MODLANDS

Devlog

• Steam Coming Soon page is up!!!
  December 14, 2021 by triplejumpgames

  After a lot of work this past year, the updated game is finally moving towards coming out on Steam! I figure we're about 3-6 months away... Mostly polish, bugfixes, and added content at this point. I'... Continue reading

  
• Steam beta continues! Getting closer to demo...
  September 27, 2021 by triplejumpgames

  Getting ever closer to the big demo of the new version of the game... This week I added turrets, nighttime waves of enemy spawns, conveyor belts, crops, autofarming... things are starting to move very... Continue reading

  
• Join the Discord!
  September 13, 2021 by triplejumpgames

  We're doing Friday night beta tests w/ the upcoming Steam build! Join the Discord at discord.gg/modlands and dm me (Triplejump) to get a Steam key! Note: you don't have to commit to the Friday night t... Continue reading

  
• Multiplayer Playtests!!! :)
  April 26, 2021 by triplejumpgames

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  A lot has been happening lately! This year I started a full rebuild of the game to make the final version, that will be available both on itch.io and Steam! The rebuilt version fully supports multipla... Continue reading

  
• Editor Preview is up!
  December 13, 2020 by triplejumpgames

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  The preview build is up now - version 0.7 lets you switch between gameplay and editor modes by pressing Tab. :) You can edit, save and load your own levels! This build is also a preview of a new way t... Continue reading

  
• Writing Desk added to game!
  August 15, 2020 by triplejumpgames

  This is a quick (one week) update to add the Writing Desk to the game. :) It actually puts the Writing Desk in the starting inventory of new characters; you can use it to make Text objects that craft... Continue reading

  
• New aspects to inventions! Better movement!
  August 09, 2020 by triplejumpgames

  A major update to the game's invention systems and movement is in!!! * Inventions can now be animated! Turn on animation controls in the pixel editor and you can make multiframe idles for walls and ob... Continue reading

  
• Update - Slime Arenas! :)
  July 26, 2020 by triplejumpgames

  Modlands Update 0.61 - Slime Arenas :) As we move into focusing on AI and combat-related updates for a while, Slime Arenas have now been added to the game! The spawners in them will generate slimes fo... Continue reading

  
• New Invention UX! Version 0.6 is up!!!
  July 18, 2020 by triplejumpgames

  A new major build of Modlands is out! It has a new starting area tutorial building (seen above)! And also uses the NEW item invention flow with pixel editor and stats that update based on what you use... Continue reading

  
• Graffiti added to game! Draw directly on the world! :)
  May 25, 2020 by triplejumpgames

  Hey everyone, this update adds a creative tool I've been looking forward to for a long time: the ability to draw directly on the world! Use the command /creative in the console to spawn the Creative c... Continue reading

  
• Creative Tools update!
  May 09, 2020 by triplejumpgames

  Hey everyone, this update adds some great new creative tools to the game! Use the command /creative in the console to spawn a chest full of world-editing tools! They can be used to draw using entities... Continue reading

  
• Animation Table added to game!
  April 25, 2020 by triplejumpgames

  Animation Table is now added to the game!!! You can craft this with the basic Crafting Table, then go up to it and press `E` to open the animation editor. Add your own animations to the game (they wi... Continue reading

  
• Major update! World generation! :)
  April 18, 2020 by triplejumpgames

  A new version of the game is up! There's a LOT of new stuff!!! This adds world generation, structures that spawn in the world (and have loot spawning in their containers), a world map w/ fog-of-war, l... Continue reading

  
• Workin on a big procgen update! :)
  April 06, 2020 by triplejumpgames

  Another new build is coming soon! This build is going to make big improvements to the procgen system, adding a world map (complete with fog-of-war), more details for all the biomes, and points-of-inte... Continue reading

  
• New build! Getting closer to Beta! :)
  March 29, 2020 by triplejumpgames

  Hey folks, a lot has happened since the last build! :) This is the latest version of the game, including the new feature - being able to create new item types with an in-game pixel editor! The art sty... Continue reading

  
• Big Update News!
  October 20, 2019 by triplejumpgames

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  Hey everybody, So for the past couple months, I've been rebuilding the game to support multiplayer, and also making big changes to gameplay and, well, everything. If you've been following the Twitch s... Continue reading

  
• 0.519a - New Building Algorithm! :D
  June 16, 2018 by triplejumpgames

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  Hey folks! After a couple weeks of super busy-ness, I'm back with a new experimental build! This one adds the updated algorithm for detecting rooms: no longer do rooms have to be rectangles! Now you c... Continue reading
• 0.517a - Experimental Build - New Buildings Part 1!
  May 05, 2018 by triplejumpgames

  Hey folks! Tonight's build is about halfway through the major improvements I've been making to the building system. I've added things like: new room types! (library, dining room, and forge) rooms are... Continue reading
• Awesome update to Rooms coming this weekend!
  May 02, 2018 by triplejumpgames

  Hey folks, thought I'd mention some of the cool stuff I've been adding to the game's room system this week, and which will be in this Friday night's build! First of all, there will be new types of roo... Continue reading

  
• 0.517a - Experimental Build - Better Console!
  April 28, 2018 by triplejumpgames

