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Updates in v2:

- Painted different terrain below mountains and forest.

- Added lava (lava is always so... much fun!)

- Placed some buildings and structures.

 

Updates in v3:

- Placed two towers \o/

- Added more accessible border pieces for monster spawning.

 

Note:

If you are starting in stupid location like on an island, just restart the map.

 

 

Download [This version will only work on "inDev11 Unstable 5" or greater]:

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Boss Llama's Basics

 

Greetings all! I figured I'd try my hand at writing up an intro to playing the game in its current form, InDev-10-14-2014b Forgive the length, but there is a lot to cover. If you're familiar certain aspects, you can probably skip whole sections. Items that might be of particular interest are the Structure Guide appendix (section 7) and Hotkey appendix (section 8).

 

I welcome any and all corrections, questions, and feedback! I'm far from perfect and am still new to the game myself, so if you know something I don't know, I'm all ears!

 

 

1) All things change

 

Please bear in mind when reading this document that it is written about a very specific version of the game – InDev-10-14-2014b. At the time of posting, this is the current version, but this can change quickly! Some things are likely to remain the same, others not so much. I’m not 100% sure how fully certain mechanics have yet been introduced, such as efficiency based on happiness, but what follows is what I believe to currently be the case.

 

 

2) The Interface

 

When launching the game, you will start with only the topmost interface, and a box asking you to place your village center. Left, right, and bottom interfaces become available rapidly. These interfaces are the way you issue commands and gain information, and are important to understand.

 

Top: The topmost interface is your overall town and game summary. You do not issue commands with it. In the center is the time of day and sun indicator, showing where you are in the world’s day/night cycle. To its left are three buttons, and to the right are two columns of data.

                The left button: Shows a villager in front of a red house, and is your Main Menu button. Presently games can’t be saved, so it only has “Exit without saving” as an option. As more system options become available, look for them here.

                The middle button: Shows a crowd of villagers, and toggles a list of all villagers in your control. A mini portrait on the left shows what each villager is presently doing, while level appears in parentheses on the right. The list is sorted from highest level to lowest. Males are in blue text, and females in pink text.

                The right button: Shows a map, and brings up a full-screen map of the entire play area. Buildings, both claims and unclaimed (see “Placing Village Center” below), show up as bright blue. Villagers are tiny green dots moving around, and yellow areas indicate resources piled on the ground. Wild resources such as food crops (orange) and crystals (blue, red) show up as well.

                The left-hand column: This data has your resource indicators. On top is wood, in the middle is stone, and on bottom is food. The number show is the sum total of all of that resource that is currently in your possession in any state. If you mouse over the number, a small set of three digits separated by slashes will appear (such as 360/155/3). The first number indicates the quantity of that resource stored in buildings, the second is the quantity of that resource lying on the ground, and the third is how much is currently being carried by villagers.

                The right-hand column: This contains the data on your villagers themselves. The top number is population, the middle number is average happiness, and the bottom number is average hunger. If you mouse over the population number, you will see two digits separated by a slash (such as 24/2). The first indicate how many working adults you have, the second number is children. For the happiness and hunger numbers, higher is better. Low numbers, especially for food, may indicate imminent danger or problems in your town

     

Left: The left interface (“Work” tab) is your harvesting command interface. There are seven buttons.

                Size Control: The two arrows with a number in between control how large an area your commands apply to – click the arrows to adjust. The area can be as small as 1 block, and as large as a 30x30 square – 900 blocks at once.

                Brush: Changes the shape of the area you give orders for. Options are circle, square, and filleted or chamfered squares.

                Assign Work (x4): The next four buttons are used to assign workers to collect a given resource. From top to bottom, they are wood, stone, crystal, and food. Select the button in question, click over the appropriate type of resource, and the villagers will go to work.

                Unassign Work: The bottom button with the big red X through it is used to cancel a work order assigned above. Be aware that cancelling the order will not prevent a worker from going to that location if they already got the call, but it will prevent them from starting work on arrival.

