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Get your prototype patch right here!

Posted by Germain on 02 Nov 2012 / 95 Comments
Nov
2
2012
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Oh hai!

So the time is up. We did a thorough sweep and fixed most of the bugs we could possibly fix in a two week period. We also had time to come up with a few solutions to patch the game. For now, we will have a small file available for download that will patch your Castle Story Prototype directory with a few .DLLs.

One thing we haven’t done is update our asset database. This means: no new textures, models, sounds, etc. Only the scripts and binaries have been patched. This allows for a lightweight patch file that is easily shared without crashing our servers.

You can download the patch by following the instructions below:

 

1. Follow this link
or copy/paste this link in a new tab: https://castlestory.net/update.php

2. Choose your download mirror
(Mac if you’re on Mac, and Windows if you’re on Windows, obviously)
-EDIT- Sadly the Mac version is not yet available. We discovered a major issue at the last minute, we need time to fix that.

3. Extract the zip file you downloaded in your castle story folder
(a folder named “patch” should appear in the root for the game folder)

4. Go in the patch folder

5. Run the patch executable
(a console window should appear and prompt you for a key press)

6. If the process was successful, the following text should appear:
“Castle Story Prototype v0.0.2 is ready and installed on you computer!”

7. You’re done! Play! NOW!

You can report any new bugs in the forum. Here is a list of bugs that have been fixed and some new features in the game:

Major Bug Fixes

  • fixed the buttons that don’t work in the world editor
  • reduced the loading time for the dynamic objects (sotckpiles, barrels, etc)
  • prevented “output.log” from growing indefinitely
  • fixed the “return to game” button
  • prevented 5 new Bricktrons from spawning when loading
  • prevented the save from failing when a logging group is in the world
  • fixed the situation in which a barrel would stick to a Bricktron’s belly
  • beams and planks can now be removed by Bricktrons
  • When adding a level in a mine, stairs are now created appropriately

Minor Bug Fixes

  • lumber groups are no longer duplicated when creating a new cutting zone
  • reduced the disk space required to save mines
  • fixed the visual bug for cancelled mines
  • mines are now fully functional after loading
  • tunnel schematics now load correctly
  • the password text field no longer has issues with copy/paste
  • groups are no longer duplicated during loading
  • mines are now associated correctly to group when loading
  • trees are now correctly detected by a logging zone
  • debug spawned Bricktrons are now removed from their group when they die
  • the crystal no longer duplicates after each load
  • items in the Bricktron’s hands no longer duplicate after each task change
  • deleted stockpiles no longer affect the pathfinding
  • the login will now time out if it cannot connect
  • phantom block mesh will detect other groups to hide ajacent faces
  • tool are now deselected when a construction group is deselected

Change log

  • added a lumber zone radius as well as circles around the selected trees
  • gravel and loose blocks are temporarily no longer loaded to avoid issues during loading
  • updated the camera controls
  • the game now still runs when out of focus in windowed mode
  • the game version is now checked at login
  • added better login error feedback
  • added volume sliders for SFX, music, enviroment and UI
  • the time of day is now saved with the game
  • removed the confirmation prompt when deleting an empty group
  • reduced the cricket population to make them less annoying
  • the construction group tab now shows the phantom block count
  • task beacons and objects are now deleted along with the group they are in

We hope you enjoy this one! Have fun!

Team Sauropod




95 Comments for Get your prototype patch right here!


Dylan
7 months ago


Great! Just too bad I couldn’t get the game in time D:

    Gadzooks
    7 months ago


    Same here. :( Can’t wait for the release!

Blakkrain
7 months ago


umm it works hehehe

DarkoHexar
7 months ago


I have paid for two copies of the prototype a while ago, yet haven’t received anything about the prototype… Heck, I didn’t even know it had been released until my friend told me about it! Therefore, I can’t patch a lack of game… Is there a blog post that could explain why I have apparently registered my name, but got nothing for the prototype? Thanks!

    Ron
    7 months ago


    Not Sauropod’s fault :p

    Get it from the humble bundle store.

    Space Narwhal
    7 months ago


    Make an account on http://www.humblebundle.com with the email you used to kickstart Castle Story. It should be in your “My Account” when you log in.

    bills6693
    7 months ago


    Have you gone to castlestory.net to register a username and password too? Do that, then use humblebundle.com for your game.

