This release fixes some more minor imbalances, performance leaks, crashes, annoyances and other loose ends in 1.16.1. Should be particularly helpful for server owners who had their server crash on a daily basis.


Screenshot by Stew#5144

Game updates 

• Tweak: Reduced knockback by 50% when in-mid air. Should avoid cases of huge knockback.
• Tweak: Disabled VSync by default
• Tweak: Fix potential performance leak in entity physics
• Tweak: Wallpaper item in inventories no longer rotates on mouseover
• Tweak: Added platform specific test for disk free space, should hopefully make the server not start when low on disc space, as intended
• Tweak: Massively reduce CPU usage for empty vintage story servers under Linux (12% => 1.7%). Should also generally reduce game server single core cpu usage by 3-5% (single core percentages)
• Tweak: Mitigate heavy server lag (above 0.4 second ticks) by running entity physics at a slower rate
• Fixed: Unecessarry overall performance drain in the shader in 1.16 (31 -> 34 FPS in a heavily forested area)
• Fixed: Overlapping text in the crash reporter on 1080p screens
• Fixed: More liquid movement issues
• Fixed: Rare exception thrown in the server logs
• Fixed: Server exception spam with hacked locusts
• Fixed: Black flicker on the client twice a day, at 12:00 and 0:00
• Fixed: Game crashing on invalid contents inside liquid containers
• Fixed: Multiplayer mod downloader not scrolling correct and crashing to desktop when there's many mods to download
• Fixed: Fruit trees correct color on map, no longer white
• Fixed: Pullets and cockerels no longer grow larger than adult birds
• Fixed: Stackoverflow Exception / Server Freeze caused by Multiblocks
• Fixed: Ewes forever milkable
• Fixed: Incorrect daily temperature variation
• api fixed: uContents and incontainer translation keys not respecting domain,
• api fixed: uContents quantity attribute not applied
• api fixed: Propick crashing when adding new rock strata blocks to an existing world

This release fixes some minor imbalances, minor annoyances and other loose ends in 1.16.0.

Game updates since 1.16.0

• Feature: Mash can now be placed in troughs. Mash spoils 3 times slower.
• Feature: Can now cut the green and brown bamboo shoots into edible shoots
• Tweak: Disabled WASD map scrolling, but left in arrow key map scrolling
• Tweak: Fine tune spear and longblade first person animations some more
• Tweak: Increase longblade hit speed and damage output by 25%
• Tweak: Crash reporter now also prints loaded mods
• Tweak: Malefactor increase whole loot vessel from 10% to 12%
• Tweak: Increase active and passive block chance of the shield by 5%
• Tweak: Updated torch information in the starter guide.
• Tweak: Server owners can now customize the auction house rates through 3 values:

      auctionHouseDeliveryPriceMul - multiplier on the delivery costs (default: 1)
      auctionHouseDurationWeeksMul - multiplier on the auction duration (does not affect gear cost)  (default: 3, min: 1)
      auctionHouseSalesCutRate - % cut the trader takes (default 0.1 = 10%)

      configured via

      /worldconfigcreate float auctionHouseDeliveryPriceMul 1
      /worldconfigcreate int auctionHouseDurationWeeksMul 1
      /worldconfigcreate float auctionHouseSalesCutRate 0.1

• Tweak: White selected block highlight now limited to chiseling dark blocks
• Tweak: Tripled auction placement duration. Fixed multiplier worldconfig still affecting deposit cost.
• Fixed: Blackguard recipes no longer consume a whole iron hammer
• Fixed: Pineapple slices juicing into apple juice
• Fixed: Z-fighting with the "layered" hair style
• Fixed: Game crashing if two mods with the same mod id are in the mods folder
• Fixed: {plr} command block place holder not working as intended
• Fixed: Fruit press interaction help suggesting placing liquid containers that are not placeable
• Fixed: Spear/Sword hit sound globally hearable in multiplayer
• Fixed: Hitbox hole in the trunk block
• Fixed: Mod downloader ditched any custom server port after attempting to join
• Fixed: Mod downloader slightly less blocking window while downloading, also fixed wrong download counter
• Fixed: Chisel crash/freeze when trying to chisel against a placed wall linen
• Fixed: Major derp when placing multiple auctions at once
• Fixed: Fruit tree not fully respecting greenhouse benefits
• Fixed: Flowers getting frost overlay when they shouldn't
• Fixed: Should theoretically fix crash when sleeping
• Fixed: Should fix too many decimal places when looking at crock meal servings
• Fixed: Game client crash when looking at pre 1.12 chiseled blocks in inventory
• Fixed: Not able to place wall signs on solid chiseled blocks
• Fixed: Might fix a rare crash issue related to charcoal pits
• Fixed: Dupe bug with fruit mash
• Fixed: Avoid the game crashing from corrupted blocks that have mycelium on them
• Fixed: Might fix sign block rotation multiplayer desync
• Fixed: Framerate drops when searching in the handbook
• Fixed: Dupe bug with moving liquids between containers
• Fixed: Mitigate cases of rifts spawning where they shouldn't
• Fixed: Game crashing when disabling invalid mods in the mod manager
• Fixed: Unrelated exception thrown when a source mod had a compile error
• Fixed: Game client crashing on non-existant blocks (blocks that had a block id for which there was no block or missing block associated)
• Fixed: Some lang entries were missing
• Fixed: Multiple derps with the fruit press, most notable when placing 16 fruit items
• Fixed: Servers did not properly unregister from the master server
• Fixed: Two of the purple dye recipes did not result in the right dye amounts
• Fixed: Cheating traders. They received the full gear amount of a full auction.
• Fixed: Rusty gears off-center when placed on shelves
• Fixed: Visual issues with potted fern
• Api Tweak: Much improved mounting system. Should make adding boats/horses/airships much simpler. Published a reference implementation for a 2-seated boat (assets shamelessly copied from the xrowboat mod)
• Api Tweak: Json patches with unmet patching conditions now log the failing condition into the server/client-debug.txt files
• Api Tweak: Grid crafting per ingredient liquid consumption should now be possible via recipeAttributes: { requiresContent: {...}, requiresLitres: 0.2 }
• Api Fixed: Two crashes related to modded bowls

Changes since 1.16.1-rc.3 (also listed above)

• Api Tweak: Json patches with unmet patching conditions now log the failing condition into the server/client-debug.txt files
• Fixed: Multiple derps with the fruit press, most notable when placing 16 fruit items
• Fixed: Servers did not properly unregister from the master server
• Fixed: Two of the purple dye recipes did not result in the right dye amounts
• Fixed: Cheating traders. They received the full gear amount of a full auction.

Asdf.

Game updates

• Tweak: White selected block highlight now limited to chiseling dark blocks
• Tweak: Boosted long blade damage output by roughly 25%
• Tweak: Tripled auction placement duration. Fixed multiplier worldconfig still affecting deposit cost.
• Fixed: Flowers getting frost overlay when they shouldn't
• Fixed: Should theoretically fix crash when sleeping
• Fixed: Should fix too many decimal places when looking at crock meal servings
• Fixed: Game client crash when looking at pre 1.12 chiseled blocks in inventory
• Fixed: Not able to place wall signs on solid chiseled blocks
• Fixed: Might fix a rare crash issue related to charcoal pits
• Fixed: Dupe bug with fruit mash
• Fixed: Avoid the game crashing from corrupted blocks that have mycelium on them
• Fixed: Might fix sign block rotation multiplayer desync
• Fixed: Framerate drops when searching in the handbook
• Fixed: Dupe bug with moving liquids between containers
• Fixed: Mitigate cases of rifts spawning where they shouldn't
• Fixed: Game crashing when disabling invalid mods in the mod manager
• Fixed: Unrelated exception thrown when a source mod had a compile error
• Fixed: Game client crashing on non-existant blocks (blocks that had a block id for which there was no block or missing block associated)
• Fixed: Some lang entries were missing
• Fixed: Rusty gears off-center when placed on shelves
• Fixed: Visual issues with potted fern

Feels likely an eternity since the last update, doesn't it? Time to remedy that!
This release should address some of the most reported issues with 1.16.0 stable and also make it a lot easier for modders to add mounts to the game.

Game updates

• Feature: Mash can now be placed in troughs. Mash spoils 3 times slower.
• Feature: Can now cut the green and brown bamboo shoots into edible shoots
• Tweak: Disabled WASD map scrolling, but left in arrow key map scrolling
• Tweak: Fine tune spear and longblade first person animations some more
• Tweak: Increase longblade hit speed by 25%
• Tweak: Crash reporter now also prints loaded mods
• Tweak: Malefactor increase whole loot vessel from 10% to 12%
• Tweak: Increase active and passive block chance of the shield by 5%
• Tweak: Updated torch information in the starter guide.
• Tweak: Server owners can now customize the auction house rates through 3 values:

      auctionHouseDeliveryPriceMul - multiplier on the delivery costs (default: 1)
      auctionHouseDurationWeeksMul - multiplier on the auction duration (does not affect gear cost)  (default: 1, min: 1)
      auctionHouseSalesCutRate - % cut the trader takes (default 0.1 = 10%)

      configured via

      /worldconfigcreate float auctionHouseDeliveryPriceMul 1
      /worldconfigcreate int auctionHouseDurationWeeksMul 1
      /worldconfigcreate float auctionHouseSalesCutRate 0.1

• Fixed: Blackguard recipes no longer consume a whole iron hammer
• Fixed: Pineapple slices juicing into apple juice
• Fixed: Z-fighting with the "layered" hair style
• Fixed: Game crashing if two mods with the same mod id are in the mods folder
• Fixed: {plr} command block place holder not working as intended
• Fixed: Fruit press interaction help suggesting placing liquid containers that are not placeable
• Fixed: Spear/Sword hit sound globally hearable in multiplayer
• Fixed: Hitbox hole in the trunk block
• Fixed: Mod downloader ditched any custom server port after attempting to join
• Fixed: Mod downloader slightly less blocking window while downloading, also fixed wrong download counter
• Fixed: Chisel crash/freeze when trying to chisel against a placed wall linen
• Fixed: Major derp when placing multiple auctions at once
• Fixed: Fruit tree not fully respecting greenhouse benefits
• Api Tweak: Much improved mounting system. Should make adding boats/horses/airships much simpler. Published a reference implementation for a 2-seated boat (assets shamelessly copied from the xrowboat mod)
• Api Tweak: Grid crafting per ingredient liquid consumption should now be possible via recipeAttributes: { requiresContent: {...}, requiresLitres: 0.2 }
• Api Fixed: Two crashes related to modded bowls

Looking forward, the VS Team will focus on a new main game trailer and then begin work on 1.17. Our main topics for the next update are De-Jank and Story Content. We'd like to address some of the unintuive and half finished parts of the game and get to work on the first main story event. Definitely lots more exciting new stuff to be worked on there!

Until then, the VS Team is happy to present you: Version 1.16 - Homesteading part 2 and Combat update!

Oh and please Note, in about one Week, we'll slightly increase the price of the game, by about 3-4 USD

Note2: You can still player your old 1.15 worlds with 1.16. Only two things are not backwards compatible - liquids stored in buckets and barrels will be lost and the new content such as mushrooms will only generate in new chunks.
 

Main update trailer

Screenshots / Gifs

Server wide auction house: Buy and sell on a global scale...for a price (multiplayer feature only)

Rifts: Temporal distortions now spawn in the world that affect drifter spawn

Crates: Beautiful single item mass storage, with item labels and visible contents


Trunks: Like 2 chests together, but better!


Alcohol making: A fruit press, juice fermentation and a distillery for the ultimate drunken VS experience \o/

Class exclusive item: Hacking spear and hacked locusts for the clockmaker

Combat update: Added shields and more


Liquid system rework: Now easier and more satisfying to use for modders and players alike!
  

Fruit Trees: 9 types of seasonal fruit producers. A flowery delight in spring!

Fruit tree dynamic growth: A fruit tree takes a while to mature


Fruit tree grafting: Fruit trees are propagated by taking and planting a cutting, but you can also graft it onto an existing fruit tree


Forest floors: Forests are so much more foresty now.


