Progress update - Crafting and ship interiors

[Stellar Tactics]

I’m posting a work in progress video today that shows the salvaging portion of the crafting system which is nearly complete. I still have a bit of work to do on the UI and balancing. The video also shows the first completed ship interior for the boarding system. More details below.

https://youtu.be/Dy3GbDkl2Vg
Crafting requires components and the salvaging system lets you mark items in your inventory, stash and cargo hold for disassembly. As you disassemble items, you will gather crafting components and the finishing items you will need to craft equipment for your ships and crew.

You can salvage items anywhere. That is, you do not need to travel to a salvaging station to break items into component parts. Initially, I was going to make this a static salvaging station that would be on your ship and stations. I felt it would be a lot more useful if you could do this at any time, clearing inventory of excess equipment and vendor junk items. Crafting material storage is infinite so you won’t need to worry about max inventory for these items.

Equipment – When disassembling equipment, you will gain salvaging experience, component parts, finishing items and progress towards learning a locked crafting schematic for that item time (based on the quality of the item).

Junk items – Junk items generate finishing materials. These will be used in the finishing stage of crafting to assign stats, weapon min/max damage values, and other bonuses to equipment. In general, crafting an item can result in a finished item with bonuses and stats that are better than any item you can buy or find in the game.

I’ll be starting on the crafting portion of the system next now that I can generate crafting components. This will take a while and I hope you all enjoy the system when it’s finished.

Ship interiors are being worked on. These interiors will be used for a number of purposes:

• Boarding: Disable a ship and enter through the airlock. Various doors to be hacked, hostile enemies defending their ships and objects that need to be repaired – not to mention loot and the ability to sell these ships for profit.
  
  
• Missions: There will be a number of missions that may pop up as a communication from a disabled ship, rescues and a few other scenarios that will require entering other ships.
  
  
• Your home: Ships will serve as a place to store goods, interact with the crew and craft items.

That’s all I have for now. Thanks as always for supporting Stellar Tactics!

[orinfiretouch]

Vid looks awesome. So looking forward to the crafting system.

[Marcus Aquila]

Nice work!

[Scribe]

That looks like it would have been some very complex coding to do that kind of system plus have it interface so intuitively.

[limecooler]

Great job Don, keep up the effort, I look forward to what you are doing.

[glen.w.kelly]

Looks very good, I stopped playing a while back as I wanted to wait until more functionality was added. From the looks of it I might start playing again when this is added.

[VeiL]

Is Don! Is good!

[Cyzar]

Wow, looks great! Can't wait

[GuildOfCalamity]

Love the new additions!

[Stellar Tactics]

Thanks all. Not as active on the forums for the last few weeks and likely even less so over the next few as I continue working on the crafting system and the new ship interiors - primarily the crafting system. Crafting is fairly complex and touches everything in the game so it will take some time to get right.

[petersly]

The game really shows promise of true classic - good luck.

[Flippy]

I missed this until now. This is really great.

I am wondering if i missed any character customization updates like portraits.

[skiiwa]

OH!!! Heck Yea!

[tomd237]

I just sunk 6 hours into this gem since I bought it today. Fantastic work! I'm hyped to see usecrafting system.

[DARI]

very nice game - maybe you can add a smal QoL change:
-remove the "end conversation" dialog of every vendor - or show them just one time and then never
-hotkey for the rotation of a character view direction (in and out of combat - to see whats down the hall)
-make friendly fire apply to everyone including enemies (a scavver shoot over his two dogs in line , while shooting back at him i hit the dogs)
-maybe reduce the chance for "critical hit the head for 0 (zero) damage

[BigRowdy]

Looking forward to this.