August 20, 2026 NepsterLix stream is over and I've managed to solve all of the 5-of-all rank and the first 6 levels of the Moon rank. My replays are attached!

Colored Boxes and Blockers Forever appear to be backroutes, just like how I also backrouted the both of them in NepsterLems

I attempted Study in Scarlet and is a no solve. I remember struggling with the level in NepsterLems for a while as well before I finally solved it. The NL solution doesn't work at all for the NepsterLix pack, therefore the level is completely new to me in NepsterLix despite having played and solved the NL version of the level back in 2020.

Moon 2 level typo isn't fixed in my version of the pack despite Simon claiming it's fixed in his post above. Along with that, the colon between "introducing" and "miners" is missing in the Moon 1 level title.

Overall, NepsterLix feels many times harder than NepsterLems, even in the first rank of 5-of-all. Still, enjoyable challenges and it felt great to be playing Nepster's levels again after so long! There have only been 2 levels so far that I don't recognize because they aren't in NepsterLems, "Such Clowns" and "Paradise or Hell?" I loved both of the new levels!

Thanks to Simon and anyone else who caught my stream on very short notice and not spoiling any solutions for me as I've requested with my pinned chat message! Yea, I definitely miss the NL implementation of the rewind to previous assignment unfortunately. I'm just used to it and honestly it feels more natural to me. It felt super awkward to need to also press the B key to step back a frame before assigning a skill after pressing the hotkey for rewind to previous assignment. In contrast, in NL I don't need to press the B key in addition to the rewind to previous assignment hotkey, I can simply click to assign the skill due to being on the correct frame (the "wrong" frame in NL due to being a frame earlier) so that I don't need to step a pixel further back with the B key too. 

This is the color scheme for the next version. We can test it to see what we think and fine-tune it later if necessary:

Use GREEN for everything except the following:

TEAL/CYAN = save requirement is met | 'cut X tasks' | only neutrals remain*

YELLOW = level has a time limit

RED = not enough lemmings remain | time has run out (alongside Simon's red sand timer)

BLUE = panel button hints

*Decided to keep this in because it is useful info which might not be obvious by looking at the gameplay area (e.g. if the lems are in a bunch). Shall we change the lem icon to neutral colors as well...?

There are some inconsistencies here, but we are using less colors, and when color changes happen, it's now more obvious why. So, we're closer to the goal, but more could be done.

NLCEPlayer commits 280c8bf - f583fdb.

@Simon

Thanks! I've merged my post from the NepsterLix topic to this one!

Hi,

see kaywhyn's announcement post above:

Starts in 20 minutes.

-- Simon

Hi,

Flopsy has started converting some of his singleplayer levels from NeoLemmix to Lix. I've got Flopsy's first batch of 26 Lix levels.

And I'd like to playtest always-insert. I.e., airclicks cut the replay, but clicking lix doesn't cut the replay; instead, other lix' futures is preserved. How will it feel?

Let's see:
Livestream Saturday, August 22th at 14:00 UTC = 15:00 British DST = 16:00 CEST.

https://www.twitch.tv/simonnaar

-- Simon

As I've recently finished streaming kieran millar's QFK2, his custom L2 pack, I've decided to go back to roots a bit before taking on his custom L3 pack. In about an hour, at 5PM PST, I'm going to stream some NepsterLix. I've already solved all of NepsterLems back in 2023, though it took me nearly 3 years to do so, all courtesy of a level in the Black Hole rank which I was stuck on for a very long time. Am I still up to snuff with Nepster's levels after all this time? Let's find out!

Playlist link:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPAwon3nyH2E

Sorry, YouTube only, not Twitch. I don't even have an account for the latter, and I don't see myself signing up for one anytime soon

By the time I decided to give LPing a try, I had already solved too much of NepsterLems and hence decided to solve all of the pack offline. With NepsterLix, I can at least stream the entire thing from scratch, as I have never played any of it and some of these levels should be completely new to me due to not being ported over to NeoLemmix.

While this is to see how I fare with Nepster's custom Lix pack, this will also be as a way to provide feedback for the rewind to previous assignment feature, which I suggested to Simon to implement from a few years back. I'm sorry I left this hanging for so long without providing any feedback before it made its way into a stable Lix release During gameplay, I suspect I will miss the NL implementation, but you'll understand why once you see me use it a few times  

Added some extra spacing, recolored the lines, and removed the 'Release Rate' line:



The 'Release Rate' line not being there does look better if the level has a time limit. Without either (and especially if the level doesn't contain Neutrals or Zombies), the Preview screen suddenly looks a bit barren:



I prefer the button text being blue.

Thoughts?

Quote from: Guigui on August 19, 2026, 08:45:35 AMit just make more sense to have author not between level and pack name : you give all infos on the level and its position, then you give credits to its author

Putting the author immediately after the level title makes more sense because the level author and the pack author might be different.

Quote from: Simon on August 19, 2026, 07:05:55 PMTitle is important, and time limit is important (hide the entire line if no time limit). And the buttons along the bottom are important. Maybe reserve green for those buttons?

Green pops more and should be reserved for level info. I was thinking the buttons should be blue, and then nothing else in the level info should be blue.

Quote from: Simon on August 19, 2026, 07:05:55 PMTime limit line on preview is yellow ... Therefore time limit during play should be yellow, no?

OK

Perhaps it could be a box that you tick that adds it or not, i dont think id use it and dont really like the idea but i'd probably be ok if it was added as a mode you could turn on and off

@kieran

I'm very excited and am definitely looking forward to playing your custom L3 pack in the coming weeks! L3 kind of suffers from the exact same problem with the clunky engine but even moreso than L2's. There are some similarities with one another, such as how in L3 you just need to save 1 Lemming in order to progress and similarly, how there's only 20 Lemmings per level (despite only 10 being active on the screen at any time) instead of 60 like in L2. Even then, from my full LP of L3 from last year (that was also the very first time I have ever played L3), I definitely see the game has plenty of potential that unfortunately, like L2, has left a lot of unexplored territory. From what I read of Simon's feedback in this topic, it sounds like you did a great job of filling in those gaps. From another topic, it also sounds like Clam Spammer did a great job here with their custom L3 Egyptian pack as well, though it's only for one tribe rather than all 3 tribes like your custom L3 pack.

In any case, very excited to play the custom L3 stuff in the future and to see its potential unlocked with what you made of it with your pack! I will need to first take some time to prepare and relearn the controls, as I have completely forgotten them as I haven't played any L3 since my LP of the game last year kieran's custom Lemmings stuff is just excellent for which I can definitely recommend others play, with the warning that they're very hard. I'm sure I'll enjoy his custom L3 pack, especially as I love hard levels in the game of Lemmings!