[Ongoing] Ore/Asteroid Mining

TheRiven commented 8 years ago

Goal

To make asteroids into more then just platforms of resources. They should be giant space rocks with resources inside them! To this end world gen is being altered to create rock that you will mine though to get to ore deposits that will then provide you with your resources.

Other changes will be made where necessary to allow this system to function as it should.

Progress

Stage 1 - Minable Furniture - Done & Implemented - PR #1059

This stage sets up furniture world gen and replaces the current ore inventories with ore mineing spots.
They are tied into the right click context menu to provide a way for the player to select which spots to mine and when.
This also adds the Non-Buildable tag to the game so that some furniture can be made to not appear in the furniture build list (unless in dev mode).
Stage 2 - Filling the Asteroid - Done & Implemented - PR #1226
Have asteroids be filled with "rock" walls
Have some of those walls contain Ore (currently Uranium and Iron)
Allow the player to mine through the walls
Make it so that you can mine from an adjacent tile if the object is not enterable
Add Ice as potential "Ore"
Expand to cover more possible minable inventories.
Create new Spritesheet for walls
Some sort of indication of what has been designated for mining
Current Issues/Bugs
~~Job system does not like it when you create a mining job for furniture that cannot be reached~~ No longer seems to be an issue
Mining Jobs are not assigned to the closest worker (Somewhat annoying but I think its WAD currently?)
~~Only Uranium and Iron are currently supported by this system, needs to be more generic so that other resources can be added easily~~
Does not seem to want to collect iron ore at start until you have mined some uranium.
First few mining operations try to delete the outside room
Future (not assigned to Stage) Tasks/Stages
Group select for mining jobs
Mining jobs need to take time
Sound effects?
Mining down/up
Make more use of the world gen XML?
Gas Pockets?
Other things that might appear in an asteroid?
Fog of "war"
Ore resources appear in veins formations (so some continuous blobs).. size of the blob depends on rarity of material (large iron deposits, sparse uranium, ... )
Have sprites for the walls with ore in them, possibly use as an overlay?
How it looks right now

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Tranberry commented 8 years ago

[x] Create new Spritesheet for walls

How is that going, I'm holding on to my seat in suspense.

edit: It's checked mates, :fireworks:

TheRiven commented 8 years ago

@Tranberry its currently in the er... conceptual stage :neutral_face:

Tranberry commented 8 years ago

concept like in doodle or like "I'm thinking about it"? :japanese_goblin:

kd7uiy commented 8 years ago

Ice should also be included, and in fact should likely be one of the major resources. I think in the future we will be using that to make rocket fuel, as well as water and oxygen and growing food, so I think it will be helpful to have a lot of it, plus it's realistic.

TheRiven commented 8 years ago

@kd7uiy I agree ice should be an important resource in the future, currently it does nothing but fill up space but its easy enough to add it in.

And is indeed on my list of things to do now that I have checked it.

TomMalbran commented 8 years ago

Another cool feature is to add some fog of war over the rocks like RimWorld, so that you don't know what you are mining. It makes it more interesting.

We also need an indication as to what is marked for mining.

Tritaris commented 8 years ago

hey @TheRiven I started work on setting up a new noise source for map generation getting decent results from it but its still a [WIP] you can check it out here: #1244

kd7uiy commented 8 years ago

@TomMalbran Marking what is listed for mining sounds like a great idea! My thought is that there should be a variety of rock types, so you might know that a rock will have more water, or iron, etc, but won't know for sure until you dock. If you use some kind of a sensor, you might know before then, details not yet worked out.

TheRiven commented 8 years ago

@TomMalbran Fog of war would be a nice thing to get in there later, will add it to the list. :+1: The marking idea is something I have been thinking about as well and I think I will add it to the current stage as its a real pain to test things when you can't be sure what you have actually selected

TomMalbran commented 8 years ago

@kd7uiy if We implement the Fog of War, you would know what type of rock is at the edge, sy selecting it and not what is inside. A sensor could be implemented so that we can find what is in the Fog of War before mining it.

We probably should also have different types of floors, if we make it so that there are floors under the rocks. We could also just not even have floors and you see the top of the rock from underneath floor or the empty space at the bottom floor. Since we are already floating in space it makes sense to have no floors.

dusho commented 8 years ago

task for making ore resources appear in veins formations (so some continuous blobs).. size of the blob depends on rarity of material (large iron deposits, sparse uranium, ... )

vogonistic commented 8 years ago

Loving this thread. This is awesome!

kd7uiy commented 8 years ago

I actually like the idea of not knowing exactly what the rock is that you are currently mining, although finding the surface might be pretty easy. A color could be seen by default, but no specific information unless you have a sensor of some kind.

TheRiven commented 8 years ago

Added some pictures showing the current state of the changes in #1226

Tranberry commented 8 years ago

Would a font with 'dingbats' custom made for ProjectPorcupine be useful for having symbols indicating jobs (mine here) and other things like power?

TheRiven commented 7 years ago

Have updated the pictures to the latest version and have moved the ore sprites to the future tasks list (will probably be part of a make things pretty PR later)

With that moved out all current tasks are now done, I am marking the current stage for review so people can see what they think and we can finally get some rock on these astros. 👍

Tranberry commented 7 years ago

are there three (3) tiles designated for mining in the screenshot?

TheRiven commented 7 years ago

yup

dusho commented 7 years ago

is there a reason why there is floor tile created after resources or dirt are mined? can it stay empty? then user can see layers underneath..

TheRiven commented 7 years ago

@dusho the tiles are not created after mining, they are there so that the walls can exist. I suppose it could also remove the floor on mining though.

TheRiven commented 7 years ago

Updated Stage 2 to "Done & Implemented"

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