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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