Version 0.4 Progress

Version 0.4 of Realm of Rulers will be a very important update. In this update the hot bar will be overhauled. The older system gave the player all of the available tools at the start and the hot bar could not be edited or customized. This reduced the amount of gameplay options that we could implement.

Hotbar System

In the new system the hot bar can be fully customized with whichever tools and or items that are in your towns storage. The original tools are already implemented with new icons and can be dragged into the hot bar and accessed with the number keys.

Adding this new system also means that we can add in more items such as potions and healing items to increase the amount of content the player can enjoy. We plan to add more qualities and varieties of potions, tools and food every version to give the player a continuous amount of new things to craft.

Crafting Menu

In this version of Realm of Rulers we have also been implementing the first version of the crafting system. This menu can be accessed with the new crafting table buildable and has a scrollable menu which gives the player a list of items that they can craft. Once an option has been selected the right hand side will update with information about the item that they wish to create. This right section has the name of the item, a simple description and its cost in resources. This is how players will create new items out of others. The forge, blacksmith and future buildings that convert resources to others will still be needed as the higher tiers of resources cannot be crafted.

Cooking Station

The final major feature of this patch will be the new cooking station interface. The cooking station used to be quite limited with the features that it had. Creating food for your people was necessary but wasn’t the intended purpose originally for this building. What we had planned was a building that the player could use to create and refine consumable items. However internal time goals for its own update pushed the new feature to a future update. The new system works similar to the smelter inside the simple settlement. The player can place raw or unprocessed consumable items into the slot and create new items. This opens up more opportunities for gameplay with healing items and potions that will be coming in the next couple of updates.

Community Spotlight

This community spotlight goes to forum user cruzcoda! They have created the first Realm of Rulers story! Make sure to view their creation on the forums here!

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