Game updates

• Fixed: Bucket filling/emptying weirdness
• Fixed: Lag spikes when opening the inventory (+rare crash)
• Fixed: Missing death message translation when killed by foxes
• Fixed: Wooden club not craftable from kapok
• Fixed: Baby chick sound issues
• Fixed: Bucket water filling crash
• Fixed: Quern grinding not visible to other players in multiplayer
• Fixed: Knapping with stones also threw a stone
• Fixed: Entities falling through stone path (raised stone path collision box to a full block) 
• (Fixed): Low chance of fixing client side block entity renderers not disappearing when they should

Game updates

• Tweak: Creative inventory search now also searches the item/block description texts (+caches the texts for faster search)
• Tweak: Slightly shortened range for med/high/very high quality shadows, at the gain of  higher quality near shadows
• Tweak: Animals require more food to reproduce 
• Tweak: Slightly increased chance of sulfur surface deposits 
• Tweak: Testing versions now will also notify you if a newer stable release is out! \o/
• Tweak: Crash reporter also logs game version number
• Tweak: Ingot mold / Tool mod no longer displaying "liquid" below 80% melting point, instead it now writes "soft", and then "hardened" when below the usual 20% temp
• Fixed: Right clicking bloomery with empty hands crashing the game
• Fixed: Wrong particle color spawned by lantern breaking
• Fixed: Smithing and metal pouring particles blue colored
• Fixed: Alt+F9 crashing the game
• Fixed: Might fix held torch light not working after loading the game until player moved a chunk
• Fixed: May fix the weird issues blockentities are not removed property, leaving behind various artifacts
• Fixed: Sun/Moon disappearing when dynamic shadow is on and an item is held in hands
• Fixed: Eggs in meals not adding any saturation to the meals
• Fixed: Breaking time for glass slabs too long
• Fixed: Should prevent the game from crashing when trying to use a crucible thats in an invalid state
• Fixed: Client side fire columns of death emanating from charcoal pits
• Fixed: Should fix fire pit not redrawing after its contents changed
• Fixed: Should avoid a crash with the trough blocks
• Fixed: Worldgen deleting itemstacks in ruins and logging errors
• Fixed: Game crashing when clicking singleplayer in the main menu while another game/server is running. Instead now prevents you from launching or editing a savegame that is not writable
• Fixed: Player rotation resetting when cycling from 3rd person to overhead mode
• Fixed: Mod asset load order reversed, preventing asset overrides
• Fixed: Unclear naming on some of the ore blocks
• Fixed: Cube particles not getting shaded when dynamic shadows are on
• Fixed: Some missing/broken/incorrect blocks/items in ruins
• Fixed: Chest type in tooltip text in code form and not name form

Don't worry, I'm just kidding! This update might fix the constant InvalidOperation crashes, and if it doesn't then it will bring me one step closer in finding it, if you keep sending me those juicy hawt crash reports

Game updates

• Tweak: Farmland now rarely grows horsetails as weeds and also recovers nutrients when dry
• Tweak: Added "Optimize Ram" setting to gfx options. If off it will disable some of the ram optimizations the game does
• Tweak: Made it so now that continuously fleeing entities reduce their flee sound play chance after some time
• Tweak: Leaf decay now happens 6 times slower, therefore bigger chunks can now decay and also is randomly triggered for nearby blocks meaning pre1.7 floating leaves blocks have a chance of decaying now
• Tweak: Snow layers on top of decayed leaves now drops on the ground
• Tweak: The 3 solid sides of a bloomery are now flagged as solid, i.e. can attach a torch to it
• Tweak: Increased range at which animals find a trough (from 25 to 32 blocks)
• Tweak: Added random rotations to eggs
• Tweak: Added farmland to creative inventory
• Tweak: Added command feature: "/time add X days"
• Tweak: Gameplay balancing changes:
  • Increased pine sapling drop rate by 200%
  • Increased acacia sapling drop rate by 20%
  • Reduced chance of chickens laying 2 and 3 eggs
• Tweak: Block breaking particle tweaks
• Fixed: Animals able to immediately reproduce after growing up causing them to multiply very quickly
• Fixed: Chickens spamming eggs after the world was fast forwarded many days (e.g. on servers)
• Fixed: Stack merging issues with buckets
• Fixed: Filling a half full bucket with water removing water
• Fixed: Land claiming ineffective for same-rank players
• Fixed: Possible source that would cause the intro music play in game 
• Fixed: Redundant Full GC Collect every 2 minutes causing lag spikes every 2 minutes. One major source of lag spikes gone! \o/
• Fixed: VSEssentials mod reference incorrect for source mods
• Fixed: Bloomery chimney not place-able on bloomery base. Removed ability to place chimney anywhere else other than the base
• Fixed: Stew cooking too slowly and other meals cooking too quickly
• Fixed: Mushrooms in pots/planters not dropping upon breaking them
• Fixed: Logger crashing game when trying to log after it's being disposed
• Fixed: Might fix rare occasion when knapping a flint causes the renderer thing to wave. 
• Fixed: Might fix rendering a disposed texture issue, causing crashes with some players.
• Fixed: Breaking torch holder not dropping torch
• Fixed: Block breaking particles to far offseted when breaking in negative x/z direction

Game Updates

• Fixed typing sounds gone in login screen 
• Fixed game crashing on opengl errors
• Fixed login screen trying to render disposed textures causing the game to crash 
• Fixed bucket + flour recipe broken (and hopefully didn't break other recipes >.>)
• Fixed torch and chicken hurt sounds in stereo (causing them to be not distance attenuated)
• Fixed a server side exception spam
• Fixed entity generations not copied over when becoming an adult. 
• Fixed player able to have more hp than max hp
• Fixed nutrient levels not draining when not eating them
• Fixed some typos and missing block titles
• Fixed create server button wrongly named
• Fixed memory not freed after leaving world. Again. 
   

The goal of version 1.7 was to add more gameplay mechanics and boy do we have lots of new gameplay. I'm still the sole programmer for all the gameplay content but nonetheless we somehow managed to cram in a huge amount of tweaks and features into this update. The trader update didn't make it, the mechanics are basically finished, but I find it needs some more balancing and also is probably better bundled with a future worldgen update. 

We added some experimental new sounds and animations - for the spear, axe and pickaxe. These might change still if they don't feel pleasant during long-term play. 

Enjoy!
 

Pretty pictures

Animal Husbandry: Boars, Bighhorn sheep and Chicken can now be fed with Troughs, which will cause them to reproduce. Chickens will lay eggs every 8-15 days. Each generation of raised animal will be less afraid of players. 

Cooking System: You can now cook porridge, stew, cooked vegetables and soup in a pot over the fire pit. Each of them are dynamically composed based on the ingredients you put, allowing for a huge variety of meals.

