Testing 245: Sovereign Worlds!

[james]

Updated OP with details of 245.3. The main change is to allow updating your world colours at a regular interval.

@james

Testing 245.3:

• Fixed World Control to take the Rock tint.
• Allowing recomputing of gleam server lighting simulation when the world colours have changed.
• Spooky Skull and Spooky Pumpkin smart stacks should now correctly be labelled “Halloween Smart Stack”
• Fix some issues in the debug panel for non-english languages (french in particular), eg the Altitude of player not being visible in french. Was caused by a bad mix of string encodings.
• Prevent new characters being able to start on Sovereign worlds. If you have characters who have done this and are now locked out - giving we are still in Testing - just delete them!
  • Note: Given that Sovereign worlds give control over a world that is part of the main MMO they’re not really setup for players who only want to play on their own world. If we wanted to allow players to play it total isolation then more changes would be required, specifically: make sure all resources and creature spawn within the world, and then allow players to start on the world directly. This is currently beyond the scope of the initial release.
• Allow resetting a Sovereign World’s Block Colours once per payment cycle.
  • To enable this feature, player-placed blocks will never use the “0” world default colorIndex (as can be seen in the Player Debug window) on a Sovereign World so that when changing Block Colours, user builds will not change colours as well.
  • As a result of these changes, Beacon Prestige on a Sovereign World will work slightly differently, no longer being able to take into account whether blocks are “foreign coloured” or not, and so will find prestige to be slightly lower in general. (This does not affect any beacon prestige on normal worlds!!).
  • Due to these changes, the way that a Sovereign World behaves when Colours have not been finalised is also changed, with the “only” restriction being that default-coloured non-user-placed blocks will not produce “coloured” drops, which also affects Beacon Reclaims that may sometimes gather up such blocks too when modified by a user (This means there are no longer restrictions on placing blocks either, and creatures and meteorites will fall as normal even when Block Colours are not finalised).
  • All tabs in the World Control GUI screen are now always visible, so that permissions can be adjusted even without finalising block colours first. This allows you to invite others onto your world during colour selection.
  • You can review your current block colour selection even after finalising; the “Block Colours” tab will show a red exclamation mark next to it if block colours are waiting to be finalised.
• Addressed duplicate colour naming in some translations with more suitable replacements.
  • French: Teal - Bleu Clair → Sarcelle
  • French: Cold Tan - Brun Clair → Brun clair froid
  • French: Bright Turquoise - Turquoise Clair → Turquoise brilliant
  • Italian: Vivid Turquoise - Turquoise chiaro → Turchese vivido
  • Italian: Cool Tan - Bruno Freddo → Bruno fresco
  • Spanish: Vivid Moss - Musgo claro → Musgo vivido
  • Spanish: Deep Colbalt - Colbalto intenso → Cobalto profundo
  • Spanish: Light yellow - Amarillo luminoso → Amarillo claro