The previous update broke the stone brick recipe. Here's a fix

[Edit:] Also released v1.10.18 due to the game not starting up at all. Must have made a mistake during the build process ‾\_(ツ)_/‾
[Edit:] Also release v1.10.19 to actually fix stone bricks not craftable and to fix the game crashing when creating a first new world.


Screenshot and build by zorne

Game updates

• Fixed: Throwing a stone through a water fall made it go all slo-mo
• Fixed: Stone bricks uncraftable. It now works as follows: Chisel+Hammer+Rock = Polished Rock; Chisel+Hammer+Polished Rock = 2x Polished Rock slab; Chisel+Hammer+Polished Rock Slab = 4x stone bricks

This release fixes a number of minor issues with the current v1.10.15. Some changes were significant, so releasing it as unstable for now.

[Edit:] v1.10.16 is now also online!

Screenshot by MarcAFK

Game updates (v1.10.16)

• Fixed: Dead animals were no longer harvestable
• Fixed: Should fix a crash related to troughs
• Fixed: Sign post text overlapping by a letter
• Fixed: Missing block names for flowers in flowerpots in the block info hud
• Fixed: Z-Fighting when dropping carpets on the ground

Game updates (v1.10.16-rc.1)

• Tweak: Moving items from hoppers into troughs should now fully work
• Tweak: Sleeping now drains satiety
• Tweak: Crafting polished rock now also requires a hammer
• Tweak: Can now craft polished rock slabs
• Tweak: Made foxes snow-dive a bit more often into snow blocks
• Tweak: Can now place items into hoppers also in survival mode
• Fixed: Able to harvest meat/leather/fat from living creatures
• Fixed: Should fix falling storage vessel always drawn as a plain clay vessel
• Fixed: Unable to pick up colored lanterns
• Fixed: Might fix some derpiness with traders refreshing their inventories
• Fixed: Some incorrect naming of blocks
• Fixed: Rare client crash
• Fixed: Should fix yet another crash related to crocks
• Fixed: Should fixed path slabs applying their speed bonus twice. In return I gave stone path blocks an overall 10% speed bonus
• API Tweak: Tool molds should now print an extra error message if the drop config has a json syntax error
• API Fixed: Should fix unable to modify the lanterns hsv values

We've decided to turn one of the very first versions of the game, v1.0.2 into a freeware download available for everyone. If you have never tried VS or want to take a trip down memory lane, this might interest you. I personally was really surprised how much of the "Vintage Story Feel" there already was and it felt good to give that old release some attention

Get VS Classic for free at info.vintagestory.at/classic

Fixes an annoying crash. Blame @copygirl for the update

[Edit:] Also released v1.10.12 and v1.10.13 to fix major issues with meals. Sorry for the update spam, messed up, will do better next time.
[Edit2:] Also released v1.10.14 and v1.10.15 to fix major crash issues when creating a new world
 

Screenshot by Quin

Game updates

• Fixed: Game crashing when looking at a certain bowl with a meal
• Fixed: Falling items and animals stepping on/off blocks rotating twice as fast when dynamic shadows are enabled
• Fixed: Missing names on Mudbrick slabs and ashforest storage vessel
• (API) Fixed: BroadcastPacket() packets were not sent to connecting players, causing weird issues, such as the current weather pattern changing in an instant shortly after connecting in some cases.

Screenshot and Build by Soloquendi

Game updates

• Tweak: Stone tool balancing
  • Stone axes are 10-20% slower, but therefore have 20 more durability (from 30 to 50)
  • +10 extra durability for stone knifes
  • +5 extra durability for stone shovels
• Tweak: Soil/Gravel/Sand Blocks no longer show their fertility value in the itemstack tooltip as it is of no use to the player. Tillable soil will show the fertility value that it will have when tilled though
• Fixed: Should fix a rare client crash
• Fixed: Inconsistent naming of polished rock
• Fixed: Cooked bread and meat spoiling faster than intended
• Fixed: Mudbrick slab crafting recipe not working
• Fixed: Might fix a strange client crash related to placing sign posts
• Fixed: Might fix a rare client crash related to the ambient sounds system
• Fixed: Some crafting recipes not listed in the handbook (e.g. the page on rot did not list that it can be used to make compost)
• Fixed: Traders that haven't been visited for a long time would only run their restock procedure once instead of multiple times.
• Fixed: Very low chance of fixing an issue related to mouse cursor lag on Arch linux (switched some floats to doubles maybe that caused a cumulative rounding error)
• Fixed: Multiplayer server listing not getting saved properly
   
• API Tweak: ModMaker3000™ fixes. Removed ability to extract anything but json files (because buggy). That also means it only has to download the server archive (15 mb instead of 280mb) for comparison. Fixes also an issue that it doesn't find previously downloaded assets. Fixed some crashes related to missing files.

Due to a rather serious freeze-of-death bug in the handbook, here's yet another release. Yay


This time no windows to blame for a BSOD!
 

Game updates

• Feature: Can now place/take 4 times as much items to/from firewood, plate ingot and peat piles while also holding the sprint button
• Tweak: Flowering berry bushes and semi mature crops are now considered bee and butterfly feed
• Tweak: Can now craft lanterns also from glass instead of clear quartz
• Tweak: Can now sprint and sneak at the same time
• Tweak: Sneaking is now about 7% slower
• Tweak: Removed light mudbrick slab until the texture for it is ready
• Tweak: Can now right click with bowl in hands on a barrel of pickled food to fill the bowl
• Tweak: Cobble slabs now break as fast as full cobble stone blocks
• Tweak: ModMaker now shows download progress. But still bugged.
• Tweak: Removed collision box from knapping surfaces to be less annoying with players intersecting and not able to place it close by
• Tweak: Added "knap" interaction help to loose stones
• Fixed: Might fix wolves sometimes not becoming aggro upon hitting them
• Fixed: More derpiness with the handbook. Looking at some items froze the game and ate up all available memory. Lantern texture broken again. Should now be fixed for good, hopefully.
• Fixed: More derpiness with crocks/bowls when moving or eating portions of pickled vegetables. Eating pickled vegetables from a bowl yielded no satiety gain
• Fixed: Using the search function in the handbook always listed the text pages in the search results
• Fixed: Able to shift click items into harvested carcass inventory and items becoming invisible from that
• Fixed: Block interaction help not centered on the block for some blocks    
• Fixed: Chiseled blocks too light
• Fixed: Rare crash during grid crafting

This update adds crafting recipes for mud bricks and you can now place your peat brick collection on to the ground, huzzah!

