Steam Summer sale lasts for a few days more, so we encourage all the new adventurers to take this advantage of entering into UnReal World with a discounted price. Feel warmly welcomed! The summer and nightless nights in real world do continue for good while longer and although it's been less attractive to sweat inside the development chambers we'll hereby bring you a little summary summary about the ongoing development stuff. And hey, let's add a few real world summer photos at the end of this post as well, shall we? So, a brief summery summary from the development chambers goes as follows:

Shingles

A new light source is coming up as we'll be adding shingles to the game. A shingle, or päre (in finnish), is a thin oblong piece of pine wood which were burnt to produce light - especially for lighting up houses during the dark time of the year. Shingles are lit by using [a]pply command. Once a shingle is burning you can drop and set it wherever the light is needed, or carry it with you. Traditionally shingles were burnt in a specific stand that kept them in a good angle for proper burning, but in the game dropped burning shingles are imagined to be inserted between the wall logs or set firmly in place by some other means.

Here's a shingle in a traditional shingle stand. In the game a stand isn't needed, but here you'll get a picture of the item in question. One shingle burns for about 30 minutes in the game so for continuous lighting a new one needs to be lit before the previous one fades out. This sort of shingle replacement is done automatically if your character is located beside the burning shingle and there's a stack of new shingles nearby on the ground. You character then automatically replaces and lights a new shingle when necessary, and you don't need to worry about maintaining the lighting even if the task you were doing would take a long time.

Here a cabin is lighted up by two shingles burning in place. There's also a stack of shingles on the ground and if the character remains beside it a new shingle is automatically lit when the previous one fades out. Shingles can be crafted by the player character, and they may be needed in quite amounts during the dark season. An axe and a knife and suitable block of wood are needed for splitting the shingles. The preferred tree species is pine so our shingle splitting requirements will look like this.

Here our character has felled big spruce, pine and birch trees and they appear on the ground like this.

Pausable crafting

The pausable crafting transition naturally continues and is considered and prioritized as the main sector of work until all the crafts are prone to pausable mechanics. It won't be yet completed with the next release, but we'll be closer to the goal with every patch. When going through all the item definitions the bigger and lesser chances to some crafting recipes will follow. For example, as we're now getting shingles the concept and crafting of torches is being re-considered. All the crafts and their requirements are prone to grow a little more complex and comprehensive as we advance.