Comments for Aground

The problem is not the quality settings, but the optimization of the game. I could probably improve upon it, but the exe version is definitely faster (can be found on itch.io here: https://fancyfishgames.itch.io/aground ). The game isn't too laggy on any of the computers I've tested on, which includes a 7 year old laptop, so I haven't been too worried about optimizing.

Maybe hitting up to enter buildings would work better? I agree Z is pretty overloaded with actions.

Thanks, I'm glad you're enjoying it! That was the plan with the game, to keep unlocking new features and content, so that there was a lot more than at first appeared (even the mining, which is a core feature, isn't obvious at first).

You can move entire categories of items by selecting a tab (top left) before hitting move all. For example, you can choose the second tab (resources) to move all wood, ore, etc without taking away your food and equipment. That handles most desired locking, but an actual locking system would be more flexible.

There will be more eventually! We have a lot of ideas, and definitely check out our subreddit for updates, suggestions and comments: https://www.reddit.com/r/aground

There is no way right now, but that sounds like a pretty vital feature given that there's an upgrade limit. I'll add it to the update notes.

You can equip a weapon in your inventory, then hitting the action key will always attack until you unequip it (you won't be able to access structures, but you won't accidentally access them either).

Pancakes are the superior breakfast food. This is a fact, not my personal opinion XD.

I'm going to have to add cows and chicken, aren't I? My desire to keep the animal pen simple backfired :P . I could even add feeding of farm animals like the wyrm pen. BUT! This is a different planet... so maybe pigs lay eggs? I even have the boars drop eggs on rare occasions.

Thank you, we do our best :)

This is caused by the speech bubbles where the merchant calls out an item they want to sell to you... if you bought everything, then when it tries to get an item, there is none and it crashes. It's easy enough to fix, I'm just surprised you actually bought everything!

Weapons are equipped automatically by power (you can see the currently equipped items in the bottom right panel of the inventory screen). Weapons can be specifically equipped by selecting them in the inventory to always use that specific weapon instead of the automatically chosen one until it is unequipped (useful for non-standard weapons like Bows). But in most cases, attacking an enemy or mining will use the equipment you want it to.

When you continue a slot after sailing the boat, it should put you right next to the boat right before you sailed, and you can continue to explore the starting island (but the second island is not done yet). Is this not what happens for you?

The armor equipped is shown in the bottom-right of the inventory. It automatically equips the strongest one, but they don't stack (so if you have 3 steel armor and 1 iron armor, you're really just wearing 1 steel armor and carrying the rest).

The farmer actually comments on that at one point. I didn't particularly want to add different farm animals though, so Pigs give you everything :P.

Steel Armor is strong enough that boars can't even hurt you if they hit you (it'll show blocked). Obviously, killing boars in one hit is great, but never taking damage means it doesn't matter how many hits your weapon takes. Armor will definitely be more valuable for stronger enemies... maybe I should increase their defense since they are expensive in terms of bars. Endurance potions reduce the stamina cost for movement, allowing you to go further. I wonder if I should make a wiki for this info, or try to squeeze it in game somewhere. Yes, Diamonds are currently useless... I did consider adding diamond armor though! I'll definitely be doing more with the useless items (especially quartz) in the next island. Thanks for all the feedback - I'll definitely improve and tweak the difficulty of the first island, and there'll be a lot more to come when we add the second island!

You can move all by category by selecting a tab (top-left) then hitting move all, avoiding moving equipment.

There's no specific date for the next update, but it'll have about as much content as there currently is with many new features, with higher tech upgrades.

Nothing yet. We have lots of plans for them though - including allowing them to fight for you, flying on them and even using their fire to power a steam engine.

You will need to stock up on supplies before sailing once we add the next island (which is why it saves before sailing in the current version). More combat or maybe dungeons where you can't restock until you complete them could make food more interesting too. Thanks for the feedback!

Feeding the wyrms does something. I think I need to edit it to show what food they need to eat, but for now, I can tell you it is Steak.

Try closing all other tabs, as those can be big resource hogs. If it's still slow, you might want to try the exe version here: https://fancyfishgames.itch.io/aground

Decreases the stamina cost for movement, which lets you travel further without eating anything.

That was a bug. Just uploaded a fix, you may need to shift+refresh to reload the new version. Sorry about that!

That's a good idea. I avoided auto-eating in general, as it might choose food that you didn't want it to, but anything is better than dying, so might as well auto eat any health-related food before health goes to 0.