Game updates

• Feature: Can now create peat stacks
• Feature: Added recipes for crafting mud bricks and mud brick slabs. Downside: Has a 15% chance to disappear upon breaking
• Tweak: Cob now also has 15% chance to disappear upon breaking
• Tweak: Extinct firepit stop smoking after about 24 ingame hours
• Tweak: Gems now show their potential in the item info (for a not-near future gem cutting thing)
• Tweak: Reduced diamond drop rate from suevite by 50%
• Tweak: At long last, completed implementation of the /group help command.
• Fixed: Female Arctic and Desert hares not spawning
• Fixed: Not able to place flowers in planter
• Fixed: Water fall particles in spots where there shouldn't be
• Fixed: Certain meals in bowls rendered differently in gui than in hands
• Fixed: Might fix a crash when placing a cooked pot
• Fixed: Barrel grid recipe no longer in the handbook
• Fixed: Lanterns in handbook having broken textures
• Fixed: Propick result links for cassiterite and coal did not open the appropriate handbook page
• Fixed: Grinding properties of items were not documented in the handbook
• Fixed: Bush meat in barrel texture missing

This update should in theory solve some of the game jitter issues when VSync is enabled, fix that bees are way to rare, make finding wild beehives a bit easier, make hares till your gardens a bit more gently, fix a bug or 2 with land claiming work and other stuff

Also traders restock their wallet as well now, so you can revisit a (financially) broken trader every once in a while to keep selling him stuff. If only I could program such mechanic in real life

[Edit:] Also release v1.10.7 to fix some crashes related to rotten meals!

Game updates

• Tweak: Hare crop stealing nerf
  • Now eats half as much to become full
  • Now stays full twice as long
  • Will no longer break onion and rice crops
• Tweak: Wild Beehive buzzing sound is now louder
• Tweak: Reduced the latency for ambient sounds and ambient particles to appear. Should in theory at the same time also be a bit performance optimized (Technical detail: The ambient sound scanner no longer does a thread lock() and dictionary lookup on every block it scans. Reduced search range from 40 to 37 blocks resulting in a reduced search size from ~500k blocks to ~400k)
• Tweak: Minor server side performance optimization (Technical Detail: Game tick listeners lists are now defragmented during autosave, saving some overall cpu cycles every game tick. Used to, in some cases, iterate over a list of 11.000 entries every tick, now it should average to 1.000 or less)
• Tweak: New version overlay now has a mouse hover overlay and pointer mouse cursor to give a better indication that its clickable
• Tweak: Nerfed Suevite diamond drop chance from 3% to 1%
• Tweak: Traders now restock every 7 days instead of every 14
• Tweak: Traders now also restock 7-28% of their rusty gears in the same restock interval
• Tweak: Updated trader/buying selling lists. Fixes also some vessels offered by the trader haven the wrong name
• Tweak: Added some tools to better debug issues with performance, land claiming and berry bushes (Tyron needs this mostly for himself :D)
• Tweak: Added command /autosavenow to trigger an autosave
• Fixed: Beehives hardly ever spawning
• Fixed: Farmland that is adjacent to water, but where the water is in another chunk not properly growing
• Fixed: Able to user or break claimed blocks in some cases
• Fixed: A few texture memory leaks
• Fixed: Some parts of the game not transatable to other languages (e.g. the names of keybinds)
• Fixed: Should fix some derpyness with rotten food in pots and bowls
• Fixed: Should fix some crops not growing in offloaded chunks if their water source block was in another chunk
• Fixed: Should fix jittery lag / stutter for some players
• API Tweak: Added IBlockAccessor.SearchBlocks
• API Fixed: block.GetBehavior arg withInheritance not working

This update should now actually double the day and night time length and has some other minor, yet valuable fixes in it.
This does affect how long it takes for a day and night to pass by, as well as how many real life minutes it takes for food to spoil and how long it takes for crops to grow. Do let me know how the double daytime length feels like and if its worth keeping!

Screenshot by extranji

Game updates

• Tweak: Actually doubled day and night time length now
• Tweak: Can now also seal crocks with beeswax
• Tweak: Added command /time calendarspeedmul to only modify the calendar time speed
• Tweak: Added .clientconfig extraGammaLevel 1.3 so players can get old style gamma correction back. Fixed .recordingMode command as well
• Tweak: Drifters should walk away from the players earlier during dawn
• API Tweak: Padlock also checks for BlockBehaviorLockable that are inherited (for Novocain)
• Fixed: Worldedit movetool applied the move amount twice
• Fixed: Worldedit import tool rotate did not work and caused an exception when a trough was being rotated
• Fixed: Worldedit import tool rotate did not rotate entities
• Fixed: Translocators only connecting to other exit points in south or east directions
• Fixed: Exception thrown by /land info
• Fixed: Occasional server side exception related to leaf decay
• Fixed: Typos in the land claim info texts
• Fixed: /land claim start and /land claim end displaying absolute coordinates
• Fixed: /land claim s[n/e/s/w/u/d] missing to shrink a selection
• Fixed: Can no longer save empty claims

So many hotfixes! This one fixes a rather annoying crash when looking at certain cooking pots. Also did some other stuff! I'll stop the update spam if you stop finding crash bugs!

Game updates

• Tweak: Made hares half as ravenous
• Tweak: Reduced contrast by 5%
• Fixed: Female and baby hares not spawning
• Fixed: Some cooking pots crashing the game when looked at
• API
  • Fixed: Block patch configs with invalid block codes now prints an error and doesn't thrown an exception
  • Fixed: Should fix modded cooking pots not rendering with the right texture source
  • Fixed: Entity spawn config with companions: Now logs a warning if the companion entities do not exist

Making food spoil correctly is harder than one might think! This release fixes some more annoying issues with sealed crocks not perishing at the right speed. Also Cinnabar and Anthracite have a use and the chests in underground translocator rooms have loot now, woo!

[Edit:] Also release v1.10.3 to fix a client crash related to shelves!


build by @DrTenabrae

Game updates

• Tweak: Chests in Teleporter rooms now have loot
• Tweak: Cinnabar is now a red pigment (=can write with it on signs)
• Tweak: Anthracite is now a long lasting fuel
• Tweak: Rot now only burns half as long
• Tweak: Can now also right click on the crop itself to fertilize the farmland below
• Tweak: Can no longer seal barrels when there is no matching sealable recipe
• Tweak: Compost now requires 64 rot instead of 60
• Tweak: Fertilizer properties are now displayed in the item info
• Tweak: Colored glass is now listed in the handbook
• Tweak: Updated some of the other ruin loot
• Fixed: Crocks sometimes facing the wrong direction when placed on shelves
• Fixed: More issues with sealed Crocks and spoilage info
• Fixed: Eating from placed meal bowls did not reduce service size correctly
• Fixed: Added some missing translations when cooking with cured meat

Game updates

• Feature: Can now add cured meat to soups and meat stews
• Feature: Updated main menu backgrounds
• Tweak: Patches of berry bushes are now only half as big (during world generation)
• Tweak: Changed main menu intro music from 'night to day' to 'nostalgic'
• Tweak: Added client command to export single block/item icons, e.g. via .exponepng item 500 firewood
• Tweak: Added /serverconfig description command to set a servers description
• Fixed: Sealed crocks inside containers and on shelves did not give the 10x preservation bonus
• Fixed: Might fix a rare crash related to breaking containres
• Fixed: Fix players not able to ignite forges if there is a block above
• Fixed: Cheap hack to fix harvesting carcasses often yielding nothing
• Fixed: Should fix macro editor not working (not able to set any macros)
• Fixed: Should fix a rare server crash related to teleporting
• API Fixed: Patching of modded files was not possible

Screenshot by squibbletoons
 

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Please remember to apply the remappings to update your old worlds!

