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Hmm, Upgradez
It’s been a really big week for us, as we merged the second-to-last element of Build 42 into the main codebase across the rest of the team – which is the long awaited tech upgrade which brings a whole host of improvemen…
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Zleigh Ride
Happy winter religious festival if you celebrate it, or if you have it in a month’s time, or just if you think it’s nice because you get a few days off while your neighbours drown in eggnog! Here’s the December news rou…
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One Door OpenZ
Yip yip, hello. Let’s dive in. SWING BOTH WAYS Another exciting addition to the build 42 tech upgrade branch has just dropped. The tech upgrade branch is what contains our optimizations, improved view cone, basement/sky…
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Cellar Door-doid
Evening all, here we all are again. Let’s take a stroll through the development Event zone. Crafting Overhaul Recap Now the vast infrastructure overhaul of the crafting systems has been merged and opened up to the rest…
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Sky High
So… hmm, where were we? Okay so, recent weeks have seen two mega-merges into our trunk internal testing build. The first was latest from our MP team, to top up the central development branch with their latest from their…
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The Connection Is Made
Hey everyone. Jumping straight in with an update on the new and improved crafting system this time around if that’s okay with y’all. As we’ve talked about in previous Thursdoids, a large part of the crafting overhaul re…
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NEW CHARITY SPIFFO!
The Indie Stone are pleased to announce another crowd-sourced Spiffo plushie through our friends over at Makeship – this time raising money for a cause that’s dear to all our hearts. First off, let’s meet the raccoon hi…
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BagZ of fun
Let’s have a dig into what’s happening in everyone’s favourite apocalypse. (Although other apocalypses are available. First off a quick check-in with three of the four main pillars of Build 42 – the pillars in question…
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Knox Event: 30 Years On
Today marks a day in history. It is EXACTLY thirty years since the Knox Event broke out on 6th July 1993. Our thoughts are with everyone impacted on this sad anniversary. To commemorate this we are allowing everyone to…
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Snack Attack
Haylo, here’s another dev-log sent down from the mothership. Few different things form different areas this time around, starting off with an example system update from one of the four main pillars of Build 42 – which a…
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Church on Zunday
A lot of stuff in a WIP state at the moment, so not too many big flashy shiny things in the blog this time round. Hopefully enough to whet your whistle though. In terms of work on the four central pillars of 42, the nex…
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Mizter McGregor's Garden
Last time round we checked in with some of the main pillars of Build 42 – those things being the crafting and crafting systems update, the tech upgrade, animals/migration and MP. As such, for today’s blog we’ll be dippi…
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The Skillful HuntZman
Hello all! This week we’ll be checking in with three of the main four pillars of Build 42 – work on the fourth, the server-side player inventories and general MP improvement, has been fairly ‘business as usual’ the past…
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Bren After Reading
Hey all, hope this finds you well. Lots of work on the technical side of the four main pillars of 42 these past two weeks – all of which relatively dry, so let’s run through that briefly before checking out some of the…
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Crafting RamblZ
Hey all! So we’re still not at the point of being able to show anything substantial from the crafting overhaul, however we thought we’d talk about a few topics that are relevant to our current work and give people a bit…
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Eine Kleine NachtmooZik
Wotcha survivors. The general pattern for 42 dev is that we’ve got four main pillars of Build 42 – all of which are the ‘big stuff’ and the fundamental large-scale tech improvements. These are: moving much of the MP sys…

