With the Coronavirus on the loose, I hope everyone is taking all the necessary precautions to avoid getting infected.
This update took a while to fix but its finally here. As always, please continue leaving your bugs and suggestions in the forums or over on our Discord channel.
Changes:
A complete overhaul of the weapon attachment system. The system should be more reliable. So, in a nutshell, Players no longer drop parts together to make the weapon/shield. Instead, when the player press and hold “E” the player will hold the object and this will also create a blueprint of the object. If the player looks at another object, and presses “E” again, the connection will be made otherwise, they can place the item wherever they’d like or cancel by right-clicking.
New area and building added.
Treasure Chest will spawn ores equal to or lower based on your character’s highest equipped metal.
All chests now open by left-clicking on them.
Clocks can be moved around.
Villagers interact with each other.
Woodworking bench crafting selection no longer always visible with wood on table.
Smelter menu is no longer always visible.
Escape button function to go back while in the main menu.
Renamed and modified some crystals behavior.
Removed the ice Crystal from map. Can only be obtained by other means.
Removed the static ledger from table and made it separate and moveable.
Removed the sandbox button from the main world menu. Not needed since the game has a proper main menu to allow the player to switch over. Also avoids any issue with saving.
Some weapon heads have been locked and now requires finding skill books to unlock. This will affect all future metal/wood creations and Patron items.
Torches turned on by default for new games.
Increase the size of houses in Castle town. Which decreases how many there are in the area.
Additions:
New Patron weapon heads.
New puzzle to solve.
Seeds that can be planted to grow trees.
Braziers for future content.
Minor additions for future content.
Leather chest armor to npc’s..
Mining Helmet for the player to wear. Alternative to Lantern.
Apron models.
Music when sleeping.
Limit to crate and sign posts text input..
Player position reset button to character sheet.
New hammer head. (Must be unlocked).
Saved game override confirmation.
More context cues to help the player know when they can pick up an object.
Sleep length slider decreases while sleeping.
Fixes:
Leather gauntlets position on NPC arms.
Jumping when the character sheet is open.
Switching dagger heads on anvil will eventually create a large axe head.
Patron Piecity blade not activating grindstone station properly.
Crystal embedded in one tool and equipped makes all tools have crystal fx.
Issue with trying to click the “Grip” button on the order sheet.
Major ore problem, ores not spawning or not spawning properly.
Missing a variety of ore’s in the world including coal and carbon.
Torches on/off state not persisting through saved games.
Loading in the game with lantern equipped but not visible.
Customers needing repairs are grabbing weapons that are not flagged as repaired.
Customer and other NPC’s afro being mixed with ponytails and hair buns.
Doors. Specifically the Shop door. At some point the door "breaks" and can't be closed anymore.
Checkmark button blocked by counter
Character Sheet. Unable to see the up arrow buttons for spending skill points.
Head bobs while standing still.
Created ingots in smeltery not cooling down.
Items not spawning in the center of anvil.
Broken weapons not needing to be heated to be repaired.
Ingots resetting cooldown when picked up.
Music transitions to quickly.
Lantern shadows.
Shelves to high by forge.
Save game edit button not working.
Most torches are not movable in the shop.
Left clicking on seeds does nothing.
Heating status text doesn’t update until you look away.
Difficulty changing on loaded games. Causing prices to change.
Sleeping status not persisting between saves.
Alloy heads heating status causing complete failures.
Ore veins don't seem to recognize pickaxe strikes.
Map hole near bridge.
Rotating a held object to view it doesn’t follow camera or player when not longer rotating.
Issue with some treasure chest spawning nothing.
Two levels of fatigue (now only has one)..
Saw UI - UI stays greyed out / wont let you select planks / fails to load entirely.
Objects jumping when grabbed.
Increase chance to drop seed to 100%.
Crate lids being opened when loading into saved games, regardless of previous state when saved.
Mining nodes collision detection interfering with using the character sheet.
Keys “L” and “X” opening exit menu.
Unable to clear save selection. Left Clicking nothing should clear any selection.
Optimizations:
Decrease number foliage rendered.
When a player triggers the visibility of NPC names.
Disabled NPC animation when a player is not looking in their direction.
