We're all buds on Discord, right?

That's why we decided to integrate it into Worlds Adrift.

This allows you to leverage the totally overhauled "Now Playing" section in a Discord user's profile to help people play your game together. Rich game data—including duration, current map, server, Alliance, and so much more—lives inside Discord.

To quote Discord - "Rich Presence is a living invitation to play together, or to watch your friends kick butt."

This is how it looked before:



Evolution (includes Alliance name, server (unless it's PTS), and crew!):



Stay connected, folks!

Upgrade 29: Will of the Council brings you Ciphers to battle dependency on RNG!

These are devices players can slot into their schematics to raise certain stats at the cost of other stats.

They are acquired by salvaging unwanted procedural engine, wing, cannon, and swivel gun schematics, and apply to the same type of ship part they were salvaged from. Players acquire the ability to slot more ciphers into their schematics by progressing down the Knowledge tree and unlocking the cipher nodes.

Available to test on PTS now!

Lo and behold! Overheat demystified!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqzT5vTc0X8

Update 29: Will of the Council: 11th December 2018

Happy Monday, Travellers! We continue our festive journey through the weird and wonderful additions to Update 29 (or the "Will of the Council Update"). 

On the fourth day of Kahi  gave to me...Four potions (and 13 new recipes)! 

Potions all provide you with a great power boost in one skill and impede another for a while! Here are some of the coming in-game descriptions of these brutal brews. Use wisely.  

Sweet and lumpy. Makes the drinker feel as light as air... but kinda sickly too? Hmmm.

Makes the drinker more resistant to impact but feel more fragile generally. 

Promises enhanced climbing but delivers dreadful indigestion.
 

An acrid beverage that... hardens the drinker's skin??? Painful.
 

And of course none of these would be possible without some new ingredients that are crucial for potions, such as Cloudworms and Greyshells:


Some of the key foods that we've got in this update are cool too, there's sweets, and syrup! YUM! 


Of course, there's also plenty of new food recipes coming. We can't wait to see the creative uses of these drinks!

The anticipation is over...
https://youtu.be/WJpLnBj4ZfI

Greetings Travellers,

In continuation to last night's post welcome to Day 2 of sharing our gifts...

Not only have we tweaked the existing metals across the board in Update 29, but also delivered something extra. A common request from across the board - more "precious" metals!



Moderately conductive, and resistant to stress, but weak to heat. Pale gold in colour.

Allegedly named after Orthosa - The premier of the Bandini in the late era. He is notable, for challenging the Saborians over the supply of Atlas. While this backfired, in principle, it made him a brave, rebellious leader.




Durable and resistant to stress, but not as hard as it appears at first glance. Has a light green sheen to it.

Allegedly named after Epilomelos - Founder of a unified Sabor in 559 against the raiding Bandians led by Alkabar. Epilomelos is widely considered the originator of the concept of Saborian communal and unselfish living, though many others were to follow in his footsteps.




Hard, tough, and resistant to heat, but poor under stress. Allegedly named after a famous Traveller who distinctly liked purple...

Dear Travellers,

Do you feel the chill in the air?

Can you hear the whispers in the winds?

The days grow shorter… The time for celebration approaches!

According to faded records of a long-lost traveller, this is the season of feared and revered spirits. As the Kahi Ceremony draws nearer, you can look forward to 12 days of gifting, sharing, celebrating and reflecting… Are you ready?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yeh9pBf8EJA

Over the next 12 days, in the true tradition of The Kahi Ceremony, we will be sharing the upcoming features of Update 29, which have all been in one way or another suggested by the players and the Community Cloud Council.

On the first day of Kahi my true love sent to me
A podcast in a palm tree~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqFlRcfAa7w&feature=youtu.be

We are back with EPISODE 14 of the Worlds Adrift Dev podcast, with Malford and Julia!

Topics we discuss

• 12 days of Kahi will be kicking off today (November 30th, and 11th of December which is the day Update 29 is slated for!Over the next 12 days, in the true tradition of The Kahi Ceremony, we will be sharing the upcoming features of Update 29, which have all been in one way or another suggested by the players and the Community Cloud Council
• Kahi Celebrations
• Call for community creations!
• User questions
• BONUS: 28:20 - DRAMATIC LORE READING!

