Colonies, a survival sandbox political ORPG

[Dark Crusade]

> Placeholders vs ICT's art. A lot of the graphics are yet to be finished.

Ah understandable

[JohnPony]

> Ok, I haven't made an update thread in a while, so here it goes! I'll list all of the changes we've been working on and the ones we're working on. A lot of the graphics are placeholders, so keep that in mind.
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> **Dark Hedges* and Waterways** - Swamps
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> **Light Hedges*** - Fertilelands & Forests
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> **3 New Mushrooms** - Swamps, Forests, Caves
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> **Island-Based World Generation**
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> **Ponds & Lakes**
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> **Cauldrons, Drying Racks* & Smoke**
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> **New UI Layout* w/ Item Descriptions & Hotbar**
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> **Other Stuff**
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> -Laggy movement fixed
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> -Animals and dropped items spawn once every 12 hours (explore!)
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> -Bunnies and chickens less rare (see above)
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> -All graphics are now stretched in the client
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> -Reduced RAM usage
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> -3 types of flowers
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> -15 new tile transitions
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> -Ferns
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> -1 new walking speed
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> -Walking slightly faster in forests
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> -Attacking while in boats
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> -Punching without weapons
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> -Hiding UI with f1
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> -Personal claims
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> **Stuff We're Working On**
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> -Chasms
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> -Finite rocks (use quarries)
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> -The GUI & the new chat
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> -Animal AI
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> -New crafting
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> _*graphics are placeholders_
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> We would honestly have 200+ new items and objects right now, but we're working on the UI (which takes a LONG time to do). After we're finally finished making it look better (we need to redo a lot of the item graphics and the whole crafting system), we'll be dropping features like there's no tomorrow.
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> I'm still taking suggestions, by the way :P

Brady asked me to post this from the Colonies Forums: [http://colonies-game.com/forum/](http://colonies-game.com/forum/)

[Vus]

Yayz, awesome update!