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Update Notes / Updates April 1st 2017 - Construction

« on: March 25, 2017, 11:59:13 am »

Hello everybody!

It's finally there, Construction!! I hope you didn't come here expecting it would be an April's fool? It's not! This update has taken quite a while and the finishing touches have taken a bit. I don't want to talk too much about how to train the skill, because our wiki page has already been prepared:
https://emps-world.net/wiki/Construction
Oh yeah, most important: Using a hammer on any furniture removes it!



Materials
There's several materials you'll need for building your home. All of the materials for Constructions can be found in or around Rimmington:

• Planks: Can be obtained by going to the Sawmill operator in Rimmington (west part) or by using the Make Plank spell from the Lunar spell book.
• Limestone bricks: You can mine limestones and cut them with a chisel in the northern part of Rimmington, around the dungeon entrance. The stonemason in Rimmington also sells small amounts of Limestone bricks.
• Cloth and Gold leaf: Sawmill operator.
• Marble and Magic stone: Stonemason.
• Gardening supplies: Any plants you want to have in your home can be bought from the Gardener in Rimmington. She is directly west of the house portal. The items in her shop are ordered by the level required to place them in your house.
• Paintings and Maps: You can buy all kinds of paintings and maps for decorating your home from King Percival, who can be found in the White knights castle in Falador. King Percival also sells Skillcapes.
• Slayer trophies: There is a 1 in 1000 chance to obtain those while killing specific monsters.
• Fishing trophies: There is a 1 in 1000 chance to obtain those while fishing specific fishes.

Altars and Prayer Experience Rates
Altars give up to 250% prayer experience for offered bones. On top of that, every lit burner (no matter which one) gives additional 50% bonus experience. Resulting in a maximum of 350% prayer experience per bone that is offered at an altar. Now though, the base experience rates of burying bones need some adjustments:

• Frost dragon bones: 1875 --> 1275
• Dragon bones: 600 --> 490
• Wyvern bones: 525 --> 480
• Dagannoth bones: 500 --> 440
• Baby dragon bones: 400 --> 300
• Burnt bones: 350 --> 250
• Big bones: 220 --> 190

Please bear in mind that the gilded altar can give up to 350% experience, so this isn't a tough nerf at all. In the end, you can still gain Prayer levels much faster than before! Other altars with 2 lit burners already give at least a 200% experience boosts. So using any altar is already better than the old experience rates.

House Activities
There's several things you can do inside your house. Not everything is fully configured, because certain things would require quite a lot of time to develop while giving no real content. A good example for this is the games room. You can build everything in it, but the games don't work. There's a lot of other useful stuff to discover in Construction, such as: Prayer altars, crafting teletabs, teleport rooms, throne rooms, etc. I'll just let you find it out.


Other changes and fixes:

• Barrow chest now has a 10% chance to reward you with either a hard or elite clue scroll.
• Game settings interface has completely been overhauled. Settings are now divided into categories and the interface supports a large mode, just like bank interface, price checker, etc.
• We now have a more natural, blue sky. The fog color and distance calculations were also changed with this update.
• Improvements in object picking code. Especially slower computers will feel this.
• Thanking posts was turned into Liking posts. It makes much more sense to like a post instead of thanking it.
• Pest Control now only requires 2 players to start the game. Before the update 5 players were required.
• The way draws during duels is handled was updated. You should no longer find yourself winning or losing in an obvious draw.
• Golden mining outfit can now be bought from the Star sprite (shooting star).
• Various versions of Duellist's caps can be bought from the Brimhaven Agility arena ticket shop now.
• Drop chances of elemental crystals increased for Tormented Demons.
• Humidify spell updated. It now applies water to all items in your inventory. You can also make softclay with Humidify.
• Make Plank spell added. It now transforms multiple logs into planks.
• There is now a closer banker to Obsidian dragons.
• Teletabs can now be created in houses and have thus been removed from the wizard's drop table.

I hope you have a lot of fun building your own house. This has really taken a while to develop and I would also like to thank following people for helping me in doing so:

• Jonneh -  for the initial base of the skill. It really helped me get a good understanding of how it's supposed to work and your Room configuration system is a really good way of doing it. Thank you!
• Charr - You've really helped me collect many room configurations. Thank you.
• Jp - Also been a real help with configuring rooms. Thank you.
• And everyone else who has tested Construction in world 3. I hope there won't be too many bugs in it.

All the best,
Thomy

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Update Notes / Updates March 16th 2017 - Graphical Improvements

« on: March 03, 2017, 01:21:41 pm »

Hey guys,

Not a lot of new things with this update. This is mainly another construction preparation and test update. I've optimized how large houses are loaded and added some usability to them. I'll now be able to show you the progress of Construction in the live game. I'll probably do that during the weekend. So make sure to be around.

Fog and Map Loader
You may have already noticed this, because the update went live a few days ago. The map loader now fades in new objects, giving you a smooth loading transition instead of them just popping up. The fog plane was also made circular to give it a more natural feeling. It won't affect performance, but make the game look smoother.

Following things have been changed:

• Stronger, richer colors for elemental bow particles.
• Npc and item floor adjustments have slightly been reworked. You should no longer find items being inside the ground. Items should now always be aligned properly to the ground plane.
• Skulling system tweak: As long as you fight your opponent, your skull will keep refreshing its timer. So you shouldn't lose your skull during fights anymore.
• You can now get multiple clue scrolls of a kind. The rewarding system has also slightly been adjusted. You now get a casket, which can be opened at a later time or even be traded with other players. This should make it easier to collect clue scrolls and their rewards.
• Grand Exchange prices of item sets are now calculated from their individual parts. They no longer have a separate price.
• Music system has completely been rewritten with a new library. Mind testing that for me? It worked on both of my computers, but you never know.
• Teleport system has completely been reworked. If you find some locations being wrong, please report them to me! I tested a lot of them, but couldn't go through all of them. There's 100+ locations.
• Price checker now shows rounded comma values of item values. It'll no longer show 20M, but 20.12M for example. The total price is rounded to 4 comma values.

I'm looking really forward to the release of Construction, because it's coming closer!

All the best,
Thomy