I look forward to taking it for a spin.
Pole-arms and spears would be welcomed add-ons. I can see hired guards with armour and halberds guarding our castles. Lances would be nice once horses are in. But I'd like to see the whip and chain as weapons/tools as well. Maybe even a makeshift kusarigama once chain or rope are introduced.
I also like the idea of designing your own NPCs. Everything from the physical look (lithe to overweight, short to tall), hair, eyes, gender, clothing styles, and equipment & weapons carried. The ability to choose a colour for any item based on a colour palette would also be nice. Over time, personalities could even be added.
Well I'll be. Good work with this blueprint, but my question is, if you make a blueprint of a barrel, and it has items in it, do the items get included in the blueprint?
I just had a thought about how nice it would be to place a full or empty bucket. A full bucket placed next to a furnace seems appropriate. An empty bucket placed outside would be great for catching future rainfall.
I also had a thought about stacking the new storage crates but that won't work since they open upwards. It would be cool to recreate the end scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
I'd go for a barrel that can hold liquids to not only catch future rainfall, but to also fill with other liquids as they are introduced. Such as sea water, oil, milk, gunpowder, tannin, limewater, dyes, paints, or alcohol. I'm sure there's at least one person playing this game who'd like to tap a keg. And the thought of using tannin and dyes for our leather is very appealing to myself. That was always a fun part of TerraFirmaCraft. It would also be nice if metal and plastic barrel variants eventually came along.
As for stacking crates, you could always place a wood plank atop one crate, then another crate atop that plank. It's easier against a wall than out in the open, but it does work. For the sake of realism, just say the plank is there for extra reinforcement from the weight above it. All those iron ingots do weigh a lot.
i just thought of something. The blueprint hack for turning a barrel sideways might be a applicable to crates as well.
Did it work on the crate? Personally, I didn't know there was a blueprint hack to do such a thing. The idea is very intriguing.
you dummy.. haven't you ever watched Crocodile Dundee II ?
Oh geez, I haven't seen that movie since I saw it in the theater in the 1980s. As I vaguely recall, there was that blast fishing scene in it. I think it's time I pick the series up on DVD or via iTunes and watch it again. Seeing as TNT is on the "Not yet working" list, who knows what the future of the game will bring.
No bazooka or hand grenades? What am I supposed to fish with? A fishing rod? Geez, so primitive. Heheh
Bows & arrows and slingshots & stones would all be nice additions. As would a simple sling & stones, crossbows, and staves. The staff could perform double duty as a makeshift crutch when we break a leg, and the crossbow would be different than vanilla Minecraft.
As for guns, we'd have to invent gunpowder first. As an example recipe, in TerraFirmaCraft, you can make gunpowder by combining coal, saltpeter, and sulphur. I have read there are supposed to be primitive guns at some point, and if so, I would love to see the flintlock.
botchikii: C'est dommage que le wiki sur le site web du jeu est pas fonctionnel, même si juste en allemand. Le plus de bonne heure dans le développement d'un jeu que le wiki est créé, le moins de travail il y aura à faire plus tard. Alors en attendant, pour les français alentour du monde qui ont de la misère avec les instructions du jeu, ton wiki va servir à agrandir la population des français qui veulent jouer.
Moi, je suis Canadien français (Franco-Ontarien). Je comprend très bien le français et l'anglais, mais quand je joue à des jeux, les instructions sont toujours en anglais. J'admet que c'est dommage que le jeu de Rising World a pas d'instructions en français, mais il faut aussi admettre que le groupe qui travaille sur le jeu est peut-être pas trop gros, et met tout leurs temps à faire fonctionner et avancer le jeu. Et si il faut taper des instructions en anglais, en allemand, et aussi en français, pourquoi pas aussi en italien, espagnol, portugais, russe, chinois, et autres langues. Je pense que ça tombe aux gens qui jouent le jeu à se mettre ensemble pour créer les instructions dans les langues non-inclus. Comme tu es entrain de faire.
J'ai pas grand temps à dédier au projet car ma vie le permet pas, et c'est dommage, mais si je peux aider avec mon cinq sous ici et là, je vais essayer. Je vais m'inscrire plus tard lorsque j'aurai du temps.
Heheh Bears with "master keys" aside, I know the feeling. But were we to play on multiplayer servers, they would be very handy against those pesky brigands Red wants to bring in. At least until dynamite arrives.
Du très bon travail, Botchikii. Mais je recommande l’ajout de quelques autres commandes: F9 fait paraitre les FPS du jeu dans le coin de l'écran. C'est vrai que F3 le fait paraitre aussi, mais c'est beaucoup plus raisonnable de montrer seulement le FPS dans un coin de l'écran lorsque nous jouons. Aussi, pour nous sur les Macs, dépendant le clavier, il faut utiliser la clé Fn avec les clés de fonctions. Et pour une raison ou une autre, le tilde était ma clé de défaut pour accéder le console.
Mangaroots: C'est vrai qu'il y a beaucoup de gens qui parlent le français ici, et quelques-uns (et unes) qui ont de la misère avec l'anglais (ou le parlent pas du tout). Peut-être qu’une single section française pour jaser serait l'idée. Mais quand ça arrive aux instructions officiels pour le jeu, qu’elles soient en anglais, français, allemand, ou autres langues, ça serait mieux qu’elles soient tous dans une single section.