Nutrient System: Reduced base Health points from 20 down to 15 points. Can now raise max health points until 25 hp when eating food from every nutrient category.
 

Much Improved Dropped Items: Dropped items now behave more realistically and move out of blocks

3D Models for Meat, Bread, Ingots and Stones. More Meat varieties

Improved farming: You're no longer need to plant besides water, you can water your farmland with a watering can, which keeps the soil moist for 24 in-game hours. Hoeing the ground is no longer instant. Added cabbage crop. All crops require twice as much time to grow.
 

Improved bucketry: Buckets now can hold up to 10 litres of water or honey. Dough crafting recipe is now much more liberal as it is now shapeless simply consumes 1 litre of water per dough. Can now pour honey into the bucket and take it out again

Combat improvements: Spear Attack animation is now much improved and the hit feedback is now instant instead of delayed

Drag left click to distribute items in inventory. Also can now do CTLR + Left/right cursor to jump words when editing text
 


Improved Lava: Now more glowy and has bubbles

Improved mining experience
More particles, custom rock mining sounds, custom rock breaking sounds

Improved brightness The game should be less of an eye strain now

New blocks - stone path stairs and glass slabs

Full game updates list

• Feature: Animal husbandry
  • Chicken now lay eggs every 8-15 days on the ground, be sure to check regularly though, as they disappear after 2 days
  • Chickens, Boars and Bighorn sheep can now be fed through troughs which will cause them to reproduce. Every generation you raise will become less afraid of the player (and should no longer be afraid after 50 generations)
    • Chicken: Feed with small trough, fill with any grain
    • Boars & Sheep: Feed with large trough, fill with any grain or dry grass
• Feature: Cooking System
  • Added clay pot, can placed in a firepit to have 4 cooking slots available
  • Can now cook 4 kinds of meals which will yield the combined saturation and health gains when eaten.Here are the valid recipes. Note: the vegetable part encompasses all the crop vegetables, mushrooms, pumpkin and soybeans. Fill each slot with max. one item for one serving.
    • Porridge: 2-4 grain, 0-2 berry, 0-2 vegetable, 0-1 honey
    • Soup: 1 water (from bucket), 0-3 vegetable, 0-1 redmeat/poultry/egg
    • Stew: 2-4 redmeat/poultry, 0-2 eggs, 0-2 vegetables, 0-1 berry, 0-1 honey 
    • Vegetable Stew: 2-4 vegetable
  • To eat a meal, place the pot on the table and take a serving with a clay bow in hands, or vice versa
  • Don't forget, you can also cook multiple servings at once in the clay pot!
• Feature: Improved dropped items
  • No longer bobbing and rotating
  • Cast shadows
  • Bob in the water instead
  • Are now larger
  • Added throw sound
  • Now push themselves out of blocks
• Feature: Farming Improvements
  • Can now water farmland with watering cans, which makes it watered for 24 ingame hours
  • Creating farmland with the hoe is now animated and no longer instant
  • Crops take now twice as long to grow
  • New Crop: Cabbage. Can be found in loot vessels (seeds and farming vessels).
• Feature: Food improvements
  • Bread is now in 3D
  • Meat is now in 3D and is now divided up in Bushmeat, Red meat and Poultry
• Feature: Nutrient System
  • The player now has a base max health of 15 points
  • Different foods supply different nutrients. Eating a healthy balance of all foods will raise the max-hp to 25 points
  • In the character dialog one can now see the current nutrients levels
• Feature: Basic Leaf Decay
  • Decays small chunks of leaves if a nearby leaves block has been broken. Large chunks of leaves still will keep floating in mid-air
• Feature: Poultice
  • Now intended as the main healing item, crafted from reed/linen plus horsetail or honey+sulfur. Depending on ingredients it heals 2-7 hp
  • Nerfed honey bowl eating properties. Now only heals 0.5h instead of 4 hp, therefore gives 60 saturation.
• Feature: Combat improvements
  • Hit feedback now instant (used to be 50-100 milliseconds delayed)
  • Greatly Improved spear attack animation. Actual impact now also delayed.
• Feature: Mining improvements
  • Stones and Ingots are now 3D Models
  • Breaking ore/rock with a pick now plays a more distinct sound
  • Breaking and Hitting sounds can now differ. Added rock falling apart sounds upon breakage
  • More particles!
  • Mining with a pick sometimes creates sparks and a lot of sparks when trying to break a block whose mining tier is too high
• Feature: Rusty gears now randomly spawn on cave floors
• Feature: Added entity spawner block (creative mode only feature)
• Feature: Improved chunk generation and chunk loading performance by 40 to 100%. (techical details: Worldgen now longer runs expensive sunlight flooding algos on empty chunks above ground (doubles chunk gen speed on a 2048 high creative world), Client now tesselates multiple chunks per tick if they are empty.)
• Feature: Reduced lag spikes. Particularly when the game loads world chunks (technical details: the large object heap compacter tries to not compact during normal gameplay, increased the chunk data pool size and uncached chunk data elements are now released at a slower rate)
• Feature: Improved bucketry
  • Buckets can now hold honey
  • Easier to create dough as the recipe is shapeless and just consumed 1 out of 10 litres of water from the bucket
  • Can be thrown in water for filling
• Feature: Left click drag item stacks to evenly distribute them
• Feature: Better Lava Graphics - now more glowy and bubbly
• Feature: Improved godray shader performance by ~25%
• Feature: Improved overall cpu performance by ~1.5% (technical detail: Now using Environment.TickCount instead of Stopwatch.EllapseMs in chunk.Unpack() which is way more performant. Since Unpack() is called *very* often inside a lock(), it seem to have caused notable lock contention of 2.5seconds over a 2 minute period. This is now down to 80ms)
• Feature: The game now remembers the maximized window state
• Feature: Added credits page
• Feature: Can now hold CTRL + Left/Right cursor to jump words when editing text
• Feature: Improved crash reporter, now also displays the last 3 entries of the event log, should help us find hard to track crashes
• Feature: Block info hud now also shows infos on the targeted entity
• Tweak: Increased overall brightness of the game by 25%
• Tweak: Gameplay Balancing changes
  • Wolves, Hyenas and Foxes now drop less nutritious bush meat
  • Boosted worldgen spawn rates for chicken by 50%
  • Reduced respawn rates of creatures
    • Hyenas 33% less
    • Locusts 65% less
    • Chicken, Boards and Bighorn sheep: 70% less
  • Log => Firewood recipe now yields 4 firewood instead of 3
  • Halved the health gain from vegetables
  • Fixed Smelting quartz in the Bloomery yielding half as much glass than it should have
  • Breaking a harvestable skep now returns some of the cattails
  • Knifes now break plant blocks a little faster, including reeds. E.g. iron knife gets a 2x break speed boost
  • Buffed arrows: 
    • Chicken now drop 6 feathers instead of 4
    • Arrows that impacted creatures now have a 50% chance of not getting destroyed. 65% chance for metal arrows. Used to be 0% for either
• Tweak: Coordinate hud now displays absolute y position
• Tweak: Standing still now drains saturation 3 times slower
• Tweak: Reduced default mouse smoothing value from 50 down to 30
• Tweak: Beehives are now a bit more informative - they will now show if the hive is going to swarm
• Tweak: Shovel and Axe smithing recipes now only require 1 ingot to smith
• Tweak: 3 new tabs in the creative inventory: Creatures, Tools, Clothing
• Tweak: Added a writable check for savegames for better error reporting
• Tweak: Standing still now drains saturation 3 times slower
• Tweak: Axe and Shovel smithing recipes are now smaller so that they only consume 1 ingot
• Tweak: Can now transfer a portion from a held bucket into a placed bucket
• Tweak: Added command .reload sounds
• Tweak: Added glass slabs and path stairs
• Tweak: New chop sounds when chopping a tree with an axe
• Tweak: Straw dummies can now be picked up by their owner with sneak+right click. Pre 1.7 dummies can be picked by anyone.
• Fixed: Might fix the issue where a multiplayer server sends a disconnect message to the client but the client only errors with "No bytes were received"
• Fixed: Filling multiple wooden buckets in the same slot deleting all but 1 bucket
• Fixed: 3rd person camera clipping into the terrain in some cases
• Fixed: The check to ensure that Vintage Story runs only once was not working
• Fixed: Scrolling through creative inventory with mousewheel now consistent and independent of total height
• Fixed: Protected areas (through land claiming) not reverted on the client side, making it look like breaking/using blocks suceeded
• Fixed: Worldedit mirroring of slabs and trapdoors did not work correctly
• Fixed: Raw clay blocks not blocking light
• Removed: Crafting recipe for grass covered soil blocks
• Removed: server.sh - replaced with server-old.sh
• Removed: Player starting bread. Therefore the player is not hungry for the first 12 minutes (unless he dies)