    Visit the forums at castlestoryonline.com for instructions and help. Message me there (bills6693) if you have any issues and i’ll either provide guidance or advise you who to contact or where to post/read :)

      Jamie
      7 months ago


      Can anyone point me to what to do if my Humble Bundle account [pre existing] is different to the email I have used through kickstarter – I’d like to centralise when my games are.

Beriner
7 months ago


Is the bug fixed that causes Bricktrons to get stuck if a stockpile is built where they are standing? I didn’t notice that anywhere in the notes.

    Cam
    7 months ago


    Yeah I’d like to know this as well. This was a big one.

      Dark
      7 months ago


      Doesn’t appear to be fixed, happening in my game right now.

    Sukumoki
    7 months ago


    It’s not fixed, however you may now delete the stockpile to free your Bricktron.
    It is a really annoying glitch though.

MagikEh
7 months ago


Heyo! There is a problem with the Updater if you have the castle story prototype in a different spot than where the updater would have otherwise expected… Could you please tell us which files belong in which folders? Or if there is another fix for this that would be awesome! Thanks for all the hard work guys!!

    Menekis
    7 months ago


    it is in the readme :)

      MagikEh
      7 months ago


      Doh!! xD Thanks for that, the one time that i immediately hop onto the site to complain i am turned around and sent back home! ^_^ Great work you guys, much appreciated.

Gabriel
7 months ago


Nicely done! That’s was pretty seamless! Thanks for your hard work guys!

Agust
7 months ago


Any comment on the Mac patch?

Looking forward to it!

    Menekis
    7 months ago


    the OSX version completly broke in the last minute, there is no way we can fix that until monday. we need a Mac to build it.

      Agust
      7 months ago


      Thanks for the quick reply. I eagerly await the patch.

      Manuel
      7 months ago


      same here :)

CharlesEdwardsHarris
7 months ago


Awesome job on the patch time guys. You are all amazing, and I can most likely speak for most when I say thank you for the awesome experience so far and for what is to come.

braga
7 months ago


i want to buy the game!

Flyn
7 months ago


I love you guys! I can’t wait to update it! Gonna do that tonight when I’m less busy with something my Minecraft server is expecting me to finish.

rawr
7 months ago


the consle thing tells me it is not valid what do i do to fix it?

BILLYCHUCKBOB
7 months ago


When does this come out?
This game looks like it could be on the top ten of the year :D

Space Narwhal
7 months ago


YAY!

    Don Hylci
    7 months ago


    And he strikes again!

    Narwhal
    7 months ago


    And they said you could never go to space :’)
    daddy narwhal and mom narwhal are proud of you.

    zac
    7 months ago


    YAY!

Finnboghi
7 months ago


Well done with the patch, guys!

I’ve found a new bug that wasn’t present before the patch though; when using the debug menu to spawn bricktron soldiers, they appear to use the same AI as the corruptrons. Namely, they will attack and kill your bricktrons and ignore the corruptrons.

The archers do not have this issue.

Thank for all your hard work!

    Ian
    7 months ago


    Make sure you are spawning the solder, not the enemy solder.

    Justin Fitzpatrick
    7 months ago


    are you sure you spawned the right ones? :P Because you can spawn evil bricktron knights, and good ones :P

Vectruz
7 months ago


thanks great pacth, now i play it more than i played since the protorype release
i like this game its awesome!!!
great job sauropodstudio team

GolemDevil
7 months ago


Thanks guys for me the game has improved 1000% since this patch, now the game is great =).

Polish Fanstie
7 months ago


Zapraszam wszystkich na Polski Fansite

Gilbert
7 months ago


Jipeeeeeee…….. now i can play again with save working.

Justin Fitzpatrick
7 months ago


The game works so much better now!!! Thank you :D

ArbitraryRanger
7 months ago


Nice work fellas – can’t wait to see added content in the upcoming months. How can this game get any better? but it will; I’m geeking out

Riccardo
7 months ago


I can not apply the patch, when I extract the file does not create any folder “patch”, when I run the .exe file seems to run fine, but then when I start the game does not change anything.
please help!

Stephen
7 months ago


do the bricktrons still freeze up “zombie” style?

    batosai33
    7 months ago


    seconded, i couldn’t seem to play for more than 10 minutes before they would freeze up and it got so frustrating i gave up trying

      Rob
      7 months ago


      not sure or it really fixes it in the short run, but I had the same problem, then after a while I saved my game, restarted the whole game, and loaded it again, and at this point the bricktrons were no longer frozen.. could be a coincedence though, but maybe it works, I havent yet investigated it any further..