Game updates

• See rc.1 blog post and rc.2 blog post
   
• Updates since rc.3
  • Tweak: Propick readings now takes deposit min/max depths into consideration
  • Tweak: Propicking in creative mode is now instant, it no longer needs several samples.
  • Fixed: Crash reporter not launching when running the game through the mod samples project
  • Fixed: Server throwing an exception on startup for some players
  • Fixed: A Crock in a chest displayed wrong fresh durations
  • Fixed: Hopefully fix the GL Error on startup for real this time
  • Fixed: Should fix a crash related to crocks or pots
  • Fixed: Server throwing an exception on startup for some players
  • API Fixed: Crash reporter not launching when running the game through the mod samples project

This update should (hopefully now for real :D) fix the last issues in v1.10, again assuming this to be the last release candidate before the first stable. I also couldn't help but add a few excellent ideas from the community as well

[Edit:] Also released rc.4 to fix an issue with the game calendar and to make pro-pick readings more accurate (but may have completely broken it too).
 

Game updates

• Feature: Added writable sign posts (suggested by @spacewolfcub), can be written to in the same way as signs, in any of the 8 cardinal/intercardinal directions. Check the handbook on how to craft them.
• Feature: Olivine can now be smelted into green glass (suggested by @DrTenabrae)
• Tweak: Players now loose 50% of their nutrients upon death
• Fixed: Typing < or > in chat displayed as &lt; and &gt; above players heads
• Fixed: Should fix a crash with the crock
• Fixed: Several memory leaks
• Fixed: GL Error being thrown in some cases, crashing the game with gl debug mode on
• Fixed: Should fix crocks sometimes invisible when placed on shelves
• Fixed: Calendar not properly stopping on dedicated servers when everybody disconnects
• Fixed: Maybe actually fixes the translocators not teleporting back \o/
• API Feature: New server side property for @Melchior: IServerPlayer.LanguageCode
• API Tweak: Tweak for @Novocains seawater

Game updates

• Tweak: Suevite rock now drops diamonds with a 3% chance
• Tweak: Writing on signs and labelled chests will now return the pigment with a 85% chance
• Tweak: Added /settlpos to set a translocator position for players with the setspawn privilege
• Tweak: Entity debug mode now less laggy
• Fixed: Might fix issue with translocators not connecting up properly
• Fixed: Game crashing in some cases, mostly when interacting with rotten meals or crocks
• Fixed: Meal Serving size below 5% not being displayed and logging an error
• Fixed: Server with broken playerdata config throwing unclear exception. Now it logs which file error'd
• API Tweak: Added perishSpeedModifier to the survival mod config to tweak global perish speed
• API Tweak: Crock more easily moddable

Some Screenshots and Videos

Spoilage: Food now stays fresh for a set amount of days, then begins to spoil,  ultimately turning into rot
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Preserve Food: You can now build cellars to make food last longer. Can place food into crocks and storage vessels for an additional preservation bonus. Crocks can be stored on shelves.

Can now make barrels to pickle vegetables, cure meat, create compost, create limewater and mortar and to store honey or water

Static translocators are now repairable, which will yield in a random, yet permanent, 2-way connection with another place in the world.



Greatly improved visuals: VS is prettier than ever with new water shader effects, water stream particles, much improved dynamic shadows, much improved color grading and contrast, improved sun/moon rendering and shading, loaded world edge smoothing, tree leaves swaying and more

Can now create colored lights in survival mode

Many new flower pot variants, several storage vessel variants, all sold by a new artisan trader type

All Game updates

• Feature: Food spoilage
  • All food items now have a certain duration where they are fresh after which they will slowly, and visibly begin to rot. Once completely rotten the item will turn into inedible rot
  • The speed at which food spoils depends on the food type and how they are stored. All containers now show their spoilage rate in the block info
  • Pro-Tips:
    • Cooking or Preserving food makes it slightly fresher
    • Keeping a pot of cooked food above 75° keeps it from spoiling
    • A hot climate is a food killer. Spoilage rates there are up to 2.5 times faster. On the bright side, placing food in a cellar will completely mitigate that problem. Extremely cold climates makes food spoil up to 10 times slower.
       
• Feature: Food preservation
  • Added Cellars: Dark spaces are recognized by the game and food spoils slower there. Spaces enclosed in soil or rock are also recognized and will additionally slow down the spoilage rates
  • Added Storage vessels: Made from clay, these vessels can store food items. Stored grains and vegetables get an extra preservation bonus.
  • Added Crocks: For long term storage of cooked food and pickled vegetables. Added crock shelves to store up to 8 crocks. Crock mechanics are still a bit wonky/unfinished in pre.1
     
• Feature: Improved cooked meals
  • Added Jam: Can now create jam from 2 honey + 2 berries
  • Cooked meals now give a lofty satiety bonus of +50%
  • Partial servings: The player no longer wastes meals when overeating. You will only eat as much as you have satiety left to fill
  • Fixed honey and soybean not adding anything to meals
  • Meals can now also spoil. To remove a rotten meal, throw the pot into water and let it soak for a while
     
• Feature: New crafting mechanic: The Barrel
  • Lets you pickle vegetables which last longer than fresh ones
  • Let's you cure meat which last longer than raw meat
  • Lets you mix quicklime with water to create slaked lime. Mix again with sand to create mortar. Mortar is now required to craft stone brick blocks or clay brick blocks. Quicklime is created by baking lime, whereas lime can be created by crushing chalk or limestone stones.
  • Lets you create compost from 60 pieces of rot. Compost is a high fertility soil useful for farming
  • Barrel recipes are now listed in the handbook
     
• Feature: Healing/Satiety/Nutrient rebalance
  • Most foods no longer heal the player
  • Added very slow self healing. Self healing is reduced when the player is below 75% satiety. Self healing costs additonal satiety
  • You now need to rely on poultices to heal yourself. (One more healing item will be addded still)
  • Upped max satiety from 1200 to 1500. Satiety drains 10% faster. Attacking creatures costs a bit of extra satiety
  • Nutrients now drain twice as slow
     
• Feature: Berry bush rebalance
  • Can no longer be harvested instantly. Now takes about a 0.6 seconds for each bush
  • Take 3-4 more days to flower and ripen
  • Ripe berry bushes will revert to their empty state after about 20 days
     
• Feature: Static translocator are now repairable
  • These devices that you have already found underground in v1.9, can now be repaired with gears and metal parts. Once repaired, they will connect to another translocator somewhere on the map and allow transport between both locations
     
• Feature: First steps towards automation mechanics: Hoppers and Chutes
  • Can now craft hoppers and chutes that will move items from one container to another. Championed by Tatsu and Redram \o/
     
