Friday Blog 267 - Oddity Press Update & Blueprint Builder’s Contest

Update 0.16 is live right now! It adds the Oddity Press, a new automatic crafter that produces mainly decorative items, and new beds. Its content largely matches the content of the Beta, so we’ll refer you to that blog for those details. The Beta was useful, and we found all kinds of little glitches. They’ve all been patched now. We also added some new content. Chairs were missing, so we’ve added two kinds of chairs. A simple wooden one to match the large wooden table, and a more luxurious one that matches the desk.

The new beds, the Luxury Bed and the Bunkbed, are now paintable! Use paint to change their colour, and use the paint stripper item to return the bed to its original state. Separate from the paint that was added years ago, 0.16 adds paintings, framed art that you can hang on the wall. The item picks a random painting to display every time you place it. There are currently seven different paintings to choose from, and they’re all Dutch classics sourced from the Rijksmuseum, so thanks to them for making them available digitally. And we’ve made it fairly easy to go to the folder called /gamedata/textures/materials/blocks/albedo and replace them or add even more options. I’m looking forward to seeing your creativity in action! We’ve also enhanced the Blueprints menu. There’s a new column that shows when the blueprint was created, and all blueprints can now be sorted by this column or the other columns.

Blueprint Builder’s Contest

This update beautifully fits the previous update which added the top-down view and Blueprints. The new decorative content opens up a lot of new possibilities for Blueprints. So we’re organizing a new Blueprint Builder’s Contest to reward our most creative players for sharing their Blueprints! Now, we’re not just looking for the single most impressive cathedral, or an entire city shoved into one Blueprint. What we’d love to see are Blueprints that are more usable for other players. Blueprints that can coherently fit into another world. But we don’t necessarily want to make you think small, either! You’re allowed to upload a collection of multiple Blueprints, with seven being the maximum. This allows you to share a set of buildings, like castle walls and gates and towers, or a group of houses in related styles. The best five entries will receive Steam keys for Colony Survival, to share with their friends. And the top three will get something else in addition to that. These people will likely become some of our most experienced users when it comes to Oddity Press content. And I expect they’ll find that something is missing. A decorative item that they could really use in their projects. If they have appropriate ideas for such content, we will work with them to make that a reality, and permanently add those items to the game! It has to fit the rest of the game though. Winner: Five Colony Survival Steam keys + their idea added (disclaimers apply) Second place: Four keys + their idea added (disclaimers apply) Third place: Three keys + their idea added (disclaimers apply) Fourth place: Two keys Fifth place: One key

The deadline for this contest is Friday July 31, 23:59 Amsterdam time. When that date gets closer, we’ll open up #ContestEntries on our Discord . We'll mention this contest again in a blog before the deadline. All players are allowed to submit one entry, with