Month: September 2018

We’ve finally reached the end of the beta 2.6 series of patches. On to greater things with the commencement of beta 2.7 development! While this is normally the time for us to go silent on the news front, please make sure to follow us on social media or join our Discord server to stay up to date on all the development previews and discussion while we work on our next major update.

Much of this release improves on the mechanics of merchants and addresses some of the issues spotted from the modding changes found in the last patch with other improvements sprinkled in as per usual.

Speaking of beta 2.7, don’t forget to check out our “Item Idea Contest” here: http://www.unlok.ca/wayward/item-idea-contest/ – Three winners here will get their item idea added to the game in beta 2.7.

Improvements

• You can now cancel out of resting.
• More than one merchant NPC is now able to spawn per world.
• Healing merchants will now remove their hostility against you.
• “Carve With Tool” now provides an item break confirmation when the option is enabled.
• You can now pour out water on to other players to soothe their burn injuries.
• Merchants and other players (when PVP is enabled) can no longer spawn within a player’s view.
• Merchants will now be burned when standing in fire (or lava).
• The game will now continue to fade in even when the game is paused.
• Messages are now displayed top-to-bottom when in an upper quadrant.

Balance

• There is now a reputation loss or gain (instead of a guaranteed loss) when tamed creatures fight other creatures (based on if their target is hostile or not) and is applied specifically to the owner.
• You can no longer jump over players and NPCs.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed save errors on some hardware by reducing the amount of memory required to save the game (this will also make saving the game faster).
• Fixed mods failing to load when joining a server, if a mod needed another mod as a dependency but the loading order was incorrect.
• Fixed the game not quitting if it had been reloaded.
• Fixed items not lighting on fire when dropped onto lava from a player’s death or broken container.
• Fixed an error on opening the options menu after using the “Enable All” button in the mods menu.
• Fixed the “Enable All” button in the mods menu not updating the mod check buttons visually.
• Fixed a regression where the mod options button was not hiding/showing when a mod is enabled/disabled.
• Fixed a regression where mods were not able to use this.getPath() before image paths.
• Fixed tile changes not saving in modded world layers.
• Fixed a regression where mods were not able to import the Mod class by name.
• Fixed a regression where menu bar buttons registered using mod.addMenuBarButton loaded images from the wrong path.
• Fixed responding “no” to enable/disable “required mod” interrupts not cancelling enabling/disabling the first mod.
• Fixed errors caused by loading a save which had previously had a mod enabled with custom stats.

Modding

• Added “inter-mod registries”, for mods to provide things to others (or not, if the target mod is not present).

Mods

Troposphere

• Fixed taking damage as a ghost when falling from the troposphere.
• Fixed emptying a water tile in the troposphere spawning a dirt tile in its place.

Balancing Tools

• Now compatible with Debug Tools 2.0.

Debug Tools

• Other players besides the host on a server now do not have permission to use Debug Tools by default (this can be changed by inspecting the player).
• Fixed a bug that caused panels registering as hook hosts if you disabled debug tools after loading a game with it.
• Fixed an error when closing the Debug Tools dialog.
• Now supports other mods adding custom panels, inspection panels, and entity inspection sections.
• Fixed adding items to inventory producing multiple items based on how many times you opened the inspect dialog.
• Fixed items from mods loaded after Debug Tools not appearing in “Add Item to Inventory” inspection dropdowns.
• Actions can now be used while moving.

Have you always wanted to see a certain item in Wayward? Or maybe you are tired of seeing an idea sitting on the todo list and want to push it along faster? Now’s your chance!

Submit your item idea along with any details you wish to provide (description, actions, abilities, etc.). The top three submissions (based on feasibility, appropriateness, and concept) will appear in-game in the next major release and the winners will receive a free Wayward key! We will also be choosing a handful random submissions that will receive a free Wayward key for their effort!

Deadline: October 20th, 2018

Submission form: https://goo.gl/forms/g2pWKTdJkfFFJqjD2

Disclaimer: Proposed item ideas may or may not already exist within on our todo list and may already be in production. Full implementation of any item idea will be under our discretion and direction. Winners will be credited in an upcoming major release changelog and blog post. The first person to submit an idea will have priority for winning. Don’t lawyer me, bro.

Have fun!

Winners:

Wells by Adrien S. Enzo

Wells have been on the todo for quite awhile. It’s also one of the most requested items and features. Luckily Adrien S. Enzo submitted it first, so he gets all the credit! Fortunately, it’s a win-win for everybody as this will be a great item to reduce some of the tedium of water gathering. You’ll be able to build wells out of rocks, sandstone and clay bricks.

Hitching Post by Xechorizo

Xechorizo submitted this as “tether”, but the functionality will remain the same. It will be an item that can be built into the ground that will allow you to hitch tamed creatures so they stay put. This will be very useful for tamed creature management.

Hardtack by RatElemental

It’s probably not the baked item that most people wanted, but it’s a start! Hardtack will be the first “baked” item to be added to Wayward. This item is a bit sneaky because we also had to add in five other items just to support it (including pans, flour, and dough).

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Although we could only choose a couple of items to go in for beta 2.7, these are not the only items appearing in the next major release. We’re already at over 30 new items in the release. We also made notes on all of the other submissions for future consideration.

Special thanks to everybody who submitted, but especially: kenov511, DanekJovax, Arnkh, GlerkTheFlurp, and Mitzthekitty who won a free Wayward Steam key!

We haven’t quite yet started on the next major release, but instead have been plugging away on getting Wayward more stable, improving systems, and balancing the game. There has also been a lot of work and development put into new modding support.

