This update makes the chat easier to read, warns you before you leave a sleeping character in the world and turns the wild viking raid into a real battle. The server build changed, so update the game to join the servers.
New
- New chat. Each message sits on its own dark strip, so it reads well on snow, sand and water. Every player name has its own colour. The tabs All and Nearby split global and local chat.
- “Leave the world?” window. The exit button now asks first. A live view shows your character fall asleep where it stands. Outside a safe zone, anyone can kill a sleeper and take everything it carries. In a safe zone, nobody can hurt it, but after 6 hours it dies and drops everything. Tip: hide behind the walls of your base before you leave.
- /stuck — on PvE servers, if other players walled you in, this command moves you to the nearest way out. Once a minute.
- /suicide — kills your character after a confirmation. Your whole bag drops where you stand. Once every 30 seconds.
- Totems need care. If nobody opens a chest, a furnace or a door in a totem's zone for 48 hours, the totem starts to die and breaks 24 hours later. One use by the owner or a listed player renews it. Open the totem to see how many hours it has left.
- Stinky Soap now peeks in every few hours with an invite to our Discord.
- Support Piworld: the server list and the main menu have a “Buy us a coffee” link. The servers run on donations. PC only.
- Update warning. Before an update, a strip above the chat tells everyone that the game updates within 10 minutes and that Steam needs a restart.
Changes
- Wild viking raid: 30 vikings land in the first wave, 29 and a leader in the second. The chest for a won raid now pays mithril, meteor steel, diamonds, cut gems and runes. The base raid did not change.
- Food: no dish gives more than 70 food, and food heals about 3.5 times less. Healing potions matter again. Spoilage did not change.
- Freezer: 1 snow holds the cold for 30 minutes instead of 10, and 1 coal for 9 minutes instead of 3.
- Food in the input slots of a working machine does not spoil while it cooks. When the machine stops, the food spoils again.
- You can break your own new wall or door fast with a hammer for 24 hours after you build it, instead of 5 minutes. The 24 hours are real time.
- The tracked recipe on the screen folds into a small square, like the goal line and the bag.
- Chinese, Japanese and Korean text is crisp now and has the same outline as the rest. Korean lines break between words.
- One map holds at most 100 wild animals, so a full server runs smoother.
- The lighthouse light reaches much further at night.
Fixes
- The calendar works on dedicated servers. Before, the day stayed at 1, calendar events did not start and sleeping characters could disappear.
- The tutorial task “water the beds” now counts beds in the rain.
- The wild viking raid shows its map mark and banner again.
- The server name and the player count no longer overlap in the server list.
- The Chinese name of Stinky Soap no longer shows an empty box.
- Several client errors are fixed.