2:15am EST - One of the first forms of base decoration has been deployed: Signs. Newmans across the land will soon be able to broadcast their sentiment (in roughly 5 words or less). Officially on the dev branch, signs are slated to go live for all this Thursday. Here are some specifics...

General notes on signs:

Signs must be placed on building blocks such as walls or foundations (deploy to socket ringing a bell?)
Small sign is the only one craftable by default, you’re going to need to find blueprints for the rest.
All signs take 60 seconds to craft (at the moment).
The only resource required is wood (progressively more, the larger the sign).
Signs can be destroyed in ~14 hatchet hits.

The four flavors of signs:

Small (default)

Cost:
300 wood

Size:
1m x .5m

Medium

Cost:
500 wood

Size:
2m x 1m

Large

Cost:
700 wood

Size:
3m x 1.5m

Huge

Cost:
1000 wood

Size:
6m x 3m

Edit a sign

Once a sign is placed, simply hold 'E' and you can set the sign text (just like naming a sleeping bag).

Lock a sign

Anyone can lock signs from being edited. This includes you and is independent of cupboards.

New placement colors

The building block placement guides have gotten a facelift.

Development branch users beware: guide placement is currently a bit fucked. You need to swap to a different hotbar item before any building part changes take effect (I.E. foundations to walls).

Pie menu rearranged

The order of the building pie menu has also changed:

Other development

There’s a bunch of other stuff happening in development. Check back here later today for an update on that shit.

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