 

Right: The right interface (“Tiles” and “Objects” tabs) is your build menu. Objects is currently empty, so all activity is in the Tiles tab. There are nine buttons here, for the various categories of structures planned for the game. Two of these are empty  (“Decorative” and “Flooring”) and have X’s through them, and the last one is a Debug Mode tool for testing. The other six buttons are Farming, Housing, Lighting, Resource Gathering, Resource Storage, and Walls. Clicking each button will bring up a new set of buttons representing each building within a category. Click the arrow in the up left to return to the first menu. For a summary of costs and purposes of each building, please see “Structure Guide” below.

 

Bottom: The bottom interface is your selection data panel. It shows information about whomever or whatever you have selected with your cursor. It shows building information for a selected structure, or villager data for a selected villager. Villager information is detailed below. Structure Data is generally as follows:

                During Construction: It will show the resources required to build the structure, and construction progress. It expresses these as pairs of numbers divided by a slash, alongside an icon indicating the type of resource in question. A picture of a log accompanied by “10/30” indicates that 10 logs have been delivered and are awaiting construction, and a further 20 are required. This number can be somewhat tricky, as the second half then begins to count down as work is performed. A structure that is 10/30 can have workers hammering away at it until it is 0/20 before more logs are delivered. The same 20 logs are still needed, it’s just that now none are on site awaiting workers. When the second number reaches 0 for all resources, work is complete.

                Resource Storage: A complete building that is capable of holding resources will show how much it is holding, and how much it is capable of holding, on the left side of the panel. For example, a lumber shack will have an icon of a log accompanied by a pair of slash-separated numbers, such as 20/50, indicating it has 20 of a possible 50 logs stored.

                Workers: Buildings that require employees will have the familiar slashed pair of numbers in the top center of their interface, alongside a hammer icon. Small green and red + and – symbols are present, and allow the player to increase or decrease the number of workers assigned to a building. If the number is 0, the building isn’t used. Maximum workforce isn’t required at this time for efficient use of some buildings (such as farms), but can be used to speed certain tasks along. This is as close to manual control of workers as the game comes at present, as you can force workers (by assigning them to jobs like “Lumberjack” or “Food Hauler”) to prioritize certain types of tasks. It is very important when you first place your Village Center to remember to assign your workers to it! Without assignment, they wander aimlessly.

                Residents: Houses will have a resident counter in place of a worker counter. It indicates in the same way, but is not manually controllable at this time.

                Range: A number alongside a pair of green arrows, indicates how many blocks away from the building are considered to be within buildable range.

                Portraits: Small portraits on the right of the interface show the current activities of all employees/residents of a structure. Mouse over to see their names. In the future, one will be able to access stats and to directly select from here, but at present it is not possible.

 

 

3) Meet the Villagers

 

First and foremost, let’s take a look at who the villagers are in the game. Villagers are your basic workers and functionaries, much as you might find in any other town building game. While they have occupations, you cannot control them at an individual level. Work is assigned to the community on the whole, and based villagers working in appropriate occupations will be assigned to perform the tasks required.

 

Stats: Villagers have a number of statistics visible if you select them. They are:

                Health: In red and indicated by a heart, if health hits 0, the villager will die. Villagers heal gradually over time, if they have their basic needs met.

                Hunger: In green and indicated by a turkey leg, if hunger hits 0, the villager will begin rapidly taking damage from starvation. A villager will seek out food at their home, if they have one, and barring that, may run to collect food that grows wild nearby. They will not raid a farm to feed themselves, and can easily die amidst fully grown crops if food delivery hasn’t occurred.

                Energy: In yellow and indicated by a lightning bolt, energy represents how tired a villager is. As the number gets lower, the villager will need to sleep to recover energy. A villager with a home will go there to do so, and will recover energy rapidly. A homeless villager will collapse where they stand and sleep in the fields.

                Happiness: In blue, and represented by a peace symbol, unhappy villagers (lower numbers) will slack off, work slowly, and won’t mate. Homelessness, hunger, and overwork will contribute to lowered happiness in your population. A sufficiently happy villager will be a better worker, and will seek out a mate with whom, eventually, children will be produced to grow your town’s population. Children will have the surname of their parents.

                Marriage: If a villager has found a mate, the name of that mate will be shown in white, indicated by a ring icon. The surnames will also change to match that of whichever partner was more recently generated by the game.

