Hey Bearded man! Thanks for inviting me to the closed beta. I've only had time to have two runs so far...The first time, I found lots of plant life off the bat, realized stones and branches were near the water and got eaten by a yellow ant eater thing. I noticed, when I pick up an item, the little popup on the right is very quick to disappear and I almost miss it. I picked things up out of order than what the little helper popup was telling me (Find a stone, Find a branch, etc.) It doesn't seem to progress to the next hint even though I may have already done what it's asking me to find or craft.

My second run, I tried to find items in the order the hints were telling me but soon realized I could not find ANY hemp. I'm not sure if this was a glitch or if maybe they are supposed to be rare and only spawn in specific areas, but I ran until I perished from cold and did not find a single hemp plant to make cordage.

I also noticed, these mobs, the ant eater yellow beetle guys and occasionally the Ant looking mobs, were randomly jumping up in the air/twisting around mid air at random, more often  when I looked at them. Soon after I took the screenshot, 2 began to come straight for me from the distance shown in the image.

Not sure if this is much help, but just my thoughts so far. :)

-elizrawr

So i did a quick play through as i'm wanting to get a little familair with the game before i streamed it.  just at few things i've noticed.

• There is no UI to provide information to the player.  health/stamnia/  the hotbar is nice but it would also be nice to be able to see it on screen so we know what we have in what areas.. It would also be nice to be able to drag an item to the hotbar to assign it to a specific spot to allow us to choose the order that it goes into
• Bamboo.  I hit every tree and plant i could find and couldn't locate any bamboo, maybe it's just me being dumb or completely missing it but it made me think, a glossery would be nice with a picture of what i'm looking for to kind of match it up, just an idea.
• I had some issues getting out of water, maybe its intended, wasn't a big issue but seemed like the the chararacter kept colliding with the water not allowing me to get out.  
• Not certain if its intended, but there is no punch option? i play a lot of survival games, usually you can punch things straight out of the gate.  as a way of collecting or defending yourself, you can't do anything without a tool or weapon in your hand. 

Just a few ideas. Also do you have a discord set up for this yet? it would be a good idea i think for realtime feedback and to start building your playerbase. 

I'll be streaming this in the next few days.  So i'll most likely have a load of feedback after that. 

Hi. Just a very first impression. I played some, died 2 times. I like the visuals and want to continue exploring the game itself. However, one thing is holding me back. The music. It is nice and fitting to Windstone, but it is playing constantly and that is driving me completely nuts. It's not only in this game, I always turn music down in any game. So I hope you consider putting in an option to turn the music volume down and even off. That would be so nice! :-)

The bow is extremely hard to use effectively. I think I only hit once when I was almost right next to a formican (which then killed me, but hey, it happens.) It would be helpful if I could see the arrows in flight so I can see if I'm shooting to high or too low without having to run over to the arrow and guess where my target was. 

Some way to lock my buildings in place would be great too, I keep grabbing the walls and floor by accident when I'm moving other things around. And sometimes it seems a bit touchy for getting things just the way I want them... Alternatively, a pre-built home option would be pretty good too. Cost a lot of resources but it has everything inside it all ready to go. Something along the lines of  the huts I found in the map, that have the fire pits and things but can't be moved or altered.

Will there be farming down the road? And do resources grow back? 

Food scarcity is a real pain... I had no idea that the gourds and stuff don't respawn. The only thing I can kill without being killed is the Ostri. Forget the antelope! Their hitbox is too small and I'm 58 years old with poor eyesight ...I can't see the arrows even with the buff. The only way I could kill one was to chase him into the water and hit him with my sword. I barely had enough food for myself, mostly gourds and Chanterelles and then the dragonling wouldn't eat anything but raw meat. So, I guess he died while I was TRYING to hunt antelope.  I love this game but I hate the food scarcity! Also, I hate the "Moddeled" thing cause it makes me die for no good reason. Like needing to build a fire but being too moddeled to build it. That's just stupid. I get it! Mental health but being crazy in RL won't kill you. And then I have this coat thing that's supposed to keep me warm right? But it doesn't and I get moddeled and don't even know it  because that stat doesn't even show until you open your inventory. There I was well fed with full stamina and rested but dying because I was moddeled.  This game will be short lived because of the food scarcity. No food means you die! Hunting OP mobs means you die! Hunting antelope that won't let you get near enough to shoot them means you die! Antelope that run so fast you can never catch up to them means you die! With all this dying there is no chance to survive. With Jumping Formicans and Tardigrades there is no safe pearch from which to shoot them and ranged weapons are pointless because no matter what you die! As I said I really love this game but I hate dying without a choice. The way you have it setup we have no choice but to die. So now that my dragonling is dead [must be because he was gone when I returned.] what comes next? Do I go back up and get another egg or is it just a one time deal? Ideally, I wouldn't hatch the thing until I have a ton of meat but wait that won't work either because it will spoil... You should rename the game "Die! Die and Die again!" because in the end there are no survivors.

thanks a lot for the info  Dev  : ).  any chance you can fix it so when i turn the music off it stays off? i turn it off then it get daylight or dark it comes back on. i have to keep going in turn it on then save the settings  then turn it off then save the settings again. your game is fun for sure . once we can grow food the trees grow back will make it even better. 

so its free but i cant dl it? 