Mushroom update: Over 34 new types of mushrooms




Improved wind effects: Rewritten and triple polished wind sway effects. Example - here's a wind swaying sunflower, before and after
   

Ground storage tweaks: Can now 4x4 place pots, bowls and also optionally center place them
   

Ground storage tweaks: Can now place shoes on the ground and on shelves


Easy modded server joining: The game now tries to download mods from the VS Mod DB, no more manual installing required

Improved multimaterial chiseling: Can now add new materials much more quickly


Armor Stand Feature: They can now carry tools and weapons


Drifter Rework: They will now throw stones at you. Added a rare variant that spawns only during temporal storms


Improved hit knockback


3D Models for berries and for the new fruits from fruit trees


Permadeath mode: Disabled by default, but now available for those that like the extra challenge


45° Signs: Can now also place signs at a 45 degree angle

Can now craft colored chairs


Can now rotate planks


Glowing and light emitting creative mode blocks

Wind effects editor: VSMC, our official model editor now allows you to configure the wind say mode in great detail and with live preview

All game updates since 1.15.10

• Feature: Auction house! Every trader now gives you access to a server wide auction house where players can buy and sell items
  • To still encourage direct trade, the auction house comes with multiple (configurable) fees:
    • 1 rusty gear for each week of having your item listed
    • 10% sales cut for each item sold
    • Transpot costs of 1 to 8 gears or direct pickup for free
  • Everytime you join the server, you get a status update send to you in chat about your active auctions
  • Server owners can configure the cost or disable the auction house altogether
• Feature: New storage options!
  • Crates
    • 20 to 25 slot containers for one type of item, without GUI. Left/Right click to take/put one item or hold shift to move entire stacks
    • Can be labelled with a icon label using paper and a pigment
    • Paper can be bought at the commodities and foods traders
  • Trunks: A double size chest with one extra column of space
• Feature Distillery and Fruit press
  • All fruits can now be juiced in the fruit press
  • Juice can now be fermented into cider
  • Cider can be further distilled into spirit
  • Drinking Cider and Spirit makes you drunk
• Feature: Fruit tree update
  • 12 types of fruit trees (red apple, pink apple, yellow apple, peach, pear, cherry, orange, olive, mango, breadfruit, lychee and pomegranate) now spawn in newly generated chunks. Break the side branches for a chance to retrieve a cutting.
  • This cutting, when planted, should sprout after a couple of days and eventually mature into a full tree (does not require fertilizer or watering for the time being)
  • Fruit trees will yield fruit once a year, depending on the sort. They'll go through various distinct cycles: Flowering, Fruiting, Ripe fruit, No fruit and then Dormant for decidious trees, which is a leafless version only with branches. The evergreens (mango, orange and olive) stay green all year round.
  • Ripe fruit can then be used for cooking and juicing
  • Fruit trees planted in an unsuitable climate will die
• Feature: Mushroom update
  • 34 new types of mushrooms, some of them now growing on the sides of trees.
  • Mushroom growth rework: Mushrooms no longer leave stumps when harvested, but will still regrow over time
  • Mushroom world generation rework: The world now has distinct regions where certain only a subset of all mushrooms grow
• Feature: Auto-modded server install! You can now 1-click install mods that you need to join a modded server. These are only enabled when you join said server.
• Feature: Added Rifts. These appear and disappear at random in the world. Drain your stability when close to one. Surface drifters now only spawn within a 25 block radius of rifts
• Feature: Drifter rework
  • Drifters now throw stones at players
  • Adjusted drifter animation names to clearly differentiate between Standing and Crawling.
  • Added a drifter attack sound
  • Fixed alternate version of the spiked drifter never spawned
  • Added a rare drifter variant to temporal storms, which always drops a temporal gear. Spawwns a 20% chance instead of a corrupt/nightmare drifter and only once per player per storm. Hint: You should be able to increase the chance of it spawning by repeatedly killing corrupt/nightmare drifters
• Feature: Combat update
  • Added crude wooden shields, when standing 15% chance of blocking 1.5 to 3 damage, when sneaking 85% chance of blocking 3 to 5 damage, depending on the shield type
  • Long blades now also have a wind up time, attack animation and strike effects, much like the spear
  • Mitigate cases where creatures attack players while looking away
  • Ranged aiming accuracy buildup is now about 50% quicker
  • The hurt screen overlay effect now indicates from which direction the attack came from
  • Improved hit knockback on creatures and players
• Feature: Wind shader rework
  • Much improved code, making it easier for modders to add wind sway effects to their blocks and items through VS Model Creator
  • Fixes heavy wind sway derp on sunflowers and other plants
  • Made storm level winds more impactful
  • Added water storm particles
• Feature: Ground storage rework
  • Any 2x2 storable can now be placed in the middle
  • Pots, bowls and crocks are now 2x2 ground storable, while still able to transfer foods between them
• Feature: Liquid system rework
  • Liquid quantities are now shown in litres instead of amount of items
  • Bowls can now be used to transfer liquids, just like the bucket
  • New liquid container: The jug, a 3 litre container
  • Implemented container specific transfer sizes. Buckets let you transfer 1 litre each, bowls 0.1 litre each, jugs 0.3 litre each
  • Liquids such as milk, juices, ciders and etc. can now be consumed for satiety, either from a bucket, bowl or the jug
  • Can now craft bread dough also with a (water filled) bowl + flour
  • Fixed handbook dough recipe showed an empty bucket instead of a bucket with 1 litre of water inside
  • Added sound and particle effects when moving liquids
• Feature: Character class exclusive items
  • Clockmaker: The hacking spear. Each hit with a hacking spear gives the clock maker a 15% chance to hack a locust, which will then fight by his side. Beware, hacked locus are extremely jealous on one another
  • Malefactor: The sling. Exclusive ranged weapon for the malefactor that uses stones as projectiles
  • Tailor: Tailored gambeson, comes in 11 colors: Has more damage resistance and higher movement speed than normal gambeson
• Feature: More Character class rebalances
  • Traders now buy sewing kits and more craftable clothes.
  • Rebalanced character classes. Blackguard buffed to 30% melee damage instead of 20% and -15% armor durability loss instead of -10%. Hunter buffed to 20% ranged damage instead of 10%. Malefactor buffed to 35% reduced animal seeking range instead of 20% and 10% chance to get whole loot vessel instead of 5%
  • The Blackguard class is now less affected by the walk speed penalties of armor
• Feature: Added permadeath mode, disabled by default for all play styles
• Feature: Can now use WASD keys to scroll the expanded world map
• Feature: Added isolated, handcrafted underground lakes
• Feature: Signs can now be placed at 45 degree angles
• Feature: Armor stands can now hold tools in one hand
• Feature: Improved animal pitch step rotation when stepping up and down blocks (and disabled it for bipedals)
• Feature: New 3d models for fruits and leather
• Feature: Shoes are now neatly placeable on shelves and on the ground
• Feature: Store location, seed and worldconfig when saving a screenshot. Could be used to autocreate a new world and teleport to this location and tons of other fancy things. (off by default, enable via .screenshotExifDataMode 1)
• Feature: The handbook now shows if an item is being sold or bought by a trader
• Feature/Tweak: Can no longer sleep during temporal storms for standard and wilderness survival.
• Feature: Easy multimaterial chiseling - can now easily add more materials to a chiseled block, by dropping blocks into the tool model selector dialog
• Feature: Added rare polar bear spawn. The other bear types should get added in the future.
• Feature: Added vertical planks block
• Feature: Server side moddb install utility - /moddb
• Feature: New world config to disable class exclusive recipes
• Feature: Added Alcohol-soaked bandages, and grid recipe for solder bars
• Feature: Added admin longblade for testing purposes. (Creative mode only)
• Feature: Added command /gm shorthand for /gamemode
• Feature: A new set of main menu backgrounds, half of which are made by the community (please contact me if we shouldn't use your screenshot)
• Feature: Added 2 new sets of colorful creative mode blocks. One set of strong light and another with weak light, but both with max glow.
• Feature: Leather can now be dyed to make certain clothes (and a shield) instead of making the clothes in a barrel.
• Tweak: Improved creative inventory search, e.g. when searching for "stone" the loose stones are near the top now
• Tweak: Major Crop rebalance. Doubled growth times and yields for most crops with some exceptions. (Experimental)
  • Rye Cold Dmg changed to -12, Cold Mult to .75, and Heat Dmg to 27 (same heat dmg as turnip).  Spawn conditions of Rye were changed to be in the -12 to 14 temperature range.  Overal rye should now be more suited to northerly climates.
  • Rice Heat Damage ceiling increased from default to 46.
  • Peanut growth time was doubled, but yield was left alone.
  • Amaranth growth time not changed, since its already about 50% of irl.  Yield still doubled though.
  • Cassava growth time was left alone, being already rather long (though still nowhere near irl).  Yield was still doubled to keep the satiety per day vaguely 'competitive'.
  • Doubled pumpkin mother plant growth time, but did not touch anything else, for now.
  • Pineapple was not touched due to already being a very long growth time and its also the only farmable fruit.
• Tweak: Creature ai tweaks, applies to all creatures
  • Slower look around speed
  • They now tend to wander further
  • Mitigate chasing derp (where creatures turn back for a second)
  • Fixed walking sideways in 3rd camera mode caused animals to target wrongly
  • Creature attack knockback now proportional to damage
• Tweak: Lots of visual tuning and polishing
  • Fine tuned snow accumulating and melting to be a bit less abrupt.
  • Fine tune wind affected particles
  • Fine tuned explosion particle spawning a bit and made them more proportional to the explosion radius
  • Fine tuned Aurora visuals
  • Fine tuned teleporter sounds and teleport effect
  • First person held item position/rotation polishing
  • Fine tuned first person attack/interact animations some more
  • Dark blocks now get a white selected block outline for easier chiseling
  • Added more water bubbles when walking in water
  • Zoomed in all spear gui transforms. Looks weird but can tell apart spears more easily now.
• Tweak: Lots of other gameplay balancing
  • Slight speedup when walking in water, for creatures and players
  • Windmills no longer work underground, unless worldconfig undergroundWindmills is set to "true"
  • Standing still now reduces your hunger rate 4-fold instead of 3-fold
  • Buffed all bow by +0.25 damage.
  • Gambeson no longer High Damage Tier Resistant
  • Torches thrown into water now also go out
  • Boosted durability of steel armor to make it worthwhile (lamellar: 950->1600, brigandine: 1900->2600, chain: 1000->2000, scale: 2000->3500, steel: 3200->5500)
  • Reduced cave art material cost by 50% (consume the pigment every 1/15 times instead of 1/10)
  • When a temporal storm ends, half of the spawned drifters now disappear
  • Hares eating crops leave behind a dead crop. Prevents seed loss
• Tweak: Added berry picking and shield blocking sound
• Tweak: Added tempStormFrequencyMul worldconfig
• Tweak: Removed liquid items from the creative inventory. Replaced them with liquids inside buckets. Added a new liquids creative tab.
• Tweak: All mods in the mod manager not having set up an icon will now use a default icon. Fixed crashing game if mods did not define a mod icon
• Tweak: Can now also right click with a bucket on the barrel slot in GUI to take out liquids (and also added holding CTRL to move only small portions)
• Tweak: Doubled sound range of echo chambers
• Tweak: Can now place bees wax, fired bricks, candles, clay, dyed cloth, all crushed resources, blasting powder, fat, flax fibers and flax twine on the shelf
• Tweak: Added pit kiln burn times by fuel to the handbook entry
• Tweak: Added more debug logging for the shift+click item disappearance bug
• Tweak: Locust drills more drill-looking
• Tweak: The selected chiseling material is now remembered across chiseled blocks
• Tweak: Performance: Don't render dynamic shadows when shadow intensity falls below 10% (during night or rain)
• Tweak: Reduced RAM usage by about 75 MB (Technical info: generate animation frames only on demand, optimized particles ram usage)
• Tweak: Added white and gray dye
• Tweak: Disable seasonal grass coverage changes. Causes large stutter with radeon cards, as it has to retesselate lots of chunks
• Tweak: Added mod<=>engine version check and crash the client/server if they mismatch, to prevent undefined behavior
• Tweak: Added additional handbook info, and a link to the wiki, when describing block reinforcement system
• Tweak: Barrels now visually show contents for some more items/blocks
• Tweak: Worldmap: Ignore corrupted map parts instead of crashing
• Tweak: Unlit chimney now hollow for particles, allows smoke to rise through it from below (or snow to fall through it!)
• Tweak: Add appconfig thing to maybe fix the game being launchable with too old versions of .net
• Tweak: De-Jank: Mouse wheel no longer changes the values of drop down ui elements just from hovering over them
• Tweak: De-Jank: The World configuration attributes are now grouped by category
• Tweak: Can now use {plr} placeholder in command block commands
• Tweak: Yellow dye is now made with onions. Orange dye is now made by adding more onions to yellow dye.
• Tweak: When making dyes, barrels now produce the same amount of liquid as the ingredients, e.g. if you put in 4 diluted alum, you get 4 dye.
• Tweak: Forest rain sound a bit more pronounced
• Tweak: Farmland now uses the configurable HoursPerDay instead of 24 hours to time crop growth
• Tweak: Grid crafting with spoiled ingredients now will also result in a spoiled crafting output
• Tweak: Shelves are now very suited for drying items if they are not in a cellar
• Tweak: Added hunter backpack recipe that uses 3 small pelts
• Tweak: Kapok leaves now less neon green
• Tweak: Made mountains less faded in the distance
• Tweak: Added recycling recipes for hay bed and thatched roof
• Tweak: Game crash resistance against corrupted large gears on TOPTS
• Tweak: Click sound for the creative rotor, placement sounds when adding parts to the pulverizer
• Tweak: Firepit construction stages drop contents when broken and break faster.
• Tweak: Added server arg --append which prevents the server from clearing the log files on startup
• Tweak: World map visual tuning (more color accurate but more noisy)
• Tweak: Disabled bell pepper worldgen spawn
• Tweak: Snow covered grass can no longer ignite
• Tweak: Mitigate cases where creatures stepped over fences
• Fixed: Bamboo shoots block info saying that they'll mature
• Fixed: Leaded glass panes not correctly rotated when rotating with worldedit
• Fixed: Hammer did not loose durability from combat
• Fixed: Floaty pixel on silver diadems
• Fixed: Add a bit of tolerance to cementation process completion
• Fixed: Player began to freeze if temperature was above 30 degrees
• Fixed: Flowers not frost overlaid
• Fixed: Removing wax from waxed cheese reset the cheeses freshness
• Fixed: Wrong block breaking overlay on placed cheese
• Fixed: Wrong texture for placed waxed cheese
• Fixed: Anvil: Able to move metal voxels with a voxel above them
• Fixed: Bloomery insides completely black
• Fixed: Game crashing when an invalid language was set in the clientsettings.json
• Fixed: Items in gui not glowing
• Fixed: .tfedit with empty hands left the mouse unlocked
• Fixed: Rare race condition crash in animated blocks
• Fixed: Fern tree growing through trader cart floors
• Fixed: Translocating sound not attenuated
• Fixed: Dropping the wrong item when using the Q hotkey in the creative inventory
• Fixed: Game crashing when feeding certain non-crushable items into the pulverizer
• Fixed: Should fix a crash when launching the game on Pop OSFixed: Various minor issues (2 missing lang entries, floaty mushroom at block edges, wonky slanted roof hitboxes, shadows around reed&papyrus)
• Fixed: Meals in a pot or bowl spawning white particles when broken
• Fixed: Chiseling a light emitting block now emits light as well
• Fixed: Wrong texture resolution on croton plants, therefore more fluffly now
• Fixed: The Balanced trader had a broken sprint animation
• Fixed: Spears and arrows sometimes flying through creatures
• Fixed: Liquid containers accepting non liquids from hoppers/chutes
• Fixed: Light color jitter on the worldmap when chunks are updated
• Fixed: Pit kiln not emitting light
• Fixed: Farmland perma boosters still applicable multiple times
• Fixed: Coloring lanterns did not update lighting server side, causing them to get lost after server restart
• Fixed: Fence gates not remembering their reinforcement level when opened or closed
• Fixed: Vintagehosting Server Status screen showing wrong server state in some cases
• Fixed: Various z-fighting issues with armor
• Fixed neighbour block lighting visual issue for Wallpaper and other Decor blocks
• Fixed: Alignment issue in the transform editor
• Fixed: Updated the character trait descriptions to match previous balance changes.
• Fixed: Dragging around a dialog was janky on non-8 gui scales
• Fixed: /wgen regen not removing entities on the client side. Might fix duplicate ghost players? ??
• Fixed: Crash reporter launching twice
• Fixed: Creature hurt sounds not playing? (Might break other things)
• Fixed: Wrong shading on first person held items
• Fixed: Missing texture on one of the shields
• Fixed: Freshly crafted clothes had not 100% condition
• Fixed: Missing texture on thrown hacking spears, fp hand spears upside down
• Fixed: Incorrect day/night cycle. Looks promising now, as in, behaving physically correct on all latitudes
• Fixed: First person spear upside down, spear attack animation a bit smoother
• Fixed: Ingame error text in front of dialogs
• Fixed: Missing "25k" option on world config world length
• Fixed: Freshly crafted clothes had not 100% condition    
• Fixed: Chopping down bamboo chopped nearby bamboo trees
• Fixed: Able to always pick up clear quartz from loose quarts ores
• Fixed: Crash when setting the chisel tool mode right at the edge of a block
• Fixed: Derpy positioning of the itemstack infobox
• Fixed: Exception thrown on some /worldconfig commands
• Fixed: Opened coken oven doors dropping a different block variant
• Fixed: Should fix fern trees spawning underwater
• Fixed: Clay dupe glitch
• Fixed: Fog flicker when moving vertically
• Fixed: Game crashing when pasting text into the config world screen
• Fixed: Itemstack infobox sometimes displaying the wrong text
• Fixed: Fixed creature hostility configuration not properly applying whenever a major update comes out (To the author of the golden wolf mod: add "friendlyTarget:true" to your seek entity json config)
• Fixed: Firepit ash overlay culled with a block above
• Fixed: Woad not yellow in world map
• Fixed: Crash related to interacting with pies
• Fixed: Wrong sizes of cheese on shelves
• Fixed: Avoid an exception in the trader restock code if an item no longer exists (e.g. due to a removed mod)
• Fixed: Items in the grid crafting output slot starting to spoil/dry
• Fixed: "Dryable. Duration: NaN Hours"
• Fixed: Multimaterial chiseled blocks containing Glass disabled some faces that it shouldn't (glass chiseling is still not supported in vanilla though)
• Fixed: Difficulties using the teleport block on server with mild or heavy lag
• Fixed: Should fix rare crash in the error reporter

