PC Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

[wolfbain5]

Just realized you can wrench working workstations to low health, get all the mats and it'll still work. Bit cheaty?
Side note, how'd u all stay awake when mining? Eyelids crazy heavy when I go down a dark hole.

your poor girlfriend...

 

[bjurney]

I'm not sure will this work but i remember somebody saying that enabling dm menu and then toggling physics active button off and on resolved something invisible. I'm not sure will that work but worth a shot?

I saw someone on a live stream have an invisible block yesterday and they tried this and it didnt work. I thought I saw someone mention this as well somewhere. Perhaps it works in some cases, but it didn't resolve it in the one case that I saw.

 

[Trekkan]

Absolutely.

This dupe bug is happening to us as well. Minibikes, Motorcycles, etc. Seems any vehicle, I'm pretty sure it also dupes the inventory contents as well. We just destroy them as its a group of friends, but on a public server, this is bad.

 

[Seraphimus]

That was it! It was you I was thinking of but couldn't remember which block you said to try. My old brain must remember dirt block! I get this problem with almost every base build however it seems only one block per base that I can place nothing. I will try the dirt block next time....remember...dirt block.....dirt block...dirt block...I will remember. (I probably won't remember lol).

I've found that Dropping a block in the empty space (like from a block of two above it) and having it break into a rubble pile then removing the rubble pile works.

 

[Seraphimus]

Unlocking the bundles earlier is technically possible but then they don't do anything useful when you get them so... meh.
If they scale ingredients (which we can do now) then we'd have to explain why they do the same thing with a 2nd recipe and that's messy.

Doing that would be a super easy mod, though. =)

I think he's asking for a way to bundle bullets not to craft bullet bundles, Like if I have 3000 7.62 rounds I personally would *kill* to be able to turn those into 30 boxes of 7.62 rounds even if I had to wait for the recipe unlock to do it.

Though my understanding is recipe mods are easy so maybe I'll try and figure that out myself. That said Something to consider for the base game someday.

 

[Jugginator]

I'm not sure if it's a bug or not, or why it exactly happened, but if it's the case I think a "Warning: this will break stuff" would help. So, I went to build an idea for a base and didn't feel like spending an hour punching grass/bushes and all of that. So, I went into debug mode and tried clearing the land using the prefab selector (z) and clear (l). Well, clear didn't work. So I figured I'd go into the world editor and do it there. Worked fine, saved and loaded my game. I had helllla lag that grew exponentially, so I logged off and reloaded the game. Worked fine.

Then I went back to my prefab house I holed up in and... things were strange. Texture only blocks and stuff were in random places, kinda like it did a "MD5 reset", but it didn't fully. Stuff was still there, but idk. Textures were here and there, some covering the front door, weird hovering paper-thin textures here and there -- all non-blocking and you can just phase right through them. I checked surrounding POIs, including some I never visited, and they all had the same.... strangeness to them lol.

Nothing too bad I suppose, I exported my base-layout and I'll load it in an unbroken world and finish it, but is it supposed to break stuff like that or a bug? If it's intended, a warning should kinda pop up, since it just lets you load it right in like it's fully OK to do that lol.

 

[Star69]

I tried dirt wont work no block does. tried digging around and under it, nothing worked.View attachment 30497

Well i hate to hear that. Last time it happened to me it was on a perimeter fence so I could ignore it. If it happened on building the main base wall then it would be devastating if it can’t be fixed. I build straight to reinforced concrete so imagine the waste in resources having to move your base 2 blocks over. I really hope this is the juniper tree bug and that it’s fixed next patch.

 

[beerfly]

Absolutely.

So, who`s gonna do The Destruction Derby mod/e, eight shaped mined track for the fun.

And, don`t use that dupes guys, it`s just pointless, if you wanna play easy, go play Sims.

P.S. @Gromit , don`t offend, this one is for the ♥♥♥♥ers who takes advantage of these in abusive way, you know And, nice parking, indeed

 

[stallionsden]

I think he's asking for a way to bundle bullets not to craft bullet bundles, Like if I have 3000 7.62 rounds I personally would *kill* to be able to turn those into 30 boxes of 7.62 rounds even if I had to wait for the recipe unlock to do it.
Though my understanding is recipe mods are easy so maybe I'll try and figure that out myself. That said Something to consider for the base game someday.

