As discussed in Dev Q&A here are a few taster night screenshots from unreal Work has been done on porting Ojaveda and also Amdeneir.

Ojaveda - Walking through main gate looking towards Th' Broken door


Ojaveda - Fires burn at night in dsar kore


Amdeneir at night


Amdeneir tavern

Hi all,

For those that want to see the fish dish icons that were added with the last update. Sadly as the client stands it does not know where to find these (my fault). To fix this is simple you just need to add one file. You need to add imagelist.xml to C:\Program Files\PlaneShift\art\skins\base\client_base.zip (or where you installed PS to). Then you will get to see the fish dish icons.

*Please note this is not an official hotfix, so if you run a repair it will think client_base.zip is wrong and will overwrite it back.*

My First blog of 2015
What has happened?
Over last six weeks 0.6.3 update and mini update have happened. Added to the vast list of changes is also more stack crafting for cooking, alchemy & Herbal. This means instead of grinding items 1 by 1 in a mortar and pestle can now grind several at once, if you put a stack of 5 in you will get 5 of result item, Note this only works for 1 to 1 transforms.

Shindrok's Crater Project
As you may know this is a community project ran by myself and Zunna to enable people an easier way to contribute to a project for the game. It aims to enhance the OjaRoad cave with a society of rogues, creating many new NPC's and Quests.
I thought I would give an update on this :

• NPC's
  • Will have professions assigned from smiths to bar staff to brewers to guards
  • Will be unique
• Jade Cutthroats (level 1 rogues)
  • NPC's are assigned to volunteers
  • Most at stage of creating Quests for NPC, some already done.
  • After quests are done we will work on interaction between NPC's.
• Jade Serpents (level 2 rogues)
  • Will be more specialist NPC's, less typical rogue
  • More complex quests
  • Will enhance and focus story (of crater) based on player choices.
• Cave
  • Cave 1 has started to be laid out
  • has defined areas, like living, storage, bar/kitchen, training and crafting areas
• Will also include "boss" NPC's

We have some good volunteers, but are happy for more. We also have a wiki page http://194.116.72.94/pswiki/index.php?title=Shindroks_Crater_Project. Feel free to contact myself or Zunna in game, by PM or on IRC (http://webchat.freenode.net/ ) at #ps-shindrok.

What is coming in the future?
Note: All is done as part of the Dev team including prospects. So requires effort from several people
Brewing

• Data has been tested
• To Setup Brewing stations and vendors
• Quests to be tested

Jewelry Making

• Data is being tested
• To Setup crafting stations and vendors
• Quests to be tested

Enchanting

• Weapon Enchanting - data tested - quest to be done
• Shield Enchanting - data to be tested - quest to be done
• Scripts to be done

In Rules team we are also working on enhancing combat and creating some new mobs. As well as the constant balancing of game.
I have been working on some new 3d art including furnace, brewing items and crossbow.

If any one is interested in contributing can either contact a dev or come on to IRC (http://webchat.freenode.net/ ) at #planeshift-prospects and discuss what you feel you can/would like to help with.

Hi All
While we are waiting on next update, I want to take this opportunity to announce a new community based project. The aim of this project is to enable you the community to be able to contribute to the game. The project will expand current history and give a multi path quest chain, new NPC's, new caves to explore with a new boss mob. So here is some info on the project which is being lead by myself and Zunna.

Background
Dark rumours have grown in Ojaveda about a dark presence coming from Shindroks crater. Various rumours of raids on supply caravans are increasing. Certain items are being harder to acquire. Concern is growing but the Octarchy/Vegisimi is playing it down, publically stating it is only rumor and nothing more. In private they have asked the head of the guard to keep an eye out just in case. Some believe Shindrok the mad has returned.

Quests
Quests are designed to follow currently 3 flexible paths merchant, rogue, warrior.


Books
Books exploring, History of Gods Laanx and Dakkru as well as of Lemur and character such as Shindrok. Some of which are developed.


Maps
Multi map cave with secret entrances, and complete rogue society inside.


