Teayeph VI: Get Down on the Farm (Patreon)

This one is kind of a grab-bag, folks.  Loads of fixes, changes, and expansions.

On the New Stuff front, the game now supports Farms, Hygiene, and Lactation, and seriously, in what other genre of games would I be able to assemble that sentence?  I'm still figuring how I want things to balance out and how much materials various things require, but you can build a Milking Stall and a Creamery, and getting there feels like getting to a higher tier of buildings, so that's good.

I've also untangled the difference between picking up a bucket and getting the stuff out of the bucket, and that's pretty important, so yay on that front.

As far as minor changes go, the world generation has been tweaked to make a better central continent.  Defrosting new crewmembers will usually be defrosting new colors, to make things easier to distinguish.  WASD keys will pan the map like my fingers kept assuming they would.  The help system should be better formatted to answer "how do I make X" questions.

Under the hood, I did a bunch of refactoring-slash-recoding, generalizing a bunch of the inventory management that had been done differently in different parts of the game.  This should (a) take care of a bunch of bugs, and (b) make any future bugs identified be all in the same, easy-to-track-down place.

Play it now at: http://dexsin.com/teayephvi/ 

On the horizon, I'd like to see more and varied radio chatter, getting a better idea of who your various crewmates are, and specifically fulfilling their aspirations, both bodily and carnally.  Under the hood, I'm planning on generalizing the TF code to make things even easier to expand in the future.

Once those are in place, I feel like the "core game experience" will be laid down.  Then we can get into the make-chain to victory, worldbuilding backstory, epilogues, and discovering the other inhabitants of the planet...

Changelog

task list fixes & changes

- eat and drink tasks collapse into eat-and-drink tasks appropriately

- postponing tasks for eating and drinking go to end of task list instead of second item

- build orders no longer get repeated, since you never want to repeat build orders

- make orders no longer break when the game is loaded from save

- world generation tweaked to make a more consistent central continent

ui improvements

- newly defrosted crewmembers are whichever one is the most distinctive color

- pause function also pauses animations, which makes pause state more apparent

- generalized item names so they appear the same in crew inventory and tile inventory

- crewmates movement on map no longer jittery at faster speeds

- help template improvements to help answer "how do I make that" questions

- WASD pans the map

recoded all the inventory-shuffling functions to weed out old bugs

- collect and deliver concerns resources in containers

- pickup and dropoff concerns containers of resources

- make and build consume resources as you go instead of collecting them first

- make and build projects are on the tile so multiple crewmembers can team up

farms

- farm availability displays in build projects

- farm harvest modifier properly increases harvests

- farm harvest modifer displays in tile readout

plumbing buildings

- water pump will pump foul water out of the ground and into a tank

- solar boiler will take foul water from one bin, purify it, and pump it into a pure water bin

bathing

- two buildings: washtub and showers

- scrub off the gunk the crewmembers collect

- slight happiness boost

lactation

- pregnancy triggers lactation in crewmembers with breasts

- lactating crewmembers have to stop and express milk

- hungry and thirsty crewmembers do not produce milk

- new building: milking stall allows harvesting crewmembers' lactation

- new building: creamery can refine milk into rations

under the hood refactoring and light bugstomping

- generalized out a find-a-target-container function

- prioritize matches over empties

- respects dedicated containers

- respects liquid-only containers

- does not set contents (that happens after it returns the targetContainer)

- optionally create a new container

- generalized an add-to-inventory function

- generalized a function to consume materials for building and making