[img]https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/10223679/67947e56c33ddc0aa02e12267ea22dc483af6141.jpg[/img] EDIT **new gameplay features NOW LIVE** Greetings island creators! A couple of months ago, we mentioned that we were working on major updates for the Island Creator - updates that would allow you to act as game designers. Go wild as we're proud to say the update is NOW LIVE! You can add non-climbable materials as well as turrets, spikes and barbed wire to your island designs, creating new platform puzzles and adventures full of dangers, challenges, and surprises for players worldwide to discover and explore. Read on for more detail. We can't wait to see your designs! WELCOME TO YOUR WORLD [b]Turrets[/b] [img]https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/10223679/80b8fe5786e0a40e140f3dd2361599d07fef1110.jpg[/img] There are a trio of different turret types that you can now place on your islands including smaller Light Turrets to bigger Explosive Turrets that'll also target ships. Protecting high value areas that are filled with loot just got tense... [img]https://giant.gfycat.com/IlliterateGratefulCaimanlizard.gif[/img] The Tether Turret is a bit different from the others: it uses a similar technology to players' grappling hooks. When it attaches to a player, it reels them in until they're close enough to be shocked and flung away! [img]https://giant.gfycat.com/FeistyShockedKinglet.gif[/img] [b]Fighting Back[/b] [img]https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/10223679/4c37ba77c73f26612cf9ee1c3a6721d1fa8ab7e5.jpg[/img] With these added threats, island creators will need to gauge the difficulty of challenge their islands now present. Within the main game there'll be multiple ways to destroy turrets, and teamwork will make the task exponentially easier, so we're adding a tester pistol to the Island Creator. Its power will be adjustable to make the task of disabling the turrets easier or harder. Players will now also have a health bar that uses the same impact resolution / fall damage and turret damage as the game, so you can really fine tune your puzzle designs. But how do you make an area truly inaccessible when everyone has a grappling hook? With non-grappable surfaces of course! [b]Unclimbable Surfaces[/b] We've included a range of building blocks that can't be grappled or climbed on, just like a ship during the effects of an atlas pulse. These will allow for more elaborate platforming puzzles. To add a little extra challenge, we've also added spikes and barbed wire to create a sense of danger for any potential explorers. [img]https://giant.gfycat.com/ColorlessLivelyBrant.gif[/img] Bringing all of these things together, we have a video that shows how all these mechanics could affect exploring islands in Worlds Adrift in the future: https://youtu.be/aYbgbj2Ovrg Note this gauntlet's super high difficulty - you can thank a certain sadistic island builder for this one! It will ultimately be up to the island builders to decide on the difficulty of their island dungeon. On our side, we'll tweak the looting system to accommodate this new addition to the game: If a container or chest isn't looted for a certain period of time (due to the challenge of the dungeon, the cleverly hidden location of the chest, or the difficulty of reaching its island) the chest will accumulate better rewards, awaiting a plucky adventurer to claim as their own! [b]This Island Creator update is Phase 1 of a trio of updates for the closed beta of Worlds Adrift to be rolled out this year, with a new lost civilization waiting to be discovered, and even more ways for players to test the skill and ingenuity of their peers with tricks being added to the world building tool in phases 2 and 3.[/b] We're looking forward to seeing everybody go wild with this whole new aspect of the game!