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r22.5 WIP – LUA Modding

r22.5 WIP is now released to WIP backers via the Researcher Intranet.  It contains the basics for LUA modding.  It’s not full featured enough for any serious modding, as there’s only a handful of exposed functions, but it lets you poke around with the new modding tools and create code mods for the game.

To get started, try a sample mod or learn about how to create a new entity.

Also, editing on the wiki was broken for some amount of time, but it’s fixed now.  Sorry if you ran into that issue!

Nov 1 Patron Access

Patreon was super fast this month with the charge cycle.  If you backed on Patreon for the billing cycle on Nov 1st, that’s now been processed and you should have access to your builds in the employee intranet.  Thanks for your support!

There are a couple users who had their cards declined — if you manage to work that out with Patreon and get a successful charge, give me an e-mail, discord PM or Patreon note.

WIP on Mods

Here’s a little demo of the upcoming modding system, still very much a work in progress.  In it, you can see me exploring the possibility of mods that include… custom code!  This feature would allow modders to have a great deal of power and flexibility on what custom items (and eventually transformations) would be able to do, beyond the current limitations of mere text & variable substitution.

Patreon Access

If you backed the project on Patreon before November 1st and don’t have access as of today, please send me an e-mail (the address is listed in the support category in the intranet). Everyone’s access should now be enabled, except a couple people who haven’t linked their accounts yet.

(For Patreon backers after Nov 1st, you’ll get charged on Dec 1st and receive access then (see FAQ).)

Patreon access granted (for most)

If you backed on Patreon for the billing cycle on Oct 1st, that’s now been processed and you should have access to your builds in the employee intranet.  Thanks for your support!

The caveats there are: 1) a couple people still need to link their accounts, 2) several accounts with declined cards, and 3) several accounts that are still in a processing phase.  Reminder messages have been sent to #1, I believe Patreon sends messages already for #2, and #3 should hopefully autoresolve in a few days (sorry for the delay!)