 

Attributes: Villagers also have a set of attributes. I don’t yet know what precisely these indicate or if they have an effect on game mechanics – please report if you know for sure. These attributes are Strength (red), Dexterity (green), and Intelligence (blue). Villagers also have a level, written in white and indicated by an upward-pointing arrow. As level increases, so do the attributes.

 

Icons: As villagers work, you will see various icons popping up above their head on a regular basis. The include:

                XP: Blue text indicating numbers such as “XP +7” to represent experience earned from carrying out tasks. This goes towards increasing the villager’s level.

                HP: Appearing in red text, HP represents Hit Points, or health. It typically moves up or down in 1 point increments as villagers heal or take damage. If you see a villager running along spraying blood with a chain of “HP -1” appearing over his head, he’s probably starving to death (at this point). Once mobs and magic are added, we will likely see numbers far larger than 1 appearing.

                Peace symbol with an X through it: Blue symbol, red X, indicates a decrease in happiness for any number of reasons – see Happiness, above.

                House with an X through it: A small yellowish thatched hut, with a red X. Indicates that the villager in question is homeless – more housing is required.

                Attributes: Attribute abbreviations followed by a number, such as “STR +1,” indicates a change in the attributes of a particular worker.

                Hammer: Seen above builders working on structures, a small hammer followed by a +1 indicates that the villager has just contributed 1 construction point to the structure being built. Each point brings the structure closer to completion, with the total number of points required being the sum of the resource cost of the structure (ie 35 wood and 10 stone requires 45 points)

                Rings: Always seen in pairs, villagers with small white ring icons rising above their heads have just gotten married. They will attempt to live together, and may end up having children.

                Hearts: Always seen in pairs, villagers with red hearts above them have just mated, yielding a small chance of a pregnancy in the female.

 

Reproduction: A couple that is sufficiently happy and has idle time together will mate, and may become pregnant. If this occurs, there will be status text on the female’s stat box indicating that she is pregnant. She will be less efficient a worker during this time. When the child is born, you do not yet receive any notification, but will see that your population counter has increased. Children use resources, but cannot work until reaching adulthood. The reproduction rate of even a healthy town is presently very low, but the reproduction mechanic has been identified as one that will be balanced in future updates.

 

 

4) Resources, and Placing Your Village Center

 

When placing your village center, it is important to consider where you are putting it, and not just slap it down willy nilly. In the current InDev, without mobs, defense isn’t a consideration (though it certainly will be in the future!). Instead, look at the resources available to you before placing this all-important first structure

                Wood: Wood is used in  nearly every single structure in the game, including the center itself. You’ll want to make sure you have sufficient woodland near your start point to support the construction of your starting buildings, as a long walk to reach it will slow things down and can doom your town to starvation.

                Stone: Stone is used for most buildings, in increasing quantities the “better” the structure is. You don’t need as much stone right off the bat, but you will need some if you want to create decent houses and farms. Expect stone to be especially in demand near town after mobs are added, when it can be used for high-end walls

                Food: Food shows up as small patches of carrots growing in grassy areas, often up against trees or mountains. It is critical that you have these an accessible distance from your starting point, as they are presently the only way to get your farms working! Do not set your villagers to gather food until you have at least one, and preferably several, fully built farms. If you do, they are liable to eat all the food and leave none to plant your farms. If this happens, given the current pace of hunger in the game, you will starve to death.

                Crystals: Not yet used in the game, do not worry about these in this build. In future builds they will be used for magical structures and potions, with different powers existing for different colors. At present they are nothing but eye candy.

                Open Land: Not a harvestable resource, but vital none the less. If you build in a tightly confined area, you will not have space to build the buildings you need until you clear out all the trees/stones in the way. Simply put, you do not have time to do this – you will die. Each building you build has a Range characteristic, indicating how far it spreads your influence (buildable area). If there isn’t space within range of your current buildings, you can’t build. Being encircled at some distance isn’t necessarily bad, as it provides resources, and when mobs are introduced, defense, but having enough open land to build your center and your initials houses and farms is critical.

                Pre-existing Structures: Scattered throughout maps at the start can be various structures, left behind by previous unfortunate villagers. If you build close enough to them to bring them within your Range, you will take them over. These structures exist in a damaged state and will take some amount of resources to repair, but it is only a small fraction of the cost of building one from scratch. The right pre-existing structures (houses and farms) can give a new settlement a big shot in the arm. Just be careful not to build too close to something you don’t want… we can’t yet cancel or pause build orders once issued, and villagers will spend precious time and resources on every structure in your Range, whether you want it or not.