• Feature: Greatly improved visuals
  • Feature: The sides of blocks are now illuminated depending on the sun and moon position
  • Feature: Improved dusk/dawn ambient. The sun now also becomes orange/red during dusk/dawn and the ambient colors during those time are more aesthetically pleasing
  • Feature: The edge of the loaded world now fades into the sky, i.e. hard chunk edges are less visible now
  • Feature: Leaves now sway in the wind
  • Feature: The held items in first person mode now sway a bit
  • Feature: The moon is no longer just a white rectangle. It has an actual texture to it now.
  • Feature: Greatly improved water visuals
    • Added fresnel effect (looking straight down makes water transparent, looking at it at a steep makes it opaque)
    • Added foamy water edge shading effect
    • Added a "glittery" effect that moves across the waters surface
    • Added stream particles for moving water
    • Particles are now affected my moving water
    • Improved water splash particles
  • Feature: Added Glowy lava edge shading effect
  • Tweak: Much improved gamma correction. Turns gamma correction was wrongly implemented making the game dark and washed out. Vintage Story overall ambient now looks much better and less is less eye-straining
  • Tweak: Improved falling block entity visuals. They are no longer jittery while falling and less likely flicker upon dropping/landing
  • Tweak: Added rotation smoothing when turning around in overhead camera mode. Used to be jittery when turning around.
  • Tweak: Particles of boyant blocks are now also boyant
  • Tweak: Reduce block z-fighting issues (glass + ice was z-fighting)
  • Tweak: The forge looks more like a forge by reducing its inset depth
  • Tweak: Polished the godrays effect a bit. Dusks no longer have intensified god rays (Dawns still do)
  • Fixed: Several visual glitches with dynamic shadows are now gone or significantly reduced
  • Fixed: Mitigated lacking water fog and ambient visuals while under water in the night
     
• Feature: Ingame documentation improvements
  • Added handbook page on prospecting
  • Added held item/block interaction help \o/
     
• Feature: Colored lights in survival mode - can now apply colored glass to lanterns to make them emit colored light
• Feature: Can now name chiseled blocks
• Feature: New Blocks
  • Added large vessel, a 12 slot container
  • Added new small flower pot textures. Updated small flower pot models.
  • Added new flower pot variants. added new pickled vegetable models. other stuff. BEAnimatable now more simplified (moved the code to a utility class)
     
• Feature: Added Artisan Trader
  • Will sell you some very decorative flower pots and storage vessels that cannot be acquired anywhere else
     
• Feature: PvP/PvE Improvements
  • Added "ding" sound whenever player hits a creature with a projectile (stone, spear or arrow)
  • You can now hide your own player tag by sneaking
     
• Feature: Farmland fertilizer
  • Can now be fertilized with potash, bonemeal and saltpeter. Allows to (temporarily) increase the fertility of soil to 100%.
  • Fixed some oddities about farmland
  • Natural nutrient recovery is now 3 times slower
  • All killed animals now also yield bones. Breaking ribcages in the desert drops bones
  • Sylvite can now be ground into potash and bones can be ground into bonemeal
     
• Feature: Can now flip hand slot contents with hotkey 'X'
• Feature: Stacked bamboo can now be placed sideways like logs
• Feature: Added -pw argument to VintageStory.exe commandline to connect to a server with a password
• Feature: Looking at killed creatures/players now show which player killed it
• Feature: Worldmap waypoints now show the waypoint number for easy reference when wanting to delete them again
• Feature: Added confirm dialog for external links
• Feature: Added server description text section for public servers
• Feature: Added "Open For All" toggle for the public server lists
• Feature: Harvestable killed creatures now show if their drop rate is reduced because they fell from a large height or were killed by another animal
• Tweak: World generation changes
  • Ore/Mineral Deposit tweaks
    • Made iron ore deposits 20 times rarer but 10 times bigger.
    • Decreased the occurrence of a cinnabar ore
    • Increased occurence of salt by adding rare but massive salt dome deposits
    • Reduced surface copper deposit sizes (but should still spawn about the same amount of loose copper bits)
    • Reduced occurence of fire clay deposits, therefore made them thicker
       
  • Fixed a long lasting bug with child deposits (gold, quartz, sylvite and silver in galena) not properly generating
  • Fixed: Fixed worldgen having a strong bias to only generate a small subset of all possible trader outpost variants
  • Fixed: World gen towards north being forever ice mountains
     
• Tweak: Gameplay balancing changes
  • Can now craft hoes from stone and fllint
  • High fertility soil is now called "Terra Preta" and has +5% more fertility.
  • Locust now run about 10% faster and do 1.5 damage instead of 1
  • Buffed cob recipe, now yields 10 instead of 8 cob
  • Doubled temporal gear drop rate
  • Doubled feather drop rate from hens and roosters
  • Doubled max stacksize for feathers and flax twine
  • Female bunnies also eat crops now like their male counterpart
  • Hares can no longer spawn on farmland
  • Debuffed fat, now gives half as much satiety
  • Standing still reduced satiety drain by a factor of 3. Now will only do this while standing still AND not interacting with the world.
  • The forge now only accepts up to 5 coal instead of 10
  • Wooden clubs and handbaskets are now combustible
  • Halite can now be ground into salt
  • Bows are now a bit more accurate when standing still and when getting the timing right
  • Increase satiety drain by 10%
  • Halved damage taken from starving
     
• Tweak: Loot vessels are now called "Cracked vessel" and the texture now has visible cracks.
• Tweak: Barren soil is now called just "Soil". Depleted soil (only in creative mode) is now Barren soil.
• Tweak: Firepit gui no longer shows 20 degrees C, but "Cold"
• Tweak: Improved translation support
• Tweak: Bony remains of animals now linger 14 days instead of 7
• Tweak: Small overall graphics performance improvement (technical info: Full screen render passes are now done with 1 triangle instead of 2, improving cache locality)
• Tweak: The survival goods trader will now also sell halite, the commodities trader now also sells potash
• Tweak: Varius small improvements on the handbook (now lists tall gass and fire pits)
• Tweak: Chromite, Pentlandite, Rhodochrosite and Cinnabar now only spawn deep down below
• Tweak: Tripled the chance for beehives to spawn
• Tweak: Mitigate white pixel on world map bug: You can now place a block on an affected spot to fix it
• Fixed: Leaf block decay not working since v1.9 O__O
• Fixed: Player character not centered in the create character dialog
• Fixed: Multiple visual and physics glitches with locusts
• Fixed: Bunch of minor glitches when harvesting carcasses
• Fixed: Memory leak in knapping surface block
• Fixed: Several memory leaks when leaving a game world
• Fixed: Player swim sound not distance-attenuated
• Fixed: Many fox sounds were not playing
• Fixed: Game crashing when left clicking with chisel in hands
• Fixed: Mushroom inside meals giving fruit nutrients instead of vegetable
• Fixed: Squeezing honey comb with a full inventory made the beeswax disappear
• Fixed: Major issue with entities turning invisible, e.g. after sleeping
• Fixed: Should fix .tfedit and .bsedit generatic json code with commas instead of dots, which is not valid json
• Fixed: Should fix music not stopping when starting a track in the echo chamber
• Fixed: Mechanical power blocks not affected by fog
• Fixed: Rare server side exception related to block containers
• Fixed: Able to pour lead into tool molds
• Fixed: Locusts spawned from nests not acting as one herd
• Fixed: Issue with sun lighting where completly closing up any access to sunlight an empty space would not make it pitch black
• Fixed: Block interaction help consuming a lot of CPU power when displaying interactions on a block
• Fixed: Not able to sell linen bags to trader
• Fixed: Breaking Chests not dropping the right block
   

