Took the freedom to add a liiiittle bit more than bugfixes.

Game updates

• Feature: Added a bit of variety to the death messages
• Tweak: Honey now heals twice as much and bowls take half as long to break 
• Tweak: Added a damage log to the chat window, should help us find the ladder damage bug
• Tweak: Quadrupled bamboo sapling drop rate
• Tweak: Lanterns with lining now give an extra light level
• Tweak: Improved texture atlas generation speed, worlds should load up 0.5 - 2 seconds faster
• Tweak: The server now sends required mods to the client. The client prevents you from joining a server if you don't have the required mods and tells you which you have to get.
• Tweak: Shift+Left click stacks into chests should work again if the backpack inventory is closed
• Tweak: Water waving speed now depends on game speed
• Tweak: Added some smoke and particle effects when breaking loot vessels. Some more drops for ore and forage loot vessels.
• Tweak: Added server command to remove server password during runtime: /serverconfig nopassword
• Fixed: Placing lanterns of any type defaulting to copper variant
• Fixed: Should fix item tool tip box sometimes getting squeezed or stretched
• Fixed: Missing hotkey for backpack slot 4
• Fixed: Corner cases where trying to open a chest would immediately close it again 
• Fixed: Changes to server block ticking, might fix some issues
• Fixed: Game crashing in invalid arguments on some client commands, such as .movespeed
• Fixed: Breaking leaves with shears causing ghost air-blocks
• Fixed: Might fix players getting disconnected by the server not receiving the disconnect reason
• Fixed: Game crashing when an item textures is missing. Now reports a proper error.
• Fixed: Reverted to pre-pngcrush textures, fixes severe block texture issues on linux and mac. But spams the incorrect srgb profile thing to console again
• Fixed: Broken modinfo.json not printing a useful error in the logs
• Fixed: Game crashing when right clicking with honeycomb into mid air
• Fixed: Drifters no longer spawning on the surface
• Fixed: Loot vessels dropping stone tools with broken textures

Game updates

• Tweak: Made block tick samples per chunk configurable during run-time, minor changes with server block ticking
• Tweak: Added some logging and exception handling to beehive pop checks, might fix some issues with them not properly populating other skeps
• Fixed: Crafting planks consumes the saw instead of damaging it
• Fixed: Soil blocks no longer grow grass if a solid block is above
• Fixed: Lanterns invisible after leaving and re-entering chunks
• Fixed: Placing loose stones can replace blocks that it shouldn't
• Fixed: Should fix last use on a tool not counting as tool use (i.e. using last durability point on reeds didn't drop the roots)
• Fixed: Should fix populated Skeps not collectible sometimes
• Fixed: Singleplayer and Multiplayer list inner height sometimes exceeding the scroll-able area
• Fixed: Clay-forming recipe selector opening twice, fixed clay-forming crashing the game when attempting with only 1 clay
• Fixed: Molybdochalkos can't be taken out of ingot molds
• Fixed: Current hot-bar slot contents invisible after connecting to a server or loading a sp world

This is the release that will go online on the public server now! I hope the baskets in pre 1.5.2 worlds now upgrade properly.

Game updates

• Feature: Added new commandline arg: --addModPath for @Milo Christiansen
• Tweak: Added ability to use wildcards on /entity removebytype or countbytype
• Tweak: Strawdummy placing sound, bee mob somewhat more silent, locust idle sound was not attenuated
• Fixed: Incorrect sRGB Profile console spam on linux (at least most of it, i hope)
• Fixed: Double ore drop patch accidentally shipped with the game
• Fixed: Bugs when loading pre 1.5.2 Worlds:
  • Lanterns dropping invisible blocks and not default to their copper variant
  • Weird happenings with Baskets 
• Fixed: Exception thrown on newly generated chunks related to bee hives
• Fixed: Pick block on slabs and trap doors returning wrong block
• Fixed: Server ticking blocks system throwing an exception on server shutdown
• Fixed: Harvestabke skeps not dropping any honeycomb >.>
• Fixed: Creature forever walking into walls
• Fixed: Dynamic shadows of some creatures rendered at the players position
• Fixed: Locust almost never spawning
• Fixed: Shapeless grid crafting crashing
• Fixed: Fall damage turned off
• Fixed: Avatar in character dialog drawn over itemstack info (probably)

Semi-releated, check out this base by @redram on the public server, dayum!

For Vintarians, use coupon code: 9CF76
For Very Important Vintarians, use coupon code: 1AA72
(This is my first time using the coupon system though, I might have gotten something wrong, so please let me know if you have any issues with it!)
 

But back to the update itself
Despite my heavy disclaimers, this update does contain the 2 major requested features that I mentioned I would be working on: Bee keeping and more intricate lantern crafting with a greater variety. Colored lantern lights are not there yet, but I already prepared the engine for that :-)

A metric ton of features made it into this release, in fact I think this is the largest update since ever. I don't know how we managed to cram so many fixes, changes and additions into those 15 days since the previous release. I didn't even had the impression we were particularly productive these days.

My favorite additions are probably the stone skipping, the angry bee mob and the json patching system. The latter is gonna get so extremely useful not only for modders but also for us to invent new play styles with much less effort.

Many of the changes and additions that made it into this release have been requested by you! It's awesome to have such creative input from everyone of you and we're looking forward to implement more community requested features. Thank you and keep beeing awesome! <3

Pretty pictures

New creature - The  Locust


Medieval Bee Keeping


More Lanterns, Bunch'o'Candles, Brick Slabs, Brick Stairs, Vertical slabs, Vertical trapdoors and Mudbricks

