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[darklord92]

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 Today I allowed certain sites to move away from their strict preset building types a bit, with goblins currently being able to alter sites that they are occupying. Trenches and small towers can now pop up in human villages, elf sites and dwarf hill sites that have been taken after some time passes. This can happen after a site is taken in play or from a site taken during world generation. They don't build up the sites while their maps are loaded, so it'll happen between games or when you are a few world map tiles away, until I figure that part out (not for this release). Overall, it is baby steps toward what we'll get to over time, and ideally we'd get around to having sites grown up in stages over time and remove the concept of sites having static overall types altogether, but for now I'm still toying around with ways of storing these changes that are compatible with building destruction and other site changes. I wanted to make sure to at least try something with construction so that site destruction didn't take over the framework.

I never put too much thought into this dev-log from a little while back, but it occurred to me today we can see the entire history of a town just from walking through it. From the original human structures, to the massive goblin tower from when it was taken over to finally the various magically grown tree structures from the current Elf rulers that stole it from the goblins only a decade back. Entire history of a region spread out like rings of a tree, likely the inner most buildings being the original. Near the center a ring of still ruined homes possibly overgrown by now, with various pits and trenches, and the location of the main dark tower with recent battle damage, before finally around the outer edge the magical tree structures.


Is any one else this excited to see all that history put to use, instead of just a blurb in legends mode of "was taken over by the loins of cloth in the year 44"?

[Jacob/Lee]

Yeah, it'll be pretty cool. Towns build up and crumble back down as certain places are destroyed/abandoned by the current rulers who don't approve. Insurrections sparked by the destruction of sacred/religious places, goblins vacating all the shops in their looting and replacing the buildings with their own stuff, the dwarves incorporating mechanical bits into the existing buildings... The possibilities are many.

I wonder how necromancers would remodel the place once they purge the previous inhabitants.