Game Server/Multiplayer updates:

• Feature: Can now filter out whitelisted and password protected servers from the public servers list
• Feature: Improved player privilege system. There is now the ability to deny privileges to specifically take away a privilege granted by a players role.  New commands:
  • /player [playername] privilege deny
  • /player [playername] privilege removedeny
• Feature: Can now also grant/revoke/deny player privileges through commands while the player is offline.
• Tweak: Added server command /debug rebuildlandclaimpartitions
• Fixed: Server welcome message configuration was ingored. Added ability to set welcome message also via "/serverconfig welcomemessage" or "/serverconfig motd"
• Fixed: Multiple issues with player animations, player held item poses and their current active hotbar slot. Most notably in multiplayer
• Fixed: Can no longer ignite claimed blocks
• Fixed: Able to fill beenades on claimed skeps
   

API Updates:

• Engine concept change: The name, description and icon of ItemStacks are now container-aware. That means it is now possible for an item stacks icon, name or description to change depending on what inventory it is in. This required several refactors. Amongst others:
  • IRenderAPI.GetItemStackRenderInfo(ItemStack itemstack,....) is now obsolete, use the new IRenderAPI.GetItemStackRenderInfo(ItemSlot itemstack,....)
  • Refactor: Collectible.GetHandbookInfo changed first argument from ItemStack to ItemSlot
  • Refactor: Itemstack.GetDescription added 'ItemSlot inSlot' argument
     
• Feature: Increased block id range by a factor of 30. Instead of the 65k block id limit we now have 2 million block ids. Be aware though that the game is not optimized yet to handle 2 million different blocks.
• Feature: Added texture overlay rendering to the InventoryItemRenderer. Supply overlay texture in renderInfo.OverlayTexture
• Feature: New block type property: Collectible.PerishableProps
• Feature: Block and Item description texts can now display rich text (using VTML)
• Feature: Added sapi.WorldManager.PeekChunkColumn() to generate a chunk column without actually loading it. Also completely bypasses any previoulsy generated chunk data.
• Feature: Added CollectibleObject.OnCreatedByCrafting(). A method that is called when the collectible was created during grid crafting
• Feature: Added ability to set a player role and grant/revoke playe privileges. There is now a new submodule at sapi.Server.PermissionManager for that. Moved/Removed all privilege related api methods to that subapi.
• Feature: Added method EntityBehavior.DidAttack
• Feature: added 3 new methods to BlockBehavior: OnBlockInteractStop, OnBlockInteractStep and OnBlockInteractCancel
   
• Refactor: Refactor permissions api, everything is now in sapi.Permissions. Can now also set a players role.
• Refactor: All geometry no longer has baked block side shading, instead TesselateShape() now generates vertex normals (packed into the renderFlags array) upon which they are shaded. This might break some block side shading for some renderers, in most cases you only need to do meshdata.rgba2=null; before uploading the mesh
• Refactor: Changed first argument in Collectible.GetHeldItemInfo() from ItemStack to ItemSlot
• Refactor: Renamed IRenderAPI.DeleteTexture() to IRenderAPI.RemoveTexture()
• Refactor: in IRenderAPI `int GetOrLoadTexture(AssetLocation name, BitmapRef bmp);` is now `void GetOrLoadTexture(AssetLocation name, BitmapRef bmp, ref LoadedTexture intoTexture);`
• Refactor: For all API methods that required or returned a blockid the data type is now int instead of ushort
• Refactor: IWorldAccessor.Blocks/Items/Recipes are now Lists instead of arrays
• Refactor: api.Event.ChunkColumnGeneration event handler now has to accept an additional argument: , ITreeAttribute chunkGenParams = null
• Refactor: Changed Block.GetPlacedBlockName(IClientWorldAccessor world, BlockPos pos) to Block.GetPlacedBlockName(IWorldAccessor world, BlockPos pos)
• Refactor: Renamed api.WorldManager.ResendChunk() to api.WorldManager.BroadcastChunk(). Added api.WorldManager.SendChunk() to send a chunk to an individual player
• Refactor: vertexFlags.WindWave is now vertexFlags.GrassWindWave
• Refactor: Collectible.GetDropsForHandbook(IWorldAccessor world, BlockPos pos, IPlayer byPlayer) is now Collectible.GetDropsForHandbook(ItemStack handbookStack, IPlayer forPlayer)
• Refactor: Block behavior HorizontalOrientable: Replaced "dropBlock" code with "drop" property where one can supply a fully qualified itemstack with attributes
• Refactor: Renamed api.WorldManager.GetNextHerdId() into api.WorldManager.GetNextUniqueId()
• Refactor: Refactored Shaders removed prog.PrepareUniformLocations(). Uniform locations are now automatically found and prepared.
• Refactor: Block.TryPlaceBlockForWorldGen() changed datatype of last argument from Random to LCGRandom
• Refactor: Collectible.GetHandbookInfo() changed datatype of last argument from Action<string> to ActionConsumable<string>
   
• Tweak: Dropped code obfuscation on about 30.000 lines of game code, mostly related to client side rendering
• Tweak: Doors should be more easily moddable. The door class should work even with other variant groups added
• Tweak: The full crucible block now has an "emptiedBlockCode" attribute
• Tweak: Added IRenderAPI.GetOrLoadTexture(AssetLocation name, ref LoadedTexture intoTexture)
• Tweak: On shader compile errors the game engine now logs which shader code line error'd
• Tweak: Added Attribute IServerChunk.GameVersionCreated. New chunks now remember their game version they were created (but not completed) with
• Tweak: BlockGenericTypedContainer now a bit easier to configure via json
• Tweak: Fence block tweak - added fenceConnect property to disable that fences connect to certain blocks (example: crate)
• Fixed: AI Task sounds not working when entity not in the default domain
• Fixed: Chest invisible when using BlockGenericTypedContainer not in the default domain
• Fixed: Game crashing when using ItemCreature class incorrectly
• Fixed: block.OnBlockInteractStop called twice on the server in some cases
• Fixed: Worldproperties files could not be in mod domains
• Fixed: Texture rotation not working
• Fixed: A wild card recipe that has one missing output variant would discard all subsequent variants of this recipe
• Fixed: Some derpiness with handbook links
• Fixed: Might fix issue with the dropBlock property for the HorizontalOrientable block behavior
• Removed obsolete api features:
  • inventory.QuantitySlots and inventory.GetSlotId()
  • ICairoFont interface
  • sapi.WorldManager.GetData and sapi.WorldManager.StoreData

Game updates

• Tweak: Undo one performance optimization from 1.9.12, only report I got is that it caused intermittent lag for two players
• Fixed: A minor privilege escalation issue on multiplayer servers. Nothing world-breaking but would annoy other players if not fixed. I recommend server owners to update to this version.
• Fixed: Game crashing when right clicking with chisel in hands while not looking at a block
• Fixed: Chiseled blocks were not reinforcable

API Updates

• Feature: Tool molds can now have multiple drops
• Fixed: Game crashing when using shape: { voxelizeTexture: true } on block types
• Fixed: Error reporter just rendering a black square when there were too many log lines, now capped at 180 lines

Until then, have a v1.9.11!. It fixes a few rare crashes, adds a few new blocks to survival mode, should improve bow and arrow and I also backported some of the performance improvements. 