Here ya go took me like a minute to do -

Ammo Bundle Maker

 

[AlabasterW]

What psychopath designed the Waterworks POI? It's a solid POI until you get to the HELL ROOM that is the water channels. Breaking platforms over water! Water you can't see into! Water full of feral construction workers that are faster than you! Water you can't climb out of! Water you can't fire most guns in! Water you can't avoid because every single block around it is covered in MINES AND SPIKES!

It's like getting dropped into a pit, auto-stunned, and told 'lol good luck' when 4 ferals zoom around the corner to own you because they don't care about the water slowing THEM down. :rip:

 

[Jay_ombie]

What psychopath designed the Waterworks POI? It's a solid POI until you get to the HELL ROOM that is the water channels. Breaking platforms over water! Water you can't see into! Water full of feral construction workers that are faster than you! Water you can't climb out of! Water you can't fire most guns in! Water you can't avoid because every single block around it is covered in MINES AND SPIKES!
It's like getting dropped into a pit, auto-stunned, and told 'lol good luck' when 4 ferals zoom around the corner to own you because they don't care about the water slowing THEM down. :rip:

I got stuck in that water pit twice on two separate games. I hate that place haha.... You can not seem to be able to pole out, you can not jump out and you are constantly fighting to breath as one can not seem to swim at all !

Died again trying to get my pack from the water container as was insanely frustrating. I think I even gave up and started a new game after that mess.

 

[Gromit]

P.S. @Gromit , don`t offend, this one is for the ♥♥♥♥ers who takes advantage of these in abusive way, you know And, nice parking, indeed

Haha, no offence taken, we're just having fun with it and I want to see how many we can get before the next horde night! Also, some of the jeeps have multiplied already.

 

[MechanicalLens]

Haha, no offence taken, we're just having fun with it and I want to see how many we can get before the next horde night! Also, some of the jeeps have multiplied already.

Well, good luck there with your breeding colony of jeeps.

 

[Laz Man]

I got stuck in that water pit twice on two separate games. I hate that place haha.... You can not seem to be able to pole out, you can not jump out and you are constantly fighting to breath as one can not seem to swim at all !
Died again trying to get my pack from the water container as was insanely frustrating. I think I even gave up and started a new game after that mess.

That room ..is interesting. Definitely a higher difficulty challenge lol...

 

[Gromit]

Well, good luck there with your breeding colony of jeeps.

Managed to farm a healthy 6 and a half boxes (so about 470 give or take) of Jeeps from that little crop.

Need to start on Gyrocopters next

 

[THARN]

been seeing a group of people on steam forums not liking the rage feature now--- Pleaase////DO NOT remove it.

It's a game changer.

 

[kuratowakiru]

I got stuck in that water pit twice on two separate games. I hate that place haha.... You can not seem to be able to pole out, you can not jump out and you are constantly fighting to breath as one can not seem to swim at all !
Died again trying to get my pack from the water container as was insanely frustrating. I think I even gave up and started a new game after that mess.

I just break the pipe end on both side and walk straight across it (this is why you should always carries a pickaxe or sledge). And if you're stuck and have some spare wood, just make a ladder instead of nerd pole out, water is broken so it hard to jump out of it.

 

[Seraphimus]

That room ..is interesting. Definitely a higher difficulty challenge lol...

Honestly the trick is melee, i mean the room is still bull♥♥♥♥, but the only thing that doesn't suffer under water is melee attack speed. only time i've survived that mess was my heavy armor sledge character

- - - Updated - - -

Here ya go took me like a minute to do -
Ammo Bundle Maker

That was insanely fast, you're a hero thank you.

 

[SittingDuck]

I got stuck in that water pit twice on two separate games. I hate that place haha.... You can not seem to be able to pole out, you can not jump out and you are constantly fighting to breath as one can not seem to swim at all !
Died again trying to get my pack from the water container as was insanely frustrating. I think I even gave up and started a new game after that mess.

use a ramp to get out of water... works fine

 

[SickPuppy]

What psychopath designed the Waterworks POI? It's a solid POI until you get to the HELL ROOM that is the water channels. Breaking platforms over water! Water you can't see into! Water full of feral construction workers that are faster than you! Water you can't climb out of! Water you can't fire most guns in! Water you can't avoid because every single block around it is covered in MINES AND SPIKES!
It's like getting dropped into a pit, auto-stunned, and told 'lol good luck' when 4 ferals zoom around the corner to own you because they don't care about the water slowing THEM down. :rip:

Those falling floors in any poi always get me first time. But now I just use the concrete walkway in the middle of that water room