Full Game update list

• Feature: New Creature - The Locust
  • Required several new engine mechanics, but these creatures will now climb any block, stick in herds, attack in herds, might startle the unsuspecting spelunker and are generally just really creepy
• Feature: Greater lantern variety
  • New recipe. Is now made from metal plates, clear quartz and a candle
  • Metal plates can now be smithed on the anvil
  • Can now be made from several metals, including a new 90% lead+ 10% copper alloy: Molybdochalkos. |
    All available variants: Copper, Brass, Black Bronze, Tin bronze, Bismuth bronze, Iron, Molybdochalkos, Silver and Gold
  • It's intensity can now be boosted by 2 light levels with gold/silver lining
• Feature: Medieval bee keeping
  • Bee hives will now rarely spawn in warm, rather dry climates
  • Can now build skeps which, when placed nearby a hive will get populated, if there is enough nearby flowers 
  • Populated skeps can be picked up (but only be held in one of the 4 backpack slots) and transported to your home. Hold down CTRL and then move the mouse wheel to also cycle through your backpack slots! 
  • Populated skeps will eventually turn into harvestable skeps that can be broken to collect honeycomb, this destroys the hive though, so make sure to keep spreading those bee hives into more nearby empty skeps
  • Honeycomb can be separated into honey and beeswax by squeezing it out over an empty clay bowl
  • Eating Honey heals you by 2 health points, Beeswax can be turned into candles
  • Can use populated skeps to craft Beenades which can be thrown for a stingy surprise. Hint: Bees are pretty much angry at anything.
• Feature: New block - Bunch'o'Candles
  • Candles crafted from beeswax can now be placed in a bunch of up to 9 in one block. Never burn out. Each candle adds one light level to the block
• Feature: Server block ticking
  • Barren soil now grows back it's grass
  • Lava ignites nearby combustible blocks
• Feature: Infinite Ladder Stacking! Spam place a ladder on a ladder and watch it grow until the sky or hell, whatever you like better
• Feature: Vertical slabs and vertical trapdoors by @Milo Christiansen
• Feature: New blocks - Clay brick slabs and stairs
• Feature: New blocks - Light and dark mudbricks (creative mode only for now)
• Feature: Stone Skipping - thrown stones now bounce of water surfaces
• Feature: Bamboo Saplings - leaves and the upper segments of bamboo bushes now drop bamboo saplings
• Feature: Can now select backpack slots. Hold CTRL+Mousewheel to loop through all 14 slots or use CTRL+1/2/3/4 to select a backpack slot
• Feature: Mushroom regrowth. When broken with a knife, a stem will remain that eventually regrows into a mushroom again. Mushrooms are no longer placeable in survival mode.
• Feature: Improved positional awareness for ambient sounds. They should also no longer travel further vertically than horizontally.
• Feature: Can now list privileges of a user role via /role (rolename) privilege and revoke/grant privileges to a role via /role [rolename] privilege (grant|revoke) (privname)
• Tweak: Updated server.sh by @skol. Makes use of a new backup mechanic that is way more reliable and can be done without pausing the server
• Tweak: The game client can no longer be started twice, should prevent various issues with the game still running in the background unnoticeably and hogging your computers resources, as well as potential savegame corruption issues
• Tweak: /addarea now prints out more meaningful error messages
• Tweak: Clay brick block recipe now yields double the amount of brick blocks
• Nerf: Berries now only heal 0.5 hp instead of 1 hp
• Fixed: Grass stepping sounds somewhat smudgy sounding
• Fixed: Drifter spawning unaffected by block light
• Fixed: Game still on fast-forward for a minute after getting out of bed
• Fixed: Client not logging chat messages to client-chat.txt
• Fixed: Might fixed the crafting corruption bug that crashes the client and makes crafting impossible on a server until restarted
• Fixed: Obsidian knapping missing texture
• Fixed: Several cases where the block loader crashes from invalid blocktype configurations
• Fixed: Client crashing with a IndexOutOfRangeException
• Fixed: Player getting damaged when standing on a fence that is over 3 blocks in the air
• Fixed: Issues when updating by using the windows installer when the game is still running in the background. The installer now test for that case
• Fixed: Opening/Closing Trapdoors played the sound twice
• Fixed: Mono download url outdated on mac os
• Fixed: Game crashing when trying to place metal plates on the ground
• Fixed: Fixed horsetail plant spawning white particles upon breaking
• Fixed: Torches, Lanterns and Vines attaching wrongly to some blocks
• Fixed: Default server setups causing players not to have permissions to break or use blocks. Again. Jesus.

New Recipes

Mod Support Improvements

• Feature: JSON Patching System - Infinite powaaaah!!11
  Can now add a few lines of json to surgically patch any json file in the game using the syntax defined by the RFC 6902. Place your patches into the assets/patches folder. Example "doubleoredrops.json" - causes ore blocks to drop double the ores (except flint and quartz).

  [
  	{ file: "blocktypes/stone/ore", op: "replace", path: "/dropsByType/*/0/quantity/avg", value: 2.5 }
  ]

  This has 2 massive advantages over complete file replacements:
  • Your mods are much more likely to be game-update-proof
  • Your mods are much more likely to work well with other mods
  • Basically enables for us to easily add new play styles and difficulty levels! Just patch a few things and a new playing style is born.
     
• Feature: The api docs now use DocFX as the documentation generator. Looks nicer and has a search function! It is also extensible with markdown, so we might be getting a significantly prettier documentation platform in the future.
   
• Feature: The game now also treats folders as mods. You no longer need to zip them up for them to load :-)
• Feature: Mod icons should now work properly (define the location of the icon in the modinfo.json)
• Feature: New server side component api.WorldManager.SaveGame that gives you read/write access to some to properties of the currently loaded world
• Block related updates
  • Feature: BehaviorUnstable now has a setting attachedToFaces to set the face to wish the block should check against for attachment
  • Feature: Can now define the selection and collisionbox together through the new property CollisionSelectionBox or CollisionSelectionBoxes
  • Feature: Can now selectively remove variants using the new skipVariants property
  • Feature: The block light values are now read through the new block.GetLightHsv() method. This allows you to, for example, set the block light values through it's block entity
  • Feature: You can now mod in new chest-like containers without touching any code. The amount of slots can be configured through json files. Check out the chest.json for an example.
  • Feature: In the variantgroups list you can now define a list of states and loadFromProperties together, which adds together the variants. Example: { code: "wood", states: ["aged"], loadFromProperties: "block/wood" }
     
• Blocks / Items (=Collectible) related updates
  • Feature: Collectibles can now define their own creative tabs, just add them to the list in the creativeinventory property, no need to register anything. Might need to add an entry to the lang/en.json for correct naming however
  • Feature: Edible collectibles can now turn into another collectible by setting the new EatenStack property in the nutrition props
  • Feature: New collectible callback - OnConsumedByCrafting which is called after the itemstack was used as part of a grid crafting recipe.
  • Feature: You can now add itemstacks to the creative inventory that only differ by the itemstack attributes using the new property creativeinventoryStacks, see blocktypes/metal/lantern.json as example
     
• Entity updates
  • Feature: Add new 4 properties related to climbing. See locust for an example
  • Feature: Can now have flying creatures. See beemob for an example.
  • Feature: AI Tasks seekplayer (now renamed to seekentity) and meleeattack can now take in a list of entity codes that it should attack. See beemob for an example.
     
• Crafting updates
  • During grid crafting an itemstack can now be converted into another itemstack using the new returnedStack property. Check out the beenade crafting recipe for example
     
• Shape tesselation updates
  • The CompositeShape object (which can be defined for items, blocks and creatures) now accepts 2 new arguments:
    • quantityElements: Amount of box elements should be tesselated. If not set, all elements are tesselated. Checkout blocktypes/bunchocandles.json as an example
    • selectiveElements: List of strings, let's you selectively determine which elements to tesselate (untested, sorry!).
  • For shape alternates, you can now skip the base option if it's the same as the original
     
• Tweak: VintageStoryAPI.dll now set to assembly version 1.0.0 and file version to the current game version. This should fix linux mod issues
• Tweak: blockbehavior.TryPlaceBlock now takes in an ItemStack instead of an IItemStack as argument
• Tweak: New argument for block.DoPlaceBlock: The itemstack that was used for placing
• Tweak: Added sub command .debug wireframe ambsounds for ambient sound debugging
• Tweak: The stairs block no longer users hard coded collision/selection boxes, they are now defined in the blocktype json files
• Tweak: Renamed ITextureSource to ITexPositionSource
• Fixed: Block behavior ExchangeOnInteract now properly respects exchange state block domains
• Fixed: Several cases where broken json code would break the block loader and not load anything

Game updates

• Fixed: Server never unloading chunks
• Fixed: Other Chunkunloading weirdness
• Fixed: Areaconfig obfuscated in the serverconfig.json
• Fixed: Saw not loosing durability when breaking blocks
• Fixed: Icon png export ghostly
• Fixed: Clay form not showing remaining voxels
• Fixed: Placed Tool molds eating tool molds

• There's now a Press kit page. If you need a high quality version of the logo for video thumbnails or similar, feel free to get them there.