Mod API Updates

• Feature: The survival inventory now has a scrollbar, allowing ~infinite extension of the survival inventory
• Feature: Player start items are now moddable (survival/config.json)
• Feature: Vanilla mods refactor. There is now an VSEssentials mod that includes the json asset loader code, which used to be in the survival mod. Survival mod can now be disabled and that also disables all the survival assets, without disabling the json asset loader. TL;DR: More Blank Slate engine! \o/
• Feature: Added variant groups system also for Entities \o/
• Feature: Refactored random block color system. Now has a notably cleaner api.
• Feature: Mods are now sorted by dependency again
• Feature: Added api methods api.TesselatorManager.GetDefaultBlockMeshRef() and api.TesselatorManager.GetDefaultItemMeshRef(),
• Feature: Added new api methods that lets you more conveniently update the texture atlas during runtime:
  • CompositeTexture.RuntimeBake()
  • ITextureAtlasAPI.InsertTexture()
• Feature: New particle property - particles can now spawn new particles upon death. See Lava block as example.
• Feature: Refactored all attack/interact methods of Blocks and Items they now take in the ref argument EnumHandHandling handling that gives you more fine grained control over the engines behavior. Removed the boolean return value as it is now obsolete.
• Feature: Crafting recipes now allow multiple wildcards in the ingredients
• Feature: Buckets can now handle modded liquids
• Feature: Block hit/break sounds are now separate. Can now have tool specific block hitting/breaking sounds. See rock.json for example
• Tweak: Highlight blocks system now also available client side
• Tweak: Converted most of the client side events to C#-Style Events, sorry for the breakage
• Tweak: Smeltables/Cookables can now have a maxTemperature (example: cooking pot)
• Fixed: Removed hardcoded check on entity render LoadShape thing (as found by doan)
• Fixed: Block json property AllowSpawnCreatureGroups not properly loaded. 

New recipes:
(Clay pot and watering can are made with clayforming)

 

Game updates

• Tweak: Added button "Open Mods Folder" to the mod manager screen
• Fixed: Player Privilege escalation issues on multiplayer
• Fixed: Graphical issues with some dialogs when several are opened at the same time (firepit gui, chest inventory gui, quern gui, etc.)
• Fixed: /we imp not importing block entity data
• Fixed: Server exception thrown by ownerless block placements (i.e. by BlockPlaceOnDrop used by the neolithic mod)
• Fixed: Game crashing when trying to modify a multiplayer server entry
• Fixed: Main menu screens going black/glitchy after pressing cancel on a confirm action

Game updates

• Tweak: Added server commandline arg --genconfig to generate config files without starting the server
• Fixed: Some MacOS users not able to type '@' - so as a temporary workaround added a button to insert the '@' into the email field. Proper fix is more complicated and will take some more time.
• Fixed: Game crashing on multiplayer if another player joins the game that is out of range
• Fixed: Game crashing / worldmap dialog going all wonky if map is closed with Esc-Key instead of M, then reopend
• Fixed: Game crashing upon leaving the world when the map was never opened
• Fixed: Standalone server trying to launch the ErrorReporter dialog upon crash, crashing from that and no longer displaying the original crash

Game updates

• Fixed: Some blocks (filled tool mold, filled ingot mold, clay forming surface) exported/imported through WorldEdit schematics not properly updating their block/item mappings, causing crashes on the client when imported.
• Fixed: A few more small memory leaks
• Fixed: Digging all the way to the bottom causing the world map to crash
• Fixed: Various issues related to the .clients command and worldmap player overlay. 
• Fixed: Server exception thrown (and kicking out clients) when placing blocks near ladders

API Updates

• Tweak: The client event api now has 2 new events: PlayerEntitySpawn and PlayerEntityDespawn. These trigger when a player gets in range of the player or out of range of the player. The events PlayerSpawn/PlayerDespawn now have been renamed to PlayerJoin/PlayerLeave which indicate when a player connects/disconnects to/from a server

Game updates

• Tweak: Reduced drifter spawn chance by a factor of 10
• Fixed: Game crashing when trying to connect to a multiplayer server more than once
• Fixed: .clients commands not listing players out of range
• Fixed: Might fix crash reporter not launching on windows and mac
• Fixed: A number of small memory leaks when exiting a game world, spamming the log files

API Updates

• Tweak: Documented the ItemStack Constructors and Properties
• Tweak: player.WorldData.PlayerName now always available, even if the player entity is not loaded
• Fixed: player.Entity not null when the player entity despawned

Game updates

• Tweak: Wolves now drop 30% less meat
• Fixed: Wolves not chasing players if they are being attacked by the player while saturated
• Fixed: Game sometimes crashing when leaving a world.
• Fixed: Players able to place ladders that are only client side. Climbing on them caused continuous fall damage

Spent some time to improve memory usage and frame rate smoothness.