 

 

5) First Structures/Build Order

 

I won’t get too much in to strategy, as I’m sure there are many different things that work, and part of the purpose of testing is to find as many of those things as possible. Still, to reduce frustrations for new players, I’ll suggest the following:

                Farms: After placing the Village Center, the very first thing I suggest is a working farm. Preferably two. Large farms are far more efficient uses of space, and if you have the wood available, a better idea. When the farms are finished, immediately assign some farmers and send them to gather food. Get those farms planted! Once the farms are planted, you can reduce the number of farmers and reassign them to builder jobs at the Village Center.

                Houses: Once the farms are planted, housing is the next imperative. Homeless villagers are unhappy, unfed, and less rested. The Small Shack is the best deal currently, offering the best ratio of housing to space to cost. Be aware of future balance changes. Make sure you have enough housing for all of your citizens, and if you hope to expand that population, best to have the house available first.

                Other Buildings: Once you’ve got stable farms and housing, you can play around without danger. Most of the other buildings serve limited purpose in the game so far, but will become important as additional features are implemented. Consider your priorities, and build accordingly. Experiment, have fun, don’t worry too much! Saving games isn’t available yet, so go wild and don’t fear the consequences.

 

 

6) Assigning work

 

Slow and steady wins the race when it comes to assigning gatherers to collect resources. Because the game is using a first-in first-out system of tasks, if you assign a huge swath of forest before clicking on a couple pieces of stone that are in your way, the stone won’t be cleared until the forest is fully chopped. Basically, select things in the order you want the villagers to do them. A few others things to be aware of:

                Dot system: When you assign something to be collected, you will see dots appear on top of the resources in traffic light colors – red, yellow, and a green. Green means that the resource is accessible, and a worker has been assigned to come collect it. They are on the way! Yellow means the resource is accessible, but nobody yet has the assignment. Red indicates that a resource is not presently accessible – something else will have to be cleared out of the way before an assignment can be made.

                Storage: At present, resources last forever on the ground. This will change, and storage buildings will be required if you want to make good use of what’s available to you. The workers in storage buildings specialize in collection of their specific resource, and it has been suggested that they will have a bonus to collecting it. Place storage buildings near the resource you want collected, for extra efficiency.

 

 

7) Appendix 1: Structure Guide

 

Structures by build category, listing cost, footprint (WxH), and useful data

Farming

                Small Farm: 30 wood, 7x7, Up to 4 employees, grows 6 food at a time and holds up to 25

                Large Farm: 60 wood, 9x7, Up to 8 employees, grows 12 food at a time and holds up to 50

Houses

                Tent: 15 wood, 4x4, Up to 4 residents, stores up to 12 food

                Small Shack: 35 wood/10 stone, 4x4, Up to 8 residents, stores up to 24 food

                Small Hovel : 70 wood/20 stone, 5x5, Up to 12 residents, stores up to 36 food

Lighting

                Small Wood Torch: 10 wood, 1x1, casts light

Resource Gathering

                Lumber Shack: 25 wood/25 stone, 8x6, Up to 8 employees, holds up to 50 wood

                Lumber Mill: 50 wood/75 stone, 11x7, Up to 16 employees, holds up to 150 wood

                Stone Shack: 25 wood/35 stone, 8x6 Up to 8 employees, holds up to 50 stone

                Stone Masonry: 50 wood/100 stone, 8x9, up to 16 employees, holds up to 150 stone

Resource Storage

                Food Storage: 40 wood, 7x7, Up to 4 employees, storages up to 75 food

Walls

                Wall (Stone): 15 stone, high-end wall built one square at a time

                Wall (Sturdy):  5 stone, mid-range wall built one square at a time

                Wood Wall (Basic):  5 wood, simple wall built one square at a time

 

 

8) Appendix 2: Hotkeys

 

Until the ability to assign your own controls is added, I thought it best to list the hotkeys I’m aware of to help folks navigate:

Screen Movement: Use WASD to move the screen around. Alternately, hold right click and drag.

Selecting: Click the primary mouse button

Deselecting: Press the Esc key

Zoom In: Press Keypad +

Zoom Out: Press Keypad –

Toggle Fullscreen: Press F12 to toggle between fullscreen and windowed mode.

Toggle Grid: Press G

Screenshot: Press F2 (saves in “screenShots” subfolder of your RPC directory)

Visual Performance Overlay Toggle:  Press F3 (places box around each entity, provides performance and game tracking data in upper left)

Auto-program mode that would read my mind and make all the cool ideas "just happen".

OVERVIEW:

Retro-Pixel Castles is a very brutal game if you don't play your cards right, this guide is designed to get you up and running. It's not all inclusive, but it'll get your village to a sustainable state!

 

THE MINI-GUIDE:

The first few days of Retro-Pixel Castles can be daunting, but the first one is probably the most critical. You will find yourself with absolutely no buildings, and you'll have to setup shop quickly. You will first need to find a place to place your Village Center.

 

 

Placing your Village Center is simple, just click on the dropdown on the top GUI over on the right hand, and select a place you'd like to drop it. Look for a place with food, trees, rocks and crystals! You'll want to be near all of these in the future.

 

 

Now that you've placed your village center, you can assign villagers to it, by clicking the + and - buttons on the GUI. (TIP: You can quick-assign all available villagers by right clicking on +.)

 

 

Once your villagers are assigned, you simply need to select resources to collect. The village center requires both wood and rocks, select the assign work buttons for them on the left hand GUI and select some resources you'd like to gather. As soon as they are selected, your workers will head over and start the process!

 

(NOTE: Once the Village Center is complete, your villagers may decide they want to repair any abandoned buildings in the area if you're near any. In most cases, it's probably a good idea to let them complete those buildings first, but some may require additional resources you don't have access to. If you want to stop them, you can pause construction by clicking on the building and hitting the pause button.)

 

 

Once your Village Center is completed, you should probably build housing. You can select housing on the right hand GUI. You won't have the correct materials yet to build anything other than a few tents, so go ahead and place a few down. The builders will then go collect the resources needed and put them together for you!

 

Next, you'll need a farm to feed yourself. Back on the right hand GUI click on "Farms" and select a farm you'd like to build. You can build either of the two current options at this time, so pick whatever you want.

 

Now that you have farms built, you can start harvesting food. But you need workers assigned first, so be sure to unassign some workers from your Village Center, and then click on the farm and assign them there. Once assigned, you can click on the Assign Work (Food) button on the left GUI and select some food on the map for your farmers to go collect.

 

Finally, you should probably build yourself a Guard Outpost and assign a few guards to it. You'll need these guys to defend your villagers while you work. Like the farms and housing, you can find the guard buildings on the right GUI. Just click "Defense".

 

 

That's it! You're on your own now. You'll probably want to build yourself a Lumber Shack and Stone Shack next, get a Crystillery running and maybe get some magic buildings going. But I'll leave you to figure out the rest.

 

Good luck!

Finally! After two hard weeks of completely rewriting the main menu, InDev 10 is here! Most of the changes were behind the scenes in preparation for the upcoming save system. Most of what you'll notice is some bug fixes, and of course the new GUI. Enjoy!

 

Full Change Log

- Added mouse scroll wheel zooming.

- Completely rewrote theMain Menu GUI.

- New Map Pack system added, you can now bundle your maps into map packs, instead of everything all being in one folder.

- You can delete maps (and map packs) within the game now.

- Added a Credits page (Note: Not all Backers are listed yet, and it still needs cleaned up)

- Brand new fonts.

- Selecting a terrain category in the map editor no longer auto selects a terrain.

- Renamed "Gathering Buildings" to "Harvest Buildings"

- Fixed a bug that would cause the map editor to crash when moving/deleting farmland.
- Fixed the grab tool, it now works correctly.
- Fixed a bug where if you dismantle a building that has resources, but has not been worked on yet, it would delete the resources.

- Moved all the user maps to the "Developer's Choice" map pack.

- Updated all the old user maps to their latest versions.

- Added user map Altaria, by Kingroka.

- Added user map Eduin's Rest, by Tattagreis

- Added user map Island Group, by Galahir950

- Bunch of other small fixes/tweaks.

