Update: Rail Buffer
June 2, 2023
I've finally made it through all of the submitted code issues this week, and I've started on the content issues.
You can now put a temporary buffer stop in the middle of a rail line as a stopping point for rail carts, allowing you to stop and load a cart before letting the cart continue onward. Buffer stops can also be used as safe temporary end-caps for partially-built rail lines, allowing you to build a long line slowly over time while still using the completed portion.
Some finicky issues with rail construction have also been improved.
Automated road pavers now behave sanely when they are on their last (of 24) uses. Before, they would stall and get stuck. Now they can be correctly deconstructed into an empty plow.
There's new support for specially-containable items so they can go into more than one type of specialty container. Currently, this only affects the bowl of water, which can now go onto both the Lab and Food tables, since it's used for both chemistry and food preparation.
And the mysterious and rare horse-cart duplication bug has finally been fixed. Lots of people helped by providing pictures and videos of this bug occurring, so thank you everyone.
| Update: All That Remains
May 24, 2023
I have finally made it through all of the reproducible code issues that have been reported. There are two big changes that you will notice.
First, the web-based photos interface now allows you to go back through the entire history of 3425 photos that have been taken by players over the past four years in the game. You can browse these photos here:
http://photos.onehouronelife.com/server.php?action=front_page
Bear in mind that taking a photograph in the game is no small feat, since it involves building a camera from scratch, which includes glass blowing, tempering spring steel, and silver-nitrate chemistry.
Second, there's a new /PROPERTY command, which you can use to cycle through arrows that point to each property gate that you own. This is especially useful if you inherit distant property, because the temporary arrow that you receive goes away after 60 seconds. But this will also be useful for managing property generally.
There were several other small fixes, including some missing curse logging when not cursing by name, and a long-sought-after fix for mouse positioning on ultra-wide monitors. If you have suffered from fullscreen issues on an ultra-wide monitor in the past, it should be fixed now. Please let me know if you're still having trouble.
There is one remaining open code bug, for a horse cart duplication issue that I haven't been able to reproduce yet. Hopefully someone can shoot a video of this happening.
| Update: New Fixes
May 19, 2023
I've been going through all the reported issues this week.
Some highlights: Indoor bonus fades gradually instead of suddenly when doors are opened and closed. Leadership and property are no longer inherited across great distances (if the fittest heir is far away) if there are less-fit heirs close by. Partially-used strong skewers no longer make fewer balls of rubber dough. And the big one: if you put 21 fully-loaded banana backpacks in the delivery truck, it doesn't completely break the game anymore. And yeah, that one is kindof a funny story...
| Update: Back in the Saddle
May 13, 2023
After an extended break to focus on other aspects of life, I'm getting back into the swing of things this week by posting a small update, mostly to exercise the update machinery and make sure it's all still working. A triple-platform, 23-server, Steam-synced, native-binary and common content automated build process involves a lot of moving and somewhat fragile parts. I hit a few snags along the way, but got everything ironed out, which should mean smoother sailing with updates going forward.
This update does two relatively trivial things:
First, natural tarry spots now automatically block the spot to their left with a temporary gas vent, preventing griefers from building ancient objects in those spots. They were doing this way out in the wilderness, in anticipation of civilization wanting to settle there in the future. These gas vents clear up as soon as oil is struck in the neighboring tarry spots, allowing advanced oil machinery with pipes that run to the left.
Second, transitions in the editor now have a comment field, allowing notes to be added about more complex and special-purpose object transitions. Coming back after a long time away, there are a lot of complex transitions (like for water that moves through pipes) that could have used comments to help guide future content editors (including my future self).
Comments occur in transition files on the second line (the old files only contained a single line), so hopefully this doesn't mess up third-party parsing tools too much, but if bugs arise in third-party tools, check out how they're parsing transition files.
| Headless Hunt Contest
October 29, 2021
Tighten up your
riding laces.
Fear shall smear
across their faces.
Tarr pit north
one hundred paces.
Gallop off and
to the races.
Leave them t'wonder
where their face is.
Headless specter
nightly flies.
Deaf to all their
whimp'ring cries.
Shining treasure
somewhere lies
under roiling
Nw'England skies.
Hidden cache
just out of view.
Through real world
you can pursue.
Every head
you sever through.
yields the thief
another clue.
What's not wrong
may not be right.
Many seekers
have to fight.
Study map
by dying light.
Last clue flies on
Hall'ween night.
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