Tua's Blog - Febuary 2015

[Tuathanach]

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.