Game updates

• Tweak: Eating on a multiplayer server with a slow connections should be working a bit more reliably now
• Tweak: Disabled physics simulation for far away, inactive creatures. Should improve server performance by a few percent if theres many entities loaded
• Tweak: Disabled sneaking while a gui dialog is opened, because it's annoying
• Fixed: Bamboo trees unbreakable and not affected by fire
• Fixed: All water invisible on MacOS 
• Fixed: Fast mouse wheel scrolling also scrolling the chat dialog scrollbar altough it's not focused
• Fixed: Ambient occlusion weirdness on some blocks
• Fixed: Pumpkin vines growing in mid-air
• Fixed: Removed Wolf howling orchestras (should no longer howl simultaenously)
• Fixed: Rare server crash (InvalidOperationException)
• Fixed: Client command .reconnect crashing
• Fixed: Client command .clients crashing (probably)
• Fixed: Ice blocks in gui rendering in front of item tooltips
• Fixed: Bamboo breaking overlay often not following the bamboo shape

API Updates

• Fixed: Survial mod crashing if itemtypes/blocktypes were loaded with wrong datatypes in their json source

I was already happily working on new features, but the last night revealed another client crash and entity inactivity issues. Not really sure what to do about that, other than to keep pushing bugfix releases  :<

But to alleviate the constant update annoyance I made it easier to update for windows users. When you check "Other Downloads" in the account manager you can find an Update/NoMusic installer version of the game. This installer contains the full game, except for the music, and does not uninstall the previous version of the game. That reduces the file size by a factor of 10. Let's see how this goes. 

You'll also be getting a few small tweaks that were supposed to be for 1.5.2. They are all minor and shouldn't cause more breakage. I should probably be doing proper stable/development branch style game development, but meh >.>
Let's see for how long I can do this until I shoot myself in the foot

On the price of Vintage Story
First of all, thank you for participating on the forum and twitter polls. I greatly enjoyed reading everyones feedback and it helped me weigh in the pros and cons. A surprising 73% and 87% respectively of you decided that raising the price is acceptable. Starting from 1.5.2, the price will be set to 10 EUR/12.5 USD on the Website and the Humble Widget. I'll also send out a 50% off coupon for everyone that purchased the game so far as a thank you for the early support. Whoever purchased the supporter addon will receive a second 50% off coupon.

Anyhow. Here's whats new.

Game Account Manager

• Added Update/NoMusic version of the windows installer

Game updates

• Feature: Tool/Ingot molds can now be picked up with RMB
• Feature: Charcoal firepit block now shows in the block info how much time is left before ignition 
• Tweak: The clay form surface gives you a hint in the block info to press 'F'
• Tweak: Ladders are now less slide-y and should no longer make player glitch into blocks,
• Tweak: Backpacks now show their contents in the tool tip
• Tweak: 3rd person camera is now a bit more tolerant towards covered player heads (does not zoom in if just the head is covered)
• Fixed: .clientconfig setting bool values not case insensetive, added server entity debug commands,
• Fixed: Probably fixes a server side exception with item pickup
• Fixed: Prevent firepit (and other broken block entities) from crashing the game
• Fixed: Unloaded Entities no longer getting properly loaded when the chunk was loaded again. Cause items to be no longer collectable and creatures staying frozen in place
• Fixed: Pumpkin crop too dark, vine withered stage wrongly named

API Updates

• Tweak: Currently mapped hotkeys now exposed to the api
• Fixed: Client chat notifications passing correct enumchattype arg
   

So many annoying updates. Decided to push another bugfix release due to a server crash source and mod loading issues. Hopefully the last release for 2-3 weeks again.

Game updates

• Tweak: Inverted Fast Animations settings, it is now called "Fancy Animations"
• Tweak: Decoupled item pick up speed from the server tick speed
• Tewak: Made server tick rate configurabe, either via serverconfig.json or while the server is running via /serverconfig tickrate [tps]
• Tweak: Lowered the servers default tick rate (=ticks per second) from 40 down to 30, which lowers CPU usage and is more than sufficient for fluent game play
• Fixed: Occasional server crash due to the cpu/memory leak fixes made in 1.5.1.2 
• Fixed: .zip Mod loading issues
• Fixed: Water shimmer animation thingy broken
• Fixed: Knapping surface resetting itself after chunk unload/load

If no more serious issues arise with this version, then I'll move it into the stable downloads section. 

[Edit 7 hours later] 1.5.1.2 is now declared stable!

Game updates

• Tweak: Firepit gui now also allows world interaction and supports the floaty gui mechanic
• Tweak: Added range parameter to /entity countbytype and /entity removebytype
• Tweak: Added server command to compact the large object heap for testing (/debug cloh)
• Tweak: Lowered default music level from 60 to 30
• Tweak: Completely disabled creature reproduction mechanic until it works as intended
• Tweak: Coordinates in the 'V'-Dialog no longer reference the player specific spawn point, but the original one.
• Fixed: Massive lag on certain AMD Cards from rendering water (verified to be fixed on a Radeon R9 290). 
• Fixed: Significant lag in loaded worlds that were previously set to 0 time speed
• Fixed: Eliminated a few more lingering game tick listeners causing server lag over the course of a few days
• Fixed: Firepit guis can no longer be opened multiple times
• Fixed: One weird case of the knapping system crashing
• Fixed: Creative tabs cutting of the 'C' of 'Construction'
• Fixed: Chat dialog not closing while typing and pressing tab
• Fixed: Breaking Trapdoors in opened position dropping the wrong block
• Fixed: Mouse lock randomly turning off while attacking, breaking blocks or using items/blocks
• Fixed: Player stopping for a frame while walking away with a chest dialog opened
• Fixed: Itemstack info box not appearing on hotbar items after opening a dialog
• Fixed: Minor stuff. Added some missing language entries; removed ambient occlusion from coopers reed, paintings and pumpkin plants; small berry bushes dropping gray particles instead of green; minor graphical glitches with saltpeter 
   

Should clear up most issues observed in 1.5.1. Next version will probably be a stable release \o/

Full game updates list

• Tweak: Added black bronze anvil
• Tweak: Added support for ambient occlusion for json models. This now produces smooth light attenuation on plaster blocks, but might cause other issues. Might need to specifically disable AO on some blocks.
• Tweak: Rock now requires mining tier 2 (copper) to break (there was no stone pick in the first place...)
• Tweak: Added some debug logging to track down a crash issue while crafting observed by @MarcAFK
• Fixed: Pumpkin Crop!
  • Fixed: Crop never indicating when it is done growing. It now has a withered stage
  • Fixed: Vines deleting themselves upon chunk reload
  • Fixed: Vines not fully respecting the game calendar (fast forward to the future should make the crop instantly mature)
• Fixed: Added missing recipe for scythehead + stick = scythe
• Fixed: Chests no longer craftable
• Fixed: Chest in creative inventory facing the wrong direction, fixed stairs not in construction tab.
• Fixed: Black bronze axe not having extra attack damage
• Fixed: Prevent a crash during clay forming
• Fixed: Placing blocks not possible at all when standing above max world height
• Fixed: (Attempted fix) Issues with basalt forming underwater where it shouldn't
• Fixed: Planter eating cattail roots when right clicked
• Fixed: Many fixes related to the GUI Updates (incorrect overlapping of individualual elements, open/close behavior of the chat hud not properly working, some dialogs not properly focusing)
• Fixed: Flint ore block not dropping itself when surrounded by air
• Fixed: Many blocks (firepit, forge, ingot mold, etc.) not unregistering their game tick listeners, causing a long running server to slowly but eventually lag to death and possibly other odd behaviors.

