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Re: Can't get Tanning material to work
(Tanning material) This is not a thing. (Bark) will work as it is a thing in game. As for "fat" you would need to pattern match to use it, much the way the game is looking for an item named "Tanning material" in your inventory. GL December 04, 2017, 06:32:26 PM |
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2019, here we come, slowly but steadily.
The time has come for me to start reaching back into the development chambers after the sick leave. My fractured shoulder is still far from fully healed, but computer work seems doable, so here we come development year 2019. Slowly but steadily that is, as the priority remains in exercising the injured arm a lot to increase mobility - rather than to get it stiff from the office work. Oh boy, little did I know how slowly fractured shoulders heal. In the original injury topic somebody made a remark that this might be my hardcore first hand research on injuries and recovery.  Well, yes, going through this actually got me thinking of going through game's recovery rules in case of fractured joints. I've been of the arm sling for five weeks now but it will still take months before I can shoot a bow again, and raising the injured arm above the shoulder level is a feat I have been doing reliably only for a week or two. And there's no way I can do it with carrying load of more than few pounds, so any hard work that requires both arms is out of the question. It also takes time to learn to move the arm 'normally' again, as the early pain didn't allow all the proper muscles to be used with some arm trajectories. It is easy to understand how easily deformed body postures are born.But here I am, dedicated to work on the arm and the game as much as possible during the 2019. I've gone through the swamp of e-mails lately and hopefully answered to everything urgent - but if you miss a reply, please do re-send your e-mail. Getting back on the track with the forums will take a bit longer, but soon enough you can expect replies to pop up here and there. Luckily my physiotherapist has also given me permission to ski, just guaranteed that I do not fall on the injured arm in any circumstances. 2019, here we come.  January 28, 2019, 06:49:56 PM |
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The first snow and back from holidays
Hey, it's been a good two months without a word here at dev. news section, so it's about time to break the silence, although you may have spotted my slowly increasing presence at the forums bugs section already. We had the first snow few days ago, so the summer season is evidently ceasing. See, I went on summer holidays quite late this year, in august, and thought "it's likely autumn, or early winter, before I get back to development chambers again." Looks like that the time is at hand now. Hunting bugs has always been a good way to get oriented back into coding, and I guess focus on that will continue for a good while. But yeah, the endless to-do lists also awaiting for us. So let's continue from here, and see where we get by the end of the year. October 23, 2020, 09:16:19 AM |
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Seasonal sales and Kekri customs
Harvest festival sales are on at Steam and Itch.io -- and in the Far North we do celbrate Kekri. So let the new adventurers be respected with the discount, and the ancestral spirits with our special Kekri costumes and customs... During this festivity period you can grab the game for decent discount on Steam, or from Itch.io. It's Kekri, not halloween, in the Far North. Kekri is an ancient Finnish harvest festival celebrated in the fall when the annual agricultural activities were all accomplished and the harvest collected. Kekri meant the end of the crop year, which was a big turning point. It was the time when the souls and spirits of the dead wandered around and visited the living. The ancestors were respected and welcomed. Sauna was heated up for them, and meal prepared too. The living celebrated accordingly, and so do we. Kekri Goat Kekri time included tradition of Kekripukki (Kekri goat) figure. People would dress up as horned creatures, wearing furs or coats upside down, and went around in their disguises and were offered food and drink. So, what does a decent developer of tradition rich game do to follow the tradition? Yes. He dresses up as Kekripukki.  We wish you happy and haunting Kekri time, or Halloween - if that suits you better. Celebrate and participate!  October 30, 2020, 11:53:03 AM |
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Point and click start location
It would be nice to be able to choose start location more freely, for example on islands without having to choose Islander. This would make it easier to make challenge scenarios more spesific. Or just to be able to start in an interesting place. EDIT: Night has done excellent work and provided us with an external start location chooser: Urw start location selector November 03, 2020, 01:30:23 PM |
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Re: Point and click start location
Working on something that'll be able to achieve this, and hopefully more in the future.
