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Q&A 173 - January 5th, 2025
3689 Posts	Link to post - Posted December 1st at 1:29 PM Nickshire (CNE Dev) Greetings Bush Whackers! The next developer forum Q&A begins Monday January 5th at 1:00 - 1:30 PM Pacific time. Feel free to post your questions in advance if you're unable to attend, and I'll try to answer all the questions during the live session.
117 Posts	Link to post - Posted December 7th at 9:09 PM Vegan1964 Have you considered a fishing mini challenge for one of the small in between challenges? Maybe a trash challenge. Fish out 5 pieces of trash at x number of locations? 20, 40 etc. Newbies could fish out trash equivalent to the total at whatever fishing holes they have access to. Could also work for treasure or fish if that would be thematically better.
52 Posts	Link to post - Posted December 20th at 3:04 PM 1didisafe "Talk to Miner Thalruss Opaldelver".. is that a NPC called after our russ?
573 Posts	Link to post - Posted December 20th at 9:25 PM Matthew Kliparchuk Hey nick any thots of making npc of some of the players like u did years ago.
52 Posts	Link to post - Posted December 25th at 2:56 PM 1didisafe Xmas event... one of the gifts from the devs is a gift that has a max limit. so if i have the max in my inventory, then i won't get that present... only 3 gifts :( you should choose a gift with no max limit.. put it on the list-to-do for next year :P
79 Posts	Link to post - Posted December 26th at 2:01 PM Last Edited December 31st at 10:57 AM Nimblecraft Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Nick and BW2 team! I love that the Christmas event was longer. More days to do quests, more opportunities to stock up on chocolate chip cookies :d Please consider making events longer, especially the repeatable quests that give us consumables. Like the pumpkin pie and strawberry tart. Also it's really fun to see the Commons looking festive. The strawberry tart art takes me back to a time when our kindergarten teacher would read us stories as part of Quiet Time. It looks like the strawberry tarts Amelia Bedelia bakes for a baby girl she's babysitting and it always made my mouth water. Was fishing up Tuna on Amicus Isle and this time it took 10 minutes and a lot of bait to complete (somehow the RNG knows to stall when I'm trying to complete my dailies before heading out). I was fishing up everything BUT tuna! lol T^T It made me think of the days when Amicus Isle was a new map and the fishing bonus made fishing quests much more efficient with everyone there. Since then there hasn't been as many people playing... So would you Devs be willing to increase the default fishing bonus rate to say 5%? Maybe make it a community quest? Say a wizard did it to help hungry Bushwhackians and uh, increase Bushwhackia's economy? Or an evil wizard wants to drain the oceans of Bushwhackia but with everyone's help causes the spell to backfire and instead causes an increased fishing rate? Oh! This just came to me. I encountered the incredibly rare equip reward in the Flux a while ago. I was really excited to see what I would get. Was I missing something from the past years? Would it be an event equip you can only get for Bush Bucks? I solved the puzzle, opened the chest and...nothing? D: For those of us who have all the equips that reward can give, can we instead get Bush Bucks perhaps? :D This reward path in the Flux already so rare and it'd be nice to have another way to earn Bush Bucks. Thanks for reading and taking our comments into consideration!
795 Posts	Link to post - Posted December 29th at 12:18 AM Last Edited January 5th at 12:21 AM Russel Denton 1- Christmas event idea's/Suggestions - the quest where we gather carols for the guy, it is a pain going back an forth like a yo-yo, so i suggest we improve it so we do not go back and forth...for 2026 xmas event what if we, were to find a drone for the guy first , so all we had to do is send a beacon etc to bring them back and still continue whackng instead of wasting time going back and forth to the event area - Missing Reindeer ...Suionna - needs an upgrade/continuation, perhaps have the animal welfare group or have santa start asking questions. - Customisable items/ranch items - we have a santa gnome, it's time we have a Mrs Claus gnome - also i have noticed the elf gnome is bigger than santa, perhaps change the sizes according - Gingerbread man/woman head mask, gloves and shirt - make part of the store even and also make it a side quest for when stealing from a house too, you have to wear the items - Snowman/woman head mask, gloves and shirt - make part of store even and also make it a side quest for when stealing the item from house too, you have to wear the items - frosty the snowman gnome - Grinch gnome 2- i have noticed in the prismatic hub and current hub, we are forced to do the puzzle before moving on, to next one, but i remember in past hubs we could whack away with the puzzle pieces all collected and not needing to do it till we were ready to move on, can we change it back please 3 - Quality of life updates - one of the ideas was wanting to swap runes out of one sword into another without loosing runes, whats the update on that particluar one 4- MINI EVENTS A mini event just for oceanic/water animals or just adjust a endangered species event for it even, and we could get special glass paneling to make our own water tank/aquarium to put our fish in etc , we could also do something similair for butterflies - a butterfly house and also birds a walk in aviary too 5- Gnomes - we need more gnomes, get your creative dev heads together and make some please, here is some ideas: - Nates B'day event - a dragon gnome - Valentine day - a heart gnome - Easter event - a lamb gnome perhaps or even a bilby gnome - Spring Event - a gnome as a pot plant perhaps 6- Can you make our farm plots, tractor, sprinkler and seed spreader immune from being removed when we want to remove decorations from our ranch please. 7- when we make runes we use luck spheres but when we run out, we are stuck, yes some players do buy more with money but some players are not so fortunate, so i was thinking what if we were able to use gems as replacement luck spheres instead
573 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 2nd at 9:48 PM Matthew Kliparchuk Hey nick in the last hub we had the satatue with all the dailies I know u said it was a pain to implement it but can u bring it back for teh new hub but let us purchases it earlier.