Game updates

• Tweak: Improved godrays effect performance: Low quality godrays no longer have graphical glitches, making them on par with high quality godrays, so the high quality godrays setting is gone now. This eliminates the large fps drop that came with high quality godrays when looking at a 90 deg angle away from the sun
• Tweak: Improved GUI redraw performance. This might fix the rare case where coordinate hud causes regular stutter.
• Fixed: Two dozens of memory leaks in the GUI system
• Fixed: Large memory leak when leaving a single- or multiplayer world
• Fixed: Fox hitbox too large
• Fixed: Windows Installer not asking for destination folder when the game is already installed
• Fixed: (Rare?) Server side crash
• Fixed: Gravel/Sand not falling in some cases where it should (e.g. when placed above water)
• Fixed: Worldmap dialog coordinate tool tip emtpy right after opening it, until the mouse was moved

Community finds more showstoppers. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
Tyron fixes. More or less.  ┬─┬⃰͡ (ᵔᵕᵔ͜ )

Game updates

• Fixed: Mitigate a multiplayer bug with the weather system. Instead of crashing the weather system now takes a little while before it loads from the server
• Fixed: Mitigate a multiplayer bug with player entities.  Instead of the game crashing player entities may appear several times on the client. 
• Fixed: Sound disappearing after 10-15 minutes on MacOS (may also eliminate or reduce memory leak issues on windows! \o/)
• Fixed: Shader compile error causing the log files to get spammed with errors messages on MacOS
• Fixed: Wooden club not loosing durability

Balancing game mechanics can be quite tedious O_O

Game updates

• Tweak: Rebalanced fog and mist weather patterns (less common, less dense), improved blending with clouds and sky
• Tweak: Improved walk animation blending on all creatures
• Tweak: Added new animation for drifters
• Tweak: Reduced the effect of water visible behind clouds
• Tweak: Rebalanced animal spawning. Some animals now only spawn in shrubs or only in forests.
• Tweak: Wolves and Foxes now hunt and kill chicken
• Tweak: Boosted hen idle sounds, disabled player step sounds when in spectator mode
• Fixed: Bismuth lantern invisible
• Fixed: Block loader crashing when encountering a texture definition without 'Base' attribute
• Fixed: --port, --ip and --maxclients args crashing the game
• Fixed: Necklaces not equipable
• Fixed: /waypoint list showing absolute coordinates
• Fixed: Water fog disappearing when diving deep
• Fixed: Entity debug mode tags not visible

Game updates

• Feature: Added bismuth lanterns. Crafted like a normal lantern, but made from bismuth!
• Tweak: Spider webs now break much faster
• Tweak: The players 3rd person break and place animation now smoothly ease out
• Fixed: Drifter death sound not positional
• Fixed: Players able to place water in protected aras
• Fixed: Placing a plate pile deleting other blocks
• Fixed: 2 different crashes caused by using the quern
• Fixed: Closing worldmap dialog not relocking mouse cursor
• Fixed: Updated Cairo graphics library to latest version, might fix the long standing memory leak issues that appear after an hour of game play \o/
• Fixed: Page break issues in the journal
• Fixed: Bow shooting arrow heads
• Fixed: Intro music playing in-game, on top of the normal music
• Fixed: Rare deadlock issue causing the server tick rate to go to 0
• Fixed: Small tweak to maybe prevent a crash of the sound engine
• Fixed: Small memory leak in the world map, and the log spam it causes
• Fixed: Error reporter dialog not showing server side errors
• Fixed: Beemobs and dropped items never despawning
• Fixed: Placing a straw dummy crashes the game

Before you update from 1.5.x

• Make a backup of your world before installing version 1.6-rc.1

After you update from 1.5.x

• Worlds started before version 1.6-rc.1 will have broken leaves and clothes. Fix them by applying the remap commands as listed on the wiki page "Updating Old Worlds"

Onto 1.7.0! \o/

Game updates

• Tweak: Added new subcommands for reading/setting land claim allowance and max areas per role
  • /role [rolename] landclaimallowance
  • /role [rolename] landclaimmaxareas
  • /role [rolename] landclaimminsize
• Tweak: Can now give extra land claim allowance to individual players via commands
  • /player [playername] landclaimallowance
  • /player [playername] landclaimmaxareas
• Tweak: Added new subcommands to modify your current land claim selection: /we claim g[n|e|s|w]
• Tweak: The World map hotkey is now split into 2 hotkeys
  • F6: Enable/disable world map hud
  • M: Open/Close world map dialog

• Tweak: Added greater variety of death messages
• Tweak: Nerfed hyenas. Lowered hyena attack damage from 8 to 6, reduced player seeking range from 20 to 10, made hyenas flee upon attacking them
• Tweak: Nerfed fire: Takes longer before it tries to spread, lowered chance of it spreading, lowered burn duration of tall grass, making it easier to control a grass fire
• Tweak: Buffed all beds - added 2 extra hours of sleep to all 3 variants
• Tweak: Rebalanced Weather. Weather patterns should change a little less often, foggy weather should now be less common and have a higher chance of being less foggy
• Tweak: Added new recipe to make dough making less grindy. 8 grain all around a center water bucket yields 8 dough. 
• Tweak: Lead can now be worked cold on the anvil
• Tweak: Boosted chance of underground ruins spawning by +50%
• Tweak: Main screen music now plays again after 5-15 minutes of inactivity
• Tweak: Made dynamic shadows a bit more intense (= darker)
• Tweak: Added 8 flour + 1 water bucket recipe as a quick relief for the tedious dough crafting thing
• Tweak: Knapping, Clayforming and Smithing grid outlines now fade out over distance
• Tweak: Clouds should blend better with the fog.
• Fixed: Planter and Flowerpot block info displayed (Empty) even when plants inside
• Fixed: Unpretty gui/tp transform for lanterns Fixed: Crash reporter launching twice
• Fixed: Game crashing when unfocusing and refocusing the recipe selector
• Fixed: Distant graphics glitches from dynamic shadows
• Fixed: Server log ticking could not be enabled

Game updates

• Feature: Fancy new main screen art \o/
• Tweak: Animal AI Updates
  • Surface animals now prefer a relatively high light level, somewhat reducing the chance of them wandering into caves. Might also entice one or the other creature to rather stay in the forest than out in the open
  • Drifters/Locusts now prefer a low light level, somewhat reducing the chance of them wandering outside
  • Surface animals now despawn if they are exposed to darkness (below light level 8 ) for more than 5 minutes 
• Tweak: Added worldedit command /we rebuildrainmap to fix broken rain height maps of all loaded chunks which is the cause of white pixels in the world map
• Fixed: Recipe selector for knapping, smithing and clayforming selecting the wrong recipe
• Fixed: Game crashing when opening the world map
• Fixed: Game crashing when removing a waypoint
• Fixed: /tp sometimes teleporting you to desired position and immediately back again
• Fixed: Teleporter block being all wonky and not really working
• Fixed: Teleporter block gui not opening
• Fixed: Hotbar item info not centered and to far down
• Fixed: /land claim grant not working
• Fixed: Recipe errors during startup from modded items/blocks that are no longer in the game

In the meantime, Saraty did a massive overhaul of all the Seraph clothing, badly needed 2 more character slots and improved the graphics fidelity in various areas of the game. Tatazaki spurred the development of a few bugfixes and a convenient crash reporter, copygirl further stabilized our mod api, creativemd did some great work on an easy-to-use modding environment setup (WIP) and Luke added 2 new great looking animals - the fox and hyena family! He also did a few gameplay balancing changes for which some of you might be very thankful for!

