Well, here we are again. Another update is ready for everyone's enjoyment. We recommend everyone to update to 1.22.0 now, unless you need to wait for mods to update. In this update we focused heavily on bringing you new and improved game mechanics. No extravagant update blog post blurb this time - I'm out of ideas and I just keep repeating myself every major update anyway lel. Suffice to say, we hope you enjoy this absolute unit of an update, encompassing over 700 individual features, tweaks and fixes! 

There is more content that we came close to finishing and for which we might make a smaller update before 1.23:

• Inventory Item/Block sounds
• More procedural dungeon content
• Mechanically powered bellows
• In-Barrel/Crate content visual rework
• Metal tier mechanical power (and once that is available, then wood tier elements turning too fast may ignite ... !)

Update trailer video

Screenshots and Gifs

Added cabinets and much improved storage system, allowing voxel-precision mixed item placing on cabinets, including books, clothing, chiseled figurines, all previously storable 1.21 items, and more! Cabinets are wood-typed and can be upgraded with cabinet doors.



Added fishing system with fish bait preferences and location-specific fish populations

 

Added mannequins to display your clothing


Added over 20 species of freshwater fish

Fish behavior rework. They now quickly escape melee weapons, and killed fish are collectible as a whole

Added Taxidermy for caught fish. Displayable on the antler mount block - now renamed to just "Wall mount"

Major forge rework. Updated model, added optional bellows, added metal tongs, fuel types matter now, and more


Tool head quenching and tempering system: Quench items to improve their power value or durability (but not both)

Added grinding wheel. Lets you sharpen tools for a critical hit bonus (WIP)

Added waterwheels


New type of rivulets: The Rapids. A comparison with the standard rivulet on the right


Mechanical power upgrades: Added large windmill, in-wall axles and spur gears


Added snow shovel mechanic


Fully rebuilt trader outposts

Added the first iteration of dynamic dungeons to Survival mode

Trader clutter: Trader outposts are further individualized to the type of trader inhabiting the place

Oil & Fat mechanic rework

Added iron and steel spears. Each spear now has its own spear head model

Boar rework: Full model overhaul. Added huge variant, warthogs and red river hogs. 

Two new farm-able crops: Fennel and Licorice - specifically added for fishing


Eight new Mushrooms


Added side effects from eating certain mushrooms

Fully reworked berry bushes with rare traits and a more in-depth propagation system

Four new flowers: Bluebell, Ghost pipe, Daffodils and Mugwort




Refined tule plant textures


Added 6 new hair colors

Fully reworked Trader models

Added many new clothing sets for the player

Papyrus chests now have their own model and texture

Sleek doors texture rework and they now have a glass window

Oil lamp model reworked and ground storable

Added wood typed ladders

Added 8 new variants of storage vessels

Added earthy orange ceramic color

Added travertine rock type and block variants


Added survival mode craftable clay tiles

Tweaked glass textures. Smaller frame and textured reflections


More new blocks: Aged acacia planks, aged bookshelf, fence and scroll rack (the previous aged ones are now "very aged"), leather decor, smaller lanterns and light mudbrick slabs

Can now attach chiseled figureheads to sailboats

Added crowbar for easier removal of wooden beams


Added crock labels for fruit jam

Placed backpacks can now be opened


Creative mode tool: Can now place decor (such as moss or dust) on most blocks

Reworked bighorn sheep model and added mouflon sheep

Creative mode tool: Added entity mover wand

Game updates (everything since 1.21)

• Feature: Fishing System
  • Fish rework
    • Added over 20 species of freshwater fish
    • Fish now require large bodies of water to spawn
    • Killed fish no longer sink to the bottom, requiring to be harvested. Instead they float up as a collectible item
    • Fish now flee very quickly if melee attacked
    • Some fish - arapaimas, pike, piranhas, and sheatfish - may attack players if cornered. Red-bellied piranhas are especially aggressive towards injured players
  • Fishing pole
    • Craftable fishing pole from sticks or bamboo
    • Casting with a fishing pole launches a bobber, which floats on the water and signals when a catch happened
    • The fishing pole catches fish that you can physically see and sometimes also small, juvenile versions
    • You can also (very) rarely catch 8 rare collectibles exclusive to the fishing system
  • Fish distribution system
    • Fishing in the same location eventually depletes the fish in that area
    • Different types of fish can be found at different locations, so you will need to travel to find every kind of fish
  • Fishing bait
    • Without bait, catching a fish will take much, much longer 
    • Added Earth worms and Worm Grunter to catch earth worms. Worms frequency depends on rainfall and temperature and also depletes over time if over-harvested in a given location
    • Can now cook stink baits from fennel and licorice plus meats and dough
  • Fish collecting
    • Dead fish can be preserved (taxidermy) and placed on mounts for display. Added zinc sulfate and crushed sphalerite, which is required for the taxidermy process
• Feature: Forge rework
  • Added fancier Forge model
  • Tongs now have durability. 1 durability point is subtracted per each item picked up
  • Added metal tongs, which provide 10x to 100x the durability of wooden tongs
  • Added bellows. Reaching higher temperatures in your forge now requires a bellows
  • Forge fuel types. Fuel quality now determines heating temperatures and duration
  • Can now also heat up tool heads in the forge
  • Creatures standing on lit forges will now get damaged
  • Glowing hot ingots can ignite unlit coal in the forge
• Feature: Quenching and Tempering system
  • You can now improve their power or durability of tool heads by quenching them, but at the risk of potentially destroying the tool instead
  • The chance of destruction can be reduced by tempering the tool, but with diminishing returns each time you temper
  • Quenching can be done in barrels of water or pools
  • Throwing hot items onto lake ice will cool them down and may melt the ice
  • Covering the tool heads with clay before the quench increases durability, if uncovered increases the power value
• Feature: Tool buffing system with the grinding wheel
  • Added grinding wheel to sharpen bladed weapons
  • A sharpened weapon adds a critical hit chance, at the cost of durability. A critical hit is +100% damage
• New Sound Tracks
  • Added "Latvia" sound track, plays at Latvian latitudes
  • Added 4 village exclusive tracks, one per season
• Feature: A first, proof-of-concept fully dynamic dungeon now spawns in Survival mode. They appear far apart from each other, roughly every 1500 blocks
• Feature: Fully reworked trader models. Added climate specific clothing for traders
• Feature: Added many new clothing sets to be found, traded or crafted.
• Feature: Fully reworked berry bushes. Pre-1.22 berry bushes are now legacy blocks: they will no longer be available in the Creative inventory, but any in existing worlds are still functional blocks in-game
  • Fully reworked models. Now has a barren model in winter
  • Can only be propagated by taking a cutting with a knife which when planted takes 4 to 8 months to mature into a new bush
  • Berry bushes that have been propageted and are fully grown now require fertilization or they will stop bearing fruit. Berry bush nutrient use tapers off by 15% per year (resulting in about 5% use after 20 years). Some bone meal each year should be enough to give you a decent harvest
  • 8 rare traits have been added. 4 positive, 4 negative, each having a chance to appear on any berry bush
  • Flowering/Ripening behavior still mostly similar to the old system
• Feature: Added 'ruined' torch holders. They will hold torches, but if broken will not drop themselves
• Feature: Can now mount shields on wall mounts
• Feature: Hematite and Limonite nuggets can now be used for cave art and writing, in colors 'red ochre' and 'yellow ochre' respectively
• Feature: Added footstep sounds to the wolf and the bear
• Feature: Chisel system improvements
  • Chiseled blocks can now be placed on sailboats as figureheads
  • Tweak: Blocks with the pillar behavior now display their orientation in the chisel tool mode material selector
  • Tweak: Can now also chisel block combine in the chisel tool mode, not only in the crafting grid
  • Fixed: Certain chiseled blocks placed wrong shading onto ground beneath - seen with new trader huts
  • Fixed: A broken chisel sometimes returning the the players inventory with 1 or 2 durability left
• Feature: New collectibles and craftables
  • Feature: Added craftable clay tiles in all standard clay colors, which can further be turned into blocks and slabs
  • Feature: Added new small lantern
  • Feature: Added iron and steel spears, but de-buffed the lower tier spears
  • Feature: Added travertine stone, which can be made into ashlar and tiles
  • Feature: Raccoons and foxes now drop species-specific hides, which can be made into fur hats
  • Feature: Added oils (flax/linseed, olive, fat). Raw fat now can spoil, and can be cooked into rendered fat, which does not spoil. Liquid rendered fat will solidify after several hours. The solid item form of rendered fat (for use in grid recipes) is obtained by dumping the solidified fat from the container it's in, onto the ground.
  • Feature: Steel anvils can now be crafted in survival
  • Feature: Added pot pies - this allows you to create mixed meat & vegetable pies
  • Tweak: Added wood-typed ladders
  • Tweak: Added light mudbrick slabs. Allow low fertility soil in mudbrick slab recipes
  • Tweak: Added "earthy orange" ceramic color for pit-kilned red clay items
• Feature: Added 4 types of survival mode craftable mannequins (full body, leg, head, torso) which allow you to display your clothing
• Feature: New flora
  • Added 2 new farmable crops - fennel and licorice. Both will spawn in the wilderness, and can be used to make stinkbait for fishing. Fennel is also an edible vegetable, but licorice is not
  • Added four new flowers! Bluebell, mugwort, ghost pipe and daffodils
  • Added 8 new rare mushrooms. Most with visual "side effects" when eaten. (Honey mushroom, Blue Meanie, Fool's Conecap, Gold Cap, Liberty Cap, Sickener, Wavy Cap, Laughing Jim)
• Tweak: Block overhauls
  • Glass texture is now redone: full blocks have a smaller frame and all glass blocks now have textured glass reflections
  • Ceramic oil lamps have a new model, and are no longer made from bowls. They can also now be hung from the ceiling
• Feature: Mechanical power updates
  • Feature: Added large windmill
  • Feature: Added in-wall mechanical power axles
  • Feature: Added waterwheel (WIP). Needs to be placed on rapids (fast-moving water)
  • Tweak: Nerf! Windmills now cause turbulence within a radius 1.5 times the sail diameter (meaning 15 blocks distance required between two maxed windmills) 
  • Tweak: Creative rotor is now roughly 7x more powerful, uses a similar torque display as the windmill and allows independent adjustment of speed
  • Tweak: Helve hammer no longer has exponential power cost as speed goes up [it caused mech. networks to oscillate heavily]
  • Tweak: Starting from 1.22.0 stable (so not yet!) mechanical power blocks will ignite if they rotate too fast. They will smoke for a while before igniting, for an early warning
  • Fixed: Axle stands on north-south oriented axles that are attached under a block were incorrectly rotated
• Feature: Added 4 small optional side quests offered by the villagers
• Feature: Added 6 new seraph hair colors the player can select from in the character creation screen
• Feature: Hacked locust improvements
  • Feature: Tuning spear now has an additional tool mode allowing you to call back your tamed locust
  • Feature: Can now heal and revive hacked locust with metal parts
  • Follows the owner a little quicker
  • Fixed: Hacked locust jumping after player as if attempting to attack them
• Quality-Of-Life improvements
  • Feature: Held bags that are placed on the ground can now be interacted with
  • Feature: Added crowbar, which lets you remove the most recently added support beam from a block
  • Feature: You can now attach crocks to the elk's left and right front storage locations (they will not, however, have labels shown while attached)
  • Feature: When hovering over or grabbing a wearable item in your inventory, the proper slot for that item in your character inventory will be highlighted
  • Tweak: Allow bulk placement of metal bits in ground storage
  • Tweak: Flower pots can be placed on shelves
  • Tweak: Can now slice pies using knife in crafting grid
  • Tweak: Dirty pots can now be stored on the elk, like regular cooking pots
  • Tweak: In the map, the "Add Waypoint" dialog now remembers previous Waypoint names and suggests them. Suggested names can now be deleted with a single backspace stroke.
  • Tweak: The red in-game error texts now have a black border around them to make them easier to read
  • Tweak: Bowls show satiety of remaining food portion only when the bowl has less than a full portion of a meal in it
  • Tweak: When drinking out of a bowl, you must split the stack to drink, like all other bowl actions
  • Tweak: Can now use a shovel to dig up cattail roots, faster than using a knife
  • Tweak: Exiting the game via Alt+F4 (or [X] in the game window) now fully saves your world
  • Tweak: No more 1-second delay on picking up mined items
  • Tweak: Collapsed chests in ruins now fall apart into chest rubble once they are empty
  • Tweak: More intense low health / low satiety alarm visuals
  • Tweak: Collectible tool tip "Attack power: -{0} hp" is now "Attack power: {0} damage"
  • Tweak: The Controls settings tab now correctly shows again if a keybind conflicts with another keybind
  • Tweak: When using 1-click mod install, the game autofocuses now
  • Tweak: Mod manager improvements: mods are now downloaded in parallel; mod release retractions are now respected
  • Tweak: Block remapping on game version updates now applied automatically on first run of new game version. The dialog "This save game was created with an older version of the game ... a remapping and reload is required" should now be a thing of the past [and /fixmapping applyall should now never be necessary]
  • Fixed: You can no longer waste a poultice attempting to heal a fully dead elk
  • Fixed: Multiple issues with selection boxes of support beams
  • Fixed: Player viewing direction jumping after exiting an inventory
  • Fixed: 9 year old bug in the cinematic camera system where sections of the path were running at different velocities (credit: ImNuts42)
  • Fixed: Multi drop down select not remembered the checked boxes (e.g. in the meta spawner ui). Also fixed missing translation entries in the meta spawner ui creature dropdown
  • Fixed: Not possible to reinforce or lock labeled chests
• New In-World Interaction capabilities
  • Feature: Oil lamps now use the ground storage system - in other words one can place them in quadrants, and mixed with other items
  • Feature: Can now remove the head of a ground placed bear pelt
  • Feature: Sieves, and saddle blankets can fit onto shelves
  • Feature: Liquid containers on shelves can be interacted with directly
  • Feature: There is now a new ground processing system that allows for simple crafting processes of ground placed items
    • Can now scrape ground placed soaked hides
    • Can carve bone flutes from ground placed bones
    • Can saw long bowstave into recurve bowstave on the ground
    • Can shear parchment out of scraped small hide on the ground
    • Can smash ore chunks on the ground using a hammer
  • Tweak: Rusty gears now have a pile model that holds up to 64 gears. The old-style piles of gears will still be found in ruins, but player-placed piles will be more orderly, and larger capacity
  • Tweak: Tool heads can now be placed on the ground
  • Tweak: Weapons can now be placed on antler mounts (but not tools)
  • Tweak: Stick, cattail, and papyrus piles now hold 2-3x more items.
  • Tweak: A pile of thatch on the ground now holds up to 18 items
  • Tweak: Papyrus tops pile transfer quantity raised to 3
     
• Gameplay balance affecting changes
  • Tweak: Can now also sell trapped animals in the auction house, increased auction duration 60%
  • Tweak: Grain crops now have half the yield in grain and fiber, but spawn in patches twice as large during world generation. The net effect to be requiring larger fields for equivalent grain production compared to previous versions
  • Tweak: Iron and Steel spears added. Other spears nerfed to make room for them
  • Tweak: Glacier ice and packed glacier ice that have been collected and placed again will begin to melt, if the local temperature is above freezing
  • Tweak: Improvised armor now also requires rope
  • Tweak: Armor stand now has more intuitive attaching of items
  • Tweak: Can no longer grid craft stuff from hot items
  • Tweak: Hunter backpack recipe can now produce two backpacks from one huge pelt. Using a large pelt returns a small pelt, in addition to the backpack. Using a huge pelt for fur gloves returns 1 small pelt.
  • Tweak: Treasure Hunter trader offers only a 25% discount on subsequent elk purchases in exchange for another eidolon vessel
  • Tweak: Added a few usable storage blocks to the Resonance Archives entrance
  • Tweak: Reduced spawn radius of mobs in the Devastation Area, so players are more likely to encounter them
  • Tweak: Removed grid crafting crock sealing recipe in favor of other (in-world) methods
  • Tweak: Horsetail no longer qualifies as bee or butterfly feed
  • Tweak: Reviving a player no longer restores satiety to 50%, now leaves it unchanged
  • Tweak: Balanced with the addition of small lanterns, the original large lantern now costs twice the glass and metal 
  • Tweak: Upped survival time of trapped animals from 1 day to 2 days
  • Tweak: Restored custom spawn conditions lost in the 1.18 update
    • Harsh winters setting now again disables livestock spawn (deer, sheep, boars and chickens). It didn't
    • Wolves and Bears now again are on a grace timer in new worlds. 4 hours for wolves, 1 day for bears.
  • Tweak: Moved arctic white and silvery blue butterfly into warmer spawn zones
  • Fixed: Crop growth was 10% faster and consumed 10% less nutrients than intended
  • Fixed: Salt lake beds were not generating during worldgen (in very dry and warm areas)
  • Fixed: Farmland crops consumed slightly less soil nutrients than intended
  • Fixed: With stacks of items in the firepit, finishing cooking one item no longer resets the temperature of the input stack, but a stack's warm-up time is now longer for larger stack sizes
  • Fixed: Material transmutation/dupe glitch with chiseled blocks (technical info: Output chiseled blocks no longer have multiple of the same materials plus only consume every unique input material once)
  • Fixed: Peanuts did not give a satiety bonus in meals
  • Fixed: Cassava would dry out even while in a meal
  • Fixed: Placing an iron bloom on an anvil caused its temperature to drop immediately
  • Fixed: Resonance Archives gasifier would burn fuel too quickly
  • Fixed: Baking an item in an oven would reset the spoilage timer
  • Fixed: Cheese wheel would reset freshness each time a slice was cut off
  • Fixed: Lava that turned water into basalt/obsidian did not delete the water
  • Fixed: Very broken behavior when lava flowed into a water source block (turned water source block into basalt in large strange patterns)
  • Fixed: Luxury trader was still selling gold omok pieces
     
• Creature behavior changes
  • Tweak: In closed spaces, Bowtorns now evade the player more intelligently - and if they can't they will begin firing on you
  • Tweak: Sun bears will now break skeps and steal berries off bushes
  • Tweak: Slightly slower creature look around speeds
  • Tweak: Saltwater fish spawning now more accurately matches where the species would exist in real life
  • Tweak: Panda and brown bamboo spawns changed to overlap, so pandas appear with bamboo more often. Panda range has moved south, and brown bamboo range has moved north
  • Tweak: Brown bears will drop a little more fat
  • Fixed: In snow walkspeed debuff applied twice to all locusts
  • Fixed: Less wonky locust stepping on small steps. Will now use the stepping behavior instead of going vertical climb on small height differences
  • Fixed: Animals would never eat planted crops
  • Fixed: 23 types of butterflies never spawned
  • Fixed: Bighorn sheep now live in dryer regions rather than wetter ones
  • Fixed: Inconsistencies in raccoon climate conditions
  • Fixed: Missing minimum temperature for tang fish spawns
     
• Creative Mode additions
  • Feature: Can now place decor layers, such as moss, on almost all blocks (not only full blocks): for example, storage vessel or chest (but placement on plants is not possible)
  • Feature: Entity mover tool. Lets you pick up and move around creatures
  • Feature: Added leather decor overlay block - "sheet of stitched leather"
  • Feature: Added aged acacia plank blocks
  • Feature: Added "veryaged" variants of wood fence, bookshelf, and scroll rack.
  • Tweak: Add chiselable full block stone path
  • Tweak: Added ruined metal door variants
     
• Tweak: Thrown stone improvements
  • Bricks, stonebrick, refractory bricks are now also throwable
  • Fixed: thrown stones could still deal damage even when PvP was disabled or the attackplayers/attackcreatures permission was revoked.
  • Fixed: thrown stones would make no thud sound if they landed close to the throwing player
  • Fixed: when skipping stones, splash particles would not spawn and some stones could get forever stuck floating above water
     
• Handbook improvements
  • Feature: Handbook search is more flexible with better results
  • Feature: Handbook shows which animal eats which food, on food pages
  • Feature: Handbook shows trappable animals on trap pages
  • Feature: Show what plants can go in which flowerpots and planters in the handbook
  • Tweak: Handbook now shows items that can be created at various workstation blocks, like fruit press or anvil
  • Tweak: Show the days or years required for an item to perish in the handbook, rather than only the hours
  • Tweak: Animal traps and troughs included in storable information in handbook
  • Tweak: Omok table and pieces included in storable information in handbook
  • Tweak: Show destroyed animal traps in the handbook
  • Tweak: Handbook display of smithing recipes improved
  • Tweak: Handbook display of metal molding improved
  • Tweak: Better spacing for beehive kiln results in the handbook
  • Tweak: Quern shows grinding outputs on handbook page
  • Tweak: Quern handbook entry now mentions that the quern can be powered by hand, as well as by machinery.
  • Tweak: Searching the Command Handbook, search results in long pages go to the (first) position of the search text
  • Tweak: In the Handbook, for materials created by grinding, show the quern in "Created by" section
  • Tweak: Display what clothing can fit on what mannequins in the handbook
  • Tweak: Remove handbook grouping from clothing 
  • Fixed: Handbook wattle and daub entry incorrectly stated the initial daub application as 10 items (it is actually 6).
  • Fixed: Handbook will properly show the grid crafting recipes on the appropriate nugget pages instead of all on the copper nugget page
• Visual fine tuning
  • Feature: Added fruit labels for jam on crocks
  • Tweak: Improved OIT rendering system which should fix oddities when half transparent geometry is on top of others (e.g. clouds behind windows)
  • Tweak: Scene shader tweak  - prevent complete whiteness on overly bright surfaces
  • Tweak: Tule model and texture reworked
  • Tweak: Spears have new spear head models, each metal with a unique design.
  • Tweak: Sleek wooden doors now have a glass plane and have a smoother and more bespoke texture
  • Tweak: Lowered the threshold for villagers to get a frost overlay, and made the face never freeze over
  • Tweak: Cow parsley, heather, western gorse and orange mallow flowers now uses the old, more simplified model again
  • Tweak: Anvils now use holdbothhandslarge idle animation, rather than holdbothhands.
  • Tweak: Aged and very aged wood textures should now be more consistent across all blocks and items. Renamed "aged wood" to "aged oak"
  • Tweak: Nicer first person hand transform for slabs
  • Tweak: Papyrus chest now has separate shape from reed chest
  • Tweak: Tool heads now have sockets where appropriate
  • Tweak: Iron and steel pickaxes have revised model
  • Tweak: Ratlines now have knots at the intersections
  • Tweak: Wolf holds its tail straighter and lower
  • Tweak: Bear textures revised, and each bear now has its own model, to avoid drastic json scaling
  • Tweak: Cooking pot model now has rope cradle when attached to elk
  • Tweak: Seraph rendered into GUIs are now animated
  • Tweak: Saltpeter and other powders and crushed materials scaled up to be more visible when dropped on the ground
  • Tweak: Redid Brass Ruby Brooch model to more match original vision
  • Tweak: Stone path stairs and slabs now extend 1 voxel 'below ground' to cover the gap that can be left by regular path blocks.  Stone paths now use wildcards to randomize texture, rather than alternates.
  • Tweak: Updated existing leather colors to be less bright. Added running stitch variant for all leathers.
  • Tweak: Messy12 ground storage changed to be spaced more evenly
  • Tweak: Better line up text lines and checkboxes/sliders in the settings interface tab
  • Tweak: Weather system: Don't spawn snow storm particles when above 5°C
  • Tweak: Fixed items way to strongly wind affected when in hands
  • Fixed: Long standing visual bug where harvesting reeds sometimes overextended the players arm
  • Fixed: Pie dough sides were unusually dark when placed besides blocks
  • Fixed: Make particles use proper multiblock collision
  • Fixed Fortune Teller Hip Scarf model z-fighting with gambeson
  • Fixed: Some block breaking overlays were incorrectly applied
  • Fixed z-fighting on sloped (main) roof segments
  • Fixed: Seraphs shoulders clipping through in "hold both hands" pose
  • Fixed: Camera jitters and ridden elk occasionally stopping when mods modified too much player data
  • Fixed: Animation jerkiness on traders
  • Fixed: One line break too much in the block info HUD in some cases
  • Fixed: Stretched UVs on axle and aged armorstand
  • Fixed: Some tool heads had bad origins and so would do crazy flips when tossed
  • Fixed: Flowing lava blocks now start their particles at the correct height
  • Fixed: Some texts off vertically by 1 pixel
  • Fixed: Incorrect feathers texture on arrows
  • Fixed: Player yaw jitter when closing chat window while in overhead camera mode
  • Fixed: Short rotation flicker right after placing certain blocks (with rotatable block entities)
  • Fixed: Rare flashes of X-ray vision when breaking blocks next to a chunk boundary
  • Fixed: Seraph from the character dialog clipping through creative inventory
  • Fixed: Holding a pulverizer frame would obstruct player view significantly
  • Fixed: 'Plain glasses' lenses were not on transparent renderpass, and so had X-ray vision
  • Fixed: Baskettrap trigger animation was rotated differently than the base block
  • Fixed: Baskettrap or Crate trap animation broken when both traps were placed
• Tweak: Sound additions
  • Lots of internal preparatory work for foot steps sounds
  • Charlemagne entity has a new sound set
  • Added more Wolf sounds for variation
  • Added 2 dive attack sounds to the second boss
  • Seraph hurt sounds are now shorter when the damage is low or when it's from frost or poisoning
• Tweak: Performance tweaks
  • Changing the graphics quality preset is now 4 times faster (1s lag instead of 4s lag)
  • Improve loading times with many mods installed (json patching times 47s => 3.6s). Contribution by tehtelev
  • Improve loading times with many mods installed (recipe loading times 21s => 8s). Contribution by tehtelev
  • Improve loading times of certain handbook pages from 10-14 seconds to instant when mods "A Culinary Artillery" and "Expanded Foods" are installed
  • Further 400k objects removed from permanent heap (mainly duplicate strings)
  • Reduced client-side lag spikes caused by various commonly used blocks
    • Ground storage, toolrack, shelves and similar utility blocks [Technical info: BEContainerDisplay types  - Display Case, Ground Storage, Toolrack, etc... now generate meshes off the main thread]
    • Flowerpots and planters [Technical info: only tesselate one plant shape max. per container, defer pot tesselation and transforms to tesselation thread]
    • Small increase in loading time for doors and toolracks
  • Further reductions in Matrixf and vector object creation
  • Further reductions in Vec2f and Vec3f object creation in many places
  • Explosion shell vectors calc now uses FastVec3f not Vec3f
  • Further low level matrix improvements in animations; reduce memory pressure on client
  • Many low level matrix operations moved from heap to stack
  • Re-use some matrices and vectors at low level
  • Reduced heap memory pressure from selection box ray-tracing. With thanks to dedgrant
  • Fixed memory leak when displaying skep or basket trap in inventory or handbook
  • Fixed potential memory leak in forge
  • RAM and heap saving, SnowAccum system now uses a value type [ServerMapChunk.SnowAccum is now a float[] not a ConcurrentDictionary]
  • Particles - reduce RAM requirements and heap pressure
  • General improvements to SQLiteDbConnectionv2, less heap pressure for multiplayer server
  • Added LOD2 shapes and textures for all clutter bookshelves
  • Very minor, but system-wide rendering optimization [Technical info: Don't call EnableVertexAttribArray every render call, not necessary as per OpenGL spec]
  • Faster recipe matching with reduced memory usage. Should fix lag spikes on the server and client when crafting or using the handbook
  • Less CPU cost for unpacking chunks, creating packets etc - main benefits on large multiplayer servers
• Tweak: In-game guidance tweaks
  • Feature: Crocks, pots, and bowls with meals now show interaction help when ground placed
  • Tweak: Lowered the itemstack hover info HUD a bit so that it does not cover up the stack size of the item in your mouse slot
  • Fixed: Show only workable items in anvil interaction help
  • Fixed: Interaction help for mortally wounded elk said "Revive player"
• Tweak: Game Server tweaks
  • Tweak: AntiAbuse system partially revived. Off by default, but when enabled in the serverconfig.json it will decline block interactions when they are too far away from the player
  • Tweak: When a server has more than 50 players, join/leave and death messages no longer get printed to chat (configurable in servermagicnumbers.json field "PublicJoinLeaveDeathMessagesThreshold")
  • Tweak: Join, Leave and Death messages now also sent to all player groups the player is part of
  • Tweak: Allow the server heartbeat/register to master server also work in standby mode
  • Tweak: Added more audit logging when trading and using the action house
  • Tweak: Multiple Serverconfig StartupCommands would not work if there was a space in front of a command
  • Fixed: "spawnRadius" not a circular spawn area and sometimes spawning player outside of the radius. Fixed a respawning player placed at a block edge. Mitigate spawning inside blocks.
  • Fixed: Command /serverconfig entityspawning 0 did not disable entity spawning right away and vice versa did not enable it right away when it was disabled before
  • Fixed: Possible server exception on player death
  • Fixed: On a dedicated server when using a malformed welcome message it would disconnect/crash each client on login.
• Tweak: Command Tweaks:
  • Tweak: Most /wgen commands can now be called from console
  • Tweak: Added /serverconfig blockTickChunkRange
  • Tweak: Added worldgen command /wgen regenrange
  • Tweak: Now /entity spawn command can optionally also specify the generation, eg. generation=3
  • Tweak: New command /entity findnpc to count the villagers or find a specific one
  • Tweak: New command /entity list to list the types of all loaded entities, and count them
  • Tweak: Add alias /wcc for the worldconfigcreate command
  • Tweak: Fixed typo in command /dev per-player-lootable-reset
  • Tweak: add client ping to /stats and /list clients commands
  • Tweak: Removed no longer working /wgen regenr and /wgen regenrc commands
  • Tweak: Wireframes display command can now be abbreviated to .debug wf
  • Fixed: /wgen regen did not reload the deposits files
  • Fixed: When using /wgen regen the GeneratedStructures list could be restored only partially, the actual in-world structures/blocks should have be mostly unaffected by that
  • Fixed: Command /land list would not output the correct center postions if a claim had multiple areas
  • Fixed: .we command no longer working to open/close the world edit ui
  • Fixed: GameTickListener debug command /debug tickhandlers dump dcentity not working
  • Fixed: Command .chb expcmds did not make sure the ModConfig folder exists
• Tweak: Ladder tweaks
  • Wood ladders can connect as one ladder, crude and rope cannot connect to others
  • Wood ladders can be sawed back into boards
  • Ladders made entirely of sticks have their own model, separate from ladders made from planks
  • Crude ladders cannot support themselves on the ground or the ceiling and require a wall for support
• Tweak: Water tweaks
  • Tweak: Rivulet riverbed carver. Somewhat more neatly integrates the rivulets into the world. (WIP, temporarily disabled in -pre.1)
  • Tweak: Also spawn rivulets on mountain sides
  • Tweak: Water now spreads faster
  • Tweak: Flowing water shader tweaks
  • Fixed: Flowing water with NE,SE,SW,NW directions was not visually flowing diagonally
• Tweak: Lightning flash visual tuning. Lights up the world from a greater distance and a bit more realistically
• Tweak: Players are now visible on the map up to 1000 blocks away or if in a shared group, by default
• Tweak: Player map markers will show the supporter color, like player names in chat
• Tweak: Held/dynamic light range now better corresponds to placed light range
• Tweak: Added a Creative mode pocket sun. Caution: Very hot!
• Tweak: Increase dynamic lights detection range from 60 to 120 blocks
• Tweak: Add a bit of extra brightness near a held/dynamic light source
• Tweak: Cleavers now have a non-functional 'head' item like most other tools, and must be combined with a stick to make the complete tool. Also revised the cleaver model to have 1:1 pixel scale (previously was 50% scale)
• Tweak: Tuned seraph idle animations
• Tweak: Can now add linings or change the color of glass for small lanterns in ground storage
• Tweak: Added new ground crafting sounds, for scraping soaked hides with knife, trimming small or medium scraped hides into parchment using shears, carving a bone into a flute, removing the head from a bear pelt, and sawing a raw longbow stave into a raw recurve stave using a saw
• Tweak: Copper roofing grid recipe yield doubled, except that tips are now individually made from a single copper plate
• Tweak: Breaking blocks adjacent to and below water flow, may now cause the water to flow into the newly made gap
• Tweak: The Devastation Tower elevator now prevents falling through when going down
• Tweak: Add non-climbable versions of clutter ladders, for use in cases like bunk beds where you don't want them interfering with the player's normal movement
• Tweak: Chain mail items have a revised smaller model, and are now placeable on the ground in the quad layout
• Tweak: Rendered fat recipe no longer dirties the pot
• Tweak: Pigs and sheep will no longer stand around idly such that they can easily be fenced in. They will now run away from the player, or attack the player if they get too close
• Tweak: Removed unused 'eidolon gearbox' item from the game
• Tweak: Firestarter can now be burned in a firepit
• Tweak: Allow candles to be removed from an existing bunch of candles without breaking it
• Tweak: Male goats in general will not use the very smallest horn models, better differentiating them from females
• Tweak: Copper shingle blocks now have a grid recipe. The shingle blocks blocktype json was moved from 'metal' folder to 'roofing' folder
• Tweak: Grid recipes which produce roofing half-blocks now produce two halves, rather than one
• Tweak: Add a bit of extra brightness near a held/dynamic light source
• Tweak: Added server config setting UpnpInfiniteLifetime (enable with /sc upnpinfinitelifetime on). Use this for infinite UPnP port mapping lifetime; otherwise the default 10-minute lifetime auto-renews mappings. Behavior may vary depending on the router.
• Tweak: Change Linux icon from xpm to png since xpm may not be supported on newer systems
• Tweak: "Antler mount" is renamed to "Wall mount".
• Tweak: Wall mount block info text name is now set to the placed item
• Tweak: Palisade walls and stakes now prevent animals from walking on them, like regular fences.
• Tweak: Ovens now no longer allows igniting of non-fuel, such as pies
• Tweak: Allow liquids to be chiseled only in creative mode
• Tweak: Removed fish carcass clutter block, because there is a dedicated fish carcass block
• Tweak: Debarked and tree trunk 'veryaged' and 'veryagedrotten' textures modified for consistency
• Fixed: Fixes npc dialogue link text cut off in some cases
• Fixed: Cassava that dried out in a meal due to a bug no longer has an incorrect name nor gives no nutrition
• Fixed: Oven would give incorrect error message when trying to add non-bakeable items
• Fixed: 2x1 and 1x2 paintings only half visible when there was a decor layer on the wall
• Fixed: Hunger rate applied twice by accident, causing a setting of 0.5x to be 0.25x and of 2x to be 4x
• Fixed: Unable to put empty bowl into barrel inventory slot
• Fixed: Scrolling in dropdowns near bottom of the screen shows all items properly
• Fixed: The grid recipe to force clay brick slabs into a certain orientation was missing
• Fixed: Pies with default full top crust style would not stack properly if cycled through crust types
• Fixed: Bear foot sliding, brown and polar bear chasing after tiny creatures (baby hares and chicken), and not attacking animals they chase
• Fixed: Entering and exiting the water while holding the sprint key would slow you to a walk even with the precise control scheme
• Fixed: Holding down the sprint key before starting to move would still start off with walking  
• Fixed: Armor stands could only be placed at edges of blocks
• Fixed: Color accurate worldmap: Still used vintage colors until the map was opened
• Fixed: Clouds going black when using [x] Override default values from the world edit control panel
• Fixed: Traders and Villagers would execute the option after the "What did you got to trade?" which mostly was the "Whats your name?" option and so reveal their name at the same time as openting the trading menu
• Fixed: Empty triggered animal traps would not drop block if broken
• Fixed: Empty triggered animal trap would give back trap when picked up rather than just basket
• Fixed: Prevent the trader menu to be opened by multiple players, which can crash the game
• Fixed: Falling maple seeds did not fall with reduced gravity
• Fixed: Crash when Ctrl+scrolling up on the firepit input slot
• Fixed: Rotation of clayforming for watering cans matches output
• Fixed: On some occasions, traders walking away from player during conversations and standing still after conversations
• Fixed: Some ropes not properly loading from a savegame to client side. Explanation: We did not re-broadcast when a cloth system became active, we did not update the state on chunk loads although we check all chunks if they are loaded on each clothsystem
• Fixed: Some damage effects still applying on damage over time types of damage (e.g. instant huge red overlay when eating fly agaric)
• Fixed: Drinking more or less than 1L of wine all at once will properly vary how intoxicated you become
• Fixed: Dragging to place ingredients into cooking pot would not evenly distribute items
• Fixed: Mechanical power blocks, World Edit selection tool grow/shrink buttons and other parts of the game now work in other dimensions
• Fixed: Sub-decors (e.g. cave art) now preserved in World Edit move area, mirror area and repeat area operations
• Fixed: Removed downwards exponential acceleration of entities that use passive physics behavior
• Fixed: Fall damage inconsistency, added player stat "fallDamageThreshold"
• Fixed: On a brand new world, the client game calendar would be paused and/or slightly desynced from the server time for a minute, causing the sun to jump after 25 in-game minutes
• Fixed: After a client-side crash, the game kept running until the Crash Reporter window was closed
• Fixed: Removed uncraftable soaked bear pelts
• Fixed: Cutting snow covered grass with a knife did not yield dry grass
• Fixed: Missing horns on female goats, also they can fight back now
• Fixed: Items dropped by mechanically powered querns, pulverizers, or chutes could be launched very far when outside of the simulation range (128 blocks from the player)
• Fixed: "Wide lines have been deprecated" warnings on certain GPUs, eg. Intel UHD
• Fixed: Ladders would sometimes allow strange interactions between different types
• Fixed: After healing with an item, a second item in the same slot (from picking up) with a slow interaction process would immediately finish (#6719)
• Fixed: Logged error for carburizable properties in handbook
• Fixed: Many repeated logged OpenGL errors on Mac filling up the log file
• Fixed: When milking goats your inventory could get out of sync and remove buckets or causes getting kicked from the server.
• Fixed: Various water plants could have non-matching top and bottom section pieces
• Fixed: Stone path slabs did not show snowcover. Stone path blocks had hitboxes 1 voxel too tall
• Fixed: Crash when viewing corrupted rock-typed block
• Fixed: Another possible cause of ghost Players
• Fixed: Beams not placing correctly in free mouse mode or when client->server not in sync.
• Fixed: Some fruit trees would spawn as empty stumps during worldgen
• Fixed: Crash in the music system when flying fast
• Fixed: Wild fruit trees not fruiting in the first year
• Fixed: Honey would give the wrong satiety in a meal
• Fixed: Quenching/Tempering buffs not applying when they should and the item now shows its item state in the item info hud.
• Fixed: Tempering applied a buff instead of only reducing the break chance
• Fixed: Applying many buffs added many lines of text to the item info hud
• Fixed: The player would get full nutrition from drinking spoiling liquid
• Fixed: Properly stop animations when ground processing items
• Fixed: Animation would never end when breaking ore chunks in ground storage
• Fixed: Drifters had a missing face on their neck that would show on their back side, when dead.
• Fixed: Bronze rods had combined word localizations (i.e. Tinbronze, Bismuthbronze) which was not per standard
• Fixed: Grindstone grid recipe conflicted with polished stone recipe
• Fixed: Ruined metal doors had the latch on the wrong side, and their hitbox was thinner than the door.
• Fixed: Collapsed clutter scroll racks were not texture-swappable.
• Fixed: Ruined sabre had blade ground-stored transform, and so looked like it was half buried in the ground.
• Fixed: Bugnet durability wasn't consumed
• Fixed: Brass torchholder description didn't have useful info from aged torchholder description
• Fixed: /debug helddurability command not marking slot dirty
• Fixed: Armor breaks on zero durability
• Fixed: Female tamed elk hitboxes displayed raw lang keys instead of translated text
• Fixed: Empty chests playing incorrect sound when closed
• Fixed: Chiseling or rotating blocks located at a chunk edge, now correctly updates lighting on neighbors across the chunk edge
• Fixed: Harvested brown sedge tossed on the ground was nowhere near its actual hitbox
• Fixed: Some pigs had bad 'center' points in their model, resulting in mis-placed hitboxes
• Fixed: Flax fibers' held transform was WAY too small
• Fixed: Black coal was a pigment for sign writing, but could not do cave drawings
• Fixed: Tule root didn't say in description that it can be planted again
• Fixed: Luxury trader was selling two shields that were missing the wood attribute.
• Fixed: Placing a crock into ground storage would crash the game on some operating systems
• Fixed: Sheep no longer spawn in thick forests or shrubland
• Fixed: Rope couldn't be placed on ground without already existing ground storage
• Fixed: Some story locations (lazaret) caused additonal protected areas above ground after using /wgen regen at their position
• Fixed: Couldn't pick up empty armor stand
• Fixed: Devastation tower pitch black at night and other worldgenned light sources not emitting light
• Fixed: Bamboo stakes and shovel gui icons when moused over were not centered.
• Fixed: Long bowstave is invisible in ground storage when dry
• Fixed: "Toggle sprint" checkbox hover text was wrong in the game settings 
• Fixed: Aged sailboat did not have a creative item to place it (and so did not show up in handbook)
• Fixed: Flax fibers were not centered in the gui
• Fixed: Hot items invisible in ground storage
• Fixed: Metal arrow fletching was solid black
• Fixed: Rare crash when chiseled block name is null
• Fixed: Drygrass item was not centered in it's selection box when laying on the ground
• Fixed: Mouflon and bighorn sheep horns had bad wall mount transforms. Mouflon horns were also missing localizations.
• Fixed: Water updates not consistently triggered if solid blocks (water-logged blocks) were in the same position
• Fixed: Clouds disappearing after sleeping in some cases
• Fixed: Dirty cooking pot had bad incorrect idle pose
• Fixed: Anomalously light texture section on adult male elk's neck fur
• Fixed: Scraping multiple soaked hides causes game crash #8479
• Fixed: Old traders were upgraded to the new traders, but naked and no face
• Fixed: When public server advertising is enabled that could send multiple duplicated requests to the masterserver. Issue since 1.22.0-pre.1
• Fixed: Some Nadiyan clothing was not using the correct textures.
• Fixed: Merchant hat and fur coat had some texture issues.
• Fixed: Snowcovered slabs not flush with adjacent blocks
• Fixed: Incorrect UV on Gearfoot Bowtorn legs
• Fixed: Various small issues with bear textures and model
• Fixed: Olives' on-ground transform was bad

API Updates
For our modders - please be aware, the game engine and game content have undergone several significant changes

• Paradigm shift: Since 1.21 you can define tags in Blocks, Items and Entities. As of 1.22 you can now use tags for all crafting recipes. In future updates we will expand tag compatibility to other systems. Though please wait before using these, the syntax might still change in pre2 or pre3
• Paradigm shift: You can now precisely time creature sounds by defining them as part of the animation meta definitions. This lets you bind a sound to the exact animation frame where the sound should be played, independent of how fast the animation plays. You can define multiple sounds per animation. This is how we added bear and wolf step sounds.
• We have migrated our source projects from .NET 8 to .NET 10. You will need to install the .net10 sdk to compile our public code.
• entity.ServerPos is no more. You can still access it but it now redirects to entity.Pos
• We moved world generation code from the survival mod to the essentials mod, so that total conversion mods can also utilize it
• CollectibleObject has many of its field turned into methods that also call their respective methods on behaviors
• Each landform in the landforms.json now must have a unique code. Previously you could use duplicated names. The game will now crash instead.
• For the red tinting hurt overlay of creatures to work you now need to add "Health" behavior to to the list of client side behavior as well
• Experimental feature: Mods can now modify the main menu background pictures. If any mods sets one, then the game will disable all vanilla ones.