I've seen GameEdged play The Long Dark in his YouTube LP series and I'm not a big fan of it. To me making things unecessarily hard just for the sake of making it hard is BS. This whole muddled effect is unfairly difficult to manage! The stat is hidden in the inventory when it should be visible at all times as it seems to be the most important stat that needs to be watched at all times. IRL if I get "Muddled" it won't kill me, but in this game even if I have a fire going and food to cook it won't let me cook it to save my life... literally! Muddled shouldn't be anthing but a dire warning. But you've introduced a stat that wouldn't exist at all under any other circumstances in real life or otherwise just by making it something that interferes with everday ordinary tasks and makes them deadly. One minute I'm fine and the next I'm muddled and not just a little muddled either. I love this game but I hate the muddled effect. If I understand it correctly, it's when you haven't had enough rest seeing that the opposite of muddled is Lucid [which is being able to think straight and concentrate.] but being too cold wouldn't have anything to do with that nether would being a little hungry.  Still if I get cold or hungry or thirsty I get muddled even if I am fully rested. This is BS!!

Even if I find the medicinal herbs or Chanterelles to cure my Muddled effect I can't eat if I'm not hungry! But in IRL if I'm not well I can take my medicine on a full stomache can't I?

Just briefly skimming through here, I didn't see my issue posted. I am trying to figure out how to use the mortar and pestal. When I click "crush herb" nothing happens.  I'm assuming I need specific ones? 

I, too, am having issues with the bow.  I am using the blue cap buff and can easily find my arrows, but I'm always just shy of the  mark.  Maybe make the hit box a bit bigger on the antelope? Or try some visual physics effects like the above poster, (ratgirl34), suggested to get the aim right? 

Anyway, I've only been playing for a few hours, and I am super impressed by how well the game runs considering you are doing this alone. I'm also happy to see you so actively engaged with your community! 

I'm liking this game so far, although I am still dying a bit :-P I think I have started to work out the mechanics of most of it... I got really stuck trying to work out how to build, so I thought I would pass that feedback on. I kept looking at the items and right clicking, but playing as many survival games as I do I was thinking "No, I don't want to drop the item, I want to place it!" I couldn't work out how to get it into a hot bar, or press E to use, or anything until I eventually just tried dropping it anyway.

I'm also curious, it feels like there is a weight mechanic in place, and encumberance, but I couldn't see where this was reflected or if it made you more fatigued quicker? I am always overloading myself (it is a bad habit, but hey I own it) so I am pretty sure I was encumbering myself in this also...

Great game so far though, I am by no means done playing it yet! <3

Hey Threshold Seven. I love the new mechanics in the new updates but I have some ideas and suggestions-

Dragon Teleportation- If a dragon which has been told to follow you is too far away, it teleports to you.

Backpack- Increases weight limit (double?). Perhaps adds more inventory too.

Mountain steps- To get to the green dragon egg on the island there is a lot of running at a slope and spamming c+space. Perhaps also add bridges and such in the jungle mountains as It  just get plain annoying before you get a dragon (that's if you don't die from fall damage before you get it) 

Muddled- I have died way to many times because I couldn't craft life saving items when I have the materials. Way too many. Please consider changing how it works or removing the function altogether.

Fire- The fire ring and pit are a little sketchy, its hard to tell if it is inside the "extended life" hitbox and it doesn't register a lot of the time. Not a huge issue but one to look into.

Temples- It might a good idea to have wall mounted torches which could be lit with a lit handheld torch, it might just make it a little disorientating which would be better. 

Thank you for being so dedicated with improving Windstone and for listening to the fanbase! I believe this game will go very far if development continues.

I look forward to hear your thoughts on my ideas, goodbye =)

its_me_

Also- Dev console and commands? =)

So far I love the game and everything about it, but there are a few things that I think should be changed because they may improve my play time. My main concern is that when I die, I only have the option to return to the main menu, when I feel like I should be able to just load a save or respawn. Because of the main menu and my computer is not altogether that great, it takes multiple minutes just to get back into playing and often I just quit after dying. If you could add some options that allowed for what I said above, that would be much easier. Thank you!

Also, will there be a building system coming, where you can place cots and foundations and such where you want them instead of just dropping them and then moving them? Such as where the wall would auto connect to the foundation? This would help greatly as I am having some struggles with building. Thank you!

Hi Threshold, I'm back =) Just wondering how XP and levels are calculated.

When you start a new save, xp is 0 and does it always increase or reset to 0 every level?