API Updates

• Tweak: Renamed several API methods to something more meaningful
• Tweak: The Ladder behavior can now also be applied to other blocks (I hope!)
• Tweak: Asset manager now logs the filepaths of external origins, if present
• Fixed: tree.MarkPathDirty() crashing the client if the path does not exist server side, but does exist client side. Now the client will delete the path instead. 
• Fixed: clientworld.AllOnlinePlayers should now no longer contain unloaded players and have all the data for already online players

Other Updates

• Reported Windows Defender Security detecting VintageStory.exe as Trojan as false positive >.>
  Add an exclusion if you have this issue: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4028485/windows-10-add-an-exclusion-to-windows-defender-antivirus

New Tool: Scythe breaks a 3x3 area of grass or crops

Fancy GUI Experiments. Can now open multiple chests and still interact with the world while dialogs are opened and stuff.

Plaster the perfect house walling block. Available in survival

In-World chat messages and crops no longer grow in darkness

Full game updates list

• Feature: Stone Tools. Can now create stone specific axes, shovels, knifes and spears from granite, andesite, basalt and obisdian. 
• Feature: Scythe. Can now break a 3x3 area of tall grass or crops at once using the scythe. Therefore tallgrass no longer breaks instantly
• Feature: New geologic province, the basalt area. You might find yourself in an area covered with basalt rock. Basalt may now contain obsidian as deposit.
• Feature: Set your spawn point. Go hunt a lot of drifters, the rest is a surprise  
• Feature: Configurable day/night length. Via /time hoursperday [hours] you can set how long the day/night cycle should take. The creative mode now has a default day/night length of 24.000 hours.
• Feature: New Block: Plaster
  • Crush chalk stones with a hammer, then bake it to get quick lime
  • Combine quick lime with sand to get plaster
  • Can be combined with planks to get various patterns. The diagonal and striped blocks can be placed with 3 different orientations, like logs. 
• Feature: Vintage OS v0.1: Floaty and weird multi GUI Dialog Experiments.
  • When opening a chest or the inventory, the player can still walk around and interact with the world.
  • Can also hold down CTRL to still look around.
  • Can now open multiple chest inventories at the same time
  • Via .clientconfig floatyGuis 1 you can enable an experimental mode where the chest dialogs float above the chests.
  • Can now move dialogs around by selecting the "Movable" option from the context menu that's now available on the top right. 
  • Dialogs can now be focused / brought to the foreground
• Feature: Chat message now also appear above the players heads
• Feature: Flint can now be broken out of solid rock by hand
• Feature: Craftable grass covered soil. Use 1 dry grass above 1 low/medium fertility soil to get grass covered soil (temporary solution)
• Feature: All creatures now play a custom animation when getting hurt
• Feature: Added frame tick profiler to the server in order to debug performance issues. 
• Tweak: Pumpkins now give 4 times the saturation, for a total of 480 sat. Pumpkin fruits are now in the creative inventory.
• Tweak: Chat overlay is now more transparent and has a slightly larger font. Please let me know if that is a good or bad change
• Tweak: Linen bag recipe is a lot cheaper now. New recipe is 1 Twine above 1 Linen cloth.
• Tweak: Cobblestone Path now requires 4 stone instead of 5, hay bale requires 6 instead of 9 dry grass
• Tweak: High quality animation blending now enabled for all creatures, at notable CPU cost (1-7%). You can revert to the fast animation system in the graphics settings.
• Tweak: Moved death dialog down by 40 pixels so that spam clicking before death doesn't insta respawn you
• Tweak: Reorganized many debug commands. They are now grouped together into the .debug and /debug command.
• Tweak: Creature Knockback is now more pronounced
• Tweak: Crucibles can now hold only ingots and ores
• Tweak: Small berry bushes and full peat blocks are now burnable
• Tweak: Minor CPU optimizations in crowded creature situations
• Tweak: Work items can now be resmelted
• Tweak: Chests can no longer made from bamboo
• Tweak: Removed voxels while clay forming can be reused again
• Tweak: Crops now require sun light level 20+ to grow. They loose 10% growth speed for every light level below 20, with 0% growth at light level 10 or below. Not affected by day/night cycle or block light.
• Fixed: Worldedit block relighting off by default (should be on by default)
• Fixed: Drifters damaging players through blocks (chance of that should be greatly reduced at least)
• Fixed: Game crashing in multiplayer when clay forming and running out of clay
• Fixed: Alloying not working in corner cases
• Fixed: Able to add items to the creative inventory with right click
• Fixed: Breaking chests dropping a chest that is not stackable with the crafted one
• Fixed: Obsidian breaking too fast and not dropping stones but the full block instead
• Fixed: Game no longer crashes when a tool rack contains an unknown block/item
• Fixed: Game crashing when using hotkeys while a game world is loading
• Fixed: Added missing password field for multiplayer server entries. You can now properly password protect your servers
• Fixed: Metal sheets not rotating via world edit rotate commands
• Fixed: Forge, Bomb and bloomery instantly ignitable

Mod API Updates

• Feature: Added mod icon support. Mods can now display an icon in the mod manager. Mod manager has now a disabled overlay for disabled or broken mods. (by CreativeMD). 
• Tweak: Event API now also contains the methods to register a game tick or a delayed callback
• Tweak: The Server Events CanUse/Break and DidUse/Break now have a BlockSelection object as argument.
• Tweak: NetworkClientMessageHandler now has IServerPlayer as first arg
• Fixed: JSONObject.ToFloatArray() no longer throwing an exception on some values
• Fixed: Block loader no longer crashing if a block behavior does not exist
• Fixed: Smelting things in crucible not respecting the smeltedstack stacksize as configured in the combustible properties
• Fixed: BlockSelection.Clone() crasing in some cases
• Fixed: Death event not firing. Added more arguments to the death event
• Fixed: Saplings never growing 

New/Updated grid crafting recipes

♫ "99 bugs in the game, take one down and pass it around, 100 bugs in the game." ♫ ♪

Apologies for the release spam. Version 1.5.0.2 introduced a new bug that causes all animals to freeze in place, which is fairly game breaking. I hope this is the last hotfix release for a while now. 