Also noteworthy and just for your awareness, there are currently several notable ongoing projects within the VS coder team:

• The entire code base of Vintage Story now compiles without warnings, consequently we have either fixed or removed our own game engine's use of deprecated features
• We have a multi-year long goal of switching over to nullable value types in all code files
• We continued to slowly integrate a comprehensive tags system. New since 1.21:
  • Changed types of tag arrays and renamed them to tag sets
  • Block and item tags merged into general tags
  • General tags have limit of 65k tags now
  • Tag sets now provide API with set methods
  • Modders no longer need to interact with tag ids directly, they are hidden behind the tag set implementation
  • Modders now can register their own tag types
  • NOTE: there may be further changes to tags code before -rc.1 
• We continued to refactor, improve and consistency check all our entity AI Tasks
• We continued our efforts to un-hardcode game engine and content, to make it easier to patch game content as well as reducing unexpected behaviors when modding the game

API changelog

• Feature: Rewrite stone throwing code into its own "CollectibleBehaviorThrowable". Allows one to make an item or block throwable with json changes only
• Feature: Food in a meal automatically gives a 30% bonus to the base satiety if no in meal nutrition is defined
• Feature: New server event "HandInteract". Called before any server side hand interact code is executed
• Feature: New parameter "MinCuboidsPerModel" for ground storable behavior that fixes problem with partial models in ground storage
• Feature: Item buff feature. Can now buff buffable collectibles e.g. when holding a falx in hands with command "/debug cbuff add sharpened attackpower 1.2" for +20% damage or "/debug cbuff add sharpened attackpower 1 2" for +2 flat damage. Available buffs: attackpower, maxdurability, durability, miningspeed. In code can also define durability of a buff, which is reduced alongside the item durability
• Feature: Allow BlockBehaviorHarvestable to require a tool
• Feature: Anvil blocks keep track of their metal tier
• Feature: Mods can now supply background images for the main menu in their modinfo.json. Currently, if any are supplied then all vanilla ones are disabled.
• Feature: Added the ability to create custom mixed pie recipes with multiple food categories as fillings
• Refactor: Major rework of the recipe systems in order to support tags
• Refactor: Move most of worldgen code to essentials mod and added modularity in some areas so that full conversion mods can use it
• Refactor: Changed args in capi.StartTrack()
• Refactor: Move onhurt invulnerable timer code from Entity.cs to BehaviorHealth.cs where it belongs. This however means the Health behavior needs to be client side as well, on all entities. In order to stay backwards compatible, these will automatically get added upon entity load, for now. It will print a warning if that is the case
• Refactor: GetBehavior(...) methods in Entity now avoid nullref exceptions inside them
• Refactor: Rename CollectibleBehavior.OnGetMaxDurability to .GetMaxDurability() and altered return value behavior
• Refactor: Shields now much more mod-dable. The shield code is now type/variant-agnostic
• Refactor: Rename dirtfloor.json to packeddirt-trampledearth.json, and aridpackeddirt.json to drypackeddirt.json
• Refactor: BlockUtil.GetKnifeStacks replaced with ObjectCacheUtil.GetToolStacks
• Refactor: EntityBehaviorRideable and EntityBehaviorGait code cleanup. Now more moddable. Ridden creatures no longer ignore swim sound set from json. Leave blank for silence. Set ridden movement speed only through gait, not through rideable controls. Also allow gaits to have an environment set for land or water, and provides logic for multiple speeds of swimming
• Refactor: Rename EnumBlockMaterial.Liquid to EnumBlockMaterial.Water
• Refactor: Lava now has EnumBlockMaterial Lava instead of Liquid
• Refactor: Merge ItemTagArray and BlockTagArray into CollectibleTagArray
• Refactor: Cleanup and Document AiTaskManager.ExecuteTask() and .StopTask()
• Refactor: Made methods of ItemWearable and ItemWearableAttachment virtual, also made private methods protected
• Refactor: Allow for multiple "AnimationSound" per animation meta. AnimationMeta.AnimationSound is now an array. Make sure to update all anim sounds in your entity json files from animationSound: { ...} to animationSounds: [ { .... } ]
• Refactor: Added dropQuantityMultiplier to BlockBehavior.OnBlockBroken()
• Refactor: In AI task json, rename chance, wanderChance, and searchFrequency to executionChance
• Refactor: Mushroom textures were placed in many individual folders. Now all are under the base 'mushroom' folder.
• Refactor: Replaced "noConsumeOnCrafting: true", used in the glider schematic itemtype with "consume: false" in the grid recipe
• Refactor: ItemWearable is now obsolete, replaced by CollectibleBehaviorWearable 
• Refactor: ItemWearableAttachment is now obsolete, replaced CollectibleBehaviorWearableAttachment
• Refactor: Many fields of Collectible now more moddable
  • Implemented GetAttackRange for CollectibleBehavior
  • Implemented GetMiningSpeeds for both CollectibleObject and CollectibleBehavior
  • Implemented GetDamagedBy for CollectibleObject
  • Implemented GetTool for CollectibleObject (interaction tooltips still use Tool directly)
  • Implemented GetToolTier for CollectibleObject (interaction tooltips still use ToolTier directly)
  • Implemented GetCombustibleProperties for CollectibleObject (interaction tooltips still use CombustibleProps directly)
  • Replaced NutritionProps with GetNutritionProperties where possible
  • Replaced TransitionableProps with GetTransitionableProperties where possible
  • Implemented GetGrindingProperties for CollectibleObject
  • Implemented GetCrushingProperties for CollectibleObject
  • Implemented GetRequiredMiningTier for Block
• API Feature: Targetable AI tasks can specify a minimum and maximum injury amount of the target
• API Feature: Added MouseWheelMove input event
• API Feature: ItemSlotCharacter now uses virtual CheckDressType instead of static IsDressType
• API Tweak: BlockMultiblock now uses .GetInterface() instead of .GetBehavior() to find interfaces
• API Feature: Added texture bleeding system for seamless block transitions
• Feature: New block properties for controlling texture bleed behavior:
  • BleedPriority (auto from material or manual override)
  • CanReceiveBleed, BleedOverlayTexture
  • BleedTopFaceOnly, BleedGroup, BlocksTextureBleed
• Refactor: Collectible.OnCreatedByCrafting() and CollectibleBehavior.OnCreatedByCrafting() "gridrecipe" argument is now of type "IRecipeBase" instead of "GridRecipe"
• Refactor: Worldgen: Moved ChunkColumnGen event registration from StartServerSide to InitWorldGen()
• Refactor: New tag condition matching system. Complex tag conditions hold either a set of disjunctive entries ([a and b and c] or [d and e]) or as a set of conjunctive entries ([a or b or c] and [d or e]).
  • In both cases each of the inner sets can also have a set of forbidden tags that is always disjunctive. The syntax for using these in json follows one simple rule: If no junction verb is specified, the group is treated as conjunctive (a and b and c)
    examples:
  • [["all", "of", "these"]]
    [["all", "of", "these"], (or) { allOf: ["all", "of", "these"], noneOf: ["any", "of", "these"] }]
    { allOf: ["all", "of", "these"], noneOf: ["any", "of", "these"] }
    { anyOf: ["any", "of", "these"], noneOf: ["any", "of", "these"] }
    { anyOf: [["all", "of", "these"], { allOf: ["all", "of", "these"], noneOf: ["any", "of", "these"] }] }
    { allOf: [["anyOf", "of", "these"], (and) { anyOf: ["any", "of", "these"], noneOf: ["any", "of", "these"] }] }11:20 AM
    these can be used in recipe ingredients and entiy behaviors for now* Replacement Tag System
• Tweak: Use GetInterfaces for all instances of IIgnitable
• Tweak: Add stencil buffer API to rendering interface
• Tweak: Collectible.DamageItem() - Added optional arg "destroyOnZeroDurability"
• Tweak: Frameprofiler (.debug logticks xx) now records mousedown/mouseup event cost as well
• Fixed: Collectible.OnHeldDropped was not called server side
• Fixed: Rideable behavior no longer ignores minGeneration setting
• Fixed: Crash when entity tries to play sound it did not have
• Fixed : When using a villages.json to specify modded villages a non wildcard schematics path would not resolve properly
• Fixed: Unable to export texture atlasses when intallation folder did not have user permissions, they now go to the data folder instead
• Tweak: New overload CraftingRecipeIngredient.Resolve(IWorldAccessor world, string sourceForErrorLogging, IRecipeBase recipe) should be used to Resolve input ingredients, to ensure they are registered to the new fast recipe matching
• Tweak: IWorldAccessor has new read-only property IWorldAccessor.FastSearchRecipesByIngredient; this will be populated by the new CraftingRecipeIngredient.Resolve() method mentioned above
• Tweak: Transform editor dialog now has firepit transform support
• Tweak: Spawner blocks can now define rain and temperature conditions
• Tweak: Added OnContainedInteractCancel for use in ground storage interactions
• Tweak: The Block animation system now also hooked up to the animation sounds system. Example implementation: Bellows
• Fixed: 'scale' property in shape overlays did not work
• Fixed: Offsets from mounted entities now make sense, existing ones will need adjusting
  • The mounted animation should position the player relative to the hitbox
  • The attachment point on the mounted creature should go on the part of the entity the player's movement follows
  • The seat offset adjusts the location of the player's hitbox relative to the attachment point* Internal: Change pelt grid recipes that accept multiple sizes, to new 'anyof' format, for Rennorb to check, as they don't seem to work.
• Tweak: Hides and their various associated items now use the tags system for recipes, with the result that bear hides can now be used directly in the same recipes that only generic hides could be used in directly before.
• Tweak: 'item-crushed-leadoxide' renamed to 'item-crushed-galena', to better align with standard naming formats.
• Tweak: Better logging for errors in grid recipes
• Tweak: New construction options! Structure generation via structures.json now also supports placement: "Shallowwater", supports minForest/maxForest constraints, and fixes some structures generating under water
• Tweak: The grid recipe loader will now print a warning if a ingredient wildcard never matches
• Tweak: Allow for custom attribute based grouping of things like shields or bookshelves in the handbook
• Tweak: Added BroadcastMapRegion to the WorldManager to force send a map region for example after using /wgen regen to update structures debug wireframes
• Tweak: Correct handling of CollectibleBehavior.OnHandbookRecipeRender. This also means a new argument "ref EnumHandling handling" is added, breaking compatibility with mods implementing this method
• Tweak: Clothing no longer renders onto seraph skin by default, set collectible attribute "renderOntoSkin" to true to reactivate that
• Tweak: AnimatableRenderer now supports mixed rendering of opaque and transparent geometry. It'll automatically extract it from the supplied mesh
• Tweak: Structure placement "Surface" now also checks U blocks
• Tweak: Removed logged startup warning "Is a {0} mod, but .cs or .dll files were found. These will be ignored." in dll mods that had a worldconfig property set. It served no purpose.
• Tweak: Added IWearable and IWearableStatsSupplier interfaces, which are now used in new behaviors
• Tweak: Implemented following methods for CollectibleBehavior: RequiresTransitionableTicking, ConsumeCraftingIngredients, UpdateAndGetTransitionStates. UpdateAndGetTransitionState, GetMergableQuantity and TryMergeStacks
• Tweak: Metal types of lamellae, chain, and scale items that do not have corresponding armor sets have been removed.
• Tweak: Ground placed collectibles can now emit light
• Tweak: Doors can now specify liquidBarrierHeight per block segment
• Tweak: AnimationMetaData Sounds can now be set to looping
• Tweak: EntityBehaviorAttachable can now set useShiftAttach: true in json to use the shift key for attaching and deatching
• Tweak: Sound tracks can now be structure specific
• Tweak: Allow liquid containers to set custom drink portion sizes in JSON
• Tweak: Improve loading times with many mods installed (recipe loading times 21s => 8s, json patching times 47s => 3.6s). Contribution by tehtelev
• Tweak: When json patches target a missing file, log an warning to the main log file instead of a debug entry in the debug file
• Tweak: EntityBehaviorAttachable can now set useShiftAttach: true in json to use the shift key for attaching and detaching
• Tweak: Allow entities to specify useSlotPrefix: true in attributes to allow other shapes to be added to it with a different texture by adding the slotCode to the texturePrefixCode
• Tweak: Can now defined a "frostOverlayThreshold" an entity type json attributes to change the temperature at which an entity is 100% frosted over
• Tweak: Can now configure ground storage messy12 positioning
• Tweak: Made prevPlayerPos public in GuiElementMap
• Tweak: Made world map color randomization configurable
• Tweak: Made button background color not hardcoded
• Tweak: Game now warns you if you have attachment point codes duplicated, as it results in undefined behavior
• Tweak: Two new MeshData methods, .Scale() and .Rotate() with no origin specified, will scale/rotate around the block center point
• Tweak: Renderpass Decor is now available, used for decor overlay layers; see vanilla overlays for examples
• Tweak: add BlockType attribute "allowOverlays: false" to prevent moss, dust and other overlays from being applied; can also in rare cases use "allowOverlays: true" to force allowing of overlays where they would normally be auto-disabled (eg. on transparent blocks or ice blocks)
• Tweak: BEQuern.cs move all private fields and methods to protected
• Tweak: Add font stroke to debug screen text to make it more readable
• Tweak: Mods can now add a assest/mymod/config/remapentities.json which then gets automatically merged with the games entity remappings, please do not replace assets/game/config/remapentities.json unless you really really want to overwrite the entire vanilla entity remappings
• Tweak: Mods can now add a assest/mymod/config/remaps.json which then gets automatically merged with the games remappings, please do not replace assets/game/config/remaps.json unless you really really want to overwrite the entire vanilla remappings
• Tweak: Allow custom shape for harvestable skep mesh
• Tweak: Make the game engine more tolerant towards missing files
• Tweak: Add ability to remove a mod asset origin
• Tweak: Improve support for framebuffer rendering. Added capi.Render.GenTexture(), rename capi.Render.FrameBuffer to capi.Render.CurrentFrameBuffer, can now also get capi.Render.CurrentFrameBuffer, added capi.Render.OrthoMode() and capi.Render.PerspectiveMode()
• Tweak: EnumSoundType moved from Vintagestory.API.Client to Vintagestory.API.Common (since it may be used by the server as part of SoundAttributes)
• Tweak: AnimationSound now supports 'chance' of the sound being played
• Tweak: Can now bulk edit transforms of variantgrouped collectibles
• Tweak: Much cleaner implementation for adding support to custom transforms editing via the transform editor. Instead of weird save/load/close stuff, instead register to event bus events "onsettransform" and "ongettransform". See ItemTongs.cs for example
• Tweak: Added HabitatSize property to spawning conditions, only works for animals with Habitat=Underwater or Habitat=Sea. Default HabitatSize is 2
• Tweak: Added animal spawn maps. This lets you further constrain animal spawn to certain regions only. Example implementation: Fish spawn
• Tweak: Items and Blocks can now define a "ParticlesTextureCode" to specify where block/item breaking particle colors should come from
• Tweak: When checking the nutrition properties for liquid inside of containers, fallback to the default for the liquid if per litre properties are not found
• Tweak: It's now possible for meals to be intoxicating
• Tweak: It's now possible to specify a non-default groupBy to use when creating an ItemStack slideshow in the handbook
• Tweak: Trait attributes can now define blend types
• Tweak: New CollectibleBehavior for harvesting items in ground storage
• Tweak: Ground storage now uses GetCollectibleInterface to obtain IContainedInteractable, making it possible to add it to collectible behaviors
• Tweak: LiquidContainerTopOpened now uses IContainedInteractable, Ground Storage code for this interaction removed
• Tweak: Existing elk sounds moved from creature/hooved/large/elk folder to new creature/animal/mammal/hooved/deer folder, to conform with new shape/texture/entity folder standards.
• Tweak: IContainedInteractable now has GetContainedInteractionHelp method
• Tweak: ModMaker Update: Fixes mod maker modinfo creation to be compatible for moddb uploading
• Tweak: new optional ContainedTextureSource() constructor with callback for off-thread texture uploading
• Tweak: new optional ITextureAtlasAPI.GetOrInsertTexture() call with callback for off-thread texture uploading
• Tweak: Chat command can now specify custom syntax explanation for an argument, by appending .WithExplanation() to an argument
• Tweak: Added CollectibleBehavior.GetAttackPower()
• Tweak: Allow to change a block after falling. With a new "variantAfterFalling" parameter, it's now possible to change the block after falling, like a broken variant or a variant with a lower shape (in case the shape is less than 15 voxels like the chandelier)
• Tweak: Renamed IWorldManagerAPI.CurrentWorldName -> CurrentWorldFilepath to better describe itself
• Tweak: OnTree BlockPatches now respects the TreeType property
• Tweak: AI tasks can use a single time frame that extends through the night, rather than needing one from evening to midnight and another from midnight to morning
• Tweak: Renamed InventoryPlayerBackPacks to InventoryPlayerBackpacks
• Tweak: Added IServerEventAPI.PlayerReady event, which triggers after all mods signal the player is ready to play. Currently used by the character selector, so right now this event only triggers once the player has selected his character (or right away if he selected it already in a previous join). Cleaned up XML documentation for PlayerJoin, PlayerNowPlaying events
• Tweak: Animal generation check happens from EntityBehaviorHealth instead of BehaviorHealingItem
• Tweak: BlockEntity tick listeners now log their positions on exception
• Tweak: Incorrectly formatted strings sent to ILogger methods now will throw compile errors instead of crashing ingame
• Tweak: Unhardcode antler item names from antler growth behavior
• Tweak: Changed Entity.ServerPos and Entity.SidedPos to refer to the Entity.Pos property, so they are no longer different from the Pos property. This is to remove confusion about which to use where.
• Tweak: In EntityBehaviorMultiply, can now provide an array of requiresNearbyEntityCodes from json. On the code side, more fields made accessible.
• Tweak: Sailboat-mounted lantern no longer uses a separate model. It instead attaches the 'wall' lantern shape to an invisible LANTERNPARENT element in the sailboat shape. One less model to maintain.
• Tweak: Methods in BehaviorRideableAccessories made protected and virtual
• Tweak: Duplicated landform/mutation codes in landforms.json are no longer valid. The game will error and exit on startup now. Each landform must have a unique code.
• Tweak: Allow harvestable skeps to have custom food tags defined in JSON
• Tweak: Allow custom food tags for ItemStack variants with ICreatureDietFoodTags
• Tweak: Blockpatch system: also respect forest value even for UnderTree placement
• Tweak: Targetable AI tasks can read a TargetOnlyInteractableEntities true/false value from json
• Tweak: API additions to IMapRegion and IServerEventAPI to support future river generation
• Tweak: IBlockFlowing now has additional properties and methods, including position-aware GetPushVector(BlockPos). Default implementations are in BlockForFluidsLayer.cs. Modded liquid blocks should ensure their implementation is correct otherwise particle or entity motion may be wrong, or other bugs
• Deprecation: ItemPoultice moved to Legacy folder. Use BehaviorHealingItem instead.
• Fixed: EntityVillager modding robustness. Did not respect mod domain, crashed on missing textures or missing sounds, did not allow for single sound voice
• Fixed: Don't crash when no hotbar is loaded and one uses the offhand slot flip hotkey
• Fixed: seraph face and body became invisible after .reload textures command
• Fixed: When loading a world the font size of labeled chests will no longer reset to the default size
• Fixed: Farmland at low temperatures or low light levels now properly delays crop growth even when temperatures and light levels increase back to acceptable levels
• Fixed: The termite mound would drop itself instead of termites when their supporting block was removed
• Fixed: .reload shapes command was not reloading placed blocks properly
• Fixed: Avoid null reference exception when calling WorldMap.TryAccess when access is not granted despite being unclaimed
• Fixed: Item/tool/material texture folder contained many redundant and non-standard-sized textures. All textures in this folder have been reassigned to other standard textures, or moved. Spear and spearhead itemtype json texture sections reorganized.
• Fixed: Properly use loaded metal variants for all types of blocks and items
• Fixed: Max saturation being reset to 1500 on client side
• Fixed: Game crashing under `.cf sedi 1` plus spawned projectiles
• Fixed: Loading of assets is now fully case insensitive internally. Should fix uppercase/lowercase asset loading issues on modded assets
• Fixed: Crash when parsing json to an AssetLocation using AsObject
• Fixed: DrawSvg,LoadSvg,LoadSvgWithPadding with no color specified would default to fully transparent now we properly load the color from the SVG and convert it to BGRA for rendering
• Fixed: Normalize normal vector before packing to stop bit bleeding (PR 55 by phonon)
• Fixed: BlockLiquidContainerBase TryTakeContent would sometimes give back incorrect stack size
• Fixed: When eating a liquid container with nutrition properties the player's satiety would become NAN and eventually lead to a crash
• Fixed: Properly allow for liquid containers that are edible, and will be eaten when empty
• Fixed: Creative inventory tabs cut off wide text
• Fixed: CollectibleBehavior.GetRemainingDurability() called CollectibleBehavior.OnGetMaxDurability() instead of .GetRemainingDurability()
• Fixed: Interaction help itemstack rendering can go oversize
• Fixed: Rendering ui inventory contents into a framebuffer did not work
• Fixed: Seaweed and Seagrass had EnumBlockMaterial.Liquid instead of Plant

Game updates (changes since 1.22.0-rc.10, also included above)

• Tweak: Remove large bellows recipe since mechanical power integration was not finished in time
• Tweak: Allow diagonal snow shovelling
• Tweak: When pushing lots of snow, little bits may fall off on either side
• Fixed: Incorrect link in the fishing guide
• Fixed: Rare crash involving written parchment or book in hotbar
• Fixed: Rare crash when adding meal to an empty bowl on the ground. GH #8650
• Fixed: One exploit to split rapid flowing streams when flowing vertically down
• Fixed: 2x1 and 1x2 paintings only half visible when there was a decor layer on the wall
• Fixed: Sprinting would drain less satiety when low on health
• Fixed: Hunger rate applied twice, causing a setting of 0.5x to be 0.25x and of 2x to be 4x
• Fixed: Unable to put empty bowl into barrel inventory slot
• Fixed: Berry bush cuttings would drop without traits when broken
• Fixed: Bear attack range increase wasn't properly applied
• Fixed: Missing carp texture error
• Fixed: Able to temper more often than quench
• Fixed: Falling coal was rendered as a big unknown block
• Fixed: Fishbait dupe bug
• Fixed: Ability to duplicate/destroy various blocks using snow shovels
• Fixed: Snowcovered slabs not flush with adjacent blocks
• Fixed: Multiple locust fixes
  • Tamed locust behavior all over the place. Now properly protects the owner again and does not attack neutral creatures
  • Tamed locust Moves faster to owner when owner is too far away (had foot sliding)
  • In snow walkspeed debuff applied twice to all locusts
  • Fixed game crashing when right clicking a dead tamed locust
  • Less wonky stepping on small steps. Will now use the stepping behavior instead of going vertical climb on small height differences
• Fixed: Again broken layering of upperbody clothing on seraphs
• Fixed: No longer able to sell clothing in the auction house
• Revert "Fixed: 'Light brown' and 'weathered' wattle and daub textures were switched."

Game updates

• Tweak: Wall mount block info text name is now set to the placed item
• Tweak: Bass and carp shapes and textures changed to support greater variety of fin sizes
• Tweak: Allow diagonal snow shovelling
• Tweak: When pushing lots of snow, little bits may fall off on either side
• Tweak: Display what clothing can fit on what mannequins in the handbook
• Tweak: Remove handbook grouping from clothing
• Tweak: Heated forge items hold initial heat for double the time they did previously (cool down slower).
• Tweak: Increase bear attack range again so you can't perma kite bears. Increase attack frequency on boars and wolves
• Tweak: Upped survival time of trapped animals from 1 day to 2 days
• Tweak: Can now also sell trapped animals in the auction house
• Tweak: Moved arctic white and silvery blue butterfly into warmer spawn zones
• Tweak: Restored custom spawn conditions lost in the 1.18 update
  • Harsh winters setting now again disables livestock spawn (deer, sheep, boars and chickens). It didn't
  • Wolves and Bears now again are on a grace timer in new worlds. 4 hours for wolves, 1 day for bears.
• Tweak: (minor) Wild berry bushes now show greenhouse temperature bonus
• Tweak: Further increased duration of auctions by 66% (3 weeks => 5 weeks)
• Tweak: Show adjusted mining speed in tool tip for quenched tools
• Fixed: Crash when using tongs to hold a hot item with no attributes
• Fixed: Pickled veggies would display incorrectly in cooking pot
• Fixed: Axles in walls properly act solid in various situations like for rooms or when blocking water or light
• Fixed: Server-side exception when breaking waterwheel mechanical power network with unconnected network on far side of wheel
• Fixed: Two issues with water wheel losing power on 2nd side
• Fixed: Snow shovel had only 1 durability
• Fixed: Ability to duplicate/destroy various blocks using snow shovels
• Fixed: Oddities when shovelling deep snow
• Fixed: Disabled solid fat causing error logs.
• Fixed: Snow-covered cranberries, strawberryies, and cloudberries had full-block hitboxes.
• Fixed: 'Nadiyan' trader hoods were not using correct textures.
• Fixed: Clay tile piles would show 4 tiles at a time added or removed, even if less than four were in fact added/removed.
• Fixed: 'Light brown' and 'weathered' wattle and daub textures were switched.
• Fixed: Dead fox tails went into the ground, and the body hovered above the ground a bit.
• Fixed: Partially worked iron blooms from before the 1.22 update would turn into random other items when completed
• Fixed: Butterfly related client crash
• Fixed: Quenching and tempering buffs where not properly applied
• Fixed: Propick was not buffable
• Fixed: Tongs could not be placed into the forge
• Fixed: Cleaver heads could not be covered in clay for quenching
• Fixed: Chisel needed hammer in offhand to be placed into the forge
• Fixed: Crash when going throught a TL while a empty collapsed chest is open
• Fixed: Should theoretically fix client side ghost item entities on laggy servers
• Fixed: Baskettrap trigger animation was rotated differently than the base block
• Fixed: Baskettrap or Crate trap animation broken when both traps were placed
• Fixed: Placing an iron bloom on an anvil caused its temperature to drop immediately
• Fixed: Command /land list would not output the correct center postions if a claim had multiple areas
• Fixed: When milking goats your inventory could get out of sync and remove buckets or causes getting kicked from the server.
• Fixed: A broken chisel sometimes returning the the players inventory with 1 or 2 durability left
• Fixed: Prevent game crash on invalid worldmap waypoint saved names file loading
• Fixed: Custom spawn condition harsh winters not correctly applied to the south hemisphere
• Fixed: "spawnRadius" not a circular spawn area and sometimes spawning player outside of the radius. Fixed a respawning player placed at a block edge. Mitigate spawning inside blocks.
• Fixed: Performance: Soil ticking twice as often than needed. Reduced single tickrate by another 30%
• Fixed: Able to quench tools without a chance of shattering them
• Fixed: "\" character in the quenching info
• Fixed: Water not placed in worldgen schematics
• Fixed: Multi drop down select not remembered the checked boxes (e.g. in the meta spawner ui). Also fixed missing translation entries in the meta spawner ui creature dropdown
• Fixed: Thrown bricks got destroyed on impact
• Fixed: Z-fighting / UV issues on some clothing
• Fixed: Not possible to reinforce or lock labeled chests
• API Tweak: Added ITagRegistry.CreateMergedTagSet to merge two tagsets into one (previously only possible on TagSetFast)
• API Refactor: Smithing recipes now require a 'code' to be defined. A unique identifier that must not be changed once defined. Will print a warning for 1.22 but not be used. Will be actively used once we hit 1.23.
• API Tweak: Allow mods to define their own tileddungeons.json file similar to other structures
• API Fixed: ITagSet.RegisterAndCreateTagSet() not behaving correctly
• API Fixed: Using a texture overlay on an entity causes a crash (thank you JantekM for describing the exact line of code to change) 

Screenshot by Sirayne, shared in #screenshots on Discord

Game updates

• Feature: Added a backup partial command, /db backuppartial 16000 16000 16005 16005 to extract all game and player data but only some chunks. Usefull to extract a broken area for debugging.
• Tweak: The Theater and Deep Noble clothing set now has a rare chance to drop in ruins loot
• Tweak: Turned the worldmap waypoint backdrop from an outline into a shadow, which looks better on some icons
• Tweak: Rusted gates and doors now all drop metal scrap (some used to drop themselves).
• Tweak: Added a handbook guide for fishing, which more thoroughly describes how to find fish, and why you might not be catching fish. Also added links in worm handbook entries, to the worm grunting stick.
• Tweak: Raccoons can now fight back
• Tweak: Less janky wormgrunting. Fix durability desync, fix audio not stopping, grunting now ends after 5 seconds
• Tweak: Fine tuned grunting sound and animation. Can now also worm grunt on farmland (but the farmlands fertilty will not influence yield)
• Tweak: Foxes now move about 1/3 faster.
• Tweak: Pigs' movement speed and seeking ranges increased.
• Tweak: Performance: Items on the ground, not close to a player, enter a slow-updating state after 5 seconds
• Tweak: Performance: Further minor improvement for farmland ticking
• Tweak: Performance: Improve multiplayer server tick times around farmland and berry bushes
• Tweak: Generate gravel in some areas where it would generate no block layers and only have exposed rock (Worldgen change) 
• Tweak: More glow and particles on the forge when being bellowed
• Tweak: Added selected block class to hud debug screen
• Tweak: Berry bush handbook text updated to reflect recent changes regarding soil fertility mechanics.
• Tweak: Command /genbackup backup.vcdbs will now delete the prior backup file before a backup is started to ensure a proper backup is made
• Tweak: /wgen regen now also reloads blocklayers.json
• Tweak: Added contaminated coal item model and tweaked texture
• Tweak: SFX & GFX fine tuning
  • Tweak: Rainfall particles buff: +5% opacity, +20% rain particles, +300% raindrop splash particles, +30% rain particle size
  • Fixed: Dead shivers no longer keep mouth idle animation running
  • Tweak: Replaced placeholder fishing rod swish
  • Tweaked hats to show more hair.
  • Fixed small issues on Theater hats
  • Fixed: Some hoods were hiding hats
• Fixed: All pigs would only be protective around gray boar piglets, even if not that species. Pigs also would only attack if in aggressiveondamage emotion state, resulting in charging the player and then running away. They now will attack whenever in close range.
• Fixed: Replaced many big lanterns with the new small ones in generated structures
• Fixed: Replaced old berry bushes in story locations
• Fixed: Placing snow shovel on ground locks movement speed to 60%
• Fixed: Worldmap: Only the first 36 waypoint icons were displaying the correct icon
• Fixed: Spawning of animals during world generation would use the wrong temperature
• Fixed: Imposter bellows cacti. Caused cacti to generate on water and not stack
• Fixed: Texture overlays didn't work for attached items
• Fixed: Aged and very aged cabinets were not available in creative inventory
• Fixed: Sheep logging errors with regard to a 'look' animation they did not have
• Fixed: Rawhide mantle related errors in the loot randomizer
• Fixed: Fishing pole tool rack transform position was excessively high
• Fixed: Wanderer belt and sturdy backpack would cause texture problems when worn together
• Fixed: Small bellows leather textures had some mis-match near the nozzle.
• Fixed: Unable to catch juvenile fish due to fishing pole not recognizing bait
• Fixed: Berry bush cuttings would say "trait-" when they had no traits
• Fixed: Help command logged an error when asked about wgen structures spawn
• Fixed: Chiseled block combine in the crafting grid at the entire stack of chiseled blocks
• Fixed: Should fix rare lockup of chunkdbthread when attempting to suspend server for autosave [details: de-link thread paused state from worldgen threads paused state]
• Fixed: Prevent NRE in /debug chunk here command when chunk is not loaded
• Fixed: Farmland not updating moisture levels on the interim days while fast-forwarding when chunk-loading
• Fixed: Server crashing for unhandled exceptions
• Fixed: Should fix kicked from server when interacting with the fishinpole in some way
• Fixed: Should fix geting kicked when using /group kick command
• Fixed: Error log when many players connect and once and some get disconnected during that very early
• Fixed: Should fix getting kicked when interacting with liquids
• Fixed: Should fix server side error log with berry bush
• Fixed: Mitigate game calendar client<=>server desync issue by sending more calendar syncs to clients. Should reduce oddities with time sensitive actions, such as hot ingots on a forge
• Fixed: Should fix wildly jumping forge contents at random
• Fixed: Multiple issues with the fishing bobber and fishing line. Ghost bobbers should no longer be a thing. Ghost rope should no longer happen. The fishing line will now rip if too far away from the bobber.
• Fixed: Entity box searching with e[] selector not working since rc7
• Fixed: Should fix rare crash when loading in mehcanical power networks
• Fixed: Cloudberry hitbox too large
• Fixed: Fundamental breakage with the entity spawner
• Fixed: Properly remove players from the map tracking system even when their game crashes
• Fixed: Sheep would use the wrong name when being listed in troughs
• API Tweak: Prevent exceptions in Mod events in Server/ClientEventAPI Server/ClientEventManger canceling any further event processing
• API Tweak: The looked at block class is now displayed on the hud debug screen
• API Tweak: Can now run "/wgen region animal" to export animal spawn maps of the current region. Also prints out current animal=>map association to the log file.
• API Fixed: Some mechanical power blocks not having the right texture

Greenhouse by enn, shared in #screenshots on Discord

Game updates

• Feature: Added raspberry, blackberry, and cloudberry plants. Blackberry and raspberry plants have a walkspeed reduction
• Tweak: Added command "/announcenear [range] [message]" to send an announcement in given block range only
• Tweak: Tailor buff: increased Mender trait durability bonus from 10% to 25%
• Tweak: Better keyboard support for dropdown menus (can now use Up/Down/Home/End keys for selection or hovered index when expanded)
• Tweak: Log additional information when the server is unable to save
• Tweak: Retry autosave every 2000ms instead of every 500ms to still let through some server ticks. Resume the server on failed autosave
• Fixed: Many z-fighting, clipping and texture issues in the new clothing 
• Fixed: Crocks sealed in ground storage would not properly update model
• Fixed: Output stack in all recipe types except GridRecipe didn't retain attributes on client-side
• Fixed: Crash when breaking rubble using the prospecting pick
• Fixed: Artisan trader was selling complete tile blocks, now sells the individual tile items
• Fixed: When buying an elk in winter, the snow could prevent elks from spawning
• Fixed: Should fix rare trader crashes when buying more than 1 stack (e.g. plaster from Building Materials trader) Github #8878
• Fixed: Crash to desktop if re-clicking certain tabs in Customize World screen. Github #6908
• Fixed: Rare WindPattern SimplexNoiseOctave exceptions
• Fixed: Rare server lock-ups relating to internal chunkdata locks
• Fixed: Rare crash when animating pouring from a container
• Fixed: "/tp Tyron e[id=140]" not working
• Fixed: Single pixel inaccuracies when clipping oversized items in GUI and in the item hover info element
• Fixed: When against a wall in third-party view then opening a chest, player would be able to interact with blocks through a wall
• Fixed: Forge workitem temperature desync between server and client
• Fixed: Hot coals flicker when adding/removing ingots
• Fixed: Hitboxes of piles of items were off by 1 layer on the server side
• Fixed: Raccoon sometimes stuck on endless eat animation
• Fixed: Game crashing when bulk grabbing items from a pile of items with a basket on top
• API Tweak: Clutter blocks can now define custom drops and a custom block material
• API Tweak: Added collectible attribute "inCrateShape" for custom in-crate shapes
• API Tweak: RecipeLoader load methods made public for use in mods, they remain static though.
• API Tweak: Further JSON documentations by Dana
• API Fixed: "inBarrelShape" attribute not working as intended
• API Fixed: Accidentally changed how the milk type was loaded from JSON for milking behavior
• 1.22 related changes
  • Tweak: Worm grunting nerfs: Spawn rate goes down when the temperature is below 10°C, decreasing all the way to zero spawn rate when below 0°C. Reduced maximum amount a location can yield
  • Tweak: New 1.22 extra glow near a held or dropped light source is now no longer visible during daylight
  • Tweak: Held and planted berry bush cuttings now also display their traits
  • Tweak: Switched body slot for rawhide mantle and rawhide tunic
  • Fixed: Bellows was not mentioned in any handbook guides, and had no explanatory text in its handbook entry.
  • Fixed: Crash when picking up some items with tongs
  • Fixed: Kicked from server when harvesting berry bushes with a knife
  • Fixed: Crash when riding elk in multiplayer
  • Fixed: Spelling in handbook: propogate -> propagate
  • Fixed: Adjusted warmth values for new clothing
  • Fixed: Aprons had the wrong color
  • Fixed: A couple of missing translation entries
  • Fixed: Placing a cabinet caused other nearby players to crash, in -rc.6
  • Fixed: Aged and veryaged cabinets were missing textures
  • Fixed: Fishing pole eats a stack of bait (Github #8887)
  • Fixed: Water not always spreading horizontally along channels with half-slabs forming sides
  • Fixed: Rapid flowing water continuously oscillating between two different routes
  • Fixed: Rapid flowing water minor issues (eg. a block could be left behind if it doubled-back on itself)
  • Fixed: Worm grunting stick not placeable solo
  • Fixed: Another case of the snow shovel deleting blocks
  • Fixed: Fertilized berry bushes produced upgraded soil that can be harvested

The recently relaunched official public server (TOPS) is now running smoothly, thanks to Andrew from BisectHosting. Big shout out to them for jumping to the challenge and helping us out quickly and unbureaucratically.

The road to stable continues....


