_You must be one of the new conscripts from Strittus. How do I know? You look greener than spider ****. Listen, no one needs a degree in Arcane Arts to see half a forest is missing with an Everstone at the center. Now I’ve got Throne Watchers and those ****ing southern rangers taking over investigations. If it was up to me there would be legions sent to every corner of the world to tear down those towers._ General Morrith, Commander of the Third Hand
Woo hoo! I own a tavern! The best place to hear the most interesting stories! Hopefully I haven't said this trivia before, but the reason most buildings were at least two stories tall in the Medieval era is that the second floor was the actual living space and the ground floor was the business (a tavern in this case). This extended to free farmers, who's ground floor was a mixture of entrance hall/porch, storage area, and (winter) barn. Villains/serfs tended to not build big enough houses to pull that trick off, so they just had to deal with Bessy lowing right next to them at night. lol And I love the way you ended this episode. You forget how cool things look from the ground as compared to a bird's eye view.
I'm a sucker for cinematic shots. Taking screenshots for thumbnails has become one of my favorite things in this series. Of the 7 episodes published there are about another 20 pictures I didn't use for thumbnails. The ground level is important as that's what the player would see. Also part of why I started this episode as a PC.
So I have binged every episode of this and I must say, this is one of my favourite Series on RUclips right now. You have got me checking back daily for new uploads! Excited to see what the future holds for Shatter Stone!
That is even more of a complement than you may realize. It's great to hear people are really enjoying this series. I do my best to release one video a week, but sometimes life is life. As long as I'm having fun and can fit it into one of my days, I will gladly keep it going. Cheers!
That is definitely a future plan. Been looking at other regions to decide which looks to have the best economic and strategic position. I want it's location to be "logical" even if the design is "fantastic"
So a couple little tips and tricks and such - Players/NPC's can walk through basically all scenery, except walls. So if you want to funnel people into an area. you can be cheeky and build a small wooden fence, then cover it with rocks or other things to hide it away, and make your own kind of walls. - Players don't exclusively follow paths, but it generally is used to guide em around. - If you have more fluff i feel like it changes how they move around the world, they use less paths - You can hide the modular buildings inside scenery objects as well and sort of cheat players going to an area, make a small 1 block modular building and hide it. (The thorny area in the start is a great example if you want people to come back later from a higher level zone.) - Making a test world outside of this in sandbox mode and just playing around with things outside of the series can help a lot as well to discover other little things things you can do, like experimenting with how quests chain without ruining what you have going on here. - I know you said in an earlier episode you don't want to cheese leveling up the game when you hit the X.X.100 versions to get more stat points, but it goes up by 1 extra every time. So like 1.1.100 was the first level... 2.2.100 > 3.0.0 / 3.3.100 > 4.0.0 /4.4.100 > 5.0.0, etc etc so it takes more and more the higher it goes. so bumping up once you hit the x.x.100 isn't the worst thing in the world. There's probably more things i can think of but all in all, was watching some other playthroughs of this and stumbled across this one, probably my favourite so far cause of how much world detail you're putting in to it, reminds me of how i play it myself :D - Keep up the amazing work~! (#8 Came out as I was writing this so idk if anything is addressed in that, but yeah :D)
You make some great points, and I do have another "test kitchen" game where I mess around with things. Hiding walls inside scenery to prevent wandering sounds like it may be useful. #8 just kind of goes back into ground floor zone building with a brand new area. Edit: spelling
This convinced me to get back into playing this game again. Definitely love the game. But man I wish I had your patience with decorating. Your town and lore are amazing. I’ve got mine centered around a theme of fighting the undead but I can’t expand it far enough for 20 level zones lol. I will say your game lore has me super fascinated. Everstones causing destruction, NPCs unsure as to why, various factions moving to action… it sounds like a really cool MMO! Just needs an Arcane Knight class and I’d definitely buy a sub to this game!
To fix the inn problem you could probably have the start of each area send you to a new inn. So starters are all in the coastal in but once they get past the commander and start the baron they stay in the servants quarters then when they go to the spire they stay at the inn over there. This still has the problem of the last inn filling and the only solution would be multiple objectives so it’s “stay at an inn neat here” but idk if that is possible without mods .
I love what you do with the map and how you really flush it out. I do think those trees are too big and goofy tho. The game loves to make everything too big.
I'm currently binge watching :) It is really entertaining and I enjoy the lore behind your world! Also - we are hours into it, yet it's still Day 2 since Shatter Stone launched... Nice :)
You have amazing worldbuilding skills. You could definitely make a living with this somehow. Do you have other playthroughs with similar freedom and creativity? Just now found your channel.
