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limpid spire Apr 22, 2024, 9:06 PM

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Inspired by https://discord.com/channels/851842678340845600/1231876286146936833in suggestions ...
We wondered if this was already possible. We decided it very certainly is. 🙂
We first went for a simple checkers board, pedestals are black, planters are white, doubling up by placing berries in them!

Deciding it was actually difficult to see the painted floor under the planters.
We needed something else.
So for the chess set, Golden food is white, normal food is black.

Carrock Rook (because stone, lol!)
Hearty Horses
Bomb Bishops
Grumpy Kings
Luna Queens
Tulip Pawns

Put up some signage to remind us what the pieces are.
Hands-off/Let go rule was once the pedestal is down and topped/filled.
And then we had a game to see how easy it was to play/move ... and my friend beat me 😭

Then we cleaned up the area a bit, ready for when we want to play again.

🙂 🙂 This was fun 🙂 🙂

limpid spire Apr 23, 2024, 3:18 PM

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added a small side area for placing 'captured' pieces
changed the 'white' pedestals from wooden ones to city/metro/glass ones as we had enough hanging around (okay I had to head to the sea and hunt down two more, but whatever) 🙂

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the funny thing is, as the 'pawns' get taken the area/game gets slowly darker - it's like a countdown to impending doom 😂

steep vine Apr 23, 2024, 5:10 PM

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I love this lmfao

civic hemlock Apr 24, 2024, 10:38 AM

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This is absolutley mind blowing to me! I absolutely love the idea of the board getting darker when the pawns are taken. @limpid spire would you mind us sharing this (with credit) in an upcoming community post on Steam? 🙂

limpid spire Apr 24, 2024, 10:39 AM

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civic hemlock This is absolutley mind blowing to me! I absolutely love the idea of the board g...

Absolutely 👍

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❤️

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preferably the last screenshot (this one #1232075118637879356 message ), but you can also take anything here for a build-up > final style thing too

civic hemlock Apr 24, 2024, 10:52 AM

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Ahh didn't spot the tag! Thank you 😄

limpid spire Apr 24, 2024, 12:34 PM

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It's okay, we're all human, small mistakes/oversights happen all the time.
I think in general it would be safe to say that anything I've posted on the discord in any thread is "good" to be shared 👍
However, I appreciate you asking/checking for confirmation. 🙂 It is a show of respect for player/poster from/to admin/devs. A human touch that alot of big studios severely lack these days.

steep vine Apr 24, 2024, 6:26 PM

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Glad I could inspire this!

steep vine Apr 24, 2024, 6:27 PM

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civic hemlock Ahh didn't spot the tag! Thank you 😄

Mbe this could lead to an in game table allowing chess and other board games to be played with mates.........? xD

civic hemlock Apr 25, 2024, 8:39 AM

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I love that idea

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Would have been a cool entry for Scene Makers!

limpid spire Apr 25, 2024, 9:42 AM

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it would have... unfortunately the idea and the design came just a bit late for me to submit for the 22nd cut-off
and not fitting of the dimension sizes

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plus an abundance of Golden food (maybe way before a player could obtain - like we've grown these with love and effort!)
.. and Easter Event/seasonal items (although I don't recall seeing 'non-seasonal only' in the rules)
.. and I've no idea what biome this would/could have gone in
.. or how a chess board fits in to look "a natural part of the core-keeper-world"
(((I'm just making excuses for myself 😅 )))

steep vine Apr 25, 2024, 5:40 PM

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limpid spire plus an abundance of Golden food (maybe way before a player could obtain - like ...

I agree tho, I don't really see how it would fit into the world naturally, regardless of how cool it looks

vague trench Apr 25, 2024, 10:29 PM

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steep vine I agree tho, I don't really see how it would fit into the world naturally, regar...

Make it look like it has decayed with age and put it outside a settlement

limpid spire Apr 27, 2024, 9:13 AM

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This is always a great honour ❤️ Thankyou!

civic hemlock Apr 29, 2024, 9:23 AM

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Thank YOU for sharing!

steep vine Apr 29, 2024, 5:01 PM

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Thanks for the shoutout as well! It's appreciated!

limpid spire May 15, 2024, 11:21 PM

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inspired by a super older post we just saw https://discord.com/channels/851842678340845600/1113272127546732584 wanted to see if we could recreate, and thankfully we DID have enough pieces .. I was worried we'd have to go farming mobs

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built this one out in a meadow biome so we have meadow-music while playing 🙂

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also changed the board/floor to using shimmering water with grey + black glass bridges, which gives us plenty of light to see what is going on, and the painted style makes a great grid

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azure arch May 17, 2024, 12:30 AM

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I agree nice seeing someone redoing my old design

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still sad i never got a queen slime from another terraria cros over tho >.<

limpid spire May 17, 2024, 2:40 AM

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Yeah, it's a cool concept. Before picking food items way above we considered figurines, but couldn't think of a good scheme to split black/white. So we came up with food items as we were still in the mindset of using planters as well as pedestals.
After seeing your post of slimes vs. cavelings, the theme using figurines 'clicked'.

We used Ivy's as the queen because everyone refers to Ivy as 'her', despite the fact it is just a blob like all the others! We also went for the christmas carrots spiky's for visual distinction. This way we're not using any small blue/purple ones to help avoid quick glance confusion with king/queen. The one we struggled with was the caveling queen, really wanted to use another 'boss' token but none of them felt 'right' in the line-up

steep vine May 17, 2024, 4:36 PM

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I think everyone refers to Ivy as a her because of Poison Ivy from DC, just sub consciously

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Plus Ivy is a traditionally female name in the real world

azure arch May 20, 2024, 2:44 AM

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True ryan. You know rusty the only reason i chose slimes as the other side was because they dont have faces so it could look like they were all facing forward, wanted originally to use holiday cavelings to look like the players, But can make them turn around >.< also for the queen, i wish we had a second mini of the mad shaman in his second form, but we dont.

limpid spire May 20, 2024, 4:49 AM

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yeah, it's certainly a cool board setup!
I might see what the farmers look like in the line-up (as rooks?), but I still need to find some of those figurines!
.. then make the Caveling Queen the christmas brute/cook maybe?
I've also contemplated using the HiveMother just so the king/queen pieces are boss/white base units.

Although, we still keep playing with our 'food' set up... and I don't know if that's because we made it first, or it is ever so slightly closer to our 'main base', or the board isn't sparkling (flat painted tiles vs. Shimmering glass), or whatever other reason.

It's still nice having options ...
I'd honestly love the game to have ancient-yoda style collectable chess pieces in it, like an actual in-game set, that you could fully rotate etc

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or maybe even something like these pieces: https://www.gamedevmarket.net/asset/pixel-chess

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azure arch May 21, 2024, 5:03 AM

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truth i like playing with minis in builds, i would love the ability to rotate them, could use them for more environmental story telling in my base

limpid spire Aug 31, 2024, 10:17 AM

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... and we're back in a fresh 1.0 world... happy to be playing chess keeper again 😂

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using sunrice as the golden pawns as we don't have 8 golden glow tulips yet ......

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