Things to be done
Art
•   New texture for Jade Serpents and Jade Cutthroats based on rogue model.
Settings
•   New Books??
       o    If relevant and fit settings to provide more history based lore.
•   Character descriptions (Should be done by players)
•   Quests
      o         A form will be provided giving player outline of what is required in quest
      o         A step by step process will be used to enable players to more easily create quests
   A basic outline to be written by player
   Dialog to then be done
   Format using quest syntax
Rules
•   Potions of skill boost-using herbalism
      o         Step by step process will be used
   Plan what skills to boost and what will boost them
   Plan process based on existing
   Enter data into sheet
•   black market items
      o         Plan what will be black market
      o         Plan who sells etc.
•   setup the waypoint network for the cave and test it
•   NPC’s
      o         Skills, traits, attribute, inventory etc
      o         Loot rules
      o         Behaviours
•   Action Locations
      o         Way in/out
      o         Mechanisms
      o         description on items
•   Items in cave
      o         Furniture
      o         Storage
      o         Treasure
•   Natural resources
      o      Dig minerals?
      o         plants?


What do you need to contribute?
First lets start with boring(but important) legal stuff. You will be required to sign the license. Which can be found here. Which from my understanding basically means all work submitted by you is your own and that you are donating it to PS and that it will not be used elsewhere, this enables PS to remain unique. I do advise reading license for yourself before signing though.
Second an understanding of Planeshift mechanics and its lore will assist you.
Thirdly time and will to commit to this project. How much is up to you but tasks will be expected to be completed in a reasonable timeframe.

What support will you receive?
Myself and Zunna who lead this project will be happy to answer any queries you may have .
We are contactable ingame, by PM or on IRC (http://webchat.freenode.net/ ) at #ps-shindrok.
We will step you through tasks so that it enables more to contribute.
We will have IRC based meetings and the channel we allow you to also support each other.

What to do if interested?
PM me. Tell me what you would like to do most of work will be in creating the quests.

Any questions please feel to ask.

Hi All
Sorry about the short notice but KS plans to have a party on Friday Night starting around 8:30-9 pm GMT. It will be next to pavilion by laanx temple in hydlaa. We will be having some light refreshments for all to celebrate our 10 years on the dome (founded 13 November 2004). Our current plan is to have some stalls for those authors out there who wish to see their books to help spread knowledge. I am also keen to hear from those who wish to be guest speakers, who may want to pass on knowledge to others. So from expert crafters (including smiths, alchemists, cooks, bakers etc), to mages, to religious leaders, to explorers or others who wish to pass on information and knowledge. If interested in speaking please contact me before or on the day.
Look forward to seeing you,
Tuathanach

As I am sure you will have noticed there are many items that use generic icons such as blue closed book or sack. I ask you all to help me find these and more appropriate alternatives. For this I need 2 things from you:

• The item with a generic icon.
• • The name of icon to be used
  • or another item that uses the intended icon

For those who wish to look at the icons they can be found in planeshift/art/materials.zip most icon files end _icon.dds. You will need a dds viewer or dds thumbnail viewer. Finding other items that use the intended icon is also very helpful.

There are fixes for mace/hammer, leather parts and some crafting manual icons due soon. Lets see if together we can add to this list.

Nvidia do small utilities for dds for windows 32 bit

We in the Rules Department of the Devs. Have been discussing a way forward for Wrong experience calculation with stacked crafting bug. We have decided that as this will have a significant impact on crafting, we want you to help us decide on how best to solve this issue.

Currently Practice Points = time (s). So the longer something takes the more practice you get. We also factor in skill so the better you are the quicker you can do something.

With bulk crafting we currently use the formula
time (s) = singleTransformTime + singleTransformTime * (StackCount -1) * 0.1;This means a full stack gives 7.4 * practice.
Two possible options are
time (s) = singleTransformTime + singleTransformTime * (StackCount -1) * 0.25;and
time (s) = singleTransformTime + singleTransformTime * (StackCount -1);but capped at 300.

What do you think of these suggestions and do you have any alternatives? We want to hear your opinions. I hope this will be the first of many dev decisions I can take to you to get your opinions.