Weekly Dev Update: 2017 March 31st - C and S Beacons!

[Dzchan94]

I don’t know what will happen to the current beacons. But from a previous post, it will be along these lines

@olliepurkiss

What we’ve come up with is this:

• Placing a beacon does not reserve the space until fuel is added.
• “Simple Beacon Fuel” is hand crafted from a small number of trunk and leaf blocks.
• Adding beacon fuel to an un-fueled beacon reserves the plot.
• It doesn’t take much fuel to fully fuel a beacon, a beacon fully fuelled with “Simple Beacon Fuel” will stay around for two months (exact timings TBD).
• Using more complex and rare resources you can craft two more advanced beacon fuels which can keep a beacon around for up to four and six months respectively (exact timings TBD).
• If a beacon gets low on fuel, a graphic is displayed in game, and if the player has registered an email address with the game, then an email is sent to them.
• A number of emails are sent up to the point when the beacon will be out of fuel.
• If the beacon is not refuelled, then at the moment the fuel runs out the protection from the beacon is removed. At that point anyone can access the contents of the beacon, or it will naturally regenerate back to the original world state over time.