 

Enjoy! Don't forget to report any bugs you find!

Hey all, thought id make a post for a map I made, plus any I create in the future.

 

Finished:

 

Bradleys crossing. (DOWNLOAD <- CLICK MEH)

http://i.imgur.com/zfG2vBp.png

 

Version 2 is online and ready to download (the link above should be updated)

 

Updates:

-Rocks have gravel under them.

-More Crystals

 

In-Process:

 

Crater: Download to test: CLICK ME HERE, NOW!

 

Desert of Death: Download to test: Unavailable!

 

Non-working (pics only as they are tests I did.)

 

Forgotten City

 

http://i.imgur.com/48qmrlg.png

Doesnt work, Villagers go NUTS trying to repair buildings. I always liked survival in a city ever since the Night of the Living Dead custom map on WC3, so a city map is one that I tried here.

 

Mountain Home (yay Dwarf Fortress)

 

http://i.imgur.com/ZwB59j0.png

Takes to long to mine, so no DFness . Simple as that. wanted to give a bit of a siege (heh) aspect to the map, and maybe have monsters spawn in tunnels too, but alas is was not ment to be.

 

Last: If the images are to large (As I have a large screen) ill compress them.

I find it HIGHLY unprofessional that you would post my review here for active fans to troll with negative comments, rather than leaving the comments here to the forums.

 

You and your fans have been harassing me for a month over a single negative review. Thus the deleting comments.

 

I do not wish to have my steam account linked to these forums. Please Remove the links to my review and from my review here. I do not wish to be harassed by fans and you anymore. Just leave me alone.

 

My negative review stands. As far as context goes, it remains here for anyone who decides to check out the forums direct links are unnecessary and unprofessional. Especially since Steam does not want ANYONE posting outside links in the comments.

You do realize that by posting your opinion on an open board you've invited others to discuss it? I don't know if you've actually been flamed by people via private messages or not, but no one here is abusing you. You're playing the victim while attacking Ray for sticking to his vision of the game. Lore was never a strong focal point of the game, and as he mentioned, it can be tacked on later. You're focusing too much on one flimsily-explained mechanic (non-villager Catjeet being ignored by monsters) in a game that hardly has any explanations— just mechanics that can be given lore fluff later.

I like to believe that the Catjeet merchants are ignored because they don't belong to permanent settlements. The monsters only start to appear around settled areas. Perhaps the Catjeet work alone, and their individualism/lack of dedication to a "cause" or "home" makes them not apparent targets to a bunch of creatures that may not have eyes, ears, etc. or a need to eat. My point is that it's not difficult to apply your imagination to unexplained phenomena.

 

If you've played for 250 hours and consider flaming the dev to be "helping", you've definitely gotten more than your money's worth. Personally, I'd remove that negative review and wait for the game to actually have any lore before attempting to judge it based on that, but that's your choice. The rest of us will keep enjoying the developing game and give suggestions as to the course of the game's development instead of attacking Ray for being "unprofessional" because some things aren't fleshed out and the game won't be tailored to our individual visions.

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch!

The high-content updates keep on coming! Here's Unstable 4, an update full to the brim with a bunch of new content, bug fixes and tweaks. A large majority of this patch was based on your feedback!, so I hope you all enjoy the changes you made happen!

You may need to delete/recreate your profile if you discover you can't start new Skirmish maps!

You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board.

InDev 18 Unstable 4 Change Log
- New Bow Tower has been added, a mechanical tower that only cost basic resources to build (Rock and wood). But requires ammunition to fire.
- New Bowyer building has been added along with a new job, the Fletcher. The Fletcher can manufacture logs into arrows at the Bowyer building for use in the new Bow Tower.
- Reduced the cost of Sturdy Walls and Wood Walls to 2, and Stone Walls to 4.
- Cullis Gates now start to eject things at random when they're overloading.
- Radiance Pools no longer shoot projectiles at nearby mobs, instead they trigger an aura effect that affects everything in the area.
- Fixed a bug causing villagers to ignore their work chance flags, making them sometimes work themselves to death instead of finding homes, mates or just taking a break.
- Fixed a bug where workers would not stop working, even if their hunger or energy is too low.
- Workers are now less inclined to work, giving them more downtime to do other things.
- Increased villager chat rates.
- Increased the chance a villager will become a mate with another villager they are chatting with.
- Optimized the weather system, improving frame rates during intense weather and adding more efficient particle generation based on the game's zoom level.
- Improved the overall rendering and update speeds of the particle system.
- Fixed an issue with particle generation on the object icon overlays, causing them to generate particles even if they were off-screen.
- Large Storage Building now displays everything it is allowed to store rather than just the first few on the list.
- Mob's tile coordinates are now displayed in debug mode.
- Reversed the tile variance changes from Unstable 3, they were sometimes causing coordinate positioning problems.
- Added missing shadow and collision maps for the new Ancient Cullis Gate and Ancient Radiance Pools.
- Improved the search algorithms for all objects and mobs in the game, slightly increasing the overall speed of many of the game mechanics.