API Updates

• Feature: Some simple implementation of a generic multiblock system, to hopefully avoid custom multiblocking everywhere. Currently used for the distillery.
• Feature: Added capi.Gui.LoadSvg() and capi.Gui.LoadSvgWithPadding() which allows for use of external SVG vector files to be loaded. For a first code sample, check out ItemProspectingPick.cs
• Feature: Improved mounting system. Should now be properly network synced \o/
  • Sneak to unmount a IMountable is no longer hardcoded. It must now be handled by the IMountable itself, see BEBed.cs as example.
• Feature: Ability for custom gui/fp itemstack renderers, register via api.Event.RegisterItemstackRenderer()
• Feature: *byType precedence: For the Json assets blocktype, itemtype and entitytype, can now define an attribute as well as a *byType attribute, whereas the latter takes precedence, e.g. stackSize: 32 would be overwritten by stackSizeByType: { "*": 16 }
• Feature: Explosion code upgrades
  • Explosions radii have an upper limit, which is now doubled, reaching it nonetheless now throws a more informative exception
  • Fixed particle lag and upper cap issues, as they now spawn async
  • Fixed a crash in the lighting engine when explosions go beyond chunk boundaries
  • Added blockDropChanceMultiplier argument to CreateExplosion() to reduce block drops by explosions (large explosions drop *a lot* of blocks)
• Feature: .gltf models now support most flags
• Feature: Added api.Render.RenderItemStackToAtlas(), allows rendering of an itemstack into a texture atlas
• Feature: Can now set amount of inventory columns for GenericTypedContainer blocks
• Feature: Add initialDelayOffsetMs arg to Event.RegisterGameTickListener() to mitigate lag spikes from many listeners running code at the same time
• Feature: Added withInheritance argument to api.ModLoader.GetModSystem()
• Feature: Added new render stage EnumRenderStage.AfterBlit
• Feature: Added client side api death event
• Feature: Added sapi.HandleCommand() to run a custom command through code
• Feature: In the json assets, can now define a "ucontents" property to define contents of containers. Example implementation: A wood bucket filled with water in the creative inventory
• Feature: New JSON Patch operation "addeach" allows inserting/appending of multiple elements in one operation. (the value must be an array)
• Feature: Added Block.PriorityInteract property to be able to sneak interact with a block before sneak interacting with the currently held item. Used for the new crate.
• Refactor: Recipe systems are no longer engine exclusive. All recipe systems (except the grid recipes) are now moved from api/engine to the survival mod. This means:
  • If you need to look up cooking recipes, reference VSSurvivalMod.dll and exchange world.CookingRecipes with "Api.ModLoader.GetModSystem<RecipeRegistry>().CookingRecipes" or through the helper method "Api.CookingRecipes()"
  • If you only add cooking recipe json files, no changes are required
  • You can now add your own recipe system. Check out RecipeRegistry.cs for reference (still needs handbook support, though)
• Refactor: All Barrel recipes that have liquids as input or output, instead of quantity and stacksize respectively, these should now define "litres". However for backwards compatibility, if the recipe loader encounters a liquid ingredient or output without a litres definition, it will assume quantity/stacksize = litres and log a warning.
• Refactor: Rename BlockLiquidContainerBase.GetInContainerProps to BlockLiquidContainerBase.GetContainableProps
• Refactor: The block code for planks has changed from planks-{wood} to planks-{wood}-hor
• Refactor: Minor refactor in Weather/WeatherSimulationParticles.cs
• Tweak: Holding sneak key with .edi enabled shows you item attributes in the itemstack tooltip
• Tweak: Added the boolean properties CanDrinkFrom, IsTopOpened and AllowHeldLiquidTransfer to BlockLiquidContainerBase, can also be set via json attribute (unless you use the class BlockLiquidContainerTopOpened, which sets them all to true)
• Tweak: RegisterAiTask and RegisterVtmlTagConverter is now in ICoreApi (through C# class extension in the esentials/survival mod)
• Tweak: Shape elements of zero size are now no longer tesselated
• Tweak: New tool: /debug heldstattr key type value
• Tweak: Added IDisposable interface to many classes that are disposable
• Tweak: Calling networkChannel.SendPacket() server side without player args now throws an exception
• Tweak: Added CollectibleObject.TpOffHandTransform
• Tweak: Added helper methods for ITreeAttribute Set/GetVec3i, Set/GetBlockPos and Set/GetVec3is
• Tweak: Added ISaveGame.StoreData<T> and ISaveGame.GetData<T>()
• Tweak: Added SendBlockEntityPacket<T>(IServerPlayer player, BlockPos pos, int packetId, T data = default(T)) BroadcastBlockEntityPacket<T>(BlockPos pos, int packetId, T data = default(T))
• Refactor: Massive Windwave/VertexFlags refactor. All wind related vertex flags are now consolidated into 2 properties - windMode and windData. Can now define these 2 values *per vertex* in VS Model creator
• Refactor: Rework mesh generation of displayed items, such as items in shelves or ground storage. This is now done through the interface IContainedMeshSource for the contained item, instead of hardcoded in each container.
• Refactor: BlockEntity.OnBlockBroken() now has a new argument IPlayer byPlayer
• Refactor: Rename AddDecor() to SetDecor() and allow passing air blocks to remove decor
• Refactor: Merged BreakDecor() and BreakDecorPart() into one method
• Refactor: Remove API.Common.Action, replaced with System.Action
• Refactor: GuiElementCellList is now generic
• Refactor: GuiElementHandbookList is now GuiElementFlatList (now a slightly more basic version than GuiElementCellList)
• Refactor: Renamed entity "Hitbox" to "Collisionbox" (Hitbox can still be used but is marked obsolete)
• Refactor: Removed world argument from all methods in ILiquidSink & ILiquidSource
• Tweak: Seperated creature hitbox into collisionbox and selectionbox (the later is used for attacking and interacting with creatures)
• Tweak: Removed and consolidated a lot of crushed shape files since they were all essentially the same.
• Tweak: Doubled block, item and entity texture atlas size
• Tweak: Added property IBulkBlockAccessor.StagedBlocks for jakecools dynamic trees
• Tweak: Made clayforming system more flexible towards new types of clay
• Tweak: .AddDynamicText() removed argument for EnumTextOrientation, it can be set in the font.
• Tweak: GuiElementTextButton now has a Visible flag
• Tweak: Client and server now (lazy) load all language entries. Can now send text from server to client in the clients language. (Contribution by Apache#8842, edits by Tyron)
• Tweak: Added ability to disable durability averaging during grid crafting
• Tweak: Added rndIndex argument to Block.GetRandomColor()
• Tweak: .tfedit now allows editing of ground transforms for ground storable items and blocks (also fixed that blocks did not apply the ground transform)
• Tweak: Clean up reeds and papyrus assets. Drops are no longer hardcoded, only 1 blocktype file instead of 3, all shapes in the same folder, added frozen variant for papyrus
• Tweak: Can now define knockback strength in AiTaskMeleeAttack
• Tweak: capi.World.Player.Entity.OnFootStep and capi.World.Player.Entity.OnImpact are now events instead of Action fields
• Tweak: Added IParticlePropertiesProvider.Async to make particle spawn asynchronously (for particle spawn calls on the server)
• Tweak: Specially treat empty string variant code for blocks, items or entities: They are now treated as "skip this variant group" and not add an extra dash to the block/item/entity code
• Tweak: Clean up, unify and simplify GetModData and SetModData for chunks, map chunks and map regions
• Tweak: Added EnumFoodCategory.NoNutrition for foods that provide no nutrition
• Fixed: Calling GetClimate() for a specific date returned fundamentally broken values
• Fixed: Some items set to be placeable in backpack slots crashed the game for no (apparent) reason
• Fixed: Small values ignored in shape: { offsetX/Y/Z: 0.01 }
• Fixed: OnTrySpawnEntity event did not handle multiple event listeners correctly
• Fixed: Entity shape alternates didn't work (see example entities/land/drifter.json, make sure the alternate shape textures have different texture codes)
• Fixed: Liquid in barrel textures defaulted to the game domain
• Fixed: Health boosts in meals should now respect serving size and spoilage rate
• Fixed: Should fix night sky textures not moddable
• Fixed: Handbook crashing the game on invalid grid recipes
• Fixed: Json patch addeach not implemented in the engine
• Fixed: game crashing when removing the hunger behavior from the player
• Fixed: Wildcard liquids in grid recipes crashing the handbook
• Fixed: CreativeInventoryStacks property not working properly for items
• Fixed: Wildcards not working on grid recipe returnedStacks
• Fixed: Failure to resolve itemstack for a crafting recipe ingredient did not print a warning
• Fixed: Texture Rotation not applied to alternates when using * wildcard

Changes since v1.16.0-rc.8

• Tweak: Reverted fence height changes. It gave wolves the ability to leap over them
• Tweak: Increased jug capacity from 2 to 3 L
• Tweak: Reduce fern tree spam a bit more
• Tweak: Completely removed old longblade swing behavior
• Fixed: Another liquid dupe bug with barrels
• Fixed: Able to pick up meals with jugs
• Fixed: Wolves going all stiff after leaping. Wolves not prioritizing players when up close.
• Fixed: Not able to put long blades on armor stands
• Fixed: Cut off links in the handbook
• Fixed: Gambeson no longer tier 2 armor
• Fixed: Creatures able to step over hewn fence gates
• Fixed: No forest floors in jungles
• Fixed: Colored lanterns not retaining their colored light
• Fixed: Pit kilns not removing the light they emit
• Fixed: Filled Jugs and bowls shown as empty when placed on the ground
• Fixed: Straw dummies and armor stands not resistant against knockback
• Fixed: Switching from map hud to map gui ordered the map dialog behind the hotbar
• Fixed: Disabling a mod made it disappear from the mod manager
• Fixed: Some parts of the afro hair too dark
• Fixed: Wrong held third person pose when holding metal parts
• Fixed: Croton in planters derp

Stop finding bugs or I will not stop doing release candidates!!!1111
(Just kidding, thanks so much for all the bug reports, producing a high quality game would be nigh impossible without your help)
 

Game updates

• Feature: Attacking with long blades now behaves similar to spears (wind up time + animation + sound + effects)
• Feature: A new set of main menu backgrounds, half of which are made by the community (please contact me if we shouldn't use your screenshot)
• Tweak: Storm dust/water particle fine tuning
• Tweak: World map visual tuning (more color accurate but more noisy)
• Tweak: Updated language files
• Tweak: Made Juice, Ciders and Spirits more opaque
• Tweak: Disabled bell pepper worldgen spawn
• Tweak: Snow covered grass can no longer ignite
• Fixed: Bamboo shoots block info saying that they'll mature
• Fixed: Bucket dupe bug with the condenser
• Fixed: Fern tree spam in jungles
• Fixed: Leaded glass panes not correctly rotated when rotating with worldedit
• Fixed: Frosted overlay on some plants despite warm temperatures
• Fixed: Hammer did not loose durability from combat
• Fixed: Floaty pixel on silver diadems
• Fixed: Texture derp for harvested horsetail
• Fixed: Should fix startup crash on MacOS
• Fixed: Should fix smithing crash for good :facepalm:
• Fixed: Add a bit of tolerance to cementation process completion
• Fixed: Auto-Mod downloader trying to download the vanilla mods
• Fixed: Grass color derp
• Fixed: Minor mushroom derp (unpretty gui transforms, missing translation entry for mushrooms in soup)
• Fixed: Wrong AO on underwater reeds
• Fixed: Forest floor in inventory had no grass coverage
• Fixed: New "NoStep" change on wooden fences not applied to stone fences and hewn fences
• Api Fixed: Derp in tree.SetVec3i()

A few more last minute changes in this one, for better or worse.

