Version 9 is live! Gliders and faster sleeping!​


Version 9 is live! Gliders and faster sleeping!

  • All known issues with loading a save slot should be fixed except an issue which can be fixed with a reload as a temporary workaround. If your current quests do not load correctly when loading from a slot on the main menu, simply loading the slot again through the options menu in game should fix it. This issue is being worked on as a priority.
  • A glider has been added to the Building Bushcraft Menu. Collect 8 cured antelope hide, 16 Bamboo and 32 cordage to craft. When the glider is in your inventory, press G after jumping to activate the glider. 
  • Sleeping is much faster now due to removing the need for the game to automatically reload during sleep.
  • Sleeping now autosaves immediately when you sleep (this happens instantly and should not cause any stall) If you reload this automatic save, you will load in right before you slept.
  • Mushroom sight now persists through sleeping if you have eaten a Blue Cap mushroom recently enough.
  • The Crafted Basket weight is reduced to be slightly less than its recipe components for consistency.
  • The pick-up collision sphere of the Branch is slightly increased in size to make it easier to pick up.
  • The Poncho icon in the Repair/Salvage/Unequip menu is updated.
  • Bamboo texture is updated.
  • Added Cordage to the Cot and Building recipes.
  • A change has been made to the Formican AI that should keep it from intermittently falling through the landscape upon death. Once this is verified as stable through testing feedback, the same preventative code will be added to the other creatures.

Files

windstone-win.zip 1 GB
Version 9 Apr 22, 2018

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Hello, I am not trying to be a bother I really would like to try this game as it seem like the perfect game for me however i cant get past the menu it crashes. It makes me really sad because it looks like a great game... I have a Lenovo ideapad y700

To my earlyer comment I am trying to re-install it hopefully it will fix the problem, I cannot wait to play the game fingers crosss.

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I apologize for the inconvenience ShadowMagi. This is most likely due to the game currently being very resource intensive when initially loading the world and possibly your computer not having enough RAM.  This is a known issue and I'm working on it. The world is huge and starting the game makes everything in the world load at once and by default uses as much RAM as it can to hasten load times. If you don't have a strong enough computer it can cause long loading times or crashes.  After the game loads it should settle down and stay at 4GB memory usage throughout the play session until you quit and load again, which causes another temporary memory spike as the world has to reload.

If your game crashes there may not be anything you can do right now until I optimize the world loading. If the game doesn't crash on the loading screen, you may just have to wait a few minutes for it to load. On my PC load time is only about 20-30 seconds, but some testers with lower spec computers have reported having to wait 5 mins or so. 

Does the loading % show on the screen before you crash or stall? If it does and you can tell me what % it was at and what the last entry in each of the 2 columns on the print string was that shows in the corner when loading, that may help me debug and optimize loading times.

Thanks for trying Windstone and I apologize again that it isn't working for you. Hopefully you can play it in the future.

Thank you for replying so quickly, and what happens is from main menu I click new game i read the story of the world then it just says black after about 60 secs or so my screen frezzes up and i cant do anything and if I wait it just closes the game and i get a crash report to send in. And No sorry no loading screen, I really cannot wait to play this game.  but I understand things dont get fixed in a day. once I am able to play I will be more then happy to help donate to the making of the game :) and im sorry after the story of the world it stays black it still responds but stays black no sound nothing .

Hi Shadow, From a quick look online your laptop should run Windstone but it depends on the specs. What is your RAM and GPU most importantly?  8 gb ram is enough for some testers so I suspect it may be the GPU. Also, did you download Windstone using the Itch.io desktop app and did you download the UE4 prerequisites when prompted to during install? Thanks for taking the time to reply as feedback will help me optimize Windstone.