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Sand: A Superfluous Game

An open world, base-building, adventure survival game with quirky humor and Llamas!​ · By Voided Pixels Studio

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A topic by Voided Pixels Studio created Feb 19, 2018 Views: 23,553 Replies: 640
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Hey, 

So a small and kind of irritating issue,

Whenever a raid happens you get a prompt saying from where the raider are coming from (North/South/East/West). Trouble for me is that when I get a prompt saying raiders are coming fro east, they are actually coming from the west (& vice versa). North & south are fine, just the east/west directions it seems are flipped. 

Developer

Humm... I'll check it out.

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Plus, veggie stacks are still bugged

Developer

Wait what is with the stacks?

Developer

Oh try building a new veggie stack. I think all your old ones are broken unfortunately.

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Soooo, (Veeeery) minor bug.

When you close the gate while you are standing in the middle of it, you get stuck in the fence.

Encountered this a while back & didn't want to mention it coz its easily fixed by restarting the game & re-spawning. [I guess I was on the fence with this one! (stupid pun intended :-D)].

Anyways, here you go.

Developer

Aw man I thought I fixed that one. I'll look at it again.

I have mentioned this problem before but would really appreciate an update, this the only thing at Steven farm or any other  special area on the map and I have reinstalled about 4 times which fixed it once and then broke it again. 

Developer (1 edit)

Not sure why this is happening to you. It doesn't happen to me so I can't really figure it out. 

First try going to options and clicking reset map data.

If that doesn't work can you check your rooms folder and see if steven farms starter file is blank? It should not be.

If that doesn't work go to %localappdata%/Sand_Alpha (type this in the address bar in windows explorer).

if you have a rm_stevens_farm delete it and restart the game.

FINALLY if that doesn't work go to the stevenfarm map. Press the ~ button (to enabled dev mode) and build something. Leave the room, and go back in. Does it have the object?

Please get back to me. I really am interested why this is happening to you. It might be an anti-virus program deleting files? I don't know, but please get back to me about this. Without physically being at your computer it is very hard because I can't replicate the bug.

Hi, i have tried all your suggestions and even deleting the rm_stevens_farm file didn't fix the issue. the rooms files weren't blank but i also cannot access "dev mode" as pressing the ~ key didn't change anything and I'm not sure if my antivirus can delete files but that doesn't seem to be a problem.  Its annoying but I will continue to build up my base and I hope I can find a solution. 



Side note... which programming language did you use to create this game, how long did it take you to make and did you do your own soundtracks?

Developer (2 edits)

Press the ~ (or really the ` key; top left) key and the words devmode should pop-up under the clock. It will allow you to open the build menu in other places then your base. Press B like normal. This is a very strange issue. So the starter files are there and aren't blank. You deleted the stevens farm file in the %localappdata%. Can you maybe send me both the files (steven farm and steven farm starter)? adam@truncale.net

I am using Game Maker. I've been making this game off and on for 2 years. It really shouldn't have taken me that long though. Work gets in the way :)

I actually bought the sound tracks and found all the sounds from free sound websites. I do plan on making my own, but I need $ to buy the software. I just really enjoy the whole process of creating it all from scratch.

Even the  ` key doesn't  work for me and gives no dev mode text or let me build in other places.

I am unsure which files you want me to send so  I can attach a few.


side note again I make a lot of music myself and know of quite a few good free programs and paid software as well.

some you have probably heard of are:

Bosca ceoil

Ableton live (free trail for 60 days i think)

Native instruments komplete kontrol (komplete start is free)

and once you have a DAW (digital audio workstation), there are plenty of free plugins

some good youtube chanels for budget stuidos are:

sanjay c, andrew huang,  recording revolution, patrick stewart and edward smith

update

I have just been looking for the files you asked for and another rm_steven_farm has appeared in the file that I believe I had deleted it from


???

Developer

Yeah send that one too. I got your other one and it seems fine.

Developer

Or better yet zip me up the whole folder and send that lol.

Autosave?!

I spent an hour decorating my base and playing with different ideas, but I had to step away and when I came back, I had died in a raid and my base reset back to when I last came back from exploring.

Later I went on a base-decorating kick over a few days and forgot to leave town again. A raid came in and I got killed because I was stupid and my base reset to several days ago. 


Can you please  do something to mitigate this? I realize I could probably go exploring to mitigate this, but I keep forgetting. Could we have the base save at dawn or something?

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Two bug I have found playing the new update (I just noticed it updated like 2 hours ago, cause I am unobservant)

The reset mission data and map data didn't reset my map and mission data (could be because the world was from the last update, and I had the bugged out cat lady mission and had entered dev mode on the map last version (didn't on this one though).

A hard reset still worked, so at least there is that.

And an exploit (which may have some undesired conquenses for the raid system) were you can for the mission to build the wooden barrels, destory and the build a barrel and destory that one (which still counts towards making barrels for the base) (I didn't check for the wooden crate mission however)

I'm partially worried on this one for 2 reasons -

  1. Cheese, obviously
  2.  I don't know exactly know how the raid difficulty system works, but if it takes into account all furniture (like barrels); it may be a problem if the system adds a point to the difficulty by building a barrel but doesn't subtract a point if the player deletes it (or doesn't check how many of the furniture entities, but number built). I'm saying this because if the same system is used to count how many barrels you made for the mission and how many barrels you made overall for the raid difficulty is the same if might lead to a high spike in difficulty if a player decides to move their crates and barrels to another location (because it wouldn't take away the difficulty point (which you might not have barrels and crates add to that hypothetical system that I think is similiar to what you are using for the raids.)