This is probably the most free let's play in that realm. Glad you're enjoying it and thanks for the compliments. I enjoy the world building too so it's great to see the appreciation. It's really opened up my love for creative writing so who knows where that might leave 😀
Great, Brightwood is completed and the MMO thrives, might want to hire some more game devs though, bugs are starting to pop up more frequently, Or maybe its because you changing and adding more quest and players thinking its a bug?
Currently watching the series i love the world building if i see anything that might help you in a episode i will tell you im sorry if these informations already got told or you discovered themselves
you spelled bandit wrong. and also left the last quest giver by the skeletons as find me a moldy plum. so good luck with that. but you should really proofread your quest titles better in future episodes so you don't have players wondering why they are bringing people moldy fruit as part of a storyline in this game...lol as funny as that would be.
@@ThatOnePlaythrough like you probably know what i mean, default names in some quests what dont seem to fit them but ohh well, your world your choise! As you see i only began watching this cool series 😃
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_You must be one of the new conscripts from Strittus. How do I know? You look greener than spider ****. Listen, no one needs a degree in Arcane Arts to see half a forest is missing with an Everstone at the center. Now I’ve got Throne Watchers and those ****ing southern rangers taking over investigations. If it was up to me there would be legions sent to every corner of the world to tear down those towers._
General Morrith, Commander of the Third Hand
Make more of these snipbits please this is a great series and i love the detail your putting into the lore
shame we can't place the lore bits inside of the game ourselves.
@@worldweaver2691 they're was actually an update to the UI that added flavor text to buildings which is at least something.
@@ThatOnePlaythrough yay. one step closer to true custom quests/
its really funny how Horatio's generated quests were "bring me beer" and "Locate even more beer"
These are some really alcoholic bandits
Woo hoo! I own a tavern! The best place to hear the most interesting stories!
Hopefully I haven't said this trivia before, but the reason most buildings were at least two stories tall in the Medieval era is that the second floor was the actual living space and the ground floor was the business (a tavern in this case). This extended to free farmers, who's ground floor was a mixture of entrance hall/porch, storage area, and (winter) barn. Villains/serfs tended to not build big enough houses to pull that trick off, so they just had to deal with Bessy lowing right next to them at night. lol
And I love the way you ended this episode. You forget how cool things look from the ground as compared to a bird's eye view.
I'm a sucker for cinematic shots. Taking screenshots for thumbnails has become one of my favorite things in this series. Of the 7 episodes published there are about another 20 pictures I didn't use for thumbnails. The ground level is important as that's what the player would see. Also part of why I started this episode as a PC.
Cool
Additionally, there were often many overhangs (more common in Tudor style homes) as land purchase/tax only included the ground floor's area.
So I have binged every episode of this and I must say, this is one of my favourite Series on RUclips right now. You have got me checking back daily for new uploads!
Excited to see what the future holds for Shatter Stone!
That is even more of a complement than you may realize. It's great to hear people are really enjoying this series. I do my best to release one video a week, but sometimes life is life. As long as I'm having fun and can fit it into one of my days, I will gladly keep it going. Cheers!
First region looking real high quality, makes me wanna play Shatter Stone myself.
I’ve been looking for someone actively play this game and I love how you explain the story as you build everything. Subscribing for sure!
Glad you enjoyed! Welcome!
You don't have to build this region yet. But i think a big city region, like only city could be nice. With some parks maybe but one big city
That is definitely a future plan. Been looking at other regions to decide which looks to have the best economic and strategic position. I want it's location to be "logical" even if the design is "fantastic"
So a couple little tips and tricks and such
- Players/NPC's can walk through basically all scenery, except walls. So if you want to funnel people into an area. you can be cheeky and build a small wooden fence, then cover it with rocks or other things to hide it away, and make your own kind of walls.
- Players don't exclusively follow paths, but it generally is used to guide em around. - If you have more fluff i feel like it changes how they move around the world, they use less paths
- You can hide the modular buildings inside scenery objects as well and sort of cheat players going to an area, make a small 1 block modular building and hide it. (The thorny area in the start is a great example if you want people to come back later from a higher level zone.)
- Making a test world outside of this in sandbox mode and just playing around with things outside of the series can help a lot as well to discover other little things things you can do, like experimenting with how quests chain without ruining what you have going on here.