So this update contains a massive foundation for the trader update, a lot of other small fancy features and a fat list of bugfixes and mod api improvements!

Before you update

• This is a testing release, so bugs and unpolished features may be encountered more frequently
• Make a backup of your world before installing version 1.6-rc.1

After you update

• Worlds started before version 1.6-rc.1 will have broken leaves and clothes. Fix them by applying the remap commands as listed on the wiki page "Updating Old Worlds"
• If the game crashes when trying to create/load any world, please delete the file %appdata%/VintageStoryData/serverconfig.json once and try again
   

Screenshots

Ingame Worldmap

Dynamic Weather System and Mist (no rain or snowfall yet, sorry!)


Improved shadows

New creatures hyenas and foxes

Land claiming system


3D Models for crops and mobile containers

New and/or Overhauled Outfits

New crafting mechanic: Grinding with the hand quern

Crash Reporter

Full Game updates list

• Feature: In-game world map
  • Shows the world from above, also shows you the position of other players! 
  • Hit 'M' to toggle between HUD Mode and full dialog mode, or to disable it
  • Basic waypoint system. These are shown in the world map and can be hovered over for more info. Configure them via these commands:
    • /waypoint add [waypointcolor] [title]  Adds a waypoint with given color and text. The color may be any named .NET Color or a Hex Code
    • /waypoint list Shows you a list of all your waypoints
    • /waypoint remove [num] Removes a waypoint (num as shown in /waypoint list)
• Feature: Weather System, improved fog, improved clouds
  • The game now changes the cloud and fog patterns over time, producing various forms of weather patterns
  • The clouds no longer have randomized heights but therefore have less obvious hard edges in them
  • The horizon sky, fog and far away clouds now blend much better together Can now have mist type fog which can also be played with through the world edit gui (no rain and snowfall yet, but that is now a much smaller step to achieve)
     
• Feature: Much improved dynamic shadows
  • Should now be of notably higher quality at the same framerate and also have less glitchy render artifacts in the distance.
  • Also fixes shadows being extra bad quality or completely gone at a field of view of near 90 degrees
     
• Feature: 2 new Creatures A Fox for arctic and cold regions and the Hyena in Savannahs
• Feature: Hand Quern
  • Wheat must now be ground on the hand quern before it can be turned to bread
  • Ground wheat, or flour can be mixed with a water bucket to create dough, which can then be baked to bread in the fire pit Can be crafted from raw stone and sticks, see below for the recipe shape
     
• Feature: Land claiming: Per default, any survival player can now claim up to 32x32x32x4 cubic meters of land and up to 3 non-adjacent areas, which is then protected from being used or broken by other players (disclaimer: not well tested!)
  • /land list  Shows your list of claims
  • /land info Shows who is owning the land you are currently standing own
  • /land claim new Create a new claim
  • /land claim load [num] Load an existing claim to modify it (num as per number shown in /land list)
  • /land claim start Set start position
  • /land claim end Set end position
  • /land claim gd [num]  Expands area down by num blocks
  • /land claim gu [num]  Expands are up by num blocks
  • /land claim add Adds a piece of land as defined by the start/end position to the claim (a cuboidal area)
    /land claim save [text] Save your claim with supplied description
    /land claim cancel Discard your current claim or current modifications if loaded
    /land claim grant [playername] [use|all] Grants use or full rights to given player of the current claim
    /land claim revoke [playername] Revokes all rights from given player of the current claim
    /land free [num] Delete a claim of yours (num as per number shown in /land list)  
     
• Feature: Crash Reporter When your game crashes, a dialog will pop up that lets you report the bug with a few simple steps
• Feature: 3D Models for Crops and mobile containers 
• Feature: Two new character slots - Upperbody-Over Slot and Arm Slot
• Feature: Major seraph outfit overhaul
• Feature: Can now double-tap space key to enter/leave fly mode in creative mode. Can now assign double-tap keys to controls.
• Feature: Added music frequency slider, let's you choose to hear music half as often, or twice as often Feature: Double doors now open together Feature: The recipe selector (knapping, clay forming, smithing) dialog now explains what each item can be used for and are sorted by name
• Feature: Added WorldEdit commands to only move the current selection box.:
  • /we sm[n/e/s/w/u/d] [length] - move in given direction by given length
  • /we smby x y z - move by given x/y/z lengths
• Feature: Worldedit schematics now also import/export with entities
• Feature: Added a 'public server listing' button to the multiplayer screen to more easily find vs servers
• Feature: Tall ferns can now be harvested with a knife
• Feature: Added randomize button for world name in the create world screen
• Feature: Microblock chiseling inside texturing now working. When chiseling a log block, you now get to see a debarked texture 
• Feature: New Server command line arguments (they override any setting in the serverconfig.json)
  • -ip: Set the ip address to bind the server to
  • -port: Set the port to bind the server to
  • -maxclients: Set the max allowed players that can be connected simultaenously
• Tweak: The ingame escape dialog now displays the ip address when the game has been opened to lan
• Tweak: The Sun now rises in the east and sets in the west instead of north/south
• Tweak: Gameplay Balancing changes
  • Vegetable saturation dropped, but health gain increased
  • Bread stack limit raised from 16 to 32
  • Bread saturation increased from 200 to 300, except for flax, which dropped from 200 to 160
  • Eating Bolete and Field mushrooms no longer causes damage
  • Drifter now has a 20% chance of dropping a flax fiber
  • Wooden club now does 0.5 extra damage and has 0.5m extra range
  • Female boars no longer attack on sight
  • Reduced Wolf attack damage from 10 down to 8
  • Reduced Surface Copper deposit occurrence by about 33% 
  • Added rare surface tin deposits which spawn surface tin bits
  • Increased normal tin deposits occurrence by 50%.
  • Increases average tin deposit size by 20%
• Tweak: Default graphics settings tweaks (when newly installed)
  • Reduced sepia level from 30% to 20%
  • Increased FoV from 60 deg. to 70 deg.
  • Reduced ambient bloom from 40% to 20%
• Tweak: Jumping in water somewhat less obnoxious sounding. 
• Improved water splash particles, water is more splashy now!  
• Tweak: New player animations when using scythe, shovel and spear
• Tweak: Re-activated player in-block suffocation with fixes from @Tatazaki (maybe doesn't bug out anymore? :D)
• Tweak: Added support for chiseled blocks to be rotated with worldedit
• Tweak: Granite texture now more distinct
• Tweak: Reduced auto-item collection radius from 2 blocks to 1.5 radius. Makes it a bit easier to get rid of unwanted items.
• Tweak: Added sub-command /entity listnearest
• Tweak: Temporal gear now sets the spawn position of where the player is standing instead of where the player is looking at
• Tweak: Small performance improvements (frame profiler now inactive when not visible, summer air particles no longer do collision detection)
• Tweak: Improved chunk loading robustness, should no longer discard all entities/blockentities of a chunk if a single of them failed to load
• Fixed: Command /unloadchunks 0 not working
• Fixed: Diagonal walking faster than straight walking
• Fixed: Bamboo stakes could not be used to build firepits. Now also moddable what items can be used to build firepits
• Fixed: Might eliminate a number of issues with exiting the game, such as the game still running in the background or crashing in some cases
• Fixed: Lighting issues on foliage blocks that are adjacent to solid blocks
• Fixed: Moving a selected area with Worldedit dropped the contents of all block entities inside
• Fixed: Branchy leaves block had wrongly colored branches
• Fixed: Pickup up raw ingot molds returning baked molds
• Fixed: Various issues when changing keybinds when inside a sp/mp world
• Fixed: Ingot piles sometimes invisible after placing the first ingot
• Fixed: Rare mod loading issues where the game no longer wants to start
• Fixed: Burning Firepit causing flickering in its vicinity
• Fixed: Player animations not shown correctly for other players in multiplayer
• Fixed: Exception thrown on command /tp [playername]
• Fixed: Collected items not stacking with items in the backpack
• Fixed: Some very broken behavior when a server thread crashes
• Fixed: Able to pour lead into tool molds (there are no lead tools)
• Fixed: Soil not regrowing grass in some cases
• Fixed: Game crashing when trying to load an old world
• Fixed: Custom Worldedit hotkey lost after restart