(ALSO - super huge thank you for adding my suggestion (and saying it was from me, which was suprising to say the least)! It may still need some tweaks but from what I played it felt pretty good. I'm gonna play over the game again to try and find more bugs/things that need polish, but instead of doing a giga-wall of text in one sitting, I'll do multiple over time)

(ALSO ALSO - the bug with the workstations not rotating is still in the game/has been reintroduced, at least for the weapon workstation)

Developer

So the raid system is based off of your base score (which is the house icon at the left) so this shouldn't affect the system. Their are several 'types' of missions for building. One is HAVE X number of things built and BUILD X number of new things. It is definitely cheesing the system; I use it when I retest all the missions :)

I'll look into the resetting data buttons. Maybe I messed them up some how.

I remember now I disabled rotation for the work stations because of the way the items spawned or maybe the UI display? I was probably just being lazy while doing other things and not wanting to recalculate the positions of everything lol

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OH, the "pre torch light" (when you are in build mode and have a torch selected) that was in the last version is not longer showing; I'm guessing it has something to do with the dust storm making it darker.

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Got this error (and similar errors for punches) during a raid -- happened multiple times in a row but eventually stopped. I was standing at the center of my base not involved in the raid at the time, so maybe something to do with the guards? This is in alpha 0.3.19.

Edit: meant to mention I was in the same base in similar situations in alpha 0.3.18 and did not get this error.

Developer

Thanks! I'll post a patch to hopefully fix it. It seems like it was a corrupted build maybe? It allowed you to press ignore?

I could press ignore but it kept happening. I'd have a split second in game before another error would pop up, and what finally stopped it was switching from a blank inventory slot to an item. Not sure why. I did not have a shotgun in inventory when the first one happened, I thought to try that once it switched over to something about punches.

Developer

I think it was just a corrupt build. I can't seem to reproduce it. I just uploaded a patch, see if it is still buggy.

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The pause/"are you sure you want to quit" screen isn't transparent anymore (all black background) and time still keeps moving foward (if that is important to you). It also works the way it is supposed to in the player upgrades menu, this may or may not be a corrupted load because I updated it from the last alpha, but I don't think that would cause it.

EDIT: it's also non-transparent on the world map

Developer

I noticed that too. It only happens when you are playing in full screen. Odd. I'll look into it, because I will probably redo that whole object/function to also pause the game :)

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i cant add any thing to buy or sell

Developer

This might be a silly question. Do you have anything to sell or any money to buy?

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Sorry i was really dumb and put the stuff i wanted to sell in buy and the stuff i wanted to buy in sell

Developer

lol glad you figured it out :)

Developer

I suppose I should make them more distinct. If you made that error others could.

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You can use the f11 and f12 buttons on the title screen and not be able to click play (because of zooming in and out kinda breaks and leaves you in the top corner)

(this is a problem in both fullscreen and windowed)

Developer

lol even forgot I added the zoom :)

Developer

Found another bug. If you leave the game when it is night the menu will be night too.

Developer

I fixed this

First time playing. Cannot leave the starting area, presented with the following error log:


___________________________________________
############################################################################################
FATAL ERROR in
action number 1
of Create Event
for object obj_prefab_loader:

STRING argument is unset
############################################################################################
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
called from - gml_Object_obj_prefab_loader_Create_0 (line 18)
called from - gml_Object_obj_resource_generator_0_Alarm_1 (line 3)

Developer

Is this in the prefab or the actual game

Developer

Found it. Will update soon.

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Sorry for the late reply! Power was out all day. Thank you for looking into it <3

Getting a blank white screen sometimes that crashes the game. No accompanying error message. Has happened several times today, first time booting up the game since that last post.

Developer

Odd. I just published an update.

I've been playing for about 8 hours now and I seem to have gotten stuck. I accidentally opened the dog house interface while trying to break a tumbleweed, but then the interface disappeared and I couldn't move my character. I could still break things around me and hit things, but I couldn't move. I relogged but now I'm stuck next to my bed unable to move still.

Developer

did you restart the game? Or maybe try to break the bed?

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Breaking the bed worked, thanks!

Developer

I'll put in the new build that beds can be walked through.

Developer

Or press enter that might work. or esc?

Help me . I can't download the game somehow. It's strange, I got lots of storage space in my laptop it still not downloading.

Developer

What is happening? Is the download hanging?

no. it just says that it's "download failed" and after a few attempts it says "forbidden". Also sometimes when it's finished it declines but it says "virus scan failed". I really can't download version 128 and it sucks.

Developer

sounds like it could be your anti virus software

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Finally downloaded the game. I downloaded it through the Itch.io app.

Hey  void, v 5.6 runs at insanely high speeds. Its as if everything is on 10x speed.

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