Am I crazy or is it a bug when nightfall happens mid-day? It happens sometimes and I get ambushed which is very ugly.
Hey there! You're not going crazy! That's the Dark Eclipse event - it's an arcane occurrence that can happen once you hit level 4. It forces an unnatural darkness for a few minutes of game time, and enemies that normally only appear at night can spawn during it. You'll see a message in the log that says "The sun dims. An unnatural darkness swallows the sky" when it triggers, and then another message that says "Light returns to the world. The eclipse lifts" when it ends. It can definitely catch you off guard though - do you think it could use a more prominent warning? I have actually got a big change to the log text in the update that's about to drop - it has colour codes for important log events. Sorry you've been ambushed - that's nasty. I hope you didn't lose too much stuff or any good runs. If you think the event is annoying or unfair pls let me know
I am at least glad it was not a bug.
I think it should have a slightly better warning, maybe the box that says "Warning night!" should have another warning that comes up 2-3 turns before it happens so a player knows whether to dash back to their house or build a turret etc.
I'm glad for the levelling meter addition; I clearly glazed over any part of the initial help about levelling, because I thought it was all equipment based! Hah.
I think it would be good to give the player a means to forge their most basic crappy equipment if they die and come back naked, elsewise maybe shop keeps can have those items in their shop, or if you want to keep it tricky for the player, it would be an option of "commissioning" those crappy items from a shop keep but it takes a day or two, so they still have to be wary of danger but they have a chance to at least get back to a baseline equipment load.
Thank you for the reply!