API Updates

• Feature: GUI API \o/
  • After several massive refactors, the complete gui system is now moddable. All of the gui elements are now in the api and several survival mod dialogs are now moved to the survival mod itself. 
  • Checkout the survival mode gui dialogs for examples
  • The ICoreClientAPI system now has 2 new subinterfaces: UI and Input. You now have access to api methods for accessing the gui dialog generation system and raw keyboard and mouse inputs as well as a several new events.
     
•  Feature: Error reporter
  • Type /errorreporter 1 to conveniently see most errors that occurred during loading. Saves the work of looking through the log files manually, making debugging much more convenient
• Feature: Client Settings AP: Can now retrieve all client side settings and also store your own (client-side) configs there
• Feature: Can now have blocks that require long interactions, supported by the new methods Block.OnBlockInteractStart, Block.OnBlockInteractStep and Block.OnBlockInteractStop/Block.OnBlockInteractCancel
• Feature: Block entities can now dynamically switch between dynamic rendering and static models
  • By using a new OnTesselated callback in via  api.World.BlockAccessor.MarkBlockDirty(pos, OnRetesselated);
  • Checkout the Quern Block Entity for an example
     
• Feature: Tool mold fill quad size is now configurable in json for custom sized tool molds
• Feature: Chiseled blocks can now be used as a crafting recipe ingredient
• Feature: TreeAttribute equals method is now more liberal when it comes to equality testing - i.e. (int)123 and (long)123 are now considered the same value. 
• Feature: Added TreeAttribute.IsSubSetOf() and Collectible.Satisfies() methods to ignore additional TreeAttribute props of an itemstack i.e. for crafting. Grid crafting now uses this new Satisfies method. 
• Added client side command .gencraftjson to have a copy a json snippet to your clipboard to be used as a crafting recipe ingredient
• Feature: Mods can now inject rendering systems into any stage of the rendering process by setting the IRenderer.RenderOrder value appropriately Feature: New interface IBlockEntityRotatable. Can be implemented by block entities to add rotational awareness for world edit
• Feature: New api method / properties / events: 
  • IWorldAccessor.Seed
  • ICoreAPI.InWorldEllapsedMilliseconds
  • IGameCalendar.MoonLightStrength
  • IRenderAPI.Zfar and .Znear
  • IClientEventAPI.OnLevelFinalize
  • IServerEventAPI.OnEntitySpawn
  • IAmbientManager.BlendedFogColor and IAmbientManager.BlendedAmbientColor
     
• Feature: Client Entity <=> Server Entity Networking, eliminates the need to setup a custom network channel for entities  
• Feature: Added BlockPlaceOnDrop block class, can be used to have a block dropped from inventory turn into a block when it touches the ground
• Tweak: New OnBlockBroken method for block entities. 
• Tweak: When the texture loader encounters a missing texture, it will now report where it was referenced.
• Tweak: Made the method BlockEntityItemPile.OnPlayerInteract public
• Tweak: Made the fields EntityProjectile.Damage and EntityProjectile.DropOnImpact public
• Fixed: commad .reload shapes crashing the game
• Fixed: A map chunks rain height map was incorrectly updated
• Fixed: ReturnedStack property not working on wildcard recipes
• Fixed: Modded hoes not working Fixed: Block/Item loader crashing when it encounters a non-json file
• Fixed: Recipe loader throwing errors for blocks/items have been removed (but still existed in a savegames block or item mapping)
• Removed: All methods and properties that were marked obsolete

Quern Crafting Recipe

Here's whats up since last post!

• The ReVersed festival, where we presented Vintage Story, ended last sunday, and as always, simply great for connections and socializing, not so great for sales. It lasted for 4 full days and took a few more to prepare. After the event I had a bunch of real life catching up to do and handle various health issues in my familiy, yet again. Hopefully starting from Friday I can get back into serious productiveness again. I seriously start to miss coding on the game. 
   
• We uploaded have a pre-release version of 1.6 on discord, so for those adventurous enough checkout the #news channel. It is jam-packed with great features and I hope it won't be long anymore until we can release it as testing version. 
   
• I also got in contact with PingPerfect, a game server hosting provider and will make some updates on the game server, which in all likelihood will result in our first consumer server service for Vintage Story \o/
   
• I also will get in contact with a very interesting offer from a publisher that I met during the festival, with large potentials for the future of the game, not sure how great our chances are, so keep your fingers crossed
   
• And finally decided to push an update for two rather game breaking bugs in the game so that we have something stable to play with until version 1.6 is stable enough. See below for the change list.
   
