Post by csonnich in Movement, barn, saving, and several miscellaneous questions

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Haha. Yeah, again, sorry about the long post! Thanks so much for answering all my questions!

I've updated several times in the last few days. I believe I updated to the latest version a few hours after you posted it, so all the things I mentioned (like the livestock issue) apply to this version (I think it's 0.18.4?). To clarify, I am able to walk through chickens/geese, and I've seen my pig and cow walk through each other. Related, I've also noticed that if I walk in front of the pig, causing him to have to stop, he will sometimes start spinning rapidly back and forth. This doesn't stop until I leave the barn.

As far as saving, I understand your concern. Even saving every 12 hours instead of 24 would help, though. There's a lot of progress you can make/lose in 24 in-game hours. I had to go back and re-mine a hundred or so ore, turn in a quest again, and repurchase 5 or 6 pieces of furniture. This was today that that happened.

Thanks for taking our feedback into consideration. I'm excited to see how everything develops!

Exodus Software4 years ago

I’ve noted down the things about livestock so I’ll check them when I get the chance. You say that today the game crashed for you. Care to elaborate on that? If there are bugs that cause the game to completely break I’d like to take care of them immediately. And if you are going to elaborate on that I’d prefer as much detail as possible. Like literally no detail is to small, explain it like I’m a child.

csonnich4 years ago (1 edit)

I don't have a ton of details. I was doing my normal daily routine feeding my animals and going to the mine, and suddenly I couldn't interact with anything. Neither the left nor right mouse button worked. I wasn't using a mouse - I changed the left/right button hotkeys to F and G - but they weren't working at all. I tried everything I could think of - moving to a different area, interacting with different things. I also tried clicking with my laptop's trackpad. Nothing worked. I finally had to close the game and reopen it.

csonnich4 years ago

By the way, I also noticed running around today that I'm now able to walk through some trees. I don't remember this happening before the latest update. I think they're walnut trees (it's winter so it's hard to tell, but they're dark wood). The tree behaves like I would normally expect except when I approach it from the front. When I get right next to the tree and can't move any more because the tree is in my way, suddenly the trunk is on top of me. I thought it was just one tree, but I checked, and it happened with several trees, but only that one kind. It didn't happen with other trees that I could tell. I was in the area just west of my farm.

Exodus Software4 years ago

I suppose you don’t remember the last thing you did before stuff stopped working? The mines seem to be the common link so maybe mining is messed up. But yeah what you are experiencing is basically something that happens when an animation doesn’t finish properly and the player gets locked into a state of thinking you are performing an action. Since it thinks you are doing something all the time it doesn’t allow you to act. It used to be far more relevant but from what I understand the bug obviously still exists but is somewhat rare.

So, for the tree thing can you actually walk through the tree trunk? As in the object literally doesn’t stop you, or does the tree just appear in front of the player when you are close? I ask because those are two very different things, one of which is a far larger problem than the other.

csonnich4 years ago

I want to say I was in the mines, but I'm not positive about that, because right afterward I ran around several different places to see if it would work somewhere else.

No, I can't walk through the tree, it just appears on top of me. I guess that's some kind of layering error.

Exodus Software4 years ago

Still good to know, thanks for the details, my guess is something is wrong with the act of mining, seems to be the common denominator most of the time so I’ll comb over it.

Also thanks for clarifying on the tree thing, the z order system seems to be on its last legs. Once archaeology is in, hopefully by the end of this week, that’s next on the list of major systems to rework.

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