Testing 246: Creative Worlds!

I don’t anymore. And everything I go to open just says “loading”

Same issue for me, both on world and from sanctum

OK so, I warped back to soju’s world using sanctum warp to a friend, then tried to use his bridge to return to my plots on bittula but was unable to use the bridge to get out since I had warped in.

I was able to place warp blocks but not break plants. I was however able to open to my “last survival location”

When I opened that warp with warp blocks Soju, almund and I all came to the same location on Biitula.

I am able to open warps from my planet now… after coming to my planet via bridge from biitula

I wish I had one of yall on my testing friends’ list dang it lol

can you warp to Dand via the “worlds” menu and end up by the capitol?

I can’t warp in any way to :expressionless: anyplace. I’m going to switch to one of my other characters on testing to see if I can move around that way.

No idea if this is related (and I know Havran I is still offline), but my beacon location on that world is flicking between 2 states on the coordinates - the negative value only shows for a split second (which took me ages to get a screenshot of :joy:)
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I’m about to deploy a new update. Expect the server to go offline briefly and you will need to get a new client from Steam.

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So I warped to soju from a new location on biitula. Checked balance 40121c.

I went to a wild area and opened a zero cost warp to biitula at my last location:

Soju was able to come through it and neither of us were charged. We both arrived at my last survival location, which was a “new” location for him.

ok thanks for the heads up.

was that character:

  • on a creative world before the update [ thus has no survival return location ]
  • has a home beacon that is “not” on a creative world? [ thus cant use the “never been to survival, but can calculate warp costs based on the world your creative-home is orbiting” ]

this is the edge case mentioned in release-notes where the suggestion is “delete the character” as that is an invalid state no longer possible.

you “might” be able to get into a valid state if you can get to a creative world and create a beacon and make it your home as itd then be equivalent to a new character who starts playing on a creative world and thus has creative world as their home.

alternatively, if its a character you really care about, an admin (aka james) will be able to manipulate your character in the db to force it onto a survival world

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I used a diff character, went to my home on Dalan, then went to Havran, went to the sanctum, saw the creative next to the survival planet, used a warp totem and was able to go there. Server went offline.

I’ll follow your directions for my main and see if it’s still useable.

Thanks, that worked for me :+1:

Missed these 2 on my first read of the update… great additions for creative!

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Agreed! They only turn off spawning though, so players may need to do a little clean up of existing creatures - which is no real bother at all for the peace and quiet that comes afterwards!

I wonder what the possibility would be to turn off extreme weather as well, like rain and snow? My test creative build is constantly covered in snow, which kind of ruins the effect.

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OK in warping from planet to planet, then to a creative, then to friend a couple times, then creating a portal between creatives, then using a bridge to survival, then back to creative I wound up somewhere else lol.

I mean, I thought it through, it was correct, but it really ties your noodle in a knot.

It was strange to run through a bridge i created to Soju’s then to his build then through his bridge back to my own beacon on survival then back through my bridge etc…

It was a three point loop between two places :crazy_face:

EDIT: All these orbit biitula. I need to get on a creative in EU then work with someone to test whether or not a ‘taxi’ character can get someone to a planet besides the one they left with not coin cost.

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My world is EU based and open to everyone to claim/build if you want to test it.

Edit: forgot to add that it’s accessible from Alcor II

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We’ve got a couple of creative planets connected here

Can you open normal portals (paid with Oort) between Creative and Survival? Or only the new bridges?

So it looks like I got my main char stuck in Creative mode and I can’t escape lol. I can’t go to my home beacon on survival or anything. I can’t go thru a portal to Biitula that goes to the creative planet I extended then beaconed, with said char.

This is my main: