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Dear Extraordinary Survivalists
v1.17.0-rc.8, an unstable release, can now be downloaded through the account manager

Everyone on the VS team is eager to get started on the next major update - lets get this to stable!


Screenshot by Romec#0367 on discord
 

Game updates

• Tweak: Prospecting pick probe results are now translated into the players language on servers
• Fixed: Incorrect temperatures in nonstandard world height worlds (due to incorrect sealevel value)
• Fixed: Memory not freed upon world exit
• Fixed: Snow layers forming on submerged blocks in 1.17
• Fixed: Unable to collect water with a bucket if a submerged block is also present
• Fixed: Rare client crash on world load
• Fixed: Multiple issues with armor repair, tweaked all repair recipes
• Fixed: /lntest available to unprivileged players
• Fixed: Cutting a quarter sliced pie restored its serving size
• Fixed: Disabling snow accumulation caused world autosave to break
• Fixed: "Host rock" info missing from the handbook
• Fixed: Game crashing when clicking 'Customize' on the create world screen with now playstyles loaded
• Api Tweak: New startup virtual method: ModSystem.AssetsFinalize() which is called after AssetsLoaded(). Server event AssetFinalizers is now marked obsolete.
• Api Fixed: No longer able to give positive stats to armor
• Api Refactor: SetSealevel() now must be set during runphase ModsAndConfigReady. See also GenTerra.cs

Dear Feature-Rich Community
v1.17.0-rc.6, an unstable release, can now be downloaded through the account manager (section "Other Goodies").

My apologies for the long wait, I was on vacation/family visit and also had to tend after my garden, as there is lots to harvest now - potatoes needing to be dug up, tomatoes needing to be turned into tomato sauce, cucumbers in need of pickling and so on

[Edit:] Released rc.7 as well. rc6 deleted the players waypoints.


Screenshot by Dude7ox#6606

Game updates

• Tweak: Simplified briganding/leather armor repair recipe. More to come.
• Tweak: Initial world spawn location is now seed deterministic
• Tweak: The crash reporter will now show if a crash was caused by a mod and also list any related harmony patches
• Fixed: Multiple issues with armor repair
• Fixed: Frost effect bugged out on old servers
• Fixed: A crash in the world map system
• Fixed: Reeds "popping off" if in ice
• Fixed: Firepit GUIs not updating when its contents change
• Fixed: Might fix GUIs disappearing in some cases when on Mac M1 Chips.
• Fixed: Some missing lang entries
• Fixed: Held candle emitting different light color than placed candles
• Fixed: Oxygen not back to 100% after re spawning in some cases
• Fixed: Should fix game crashing with extended debug info enabled and pausing the game (related to fruit trees)
• Fixed: White pixels in world map in new worlds in some cases
• Fixed: Schematic placed at sealevel sometimes floating 1 block in the air
• Fixed: Game crashing when looking up pie in the handbook
• Fixed: Sandstorms in caves
• Fixed: Water can no longer flow into full-height path blocks
• Tweak: Reeds in water have less wind motion, reeds in ice have none at all
• Fixed: Branchy leaves no longer displace water
• Fixed: Incorrect font paths on linux in the install.sh (https://www.vintagestory.at/forums/topic/9353-font-issues-with-linux-script/)
• Fixed: Rare server freeze caused by a full deadlock
• Fixed: Snow accum completely broken since 1.17
• Fixed: Should fix wrong sign orientation for other players
• Fixed: Potential issues when removing all voxels of a workitem on the anvil
• Fixed: Potential crash with signs
• Fixed: Might mitigate cases where rifts spawn near light sources
• Fixed: Able to harvest fruit from fruit tree stems
• Fixed: Drunken effect jitter when pausing+unpausing the game
• Fixed: Invisible chunks in 32x32 worlds
• Api Refactor: Cleaned up PerceptionEffects code
• Api Refactor: Drunk and low temp stab chat altering no longer hardcoded into the engine. Chat key down events are now pushed onto the event bus (chatkeydownpost and chatkeydownpre).
• Api Refactor: Axle and Toggle block stand shape files can now be defined in json
• Api Tweak: Added Guids to Waypoints
• Api Tweak: Watering can property "capacitySeconds" can now be defined in json
• Api Fixed: CraftingRecipeIngredient.RecipeAttributes not sent to client
• Api Fixed: Crash on sendplayer.SendIngameError("errorcode")

Dear Feature-Rich Community
v1.17.0-rc.5, an unstable release, can now be downloaded through the account manager (section "Other Goodies").

Several major issues fixed in this release, let's hope that's the last of them.
 

Atmospheric screenshot by Aatu#8731
 

Game updates

• Tweak: Boosted lightning rod range, but capped max range to 40 blocks
• Tweak: Disable instanced grass again, still too buggy for mainstream use
• Tweak: The armor repair recipes shown in the handbook now display a broken armor piece for clarity
• Tweak: Added apple pie to the creative inventory
• Fixed: Server side Hard freeze / Performance leak in the pathfinding system
• Fixed: Chunks only containing water were not drawn
• Fixed: Chiseling a block made it disappear (bug introduced in rc3)
• Fixed: Arrows flying through entities on the client side
• Fixed: Game crashing when trying to join a server opened via "Open to LAN"
• Fixed: Major item shift-clicking bug related to barrels and firepits. Items would get teleported to barrels and firepits instead of the desired container
• Fixed: Not able to pick up placed pie
• Fixed: Multiple issue related to crafting hats
• Api Tweak: Broken armor no longer yields any positive effects
• Api Tweak: Avoid mod breakage for 1.16 mods related to shape tesselation
• Api Refactor: Added z coordinate argument to Collectible.OnHandbookRecipeRender()
• Api Fixed: Several issues with the .gencraftjson command
• Api Fixed: Exception thrown during worldgen if a schematic contained entities