Screenshot by ZerSchitzler, shared in #screenshots on Discord

Game updates

• Feature: Begin adding more blocks in preparation for more dynamic dungeon pieces - aged banners, contaminated iron clutter, contaminated coal, ruined bloomery pieces
• Feature: Fish can now be cooked whole, which takes less time than cooking fillets individually. Whole cooked fish cannot, however, be used in the cooking pot, nor can they be divided into fillets after cooking.
• Tweak: Performance: Reduced startup times during asset loading, 26s to 7s with some modpacks. Contributed by tehtelev with adjustments by radfast
• Tweak: Performance: Reduce unnecessary arrays created for Block Interaction Help
• Tweak: Performance: Minor server boost in many areas: reduce unneeded array initialization
• Tweak: Crushed items and flour items now use a solid texture, rather than one that is mostly transparent, thus allowing the solid texture to be used in containers. As a result the crushed and flour models have also changed, and have more polys. All crushed items also now use the 'normal' model
• Tweak: The container (barrel and crate) shape UVs have been adjusted to be centered within the texture, rather than in a corner
• Tweak: Many more items and blocks will now show textures in a crates and barrels (mostly crates)
• Fixed: Should fix getting kicked from a server breaking some repairable clutter blocks
• Fixed: Z-fighting on large ruined crate
• Fixed: The warmth values of rawhide mantle and tunic were reversed. Also the rawhide mantle was not worn in the right layer (now worn in upperbodyover).
• Fixed: Armor stands were missing localizations for their wear locations (as seen in the HUD)
• Fixed: Aged thatch roof tips had unnaturally dark faces
• Fixed: On Vintagehosting Dashboard > World Settings when changing the playstyle the default playstyle values where not update
• Fixed: When creating a Singleplayer world and after click apply on world settings and then changing the playstyle would not apply the default playstyle values
• Fixed: Milking an animal would not always give you fresh milk
• Fixed: Berry bush cutting had collision boxes
• Fixed: Crash when opening the World Settings screen on the Vintagehosting Dashboard
• Fixed: On Vintagehosting Dashboard > World Settings when changing the playstyle the default playstyle values where not update
• Fixed: When creating a Singleplayer world and after click apply on world settings and then changing the playstyle would not apply the default playstyle values
• Fixed: When spilling liquids on the ground on larger servers (low server tick rate) it may have spawned water source blocks in your inventory
• Fixed: Quenching buffs on some tools applied multiple times during crafting
• API Tweak: Ground processing can now specify a sound to play upon completion, whether or not to transfer the freshness, and surfaces that are valid for the interaction
• 1.22 related changes
  • Tweak: Item clutter is now cabinet-place-able, if appropriate size
  • Tweak: Berry bushes can also be planted on low fertility soil
  • Tweak: Show the number of days left on berry bushes for certain stages
  • Tweak: Berry bushes now require sunlight to grow and will take a penalty from being grown underground
  • Tweak: Young berry bushes can no longer mature when it's too cold for their mature variant to grow fruit
  • Fixed: In 1.22-rc.5, recipes with tools were not consuming the tool durability at all
  • Fixed: When you crash during snow shoveling, you would be stuck with a -40% walkspeed reduction and when you reconnect and try to use the snow shovel again you would be kicked
  • Fixed: Crash when opening the World Settings screen on the Vintagehosting Dashboard
  • Fixed: Mannequins did not accept arm wearables
  • Fixed: Rawhide tunic returned pelts rather than raw hides when using large and huge hides
  • Fixed: New clothing sets 'centurion' and 'popinjay' had texture conflicts between footwear and waist wearables
  • Fixed: Berry bush cuttings would always take exactly 2 months to grow instead of using the full range of 2 to 4 months
  • Fixed: Occasionally planting and growing berry bush cuttings would result in your berry bush displaying `trait-` on the traits line unintentionally
  • Fixed: Avoid crash in EntityItemRenderer
  • Fixed: Multiplayer server may lockup during temporal storms [thanks to th3dilli]
  • Fixed: In grid crafting, tool-based recipes (eg. Improvised wooden armor) could show less than full durability for the output item, on the client side
  • Fixed: Theater randomizer properly localized
  • Fixed: Ruined clay lamps had bad collision boxes
  • Fixed: Raw fish transfer their freshness when filleted
  • Fixed: Missing language strings for berry bush cuttings covered in snow
  • Tweak: Added neck hole to pillory
  • API Fixed: Ground processing will now only process one item at a time instead of an entire stack

We're working nearly non-stop since the TOPS re-launch in order to get the game running smoothly. The work continues with this release...
 

Screenshot by TylerSantaFe, shared on discord #screenshots

Game updates

• Tweak: Performance: Minor improvements to server TPS on large multiplayer servers (TOPS)
• Tweak: Performance: Game freezing when many blocks started falling
• Tweak: For Server owners: A quick little solution to tell apart your server staff - "/player [playername] privilege grant staffentitlement" will give you a cyan colored [Staff] prefix
• Tweak: Simple AFK kick timer for game servers (enable via /sc afkkickseconds  and /sc afkwarnseconds)
• Tweak: Added /sc timeoutkickseconds
• Tweak: Bear seeking ranges reduced. Bear attack ranges are now shorter and different for different sizes of bear
• Tweak: Reduced meat and bone drops for some fish (many of the smaller fish that previously yielded a bone will now yield none)
• Tweak: Dough stink bait is now a separate bait type from other meat-based stink baits. Output of stink bait cooking recipe reduced, and red meat and poultry will produce more stink bait than dough or other meats.
• Tweak: Theater arm clothing fully implemented.
• Tweak: Shelf displayable attributes added/improved for ceramic bowls, pots, crocks, ingot molds, oil lamps, nails and strips, poultices, and bandages, including stacking where appropriate. Also added shelf displayable attributes for crucibles, flower pots, and jugs, even though they do not fit on the current cabinet shelving
• Tweak: The server /stats commands now no longer includes connecting players in the current player count
• Fixed: Should fix rare Support beam errors causing player disconnection; and fixes Support Beams sometimes placing incorrectly/invisibly or with ? textures  [existing beams with ? textures can be removed using the Crowbar tool]
• Fixed: Logged errors when a Worm Grunter stick reaches zero durability
• Fixed: Error log spam from hidden clothing parts when wearing armor
• Fixed: Crash when trading and buy and sell amount are equal: would cause no money to be transferred
• Fixed: Game crash caused by gnats
• Fixed: Game crash caused by ground storage
• Fixed: Prevent server crash on exception in BehaviorBodyTemperature and log additional information
• Fixed: Stones thrown straight up getting stuck mid-air
• Fixed: Bowl water splash particles not colored correctly
• Fixed: Ambient slider in settings not working when settings are not expanded
• Fixed: Seraph 'grin' face and 'kind' face swapped
• Fixed: Berry bushes will properly randomize their appearance
• Fixed: Dropped items forever rotating even when colliding with the ground
• Fixed: Some small fish would appear to leave behind bones when ground processed, but when picked up no bone would appear in inventory
• Fixed: Iron blooms did not always have enough metal voxels to make a full ingot
• Fixed: Prevent exploit where 2 small water wheels can be placed overlapping in the same stream
• Fixed: Animals still able to multiply with dead males nearby
• Fixed: Psychedelic mushrooms would not properly get you high when used in a meal
• Fixed: Various berry bush fixes
  • Berry bushes would not properly save and load the amount of time it took to transition to the next stage of growth
  • Wild berry bushes would incorrectly pretend to be young when spawned
  • Grown berry bushes would not have a young stage
  • Young berry bushes would not use the proper graphics
  • Thin skinned and thick skinned berry bush traits were accidentally swapped
  • Berry bushes would not properly pause their growth when below or above the pausing growth temperatures
• Fixed: Farmland would not recover while growing, instead recovering when the crop was ripe
• Fixed: Rollers place inconsistently based on player's orientation 
• Fixed: The clayforming gui still said bowls could be made into lamps, and had no descriptions for tiles or lamp bodies.
• Fixed: Raw and fired-but-empty lamp bodies showed the wick.
• Fixed: Non-ruined metal gates were not dropping themselves when broken.
• Fixed: Sturdy backpack buckles would sometimes have texture conflicts with necklaces.
• Fixed: Rotten, very rotten, and very aged support beams had grid recipes, despite dropping nothing when broken (they are not meant to be obtainable).
• Fixed: Game showed a confusing error when certain files were missing. Now explains that it needs a re-install
• Fixed: Various multiplayer server fixes
  • Fixed: Able to queue up in the player join queue multiple times
  • Fixed: Overloaded server sometimes adding duplicates of same player to the connection queue
  • Fixed: Made file logging threadsafe. Might fix garbage data written to logs on large servers
  • Fixed: Crash when starting a standalone server after removing certain roles from serverconfig.json
  • Fixed: A large connection queue affected how many players can join
  • Fixed: The connection queue only processing when a player leaves
  • Fixed: The ModIdWhitelist did not work properly for some mods
  • Fixed: Wonky /list clients output. Now prints *all* clients sorted by connection state
• API Fixed: Psychedelic properties of food were not synched from server to client
• API Fixed: FoodNutritionProperties.SaturationLossDelay was unused

The road to stable continues. #2

Build by Galejro, shared on discord in #screenshots

Game updates

• Tweak: Cockerels crow even more often than roosters. They're so excited to show off their new voice!
• Fixed: Missing texture for pressed olive mash in small trough
• Fixed: When pouring liquid into different containers the transition time would not properly average
• Fixed: Always return pulverizer input item if caps are too weak to crush it
• Fixed: Reindeer herder collared shirt had incorrect warmth
• Fixed: Hens running threateningly towards player when injured
• Fixed: Rare chance for a rooster to lay an egg
• API Tweak: Farming growth rate temperature penalties are now defined in JSON config
• API Fixed: The storystructures.json skipGenerationCategories were not properly enforced for type structure,cave,pond,creatures. Further the radius check for skipGenerationCategories was not correct, now radius 0 means only inside the structure's cuboid size and if it is greater than 0 it will enforce that radius regardless of the cuboid. This was broken since 1.22-pre.1
• 1.22 related changes
  • Tweak: Bait exclusive biting. Worms will now only catch small-to-medium size fish.  Larger fish will generally require stink baits, meat, or fish
  • Tweak: Raw meats and small fish are now valid bait types
  • Tweak: Thrown bricks no longer get destroyed on impact
  • Tweak: Water wheels now only accept stronger wood types
  • Fixed: Water wheels would allow attempts to use non-wood support beams, causing crashes
  • Fixed: Male and female traders now have a full list of names to draw from
  • Fixed: Rifts not working client side since 1.22.0-pre.1
  • Fixed: Crowbar leaving behind invisible block when last beam was removed
  • Fixed: Sailboat not launching after construction
  • Fixed: Strange additional grid recipes on cabinet doors
  • Fixed: Cabinet dupe bug
  • Fixed: Server-side exception when releasing a dead animal from a reed chest
  • Fixed: When breaking the block below a berry bush it would error and not remove the berry bush properly
  • Fixed: Harvesting berry bushes wouldn't play harvesting sound
  • Fixed: Added missing olive mash trough texture
  • Fixed: When the large windmill was obstructed it dropped the wrong kind of sails

The road to stable continues.

Game updates

• Tweak: Added checkbox to turn off auto suggestion of saved waypoint names
• Tweak: Fruit show which fruit tree they are harvested from in handbook
• Tweak: Chain, scale, lamellae, ingots, rods, and bosses are now stackable in cabinets
• Tweak: When riding elk at the slowest speed with a snaffle bit, tapping S while still holding W will stop you briefly
• Tweak: Grass-covered blocks also spawn some dirt particles depending on grass coverage level
• Fixed: Grass covered soil blocks sometimes creating half-transparent particles
• Fixed: ModDB Error: Bad Request when connecting to a server with multiple missing mods.
• Fixed: Treasure hunters no longer selling treasure maps in old chunks (1.20 and before)
• Fixed: Chiseled glass not playing rain ambient sound
• Fixed: Mechanical part piles took almost no time to break
• Fixed: Able to use up a temporal gear to set a spawn even when temporal gear spawns are set to 0
• Fixed: Properly reset spawn if RemainingUses is 0 when set
• API Fixed: JSON patches that target a property with an integer as part of the path would fail. Github #4932
• API Fixed: Allow inFirepitProps to be explicitly set to null in JSON
• API Fixed: When calculating mounted rider render position, also take player scale into account
• 1.22 related changes
  • Tweak: Cabinet doors can now be removed with a wrench + Ctrl key + right click
  • Tweak: Berry bush now tells when the next cutting can be taken
  • Tweak: Berry bush traits are now colored (red=bad, green=good).
  • Tweak: No longer downgrade soil when berry bush cuttings grow
  • Tweak: Fur-lined vest moved from upperbody slot (shirts) to upperbodyover slot (coats).
  • Tweak: Fishing rebalancing
    • Reduced max fish per location from 15 to 12
    • Increased minimum "general fish frequency" from 0% to 20%.
    • Can now exchange bait on the fishing pole. In the next update some fish will only bite with certain bait
    • Fixed current bait not shown in the fishing pole item info while fishing
  • Fixed: Several issues with grid-crafting in 1.22.0-rc.1 and -rc.2:
    • Fixed grid recipe outputs sometimes invisible (especially when dragging a stack)
    • Fixed several oddities and wrong quantities when grid crafting shapeless recipes such as Trunk or opened Crate
    • Fixed multiple recipe tags not properly matching in some cases
  • Fixed: Crash when placing Helve hammer head on the ground
  • Fixed: Cabinet shelf model volumes adjusted to more closely match the actual model
  • Fixed: Cabinet shelf volumes were not all the way at the back, and their names all gave the height as 5, despite that many in fact had space for 6 high
  • Fixed: Upgrading very old worlds (1.18 / 1.19) could lead to spawning of rivulets, hot springs and some other worldgen features too close to the Resonance Archives
  • Fixed: Dungeons would not regenerate using /wgen regen
  • Fixed: Entities like armor stands would not be placed properly in dungeons
  • Fixed: Other players would sometimes not properly update on map until you got close to them
  • Fixed: Player markers would not disappear from the map when players logged out of the game
  • Fixed: Player would sometimes not appear on the map even for themselves
  • Fixed: Shad and chub fish were not quad-placeable for filleting
  • Fixed: Ceramic tiles, cooking pot, and oil lamp textures were swapped, and so not matching their sets well
  • Fixed: Ripe berry bushes would not drop the berries if broken rather than harvested
  • Fixed: Berry bushes show what kind of fruit they drop when harvested in handbook again
  • Fixed: Crash in berry bush code with certain wild berry bushes
  • Fixed: New berry bush breaking texture did not work, which caused client side log spam
  • API Fixed: On mounts with more than two forward gaits, you could not slow down without completely stopping (bug introduced in 1.22)

This update fixes the most egregious bugs with the rc.1 release. While adding an unintended(!) new bug: in grid crafting, when spreading items between grid slots by dragging a stack, some recipe outputs will currently be invisible (but if the player clicks those items into the grid or takes the invisible item from the slot, the correct item has in fact been crafted) - we'll get this fixed for rc.3 ...

Game updates

• Tweak: Fruiting bush cuttings now decay to a stick at only a 25% chance, rather than 100% chance.
• Tweak: Performance - eliminate client-side block lag when placing/breaking blocks at large view distances while distant parts of world still loading
• Fixed: Ongoing trader accessory cleanup, normalized element names across Villager hairstyle models
• Fixed: Several freshwater fish were missing a 'run' animations.
• Fixed: Hunter backpack was not centered on the seraph's back when worn.
• Fixed: The Server Dashboard would not show the seed anymore after a client restart
• Fixed: Dungeons where not properly disabled in Homo Sapiens mode
• Fixed: Unable to step up onto trapdoors in front of trader houses
• Fixed: Treasure hunter trader would give the same dialogue options as other traders
• Fixed: Add proper name for fish pies
• Fixed: Trading window would sometimes have too wide of a title bar
• Fixed: Trader dialog window showed the wrong title
• Fixed: Raccoons will once again harvest berries
• Fixed: Foraging bonus applies to wild berry bushes
• Fixed: Berry bushes will properly update the time needed to grow when changing state
• Fixed: Berry bush "Health state:" and "Growth state" can be properly localized
• Fixed: In handbook, armor items would crash the game in 1.22.0-rc.1
• Fixed: Bad corruption to chunks in worlds first created in game version 1.20 or earlier, when loaded in 1.22.0-rc.1
• Fixed: Crash when attempting to sit on a raft
• Fixed: Crash when players get too far away from each other in multiplayer
• Fixed: Error in log when players leave in multiplayer
• Fixed: Linux install script now properly checks for net 10
• Fixed: Hay block not craftable, in 1.22.0-rc.1  [due to overlap with grass shirt recipe]
• API Feature: Add IBellowsAirReceiver to allow mods to attach the bellows to things other than the forge - thanks to funions123
• API Fixed: Properly load all values of berry bushes the way you'd expect and add more defaults

In this update we focused on cramming as much new content into one update as we possibly could. Reminder - the "rc" in the version number stands for "release candidate" which means our team's focus will now shift to bugfixing and game balancing until stable. Expect some level of jankiness still. Rivers and Sawmills did not make it in time for 1.22 unfortunately (they are still in progress) but even without these, this update is possibly the largest we ever made in terms of game content. Enjoy!

Special thanks to community members devpikachu, sneezerstein, jayu, urm, Remilia (@Lazula on github) and tehtelev for contributing code to the 1.22 update

Can I start playing 1.22 now?
We are decently confident that your old worlds will not break. Please wait with upgrading your old worlds to 1.22 until we fixed newly introduced worldgen issues. Even so, we highly recommend making a backup copy of your 1.21 worlds before upgrading the game to 1.22. If you want to be on the safe side, wait until 1.22.0 stable. And if you tried out our earlier pre-releases, continuing a 1.22.0-pre world is not recommended.

v1.22 still unfinished / known issues
The large bellows cannot yet be powered through the mechanical power system. There are z-fighting and clipping issues with the new clothing for the seraph and trader. Some of the trader clothing combinations are too random. The new dynamic dungeons will not drop when broken and some parts are unfinished. Various other minor issues.

Screenshots of new additions since pre.1

Added the first iteration of dynamic dungeons to Survival mode


Fully reworked Trader models

Added many new clothing sets for the player

Full reworked berry bushes

Game updates

• Everything listed in the pre.1 post plus everything below
• Feature: A first, proof-of-concept fully dynamic dungeon now spawns in Survival mode. They appear far apart from each other, roughly every 1500 blocks
• Feature: Fully reworked trader models. Added climate specific clothing for traders
• Feature: Added many new clothing sets to be found, traded or crafted. (WIP)
• Feature: Fully reworked berry bushes. Pre-1.22 berry bushes are now legacy blocks: they will no longer be available in the Creative inventory, but any in existing worlds are still functional blocks in-game
  • Fully reworked models
  • Can only be propagated by taking a cutting with a knife which when planted takes 6 to 12 months to mature into a new bush
  • Berry bushes require fertilization or they will stop bearing fruit. Berry bush nutrient use tapers off by 15% per year (resulting in about 5% use after 20 years). Some bone meal each year should be enough to give you a decent harvest
  • A handful of rare traits will be added in the next release candidate - traits propagate to the cutting taken
  • Flowering/Ripening behavior still mostly similar to the old system
• Feature: Added 'ruined' torch holders. They will hold torches, but if broken will not drop themselves
• Feature: Can now mount shields on wall mounts
• Feature: Some fish - arapaimas, pike, piranhas, and sheatfish - may attack players if cornered. Red-bellied piranhas are especially aggressive towards injured players
• Feature: Hematite and Limonite nuggets can now be used for cave art and writing, in colors 'red ochre' and 'yellow ochre' respectively
• Tweak: Players are now visible on the map up to 1000 blocks away or if in a shared group, by default
• Tweak: Player map markers will show the supporter color, like player names in chat
• Tweak: Held/dynamic light range now better corresponds to placed light range (experimental!)
• Tweak: Increase dynamic lights detection range from 60 to 120 blocks
• Tweak: Add a bit of extra brightness near a held/dynamic light source
• Tweak: Lightning flash visual tuning. Lights up the world from a greater distance and a bit more realistically
• Tweak: Cleavers now have a non-functional 'head' item like most other tools, and must be combined with a stick to make the complete tool. Also revised the cleaver model to have 1:1 pixel scale (previously was 50% scale)
• Tweak: Quern shows grinding outputs on handbook page
• Tweak: Tuned seraph idle animations
• Tweak: Can now add linings or change the color of glass for small lanterns in ground storage
• Tweak: Added fish bones item, which is functionally equivalent to existing tiny bones (cannot be used for handles or in armor) but looks fish-appropriate.
• Tweak: Added new ground crafting sounds, for scraping soaked hides with knife, trimming small or medium scraped hides into parchment using shears, carving a bone into a flute, removing the head from a bear pelt, and sawing a raw longbow stave into a raw recurve stave using a saw
• Tweak: Copper roofing grid recipe yield doubled, except that tips are now individually made from a single copper plate
• Tweak: In the Handbook, for materials created by grinding, show the quern in "Created by" section
• Tweak: Breaking blocks adjacent to and below water flow, may now cause the water to flow into the newly made gap
• Tweak: The Devastation Tower elevator now prevents falling through when going down
• Tweak: Performance - Faster recipe matching with reduced memory usage. Should fix lag spikes on the server and client when crafting or using the handbook
• Tweak: Performance: Less CPU cost for unpacking chunks, creating packets etc - main benefits on large multiplayer servers
• Tweak: Rusty gears now have a pile model that holds up to 64 gears. The old-style piles of gears will still be found in ruins, but player-placed piles will be more orderly, and larger capacity
• Tweak: Add non-climbable versions of clutter ladders, for use in cases like bunk beds where you don't want them interfering with the player's normal movement
• Tweak: Chain mail items have a revised smaller model, and are now placeable on the ground in the quad layout
• Tweak: Handbook search now shows results more closely matched to what was typed
• Tweak: Rendered fat recipe no longer dirties the pot
• Tweak: Pigs and sheep will no longer stand around idly such that they can easily be fenced in. They will now run away from the player, or attack the player if they get too close
• Tweak: Removed unused 'eidolon gearbox' item from the game
• Tweak: Firestarter can now be burned in a firepit
• Tweak: Allow candles to be removed from an existing bunch of candles without breaking it
• Tweak: Male goats in general will not use the very smallest horn models, better differentiating them from females
• Tweak: Copper shingle blocks now have a grid recipe. The shingle blocks blocktype json was moved from 'metal' folder to 'roofing' folder
• Tweak: Grid recipes which produce roofing half-blocks now produce two halves, rather than one
• Tweak: Can now also chisel block combine in the chisel tool mode, not only in the crafting grid
• Tweak: Blocks with the pillar behavior now display their orientation in the chisel tool mode material selector
• Tweak: Added a (preliminary) handbook entry for berry bushes, explaining their propagation and care
• Tweak: Add a bit of extra brightness near a held/dynamic light source
• Tweak: Added a Creative mode pocket sun. Caution: Very hot!
• Tweak: When using the Creative-mode Entity-mover tool, you can now use mousewheel to change entity distance 
• Tweak: Update community translations
• Tweak: Added server config setting UpnpInfiniteLifetime (enable with /sc upnpinfinitelifetime on). Use this for infinite UPnP port mapping lifetime; otherwise the default 10-minute lifetime auto-renews mappings. Behavior may vary depending on the router.
• Fixed: Another possible cause of ghost Players
• Fixed: Beams not placing correctly in free mouse mode or when client->server not in sync.
• Fixed: Some fruit trees would spawn as empty stumps during worldgen
• Fixed: Crash in the music system when flying fast
• Fixed: Wild fruit trees not fruiting in the first year
• Fixed: Honey would give the wrong satiety in a meal
• Fixed: Quenching/Tempering buffs not applying when they should and the item now shows its item state in the item info hud.
• Fixed: Tempering applied a buff instead of only reducing the break chance
• Fixed: Applying many buffs added many lines of text to the item info hud
• Fixed: The player would get full nutrition from drinking spoiling liquid
• Fixed: Properly stop animations when ground processing items
• Fixed: Animation would never end when breaking ore chunks in ground storage
• Fixed: Drifters had a missing face on their neck that would show on their back side, when dead.
• Fixed: Bronze rods had combined word localizations (i.e. Tinbronze, Bismuthbronze) which was not per standard
• Fixed: Grindstone grid recipe conflicted with polished stone recipe
• Fixed: Ruined metal doors had the latch on the wrong side, and their hitbox was thinner than the door.
• Fixed: Collapsed clutter scroll racks were not texture-swappable.
• Fixed: Ruined sabre had blade ground-stored transform, and so looked like it was half buried in the ground.
• Fixed: Bugnet durability wasn't consumed
• Fixed: Brass torchholder description didn't have useful info from aged torchholder description
• Fixed: /debug helddurability command not marking slot dirty
• Fixed: Armor breaks on zero durability
• Fixed: Female tamed elk hitboxes displayed raw lang keys instead of translated text
• Fixed: Empty chests playing incorrect sound when closed
• Fixed: Chiseling or rotating blocks located at a chunk edge, now correctly updates lighting on neighbors across the chunk edge
• Fixed: Harvested brown sedge tossed on the ground was nowhere near its actual hitbox
• Fixed: Some pigs had bad 'center' points in their model, resulting in mis-placed hitboxes
• Fixed: Flax fibers' held transform was WAY too small
• Fixed: Black coal was a pigment for sign writing, but could not do cave drawings
• Fixed: Certain chiseled blocks placed wrong shading onto ground beneath - seen with new trader huts
• Fixed: Tule root didn't say in description that it can be planted again
• Fixed: Luxury trader was selling two shields that were missing the wood attribute.
• Fixed: Placing a crock into ground storage would crash the game on some operating systems
• Fixed: Sheep no longer spawn in thick forests or shrubland
• Fixed: Rope couldn't be placed on ground without already existing ground storage
• Fixed: Some story locations (lazaret) caused additonal protected areas above ground after using /wgen regen at their position
• Fixed: Couldn't pick up empty armor stand
• Fixed: Devastation tower pitch black at night and other worldgenned light sources not emitting light
• Fixed: Bamboo stakes and shovel gui icons when moused over were not centered.
• Fixed: Long bowstave is invisible in ground storage when dry
• Fixed: "Toggle sprint" checkbox hover text was wrong in the game settings 
• Fixed: Aged sailboat did not have a creative item to place it (and so did not show up in handbook)
• Fixed: Flax fibers were not centered in the gui
• Fixed: Hot items invisible in ground storage
• Fixed: Metal arrow fletching was solid black
• Fixed: Rare crash when chiseled block name is null
• Fixed: Drygrass item was not centered in it's selection box when laying on the ground
• Fixed: Mouflon and bighorn sheep horns had bad wall mount transforms. Mouflon horns were also missing localizations.
• Fixed: Water updates not consistently triggered if solid blocks (water-logged blocks) were in the same position
• Fixed: Clouds disappearing after sleeping in some cases
• Fixed: Dirty cooking pot had bad incorrect idle pose
• Fixed: Anomalously light texture section on adult male elk's neck fur
• Fixed: Scraping multiple soaked hides causes game crash #8479
• Fixed: Old traders were upgraded to the new traders, but naked and no face
• Fixed: When public server advertising is enabled that could send multiple duplicated requests to the masterserver. Issue since 1.22.0-pre.1
• Fixed: Some Nadiyan clothing was not using the correct textures.
• Fixed: Merchant hat and fur coat had some texture issues.
• Fixed: Various small issues with bear textures and model
• Fixed: Olives' on-ground transform was bad
• API Feature: Targetable AI tasks can specify a minimum and maximum injury amount of the target
• API Feature: Added MouseWheelMove input event
• API Feature: ItemSlotCharacter now uses virtual CheckDressType instead of static IsDressType
• API Tweak: BlockMultiblock now uses .GetInterface() instead of .GetBehavior() to find interfaces
• API Feature: Added texture bleeding system for seamless block transitions

• Feature: New block properties for controlling texture bleed behavior:
  • BleedPriority (auto from material or manual override)
  • CanReceiveBleed, BleedOverlayTexture
  • BleedTopFaceOnly, BleedGroup, BlocksTextureBleed

• API Refactor: Collectible.OnCreatedByCrafting() and CollectibleBehavior.OnCreatedByCrafting() "gridrecipe" argument is now of type "IRecipeBase" instead of "GridRecipe"
• API Refactor: Worldgen: Moved ChunkColumnGen event registration from StartServerSide to InitWorldGen()
• API Refactor: New tag condition matching system. Complex tag conditions hold either a set of disjunctive entries ([a and b and c] or [d and e]) or as a set of conjunctive entries ([a or b or c] and [d or e]).

• In both cases each of the inner sets can also have a set of forbidden tags that is always disjunctive. The syntax for using these in json follows one simple rule: If no junction verb is specified, the group is treated as conjunctive (a and b and c)
• examples:
  [["all", "of", "these"]]
  [["all", "of", "these"], (or) { allOf: ["all", "of", "these"], noneOf: ["any", "of", "these"] }]
  { allOf: ["all", "of", "these"], noneOf: ["any", "of", "these"] }
  { anyOf: ["any", "of", "these"], noneOf: ["any", "of", "these"] }
  { anyOf: [["all", "of", "these"], { allOf: ["all", "of", "these"], noneOf: ["any", "of", "these"] }] }
  { allOf: [["anyOf", "of", "these"], (and) { anyOf: ["any", "of", "these"], noneOf: ["any", "of", "these"] }] }11:20 AM
  these can be used in recipe ingredients and entiy behaviors for now* Replacement Tag System

• API Tweak: Use GetInterfaces for all instances of IIgnitable
• API Tweak: Add stencil buffer API to rendering interface
• API Tweak: Collectible.DamageItem() - Added optional arg "destroyOnZeroDurability"
• API Tweak: Frameprofiler (.debug logticks xx) now records mousedown/mouseup event cost as well
• API Fixed: Collectible.OnHeldDropped was not called server side
• API Fixed: Rideable behavior no longer ignores minGeneration setting
• API Fixed: Crash when entity tries to play sound it did not have
• API Fixed : When using a villages.json to specify modded villages a non wildcard schematics path would not resolve properly
• API Fixed: Unable to export texture atlasses when intallation folder did not have user permissions, they now go to the data folder instead
• API Tweak: New overload CraftingRecipeIngredient.Resolve(IWorldAccessor world, string sourceForErrorLogging, IRecipeBase recipe) should be used to Resolve input ingredients, to ensure they are registered to the new fast recipe matching
• API Tweak: IWorldAccessor has new read-only property IWorldAccessor.FastSearchRecipesByIngredient; this will be populated by the new CraftingRecipeIngredient.Resolve() method mentioned above
• API Tweak: Transform editor dialog now has firepit transform support
• API Tweak: Spawner blocks can now define rain and temperature conditions
• API Tweak: Added OnContainedInteractCancel for use in ground storage interactions
• API Tweak: The Block animation system now also hooked up to the animation sounds system. Example implementation: Bellows
• API Fixed: 'scale' property in shape overlays did not work
• API Fixed: Offsets from mounted entities now make sense, existing ones will need adjusting
  • The mounted animation should position the player relative to the hitbox
  • The attachment point on the mounted creature should go on the part of the entity the player's movement follows
  • The seat offset adjusts the location of the player's hitbox relative to the attachment point* Internal: Change pelt grid recipes that accept multiple sizes, to new 'anyof' format, for Rennorb to check, as they don't seem to work.

Changes since 1.22.0-pre.5, also included above

• Tweak: New main menu backgrounds
• Tweak: Added a creative mode pocket sun. Caution: Very hot
• Tweak: Cleavers now have a non-functional 'head' item like most other tools, and must be combined with a stick to make the complete tool. Also revised the cleaver model to have 1:1 pixel scale (previously was 50% scale).
• Tweak: Lightning flash tuning. Lights up the world from a greater distance and a bit more realisticly
• Tweak: Increase dynamic lights detection range from 60 to 120 blocks
• Tweak: Other players are always visible on the map up to 1000 blocks away or if in a shared group by default
• Tweak: Player map markers will show the supporter color, like player names in chat
• Tweak: Held/Dynamic light range now better correspond to placed light range (experimental)
• Tweak: Add a bit of extra brightness near a held/dynamic light source
• Fixed: Another possible cause of ghost Players
• Fixed: Beams not placing correctly in free mouse mode or when client->server not in sync.
• Fixed: Some fruit trees would spawn as empty stumps during worldgen
• Fixed: Crash in the music system when flying fast
• Fixed: Wild fruit trees not fruiting in the first year
• 1.22 related changes
  • Tweak: Can now use sprint+mousewheel with the entity mover to rotate the entity
  • Tweak: Reduce rapids spawn quantity
  • Tweak: Ruined doors and trapdoors (both metal and wood) will no longer drop anything when broken.
  • Tweak: Strawberry plants now spawn in patches twice as large as other berry bushes, use half the fertilizer, and have half the yield
  • Tweak: Fruiting bush yields increased 25% to account for the fact that struggling wild bushes only yield 50% of normal harvest. Reduced berry bush maturation length by 25%
  • Tweak: Added Spur gear up and down orientations which were missing from -pre.5
  • Tweak: Spear thrown damage and draw speed nerfs backed off by about half
  • Tweak: Performance (minor) save 100k RAM and fewer cache misses for SnowAccum randomShuffles, they can be ushort not int
  • Tweak: Re-worded berry bush 'cluster' traits to 'sparse/dense' rather than 'weak/strong'
  • Removed: Fruits which do not currently have a bush associated with them (to be added back as the bushes are completed).
  • Fixed: spur gear bugs in -pre.5 (detail: they could cause neighbouring axles to turn even if no neighbouring gear)
  • Fixed: Devastation area no longer generating shrikes
  • Fixed: When fishing in the ocean it was possible to catch freshwater fish and vice versa
  • Fixed: Treasure hunters no longer selling treasuremaps
  • Fixed: Waterwheel now provides mechanical power on both sides of its axle
  • Fixed: Folded clothes stored in shelves and cabinets all had the same texture.
  • Fixed: Time switching no longer working after usign /wgen regen in the devastation area. Issue since 1.22.0-pre.1
  • Fixed: Several visual issues with berry bushes
  • Fixed: Milking animal fails to produce milk due to desync
  • Fixed: Rapids water splitting if the random horizontal path changed in shuffling
  • Fixed: Mature berry bushes would float in the air if the soil block under them was broken.
  • Fixed: occasional snowy blocks melting slower than surroundings in spring/summer, due to vines above
  • Fixed: Bears would not seek out and eat food
  • Fixed: Large lanterns had two of the grid elements using the wrong face, resulting in appearing to dark.
  • Fixed: Spear and pick heads had bad shelving transforms
  • Fixed: Leather decor had bad transforms, and z-fighting
  • Fixed: Wallpaper was hidden from the handbook
  • Fixed: Currants used inconsistent localization formats.  Now consolidated to one word (i.e. redcurrant)

Preamble
Its a crispy cold winter day here at Anego Studios HQ and I get the privilege to write another one of these. What could be better than a snowy day, hot coffee and a juicy fat game update blog post   And ... looks like we will manage to hit our aspirational release cadence - 7 months, to the day, have passed since the preview release for the last version, 1.21.0-pre1.

The goal of this update was to enrich Vintage Story with new game mechanics to the max! I personally spent a lot of time writing code for many of the planned features in this update. If I had to pick a favorite, it was programming the new 'displayable' system that lets you place items on shelves with voxel precision. It originally started out as a request by Saraty to have clothing shelves - but I already knew where this would be going.... As soon as we would add clothing shelves, players and team members alike would request these shelves to be usable also for other items. And vice versa, for clothing to fit on the old shelves. So I set out to just solve this once and for all - with a universal shelf placement system. It was an intriguing coding journey - going off by intuition at first, to eventually finding tidbits of elegance in some of the solutions, to a fully working system that created a solid, modular and readable code architecture. We will be adapting this new system to the old storage blocks as well, eventually.

It's been a hectic last few weeks. Many in the team are rushing to squeeze in as much content as possible before we get to a feature freeze. Meanwhile we had the arduous task of moving the hosting of the main site to our own hardware while minimizing downtime, we are actively hiring, several new projects are in planning and I lament that this frosty Latvian winter will likely kill off my blackberry bush 

Project Nex and Project Glint are also beginning to really take off, with the Glint team impressing me with their clever use of existing game engine features in ways I never expected. We'll get to show stuff on both projects Soon™

But this blog post is about Vintage Story and dayum do we have much to present to you this time! Get yourself comfortable, it will take some time to get through all of this.
 

Pre-Release Disclaimer
1. This first preview release is an unfinished update, mostly intended for modders and very adventurous players. You will encounter major bugs, overpowered or underpowered features, incomplete content, possible performance issues and crashes.
2. Further preview releases (including fixes for bugs in pre.1) will only be posted in Discord #news and on info.vintagestory.at and not on this blog. As usual, a new v1.22 blog post will then come when the first full release candidate (rc.1) is ready.
3. If testing 1.22 on an old world from 1.21 or earlier, we strongly recommend making a backup copy before loading the world in 1.22.
4. We advise against starting a new permanent world with 1.22.0-pre.1. Pre-releases tend to break things. We specifically intend to add new worldgen in later preview versions after pre.1 (but before rc.1). You should therefore plan on starting a new world again, once rc.1 is available. 
5. We recommend disabling all your previously installed mods when testing 1.22.0-pre.1, until the mods have had a chance to update for 1.22.
6. For modders: It's very possible that we introduced mod API changes that are not intentional. If you come across something incompatible with your 1.21 mod and it does not look intentional, please do let us know and we might be able to adjust that in a subsequent release. 

September Roadmap Scorecard 
In September 2025, I announced a 1.22 feature roadmap - we got most of it into this update with some exceptions and caveats:

• Quenching, Tempering and Grinding wheel
  These are new game mechanics that let you alter the properties of a tool or weapon, but in a balanced way. Please be aware that this is our first preview release, so as with all newly added mechanics this might be underpowered or overpowered. We will balance things as we build towards a stable release.
   
• Fishing (Rod) System
  Probably one of the most anticipated mechanics, this is a thing now. The catching mechanic itself is usable but not fully polished for now because just getting there was big undertaking. We had to do a large amount of tweaking for fishing to even make any sense and remain balanced in VS. Here's a summary:
  • Fish no longer spawn in puddles (tiny ponds)
  • Freshwater fish no longer limited to just 1 kind - there's now over 20 varieties of freshwater fish
  • Melee attacking a fish makes them escape instantly
  • A killed fish is no longer an entity that sinks to the bottom and needs to be harvested - instead it turns into a collectible dead fish
  • Fish can be cut for fish fillet for cooking (in a later pre can be cooked on the firepit as a whole)
  • Added a decent fishing rod & line physics simulation, which was a personal pet peeve of mine
  • Fishing an area (temporarily) depletes it, so you cannot endlessly fish in the same place
  • Fishing is diverse - you get different fish based on the climate and the location you are at
  • The fishing rod lets you catch the actual fish you see in the water but also beyond that you might get extra catch - for example (but not only!) juvenile variants of the same fish
  • You need fish bait. Without it, fishing takes a lot longer. We added a worm grunting system and 2 new crops for you to acquire a few types of fish bait
  • Worm grunting lets you collect earthworms in warm and wet areas, but also (temporarily) depletes locations if over-used
  • Caught fish can be made into a trophy item using taxidermy. Including a few very rare special catchables...
     
• Rivers
  The roadmap entry mentioned "researching the feasibility of Rivers". We did just that. Around 300 man-hours of it. It's not quite there yet, but we will keep working on it. River generation is something that, if we add it, we want it to be a high quality addition, so this will take time. 
   
• Procedural dungeons: Not yet part of 1.22.0-pre.1 but we feel confident that at least a first proof of concept will still be in 1.22.0 stable. 
   
• Status Effects System and Item Heating Overhaul: Will have to be postponed to another update, unfortunately.
   
• Berry bush rework: Still planned for 1.22
• Elevators: Nope, but likely instead Sawmills for 1.22
• Waterwheel: Is in the game, but needs more work.
• Beyond that, we plan to further tweak pre.1 content. Amongst other things:
  • Add heat resistant mechanical power blocks
  • Fix spur gears having placement limitations
  • In-wall axles need a rework

1.22 notice to players
Several game mechanics have changed in ways you might not expect and which you may need to prepare for.

• Item heating: We intended to completely overhaul item heating but alas, we haven't managed to tackle this yet. As as interim solution, heated items in the firepit no longer reset their temperature after one item in the stack has been smelted/cooked. But also heating duration is now proportional to their stack size.
   
• Mechanical power changes: Please be aware that once we reach v1.22.0 stable, existing mechanical power builds that have been up-geared at least 3 times will ignite. You can test your game world (make backups first!) in any of the pre-releases or release candidates to see if your mechanical power builds are at risk - in these preview releases they will only emit smoke but not catch fire. We hope to still add to 1.22.0, second tier, sturdier mechanical power parts to counteract this change. Please also be aware that, placing windmills too close to each other will now cause turbulence and reduce their effectiveness by 50%. You can now craft a newly added Large Windmill instead, to satisfy your dreams of ultimate power. 
   
• Nibblers: We've discovered a bug that prevented animals like hares from eating player-planted crops since 1.19. This is now fixed. Make sure to protect your crops!
   
• Glacier Ice: Any glacier ice block placed by a player will now turn into a variant that will melt if ambient temperature is above freezing. Any previously placed glacier ice will not melt like this, until broken and placed again.
   