- I know you said in an earlier episode you don't want to cheese leveling up the game when you hit the X.X.100 versions to get more stat points, but it goes up by 1 extra every time. So like 1.1.100 was the first level... 2.2.100 > 3.0.0 / 3.3.100 > 4.0.0 /4.4.100 > 5.0.0, etc etc so it takes more and more the higher it goes. so bumping up once you hit the x.x.100 isn't the worst thing in the world.
There's probably more things i can think of but all in all, was watching some other playthroughs of this and stumbled across this one, probably my favourite so far cause of how much world detail you're putting in to it, reminds me of how i play it myself :D - Keep up the amazing work~!
(#8 Came out as I was writing this so idk if anything is addressed in that, but yeah :D)
You make some great points, and I do have another "test kitchen" game where I mess around with things. Hiding walls inside scenery to prevent wandering sounds like it may be useful. #8 just kind of goes back into ground floor zone building with a brand new area.
Edit: spelling
Your world is so beautiful! I'm loving this series so much
This convinced me to get back into playing this game again. Definitely love the game.
But man I wish I had your patience with decorating. Your town and lore are amazing. I’ve got mine centered around a theme of fighting the undead but I can’t expand it far enough for 20 level zones lol. I will say your game lore has me super fascinated. Everstones causing destruction, NPCs unsure as to why, various factions moving to action… it sounds like a really cool MMO! Just needs an Arcane Knight class and I’d definitely buy a sub to this game!
It's not a player class but the Throne Watchers will be up your alley then.
To fix the inn problem you could probably have the start of each area send you to a new inn. So starters are all in the coastal in but once they get past the commander and start the baron they stay in the servants quarters then when they go to the spire they stay at the inn over there.
This still has the problem of the last inn filling and the only solution would be multiple objectives so it’s “stay at an inn neat here” but idk if that is possible without mods .
We get around this problem in a later episode
I love what you do with the map and how you really flush it out. I do think those trees are too big and goofy tho. The game loves to make everything too big.
Yeah it has pros and cons. On one side giant trees have that kind of high fantasy vibe. Just depends on how it is used.
Love this series, just started watching yesterday and already here right now
I'm currently binge watching :) It is really entertaining and I enjoy the lore behind your world!
Also - we are hours into it, yet it's still Day 2 since Shatter Stone launched... Nice :)
Glad you are enjoying so far
It's amazing you detailing everything.
That trick you used we the quest givers is pretty cool!
I bought this game to play alongside you . Legit had no clue you could path through the barrier mountains 😅
You have amazing worldbuilding skills. You could definitely make a living with this somehow.
Do you have other playthroughs with similar freedom and creativity? Just now found your channel.
This is probably the most free let's play in that realm. Glad you're enjoying it and thanks for the compliments. I enjoy the world building too so it's great to see the appreciation. It's really opened up my love for creative writing so who knows where that might leave 😀
This is awesome. I’m probably gonna get the game soon
Looks awesome.
Thanks Tom!
Great, Brightwood is completed and the MMO thrives, might want to hire some more game devs though, bugs are starting to pop up more frequently, Or maybe its because you changing and adding more quest and players thinking its a bug?
I know it's been over a year since this came out, but you forgot about the Kabolds quest line. It's completely separate and now a side quest.
Pretty sure someone else mentioned this way back and it got changed of camera
Currently watching the series i love the world building if i see anything that might help you in a episode i will tell you im sorry if these informations already got told or you discovered themselves
Always happy to have a new adventurer join the party
Ohy i know im late but doing good im on my way through the hole lets play
You should work as an actual MMORPG quest and world designer.
Goodbye Brightwood!
I'ma year late but you never actually made the kobald area part of the quest chain. It has quests, but no one sends anyone there
I'm pretty late to this but the wizard needs a buff the ai isn't that smart to stay at a distance
Now finely done:D
you spelled bandit wrong. and also left the last quest giver by the skeletons as find me a moldy plum. so good luck with that. but you should really proofread your quest titles better in future episodes so you don't have players wondering why they are bringing people moldy fruit as part of a storyline in this game...lol as funny as that would be.
Thanks, most of these were fixed a bit ago with early comments. Always appreciated though!
Few quests arent named
What do you mean? "Find More Beer" is definitely a name.
@@ThatOnePlaythrough like you probably know what i mean, default names in some quests what dont seem to fit them but ohh well, your world your choise! As you see i only began watching this cool series 😃
😄I know, just pulling your leg. The names seem to reset if you change the destination. I believe I went back and corrected these later.
you wrote badit... instead of bandit.
That way you know it's not a goodit.