Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Dodecaplanets and Logic Gates

I've been playing with the latest Dev release and here's what I've learned.
Don't expect this release next week, there is a LOT to fix.  This is anything but a complaint, just a recognition that there's some hard coding ahead before it's fully ready for prime-time.

Planets:

  • If you load the dev version and see disk-shaped planets at a distance, don't be disheartened.  Dodecaplanets spawn in through the Ghosts of their disky ancestors.  You won't see them until you are up close.
  • The planetary core looks cool and scary as all heck.
  • Sometimes planetary cores just appear in empty sectors with no planetary matter attached.  They are insubstantial and gravity-less without planetary plates.
  • In a real planet you can't currently mine down to the molten core,  It seems like the function of the core at the moment is to define a boundary of invulnerability.  The bottom row of blocks on a pentagonal planetary plate touches the core, and can't be mined.