Knuckle Cracker

CW2.5 is a series I started for fun, and it ended up working really well, so I kept going, and now it's CW2 in CW3! :)

To get started, download the save from the attachment and edit it in your own project. You should see this map:
(https://imgur.com/IskFoUW.png)

I've placed some tiles in top left, as well as units, which you can clone all over the map to your heart's content.

The tiles from left to right are: Tile, Strong Tile (takes longer to remove by player), Decayable Very Slow, Decayable Slow, Decayable Medium (decays in contact with creeper), Ore (place siphon to get ore), Technytes (excavate in-game to uncover 50 Aether), Various Gems (excavate in-game to uncover Energy), Strong Tile versions of the previous tiles. You can also take any of the tiles and mess with their variables to create even more combinations, but be careful as Ore Tiles will spawn Ore Resource Packs under themselves on the next frame, so if you let the game run, you shouldn't change that tile's type unless you also remove the Resource Pack or it will be hidden.

Make sure to always clone tiles. Don't move them around, unless there are no Walls under them yet. If you progress a frame with the Step during Pause key, tiles will spawn Walls under themselves and change terrain to Void. Moving tiles will not revert this, but deleting them will. You might need to save/load to see some changes happen, though.

Do not use more than one CN, unless you do not use Gateways. Currently, Drones pathing will produce unexpected behaviour with multiple CN's on the map.

In the top left corner of the map, there's two hidden out-of-bounds CRPL cores, like so:
(https://imgur.com/0jAfD1S.png)

Don't move/delete the one on the left, touching the map's corner. It's required for the map to function properly, and it needs to stay on these coordinates as well.

The core in the middle is inactive, and it's a tool for you to use - if you drag it inside the map's bounds and progress one frame with the Step during Pause key, it will fill the whole map with basic tiles - if you'd prefer the map be filled, and carve out empty areas instead. Just move it out of bounds or delete it entirely afterwards if you no longer need it.

Personally I've been using this AutoHotkey script to carve areas faster: https://pastebin.com/En8X1Cuz (Hit the ` key to press X repeatedly, deleting units. Hit it again to suspend.)

The top-left core has some properties you can change
(https://imgur.com/DunKGdq.png)

• windRL - Left/right gravity strength. 100000 is 1G
• windUD - Top/bottom gravity strength. 100000 is 1G
• isTerrainDigThrough - If 0, terrain will use the new system where you can only dig a terrain block if its surrounded by at least one empty block. If 1, you can dig any terrain in range of the network.
• _FLAG_MAP - don't touch this variable!

Tiles:
When you finish cloning tiles, you have to progress two frames with the Step during Pause key for all the tiles to properly update themselves and be ready for finalizing. Reset time and recompile scripts afterwards.

Units:
(https://imgur.com/9AB64Ig.png)
Here are the enemies you can use.

You can clone these. If you progress frames they will start working. You can erase their actions by doing the following steps:

• Manually delete any spawned Drones from the Gateways. Just move them manually to an empty area (if needed) and hit X on them
• Scripts -> Compile all scripts
• Terrain -> Delete Creeper, Delete AC, Reset Time
• Save in editor, then Load in editor

Creeper Flow Rate is set to 0.6 in Map.crpl (default is 0.2), meaning it's tripled. I found this to work best.

By default, I use 100000 downwards wind, which simulates 1G of gravity from CW2.

If you wish to change Wind, do not use SetWind in the script. Instead, click on the core in top left, click on Map.crpl and change the windRL windUD variables.
(https://imgur.com/rE1lOmW)

There is a special display in the UI showing Gravity, which is basically Wind in CW3. It will be automatically updated with the values you set to the variables above. There is no need to mess with it - just enjoy its existence :)
(https://imgur.com/bqdVw4S)

Due to an engine limitation (or a problem I don't know how to fix), UI elements will get destroyed when resizing the map clips them.

But fear not! There is a workaround...

First, make the game window really small, like this sort of small:
(https://imgur.com/cqjf09o.png)
Zoom in to the maximum and make sure your camera is moved top left, to the very edge.

Now, do your resize, and the UI elements should stay after it!

Warning: Make sure your resize doesn't clip an emitter. There's another CW3 bug that on my template causes the editor to crash if an emitter is destroyed by a resize. If you hit Resize Map, and nothing happens i.e. the map isn't reloaded, your save is now corrupted - hit Load to revert it and get rid of the emitter first...

Here's all the steps you should take before finalizing the map. You have to do this every time you clone a new tile, to make sure ammo bars don't appear under tiles on frame 1 on the finalized map.

• Progress 2 frames with the Step during Pause key
• Press Scripts->Compile All
• Terrain -> Delete Creeper, Delete AC, Delete Digitalis, Reset Time
• If any exist, manually remove all spawned Drones (created by Gateways over time)
• Save in editor, then load in editor
• Finalize. Confirm in the finalized map that advancing 1-2 frames with the Step during Pause key doesn't cause any visually jarring behavior