• Spears: Iron spears have been added but, in turn, spears of tiers below iron have been nerfed.

Screenshots and Gifs

Added cabinets and much improved storage system, allowing voxel-precision mixed item placing on cabinets, including books, clothing, chiseled figurines, all previously storable 1.21 items, and more! Cabinets are wood typed and can be upgraded with cabinet doors.

Added mannequins to display your clothing


Added over 20 species of freshwater fish

Fish behavior rework. They now quickly escape melee weapons and killed fish are collectible as a whole

Added fishing system


Added Taxidermy for caught fish. Displayable on the antler mount block - now renamed to just "Wall mount"

Major forge rework. Updated model, added optional bellows, added metal tongs, fuel types matter now, and more


Tool head quenching and tempering system: Quench items to improve their power value or durability (but not both)

Added grinding wheel. Lets you sharpen tools for a critical hit bonus (WIP)

New type of rivulets: The Rapids. A comparison with the standard rivulet on the right

Added waterwheels


Mechanical power upgrades: Added large windmill, in-wall axles and spur gears (WIP)


Too high speeds can now overheat mechanical power blocks, and starting from 1.22.0 stable will ignite

Fully rebuilt trader outposts
  

Trader clutter: By 1.22.0 stable, trader outposts will be further individualized to the type of trader inhabiting the place

Oil & Fat mechanic rework

Added iron and steel spears. Each spear now has its own spear head model

Boar rework: Full model overhaul. Added huge variant, warthogs and red river hogs. 

Two new farm-able crops: Fennel and Licorice - specifically added for fishing


Eight new Mushrooms


Added side effects from eating certain mushrooms

Four new flowers: Bluebell, Ghost pipe, Daffodils and Mugwort

Refined tule plant textures


Added 6 new hair colors

Papyrus chests now have their own model and texture

Sleek doors texture rework and they now have a glass window

Oil lamp model reworked and ground storable

Added wood typed ladders

Added 8 new variants of storage vessels

 

Added earthy orange ceramic color

Added travertine rock type and block variants


Added survival mode craftable clay tiles

Tweaked glass textures. Smaller frame and textured reflections


More new blocks: Aged acacia planks, aged bookshelf, fence and scroll rack (the previous aged ones are now "very aged"), leather decor, smaller lanterns and light mudbrick slabs

Can now attach chiseled figureheads to sailboats

Added crowbar for easier removal of wooden beams


Added crock labels for fruit jam

Placed backpacks can now be opened
 

Creative mode tool: Can now place decor (such as moss or dust) on most blocks

Creative mode tool: Added entity mover wand


Game updates

• Feature: Fishing System
  • Fish rework
    • Added over 20 species of freshwater fish
    • Fish now require large bodies of water to spawn
    • Killed fish no longer sink to the bottom, requiring to be harvested. Instead they float up as a collectible item
    • Fish now flee very quickly if melee attacked.
  • Fishing pole
    • Craftable fishing pole from sticks or bamboo
    • Casting with a fishing pole launches a bobber, which floats on the water and signals when a catch happened
    • The fishing pole catches fish that you can physically see and sometimes also small, juvenile versions
    • You can also (very) rarely catch 8 rare collectibles exclusive to the fishing system.
  • Fish distribution system
    • Fishing in the same location eventually depletes the fish in that area
    • Different types of fish can be found at different locations, so you will need to travel to find every kind of fish.
  • Fishing bait
    • Without bait, catching a fish will take much, much longer 
    • Added Earthworms and Worm Grunter to catch earth worms. Earth worms frequency depends on rainfall and temperature and also depletes over time if over-harvested in a given location
    • Can now cook stink baits from fennel and licorice plus meats and dough.
  • Fish collecting
    • Dead fish can be preserved (taxidermy) and placed on mounts for display. Added zinc sulfate and crushed sphalerite, which is required for the taxidermy process.
• Feature: Forge rework
  • Added fancier Forge model
  • Tongs now have durability. 1 durability point is subtracted per each item picked up
  • Added metal tongs, which provide 10x to 100x the durability of wooden tongs
  • Added bellows. Reaching higher temperatures in your forge now requires a bellows
  • Forge fuel types. Fuel quality now determines heating temperatures and duration
  • Can now also heat up tool heads in the forge
  • Creatures standing on lit forges will now get damaged
  • Glowing hot ingots can ignite unlit coal in the forge
• Feature: Quenching and Tempering system
  • You can now improve their power or durability of tool heads by quenching them, but at the risk of potentially destroying the tool instead
  • The chance of destruction can be reduced by tempering the tool, but with diminishing returns each time you temper
  • Quenching can be done in barrels of water or pools
  • Throwing hot items onto lake ice will cool them down and may melt the ice
  • Covering the tool heads with clay before the quench increases durability, if uncovered increases the power value
• Feature: Tool buffing system with the grinding wheel
  • Added grinding wheel to sharpen bladed weapons
  • A sharpened weapon adds a critical hit chance, at the cost of durability. A critical hit is +100% damage
• New Sound Tracks
  • Added "Latvia" sound track, plays at Latvian latitudes
  • Added 4 village exclusive tracks, one per season
• Feature: Added footstep sounds to the wolf and the bear
• Feature: Allow chiseled blocks to be placed on sailboats
• Feature: New collectibles and craftables
  • Feature: Added craftable clay tiles in all standard clay colors, which can further be turned into blocks and slabs
  • Feature: Added new small lantern
  • Feature: Added iron and steel spears, but de-buffed the lower tier spears
  • Feature: Added travertine stone, which can be made into ashlar and tiles
  • Feature: Raccoons and foxes now drop species-specific hides, which can be made into fur hats
  • Feature: Added oils (flax/linseed, olive, fat). Raw fat now can spoil, and can be cooked into rendered fat, which does not spoil. Liquid rendered fat will solidify after several hours. The solid item form of rendered fat (for use in grid recipes) is obtained by dumping the solidified fat from the container it's in, onto the ground.
  • Feature: Steel anvils can now be crafted in survival
  • Feature: Added pot pies - this allows you to create mixed meat & vegetable pies
  • Tweak: Added wood-typed ladders
  • Tweak: Added light mudbrick slabs. Allow low fertility soil in mudbrick slab recipes
  • Tweak: Added "earthy orange" ceramic color for pit-kilned red clay items
• Feature: Added 4 types of survival mode craftable mannequins (full body, leg, head, torso) which allow you to display your clothing
• Feature: New flora
  • Added 2 new farmable crops - fennel and licorice. Both will spawn in the wilderness, and can be used to make stinkbait for fishing. Fennel is also an edible vegetable, but licorice is not
  • Added four new flowers! Bluebell, mugwort, ghost pipe and daffodils
  • Added 8 new rare mushrooms. Most with visual "side effects" when eaten. (Honey mushroom, Blue Meanie, Fool's Conecap, Gold Cap, Liberty Cap, Sickener, Wavy Cap, Laughing Jim)
• Tweak: Block overhauls
  • Glass texture is now redone: full blocks have a smaller frame and all glass blocks now have textured glass reflections
  • Ceramic oil lamps have a new model, and are no longer made from bowls. They can also now be hung from the ceiling
• Feature: Mechanical power updates
  • Feature: Added large windmill
  • Feature: Added in-wall mechanical power axles
  • Feature: Added waterwheel (WIP). Needs to be placed on rapids (fast-moving water)
  • Tweak: Nerf! Windmills now cause turbulence within a radius 1.5 times the sail diameter (meaning 15 blocks distance required between two maxed windmills) 
  • Tweak: Creative rotor is now roughly 7x more powerful, uses a similar torque display as the windmill and allows independent adjustment of speed
  • Tweak: Helve hammer no longer has exponential power cost as speed goes up [it caused mech. networks to oscillate heavily]
  • Tweak: Starting from 1.22.0 stable (so not yet!) mechanical power blocks will ignite if they rotate too fast. They will smoke for a while before igniting, for an early warning
  • Fixed: Axle stands on north-south oriented axles that are attached under a block were incorrectly rotated
• Feature: Added 4 small optional side quests offered by the villagers
• Feature: Added 6 new seraph hair colors the player can select from in the character creation screen
• Feature: Hacked locust improvements
  • Feature: Tuning spear now has an additional tool mode allowing you to call back your tamed locust
  • Feature: Can now heal and revive hacked locust with metal parts
  • Fixed: Hacked locust jumping after player as if attempting to attack them
• Quality-Of-Life improvements
  • Feature: Held bags that are placed on the ground can now be interacted with
  • Feature: Added crowbar, which lets you remove the most recently added support beam from a block
  • Feature: You can now attach crocks to the elk's left and right front storage locations (they will not, however, have labels shown while attached)
  • Feature: When hovering over or grabbing a wearable item in your inventory, the proper slot for that item in your character inventory will be highlighted
  • Tweak: Allow bulk placement of metal bits in ground storage
  • Tweak: Flower pots can be placed on shelves
  • Tweak: Can now slice pies using knife in crafting grid
  • Tweak: Dirty pots can now be stored on the elk, like regular cooking pots
  • Tweak: In the map, the "Add Waypoint" dialog now remembers previous Waypoint names and suggests them. Suggested names can now be deleted with a single backspace stroke.
  • Tweak: The red in-game error texts now have a black border around them to make them easier to read
  • Tweak: Bowls show satiety of remaining food portion only when the bowl has less than a full portion of a meal in it
  • Tweak: When drinking out of a bowl, you must split the stack to drink, like all other bowl actions
  • Tweak: Can now use a shovel to dig up cattail roots, faster than using a knife
  • Tweak: Exiting the game via Alt+F4 (or [X] in the game window) now fully saves your world
  • Tweak: No more 1-second delay on picking up mined items
  • Tweak: Collapsed chests in ruins now fall apart into chest rubble once they are empty
  • Tweak: More intense low health / low satiety alarm visuals
  • Tweak: Collectible tool tip "Attack power: -{0} hp" is now "Attack power: {0} damage"
  • Tweak: The Controls settings tab now correctly shows again if a keybind conflicts with another keybind
  • Tweak: When using 1-click mod install, the game autofocuses now
  • Tweak: Mod manager improvements: mods are now downloaded in parallel; mod release retractions are now respected
  • Tweak: Block remapping on game version updates now applied automatically on first run of new game version. The dialog "This save game was created with an older version of the game ... a remapping and reload is required" should now be a thing of the past [and /fixmapping applyall should now never be necessary]
  • Fixed: You can no longer waste a poultice attempting to heal a fully dead elk
  • Fixed: Multiple issues with selection boxes of support beams
  • Fixed: Player viewing direction jumping after exiting an inventory
  • Fixed: 9 year old bug in the cinematic camera system where sections of the path were running at different velocities (credit: ImNuts42)
• New In-World Interaction capabilities
  • Feature: Oil lamps now use the ground storage system - in other words one can place them in quadrants, and mixed with other items
  • Feature: Can now remove the head of a ground placed bear pelt
  • Feature: Sieves, and saddle blankets can fit onto shelves
  • Feature: Liquid containers on shelves can be interacted with directly
  • Feature: There is now a new ground processing system that allows for simple crafting processes of ground placed items
    • Can now scrape ground placed soaked hides
    • Can carve bone flutes from ground placed bones
    • Can saw long bowstave into recurve bowstave on the ground
    • Can shear parchment out of scraped small hide on the ground
    • Can smash ore chunks on the ground using a hammer
  • Tweak: Tool heads can now be placed on the ground
  • Tweak: Weapons can now be placed on antler mounts (but not tools)
  • Tweak: Stick, cattail, and papyrus piles now hold 2-3x more items.
  • Tweak: A pile of thatch on the ground now holds up to 18 items
  • Tweak: Papyrus tops pile transfer quantity raised to 3
     
• Gameplay balance affecting changes
  • Tweak: Grain crops now have half the yield in grain and fiber, but spawn in patches twice as large during world generation. The net effect to be requiring larger fields for equivalent grain production compared to previous versions
  • Tweak: Iron and Steel spears added. Other spears nerfed to make room for them
  • Tweak: Glacier ice and packed glacier ice that have been collected and placed again will begin to melt, if the local temperature is above freezing
  • Tweak: Improvised armor now also requires rope
  • Tweak: Armor stand now has more intuitive attaching of items
  • Tweak: Can no longer grid craft stuff from hot items
  • Tweak: Hunter backpack recipe can now produce two backpacks from one huge pelt. Using a large pelt returns a small pelt, in addition to the backpack. Using a huge pelt for fur gloves returns 1 small pelt.
  • Tweak: Treasure Hunter trader offers only a 25% discount on subsequent elk purchases in exchange for another eidolon vessel
  • Tweak: Added a few usable storage blocks to the Resonance Archives entrance
  • Tweak: Reduced spawn radius of mobs in the Devastation Area, so players are more likely to encounter them
  • Tweak: Removed grid crafting crock sealing recipe in favor of other (in-world) methods
  • Tweak: Horsetail no longer qualifies as bee or butterfly feed
  • Tweak: Reviving a player no longer restores satiety to 50%, now leaves it unchanged
  • Tweak: Balanced with the addition of small lanterns, the original large lantern now costs twice the glass and metal 
  • Fixed: Crop growth was 10% faster and consumed 10% less nutrients than intended
  • Fixed: Salt lake beds were not generating during worldgen (in very dry and warm areas)
  • Fixed: Farmland crops consumed slightly less soil nutrients than intended
  • Fixed: With stacks of items in the firepit, finishing cooking one item no longer resets the temperature of the input stack, but a stack's warm-up time is now longer for larger stack sizes
  • Fixed: Material transmutation/dupe glitch with chiseled blocks (technical info: Output chiseled blocks no longer have multiple of the same materials plus only consume every unique input material once)
  • Fixed: Peanuts did not give a satiety bonus in meals
  • Fixed: Cassava would dry out even while in a meal
  • Fixed: Resonance Archives gasifier would burn fuel too quickly
  • Fixed: Baking an item in an oven would reset the spoilage timer
  • Fixed: Cheese wheel would reset freshness each time a slice was cut off
  • Fixed: Lava that turned water into basalt/obsidian did not delete the water
  • Fixed: Very broken behavior when lava flowed into a water source block (turned water source block into basalt in large strange patterns)
  • Fixed: Luxury trader was still selling gold omok pieces
     
• Creature behavior changes
  • Tweak: In closed spaces, Bowtorns now evade the player more intelligently - and if they can't they will begin firing on you
  • Tweak: Sun bears will now break skeps and steal berries off bushes
  • Tweak: Slightly slower creature look around speeds
  • Tweak: Saltwater fish spawning now more accurately matches where the species would exist in real life
  • Tweak: Panda and brown bamboo spawns changed to overlap, so pandas appear with bamboo more often. Panda range has moved south, and brown bamboo range has moved north
  • Tweak: Brown bears will drop a little more fat
  • Fixed: Animals would never eat planted crops
  • Fixed: 23 types of butterflies never spawned
  • Fixed: Bighorn sheep now live in dryer regions rather than wetter ones
  • Fixed: Inconsistencies in raccoon climate conditions
  • Fixed: Missing minimum temperature for tang fish spawns
     
• Creative Mode additions
  • Feature: Can now place decor layers, such as moss, on almost all blocks (not only full blocks): for example, storage vessel or chest (but placement on plants is not possible)
  • Feature: Added leather decor overlay block - "sheet of stitched leather"
  • Feature: Added aged acacia plank blocks
  • Feature: Added "veryaged" variants of wood fence, bookshelf, and scroll rack.
  • Tweak: Add chiselable full block stone path
  • Tweak: Added ruined metal door variants
     
• Tweak: Thrown stone improvements
  • Bricks, stonebrick, refractory bricks are now also throwable
  • Fixed: thrown stones could still deal damage even when PvP was disabled or the attackplayers/attackcreatures permission was revoked.
  • Fixed: thrown stones would make no thud sound if they landed close to the throwing player
  • Fixed: when skipping stones, splash particles would not spawn and some stones could get forever stuck floating above water
     
• Handbook improvements
  • Feature: Handbook search is more flexible with better results
  • Feature: Handbook shows which animal eats which food, on food pages
  • Feature: Handbook shows trappable animals on trap pages
  • Feature: Show what plants can go in which flowerpots and planters in the handbook
  • Tweak: Handbook now shows items that can be created at various workstation blocks, like fruit press or anvil
  • Tweak: Show the days or years required for an item to perish in the handbook, rather than only the hours
  • Tweak: Animal traps and troughs included in storable information in handbook
  • Tweak: Omok table and pieces included in storable information in handbook
  • Tweak: Show destroyed animal traps in the handbook
  • Tweak: Handbook display of smithing recipes improved
  • Tweak: Handbook display of metal molding improved
  • Tweak: Better spacing for beehive kiln results in the handbook
  • Tweak: Quern handbook entry now mentions that the quern can be powered by hand, as well as by machinery.
  • Tweak: Searching the Command Handbook, search results in long pages go to the (first) position of the search text
  • Fixed: Handbook wattle and daub entry incorrectly stated the initial daub application as 10 items (it is actually 6).
  • Fixed: Handbook will properly show the grid crafting recipes on the appropriate nugget pages instead of all on the copper nugget page
• Visual fine tuning
  • Feature: Added fruit labels for jam on crocks
  • Tweak: Improved OIT rendering system which should fix oddities when half transparent geometry is on top of others (e.g. clouds behind windows)
  • Tweak: Scene shader tweak  - prevent complete whiteness on overly bright surfaces
  • Tweak: Tule model and texture reworked
  • Tweak: Spears have new spear head models, each metal with a unique design.
  • Tweak: Sleek wooden doors now have a glass plane and have a smoother and more bespoke texture
  • Tweak: Lowered the threshold for villagers to get a frost overlay, and made the face never freeze over
  • Tweak: Cow parsley, heather, western gorse and orange mallow flowers now uses the old, more simplified model again
  • Tweak: Anvils now use holdbothhandslarge idle animation, rather than holdbothhands.
  • Tweak: Aged and very aged wood textures should now be more consistent across all blocks and items. Renamed "aged wood" to "aged oak"
  • Tweak: Nicer first person hand transform for slabs
  • Tweak: Papyrus chest now has separate shape from reed chest
  • Tweak: Tool heads now have sockets where appropriate
  • Tweak: Iron and steel pickaxes have revised model
  • Tweak: Ratlines now have knots at the intersections
  • Tweak: Wolf holds its tail straighter and lower
  • Tweak: Bear textures revised, and each bear now has its own model, to avoid drastic json scaling
  • Tweak: Cooking pot model now has rope cradle when attached to elk
  • Tweak: Seraph rendered into GUIs are now animated
  • Tweak: Saltpeter and other powders and crushed materials scaled up to be more visible when dropped on the ground
  • Tweak: Redid Brass Ruby Brooch model to more match original vision
  • Tweak: Stone path stairs and slabs now extend 1 voxel 'below ground' to cover the gap that can be left by regular path blocks.  Stone paths now use wildcards to randomize texture, rather than alternates.
  • Tweak: Updated existing leather colors to be less bright. Added running stitch variant for all leathers.
  • Tweak: Messy12 ground storage changed to be spaced more evenly
  • Tweak: Better line up text lines and checkboxes/sliders in the settings interface tab
  • Tweak: Weather system: Don't spawn snow storm particles when above 5°C
  • Tweak: Fixed items way to strongly wind affected when in hands
  • Fixed: Long standing visual bug where harvesting reeds sometimes overextended the players arm
  • Fixed: Pie dough sides were unusually dark when placed besides blocks
  • Fixed: Make particles use proper multiblock collision
  • Fixed Fortune Teller Hip Scarf model z-fighting with gambeson
  • Fixed: Some block breaking overlays were incorrectly applied
  • Fixed z-fighting on sloped (main) roof segments
  • Fixed: Seraphs shoulders clipping through in "hold both hands" pose
  • Fixed: Camera jitters and ridden elk occasionally stopping when mods modified too much player data
  • Fixed: Animation jerkiness on traders
  • Fixed: One line break too much in the block info HUD in some cases
  • Fixed: Stretched UVs on axle and aged armorstand
  • Fixed: Some tool heads had bad origins and so would do crazy flips when tossed
  • Fixed: Flowing lava blocks now start their particles at the correct height
  • Fixed: Some texts off vertically by 1 pixel
  • Fixed: Incorrect feathers texture on arrows
  • Fixed: Player yaw jitter when closing chat window while in overhead camera mode
  • Fixed: Short rotation flicker right after placing certain blocks (with rotatable block entities)
  • Fixed: Rare flashes of X-ray vision when breaking blocks next to a chunk boundary
  • Fixed: Seraph from the character dialog clipping through creative inventory
  • Fixed: Holding a pulverizer frame would obstruct player view significantly
  • Fixed: 'Plain glasses' lenses were not on transparent renderpass, and so had X-ray vision
• Tweak: Sound additions
  • Lots of internal preparatory work for foot steps sounds
  • Charlemagne entity has a new sound set
  • Added more Wolf sounds for variation
  • Added 2 dive attack sounds to the second boss
  • Seraph hurt sounds are now shorter when the damage is low or when it's from frost or poisoning
• Tweak: Performance tweaks
  • Changing the graphics quality preset is now 4 times faster (1s lag instead of 4s lag)
  • Improve loading times with many mods installed (json patching times 47s => 3.6s). Contribution by tehtelev
  • Improve loading times with many mods installed (recipe loading times 21s => 8s). Contribution by tehtelev
  • Improve loading times of certain handbook pages from 10-14 seconds to instant when mods "A Culinary Artillery" and "Expanded Foods" are installed
  • Further 400k objects removed from permanent heap (mainly duplicate strings)
  • Reduced client-side lag spikes caused by various commonly used blocks
    • Ground storage, toolrack, shelves and similar utility blocks [Technical info: BEContainerDisplay types  - Display Case, Ground Storage, Toolrack, etc... now generate meshes off the main thread]
    • Flowerpots and planters [Technical info: only tesselate one plant shape max. per container, defer pot tesselation and transforms to tesselation thread]
    • Small increase in loading time for doors and toolracks
  • Further reductions in Matrixf and vector object creation
  • Further reductions in Vec2f and Vec3f object creation in many places
  • Explosion shell vectors calc now uses FastVec3f not Vec3f
  • Further low level matrix improvements in animations; reduce memory pressure on client
  • Many low level matrix operations moved from heap to stack
  • Re-use some matrices and vectors at low level
  • Reduced heap memory pressure from selection box ray-tracing. With thanks to dedgrant
  • Fixed memory leak when displaying skep or basket trap in inventory or handbook
  • Fixed potential memory leak in forge
  • RAM and heap saving, SnowAccum system now uses a value type [ServerMapChunk.SnowAccum is now a float[] not a ConcurrentDictionary]
  • Particles - reduce RAM requirements and heap pressure
  • General improvements to SQLiteDbConnectionv2, less heap pressure for multiplayer server
  • Added LOD2 shapes and textures for all clutter bookshelves
  • Very minor, but system-wide rendering optimization [Technical info: Don't call EnableVertexAttribArray every render call, not necessary as per OpenGL spec]
• Tweak: In-game guidance tweaks
  • Feature: Crocks, pots, and bowls with meals now show interaction help when ground placed
  • Tweak: Lowered the itemstack hover info HUD a bit so that it does not cover up the stack size of the item in your mouse slot
  • Fixed: Show only workable items in anvil interaction help
  • Fixed: Interaction help for mortally wounded elk said "Revive player"
• Tweak: Game Server tweaks
  • Tweak: AntiAbuse system partially revived. Off by default, but when enabled in the serverconfig.json it will decline block interactions when they are too far away from the player
  • Tweak: When a server has more than 50 players, join/leave and death messages no longer get printed to chat (configurable in servermagicnumbers.json field "PublicJoinLeaveDeathMessagesThreshold")
  • Tweak: Join, Leave and Death messages now also sent to all player groups the player is part of
  • Tweak: Allow the server heartbeat/register to master server also work in standby mode
  • Tweak: Added more audit logging when trading and using the action house
  • Tweak: Multiple Serverconfig StartupCommands would not work if there was a space in front of a command
  • Fixed: Command /serverconfig entityspawning 0 did not disable entity spawning right away and vice versa did not enable it right away when it was disabled before
  • Fixed: Possible server exception on player death
  • Fixed: On a dedicated server when using a malformed welcome message it would disconnect/crash each client on login.
• Tweak: Command Tweaks:
  • Tweak: Most /wgen commands can now be called from console
  • Tweak: Added /serverconfig blockTickChunkRange
  • Tweak: Added worldgen command /wgen regenrange
  • Tweak: Now /entity spawn command can optionally also specify the generation, eg. generation=3
  • Tweak: New command /entity findnpc to count the villagers or find a specific one
  • Tweak: New command /entity list to list the types of all loaded entities, and count them
  • Tweak: Add alias /wcc for the worldconfigcreate command
  • Tweak: Fixed typo in command /dev per-player-lootable-reset
  • Tweak: add client ping to /stats and /list clients commands
  • Tweak: Removed no longer working /wgen regenr and /wgen regenrc commands
  • Tweak: Wireframes display command can now be abbreviated to .debug wf
  • Fixed: /wgen regen did not reload the deposits files
  • Fixed: When using /wgen regen the GeneratedStructures list could be restored only partially, the actual in-world structures/blocks should have be mostly unaffected by that
  • Fixed: .we command no longer working to open/close the world edit ui
  • Fixed: GameTickListener debug command /debug tickhandlers dump dcentity not working
  • Fixed: Command .chb expcmds did not make sure the ModConfig folder exists
• Tweak: Ladder tweaks
  • Wood ladders can connect as one ladder, crude and rope cannot connect to others
  • Wood ladders can be sawed back into boards
  • Ladders made entirely of sticks have their own model, separate from ladders made from planks
  • Crude ladders cannot support themselves on the ground or the ceiling and require a wall for support
• Tweak: Water tweaks
  • Tweak: Rivulet riverbed carver. Somewhat more neatly integrates the rivulets into the world. (WIP, temporarily disabled in -pre.1)
  • Tweak: Also spawn rivulets on mountain sides
  • Tweak: Water now spreads faster
  • Tweak: Flowing water shader tweaks
  • Fixed: Flowing water with NE,SE,SW,NW directions was not visually flowing diagonally
• Tweak: Change Linux icon from xpm to png since xpm may not be supported on newer systems
• Tweak: "Antler mount" is renamed to "Wall mount".
• Tweak: Palisade walls and stakes now prevent animals from walking on them, like regular fences.
• Tweak: Ovens now no longer allows igniting of non-fuel, such as pies
• Tweak: Allow liquids to be chiseled only in creative mode
• Tweak: Removed fish carcass clutter block, because there is a dedicated fish carcass block
• Tweak: Debarked and tree trunk 'veryaged' and 'veryagedrotten' textures modified for consistency
• Fixed: Fixes npc dialogue link text cut off in some cases
• Fixed: Cassava that dried out in a meal due to a bug no longer has an incorrect name nor gives no nutrition
• Fixed: Oven would give incorrect error message when trying to add non-bakeable items
• Fixed: Scrolling in dropdowns near bottom of the screen shows all items properly
• Fixed: The grid recipe to force clay brick slabs into a certain orientation was missing
• Fixed: Pies with default full top crust style would not stack properly if cycled through crust types
• Fixed: Bear foot sliding, brown and polar bear chasing after tiny creatures (baby hares and chicken), and not attacking animals they chase
• Fixed: Entering and exiting the water while holding the sprint key would slow you to a walk even with the precise control scheme
• Fixed: Holding down the sprint key before starting to move would still start off with walking  
• Fixed: Armor stands could only be placed at edges of blocks
• Fixed: Color accurate worldmap: Still used vintage colors until the map was opened
• Fixed: Clouds going black when using [x] Override default values from the world edit control panel
• Fixed: Traders and Villagers would execute the option after the "What did you got to trade?" which mostly was the "Whats your name?" option and so reveal their name at the same time as openting the trading menu
• Fixed: Empty triggered animal traps would not drop block if broken
• Fixed: Empty triggered animal trap would give back trap when picked up rather than just basket
• Fixed: Prevent the trader menu to be opened by multiple players, which can crash the game
• Fixed: Falling maple seeds did not fall with reduced gravity
• Fixed: Crash when Ctrl+scrolling up on the firepit input slot
• Fixed: Rotation of clayforming for watering cans matches output
• Fixed: On some occasions, traders walking away from player during conversations and standing still after conversations
• Fixed: Some ropes not properly loading from a savegame to client side. Explanation: We did not re-broadcast when a cloth system became active, we did not update the state on chunk loads although we check all chunks if they are loaded on each clothsystem
• Fixed: Some damage effects still applying on damage over time types of damage (e.g. instant huge red overlay when eating fly agaric)
• Fixed: Drinking more or less than 1L of wine all at once will properly vary how intoxicated you become
• Fixed: Dragging to place ingredients into cooking pot would not evenly distribute items
• Fixed: Mechanical power blocks, World Edit selection tool grow/shrink buttons and other parts of the game now work in other dimensions
• Fixed: Sub-decors (e.g. cave art) now preserved in World Edit move area, mirror area and repeat area operations
• Fixed: Removed downwards exponential acceleration of entities that use passive physics behavior
• Fixed: Fall damage inconsistency, added player stat "fallDamageThreshold"
• Fixed: On a brand new world, the client game calendar would be paused and/or slightly desynced from the server time for a minute, causing the sun to jump after 25 in-game minutes
• Fixed: After a client-side crash, the game kept running until the Crash Reporter window was closed
• Fixed: Removed uncraftable soaked bear pelts
• Fixed: Cutting snow covered grass with a knife did not yield dry grass
• Fixed: Missing horns on female goats, also they can fight back now
• Fixed: Items dropped by mechanically powered querns, pulverizers, or chutes could be launched very far when outside of the simulation range (128 blocks from the player)
• Fixed: "Wide lines have been deprecated" warnings on certain GPUs, eg. Intel UHD
• Fixed: Ladders would sometimes allow strange interactions between different types
• Fixed: After healing with an item, a second item in the same slot (from picking up) with a slow interaction process would immediately finish (#6719)
• Fixed: Logged error for carburizable properties in handbook
• Fixed: Many repeated logged OpenGL errors on Mac filling up the log file
• Fixed: Various water plants could have non-matching top and bottom section pieces
• Fixed: Stone path slabs did not show snowcover. Stone path blocks had hitboxes 1 voxel too tall
• Fixed: Crash when viewing corrupted rock-typed block
   

API Updates
For our modders - please be aware, the game engine and game content have undergone several significant changes

• Paradigm shift: Since 1.21 you can define tags in Blocks, Items and Entities. As of 1.22 you can now use tags for all crafting recipes. In future updates we will expand tag compatibility to other systems. Though please wait before using these, the syntax might still change in pre2 or pre3
• Paradigm shift: You can now precisely time creature sounds by defining them as part of the animation meta definitions. This lets you bind a sound to the exact animation frame where the sound should be played, independent of how fast the animation plays. You can define multiple sounds per animation. This is how we added bear and wolf step sounds.
• We have migrated our source projects from .NET 8 to .NET 10. You will need to install the .net10 sdk to compile our public code.
• entity.ServerPos is no more. You can still access it but it now redirects to entity.Pos
• We moved world generation code from the survival mod to the essentials mod, so that total conversion mods can also utilize it
• CollectibleObject has many of its field turned into methods that also call their respective methods on behaviors
• Each landform in the landforms.json now must have a unique code. Previously you could use duplicated names. The game will now crash instead.
• For the red tinting hurt overlay of creatures to work you now need to add "Health" behavior to to the list of client side behavior as well
• Experimental feature: Mods can now modify the main menu background pictures. If any mods sets one, then the game will disable all vanilla ones.

Also noteworthy and just for your awareness, there are currently several notable ongoing projects within the VS coder team:

• The entire code base of Vintage Story now compiles without warnings, consequently we have either fixed or removed our own game engine's use of deprecated features
• We have a multi-year long goal of switching over to nullable value types in all code files
• We continued to slowly integrate a comprehensive tags system. New since 1.21:
  • Changed types of tag arrays and renamed them to tag sets
  • Block and item tags merged into general tags
  • General tags have limit of 65k tags now
  • Tag sets now provide API with set methods
  • Modders no longer need to interact with tag ids directly, they are hidden behind the tag set implementation
  • Modders now can register their own tag types
  • NOTE: there may be further changes to tags code before -rc.1 
• We continued to refactor, improve and consistency check all our entity AI Tasks
• We continued our efforts to un-hardcode game engine and content, to make it easier to patch game content as well as reducing unexpected behaviors when modding the game

API changelog

• Feature: Rewrite stone throwing code into its own "CollectibleBehaviorThrowable". Allows one to make an item or block throwable with json changes only
• Feature: Food in a meal automatically gives a 30% bonus to the base satiety if no in meal nutrition is defined
• Feature: New server event "HandInteract". Called before any server side hand interact code is executed
• Feature: New parameter "MinCuboidsPerModel" for ground storable behavior that fixes problem with partial models in ground storage
• Feature: Item buff feature. Can now buff buffable collectibles e.g. when holding a falx in hands with command "/debug cbuff add sharpened attackpower 1.2" for +20% damage or "/debug cbuff add sharpened attackpower 1 2" for +2 flat damage. Available buffs: attackpower, maxdurability, durability, miningspeed. In code can also define durability of a buff, which is reduced alongside the item durability
• Feature: Allow BlockBehaviorHarvestable to require a tool
• Feature: Anvil blocks keep track of their metal tier
• Feature: Mods can now supply background images for the main menu in their modinfo.json. Currently, if any are supplied then all vanilla ones are disabled.
• Feature: Added the ability to create custom mixed pie recipes with multiple food categories as fillings
• Refactor: Major rework of the recipe systems in order to support tags
• Refactor: Move most of worldgen code to essentials mod and added modularity in some areas so that full conversion mods can use it
• Refactor: Changed args in capi.StartTrack()
• Refactor: Move onhurt invulnerable timer code from Entity.cs to BehaviorHealth.cs where it belongs. This however means the Health behavior needs to be client side as well, on all entities. In order to stay backwards compatible, these will automatically get added upon entity load, for now. It will print a warning if that is the case
• Refactor: GetBehavior(...) methods in Entity now avoid nullref exceptions inside them
• Refactor: Rename CollectibleBehavior.OnGetMaxDurability to .GetMaxDurability() and altered return value behavior
• Refactor: Shields now much more mod-dable. The shield code is now type/variant-agnostic
• Refactor: Rename dirtfloor.json to packeddirt-trampledearth.json, and aridpackeddirt.json to drypackeddirt.json
• Refactor: BlockUtil.GetKnifeStacks replaced with ObjectCacheUtil.GetToolStacks
• Refactor: EntityBehaviorRideable and EntityBehaviorGait code cleanup. Now more moddable. Ridden creatures no longer ignore swim sound set from json. Leave blank for silence. Set ridden movement speed only through gait, not through rideable controls. Also allow gaits to have an environment set for land or water, and provides logic for multiple speeds of swimming
• Refactor: Rename EnumBlockMaterial.Liquid to EnumBlockMaterial.Water
• Refactor: Lava now has EnumBlockMaterial Lava instead of Liquid
• Refactor: Merge ItemTagArray and BlockTagArray into CollectibleTagArray
• Refactor: Cleanup and Document AiTaskManager.ExecuteTask() and .StopTask()
• Refactor: Made methods of ItemWearable and ItemWearableAttachment virtual, also made private methods protected
• Refactor: Allow for multiple "AnimationSound" per animation meta. AnimationMeta.AnimationSound is now an array. Make sure to update all anim sounds in your entity json files from animationSound: { ...} to animationSounds: [ { .... } ]
• Refactor: Added dropQuantityMultiplier to BlockBehavior.OnBlockBroken()
• Refactor: In AI task json, rename chance, wanderChance, and searchFrequency to executionChance
• Refactor: Mushroom textures were placed in many individual folders. Now all are under the base 'mushroom' folder.
• Refactor: Replaced "noConsumeOnCrafting: true", used in the glider schematic itemtype with "consume: false" in the grid recipe
• Refactor: ItemWearable is now obsolete, replaced by CollectibleBehaviorWearable 
• Refactor: ItemWearableAttachment is now obsolete, replaced CollectibleBehaviorWearableAttachment
• Refactor: Many fields of Collectible now more moddable
  • Implemented GetAttackRange for CollectibleBehavior
  • Implemented GetMiningSpeeds for both CollectibleObject and CollectibleBehavior
  • Implemented GetDamagedBy for CollectibleObject
  • Implemented GetTool for CollectibleObject (interaction tooltips still use Tool directly)
  • Implemented GetToolTier for CollectibleObject (interaction tooltips still use ToolTier directly)
  • Implemented GetCombustibleProperties for CollectibleObject (interaction tooltips still use CombustibleProps directly)
  • Replaced NutritionProps with GetNutritionProperties where possible
  • Replaced TransitionableProps with GetTransitionableProperties where possible
  • Implemented GetGrindingProperties for CollectibleObject
  • Implemented GetCrushingProperties for CollectibleObject
  • Implemented GetRequiredMiningTier for Block
• Tweak: Hides and their various associated items now use the tags system for recipes, with the result that bear hides can now be used directly in the same recipes that only generic hides could be used in directly before.
• Tweak: 'item-crushed-leadoxide' renamed to 'item-crushed-galena', to better align with standard naming formats.
• Tweak: Better logging for errors in grid recipes
• Tweak: New construction options! Structure generation via structures.json now also supports placement: "Shallowwater", supports minForest/maxForest constraints, and fixes some structures generating under water
• Tweak: The grid recipe loader will now print a warning if a ingredient wildcard never matches
• Tweak: Allow for custom attribute based grouping of things like shields or bookshelves in the handbook
• Tweak: Added BroadcastMapRegion to the WorldManager to force send a map region for example after using /wgen regen to update structures debug wireframes
• Tweak: Correct handling of CollectibleBehavior.OnHandbookRecipeRender. This also means a new argument "ref EnumHandling handling" is added, breaking compatibility with mods implementing this method
• Tweak: Clothing no longer renders onto seraph skin by default, set collectible attribute "renderOntoSkin" to true to reactivate that
• Tweak: AnimatableRenderer now supports mixed rendering of opaque and transparent geometry. It'll automatically extract it from the supplied mesh
• Tweak: Structure placement "Surface" now also checks U blocks
• Tweak: Removed logged startup warning "Is a {0} mod, but .cs or .dll files were found. These will be ignored." in dll mods that had a worldconfig property set. It served no purpose.
• Tweak: Added IWearable and IWearableStatsSupplier interfaces, which are now used in new behaviors
• Tweak: Implemented following methods for CollectibleBehavior: RequiresTransitionableTicking, ConsumeCraftingIngredients, UpdateAndGetTransitionStates. UpdateAndGetTransitionState, GetMergableQuantity and TryMergeStacks
• Tweak: Metal types of lamellae, chain, and scale items that do not have corresponding armor sets have been removed.
• Tweak: Ground placed collectibles can now emit light
• Tweak: Doors can now specify liquidBarrierHeight per block segment
• Tweak: AnimationMetaData Sounds can now be set to looping
• Tweak: EntityBehaviorAttachable can now set useShiftAttach: true in json to use the shift key for attaching and deatching
• Tweak: Sound tracks can now be structure specific
• Tweak: Allow liquid containers to set custom drink portion sizes in JSON
• Tweak: Improve loading times with many mods installed (recipe loading times 21s => 8s, json patching times 47s => 3.6s). Contribution by tehtelev
• Tweak: When json patches target a missing file, log an warning to the main log file instead of a debug entry in the debug file
• Tweak: EntityBehaviorAttachable can now set useShiftAttach: true in json to use the shift key for attaching and detaching
• Tweak: Allow entities to specify useSlotPrefix: true in attributes to allow other shapes to be added to it with a different texture by adding the slotCode to the texturePrefixCode
• Tweak: Can now defined a "frostOverlayThreshold" an entity type json attributes to change the temperature at which an entity is 100% frosted over
• Tweak: Can now configure ground storage messy12 positioning
• Tweak: Made prevPlayerPos public in GuiElementMap
• Tweak: Made world map color randomization configurable
• Tweak: Made button background color not hardcoded
• Tweak: Game now warns you if you have attachment point codes duplicated, as it results in undefined behavior
• Tweak: Two new MeshData methods, .Scale() and .Rotate() with no origin specified, will scale/rotate around the block center point
• Tweak: Renderpass Decor is now available, used for decor overlay layers; see vanilla overlays for examples
• Tweak: add BlockType attribute "allowOverlays: false" to prevent moss, dust and other overlays from being applied; can also in rare cases use "allowOverlays: true" to force allowing of overlays where they would normally be auto-disabled (eg. on transparent blocks or ice blocks)
• Tweak: BEQuern.cs move all private fields and methods to protected
• Tweak: Add font stroke to debug screen text to make it more readable
• Tweak: Mods can now add a assest/mymod/config/remapentities.json which then gets automatically merged with the games entity remappings, please do not replace assets/game/config/remapentities.json unless you really really want to overwrite the entire vanilla entity remappings
• Tweak: Mods can now add a assest/mymod/config/remaps.json which then gets automatically merged with the games remappings, please do not replace assets/game/config/remaps.json unless you really really want to overwrite the entire vanilla remappings
• Tweak: Allow custom shape for harvestable skep mesh
• Tweak: Make the game engine more tolerant towards missing files
• Tweak: Add ability to remove a mod asset origin
• Tweak: Improve support for framebuffer rendering. Added capi.Render.GenTexture(), rename capi.Render.FrameBuffer to capi.Render.CurrentFrameBuffer, can now also get capi.Render.CurrentFrameBuffer, added capi.Render.OrthoMode() and capi.Render.PerspectiveMode()
• Tweak: EnumSoundType moved from Vintagestory.API.Client to Vintagestory.API.Common (since it may be used by the server as part of SoundAttributes)
• Tweak: AnimationSound now supports 'chance' of the sound being played
• Tweak: Can now bulk edit transforms of variantgrouped collectibles
• Tweak: Much cleaner implementation for adding support to custom transforms editing via the transform editor. Instead of weird save/load/close stuff, instead register to event bus events "onsettransform" and "ongettransform". See ItemTongs.cs for example
• Tweak: Added HabitatSize property to spawning conditions, only works for animals with Habitat=Underwater or Habitat=Sea. Default HabitatSize is 2
• Tweak: Added animal spawn maps. This lets you further constrain animal spawn to certain regions only. Example implementation: Fish spawn
• Tweak: Items and Blocks can now define a "ParticlesTextureCode" to specify where block/item breaking particle colors should come from
• Tweak: When checking the nutrition properties for liquid inside of containers, fallback to the default for the liquid if per litre properties are not found
• Tweak: It's now possible for meals to be intoxicating
• Tweak: It's now possible to specify a non-default groupBy to use when creating an ItemStack slideshow in the handbook
• Tweak: Trait attributes can now define blend types
• Tweak: New CollectibleBehavior for harvesting items in ground storage
• Tweak: Ground storage now uses GetCollectibleInterface to obtain IContainedInteractable, making it possible to add it to collectible behaviors
• Tweak: LiquidContainerTopOpened now uses IContainedInteractable, Ground Storage code for this interaction removed
• Tweak: Existing elk sounds moved from creature/hooved/large/elk folder to new creature/animal/mammal/hooved/deer folder, to conform with new shape/texture/entity folder standards.
• Tweak: IContainedInteractable now has GetContainedInteractionHelp method
• Tweak: ModMaker Update: Fixes mod maker modinfo creation to be compatible for moddb uploading
• Tweak: new optional ContainedTextureSource() constructor with callback for off-thread texture uploading
• Tweak: new optional ITextureAtlasAPI.GetOrInsertTexture() call with callback for off-thread texture uploading
• Tweak: Chat command can now specify custom syntax explanation for an argument, by appending .WithExplanation() to an argument
• Tweak: Added CollectibleBehavior.GetAttackPower()
• Tweak: Allow to change a block after falling. With a new "variantAfterFalling" parameter, it's now possible to change the block after falling, like a broken variant or a variant with a lower shape (in case the shape is less than 15 voxels like the chandelier)
• Tweak: Renamed IWorldManagerAPI.CurrentWorldName -> CurrentWorldFilepath to better describe itself
• Tweak: OnTree BlockPatches now respects the TreeType property
• Tweak: AI tasks can use a single time frame that extends through the night, rather than needing one from evening to midnight and another from midnight to morning
• Tweak: Renamed InventoryPlayerBackPacks to InventoryPlayerBackpacks
• Tweak: Added IServerEventAPI.PlayerReady event, which triggers after all mods signal the player is ready to play. Currently used by the character selector, so right now this event only triggers once the player has selected his character (or right away if he selected it already in a previous join). Cleaned up XML documentation for PlayerJoin, PlayerNowPlaying events
• Tweak: Animal generation check happens from EntityBehaviorHealth instead of BehaviorHealingItem
• Tweak: BlockEntity tick listeners now log their positions on exception
• Tweak: Incorrectly formatted strings sent to ILogger methods now will throw compile errors instead of crashing ingame
• Tweak: Unhardcode antler item names from antler growth behavior
• Tweak: Changed Entity.ServerPos and Entity.SidedPos to refer to the Entity.Pos property, so they are no longer different from the Pos property. This is to remove confusion about which to use where.
• Tweak: In EntityBehaviorMultiply, can now provide an array of requiresNearbyEntityCodes from json. On the code side, more fields made accessible.
• Tweak: Sailboat-mounted lantern no longer uses a separate model. It instead attaches the 'wall' lantern shape to an invisible LANTERNPARENT element in the sailboat shape. One less model to maintain.
• Tweak: Methods in BehaviorRideableAccessories made protected and virtual
• Tweak: Duplicated landform/mutation codes in landforms.json are no longer valid. The game will error and exit on startup now. Each landform must have a unique code.
• Tweak: Allow harvestable skeps to have custom food tags defined in JSON
• Tweak: Allow custom food tags for ItemStack variants with ICreatureDietFoodTags
• Tweak: Blockpatch system: also respect forest value even for UnderTree placement
• Tweak: Targetable AI tasks can read a TargetOnlyInteractableEntities true/false value from json
• Tweak: API additions to IMapRegion and IServerEventAPI to support future river generation
• Tweak: IBlockFlowing now has additional properties and methods, including position-aware GetPushVector(BlockPos). Default implementations are in BlockForFluidsLayer.cs. Modded liquid blocks should ensure their implementation is correct otherwise particle or entity motion may be wrong, or other bugs
• Deprecation: ItemPoultice moved to Legacy folder. Use BehaviorHealingItem instead.
• Fixed: EntityVillager modding robustness. Did not respect mod domain, crashed on missing textures or missing sounds, did not allow for single sound voice
• Fixed: Don't crash when no hotbar is loaded and one uses the offhand slot flip hotkey
• Fixed: seraph face and body became invisible after .reload textures command
• Fixed: When loading a world the font size of labeled chests will no longer reset to the default size
• Fixed: Farmland at low temperatures or low light levels now properly delays crop growth even when temperatures and light levels increase back to acceptable levels
• Fixed: The termite mound would drop itself instead of termites when their supporting block was removed
• Fixed: .reload shapes command was not reloading placed blocks properly
• Fixed: Avoid null reference exception when calling WorldMap.TryAccess when access is not granted despite being unclaimed
• Fixed: Item/tool/material texture folder contained many redundant and non-standard-sized textures. All textures in this folder have been reassigned to other standard textures, or moved. Spear and spearhead itemtype json texture sections reorganized.
• Fixed: Properly use loaded metal variants for all types of blocks and items
• Fixed: Max saturation being reset to 1500 on client side
• Fixed: Game crashing under `.cf sedi 1` plus spawned projectiles
• Fixed: Loading of assets is now fully case insensitive internally. Should fix uppercase/lowercase asset loading issues on modded assets
• Fixed: Crash when parsing json to an AssetLocation using AsObject
• Fixed: DrawSvg,LoadSvg,LoadSvgWithPadding with no color specified would default to fully transparent now we properly load the color from the SVG and convert it to BGRA for rendering
• Fixed: Normalize normal vector before packing to stop bit bleeding (PR 55 by phonon)
• Fixed: BlockLiquidContainerBase TryTakeContent would sometimes give back incorrect stack size
• Fixed: When eating a liquid container with nutrition properties the player's satiety would become NAN and eventually lead to a crash
• Fixed: Properly allow for liquid containers that are edible, and will be eaten when empty
• Fixed: Creative inventory tabs cut off wide text
• Fixed: CollectibleBehavior.GetRemainingDurability() called CollectibleBehavior.OnGetMaxDurability() instead of .GetRemainingDurability()
• Fixed: Interaction help itemstack rendering can go oversize
• Fixed: Rendering ui inventory contents into a framebuffer did not work
• Fixed: Seaweed and Seagrass had EnumBlockMaterial.Liquid instead of Plant

