At long last
Version 1.9.0, a stable release, is now ready for download in the account manager.
[Edit:] Released 1.9.1 to fix a crash with knapping in multiplayer
Close to 6 month since the first stable v1.8 release. I can't believe how much time and effort this took. Future updates will be on a shorter release cycle again for sure 
For a full changes list see
- The rc.1 blog post
- The updates since the previous unstable release, v1.9.0-rc.9
- Tweak: When playing the game in a non-english language, the missing translation entries now default to english
- Tweak: Some more UI cleanups
- Tweak: Made wooden rail blocks connect in a super basic way for creative play
- Tweak: Reduced surface copper deposits by 50%
- Tweak: Players no longer spawn with bread
- Fixed: Quern sound always playing at full volume
- Fixed: /entity removebyid not working
- Fixed: Able to glitch the Quern into grinding on its own
- Fixed: Opening 2 quern dialogs caused the previous one to become black
- Fixed: Aged log not being burnable
- Fixed: Placing a pot with food crashing the game in some cases
- Fixed: Taking out food from a pot inside a fire pit allowed gave on extra meal
- API Fixed: survival/config.json still not properly loaded... moved it to configs/general.json
- and all updates during the release candidates. Summary:
- Feature: Added info log chat channel. Added new messages notification thing - chat tabs turn white when there's new messages. Propick readings now go into the info log.
- Feature: Added panning mechanic: Find copper nuggets and other rare goodies by sifting through sand and gravel
- Feature: Small hacked in fun feature: Creatures that walk up or down blocks now rock back or forth a bit
- Feature: Added public server listing, added ability to advertise servers on the listing
- Feature: Added ability to set server name during runtime via /serverconfig name
- Feature: Added "/time stop" and "/time resume" to stop the calendar without changing the time speed
- Tweak: Dead harvest-able creatures now also show the interaction help HUD
- Tweak: Set default sprint key back to CTRL key
- Tweak: Reduced surface ruins by ~30%, reduced ruined villages by 50%
- Tweak: Doubled chance for locust nests to spawn
- Tweak: Significantly reduced animal spawn during worldgen, especially for wolves
- Tweak: Harvesting carcass now costs 3 durability with the knife
- Tweak: Increased surface copper deposit size and chance of it spawning surface bits
- Tweak: Increased clay/peat/soil deposit size by 20%
- Tweak: Reduced village spawning chance by another 50%
- Tweak: Slightly more fitting fox death sound
- Tweak: Snappier sand walk sounds and removed an odd noise spike in sand2.ogg
- Tweak: Increased surface ore bits commonness by a bit
- Tweak: Buffed cooked meals, should make you not hungry for 40% longer now
- Tweak: Major deposit rebalancing
- Tweak: Removed three debug hotkeys (togglewireframe, lagsimulation, toggleoffsreenrender) because nobody needs those.
- Tweak: Made fireflies also spawn in slightly colder climates
- Tweak: Hematite ore yield one extra nugget, Gold ore on less nugget and Tin ore significantly less nuggets
- Tweak: Updated trader buying/selling lists
- Tweak: Made the default font color 3% brighter to increase contrast against the background
- Tweak: Made loading screen and chat hud background 10% more opaque to increase contrast against the background
- Tweak: Made chat notifications more transparent to not stand out as much as player chat messages
- Tweak: Server info chat tab only visible when developer mode i
- Tweak: Sort public server listing in descending order by player count
- Tweak: Changed prospecting pick readout to hopefully be more explicit and intuitive. Made propick readings translatable.
- Tweak: Some deposit gen numbers tweaked, made pentlandite, fluorite and phosphorite spawn.
- Tweak: Added creative mode first-launch-help-dialog
- Tweak: Worldedit Erode tool now much less noisy
- Tweak: A Bunch of other minor polishing things.
- Tweak: Stones now also can go into the mining bag
- [dozens of bugfixes....]
