It might make sense for crafting to work that way, but from a design standpoint, it's not fun. Crafting is suppose to be a way for player to get the tools they need to play the game, not another way to have them put more playtime in.

Crafting works this way because modding your weapons will occur at this one intermediate step, the weapon mods just aren't in yet.

Like why even cast a normal offensive spell if you can do that for free?

It doesn't do as much damage.

I suppose magic will be better than the other attack types since there are proficiencies for individual elements and it's more... flashy. I mean, with a bow or sword all you can do is shoot arrows or hack at your enemy and that's all there is to them but magic could like cover a tile with fire that hurts enemies that walk on it.

Everyone can equip orbs, so its expected that you'll have all these secondary attacks that use your EP.

Does raising Precision raise Ether arrow dmg or will Willpower do it?

Power and Will. I might have to rename some of these, its kind of confusing.

I actually thought the Ethereal/Aim/Strength were racial skills. Guess I've been playing too much rogue-like, hehe. I like how there are racial passives. Cat/Bear seem to have weak ones though since +1 Str/Crit will not be as useful later on in comparison to everyone else's percentage boosts. I also feel that Stoic is a "dead passive" since 15% HP is just... there. Whereas something like Vigor is more useful since you regenerate. Of course, HP Regen should have a much lower % chance since it keeps you alive. That wouldn't fit with Stoic since the definition is 'a person who endures pain/hardships without showing their feelings or complaining'. So they would reduce dmg taken. Will there be more passive options in future updates?

Its good I'm hearing all sorts of different versions of things like these. The idea is that you'll find specific stuff that fits the way you play. Of course there will obviously be major balance flaws revealed later on, probably when a large amount of gameplay content is completed and people start posting about their incredibly broken character builds.

You will be challenged later when I add more variety of enemies, though.

Will there be more passive options in future updates?

Definitely. There will also be major character upgrades at specific levels.

How do I delete a character (used up all the slots to see each species' passive)?

You can't yet. The saved game data is in:


Where the number 15 might change. If a development update makes old saves incompatible, it just chooses a different folder so you still keep your old data.

Out of curiosity, can you kill other players?

No.

Thanks for the playing and feedback~!

How long does your loot stay there after you die (except when it "disintegrates" in water of course)?

Dropped items can't be destroyed by water, and they won't be destroyed in lava either. Dropped items currently remain until you close/exit the game. If you die twice in a row, the items you dropped before won't disappear.

To be honest, I kind of hate the water since I need to find high enough ground to jump back onto land.

I've been working on that, its a tad tricky to let players jump out at higher blocks without becoming abusable to where you can rocket out of the water.

It's kind of why I don't want to go down into a cave because of the faded 'overground' so to speak.

Keep going, it will cutaway and reveal the cave underneath automatically. If you hold Left Shift when you dig, you'll dig the three blocks diagonally up from you. This lets you quickly dig stairs back to the surface. Left CTRL has you aim downwards.

So what do Strength and Aim do?

There's three attack types, the two strongest types for your character are displayed in the menu (this can change as your stats change). Characters with the highest strength are good at melee damage, aim is for ranged attacks, etc. If this is overwhelming, the total damage indicated at the bottom left (next to the red sword icon) considers everything for you.

so I know that Ethereal shoots foxfire or for the fox at least. Should probably explain abilities on the character creation page.

When you have a power, it is shown above your damage. If you equip a sword, bow, or axe, you can see a specific attack appear. Then when you press alt. fire (the button you were pressing before that seemed to do nothing) you'll use your power.

Gonna take a lot of kills to level up.

You also earn EXP for digging up metal ore, gems, and will earn it for other activities in the future. You won't be fighting 1 exp pushovers for very long either, once I add other enemies in.

Fox/Deer do a lot of dmg with their "spells" (8 dmg to a Bear's 4 dmg) but since it costs 2 MP and they only have 4 max, they'll have the most difficulty leveling up when it comes to fighting at the very beginning since they only do 1 dmg with melee (or 2 with a bow; but I don't really bother with wasting ammo/resources unless it does at least 3 like Wolf).

It doesn't cost you EP or ammo to use Foxfire with bows, and the arrows aren't affected by gravity and fly faster. Normally, anyone can equip an orb in the slot below their weapon and gain access to a power. Foxfire was given to those two types just so they have a way to defend themselves early in the game, power from orbs will always be stronger.

Spending a point on Valor would definitely help but I have no idea how to raise Power which is a prerequisite.

I mean you raise that by attacking things with your power (Foxfire). You will earn proficiency for the weapon you used AND for "power". I might rename that, it can be confused with Power, the attribute.

You can spend and refund points as much as you want when home, so you can try out various things without worrying about restats or anything like that.

Can you craft/do anything with the unicorn horn and essence drops?

Eventually, everything will be involved in crafting. I haven't added anything that uses them yet.

Never played Minecraft before so when I first loaded this game up, I probably should have expected that I was supposed to build my own house.

In this game you can just take over an existing house. Building your own structures will become more and more optional as development continues, some people just want a well-paced action RPG experience.

Your home zone being stuck in the middle of the map is temporary to prevent people trying out the multiplayer server from dying instantly to a swarm of creatures.

What's up with the unicorns running around my home like they own the place anyway?

I've shut off their attacking AI while you are home until I find a much more elegant solution. You can keep them as pets in the meantime, I guess.

Oh, and the keys you set kind of reset to default when you create a new character.

This sounds like a bug. I'll look into it.

I probably won't even be able to make anything with ores until I craft a work bench (which seems to require some high-quality materials).

You can also loot the caves for full ingots or gems. You can also often see surface ore in caves or in dry badland biomes. The tin hardware and saw blade for the table can just be made on the stone anvil.

You can often find a furnace, anvil, and workbench in existing houses and skip all of that, too. The item box in each house spawns with random basic loot, too. Houses being in random places is temporary, they will later generate based on game mode (single player will have them grouped in towns, etc.).

If you mine everything and build everything yourself, you'll notice you'll quickly gain levels for Hammer, Axe, Pick, Gather, etc. When you dig up ore, you'll gain points for the tool you used and you'll gain points in Gather at the same time. Since ore and gems give you EXP for mining them, you can actually get a head start while ducking away from enemies.

However, if you dig a space large enough, enemies can spawn in it (regardless of light).

There's also the classic strategy of building your den underground instead. You'll end up with more materials AND a safe place to be since you had to excavate.

It's not RPG Maker 20XX, it's just RPG20XX now. Yes, it was made using RPG20XX. No, it isn't to show its capabilities. I've heavily modified the engine part of it for this game.

I mentioned this in the update on RPG20XX's page when I changed the software license to give more freedom to those who want to do the same to the engine's source code.

There's only been a period during the summer when I had to stop. I've been writing the newer LandTraveller engine and model this whole time. I'm just posting this to let you know this project hasn't even halted. Game design documents for what I settled on as the final gameplay will appear soon, too.

are you going to have players craft tools and have them decay?

You can craft your stuff, but there's no item durability and breaking.

...It would allow extra room and fewer trips to the inventory screen to constantly reshuffle dirt and wood and stone (or whatever). Just a thought.

It's an interesting suggestion that would only work for this game since when you click at a block, you plan to break it. There's already lots of other tools that are just "key items"- you just need them in your inventory for them to work. I'll have to figure out a graceful way to implement it later, so I'll write it down in the list.

I like how when you google LandTraveller under images, mine and LockeZ's avatar pictures come up near the top. We are re-defining "LandTraveller"!

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