InDev 18 Unstable 3 Change Log
- You can now "Poke" dead bodies, making them decay faster and release some extra essence.
- New spell; The Grab Spell/Tool. You can now pickup monsters, villagers and resources on the map and move them around. You can even grab resources directly out of buildings, or harvest them yourself right off the terrain.
- New spell; Resurrect. You can now resurrect dead villagers if you see any ghosts wandering around in your village. Be careful though, there's a slight chance they'll come back as a zombie!
- Dissolve spell now also dissolves corpses, turning them into additional essence.
- The old Limbo spells have been removed from the game.
- Moved all the spells to the center top GUI.
- Added an "Available Worker" count to the top bar on the GUI in parenthesis next to the total villager count.
- Cullis Gate mechanics have been completely rewritten. You can now use the new grab spell on a Cullis Gate to grab a random creature or resource from Limbo. You can also drop creatures and resources into the gate, sending them to Limbo.
- If used too much too fast, the Cullis Gate can explode.
- A bunch of new particle effects have been added, and some older ones altered.
- Essence now tends to float to the nearest collector, rather than a random one.
- Ghosts now appear more often.
- Ghosts are no longer attracted to the Cullis Gate.
- Buildings no longer catch fire unless they specifically take fire damage.
- Builders and Crystillers can now build with crylithium.
- Starting a new map on the World Map will now always sent 32 villagers, and 50 resources.
- Fire Bolt Tower now requires crylithium to be built.
- The Limbo tab has been slightly redesigned.
- New Ancient Cullis Gates have been added to the game, they work exactly like the regular Cullis Gates, but can be found naturally on the map.
- New Ancient Radiance Pools have been added, they cannot be built. They attract creatures to them and sap essence from other sources on the map similar to an Essence Collector, then convert it into an energy bolt that will both heal and give experience to nearby creatures.
- Increased refining speeds for all buildings that can refine.
- The position data has been changed slightly, making mobs move and stand around in a little more natural positions instead of always being centered on the tiles.
- Fixed a crash when trying to take resource from the map and send them to Limbo when they're in-use.
- The wandering rates of monsters have been reduced slightly.

Known Issues that will be resolved before the stable build
- You can send villagers and resources to Limbo in Skirmish mode. This should not be allowed.
- If your world map data is obsolete or otherwise unusable, sometimes you may not be able to start a new Skirmish game. To fix this, just reset the world map or create a new profile.
- The tips system is grossly obsolete after all the changes in InDev 18.
- You may need to delete/recreate your profile if you discover you can't start new Skirmish maps!

Well, this game is like the best mixture of Lemings style and Dwarf Fortress craziness, and I can't get enough of it, so I made a map

 

 

You can download the map here: http://s000.tinyuplo...642182948223251

 

Have fun everybody!

Hi Guys,

 

I decided to try my luck with the map editor and created my very first map. I thought sharing it with you would be a nice way to celebrate, so here you are!

 

https://dl.dropboxus...756/Balaton.rar

 

 

 

Its main feature is a likeness of Lake Balaton, a true lake in Hungary, Europe, on the northern coast of which I live. I've tried to roughly portray some geographical features of the lake's surroundings as well: some volcanic hills along the northern shoreline and the like. The map features multiple starting zones with ample space and resources to start constructing your camp, as well as several ruined buildings for you to reclaim. These are situated in a way to represent real-world towns around the lake (Veszprem, Keszthely, Siofok). The map was kind of a little experiment for me, which I thoroughly enjoyed...hope you will find it interesting! 

