We figured out what those Cultists have been building in the woods all this time! Yes it’s-

This update will go live to every Clockwork Empires player via Steam!

We have also updated our Clockwork Empires: Development Progress Report!

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Engine, misc

• FIXED: OS X crashes when cancelling assignment via assignment beacon
• FIXED: OS X crashes when crops are finished being harvested
• FIXED: some leaking memory (what a mess!)
• replaced dynamic allocations for moving tags about in the game space dictionary with a static pool of memory and a large buffer
• replaced dynamic allocations of particle system VBOs and memory during the render frame with a pool of VBO resources to draw from; eliminates a memory leak and General Badness with drivers that do not like you creating/deleting VBOs on the fly all that much, and should also provide a modest speed increase.

Save/Load

• FIXED: Display of work schedule data is no longer reset on load.
• FIXED: environmental light values now set correctly after save/load

Combat AI / Decision Tree

• added a bunch more code to the decision tree parser, specifically “enough code to make it work” and “enough code to unbreak the editor.”
• replaced all old military logic with military decision tree code (it is smarter! also: should fix rallying)
• FIXED: require_work_party_rally_point not firing consistently

Renderer / Lighting Rewrite

• added dynamic point lights! they can be attached to a model placer for rigid body and skeletal models
• lights can now be attached to/removed from placers; UPM version 2.9 created
• the renderer now applies interior ambient lighting for objects inside buildings, and tracks it on the interior
• renderer now does lighting in a completely different way for the two existing lights, but this will probably be invisible to the user. It is, however, necessary for everything else.
• things can now cast shadows on farms (and other decal-type zones)
• increased transparency of semi-transparent building walls.

Spectres 

• added Haunting Spectres
• added Vengeful Spectres
• added job for Vicar to confront spectre (+ticker message is created when vicar confronts spectre)
• added spectre report event (spectres can be reported once per night)

Building Quality / Workshops

• added Building Quality system! You will now have to balance the ratio of work modules to decor in your buildings. Nicer buildings mean happier colonists!
• and added building quality display on UI for workshops/houses
• buildings now robustly track modules they contain.
• added 14 new decor modules
• appropriate decor has been added to all buildings’ default module lists
• many modules have been renamed
• many modules have new descriptions
• performed reorganization of our workshop edb to be actually legible
• added icons for mounted aurochs/rhino heads
• balance: build costs on all decor have been adjusted
• FIXED: orientation/placement on a number of previously unused models
• FIXED: script error when building clotheslines
• FIXED: issue w/ some decor modules not deconstructing correctly
• FIXED: footprint size on carpets

Madness

• balance: added various eldritch means which help sustain madness levels
• added evil book prop
• added madness sustaining memory creation for colonists w/ cult_seed tag
• added madness-sustaining effect for colonists w/ occult_mark_black_magic
• made vermin corpses last longer to encourage Beetle Curses
• Increased weighting on many madness jobs
• balance: contact with Obeliskians made slightly more maddening & for longer (due to rarity)
• FIXED: rare scripterror when attempting to spawn eldritch artifact

Cults

• added ability to order shrines destroyed
• added attack_object_until_destroyed.fsm
• cultists will become upset if your order shrines destroyed, especially at whoever destroyed the shrine
• balance: slightly increased chance to perform cult recruitment
• added cultist madness-sustaining memories + new icons for some of them
• balance: many more experiences can now trigger “cult seed” depending on character traits
• balance: more strange/terrible events may now provoke cult formation
• FIXED: possible error cases when cultist leader dies
• FIXED: cult leadership now transitions correctly when leader dies
• FIXED: cult group ending due to lack of sufficiently enthusiastic leadership scripterror
• FIXED: cultist preaching was pushing memory to wrong party in conversation

Offices (Chapel, Pub, Barber)

• Pub jobs cleaned up to be vastly more efficient at actually stocking and serving drinks
• Barber/Pub/Chapel: if a colonist seeks treatment/confession/a pint of beer and can’t find a barber/vicar/pub worker nearby, they will abort waiting and create an alert
• cleaned up confession fsm to not be a huge mess, and thus
• FIXED: vicars giving confession will no longer permanently paralyze colonists

Religion

• colonists will now pray at wall shrines
• added access point to wall shrines
• made praying at wall shrines something both Spiritually Inclined and Staunch Traditionalists can do

