Life of an NPC news & patch notes

Text generation

Updated text gen models to newer/better versions. This seemed to automatically make the game significantly more coherent and interesting than before, and may have reduced or eliminated the cases of NPCs starving to death with no in-game logical fix needed at all for this issue. In my test playthrough, when I set an NPC's hunger bar to 1, they immediately started looking for food, successfully replenishing their hunger bar.

Image generation

Updated image generation models to newer versions and added free tier background removal allowance of 100 per day (the game will still use image magick background removal if that fails).

Misc

• Added console commands to set health, hunger, or mood bar values
• Fixed calamity bug which caused the calamity events to error out when spawning an NPC

Fixed world gen rate limiting issue for those using official cloud services Added info text in loading progress bar for how many world generation tasks remain

Crafting/construction overhaul

Implemented a crafting/construction system where you first specify the blueprint, then need to bring enough items to the blueprint to finish it. For now, only 2 out of 3 items are required to finish a craft/construction. To start crafting a new item, click on the static object you wish to use as the crafting station, click the craft button, and specify the desired item name. The AI will run a plausibility check for the crafting station, a research check, and a tech levels check. To start crafting a new static object, click the new blue static object icon. The AI will run a research check and tech levels check. NPCs may also occasionally start new crafts/constructions as well as bring items to existing blueprints.

Research

Each world now comes pregenerated with a research tree. The research items are used as checks for whether you’re allowed to create a new item or static objects. You can activate up to 3 research items at once. Research progresses whenever an NPC does an action which the AI deems was related to the research.

Tech Levels

Each world now comes pregenerated with about 10 tech levels. Your tech level is determined by your existing static objects. You can gradually tech up by building more and more advanced objects.

Sandbox Mode

Sandbox mode can be toggled on or off at will. When toggled on, it allows free-form creation of items (via the plus button in an NPC inventory), static objects, and NPCs without plausibility checks.

Misc

• Added a console for cheat codes related to research
• Fixed bug where static object displayed survival bars

Notice: Old saves may break as a result of this update. If you must play an old save which is broken, please switch to the "Older Build" beta channel in the Steam settings for this game.

Gameplay

• Added create new NPC view, subject to the maximum NPCs limit (currently 7)
• Added logic to spawn initial NPCs with initial items
• Added the following functionality for clicked NPC: Delete long-term memory, delete short-term memory, delete agenda item, add/remove/edit item, regenerate item image, remove status effect, add short-term memory, add new prioritized task, rewrite entire agenda with instructions
• Added ability for player to use in-place action when overriding an NPC’s current action
• Added local image gen support for ComfyUI and a1111 API

UI

• Fixed emojis sometimes not showing correctly
• Changed the name of “OpenAI API” to “Local/Custom (OpenAI API)” because some people didn’t know what it was
• Added camera panning with the mouse when holding right click
• Added mouse zooming logic which anchors the zoom to the point of the cursor
• Added tips as clickable question marks in the log, clicked NPC view, and create NPC / Static Object views
• Fixed clicked NPC view not refreshing when survival bar value changed
• Added ability for player to edit location name

Misc

• Added tolerance for parsing corpses in case AI specifies a dead NPC without using the word corpse
• Added tolerance for parsing quoted names in case AI specifies an NPC by their nickname
• Fixed OpenAI API error when auto-generating world background