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Tutorial TutorialCooking, version 2
Overcooked, Overhauled!
Announcing some BIG changes to Cooking! We heard your feedback and made some major changes to the Cooking feature to improve clarity and fun. Let me go over each change one by one:
1. Tools are now layered correctly! We realized AFTER y’all started playtesting that the dang layers ordered based on when you equipped each Tool, instead of being manually set to the appropriate layer. They SHOULD all be fixed now! No more squashed Kith toes! Please clear your cache and reload the Cooking page, and let me know if your Kitchen has any Tools that are still layering incorrectly.
2. Recipes no longer have Level restrictions. As long as you meet the requirements (the proper ingredients, Tools, and the Recipe itself) you can make it! The items were divided up so arbitrarily that we realized it was an unnecessary aspect of the craft. It’s already plenty hard to collect the Recipes and Tools to learn how to make something, and then you have to pick up new ingredients each time you make it. Hopefully this helps make Cooking way more enjoyable! No more waiting on levels!
3. So what do levels do now? We’ve added cumulative Kith reward bonuses to levels! For every Recipe you make, your Kith earns attribute points. As you skill up, those attribute points increase based on your level! So, a newbie chef can teach their Kith little by little, while a master chef can teach their Kith at a much faster rate.
4. Recipes are now sorted differently. We’ve changed the tabs around so that by default, you always see your Known Recipes first on the page, and you can click through the tabs to see Unknown/All. Any Unknown Recipes are now grayed out so you can tell at a glance what you’ve still got left to collect. You can also view the requirements of Unknown Recipes on the Cooking page, so you’ll know what to buy!
5. Recipes have different art than their products. This should help distinguish between an Apple Pie, and an Apple Pie Recipe, at a single glance rather than having to double-check the item name before you buy.
6. Pagination now works without reloading the whole page. This actually applies across the entire site! You can scroll through your Recipes, your Inventory, and even your Kith’s Profile widgets without having to reload the page each time! This should make browsing the site much easier on you and on our servers. This doesn’t apply to the Forums, since we do want those pages to reload every time.
WOW! Holy smokes, that’s a lot. Please let us know what you think! We greatly appreciate all your excellent feedback. Happy cooking! :) Read More »
Cooking
Ready those Recipes!
I’m delighted to announce that Cooking is finally here! You can access your Kitchen from the Create tab in the navigation bar. I’ll be writing up a Help page for it soon.
At the top, you’ll see your skill level, which increases with every recipe you complete! You’ll have to learn those recipes before you can make them, though, so visit Jay’s General Store to pick up your recipes anytime! (We’ll be making the recipe art different from the food later this month. Right now it’s hard to tell the difference at a glance.) Jay is also selling the tools you need to cook those recipes. Once you have a tool or recipe, you must use them in your inventory before they can be used in your kitchen!
You’ll also get to see your Active Kith cooking alongside you in the kitchen. Each personality has unique phrases, including some that only appear after cooking a recipe! Don’t worry, all but the most finicky of Kith don’t mind hanging out with you even when your tools are dirty. Each tool takes a set amount of time to be cleaned; you should see a cleaning timer beneath the kitchen which counts down ’til you can use the clean tool again to make something new. If you’re really in a rush, you can skip past cleaning by taking the rich person route and buying a clean replacement tool right away! That sure costs a lot of Shards, though…
As always, please be on the lookout for bugs or errors! We’ve scoured this feature very closely, so I doubt you’ll run into anything major, but there may be some image glitches or misspellings or something that I missed during my marathon uploading with club. Please report any technical issues in the Forum and I’ll get back to you ASAP!
For now, I’m off to enjoy a day at Otakon as a birthday present to myself! :) See you all tomorrow. Happy cookin’! Read More »
New Items: Candy!
I Want Candy
Is there anything better than candy? No, don’t answer that, I was being rhetorical. My shelves were looking bare with all the prepared foods taken down, but this gives me room to stock the Chocolate Bar, Butterscotch Candy, Rainbow Lollipop, and Bubblegum. Mmmm! Hey, I’m the owner, I’m allowed to sample the goods. Read More »
Store Changes AHOY!
Bare Shelves
Sorry to steal you thunder Andre but I need to make a quick warning to all you beautiful testers. I am about to RAVAGE the shelves of Jay's shop in preparation for us to implement some things for Cooking. I didn't want to just rip everything out without warning you all what is going on when you go looking for items. So for a bit things in the General Store will be looking a bit bare, but good things come to those who wait!
Also you might notice that many food items are going to spike in Health value, this is also to prep for cooking.
Sorry for the mess guys, but I am working to clean it up and expand everything out.
A growing pain that is a necessary evil for now. Sorry for any inconveniences this causes for now! Read More »
New Items: Socks!
What’s That Smell?
So Miranda and I were having lunch together and she brought up a rather disturbing topic. Is... is it true that none of you own any socks? Like, at all? This whole time I thought the sockless look was just in right now for some reason, not that there was a severe sock drought. Well that does explain why so many of you have been burning through loafers and tennis shoes so quickly...Okay, okay, we can fix this. I'm going to put out a whole load of fresh, clean socks and then the rest of you can choose to include them in your daily wear or not. But for the sake of your shoes I hope you do consider them.
I'll be stocking Tailored Fashions with Ankle Socks and Boot Socks for your daily wear, plus warmer Knee Socks and Thigh High Socks for those of you who enjoy wearing shorts and skirts. I'll even put out those Silk Stockings I've been getting ready in case you have a nice event or presentation to give at the university.
Just, please, if you are all lacking some vital piece of clothing let me know! Next thing I am going to hear you all have had your underwear savaged by the Kith and are going commando...
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