Testing 224: Farming! (continued)

[Stretchious]

Some really good changes in this update… being able to plant crops for either increased crop or seed yield is amazing!

[Kirinvar]

The game looks fantastic.

I love the direction this is going.

[blinvir]

Man I can’t wait to get my hands on this update … starving over here.

[Karko]

Brah, lighting being the same for all players. Hunting.

[Buugi]

Rly like how metal looks now!

[Mayumichi]

@james

Experimental balance pass to yam and starberry crops so that:

• they can be conditioned to increase seed or crop yield, and
• the seed yield can be increase to = 1, and even > 1 with the right configuration.

Should this be reflected in crops.msgpack? I can’t figure it out in-game either

[Trickyy90]

Can you all post some screenshots of your farm layouts for me pretty please
I’m over here waiting ever so patiently with my Ps4

[Jiivita]

looks like the test servers are down atm… maybe another point update?

[james]

The Testing worlds are back online with the exoworlds.

I needed to reset the exoworlds and so they needed to be migrated. It was safer to do this with the universe closed.

[AeneaGames]

@james

The Testing worlds are back online with the exoworlds.

Another update? Just got kicked, but I noticed planets in the sky were showing “offline”

30 minutes already, am now wondering what is going on.

Anyway, time to do something else apparently!

[Kal-El]

@james

Experimental balance pass to yam and starberry crops so that:

• they can be conditioned to increase seed or crop yield, and
• the seed yield can be increase to = 1, and even > 1 with the right configuration.

[james]

Updated OP with details of Testing 224.9.

IMPORTANT: Some of the worlds are currently offline whilst we investigate a migration issue. We don’t currently know when they will be back online.

@james

Testing 224.9:

Crafting + Resources + Equipment:

• 1-wide portals and warps will now show a “rotate” button instead of a “flip” button in the GUI allowing them to be rotated 90-degrees at a time.

GUI + HUD:

• Modified Crop/Seed Efficiency display. Now shows Crop/Seed Yield % (e.g. Crop Yield: 125% guarantees 1 crop drop with a 25% chance of a second)

SFX + Music:

• Sounds for special material slingbows and bombs for blink, rift and umbris
• Updated the audio and visual effects on Colour Sprays.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed rendering of grow-down crops like goo on corner-slope faces.
• Fixed foliage (long-grass and most crops as well as the extra foliage on leaf blocks) popping out if the block the foliage is attached to is off-screen.
• Fix breaking decals on blocks like thorns and particularly glass blocks rendering badly.
• Fix for terrain distortion allowing seeing through to the underside of the world in rare cases.

[Jiivita]

@james

1-wide portals and warps will now show a “rotate” button instead of a “flip” button in the GUI allowing them to be rotated 90-degrees at a time.

[anon34275467]

@james

• 1-wide portals and warps will now show a “rotate” button instead of a “flip” button in the GUI allowing them to be rotated 90-degrees at a time.

This is huge!

[Jiivita]

I know right?! they could have just made Testing 224 this and been done with it

[anon34275467]

Liquids is where the fun is, though. That’s gonna change the game for me.

Which reminds me!
@james I noticed when walking in a 1-block high volume of resin that there was no ‘splish-splosh’ sounds, as if you weren’t walking in a liquid like it does with water. I’d advise a little more sound-design work there.

[Gorillastomp]

@james

Modified Crop/Seed Efficiency display. Now shows Crop/Seed Yield % (e.g. Crop Yield: 125% guarantees 1 crop drop with a 25% chance of a second)

Easier to read that way.

[Kelmat]

@james

1-wide portals and warps will now show a “rotate” button instead of a “flip” button in the GUI allowing them to be rotated 90-degrees at a time.

Heck yes! Love this!

[james]

Updated OP with details of Testing 224.10.

All worlds are back online and open for business.

@james

Testing 224.10:

GUI + HUD:

• 1-wide portals and warps will now show a “rotate” button instead of a “flip” button in the GUI allowing them to be rotated 90-degrees at a time.
• 1-wide portals and warps will now also show two “rotate” buttons side-by-side, one for the interacting warp/portal, and one for the exit of the interacting warp/portal.
• Decorative prestige crops now show a progress bar once mature as they become withered.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed audio on the Spray Tinter to sound the same as the Spray.
• Fixed server issue where the local world database could become extremely fragmented making the background process of tidying it take vast amounts of RAM. Which isn’t great of machines with virtual memory disabled.

[AeneaGames]

@james

Decorative prestige crops now show a progress bar once mature as they become withered.

Hey @james, many patch notes include something lately about the prestige crops even tho they would be added at a later date so I’m kinda wondering what the status on them is?

Are they gonna be in the Live patch?

Also, what everyone is of course wondering too, any idea when the Live patch might drop? I know you wanted to have it released a few weeks ago already but what is the feeling of the team of how ready it is currently? 90%? 99%?