LEGO Worlds
Building Challenge: Places you'd expect to find a Treasure Chest
We think it's time for a new building challenge! This time, we want you to come up with ‘Somewhere you would expect to see a Treasure chest’. It can be one of the larger Discovery Chests or even one of the smaller Studs Chests. It could even house a combination of both, such as a cloud with a secret chamber, a giant LEGO ® built chest full of Chests, or maybe even a Statue with a hidden compartment!
For anyone not familiar with our Building Challenges, here’s some basic rules:
The builds themselves need to be no larger than 96 Studs Wide x 96 Studs Long x 256 Tiles High. This is the largest size the Export tool allows in DX11. Please note that the DX9 has a maximum size of 48x48x128. As we’ve said before though, size isn’t everything, and in fact, sneakier could be better this time around!
Any creations that we really like the look of could even be entered into the base game!
To share your creation with the community we suggest the following:
Head on down to creative corner, and begin a thread with the title ‘Treasure Chest Challenge – MODEL NAME HERE’. Provide us with a collection of screenshots of your model in-game and we’ll take a look.
Creative Corner can be found here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/332310/discussions/5/
Criteria
• The challenge will run from Friday 23rd October until Sunday 22nd November.
• Builds must be unique creations not related to any franchises or IP’s.
• The builds must be no larger than 96x96x256 studs
• Community members with builds that meet the criteria and are selected to be in a future update will be contacted by one of the Dev team from the “meet the team” post to arrange model transferring. Please do not share any personal information with anyone. The Dev team will not ask you for any personal information.
• Models may be slightly edited upon review by TT Games if chosen for inclusion in the game.
The chests themselves cannot be placed, but you can leave something as a placeholder to suggest where it should sit, just make sure you let us know what that is!
If any of our builders are streaming, be sure to set up a post before you finish to let us know where we can watch it! It’s often very helpful to some of our newer players to have something to guide them in their own builds.
Good luck and get building!
The LEGO Worlds Team
Update 3 Announcement
Quest System Improvements
Several Characters now also have quests AFTER they’re unlocked. This will allow us to author more interesting quests down the line and even allow for us to create random events that occur within the worlds. Perhaps you’ll find some spooky goings-on?
Updated Skybox
A huge overhaul to the skybox system shows off much improved visuals during both day and night and sees a vast improvement to the natural lighting. From the warm glow of sunrise, through to the twinkling starry nights, your world looks drastically more alive. And fear not, the improved lighting is actually more efficient than the previous setup, so performance won’t suffer because of it.
Vehicle Camera Fixes
We’ve improved the vehicle physics and sharpened up the camera while you’re in vehicles. The controls still remain the same for now – with options to come a little later – but these changes mean the vehicles now handle more like you’d expect when using WASD.
Fixtures and Fittings
Does your house have a noticeable breeze/blizzard/volcanic burn running through it? Not sure we can do much about the last one without some industrial air conditioning, but for the rest there is now a selection of working doors and windows in the Brick Building tool! Time to renovate your existing models and make some new ones too! We’ll add more to future updates, and we certainly haven’t forgotten about other bricks – see the notes below.
More Varied Item Discoveries
Tied in to the quest system, some item discoveries now make more sense. For example, we recently unearthed the shocking revelation that apples are actually found on trees rather than in chests as previously thought, so you’ll have to find a suitable tree and give it a whack. There are a number of other examples, but we’re not telling you all of them, that’s your job to figure out.
Picture Album
Remember those pictures you took with the camera? Now you don’t need to go foraging for them on your computer, you can view and delete them on the front end.
Items Backpack
We’re adding a very simple but much quicker way to get to your items. Like many of you, we feel it’s important for gameplay that we don’t keep them embedded in the menus any longer, especially now they’re becoming more fun and useful.
Minimap Update
We’ve added a nice little feature to the minimap. If you click on it (mouse & keyboard only for now), you will be given a 3D overview of the areas in the world you’ve visited, similar to the preview when you choose your world on the front end. It’s great for tracking progress and finding your bearings!
Content
There are several new characters (which are SPOOKILY relevant to the time of year), vehicles and props available to discover and unlock too. Make sure to consult with other players to see where they can be found – some of them are really quite rare!
When?
We’ve now entered our pre-rollout push for these new features in which we’re just taking a bit of time to make sure everything is working as intended without any side-effects, so we’ll be sure to let you know once the update is live. It does mean that (as usual) we can’t give a firm date, but hopefully not too long!
What’s Next?
However, that’s not all that we want to share with you. We’re also keen to share some additional plans with you all that we’re looking to include in Update 4, and well beyond. We’ll provide a more detailed ‘Stuff we’re working on’ thread here sometime soon to go into more detail, but we’d like to give you a rundown on some of the features that are still in development so that you’re able to see where our focus lies. In no particular order:
• Further camerawork improvements.
• More Bricks – you’ll be pleased to hear that we’ve have had tests up and running, but we need to resolve the side effects which will take a bit of time.
• Quests – More quest types and variety, including creative quests and further improvements to the adventure ones. And, better quest rewards – studs are cool for now, but we want players to be surprised or feel a sense of progress, or maybe both at the same time, so we’ll share more on this soon.
• Ongoing work on a system that supports towns and other structured layouts.
• GUI & input improvements – categorisation in the tools, better controller support, remapping options and so on.
• More Build tools – we’re looking at the best ways to quickly build walls, and you guys have given us heaps of other ideas and inspiration too.
• Multiplayer – both local (split screen) and online.
• AI & behaviour improvements, including underwater creatures, creatures of flight, more interesting NPCs, better fighting for players that crave action and so on.
• Ongoing landscape generation improvements – not just new biomes but improved use of water, more structural variety and of course all without compromising performance – the tricky part!
• Better integration of the character customiser.
As you can see, there’s lots to do, and the aim is to really kick on with our discussions with you guys once the dust has settled from the next update. This will include some new Dev Diaries, Tutorial Videos, Demo Videos, Build Challenges, etc. We’re also trying to find a moment where we’re all sat together to potentially do some sort of Q&A/AMA, so keep an eye out for that.
As always, feel free to discuss your thoughts here, and we’ll be sure to answer what and where we can! And once again, we want to thank everyone for their continued responses and feedback! It’s been very fun reading and watching everyone’s various comments and videos!
Many thanks,
The LEGO Worlds Team