Murder

• made significant improvements to how colonists decide to engage in murder
• added Beetle Curse (murder)
• added Tree Curse (murder)
• added Occult Murder witnessed event
• killing someone for the first time will now record their name in the memory
• cleaned up memories for killing and killing memory creation
• FIXED: murder due to hunger

Death

• balance: corpses will only spawn vermin after being left out for a day
• made a ForceDropEverything receiver in ai_agent.go which drops every damn thing being held; all agents now call this upon death
• as such, removed a bunch of extra ForceDropTools calls from all the agent scripts
• therefore FIXED: commodity drops upon character death
• corpses will now only reset their burial job at sunrise rather than every 10 seconds (it was spammy)

Memories & Character

• can now query LEQ or GEQ on happy, sad, angry, fearful (for internal scripting)
• did more memory creation cleanup in citizen.go
• cleanup: moved creation of building quality memories into citizen.go
• cleaned up defs for bunch of data back-end for memory events
• balance: tweaked many some memory descriptions & values
• did an audit of all memory icons and changed/updated/fixed where necessary
• memories will now use greater range in icons
• re-added conscription/de-conscription memories
• cleaned up more food memories
• cleaned up immigrant & bandit seed memories
• re-jiggered all damage/murder memories & frontier justicing & murder witnessing
• reworked food memory creation to more cleanly use makeMemory function
• did more memory creation cleanup in citizen.go; changed lots of previously hardcoded memory values to read from histories.edb
• cleanup: removed a bunch of memory creation / justice tagging from ai_damage.go and put it in citizen.go where it belongs
• FIXED: minor starvation scripterror in citizen.go
• FIXED: some memories were not being triggered correctly
• FIXED: some more broken memory creation logic
• FIXED: some broken memory icons
• FIXED: some broken icons in thoughticons.xml

UI Misc

• removed all UI filters for military crews except for hunting (Hauling is not a suitable job for the brave troops of Her Majesty’s 40th Civil Engineering Brigade)
• re-added friendship ticker notification
• stockpile UI edited for better usability
• added new code hooks for building UI windows
• new Office UI code refactored to apply generally to all buildings
• did framework code for skill progression info on character.
• did fixes to various minor bugs in UI element sizing
• did fix to tooltip searching in UI code
• did fixes to icon -> tag lookup table
• made gabions log warning refer to “logs” rather than “timber” and say it may be a range problem
• polished up some icons, added some other new icons. Just a good bunch of icons.
• FIXED: was possible to order dissection of an Obeliskians more than once on the same specimen
• FIXED: various crashes in character info panel, hopefully without breaking anything
• FIXED: various broken icons

Typos

• fixed various event typos
• fixed typo in memories
• FIXED: various typos & grammar (farm text, immigration event)
• FIXED: various typos

Events, MISC

• audited and improved spawn locations for all fishperson events
• added one-time bailout event if you have more workers than you can allocate to all of your overseers
• below 3 chars bailout only gives overseers now and is somewhat rewritten
• some events have been given more detailed descriptions for number of ai agents involved
• doubled timeout length for all events
• updated job filters tutorial
• contextual tutorials will no longer fire if the main tutorial is still going
• balance: reduced max bandits that major bandit attack can send
• FIXED: scripterror in certain decision case of “Colonists Denounce Cowardice Vs Bandits”

MISC

• Small code cleanup to Colonists Denounce Cowardice
• increased log search range for half-size gabions (it was super low)
• hunger incrementing moved to evening instead of night
• balance: fishpeople made less likely to turn murderous when intimidated by soldiers
• FIXED: aborting a “Gather Building Materials” job due to an explosive injury would put the job in the wrong assignment, causing it to be completed infinitely
• FIXED: “isObjectInRadiusWithTagReverseMustOwnTwoTags” function never checked the second tag

????

• added Grape Vine crop (commented out)
• added Wine commodity & production (commented out)
• drew grapes + wine icons, attached to commodities (commented out)
• re-added poetic memories to use hearExclamation (Poets just don’t spawn right now)
• cleaned up some junk code from bandit.go
• started some defs for Obeliskian tech/commodities
• adding infrastructure for obeliskian forge (not fully implemented)
• added Nicholas’s new Arcane Symbols to the documentation on spacial maps (I have no idea what this means)

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