v1.21.0-rc.4 - Story Chapter 2 Redux

Dear Extraordinary Survivalists
v1.21.0-rc.4, a unstable release, can now be downloaded through the account manager.

Where did all these little bugs come from?

+ from this version onwards, when installing on Windows, our installation files should not be triggering Windows Defender / SmartScreen warnings


Screenshot by John Winter, shared in #screenshots on discord

Game updates

• Tweak: Improved mounted position of player riding elk, in 3rd-person view
• Tweak: Standard hairstyles are always available when purchasing a haircut
• Tweak: Slightly higher vertical down search range of flowers on beehives so players don't have to build a platform below beehives
• Tweak: Remove incorrect "must be nearby" statement in the Prospecting guide
• Tweak: When creating a new world, 'allow fires spread' and 'allow falling blocks' would show incorrectly in the hover info
• Tweak: Make a few additional weather commands available also in release mode
• Fixed: (1.21.0-rc.3 issue) Player clothing invisible
• Fixed: (1.21.0-rc.3 issue) Reef fish could teleport to 0,0,0 - potentially causing game crash [detail: also fixed rare ServerMapChunk deserialization error at map-edge position (0,0). Github #6512 and #6422]
• Fixed: The treasure hunter could spawn partially underground in worlds with higher world heights. Also fixed an issue where the floor was incorrectly replaced with grass
• Fixed: Chiseled grass block on story Treasure Hunter trader
• Fixed: Terrain height discontinuities (visible chunk borders) at the edges of mapregions, if loading existing 1.20 (or earlier) worlds in 1.21
• Fixed: Rare chunk border worldgen anomalies when loading worlds generated in 1.20, with multi-threaded worldgen enabled
• Fixed: Papyrus chest holding animal in inventory had wrong texture
• Fixed: Crash when editing sign text
• Fixed: Glass panes turned sideways would still count as walls for a room
• Fixed: Able to pick up or place down animals in claimed areas using basket
• Fixed: Misaligned cementation furnace damage box
• Fixed: Unable to store bow on elk while holding arrows
• Fixed: Slight (~100ms) delay before elk walks, after Forwards key pressed
• Fixed: After pit kiln is extinguished, no flames upon re-lighting
• Fixed: Standing on farmland counted the same as being in a room
• Fixed: Arrow keys would improperly move text cursor when text selected
• Fixed: Rare potential for infinite loop and server crash in fruit tree code
• Fixed: Crash or freeze when breaking Pulverizer top block, and related crashes
• Fixed: when working on an iron bloom it would freeze every other player in view distance
• Fixed: Changing Audio device or toggling the directional audio option would cause the reverb to no longer work until a game restart
• Fixed: Crocks and pots would not show the proper "Rotten Food" string when storing rotted meals
• Fixed: Sealed crock recipe shows up twice in handbook
• Fixed: Missing "of" in name of crocks with meals inside
• Fixed: Meals in village were not properly displaying the meal name
• Fixed: Ingot molds in the village would load incorrectly
• Fixed: Modded tool molds would sometimes reuse the same mesh or not allow pouring
• Fixed: Incorrect information information in description about what trough can hold
• Fixed: Trough would sometimes show incorrect language string for animal names
• Fixed: Empty berry bushes could be used as bait in traps
• Fixed: Barracuda fins going wild during flopping animation
• Fixed: Cooking pot had differing textures on some sides.  All hollow ceramic models revised to present 'full' sides, to avoid this.
• Fixed: Albino elk did not have proper eyes
• Fixed: Pit kiln did not accept aged firewood
• Fixed: Lore books had wrong bookshelf transform
• Fixed: Handbook would not properly group fish in animal names
• Fixed: Updated handbook guide for animal husbandry to have better, more accurate information
• Fixed: Some broken links in handbook
• Fixed: Crash when opening a handbook without pressing a key
• Fixed: Missing localization for boat construction
• API Tweak: Residue-covered pot now references same shapes are regular pot