#regrowal

(Ignore the totally-normal-mannequin standing in in the place of the player model at the moment.)

Working on some more wildlife today as well, here's some Butterfly variants and fish species, notable the Sailfin, Bigjaw Salmon, and Glimmer Bass!

Rushing /right/ into things since I am ever-so slightly approaching the midnight of 5/24/2024 (im so sorry) here's the new/fixed tools and fixed copper color :)

(left to right: claymore, staff, spear, knife, shovel, chisel, rounded shield, bucket, paxel, pickaxe, hoe, axe, bow saw, sling shot, and bow)

Now that I've caught your eye, time to quickly go over the huge technical stuff that doesn't have any fancy images to show *yet*: 1. It now is supported on Linux! (Windows and Apple too obviously) 2. Controller support! Play using whatever controller you'd like, or a standard mouse and keyboard. 3. There's now a saving state when quitting the game to ensure no file corruption when quitting to main screen

4. WE'VE STARTED THE SURVIVAL MODE AND WEIGHT-BASED INVENTORY SYSTEM LETS GOOOOOOO

Here's the WIP design of the HUD, followed by the concept draft for the inventory system:

Basically, as items are added to your backpack/player/whatever, they add to the total weight vs possible storage weight. similar to games like Fallout or Skyrim, but with the visual grid layout of inventories like Stardew Valley or Minecraft or Terraria. obviously as that list grows, itll expand the size of the GUI but if its *too* large itll have a scroll bar. no more worrying about having 347353 different flower types or random knick knacks. so long as you have the STR stat for it you're good to go!

Magazines/books are in the work now too! You can find and read tidbits of these across the world, ranging from top secret training manuals which give you permanent stat bonuses to learning how to make coffee or bits of lore and new customization options, they've got it all!

(also ignore the sentinels standing in as the temporary player models for now but i felt like including this image from a past update preview to visually explain what i meant by stats and STR/strength/carrying weight/leveling those things up and whatnot)

AND FINALLY THE REST

Updated Textures!

New textures and models

New unique items/tools/weapons/blocks

Implemented more blocks

About 15 new lore entries/logs to discover

2 new in game corpo logos and some related items, Daemonik Energy and NUD - Neural User Display (aka the brand that made the user HUD)

A bunch of new skybox elements such as the distant Orbital Satellites, Planets, and more

....a few more things i cant remember right now (i swear ill get better at these summaries - @recusantalchemist)

We are working on the details to have a musician now to work on our soundtrack with us.

We have an official community discord server now; Sail on by and let us know what you think, share ideas, and all the other fun stuff!

@andeditor7 has been hard at work getting our engine running and being a cyberwizard in general, and by the holy gods above- his work is paying off. Now we've just to do the new models, proper lighting/shadow engine, day/night cycle, survival mode, GUI, updated textures, animations, character model implementation, block gravity, world gen-

P.S. - Here's some new dirt types too! Grass, Leaf Mould, Dirt, and Mud! I forgot to include the fertilized soil/manure block in the above screenshot so here's the manure item. You're welcome 💩

I think I'm sticking with the first render, I love how much softer and wild it looks, less like someone's front lawn.

I think it looks especially nice with short grass on top :)

After discussing things with @andeditor7 we've concluded by default it'll have the full fuzziness, but using a scythe it will be possible to trim it to a regular block without fuzziness.

Behold, Planet 55e's first sunrise!*