Setting up the Automation basics ! A Community-Driven Project - Devlog 

out of the dungeon into the basement

Wow I just discovered you could switch RU-vid to full screen when pressing F, thanks to the dwarf! Regarding the game: What about the workers having randomized stats? It could encourage the player to rerun the dungeons in order to find better workers, and contribute to the gameplay loop. Great video as always.

for the names, you could use random generated names (prefix+suffix) for most people, then have rare spawn people with discord chosen names. Maybe give these rare people slightly higher stats (move speed, work speed, whatever)

maybe add a really small collision box so that the workers aren't all standing on top of eachother

Really liking the series. Keep up the good work!

I feel like a scientist role for the workers would be interesting. They could create upgrades for you and other workers. Another Idea: simple conveyors. They move items to other places (chests), but slightly slow down the working time, as the worker has to actually put the item on the conveyor.

I think the grid flickering is actually caused by the fact that the shader itself is not antialiased. So the lines change their visual width as they move between pixels on your screen. Increasing the width of the grid lines would probably fix this (by making it less noticable), or implemeting antialiasing into your shader. You could also do something like only show the grid in a radius around where the object is being placed. You don't actually need to see the whole grid covering the screen like that. And this would make the problem much less noticeable.

love seeing your new family member ! Love the devlog. I look foward to see the interaction between the dungeon crawler and automation !

Looking great

Props to the editor. These videos are nice! Shoutout to the rock chiseler. Dude is on another level! Look at him go!

the 1px sweat on the little guy adds a ton of juice!

you could just use the priority system to add points to the best source based on witch one has the most resources no?

I mentioned on the previous video that the inconsistent scaling of ui assets is jarring Also, something interesting to me is that while haulier is a word, hauler is much more common. Similarly, suffix is more common than postfix.

shouldnt this game have grid based placement?

Great game!😀

Noooo, Tao! 😹My partner and I are trying to introduce our cats to each other, which has been hard enough. I can't imagine introducing a rabbit! Amazing work so far. I can't believe how many complicated systems you've built in so little time. Inventory though... ugh. It's such a headache. I've never been able to code it myself. I always end up borrowing code from other people or purchasing assets to deal with it. I wish you luck in getting an inventory system you're happy with and can build upon! I feel like I'm always "that guy" that nitpicks about words, but I think for more understandable English, you might want to go with "Hauler" for that unit? As in someone who hauls things around, right?

Looking better every time! A few thoughts, since you seem to like constructive feedback: - I'm curious why you have the buildings eject output when the player works them; why not just have that output go into the building's output inventory same as with a worker? Seems like it caused more headache than it was worth (though it did end up looking neat). - Considering the hauler's current distance to a destination building feels a bit weird, considering the hauler must first visit the source building, thus rendering the former distance-to-destination moot. I can see this having a beneficial side-effect though, such that a hauler hauling to a specific building is more likely to choose to haul to that building again after completing a haul.

Wondering why use shaders to implement the grid - why not just overlay the grid asset on top of the map? This way you can also make highlighting certain cells/regions easier

when can we try the beta

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but what if youy just want to store and not use something wouldnt the haulers steal it

you probably stopped playing palworld because it doesnt really hook people very well, a lot of survival/automation games just don't really give people a good reason to keep playing. also instead of having two inventory systems, you could get rid of the dungeon loot inventory and instead have resource counters so that instead of having complicated item stacks hold your money you could use MATH. Any time you want to use your money (or whatever else) you could just click a button and the game will subtract the amount of resources needed from the counter. You could add as many counters as needed but i think one for coins, one for each resource, and one for "treasure" (generic trinkets, gems and jewelry for selling to a merchant) would be a start. I don't know how complicated that would be to add, and you might have to rework the haulers again, but i bet it's a hell of a lot simpler than whatever you're doing now

Hey, it seems like you always have problems with the inventory, I'm pretty sure there are libraries to do that, so why don't you use one?

Add a battlepass

Luli is so cute i want him too

Hey Unpaws, I have a question about code if you could help me?

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bro please dont use AI for your thumbnails