It was 10 years ago to this day when I set out to create Vintage Story, with the encouragement of my loving wife Saraty. It was just me at first, with Saraty, Luke and Hayden joining forces half a year later. The very first release of Vintage Story followed a month later, a very barebones, creative mode only voxel game experience, which is downloadable for free for those that feel nostalgic. Barely anything more than a tech demo. Since then we've grown to a team of over 20 developers, work on a game engine that has more than 500.000 lines of code, maintain multiple services and platforms and host a discord community of over 120.000 members. 10 years.... a quarter of my life has been dedicated to creating Vintage Story. It has been a fascinating journey. And not just for me! I've had the privilege to work with a talented team and many more contributors to make VS the best it can be.

To commemorate this day, we decided to do a 200 game key giveaway - no strings attached. All we need is an email address to which we'll send the game key if you have been selected. We will not use your email addresses for anything else. 

=> Participate in the Vintage Story Game Key Giveaway <=

To everyone that contributed to its development, to those that provided feedback and provided bug reports, to those that uploaded screenshots of their builds or just played the game and gave it a fair shake - you have my gratitude! I am looking forward to the next 10 years of building and creating - together!

Cheers,
  Tyron and the entire VS Team

We've accumulated another handful of small patches worthy of a release.


The Lion's Den by Pento, shared in #screenshot on Discord

Game updates

• Everything included in the rc.1 update
• Fixed: Launching a Sailboat spawned it on land instead of in water

We've accumulated another handful of small patches worthy of a release.
 

Little Tractor-Crawler by T͗ͬ̈́h̎ͫ̚eͥ̆̈́_ͩ̓̍O͋wl̃͑̇, shared on #screenshots in Discord
 

Game updates

• Tweak: Elks and other mountables can no longer use a translocator or teleporters, unless being currently ridden - a player riding an elk, who uses a translocator, teleports both player and elk
• Tweak: Lore hint particles now always spawn, ignoring the player's particles quantity setting
• Tweak: Allow liquids to be chiseled only in creative mode
• Tweak: Small improvement to elk rider animation in idle and walk
• Tweak: New 'manageotherplayergroups' privilege and /group addplayer or removeplayer commands, so that server moderators can deal with abandoned groups (e.g. if all ops leave a group)
• Tweak: Add server audit logging for out-of-range block break/place attempts
• Tweak: Updated community translations
• Tweak: Updated in-game credits
• Tweak: On VintageHosting, on the server dashboard include a reminder that the name needs to be between 4 and 80 characters 
• Fixed: Storage vessels were applying double the perish rate bonus 
• Fixed: Items stored on shelves would not dry or melt at the intended rate 
• Fixed: Prevent the trader menu to be opened by multiple players at the same time, which could be abused 
• Fixed: On some occasions, traders walked away from player mid-conversation or stood still after conversations
• Fixed: For traders and villagers, opening the trade window caused the second dialog option also to be run automatically (typically "What's your name?")
• Fixed: Boars and sows not consistently being aggressive to players when piglets are around
• Fixed: Food placed in ground storage could result in empty ground storage blocks if the food rotted
• Fixed: When multiple Hoppers in different places picked up items at about the same time, some items could be teleported from one hopper to another
• Fixed: Beehive kiln and cementation furnace consumed fuel even when not processing, when the structure was partially loaded across chunks
• Fixed: Placing straw dummies always positioned them on the very edge of blocks
• Fixed: Some ropes not properly loading from a savegame to client side 
• Fixed: Flowing lava blocks now start their particles at the correct height
• Fixed: Devastation Area ground level could have chunk borders if originally generated in an earlier game version and /wgen regen used
• Fixed: On very old worlds (1.18 or earlier) the pan would result in only Homo Sapiens mode drop chances 
• Fixed: In vast caves or when standing below large structures or floating islands, a chunk directly above the player was sometimes invisible
• Fixed: Rare error when generating a weather dust particle for a not-fully-loaded fruit tree
• Fixed: Beehive Kiln doors could cause crashes in multiplayer. Github #5170 and #7226
• Fixed: Rare crash relating to insect sounds. Github #7201
• Fixed: Rare crash from async particle spawn
• Fixed: Crash when Ctrl+scroll up on the firepit input slot
• Fixed: Rare crash when copying the Resonance Archives
• Fixed: Potential crash on player death with no specific damage source (e.g. from combustion)
• Fixed: Potential crash with BodyTemperature system during server shutdown
• Fixed: Potential crash when trying to spawn a cube particle from a LooseItemFoodSource
• Fixed: Potential crashes if certain game folders (Logs, Saves, Macros) were not found 
• Fixed: Potential client crash in windowed mode when the game fails to center the game
• Fixed: WorldEdit chisel tools crash when holding an item instead of a block
• Fixed: Pasting line breaks into single line text field showed up as a missing character
• Fixed: Certain errors seen in logs on multiplayer servers
• Fixed: When the --dataPath argument was used, the game sometimes created unneeded directories
• API Tweak: Added to IBlockEntityContainer a new method CheckInventoryClearedMidTick() - this may affect a small number of mods which use this code, apologies, mod breakage was not intended

We've accumulated a handful of small patches worthy of a release. The "/db prune" command should now finally work fully, but we still recommend making a backup of your savegame before using it.


Shuttlecraft interior by Cygnus656, shared in #screenshots on Discord

Game updates

• Tweak: /db prune command now has an additional optional argument for game version: if specified, everything below that version will be preserved.  [Example: to prune away chunks generated in 1.21.2+ to clean up chunk borders and have those same chunks regenerate cleanly in 1.21.5, while keeping the chunks generated in game versions older than 1.21.2 which don't have the chunk borders issue, you could use command: /db prune 3 drop confirm 1.21.2]
• Tweak: Higher performance /db prune command (completes more quickly, less RAM burden)
• Tweak: Minor fixes to ruins, and 5 new ruins that didn't make it into the game last update
• Fixed: In older savegames continued into game version 1.21, chunk borders were sometimes possible in areas newly generated in 1.21.2 or later, close to areas generated in 1.20 or earlier.  [Details: most likely to occur if a 1.20.12 savegame was updated directly to 1.21.2 or 1.21.4, or possibly if there are regions of the world which were just not visited much while playing 1.21.0 or 1.21.1. Chunk borders can be cleaned up either using the command: /wgen regen 1 at the affected location, or for the whole map using the /db prune command, see full example of this command above. A backup of the world first is advisable]
• Fixed: Command /db prune should now work properly.  [Notes: Use with care, it's a powerful command, can take a few seconds or minutes to run. Essentially it can remove parts of the map already generated in earlier game versions so that they can be regenerated with fresh 1.21.5 worldgen and bugfixes, while preserving any parts of the map which have player builds, farms, roads or mines. A backup of the world first is advisable] 
• Fixed: Odd behavior of projectiles in water, they now decelerate a lot faster
• Fixed: Gaps in water surface near underwater ruins
• Fixed: Rice and flax grain were being eaten by animals when they should not
• Fixed: Hot ingots placed on the ground could become invisible in some circumstances. Github #6804
• Fixed: Rare crash when clicking on empty ground storage with buckets etc. Github #7277
• Fixed: For Mac installations, the packaged fonts should now be available

[Edit:] Also released 1.21.4 to address a few new issues introduced unintentionally in 1.21.2:
Tweak: Improved elk passenger animations
Tweak: Update community translations
Tweak: New command /dweather reset allows single players and server admins to reset Rift activity (needed if it was stuck in 1.21.2)
Fixed: Client crashes in 1.21.2 with a sailboat a few hundred blocks away
Fixed: Rift activity unchanging for up to 50 in-game days after updating from a existing game world from 1.21.1 or earlier
Fixed: Opened crates with certain types of contents (e.g. flax grain) rendered as unknown blocks. Github #7235
Fixed: Labeled chests label text was invisible, and fix lighting on the first sign drawn

(there was a v1.21.3 for a few brief minutes, now replaced with v.1.21.4)

Screenshot by 7Embre, shared in #screenshots on Discord

Game updates since 1.21.1

• Tweak: Moon appearance reverted to a squared appearance, but with correct level of illumination
• Tweak: Reduce mob spawn on medium, high and very high rift activity (low and apocalyptic activity unchanged)
• Tweak: First 3 days in game now start with low rift weather (for real this time!)
• Tweak: Further buffed the Rift Ward (radius 40 => 50 blocks, 14 days fuel => 21 days fuel per temporal gear, 5% chance of failing to block rifts => 2.5% chance of failing to block rifts)
• Tweak: Reduced bear spawn chance back to 1.20 levels
• Tweak: More intense torch particles
• Tweak: Sleek doors are now airtight, and will create a room such as a cellar or greenhouse
• Tweak: Stone spears can now be ground stored on 2-block high walls instead of 3.
• Tweak: Tool and Ingot molds show metal breaking when using a chisel
• Tweak: When breaking ingot molds, only the one you're pointing at will break
• Tweak: Height of ground-placed hitboxes of crucibles, crocks, and pots reduced to make it easier to target them when placed on a table
• Tweak: Pillion now has max stacksize of 1, consistent with saddle and other elk tack
• Tweak: Scrambled eggs meal model revised and updated to have melted-cheesy-goodness!
• Tweak: Updated community translations, added a Hungarian translation
• Tweak: Game now removes username from file paths printed in log files
• Tweak: Added player pitch to the HUD debug screen
• Tweak: Add debug logging for villagers spawning and de-spawning
• Tweak: Command entity selector can now specify a tag to match, e.g. e[tag=helloworld]
• Tweak: Command .debug wireframe now has an alias: .debug wf
• Tweak: New command /entity find to find specific entities (e.g. missing villagers), usually accessible to server moderators
• Tweak: Certain other /entity information commands (e.g. /entity count, /entity countg, /entity list, /entity locateg) are now usually accessible to server moderators 
• Tweak: Catch the most common OpenGL errors at startup and provide more helpful error message. Github #6888
• Tweak: On Linux installations, revert using DRI_PRIME=1 by default [Details: that setting may select the wrong GPU on some systems, if the dedicated GPU is actually 0.  So now the setting is not present by default, but the player can easily uncomment that line in the run.sh to enable it if appropriate for that system, has to be done manually for now.]
• Tweak: On MacOS installations, enable .Net server garbage collection to help with constant lag spikes
• Tweak: For Intel Arc GPUs, add recommendation about allowSSBOs setting at game start
• Performance: Higher frame rate when rendering large numbers of signs
• Performance: Improved loading times for translocators, teleporters, rift wards (and cheese curds bundle!)
• Performance: Improved loading times for large numbers of signs
• Performance: Improved loading times for large numbers of crates and labelled crates
• Performance: Improved loading times for barrels (on both server and client)
• Performance: Fixed various potential memory VAO memory leaks on game exit (seen in client-debug.log)
• Fixed: Some poultice healing still cancelling when in the air
• Fixed: Bandages could not be used while jumping
• Fixed: Player hunger sometimes not decreasing for a long time, after combi of a large meal and healing. Github #5688 #5815 #5516, with thanks to @traugdor
• Fixed: Player could be rail-roaded (sideways movement blocked) when walking along a path edge
• Fixed: Player not able to step up small heights when they formed a corner
• Fixed: Elk fixes
  • Lots of work to fix jitter and animation syncing oddities when riding an Elk in Single Player and Multiplayer. Plus tighter controls
  • Elk with a snaffle bridle would keep walking forwards if only left/right movement buttons were pressed
  • Elk body could be tilted the wrong way when it steps down or up, especially while walking backwards (the fix applies to all creatures but most obvious on a ridden Elk)
  • Fixed dead tame and semi-tamed Elk would remain standing up
  • API Fixed: Unable to place saddle on semi-tamed Elk
• Fixed: Temporary workaround: If entities/tooltips become invisible, turning Ambient Sound level to 0 should now fix it. Github #6946
• Fixed: Missing self teal glow after respawning
• Fixed: Flat fog from weather no longer reduces deep cave visibility
• Fixed: Long-standing lighting bug where rooms and caves do not always become dark when closed. Github #6717
• Fixed: Many issues with the 2nd boss fight
  • Fixed hideous flight paths
  • Fixed hideous hurt animation when it was on ground
  • Shields not blocking projectiles if they came from a relatively high angle
  • Not able to hit boss when inside its hitbox
  • Picked up projectiles turning into stones when collected
  • Stays a little longer on the ground on the slam attack for melee attacks and no longer slides away
• Fixed: Village fixes
  • Villagers and lore mobs (drifters etc) no longer attack each other. Villagers attempt to flee from lore mobs when in close proximity
  • Make villagers clear their hands before holding weapons
  • Bowls in the village were missing
  • Attempt to fix Wall getting stuck at north gate
  • Fixed Kat getting stuck in her house at certain times and situations
  • Fixed a villager buying and selling things that he shouldn't (Folds)
• Fixed: Excavating out a ruin in sand did not remove the sand first
• Fixed: Players were able to use a knife to remove decor from chiseled blocks in claimed areas
• Fixed: Propick density search mode readings in areas originally created in very old saves (1.18 and older) could become incorrect when nearby (map border) areas were generated in game version 1.21.x
• Recipe fixes:
  • Cupronickel plates and nickel plates did not have smithing recipes so could not be smithed
  • Wood path recipe is no longer shapeless, to not conflict with the crate recipe
  • Packed dirt recipe required a blank top row in the grid
  • Clay forming recipe for hoe mold did not match the shape of the output mold
• Fixed: Z-fighting on distant wood path
• Fixed: Rift Ward carried in hands was right in front of your face
• Fixed: Block breaking overlay missing on all chiseled blocks
• Fixed: Wrong block breaking overlay on tool and ingot molds
• Fixed: Block breaking overlay on trunk not disappearing in some cases
• Fixed: Pick block will properly select the ingot mold you are pointing at
• Fixed: Quern handles z-fighting with adjacent forge (they'll still clip)
• Fixed: Cozy bed did not have sleep hours
• Fixed: Bear hide leg armor selection box when dropped on ground was way off
• Fixed: Dark fins on salmon and mahi-mahi
• Fixed: Resolved an issue where failing to set up a player on their first join could prevent them from being saved correctly in the savegame
• Fixed: Placing beams in Immersive First-Person mode was fiddly because of small camera motion right on placement
• Fixed: Mitigated crucible pouring particles were way off
• Fixed: Particles falling on fence floating mid-air
• Fixed: Art objects were sunken into base of display cases
• Fixed: Adult pigs were not being aggressive towards the player when piglets were around
• Fixed: Ratlines on sailships could not be mounted
• Fixed: Labeled chest wouldn't let you properly type in full width messages  (note: there is a known issue, chest label text is now invisible in 1.21.2) 
• Fixed: Animals in basket traps which had been caught in 1.20 and earlier game versions could not be released in 1.21.x
• Fixed: There could be incorrect block shading next to stairs in some orientations
• Fixed: Adding a single shield to the armor stand rendered two of them - one on each hand
• Fixed: Might reduce mobs clipping into player as they run towards them
• Fixed: Thatch blocks had poorly aligned textures and incorrect textures.  Now should match hay blocks better
• Fixed: In handbook, margins on grid recipes would be incorrectly scaled on non-default GUI scale sizes
• Fixed: Handbook grid recipe spacing for bear pelt recipe was incorrect for some GUI scales
• Fixed: Handbook search input would always reset once a tutorial was started
• Fixed: Logged error when placing Base Return Teleporter
• Fixed: Clay tile pile shape was missing
• Fixed: Some wolf animations playing when they should not
• Fixed: Crash when breaking invalid chiseled blocks in ruins
• Fixed: Crash when breaking an anvil mold
• Fixed: Rare crash when another player holds hot items in tongs. Github #6783
• Fixed: Occasional crash when typing that would delete selected text
• Fixed: Game crash when clicking tutorial links to open the handbook
• Fixed: Rare crash for Hopper picking up food item during off-thread item physics
• Fixed: Prevent game crash when ground storage placing above world height. Github #7023
• Fixed: Minor fixes and changes to story locations and one ruin
• Fixed: Errors during worldgen when generating the story locations
• Fixed: Tower elevator up/down arrows were hidden by the up/down levers when player was seated at the elevator position in front of the up/down levers
• Fixed: Multi player fight Eidolon dropped elucidatory vessel at >1 stack size instead of multiple with 1 stack size
• Fixed: Missing death message translations for deer and goats
• Fixed: Missing language string for dead partially tamed elk, and inconsistent capitalization for other elk
• Fixed: Unable to type a - symbol into an empty number input box for negative numbers
• Fixed: Ctrl/Shift modifier no longer working on number inputs in GUIs
• Fixed: In Settings, a slider could occasionally crash when being scrolled with the mouse wheel
• Fixed: When loading older save games in 1.21.x, only update region maps if necessary
• Fixed: Command /weather setw still did not clear fog from sandstorms
• Fixed: Allow command /fixmapping applyall force to be run from the server console
• Fixed: Reduce the incidence of a rare shader compile error on certain GPUs. Github #7015
• Fixed: Re-add ModMaker to the Mac build
• API Note: Calendar.TotalHours had bad documentation. It is not the amount of hours elapsed since game start, but amount of hours elapsed since january 1st of the year the game world started. To get actual game start ingame hours you can now use Calendar.ElapsedHours - which already existed before but returned the wrong value
• API Tweak: Make EntityBehaviorRideable.GetNextGait() virtual, as well as EntityBehaviorGait.SetIdle() and IsIdleGait()
• API Tweak: The categorycode for the utilities slot has now been broken up into different codes for different types of items.  These include: "pot" for cooking pots and crocks, "bladefalx" for falxes, "blade1m" for weapons about 1m long, "bowsmall" for simple and crude bows, and "bowlong" for recurve and long bows.
• API Tweak: Mortally woundable behavior now checks animation code names from the entity json, instead of animation names directly
• API Tweak: Allow a renderer, when registered, to also reserve a range within RenderOrder for itself and one other renderer type
• API Tweak: Attempt to kill game on launch if a mod assembly is already loaded
• API Fixed: BlockEntityBookshelf NRE crash when using a modded bookshelf with no type
• API Fixed: Single ingredient modded pies show incorrect name in handbook
• API Fixed: Handbook would freeze game entirely sometimes when looking at ingredients for meals with a Quantity set higher than 1
• API Fixed: Modded tool molds would not always display proper output in handbook 
• API Fixed: Crash if a mod added the ability to place bowls on elk, boats, or similar
• API Fixed: Duplicate keys are created for POI Registry dictionary - wispae
• API Fixed: Defining any textureSizes: [] in a model caused it to ignore the default TextureWidth/TextureHeight

Game updates since v1.21.2-rc.3

• Fixed: Broken player rendering when revisiting a sailboat
• Fixed: Constantly changing rift activity introduced in 1.21.2-rc.2
• Fixed: Version 1.21.2-rc.3 would fail to start on some hosted Linux servers
• Fixed: Furniture trader was selling raw fireclay. Now it's the commodity trader
• Fixed: Player hunger fix was not applied
• Fixed: suppressDesertStorm worldconfig not working

As you might have noticed, we've been fixing bugs and balancing mechanics feverishly over the last few weeks, with 1.21.2 alone becoming a 150 changes big update. Now that I've somewhat recovered, we should be able to push a stable 1.21.2 out within the next 1 to 2 days and then hopefully, move on to 1.22 which will heavily focus on game mechanics.

Possibly to my own detriment, I can show you the roadmap for 1.22, but again, huge disclaimer, this is an aspirational plan - and I really mean it when I say that. We rarely fully implement the entire roadmap for any update.

• We will be researching the feasibility of Rivers
• Reworked trader outposts (with some new aesthetic blocks as shown in the screenshot)
• Procedural dungeons
• Berry bush rework (i.e. add greater mechanical depth to them)
• Possibly fishing
• New Mechanical Power blocks (Water wheels, Flywheels, Elevators, Grinding wheels and more)
• Item heating overhaul
• Status Effects System
• Quenching, Tempering and Annealing system (Risk/Reward based tool improvement mechanic)
• Lots of other minor things that we usually do

Due to the amount of new content, this update will probably be one of the slower ones to release again, compared to the 1.21 update. Rest assured, we'll do our best to make it worth your wait! 

We've also not been idle on the hiring end - we have @Maltiez helping us out in improving the mod api, we are currently in talks on getting a sysadmin on board, and we're likely going to soon post a web developer position so we can separate out the 2 other projects of Anego Studios onto their own websites and community platforms. 

Until then, here's a few words from the new team which is working on what I originally coined as "the new adventure mode", now renamed into something more adequate!
 

Project "Glint"

Ahoy there! 

I'm Goblin, and I'm the senior game design lead on a new game from Anego Studios, which is codenamed "Project Glint". I'm excited to have this chance to introduce the new team, say a little bit about what we're hoping to achieve with Project Glint, and invite you to join us on this new journey!

The Project Glint team is made up of voxel game veterans with a passion for adventure games and RPGs. Many of us worked most recently on Hytale at Hypixel Studios, while others bring their experience as contributors to the Minecraft Marketplace and Vintage Story. We are:

Goblin - Game Designer and Team Lead
codename_B - Technical Designer/Engineer
ElsewhereHere - Art Director
Bob Nelson - Concept Artist
Chris Thursten - Narrative Designer

We're excited to do something new with Project Glint. Our goal is to create a novel voxel RPG experience that uses a blocky world as a platform for narrative, exploration and adventure. Project Glint won't be connected to Vintage Story, but it will use the same engine and we hope that the new tech and features we develop will ultimately benefit both games. Where Vintage Story is an uncompromising survival experience, Project Glint is intended to be more focused on RPG pillars like exploration, storytelling, and combat.

Currently we are defining the fantasy setting of Project Glint, while our technical designer is breaking new grounds on tooling, which will also greatly benefit the Vintage Story modding community - such as the VS Animation Support PR to Blockbench! Here's a screenshot of it in action


Even though these are still very early days, it's really exciting to be breaking into new territory and we can't wait to share more when we're ready. 

Also, we're still building the team! We're currently looking for a level designer to join us. If that sounds like it might be you, consider applying!

See you over the horizon!

- Goblin

So we broke a couple of things in -rc.1 and -rc.2, those are now fixed. In the process, we fixed a whole load more...
 

Screenshot by F1nchhh, shared on Discord #screenshots channel
 

Game updates

• Tweak: First 3 days in game now start with low rift weather (for real this time!)
• Tweak: Further buffed the Rift Ward (radius 40 => 50 blocks, 14 days fuel => 21 days fuel per temporal gear, 5% chance of failing to block rifts => 2.5% chance of failing to block rifts)
• Tweak: Scrambled eggs meal model revised and updated to have melted-cheesy-goodness!
• Tweak: Game now removes username from file paths printed in log files
• Tweak: Command .debug wireframe now has an alias: .debug wf
• Tweak: New command /entity find to find specific entities (e.g. missing villagers), usually accessible to server moderators
• Tweak: Certain other /entity information commands (e.g. /entity count, /entity countg, /entity list, /entity locateg) are now usually accessible to server moderators
• Fixed: Player could be rail-roaded (sideways movement blocked) when walking along a path edge
• Fixed: Player not able to step up small heights when they formed a corner
• Fixed: Bandages could not be used while jumping
• Fixed: Player hunger sometimes not decreasing for a long time, after combi of a large meal and healing. Github #5688 #5815 #5516, with thanks to @traugdor
• Fixed: Elk fixes
  • Fixed: For an elk with a snaffle bridle, the sprinting control was broken in 1.21.2-rc.1 and -rc.2
  • Fixed: Elk with a snaffle bridle would keep walking forwards if only left/right movement buttons were pressed
  • API Fixed: Unable to place saddle on semi-tamed elk
• Fixed: Village fixes
  • Villagers and lore mobs (drifters etc) no longer attack each other. Villagers attempt to flee from lore mobs when in close proximity
  • Make villagers clear their hands before holding weapons
  • Attempt to fix Wall getting stuck at north gate
  • Fix Kat getting stuck in her house at certain times and situations
• Fixed: Players were able to use a knife to remove decor from chiseled blocks in claimed areas
• Fixed: Ratlines on sailships could not be mounted
• Fixed: Labeled chest wouldn't let you properly type in full width messages
• Fixed: Animals in basket traps which had been caught in 1.20 and earlier game versions could not be released in 1.21.x
• Fixed: There could be incorrect block shading next to stairs in some orientations
• Fixed: Adding a single shield to the armor stand rendered two of them - one on each hand
• Fixed: Crash when breaking invalid chiseled blocks in ruins
• Fixed: Crash when breaking an anvil mold
• Fixed: In Settings, a slider could occasionally crash when being scrolled with the mouse wheel
• Fixed: Handbook grid recipe spacing for bear pelt recipe was incorrect for some GUI scales
• Fixed: Margins on grid recipes in handbook would be incorrectly scaled on non-default scale sizes
• Fixed: Base return teleporter invisible when first placed (introduced in 1.21.2-rc.1 and -rc.2)
• Fixed: Large memory leak in long-running multiplayer servers, introduced in 1.21.2-rc.1 and -rc.2
• Fixed: Logged error when placing Base Return Teleporter
• Fixed: Clay tile pile shape was missing
• Recipe fixes:
  • Nickel plates did not have a smithing recipe
  • Packed dirt recipe required a blank top row in the grid
  • Clay forming recipe for hoe mold did not match the shape of the output mold
• Fixed: Some wolf animations playing when they should not
• Fixed: Minor fixes and changes to story locations and one ruin
• Fixed: When loading older save games in 1.21.x, only update region maps if necessary
• API Tweak: Make EntityBehaviorRideable.GetNextGait() virtual, as well as EntityBehaviorGait.SetIdle() and IsIdleGait()
• API Tweak: The categorycode for the utilities slot has now been broken up into different codes for different types of items.  These include: "pot" for cooking pots and crocks, "bladefalx" for falxes, "blade1m" for weapons about 1m long, "bowsmall" for simple and crude bows, and "bowlong" for recurve and long bows.
• API Note: Calendar.TotalHours had bad documentation. It is not the amount of hours elapsed since game start, but amount of hours elapsed since january 1st of the year the game world started. To get actual game start ingame hours you can now use Calendar.ElapsedHours - which already existed before but returned the wrong value
• API Fixed: BlockEntityBookshelf NRE crash when using a modded bookshelf with no type
• API Fixed: Single ingredient modded pies show incorrect name in handbook
• API Fixed: Handbook would freeze game entirely sometimes when looking at ingredients for meals with a Quantity set higher than 1
• API Fixed: Modded tool molds would not always display proper output in handbook

• Near spawn on our official server (also known as TOPS) players have built very large storage areas - we were able to significantly reduce chunk loading lag spikes caused by these
• Unfortunately a change we've made in 1.21 caused wrong Prospecting Pick results in some areas in older worlds, specifically within a few hundred blocks of a 1.20=>1.21 chunk border. This is now fixed for new worldgen, but readings in old border regions will remain incorrect, for now. ("Old border regions" are the places close to what was the edge of the world, when a server first moved from game version 1.20.12 to game version 1.21.0 or 1.21.1.) We will see if perhaps we can address this further through other means 
• We did a lot of work in getting Elk riding as smooth and tightly controlled as possible in both Single Player and Multiplayer
• Our second boss fight should be less janky now.