398 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 4th at 10:51 AM Last Edited January 4th at 10:58 AM BarbZak I would still like to have us be able to delete quests etc from quest bar....we no wnat to do...etc.... Also..russ good idea about, keep whacking after all pp pieces are done..and not forced to move on.....
3689 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 5th at 1:14 PM Nickshire (CNE Dev) Hello, Bush Whackers! Let the Q&A begin! I'll be checking this forum thread regularly for questions throughout the next half-hour.
3689 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 5th at 1:23 PM Nickshire (CNE Dev) Vegan1964 wrote: Have you considered a fishing mini challenge for one of the small in between challenges? Maybe a trash challenge. Fish out 5 pieces of trash at x number of locations? 20, 40 etc. Newbies could fish out trash equivalent to the total at whatever fishing holes they have access to. Could also work for treasure or fish if that would be thematically better. I personally like this idea for a limited-time quest! We've had a bit of push back on adding more fishing content, as some players do not enjoy it, but I'll take it into consideration.
3689 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 5th at 1:24 PM Nickshire (CNE Dev) 1didisafe wrote: "Talk to Miner Thalruss Opaldelver".. is that a NPC called after our russ? Ariana named this NPC, and I don't suspect she was familiar enough with Russel to make it a reference. If Russel wants to feel some affinity for this NPC, by all means!
3689 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 5th at 1:27 PM Nickshire (CNE Dev) Matthew Kliparchuk wrote: Hey nick any thots of making npc of some of the players like u did years ago. I'm not opposed to it. Justin did that in the Seasonal Forest and Spine of the World regions as a donation incentive for the Extra Life campaigns those years. I haven't done the same in past years myself, as it adds a decent amount of administrative overhead, but it is a fun way for players to make an impression on the game.
3689 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 5th at 1:29 PM Nickshire (CNE Dev) 1didisafe wrote: Xmas event... one of the gifts from the devs is a gift that has a max limit. so if i have the max in my inventory, then i won't get that present... only 3 gifts :( you should choose a gift with no max limit.. put it on the list-to-do for next year :P That's a fair point. I'll noted this down for us to consider for next year.
3689 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 5th at 1:40 PM Nickshire (CNE Dev) Nimblecraft wrote: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Nick and BW2 team! I love that the Christmas event was longer. More days to do quests, more opportunities to stock up on chocolate chip cookies :d Please consider making events longer, especially the repeatable quests that give us consumables. Like the pumpkin pie and strawberry tart. Also it's really fun to see the Commons looking festive. The strawberry tart art takes me back to a time when our kindergarten teacher would read us stories as part of Quiet Time. It looks like the strawberry tarts Amelia Bedelia bakes for a baby girl she's babysitting and it always made my mouth water. Was fishing up Tuna on Amicus Isle and this time it took 10 minutes and a lot of bait to complete (somehow the RNG knows to stall when I'm trying to complete my dailies before heading out). I was fishing up everything BUT tuna! lol T^T It made me think of the days when Amicus Isle was a new map and the fishing bonus made fishing quests much more efficient with everyone there. Since then there hasn't been as many people playing... So would you Devs be willing to increase the default fishing bonus rate to say 5%? Maybe make it a community quest? Say a wizard did it to help hungry Bushwhackians and uh, increase Bushwhackia's economy? Or an evil wizard wants to drain the oceans of Bushwhackia but with everyone's help causes the spell to backfire and instead causes an increased fishing rate? Oh! This just came to me. I encountered the incredibly rare equip reward in the Flux a while ago. I was really excited to see what I would get. Was I missing something from the past years? Would it be an event equip you can only get for Bush Bucks? I solved the puzzle, opened the chest and...nothing? D: For those of us who have all the equips that reward can give, can we instead get Bush Bucks perhaps? :D This reward path in the Flux already so rare and it'd be nice to have another way to earn Bush Bucks. Thanks for reading and taking our comments into consideration! Happy Holidays, Nimblecraft! Very sweet to see the game bringing up those nostalgic memories for you. Fair point that there may be less people on Amicus to help boost fishing, so giving it a general increase isn't a bad idea. Turning that change into a community quest is a fun idea as well! I've noted this down to consider. Congrats on the past event item reward in the Flungeon! It would be a ranch or costume item from any of the event prior items stores, which do typically cost Bush Bucks. Some of these might not show properly as they pop out of the chest, like Capes, which may only have an image on a certain facing of the item. If you think you have all the event items and that this reward actually would have given you nothing, let me know. I can double check some things.
