The Underground - A Social Mining Mod

[kanew2000]

So a big part of this mod will be the ability to buy and decorate your own base. The social part of this will be showing off your base and going to see others'. Everyone will be participating within one cavern, so bases are going to be scattered all over, and you can check em out.
Will probably add benefits for going into other players' bases. If you go to the "important stuff" link, that shows an older topic where some detailed information about how this works was posted.
Edit: Another big part of the social interaction is the mining itself. Bigger bricks take a lot to mine them, and would be a pain to try by yourself. With a buddy you can mine these a lot quicker to yield more, and also more rare, gems.

so it's the pokemon thing except with digging and blockland

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[ThinkInvisible]

Can't wait to see what's in the update.

[Uxie²]

Can't wait to see what's in the update.

Yeah I seriously want to play it again :(

Is/will there be a trading feature?

[lilboarder32]

Yeah I seriously want to play it again :(

Is/will there be a trading feature?

For sure. Just finished gem management, so trading should be a breeze. I'll work on that next. I plan on hosting tonight with gem management.

So do you actually mine? Or is there a pre-made cave?

The cave is pre-made. I've considered cave generation, but I've got no experience with it, and it's no simple task.

[ThinkInvisible]

'Tonight' technically just ended.


:c

[Tomcat]

Mining fort wars.

[lilboarder32]

'Tonight' technically just ended.


:c

Ya the server was up until about 1:00 A.M. Arizona time, so it was certainly up when this was posted. I sent you messages saying the server was up through RTB Connect, but got no response. Missed out on a great session ;)

[Cybertails1998]

what was exactly playtested?

[ThinkInvisible]

Ya the server was up until about 1:00 A.M. Arizona time, so it was certainly up when this was posted. I sent you messages saying the server was up through RTB Connect, but got no response. Missed out on a great session ;)

Was asleep. :c

Get buried by any 32x's?

[lilboarder32]

what was exactly playtested?

Last night? The new GUI was tested, which features gem management (you can rearrange inventory) and the gem spawning was re-done to be a lot more accurate.

Was asleep. :c

Get buried by any 32x's?

Yep, the gem spawning was refined and we played with the 32x's a bit. Didn't add an achievement yet though.

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i dont like how if youre mining with persona, and that persona has your build trust, everyone who has build trust of persona can take all of your and persona's gems, so you end up with personb and c getting gems for doing nothing at all
also, this is really boring, all you do is hit bricks which isnt very fun

[lilboarder32]

i dont like how if youre mining with persona, and that persona has your build trust, everyone who has build trust of persona can take all of your and persona's gems, so you end up with personb and c getting gems for doing nothing at all
also, this is really boring, all you do is hit bricks which isnt very fun

That is a good point, I will make the gems spawn under the first miners BLID for trust.
Second, you can most certainly do more than mine. Currently you can purchase a base and build in it and customize it. Later you can buy furniture from vendors and place them in your base. You will be able to buy many various items such as traps, dynamite, larger packs for inventory, and whatever else I decide to add.

[Alphadin]

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[lilboarder32]

Hey guys, I realize it's been pretty quiet with the server being down and not much posted here, but I have been hard at work on the mod. I wanna next host when furniture is available, which is a fairly large undertaking, so don't exactly hold your breath if you understand what I'm getting at. I'm not talking like a month before the next hosting, but probably a week. Maybe more, maybe less.

There are so many features planned and ideas sitting in limbo that I've been chipping away at, that I realized nothing would get done unless I start prioritizing features. So for my own records/purposes I made a little list of what I am going to work on, pretty much in order of importance and what I'm next going to work on.

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Save/register furniture
   -Decide layout for players
   -Finalize wild card color
NPC's send shop data
   -GUI for looking at vendor
   -Random list of avail. items?
   -Make aesthetic
Add color extraction functionality
   -From gem
   -From vendors
   -Add model
   -Make emitter
Finish furniture movement
   -rotation
   -checking move
   -checking plant
   -planting
   -naming bricks
GUI functionality to place furniture
   -Only when in base
   -Incorporate in GUI or make new?
Base doors
   -Add as items (save/register)
   -Decide on colors/styles/names
   -Figure out placement
   -Fix door creation in bases
Base Expansion
   -How to create/store the layout
   -Expand to open spaces (not used)
NPC Actions
   -Assign job lists
   -Start and finish jobs from list
   -Pseudorandomly decide next job
Make more furniture/items
Fossils/Other spawns
Traps
Mechanics
This isn't official, I can't guarantee everything I've written down, I can't promise the order of things getting completed. I just thought you guys might wanna see what I've got down, and be reassured this is going somewhere.
If you can't understand the list, don't try too hard. I just started jotting everything down so that I'll know it when I see it.

[Slezak]

I know this is borderline necromancy seeing as the last post is now 4 weeks old, but I miss this server. Whatever happened to it? Is Lilboarder still working on this mod? Maybe he's just busy with real life. That's understandable. I just hate to see topics suddenly die with no real closure.