Installer Updates

• Feature: Installer will now start to remember the install directory. So after the next installation you will have your previously selected install directory listed instead of the default one. (windows only)

Game Updates

• Tweak: Reworked plank textures, their patterns now differ somewhat
• Tweak: Spectator mode is now more spectator like: Player is now invisible, cannot interact with entities or water, automatically enters fly mode and can use move speed keys.
• Tweak: Decreased animal reproduction rates by a factor of 10
• Tweak: Minor optimization - don't redraw block info and coordinate HUD texts if they are not opened
• Fixed: Non critical issues crashing the client on rare occasions
• Fixed: Server throwing exception upon /stop command
• Fixed: Creatures becoming frozen in place and never moving again
• Fixed: Chunks were not getting unloaded on the client in some cases in multiplayer
• Fixed: Chunks sometimes still getting rendered even after being unloaded

Looks I broke something again. I hope thats all!
Note: No need to update the server from 1.5.0.2 to 1.5.0.3. The changes are only client side.

Game updates

• Fixed: Game crashing when breaking ingot molds
• Fixed: Client side DivideByZeroException (or at least the game won't crash any longer)

It is very refreshing to see the sudden, and seemingly continuous influx of new members in our community. Let me take this opportunity to welcome you here one more time, show my appreciation for your support and hope that you are having a good time with what we've created :-)
Also thanks to everyone that reported bugs, suggested features or helped spread the word of Vintage Story, makes for a very positive community climate, I find

I decided to push another bugfix release, so that we have at least one very stable version of the game. Then I can worry less on creating unstable testing releases ^_^

Game updates

• Feature: Player view bobbing can now be disabled in the graphics settings (for @Milo Christiansen)
• Feature: The mouse Y-Axis can now be inverted in the controls settings (for @Shaun Graham)
• API Feature: Moved player/creature rendering system to the game content mod, several tweaks to the shape rendering system.
  Mods can now attach their own rendering stuff to players (for @copygirl)
• Tweak: Wooden paths now have a move speed bonus of 12%
• Tweak: Replaced fast graphics mode with a resolution slider. This now lets you reduce only the resolution without the weird side effects of backface culling. A value like 50% is recommended for MacOS Users with very high screen resolutions (for @ACE)
• Fixed/Tweak: Stone paths only yielding a 8% move speed bonus instead of 15%. Increase move speed bonus now to 20%.
• Fixed: The mouse cursor issues on MacOS and Linux should be a thing of the past now \o/
• Fixed: Some shader errors printed to console on macos (and probably affecting moon rendering)
• Fixed: Increased move speed from blocks not increasing walk animation speed
• Fixed: Leaving, then re-entering a chunk causing some blocks to not fully disappear upon breaking (i.e. metal layer on molds, sign texts on signs, etc.)
• Fixed: Help dialog can be interacted with while the create character dialog is opened.
• Fixed: Foliage in some areas very uniformly colored (i.e. very rainy jungle areas)
• Fixed: Dying with GUIs disabled prevents to from enable again. Upon death guis are shown now if they were hidden. 
• Fixed: Dying then rage quitting and reloading the world caused the player to be alive again with 0 health.
• Fixed: When Show/hide chat mapped to a letter then that letter can no longer be typed in chat without hiding the chat too.
• Fixed: /announce command not printing the message
• Fixed: 2 layer or thicker charcoal pits only yielding charcoal for the first layer
• Fixed: Placing fire pits in creative mode only producing a client side firepit that doesn't work
• Fixed: Minor Moon rendering issues
• Fixed: Hitboxes not tightly fitting baskets and crucibles

Specially for copygirl, I made it possible that Mods can do this now (this is not in the game, but a sample mod) - back packs

As some of you may have experienced by now, ore blasting bombs are a very useful tool that enables you to quickly mine large deposits. They were however practically harmless to the player, which was not intentional. This update makes them literally deadly if you are too careless.

Unlike in Minecraft however, an explosion will not hurt you if you take cover behind a blast resistant wall. So in case of ore blasting bombs either stand behind a 2 block thick rock wall, or a 1 block thick wall at a distance of 5 blocks and you should be save.
 

Game updates

• Feature/Fixed: Explosions hardly hurting players. An ore blasting bomb explosion in the immediate vicinity (< 1.5 blocks) will now instantly kill the player. Explosion range and injury range are now separate. The ore blasting bomb now has an explosion range of 4 blocks and an injury range of 10 blocks. So from now on, when you go blast mining, you better take cover.
• Tweak: Some descriptive texts for the clothes
• Tweak: Game no longer crashes when the music and sound folders are deleted. 
• Tweak: Hot metal in tool / ingot molds now cool down 3 times slower
• Tweak: Wolf pups no longer drop anything
• Tweak: Improved performance of large burning fires by disabling terrain collision tests for the fires smoke and spark particles
• Tweak: /we blu now places all blocks that are also in the creative inventory. /we blu all places all existing blocks.
• Tweak: Reduced surface copper and flint deposit occurrence by 25%. Reduced size of flint deposits by 25%.
• Fixed: Other player name tags not adjusting to their sitting/sneaking height
• Fixed: Distant players getting transparent and eventually fading out
• Fixed: Exception thrown by worldedit when using world edit tools right after world reload without changing any settings
• Fixed: Finally fixed the bug where the player wouldn't step on stairs 
• Fixed: Animations broken on all baby animals
• Fixed: Clay forming and flint knapping textures slightly off again
• Fixed: The server default permissions did not allow players to build or use blocks
• Fixed: Player screen shaking when another player got hurt

Since there's nothing new to show visually, here's 2 mildly interesting testing screenshots of a bombs ray cast and a large fire test O_O

 

This update will make multiplayer a bit more user friendly due to the addition of customizable player outfits, so we can each look not the same. Yay!
I wanted to add some more game content but decided for an early release since there's were a few bad bugs in the previous version.

Game updates

• Feature: Customizable player outfits!
  • Everytime you start a new world or join server for the first time you will be able to select from a small range of dress pieces. We'll definitely add a greater selection in the future and make some acquirable only through ruin scavenging and trading.
  • Dress pieces otherwise act just like normal items that can be stored and traded with other players
     
• Feature: When picking up items from the ground, the inventory slot they landed in will now vibrate to better visualize that you collected something.
  
  
   
• Feature: Mushrooms are now 3D!
  
   
• Feature: Added survival mode crafting recipes for stone path blocks (made from 5 stones and any soil) and wooden paths (made from aged planks).
  