Game updates

• Tweak: Moon appearance reverted to a squared appearance, but with correct level of illumination (WIP)
• Tweak: Reduce mob spawn on medium, high and very high rift activity (low and apocalyptic activity unchanged)
• Tweak: More intense torch particles
• Tweak: Height of ground-placed hitboxes of crucibles, crocks, and pots reduced to make it easier to target them when placed on a table
• Tweak: Stone spears can now be ground stored on 2-block high walls instead of 3.
• Tweak: Sleek doors are now airtight, and will create a room such as a cellar or greenhouse
• Tweak: Tool and Ingot molds show metal breaking when using a chisel
• Tweak: When breaking ingot molds, only the one you're pointing at will break
• Tweak: Pillion now has max stacksize of 1, consistent with saddle and other elk tack
• Tweak: Updated community translations, added a Hungarian translation
• Tweak: Add debug logging for villagers spawning and de-spawning
• Tweak: Added player pitch to the HUD debug screen
• Tweak: Command entity selector can now specify a tag to match, e.g. e[tag=helloworld]
• Tweak: Command /entity locateg now has an alias: /entity find
• Tweak: Catch the most common OpenGL errors at startup and provide more helpful error message. Github #6888
• Tweak: On Linux installations, revert using DRI_PRIME=1 by default [Details: that setting may select the wrong GPU on some systems, if the dedicated GPU is actually 0.  So now the setting is not present by default, but the player can easily uncomment that line in the run.sh to enable it if appropriate for that system, has to be done manually for now.]
• Tweak: On MacOS installations, enable .Net server garbage collection to help with constant lag spikes
• Tweak: For Intel Arc GPUs, add recommendation about allowSSBOs setting at game start
• Performance: Higher frame rate when rendering large numbers of signs
• Performance: Improved loading times for translocators, teleporters, rift wards (and cheese curds bundle!)
• Performance: Improved loading times for large numbers of signs
• Performance: Improved loading times for large numbers of crates and labelled crates
• Performance: Improved loading times for barrels (on both server and client)
• Performance: Fixed various potential memory VAO memory leaks on game exit (seen in client-debug.log)
• Fixed: Lots of work to fix jitter and animation syncing oddities when riding an Elk in Single Player and Multiplayer. Plus tighter controls.
• Fixed: Elk body could be tilted the wrong way when it steps down or up, especially while walking backwards (the fix applies to all creatures but most obvious on a ridden Elk)
• Fixed: Temporary workaround: If entities/tooltips become invisible, turning Ambient Sound level to 0 should now fix it. Github #6946
• Fixed: Some poultice healing still cancelling when in the air
• Fixed: Rare crash when another player holds hot items in tongs. Github #6783
• Fixed: Long-standing lighting bug where rooms and caves do not always become dark when closed. Github #6717
• Fixed: Propick density search mode readings in areas originally created in very old saves (1.18 and older) could become incorrect when nearby (map border) areas were generated in game version 1.21.x
• Fixed: A villager buying selling things that he shouldn't (Folds)
• Fixed: Occasional crash when typing that would delete selected text
• Fixed: Unable to type a - symbol into an empty number input box for negative numbers
• Fixed: Many issues with the 2nd boss fight
  • Fixed hideous flight paths
  • Fixed hideous hurt animation when it was on ground
  • Shields not blocking projectiles if they came from a relatively high angle
  • Not able to hit boss when inside its hitbox
  • Picked up projectiles turning into stones when collected
  • Stays a little longer on the ground on the slam attack for melee attacks and no longer slides away
• Fixed: Bowls in the village were missing
• Fixed: Block breaking overlay missing on all chiseled blocks
• Fixed: Excavating out a ruin in sand did not remove the sand first
• Fixed: Wood path recipe no longer shapeless, to not conflict with the crate recipe
• Fixed: Z-fighting on distant wood path
• Fixed: Bad held transform on the Rift Ward
• Fixed: Ctrl/Shift modifier no longer working on number inputs in GUIs
• Fixed: Wrong block breaking decal on tool and ingot molds
• Fixed: Block breaking decal on trunk not disappearing in some cases
• Fixed: Pick block will properly select the ingot mold you are pointing at
• Fixed: Quern handles z-fighting with adjacent forge (they'll still clip)
• Fixed: Cozy bed did not have sleep hours
• Fixed: Bear hide leg armor selection box when dropped on ground was way off
• Fixed: Dark fins on salmon and mahi-mahi
• Fixed: Resolved an issue where failing to set up a player on their first join could prevent them from being saved correctly in the savegame
• Fixed: Placing beams in IFP mode was fiddly because of small camera motion right on placement
• Fixed: Mitigated crucible pouring particles way off
• Fixed: Reduced bear spawn chance back to 1.20 levels
• Fixed: Particles falling on fence floating mid-air
• Fixed: Game crash when clicking tutorial links to open the handbook
• Fixed: Handbook search input would always reset once a tutorial was started
• Fixed: Errors during worldgen when generating the story locations
• Fixed: Missing death message translations for deer and goats
• Fixed: Missing self teal glow after respawning
• Fixed: Flat fog from weather no longer reduces deep cave visibility
• Fixed: Rare crash for Hopper picking up food item during off-thread item physics
• Fixed: Prevent game crash when ground storage placing above world height. Github #7023
• Fixed: Might reduce mobs clipping into player as they run towards them
• Fixed: Tower elevator up/down arrows were hidden by the up/down levers when player was seated at the elevator position in front of the up/down levers
• Fixed: Thatch blocks had poorly aligned textures and incorrect textures.  Now should match hay blocks better
• Fixed: Multi player fight Eidolon dropped elucidatory vessel at >1 stack size instead of multiple with 1 stack size
• Fixed: Command /weather setw still did not clear fog from sandstorms
• Fixed: Allow command /fixmapping applyall force to be run from the server console
• Fixed: Dead tame and semi-tamed elk would remain standing up
• Fixed: Missing language string for dead partially tamed elk, and inconsistent capitalization for other elk
• Fixed: Cupronickel plates could not be smithed.
• Fixed: Art objects were sunken into base of display cases.
• Fixed: Adult pigs were not being aggressive towards the player when piglets were around.
• Fixed: Reduce the incidence of a rare shader compile error on certain GPUs. Github #7015
• Fixed: Re-add ModMaker to the Mac build
• API Tweak: Mortally woundable behavior now checks animation code names from the entity json, instead of animation names directly
• API Fixed: Crash if a mod added the ability to place bowls on elk, boats, or similar
• API Fixed: Duplicate keys are created for POI Registry dictionary - wispae
• API Fixed: Defining any textureSizes: [] in a model caused it to ignore the default TextureWidth/TextureHeight
• API Tweak: Allow a renderer, when registered, to also reserve a range within RenderOrder for itself and one other renderer type
• API Tweak: Attempt to kill game on launch if a mod assembly is already loaded

Oven hut by Crustacean Oreo, shared in #screenshots on Discord

Game updates since 1.21.0

• 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 all emit the same consistent type of particles to better visualize what is interactable
  • Various minor changes to the rarity of bears, elks, deer, goat and moose. In particular, deer are now more common
  • Increase max head turn angle when riding an elk from 85° to 105°
  • Headless bear pelts can be turned into generic pelts (for use in other recipes that use generic pelts)
  • Can now craft arrows from obsidian as well as other stone
  • Reduce timeswitch cooldown from 3s to 2s
  • Increase locust spawns during Eidolon fight
• Tweak: Artisan trader no longer sells complete tile blocks, but individual tiles, that player must then craft into blocks or slabs (using mortar).
• Tweak: Moose are solitary animals: if females and males happen to spawn close by each other, the female will not follow the male
• Tweak: Female hares can now breed with adult male hares of any type, does not have to match their own type
• Tweak: Baby rabbits now also seek food to eat
• Tweak: Further adjustments to deer walking speeds
• Tweak: Color grading fine tuning. Should fix cases of extremely bright fog
• Handbook tweaks:
  • Added two more hints to the Prospecting Guide
  • In the Starter Guide, torches are now linked to the torch page
  • Cattails plant included in search result for "reeds"
  • In arrow descriptions, less confusing piercing damage modifier info
  • The Cheesemaking Guide wrote that cheese could be made from 25 liters of milk or 50 liters of milk. In practice salt could previously only be added for increments of 10 liters of milk at a time, so that 25 liters of milk was not actually possible. Now it is: salt is now added for increments of 5 liters of milk. Also added some links within this guide. 
• Tweak: Books now have limits: title cannot exceed 80 characters, text cannot exceed 80000 characters
• Tweak: In the Journal GUI, better spacing between chapters
• Tweak: For commands specifying entities using e[], throw error if an invalid entity selector (or no selector) is used. To select all entities, use entity selector e[!]. Prevents accidental teleporting of all entities e.g. via /tp e[1231] tyron
• Tweak: For commands specifying entities, the help example text is now correct for the updated gazelle entity type code
• Tweak: Added /serverconfig modwhitelist/modblacklist to modify the mod black and whitelist
• Tweak: Added capability to display a notification inside the server hosting dashboard for future maintenance windows
• Tweak: Disable "World Settings" button in the server dashboard - it is not supported at this point
• Tweak: On Linux when using AMD or Intel GPUs let the mesa driver try to use the dedicated GPU if multiple are available
• 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 from 1.20 worlds with bugged shields
• Fixed: Claims with a grant from game version 1.20 or before would not allow to open doors for permitted players or groups
• Fixed: Grass or snow blocks sometimes floating in the air. Github #6799
• Fixed: Sometimes attack sounds were playing twice
• Fixed: Attacking drifters/shivers/bowtorn with a falx would sometimes open their inventory on death
• Fixed: Armor stand sometimes spawning with weird or invalid items on them in ruins [note: armor stands already spawned before this patch may still be broken. If there is no player build nearby you can stand next to them and use command /wgen regen 0 to regenerate]
• Fixed: (in progress) Game crashing occasionally on accessing storage, now gives more info in the crash report
• Fixed: Barber-induced nudism (#6775)
• Fixed: Figureheads would not display the proper material on boats
• Fixed: Some metal trapdoors had incorrect textures
• Fixed: Metal trapdoors made wooden sounds
• Fixed: Some metal blocks were not craftable
• Fixed: Metal support beams had their material set as wood
• Fixed: Female hares would not be baited by basket traps unless ready to mate
• Fixed: Various unrealistic behaviors for snow-covered chiseled blocks when changing blocks above or below
• Visual fixes:
  • Shadows from player held tools and weapons were missing, in 1.21.0
  • Items would occasionally not be visible
  • Fixed faint black lines between some grassy topsoil blocks, in 1.21.0
  • Sunflower leaves wind motion was all wrong, in 1.21.0
  • Ocean waves now less jerky in strong wind conditions
  • In an inventory, grubs, some bracelets, and clutter ports, could clip through other GUIs
  • Silver/gold/iron/steel axe heads wrongly positioned when held in tongs
  • Cooking pots with meals in them would not display the proper texture on an elk
  • Bowl with meal had mis-colored bottom face.  Also changed all bowl models to use full bottom face
  • Ground-placed seed bags were far too large
  • Hair and hats were showing through helmets, and other clothing conflicts
  • Typo in curly top bun hairstyle prevented it from hiding properly with clothing and armor
  • Pristine Nadiyan miner boots were using dirty miner boots texture
  • Gaps in roofing models and removed z-fighting [note, clay shingles still have a twinge of z-fighting, but it should be much less noticeable now]
  • Z-fighting on firestarter model
  • Sedge had bad GUI transform
• Fixed: Ingot molds and tools placed on the ground would sometimes change position
• Fixed: Unable to fill a fruitpress with the full 10L worth of honeycomb
• Fixed: Attempt to fix issues with bees not spreading to empty skeps, until the area is revisited. Github #6924
• Fixed: Angry bee swarm could attack the sailboat
• Fixed: Missing interaction help for harvestable skep
• Fixed: Invisible chunks with saplings, if saplings in pots were seen previously. Github #6813
• Fixed: Crash when breaking saplings, if saplings in pots were seen previously
• Fixed: Corruption of a single block mesh no longer makes the whole chunk invisible. Github #6813
• Fixed: Corruption of a single player data no longer prevents the game from getting autosaved (we had this happen on TOPS)
• Fixed: Crash for Water Striders. Github #6915
• Fixed: Client crash when server logging of block changes (LogBlockBreakPlace) is enabled and a chisel material with a stack size of 1 is added
• Fixed: Game crashing when opening a command block twice
• Fixed: Stainless steel items should have been excluded from handbook, but some had a typo in their entries, so were still showing
• Fixed: Handbook description incorrectly claimed nuggets needed to be evenly spread across crucible slots
• Fixed: Hide armor json had unnecessary durability entries
• Fixed: Small fixes to the Devastation tower
• Fixed: Monsters in passive worlds would not fight back even when attacked
• Fixed: Saffron milkcap mushrooms never spawned in the world
• Fixed: Stacked bowls of glue would use up too much glue for the amount repaired
• Fixed: Gear and skull figureheads had the same grid recipe
• Fixed: Mitigate extreme face clipping into rider with elk passenger
• Fixed: Saddle breaks required for elk would reset when game was restarted
• Fixed: Tamed albino elk had missing translation entries in info HUD
• Fixed: Gazelles were missing dead localization strings
• Fixed: New fish were missing dead localization strings
• Fixed: Many wall scribbles in a 2nd story chapter location lacked localization
• Fixed: Command /weather setw still did not clear sandstorm ambient
• Fixed: Single player game would crash if clientsetting forceUdpOverTcp was true
• Fixed: Shader compile warning
• Fixed: OpenGL errors at game start were sometimes wrongly appearing as 'Context profiles only defined for OpenGL version 3.2 and above', potentially masking the true OpenGL error report. [In general any OpenGL error at the start is fixable by re-starting the computer or updating the graphics driver, see Github #6888]
• Fixed: Wrong mouse cursor on the login screen
• Fixed: Wonky "loginfailure-ipchanged" error handling during TOTP login
• Fixed: Mod icons in the mod manager now have their original sharpness
• Fixed: Minor visual bugs in the Vintagehosting dashboard
• 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
• API Fixed: Now 'shape/' and '.json' sufixes are applied only once for attached shapes, game no longer crashes if an item that can be attached to elk is given to armor stand
• 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: Cooking pots now set their texture prefix code per variant in JSON rather than using a code solution
• API Fixed: For multiply behavior, eatAnyway setting was being ignored
• API Fixed: DrawSvg,LoadSvg,LoadSvgWithPadding when passing null for the color it will now properly load the SVG's color
• 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)

Game updates since 1.21.1-rc.2 (also listed above)

• Tweak: Added two more hints to the prospecting guide
• Tweak: Color grading fine tuning. Should fix cases of extremely bright fog
• Tweak: Added capability to display a notification inside the server hosting dashboard for future maintenance windows
• Fixed: Grass or snow blocks sometimes floating in the air. Github #6799
• Fixed: Saddle breaks required for elk would reset when game was restarted
• Fixed: Unbreak /tp command (and all other entity selectors). Broken in 1.21.1-rc.2
• Fixed: /weather setw still did not clear sandstorm ambient
• Fixed: Tamed albino elk had missing translation entries in info hud
• Fixed: Mitigate extreme face clipping into rider with elk passenger
• API Fixed: now 'shape/' and '.json' sufixes are applied only once for attached shapes, game no longer crashes if an item that can be attached to elk is given to armor stand
• API Fixed: DrawSvg,LoadSvg,LoadSvgWithPadding when passing null for the color it will now properly load the SVG's color

"I've reached levels of chill unknown by any man". Screenshot by "Nah, I'd ham.", shared in #screenshots on Discord

Game updates

• Tweak: Various minor changes to the rarity of bears, elks, deer, goat and moose. In particular, deer are now more common
• Tweak: Female hares can now breed with adult male hares of any type, does not have to match their own type
• Tweak: Baby rabbits now also seek food to eat
• Tweak: In arrow descriptions, less confusing piercing damage modifier info
• Tweak: In cheesemaking, salt could previously only be added in increments of 10 liters of milk at a time, so that making cheese from 25 liters of milk was not possible. Salt is now added in increments of 5 liters, so that it is. (Also added links in the handbook cheesemaking guide)
• Tweak: Books now have limits: title cannot exceed 80 characters, text cannot exceed 80000 characters
• Tweak: In the Journal GUI, better spacing between chapters
• Tweak: Added /serverconfig modwhitelist/modblacklist to modify the mod black and whitelist
• Tweak: For commands specifying entities using e[], throw error if an invalid entity selector (or no selector) is used. To select all entities, use entity selector e[!]. Prevents accidental teleporting of all entities e.g. via /tp e[1231] tyron
• Tweak: For commands specifying entities, the help text is now correct for the updated gazelle entity type code
• Tweak: On Linux when using AMD or Intel GPUs let the mesa driver try to use the dedicated GPU if multiple are available
• Tweak: Disable "World Settings" button in the server dashboard - it is not supported at this point
• Fixed: Sometimes attack sounds were playing twice
• Fixed: Attacking drifters/shivers/bowtorn with a falx would sometimes open their inventory on death
• Fixed: Armor stand sometimes spawning with weird or invalid items on them in ruins
• Fixed: Some metal trapdoors had incorrect textures
• Fixed: Metal trapdoors made wooden sounds
• Fixed: Some metal blocks were not craftable
• Fixed: Female hares would not be baited by basket traps unless ready to mate
• Fixed: Bowl with meal had mis-colored bottom face.  Also changed all bowl models to use full bottom face
• Fixed: Ground-placed seed bags were far too large
• Fixed: Silver/gold/iron/steel axe heads wrongly positioned when held in tongs
• Fixed: Hair and hats were showing through helmets, and other clothing conflicts
• Fixed: Typo in curly top bun hairstyle prevented it from hiding properly with clothing and armor
• Fixed: Pristine Nadiyan miner boots were using dirty miner boots texture
• Fixed: Attempt to fix issues with bees not spreading to empty skeps, until the area is revisited. Github #6924
• Fixed: Angry bee swarm could attack the sailboat
• Fixed: Various unrealistic behaviors for snow-covered chiseled blocks when changing blocks above or below
• Fixed: Gaps in roofing models and removed z-fighting (note, clay shingles still have a twinge of z-fighting, but it should be much less noticeable now)
• Fixed: Faint black lines between some grassy topsoil blocks
• Fixed: Invisible chunks with saplings, if saplings in pots were seen previously. Github #6813
• Fixed: Crash when breaking saplings, if saplings in pots were seen previously
• Fixed: Corruption of a single block mesh no longer makes the whole chunk invisible. Github #6813
• Fixed: Corruption of a single player data no longer prevents the game from getting autosaved (we had this happen on TOPS)
• Fixed: Crash for Water Striders. Github #6915
• Fixed: Client crash when server logging of block changes (LogBlockBreakPlace) is enabled and a chisel material with a stack size of 1 is added
• Fixed: Game crashing when opening a command block twice
• Fixed: Stainless steel items should have been excluded from handbook, but some had a typo in their entries, so were still showing
• Fixed: Small fixes to the Devastation tower
• Fixed: Minor visual bugs in the Vintagehosting dashboard
• Fixed: Shader compile warning
• Fixed: OpenGL errors at game start (usually due to graphics driver issues) were sometimes wrongly appearing as 'Context profiles only defined for OpenGL version 3.2 and above', potentially masking the true OpenGL error report 
• API Fixed: Cooking pots now set their texture prefix code per variant in JSON rather than using a code solution
• API Fixed: For multiply behavior, eatAnyway setting was being ignored

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)

With this massive update out of the way, we are very much looking forward to building another epic update with 1.22, this time jam packed with game mechanics

Until then, we hope this update will keep you engaged!
- Tyron
 

Installation note: All installations of game version 1.21.0 will need .NET 8 runtime on the computer. Links to it are on the downloads page for various platforms (or the Windows installer offers to install it automatically). If you are updating a hosted server make sure your server host has installed .NET 8.

Existing 1.20.12 (and earlier) game worlds can continue to be played in game version 1.21.0. We recommend make a backup copy of the world file first ... just in case. When continuing an existing world, the map should usually be seamless between old and new areas. Note that by default there were no oceans in 1.20, therefore a 1.20 world which had default settings when it was made will still have no oceans nor their content (such as coral reefs) when generating new areas in 1.21. That can be changed using the /worldconfig landcover command manually in-game, but a change to that after the world was already started will very likely result in hard straight-line boundaries in some parts of the map, so is not recommended.

Game update trailer

Gifs/Screenshots

Ocean content: Multiple types of coral reefs, tiny fish particles, reef fish and more

Ocean content: New blocks! Added coral cobblestone, coral fence and wavy sand

Ocean content: 30+ types of ocean fish


Ocean content: Large waves (WIP)

Sailboat upgrades: Can now name the sailboat and attach shields

Sailboat upgrades: No longer need to hold a key to sail, instead furl/unfurl sails

Homesteading Content: Can now place more items onto shelves


Homesteading Content: Added colored crocks, bowls, pots, vessels and watering cans


Homesteading Content: Ground storage improvements. Can now store 12 ores per spot

Survival content: Added bear hide trophy armor


Survival content: Slow healing system. Poultices no longer heal instantly. Recent damage is visualized.


Elk upgrades: Can now attach a Falx or Bow and temporal gears

Elk upgrades: Can now ride with a friend


Added many new hair styles, added in-game barber in Story chapter 2

Story chapter 2 upgrades: Lots of fine tuning, fixing, adding extra lore and extra challenges


Visual upgrades: Improved seraph faces

Visual upgrades: Added volumetric clouds system. Soft as a pillow now!

Visual upgrades: Majorly reworked deer / moose animations


New blocks: Ceramic tiles, 2 new iron door variants, new papyrus variants of reed-ware


New blocks: Wooden paths are now woodtyped and 3D


UI Update: Can now select text



Game updates since 1.20

• Feature: Ocean content
  • Added 33 types of saltwater fish
  • Added coral reefs in bodies of salt water
    • Different reef types depending on water temperature (players may need to head south to see most)
    • Schools of small fish near reefs, as entity particles
    • Coral can be broken, yielding chunks of coral; these eventually decay into dead coral over time; live coral can only be placed in salt water, dead coral can be placed anywhere
  • Oceans now have large waves (WIP)
  • Added wavy sand blocks, for sand that appears underwater.  Wavy sand blocks drop normal sand blocks when mined
  • Added coral cobblestone and fence, which can be made from chunks of coral gotten from reefs
  • Sea plants now emit air bubble particles
  • Reduced underwater murkiness and darkness levels to make reefs more visible
  • Fixed distance fade out terrain that's behind water not correctly blending
• Feature: Added text selection with a mouse and various other selection enhancements - PR by Genhis
• Feature: Added Colored crocks, bowls, and pots
  • Feature: Added new raw and colored clay versions of storage vessels, watering cans, planters, and flower pots. [Details for modders: Added via new blocktype files ("...-generic"), and removing the raw version from the old blocktype. This leaves the old blocks in place in old name formats, so the only remap required is the raw blue clay versions, rather than having to remap every single pattern.]
  • Feature: Add colored crucibles and metal tool and ingot molds
  • Different colored ingot molds can be placed in the same block space
• Feature: New blocks
  • Added solid and barred variants of the iron door (barred variant not suitable for a cementation furnace)
  • Added three new red ceramic tile blocks and slabs, sold by an Artisan Trader
  • Added wood-typed paths and wooden paths are now drawn in full 3D
  • Added papyrus chests, hand basket and basket traps
• Feature: New and improved clouds
  • Volumetric cloud rendering
  • The old clouds look is still available through Graphics settings
  • Fixed: Dark edges on distant clouds
• Feature: Elk taming system
  • Can now tame wild elk to make them rideable. Added a large crate trap, to trap creatures larger than can fit into a basket trap. Use it to trap a baby elk. Feed said elk into adulthood within one year to get a partially tamed elk. Place a saddle on it and "saddle break" it once per day for several days to get a fully tamed elk
• Feature: Elk riding system tuning
  • Feature: A tamed Elk now follows the player if it is tied to a rope, making leading a roped Elk much easier
  • Feature: Two players can now ride an Elk by adding a pillion cushion on the Elk's back, behind the saddle
  • Tweak: Improved map marker position tracking for tamed Elk [detail: the client now updates the ownership position to last-known position when it de-spawns client-side; the server updates the position in OwnershipsByPlayerUid when an entity is loaded; this means now the Ownership data should contain the last known position of an ownable, may help to track down missing elks]
  • Tweak: Add ability for bow, falx and blackguard sword to be stowed on Elk's front left and right utility slots (as well as cooking pot)
  • Tweak: Added spot to hang a string of up to 3 temporal gears on the Elk (behind the right saddle bag location)
  • Tweak: Player now cannot accidentally harm their own ridden mount
  • Tweak: Improved mounted position of player riding Elk, in 3rd-person view
  • Tweak: If an owned / mounted animal is damaged by owner / rider it will not turn aggro, but will instead flee a shorter than usual distance
  • Fixed: Tamed Elk still attacking the owner
  • Fixed: Elk looking alive following a server re-start after the Elk was killed
  • Fixed: mounting a sailboat with a rope in hands that is attached to an Elk makes the sailboat fling wildly
  • Fixed: Elk medallion (Stiletto) and Long gem studded bracelet should now appear in loot randomizers
  • Fixed: Game crashing when harvesting a dead tamed Elk after server restart
  • Fixed: Multiple animation issues in multiplayer with the Elk and Sailboat with other players mounted
  • Fixed: When two different cooking pots are attached to the Elk only the left one's texture was shown on both sides
• Feature: World generation tuning
  • Tweak: Majorly reworked landforms to be more easily traversable. Warning: For existing game worlds, will involve some automatic terrain smoothing between old chunks and new chunks, some changes may be abrupt    [Details: if you have a world you have played or created in release candidate versions 1.21.0-rc.1 through rc.6, chunk border issues may remain, for these worlds it may be best to regenerate large areas or use the /dbprune command to remove all chunks except the ones actually built in.  1.20.12 worlds should update smoothly to 1.21.0.  Fingers crossed.  Take a backup copy just in case]
  • Tweak: Enabled 2.5% ocean at 500% scale by default - walk far enough from spawn and you should find an ocean eventually  [Tip: in new game customisation, World Generation tab, set landforms % to less than 97.5% to have more ocean than this] 
  • Tweak: Fixed an issue with ocean gen where high landform scale would produce very square shaped oceans
  • Tweak: Added 3 new ruins, fine tuned a few others
  • Tweak: Added small red clay deposits in soil and gravel in cold climates where clay previously did not generate
  • Fixed: Worldgen creature spawning could sometimes spawn groups of baby creatures only (or more generally, companions only)
  • Fixed: Chunk border smoothing system not working properly
  • Fixed: Large world height worlds had less surface deposits [Technical info: Correctly scale surface deposit chance by deposit depth to world sea level]
• Feature: Slow healing system
  • Healing items now heal over time instead of instantly
  • Slow healing, as well as taking damage, is now visualized in the health bar
  • Armor no longer nerfs healing amount, but instead increases the time it takes for the healing to apply
• Feature: In multiplayer, players can now revive other players using a poultice
• Feature: Reworked seraph faces, added many new types of faces in the character creation dialog
• Feature: Added several new hairstyles
  • New base hairstyles: Bowl cut, Box braids, Dense dread locks, Long curls, Medium curls, Rows, Dense rows, Short curls, Short curls2
  • New hairstyle extras: Back bun curls, Puffy back bun, Box braid bun, Cobra side braids, Knots, Curly ponytailurly, Creast ponytail, Segmented top knot, Curly sidebuns, Side puffs, Skep bun, Top roll, Back roll, Back roll bun, Thick roll, Fishtail braid, Steppe sidetails, Steppe braid loop, Steppe braids
  • Several more hairstyles available in the game from the barber (I wonder where one would find a barber?)
• Feature: Added bear hide armor
  • A new craftable trophy armor with average stats
• Feature: Monster autoharvest! The falx now extracts 1 drop per hit with a 25% chance from drifters, shivers and bowtorns (overall drop rate remains unchanged). There is a reason a falx blade is curved!
• Feature: Moon and stars position now closer to a real astronomical simulation
  • Moon phase now consistently correct, based on relative moon and sun positions
  • Rendered moon lit side precisely faces the sun current position
  • Moon apparent path through the sky is now close to the ecliptic
  • Night-time star field rotates appropriately for the current latitude
  • Night-time star field varies over the calendar year according to the seasons / zodiac
  • Slight increase in full moon light strength, as our astronomically-accurate moon is on average a bit lower in the sky
• Feature: Added a world customization screen in the savegame modify screen
• Feature: Add "traverse" permission to land claims, in multiplayer this allows other players to use doors and trapdoors in such claims without being able to use anything else. This can now be granted to groups or players per land claim - or set AllowTraverseEveryone true to allow everyone to open doors in the claim
• Feature: 2nd story chapter adjustments
  • Feature: All traders (for a small fee) can now direct you towards a Treasure Hunter trader near your spawn point to get started with the story in the first place
  • Feature: Tad can now give haircuts and heal the player
  • Feature: All villagers now have their own unique dialogue
  • Feature: Added new short story found in the Lazaret
  • Feature: Tobias will now give you some food for the journey home
  • Feature: You may now confess to your crime if you hurt Charlemagne
  • Tweak: Added more environmental storytelling to the Lazaret
  • Tweak: Devastation area temperature now at a fixed 17°C, which removes the unintentional snow cover and players freezing there
  • Tweak: Timeswitch skill is available again immediately if the way back is blocked; and base skill cooldown reduced to 1 second in Creative mode
  • Tweak: Significantly reduced distances between the 2nd story chapter locations
  • Tweak: Many tweaks and jank-fixes to villager animations
  • Tweak: Many many fixes on Nadiyan clothing
  • Tweak: Elevator now can now be unlocked on each level in the tower
  • Tweak: A number of tweaks to Nadiyan villagers (added spear melee attack, they now attack monsters, added tongs, various tweaks to villager hairstyles)
  • Tweak: Reduced cooldown on the rickety translocator from 6 months to 2 months
  • Tweak: Devastation Area mob spawn: reduce the mob spawn speed, fix potential overspawn issues
• Feature: Sailboat/Raft improvements
  • Feature: The sailboat is now primarily propelled by the unfurling of sails; holding the Forward/Backwards keys has only a small effect now
  • Feature: Can now write on the side of the sailboat, to name it etc - use charcoal on the name plate near the bow on port-side
  • Feature: Can now attach shields to the side of the sailboat. Up to 14 around the gunwales, one at each rib
  • Tweak: Hanging onto the ratlines now tires the player; when too tired will be kicked off the ratlines and will need to rest
  • Tweak: Fence posts added to sailboats now consume 2 of the available spaces (one space for the post, one space for the animal)
  • Tweak: Sailboat rudder now moved to the right side
  • Tweak: Allow a boat stuck in water that is too shallow to be nudged forwards
  • Fixed: Opening dialogs while sailing or rafting could change the player look direction
  • Fixed: Animals in sailboats looked jittery while on the move
  • Fixed: Water lilies now no longer render inside the sailboat
  • Fixed: Players positioned on the ratlines in the sailboat looked wrong
  • Fixed: Flicker and desync when switching seats on a raft or sailboat (or other rideable such as elevator); also fix flicker when mounting directly from one rideable to another
• Feature: Add mod safety check to stop mods marked by the VS team as not safe to load (to swiftly disable mods that are discovered to have vulnerabilities in them)
• Feature: Can now place place pies, ingot molds, and helvehammer molds on shelves
• Feature: Added dedicated piles for beeswax, cattails, papyrus, cloth, bones, sticks and flax fibers (no longer quad-storable)
• Feature: New moon shader that is correctly lit by the sun (WIP)
• Feature: Added 9 sailboat figurehead models for the figurehead mounting point
• Tweak: Gameplay balancing changes
  • Tweak: Hats now provide protection from rainfall
  • Tweak: Anvil mold must now be destroyed to get the anvil
  • Tweak: Slightly higher vertical down search range of flowers on beehives so players don't have to build a platform below beehives
  • Tweak: Wolf attacks now have better cooldown and windup
  • Tweak: Improve irregularity of mob spawning. Remove mob spawning very far below/above the player. Increase chance of mob spawn near rifts
  • Tweak: A Hacked locust is now rope tie-able
  • Tweak: Sod roof now has an alternative recipe using logs
  • Tweak: Can no longer place an iron anvil top on a meteoric iron base, and vice versa
  • Tweak: Can no longer construct or light a pit kiln underwater
  • Tweak: Tweaks to charcoal pit and firewood burn efficiency
  • Tweak: Buckets now stack to 5
  • Tweak: Increased Rift Ward range from 30 to 40 blocks and range is no longer spherical but cylindrical (from world bottom to world top)
  • Tweak: Fish meat satiation halved, drops doubled.  Fish carcasses now have their own model.  Fish, tiny, and small carcasses drop 'tiny bones', which cannot be used in tools.
  • Tweak: Tree seeds now burn for just 1 second, they were burning for 10 seconds (longer than sticks)
  • Tweak: Lime can no longer be crushed by hand with a hammer
  • Tweak: Killed Bowtorns now drop bone arrows
  • Fixed: Bees in skeps continued producing honey below 0°C
  • Fixed: Aged hay could be used to make fresh thatched roofing
• Tweak: Blocks/craftables tweaks
  • Tweak: Mining bag can now be made from a linen sack and plates
  • Tweak: Slight adjustment to diamond stone tile texture.  Added 'aged' diamond stone tiles (creative mode only)
  • Tweak: Clear quartz can now be pulverized
  • Tweak: Clinker bricks can now be chiseled
  • Tweak: Can now craft slabs, stairs, stonebrick, etc. from suevite
  • Tweak: New pie top crust type: Slit
  • Fixed: Pink and smoky glass were missing slab recipes
  • Fixed: Missing recipes to make aged scroll racks and aged bookshelves from aged boards
• Feature: Ground storage tweaks
  • Added several more piles, including: flax twine, leather, fat, windmill sails, pulp, thatch, and rods. Also some that require Ctrl-shift e.g. Stones
  • Tweak: Ores now store in stacks of 12 on the ground
  • Tweak: Allow liquid interaction with ground storage
  • Tweak: Allow randomized rotation in SingleCenter ground storage
  • Tweak: Seeds, thatch, mortar and pulp are now ground-placeable
  • Tweak: Various other small items such as crushed powders, metal bits, gems, bones, feathers have improved appearance in ground storage
  • Tweak: Make wooden pan ground storable
  • Fixed: Some ores not ground storable
• Tweak: In-world interaction improvements
  • Feature: Can now squeeze honeycomb in fruitpress for honey
  • Tweak: Allow honey comb squeezing into a barrel
  • Tweak: Allow the player to take a meal serving from crocks on shelves
  • Tweak: If a tool breaks, the tool mode for that tool type now still persists
  • Tweak: Can now swap chisel material using pick block mouse button 
  • Tweak: Pick block button works in Survival mode to swap slots, but does not give any block in Survival mode
  • Tweak: Can now use a hammer and chisel to extract metal bits from hardened metal in metal molds without needing to finish filling the mold
  • Tweak: Can place and remove empty ingot molds always
  • Tweak: Allow placing crucible into firepit with right click
  • Tweak: Can now also seal crock outside the crafting grid
  • Tweak: Remove not needed shift key interaction help info on placed firepit and torches
  • Tweak: Clayforming will place outputs on the ground where they were formed
  • Tweak: Pick Block will flip items out of the inventory in survival
  • Tweak: [QOL] Crate label now drawn with pigment using Ctrl+right click not Shift+right click, for consistency and to match item interaction help
  • Tweak: Prefer not to pick up items into offhand slot if other space is available
  • Fixed: When harvesting an animal it could happen that a drop would go over the stack limit
  • Fixed: Rotating a work item on the anvil could cause it to no longer line up with the smithing recipe
• Tweak: Survival handbook improvements
  • Feature: The Handbook now shows meal and pie recipes
  • Feature: Cementation furnace carburization in handbook
  • Feature: Show display/liquid containers that can hold items in handbook
  • Feature: Show items that can be stored inside display/liquid containers in handbook
  • Feature: List when an item can be placed on/in bookshelves, scroll racks, antler mounts, and crocks in the handbook - ATP-Kraken
  • Feature: Show more perish information in handbook
  • Tweak: Improved handbook guide for oven-baking and bread
  • Tweak: Show possible inputs for metal molding
  • Tweak: Show possible inputs for smithing
  • Tweak: Show "Created by" section for "firing in kiln", smashing with hammer to collect ores, anvil welding and smelting in bloomery
  • Tweak: Remove incorrect "must be nearby" statement in the Prospecting guide
  • Tweak: Show possible clay inputs for clayforming
  • Tweak: Show required materials in smithing and clayforming 
  • Tweak: Add info about pressing Shift+H to the intro text for Survival
  • Fixed: Inconsistent use of litres/liter and titles
  • Tweak: Handbook now displays more information for juicing and information for new squeezing action
  • Tweak: Add handbook info on parts required to repair translocator.
  • Tweak: Add mention of bone flute to the 'Tamed Mountable Animals' handbook entry
  • Tweak: Hide creative mode creature items from handbook
  • Fixed: Handbook: Daub recipe was including grass blocks not obtainable in survival mode in the image cycle
  • Tweak: Fireclay grid recipe in the handbook now shows 3 separate grids, to make clear that you can use all red clay, all blue clay, or a mixture of clays.
  • Tweak: Beehive kiln handbook entry changed to clarify that fuel piles do not have to be full to run the kiln, you just need some fuel in all 9 spots.
  • Tweak: Resin harvestable properties are now documented in the handbook
  • Fixed: Mention using knife to change pie crust in handbook recipe
  • Fixed: Antlers now properly grouped in the Handbook
  • Fixed: Search in handbook not working properly with diacritics (e.g. Nawóz)
• Tweak: Performance improvements
  • Performance - reduce GPU RAM used.  Reduces the GPU RAM usage of terrain by approximately half.  Some players can now try higher view distances, it may allow you to increase your view distance above your hardware's previous limit.  As an additional benefit it may also save almost 1GB of process RAM in Windows with certain graphics drivers, such as Nvidia. If you need to disable this change, the setting can be changed in-game using command .cf allowSSBOs off or edit clientsettings.json file and look for "allowSSBOs". Changes to this setting are only effective after re-joining the world. It may affect framerate by -5% to +5% (depends on hardware, view distance, other graphics settings, and scene). [Known issues: GLTF and .OBJ models might not render correctly in-game, if the "allowSSBOs" setting is enabled. Setting is not available (and off by default) for MacOS and other hardware not supporting at least OpenGL 4.3, this is outside our control. If you already played game versions 1.21.0-pre.1 / 2 / 3, you will need to use command .cf allowSSBOs on to enable this setting, as in such cases it was off by default]
  • Tweak: Performance: Improve FPS in large fields of grass, heather and similar plants. From 80 FPS to 100 FPS in one particular test case.  [Technical info: if grass/plants are short, draw them with shorter faces using drawnHeight]
  • Tweak: Server Performance: Optimised the most bottle-necking AiTasks when many animals are in enclosures
  • Reduce duration of occasional lagspikes due to garbage collection [detail: the number of permanently held small memory objects is reduced by 350k (servers) or 700k (single player), or more in modded games, allowing the garbage collector to complete its work faster; the garbage collector must run sometimes, typically there can be up to 3 such lagspikes every 5 minutes of gameplay]
  • Small server RAM reduction [detail for modders: servers no longer retain block and item render transforms]
  • Faster worldgen for large water bodies [detail: reduce array allocations in underwater blocklayers generation]
  • Fix one potential memory leak on long-running multiplayer servers [detail: it related to protobuf]
  • Save RAM on both client and server when many entities are spawned (should also slightly improve multiplayer server TPS for spawning times)
  • Reduced RAM use for animations on both client and server
  • Client-side, slight improvement in tesselation speed (3%-4%, YMMV)
  • Fixed: Significant memory leak with ground storage piles
• Tweak: Command/Config updates
  • Tweak: Add ability to disable desert storm effects per world via /worldconfigcreate bool suppressDesertStorm true
  • Tweak: The /land info command now also shows the AllowUseEveryone and AllowTraverseEveryone settings
  • Tweak: Make a few additional weather commands available also in release mode
  • Tweak: /wgen commands now may validly use 0 as the range to only work on the chunk the player is currently in
  • Fixed: "/whitelist off" and "/whitelist on" was not saved to config file
  • Fixed: Disallow invalid day-of-time setting, e.g. via /time set 0600
• Tweak: More ingame information
  • Tweak: Crocks will show what's in them in their name
  • Tweak: Crocks now visibly indicate the seal on the model
  • Tweak: Added seal hours info text for barrel recipes
  • Tweak: Added error messages when item can't be added to an animal trap
  • Tweak: Show harvestable skeps in creative inventory and handbook
  • Tweak: Added shelf interaction help; Standardized container information inside of shelves and ground storage
  • Tweak: More crock labels for differing contents
  • Fixed: Added a missing tooltip to the firestarter
• Tweak: Majorly reworked Deer animations
• Tweak: A small shader tweak seems to greatly mitigate black pixels around water / water waves
• Tweak: Carcasses now have more size-appropriate hitboxes
• Tweak: Glue is now a regular liquid and can be picked up with and used in bowls and so forth
• Tweak: Slightly nerf block light level boosts introduced in 1.20
• Tweak: Stone path blocks can no longer be water-logged
• Tweak: Aged firewood can now be crafted from aged logs
• Tweak: When a support beam's selection box was out of bounds it became unselectable; now it is moved into bounds, albeit still not exactly at the location one would expect
• Tweak: Give back stick after squeezing cheese
• Tweak: When getting up from a bed you can now also stand up next to the foot of the bed
• Tweak: Add vegetables and fruit mash to small trough
• Tweak: Some rare ruins artifacts now scrap-able (i.e. can recover material from them)
• Tweak: Tutorial will now take into account items already collected for collection steps
• Tweak: When there are no worlds the single player world list page will show a centered message and button to create a world
• Tweak: Cheese now requires more shelf space to place when larger than 1 slice in size
• Tweak: Could place chests outside the Tobias cave but not use them, now they can be placed and used
• Tweak: Cooking pot attachedshape models now attached to a shape separate from elk body, to more easily allow adaptation to other animals. Attached hay bed now uses the inventory model, rather than a separate shape just for entity attachment.
• Tweak: Only foxes, raccoons, chickens, and hares can eat out of the small trough, while all other larger animals can only eat out of the large trough
• Tweak: Cassava, Peanuts, and Soybeans are eaten by various animals now
• Tweak: Adjusted tool ground storage transforms to reduce clipping
• Tweak: Boat and elk selection boxes would be shown at very far distances
• Tweak: Added build logging for chisel block interactions (converting a block to a chisel block and adding materials)
• Tweak: Placed basket traps drop stick and basket chest separately, when broken, rather than the complete trap
• Tweak: Allow bombs to be blown up only on land where you have build permissions
• Tweak: Luxury trader now sells new copper omok pieces, rather than gold.
• Tweak: Ingot molds display Block Info based on where you point
• Tweak: Berry bush growth cycles are now about 1 month instead of x days to be month-length agnostic
• Tweak: Timeswitch skill now has a slot background to better communicate to the player that it's a slot they can switch to
• Tweak: Blocks with tiled textures (eg. fanned cobblestone) can now be chiselled and retain original textures
• Tweak: Held Temporal Gear and worn Temporal Gear Amulet now emit faint glow
• Tweak: Add 'bigger' sounds for musk ox and takin
• Tweak: Godrays intensity mildly reduced 
• Tweak: Change tongs offhand transform to 'nutcracker' style.  Also change crucible, toolmolds, ingots, and iron blooms to work with this.
• Tweak: Raw daub now stacks to 128. Raw daub grid recipe output reduced to 8. Wattle and daub block also now requires only 8 daub. So the crafting effort is the same.
• Tweak: In Graphics Settings, enable Vsync by default, and disable max fps limit by default
• Tweak: Worldedit can now be translated. See "we-" language entries
• Tweak: Conditional Block can now also accept "isBlock[code=abc] x y z" condition
• Tweak: Add CPU info logging to client and server, also add RAM logging to the server
• Tweak: Switching mod versions after already running the game once now shows a message prompting for restart to prevent unpredictable loading behavior
• Tweak: Prevent story location schematics from generating too far from the center "StoryMaxFromCenter" in locationname/structures.json
• Tweak: Moved server configs "allowFallingBlocks" and "allowFireSpread" to the worldconfig
• Tweak: When creating a new world, 'allow fires spread' and 'allow falling blocks' would show incorrectly in the hover info
• Tweak: When joining Multiplayer, on the modify server screen, added "Copy to clipboard" button for the server address 
• Tweak: On Linux we now use X11 window by default since it has no scaling issues and better performance
• Tweak: The Linux install.sh now no longer installs the fonts, they are loaded via font.conf by the run.sh file. Further the max_map_count is now set permanently if needed
• Fixed: Should fix one source of animals escaping their pens
• Fixed: Decent chance we have now fixed player "ghosts" / duplicates, in multiplayer
• Fixed: Trait "Damage against mechanicals" now also applies to ranged weapons
• Fixed: Only show one bag per category on player
• Fixed: Newly placed reed chests would not close
• Fixed: Labeled Chests no longer showed their name in the inventory dialog
• Fixed: Berries in raccoon mouths had bad visual offsets
• Fixed: Shattered molds display proper amount of bits dropped
• Fixed: Some liquid containers in grid recipe are not getting their liquid rendered nor text shown
• Fixed: Fruitpress issue when screwing down the screw fully if mash was not large enough to be juiced
• Fixed: Armorstands would not sync immediately with other players when adding/removing armor
• Fixed: Sound engine breaking because it does not remove disposed sounds
• Fixed: Entity insta-flee action and certain Eidolon actions were wrongly disregarding melee attacks
• Fixed: Leafy tops of turnips in troughs were invisible from certain angles
• Fixed: Two skin colors in character creation were both called "forest brown"
• Fixed: Doors would sometimes connect incorrectly
• Fixed: LeftDoor will flip properly during double door placement
• Fixed: Players who joined the game in Creative Mode flight had wrong collision box server-side
• Fixed: Randomizer meta block not resolving in medium1 ruin
• Fixed: A removed itemstack not getting deleted from a loot randomizer (creative mode item)
• Fixed: Made most of the particle effects dimension aware
• Fixed: Should fix "outside water" rendering in chiseled blocks in Dim 2
• Fixed: Server tick time higher than necessary in some cases
• Fixed: Game speed stuck at a high rates from sleeping, this could have happened when getting out of the bed and directly exiting to main menu
• Fixed: Larger worldedit schematics would cause the client to lose connection [detail: any large packet send to the server would make a client lose connection]
• Fixed: When the VS updater was run the game was not automatically started again. Using the parameter /VERYSILENT you can suppress starting of the app, using /SILENT will now launch the application. When running the full installer using /SILENT or /VERYSILENT will not start the game automatically
• Fixed: Logger.Warning with parameter exception was logged as error instead of warning
• Fixed: Misaligned clay ridge roof models
• Fixed: Prevent rare game crash after tutorial progress failed to save correctly due to hardware or power issue
• Fixed: Bone flute was flammable
• Fixed: Goats had improper medium hide drops
• Fixed: Period for which moose had antlers was too short
• Fixed: Missing ground-stored transforms for cooked rhizomes
• Fixed: Noticeable transition in sky color tone after midnight
• Fixed: Hacky fix for animations not playing on newly spawned entities
• Fixed: Bowls and jugs show contents on shelf
• Fixed: Granite, andesite, limestone, and chalk sands could not produce any kind of daub with red clay.  They now produce golden brown daub (but still produce the lighter daubs with other clays)
• Fixed: Mods with worldconfig.json will now load lang entries for world config
• Fixed: Crucibles and hot meals once again show smoke or steam particles when placed on the ground
• Fixed: Hides were missing incontainerTextures, and did not show up in-world in barrels.
• Fixed: Rope tool mode to lengthen/shorten no longer shown in top center
• Fixed: Deep water was not affected by underwater murkinesss
• Fixed: Erel feather stem had wrong position on tool rack
• Fixed: Wall-leaned spears popping off in in some cases
• Fixed: "Protect eyes" seraph animation was playing even when not facing the wind
• Fixed: Ruined wooden shelf now lines up with standard wooden shelf height
• Fixed: Chandelier lighting shading now matches that of candles
• Fixed: Own player not visible in map when in spectator mode
• Fixed: Worldedit TreeGenTool would not grow fruit trees
• Fixed: Game sometimes crashing when typing '[' while drunk
• Fixed: When editing sign text, the amount of lines in the edit GUI depended on GUI scale
• Fixed: When editing sign text, camera turning to the right sometimes when saving
• Fixed: Fish meat was missing food tag "meat"
• Fixed: Baby gazelles lacked proper stats and would never grow; gazelle calves dropped fat same as adults (now drop none)
• Fixed: Compost could be put in mining bags
• Fixed: Players were still able to till soil which has a block above it
• Fixed: In Homo sapiens game mode, panning could drop man-made objects
• Fixed: Various corrections to the English language translation text
• Fixed: In handbook or other text, empty or unclosed <hk> hotkey tokens crashing the game
• Fixed: Rare crashes involving BehaviorSqueezable
• Fixed: Rare crash when looking at an entity with the elevator in the background
• Fixed: Attempt to fix very rare serverchunk entity serialization issue
• Fixed: On Linux, changing from fullscreen to windowed made window border disappear
• Fixed: When a dedicated server creates a new world some default worldconfig values and some settings from the selected playstyle were not applied
• Fixed: When a server backup is running and autosave was triggered it would block the server ticking until the backup was done, now we skip autosave till the backup is done
• Fixed: Issues with LAN-hosted multiplayer games and entity motion (for some people it stopped working randomly, requiring a restart, the underlying networking mapping now auto-renews)
• Fixed: When a savegame is already opened by another running version of the game (can also happen after crashes) it would lock up the client for 30 seconds before it was responsive again, reduced now to 1 second
• Fixed: Error when looking at the fruitpress with rot in it
• Fixed: Translocators stuck at warping space time
• Fixed: The show dressed button on the character customization screen did not work after creating a new world
• Fixed: Falling and drowning damage make passive entities hostile in Passive mode - TJStave
• Fixed: Show pie in oven interact help box
• Fixed: Troughs properly report only the animals that can eat from them in suitability info
• Fixed: Troughs display proper portion size in interaction help even when half full
• Fixed: Henboxes no longer constantly show "A broody hen is needed"
• Fixed: Fancy storage vessels showed cracked vessel model when falling
• Fixed: Beehives will look for flowers inside plant containers instead of the plant containers themselves when counting flowers
• Fixed: Beenade would not properly fill with bees from skep anymore
• Fixed: Raccoons will properly break skeps and harvest berries again
• Fixed: Berry bushes will properly load the stage growth when exchanged
• Fixed: Spears and Bows now properly scaled on tool racks
• Fixed: Players longer then 30 sec in the connection queue would always fallback to use TCP
• Fixed: Rare null exception on TOPS when sending entity spawn packets with already non-alive entities
• Fixed: Mushrooms did not display correctly in traps
• Fixed: On launch of the server (dedicated or SP) the serverconfig.json was not automatically saved after applying the changes introduced from a new version
• Fixed: Destroyed papyrus trap uses incorrect textures
• Fixed: Fish properly trigger their flee behavior
• Fixed: Suevite ashlar blocks missing lang entries
• Fixed: Kiln fired storage vessels using wrong textures until picked up out of kiln
• Fixed: Rare crash when interacting with ingot mold
• Fixed: Pie contents could cook in the oven, breaking the texture
• Fixed: ItemStackRandomizer would not save changes to it
• Fixed: Cupronickel, nickel, and electrum ingots had wrong smelting ratio
• Fixed: Storage vessel and anvil pit kiln used pre-color block name formats
• Fixed: Ground stored food containers would not render its contents when combined with a hot crucible
• Fixed: Remove "makefull" attribute from containers when imported to creative inventory so they will properly stack
• Fixed: Show both regular smelting and smelting in bloomery in handbook if both are possible
• Fixed: Trader dialog bypass, added audit logging for items exchanged with traders
• Fixed: Shattered ingot molds could sometimes duplicate or cause issues
• Fixed: Wood-button sound when first entering game world
• Fixed: Water entry splash sound (and particles) were heard when joining a world if the player/boat was already in water
• Fixed: Super jittery player when connecting or when dead
• Fixed: Story npc sometimes teleported to around =512800 100 =511800 when they got stuck
• Fixed: Crash when clicking on an empty crock with an empty bowl
• Fixed: Handbook incorrectly stated that planting a fruit tree cutting had a higher success rate than grafting one
• Fixed: Dirty pot had stacksize of 1, unlike regular pots
• Fixed: Estoc had bad ground-placed transform
• Fixed: Chimney used clay instead of mortar in grid recipe
• Fixed: Pit kiln would not properly synchronize being lit between client and server
• Fixed: Wall leaned ground stored items can no longer float
• Fixed: Adding or removing items from a ground stored stack will now properly update adjacent blocks
• Fixed: Ground storage stackable items without a solid upward face could stack on top of each other
• Fixed: Milkable animal info reported the animal would get stressed for one generation longer than it should have
• Fixed: Cannot place anything onto a ground storage stack from below that is not the same item as the ground storage stack
• Fixed: Settings toggle button text not vertically centered
• Fixed: Mods adding story structures without a protection would crash when teleporting there
• Fixed: Various roofing blocks had erroneous solid sides
• Fixed: Prospecting pick would sometimes destroy blocks other than stone and ore when mining - Lazula
• Fixed: Somewhat incorrect block-breaking decal UVs on many / most blocks
• Fixed: When an exception was caused by another exception, the causing exception would not be logged
• Fixed: Game attempted to load mod files from .git folder
• Fixed: Various missing or incorrect language localization strings
• Fixed: Confusing mushroom names in meal names
• Fixed: Missing world edit localization strings
• Fixed: Missing beard names for village beard variants
• Fixed: Trader name listed twice in handbook sometimes
• Fixed: Bamboo trees grew placed block variant that cannot be chopped down properly
• Fixed: Lime said it was baked into quicklime in the handbook
• Fixed: No hammer durability used when hammering together iron anvil pieces
• Fixed: health not regenerating naturally
• Fixed: Scrolling while smithing can destroy non-hammers
• Fixed: Able to stack some piles that shouldn't be stackable
• Fixed: Cube particles not normal shaded
• Fixed: Placed ingot molds yield incorrect number of items when broken
• Fixed: Held lights not working in dim2
• Fixed: Various piles with solid tops did not allow stacking higher than 1 block
• Fixed: Snow appeared yellow on certain sod roof shapes
• Fixed: Getting up from the treasure hunters bed would get you stuck
• Fixed: Attempting to write on a sign or labelled chest with limestone/chalk places it on the ground
• Fixed: Wearing some accessories could affect the textures of others
• Fixed: Occasional unknown blocks in ruins, where a meteor impacted nearby
• Fixed: Ladder could be left floating mid-air in some circumstances
• Fixed: Eye and neck clipping in elk model
• Fixed: Elk jumping animation sometimes looping endlessly
• Fixed: Pie left in water would periodically create particles
• Fixed: Traders now say their name as intended during an introduction dialogue segment
• Fixed: Wall carvings could sometimes load rotten
• Fixed: Able to mount elevator and other entities through walls, in other dimensions
• Fixed: When picking up empty anvil mold it would give you an incorrect error message
• Fixed: Traps with an animal caught inside would drop the components when broken along with the trap holding the animal
• Fixed: When opening the world map tabs, would appear active and the prospecting dropdown would show "Everything" even if these had been previously turned off
• Fixed: Camera inside player head when in 3rd-person mode and against walls
• Fixed: Player model showed mirror image in character GUI
• Fixed: Incorrect GUI transform for Grub creature item
• Fixed: Ground stored items could sometimes load their storage properties in a way that would make certain items invisible or cause other strange issues
• Fixed: Rare crash with insect particles and rooms check
• Fixed: Prevent rare crash from out of sync ground storage when spawning particles
• Fixed: In Multiplayer server GUI, accept as valid the IPv6 version of the localhost URI. Github #6670
• Fixed: Timeswitch client channel startup error logged in Creative flat world or other lore-free worlds
• Fixed: The chat link not opening the WorldEdit folder on Unix systems
• Fixed: Ruined bookshelves with lore book, render the book properly at all rotations
• Fixed: Spearhead in tongs transform was way off
• Fixed: Crucible z-fighting on bottom face
• Fixed: Raccoon held currants not neatly positioned in their mouths
• Fixed: Worldgen borders for mapregions on the west edge of map, if east edge of world map was visited first. Github #6613
• Fixed: Dynamic Color Grading no longer causes frequent writes to clientsettings.json. Github #6607
• Fixed: Mechanical parts spawned by schematics worldedit/worldgen did not automatically connect and rotate, fixed gears not respecting schematic rotation operations in worldedit/worldgen
• Fixed: Crash to desktop when breaking chiselled coral block
• Fixed: Crash loops when players hold certain invisible blocks or items. Github #4777
• Fixed: A rare exception on the server [Detail: BlockRandomizer placed from a schematic during worldgen should initialise its BlockEntities on the main thread. ref Github #5315]
• Fixed: Rare crash to desktop if the player, in a settings menu, uses keyboard controls to move sliders to their ends. Github #6608
• 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: 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: 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: 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: Cooking pot had differing textures on some sides.  All hollow ceramic models revised to present 'full' sides, to avoid this.
• Fixed: Pit kiln did not accept aged firewood
• Fixed: Lore books had wrong bookshelf transform
• Fixed: Updated handbook guide for animal husbandry to have better, more accurate information
• Fixed: Missing localization for boat construction
• Fixed: Sign in village could not be translated
• Fixed: Ingot molds placed by other players would sometimes be invisible
• Fixed: Buckets picked up off the ground did not stack with newly crafted buckets
• Fixed: Underwater ambient sound not playing when swimming in certain water plants or other waterlogged blocks
• Fixed: Rare exception when breaking chiselled Mixed Cobble blocks in ruins
• Fixed: Seeds going into the offhand
• Fixed: Sailboat showed squished wood texture when unnamed
• Fixed: Sailboat name would become blank when world was exited and re-entered
• Fixed: Elevator player model rotation
• Fixed: Flicker/jank on the elk when switching from back seat to front seat
• Fixed: Bowstave drying handbook title showed up on incorrect pages
• Fixed: Opening the handbook from the escape menu would unpause the game, even if the handbook was set to pause the game
• Fixed: Female baby bighorn localized as male
• Fixed: Rickety translocator could not be moved, once placed.
• Fixed: Lore scrolls clipping into each other on shelves
• Fixed: Tall display cases z-fighting with underside of thatched roof.
• Fixed: Fisher pants z-fighting with shirts etc.  Musician hood hair clipping issues.
• Fixed: Raccoons did not flee from wolves
• Fixed: Various clothing issues (mostly nadiyan)
• Fixed: Monsters still spawn with lore content turned off
• Fixed: Random generation of loose rusty gears used incorrect percentages
• Fixed: Incorrect old entity codes in flee tasks of most animals. Pig and sheep babies did not have correct adult codes in 'grow' behavior.
• Fixed: Glider-Ladder hyperlanes. No more whee zoom zoom, sorry!
• Fixed: Handbook issues with bookshelves, scroll racks, and antler mounts related to properly showing what they drop
• Fixed: Notably less janky rope physics (bug bounty by Caetto <3)
• Fixed: After switching linux users, the crash reporter would fail to report crashes
• Fixed: Unable to change search keywords for meal recipes in the handbook
• Fixed: If crash reporter fails to open, still log original exception plus also failure reason
• Fixed: Milkable info not shown on bighorn sheep
• Fixed: Auction house interactions did not work properly for villagers
• Fixed: Added localization string for treasure hunter trader location
• Fixed: Command /wgen structures spawn did not respect the rotation. Minor tweak, the list sub command now outputs the mod domain as well as /wgen pos structures for newly generated ones.
• Fixed: When setting crate label, sometimes it briefly shows the question mark texture and logs the error 'Texture uploads must happen in the main thread'
• Multiple bugfixes involving crates
•   Fixed: Unlabelled crates still allowed you to interact with the label
•   Fixed: Crate would delete extra items on retrieval if they did not fit in player's inventory, now they stay in the crate
•   Fixed: Bulk removal from a crate would sometimes give less than the max stack size, even when that many items were present
•   Tweak: Crate label stays set after last item is removed, cleared on addition of a different kind of item or by use of pigment when emptyTweak: Draw crate item label without rot state or temperature
• Fixed: Too much rot given for servings of meal inside containers
• Fixed: Pickled veggies in crocks and bowls would not show the correct name and description
• Fixed: Various meal labels would not properly show partial servings when holding more than 1 serving
• Fixed: Pickled veggies put into and taken out of barrel would not keep consistent stack sizes
• Fixed: Inconsistent nutrition for pickled veggies eaten out of a bowl directly
• Fixed: Pots and bowls would display incorrect perish information inside containers
• Fixed: Empty pots would not say they were empty when placed on shelfs or the ground
• Fixed: Crash when looking at some stacking items in ground storage from old saves
• Fixed: Flowerpot and Planter would sometimes cause crashes
• Fixed: Logged errors and unknown textures when many labelled crates are used [detail: engine now fully supports dynamically increasing the number of block texture atlasses at runtime]
• Fixed: Charcoal pit would sometimes trigger an NRE and fail to light on fire
• Fixed: Crafting grid allowed you to seal an already sealed crock a second time
• Tweak: Minor polishing changes
  • Tweak: Game credits now organised alphabetically within sections
  • Fixed: Beenades had incorrect held transform
  • Fixed: Weird ridge beam names
  • Fixed: A few grammatical issues with meal names
  • Fixed: Hay block bottom texture had wrong rotation
  • Fixed: Inconsistent naming for rice-based alcohols
  • Fixed: Blister steel work items missing localization
  • Fixed: Localization issue with units of metal
• Fixed: Multiple issues with Creative-mode Texture Flipper [detail: some wood types missing from "wood" and "planks"; changing the target block after using the toolmode GUI retained some previous textures in the toolmode GUI; potential crash if mouse-over a different type of block while toolmode GUI opened; crash if use texture-flipper without selecting toolmode having previously used a different (longer) toolmode; memory leak from toolmode GUI]
• Fixed: Text on signs missing some characters when using polish language
• Fixed: bad gui rotations on reef blocks (now do not rotate at all)
• Fixed: Taking items off a ground storage while holding something else would cause floating blocks
• Fixed: Pit kiln would display items incorrectly
• Fixed: Logged error for carburizable properties in handbook
• Fixed: Crash when trying to pour rot from a liquid container

