Unstable Update

I've pushed an unstable update. It's taken a bit longer than I planned, but that delay also allowed a bit more art to make it into this update. This is the long list of everything since the last stable release.

• Dwarf equipment -

  • Tab added to dwarf info screen.
  • Remove and equip tools and clothing.
  • Tools required to complete tasks.
  • Some tasks can be completed without tools to prevent deadlock.
  • Dwarves automatically retrieve the appropriate tool, if available.
  • Equipment is shown on the dwarf sprite.
    • This required a lot of art and is still rough - expect the occasional stray pixel; they tend to show up as bright pink.
  • Added Hoes - used for farming.
  • Dwarves start with default tools.
  • Tools aquire wear and eventually break.
  • Some color variations of standard equipment available through god menu - will eventually be craftable.
  • Tools made of different materials last different amounts of time.
    • Wood breaks quickest - Iron lasts the longest.

• New plant - Cotton

  • Spawns in grasslands and wetlands.
  • Currently unused - but expect it to be an ingredient for crafting clothing.

• New voxel types -

  • Beam and Stucco - made from sand.
  • Carved stone.
  • New tile colors.

• Improved the tutorial

  • New tutorial triggers no longer get swallowed and lost forever if they are triggered while another tutorial is active.
  • Introductory tutorials flow automatically into each other.

• Added filter to employee listing.

• Implemented camera hotkeys.

  • Shift + Number to save a camera position.
  • Control + Number to jump to a saved position.

• Changed behavior of training equipment

  • It can now be removed without having to break it, and replaced somewhere else.
  • Breaking it through training destroys it completely.

• Tasks now show why they are failing.

  • Hover over a task in the task pane to see a tooltip saying why the task has failed.
  • Some tasks are impossible - it may tell you something like "You do not have the resources", etc.
  • If a specific dwarf fails a task, it will display their name and why.
  • This is a work in progress, but most tasks should be covered.

• Build voxel tasks are now combined the same as dig tasks.

• Resource spawning separated from other entities in god menu.

• Quickplay option - previously used for debugging - added to main menu.

  • Launches game with large set of dwarves into a small world.

• Tweaked biome map colors to make them more distinguishable.

• Tweaked plant spawn rates to make them more abundant.

• Added mushrooms to more biomes to make starting with no food sources less likely.

• Increased Jolly Forest and Haunted Forest appearance rates.

• The Pumpking reigns... might want to avoid haunted forests unless you have a lot of muskets...

• Stuff you don't care about -

  • Removed implicit combinations from behavior trees - really makes the AI code easier to comprehend.
  • Improved GUI mesh generation.
  • Support dynamic GUI textures - used for the palettized resources.
  • Better resource templating.
  • All dwarf layers use palettes.
  • Fighting the billion dollar mistake.

• Bug fixes

  • Fixed gem-set trinkets not using correct graphics.
  • Fixed crafting table using wrong graphic when in resource form.
  • Fixed trinkets generated as part of trade sometimes not having graphics.
  • Fixed targets using wrong graphic when in resource form... sensing a pattern here.
  • Dwarves no longer faithfully follow a path even when the voxels have changed - meaning they no longer walk or swim through voxels built in their path.
  • Fixed issue preventing wizards from building bookshelves.
  • Fixed issue preventing placement of apothecary.
  • Fixed issue with object placement tool shutting off.
  • Fixed issue with teleporter stranding dwarves inside voxels.
  • Fixed issue that caused dwarves to fall through single voxel width bridges.
  • Fixed issue that sometimes prevented ladders from being placed.
  • Fixed issue with stockpile outline not being removed when stockpile is destroyed by fire or explosion.
  • Fixed issue where urgent tasks would interupt dwarves trying to sleep, causing an exhausted state deadlock.
  • Fixed crash when destroying certain rail pieces.
  • Fixed issue where some AI bookkeeping was not saved, causing tasks to fail after load.