Game updates

• Tweak: Experimental change: Fences are no longer 1.5 blocks high, instead no creature can step on them.
• Tweak: Added a short explanation of rifts to the temporal stability guide
• Tweak: Hares eating crops leave behind a dead crop. Prevents seed loss.
• Tweak: New worldconfig - "Temporal rifts". New invisible rifts mode (spawns drifters, but is not visible, makes no sound and does not affect temporal stability)
• Tweak: Fine tuned rift visuals
• Tweaks: Various minor tweaks (Rift activity -> Current Rift activity, the rare temporal storm drifter now drops more rusty gears)
• Fixed: Missing meal textures for pomegranate
• Fixed: Wrong gui icon for pomegranate
• Fixed: Client not properly disabling outdated mods
• Fixed: Flowers not frost overlaid
• Fixed: Should fix a crash related to barrels
• Fixed: Unable to put fruit into the fruit press

When will this bugfixing ever end? Will we still be alive to see the light of 1.16 stable? Do buzzwords like the cloud, NFTs, the Metaverse, 5G and blockchain rank this blog post higher in the google search results? Only time will tell!

Until then, here's some more bugfixes, for us, the "play to have fun" people

Game update

• Tweak: Fine tuned first person attack/interact animations some more
• Tweak: Added a rare drifter variant to temporal storms, which always drops a temporal gear (With a 20% chance instead of a corrupt/nightmare drifter. Spawns only once per player per storm. Hint: You should be able to increase the chance of it spawning by repeatedly killing corrupt/nightmare drifters)
• Tweak: When a temporal storm ends, half of the spawned drifters now disappear
• Tweak: When joining a modded server, the client should now disable mods of the wrong version
• Tweak: Added server arg --append which prevents the server from clearing the log files on startup
• Tweak: Updated translation files
• Fixed: Game crashing when smithing 3 stacked ingots
• Fixed: Food Servings displaying more than one decimal
• Fixed: Player began to freeze if temperature was above 30 degrees
• Fixed: More liquid transfer and liquid crafting oddities
• Fixed: Game crashing when selecting a propick mode in some cases
• Fixed: Traders buying/selling old 1.15 crates
• Fixed: Unknown blocks caused by some 1.15 mushrooms
• Fixed: Worldmap HUD displayed in front of dialogs
• Fixed: Create auction slot eating items when cancelling/closing the dialog
• Fixed: Tree cuttings not growing while in unloaded chunks
• Fixed: Game crashing when right clicking a barrel with a barrel in hands
• Api tweak: Able to register a custom fp hand renderer
• Api tweak: Calling networkChannel.SendPacket() server side without player args now throws an exception

Screenshot by wheresmysocks#8239
 

Game updates

• Tweak: First person held item position/rotation polishing
• Fixed: Removing wax from waxed cheese reset the cheeses freshness
• Fixed: Wrong block breaking overlay on placed cheese
• Fixed: Wrong texture for placed waxed cheese
• Fixed: Game crashing when placing linen
• Fixed: Anvil: Able to move metal voxels with a voxel above them
• Fixed: Multiplayer chest slot count desync issue
• Fixed: Eating sound playing twice
• Fixed: No more meal info in the block info hud on placed crocks and cooking pots
• Fixed: Bloomery insides completely black
• Fixed: Fruitpress mash derpiness
• Fixed: Missing item info and handbook info on juiceable properties
• Fixed: Meals with liquids in them not working?
• Fixed: Game crashing when sleeping during a temporal storm
• Fixed: A crash when setting a tool mode while looking away from the block
• Fixed: Breaking a firepit dropped a firepit
• Fixed: Fruit tree blossom was partially drawn with green tint

It almost looks like this is one of the last unstable releases \o/
 

Screenshot by BreakfastTime#1346
 

Game updates

• Tweak: Fine tuned Aurora visuals
• Tweak: Fine tuned teleporter sounds and teleport effect
• Tweak: Click sound for the creative rotor, placement sounds when adding parts to the pulverizer
• Tweak: Firepit construction stages drop contents when broken and break faster.
• Tweak: New tint for Olive tree foliage
• Tweak: Fine tuned fruit tree fruit windwave
• Fixed: Crashes related to handbook and itemstack hover debug info
• Fixed: Able to sleep through temporal storms when going to bed before the storm starts
• Fixed: Game crashing on startup under MacOS Monterey
• Fixed: Creatures trying to get out of water stuck at the last block of water
• Fixed: Rare race condition crash in animated blocks
• Fixed: Able to make 200 cheese from one barrel of curdled milk
• Fixed: Fern tree growing through trader cart floors
• Fixed: Translocating sound not attenuated
• Fixed: Invisible condenser bucket
• Fixed: Unable to set the games language to chinese
• Fixed: Sun travelling west-north-east instead of east-south-west
• Fixed: Crafting recipes for clothing disappearing/not shown in the handbook
• Fixed: Stacked liquid eating container dupe bug
• Fixed: Dropping the wrong item when using the Q hotkey in the creative inventory
• Fixed: Hot crucible no longer glowing yellow in GUI
• Fixed: Game crashing when feeding certain non-crushable items into the pulverizer
• Fixed: Should fix a crash when launching the game on Pop OS
• Fixed: Various minor issues (2 missing lang entries, floaty mushroom at block edges, wonky slanted roof hitboxes, shadows around reed&papyrus)
• Fixed: Boiler missing liquid interaction help infos
• Fixed: Unable to re-ignite a placed unlit torch
• Fixed: Spears in mouse slot and in the handbook not correctly cropped
• Api Tweak: Added IDisosable interface to many classes that are disposable

Besides the usual round of fixes, we've also added a few extra creative mode blocks that felt lacking. They are essentially a subset of the current creative blocks, but light emitting. One with light level 22, and the other one with light level 4, the latter of which allows for some interesting chiseling possibilities. In total, there are 58 new creative mode light source blocks. I hope it inspires you to make some fancy colorful builds  

Here are all the strongly light emitting ones


And a smaller selection of the faint light sources, but still strongly glowing ones, chiseled into rock:

Game updates

• Feature: Added 2 new sets of colorful creative mode blocks. One set of strong light and another with weak light, but both with max glow.
• Feature: Leather can now be dyed to make certain clothes (and a shield) instead of making the clothes in a barrel.
• Tweak: Boosted durability of steel armor to make it worthwhile (lamellar: 950->1600, brigandine: 1900->2600, chain: 1000->2000, scale: 2000->3500, steel: 3200->5500)
• Tweak: Added guides for alcohol and fruit trees, and other minor handbook entries.
• Tweak: Added recycling recipes for hay bed and thatched roof
• Tweak: Improved 1st person sling animation.
• Tweak: Leather is now a 3d model instead of a 2d sprite.
• Tweak: Slightly reduce fern tree density
• Tweak: Game crash resistance against corrupted large gears on TOPTS
• Tweak: Reduced cave art material cost by 50% (consume the pigment every 1/15 times instead of 1/10)
• Tweak/Fixed: Moving liquids on stacked liquid containers should now work correctly
• Fixed: Game crash when looking at rotten pots
• Fixed: Game crashing when an invalid language was set in the clientsettings.json
• Fixed: Should fix "incorrect srgb profile" error log spam on Linux
• Fixed: Should fix startup issues on some Linux distris
• Fixed: Waypoint names lost
• Fixed: Player intoxication not removed upon death
• Fixed: Server side crash when using a spear
• Fixed: Items in gui not glowing
• Fixed: Unable to place water with the bucket in some cases
• Fixed: .tfedit with empty hands left the mouse unlocked
• Fixed: Unable to remove cave art with the watering can
• Fixed: Transforms of the jug too large
• Fixed: Wrong flowering/fruiting/ripe info on fruit trees. The same issue probably also broke the fruiting cycle upon chunk reload.
• Fixed: Earthball texture inconsistency
• api Fixed: Unclear error with the new addeach json patch feature
• api tweak: Toggling LShift now shows/hides attribute info over hovered items right away

Alrighty, 12 updates later v1.16 is feature complete. All that is left is to balance some mechanics and fix (hopefully mostly minor) bugs.

As with the last major update I will only list everything new since pre.1 and then for the first stable release present you with a complete feature list again. Anyhow, check out our update video!

Game updates

• Everything listed in the pre.1 blog post + tons of bugfixes for all newly introduced features
• Feature: Easy multimaterial chiseling - can now easily add more materials to a chiseled block, by dropping blocks into the tool model selector dialog
• Feature: Added rare polar bear spawn. The other bear types should get added in the future.
• Feature: Added vertical planks block
• Feature: Added 11 colored tailored gambeson + recipes
• Feature: 3 more fruit tree types: Breadfruit, Lychee and Pomegranate
• Feature: Added Rifts. These appear and disappear at random in the world. Drain your stability when close to one. Surface drifters now only spawn within a 25 block radius of rifts.
• Feature: Clockmaker exclusive feature - hacking spear. Each hit with a hacking spear gives the clock maker a 15% chance to hack a locust, which will then fight by his side. Beware, hacked locus are extremely jealous on one another
• Feature: Mushroom worldgen & growth rework
  • Mushrooms no longer leave stumps when harvested, but will still regrow over time
  • Completed Mushroom world generation mechanic. This produces distinct regions where certain only a subset of all mushrooms grow.
• Feature: Added another 7 more mushrooms
• Feature: Server side moddb install utility - /moddb
• Feature: Added jugs for drinking
• Feature: New world config to disable class exclusive recipes
• Feature: Added Alcohol-soaked bandages, and grid recipe for solder bars
• Feature: More combat rework
  • Added crude wooden shields, when standing 15% chance of blocking 1.5 to 3 damage, when sneaking 85% chance of blocking 3 to 5 damage, depending on the shield type
  • Mitigate cases where creatures attack players while looking away
  • Ranged aiming accuracy buildup is now about 50% quicker
  • The hurt screen overlay effect now indicates from which direction the attack came from
• Feature: Added admin longblade for testing purposes. (Creative mode only)
• Feature: Chatting while drunk now produces slurred words
• Feature: Added command /gm shorthand for /gamemode
• Tweak: Improved creative inventory search, e.g. when searching for "stone" the loose stones are near the top now
• Tweak: Major Crop rebalance. Doubled growth times and yields for most crops with some exceptions. (Experimental)
  • Rye Cold Dmg changed to -12, Cold Mult to .75, and Heat Dmg to 27 (same heat dmg as turnip).  Spawn conditions of Rye were changed to be in the -12 to 14 temperature range.  Overal rye should now be more suited to northerly climates.
  • Rice Heat Damage ceiling increased from default to 46.
  • Peanut growth time was doubled, but yield was left alone.
  • Amaranth growth time not changed, since its already about 50% of irl.  Yield still doubled though.
  • Cassava growth time was left alone, being already rather long (though still nowhere near irl).  Yield was still doubled to keep the satiety per day vaguely 'competitive'.
  • Doubled pumpkin mother plant growth time, but did not touch anything else, for now.
  • Pineapple was not touched due to already being a very long growth time and its also the only farmable fruit.
• Tweak: Creature ai tweaks, applies to all creatures
  • Slower look around speed
  • They now tend to wander further
  • Mitigate chasing derp (where creatures turn back for a second)
  • Fixed walking sideways in 3rd camera mode caused animals to target wrongly
  • Creature attack knockback now proportional to damage
• Tweak: Zoomed in all spear gui transforms. Looks weird but can tell apart spears more easily now.
• Tweak: Added more water bubbles when walking in water
• Tweak: Windmills no longer work underground, unless worldconfig undergroundWindmills is set to "true"
• Tweak: Slight speedup when walking in water, for creatures and players
• Tweak: Increased max light level spawn cap for drifters again, from 6 to 9 (as they are now also constrained by rift vicinity)
• Tweak: Added berry picking and shield blocking sound
• Tweak: Added tempStormFrequencyMul worldconfig
• Tweak: Standing still now reduces your hunger rate 4-fold instead of 3-fold
• Tweak: Renamed all spirits to brandy
• Tweak: Dark blocks now get a white selected block outline for easier chiseling
• Tweak: Reduced RAM usage by about 75 MB (Technical info: generate animation frames only on demand, optimized particles ram usage)
• Tweak: Fine tuned snow accumulating and melting to be a bit less abrupt.
• Tweak: Added white and gray dye
• Tweak: Removed liquid items from the creative inventory. Replaced them with liquids inside buckets. Added a new liquids creative tab.
• Tweak: All mods in the mod manager not having set up an icon will now use a default icon. Fixed crashing game if mods did not define a mod icon
• Tweak: Can now also right click with a bucket on the barrel slot in GUI to take out liquids (and also added holding CTRL to move only small portions)
• Fixed: Creature hurt sounds not playing? (Might break other things)
• Fixed: Wrong shading on first person held items
• Fixed: Missing texture on one of the shields
• Fixed: Freshly crafted clothes had not 100% condition
• Fixed: Missing texture on thrown hacking spears, fp hand spears upside down
• Fixed: Incorrect day/night cycle. Looks promising now, as in, behaving physically correct on all latitudes
• Fixed: First person spear upside down, spear attack animation a bit smoother
• Fixed: Ingame error text in front of dialogs
• Fixed: Missing "25k" option on world config world length
• Fixed: Freshly crafted clothes had not 100% condition    
• Fixed: Chopping down bamboo chopped nearby bamboo trees
• Fixed: Able to always pick up clear quartz from loose quarts ores
• Fixed: Crash when setting the chisel tool mode right at the edge of a block
• Fixed: Derpy positioning of the itemstack infobox
• Fixed: Exception thrown on some /worldconfig commands
• Fixed: Opened coken oven doors dropping a different block variant
• Fixed: Should fix fern trees spawning underwater
• Fixed: Clay dupe glitch
• Fixed: Fog flicker when moving vertically
• Fixed: Game crashing when pasting text into the config world screen
• Fixed: Itemstack infobox sometimes displaying the wrong text
• Fixed: Fixed creature hostility configuration not properly applying whenever a major update comes out (To the author of the golden wolf mod: add "friendlyTarget:true" to your seek entity json config)
• Fixed: Firepit ash overlay culled with a block above
• Fixed: Woad not yellow in world map
• Fixed: Crash related to interacting with pies
• Fixed: Wrong sizes of cheese on shelves
• Fixed: Avoid an exception in the trader restock code if an item no longer exists (e.g. due to a removed mod)
• Fixed: Items in the grid crafting output slot starting to spoil/dry
• Fixed: "Dryable. Duration: NaN Hours"
• Fixed: Multimaterial chiseled blocks containing Glass disabled some faces that it shouldn't (glass chiseling is still not supported in vanilla though)
• Fixed: Difficulties using the teleport block on server with mild or heavy lag
• Fixed: Should fix rare crash in the error reporter

