Xsyon, otro sandbox

Finally!

We're all settled in at the new server location and the latest patch is up.

There have been a lot of changes with this patch. I expect that we will find bugs as it's been difficult for us to test everything in house with the server move in progress.

Our plan is as follows:

This weekend work on bugs found and continued combat and creature adjustments.

From now on we plan to release a minor update every week and a bigger update every two weeks. The minor updates will small improvements, adjustements to current features and bug fixes.

The bigger updates will turn on several features. We should have 2 or 3 big updates then we will be ready for the Year Zero Final Wipe.

If things go well, we will patch out the updates faster. Our goal is to start the real Prelude as soon as possible so that players can develop their actual characters and tribes.

What's new with this update:

Player looting.
Tribe creation panel.
Level up.
Totem placement and tribal zones.
Human right click menu.
Basic woodcraft.
Item materials and colors. This transfers color and material to crated armor. (most noticeable with cloth armor).
Social panel additional functions.
Player vs Player and vs animal collision.
Combat swings and hit adjustments.
Combat stationary vs moving attacks.
Combat range affected by height.
Movement and jump improvements.
Final terrain baking process.
Terrain boulders and caves.
Speed Tree performance optimization.
Speed Tree transitions improved.
Mouse invert option in the keybind menu.
Character rendering performance optimization.
Collision with world objects (buildings, boulders).
Corrected set of hairs for when worn under helmets.
Corrected male heads.
Simple ping display.
Turning off weapons for certain animations.
One character per account.

Additional Guide commands to help players.
Help chat functioning properly.

Bug Fixes:
Tree shadows corrected.
Sounds playing on dead animals.
Keybinding crash.
Incorrect map zones.
Inventory and container system fixes.
Animation bugs fixed.
Minor exploits fixed (much thanks to reports from acidraid and Ravenstorm).
Many others.

No visible effect, but good for the future:
Inventory system revised to allow for a non slotted system.
Player and creature data saving system revised.
Terrain editor improvements.

Notes:

The tribe panel is very basic at the moment. You can create a tribe totem and claim territory.

Leaders can not abandon their tribe. This will be changed in the next feature update which will include more tribe and rank settings.

Tribes require only 5 members right now.

You should be safe from attacks and being looted if you are in your own tribe territory. You are not safe in other tribe's territories. We will change this soon based on tribe settings to allow allies to be safe.

Basic woodcraft creates components mostly useful for the construction update coming soon.

Colored cloth does render in color in inventory icons. We are working to tint icons based on the material color. Armor parts created from colored cloth do tint properly.

The quality of crafted armor and weapons affects damage and defense. We will continue to adjust the combat system this week as we test this and other changes.

The ping display measures lag and needs to be checked and revised further.

The server and client have been updated.

This is primarily an fix update with a few minor features turned on. I haven't wiped anything so there will be some database issues from previous updates. I will wipe the database with the next feature update.

Crashes when chopping logs fixed.
Stacking delays and problems fixed.
Player versus player collision improved.
Boulder collision fixed.
Placing of objects on boulders and in caves fixed.
Heads can be dissected to obtain skulls and various parts.
Paws, hooves and claws can be gathered from animals.
The chat prompt has been improved.
The length of tribe names has been increased to 32 max characters.
The keybind for the Tribe panel now works.
Selected objects and creatures should now display their name.
Deleting a character should properly free objects in containers.
The entity use right click menu is better confined to the screen (thanks for pointing this out, Kinslayer).
Text on icons should render on top of overlapping panels.
Scavenge animation updated.
Floating boulders fixed.
Server messages are now also added to your Chat log.
The tribe section of the Social Panel should now list and scroll properly.
Other minor bug fixes and improvements.

We're now going to focus on getting construction finalized, improving tribe features and working on reducing lag.

Thanks for all the reports. If you are stil noticing any of the problems that are listed above as fixed, please report them.

MYRMIDON!!

Update: I recommend a full install with this update. All zone files have been updated and patching will be much slower than reinstalling.

A full server and client update has been patched out. This includes a full character, data and terrain wipe. The terrain wipe was necessary as we uploaded a more smoothed revised terrain.

We will be spawning creatures later tonight.

This patch includes:

Construction:

Construction. Players can use the Architecture skill to create walls and buildilngs.

Masonry. This is a secondary crafting skill, similar to Woodcraft. It's used primary to help Architects.

Packets:

Server packet handling improved to prevent situations that were causing big lag spikes.

Packet system streamlined and revised for faster transactions and hack prevention.

Terrain:

Revised, smoother terrain to eliminate visible 'steps'.

Terrain loading revised to eliminate crashing while crossing zones.

Waterfalls fixed.

Combat and Characters:

Alignment system revised to flag attackers and defenders in combat.

Creatures can now attack in tribe zones.

Death teleports evil players to their tribe zone if they are in a tribe.

Problems causing crashing during death teleport fixed.

Trade window fixes.

Skill saving revised.

Tribes:

Tribe radius grows and shrinks with member count.

Tribe members are properly removed from a tribe if their character is deleted.

Tribes change leadership to the next tribe member if the leader abandons or is deleted.

Tribes are removed if the last player abandons tribe.

Destroying and dropping objects in tribe zones by non tribe members blocked.

Collision:

Boulder collision revised.

Collision problems at zone borders resolved.

Creatures now avoid boulders.

Stacking improved. The revisions will soon allow players to choose row and column count for stacking objects.

Collision with dead bodies removed.

Optimizations:

Memory leaks detected and fixed.

Time at login reduced by moving some loading functions.

Animation system optimized for speed.

Sound and Graphics:

Interface glitches fixed.

Footstep sounds revised.

Some animations added and tweaked.