Community12 Jan 2024King under the Mountain released as open-source, Mountaincore dev on hold2023 was a tumultuous year for Mountaincore - we were made to keep the community in the dark by a publisher which ultimately backed out, scrambled to release the game according to the plan that had been put in place, and ultimately it suffered as a commercial failure. The Mountaincore launch was way below what was required to keep even a single dev employed working on the game, so eventually al…
- Adjusted chances of creating items from mining (stone is less likely, ore is more likely) and made this moddable - Deconstruction of furniture can now be cancelled - Skeletons will now eventually disappear - Made hops quicker to grow - Reduced the chance of fire from jobs that can cause fires - Barrels now need 2x staves and hoops to craft - Fire now lasts longer between state transitions (mo…
- Settlers will now hold on to their waterskins for a lot longer - Fix for walls and bridges not being built - Attempted fix for trading chests getting stuck and no longer collecting coins - Hauling items to stockpiles will now default the job to the priority of the target stockpile (room or furniture) - Note that this does not affect the priority of jobs already created
- Reduced toughness of the undead (though they're still very hard to kill - bring hammers) - Made collection of ammo while in military more important than other goals (i.e. standing on guard) - Dwarves will no longer fight each other to the death because of a stray arrow hitting a friend in the back - Idling is no longer interrupted by low needs to ensure dwarves get themselves unstuck from und…
- Reduced toughness of the undead (though they're still very hard to kill - bring hammers) - Made collection of ammo while in military more important than other goals (i.e. standing on guard) - Dwarves will no longer fight each other to the death because of a stray arrow hitting a friend in the back - Idling is no longer interrupted by low needs to ensure dwarves get themselves unstuck from und…
Hi everyone! May was a particularly exciting month because… we launched into Early Access!! I’m very happy with the response from most people so far, lots and lots of you are enjoying it, many YouTube and Twitch streamers have picked up the game and almost all of those enjoyed it too, though unfortunately Mountaincore is sitting at “Mixed” on Steam due to hovering just under 70% positive review…
- Attempted fix for weapons sometimes going missing - Disabled exclusive full screen mode on Mac until we can fix the OS-level crash this is causing - Dwarves can no longer drink from the water barrel in a brewery to avoid blocking the production of wort - Note that this change will auto-deconstruct any existing brewery water barrels - Health and Safety inspectors have banned the dwarves from d…
- Updated underlying engine library to latest version - This fixes some small issues like being able to launch the browser on Mac - It also means we can have a splash screen! - Settlers can no longer die due to food poisoning (there is still a happiness malus) - Disabled beer tappers will no longer bring beer barrels to themselves - Farmers are now responsible for harvesting crops, rather than…
- Settlers will now collect a stack of seeds when farming again rather than one seed at once - Reduced happiness malus from going sober - Fix for duplication of bread and rations placed on a feasting hall table - Settlers will no longer use disabled beer tappers - One of the starting settlers is now a Carpenter/Woodcutter rather than Woodcutter/Carpenter
- Settlers will now never interrupt a job to move food to the feasting hall - Fix for construction of flooring, walls and roofing not working correctly
- Settlers should now collect items needed to work on jobs before waiting until all other work is completed - Made the main menu background image smaller to reduce memory usage - Fix for a crash when destroying a butchery station
- Reduced repelling force due to many entities in one location to avoid issues in very busy locations - Fix for the game not working in a Turkish locale - Fix for when cauldrons get stuck in transit between kitchen and feasting hall - Fix for a crash due to sorting algorithms making use of a random element - Fix for a crash when removing a zone from a region that no longer exists - Fix for a cr…
- "Add tiles" button when a stockpile is selected will now correctly use that stockpile's (first if several) stockpile group - Adding a stockpile will now use the settings of a stockpile that is being extended rather than what was selected - Note that merging two existing stockpiles together will keep both of their settings - Fixes and improvements to butchery station - Transferring water to so…
- Fishing now only has a chance to catch a fish (depending on skill level) rather than always being successful - Ore crushing is now performed by the stonemason rather than blacksmith - Corn and Hemp now grow a little faster - Exposed the colour codes for roofing view to modding - Fix for a crash when a liquid container no longer has a valid access zone
- Fix for crashes and other problems with messed up room tiles - Fix for a crash when merchants are paying but all coins are assigned elsewhere - Fix for a crash when a material is lost - Corrected an issue where merchants paying for items could cause extra piles of coins to appear in the resources screen - Added (crossbow) bolts to weapon rack storage
Added a new peaceful music track, "Respite" by Jordan Chin · "Villager" profession renamed (in translation only) to "Hauler" · Settlers can now have 1, 2 or 3 professions set, and do not need to have the Hauler profession · Hauling can now be higher priority than other professions · The starting profession skills are now fixed to avoid issues with certain secondary professions being missing · I…
This is the Early Access launch of Mountaincore ! Thank you so much to those of you have been on the journey to this point so far, and welcome (hopefully!) to all the new players! If you own King under the Mountain , I'm trying to get Steam to auto-grant a license to Mountaincore as well. However it is not giving me the option to do this so I've raised a support ticket with Valve and we'll have…
Welcome to the first official dev update for Mountaincore ! If this is your first time reading one of our dev updates, I should give a little history lesson. Perhaps the *full* history this time! Skip to “ The actual April update ” if you don’t want a rambling history and background of the game. History of the game and its development Games have always been my #1 passion. Fresh out of universit…
Mountaincore has been built and tested to be fully Steam Deck compatible. The game ships with a default controller configuration - the default "Keyboard and Mouse" controller config. The controller settings are as follows: · Left Stick - Pans the camera · Right Stick - Moves the mouse cursor · Right touch pad - Also moves the mouse cursor · L1 & R1 - Zoom the camera in and out · R2 - Simulates…
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