API Updates since pre.1

• Feature: New JSON Patch operation "addeach" allows inserting/appending of multiple elements in one operation. (the value must be an array)
• Feature: Added Block.PriorityInteract to be able to sneak interact with a block before sneak interacting with the currently held item
• Tweak: Added the boolean properties CanDrinkFrom, IsTopOpened and AllowHeldLiquidTransfer to BlockLiquidContainerBase, can also be set via json attribute (unless you use the class BlockLiquidContainerTopOpened, which sets them all to true)
• Refactor: Begin Engine paradigm shift - recipe systems are no longer engine exclusive. The meal cooking recipe system is now moved from api/engine to the survival mod, with the plan being that all recipe systems (grid recipes, barrel recipes, smithing recipes, clay forming recipes and knapping recipes) will be transferred to the survival mod. This means:
•   If you need to look up cooking recipes, reference VSSurvivalMod.dll and exchange world.CookingRecipes with "Api.ModLoader.GetModSystem<RecipeRegistry>().CookingRecipes" or through the helper method "Api.CookingRecipes()"
•   If you only add cooking recipe json files, no changes are required
•   You can now add your own recipe system. Check out RecipeRegistry.cs for reference (still needs handbook support, though)
• Refactor: The Handbook and all recipe system except grid recipes are now part of the survival mod. If you accessed any of the recipe lists via api.World.XXXRecipes, you now need to reference VSSurvivalMod.dll, then you can access them via api.GetXXXRecipes()
• Refactor: All Barrel recipes that have liquids as input or output, instead of quantity and stacksize respectively, these should now define "litres". However for backwards compatibility, if the recipe loader encounters a liquid ingredient or output without a litres definition, it will assume quantity/stacksize = litres and log a warning.
• Refactor: Rename BlockLiquidContainerBase.GetInContainerProps to BlockLiquidContainerBase.GetContainableProps
• Refactor: The block code for planks has changed from planks-{wood} to planks-{wood}-hor
• Refactor: Minor refactor in Weather/WeatherSimulationParticles.cs
• Tweak: Holding sneak key with .edi enabled shows you item attributes in the itemstack tooltip
• Tweak: RegisterAiTask and RegisterVtmlTagConverter is now in ICoreApi (through C# class extension in the esentials/survival mod)
• Tweak: Shape elements of zero size are now no longer tesselated
• Tweak: New tool: /debug heldstattr key type value
• Tweak: Added CollectibleObject.TpOffHandTransform
• Tweak: Added helper methods for ITreeAttribute Set/GetVec3i, Set/GetBlockPos and Set/GetVec3is
• Tweak: Added ISaveGame.StoreData<T> and ISaveGame.GetData<T>()
• Tweak: Added SendBlockEntityPacket<T>(IServerPlayer player, BlockPos pos, int packetId, T data = default(T)) BroadcastBlockEntityPacket<T>(BlockPos pos, int packetId, T data = default(T))
• Fixed: Handbook crashing the game on invalid grid recipes
• Fixed: Json patch addeach not implemented in the engine
• Fixed: game crashing when removing the hunger behavior from the player
• Fixed: Wildcard liquids in grid recipes crashing the handbook
• Fixed: CreativeInventoryStacks property not working properly for items
• Fixed: Wildcards not working on grid recipe returnedStacks
• Fixed: Failure to resolve itemstack for a crafting recipe ingredient did not print a warning
• Fixed: Texture Rotation not applied to alternates when using * wildcard
   

New/Changed since pre.13

• Feature: Mushrooms no longer leave stumps when harvested, but will still regrow over time.
• Feature: Completed Mushroom world generation mechanic. This produces distinct regions where certain only a subset of all mushrooms grow.
• Tweak: Less awkward grass cover side for forest floors
• Tweak: The hurt screen overlay effect now indicates from which direction the attack came from
• Tweak: Added Lychee and Pomegranate fruit trees
• Tweak: Added Ales
• Tweak: Avoid spawning rifts near lit bases
• Tweak: Windmills no longer work underground, unless worldconfig undergroundWindmills is set to "true"
• Fixed: Fog flicker when moving vertically
• Fixed: Crafted and collected crates not stackable
• Fixed: Sizzling sound spam when throwing oillamps in water
• Fixed: Game crashing when pasting text into the config world screen
• Fixed: Creatures Powercircling in water
• Api tweak: Added helper methods for ITreeAttribute Set/GetVec3i, Set/GetBlockPos and Set/GetVec3is

New in rc.2

• Fixed: Client game crash in new worlds
• Fixed: Crates not having the advertised 20/25 slots
• Fixed: Bear death animation
• Fixed: Not able to craft condenser and boiler with silver solder
• Fixed: Client Error log spam

For this update we wanted to complete some of features that didn't make it into 1.15 as well as a few unplanned ones. It includes several features that some of our VS Team very much has been looking forward too. I personally am very happy with the new wind sway system - its programming is now way cleaner, more powerful, and likely a tad more performant. But also visually it feels way richer. Together with the new forest floors and new mushrooms, wandering the forests now feels amazing to me. That being said, the community will be the ultimate judge of that

Server owners will be very happy to see that one large barrier for players will soon be gone - the manual installation of mods. Highly frequented servers should now also become a lot more interesting with the addition of the auction house - as you can finally fully live out your merchant dreams.

The long promised bears, despite the teams large efforts, something like in the 200 man-hour range, are still not done yet, but we hope to have some version of them until rc.1.

Anyhow, we hope you'll enjoy the new updates. Thanks for playing and sharing your experiences and screenshots with us
 

Still planned for rc.1
Bears, Torch rework, Mushroom regrowth, fine tuning to mushroom world generation, a clock maker exclusive item, one more special drifter behavior, installing mods via command line, in-game mod browser, functional uses for alcohol, and maybe rifts

Please notice
1. This is an unfinished update, mostly intended for modders and very adventurous players. You will encounter major bugs, incomplete features, performance issues and crashes. Worldgen might also significantly change and produce unknown blocks until rc.1
2. New "pre" updates will only be posted in discord #news and not on the blog. A new v1.16 blog post will come when the first release candidate is ready.

Screenshots & Gifs

Server wide auction house: Buy and sell on a global scale...for a price

Crates: Beautiful single item mass storage, with item labels and visible contents


Trunks: Like 2 chests together, but better!


Alcohol making: A fruit press, juice fermentation and a distillery for the ultimate drunken VS experience \o/

Liquid system rework: Now easier and more satisfying to use for modders and players alike!


Fruit Trees: 9 types of seasonal fruit producers. A flowery delight in spring!

Fruit tree dynamic growth: A fruit tree takes a while to mature


Fruit tree grafting: Fruit trees are propagated by taking and planting a cutting, but you can also graft it onto an existing fruit tree


Forest floors: Forests are so much more foresty now.


Mushroom bonanza: Over 26 new types of mushrooms (WIP! Mushroom regrowth still subject to change)




Improved wind effects: Rewritten and triple polished wind sway effects. Example - here's a wind swaying sunflower, before and after
   

Wind effects editor: VSMC, our official model editor now allows you to configure the wind say mode in great detail and with live preview


Ground storage tweaks: Can now 4x4 place pots, bowls and also optionally center place them
 

Ground storage tweaks: Can now place shoes on the ground and on shelves


Easy modded server joining: The game now tries to download mods from the VS Mod DB, no more manual installing required

Armor Stand Feature: They can now carry tools and weapons


Drifter Rework: They will now throw stones at you. Added a rare variant that spawns only during temporal storms


Improved hit knockback (experimental)


3D Models for berries and for the new fruits from fruit trees


Permadeath mode: Disabled by default, but now available for those that like the extra challenge


45° Signs: Can now also place signs at a 45 degree angle



Game updates

• Feature: Auction house! Every trader now gives you access to a server wide auction house where players can buy and sell items
  • To still encourage direct trade, the auction house comes with multiple (configurable) fees:
    • 1 rusty gear for each week of having your item listed
    • 10% sales cut for each item sold
    • Transpot costs of 1 to 8 gears or direct pickup for free
  • Everytime you join the server, you get a status update send to you in chat about your active auctions
  • Server owners can configure the cost or disable the auction house altogether
• Feature: Crates
  • Can now use any pigment to draw the contents of the crate. Added crafting recipes.
  • Paper
• Feature: Added trunk block, a double sized chest
• Feature Distillery and Fruit press
  • All fruits can now be juiced in the fruit press
  • Juice can now be fermented into cider
  • Cider can be further distilled into spirit
  • Drinking Cider and Spirit makes you drunk. Functional uses will be added soon.
• Feature: Fruit trees
  • Trees for red apple, pink apple, yellow apple, peach, pear, cherry, orange, olive, mango now spawn in newly generated chunks. Break the side branches for a chance to retrieve a cutting.
  • This cutting, when planted, should sprout after a couple of days and eventually mature into a full tree (does not require fertilizer or watering for the time being)
  • Fruit trees will yield fruit once a year, depending on the sort. They'll go through various distinct cycles: Flowering, Fruiting, Ripe fruit, No fruit and then Dormant for decidious trees, which is a leafless version only with branches. The evergreens (mango, orange and olive) stay green all year round.
  • Ripe fruit can then be used for cooking and juicing
  • Fruit trees planted in an unsuitable climate will die
• Feature: 26 new types of mushrooms, some of them now growing on the sides of trees
• Feature: Greatly improved mod support
  • Integrated moddb browser! You can now 1-click install and remove mods through the mod manager
  • Auto-modded server install! You can now 1-click install mods that you need to join a modded server. These are only enabled when you join said server.
• Feature: Shoes are now neatly placeable on shelves and on the ground
• Feature: Drifter rework
  • Added two-headed drifter as a rare variant of nightmare drifter.
  • Drifters now throw stones at players
  • Adjusted drifter animation names to clearly differentiate between Standing and Crawling.
  • Added a drifter attack sound
  • Fixed alternate version of the spiked drifter never spawned
• Feature: Wind shader rework
  • Much improved code, making it easier for modders to add wind sway effects to their blocks and items through VS Model Creator
  • Fixes heavy wind sway derp on sunflowers and other plants
  • Made storm level winds more impactful
  • Added water storm particles
• Feature: Ground storage rework
  • Any 2x2 storable can now be placed in the middle
  • Pots, bowls and crocks are now 2x2 ground storable, while still able to transfer foods between them
• Feature: Liquid system rework
  • When operating with liquids, instead of showing the stack size it shows the amount in litre. Implemented min. transfer size. Buckets let you transfer 1 litre each, bowls 0.1 litre each
  • more work on liquid system, liquids are now edible
  • Addded water bowl+flour dough recipe
  • Fixed handbook dough recipe showed an empty bucket instead of a bucket with 1 litre of water inside
  • Added sound and particle effects when moving liquids
• Feature: Character class rebalance (WIP)
  • Added sling tool. Exclusive ranged weapon for the malefactor (improviser trait)
  • Tailor can now craft Tailored Gambeson armor, which is more resistant and easier to move in than normal gambeson.
  • Traders now buy sewing kits and more craftable clothes.
  • Rebalanced character classes. Blackguard buffed to 30% melee damage instead of 20% and -15% armor durability loss instead of -10%. Hunter buffed to 20% ranged damage instead of 10%. Malefactor buffed to 35% reduced animal seeking range instead of 20% and 10% chance to get whole loot vessel instead of 5%
  • The Blackguard class is now less affected by the walk speed penalties of armor
• Feature: Can now use WASD keys to scroll the expanded world map
• Feature: Added isolated, handcrafted underground lakes
• Feature: Signs can now be placed at 45 degree angles
• Feature: Armor stands can now hold tools in one hand
• Feature: Improved hit knockback on creatures and players. WIP, Experimental.
• Feature: Improved animal pitch step rotation when stepping up and down blocks (and disabled it for bipedals)
• Feature: New 3d models for fruit
• Feature: Store location, seed and worldconfig when saving a screenshot. Could be used to autocreate a new world and teleport to this location and tons of other fancy things. (WIP)
• Feature: The handbook now shows if an item is being sold or bought by a trader
• Feature/Tweak: Can no longer sleep during temporal storms for standard and wilderness survival.
• Tweak: Fine tune wind affected particles
• Tweak: Doubled sound range of echo chambers
• Tweak: Can now place bees wax, fired bricks, candles, clay, dyed cloth, all crushed resources, blasting powder, fat, flax fibers and flax twine on the shelf
• Tweak: Added pit kiln burn times by fuel to the handbook entry
• Tweak: Added more debug logging for the shift+click item disappearance bug
• Tweak: Locust drills more drill-looking
• Tweak: Buffed each bow by .25 damage.
• Tweak: The selected chiseling material is now remembered across chiseled blocks
• Tweak: Performance: Don't render dynamic shadows when shadow intensity falls below 10% (during night or rain)
• Tweak: Disable seasonal grass coverage changes. Causes large stutter with radeon cards, as it has to retesselate lots of chunks
• Tweak: Added mod<=>engine version check and crash the client/server if they mismatch, to prevent undefined behavior
• Tweak: Added additional handbook info, and a link to the wiki, when describing block reinforcement system
• Tweak: Barrels now visually show contents for some more items/blocks
• Tweak: Ignore corrupted map parts instead of crashing
• Tweak: Unlit chimney now hollow for particles, allows smoke to rise through it from below (or snow to fall through it!)
• Tweak: Made knockback from bighorn sheep stronger
• Tweak: Add appconfig thing to maybe fix the game being launchable with too old versions of .net
• Tweak: De-Jank: Mouse wheel no longer changes the values of drop down ui elements just from hovering over them
• Tweak: De-Jank: The World configuration attributes are now grouped by category
• Tweak: Can now use {plr} placeholder in command block commands
• Tweak: Yellow dye is now made with onions. Orange dye is now made by adding more onions to yellow dye.
• Tweak: When making dyes, barrels now produce the same amount of liquid as the ingredients, e.g. if you put in 4 diluted alum, you get 4 dye.
• Tweak: Fine tuned explosion particle spawning a bit and made them more proportional to the explosion radius
• Tweak: Gambeson no longer High Damage Tier Resistant
• Tweak: Forest rain sound a bit more pronounced
• Tweak: Farmland now uses the configurable HoursPerDay instead of 24 hours to time crop growth
• Tweak: Grid crafting with spoiled ingredients now will also result in a spoiled crafting output
• Tweak: Shelves are now very suited for drying items if they are not in a cellar
• Tweak: Farmland now uses the configurable HoursPerDay instead of 24 hours to time crop growth
• Tweak: Added hunter backpack recipe that uses 3 small pelts
• Tweak: Kapok leaves now less neon green
• Tweak: Made mountains less faded in the distance
• Tweak: Torches thrown into water now also go out
• Fixed: Meals in a pot or bowl spawning white particles when broken
• Fixed: Chiseling a light emitting block now emits light as well
• Fixed: Wrong texture resolution on croton plants, therefore more fluffly now
• Fixed: The Balanced trader had a broken sprint animation
• Fixed: Spears and arrows sometimes flying through creatures
• Fixed: Liquid containers accepting non liquids from hoppers/chutes
• Fixed: Light color jitter on the worldmap when chunks are updated
• Fixed: Pit kiln not emitting light
• Fixed: Farmland perma boosters still applicable multiple times
• Fixed: Coloring lanterns did not update lighting server side, causing them to get lost after server restart
• Fixed: Fence gates not remembering their reinforcement level when opened or closed
• Fixed: Vintagehosting Server Status screen showing wrong server state in some cases
• Fixed: Various z-fighting issues with armor
• Fixed neighbour block lighting visual issue for Wallpaper and other Decor blocks
• Fixed: Alignment issue in the transform editor
• Fixed: Updated the character trait descriptions to match previous balance changes.
• Fixed: Dragging around a dialog was janky on non-8 gui scales
• Fixed: /wgen regen not removing entities on the client side. Might fix duplicate ghost players? ??
• Fixed: Crash reporter launching twice

