Release 244: Smarter Stacks and Stability!

[RedY3]

@james

Plain Metal Doors, Stylish Metal Doors, Plain Trap Doors and Stylish Trap Doors can now be made from any Metal and will take the correct tint.

How about the ornate titanium doors?

[Nightstar]

@RedY3

ornate titanium doors

I failed to parse this earlier and just assumed “all doors, all metals” lol. Then the release came …

It seems odd to leave these out. Maybe they didn’t get the same adjustment since they’re made differently, requiring alloys instead of bars. There are several “any metal” recipes with bars but I don’t know of any recipe that accepts “any alloy”.

I have no idea how much more complicated that might make the change.

[RedY3]

My mansion requires a titanium ornate door. My Oortian is waiting. Haha. I assumed the same until i read the details.

[Honey713]

Super bummed about not seeing the color number anymore in request basket especially since I just set up a numbered color storage spending lots of time on it. I had a request basket in my area to help quickly know what number to go to. Now I have to run around for the odd colors. That stinks!! Especially now trying to sort gleambow loot!!

[james]

Updated OP with release notes for the Gleambow event.

@james

Release 244 - Gleambow Racing:

• Gleambow Racing:
  • Gleamtrunks found at naturally spawning Gleambow Meteorites will now drop Mutated Gleambow Sacs used for crafting the new items for the Gleambow Event.
  • Added 3 new Gleambow food buffs for the event which require Mutated Gleambow Sacs to craft.
    • Gleamberry Jelly: gives a boost to jumps and double jumps.
    • GleamPop: Causes citizens to run on water by freezing it into rainbow ice.
    • Gleamberry Juice: Causes drops around the consumer to be pulled towards them from a greater distance.
  • Added a new Gleambow Augment for Totems, which can summon Gleambow meteorites on any level 3 and above world.
  • Added a two new craftable Props, the Gleambow Oorty and Gleamstar Statue.
  • Brand new wearable Gleambubbler purchasable from the exchange during the event only.
  • Added a maximum timer for Gleambow meteorites so that the event time will never grow too large. (In the past the timers sometimes grew incredibly long leading to Gleambow meteorites with 12 minute timers on them)
  • Adjusted timer updating for Gleambow meteorites so that the timer will not increase if you fail to complete the event but have killed any of the Gleamtrunks associated with that meteorite; now that Gleamtrunks have valuable drops themselves, it is expected many players may choose at times to only hunt the Gleamtrunks without bothering to mine the Gleambow meteorite itself and without this the timers would be biased to grow large.
  • Gleambow timers will not be increased when any player fails to join the meteorite event in the case that the meteorite was spawned via a Gleambow Augment to avoid being able to “burn” meteorites to get longer timers.
  • Added player-gleambow timers used to control the time limit on gleambow meteorites. These timers will be persisted per character, and used in combination with all other players nearby when the event spawns and in combination with the world-level timer that we already had. This should help balance the gleambows further so that low-level players with longer timers travelling to a world where high-level players have been playing will still get easier gleambow events; especially with respect to player-spawned gleambow events using the new totem augment.
  • Meteorites spawned as a result of a player entering into a named region of the world will use a much shorter cooldown for gleambow meteorites to allow more of them to spawn as a result of players traversing the worlds.
  • New players still in the tutorial are now able to take part in Gleambow events and cause Gleambow meteorites to spawn if they find themselves on a higher enough world level. They will continue to be ignored for and by standard meteorites.
  • Improve display of time breakdowns in the GUI to avoid confusion at times so that we will now show 60s instead of 1m for duration of buffs, etc. This was confusing for the new Gleamberry Jelly which shows “+1m” in the action log making it sound like it could mean “+1 metre” relating to jumping, wherein it actually mean “+1 minute” duration; this will show “+60s” which should hopefully not be confusing to any one.

[james]

Updated OP with details of the recent hotfix.

@james

Release 244.1:

Engine:

• Disable fog rolling back in to cover holes in terrain. Whilst this hides terrain holes from players it also make it hard to move rapidly over a changing landscape during the Gleambow event.
  • Change logic to detect teleports to be more explicit so even in worst cases the fog doesn’t roll in during normal gameplay even if you end up with chunks unmeshed under your feet.
  • Increase threshold slightly for using lower-detail meshes nearer to the camera in terrain LOD selection.
  • This should improve world navigation for slower CPUs and / or players with slow connections.