   
• Feature: Getting damaged now shakes the screen 
   
• API Feature:
  • Added api methods for rendering a texture into a texture,
  • Added api method to reserve texture space in the entity/block/item texture atlas
  • Refactored TesselatorAPI texture atlas parts into their own texture atlas with some more functionality. We can now basically stream in and out of textures during runtime.
  • More mod friendly way of setting the time speed (via time speed modifiers)
  • Added ability for the engine to load mods from the data folder as well
     
• Tweak: Sign texts are now black and centered
• Tweak: The grid recipe for arrows now only results in a single arrow instead of 3
• Tweak: Rewrote many server commands to be grouped together into logical components: /player and /role
• Tweak: Added ability to set default spawn point through command /serverconfig defaultspawn x y z
• Tweak: Improved the shape and textures of the bloomery, wooden chest, stationary basket, bucket and sign block 
• Tweak: Some shader tweaks for the moon at dawn and dusk. Could potentially be used for further celestial objects that are also visible during daytime
• Tweak: Re-addded new opentk version built by copygirl, might fix linux mouse issues without breaking the game this time.
• Tweak: Animals only grow up if there is enough space to grow. This prevents them from suffocating if they are pushed to a block edge at the moment of growth.
• Tweak: Tweaked sound distance attenuation to play at 100% within a 3 block radius, should fix some sounds being very low volumne
• Tweak: Item/Block tool tip box now shows the item/block at 250% the normal size instead of 150%
• Fixed: /times speed command resetting on world reload
• Fixed: Killed animals still growing up and reproducing
• Fixed: Game crashing when trying to place a bow on a tool rack
• Fixed: Game crashing when igniting a block with a torch and then looking away.
• Fixed: Server crashing and breaking save games when breaking broken firewood piles (that contained shirts O_O)
• Fixed: Player block break animation not playing when nothing in hands
• Fixed: Tweaked the sizes / positions of many items and blocks in the inventory guis
• Fixed: Block schematic rotation issue when rotating by 180 degrees. Affects world edit schematics and structures created by world generation. Fixes ruins sometimes containing wrongly rotated beds.

Game updates

• Feature: Cow Skulls can now be placed on walls (by skodone)
• Tweak: Increased tree chopping speeds when using metal axes
• Fixed: Shift + Left Click items out of the 3x3 crafting output slot disconnecting players and doing all kinds of weird things
• Fixed: Sitting animation not shown to other players and right mouse click not released
• Fixed: Downgraded opentk.dll again, as it breaks current versions of mono
• Fixed: Custom kick messages not displayed
• Fixed: Disconnected screen had a black background
• Fixed: Player eating animation not playing correctly
• Fixed: Textures on wood piles, fire pits, ingot piles and plate piles going all wonky on rare occasions
• Fixed: Sneak + Left click in the air with clay in hands crashing the game
• Fixed: Several sounds in stereo and thus playing not respecting positional sound rules
• Fixed: 3rd person transforms for some blocks reaaaally wrong. Improved some others
   

I'll be playing for an hour or 2 tonight at 9pm (gmt+1), so if you like, come join me for a round of plain old survival at chrometech.at. I also made a forum post where we can further discuss server related topics.

So see you tonight, maybe

Game updates

• Feature: Can now sneak + right click fuel and cookable items into the firepit without opening the firepit dialog
• Feature: The saw can no be used to break logs like the axe, but won't break the whole tree
• Tweak: In the 3rd person camera the body now lags behind the camera rotation which looks much nicer
• Tweak: Added commandline argument --dataPath
• Tweak: Doubled the time it takes before the char coal pit starts burning, thus doubling the time you can have to close it up (from 15 to 30 seconds)
• Tweak: Disabled creature reproduction if any nearby chunks are unloaded. This might fix the massive uncontrollable creature reproduction that sometimes happens.
• Tweak: Large kapok trees now have 2x2 size trunks instead of 1x1
• Fixed: Updated OpenTK Library to latest version, might fix some linux mouse issues (copygirl)
• Fixed: Fixed install.sh and server.sh (skol)
• Fixed: Filled Sword molds not returning anything
• Fixed: Mega screenshot hotkey (ctrl+alt+f12) not working
• Fixed: Setting a new hotkey in the controls doing weird stuff if one of the keys was assigned already
• Fixed: Sitting down not synced to the server, making it believe the player was still standing
• Fixed: Knapping sounds not exactly playing where the knapping happens
• Fixed: FPS graph displaying wrong values because it was offseted by 20 pixels vertically
• Fixed: Wolves suffocating when walking into 1 block high gaps
• Fixed: Firepit model not updating properly on extinction/ignition
• Fixed: Player able to place the first stage of a firepit in mid-air
• Fixed: Player sitting animation not easing out
• Fixed: Player walk animation not playing when pressing the sit key while walking
• Fixed: Firewood piles in underground structures dropping quartz instead of firewood
• Fixed: Ladder placing behaving unexpectedly (when placing at a steep angle or when trying to stack vertically on the first ladder piece with a ground in front)
• Fixed: Shadows not dropping on water surfaces
• Fixed: Rare crash bug that can crash the server when overloaded
• Fixed: Chat dialog swallowing first key if remapped to Enter key
   

Wiki Updates

• Added a page to help you with version upgrade world incompatbilities (Updating Old Worlds)
• Added all new recipes from 1.4.9
• Added some important notes to the fire pit and surface ores to the starter guide

Always makes me a little nervous to release a new version with so many changes, but here we go...

Welcome to Version 1.4.9 - a massive amount of time went into one single new feature - the new player model. We went quite overboard on this one. There's dozens of major and minor new features now working behind the scenes to give you a much better player avatar. Instead of one single walk animation there's now 30+ different animations for all kinds of activities that also dynamically blend together. 

One disclaimer though, animations have been one of the most difficult / work intensive features we've added so far, so there's bound to be glitches and unlucky situations where the animations will look wrong. We definitely want to still tweak the system to make it look just right.

Attention Linux/Mac Users: The location of the folder where your savegames are stored has changed, you might need to move the VintageStoryData folder manually to get back your saves.

For the upcoming version 1.5.0 I would like to improve some on the game play content, such as an ability to set the spawn point and have player skin customization ready to use.
I hope you like what you see! As for me, I already look forward to the next release!
 

Game updates on v1.4.9.1

• Tweak: Improved tree recognition when chopping trees. Harvesting acacia trees should be more pleasant again.
• Tweak: Axes no longer loose durability from broken leaves
• Tweak: Chopping trees with an axe drops more sticks now
• Tweak: Shears now loose durability from each broken leaves block, but also now have 5 times more durability.
• Tweak: Increased durability for all metal tools, particularly copper ones (50-100% durability gain)
• Fixed: Lowered player height so one can fit through 2 block high windows
• Fixed: Vintage Story on mono not using appdata folder
• Fixed: Knapping recipes now also drop tool heads
• Fixed: Game Server sometimes pausing and no longer resuming, causing it to act like crashed