API Updates

• Feature: Some simple implementation of a generic multiblock system, to hopefully avoid custom multiblocking everywhere. Used for the distillery.
• Feature: Added capi.Gui.LoadSvg() and capi.Gui.LoadSvgWithPadding() which allows for use of external SVG vector files to be loaded. For a first code sample, check out ItemProspectingPick.cs
• Feature: Improved mounting system. Should now be properly network synced \o/
  • Sneak to unmount a IMountable is no longer hardcoded. It must now be handled by the IMountable itself, see BEBed.cs as example.
• Feature: Ability for custom itemstack renderers, register via api.Event.RegisterItemstackRenderer()
• Feature: *byType precedence: For the Json assets blocktype, itemtype and entitytype, can now define an attribute as well as a *byType attribute, whereas the latter takes precedence, e.g. stackSize: 32 would be overwritten by stackSizeByType: { "*": 16 }
• Feature: Explosion code upgrades
  • Explosions radii have an upper limit, which is now doubled, reaching it nonetheless now throws a more informative exception
  • Fixed particle lag and upper cap issues, as they now spawn async
  • Fixed a crash in the lighting engine when explosions go beyond chunk boundaries
  • Added blockDropChanceMultiplier argument to CreateExplosion() to reduce block drops by explosions (large explosions drop *a lot* of blocks)
• Feature: .gltf models now support most flags
• Feature: Added api.Render.RenderItemStackToAtlas(), allows rendering of an itemstack into a texture atlas
• Feature: Can now set amount of inventory columns for GenericTypedContainer
• Feature: Add initialDelayOffsetMs arg to Event.RegisterGameTickListener() to mitigate lag spikes from many listeners running code at the same time
• Feature: Added withInheritance argument to api.ModLoader.GetModSystem()
• Feature: In the Json assets, can now define ucontents property for containers. Example implementation: A wood bucket filled with water in the creative inventory
• Feature: Added new render stage EnumRenderStage.AfterBlit
• Feature: Added client side api death event
• Feature: Added permadeath mode, disabled by default for all play styles
• Feature: Added sapi.HandleCommand()
• Feature: In the json assets, can now define a "ucontents" property to define contents of containers. Example implementation: A wood bucket filled with water in the creative inventory
• Refactor: Massive Windwave/VertexFlags refactor. All wind related vertex flags are now consolidated into 2 properties - windMode and windData. Can now define these 2 values *per vertex* in VS Model creator
• Refactor: Rework mesh generation of displayed items, such as items in shelves or ground storage. This is now done through the interface IContainedMeshSource for the contained item, instead of hardcoded in each container.
• Refactor: BlockEntity.OnBlockBroken() now has a new argument IPlayer byPlayer
• Refactor: Rename AddDecor() to SetDecor() and allow passing air blocks to remove decor
• Refactor: Merged BreakDecor() and BreakDecorPart() into one method
• Refactor: Remove API.Common.Action, replaced with System.Action
• Refactor: GuiElementCellList is now generic
• Refactor: GuiElementHandbookList is now GuiElementFlatList (now a slightly more basic version than GuiElementCellList)
• Refactor: Renamed entity "Hitbox" to "Collisionbox" (Hitbox can still be used but is marked obsolete)
• Refactor: Removed world argument from all methods in ILiquidSink & ILiquidSource
• Tweak: Seperated creature hitbox into collisionbox and selectionbox (the later is used for attacking and interacting with creatures)
• Tweak: Removed and consolidated a lot of crushed shape files since they were all essentially the same.
• Tweak: Doubled block, item and entity texture atlas size
• Tweak: Added property IBulkBlockAccessor.StagedBlocks for jakecools dynamic trees
• Tweak: Made clayforming system more flexible towards new types of clay
• Tweak: .AddDynamicText() removed argument for EnumTextOrientation, it can be set in the font.
• Tweak: GuiElementTextButton now has a Visible flag
• Tweak: Client and server now (lazy) load all language entries. Can now send text from server to client in the clients language. (Contribution by Apache#8842, edits by Tyron)
• Tweak: Added ability to disable durability averaging during grid crafting
• Tweak: Added rndIndex argument to Block.GetRandomColor()
• Tweak: .tfedit now allows editing of ground transforms for ground storable items and blocks (also fixed that blocks did not apply the ground transform)
• Tweak: Clean up reeds and papyrus assets. Drops are no longer hardcoded, only 1 blocktype file instead of 3, all shapes in the same folder, added frozen variant for papyrus
• Tweak: Can now define knockback strength in AiTaskMeleeAttack
• Tweak: capi.World.Player.Entity.OnFootStep and capi.World.Player.Entity.OnImpact are now events instead of Action fields
• Tweak: Added IParticlePropertiesProvider.Async to make particle spawn asynchronously (for particle spawn calls on the server)
• Tweak: Specially treat empty string variant code for blocks, items or entities: They are now treated as "skip this variant group" and not add an extra dash to the block/item/entity code
• Tweak: Clean up, unify and simplify GetModData and SetModData for chunks, map chunks and map regions
• Tweak: Added EnumFoodCategory.NoNutrition for foods that provide no nutrition
• Fixed: Calling GetClimate() for a specific date returned fundamentally broken values
• Fixed: Some items set to be placeable in backpack slots crashed the game for no (apparent) reason
• Fixed: Small values ignored in shape: { offsetX/Y/Z: 0.01 }
• Fixed: OnTrySpawnEntity event did not handle multiple event listeners correctly
• Fixed: Entity shape alternates didn't work (see example entities/land/drifter.json, make sure the alternate shape textures have different texture codes)
• Fixed: Liquid in barrel textures defaulted to the game domain
• Fixed: Health boosts in meals should now respect serving size and spoilage rate
• Fixed: Should fix night sky textures not moddable

This is likely the final release of the 1.15 branch. Exiting new features incoming soon, in the upcoming 1.16!


Alchemist attic by Fleshka, shared on discord

Game updates

• Tweak: Updated comunity translations
• Fixed: Major derp when trying to apply potash to farmland
• Fixed: Meal oddities when using cassava as an ingredient
• Fixed: Incorrect handbook info about cave art
• Fixed: Schematic importing an empty helve hammer block caused an exception
• Fixed: A crash when using mods that add more than 65.000 blocks
• Fixed: Avoid a crash if the minimap fails to load a map section
• Fixed: Line break in "Show dressed" button in create character dialog
• Fixed: Link cursor showing up in the top left corner of the main menu
• Fixed: Japanese translations: All texts all had spaces after each character

Screenshot by Thor8472 on Discord
 

Game updates

• New in 1.15.8-rc.1
  • Tweak: Improved world loading times (~42% faster loading times when using the BuildingPlus mod) (Technical info: Skip uncessarry regex captures, skip unecessary dictionary creation during block resolving, lazy load decal meshes,
  • Tweak: Fix client side lag spikes caused by containers
  • Tweak: Added additional info, and a link to the wiki, when describing block reinforcement system
  • Tweak: Added game launch vanilla mod/engine integrity check to prevent undefined behavior (technical info: Crash if survival/creative/essentials mod versiion and engine versions do not match)
  • Tweak: Improve sound debug logging to find Aledarks sound issues, more error reporting to find issue #1367
  • Fixed: Click+Drag distributing of items not distributing correctly, especially on high latency servers
  • Fixed: Ground mist effect not working
  • Fixed: Items that somehow ended up in the crafting grid got lost after rejoin/world reload
  • Fixed: Coloring lanterns did not update lighting server side, causing them to get lost after server restart
  • Fixed: Farmland perma boosters still applicable multiple times
  • Fixed: Chiseled blocks held item name did not use custom names
  • Fixed: Bright halo around cassava leaves
  • Fixed: GUI flicker when dressing/undressing clothes on non 100% resolution setting
  • Fixed: /weather seti not properly reloading weather config
  • Fixed: Reducing view distance while chunks are loading could cause eternal chunk load/unload loop, increasing server and client load
  • Fixed: Pit kiln not emitting light
  • Fixed: Pie stacksize desync issue
  • Fixed: Soldering iron usable as chisel ô_Ô
  • Fixed: A few dozen texts were not translatable
  • Fixed: Armor infotext: Missing 'High damage tier resistant' notice on some armor, missing + sign on Ranged Weapon Charge Time
  • Fixed: Not able to ditch first item in creative inventory into the empty area
  • Fixed: Mouse stayed uncaptured when using .bsedit and no block was selected
  • Fixed: Fire clay chimney not in handbook
  • Fixed: Small oiled hide not craftable
  • Fixed: Text rendering/formatting issues when using japanese translations
  • Fixed: Broken slanted roofing not stacking with freshly crafted ones
• New since 1.15.8-rc.1
  • Tweak: Lower drifter spawn max block light by another light level to make bases more safe
  • Tweak: Greatly improve minimap performance for players with 1000+ waypoints
  • Tweak: Updated comunity translations
  • Fixed: Derpy water foam effect, fine tuned water visuals
  • Fixed: Wrong text line breaks on chiseled block names
  • Fixed: OpenAL OutOfMemory error with large amounts of mechanical power blocks
  • Fixed: Should fix occasional crash when putting a cooking pot in a firepit or grindable in a quern
  • Fixed: Should fix able to right click moving of more than one cooking pot into the firepit
  • Fixed: A crash when righting clicking a barrel with a bowl in hands
  • Fixed: Visual fixes Leather helmet z-fighting with hair, meteoric chain pants texture issues
  • Api Tweak: Creative inventory: Doubled the possible creative tab spaces by adding a right hand side list
  • Api Fixed: Creative inventory: Long tab names got cut off, now doubled the possible length

While working on our next major update, I noticed our pretty ground fog system stopped functioning in 1.15, that with a couple other notable issues made another stable patch worthwhile. Also I think I finally fixed the bug with Left click+Drag distributing of item stacks!