API Updates

• Upgrade: VS now runs on .net 8
• New Refactoring Project: From 1.21 onwards our source code will slooowly transition to the C# nullable context. We've started migrating them file by file whenever we have to touch them for other reasons. This is a multi year long project.
• New Refactoring Project: From 1.21 onwards we will begin transitioning all Entity AI to a tag based system insted of using entity codes. Currently implemented: Tag registry, tag definition in the ai tasks. Still missing: Actually migrating the ai tasks to use entity tags. Likely to be completed for 1.22
• New Refactoring Project: From 1.21 onwards we started refactoring all AI tasks. They are currently available in refactored mode by suffixing the task codes with "-r". Likely to be completed for 1.22
• Feature: Added Tags system (WIP)
• Feature: Allow worldgen mods to specify their own worldgen/structures.json , worldgen/villages.json and also worldgen/storystructures.json along with their own worldgen/story/storyStructureCode/structures.json to easily add more structures to the various systems
• Feature: Fruitpress can now output a different item than dry mash when mash is fully juiced
• Feature: New Squeezable collectible behavior replaces hardcoded honeycomb item class
• Feature: Grid Recipe crafting: Added mergeAttributes to grid recipes that specifies ingredients which attributes will be merged into output stack. Allowed use of regexes in ingredient code. Allowed use of '{variant}' construction in ingredient code wildcard, several variant groups can be used in one ingredient and across ingredients, allowedVariants and skipVariants for them are specified separetly in recipe.
• Feature: For block textures, tiles and overlays can now be used together
• Feature: Can now limit certain items from being put into traps
• Feature: New IShelvable interface to define whether an item can fit on a shelf based on an ItemStack in code because a collectible attribute won't work
• Feature: Half and full shelf layout placement of large items on shelves
• Feature: Species other than chickens are able to use the hen box if they use a matching nest type
• Feature: Henbox now able to store and display different egg item types
• Feature: Now all paramters for drifters to turn into crawling type is configurable from json.
• Feature: AI task SeekBlockAndLay now supports multiple chick types (such as male and female)
• Refactor: Heavily reorganized the folder structure for entities and their models and textures
• Refactor: The newly introduced slow heal/damage system is now merged into the BehaviorHealth system so that hp affecting foods can also use the effect
• Tweak: Old iron door json and shapes moved to legacy folder.  New format iron door json now under metal/door, rather than metal/iron/door.  Iron hatch shapes also moved from metal/iron to metal/door folder.
• Tweak: Allow structures, storystructures and villages to specify AllowUseEveryone: false (default: true), AllowTraverseEveryone:false (default: true), ProtectionLevel (default 10). This is used by the village , tobiascave and treasure hunter to limit usage only to doors so you can enter but not take items and open chests.
• Tweak: Added OnTestBlockAccessClaim to the event wich is the same as OnTestBlockAccess but also includes the tested claim if there is one. VSLib methods TriggerTestBlockAccess, testBlockAccessInternal and GetBlockingLandClaimant have also changed to provide the claim instead of only the claim owner name
• Tweak: Added interface IProjectile. It is used to decouple spawning of a projectile from specific projectile class. Allows to use any projectile class that implements this interface in all code that uses it to shoot a projectile
• Tweak: When loading traits or character classes the game will now check if the vanilla traits/classes order has changed, or traits/classes were removed, and prints warning in logs. Removing or changing order of vanilla traits/classes can cause compatibility issue
• Tweak: Added EntityBehaviorGait, update EntityBehaviorRideable to use it
• Tweak: Fox, moose, deer and goat entity jsons split into separate 'baby' and 'adult' jsons
• Tweak: Fixed typo in DamageSource IngoreInvFrames field
• Fixed: Dead players having non-zero health
• Fixed: Ground storage restricts maximum stackable height properly
• Tweak: New IsFood property for cooking recipes, to avoid dirtying the cooking pot
• Tweak: Liquid ingredients in meals can have nutrition set per liter
• Tweak: Cooking recipes can now have different quantities of items per stack
• Tweak: Use GetCollectibleInterface for IContainedCustomName
• Tweak: Use GridRecipe in CollectibleBehavior.OnCreatedByCrafting
• Tweak: Allow maximum swivel angle to be defined in entity json
• Tweak: Traits & CharacterClasses can now be loaded from multiple files, you no longer need to json patch these files
• Tweak: ItemStone damage now json configurable
• Tweak: For entities with milkable behavior, made lactatingDaysAfterBirth and milk liquid stack configurable
• Tweak: Custom bloomery capacity in json; allow custom ore capacity in bloomery via collectible attribute "bloomeryCapacity"
• Tweak: Allow custom barrel sounds from json config
• Tweak: various changes to basket traps:
  • basketCatchable property replaced by trappable, see vanilla creature jsons for examples
  • The basket trap no longer defines bait by food category, now only by food tags
  • Traps can now define a min weight value for bait, and food tags can include a weight value
  • For both basket and crate traps, render transforms can be defined for the bait, can be different for different trap types. See vegetable.json, carrot attribute "inTrapTransform" for an example
• Tweak: Chests and other storage in ruins and dungeons can have contents refresh for each player: to create such a chest, use command: /giveblock chest-east{isPerPlayer:true} 1.  The inventory can be seen and modified in creative mode, ctrl click clears a slot. Command: /dev pplr l[] resets all player usages for this chest
• Tweak: For creatures, gallop/trot sound is now configurable in json
• Tweak: In creature diets, one additional food tag: "egg"
• Tweak: (experimental!) added /debug chisel genshape command to generate a json model from a chiseled block
• Tweak: Added StoryLockableDoor and /dev storylock command to add locks to doors in story structures
• Tweak: Entity spawning temperature and rain condition tested Y coordinate now always at 109% of sealevel instead of at the current spawnposition, should prevent for example Arctic creatures spawning on tropical mountaintops
• Fixed: Wolf (and other entities) with a SeekEntity attacking AITask with a null leapanimation specified, no longer default to "jump"
• Fixed: CompatibilityLib was not replacing assets
• Fixed: Blended texture overlays not working when using different domains
• Tweak: For coded mods only, in the unlikely event that in your code you need to adjust AnimationMetaData for a single instance of an entity only (not for all entities of the type), if you need to change or add to these fields or Dictionaries, please .Clone() it first: .Attributes, .TriggeredBy, .ElementWeight, .ElementBlendMode, .AnimationSound
• Tweak: In server-side code paths, Block and Item render transforms are now set to null after server startup is complete. This may produce exceptions in mod code if mods attempt to access these transforms server-side (should be unnecessary server-side)
• Tweak: BlockBehavior.OnBlockPlaced() is now called after any BlockEntity for the block is created (until now, it was called before creating the BlockEntity)
• Tweak: IAnimator now offers a TryStartAnimation() method, does nothing if the animation is not available
• Tweak: Added IsAir property as a mod-compatible way to replace checks for block ID == 0
• Tweak: new method IInventoryManager.CloseInventoryAndSync(): if called client side, closes the inventory and sends a syncing packet to ensure .CloseInventory will be called on the server also
• Tweak: Possibility of specific slot icons and colors e.g. for hotbar and armor slots; in code, can be changed dynamically at runtime
• Tweak: Add wildcard and regex support to BehaviorUnstableFalling exceptions
• Feature: Added OnGetMiningSpeed, OnGetMaxDurability,OnGetRemainingDurability,OnDamageItem and OnSetDurability to CollectibleBehavior
• Tweak: Coded collectible behaviors can now implement/override OnTransitionNow() [thanks to Dana]
• Tweak: Coded collectible behaviors can now implement/override OnHandbookRecipeRender() [thanks to Dana]
• Tweak: Coded mods extending BehaviorGrow can use overrideable BecomeAdult() method to transfer attributes etc from child to adult entity [thanks to sekelsta]
• Tweak: Farmland/CropBehavior class tweaks, added more parameters to the TryPlant and OnPlanted methods for CropBehavior modding
• Tweak: Less hardcoded EntityBehaviorMilkable
• Tweak: BEAnvil.cs now uses .GetInterface() instead of casting to get the IAnvilWorkable instance
• Tweak: Clay oven: Don't hardcode ovenFuelShape
• Tweak: Clean up berry bush code to be more moddable
• Tweak: More moddable crop seeds (use .Variant[".."] in ItemPlantableSeed.cs)
• Tweak: Use GetInterface for ICombustible, instead of "block is ICombustible bic"
• Tweak: Update GuiComposer to allow setting of TitleBar key via method argument
• Tweak: Remove NetServer.Name and ConnectedClient..FromSocketListener and use ConnectedClient.IsSinglePlayerClient instead of testing the socket for a DummyTcpNetServer
• Tweak: Ability to disable UI switches and sliders
• Tweak: new method ITesselatorManager.CreateMesh() including a texture source builder (for example used in vanilla by the Scroll rack, Bookshelf and Antler mount); ShapeTextureSource is now accessible through the API
• Tweak: Animal traps can now specify "destroyedDrops" in attributes
• Tweak: new block/item attribute "displayedShape", used to specify shape on shelf, in trap, etc.
• Tweak: healing item determines if it should be affected by 'healingeffectivness' stat instead of every healing being affected by it non conditionally.
• Tweak: A damage source can now decide to ignore invulnerability frames
• Tweak: Added a logger parameter to BitmapExternal constructors that can fail
• Tweak: Allows all AI task types to be enabled/disabled during certain hours
  Beforehand; only the idle task could be specified to happen in certain day time frames, using the "duringDayTimeFrames" property.
  This makes it so that all AI tasks can use the day time frames system. Properties without "duringDayTimeFrames" will act as normal.
• Tweak: NumberInput UI element only allows typing in valid input
• Tweak: Added IconPath to the ModInfo class, which now also gets loaded from json.
• Tweak: When attaching things to a EntityBehaviorContainer it now adds the inventory slot code as a texturePrefix to prevent textures being overwritten from another attachable
• Tweak: the shader shadowmapgeneric is re-named to chunkshadowmap
• Tweak: when the engine creates meshes from shapes, the order of the vertices for some faces (S, W, Down) has now been changed to a consistent order on every face. This should not usually affect mods unless they need to fetch individual vertices by vertex index: some of the vertex indices have changed. In rare cases this may also have an effect on the order of windmode/winddata specified in shape files for plants etc, please re-check that your plant models still look OK in-game.
• Tweak: IServerConfig.MaxClients now also returns the proper value if the --maxClients command line overwrite was used. ServerConfig.GetMaxClients() now gets its value from IServerConfig.MaxClients and is no longer needed. If you modify IServerConfig.MaxClients it will update the serverconfig.json and also update the value of --maxClients if it was specified at server launch.
• Tweak: Allow NatFloat Offset to be used in BlockDropItemStack properly 
• Tweak: Store chick data as attributes on egg item
• Tweak: Marked the ModInfo property on WorldConfig as JsonIgnore, this property is set internally and should not be deserialized form worldconfig.json.
• Tweak: Load pie crust top types from JSON
• Tweak: mount points on rideables like the elk can only be mounted if the slot is empty or has a saddle or seat in it, this allows for slots to be used as attachable storage and as a mount point
• Tweak: IAnimalNest.TryAddEgg now takes an egg itemstack with chick info set in attributes
• Tweak: Crock shape now taken from the defined shape in the JSON, seal and labels must be in the same folder, will use hard coded paths as fallbacks
• Tweak: Crock label names for label models defined in JSON, for easier additions of extra labels
• Tweak: Crocks can take crockable items out of the liquid slot of a barrel now as well
• Tweak: Futureproofing neckwear - Modified all necklaces to use a rotator element for if/when we add player breasts
• Tweak: Wooden path recipe now uses explicit allowedvariants, for easier modding.
• Tweak: Added GetTags() methods to Block and Item classes
• Tweak: Made all internal Camera fields public
• Tweak: Add inForgeTransform to .tfedit ui
• Tweak: Added tags to block and item descriptions when extendedDebugInfo is true
• Tweak: Changed alternativeCollisionBoxX and alternativeCollisionBoxY to alternativeCollisionBox for EntityDrifter
• Tweak: Removed ISaveGame.LandClaims, use sapi.WorldManager.LandClaims instead
• Tweak: Hopper open and close sounds settable from json
• Tweak: If ToolDurabilityCost in recipe is equal to 0 item won't be destroyed even if it has no durability
• Tweak: Residue-covered pot now references same shapes are regular pot
• Fixed: Clayform looks for clay and clayworkitem in the proper domain
• Fixed: IsFood cooking recipe property properly serialized and stored
• Fixed: Allow entities to lay eggs hatching into a different mod domain
• Fixed: Incorrect clamping of some NatFloat values
• Fixed: Method AllocateTextureSpace() was not working correctly
• Fixed: Exception thrown when a block is broken and a trait modifies it to 0 drops
• Fixed: Game crashing when mortallywoundable is used on non-rideable entity
• Fixed: Modded tool molds would cause a game crash
• Fixed: Recipes with multiple `{variant}` constructions in ingredients not working 
• Fixed: When unable to find the model for a label or a seal the game will gracefully just not show the shape
• Fixed: Refactored melee attack ai task was not registered
• Fixed: Fixes crash when tool molds placed which have "shape" folder in their shape path

Updates since rc.7 (also contained above)

• Tweak: added wood types to clutter large barrels, using Texture Flipper
• Fixed: Multiple issues with Creative-mode Texture Flipper [detail: some wood types missing from "wood" and "planks"; changing the target block after using the toolmode GUI retained some previous textures in the toolmode GUI; potential crash if mouse-over a different type of block while toolmode GUI opened; crash if use texture-flipper without selecting toolmode having previously used a different (longer) toolmode; memory leak from toolmode GUI]
• Fixed: Text on signs missing some characters when using polish language
• Fixed: Memory leaks after exiting single player games to main menu, in -rc.1 to -rc.6
• Fixed: Players and creatures not making splash on entering water, in -rc.1 to -rc.6
• Fixed: Bad GUI rotations on reef blocks (now do not rotate at all)
• Fixed: Players can now mount pillion seat on other player elks even if owned
• Fixed: Taking items off a ground storage while holding something else would cause floating blocks
• Fixed: Pit kiln would display items incorrectly
• Fixed: Logged error for carburizable properties in handbook
• Fixed: Crash when trying to pour rot from a liquid container
• Fixed: Moose antlers lost during 1.21.0-pre.3 update
• Fixed: Disallow invalid day-of-time setting, e.g. via /time set 0600
• API Tweak: When attaching things to a EntityBehaviorContainer it now adds the inventory slot code as a texturePrefix to prevent textures being overwritten from another attachable

Screenshot by Superfreak, shared on #screenshots on Discord
 

Game updates

• Tweak: Underwater life tweaks
  • Sea plants now emit air bubble particles
  • The fish particles swim with a little wiggle now, and their colors are tweaked
  • Reduced underwater murkiness and darkness levels. Reefs should be more visible now
  • Fixed coral and reef block break speeds were too fast. Coral structures and ledges did not have a mining tier. Reef decor would drop when host block was broken (not intended)
  • Fixed all types of reef spawned everywhere (intended to be limited to certain temperatures)
  • Fixed distance fade out terrain that's behind water not correctly blending
• Tweak: Add ability to disable desert storm effects per world via /worldconfigcreate bool suppressDesertStorm true
• Fixed: Wearing some accessories could affect the textures of others
• Fixed: Occasional unknown blocks in ruins, where a meteor impacted nearby
• Fixed: Ladder could be left floating mid-air in some circumstances
• Fixed: Eye and neck clipping in elk model
• Fixed: Elk jumping animation sometimes looping endlessly
• Fixed: Pie left in water would periodically create particles
• Fixed: Traders now say their name as intended during an introduction dialogue segment
• Fixed: Wall carvings could sometimes load rotten
• Fixed: Able to mount elevator and other entities through walls, in other dimensions
• Fixed: Wrong damage timing when villagers are fighting drifters and other hostiles
• Fixed: When picking up empty anvil mold it would give you an incorrect error message
• Fixed: Traps with an animal caught inside would drop the components when broken along with the trap holding the animal
• Fixed: When opening the world map tabs, would appear active and the prospecting dropdown would show "Everything" even if these had been previously turned off
• Fixed: Camera inside player head when in 3rd-person mode and against walls
• Fixed: Player model showed mirror image in character GUI
• Fixed: Incorrect GUI transform for Grub creature item
• Fixed: Ground stored items could sometimes load their storage properties in a way that would make certain items invisible or cause other strange issues
• Fixed: Rare crash with insect particles and rooms check
• Fixed: Prevent rare crash from out of sync ground storage when spawning particles
• Fixed: In Multiplayer server GUI, accept as valid the IPv6 version of the localhost URI. Github #6670
• Fixed: Timeswitch client channel startup error logged in Creative flat world or other lore-free worlds
• Fixed: The chat link not opening the WorldEdit folder on Unix systems
• API Tweak: Wooden path recipe now uses explicit allowedvariants, for easier modding.
• API Tweak: Added GetTags() methods to Block and Item classes
• API Tweak: Made all internal Camera fields public
• API Fixed: Recipes with multiple `{variant}` constructions in ingredients not working
• 1.21 related changes
  • Tweak: Base cooking pot texture no longer uses overlay shading
  • Tweak: With Dynamic Color Grading enabled, contrast and sepia levels in settings change dynamically
  • Fixed: Windmills not working in -rc.5 and -rc.6
  • Fixed: New wavy ocean sand was not pannable
  • Fixed: Water in buckets and barrels had waves
  • Fixed: Adult hares could reproduce without females
  • Fixed: Saddle attachment point slot is consistent for semi-tamed and tamed elk. Github #6599
  • Fixed: Residue-covered pot still used placeholder overlay texture
  • Fixed: Bad UV on elk-attached cooking pot
  • Fixed: Timeswitch icon background now adjusts to GUI scale
  • Fixed: Rare crash related to an empty meal container in the player inventory
  • Fixed: Pig models did not have 'eat' animation
  • Fixed: 'In Memoriam' short story discovery now properly localized.

Known issue: windmills may not work in some parts of a world (related to very low wind).

As always with unstable releases, we recommend use these versions for testing and for mod development, but do not play your treasured older worlds in these versions.  If you have begun playing a world in a -rc version, be prepared to start a new world when 1.21.0-stable is released (which should be soon now!)

[Update 8/17/2025] Also released rc.6 to five more issues

• Fixed: Worldgen anomalies could occur at some chunk borders in -rc.5 
• Fixed: Snow accumulation and other weather systems not working in -rc.5
• Fixed: Some ruins in -rc.5 were broken due to the BlockRandomizer. Github #6642
• Fixed: Skeleton (Compact) in ruins should now be visible again. Github #6651
• Fixed: Resonance Archives most complex chunks sometimes invisible in -rc.1 to -rc.4

Screenshot by Tachyon, shared in #screenshots on Discord

Game updates

• Tweak: Performance: Improve FPS in large fields of grass, heather and similar plants. From 80 FPS to 100 FPS in one particular test case.  [Technical info: if grass/plants are short, draw them with shorter faces using drawnHeight]
• Tweak: Reduced reef fish flee radius so you can see them closer.  Drops reduced to 0, since they're much easier to kill.
• Tweak: Timeswitch skill now has a slot background to better communicate to the player that it's a slot they can switch to
• Fixed: Lazaret not spawning anymore (issue introduce in -rc.4)
• Fixed: Significant memory leak with ground storage piles
• Fixed: Ruined bookshelves with lore book, render the book properly at all rotations
• Fixed: Armor on armorstand not rendering
• Fixed: Spearhead in tongs transform was way off
• Fixed: Crucible z-fighting on bottom face
• Fixed: Raccoon held currants not neatly positioned in their mouths
• Fixed: Worldgen borders for mapregions on the west edge of map, if east edge of world map was visited first. Github #6613
• Fixed: Dynamic Color Grading no longer causes frequent writes to clientsettings.json. Github #6607
• Fixed: Mechanical parts spawned by schematics worldedit/worldgen did not automatically connect and rotate, fixed gears not respecting schematic rotation operations in worldedit/worldgen
• Fixed: Crash to desktop when breaking chiselled coral block
• Fixed: Crash loops when players hold certain invisible blocks or items. Github #4777
• Fixed: A rare exception on the server [Detail: BlockRandomizer placed from a schematic during worldgen should initialise its BlockEntities on the main thread. ref Github #5315]
• Fixed: Rare crash to desktop if the player, in a settings menu, uses keyboard controls to move sliders to their ends. Github #6608
• Fixed: "/whitelist off" and "/whitelist on" was not saved to config file
• API Tweak: if ToolDurabilityCost in recipe is equal to 0 item won't be destroyed even if it has no durability

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

Known issue: like the Emperor's New Clothes, clothes on players are made of the finest materials but invisible - except to the wise  

Added coral fences

Majorly reworked deer / moose animations

Game updates

• Feature: Added coral fence (made from coral chunks)
• Feature: Added text selection with a mouse and various other selection enhancements - PR by Genhis
• Feature: Added several more piles, including: flax twine, leather, fat, windmill sails, pulp, thatch, and rods. Also some that require Ctrl-shift e.g. Stones
• Feature: Cementation furnace carburization in handbook
• Feature: Show display/liquid containers that can hold items in handbook
• Feature: Show items that can be stored inside display/liquid containers in handbook
• Tweak: Server Performance: Optimised the most bottle-necking AiTasks when many animals are in enclosures
• Tweak: Majorly reworked Deer animations
• Tweak: Clayforming will place outputs on the ground where they were formed
• Tweak: Pick Block will flip items out of the inventory in survival
• Tweak: Prefer not to pick up items into offhand slot if other space is available
• Tweak: Stone path blocks can no longer be water-logged
• Tweak: Aged firewood can now be crafted from aged logs
• Tweak: Slight modifications to wolf model
• Tweak: On Linux use X11 window by default since it has no scaling issues and better performance
• Fixed: Sign in village could not be translated
• Fixed: Ingot molds placed by other players would sometimes be invisible
• Fixed: When attaching an anchor to boat it would sometimes be lowered
• Fixed: Error when remapping old ingot molds
• Fixed: Outdated handbook taming section.  Now mention how to trap and tame a baby elk.
• Fixed: Sturgeon had bad 'mouth' animations
• Fixed: Buckets picked up off the ground did not stack with newly crafted buckets
• Fixed: Underwater ambient sound not playing when swimming in certain water plants or other waterlogged blocks
• Fixed: Missing unrevealed nametag translations for villagers and traders
• Fixed: Several lines of dialogue for traders missing from translation
• Fixed: Various spelling, grammar, or capitalization mistakes in various language strings
• Fixed: Unclear or incorrect information in various language strings
• Fixed: Rare exception when breaking chiselled Mixed Cobble blocks in ruins
• Fixed: Seeds going into the offhand
• Fixed: Sailboat showed squished wood texture when unnamed
• Fixed: Sailboat name would become blank when world was exited and re-entered
• Fixed: Elevator player model rotation
• Fixed: Flicker/jank on the elk when switching from back seat to front seat
• Fixed: Bowstave drying handbook title showed up on incorrect pages
• Fixed: Semitamed elk would always use albino texture
• Fixed: Opening the handbook from the escape menu would unpause the game, even if the handbook was set to pause the game
• Fixed: Female baby bighorn localized as male
• Fixed: Rickety translocator could not be moved, once placed.
• Fixed: Lore scrolls clipping into each other on shelves
• Fixed: Tall display cases z-fighting with underside of thatched roof.
• Fixed: Fisher pants z-fighting with shirts etc.  Musician hood hair clipping issues.
• Fixed: Raccoons did not flee from wolves
• Fixed: Various clothing issues (mostly nadiyan)
• Fixed: New fish were missing localizations
• Fixed: Monsters still spawn with lore content turned off
• Fixed: Random generation of loose rusty gears used incorrect percentages
• Fixed: Incorrect old entity codes in flee tasks of most animals. Pig and sheep babies did not have correct adult codes in 'grow' behavior.
• Fixed: Glider-Ladder hyperlanes. No more whee zoom zoom, sorry!
• Fixed: Crash for meals with less than 1 full portion
• Fixed: Handbook issues with bookshelves, scroll racks, and antler mounts related to properly showing what they drop
• API Tweak: Add inForgeTransform to .tfedit ui
• API Tweak: Added tags to block and item descriptions when extendedDebugInfo is true
• API Tweak: Changed alternativeCollisionBoxX and alternativeCollisionBoxY to alternativeCollisionBox for EntityDrifter
• API Tweak: removed ISaveGame.LandClaims, use sapi.WorldManager.LandClaims instead
• API Tweak: Hopper open and close sounds settable from json
• API Fixed: Refactored melee attack ai task was not registered
• API Fixed: Fixes crash when tool molds placed which have "shape" folder in their shape path

Game updates

• Feature: Added a variety of saltwater fish. Some are reef-specific. Very WIP still. 
• Tweak: the linux install.sh now no longer installs the fonts, they are loaded via font.conf by the run.sh file. Further the max_map_count is now set permanently if needed
• Tweak: Crocks will show what's in them in their name
• Tweak: More crock labels for differing contents
• Tweak: [QOL] Crate label now drawn with pigment using Ctrl+right click not Shift+right click, for consistency and to match item interaction help
• Fixed: Notably less janky rope physics (bug bounty by Caetto <3)
• Fixed: After switching linux users, the crash reporter would fail to report crashes
• Fixed: Unable to change search keywords for meal recipes in the handbook
• Fixed: If crash reporter fails to open, still log original exception plus also failure reason
• Fixed: Milkable info not shown on bighorn sheep
• Fixed: Auction house interactions did not work properly for villagers
• Fixed: Modded tool molds would cause a game crash
• Fixed: Added localization string for treasure hunter trader location
• Fixed: Command /wgen structures spawn did not respect the rotation. Minor tweak, the list sub command now outputs the mod domain as well as /wgen pos structures for newly generated ones.
• Fixed: When setting crate label, sometimes it briefly shows the question mark texture and logs the error 'Texture uploads must happen in the main thread'
• Multiple bugfixes involving crates
  • Fixed: Unlabelled crates still allowed you to interact with the label
  • Fixed: Crate would delete extra items on retrieval if they did not fit in player's inventory, now they stay in the crate
  • Fixed: Bulk removal from a crate would sometimes give less than the max stack size, even when that many items were present
  • Tweak: Crate label stays set after last item is removed, cleared on addition of a different kind of item or by use of pigment when emptyTweak: Draw crate item label without rot state or temperature
• Fixed: Too much rot given for servings of meal inside containers
• Fixed: Pickled veggies in crocks and bowls would not show the correct name and description
• Fixed: Various meal labels would not properly show partial servings when holding more than 1 serving
• Fixed: Pickled veggies put into and taken out of barrel would not keep consistent stack sizes
• Fixed: Inconsistent nutrition for pickled veggies eaten out of a bowl directly
• Fixed: Pots and bowls would display incorrect perish information inside containers
• Fixed: Empty pots would not say they were empty when placed on shelfs or the ground
• Fixed: Crash when looking at some stacking items in ground storage from old saves
• Fixed: Flowerpot and Planter would sometimes cause crashes
• Fixed: missing whitetail-antlers texture.  Dead adult pigs had wrong localization
• Fixed: Logged errors and unknown textures when many labelled crates are used [detail: engine now fully supports dynamically increasing the number of block texture atlasses at runtime]
• Fixed: Charcoal pit would sometimes trigger an NRE and fail to light on fire
• Fixed: when sleeping in a bed in multiplayer other clients would crash
• Fixed: Crock sealing in crafting grid would delete contents
• Fixed: Crafting grid allowed you to seal an already sealed crock a second time
• API Tweak: Crock shape now taken from the defined shape in the JSON, seal and labels must be in the same folder, will use hard coded paths as fallbacks
• API Tweak: Crock label names for label models defined in JSON, for easier additions of extra labels
• API Tweak: Crocks can take crockable items out of the liquid slot of a barrel now as well
• API Tweak: Futureproofing neckwear - Modified all necklaces to use a rotator element for if/when we add player breasts
• API Fixed: When unable to find the model for a label or a seal the game will gracefully just not show the shape

Secret Game Project™
In other news, we are also able to reveal our first teaser trailer for the secret game project that Anego Studios began working on a couple months ago. There is currently one developer working on it full time and it will be completely a separate game project, there is no lore or content shared between it and Vintage Story. Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtYq59ka3vE

Vintage Story "Adventure Mode"
In other other news, the very recently announced new game mode that will focus on a brighter, RPG-y version of Vintage Story is also in the works, currently we are still in very early planning and negotiation phase, so nothing to show here just yet. It will take some time until we'll have something of substance to share.