Server:

• Update the Gleambow world and player timer tracking to better take into account failing to reach the Gleambow event. More time is returned to the timers for players who struggle to reach the event.

World Builder:

• Improve behaviour of decorations in World Builder and world generation.
  • If multiple instances produce valid results for a given insertion query, then they are randomly selected between instead of taking the first result.
  • For decorations using non-smooth “density” based distributions, behaviour is also improved to offset the sampling of the integer noise that generates the sparse distribution of instances meaning that the densities of instances effectively sum up (before clamping at 1.0). Eg if two instances both have a middle-density of 0, then they would previously fight over the exact same spots and only one would win (the first), now they will distribute differently so that they sum up to look the same as a fully-dense 1.0-density instance, but half mapping to one instance and half the other.

Bug fixes:

• Fix shift-clicking on shopping stands not working correctly; broken in last release.
• Fix the scattered meteorite colours to have random colour, not “undefined” colours from out-of-bounds reads.

[Buugi]

@james

Update the Gleambow world and player timer tracking to better take into account failing to reach the Gleambow event. More time is returned to the timers for players who struggle to reach the event

So i can now make cup of coffee while getting there…?
What a race.

[bucfanpaka]

Disregard previous question if seen, realized I read it wrong, and it is even better news than I thought originally - so now failing to reach it altogether will increase the timer. Also good to know that if a timer gets too low, killing the Gleamtrunks will keep it from increasing if trying to get it back up again. Thanks devs!!

[molav]

@james

Adjusted timer updating for Gleambow meteorites so that the timer will not increase if you fail to complete the event but have killed any of the Gleamtrunks associated with that meteorite; now that Gleamtrunks have valuable drops themselves, it is expected many players may choose at times to only hunt the Gleamtrunks without bothering to mine the Gleambow meteorite itself and without this the timers would be biased to grow large.

Ouch, that’s gonna be painful

[Mythairon]

yeah hopefully it doesn’t mean the timers will go down from only killing gleamtrunks, though. He just said that they won’t increase.

Also curious, if I get to a meteor and lose it and kill the gleamtrunks after, will that have the same effect as killing the gleamtrunks while the meteor is still active?

[molav]

Not sure. Hope it is a null value and not a negative.

[Clexarews]

Love the world builder changes, thank you James and thank you Luca!

[anon64701652]

@james

Fix the scattered meteorite colours to have random colour, not “undefined” colours from out-of-bounds reads.

I’ve only done a few meteorites since the fix and I can already tell the difference here - thanks for that.

[Cuetzpalomitl]

Mind explaining? I didn’t get that part lol

[Mythairon]

Is it fixing the random gleam colors that showed up in non-gleam meteors? Because I was getting mostly perm-world colors on those which seemed fishy

[Clexarews]

If you’re talking to me…

Previously if you added multiple instances to a decoration node and gave them the same constraintType the game would look at the first instance and load it up just fine. It would take the second and load it up usually fine but maybe less than the density/threshold you specified. It would take the third and not load it at all unless (as far as my testing went) the density value was greater than the previous two densities.

Now you can use whatever densities you want because it will look at all of the instance nodes randomly which gives you a better chance of getting all of the multiple types to spawn.

For the second bullet I think it just means that higher densities won’t necessarily butt out lower density objects until you hit an overall density value of 1.0 on the decoration node. Although I’ve had trouble using densities over -0.7. A density of 1.0 would mean that every block of the given constraint types would have an instance spawned on it (afaik). So instead of a forest, for example, you’d just have a massively fat continuous tree

[Cuetzpalomitl]

Oooo yes! I also noticed that we were getting a lot of permanent color gleam which was awful

[Cuetzpalomitl]

Oh I don’t have access to the world builder but it’s nice to see improvements on that area too since I’m hoping private works will arrive soon

[Mythairon]

Of course, if ALL the meteors now have exclusive color gleam in them (or have the chance of it), my timers are doomed

Not complaining. Bring it on. My grapple skills have increased tenfold in the past week.

[Cuetzpalomitl]

Gleambow is definitely the best grapple training chance. Even if you are slow the first days you can certainly improve a lot of you keep trying