Oh ground fog, how I missed thee.


Chiseled Painting event results
In other news, the popular community driven VS server Aura Fury ran a very fruitful chiseled painting event called “Essence and Moments of Vintage Story”. Contestants were required to create chiseled painting in survival mode with vanilla items only. They had to use their own materials, tools, and follow a set of other contest rules. 12 contestants competed for a set of prices that were to be awarded to the top two painting chosen by the judges as well as one contestant chosen by community vote as their favorite.

The judges Ashantin, copygirl and Saraty chose Eye of the Storm by Aorsak for 1st place and Winds of Hope by Ahueono for 2nd place. Three honorable mentions in no particular order were: Every Farmland's Nightmare by Rammgirl, Hyenas by Kendi64, and The Edge of the Dragon Ruins by Arkan. The Aura Fury community voted for Risk & Opportunity by Aledark as their favorite. The works turned in by everyone were astounding it was hard for both the judges and the community to decide the winners! Congratulations to all the winners and all those who joined!

Game updates

• Tweak: Improved world loading times (~42% faster loading times when using the BuildingPlus mod) (Technical info: Skip uncessarry regex captures, skip unecessary dictionary creation during block resolving, lazy load decal meshes,
• Tweak: Fix client side lag spikes caused by containers
• Tweak: Added additional info, and a link to the wiki, when describing block reinforcement system
• Tweak: Added game launch vanilla mod/engine integrity check to prevent undefined behavior (technical info: Crash if survival/creative/essentials mod versiion and engine versions do not match)
• Tweak: Improve sound debug logging to find Aledarks sound issues, more error reporting to find issue #1367
• Fixed: Click+Drag distributing of items not distributing correctly, especially on high latency servers
• Fixed: Ground mist effect not working
• Fixed: Items that somehow ended up in the crafting grid got lost after rejoin/world reload
• Fixed: Coloring lanterns did not update lighting server side, causing them to get lost after server restart
• Fixed: Farmland perma boosters still applicable multiple times
• Fixed: Chiseled blocks held item name did not use custom names
• Fixed: Bright halo around cassava leaves
• Fixed: GUI flicker when dressing/undressing clothes on non 100% resolution setting
• Fixed: /weather seti not properly reloading weather config
• Fixed: Reducing view distance while chunks are loading could cause eternal chunk load/unload loop, increasing server and client load
• Fixed: Pit kiln not emitting light
• Fixed: Pie stacksize desync issue
• Fixed: Soldering iron usable as chisel
• Fixed: A few dozen texts were not translatable
• Fixed: Armor infotext: Missing 'High damage tier resistant' notice on some armor, missing + sign on Ranged Weapon Charge Time
• Fixed: Not able to ditch first item in creative inventory into the empty area
• Fixed: Mouse stayed uncaptured when using .bsedit and no block was selected
• Fixed: Fire clay chimney not in handbook
• Fixed: Small oiled hide not craftable
• Fixed: Text rendering/formatting issues when using japanese translations
• Fixed: Broken slanted roofing not stacking with freshly crafted ones

Game updates since 1.15.6

• Feature: Varying surface & deep drifter spawns. The environment dialog (opened via C) now displays "rift activity". It is an indicator of the spawn cap for surface and deep drifters. (more drifter related updates will come in v1.16)
• Feature: All wearable Bags are now placeable (thanks, Cral)
• Tweak: Significantly improved server performance and smoothness by fixing multiple server-side lag spike sources (even in single player games there will be some benefit)
  • Up to 2x faster AI path finding
  • Significantly improved room search performance (which is used by many blocks)
  • Optimized update checks on berry bushes, farmland and similar blocks; dead crops no longer update at all
  • Fix potential lag sources in the entity spawner (what showed up as testspawn in the profiler)
  • Optimized entity weight simulation (what showed up as bh-harvestable in the profiler)
  • Reduced Waypoints autosave time by >70% (350ms => 70ms on TOPTS)
  • Significantly reduce game saving time
• Tweak: Updated trader buying/selling lists (added rutile vessel, increased buying price of tools and lanterns, reduced buying price of some raw materials, other smaller tweaks)
• Tweak: Upped View Distance slider max from 1024 to 1536 (read performance tips on the Wiki if using this)
• Tweak: Mitigate source of lag spikes on Radeon cards when loading chunks
• Tweak: in the Handbook, list all the guides first, and item stacks after
• Tweak: Removed quiver from handbook
• Tweak: Small performance optimization when tesselating (=client side loading) chunks
• Tweak: Added webRequestTimeout client config to adjust connection timeouts with the auth server (default is 10 seconds)
• Tweak: Update language files
• Fixed: Major crash on Mudwall (technical info: Crashed due to a no longer existing decor block. Maybe bug in the remapper, not sure)
• Fixed: Music not playing in wilderness survival
• Fixed: Crash in Rhonen's mod due to empty VAO
• Fixed: Being able to see through the world on snowed-over stairs
• Fixed: Floating layer of snow appearing when standing inside a snowed-over vertical slab
• Fixed: Game crashing if a bucket contains an invalid item
• Fixed: Breaking a dead pumpkin crop threw an exception and kicked players as a result
• Fixed: Should fix seraphs randomly glowing and emitting blue light when joining the game: it is supposed to happen only on respawning!
• Fixed: Incorrect randomization in the "Created by" recipe preview in the handbook
• Api Tweak: Added [JsonIgnore] to some Vec3d getter properties
• Api Fixed: Don't crash handbook on invalid bakeable outputs

In addition to everything in v1.15.7-rc.1 here's what is new:

Game updates

• Tweak: Fix massive source of lag spikes on Radeon cards when loading chunks, also noticed decently reduced lag spikes on intel integrated graphics.
• Tweak: More server performance improvements (Dead crop no longer ticks. Up to 2x faster pathfinding and collision testing. Significantly improve game saving time, reduce save file size. Room search (and others): improved chunk caching)
• Tweak: Small performance optimization when tesselating (=client side loading) chunks
• Tweak: Added the latest community translations
• Tweak: Upped view distance slider max from 1024 to 1536
• Fixed: Bags not placeable while inside the backpack inventory
• Fixed: Incorrect randomization in the "Created by" recipe preview in the handbook

Shared by Thranos on Discord

Game updates

• Feature: Varying surface & deep drifter spawns. The environment dialog (opened via C) now displays "rift activity". It is an indicator of the spawn cap for surface and deep drifters. (more drifter related updates will come in v1.16)
• Feature: All wearable Bags are now placeable (thanks, Cral)
• Tweak: Significantly improved server performance by fixing multiple server-side lag spike sources
  • Optimized AI path finding
  • Significantly improved RoomRegistry search algorithm performance
  • Optimized update checks on berry bushes, farmland and similar blocks
  • Fix potential lag sources in the entity spawner
  • Optimized entity weight simulation (what showed up as bh-harvestable in the profiler)
  • Reduced Waypoints autosave time by >70% (350ms => 70ms on TOPTS)
• Tweak: Updated trader buying/selling lists (added rutile vessel, increased buying price of tools and lanterns, reduced buying price of some raw materials, other smaller tweaks)
• Tweak: List handbook guides first, and item stacks after
• Tweak: Removed quiver from handbook
• Tweak: Update language files
• Fixed: Major crash on Mudwall (technical info: Crashed due to a no longer existing decor block. Maybe bug in the remapper, not sure)
• Fixed: Music not playing in wilderness survival
• Fixed: Crash in Rhonens mod due to empty VAO
• Fixed: Being able to see through the world on snowed over stairs
• Fixed: Floating layer of snow appearing when standing inside a snowed over vertical slab
• Fixed: Game crashing if a bucket contains an invalid item
• Fixed: Breaking a dead pumpkin crop threw an exception and kicked players as a result
• Fixed: Should fix seraphs randomly glowing and emitting light
• Api Tweak: Added [JsonIgnore] to some Vec3d getter properties

Screenshot & Mod by Templar132
 

All game updates since 1.15.5

• Feature: Can now remove cave art drawings individually with a watering can
• Feature: Seraphs now glow and emit faint-ish teal light for about 2 minutes upon revival or when they first spawn and its currently night. Should mitigate spawning in pitch blackness a bit.
• Tweak/Mitigate: Animals taking forever to reproduce when not in loaded chunks. They will now eat quicker when they were not loaded & females and where they still need food for reproduction
• Tweak: Added player count scaling mob spawn caps to fix the problem of low spawn on multiplayer servers with many players. It also evenly distributes mob spawns around each player.
  • Added server /serverconfig spawncapplayerscaling 0..1
    A value of 0 means no extra mobs can spawn on increased player count, a value of 1 means a second player doubles the spawn cap, 3 players triple the spawn cap and so on. Default value is 0.75
• Tweak: Significantly improve Entity simulation performance (Technical details: Simplified repuls agents system code, prevent some garbage collection in client animations, reduce block reads for Locusts. Total gain maybe 10 to 40%? Depending on the test case.)
• Tweak: Attempt to fix lag spikes cause by server mob spawning code (Technical details: call spawn code more often but try spawning less often to even out the load and also added some caching)
• Tweak: Attempt to fix lag spikes caused by the body temperature system (Technical details: Fix an issue in the room registry, maybe faster block reading loop)
• Tweak: Improve shape tesselator performance by about 20%. Reduces game startup for this part from 9.5 seconds to 7.7 seconds. (Technical details: Simplifed matrix math code)
• Tweak: Halved clay oven cooldown speed
• Tweak: Updated language files, added Japanese and slovak Languages, fixed some bits of text not translateable
• Tweak: Removed hack suspicion logging, moved chest open/close logging from debug log to audit log
• Tweak: Upgraded pit kiln models
• Tweak: Cave art drawing supplies now gets consumed with a 10% chance each drawing, so that on average each 10 cave art drawings require one resource
• Tweak: Improve tapestry gui/ground/held transforms, improve tapestry block name
• Tweak: Glacier ice can now also be chiseled (but still needs some visual improvements)
• Fixed: Room registry derpiness. Now actually keeps memory of every single block in a room to prevent overlaps with undefined behavior, unloaded chiseled blocks lost their thermal insulation properties, potential cause of lag spikes
• Fixed: Bighorn sheep and other animal AI derp when trying to reach food troughs
• Fixed: Able to sell completely broken tools to traders (now need at least 95% durability)
• Fixed: Able to create brand new items using completely broken ingredients in grid crafting (example, steel armor from chain armor)
• Fixed: Peridot ore never spawning on linux servers? (and logging warnings instead)
• Fixed: Ladders not attachable to chiseled blocks
• Fixed: Crash when rotating hanging lichen (through world edit or worldgen)
• Fixed: Missing block names for clay roofing
• Fixed: Bombed crystals dropping the wrong variant
• Fixed: Small memory leak in the character selector
• Fixed: Able to stack cooking pots in the firepit, causing them to disappear aftering cooking in them
• Fixed: Reappearing decor after removing them
• Fixed: Multiple issues with hanging lichen (creative mode only block)
• Fixed: Server dashboard derpiness when preparing a world download (also fixes new servers no properly initialized with default values on the auth server)
• Fixed: Ember block not providing heat
• Fixed: A crash a user had on a bloomery with modded content (i.e. bloomery no longer crashes if it contains unsmeltable material)
• Fixed: Issues with 8x8 mil and larger worlds (changes to chunks not saved, might fix a crash)
• Fixed: Rot not shown in troughts
• Fixed: Incorrect aged fence texture
• Fixed: Not able to place wallpaper on chiseled blocks
• Fixed: Removing the last sand/bony soil layer not making water flow
• Fixed: Shift + Left click items from creative inventory lag spike when inventory was full
• Fixed: Animals that seek out players did not respect the players crouching state, which is supposed to reduce the detection range by 40%
• Fixed: Mantle block had wrong the block material
• Fixed: Potential race condition crash in the world map (might fix the crash the player Purple Heart experienced)
• Fixed: Handboook page stack overflow on modded items
• Fixed: Missing "with decor" translation entry
• Fixed: Should fix crash when pasting unicode text on linux
• Fixed: Knapping surface invisible
• Api tweak: Made some fields and methods public
• Api Tweak: Major code cleanup on the cave art system

Updates since rc.3

• Fixed: Handboook page stack overflow on modded items
• Fixed: Missing "with decor" translation entry
• Fixed: Should fix crash when pasting unicode text on linux
• Fixed: Knapping surface invisible

Screenshot by Daag
 

Game updates since rc.2

• Tweak: Glacier ice can now also be chiseled (but still needs some visual improvements)
• Fixed: Not able to place wallpaper on chiseled blocks
• Fixed: Removing the last sand/bony soil layer not making water flow
• Fixed: Shift + Left click items from creative inventory lag spike when inventory was full
• Fixed: Entities at the edge of int.MaxValue or int.MinValue caused the server to freeze
• Fixed: Crash introduced in 1.15-6.rc.1
• Fixed: Animals that seek out players did not respect the players crouching state, which is supposed to reduce the detection range by 40%
• Fixed: Game crashing during knapping
• Fixed: Mantle block had wrong the block material
• Fixed: Potential race condition crash in the world map (might fix the crash the player Purple Heart experienced)
• Fixed: Game crashing when looking up logs in the handbook, introduced in 1.15.6-rc.1

Been a while since the last release. After 2 years of lock down I went to visit family and attent to personal matters abroad, which took some time. I am looking forward to a very productive winter now.

This update fixes a number of game balance issues, improves cpu performance in some places and fixes various bugs. Most noable amongst these was issues with cave drawings, room detection, lag spikes and mob spawn caps on multiplayer servers, the ability to sell broken items to traders for profit and the ability to craft items with full durability made with near zero durability items.
 

Screenshot by GromerJay

Our plans for 1.16
We also have begun work on 1.16. We'd like to finish some of the features we started in 1.15 but couldn't complete in time. Amongst these are the fruit press, alcohol, a new creature or two, forest floors, bell peppers, and other homesteady stuff.