• Some lovely new Let's Play Videos came out recently! (silly editor, can't horizontally stack the videos)

Festival Pics

Game updates (v1.5.8)

• Tweak: Bamboo stakes can be used to build firepits
• Fixed: Respawning not working in some cases
• Fixed: Rare server crash from pumpkins

Since the missing dynamic light from torches is quite annoying, I pushed out a bugfix release for this now. In Accordance with SemVer this release must be version 1.5.5.

I'm already working on some exciting updates for the next feature release as I finally got back into the groove of some hardcore coding sessions again. Just a sudden cold is sapping my energy away for the last 2 days, it seems to clear up quickly though O_O
Also you guys are all awesome, just because

Game updates

• Tweak: Unknown blocks now take 2 seconds to break instead of 6
• Fixed: Held torch lights should now work correctly again
• Fixed: Clients crashing after disconnecting from servers should no longer happen now
• Fixed: @cynthia crashing when trying to join the public server
• Fixed: Might prevent a rare client crash caused by the sound engine (as reported by copygirl)
• Fixed: Transparent block faces sometimes appearing on stacked charcoal piles
• Fixed: Should fix floating cow skulls spawning on top of lakes

New Versioning Scheme
Sorry for the confusion with all the versioning stuff, please bear with me as we try to get into a good rhythm of versioning. Whatever releases I only upload on our Discord server will now be marked as a pre-release. Any unstable releases will be marked 'rc' for release candidate. So by this scheme I have to up the version to 1.5.4 now. Examples:

• 1.5.4 - a public, stable release
• 1.5.5-pre.1 - a private testing release (these may be also posted to our discord server)
• 1.5.5-pre.2
• 1.5.5-rc.1 - a public release candidate (same as "unstable" is now)
• 1.5.5-rc.2
• 1.5.5 - another public, stable release
   

Full game updates list

• Tweak: Lily pads now rock up and down with the water waves
• Tweak: /clear command no longer clears the character/outfit inventory
• Tweak: Added debug logging for tracking cynthias login crash
• Fixed: Blocks not place-able when there is a dropped item in the way
• Fixed: Torchholder recipe not usable in survival mode
• Fixed: Standing inside a lily pad block creates underwater fog
• Fixed: Editing sign text deleting the 4th line
• Fixed: .reload textures not reloading worn outfits
• Fixed: Water sideflowing animation on nearby ice blocks
• Fixed: Flying upwards into blocks did not properly collide the player
• Fixed: Exception thrown when shutting down server during spawn chunks generation
• Fixed: Hitting esc while assigning controls ingame no longer makes it impossible to get back into escape menu. The esc now cancels the current hotkey assignment
• Fixed: Attempt Number 2 to fix "incorrect known srgb profile" error log spam in linux. May break a lot of textures under linux. 
• Fixed: Placed bed block info only shown for the top block
• Fixed: Breaking pre 1.5.3 chests dropping invisible item that crashes the game when collected
• Fixed: Thrown stones colliding with wall when thrown in a 1 block wide corridor

API/Modding Updates

• Feature: Added client side event OnReloadTextures
• Tweak: The block properties glowLevel and renderFlags are now marked obsolete, to be replaced with the more intuitive vertexFlags object
• Tweak: Improved the phrasing on some of the logs when loading mods
• Tweak: Mod specific loggers in preparation for better error/warning/obsolete tracking for modders
• Fixed: Mod compiling issues in certain situations
• Fixed: Texture base and overlay cannot be from different domains

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Ugh, 2 months since the last major update. In April the gardening season started and the sunny weather compelled me to spend most of my time outside and taking a break from programming in general. I've been programming almost non-stop over the winter and so I suppose this break was my compensation for that  

Pretty Pictures

More and more random loot in underground ruins

New and updated ruins

Story elements found in underground ruins can now be added to an ingame journal and looked up at

Greatly increased outfit variety


There is now an 'Open To Lan' option when starting a singleplayer world, which allows other players to join you in your local network (or internet if port forwarding is set up)


New blocks: Torch holders, jonas gears and wood typed fences and fence gates

Teleporters! A creative mode only block. Helpful for server owners to connect cities.

Microblock chiseling! The chisel tool is currently also a creative mode only tool

Full Game updates list

• Feature: Ingame Lore and Journal
  • Can collect Lore pieces that are rarely found in ruins
  • Right clicking a lore piece add it's to the journal accessible via the key 'J'
• Feature: Buried treasure You can now rest assured that there is infinitesimal chance to find treasure while digging around randomly  
• Feature: 10 new sets of seraph outfits 
  • Fancy wear by Balduranne
  • Can only be found occasionally in ruins
• Feature: Richer Ruins
  • In addition to new outfits and story pieces ruins now have more in them which also are randomized more greatly
  • Added collapsed chests from which you can only take items but not put any
  • Several new ruins and updated old ones with new blocks
• Feature: Rusty Jonas Gears
  • Can be found in ruins and buried treasure
  • Will be acting as currency in future updates, so make sure to collect them
• Feature: Lava is dangerous now
  • Now damages all creatures touching it
  • Has a yellow ambient when being submerged in it
• Feature: Teleporter
  • Creative mode only block
  • Can be used to connect 2 places in the world with teleporting capability. Once placed it can also be used by survival players.
  • Easy to configure via ingame gui
• Feature: Open To LAN
  • Singleplayer worlds can now be turned into multiplayer sessions with a "Open TO LAN" button, which allows other players on the LAN to connect to you (or through internet with port forwarding). 
  • Can also use the command /allowlan [1|0] to enable/disable it
• Feature: Microblock Chiseling
  • A creative mode only feature for now
  • Right click with a chisel in hands on solid full blocks (i.e. planks or rock) and start chipping away
  • Hit 'F' to select a bigger brush or to rotate the model
  • Hit middle mouse click to duplicate the model
  • Can also be placed in masses by worldedit!
• Feature: Wood type fences also they connect properly to fence gates now. Also double fence gates!
• Feature: Torch holders 
  • Can place torches inside which will never burn out while inside the torch holder
  • Recipe is 2 brass sheets on top of each other
• Feature: Creative Mode / WorldEdit updates
  • Paintbrush now can have a cutout brush inside the normal brush to make hollow shapes
  • Removed Paintbrush mode "Replace top layer" it is now replaced with a depth limit field, so any amount of top layers can be replaced now
  • The erode tool now will use the blocks beneath the eroded blocks, old behavior can be attained by setting /we tusb 1
  • Fixed tool offset mode "Attach" not correctly applied in various cases
  • Creative inventory now shows 10x9 slots instead of 10x7
  • Player no longer receives torch and bread for creative playstyle worlds
  • Added command /we mex [filename] c to export a schematic and copy some text into your clipboard for you to save a macro into a text file for convenient re-exporting.
• Feature: Wild crops now grow slowly 
• Feature: Added double fence gates
• Feature: Right clicking a dress piece now equips it
• Feature: Growing grass blocks now also grow tall grass on them. Grass blocks lacking sunlight now turn to soil blocks.
• Feature: Can now also toggle fullscreen mode in the graphics settings
• Tweak: /genbackup is now executed in a background thread and thus no longer lags the server while it is running.
• Tweak: Added subcommand /tp player x y z
• Tweak: Major memory management improvements, may help with the memory leak issues that start to become apparent after several hours of gameplay
• Tweak: Increased chance of broken skeps spawning bees to 40%
• Fixed: Beemob sounds not following the beemmob
• Fixed: Held items in third person now can also glow
• Fixed: Burning doors leaving behind ever burning fire
• Fixed: Placing Fences deleting blocks that it shouldn't
• Fixed: Placed meta blocks fading in and out 
• Fixed: Rotating schematics with vertical slabs in them not rotating properly
• Fixed: Server loosing randomness over time
• Fixed: Ladders not place-able if the player is standing on the target block
• Fixed: Incorrect damage values on obsidian spear
• Fixed: Rare visual glitch where black streaks appear on the screen
• Fixed: Rare client crash
• Fixed: Game not launching on mac os
• Fixed: Loose stones and flint placeable in mid-air
• Fixed: Creatures not spawning in tall grass
• Fixed: PvP death message incorrect
• Fixed: Growing Bamboo replacing blocks that it shouldn't
• Fixed: Vertical slab torch/sign attachment flipped
• Fixed: Several issues with duplicate ghost players on the client and server side only creatures after teleporting
• Fixed: Changing your outfit was not visible to other players in mutliplayer until the player rejoined

