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[milo christiansen]

Currently I am working on a server mod that acts as a bridge between the in-game chat and a Discord channel. Every message sent in-game is sent on Discord and vice-versa.

It isn't finished yet, but it is pretty close, I just need to figure out the last few issues to get the prototype working...

[IWishIWereSarah]

Ooh, that could be cool, especially with the official Discord of the game

By the way, do you have a way to write in colors in the in-game chat ?
Otherwise, it could be a nice little suggestion for the developer.

[milo christiansen]

By the way, do you have a way to write in colors in the in-game chat ?

The game chat is pretty basic right now, with no formatting options at all.


I can't seem to get any C# Discord bindings working at all, but I have a work around that the first versions at least will be able to use (The mod will talk to Discord over a lightweight proxy server). Pain in the butt? Yup, but that is what you have to do when you can't find a library that doesn't crash and you don't want to write your own Actually, it won't be harder for me, since I can write a server like that in a couple of minutes with my eyes closed, it will be a tiny bit harder for any server operators using the mod though.

Spoiler: Library issues details (click to show/hide)

I tried two sets of C# Discord bindings: Discord.NET and DSharpPlus. Discord.NET crashes when it tries to connect with a JSON serialization error (which I have reported, but received no response about yet). DSharpPlus seems to work, but the bot never stops showing as "offline", and trying to send a message gives me a 400 error. I spent several hours trying to get help on the DSharpPlus Discord, and got quite a bit of it, but nothing suggested worked.

The mod (mostly tested). Use at your own risk!

[MarcAFK]

Ptw? Nah screw it. Heres some screenshots.
Lumpheads want to welcome their new neighbor

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

View of the plains and my new charcoal burner from the window

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The forge is complete. Praise Armok!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[milo christiansen]

Spoiler: My Base (click to show/hide)

Here is a view of Marc's base from the top of mine. I'm living in a hollowed out rock spire


The view out my front door. That massive berry bush hedge off to the left? Yeah, it has over 130 bushes in it (I counted).


Exterior view of my spire.


The interior view of the only furnished level. I have a second level dug out above this and most of a third above that.

[milo christiansen]

Yup.

[gomez]

I am very tempted to buy this but my google-fu has only found two lets play videos, one was from a lady who had never played minecraft before, and another was some dude who had never played TFC before, and didn’t know about knapping.

Are there any decent videos on the yub tubs or twitch that I should watch?

[Mephisto]

If the lady is BU4U (of BU4U Gaming), she hangs out on the VS Discord occasionally.

Never having played Minecraft before isn't really a black mark on anyone's record.

[milo christiansen]

1.5.1 is out!

And my client-side chat mod now plays alert sounds when you get a message.

EDIT: You want a Let's Play video you say? This one isn't bad, actually it is pretty good.

[milo christiansen]

Screenshot time! This time I shot up a really cool base made by foxdog2 and empiredog (Discord names) at -400,-3000

Spoiler: Big images! (click to show/hide)

I'll start with the farm as viewed from the roof of their house, this is really cool looking IMHO.



The inside of the house in question is pretty cool too, lots of innovative uses of trapdoors here (that divider wall is all trapdoors).



This little pond is so cool, I wish my base had a good spot for one like it



And, an outside view of the house. This place is so high up it has clouds going through it (not shown).

[milo christiansen]

Today the official server had 10 people on at once. Quite a few more than normal!

Things are really shaping up, there is a road network connecting most player settlements together (guess who is one of the biggest road builders ), and there are some truly grand houses.

In short, it is well worth visiting!

[milo christiansen]

1.5.2 is out!

* Feature: New Creature - The Locust
Required several new engine mechanics, but these creatures will now climb any block, stick in herds, attack in herds, might startle the unsuspecting spelunker and are generally just really creepy

* Feature: Greater lantern variety
* New recipe. Is now made from metal plates, clear quartz and a candle
* Metal plates can now be smithed on the anvil
Can now be made from several metals, including a new 90% lead+ 10% copper alloy: Molybdochalkos. |
All available variants: Copper, Brass, Black Bronze, Tin bronze, Bismuth bronze, Iron, Molybdochalkos, Silver and Gold
* It's intensity can now be boosted by 2 light levels with gold/silver lining

* Feature: Medieval bee keeping
Bee hives will now rarely spawn in warm, rather dry climates
* Can now build skeps which, when placed nearby a hive will get populated, if there is enough nearby flowers
Populated skeps can be picked up (but only be held in one of the 4 backpack slots) and transported to your home. Hold down CTRL and then move the mouse wheel to also cycle through your backpack slots!
* Populated skeps will eventually turn into harvestable skeps that can be broken to collect honeycomb, this destroys the hive though, so make sure to keep spreading those bee hives into more nearby empty skeps
* Honeycomb can be separated into honey and beeswax by squeezing it out over an empty clay bowl
* Eating Honey heals you by 2 health points, Beeswax can be turned into candles
* Can use populated skeps to craft Beenades which can be thrown for a stingy surprise. Hint: Bees are pretty much angry at anything.

