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am I just having really bad luck trying to find the stuff or are you doing something different this time around? 

so I stumbled across this game a few weeks ago and sort of got addicted...its a survival style game where you have to find food water and keep animals/monsters from killing you.

http://www.unlok.ca/wayward/

I will give you all 2 hints I learned the hard way:

1-if you dig a grass tile near water it always becomes water.  since a water source is extremely valuable early on you can dig a moat toward your cave and make a small lake to gather water.

2-find a mountain and mine out a little nook, build a door and you'll be safe from any animal/monster that comes along except time skitters(can randomly warp in) and pirate ghosts(can walk through walls).

I know you weren't planning to do much with it, but can you add mule and trader NPCs and a collecter? 

also hero is buggy, it doesn't boost all skills for some reason.

(figured this needed its own topic and not sure if here is a good place for this move it if not)

so I've figured out the basics, I've added some processes for making tools(there were some already defined in units) but I have questions:

1: how do you designate an item as equippable?(armor/weapons)

2: how do you force an interaction with the ground(such as with a shovel)?

3: how do you define damage for a weapon?

anyone seen Mickey this year? 

is he still working on V4?

are all of you as bored as me?

so we had a discussion about certain skills that were either useless or overpowered, it died with no resolution and I can't find it.  so I'd like to discuss a way to get rid of some of those, or atleast balance them out...

some things that came to my mind:

general:

tinkering this replaces locksmithing and trap and allows you to both make and pick locks and set traps(really seems weird that it currently takes 8 skill points for those 2) could possibly also add fletching to this since thats mostly just tinkering also...

camping(name?): combines/replaces fishing and first aid, if you've ever been camping you know how to treat a minor wound, and how to fish

weapons:(these allow ease in switching between weapon types as long as you know the weapon style)

piercing weapons allows you to use any weapon that uses piercing damage, such as spears and daggers

slashing weapons allows use of weapons such as swords and scythes or other slashing weapons

blunt weapons crushing damage: maces, staves, flails

hacking weapons access to weapons like axes and halberds

archery bows and xbows...and maybe ballistas?

magic:(with the new mamgic system being discussed there will probably need to be a lot of changes these are just a few ideas I've had)

blessing: this will allow you to cast only helpful spells(like the positive red and white spells) on yourself or your group(if groups are added)

sorcery: allows you to cast direct attack spells and area effect damage spells

cursing: spells like the the fun white magic spells, and debuffs from red magic

enchanting: basicly blue magic...

crafting/gathering

lumberjacking(name?)*¹: chopping down trees.  making it dex strength instead of dex wis...since this has traditionally been a part of farming and not all carpenters have the wis to chop the big trees it should be split, and have the points taken from farming, maybe 2 points for lumberjacking and 3 for farming?

blacksmithing: yes we already have it, but I'd like to see it changed to only allow crafting with basic metals not precious metals

finesmithing: this is what you'd use for precious metals, such as gold and silver...allowing you to make jewelry coins and silver tea sets(or atleast the items that actually need silver)

there are probably other skills that need tweaking but I have to leave soon so you guys discuss what I already wrote out, and the poll is just so I get my poll starter badge ignore it if you want

*1 when the new mold system was added it got rid of the need to use wooden handles to make tools, as a carpenter wooden handles were sort of an easy way to make a few quick coins as if you don't have carpentry, an axe, and a saw(both of which used to need that wood handle to make) you were screwed...I'd like to see usages added back for things carpenters make, and maybe even some wooden armors(yes you can make armor from wood and its really effective against things like arrows and slashing weapons)...you've been phasing out certain skills over the past few years and it unbalances the game a bit

I remember the changes in the alchemy system you made in V3(which were neat), so I figured I'd bring up what I said in the V2 forum when you were looking for new ideas there, and hope we can get some changes in V4:

have alchemy based on mixing different chemicals instead of using plants(real alchemy instead of apothecary) and add a few ores that can be mined ground and mixed

example:
mine [ore1] grind it to get 10 [ore1] powder
mine [ore2] grind it to get 10 [ore2] powder
use [ore1] powder on [ore2] powder to get [ore1-ore2] mixture
use alembic on that to get a potion(or maybe 2)

with it done this way you would only have to add a few new ores since each ore can mix with another to make something new(5 new ores will give you 20 combinations)

I'd still like to see some new stuff added to alchemy where its not just 'harvest this make potion'.  with the mineral idea I offered for mining, you could actually add these easier, just have the stuff for alchemy as byproducts of 'cleaning' ore...

figured I'd start a new topic for this since the parts that lead to it are in a couple different threads...it got long so I'll summarize at the end

Mickey has brought up having tools start using a low grade metal and getting better tools from better metals, and having them based on skill(the way weapons are).  I was thinking that over and then the thought of someone trying to chop down a tree with a copper axe popped in my head and I started giggling(and I don't usually giggle).  I chose copper for this example since its our first step metal in game(and was in history also).  copper is easy to work with because its really maliable, that ease of use also makes it bad for tools. 

if you make an axe from copper and go wack a tree with it you'll end up with a dull chunk of copper on the end of an axe handle.  if you don't think copper is that weak as a metal think about a coil of coaxial cable(has a copper wire running down the middle) and how easilly it folds/bends.  you'd have an even harder time trying to mine with a copper pick since if you hit a rock with it you would then have a copper mallet. 

I thought this over alot and then I thought about it, it doesn't really seem fair that crafters(harvesters in this case) would get to use the best tools available while fighters still had to use weaker metals and work up enough skill for better items...then I got a weird idea, its nothing I've seen on any RPGWO server I've ever played, but what if instead of lots and lots of weapons the players skill and strength decided the amount of damage they did(of course manipulated by some multiplier from the actual weapon).

this would allow a player with the sword skill for instance to choose between just a few basic weapons:
sabre-fast low damage multiplier
katana-medium speed medium multiplier
broad sword-slow high damage multiplier

I see the basic damage being based maybe 1 for each 20 str and 20 skill(as in 1 point from each not 1 point for both)that would mean a new fighter(with max dex str) would average 8 damage before weapon multiplier(a weapon like an axe would do more damage so maybe a multiplier of 2 on the medium while daggers would do less so multipier of .5 on the medium?).  so for example using above weapons at starting skill value(and weapon values just tossed out there not the real values):
sabre(.8  multiplier 1.5 speed) would do around 6 damage
katana(1.1 multiplier 2.0 speed) would do closer to 9 damage
broad sword(1.5 multiplier 2.8 speed) would do around 12 damage

this could also be done with other weapon skills, and would get around 'needing' molds since there would be fewer options.  it allows fighters to concentrate on skill(s) and not on getting a stronger weapon for more damage. 

this would probably cause some problems with traders not having to make weapons as much, but that would be fixed with the new armor spots...so I can't really see a downside

summary:

• fewer weapons
• damage based on strength and skill
• improve damage by improving skill
• weapons have a multiplier and still dictate attack speed
• less confusion on what weapon you need as a fighter

I decided to pop in and see how things were going...walked into a plot that was unclaimed, looked through the boxes(took me 15 minutes to figure out how) then walked inside the house

gold on the floor so I tried to take it, owned by somebody, did /landowner says land is claimed, walked back outside same plot house was on did /landowner its unclaimed...

I also know you can't walk into a house on someone's land without landrights(silly) so I'm sure it was unclaimed