Game updates on v1.4.9

• Feature: Complete overhaul of the player model
  • New model! New texture! 35+ new animations!
  • Seamless animations blending, i.e. can aim with a bow and walk, sneak or run at the same time!
  • Can now see what the player holds in his hands in 3rd person mode!
  • As always, all is configurable through json files for modders
• Feature: New camera mode "Overhead". To see the new player model in all it's glory you can now use the Overhead camera to look at the player in all angles
• Feature: Colored glass: 7 pretty variants of colored glass <3  (only for creative mode for now)
• Feature: All tool recipes now produce tool heads instead of the full tool. Combine with a stick to get your complete tool
• Feature: Complete overhaul of all tools models. Axes, Hammers, Hoes, Knifes, Pickaxes, Prospecting Picks, Saws, Shears, Shovels, Spears and Swords now look better than ever!
• Feature: Straw dummy. Test your skills on a stationary, defenseless dummy
• Feature: Wooden Club. Crude but effective tool for brute forcing your way out of sticky situations
• Feature: Added all creatures to the creative inventory
• Feature: Sleeping in beds to skip time. Straw beds let you skip 3.5 hours, wooden beds 4.5 hours and aged wooden beds 5 hours. Does not set the spawn point.
• Feature: One new cute animation for piglets and one attack animation for roosters. Tweaked the animation speeds for other creatures. 
• Feature/Fixed: Single Key Hotkeys now fire even with modifiers pressed. Result: Can now make screenshots while sneaking/running or change slots via keyboard keys 1-9 while running. 
• Feature: Added clay forming recipe for 4x crucibles, 4 clay bowls, 4x flower pots and 2x ingot molds
• Feature: Added knapping recipe for arrowheads. Tweaked existing knapping recipes
• Feature: Ore blocks now drop themselves when mined all around, just like stone blocks do
• Feature: Minimal intro dialog to redirect people to the wiki
• Feature: The /stats command is now more informative, debug screen now shows avg. amount of draw calls per frame
• Feature: Added Flint deposits near surface in rock types sandstone, shale, claystone, chalk
• API Feature: More modding abilities!
  • Dropped the code obfuscation on the game content mod (VSGameContent.dll), this means modders have better access to the internal workings of the game content features
  • In addition, I moved about 15.000 lines of game content code out of the engine and into the game content mod or the api library. This migration also surfaced a few shortcomings in the mod api, which are now fixed!
  • Added a global event bus for mod/block communication (via api.Event.PushEvent)
• Tweak: Loose flint blocks now drop 50% more flint
• Tweak: Restyled most gui buttons to look like actual buttons
• Tweak: Shears now multibreak leaves and branchy leaves together 
• Tweak: Enabled sideways running again
• Tweak: Enabled swimming up with the jump button again, but works better now
• Tweak: Significant performance optimized certain situations when there is *a lot* of creatures in a small space
• Tweak: Held item walk wobble now depends on the walk speed
• Tweak: Improved limonite texture
• Fixed: Glass blocks getting all white when looked at a very steep angle
• Fixed: Domain casing issue when loading assets from other origins (mod api)
• Fixed: More issue with spear/arrow hit detection
• Fixed: Player shadow not visible in first person mode
• Fixed: Added missing smithing recipe for pro pick
• Fixed: Game crashing when breaking leaves with shears on near 0 durability
• Fixed: Item dupe and more issues on falling block entities like tool and ingot molds
• Fixed: Client and Server Temperature fall-off of filled ingot and tool molds no longer drift apart
• Fixed: Game crashing if no blocks were loaded
• Fixed: Planting seeds not updating stack size on the client
• Fixed: A number of GPU memory leaks causing memory usage to increase notably when opening and closing many worlds without restarting
• Fixed: Mod lang files not loaded if no domain prefix was used
• Fixed: Game Server crashing on startup and not exiting properly when typing /stop in console >.<
• Fixed: Game Server tick rate not at the targeted 40 TPS but at 35ish
• Fixed: Overall scene too bright during daytime, causing snow to appear almost entirely white and sandstone sand almost entirely yellow.

Screenshots

New player model

Beating a Straw Dummy with a straw dummy

New glass blocks and flint deposits
 

New Grid crafting Recipes
             

We hope you all had a great Christmas celebration! Let me use this time to organize my thoughts and give you an update on the current state of development.

I've decided to take my time on this update instead of squeezing it into our usual 2 week release cycle. For one part because there's a big feature incoming and furthermore, on a rare occasions, Saraty and me took the holidays to play a game, which was "Don't starve together". What a punishing game

Anyhow, we hope the bulk of our "don't starve" addiction is now over and we can continue on VS again

Luke, Saraty and Ben were improving and animating our new player model while I was spending a lot of time working out all the kinks and quirks to make animation blending configurable and good looking. Only that allows a player to aim with a bow and walk/sneak/jump at the same time. I would love to make it even more feature rich, but for now I will probably focus on the ability to customize your characters looks. Just in recent days I decided to ditch the idea of MC style skin customization in favor of a more refined concept of ingame cloth pieces, I hope I can pull it off within a reasonable time frame. Wish me luck!

Saraty also overhauled all the tools to be actual 3D models and now just voxelized textures, which combined with the new player model, look pretty awesome if i may say so.

And finally, behind the scenes Ivan keeps building amazing stuff that makes me want to spend an entire month working solely on integrating structures and dungeons into worldgen! I'm super excited for when I can finally see them seamlessly integrated into our game.

Survey Time

In the essence of our constant strive to improve the game, I cordially invite you to help us make the best sandbox game we can by filling out a short survey. If you own a copy of Vintage Story, please fill in the Player Survey, for everyone else there is the Visitory Survey. Thanks!

Moving v1.4.8 to stable

Since I've heard no major bug reports on v1.4.8 I've now declared it stable. Pretty shadows for everyone! 

Version 1.4.9 Teaser Video

Happy new year everyone!

My whole family, including me, was yet again struck down, this time by a pretty bad stomach flu, so this release is way behind of where I wanted it to be. Nonetheless it should be worthwhile your time due to the addition of shadow mapping, if you have a beefier graphics card.

Turning the shadow quality to very high might turn your machine into an egg cooker, but man, it's so worth it:

Game updates

• Feature: Realistic Shadows 
  • Creatures and terrain now drops shadows onto the terrain/creatures, depending on the sun or moon position
  • Enable in the graphics settings but requires a beefy graphics card. Won't work on low-end computers, sorry!
• Feature: Mod manager. A first basic version - let's you see which mods are loaded and enable/disable them
• Feature: Vertical cave connections. When exploring caves, you might now encounter very long vertical connections between cave systems.
• Tweak: Increased block light intensity
• Tweak: Reduced spawn rates of some animals, tweaked some animation speeds
• Tweak: Improved creative inventory search performance
• Fixed: Typing 'B' while writing on a sign disables the block info and similar issues
• Fixed: Gold and Silver deposits not read by pro pick and not adhering to the distributed ore system
• Fixed: More fixes and tweaks to improve music player track diversity
• Fixed: Game client crashing if it can't resolve web URLs
• Fixed: Empty moon now looks less strange during dusk/dawn
• Fixed: Pro pick on last use never giving a reading
• API Updates
  • Feature: Can now hook into low level mouse and keyboard events on the client
  • Tweak: Improved API documentation in various places and some code cleanups
  • Fixed: Mod Lang files not loaded by the game
  • Fixed: Registering commands without privilege not executable
     

Game Account updates

• Removed the birth date from the game account profiles. It's no longer require when signing up.

More Screenshots

Mod Manager

Vertical cave connections in my test bed (the black worms)

Game updates

• Tweak: Dropped items now survive 5 minutes longer on the ground for a total of 10 minutes
• Tweak: Several wood based blocks can now also be burned
• Tweak: Female boars now seek players within a range of 6 instead of 20 blocks (quick fix, we'd like to make it's behavior more intelligent still)
• Tweak: Maybe somewhat more understandable prospecting results from the propick?
• Fixed: Game crashing when walking away while pouring hot metal
• Fixed: Forge contents not visible
• Fixed: Some issues with fire pit textures
• Fixed: More Linux file naming issues, now all asset files are just systematically lower case
• Fixed: Aiming rectangle when using bow/stone/spear not disappearing when dropping the item or upon dying
• Fixed: Incorrect sound paths for male boar
• Fixed: Yet another issue with blocks/items producing white cubic particles instead of their respective texture color
• Fixed: Reduced multiple impact sounds of the spear
• Fixed: Server now tries to spawn you on solid ground when creating a new world (i hope it does o.O)
• Fixed: Required Mining tier naming on blocks
• Fixed: Creative inventory search not searching the block/item names
• Fixed: --addOrigin argument not working as intended [Mod API]

A twitch follower of @copygirl named Derpyisbestponycausecute said "The game looks so warm and cosy", which kind of fits with the latest feature additions, so I'm naming it like that  
Usable Beds are not there yet, but I'll try to add them next update. At least the nights should be less annoying now.

