#tradersguild

Oh god, so I decided I wanted to make a new player character and chose this tough looking fella. I thought I got everything on him but I see I missed some things which gave me a very interesting bug. 

Hey guys! So the update tonight isn’t as big as I wanted but I’ve made done some good work and laid down foundations for bigger parts of the game.

So first thing is farming, I have made a fairly generic way of adding new plants to the game therefore when ever I want to make new plants to grow its as easy as setting a few variables and I am good.

I started doing the base work for the inventory. I am thinking of going in a sort of Runescape direction when each item takes 1 space in your inventory and you can only have a certain number. Horses, Carts, Boats, etc would all work the same way, they have an inventory with a maximum number of items you can put into them and that’s how you would trade. This gets rid of the trade packs seen in the prototype videos. 

While I am pretty happy that I got this working, I am really disappointed at how badly some things I made are designed. The crafting system ties many other things together and it really shows their weakness. 

The two main system that got their weaknesses revealed is the Player Controller system (which I’ve talked about a few times) and the resource system. The resource system so far is how the player interacts with anything in the world. While it works very well for simple things, once used for menus, many things do break. Now, this either requires a redesign of the player controller, resource base or both. I think I’ll have to sit and figure out which way I want to take this.

Once that redesign is finished, I will have to move onto redesigning the crafting system to work with the new design changes. Now with the crafting system in mind, this is a great step forward to really making a great player controller, and creating a better way for the player to interact with the world.