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Heat of the Night
Hi everyone, it’s been a good month of general work and polish on our closed build. Lots of general required mop and brush up, but as examples of what’s been going on here’s a few items: Making fishing clearer and easie…
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Tidy Up Time
At the moment we are fixing and polishing our current internal build to get it ready for more formal internal closed testing amongst a slightly wider set of gameplay testers. There’s still a few items from the crafting…
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Cortman by Night
Hey all. Alongside continued crafting work it’s very much a time of mixing/polishing previously announced and described things in the internal test build. As such please forgive us if things are a little ‘bullet pointy’…
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The Biomic Man
As discussed last time, in the interests of getting the 42 Unstable out of the door we are limiting the number of new craft disciplines that will be initially available and then dripfeeding others (alongside polish, bal…
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Glowing Onez
How do, all. CRAFTING CONSOLIDATION At this point the main element of the Build 42 update that’s been holding stuff back has been the substantial crafting overhaul that’s been underway. When we set out with B42 our main…
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D'ya Like Them GrappleZ
LIFE’S A DRAG Something that, clearly, was fundamental to Build 41 was the new animations system – and thus far for Build 42 we haven’t mentioned any improvements to this. Importantly, it should be underlined that his w…
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Zaumby Thursday
Hey all, here again for the March Thursdoid. Lots of stuff from lots of different areas of the game this time, we do hope you enjoy. STRIKE A POSE We’ve mentioned the fact that Build 42 will have a variety of readable m…
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Leapdoid
Hey all, a good mix of things this ‘doid. Fun gameplay stuff, and a chunk of info we wanted to flag for modder-awareness and the more tech-minded amongst you. (Feel free to skip that bit to get to the more enticing gun…
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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…