1.15.6-rc.1 Game updates

• Feature: Can now remove cave art drawings individually with a watering can
• Feature: Seraphs now glow and emit faint-ish teal light for about 2 minutes upon revival or when they first spawn and its currently night. Should mitigate spawning in pitch blackness a bit.
• Tweak/Mitigate: Animals taking forever to reproduce when not in loaded chunks. They will now eat quicker when they were not loaded & females and where they still need food for reproduction
• Tweak: Added player count scaling mob spawn caps to fix the problem of low spawn on multiplayer servers with many players. It also evenly distributes mob spawns around each player.
  • Added server /serverconfig spawncapplayerscaling 0..1
    A value of 0 means no extra mobs can spawn on increased player count, a value of 1 means a second player doubles the spawn cap, 3 players triple the spawn cap and so on. Default value is 0.75
• Tweak: Significantly improve Entity simulation performance (Technical details: Simplified repuls agents system code, prevent some garbage collection in client animations, reduce block reads for Locusts. Total gain maybe 10 to 40%? Depending on the test case.)
• Tweak: Attempt to fix lag spikes cause by server mob spawning code (Technical details: call spawn code more often but try spawning less often to even out the load and also added some caching)
• Tweak: Attempt to fix lag spikes caused by the body temperature system (Technical details: Fix an issue in the room registry, maybe faster block reading loop)
• Tweak: Improve shape tesselator performance by about 20%. Reduces game startup for this part from 9.5 seconds to 7.7 seconds. (Technical details: Simplifed matrix math code)
• Tweak: Halved clay oven cooldown speed
• Tweak: Updated language files, added Japanese and slovak Languages, fixed some bits of text not translateable
• Tweak: Removed hack suspicion logging, moved chest open/close logging from debug log to audit log
• Tweak: Upgraded pit kiln models
• Tweak: Cave art drawing supplies now gets consumed with a 10% chance each drawing, so that on average each 10 cave art drawings require one resource
• Tweak: Improve tapestry gui/ground/held transforms, improve tapestry block name
• Fixed: Room registry derpiness. Now actually keeps memory of every single block in a room to prevent overlaps with undefined behavior, unloaded chiseled blocks lost their thermal insulation properties, potential cause of lag spikes
• Fixed: Bighorn sheep and other animal AI derp when trying to reach food troughs
• Fixed: Able to sell completely broken tools to traders (now need at least 95% durability)
• Fixed: Able to create brand new items using completely broken ingredients in grid crafting (example, steel armor from chain armor)
• Fixed: Peridot ore never spawning on linux servers? (and logging warnings instead)
• Fixed: Ladders not attachable to chiseled blocks
• Fixed: Crash when rotating hanging lichen (through world edit or worldgen)
• Fixed: Missing block names for clay roofing
• Fixed: Bombed crystals dropping the wrong variant
• Fixed: Small memory leak in the character selector
• Fixed: Able to stack cooking pots in the firepit, causing them to disappear aftering cooking in them
• Fixed: Reappearing decor after removing them
• Fixed: Multiple issues with hanging lichen (creative mode only block)
• Fixed: Server dashboard derpiness when preparing a world download (also fixes new servers no properly initialized with default values on the auth server)
• Fixed: Ember block not providing heat
• Fixed: A crash a user had on a bloomery with modded content (i.e. bloomery no longer crashes if it contains unsmeltable material)
• Fixed: Issues with 8x8 mil and larger worlds (changes to chunks not saved, might fix a crash)
• Fixed: Rot not shown in troughts
• Fixed: Incorrect aged fence texture
• Debug: Might cause the game to crash instead of freeze for some users where a temporal storm used to freeze the game. This would help us track down the problem cause. Please report it if it does
• Api tweak: Made some fields and methods public
• Api Tweak: Major code cleanup on the cave art system

This update is an attempt to fix an issue where stacks of items seemingly disappear when Shift+Left clicked away in Multiplayer. There is a small chance it is fixed, otherwise, right after it happens, please upload us your client and server log files on our issue tracker

I believe I also manged to drastically reduce rendering and chunk loading overhead for chiseled blocks. Around Dampus & Aledarks base on Aura Fury I saw a reduction of 40% scene rendering cost, and 15% reduced chunk loading times.


Epic build by Dampus on AuraFury
 

Game updates

Changes since 1.15.4-rc.1

• Bugs introduced in 1.15.4-rc.1
  • Fixed: Invisible windmill blades
  • Fixed: Large gear loading issue
• Re-enabled shift click away of items from hotbar to creative inventory
• Tweak: Made Seasonal tracks again a bit more common
• Tweak: Chiseled blocks optimizations: Reduced rendering cost by 10-40%, reduced loading time by 10-15%
• Fixed: Putting liquids from creative inventory into barrels did not sync to other players
• Fixed: Mixed cheese pies crashing the game
• Fixed: Placing a helve hammer did not sync to other players
• Fixed: A bit to much shadows in some cases, despite dark clouds and intense rain
• Fixed: Pie placing itemstack desync issues and able to bake incomplete pie
   

Chances in 1.15.4-rc.1

• Tweak: Branches in branchy leaves now more visible
• Tweak: Doubled seed drop chance for ebony and purpleheart
• Tweak: Roughly doubled redwood seed drop rate, but increased the time for it to grow to a mature tree by a factor of 5
• Tweak: Flipping between creative/survival mode now resets the picking range as one would expect
• Tweak: Seasonal tracks should now play more often
• Tweak: Burned up containers now drop all their contents
• Tweak: Entities getting in contact with fire will now also ignite, including dropped items (duh!)
• Tweak: Added "/debug heldtemp [temperature]" to set the temperature of a held item
• Tweak: Added copies of dormitory, archives and workshop to worldgen, containing the new 1.15 tapestries
• Fixed: Redwood and crimson king maple in planters not swaying in the wind
• Fixed: Wrong shading on the leaves of trees in planters
• Fixed: Wrong worldmap season tinting in the southern hemisphere
• Fixed: Oillamp placement/breaking oddities. Now needs some time to break but can right click pickup as well now
• Fixed: Traders not buying clothes
• Fixed: Empty space in the block info hud
• Fixed: Snow coverage issues on some blocks especially with fences and chiseled blocks
• Fixed: Sneaking made players fall off if they were in cramped spaces (e.g. half slab above)
• Fixed: Players go sneak mode in front of fence gates
• Fixed: Should fix placing/removing angled gears not updating for other players in multiplayer
• Fixed: Weird night sky motion
• Fixed: Pit kilns not providing heat
• Fixed: Animation jankiness with traders
• Fixed: Miiiight fix cases where shift+left click Itemstacks disappear (Technical info: 1. "transfer away itemstack" code gets called on client and server, iterating over an unordered inventory list, might cause desyncs. 2. Clicking a trader from far away opened the trader inventory on the server side, but not on the client side which however shouldn't cause issues...o.o)
• Fixed: Temporal storms not spawning the harder drifter types
• Fixed: Jumping made the map hud jitter
• Fixed: Wrong world map coloring for many crafted blocks
• Fixed: Hewn fence gate sound too silent
• Fixed: Missing crafting recipe to take apart work items into metal bits
• Fixed: Rare client crash in the translocator
• Fixed: Large gear gui transforms not pretty
• Fixed: Quern not in mechanics creative tab
• Fixed: Missing rotate interaction help on anvil
• Fixed: Some bamboo stalks not swaying

Game updates

• Tweak: Branches in branchy leaves now more visible
• Tweak: Doubled seed drop chance for ebony and purpleheart
• Tweak: Roughly doubled redwood seed drop rate, but increased the time for it to grow to a mature tree by a factor of 5
• Tweak: Flipping between creative/survival mode now resets the picking range as one would expect
• Tweak: Seasonal tracks should now play more often
• Tweak: Burned up containers now drop all their contents
• Tweak: Entities getting in contact with fire will now also ignite, including dropped items (duh!)
• Tweak: Added "/debug heldtemp [temperature]" to set the temperature of a held item
• Tweak: Added copies of dormitory, archives and workshop to worldgen, containing the new 1.15 tapestries
• Fixed: Redwood and crimson king maple in planters not swaying in the wind
• Fixed: Wrong shading on the leaves of trees in planters
• Fixed: Wrong worldmap season tinting in the southern hemisphere
• Fixed: Oillamp placement/breaking oddities. Now needs some time to break but can right click pickup as well now
• Fixed: Traders not buying clothes
• Fixed: Empty space in the block info hud
• Fixed: Snow coverage issues on some blocks especially with fences and chiseled blocks
• Fixed: Sneaking made players fall off if they were in cramped spaces (e.g. half slab above)
• Fixed: Players go sneak mode in front of fence gates
• Fixed: Should fix placing/removing angled gears not updating for other players in multiplayer
• Fixed: Weird night sky motion
• Fixed: Pit kilns not providing heat
• Fixed: Animation jankiness with traders
• Fixed: Miiiight fix cases where shift+left click Itemstacks disappear (Technical info: 1. "transfer away itemstack" code gets called on client and server, iterating over an unordered inventory list, might cause desyncs. 2. Clicking a trader from far away opened the trader inventory on the server side, but not on the client side which however shouldn't cause issues...o.o)
• Fixed: Temporal storms not spawning the harder drifter types
• Fixed: Jumping made the map hud jitter
• Fixed: Wrong world map coloring for many crafted blocks
• Fixed: Hewn fence gate sound too silent
• Fixed: Missing crafting recipe to take apart work items into metal bits
• Fixed: Rare client crash in the translocator
• Fixed: Large gear gui transforms not pretty
• Fixed: Quern not in mechanics creative tab
• Fixed: Missing rotate interaction help on anvil
• Fixed: Some bamboo stalks not swaying

Shared by Bertramqaz#6287 on discord

Game updates

• Everything from 1.15.3-rc.1
  • Feature: Can now use charcoal, bituminous coal, lignite and peat in pit kilns. Affects firing time. Firewood: 1 day, Peat: 16 hours, Lignite: 14 hours, Bitu coal: 12 hours, charcoal: 10 hours
  • Tweak: Increase bell spawn rate by 20% increase locust cage spawn rate by 20%
  • Tweak: Dead crops now always drop seeds with a 100% chance
  • Tweak: A tool breaking from 0 durability now also spawns a few particles
  • Tweak: Minimap data should now also be safe against corruption from graceful game exits
  • Tweak: Drawing cave art now requires you to hold down the sprint key, in order to avoid accidental drawing. Also added interaction help info
  • Tweak: Removed crank from creative inventory
  • Fixed: Empty storage piles after firing kilns. (technical info: Still send block entity updates while the client is connecting)
  • Fixed: Crucibles with melted metal inside not place-able, looses its ability to smoke though, will fix in 1.16 or later
  • Fixed: Game crashing when powering pulverizers without caps
  • Fixed: Mitigate trader carts spawning on water (also now checks center position)
  • Fixed: Game crashing when opening charred bread handbook page
  • Fixed: Rope/Wood Ladder exchange bug
  • Fixed: Infinite pie
  • Fixed: Throwing a spear with 1 durability destroyed a second clean spear in inventory
  • Fixed: Game crashing when clicking 'New world' with vanilla mods disabled
  • Fixed: Clay shingles recoloring themselves when snowed upon
  • Fixed: Enabling/Disabling a mod did not refresh the list of playstyles
  • Fixed: Exception thrown on the server when a player disconnects which belongs to a group that no long exists
  • Fixed: Some Fn keys activating in-game hotkeys, thanks to Nexrem and Lyrthras
  • Fixed: Localization for block names of snow-covered roofing blocks
  • Fixed: Fern tree trunks occasional visual gap due to random height scaling
  • Fixed: Client crash caused on a specific location on the aura fury server
  • Fixed: Should fix ewes no longer lactating after chunk or world reload
  • Fixed: Pie nutrition properties not considering serving size
  • Fixed: Ewe lactating behavior and pit kilns should be now more robust against schematic export/import (i.e. without messed up timers)
  • Fixed: Eye cancer causing flicker on itemstack tool tips, e.g. when heating an item
  • Fixed: Several crushed resources had no recipe to create them (crushed lead, cinnabar and lapis). Crushed lead is now Crushed galena
  • Fixed: Missing/incorrect interaction help for honeycomb and skeps
  • Fixed: Applying fertilizer on terra preta made it turn into high fertiliy compost (only visual issue, did not affect growth rates)
  • Fixed: One sound track not in music category and thus not affected by the music volume slider
  • Api Fixed: Crafting bugs when block ids exceed 65535
     
• Feature: Added blocks and recipes for suevite, kimberlite, green-, white and redmarble Cobblestone, Cobble slab, Cobble stairs and dry stone fence. Next release we'll add drystone and stonebrick blocks&recipes.
• Feature: You can now hit Spacebar to re-center your currently opened world map
• Tweak: Removed halite, scoria and tuff dry stone. Scoria and Tuff will get re-added in the future.
• Tweak: Removed mossy/lichen cobble stone from creative inventory and handbook. These blocks will be fully removed in the future.
• Tweak: Removed wind dust particles during heavy precipitation, looks wrong otherwise
• Fixed: Snow covered grass in summer in new chunks when travelling north
• Fixed: Outdated .net colors link
• Fixed: Collapsing coal piles spawning white particles
• Fixed: Able to join 1.15.2 servers with 1.15.3, but that crashes the client
• Fixed: Hens laying eggs in water and removing water in the process
• Fixed: Invisible block topsides if snowed on and a fence is on top
• Fixed: Snow particles submerged
• Fixed: Snow falling through roofing
• Fixed: Breaking snowed over roofing dropped a snowed over block
• Fixed: Able to place floating oil lamps
• api tweak: better crash message when the engine runs out of texture atlas space during color map loading