Something of note is that we released a new “Compatibility Branch” that should help anybody experiencing freezing, saving or graphical issues with the game. Please check this branch out if you are having one or more of these issues. More information on changing branches is available here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=721479594

Another thing to note is that we rebuilt the official Debug Tools mod from scratch using the new dialog and UI system. Among the ton of new features in it, it’s now a great example case if you want to poke around in the code for your own modification. Shout-out to Yuudaari on that one! Check it out on the Steam Workshop here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=474819610

Improvements

• In “Simulated Turns” mode, the game tick now occurs simultaneously with the player turn. The next game tick is still delayed by the same amount of time.
• Plant spreading will now no longer cross doodads that block movement (walls, fences, etc.).
• Multiple changes have been done to items produced when many items burn, including many fixes/consistency improvements.
• Piles of ash can now burn away with enough time.
• Doodads will provide more accurate and consistent items when burning, especially during different growth stages or stages of resource gathering for plants.
• Items in fire (that can be burned) will now reduce in durability until eventually burning instead of sometimes instantly producing burned items.
• Some items may now produce multiple items when burning (such as logs producing multiple charcoal). Crafted items will now also be more consistent with what they burn into based on what was used in the craft.
• You can now connect to a server with required mods disabled. The game will automatically enable them for you and disable them after disconnecting.
• Items that can spawn creatures on decay or break will now be able to spawn on a wider variety of tiles.
• A saving screen will now show when exiting the game by closing the window.
• You can now disable the custom cursor in the options menu.
• Added some information about crafting fertile soil within the gardening help article.
• Mods in the multiplayer menu now show their multiplayer compatibility in their tooltip. (Thanks black silence!)
• Ghosts can no longer write notes.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed difficulty appearing as a number instead of a message. (Thanks NB!)
• Fixed players being briefly invisible when they join a multiplayer game in simulated turn mode.
• Removed incorrect checks for under player when using an adjacent tile for sleeping.
• Fixed the help article filter matching formatting code within article text.
• Fixed a bug that would allow you to re-roll legendary item properties by crafting, then disassembling the item.
• Fixed walk to tile sometimes displaying the wrong path in multiplayer.
• Fixed being able to use the “/pause” command in single player/turn-based mode.
• Fixed container weight display not updating when using consumables within them.
• Fixed a rare issue where over repeated uses of the options menu the game may begin to become laggier (due to a UI leak).
• Fixed unpublished mods marked as unloadable: false warning the user every time they load the save. (Thanks CloneDeath!)
• Fixed imagePath loading mod resources from the game’s root rather than the mod’s root for stats, status effects, menu bar buttons, and more. (Thanks CloneDeath!)
• Fixed not being able to use class instances with methods as descriptions in some mod registration functions. (Thanks CloneDeath!)
• Fixed the “cannot be run on this system or browser” error screen fading in rapidly, and disappearing to loading screen.
• Fixed a bug where creatures could continue attacking dead players/ghosts.
• Prevented connected clients in multiplayer games from visually manipulating the state of game pausing (even though it had no impact).
• Possibly fixed an issue where saving never completed.
• Fixed an issue that caused worlds last used for multiplayer in simulated turns mode to stay as simulated turns mode in single player.
• Fixed incorrect weight set for coconut containers of goat milk.
• Removed ability to dismantle books as weight can be incorrect after opening books and revealing other/new items.
• Fixed possible desyncs when crafting and starting fires.
• Fixed the region that allowed idling from the mouse movement bind being sized incorrectly depending on the zoom level.
• Fixed an issue where some creatures could get stuck when spawning from treasure chests.
• Fixed each mod only being able to add one NewUi Dialog.
• Fixed walk to tile issues near world edge.

Balance

• Increased animal taming and bartering (trading) reputation gains.
• Reduced the weight of limestone and limestone powder.
• Reduced the stoke value of charcoal due to its new abundance with the other burning changes.
• Items are now damaged when dropping to the ground on player death in casual and when breaking chests.

Modding

• Updated the “Modding Guide” with a new tutorial for creating the “Hello World” example mod among other changes and fixes.
• Added the GetZoomLevel hook, for overriding the default zoom functionality.
• Added the PostFieldOfView hook, called when the field of view has been initialized.
• Added a GetTilePenalty hook, used for manipulating which tiles should be preferred using “walk to tile”.
• @HookMethod now does type checking on the method it decorates. If the method is not a valid hook, it will error.
• Added the GetCameraPosition hook for implementing a custom camera.
• It is no longer necessary to mark mods with only customizations as “multiplayerCompatible”, and it is no longer necessary to mark mods with no scripts or customizations as “multiplayerClientside”.
• Added multiple decorators such as @Mod.instance, @Mod.log, or @Mod.saveData for injecting a mod’s objects into fields.
• Added the GetMaxSpritesForLayer hook for changing the maximum number of sprites that can be rendered in a SpriteBatchLayer at once.

Mods

Debug Tools

• The Debug Tools mod has been completed redesigned and has a brand new feature set.

Troposphere

• You can now use “walk to tile” to walk directly into a hole in the troposphere, but in all other cases you will path around the hole.
• Increased the base durability of the nimbus.
• Fixed artifacting of the overworld during movement.

Ridiculous Hairdos

• Marked as compatible for multiplayer.

Technical

• Released a new “Compatibility Branch” that may resolve some compatibility issues on some hardware configurations.
• Updated Wayward to Electron 3.0.0-beta 6.
• Improved the performance of calling most hooks.
• Tiles can now have multiple overlays.
• Added new properties to IActionArgument.