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A topic by cedes created Oct 10, 2023 Views: 152 Replies: 7
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This game is looking great so far!


I had a few questions:

Bottle - I can't for the life of me figure out how to get bottled water. I checked the wiki and saw it needed water as I expected, but trying to right and left click on the edge and in the water it wouldn't collect. After trying a few minutes and using 20 bottles, only 3 bottles were collected, and I can't even tell you when that happened. I can milk a goat immeadiatly just fine, is it a bug? I've tried it on two different worlds/saves and its the same

The player when dealing with fast enemies like a draugr will sometimes charge the player and i cant find the sprite as its pushing my character to is unclickable until i charge away, was that intenional?

And lastly, is there stats on when and where other planets will show up? I haven't come across one and I've travelled quite a few different screens ready to start a new town lol.


But yeah really fun game, especially so early on, once I can consistintly collect water I will be running that town lol

Developer(+1)

Hello Cedes,

Thank you for reaching out with your questions! I'm more than happy to provide some answers.

Regarding the issue with bottles, I've identified a bug in the game. The intended behavior is that you should be able to fill bottles with water within a certain distance around your character. However, in my code, I accidentally squared this distance, making it much smaller than it should be. As a workaround, you can stand in water and right-click on the player's head to fill the bottles. This should do the trick for now.

In response to your second question, there are two periods of inactivity in combat gameplay:

    • Player dead time: After the player strikes an entity, there is a brief delay of a few hundreds of ms  before they can deal damage again. Using a tool like a sword can reduce this delay.
    • Entity dead time: When entities are attacked, they have a short period of invincibility before they can be damaged again.

    The delay you're experiencing may be the result of these two factors. In any case, I'll take a closer look to ensure there are no hidden bugs.

    Regarding your last question, I agree that the planet generation in the game is currently unbalanced. I added an example of universe generation on the wiki (https://stellaria.fandom.com/wiki/Universe_and_planets?so=search&file=Universe_example.png). It may require traveling through several sectors before encountering a new planet. I'm actively working on the upcoming Alpha version, which should be ready by the end of the month. I've made changes to the universe generation and spaceship gameplay to enhance the overall space exploration experience. 

    Anyway, thanks a lot for your comments, they very useful for the development.

    Enjoy your gaming experience!

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    Thanks for answering everything!

    I've played the newest build and it's going along great, space is really engaging now!

    My biggest thing I'd like to mention is olive and lemons right now!

    Randomly picking up the fruit, usually when I've planted an orchard near a town to farm as I build up my resources, the game will ctd. It's been happening so often I save after picking from every few trees now! it does seem to happen when I try to clikcy collect from multiple trees.

    Developer

    Hi Cedes, 

    Thank you so much for your response! I'm thrilled to hear that you're enjoying the latest release :)

    I've been trying to address the issues you mentioned, but unfortunately, I'm unable to reproduce them on my end. Could you please provide a screenshot to help me better understand and recreate the same environment? 

    Whenever I start the game I get a notification "The Application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b)

    Do you know what's going on?

    Developer

    Hi Richard, 

    After investigating the issue, it appears to be related to the 32 and 64-bit target platform. The game is currently running in 32 bits, although it should support 64 bits. Could you let me know which architecture your system is using?

    I just re-installed DirectX Graphics and it works now, thanks!

    Great game, btw

    Developer

    Ahh cool, thanks a lot for your feedback! Enjoy the game :)