[Edit:] Also release v1.9.12 to fix a server exception and all shingle blocks not listed in the handbook!

Game updates

• Feature: Added shingle blocks crafting to survival mode
• Feature: New painting titled 'Fish and the Rain'
• Tweak: Performance Tweaks
  • Perhaps slightly reduced lag spikes while discovering new terrain or while chunks are loading. Running the game with "optimize ram" off uses RAM a bit more liberally to perhaps gain a bit of extra stability. (Technical explanation: increased chunk data cache sizes)
  • Intermittent lag spikes and/or heavy short term ram usage should be slightly reduced (Technical explanation: found and removed a major contributor to short term but rather heavy memory usage)
  • Framerate should now be additionally a bit more stable while VSync is enabled, probably most notable when the CPU is bottlenecked (Technical explanation: disabled Thread.Sleep() from the core game loop to hit target frame rate while in VSync mode)
• Tweak: Gameplay balancing tweaks
  • Decreased underground ruin spawn and certain ruins rich in loot being too common
  • Bow strength increased by about 15% (arrows shoot further), Increased durability by 33%
• Tweak: Damage vignetting a bit more flashy
• Tweak: Placing a knapping surface in water no longer leaves an empty block, the water flows back in now
• Tweak: Added debug log to track down a crash related to clay forming
• Tweak: Updated translations
• Tweak: Updated ruin loot. also fixed some dungeon loot only ever had a stacksize of 1. This was not intentional.
• Tweak: Added gear and painting category for stack randomizers.
• Tweak: Improved fox and seraph watering animations
• Fixed: Arrows hitting a bit more reliably and acting less derpy
• Fixed: Able to chisel claimed and reinforced blocks
• Fixed: Might fix some odd rare crash when using a temporal gear
• Fixed: Should fix getting attacked causing players to get pushed into walls
• Fixed: Typing .reload crashing the game
• Fixed: Should fix a rare server side exception (OnGameWorldBeingSaved: System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteException (0x80004005): Library used incorrectly)
• Fixed: Iron doors not lockable
• Fixed: Wrong texture scaling on the chisel tool
• API Fixed: api.Event.PlayerChat - message not modifiable

Game updates

• Tweak: Added /emote laugh and /emote rage
• Tweak: Updated Portuguese translations
• Tweak: Tweaked flint drop rates
• Fixed: Should fix harvesting carcasses throwing an exception on the server and disconnecting the player
• Fixed: Should fix a rare random client crash
• Fixed: Game crashing when attempt to place an upside down stairs path block
• Fixed: Might fix issues with VSync not applied properly on startup (only after disabling and enabling it again)
• Fixed: Missing naming on wooden slabs
• Fixed: Should fix one case of the game crashing when panning with the neolithic mod
   

[Edit:] Released v1.9.9 to fix the following issues:

• Fixed: Game crashing when trying to put feed into a trough
• Fixed: Able to pour solidified metal in a crucible
• Fixed: Heating stuff on a forge then taking it off changed its temperature (client<=>server temperature desync)
• Tweak: Boosted hare hurt sound

Game updates (v1.9.8)

• Feature: Added 3d models for harvested carrots, onions, parsnips and turnips
• Tweak: Placing/Taking firewood from a pile animates the fp hand
• Tweak: Butterflies pitch up and down a bit when they fly up or down 
• Tweak: Updated translation files
• Fixed: Harvesting dead animals yielding only half the drops
• Fixed: More derpy player animations when using a tool + torch in off hand
• Fixed: Should fix a rare random crash
• Fixed: One empty space missing between name and text in the chat hud
• Fixed: Removed some useless / incorrect items from the trader tradelists
• Fixed: Butterflies now fly off if the flower they sit on was broken 
• Fixed: Game crashing when right clicking on a translocator
• Fixed: A few memory leaks less
• Fixed: Game crashing when resized to a very small window
• Fixed: /land claim grant <player> all did not grant use permissions
• Fixed: Butterfly chase-of-death
• Fixed: Game crashing when resized to 0/0 size
• Fixed one trader settlement type not spawning traders
• API Fixed: Bulk block accessor calling OnBlockBroken/OnBlockPlaced before all blocks were placed
• API Fixed: capi.KeyUp was not fired on key up events but on key down events

[Edit:] v1.9.7 is up as well now! Should fix a crash when loading/connecting to old worlds. Also Portuguese translations! 

This should be a nice one. Another animal added to the creature roster. Looks real nice in-game. Saraty and Luke did a great job on this one. We also added another important link in getting started on the game - text describing how some of the crafting mechanics work. Lastly we got improved game server connecting times and a new butterfly behavior \o/

I also did work some more on implementing the static translocator, but its not there yet.

As mentioned before, I will still do one or two more small-ish updates then begin work on another major feature release.
 

Screenshots

Added Hares. Don't forget to protect your crops
 

Added some basic crafting mechanic documentation to the survival handbook. In a future update perhaps well prettify it with animated gifs and stuff.

Added padlocks. These can be used to lock doors and chests so that other players cannot access it. You need to use it in combination with the block reinforcement or land claiming system for it to be effective.

Butterflies now sometimes chase eachother

 

