Steam Community Update 13 July 2022: Plants and Fruit
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/975370/view/3365894791522358421Full text:
Hello!
Carolyn has completed the update of the interface art and icons and has moved on to the next set of updates: vegetation! Here is where we are at so far with aboveground trees:
![](https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans//34693670/f9eabbf0697d0466163cae5d2c379303b7e85b3c.png)
Flowers! These are apple, peach, and sand pear trees.
![](https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans//34693670/0d78691854bbf2ae02671f0f70fa85c83d15bfb4.png)
And their fruit! Along with some smaller bayberry clusters over on the right that didn't have visible flowers.
![](https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans//34693670/be8a5b588cbbad21f9496b69c7bea25f72c48755.png)
In autumn, the leaves begin to turn...
![](https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans//34693670/62ddc35b8fad2d8dd704dcb195d8b75d7c39d9bf.png)
Achieving a rich autumnal glow...
![](https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans//34693670/4b14aa16882928b92ebc09aeca96d8ea2534183f.png)
And then ready to fall! We have yet to do the falling leaves animation (it has a very crappy placeholder drawn by me right now ha ha), but we'll be there soon. If you look closely, you'll see a few leaves pointing the wrong way, or branches connecting to nothing - those were my fault and we're fixing them up! Some of it also comes from limitations of the system. But for a tile-based system, where the exact tiles matter (dwarves can only scurry up into the thicker branches when treed by wild beasts), I think this looks great!
Of course, your dwarves don't have to embark in the temperate zone with the four seasons (despite the text at the top!):
![](https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans//34693670/5e24b70b1beb027b70bd6f102670b2b6245d35cd.png)
In this screenshot alone, we have round limes, guavas, coffee berries, carambolas, kapok fruit, avocados, bitter oranges, cashew apples, pomegranates, papayas, citrons, rambutans, lychees, custard-apples, and durians. There are three images for fruit right now, based on size and recolored. This is a candidate for improvement of course.
![](https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans//34693670/2860b0b355842f1163d393acf81da60cea768344.png)
And here they are in flower.
-Tarn