  Hey folks! Today is kind of a simple update, but a cool one - because the in-game console now has toggleable categories, and lists things in the correct order! :) It took a surprising amount of effort... Continue reading
• 0.516a - Experimental Build - 3D Hairstyles!
  April 21, 2018 by triplejumpgames

  This week's update is now live! The experimental build is updated with a variety of 3D hairstyles, improvements to several of the Twitch commands, and the first super-early pass of the in-game command... Continue reading
• 0.515a - Experimental Build - Bugfixes and Springtime items!
  April 15, 2018 by triplejumpgames

  This week's update is now live! In this update, I've made various bugfixes and incremental improvements to the game's biomes, and I've added some items in the game's mod directory for the upcoming Spr... Continue reading
• Video Devlog #24!
  April 10, 2018 by triplejumpgames

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• 0.514a - Experimental Build w/ Biome Customization!
  April 07, 2018 by triplejumpgames

  This week's update is now live! This version of the experimental build adds biome settings to the world customization - you can set the biomes to 25%, 50%, 100% (standard), 200%, or 400%. If you set a... Continue reading
• Weekly Update
  April 01, 2018 by triplejumpgames

  Hey everyone! No new build this week - I'm in the middle of a bunch of updates to the procedural world generation and asset loading code. My two main goals at the moment, which look like they're going... Continue reading
• 0.513a - Experimental Build w/ World-Customization settings added to the front-end!
  March 25, 2018 by triplejumpgames

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  This week's update is now live! This is a new Experimental Build with the first pass of some map customization settings and major updates to the front-end! With this build, you can get a preview of my... Continue reading
• 0.512a - Achievements are here! Plus improvements to Creative Mode and the UI!
  March 17, 2018 by triplejumpgames

  This week, I updated the game with an Achievements system - there are three categories of achievements: survival, money, and world-completion. Survival just involves playing survival mode for a given... Continue reading
• Video Devlog #21!
  March 10, 2018 by triplejumpgames

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• 0.511a - Creative Mode Update is here!
  March 10, 2018 by triplejumpgames

  This week, I made a big update to Creative Mode, making it much more capable! In the new arrangement, there's a set of tools on the left edge of the screen, and an item palette on the top edge of the... Continue reading
• Weekly Video! (Devlog #20)
  March 06, 2018 by triplejumpgames

  BTW, here's the video for last week :D... Continue reading
• 0.510a - New Main Build - character progress saves/loads; lots of performance improvements!
  March 03, 2018 by triplejumpgames

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  The new mainline build is up! If you've been waiting a while to try a new build, this is a great one to download! With this, the character xp levels will save and restore. I've also made a lot of perf... Continue reading
• 0.509a - Experimental Build w/ Resource-Gathering, NEW Twitch commands!
  February 24, 2018 by triplejumpgames

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  This week's update is now live! This is a new Experimental Build with the first pass of some new features that people have been requesting for some time! First: the colonists can now gather resources!... Continue reading
• Weekly Video! (Devlog #18)
  February 19, 2018 by triplejumpgames

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  This week's Video Devlog is up! :)... Continue reading
• 0.508a - Experimental Build w/ RPG progression!
  February 18, 2018 by triplejumpgames

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  This week's update is now live! At the moment, I'm still in the middle of working on the RPG progression systems. The progression aspects are in now - characters get experience in various skills by do... Continue reading
• 0.507a - Moddable Jobs! New Character UI!
  February 10, 2018 by triplejumpgames

  This week's update is now live! Most of this week's work has been internal stuff, to improve performance and lay the foundations for upcoming additions to the AI. The biggest change is that now jobs a... Continue reading
• 0.506a - Containers and inventory! Godstack improvements!
  February 03, 2018 by triplejumpgames

  This week's update is now live! This adds containers to the game! Gather up all your random items and store them! This is the first step towards a major goal of the next few weeks - getting the coloni... Continue reading
• 0.505a - Streamlined controls! New character-info panel!
  January 28, 2018 by triplejumpgames

  This week's biggest update is live now! The biggest changes are the info panel, formerly toggleable with 'E', being made into a tooltip that appears next to the cursor as you hover objects, and a new... Continue reading
• 0.504a - Twitch integration enhancements
  January 25, 2018 by triplejumpgames

  Another mid-week build to fix a few issues and improve things. In this one: the game now checks every couple minutes to see which Twitch players are currently in the channel; this keeps the game from... Continue reading
• 0.503a - Added first pass of auto-camera!
  January 24, 2018 by triplejumpgames

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  I've updated both builds of the game to version 0.503a - this adds an automatic camera queue system that you can use to do a "headless" stream. If you go into the Twitch settings menu and click the "a... Continue reading
• Weekly Devlog #14
  January 21, 2018 by triplejumpgames

  This week's Video Devlog is up! :) Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/modlands-devlog-16516537... Continue reading

  
• 0.502a - Fixed a loading bug
  January 20, 2018 by triplejumpgames

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  This is a quick fix for a bug in the loading code, where detailed entities would halt the load if their coordinates were rolled-over. Maps that had this issue on load should work fine now. :) I should... Continue reading
• 0.501a - Quick Bugfix for Pathing!
  January 20, 2018 by triplejumpgames

  Hey everyone, I just uploaded a quick bugfix - this is to solve a load-balancing issue with pathfinding that was causing pathfinding to frequently freeze after the first night. In local tests it seems... Continue reading