GOING MEDIEVAL FOOD STORAGE UPDATE
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We’re happy to announce that water is coming to Going Medieval.įirst, we want to talk about options we considered and challenges they posed, before we go into discussing the system we’ve chosen. So that’s what we are doing at the moment. It had to be done, at least in some capacity. Well, you continued to voice your opinion about this feature and we couldn’t put it aside anymore. Among all of your suggestions, one feature stood out as the most requested, and we always thought about it, but wanted to tackle it once the game’s roadmap is done. That is happening all the time, in both big and small ways. It’s not uncommon for you to influence our development process. Next time we’ll talk about how water affects all living things - humans, animals and even plants. So yeah, our core setup opted us out of this feature.Īlrighty, that is enough talk about water and hard surfaces. We’re saying that given our available technology, we’ve chosen to focus our priorities elsewhere. Just to clarify - we’re not saying this is impossible. That’s why we’re unable to introduce things like half-walls - they would offer only aesthetics but not functionality, and we already have nice alternatives for them (merlons).

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Without going too much into logistics and potential code issues, our hard surfaces are all positioned as one voxel. The thing is, our technology and gameplay is not set up to support that. That would result in 3 different levels of walkable surfaces within one voxel.

It’s a wonderful and realistic idea! But our recently introduced depth levels pose an issue: if we allow water freezing, that means every level should be turned into an ice block. Freezing lakes should be walkable and mined and extracted into ice blocks which you would use for cooling down your storages/rooms. We know what you think, once the winter comes, your nearby river/lake should freeze. We’ll definitely notify you once we get back to them.Īnother thing we want to mention that is not happening is Ice voxel.

GOING MEDIEVAL FOOD STORAGE UPDATE

Since we’ve already planned this update carefully, we decided that watermills are not a priority at the moment, nor are fountains. It would look cool, we admit, but we want to make them a smart integration to the rest of the systems. Put bluntly: if you imagine a gameplay spectrum with Factorio on one side (as a representative of production heavy games) and Sims on the other (as a representative of life simulation games), we want to lean more to the Sims side. That’s a nice idea, but we’ve thought about its incorporation and, from our perspective, it would increase the production chain side of the game. We’re aware that many of you suggested introducing watermills. We agree, but they will come a bit later, as we still have to work on them. Upon hearing news about the water, many of you mentioned drawbridges as a must-have thing. Water affecting the temperature will be evident during summer, as it will emit coldness.

With water comes wetness, so even if you get rid of it, the marks and effects will stay for a short period of time. How can you remove water from such places? Dig holes, place barriers, because, if you don’t do so - water is there to stay. Yes, even shallow water will stop production, so be careful with your experiments. When it comes to production buildings, being in water will stop their production. Open windows, on the other hand, will let water in but only a certain amount, resulting in shallow water on the other side (e.g. Open doors will let water in, regardless of door type. Things that don't block water (above) & things that block water (below) Certain types of these construction elements will allow water to pass through, like: grated floors, wicker, barn and grated floors. Now, since these elements have variations (like rounded walls), it may appear as water should pass through, but keep in mind that variations are just cosmetic and don’t change anything regarding their functionality.

Water will not be able to pass through walls, floors and roofs. Let’s continue the water discussion: First, we’ll talk about how it will affect buildings.

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