Game updates

• Feature: Essential ingame documentation: The handbook now contains information on some of the game mechanics, such as knapping, clay forming and smithing
• Feature: Added Hares
  • Quickest animal in-game
  • Come in 9 variants, including a desert and arctic one
  • Will eat your crops or any loose vegetables dropped on the ground
  • Is hunted by foxes and wolves
• Feature: Added padlock item
  • Allows players to lock doors, trapdoors and chests
  • Most useful in combination with block reinforcement or land claiming
  • Created on the anvil from any bronze or iron (no functional difference between the metal versions)
• Feature: Improved game networking. Now compacts all data packets above 5 Kb. Should yield in much faster connecting and chunk loading times on slow/distant connections. Example: Initial connecting to a server now only needs to transmit 300 Kb instead of 8 Mb - a reduction by a factor of 25
• Feature: Added 3 new emotes and 2 new animations (hoeing and watering). Type /emote to see what emotes are available.
• Feature: Added butterfly chasing behavior. Sometimes butterflies fly after one another. Butterflies are slightly larger now.
• Tweak: Doubled strength of reinforced blocks. Reinforced blocks can no longer catch fire
• Tweak: Chickens now walk and flee somewhat faster
• Tweak: Can now right mouse click to pick up raw pot, raw ingot mold and raw tool mold
• Tweak: Shortened animals flee response time
• Tweak: Animals now a bit less idle
• Tweak: Animals killed through falling or by other animals now only have half the drops when harvested
• Tweak: Inside block rending now disabled when in creative mode
• Tweak: Added debug logging to clay forms for players that have their game freeze when they start to clay form
• Tweak: Added debug logging for Mac OS users where mouse / keyboard controls don't work properly
• Fixed: Bug in client position interpolation. Should fix
  • Dead animals floating in air
  • Players getting teleported on laggy connections
  • Animal movement more jerky than they should be
• Fixed: Debug text and name tags on dead animals not above their heads
• Fixed: Various bugs with the flower pot and planter
• Fixed: Rewrote recipe selection, should fix any issues where one recipe as chosen but another got selected
• Fixed: Using a temporal gear made it not disappear in other players hands
• Fixed: 3rd person clipping through walls (not 100% fixed but less now)
• Fixed: Two year old bug. Soil in inventory wrongly tinted.
• Fixed: Music no longer playing after a while
• Fixed: Traders not spawning in some cases
• Fixed: Rarely Lakes generating inside some trader huts
• Tweak/Fixed: Minor stuff. One possible cause of glitchy repeating animations, planting seeds now runs the place animation, might fix an issue with the plumb and square, first launch info dialog now adjusts to the height of the text, updated translations, tweaked fox spawn conditions

API Updates

• Feature: Completed work on BEAnimatable. Lets you animate block entities. See BlockEntityStaticTranslocator for an example
• Feature: Added networkapi.DidReceiveChannelId
• Tweak: Added RegistryObject.CodeWithVariant for entities, blocks and item. This method forms the future on how to get variants of the same block
• Tweak: Animals can now also eat loose items on the ground (current use: For Hares)
• Tweak: Collectible.Variant is now ordered, added
• Tweak: *byType and {type} is now recursively replaced  (i.e. can do {type} inside a byType "*" variant)
• Tweak: EntityPartioning.WalkEntities callback now with boolean return to stop the search
• Tweak: Filled Flower pots and planters now configured through json on what they drop
• Tweak: Cinematic camera system no longer obfuscated
• Tweak: Better crash feedback on wrong asset data in 2 cases (i.e. wrong entity texture)
• Fixed: ItemCreature did not respect creature mod domain
• Fixed: Creature interaction was not cancel-able through the action system

[Edit:] Release v1.9.5 to fix a major crash bug when starting the game for the first time using german translations. Changes:

• Tweak: Updated german translations file
• Fixed: Broken soup names
• Fixed: Game crashing on first startup under german language and thus basically unplayable
• Fixed: Console admin messages - name was not bold

[Edit2:] Something messed up with the v1.9.5 upload, had to release v1.9.6 as well, sowwi!
 

v1.9.4 Game updates

• Tweak: Player names in the chat are now bold. /announce text is now orange
• Tweak: Reduced amount of generations until animals are no longer fleeing from the player from 50 down to 30 
• Tweak: Removed 'install'/'reinstall' from server.sh. 'update' now only shows a hint on how to update the server manually
• Fixed: Should fix sand/gravel duplication bug
• Fixed: Should fix floating blocks after a fire
• Fixed: Trader dialog can not be opened
• Fixed: Pressing H on damaged tools not opening the handbook detail page
• Fixed: Looking at a cooking pot crashes the game
• Fixed: Game crashing when cancelling during while connecting / loading the world
• Fixed: Emotes not working in multiplayer
• Fixed: A bunch of memory leaks when exiting a world or server

This updates also includes some small changes on how save games are loaded, so for safety I recommend you make a backup of your worlds.

Amongst the countless bugfixes, this update contains several features, such as some updated animations and an emote system. You can now type /emote [shrug|wave|cry|cheer] to run an emote. We'll be adding more emotes and an easier system to run them in the future.

Here's a cheer emote, and a new custom animation for panning:
  

You can also see my name tag is in green - we now have entitlements! VS Team members are colored green and Supporters are colored gold.

Also there is now a new, rather drastic and experimental multiplayer feature - block reinforcement. You can now craft a "Plumb and Square" which, together with stones, copper, bronze or iron ingots in your hands, allows you to reinforce blocks so that they have to be broken multiple times to remove them (25 for stone, 75 for copper, 150 for tin bronze, 200 for black bronze and 400 for iron ingots). It's basically the first glimpse into an alternative, and more immersive, way to protect your stuff in multiplayer. Probably in v1.9.5 I'll also add smithable locks to prevent players from opening your doors and chests. However, if it significantly breaks game play we'll disable it by default. 
 

Full game updates list

• Feature: Added block reinforcement system. Can now reinforce blocks with a new tool called the "Plumb and Square". This results in players required to break the block multiple times before it really disappears. Requires a resource for reinforcing. Hard stones add 25 strength, copper ingots 75 strength, bronze around 200 and iron ingots 400 strength
• Feature: Added command .recordingmode to toggle a +20% boost to gamma and brightness
• Feature: Added /emote command to make emotes. Hint: You can use the macro manager (CTRL+M) to bind these to a keyboard key.
• Feature: 2 new seraph animations: Panning and two hand block placing
• Feature: Buyers of the supporter add-on now have a golden name tag, Vintage Story Team players have a green name tag
• Feature: Added panning animation, standing flint knapping animation, 2-hand place block animation and 4 emotes
• Feature: Can now break apart reed baskets and hand baskets with a knife in the crafting grid
• Tweak: Gameplay balancing changes
  • Increase chance of trader spawning by about 10%
  • Doubled max stack size for feathers
  • Halved beehive repop times
  • Halved animal breeding times
  • Seed loot vessel now drops more seed
  • Eating a cooked meal from a bowl now gives +20% nutrition boost
• Tweak: Added translators that contributed more than 100  words to the credits page
• Tweak: Holding Alt now inverts mouse grab with Immersive Mouse Mode on or off.
• Tweak: Oil lamps that are placed on the ground now fall down instead of popping of as an item
• Tweak: Slightly increased max drifter spawn quantity 
• Tweak: Seraph can finally sleep empty handed
• Tweak: Can now attach lanterns to the bottom side of fences
• Tweak: Middle mouse click to pick blocks now ignores anything in the off hand or back pack slots
• Tweak: The game now blends the light level if player holds a light source in the left and right hand
• Tweak: Updated language files
• Tweak: Improved glow level on extinct firepits
• Tweak: Berry bushes now show how many days they need to grow
• Tweak: The grid recipe slideshows shown in the handbook are a bit randomized so as to not give the false impression that e.g. only meteoric stone works for crafting stonepath
• Tweak/Fixed: Sleeping in beds no longer hider the GUIs and shows a hint on how to leave the bed
• Fixed: Might fix a rare crash related to clay forming
• Fixed: Breaking lanterns unstackable with crafted lanterns. Missing lantern names in the block info
• Fixed: Game crashing when placing huge amounts of firewood in one chunk
• Fixed: Can no longer xray by dropping gravel/sand onto the character. Now renders an inside block thing.
• Fixed: Should fix a rare crash while playing the game
• Fixed: Handbook did not rescale correctly when changing the GUI scale without restarting the game
• Fixed: Trader restocking created multiple buy/sell items of the same type
• Fixed: Purchasing from the treader created 0-stacksize gears
• Fixed: Oddities when sneak + right clicking with firewood on trapdoors
• Fixed: Game crashing when pressing H while hovering over a basket in the inventory
• Fixed: Offhand slot contents invisible after rejoining a server
• Fixed: Dead trader had missing name entry
• Fixed: Might fix a rare client crash
• Fixed: Missing trader sound log entry
• Fixed: Might fix broken soil textures on linux?
• Fixed: Coal not spawning in chert
• Fixed: Game version in the windows apps list not correctly displayed
• Fixed: Sneak+H on logs and leaves did not open the detail page
• Fixed: Contents of Chests and firepits lost on rare occasion upon reload/reconnect of the world
• Fixed: A very old bug in the block id remapper that causes some blocks to be missing the first time a mod was added or removed, when loading up a world, in certain cases.

