Permanent server

Features

• Construction materials can now return an item, in some cases. For example, when you water a Flax Farm, you get a Small Pot back.

Improvements

• The entire tech tree has been restored.
• The deconstruct button now has less text.
• The oven's hitbox is larger, to prevent players from appearing to walk through it.
• Objects' names are now drawn lower, and only when moused over.
• Pots of Tannin can now be picked up.
• The stack size of scale items has been increased from 10 to 50.
• Linothorax armor is now cheaper.
• Clay deposits are more rare, contain more clay, and are faster to gather from.

Bugfixes

• Prevent server crash on failed tool check near an NPC.
• Fixed broken XML in help text.
• Reduce chatlog spam from internal processes.
• Fix colors of unowned objects' names and health bars.
• Properly display tag names in item tooltips.
• The recipe list was not scrollable.
• Crops were erroneously able to be built from the build menu. They have also had seeds removed as a construction material.
• Large Pots now properly require a Kiln to craft.
• Unfinished objects can now properly be ceded to one's city.

Cities and war playtest

0.8

Cities and war playtest

Tech-tree playtest

0.7

Tech-tree playtest

Game-ready engine

Objects

• Collisions are now detected and prevented.
• Some objects can store items.
• Some items can be constructed into objects.
• Some objects can be deconstructed into items.
• Constructed objects are 'owned' by the user who constructed them, restricting access to others.
• Objects can have 'merchant slots', which can be configured to exchange items. Other users see a menu of items to buy and their prices.
• When gathering from objects, the item type is now chosen based on average number of gathers left per item, rather than raw quantity remaining.

Items

• Users can destroy unwanted items.
• A user can move items between his inventory and an object, and to different slots within a container.
• Users have gear slots, and specific items can be worn in them.
• Gear may grant bonuses to stats.

NPCs

• NPCs are supported, which can chase nearby users.
• Users and NPCs can attack and kill each other.
• Dead NPCs can be looted

Aesthetics

• All art has been redrawn, with a limited palette.
• The inventory window has been updated to match object inventories.
• Objects can be 'flat', meaning they will be drawn underneath all non-flat objects.
• Objects can play a sound while users are gathering from them.
• Objects can generate particles while users are gathering from them.
• Dead NPCs are marked by sparkling particles.

Miscellaneous

• Bad data is handled more robustly.
• Clients automatically connect to a default server, if none is specified.
• XML is used for game and persistent world/user data.
• Some client configuration has been moved to an XML file.
• Users can chat publicly and privately.
• Some client messages can be sent directly to the server using new / commands.
• A tracker and pretty-printer has been added for the backlog of tasks.
• A unit-test framework has been added.

Recursive GUI

• A new UI system added, allowing easy, efficient, and sophisticated windows and other UI elements
• The old crafting window has been re-implemented using the new system

Basic economy and graphics overhaul

• Gathering
• Crafting
• World generation
• New art

Robust, and more feature-complete

A much more robust client and server, client-side character movement with server verification, and persistent data for each user.

💡 Display other players' names above their characters
💡 Add README file, with glossary
💡 Add command-line argument for window position, server address, and username
💡 Disconnect users after timeout
💡 Validate movement on server
💡 Validate usernames on server
💡 Store user data persistently
💡 Allow exit on Esc key
💡 Add message log to server window
💡 Send pings to measure latency
💡 Display framerate and latency in client window
🔧 Add delays in all threads to improve performance
🔧 Continuously attempt connection on disconnected client
🔧 Make server log prettier
🔧 Support colored log messages
🔧 Increase client cap to 10
🔧 Draw background on server window
🔨 Fix server freezing on exit
🔨 Properly clean up after disconnected user
🔨 Stop client's socket thread when finished
🔨 Close a socket only when no instances are open

Minimally functional MMO

• The server can connect to and maintain information about multiple clients
• Client information is identified by raw Winsock SOCKET handles
• Clients' "characters" can move with the arrow keys, movement requests are handled by the server, and successful commands are propagated to all clients