Update 0.4.0 - Farming, Crafting Progression and Iron Ore

WOOOHOOOO

 

nice

 

Hype!

 

YES! MY DREAM OF BECOMING OLD MACDONALD CAN BECOME REALITY! =D

I've even been practicing my ee-eye ee-eye oh as well! =3

 

AWESOME WORK GUYS!!!

Just hoping for more ore variety on the future. ^^

 

I love the direction this game is now going. Awesome work!

 

*push* Very good update

 

Space Engineers: Hey, we have new netcode, models and textures!

Medieval Engineers: Yo, gonna try and outdo us? Watch this!

 

This looks really lovely! Finally there's iron and farming! The only downside is that I'll probably have to abandon my old toll gate I've been working on for the last couple of weeks...

 

this sounds really promissing.. good one, guys..

 

Amazing update, great work!!!! So happy to see the development of the game!!

 

huh guys, How can I get small rocks to craft stone axe ?

 

Look for them on the ground. If you find a road there will be plenty of them there.

 

Thank you !

Maybe add small rocks at the base of the mountain

 

*finally find some iron ore*
*massive space ship hoovers in and drills the entire vein in a manner of seconds*
*vomits tons of stone down the hole and flies off*

ME is looking pretty sweet.

 

Awesome update !
i hope soon we will get more variety of ores like copper, tin, silver, etc.
also i hope variiety for the plants that we can farm now.

 

Oh boy! That is a mighty one! If now on thursday my Space Engineers "stable" installation will start working again after the monthly update, my early Christmas present will be complete and perfect!

 

I think coal is more likely, at least from the start. Not sure about the purpose of copper and tin, since bronze is worse than iron, unless ME adds another tier of tools right after stone. Coal would enable you to make steel weapons and tools and be used as a fuel. If food is going to spoil with time, salt could be added as a preservative. Salt mines were incredibly important in the middle ages. What else... Gold and silver? Maybe to pay taxes with them. I don't imagine the engineers making jewelry.

It would be cool if the planet had latitude-dependent biomes, like Space Engineers has. It would affect the material you build a castle from. Just a retexture, so it shouldn't be too work heavy. So a desert castle could be made of sandstone. Some other environment would give you clay bricks, like the ones Teutonic castles were made from.

 

YASSSSSSS!!!!



Also, does anyone know if we have to reroll our planets to accept the new Iron Ore?

 

Midnight sun and everlasting night, to the poles !

 

Time to open my inn. *Cracks fingers*

 

Fantastic update. Wasn't expecting mining this side of Christmas, so well done there. And the new research options. One question, how do we make bows now; none of the options on the crafting or research tables seem to indicate a path?

Enjoy a well earned break over Christmas guys; looking forward to what the New Year brings us!

 

There's lots of good ideas in there, specially with salt extending the usable life of food. I do like a bronze -> iron -> steel progression in my medieval games for things like weapons and armor, but I would understand if they wanted to just leave it as iron.

Folks do like to decorate the buildings they have engineered, so tin, bronze, copper, silver, gold can fit into furnishings.

Clay could be handy for various things, both decorative items and brick.

I'm curious how much crafting they might want to support in the game, or leave to mods. I wouldn't mind seeing leather and more woodworking using different woods. Charcoal was pretty commonly made, and would serve as an alternative to coal for fuel. I think peat was also used for fuel if Keen felt like putting in boggy lands.

 

List of things to try today:
-Cook using the furnace. What can possibly go wrong
-Try and design a harvester which can harvest trees
-Build a tower at the pole and dominate from my dark keep.
-Try and simulate 'The Great Leap Forward'"(Look it up, if you don't know what I'm talking about)

I think I'm going to be very productive

 

How did you get Seeds in Survival??? I am Searching for about....uhm...hours??? o_O

 

Cool story, bro! Keep up the good work!

 

Awesome update! Definitely adds some needed challenge to the survival side of the game. Finally barbarians seem more useful since they provide tools and food that is basically impossible to get yourself early on in the game.
As others are adding their wish lists a couple of ideas I thought of that tied in with this update are:
1) projectile weapons with tiered requirements & stats => start with bow (sticks & string), then to crossbow (timber, string, iron); if steel and other materials added later maybe muskets although that might be a stretch for the historical period intended for the game
2) land stability as an optional challenge => possibility of cave-ins unless you put support materials around excavated areas while mining; also if stone and earth differentiated as materials the possibility of decay changing based on materials built on

 

I think you need to research farming to discover seed bags