API Updates

• Feature: Added field RuntimeEnv.DebugOutOfRangeBlockAccess to debug world generation issues
• Tweak: Can now define a theme packs texture size in the modinfo.json to fix the rendering issue with topsoil
• Fixed: Large decal textures crashing the game
• Fixed: Entity actions left mouse and right mouse could not be prevented
• Fixed: Should fix that the block/item/entity shape rotations are not propagated to its variants
• Fixed: Empty cooking pot code is now configurable

we seem to have stirred some controversy over the most recent update. It was intended as a small fun pun at generikbs live streams, literally coded in 20 minutes, but seems to have escalated into a discussion over in-game animal cruelty.

Perhaps this is also a good point to give some insight on what kind of person is behind these blog posts so you, the community, have less need to speculate over their intentions.

Who's Tyron?
I'm the one that started development of Vintage Story in Spring 2016. I have a huge passion for coding and a love for detail. I've set up this very site, wrote about 95% of the games source code with its web-based authentication and game key system, the account manager, created VS Model Creator (based on MCMC), programmed an team internal asset management system, do the taxes, run the shop, handle support tickets, and anything else we don't have somebody assigned to. For better or worse, I've been steering the ship. It's been stormy weathers, calm seas and starry nights all the way.

I'm a peace-loving creature. In times when I need to recharge my batteries you will probably find me tending after my garden, pruning my tomatoes, turning the compost, do some woodworking or just watching the crops grow. I'm a great admirer of Nature and the Universe. Trying to bring a fraction of that beauty into the digital medium was one of the original goals of this game. 

Interpreting intent
Its easy to trivialize or demonize any statement, action, group or person. There's a million ways to look at a problem. There's never going to be a point where I'd be able to program a new feature or formulate something in human language that cannot be misinterpreted in some ways. The one thing I can do is to inform everyone when I notice one of my statements have been misinterpreted, and I actively encourage the community to verify if their assumptions are correct. More often than not, I do make mistakes. A bug in the code, a badly formulated statement, a missed deadline and the likes. In fact I make a lot of small mistakes but learned to correct them quickly.

In this particular instance "pecker fight" and the change log entry "Roosters now occasionally attack each other when in small enclosed spaces" seems to give some the impression that I directly or indirectly condone blood sports. I don't. Furthermore I also did not intend to actively encourage in-game cockfighting with it and I also do not actively discourage it either. The mechanic itself however is not tailored to close spaces, but simply when two roosters are in vicinity from one another and they do very little damage to one another, and in that matter I have incorrectly formulated this feature. 

Corrections
Thus I will change the previous blog post to correctly formulate the feature, remove easy misinterpretations and henceforth, for the sake of historical accuracy, simply add such corrections in the form of a blog change log at the end of the blog post.

Thank you for reading!

Game updates

• Feature: Roosters now occasionally attack each other for 0.05 damage points when they come in close vicinity
• Feature: Added intermediate join server screen when connecting to a public server which lets you type in a password when the server is password protected. Also shows some extra infos.
• Feature: Added metal alloying ratios to the handbook 
• Tweak: Can no longer put items into the traders buying slots which the trader is not interested in
• Tweak/Fixed: Anvil and Clay forming surface now display how to select the tool mode
• Tweak: Added notice to ores that they have to be crushed by a hammer
• Tweak: Added a bit more ingame documentation to the /land claim commands
• Fixed: Creating knapping surface from stone too close not displaying an ingame error
• Fixed: Game crashing when setting smallest gui scale
• Fixed: Adding waypoint with invalid color throwing exception. Now prints a proper message
• Fixed: Player pose all derpy when holding an offhand torch or lantern and block/item in the hotbar
• Fixed: Sand/gravel inside other players pans invisible
• Fixed: Off-hand slot items such as the torch for other players invisible
• Fixed: Game crashing when trying to cook 2 soybean in a pot
• Fixed: Maybe fixes game music playing while an echo chamber track plays
• Fixed: Disabling a vanilla mod causes players to crash when trying to connect to a vanilla server
• Fixed: /we mexc wrote chat messages to everyone
• Fixed: /waypoint remove did not remove the waypoint until reloaded
• Fixed: Click on the stationary reed basket in the Handbook directed one to the aged basket
• Fixed: Using non-english language on an english server caused knapping recipes selection to select the wrong recipe
• Fixed: Might fix a crash when connecting to a server
• Fixed: Malachite nuggets not usable as pigment
• Fixed: Chisel on tool rack had a copper handle
• Fixed: Game crashing when right clicking items into the trader selling slots 
• Fixed: Game crashing when attempting to interact with claimed blocks
• Fixed: Cheap fix for land claimed double doors / double fance gates not reverting properly
• Fixed: Handbook skep recipe incorrect (should be 2 clay instead of 1) 
• Fixed: More language related fixes

Server updates

• Feature: Added /serverconfig setspawnhere
• Tweak: Should crash with a more helpful message when Mono is outdated

API Updates

• Feature: Added CTRL+F1 to reload the world
• Feature: Added entity action event thing for copygirl
• Feature: Added eventapi.OnSendChatMessage to modify or override the default behavior when sending a chat message to the server
• Feature: Raw access to the VTML Parser. Crafty modders can theoretically add own richttext elements with it (add your converter to the VtmlUtil.TagConverters dict)
• Fixed: Game crashing with CarryCapacity loaded
• Fixed: Load/Store Modconfig using the wrong folder
• Fixed: Several block interaction helps not moddable
• Fixed: Removed srgb profiles from all png files again to fix the srgb profile error spam

[12th may] Blog post Statement corrections:
- Changed title from "pecker fight" to "fight for dominance"
- Changed feature description, see next post.