LOD and Distance culling added to a lot of static meshes and actors, including NPC’s.
Small changes to day and night cycle and removed static mesh moons in favor of textured moons rendered into the skyboxes material.
Update 0.1.2o
Hey Blacksmith's,
I hope you are all enjoying the new year so far. The game is now updated with lots of fixes. More fixes are on the way including graphics optimizations. This build also might make your old save files obsolete.
Enjoy!
Fix - Objects should no longer fall through shelves after loading.
Fix - Removed physics when creating a weapon rack.
Fix - On story map, pushed out shelves beside forge to fix ingot stacking issues.
Fix - Adventurers shield if not initially having the decoration parts are for some reason showing on Adventurer when loading back into the game.
Fix - Dropped weapons from the adventurer with bad grips stats.
Fix - Missing shelf in the larger shop.
Fix - Added physics to certain objects that were on shelves and tables in the larger shop.
Fix - Treasure chest grip spawns orientation has been corrected.
Fix - Grips rotation when placed on the table should match tables rotation after being rotated.
Fix - Legs for church bridge not connected to ground underwater.
Fix - Hole in the ground underneath water near the bridge leading to node cavern.
Fix - Wagon animal was not set to horse on Story Map.
Fix - Bridge to node cavern collision detection issues
Fix - Dismount of wagon issues.
Fix - Compass North facing the wrong direction.
Fix - Compass broken.
Fix - New settings file Sound is set to 10000%.
Fix - No music or sound in the Sandbox Map.
Fix - Direction of auto placed ingots on the shelf were locked to one axis.
Fix - Forge heat box detection is off-center.
Fix - Ingots start merging after row 3 on shelves with auto-arrange enabled.
Fix - Wooden grips and shelves revert back to original color after a few saves and loads.
Fix - Collision detection for ground/floor areas with the wagon is not being detected.
Fix - Bridge bricks floating above the bridge.
Fix - Ore returning to default values on load.
Fix - Ore reappearing on mining nodes ON LOAD
Fix - Save function for sword pedestal and door.
Fix - Popup text says "Deer" instead of the "Horse".
Fix - Restored the image on the painting that's inside of the shop.
Fix - Patron/Youtuber names to be ordered instead of random.
Fix - Flat two hand blade isn't receiving crystal glow.
Fix - Level up text behind chatbox and other text that were behind there.
Fix - Shift-clicking to play minigame before hammer strikes cause the minigame to be played constantly.
Fix - Clicking too fast on anvil sometimes doesn’t register as a hit.
Fix - Change help text on the Sharpening Workstation.
Fix - Fix to Sharpening Workstation so that players can no longer do the game again after changing the mesh on the anvil.
Fix - Hitting the anvil adjusted to prevent infinite quality increase on the anvil with mini-game.
Fix - Minor changes to the Main menu.
Fix - Lowered reward for repairs.
Fix - Issue with purchasing the larger shop sign widget not being clickable after opening up Main Menu.
Fix - Floating props on the bridge to cave.
Fix - Reloading sometimes causes weapons to sell for 1c.
Fix - Too large shelf collision box.
Fix - Door is showing shop closed but customers still coming after loading game.
Fix - Tress hit area rework.
Fix - (Temp Solution) Deleting the first slot disabled unless its the only slot left.
Removed - Ledger from Large shop.
Removed - Glow on ores.
Removed - (Temp Solution) Taxes for the moment.
Removed - Old mining nodes for new ones on the Story Map
Added - Reset button on the order sheet.
Added - Chatbox toggle in options.
Added - Crystal hint to door inside the cave.
Added - Arrows pointing direction for shelves and everything else player can pick up.
Added - Signs variety.
Added - Popup text for moving workstations.
Added - Piecity blade.
Added - 1h or 2h labels on order sheet for grips and guards.
Added - Notification when exiting the game.
Added - Mouse wheel scroll for all GUI.
Added - Option to decouple head from the wagon. Toggled with head-bob option.
Added - Shop sign popup text.
Added - Hand image on toolbelt for when the player has no tools in hand.
Added - Entry to Character Sheet to reset horse and wagon positions.
Added - New info to the Information book.
