DwarfCorp News

Been a while, hasn't it? Well, after months of work, the game finally runs on Monogame. And it's only kinda broken. Porting to Monogame has been mostly seamless except where it turns out we were using XNA wrong. Porting to Monogame also allowed me to (finally!) switch to 64 bit. What does that mean? Well, now I can release a 64 bit version, obviously, which while being somewhat faster, also means the game isn't bound to the 2gig memory limit of a 32 bit process. This means that the largest world sizes work as-is without having to hope they fit in memory. Unfortunately, a few things are still missing - notably, the sky, and all sound. So once they are working, I'll stick up the 64 bit version on unstable.

Small bug fix got pushed today. Special thanks to the fellow that provided the save with broken trade envoys.

• There is a bug where trade envoys sometimes do not serialize properly. I was able to stop this from breaking your save, but haven't found the original issue yet.
  

Small patch on stable that does not break your saves.

• Fixed the cancel task tool.
  
• Fixed the wrangle popup.
  
• Proper icon for the pathing tool.
  
• Fixed a couple of minor crash bugs that came through the error reporting system.
  

The stable, default branch is now in line with unstable. This will break your saves.

The previous stable is available as legacy_august_2020 in the beta builds if you want to keep an existing save.

Unstable release has been updated again. The sole thing you'll notice here is an addition to the 'advanced' options during world generation - a world height scale value.

This will determine how high your hills are. By default it will be set to high. You can turn it all the way from very low, which will get you a flat plain, to very high which is honestly a bit ridiculous.

Been taking a bit of a break from DwarfCorp to work on a gameplay prototype / vertical slice for a very different project - a platformer metroidvania with (and this is key here) absolutely no complex AI or procedurally generated voxel nonsense at all.

I am, however, getting closer to the next stable release. Things are going well with the current unstable. I do not know if the command favorites thing will make it in, but there's only a few things to clean up with missing assets for new features before I can call it ready.

I have a lot of ideas for future enhancements to the game, but at the moment the only big gameplay-changing feature knocking around are steam powered devices. You would build steam generators and pipes to power machines, but what would you want to do with those machines? I would like to tie them into the rail network in some way as well. What are your ideas?