Transcription by Neon Sirius: https://pastebin.com/kGZyrZBW

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Moster and Julia show off SHIP PAINTING and ENGINE OVERHEATS.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/342278966

• Fixing mostly onboarding bugs
• Buuuuuuuuuuuugs
• A heck of a lot of concepts for clothing 
• Voice chat issues
• Some recipe balancing, and some writing for a potential future feature
• Fixed stash item's colour
• Stopped ship parts from being placed in invalid positions (or placed mid-air)  
• Prevented the ship parts which are placed on beams from clipping with the beam
• Maintenance side testing (shutdown message, refactoring)
• Tutorial fixes, small changes to materials, holiday work, planning for the future!
• QA - We're here to validate an RC builds for PTS and chew bubblegum... and we're all out of bubblegum!

Keep an eye out for the next 12 days!

Love,

Julia + W.A. Squad

A little collection of awesome things shared in the community recently!


https://youtu.be/k03_UL_Twqc
OddNova made a terrific new island called Launch Facility and with it a breathtaking video with music by Murd3rSauc3. It’s got all the vibes you know you want from an island)
Video: OddNova
Music : Murd3rSauc3 - Kubo seems nice (soundcloud.com/murd3rsauc3/kubo-seems-nice)



Kira wishes for a full storm-themed zone someday. In the meantime, she wrote her own legend.

The Storm Empire Legend by Red Empress

https://www.worldsadrift.com/forums/topic/the-storm-empire-legend/



Have you ever doodled on a napkin and come up with a masterpiece?
Kaigsly totally has it seems!




Kaigsly returns to the list with a GORGEOUS screenshot of Foundation and its mistakably serene skies...





Check out our previous update here

Gonna try something fun here to brighten a gloomy Tuesday...

Rules are simple: BEST CAPTION earns our eternal-and-then-some respect. GO! 🏁



(📸: Loic)

We’re currently offering a 25% OFF as part of Steam’s Black Friday sale! So, go on... Tempt your friends, now is a fantastic time to be recruiting.



In the spirit of Update 29 has now been feature locked and sleigh-ted for the 11th of December. A nice, early Holiday gift.

All aboard the Hype Train! You will be getting exciting new features including:

• Proximity voice chat - Widely anticipated and widely requested, you can now parley before you shoot.
• Engine overheat - Long awaited stat is coming to life! We will be doing a full piece on this with Moster walking you through the design details, but this will drastically change the PVP ship meta.
• Painting ship parts - Pimp your Flight!
• Ciphers - Gone are the days of entirely depending on the mercy of RNG! Players can slot Ciphers into their schematics to raise certain stats at the cost of other stats
• New metals - More variety, and retweaked older metals.
• New recipes - More food means more BUFFS! Delicious.
• Stack Splitting... YAS.

No podcast this week, but enjoy the new Strite tutoriaaaal!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TveFlsaF84g

• Planning future updates
• Searching for Play-Test Subjects
• Onboarding fixes
• Build fixes
• Maintenance refactoring, build pipeline's snapshot tool.
• Maintenance shutdown message (this has been wonky for some people, so we have readdressed it)
• Broadcast message cheat command (so we can make adhoc server-wide announcements!)
• Assorted bug fixes – Ship Frame spawned with no collision
• Character Create UI fix...
• Reproducing Community bugs
• Resolving voice chat issues
• Stats order in different crafting UI
• Fixing "Indestructible stove", gear items health syncing between clients
• Tutorial stuff
• Cipher tooltips, balancing and general explanations so players know how to use em
• Playtesting overheat, ships and cannons
• Bug fixes for engine VFX
• Bug fixes for imposters
• QA - Breaking the game and working on a new slogan, 'A fix a day keeps the QA away'
• MAKING THINGS MORE BETTERER

Have a fabulous weekend, Travelleroonies!

See you in the skies,

Julia + W.A. Team