November 04, 2020, 10:03:26 PM |
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Buff up the elks, add swimming and jumping over fences
Ok we all know Unreal predators (even lynxes) are dangerous. But that's cool and all, I'm not here because of that. My point is: Unreal elks aren't. They really are wimpy compared to the real ones. My current char had so much trouble chasing an elk he dropped all weapons but a small knife in order to ski faster. In the end, he knifed and kicked an adult elk to death (with near or zero skill in those). Sure he got a crush in the eye and fractured ribs and some bruises. Now watch this video I took when an adult bull elk was spooked by our approaching car and tried to jump over a reindeer fence. Spoiler: Bull elk stuck on reindeer fence • show Would you have gone there with a knife?  He tore up the fence and walked slowly away like a boss. Here's the fence afterwards:Spoiler: Obliterated fence • show What happened was just bad luck on its behalf. Normally they jump gracefully over no problem. That's actually a requirement of the modern reindeer fence. So finally coming up to my suggestion: 1) I'd like to see elks, especially bull ones, buffed up considerably. It should be madness to go against them practically bare-handed. The reward is anyways a huge amount of meat. More strength, stamina and speed. 2) Elk AI: Naturally they should almost always just flee, but when cornered they shouldn't just run circles to exhaustion but stop to rest and threaten the pursuer with a snort and kicking the ground. Fight or flight, not flight until breathless (see no. 4)  3) Enable elk to jump over fences or even break them when fleeing. 4) Elks are great swimmers irl, ought to be grandmasters in Urw. Spoiler: Basic URW elk hunting tactic • show It'd be cool to come to a new version of urw and try to exploit this old tactic only to realize the elk just swims away. Of course there should be some reluctance to animals wading and swimming, but it'd be a cool addition. Applies to reindeers too. Let's actually speak of ungulates. EDIT: I found this bug report: https://www.unrealworld.fi/forums/index.php?topic=4731.0 5) Urw ungulates (hoofed herbivores) are pretty good to get out of a hole in ice? I've noticed that ungulates fall through ice easily and get out just as easily. Imagine an elk in a hole in the ice. No way it's gonna get on the ice again unless wading. This would also be a bit of balancing to previous things that make elk hunting much more difficult. Also reluctance to enter thin ice would need to be somewhat increased, maybe only when escaping. 6) EDIT: Attack: Trampling. (Allow aggressive elks/big reindeer/beoars to enter a tile with a character, making them 'fallen'.) Hehe. And there it goes... 7) EDIT: Only pits should work for ungulates. This was always odd anyway... It's not in their nature to go into tight spots. I think all ungulates should pass all snares, lever and deadfall traps without harm or trigger. IRL, IRL...Why do I think this is so important game-wise? - I think this is a major game balancing issue, increasing time span to get secure with food. - Currently is easy to exploit big herbivore ai to get one's belly full for a long time. I'd like to see elks as a prize, not a potato.  - Making ungulates harder would make small game hunting/fishing for food more useful/needed. Bring on the discussion! What do you think? November 10, 2020, 08:24:01 PM |
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Re: Buff up the elks, add swimming and jumping over fences
I don't think there will be any discussion because there is nothing to disagree with in the first place Maybe the reason it is really easy to go 1v1 with them is when you actually can get close to them they are almost always breathless. I got hurt pretty badly once from an elk attack, but I waited a few turns to actually see if they attack So if I'm not wrong, a solution can be to increase their chance to attack even if they are breathless. But I don't really know if going in a fistfight with and elk was the choice for the finnish hunters or the behaviour of the iron age finnish elks
November 10, 2020, 09:51:39 PM |
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[Fixed - 3.63] Birch-bark rope (price is ridiculous when cutting it into pieces)
The cost of birch-bark rope is 2 ropes = 1 arrow The problem is that when you cut a 15 ft rope into 15 peices its price essentially is multiplied by 15. After cutting it up you can trade 2 pieces of 1-foot rope for 1 arrow, which is ridiculous considering how quickly you can make a lot of rope (even though you can only do that during the early summer). I really love the realism of the game, and I love how challenging everything is, but once I find an exploit like this I can't Not use it. Please fix it quick! I quickly fell in love with this game even though i've been playing it only for a week or two. And this bug breaks the immersion for me. November 26, 2020, 12:49:08 AM |
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[3.63] EXPLOIT: anything inside birch-bark containers can be used in tanning
I was about to tan a soaked elk skin with newly obtained bark. But I mistakenly chose birch-bark box of 'coarse grains' instead and, to my surprise, worked as tanning material. I had to fill the now-empty box and try it again to make sure. By not starting tanning but pressing escape during the pause when all conditions are met. Consequently, the birch-bark box, which was emptied when selected for tanning, did not refill when canceling. I repeat: I did not start the process. Rye flour (made into sour mixture) can be used for tanning IRL, so initially I thought there was some purpose to all this. But then, another thing was that I had a bag full of these same grains. That bag of coarse grains could not be selected for tanning. So now I suspect it was the "birch-bark box of ..." that allowed the grains to be chosen in the first place. I have to test this with putting, say, dried meat inside a birch-bark container and try tanning with that. I shouldn't even be reporting this, because now I want to use rye flour in this fashion in the future... EDIT: Confirmed. I just tanned a bear skin with 2.1 lbs of awful dried elk cut from a birch-bark basket. Pretty sour stuff  EDIT: And I see birch-bark strip works too, even though the proper (reddish brown, used in tanning) bark was left on the birch... The white papery stuff shouldn't tan anything. This is a language problem, actually. Since in Finnish (for example) the outer bark (white stuff) is called tuohi and the inner bark (brown stuff) is called parkki. 
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