Earth Elements News — April 16, 2023
Aggregated from Steam, cross-tracked with Battle.net coverage on GamePatchNote.
1.50 VOLCANO update
update to 1.5.1 on 4/17/23
A plenty of changes in game. Game pace is much faster in ten, twenty minutes You can have plenty of resources and a lot of tunnels already dig out. A lot of restrictions not present in game anymore. Easier selection/order system, easier DIG system, auto build ladder for vertical movement after tile is dig out.
In summary now RoundOnes can BUILD those World wonders much easier.
NEW main features:
- new selection/issue orders system - use left mouse button to select and right to give order. Like in RTS games. Very easy and convenient way . Nothing in game is done automatically anymore. This means if
villager is hungry you need to select him and move him to TABLE build to replenish food.
Now building and digging is much easier. Each villager can do independent task. Access to DROPZONE is not that much necessary anymore - which is good for playability.
- new access to specifics actions. Some BUILDS have some advanced action associated with them you can access them with new menu. Usually those are to CONFIGURE build or mixer, DELIVER some additional material to that build. Menu will show only actions for selected specific item - for example MIXER actions might be different than TABLE or STOVE.
- new redesigned MACHINES - after placing machine on map like any regular build - you can move it when digging is necessary and choose dig zone for it. After that activate digging. Machines are reusable.
- new BUILDS. redesigned refactored all builds in game and added some new exciting build types.
To be specific those can be configured - usually with some resources which you have in dropzone and that later needs to be delivered to that BUILD. For example BED to be functioning will need some kind of cushion to get better rest for villager. So configure BED with wool resource and deliver that to that build to fully activate it. Its very easy and will allow you to use what you have currently in dropzone.
-new tiles in game - most important ones are: water and active lava. Water as flowing fluid will go down and is going to flood empty tiles.
Lava will flow in all direction and take existing tiles from map. Lava will build up and place maximum 2 volcanoes on map. Volcanos will grow few tiles up and in that process maybe will destroy some builds.
Lava on other hand is blocked by BUILDS. So build a lot and then lava will be blocked.
All this means that right now You actually play against lava.
- new redesigned TECH TREE (former encyclopedia) Very useful to see and decide what MIXER should mix. Now automatically configuring new Mixer from within TECH TREE.
- new DIG system for villagers and machines. They DIG and throw material behind them - as boxes with material. Then those boxes needs to be collected.
- new redesigned GUI elements - gui is simpler now, more streamlined - for example you selects some build and only specific actions allowed for that build will be shown. Game window can be just grabbed and size adjusted to fit yours screen. Looks very nice on wide screens.
Mini map refactored to fit better world sizes. Now game world can be created in way you wont to play: if you need more surface for farming and animals then create very wide world, if You wont to dig more than create map which is longer vertically and you will have plenty of dig tiles.
A ton of other small fixes, changes, refactoring.
A ton of game features not clear how to use or just cluttering was removed from game.
I hope game will be better and fun to play. BUILD those wonders in game and show them to Yours friends. Thank You
#update 1.5.1
-added some nice sprites for farming buildings: cows barn, sheep barn, chicken house, bees house.
-fixed floor builds - collision shape
-added advanced builds advice
older game saves will not work after that update.
thank you