PTR Changelog 2018-01-31: Tombstones

[artch]

This post describes changes on the Public Test Realm. The estimated launch date is March 5.

Introduced new major feature: creep Tombstones. See forum discussion and Pull Request for more details.

API:

• New Tombstone global prototype.
• New constants FIND_TOMBSTONES, LOOK_TOMBSTONES, TOMBSTONE_DECAY_PER_PART.

[Arcath]

Nice

Is Tombstone.creep a full creep? I remember reading its basically name, my and id?

Also, the constants are missing from the ptr docs. What are their values (I'm working on the typescript typings for these)

[Davaned]

Very pleased this got picked up! Thanks for making this a reality @artch and @ags131.

[ags131]

@arcath Tombstone.creep has a full creep in the same way Spawn.createCreep adds a creep to Game.creep. It is not an instance of Creep, but it has the properties with some returning static values. (Ex: hits will always be 0 no matter what) Populated (dynamic) fields are: id name owner my body ticksToLive carryCapacity hitsMax saying, the rest are all static values but do exist.

[artch]

@arcath

Also, the constants are missing from the ptr docs. What are their values (I'm working on the typescript typings for these)

Added to the docs.

[artch]

@ags131 Tombstone.creep is an instance of Creep though, see this line.

[ags131]

@artch Ah, I completely forgot about that line

[ags131]

@artch Game.shard is undefined again in PTR.

[artch]

@ags131 Fixed.

[artch]

This is how tombstones are animated (updated in the first post and in the docs):

[shedletsky]

Nice addition!

[W4rl0ck]

is there already a planed release date?

[artch]

@w4rl0ck Not yet. It will be included in the next production release, along with isolated-vm and other ptr-staging stuff.

[artch]

This change will be deployed to the production world on March 5.