3689 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 5th at 3:15 PM Nickshire (CNE Dev) Russel Denton wrote: 1- Christmas event idea's/Suggestions - the quest where we gather carols for the guy, it is a pain going back an forth like a yo-yo, so i suggest we improve it so we do not go back and forth...for 2026 xmas event what if we, were to find a drone for the guy first , so all we had to do is send a beacon etc to bring them back and still continue whackng instead of wasting time going back and forth to the event area - Missing Reindeer ...Suionna - needs an upgrade/continuation, perhaps have the animal welfare group or have santa start asking questions. - Customisable items/ranch items - we have a santa gnome, it's time we have a Mrs Claus gnome - also i have noticed the elf gnome is bigger than santa, perhaps change the sizes according - Gingerbread man/woman head mask, gloves and shirt - make part of the store even and also make it a side quest for when stealing from a house too, you have to wear the items - Snowman/woman head mask, gloves and shirt - make part of store even and also make it a side quest for when stealing the item from house too, you have to wear the items - frosty the snowman gnome - Grinch gnome 2- i have noticed in the prismatic hub and current hub, we are forced to do the puzzle before moving on, to next one, but i remember in past hubs we could whack away with the puzzle pieces all collected and not needing to do it till we were ready to move on, can we change it back please 3 - Quality of life updates - one of the ideas was wanting to swap runes out of one sword into another without loosing runes, whats the update on that particluar one 4- MINI EVENTS A mini event just for oceanic/water animals or just adjust a endangered species event for it even, and we could get special glass paneling to make our own water tank/aquarium to put our fish in etc , we could also do something similair for butterflies - a butterfly house and also birds a walk in aviary too 5- Gnomes - we need more gnomes, get your creative dev heads together and make some please, here is some ideas: - Nates B'day event - a dragon gnome - Valentine day - a heart gnome - Easter event - a lamb gnome perhaps or even a bilby gnome - Spring Event - a gnome as a pot plant perhaps 6- Can you make our farm plots, tractor, sprinkler and seed spreader immune from being removed when we want to remove decorations from our ranch please. 7- when we make runes we use luck spheres but when we run out, we are stuck, yes some players do buy more with money but some players are not so fortunate, so i was thinking what if we were able to use gems as replacement luck spheres instead 1) Some great ideas in here for future Christmas events! We do already have the Snowman costume drink, but I totally get the desire to have the pieces included in it at your disposal to customize your outfit with. I've noted these to consider. 2) Because of the special effects that some depths of the endless dungeons have, we don't necessarily want players staying in those. The intention is to keep advancing. I'll consider either turning those bonuses off after its complete, or letting you stay in there if the depth doesn't have a whacking bonus though. 3) Swapping active runes from one sword to another isn't a bad idea, and doesn't have the balancing problems some of the other rune suggestions have. I have yet to explore how you might do that via the interface, so I'm not sure what changes it might entail and how much work that would be. Perhaps it might be as simple as when you click a sword slot, equipped runes show there, and selecting one will remove it from the sword its equipped to. I'll make sure this suggestion is on the list and update the notes on it. 4) An aquarium mini-event would be fun! I'll note this idea down to consider. 5) I've noted the gnomes down! We'll see which ones we can fit into the schedule. 6) We considered excluding certain ranch items from the store-everything button, like crops and clickable items, but were worried not every player would agree on which ones they'd want to keep around versus store. I think it might warrant a more sophisticated method than just a button, but I'm open to suggestions. 7) Luck Spheres are intentionally valued the way they are, but I do understand high-tier rune crafting can demand quite a few spheres. I'll consider different ways for folks to acquire them.
3689 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 5th at 3:17 PM Nickshire (CNE Dev) Matthew Kliparchuk wrote: Hey nick in the last hub we had the satatue with all the dailies I know u said it was a pain to implement it but can u bring it back for teh new hub but let us purchases it earlier. A similarly functioning statue will appear after you've completed all the story quests.
3689 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 5th at 3:18 PM Nickshire (CNE Dev) BarbZak wrote: I would still like to have us be able to delete quests etc from quest bar....we no wnat to do...etc.... Also..russ good idea about, keep whacking after all pp pieces are done..and not forced to move on..... I agree with cancelling certain quests, daily quests, or perhaps even the construction quests, as some lower level accounts may not be able to afford them quickly and they block other quests. It's on our list!
3689 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 5th at 3:19 PM Nickshire (CNE Dev) Okay folks, this is all I have time for, thus concluding this month's forum Q&A! Thank you for the questions, feedback, and discussion! I hope those reading this afterwards find it informative. I'll catch you in this week's Bush Whacker Weekly livestream on Twitch! Happy whacking!
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