Seiji
7 months ago


Hooray!
Fastest. Patch. Ever. :-D

Slashout
7 months ago


I thought the devs said they’d fix the login bug? I still can’t log, it crashes everytime…

Dreams
7 months ago


hi
When I install the patch, so the game is supposed to show me the prototype .02?
Because my game freezes after 1 minute in the game. So it can not play: (

Vojt
7 months ago


My antivirus (spybot – search & destroy) recognize file patch.exe as – Virtumonde dangerous file, stop process and deleted it but game are patched

Isaac
7 months ago


Oh, please tell me you’re getting one of those new iMacs. They look amazing!

Slashout
7 months ago


Ok, I don’t know if the patch made it worse, but after 50 tries (at least, seriously) I haven’t been able to log in the game. It crashes every single time at the log in screen.
I’m usually pretty patient, but after this many tries this is just infuriating.
Why isn’t this fixed? :s

Before fixing save files, shouldn’t there be a fix to garantee you can actually play the game? :s

Justin
7 months ago


I’ve never had this issue, and neither have many other players. perhaps your video drivers aren’t completely updated or your java clients aren’t.

    TinyViking
    7 months ago


    the game uses Unity not java, so that wouldn’t be the case, neither would graphics drivers as its an account related issue. Best bet for him would be to leave it a while and if it still doesn’t work, contact sauropod about it.

    Slashout
    7 months ago


    Many people have this issue on the forums, and the devs even made a mention of this in their previous blog post or on the forum, forgot, so this really isn’t about my computer. But the game.

    Anyways I am a big gamer, so I usually know when my PC is at fault and I can “fix” it when it needs to be.
    Right now this is the prototype’s fault. The bug only happens when trying to log in. Always at the same place, and does so randomly. But I can still play, and when I play the game runs as it should (for the prototype). But I’tve got to get there, and I don’t understand why this isn’t fixed.

      Menekis
      7 months ago


      Are you using Eset antivirus by any chance?if yes, then deactivate it.

Andy
7 months ago


Man I wish I shelled out an extra $10 for the prototype. Still, this is awesome!

actruncale
7 months ago


What I’d like to see is a first person ‘ghost’ mode where you can walk around and fly (A la Minecraft) to fly in your caves and tunnels. I find it really hard to mine and build in tunnels and tight spaces (like a small fort). I really just want a fine camera control that pivots and moves from where the camera is NOT where the green dot is.

I hope that made sense.

    Justin Fitzpatrick
    7 months ago


    I disagree ;) having the ability to feel like god ruins a game very fast.

      actruncale
      7 months ago


      How does have a better (finer) control of the camera ruin the game? It will help when placing things in your castles and mines. You will still have to make a brickton build and mine.

Andrea
7 months ago


I hope the Mac version will be released soon. I wan’t to play without glitches :(

Sam
7 months ago


Is there any way to get the prototype now, I didn’t get a chance to buy it on kickstarter!!!

dusitn
7 months ago


so i got the patch most of it works but i noticed when in the building mode it doestnt load the blocks it makes the bricktons destroy the block where i put the phantom and the phantom doesnt even work thx

http://castle-story-mapy.blogspot.com/
7 months ago


Zapraszam na Pierwszego Polskiego Fansite
http://castle-story-mapy.blogspot.com/
Znajdziecie tam poradniki budowania pod?g, pi?ter.
Jak i przer?ne mapy do zacz?cia nowej przygody, jak i rwnie? do wczytania ju? gotowej :)

Glimmergaunt
7 months ago


Would it be feasible to have the bricktrons, have a bubble/icon above their head informing the player why they can’t do a specific action? eg. “Can’t path”, “No resources”, it would be nice if they also specified what resource they were missing.

    Sparamoule
    7 months ago


    That is a good idea. Sometimes we do not know why a bricktron is not moving, because of a bug? missing resources? It can be helpful.

      HamsterLaunch
      7 months ago


      I agree.

Rik
7 months ago


I can not apply the patch, when I extract the file does not create any folder patch, when I run the .exe file seems to run fine, but then when I start the game does not change anything.
please help!

    Justin Fitzpatrick
    7 months ago


    is it in the right folder when you run it?

