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

[Cr4zyFl4mes 109]

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 7749]

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?

Edited November 23, 2020 by ShadowDuelist

[DaZoul 1947]

Same. I want that stuff

[Cr4zyFl4mes 109]

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 1518]

Yeah, agree with OP.

Edited November 23, 2020 by Slagger

[Bigfootmech 4]

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.

Edited Wednesday at 11:35 PM by Bigfootmech
new research (not unpopulated, but where chat is heppening)

[Mike23Ua 8596]

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 2]

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