v1.21.1-rc.1 - Story Chapter 2 Redux, Patch #1

Dear Extraordinary Survivalists
v1.21.1-rc.1, a unstable release, can now be downloaded through the account manager.

Astonishingly, 46% of servers are already on version 1.21. Consequently our issue tracker is flooded with new reports, we are tackling them currently!

Build by Meowskyi, titled "Tyron, movable structures, when?" as shared on #screenshots on Discord. (answer: not particularly soon™)

Game updates

• Tweak: Can now craft arrows from obsidian as well as other stone
• Tweak: Artisan trader no longer sells complete tile blocks, but individual tiles, that player must then craft into blocks or slabs (using mortar).
• Tweak: Gameplay balancing changes
  • Provide 50% rain protection for all the other hats (some already had it in 1.21.0)
  • Healing with a poultice will no longer cancel when off the ground
  • The important Lore blocks/entities now emit all the same consistent type of particles to better visualize what is interactable
  • Headless bear pelts can be turned into generic pelts (for use in other recipes that use generic pelts)
  • Increase max head turn angle when riding an elk from 85° to 105°
  • Reduce timeswitch cooldown from 3s to 2s
  • Increase locust spawns during Eidolon fight
• Tweak: Further adjustments to deer walking speeds
• Tweak: Moose are solitary animals: if females and males happen to spawn close by each other, the female will not follow the male
• Tweak: In the Handbook, Starter Guide, torches are now linked to the torch page. Cattails plant included in search result for "reeds"
• Fixed: Crash for some players updating 1.20 worlds to 1.21  [technical info: occurs prior to remapping, in some cases where the game tries to render ground storage with unremapped contents]
• Fixed: Game crash on upgraded savegames with bugged shields
• Fixed: Shadows from player held tools and weapons were missing, in 1.21.0
• Fixed: Items would occasionally not be visible
• Fixed: Monsters in passive worlds would not fight back even when attacked
• Fixed: Saffron milkcap mushrooms never spawned in the world
• Fixed: Unable to fill a fruitpress with the full 10L worth of honeycomb
• Fixed: Figureheads would not display the proper material on boats
• Fixed: Barber-induced nudism (#6775)
• Fixed: Ingot molds and tools placed on the ground would sometimes change position
• Fixed: Stacked bowls of glue would use up too much glue for the amount repaired
• Visual fixes:
  • Fixed: Sunflower leaves windwave
  • Fixed: Ocean waves less jerky in strong wind conditions
  • Fixed: In an inventory, grubs, some bracelets, and clutter ports, could clip through other GUIs
  • Fixed: Z-fighting on firestarter model
  • Fixed: Sedge had bad GUI transform
  • Fixed: Cooking pots with meals in them would not display the proper texture on an elk
• Fixed: Metal support beams had their material set as wood
• Fixed: Hide armor json had unnecessary durability entries
• Fixed: Gear and skull figureheads had the same grid recipe
• Fixed: Missing interaction help for harvestable skep
• Fixed: Handbook description incorrectly claimed nuggets needed to be evenly spread across crucible slots
• Fixed: New fish were missing dead localization strings
• Fixed: Dead gazelles missing language strings
• Fixed: Many wall scribbles in a 2nd story chapter location lacked localization
• Fixed: Claims with a grant from versions before 1.21 would not allow to open doors for permitted players or groups
• Fixed: Single player game would crash if clientsetting forceUdpOverTcp was true
• Fixed: Wonky "loginfailure-ipchanged" error handling during TOTP login
• Fixed: Mod icons in the mod manager now have their original sharpness
• Fixed: Wrong mouse cursor on the login screen
• Fixed: On Linux if /proc/meminfo is not readable the client or server would crash on startup
• Fixed: Linux fonts not working properly if the install.sh was not run
• Fixed: Linux when selecting to enable mesa_glthread the fonts.conf would no longer work
• Fixed: (in progress) Game crashing occasionally on accessing storage, now gives more info in the crash report
• API Fixed: Recipe selector did not clip oversized items
• API Fixed: SimpleParticleProperties.Clone() was broken
• API Fixed: recipes not correctly handling advanced wildcards pattern
• API Fixed: Able to explicitly specify a blank texturePrefixCode
• API Fixed: Exception when trying to register a list of tags that have duplicates (could happen when an item or block had duplicate tags in json)