      Rik
      7 months ago


      what? the game or the patcher?? in my “Patch” folder ther are: a patch.exe and a folder called v0.0.2

Graham P Heath
7 months ago


I keep castle story a usb disk, so that i can move around without losing my saves. This last move, my stored username was converted to what looks to me like a checksum, not sure how sensitive this number is so i wont post it, that said, it looks like this: where # is a number #### F #################

    Menekis
    7 months ago


    each time you change computer, the licences is disabled. you need to login again to make it valid again.

Graham P Heath
7 months ago


Oh yeah, and…. Ba Da Ba ba baaaaaaa Im lovin it!

James
7 months ago


Can’t wait for OSX patch! Though, I do like actually getting work done so I can wait a bit longer…

Manuel
7 months ago


Still no mac version. :(

Josh
7 months ago


I’m not sure if you realize Sauropod but releasing the PC version and having the Mac players wait days and days for their patch is really annoying.

You should not have released the PC version until the Mac patch was ready too.

This is getting ridiculous…

    Kees
    7 months ago


    I am annoyed by this too, but keep in mind that they though it was working when they released it, and only after that did they find out it was broken. It would annoy a lot more people, at that point, to take both of the downloads away. I just hope they get it out soon.

      Menekis
      7 months ago


      Yes we knew that would be a problem but we that patch had to get out fast, the osx version broke in the last minute and we tried to release both until we realised there was a problem with the OSX one.

Josh
7 months ago


Thank you very much for the Mac patch guys. Sorry for the impatience – it’s because this game is so amazing and we are desperate to play it :)

all the best,
josh

    Josh
    7 months ago


    Me again – cannot install the prototype. Hmmm… any ideas guys? :)

    Last login: Tue Nov 6 22:16:52 on ttys000
    My-Mac:~ Josh$ /Applications/Castle\ Story\ Prototype/Patch/patch ; exit;
    Illegal instruction
    logout

    [Process completed]

Spyd3r
7 months ago


When running the executable on Mac, ‘patch’, it reaches a segmentation fault, displayed as segmentation fault: 11, then logs out.

    Noah
    7 months ago


    FYI, the Mac patch worked fine for me on 10.8.2, and the game runs and logs in post-patch. Thanks Sauropod!

Dratsuni
7 months ago


On a Mac here;
I followed all the directions and downloaded the patch, opened it, got the confirmation that it was updated but now the game will only open to a black screen and doesn’t do anything from there.
Before the patch, I was able to open the game and play for a bit before it became too buggy and I would have to quit but now I can’t even do that.
Any suggestions/help?

    Bstewart
    7 months ago


    The game wouldn’t even load for me when I did the patch. I don’t have any save games that I care about so I just reinstalled the game. It has been running perfectly since I did that.

      Dratsuni
      7 months ago


      I re-downloaded both the game and the patch and still I’m getting nothing.
      Thank you though.

Nick B
7 months ago


I installed the patch for mac (thanks for getting it out!). But the game locks up after only a few minutes of play, sometimes it totally freezes on the loading screen! The music still plays, but the application doesn’t respond and I have to force quit it.

    tacoman500v1
    7 months ago


    The only reason that it may do that is if your computer cannot handle the game. And the thing with the loading screen is common. Just give it a second and it will load. It depends on the play time of the world for how long it takes. Try pressing delete in game to reduce lag.

      Noah Miller
      6 months ago


      The game’s been freezing up for me too after about 15 minutes of play, or less for some saved games. The problem doesn’t appear to be lack of computer power, but rather a bug resulting in a null exception. Each time, the last line in the log before the freeze is:

      Receiving unhandled NULL exception

      I’ve posted more of the log here:
      http://castlestoryonline.com/threads/freezing-crashing-issue.2583/#post-36742

      Hope this bug gets resolved soon! It’s a bummer to not really be able to play past for harvesting setup.

      dotcom
      6 months ago


      Check your CPU temps. This game is CPU intensive Overheated CPU can start to cause lockups. (usually in windows though)

S.A.F.
6 months ago


OMG i cant wait till i can buy it if i had digital money i would be playing the prototype right now!!!
anyways good luck sauropod!!!

Jonathan
6 months ago


wen is catle story coming out for mac?

    lql
    6 months ago


    Your own fault using an inferior system designed for children.

      Dragoon209
      6 months ago


      Grow up.

      Its a different OS. its designed for lots of different things. I’m sorry you don’t like it.

hurely
6 months ago


when is the release date?

Stompopolos
6 months ago


I saw that every single problem I had with the first version that was putting me off playing it is fixed. Well, there goes the rest of my day.

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