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There was a game a while back doing the rounds. You might remember it. Mine… something. Anyway, it was blocky, allowed mining and crafting. Fighting nasties. Exploring vast caverns, and allowing the player to do pretty much anything they wanted. Well, that pretty much describes Rising World too. Installing Rising World is, of course, available through Steam. So installing it is done through the Steam client. It costs around £8 (varies on sales, etc), and seems to get mixed reviews on Steam, but I’ll address those at the end. Starting As with most of these crafting games, you create a random world which you are then plopped down into, and have to fend for yourself. You have to eat and drink, of course, and the world has pools of water, fruits, animals, and such like that you can harvest. It also has some animal enemies. All of this is customisable at the start of the game. You can choose which features of the map to enable/disable. Same with animals/enemies.
Il y a quelque temps, un jeu circulait dont vous vous souvenez peut-être. Mine… quelque chose. Quoi qu'il en soit, c'était fait de gros pixels et permettait une activité minière et l'artisanat. On combattait des vilains, explorait de vastes cavernes et les joueurs pouvaient faire à peu près tout ce qu'ils voulaient. C'est en fait une assez bonne description de Rising World aussi.
Installation
Rising World est, bien entendu, disponible sur Steam ; ainsi, l'installation se fait avec le client Steam. Il coûte environ 8 £ (environ 9 €), mais le prix dépend des soldes, etc., et les critiques sur Steam semble mitigées ; j'en parlerai à la fin.
Commencer
Comme c'est le cas dans la plupart des jeux d'artisanat, vous créez un monde aléatoire dans lequel vous êtes lâché et où vous devez survivre seul. Bien sûr, il faut manger et boire, et le monde contient des étangs, des fruits, des animaux et autres que vous pouvez moissonner. Il contient aussi quelques animaux ennemis.
Tout ceci est personnalisable au début du jeux. Vous pouvez choisir quels facettes de la carte activer/désactiver et c'est vrai aussi pour les animaux/ennemis.
Mining You’re given a pickaxe and an axe with which to gather wood and resources from the ground. You dig and gather dirt, stone, and minerals (iron, copper, etc). You can chop down trees which fall nicely, and you have to hit at the trunk again to break it down into logs. No tree punching here! The world is far more detailed and textured than that other mine-game. There’s no blockiness to this. The land is covered in lush grass which sways in the wind, There’s fern leaves, flowers. It’s a joy to look at. Crafting Pressing ‘i’ on the keyboard brings up the inventory dialogue box. This is actually two tabs. One for inventory and one for crafting. Crafting is unusual in Rising World as you can do the basics with no tables (as such) but you need to build the relevant workbench to build certain things. So, for example, you’d like to build a sword… well, you need 1 stick and 1 sword blade. For the stick that’s easy enough once you have some wood, but for the sword blade you’ll need to make the basic workbench which will let you build other workbenches and things like anvils and a smelting furnace. It’s not as easy as having a couple of sticks and iron bars. The crafting is more detailed and involved. You need to get the iron nuggets, build the relevant workbenches, have coal, get the smelting furnace… Actually put coal into the furnace, put the iron nuggets into the furnace tray (one by one) and turn on the furnace. You need to remember to keep an eye on the furnace as, once it’s done, you need to switch it off otherwise you’re wasting precious coal. And I like this aspect of it. It’s more involving.
L'exploitation minière
Vous recevez une pioche et un axe avec lesquels vous pouvez rassembler du bois et tirer des ressources du sol. Vous creusez et recueillez de la terre, des pierres et du minerai (fer, cuivre, etc.). Vous pouvez abattre des arbres qui tombent comme il faut et vous devez frapper le tronc à nouveau pour en faire des bûches. Pas de tree punching ici ! 
tree punching.
Le monde est beaucoup plus détaillé avec plus de textures que cet autre jeu de mines. Il n'y a pas de gros pixels. La terre est couverte d'herbe luxuriante qui oscille au gré du vent, les fougères ont des feuilles, les fleurs sont belles. Le regarder est un vrai plaisir.
L'artisanat
La boîte de dialogue de votre inventaire s'affiche lorsque vous appuyez sur « i » sur le clavier. Il s'agit en fait de deux onglets : un pour l'inventaire et l'autre pour l'artisanat. L'artisanat dans Rising World est inhabituel, car vous pouvez accomplir les bases sans tables (en tant que telles), mais il vous faut construire l'établi correspondant pour construire certains objets. Par exemple, vous voudrez fabriquer une épée … vous aurez besoin d'un bâton et d'une
Food
Food is gained either through killing animals, or by collecting fruit. Like with crafting workbenches, you need to craft cooking facilities too. Even craft the frames required to make the animal skins into pelts.
Building
Of course, you’ll need a place to call home (other than the inevitable tent that you’ll build at the start), and there are dozens of items you can build, or craft. You can create planks of wood and build your place plank by plank. Maybe a log cabin would suit you, Sir? You want something a bit more solid? You don’t just build ‘stone’ here. You build stone with the texture of your choosing. You could have a lovely brickwork house with a marble floor if you wish. It’s really amazing how many textures are available for the various ‘blocks’ that you’re building with. I say ‘blocks’ as you can also build using cylinders, slopes, and such-like. You can get really creative here.
LAN Party
While I haven’t tried it out much, Rising World does have a LAN option which is nice. Clicking the Multiplayer button on the main menu gives a list of possible servers to connect to. I did try a couple and they were OK. A lot of them are in German, though.
Conclusion
I really like Rising World. Sure, it could do with something like the Minecraft skeletons and zombies coming out at night, but it does have some angry animals roaming the map during the daytime. Rising World has nothing to fear during the nighttime portions of the game, so it’s a wasted half-day as you inevitably head to your dwelling to sleep it out (aka: skip the nighttime).
I’m not entirely sure why it gets a mixed review on Steam. Some of the negative reviews are from old versions (which don’t count now), and some are talking about parts of the game as though they are negative. One apparent negative (I read in one review) is the long grass. Well, that’s why you build a scythe. To cut down the tall grass!
I couldn’t possibly cover everything that’s in Rising World. It’d take too many pages, but definitely give it a try if you want a more luxurious looking crafting game. Don’t go for this thinking that it’ll be a survival challenge. It’s not. This is a survival game, but it’s more of a mining and crafting game. If you like the building aspect of crafting games, then you’ll love Rising World with all the textures, depth and shapes you can build with.