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Updated: Single-click pick up, and... preferences!

1) When you come across an item in the world with "pick up" as the single action you can take, isn't it annoying to have to click it, get the menu, choose "pick up", then choose how many you want to pick up? Well no more is that annoying: now such items can be picked up with a single click! If you feel nostalgic and want to use the menu, just hold down the SHIFT key when you click on the item. And if that is not enough for you...

2) In the player menu you get by clicking your avatar in the top left of the game, please find a new "Preferences" option which opens a simple preferences window. You can turn off the single click to pick up feature! And you can change a few other UI behaviors too. Play with it!

Have fun!

P.S. The COMMA key will open and close the preferences window too.

UPDATE! We've made some changes based on user feedback:

1) Eat/drink verbs no no longer default to "just one" unless you have set the preference for all quantity picker dialogs to default to one. (I know some of you will be all "can't we have separate preference for eat/drink verbs and other verbs?" but we are serious about avoiding preferences creep :)

2) If you hit the ENTER or UP key to start interacting with an item on the ground, you will now always get the normal menu for it — so "single click up pick up" only works if you actually, you know, like, clicked on the item.

3) There is now a "pick up" verb in the menu for furniture items.

P.P.S Just so you know, much of the motivation for the addition of single click pick up is from having watched some user testing and finding our previous 3-clicks-to-pick-up a somewhat arduous task for the hoi polloi.

Posted 4 months ago by eric Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Sir: Ooh, lots of food for thought there.  Maybe compile your suggestions into an ideas forum post? (I'd hate it if they got lost here, heh)
    Posted 4 months ago by diaveborn ♥ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Now that preferences are available, is it feasible to implement a way to disable certain verbs by default?

    So, for example, we could spam our piggies and hens without worrying about renaming or cramming things in either end of them?
    Posted 4 months ago by Biff Beefbat Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I love this! 

    However, the one-click pickup feature doesn't seem to work on TP scripts, even though the only option you have when you come across one lying around is to pick it up. 

    Also, and I'm not completely sure about this, it doesn't seem to work on things in my house that a keyholder has dropped. Or maybe it's things a keyholder has dropped on furniture. Hmm ... maybe it's only certain things that keyholders drop on furniture. Maybe it's just allspices that keyholders drop on furniture. Nope, I can't one-click pick up allspices that I my own self just dropped on the floor. Okay clearly I need to get more information before I talk about this. And I should probably reload, too, just in case. I'm sure about the TP script thing, though. 

    *scowls*
    Posted 4 months ago by Sirentist Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Sirentist, yep, currently, they won't work on the scripts as you know. It *might* be something we could enable, but I can't promise it.

    Folks, for those who brought it up, you are right, you don't get a verb to pick up furniture in decorate mode. The only way to do it is drag it to your inventory.
    Posted 4 months ago by kevbob Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I love this.  I have been abusing it all day and it's so awesome.  Hurrah!
    Posted 4 months ago by Wintera Woodswitch Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It'd be cool to have a similar choice enabled on fuel cells.  It always seems a little clicky to me when I need to refuel a machine to have to click "refuel" and then also click "fuel cell" when there is literally no other possible answer for what I'd like to put in there.
    Posted 4 months ago by Wintera Woodswitch Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Like it like it like it!!!Thank you...it's the little things that make it such a pleasure to play.
    Posted 4 months ago by AlmostSilver Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1000 Wintera!  Alternatively, if we HAVE TO click on Fuel Cell it would be nice to at least have an option for how many we want to use.  Just like when I fill my piggy feeders.. If it needs filling I can click on All and they will take as much as they will hold.  It's really a pain to have to go through the motions repeatedly when I already know I want to fillerup :)
    Posted 4 months ago by Joni Mitchell Subscriber! | Permalink
  • There is one big problem I see here, that I've mentioned before, and now it's gotten kind of important with this change.

    When on a smaller form-factor screen (i.e. a netbook), the game is not at all optimized to deal with this. The bottom 1/2" of the game interface gets cut off, and changing resolutions does not affect this, nor is it affected by full screen vs. windowed. It might be because netbooks are weird. In any case, when you have open bags, you can't get to their bottom interface. Not a big deal, right? Well, with the addition of the "preferences" option in the drop-down menu, one can no longer select "exit the world", nor can you see what the text of the option immediately below "preferences" is. I don't know of a hot-key for exiting either, which makes things...awkward. I prefer to exit rather than closing the game window when I'm done with a play session, but I cannot do so from my netbook anymore.
    Posted 4 months ago by Faranae Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Soooo glad to see the eat/drink one back to normal..that was horrible.. :) ..lol ty

    Oh much better now I have decided to look into preferences,,,excellent..I'm a happy wee Glitchy again :D xx ty

    P.s cos I just didn't like the one click pick up either.. :)
    Posted 4 months ago by Cryztal Subscriber! | Permalink
  • We made some changes!
    Posted 4 months ago by eric Subscriber! | Permalink
  • eric, that super fast!! Thank you fixing that so quickly *giant grin*
    Posted 4 months ago by Innie✿, Obviously Subscriber! | Permalink
  • yay thanks!  super glad not to ever again drink ONE butterfly milk.

    i did like the single-action enter key pick-up though as a keyboard user, and would vote for bringing that back, with arrow up giving the menu.
    Posted 4 months ago by katlazam Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I love you sooooooooooooo much! 

    :D
    Posted 4 months ago by shhexy corin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Tysvm, eric!!
    Posted 4 months ago by sgjo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So, single-click pick up is great, but... I don't use my mouse.  I skimmed (poorly) over some of the comments, and didn't see this specific question:  Would it be possible to be able to select "single-enter pick-up" as a preference?  If we can turn the mouse version on/off, can we please be able to turn a keyboard version on/off?
    Posted 4 months ago by Ren_tara, BatQueen Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yay for furniture pick up!
    Posted 4 months ago by WeavingTheWeb Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Big ups for hearing our feedback and making great tweaks!
    Posted 4 months ago by Pascale Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Love the single click pick up (just been tidying up my emblems - they were lying in piles all over the place)
    Posted 4 months ago by Momo McGlitch Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Furniture pick up is epic! Thank you so, so much:) This is an absolute relief for me like you wouldn't believe. Thank you
    Posted 4 months ago by Cleops Subscriber! | Permalink
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