Game updates

• Feature: More diverse ore distribution and prospecting system
  • Most ores are no longer uniformly distributed but there are now areas of higher and lower or even zero concentration. Surface copper still appears everywhere for an easier start into the copper age.
  • With the help of the new prospecting pick these areas can be located. Break stone or rock with the prospecting pick at random locations within a 10 by 10 area to get a reading. Breaking only adjacent stones will not work well.
• Feature: Moon phases and moon phase dependent night brightness
• Feature: Fireflies particle effect in temperate areas during nighttime
• Feature: New creature: Boars
• Feature: Visible firepit contents: Currently only for cookable foods and crucibles. More to come in future updates
• Feature: Improved main menu visuals
  • Replaced the home screen image with 5 new terrain screenshots that (should) change once a week
  • Home screen now has a gentle particle effect
  • Edge shading for the other screens and removed some alignment issues
  • More fitting welcome text
• Feature: Improved or Tweaked creature behaviors
  • Creatures no longer turn in place, but try to turn while moving in arcs
  • Improved entity task selection to not cancel out eachother where they shouldn't, should make animations less cut off in some cases
  • Added eating animations for bighorn sheep
  • Reduced tendency for them to walk into walls
• Feature: Can no longer instantly ignite utility blocks. Bombs, Forges and Bloomeries now require 0.75 - 2 seconds to ignite.
• Feature: Added a black background behind the durability bars for greater clarity
• Feature: Improved explosion particle effects
• Feature: Easy ladder stacking. Ladders can now be more easily grown vertically up/down by aiming at top-/bottom-most block
• Tweak: Two performance improvements
  • Disabled inside-block-collision test for creatures, saves about 5% game ticking performance, let's see if we can live without it.
  • Increased chunks-to-send per tick from 2 to 32 - seems to have no performance impact and makes previously generated worlds load up to 2 times faster! (please delete servermagicnumbers.json for this change to take effect)
• Tweak: Bamboo now requires tool tier 1 to be broken
• Tweak: Lowered required mining tier for bismuth
• Tweak: Made tool/ingot mold insets darker for improved visibility, glass frames now completely opaque
• Tweak: Snowlayer blocks no longer drop anything
• Tweak: Improved documentation of the mod api in several areas
• Tweak: Added 'tool offset mode' drop down to the world edit gui
• Tweak: More block/item infos
  • Ore blocks show the required mining tier in metal names instead of numbers ("requires a copper tool" instead of "requires mining tier 1")
  • Metal Ores now have an another tooltip line showing amount of units of metal they contain.
  • Added some item/block descriptions.
• Fixed: Various fixes to some block textures and visible seams at the edges.
• Fixed: Eliminated some potential memory leaks
• Fixed: Thrown spears hit detection should now be more reliable
• Fixed: WorldEdit Spray painting Reeds overwriting water blocks
• Fixed: Shears not breaking multiple blocks
• Fixed: Player going all jittery while sneaking and trying to step up thin blocks
• Fixed: Game client crashing in multiplayer when someone else flips itemstacks
• Fixed: Fairly severe issue with ticking block entities not unloading on chunk unload. Under certain circumstances this caused reeds to regrow instantly or replacing burned out turches to instantly burn out again.
• Fixed: BlockEntity container contents getting garbeld up when imported inside a schematic from a different schematic. These now automatically fix their blockid/itemid mappings
• Fixed: Placing a clayforming or knapping surface deleting blocks that it should in some cases
• Fixed: Visible seams between various block edges on custom block shapes. Fixed incorrect UV mappings on wooden doors.

Screenshots

Prospecting

Moon Phases and Fireflies

Boars

Visible Firepit contents
 

Mainmenu upgrades

By the way, here's some random statistics I was curious about - on how many days I was actively programming on the game. I took the git commit logs to check whether I checked in new code as a rough measure for that: http://files.tyron.at/perm/tyron-activity.html
What you don't see in the graph are the times I was programmming but not checking in anything or working on anything else not related to the games source code, like videos, the website, the wiki, the authentication servers or answering questions of the team and community.
 

Game updates

• Feature: Added ability to set the game window border to fixed or borderless in the graphics settings (for @copygirl <3)
• Tweak: Ladders now require support by any block or the whole stack of ladders will break
• Tweak: Hitting cancel when generating a new world will now stop the server much faster
• Tweak: Kapok now yields only 2 firewood
• Tweak: Doubled occurence of bismuth deposits, whereas Iron, coal and deep copper deposits are less common now. Added super rare but massive cassiterite deposits. Some other minor deposit tweaks.
• Tweak: Doubled durability for hammers
• Tweak: Added a 15-30 minute cooldown on music tracks which should give other tracks the opportunity to play instead which before were probably never selected.
• Tweak: Improved linux installer script by @skol
• Tweak: Player now stands up when trying to walk while sitting
• Tweak: Larger font for Itemstack sizes
• Tweak: Smithing crafting outline more visible
• Tweak: (off by default, but the game can now auto-pause when you task out. Set pauseGameOnLostFocus to true in clientconfig.json before starting the game)
• Tweak: Disabled jumping in water, it's not supposed to be there anyway, imo
   
• Fixed: Unable join mulitplayer servers when previously a singleplayer world was loaded
• Fixed: Game rarely crashing when chunks with creatures in them are loaded (related to animation)
• Fixed: Torch burnout and Reed regrowth occring after 24 ingame hours instead of 3 days and 7 days respectively.
• Fixed: Firewood piles able to overwrite blocks that it shouldn't
• Fixed: Auth server verification during game startup now guaranteed to give up after 10 seconds. Used to be up to 90 seconds
• Fixed: Block entity exceptions during initialize hard crashing the game client. Now just logged.
• Fixed: Search results in creative inventory not updated when switching tabs
• Fixed: Blockbreaking overlay completely black when dynamic lights are set to 0
• Fixed: Block placing sound jumping between left/right speaker while strafing
• Fixed: Block Info Hud flicker when breaking/placing blocks
• Fixed: Vines not breaking properly when they lost support
• Fixed: Itemstack tooltips sometimes clipping outside the game window
• Fixed: Able to attach a floating berry bush on a ripe berry bush
• Fixed: WorldEdit Gui labels breaking into multiple lines on gui scale 7
• Fixed Leather block break sound not using leather sound, changed brick place sound
• Fixed: Bamboo, Sapling, Painting and Iron door Selection/Collisionbox incorrect
• Fixed: Wrong name and pick block for sideways logs and several other blocks
• Fixed: Berry bush block breaking particles gray instead of green
• Fixed: Itemstack Tool tip boxes not tightly fitting its contents