This month has been quite a lot of enjoyable sharing and dealing on the sport! Some idea artwork sheets have been posted over Twitter and Instagram that characterize crops and an animal kind that I’d prefer to include- bees!

I’d like interactions with bees to go extra in depth when it comes to harvesting honey and wax. For instance, whenever you seize the bees, you need to put them right into a bought/constructed hive. After they begin making honey, you need to scrape off the highest layer of wax, which can be utilized as a cloth, after which bottle the honey by hand. Later, the participant can purchase a honey spinner to do it routinely.

Other than artwork, progress like motion and interacting with objects is just about accomplished, although it can evolve because the undertaking will get larger. Plant progress for crops is in progress and a template for rising a crop over time has been made. Something I would like so as to add is permitting the participant to until the bottom the place they need after which including within the seed. Also, a visible strategy to water it- proper now, you simply click on and it waters the plant. See extra of this on the Havenroot Vale weblog.

​Along with this, I’ve been engaged on one of many refining machines for the participant to make use of: a flour mill! The participant will want wheat to activate it, nevertheless it ought to have the ability to produce flour baggage as soon as the wheat has been floor on the wheel. Once that is in a extra completed state, I’d like to maneuver on to both chopping gadgets/crops or including in a mortar and pestle mini-game to mash/crush smaller issues.

As I labored on the fundamentals, like motion and different code, it was good to take breaks or do the smaller elements, like tiny creatures, to assist with world atmosphere.

​Most objects I’ve made to this point are primarily getting used for testing. I’ll preserve updating them as I consider higher designs and I hope to make issues look as finest I can ultimately.

December has been a busy month! There’s been quite a lot of artwork progress in addition to programming! We’ve been engaged on a 3D type stock.

For 3D property, I’ve been engaged on some fashions and textures for meals for the baking mechanic. This will finally embody mixing substances and placing them into an oven.

More gadgets for chickens have been made, reminiscent of eggs, feathers, a coop, and extra. There have additionally been extra gadgets made for bees; a bee home, honey body, and an uncapping instrument. Bee animations have additionally been up to date to look extra easy and an idle has been added.

On the programming facet, a 3D type stock is being prototyped. When the participant opens their stock, they’ll take off the backpack and look inside to see all of the gadgets displayed in addition to different issues like a journal and a bug jar. Designs for this are nonetheless in progress.

It’s nice to have extra individuals engaged on the undertaking, and I’m excited to see the place all the pieces will find yourself!

Thank you a lot for studying! There have been some further movies and pictures exhibiting a bit of extra progress on the weblog web page if you wish to test it out!

February and March have been busy months each within the undertaking and outdoors of it. There have been just a few issues with the programming, however issues are up and operating once more! We’re engaged on smaller issues to verify all the pieces is optimized for the longer term and could be prolonged for different techniques.

There’s been some progress with completely different meals fashions and cooking mechanics. Some berries and nuts you possibly can collect whereas exploring the world have been added. They can come from bushes or grabbed off the bottom!

We’re engaged on getting the entire machines for refining meals up and running- to this point the flour mill is now working with the brand new stock system. We’re additionally engaged on including animations to the oven and range.

Of course some animations nonetheless should be tweaked so issues go collectively extra easily, nevertheless it’s thrilling to get the range course of began!

For programming, we’re nonetheless adjusting the stock so issues work a bit of higher. Crafting on the work bench can be a piece in progress, however we’ve got a good suggestion of the way it will all come collectively! The aim is to have it work equally to the backpack with 3D gadgets you possibly can place on the principle desk. We additionally redid the workbench and added new textures and fashions to make it come collectively extra!

Though it’s been a bit because the final replace, we nonetheless have progress to share! It’s been troublesome to discover a programmer, however we’re aiming for a small demo across the finish of the yr or close to the start of subsequent yr.

The farming system is coming alongside higher, and issues are in a principally working state- it simply must be linked to an gear/stock system and that portion needs to be completed! Of course it can want sprucing on the visible work however that may come later.

Harvesting supplies can be being labored on and it simply wants new visuals to convey it collectively extra! At the second, you possibly can harvest rocks and tall grass. We’re additionally engaged on designing harvesting instruments.

The farmers market idea is one thing we wish to focus extra on after the principle techniques are prepared, however we’ve got some artwork and fashions that you should use at your stall. Place issues in baskets, shows, and set costs for what you produce!

That’s all for now and thanks for studying!

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