QoL suggestion - load chat history when traveling to caves and back

[Cr4zyFl4mes 288]

The title kind of says it all.

I travel between caves and overworld a lot and miss a lot of messages. And the people writing them miss on somebody that might actually respond.

[ShadowDuelist 8514]

This.
When I play on my dedicated server I can "cheat" this by looking at the chat logs once the migration ended. Sometimes a lot of important stuff would have been lost to me.

A simple solution would be that by pressing Y to type, the system would show the last 4 or 5 non-whisper chat lines that exist in the log, regardless if you were present when they were said or not. If not implemented, maybe it can be made into a mod?

[DaZoul 2910]

Same. I want that stuff

[Cr4zyFl4mes 288]

4 minutes ago, ShadowDuelist said:

If not implemented, maybe it can be made into a mod?

Yeah, it might be possible. Though i play on vanilla servers too, so It would be best if they implemented it. Sounds exactly like something for QoL.

[Slagger 2425]

Yeah, agree with OP.

[Bigfootmech 21]

I was thinking yesterday, "Man, Klei's really done a good job on a lot of the new QOL updates". The unlimited server slots, disease turned off, caves enabled by default, shift-right click by default instead of being a mod... Like loads of really amazing (small, but incredibly useful) things. And was like, they're really on top of it.

Then I got to thinking, well, there's one thing that would actually be really nice too. Seeing what people type while transitioning to&from caves :o.

I did some testing, and for my setup, there's about a 20-30 second window where I can't see messages in game. If I'm transferring to the server where chat is happening, this can be mitigated (about 5-10s loss instead of 20-30) by reading the client chat log. If I'm traveling away from server where the messages are being sent (ie: I'm going to caves, when someone is talking above ground), it's pretty much a bust

I think this would be a great quality of life improvement.

[Mike23Ua 10058]

I want to bump this thread because this would be a good all around QoL thing to have.

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I would also like option to be able to choose what size the chat text is and how long it remains on the screen in addition to these that would be great.

[DARTH 13]

there should be a log/chat window, like press T to open the log window, and we can see all the logs+timestamp

[Chesmu 215]

I agree, that needs to be polished.

[Bigfootmech 21]

I've started working on a mod patch for this.

I don't expect it to fully work, but at least for the time being (until it hopefully gets patched in vanilla), it's something rather than nothing.

I also don't know how to keep you guys updated. Or what's the most appropriate method.

Currently, I'm just releasing to Steam, updating that forum thread. and posting on friends' discord servers.

Do you get a notification when a message gets updated? (rather than new replies being made)

[Starling 13]

I support this suggestion.