* Feature: New block - Bunch'o'Candles
* Candles crafted from beeswax can now be placed in a bunch of up to 9 in one block. Never burn out. Each candle adds one light level to the block

* Feature: Server block ticking
* Barren soil now grows back it's grass
* Lava ignites nearby combustible blocks

* Feature: Infinite Ladder Stacking! Spam place a ladder on a ladder and watch it grow until the sky or hell, whatever you like better
* Feature: Vertical slabs and vertical trapdoors by @Milo Christiansen
* Feature: New blocks - Clay brick slabs and stairs
* Feature: New blocks - Light and dark mudbricks (creative mode only for now)
* Feature: Stone Skipping - thrown stones now bounce of water surfaces
* Feature: Bamboo Saplings - leaves and the upper segments of bamboo bushes now drop bamboo saplings
* Feature: Can now select backpack slots. Hold CTRL+Mousewheel to loop through all 14 slots or use CTRL+1/2/3/4 to select a backpack slot
* Feature: Mushroom regrowth. When broken with a knife, a stem will remain that eventually regrows into a mushroom again. Mushrooms are no longer placeable in survival mode.
* Feature: Improved positional awareness for ambient sounds. They should also no longer travel further vertically than horizontally.
* Feature: Can now list privileges of a user role via /role (rolename) privilege and revoke/grant privileges to a role via /role [rolename] privilege (grant|revoke) (privname)
* Tweak: Updated server.sh by @skol. Makes use of a new backup mechanic that is way more reliable and can be done without pausing the server
* Tweak: The game client can no longer be started twice, should prevent various issues with the game still running in the background unnoticeably and hogging your computers resources, as well as potential savegame corruption issues
* Tweak: /addarea now prints out more meaningful error messages
* Tweak: Clay brick block recipe now yields double the amount of brick blocks
* Nerf: Berries now only heal 0.5 hp instead of 1 hp
* Fixed: Grass stepping sounds somewhat smudgy sounding
* Fixed: Drifter spawning unaffected by block light
* Fixed: Game still on fast-forward for a minute after getting out of bed
* Fixed: Client not logging chat messages to client-chat.txt
* Fixed: Might fixed the crafting corruption bug that crashes the client and makes crafting impossible on a server until restarted
* Fixed: Obsidian knapping missing texture
* Fixed: Several cases where the block loader crashes from invalid blocktype configurations
* Fixed: Client crashing with a IndexOutOfRangeException
* Fixed: Player getting damaged when standing on a fence that is over 3 blocks in the air
* Fixed: Issues when updating by using the windows installer when the game is still running in the background. The installer now test for that case
* Fixed: Opening/Closing Trapdoors played the sound twice
* Fixed: Mono download url outdated on mac os
* Fixed: Game crashing when trying to place metal plates on the ground
* Fixed: Fixed horsetail plant spawning white particles upon breaking
* Fixed: Torches, Lanterns and Vines attaching wrongly to some blocks
* Fixed: Default server setups causing players not to have permissions to break or use blocks. Again. Jesus.

[Mephansteras]

I finally got around to picking this up. It's definitely fun!

[Iduno]

"I would like to provide you with an update on what has been happening so far and where Vintage Story is currently standing.

Saraty and me have been having a number of hardships so we've been feeling pretty drained the last dozen days and could only get very little done on the game. Yet as always, our plans remain unchanged. We hope that in a few days we will be able to go back to a decent level of productivity and resume work on version 1.8.

The upcoming update will..."

We've heard that before.

What are the odds on the game being dead? I'd say smart money's on devs disappear, show up in 6 months-1 year with an update, then are never heard from again. But I'm fairly jaded at this point.

[milo christiansen]

Eh, they are still pretty active in the Discord. Updates were coming out at a fast pace until just recently (last version was about a month ago). The next update should be a new major version, so it isn't really delayed yet.

I wouldn't be too worried just yet.