Patch Update 0.1.2M
Happy Holidays Blacksmith's
I apologize for the game-breaking bugs a few (if not many) of you have been encountering. Please be sure to check out our discord community for live discussions on issues and fixes.
Dasius
Added option for shelves to snap ingots into place. Can be toggled in the Options Menu
Added shelves color to match planks when created on Wood bench.
Added wooden grip color to match planks when created on Wood bench.
Added text to guards in order to help identify 1 handed and 2 handed guards.
Added holstering for equipped tools. Similar to the lantern. Press the corresponding button to toggle the visibility of the weapon in your hand on and off. As expected, when the tool is holstered, you won’t be able to use the tool until you re-equip it.
Added sound to Double doors.
Added lock state to all doors.
Added grass in missing areas.
Added graphics option to title menu screen.
Fixed possible issue with separating normal and broken weapons on anvil.
Fixed Paqpa and GreyStillPlays hair issues
Fixed not being able to change your character's name.
Fixed Alloy weapon heads to be visible in the output options for selection.
Fixed - Quality on weapon heads should no longer increase when using Blade sharpener unless the quality changes when sharpening.
Fix to NPC Guards showing crystals on their weapons.
Fix to Sleeping GUI issues by disabling Main menu when player is sleeping.
Fix for Sleep state. They should remain consistent throughout saved games.
Fix to rotating head with character sheet open. Turning on Headbob no longer messes up character sheet head rotation.
Fixed graphics buttons not being highlighted properly.
Fix - Remove FPS min/max cap.
GUI changes to the Blade sharpener
Ore quality dropped on new mining veins have been adjusted. They now give a random value within their acceptable min and max.
All metals no longer have an additional calculation for their quality. They’ve been simplified so the results are more predictable.
Double doors now display a “open door” hover text.
Wood bench now displays “left Click” when looking at pedal.
Information book now displays “left click” hover text.
Set character sheet text to white so it can be seen at night
Sleeping should (at the moment) no longer autosave.
Tweek to horse movement.
Changed wagon animal from a deer to a horse. (Deer will be later available again)
Large shop available for purchase again.
My Little Blacksmith Shop Now Live
‘Tis the season to be jolly. My Little Blacksmith Shop is finally released into Early Access. Thank you for being patient.
So the game is out, but obviously, there is still a lot of work that needs to be done. Since the last update on Itch.io, the focus has been on bug fixing and will always be about getting as many bugs eliminated as possible. But of course, new stuff will be added to keep the game interesting.
Sincere thank you to all the Patrons past and present for your contributions to the success and continuation of the project. Big thank you to all the volunteers who helped along the way to keep this project alive. I tip my hat to the Youtube content creators for showcasing my game on their channels. And finally, big love to the community over on Discord. I may not have said much but I’ve been enjoying your kind words throughout the years. Those words were motivation to continue on.
Happy Holidays Everyone.
Dasius
Update 0.1.2f
Hey Blacksmith's,
Still getting used to Steams announcements settings. I apologize for the inconsistent update announcements. Here are the patch notes for this update.
Increased Swim speed by 200, reduced buoyancy by 0.3 and slightly increase fluid friction by 0.4 to compensate for the increase swim speed.
Added a loop breaker to hopefully prevent multiple save files from being created.
Screenshots should now be shown with saves. (unfortunately still not all of them)
Adventurer can now save/load with all their equipment.
Added Special Thanks to MainMenu
Horse speed was set to 0. Set back to default.
Added shop sign to new save system
Removed Collision box visibility on Grips.
Re-compiled the navigation grid in order to fix npc pathfinding into shops.
Game Update 0.1.2d
Hey Blacksmith's,
I would like to apologize for the confusion. The version name for this update in-game says 0.1.2c. It should say 0.1.2d.
Here are the pre-release Steam version update notes.
Renamed and fixed Great hammers heads. Jonne's Great hammer should register properly as a great hammer.
The socket grip/s can now be paired with crystals.
Added a trace beneath the wagon to help reset its position if it finds itself on its side or head. Also hopefully help when it is jittering out of control or flung high above the map.
Added a file that allows the game to connect to steam.
Minor fix to save manager.
Mining node 2.0 should work with save manager
The game will unpause then close the exit menu when the game saves