API/Modding Updates

• Feature: Added loot randomizer items for mapmaking
• Feature: Moved mesh data pool system to the api for mesh pooling (go bug tyron if that is a feature you could need)
• Feature: Added method block.CanCreatureSpawnOn(), added blocktype json property AllowSpawnCreatureGroups
• Feature: Added block behavior BlockBehaviorLiquidContainer that you can extend from to have custom filling/emptying behavior with vanilla water buckets
• Feature: Added IServerConfig interface to the server api to have access to the servers configuration 
• Tweak: Renamed ModSet to just Mod and ModBase to ModSystem to get rid of the confusion of what is a "mod"
• Tweak: Major modinfo.json changes
  • Changed ModInfo and added ModDependency, changing the modinfo.json format
  • Added ModInfoAttribute and ModDependencyAttribute for pure code mods (example usage)
  • Added ProperVersion project, a SemVer implementation
  • Improved ModInfo, version and dependency checking
  • Documentation/Logging improvements
• Tweak: Improved json patch error logging
• Tweak: Renamed api.Render.WindowWidth/Height to api.Render.FrameWidth/Height
• Tweak: blockAccessor.SetBlock() now takes a third argument for the itemstack to be passed onto block.OnBlockPlaced(). This can be used to pass on custom data to block entities.
• Tweak: Added sidetype property to json patches
• Fixed: Applying multiple json patches on the same file only applying the latest one
• Fixed: Modloader crashing if a patch is an add/replace op and its value is not set or misspelled
• Fixed: Blockloader crashing if an item/block with duplicate code has been loaded
• Fixed: Reloading shaders not printing error if a mod shader has errors
• Fixed: Mods not loading if there were compilation warnings
• Fixed: Game crashing if a mod is missing modinfo.json
• Fixed: Game crashing if a mod is missing the asset folder

Hello Vintarians! As some of you may know, Lo-Phi (Hayden) and I showcased Vintage Story at the East Coast Game Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina last week. This was a nice opportunity for us to share the game with the public and get some valuable feedback from industry professionals as well.

So what kind of feedback did we get?

Well, we realized pretty quickly that it was hard for players to just jump in and enjoy the game, since it can be a little complex. With that in mind, I’m planning to do some work to provide in-game tutorial information for new players to work off of. Hit me up on the forums or in Discord if there was any concept that tripped you up early or anything you’d like to suggest for a better new player experience.

However! The conference attendees were generally impressed once they started to understand the game’s depth and detail. In particular, things like the crafting systems, worldgen, and visuals were highly praised. We had a couple level designers, animators, and 3D modelers who appreciated the potential that our creative tools and model editor offer. Beyond that, many of the players excitedly suggested that we allow for custom tools and weapons using the voxel-based crafting system. Who knows? Maybe that’s something we’ll see in the future!

All in all, it was an enjoyable experience and one that gave us another chance to improve Vintage Story even further. Now it’s time for us to get to work and show our dedication to any new players that might have signed up after ECGC came to a close. Also, we’ll be presenting Vintage Story again in July for the ReVersed Festival in Vienna! Come say hello to the European team members!

I'm excited to report that we have two confirmed events where we will be showcasing Vintage Story for this year. Come visit us at the..

• East Coast Game Conference on the 17-19 of April in Raleigh / North Carolina / U.S.A
  Luke and Hayden will be presenting VS at Booth #70  on the opposite side of the Fortnite Lounge (warning: preliminary plan)
  You might be getting a peek on some of the new features and some nice perks to take with you
  If you intend to visit ECGC, please do contact us, we might have a free ticket or 2 to give away.

• ReVersed Festival 2018 on the 5-8 of July in Vienna / Austria / Europe
  Saraty, Tyron and Ben will attend and present at this festival. We hope to have a few more bombastic features ready to showcase by then! 

Game updates

• Tweak: Charcoal pit smoke lingers a little longer
• Tweak: Locusts should now spawn less often and further away from the player
• Tweak: View distances above 512 now prints a warning of possible crashes on low end cards with not enough vram
• Fixed: Sticky sheep butts O_O
• Fixed: Running animations of other players in SMP not using correct animation speed
• Fixed: /tp x y z command not using coords to map middle
• Fixed: Occasional exception thrown in the server logfiles
• Fixed: Rare server crash

Modding Updates

• Tweak: Updated Tavis.JsonPatch to latest version (fixes by @copygirl), should fix some issues with json patching
• Fixed: Broken language files should no longer crash the game

Game updates

• Tweak: A server crash no longer waits for user input to exit
• Tweak: New version notification for unstable versions only appear if the user is already on an unstable version
• Fixed: Collected items should enter the backpack inventory again
• Fixed: Seraph hat/head skinning not resetting properly when removing the hat/head item
• Fixed: Attack cool-down no longer working
• Maybe Fixed: Random damage taken on ladders
• Hopefully Fixed: Water rendering issues where plates were visible
• Probably Fixed: Chests instantly closing when trying to open them in certain cases

[Edit:] Also just released 1.5.2.5:

• Tweak: Disabled Asphyxiation mechanic for players until it works properly
• Fixed: Whitelisting issues
• Fixed: Server mods required by clients