 

Have fun playing!

 

Peter

InDev 14d is out, this mini-patch's main focus was to add the heavily requested Clear Terrain function to the game and throw in a bunch of tweaks and bug fixes before starting in on the next big patch.

Warning!: One of the changes in this patch greatly increases the base stats of all mobs across the board, meaning old save files will be completely crippled. Sadly this means your villagers will probably find themselves barely able to move due to the new movement speed calculations being based on the new stat system, and they'll be slaughtered very quickly by the first newly spawned mob that attacks the village. I highly recommend starting a new game!

You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board.

InDev 14d Mini-Patch Change Log
- Clear Terrain tool added, you can now assign terrain to be completely obliterated by your builders, but the process will not return any resources.
- Reduced the Fire Bolt tower costs from 15 energy to 10.
- Villagers are much more willing to flee when outside the village.
- Mobs now reconsider their combat targets when they are hit, occasionally turning around and attacking their attacker even if they already have a target they are chasing.
- All mob stats have been increased across the board.
- Pregnancy chances have been increased slightly.
- Fixed stone shack description.
- Fixed a loading crash when some particles wouldn't load correctly.
- Greatly increased monster aggression, they will almost never run away anymore.
- Alerting other villagers of an attack will no longer occasionally pull the entire villager.
- Tweaked the selection dot graphics a bit.
- Total housing is now displayed in the top GUI, instead of total buildings.
- Monsters now gain much less experience burrowing through terrain.
- "Total Heroes" added to the population tab.
- Ghosts can no longer be selected when they're invisible.
- Fixed a bug that would allow adults to couple with children (Eww, I know right?) that could eventually crash the game under very specific conditions.
- Tweaked the mini-tutorial overlay on the village center.
- Combat AI now disables if the mob is "stuck" (standing on a blocked tile), preventing a AI related crash.
- Slightly increased all villagers movement speed.
- Can no longer build on any rough terrain of any kind. You need to clear it first!

This guy REALLY wants to attack my village. Also his name is amusingly appropriate

 

Hello everyone, Ferret here! Currently a 150$ Backer and a person of high hopes for the development of this game.  I hope to get to meet a lot of like minded, nice, and intelligent individuals here as we all embrace Raymond in his quest to bring us a game worth playing. 

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I found this game by checking my old email account and then noticing an Email from SixtyGig in it. I opened up and read it. Got curious and then checked out the links. To my surprise I was caught up with joy as a person who loves retro games. I recently backed RimWorld and have been looking for another game to throw my money at. So now here I am now being impatient for the next retro game to throw my time at.

How dare you be unprofessional!

 

Yeah, the forums are a bit slow right now. I guess that's expected since RPC is still a fairly new game. I suspect it'll pick up a great deal as the game transitions out of it's "InDev Tech Demo Toy Thing" into a more functional and rounded game. Random discussion is good though, keeps us all occupied while I work on the game.

If anyone is ever bored, I also keep a semi-public record of every screenshot I've ever taken during the entire process of development from day 1 to now.

 

http://retropixelcas.../junk/devshots/

 

Enjoy the RPC history!

It sounds like you are misunderstanding what the game is meant to be. From day 1 I never cared much about the lore. The little lore that exists, if you can even call it lore, is just excuses for the game design with a fun, sometimes purposely cliche, twist like the Catjeet.

 

Many of your posts talk about breaking immersion and lazy lore designs (Fanfict names, the catjeet, etc). The reality is they're there just for the fun of it. I could have easily written some little in depth reason why the provisioners exist, made them friendly gnolls, trolls, or something else. But everything done in the game is done for the sake of fun, and to make people smile.

 

Future content is going to go even father out there, some of the future biomes planned are completely off the wall; like a "candyland" tileset, where the rocks are made of chocolate and the trees are candycanes, or a "Moon" tileset.

 

The core purpose and direction of RtR is simply to make a fun game. Not to tell an in depth story, or immerse the player into a world. Sadly, you may be looking for something in RtR that wasn't ever meant to exist.

 

But, the good news is I am going to overhaul the godlike side in a few patches (Not the next though). I have a ton of plans for churches, worshippers, and many more spells.