Final Words
That all being said, thank you to everyone for playing Vintage Story, contributing to the online discussions, reporting bugs, submitting pull requests and all the other cool stuff y'all do! We hope this update will bring you joy.

Game update trailer

Gifs/Screenshots

New blocks: Coral cobblestone, 3 types of red ceramic tiles, new iron door variants and papyrus variants of the baskets

Can now place more items onto shelves



Added colored crocks, bowls, pots, vessels and watering cans

Added coral reefs: This time for real. Schools of fish included!

Added wavy sands to oceans

Slow healing system. Poultices no longer heal instantly. Recent damage is visualized.

Added volumetric clouds system. Soft as a pillow now!


Ground storage improvements. Can now store 12 ores per spot

Added bear hide trophy armor

Sailboat upgrades: Can now name the sailboat and attach shields

Sailboat control change: Need to furl/unfurl sails to sail


Elk upgrades: Can now attach a falx or bow, and temporal gears

Improved seraph faces

Added many new hair styles, added in-game barber in story chapter 2

Game updates

• Feature: Added Colored crocks, bowls, and pots
  • Feature: Added new raw and colored clay versions of storage vessels, watering cans, planters, and flower pots.  [Details for modders: Added via new blocktype files ("...-generic"), and removing the raw version from the old blocktype.  This leaves the old blocks in place in old name formats, so the only remap required is the raw blue clay versions, rather than having to remap every single pattern.]
  • Feature: Add colored crucibles and metal tool and ingot molds
    • Different colored ingot molds can be placed in the same block space
• Feature: New blocks
  • Added coral cobblestone, which can be made from chunks of coral gotten from reefs
  • Added solid and barred variants of the iron door (barred variant not suitable for a cementation furnace)
  • Added three new red ceramic tile blocks and slabs, sold by an Artisan Trader
  • Added wood-typed paths and wooden paths are now drawn in full 3D
  • Added papyrus chests, hand basket and basket traps
• Feature: New and improved clouds
  • Volumetric cloud rendering
  • The old clouds look is still available through Graphics settings
  • Fixed: Dark edges on distant clouds
• Feature: Elk taming system
  • Can now tame wild elk to make them rideable. Added a large crate trap, to trap creatures larger than can fit into a basket trap. Use it to trap a baby elk. Feed said elk into adulthood within one year to get a partially tamed elk. Place a saddle on it and "saddle break" it once per day for several days to get a fully tamed elk
• Feature: Elk riding system tuning
  • Feature: A tamed elk now follows the player if it is tied to a rope, making leading a roped elk much easier
  • Feature: Two players can now ride an elk by adding a pillion cushion on the elk's back, behind the saddle
  • Tweak: Add ability for bow, falx and blackguard sword to be stowed on elk's front left and right utility slots
  • Tweak: Added spot to hang a string of up to 3 temporal gears on the elk (behind the right saddle bag location)
  • Tweak: Player now cannot accidentally harm their own ridden mount
  • Tweak: If an owned / mounted animal is damaged by owner / rider it will not turn aggro, but will instead flee a shorter than usual distance
  • Fixed: Tamed Elk still attacking the owner
  • Fixed: Elk looking alive following a server re-start after the Elk was killed
  • Fixed: mounting a sailboat with a rope in hands that is attached to an Elk makes the sailboat fling wildly
  • Fixed: Elk medallion (Stiletto) and Long gem studded bracelet should now appear in loot randomizers
  • Fixed: game crashing when harvesting a dead tamed Elk after server restart
• Feature: Coral reefs generate in bodies of salt water
  • Different reef types depending on water temperature (players may need to head south to see most)
  • Schools of small fish near reefs, as entity particles
  • Coral can be broken, yielding chunks of coral; these eventually decay into dead coral over time; live coral can only be placed in salt water, dead coral can be placed anywhere
• Feature: Add wavy sand blocks, for sand that appears underwater.  Wavy sand blocks drop normal sand blocks when mined
• Feature: World generation tuning
  • Tweak: Majorly reworked landforms to be more easily traversable. Warning: For existing game worlds, will involve some automatic terrain smoothing between old chunks and new chunks, some changes may be abrupt
  • Tweak: Enabled 2.5% ocean at 500% scale by default - walk far enough from spawn and you should find an ocean eventually
  • Tweak: Fixed an issue with ocean gen where high landform scale would produce very square shaped oceans
  • Tweak: Added 3 new ruins, fine tuned a few others
  • Tweak: Added small red clay deposits in soil and gravel in cold climates where clay previously did not generate
  • Fixed: Worldgen creature spawning could sometimes spawn groups of baby creatures only (or more generally, companions only)
  • Fixed: Chunk border smoothing system not working properly
  • Fixed: Large world height worlds had less surface deposits [Technical info: Correctly scale surface deposit chance by deposit depth to world sea level]
• Feature: Slow healing system
  • Healing items now heal over time instead of instantly
  • Slow healing, as well as taking damage, is now visualized in the health bar
  • Armor no longer nerfs healing amount, but instead increases the time it takes for the healing to apply
• Feature: In multiplayer, players can now revive other players using a poultice
• Feature: Reworked seraph faces, added many new types of faces in the character creation dialog
• Feature: Added several new hairstyles
  • New base hairstyles: Bowl cut, Box braids, Dense dread locks, Long curls, Medium curls, Rows, Dense rows, Short curls, Short curls2
  • New hairstyle extras: Back bun curls, Puffy back bun, Box braid bun, Cobra side braids, Knots, Curly ponytailurly,  Creast ponytail, Segmented top knot, Curly sidebuns, Side puffs, Skep bun, Top roll, Back roll, Back roll bun, Thick roll, Fishtail braid, Steppe sidetails, Steppe braid loop, Steppe braids
  • Several more hairstyles available in the game from the barber (I wonder where one would find a barber?)
• Feature: Added bear hide armor
  • A new craftable trophy armor with average stats
• Feature: Monster autoharvest! The falx now extracts 1 drop per hit with a 25% chance from drifters, shivers and bowtorns (overall drop rate remains unchanged). There is a reason a falx blade is curved!
• Feature: Moon and stars position now closer to a real astronomical simulation
  • Moon phase now consistently correct, based on relative moon and sun positions
  • Rendered moon lit side precisely faces the sun current position
  • Moon apparent path through the sky is now close to the ecliptic
  • Night-time star field rotates appropriately for the current latitude
  • Night-time star field varies over the calendar year according to the seasons / zodiac
  • Slight increase in full moon light strength, as our astronomically-accurate moon is on average a bit lower in the sky
• Feature: Added a world customization screen in the savegame modify screen
• Feature: Add "traverse" permission to land claims, in multiplayer this allows other players to use doors and trapdoors in such claims without being able to use anything else. This can now be granted to groups or players per land claim - or set AllowTraverseEveryone true to allow everyone to open doors in the claim
• Feature: 2nd story chapter adjustments
  • Feature: All traders (for a small fee) can now direct you towards a Treasure Hunter trader near your spawn point to get started with the story in the first place
  • Feature: Tad can now give haircuts and heal the player
  • Feature: All villagers now have their own unique dialogue
  • Feature: Added new short story found in the Lazaret
  • Feature: Tobias will now give you some food for the journey home
  • Feature: You may now confess to your crime if you hurt Charlemagne
  • Tweak: Added more environmental storytelling to the Lazaret
  • Tweak: Devastation area temperature now at a fixed 17°C, which removes the unintentional snow cover and players freezing there
  • Tweak: Timeswitch skill is available again immediately if the way back is blocked; and base skill cooldown reduced to 1 second in Creative mode
  • Tweak: Significantly reduced distances between 2nd story event locations
  • Tweak: Many tweaks and jank-fixes to villager animations
  • Tweak: Many many fixes on Nadiyan clothing
  • Tweak: Elevator now can now be unlocked on each level in the tower
  • Tweak: A number of tweaks to Nadiyan villagers (added spear melee attack, they now attack monsters, added tongs, various tweaks to villager hairstyles)
  • Tweak: Reduced cooldown on the rickety translocator from 6 months to 2 months
  • Tweak: Devastation Area mob spawn: reduce the mob spawn speed, fix potential overspawn issues
• Feature: Sailboat/Raft improvements
  • Feature: The sailboat is now primarily propelled by the unfurling of sails; holding the Forward/Backwards keys has only a small effect now
  • Feature: Can now write on the side of the sailboat, to name it etc - use charcoal on the name plate near the bow on port-side
  • Feature: Can now attach shields to the side of the sailboat. Up to 14 around the gunwales, one at each rib
  • Tweak: Hanging onto the ratlines now tires the player; when too tired kicked off the ratlines and will need to rest
  • Tweak: Fence posts added to sailboats now consume 2 of the available spaces (one space for the post, one space for the animal)
  • Tweak: Sailboat rudder now moved to the right side
  • Tweak: Allow a boat stuck in water that is too shallow to be nudged forwards
  • Fixed: Opening dialogs while sailing or rafting could change the player look direction
  • Fixed: Animals in sailboats looked jittery while on the move
  • Fixed: Water lilies now no longer render inside the sailboat
  • Fixed: Players positioned on the ratlines in the sailboat looked wrong
  • Fixed: Flicker and desync when switching seats on a raft or sailboat (or other rideable such as elevator); also fix flicker when mounting directly from one rideable to another
• Feature: Add mod safety check to stop mods marked by the VS team as not safe to load (to swiftly disable mods that are discovered to have vulnerabilities in them)
• Feature: Can now place place pies, ingot molds, and helvehammer molds on shelves
• Feature: Added dedicated piles for beeswax, cattails, papyrus, cloth, bones, sticks and flax fibers (no longer quad-storable)
• Feature: Oceans now have large waves (WIP)
• Feature: New moon shader that is correctly lit by the sun (WIP)
• Feature: Added 9 sailboat figurehead models for the figurehead mounting point
• Feature: New pie top crust type: Slit
• Tweak: Gameplay balancing changes
  • Tweak: Hats now provide protection from rainfall
  • Tweak: Anvil mold must now be destroyed to get the anvil
  • Tweak: Wolf attacks now have better cooldown and windup
  • Tweak: Improve irregularity of mob spawning. Remove mob spawning very far below/above the player. Increase chance of mob spawn near rifts
  • Tweak: A Hacked locust is now rope tie-able
  • Tweak: Sod roof now has an alternative recipe using logs
  • Tweak: Can no longer place an iron anvil top on a meteoric iron base, and vice versa
  • Tweak: Can no longer construct or light a pit kiln underwater
  • Tweak: Tweaks to charcoal pit and firewood burn efficiency
  • Tweak: Buckets now stack to 5
  • Tweak: Increased Rift Ward range from 30 to 40 blocks and range is no longer spherical but cylindrical (from world bottom to world top)
  • Tweak: Fish meat satiation halved, drops doubled.  Fish carcasses now have their own model.  Fish, tiny, and small carcasses drop 'tiny bones', which cannot be used in tools.
  • Tweak: Tree seeds now burn for just 1 second, they were burning for 10 seconds (longer than sticks)
  • Tweak: Lime can no longer be crushed by hand with a hammer
  • Tweak: Killed Bowtorns now drop bone arrows
  • Fixed: Bees in skeps continued producing honey below 0°C
  • Fixed: Aged hay could be used to make fresh thatched roofing
• Tweak: Blocks/craftables tweaks
  • Tweak: Mining bag can now be made from a linen sack and plates
  • Tweak: Slight adjustment to diamond stone tile texture.  Added 'aged' diamond stone tiles (creative mode only)
  • Tweak: Clear quartz can now be pulverized
  • Tweak: Clinker bricks can now be chiseled
  • Tweak: Can now craft slabs, stairs, stonebrick, etc. from suevite
  • Fixed: Pink and smoky glass were missing slab recipes
  • Fixed: Missing recipes to make aged scroll racks and aged bookshelves from aged boards
• Feature: Ground storage tweaks
  • Tweak: Ores now store in stacks of 12 on the ground
  • Tweak: Allow liquid interaction with ground storage
  • Tweak: Allow randomized rotation in SingleCenter ground storage
  • Tweak: Seeds, thatch, mortar and pulp are now ground-placeable
  • Tweak: Various other small items such as crushed powders, metal bits, gems, bones, feathers have improved appearance in ground storage
  • Tweak: Make wooden pan ground storable
  • Fixed: Some ores not ground storable
• Tweak: In-world interaction improvements
  • Feature: Can now squeeze honeycomb in fruitpress for honey
  • Tweak: Allow honey comb squeezing into a barrel
  • Tweak: Allow the player to take a meal serving from crocks on shelves
  • Tweak: If a tool breaks, the tool mode for that tool type now still persists
  • Tweak: Can now swap chisel material using pick block mouse button 
  • Tweak: Pick block button works in Survival mode to swap slots, but does not give any block in Survival mode
  • Tweak: Can now use a hammer and chisel to extract metal bits from hardened metal in metal molds without needing to finish filling the mold
  • Tweak: Can place and remove empty ingot molds always
  • Tweak: Allow placing crucible into firepit with right click
  • Tweak: Can now also seal crock outside the crafting grid
  • Tweak: Remove not needed shift key interaction help info on placed firepit and torches
  • Fixed: When harvesting an animal it could happen that a drop would go over the stack limit
  • Fixed: Rotating a work item on the anvil could cause it to no longer line up with the smithing recipe
• Tweak: Survival handbook improvements
  • Feature: The Handbook now shows meal and pie recipes
  • Feature: List when an item can be placed on/in bookshelves, scroll racks, antler mounts, and crocks in the handbook - ATP-Kraken
  • Feature: Show more perish information in handbook
  • Tweak: Improved handbook guide for oven-baking and bread
  • Tweak: Show possible inputs for metal molding
  • Tweak: Show possible inputs for smithing
  • Tweak: Show "Created by" section for "firing in kiln", smashing with hammer to collect ores, anvil welding and smelting in bloomery
  • Tweak: Show possible clay inputs for clayforming
  • Tweak: Show required materials in smithing and clayforming 
  • Tweak: Add info about pressing Shift+H to the intro text for Survival
  • Fixed: Inconsistent use of litres/liter and titles
  • Tweak: Handbook now displays more information for juicing and information for new squeezing action
  • Tweak: Add handbook info on parts required to repair translocator.
  • Tweak: Add mention of bone flute to the 'Tamed Mountable Animals' handbook entry
  • Tweak: Hide creative mode creature items from handbook
  • Fixed: Handbook: Daub recipe was including grass blocks not obtainable in survival mode in the image cycle
  • Tweak: Fireclay grid recipe in the handbook now shows 3 separate grids, to make clear that you can use all red clay, all blue clay, or a mixture of clays.
  • Tweak: Beehive kiln handbook entry changed to clarify that fuel piles do not have to be full to run the kiln, you just need some fuel in all 9 spots.
  • Tweak: Resin harvestable properties are now documented in the handbook
  • Fixed: Mention using knife to change pie crust in handbook recipe
  • Fixed: Antlers now properly grouped in the Handbook
  • Fixed: Search in handbook not working properly with diacritics (e.g. Nawóz)
• Tweak: Performance improvements
  • Performance - reduce GPU RAM used.  Reduces the GPU RAM usage of terrain by approximately half.  Some players can now try higher view distances, it may allow you to increase your view distance above your hardware's previous limit.  As an additional benefit it may also save almost 1GB of process RAM in Windows with certain graphics drivers, such as Nvidia. If you need to disable this change, the setting can be changed in-game using command .cf allowSSBOs off or edit clientsettings.json file and look for "allowSSBOs". Changes to this setting are only effective after re-joining the world. It may affect framerate by -5% to +5% (depends on hardware, view distance, other graphics settings, and scene). [Known issues: GLTF and .OBJ models might not render correctly in-game, if the "allowSSBOs" setting is enabled. Setting is not available (and off by default) for MacOS and other hardware not supporting at least OpenGL 4.3, this is outside our control. If you already played game versions 1.21.0-pre.1 / 2 / 3, you will need to use command .cf allowSSBOs on to enable this setting, as in such cases it was off by default]
  • Reduce duration of occasional lagspikes due to garbage collection [detail: the number of permanently held small memory objects is reduced by 350k (servers) or 700k (single player), or more in modded games, allowing the garbage collector to complete its work faster; the garbage collector must run sometimes, typically there can be up to 3 such lagspikes every 5 minutes of gameplay]
  • Small server RAM reduction [detail for modders: servers no longer retain block and item render transforms]
  • Faster worldgen for large water bodies [detail: reduce array allocations in underwater blocklayers generation]
  • Fix one potential memory leak on long-running multiplayer servers [detail: it related to protobuf]
  • Save RAM on both client and server when many entities are spawned (should also slightly improve multiplayer server TPS for spawning times)
  • Reduced RAM use for animations on both client and server
  • Client-side, slight improvement in tesselation speed (3%-4%, YMMV)
• Tweak: The /land info command now also shows the AllowUseEveryone and AllowTraverseEveryone settings
• Tweak: A small shader tweak seems to greatly mitigate black pixels around water / water waves
• Tweak: Carcasses now have more size-appropriate hitboxes
• Tweak: Glue is now a regular liquid and can be picked up with and used in bowls and so forth
• Tweak: Slightly nerf block light level boosts introduced in 1.20
• Tweak: When joining Multiplayer, on the modify server screen, added "Copy to clipboard" button for the server address 
• Tweak: Improved map marker position tracking for tamed elk [detail: the client now updates the ownership position to last-known position when it de-spawns client-side; the server updates the position in OwnershipsByPlayerUid when an entity is loaded; this means now the Ownership data should contain the last known position of an ownable, may help to track down missing elks]
• Tweak: When a support beam's selection box was out of bounds it became unselectable; now it is moved into bounds, albeit still not exactly at the location one would expect
• Tweak: Give back stick after squeezing cheese
• Tweak: Crocks now visibly indicate the seal on the model
• Tweak: When getting up from a bed you can now also stand up next to the foot of the bed
• Tweak: Added seal hours info text for barrel recipes
• Tweak: Added shelf interaction help; Standardized container information inside of shelves and ground storage
• Tweak: Moved server configs "allowFallingBlocks" and "allowFireSpread" to the worldconfig
• Tweak: Add vegetables and fruit mash to small trough
• Tweak: Some rare ruins artifacts now scrap-able (i.e. can recover material from them)
• Tweak: Tutorial will now take into account items already collected for collection steps
• Tweak: When there are no worlds the single player world list page will show a centered message and button to create a world
• Tweak: Cheese now requires more shelf space to place when larger than 1 slice in size
• Tweak: Could place chests outside the Tobias cave but not use them, now they can be placed and used
• Tweak: Cooking pot attachedshape models now attached to a shape separate from elk body, to more easily allow adaptation to other animals. Attached hay bed now uses the inventory model, rather than a separate shape just for entity attachment.
• Tweak: Only foxes, raccoons, chickens, and hares can eat out of the small trough, while all other larger animals can only eat out of the large trough
• Tweak: Cassava, Peanuts, and Soybeans are eaten by various animals now
• Tweak: Show harvestable skeps in creative inventory and handbook
• Tweak: Added error messages when item can't be added to an animal trap
• Tweak: Adjusted tool ground storage transforms to reduce clipping
• Tweak: Boat and elk selection boxes would be shown at very far distances
• Tweak: /wgen commands now may validly use 0 as the range to only work on the chunk the player is currently in
• Tweak: Added build logging for chisel block interactions (converting a block to a chisel block and adding materials)
• Tweak: Placed basket traps drop stick and basket chest separately, when broken, rather than the complete trap
• Tweak: Allow bombs to be blown up on land you have build permissions
• Tweak: Enable vsync by default, disable max fps limit by default
• Tweak: Worldedit can now be translated. See "we-" language entries
• Tweak: Luxury trader now sells new copper omok pieces, rather than gold.
• Tweak: Ingot molds display Block Info based on where you point
• Tweak: Conditional Block can now also accept "isBlock[code=abc] x y z" condition
• Tweak: Berry bush growth cycles are now about 1 month instead of x days to be month-length agnostic
• Tweak: Blocks with tiled textures (eg. fanned cobblestone) can now be chiselled and retain original textures
• Tweak: Held Temporal Gear and worn Temporal Gear Amulet now emit faint glow
• Tweak: Switching mod versions after already running the game once now shows a message prompting for restart to prevent unpredictable loading behavior
• Tweak: Add 'bigger' sounds for musk ox and takin
• Tweak: Water now somewhat less murky overall
• Tweak: Godrays intensity mildly reduced 
• Tweak: Change tongs offhand transform to 'nutcracker' style.  Also change crucible, toolmolds, ingots, and iron blooms to work with this.
• Tweak: Raw daub now stacks to 128. Raw daub grid recipe output reduced to 8. Wattle and daub block also now requires only 8 daub. So the crafting effort is the same.
• Tweak: Add CPU info logging to client and server, also add RAM logging to the server
• Tweak: Prevent story location schematics from generating too far from the center "StoryMaxFromCenter" in locationname/structures.json
• Fixed: 75% chance of fixing player ghost duplicates
• Fixed: Shattered molds display proper amount of bits dropped
• Fixed: Randomizer meta block not resolving in medium1 ruin
• Fixed: A removed itemstack not getting deleted from a loot randomizer (creative mode item)
• Fixed: Added a missing tooltip to the firestarter
• Fixed: Made most of the particle effects dimension aware
• Fixed: Some liquid containers in grid recipe are not getting their liquid rendered nor text shown
• Fixed: Trait "Damage against mechanicals" now also applies to ranged weapons
• Fixed: Server tick time higher than necessary in some cases
• Fixed: Only show one bag per category on player
• Fixed: Newly placed reed chests would not close
• Fixed: Larger worldedit schematics would cause the client to lose connection [detail: any large packet send to the server would make a client lose connection]
• Fixed: Sound engine breaking because it does not remove disposed sounds
• Fixed: Fruitpress issue when screwing down the screw fully if mash was not large enough to be juiced
• Fixed: Armorstands would not sync immediately with other players when adding/removing armor
• Fixed: Labeled Chests no longer showed their name in the inventory dialog
• Fixed: Berries in raccoon mouths had bad visual offsets
• Fixed: Entity insta-flee action and certain Eidolon actions were wrongly disregarding melee attacks
• Fixed: Leafy tops of turnips in troughs were invisible from certain angles
• Fixed: Two skin colors in character creation were both called "forest brown"
• Fixed: Doors would sometimes connect incorrectly
• Fixed: LeftDoor will flip properly during double door placement
• Fixed: When the VS updater was run the game was not automatically started again. Using the parameter /VERYSILENT you can suppress starting of the app, using /SILENT will now launch the application. When running the full installer using /SILENT or /VERYSILENT will not start the game automatically
• Fixed: Players who joined the game in Creative Mode flight had wrong collision box server-side
• Fixed: Logger.Warning with parameter exception was logged as error instead of warning
• Fixed: Should fix "outside water" rendering in chiseled blocks in Dim 2
• Fixed: Game speed stuck at a high rates from sleeping, this could have happened when getting out of the bed and directly exiting to main menu
• Fixed: Misaligned clay ridge roof models
• Fixed: Prevent rare game crash after tutorial progress failed to save correctly due to hardware or power issue
• Fixed: Bone flute was flammable
• Fixed: Goats had improper medium hide drops
• Fixed: Period for which moose had antlers was too short
• Fixed: Missing ground-stored transforms for cooked rhizomes
• Fixed: Noticeable transition in sky color tone after midnight
• Fixed: Hacky fix for animations not playing on newly spawn entities
• Fixed: Bowls and jugs show contents on shelf
• Fixed: Granite, andesite, limestone, and chalk sands could not produce any kind of daub with red clay.  They now produce golden brown daub (but still produce the lighter daubs with other clays)
• Fixed: Mods with worldconfig.json will now load lang entries for world config
• Fixed: Crucibles and hot meals once again show smoke or steam particles when placed on the ground
• Fixed: Hides were missing incontainerTextures, and did not show up in-world in barrels.
• Fixed: Rope tool mode to lengthen/shorten no longer shown in top center
• Fixed: Deep water was not affected by underwater murkinesss
• Fixed: Erel feather stem had wrong position on tool rack
• Fixed: Wall-leaned spears popping off in in some cases
• Fixed: "Protect eyes" seraph animation was playing even when not facing the wind
• Fixed: Ruined wooden shelf now lines up with standard wooden shelf height
• Fixed: Chandelier lighting shading now matches that of candles
• Fixed: Own player not visible in map when in spectator mode
• Fixed: Worldedit TreeGenTool would not grow fruit trees
• Fixed: Game sometimes crashing when typing '[' while drunk
• Fixed: When editing sign text, the amount of lines in the edit GUI depended on GUI scale
• Fixed: When editing sign text, camera turning to the right sometimes when saving
• Fixed: Fish meat was missing food tag "meat"
• Fixed: Baby gazelles lacked proper stats and would never grow; gazelle calves dropped fat same as adults (now drop none)
• Fixed: Compost could be put in mining bags
• Fixed: Players were still able to till soil which has a block above it
• Fixed: In Homo sapiens game mode, panning could drop man-made objects
• Fixed: Various corrections to the English language translation text
• Fixed: In handbook or other text, empty or unclosed <hk> hotkey tokens crashing the game
• Fixed: Rare crashes involving BehaviorSqueezable
• Fixed: Rare crash when looking at an entity with the elevator in the background
• Fixed: Attempt to fix very rare serverchunk entity serialization issue
• Fixed: On Linux, changing from fullscreen to windowed made window border disappear
• Fixed: When a dedicated server creates a new world some default worldconfig values and some settings from the selected playstyle were not applied
• Fixed: When a server backup is running and autosave was triggered it would block the server ticking until the backup was done, now we skip autosave till the backup is done
• Fixed: Issues with LAN-hosted multiplayer games and entity motion (for some people it stopped working randomly, requiring a restart, the underlying networking mapping now auto-renews)
• Fixed: When a savegame is already opened by another running version of the game (can also happen after crashes) it would lock up the client for 30 seconds before it was responsive again, reduced now to 1 second
• Fixed: Error when looking at the fruitpress with rot in it
• Fixed: Translocators stuck at warping space time
• Fixed: Blades other than falx and blackguard sword were attachable to elk, but did not have shape files for it, and so were invisible when attached
• Fixed: The show dressed button on the character customization screen did not work after creating a new world
• Fixed: Falling and drowning damage make passive entities hostile in Passive mode - TJStave
• Fixed: Show pie in oven interact help box
• Fixed: Troughs properly report only the animals that can eat from them in suitability info
• Fixed: Troughs display proper portion size in interaction help even when half full
• Fixed: Henboxes no longer constantly show "A broody hen is needed"
• Fixed: Fancy storage vessels showed cracked vessel model when falling
• Fixed: Beehives will look for flowers inside plant containers instead of the plant containers themselves when counting flowers
• Fixed: Beenade would not properly fill with bees from skep anymore
• Fixed: Raccoons will properly break skeps and harvest berries again
• Fixed: Berry bushes will properly load the stage growth when exchanged
• Fixed: Spears and Bows now properly scaled on tool racks
• Fixed: Players longer then 30 sec in the connection queue would always fallback to use TCP
• Fixed: Rare null exception on TOPS when sending entity spawn packets with already non-alive entities
• Fixed: Mushrooms did not display correctly in traps
• Fixed: On launch of the server (dedicated or SP) the serverconfig.json was not automatically saved after applying the changes introduced from a new version
• Fixed: Destroyed papyrus trap uses incorrect textures
• Fixed: Fish properly trigger their flee behavior
• Fixed: Suevite ashlar blocks missing lang entries
• Fixed: Kiln fired storage vessels using wrong textures until picked up out of kiln
• Fixed: Rare crash when interacting with ingot mold
• Fixed: Pie contents could cook in the oven, breaking the texture
• Fixed: ItemStackRandomizer would not save changes to it
• Fixed: Cupronickel, nickel, and electrum ingots had wrong smelting ratio
• Fixed: Storage vessel and anvil pit kiln used pre-color block name formats
• Fixed: Ground stored food containers would not render its contents when combined with a hot crucible
• Fixed: Remove "makefull" attribute from containers when imported to creative inventory so they will properly stack
• Fixed: Show both regular smelting and smelting in bloomery in handbook if both are possible
• Fixed: Should fix one source of animals escaping their pens
• Fixed: Trader dialog bypass, added audit logging for items exchanged with traders
• Fixed: Shattered ingot molds could sometimes duplicate or cause issues
• Fixed: Wood-button sound when first entering game world
• Fixed: Water entry splash sound (and particles) were heard when joining a world if the player/boat was already in water
• Fixed: Multiple animation issues in multiplayer with the Elk and Sailboat with other players mounted
• Fixed: Super jittery player when connecting or when dead
• Fixed: Story npc sometimes teleported to around =512800 100 =511800 when they got stuck
• Fixed: Crash when clicking on an empty crock with an empty bowl
• Fixed: Handbook incorrectly stated that planting a fruit tree cutting had a higher success rate than grafting one
• Fixed: When two different cooking pots are attached to the elk only the left ones texture was shown on both sides
• Fixed: Dirty pot had stacksize of 1, unlike regular pots
• Fixed: Estoc had bad ground-placed transform
• Fixed: Chimney used clay instead of mortar in grid recipe
• Fixed: Pit kiln would not properly synchronize being lit between client and server
• Fixed: Wall leaned ground stored items can no longer float
• Fixed: Adding or removing items from a ground stored stack will now properly update adjacent blocks
• Fixed: Ground storage stackable items without a solid upward face could stack on top of each other
• Fixed: Milkable animal info reported the animal would get stressed for one generation longer than it should have
• Fixed: Cannot place anything onto a ground storage stack from below that is not the same item as the ground storage stack
• Fixed: Settings toggle button text not vertically centered
• Fixed: Mods adding story structures without a protection would crash when teleporting there
• Fixed: Various roofing blocks had erroneous solid sides
• Fixed: Prospecting pick would sometimes destroy blocks other than stone and ore when mining - Lazula
• Fixed: Somewhat incorrect block-breaking decal UVs on many / most blocks
• Fixed: When an exception was caused by another exception, the causing exception would not be logged
• Fixed: Game attempted to load mod files from .git folder
• Fixed: Various missing or incorrect language localization strings
• Fixed: Confusing mushroom names in meal names
• Fixed: Missing world edit localization strings
• Fixed: Missing beard names for village beard variants
• Fixed: Trader name listed twice in handbook sometimes
• Fixed: Bamboo trees grew placed block variant that cannot be chopped down properly
• Fixed: Lime said it was baked into quicklime in the handbook
• Fixed: No hammer durability used when hammering together iron anvil pieces
• Fixed: health not regenerating naturally
• Fixed: Scrolling while smithing can destroy non-hammers
• Fixed: Able to stack some piles that shouldn't be stackable
• Fixed: Cube particles not normal shaded
• Fixed: Placed ingot molds yield incorrect number of items when broken
• Fixed: Held lights not working in dim2
• Fixed: Various piles with solid tops did not allow stacking higher than 1 block
• Fixed: Snow appeared yellow on certain sod roof shapes
• Fixed: Getting up from the treasure hunters bed would get you stuck
• Fixed: Attempting to write on a sign or labelled chest with limestone/chalk places it on the ground
• Tweak: Minor polishing changes
  • Tweak: Game credits now organised alphabetically within sections
  • Fixed: Beenades had incorrect held transform
  • Fixed: Weird ridge beam names
  • Fixed: A few grammatical issues with meal names
  • Fixed: Hay block bottom texture had wrong rotation
  • Fixed: Inconsistent naming for rice-based alcohols
  • Fixed: Blister steel work items missing localization
  • Fixed: Localization issue with units of metal

API Updates

• Upgrade: VS now runs on .net 8
• New Refactoring Project: From 1.21 onwards our source code will slooowly transition to the C# nullable context. We've started migrating them file by file whenever we have to touch them for other reasons. This is a multi year long project.
• New Refactoring Project: From 1.21 onwards we will begin transitioning all Entity AI to a tag based system insted of using entity codes. Currently implemented: Tag registry, tag definition in the ai tasks. Still missing: Actually migrating the ai tasks to use entity tags. Likely to be completed for 1.22
• New Refactoring Project: From 1.21 onwards we started refactoring all AI tasks. They are currently available in refactored mode by suffixing the task codes with "-r". Likely to be completed for 1.22
• Feature: Added Tags system (WIP)
• Feature: Allow worldgen mods to specify their own worldgen/structures.json , worldgen/villages.json and also worldgen/storystructures.json along with their own worldgen/story/storyStructureCode/structures.json to easily add more structures to the various systems
• Feature: Fruitpress can now output a different item than dry mash when mash is fully juiced
• Feature: New Squeezable collectible behavior replaces hardcoded honeycomb item class
• Feature: Grid Recipe crafting: Added mergeAttributes to grid recipes that specifies ingredients which attributes will be merged into output stack. Allowed use of regexes in ingredient code. Allowed use of '{variant}' construction in ingredient code wildcard, several variant groups can be used in one ingredient and across ingredients, allowedVariants and skipVariants for them are specified separetly in recipe.
• Feature: For block textures, tiles and overlays can now be used together
• Feature: Can now limit certain items from being put into traps
• Feature: New IShelvable interface to define whether an item can fit on a shelf based on an ItemStack in code because a collectible attribute won't work
• Feature: Half and full shelf layout placement of large items on shelves
• Feature: Species other than chickens are able to use the hen box if they use a matching nest type
• Feature: Henbox now able to store and display different egg item types
• Feature: Now all paramters for drifters to turn into crawling type is configurable from json.
• Feature: AI task SeekBlockAndLay now supports multiple chick types (such as male and female)
• Refactor: Heavily reorganized the folder structure for entities and their models and textures
• Refactor: The newly introduced slow heal/damage system is now merged into the BehaviorHealth system so that hp affecting foods can also use the effect
• Tweak: Old iron door json and shapes moved to legacy folder.  New format iron door json now under metal/door, rather than metal/iron/door.  Iron hatch shapes also moved from metal/iron to metal/door folder.
• Tweak: Allow structures, storystructures and villages to specify AllowUseEveryone: false (default: true), AllowTraverseEveryone:false (default: true), ProtectionLevel (default 10). This is used by the village , tobiascave and treasure hunter to limit usage only to doors so you can enter but not take items and open chests.
• Tweak: Added OnTestBlockAccessClaim to the event wich is the same as OnTestBlockAccess but also includes the tested claim if there is one. VSLib methods TriggerTestBlockAccess, testBlockAccessInternal and GetBlockingLandClaimant have also changed to provide the claim instead of only the claim owner name
• Tweak: Added interface IProjectile. It is used to decouple spawning of a projectile from specific projectile class. Allows to use any projectile class that implements this interface in all code that uses it to shoot a projectile
• Tweak: When loading traits or character classes the game will now check if the vanilla traits/classes order has changed, or traits/classes were removed, and prints warning in logs. Removing or changing order of vanilla traits/classes can cause compatibility issue
• Tweak: Added EntityBehaviorGait, update EntityBehaviorRideable to use it
• Tweak: Fox, moose, deer and goat entity jsons split into separate 'baby' and 'adult' jsons
• Tweak: Fixed typo in DamageSource IngoreInvFrames field
• Fixed: Dead players having non-zero health
• Fixed: Ground storage restricts maximum stackable height properly
• Tweak: New IsFood property for cooking recipes, to avoid dirtying the cooking pot
• Tweak: Liquid ingredients in meals can have nutrition set per liter
• Tweak: Cooking recipes can now have different quantities of items per stack
• Tweak: Use GetCollectibleInterface for IContainedCustomName
• Tweak: Use GridRecipe in CollectibleBehavior.OnCreatedByCrafting
• Tweak: Allow maximum swivel angle to be defined in entity json
• Tweak: Traits & CharacterClasses can now be loaded from multiple files, you no longer need to json patch these files
• Tweak: ItemStone damage now json configurable
• Tweak: For entities with milkable behavior, made lactatingDaysAfterBirth and milk liquid stack configurable
• Tweak: Custom bloomery capacity in json; allow custom ore capacity in bloomery via collectible attribute "bloomeryCapacity"
• Tweak: Allow custom barrel sounds from json config
• Tweak: various changes to basket traps:
  • basketCatchable property replaced by trappable, see vanilla creature jsons for examples
  • The basket trap no longer defines bait by food category, now only by food tags
  • Traps can now define a min weight value for bait, and food tags can include a weight value
  • For both basket and crate traps, render transforms can be defined for the bait, can be different for different trap types. See vegetable.json, carrot attribute "inTrapTransform" for an example
• Tweak: Chests and other storage in ruins and dungeons can have contents refresh for each player: to create such a chest, use command: /giveblock chest-east{isPerPlayer:true} 1.  The inventory can be seen and modified in creative mode, ctrl click clears a slot. Command: /dev pplr l[] resets all player usages for this chest
• Tweak: For creatures, gallop/trot sound is now configurable in json
• Tweak: In creature diets, one additional food tag: "egg"
• Tweak: (experimental!) added /debug chisel genshape command to generate a json model from a chiseled block
• Tweak: Added StoryLockableDoor and /dev storylock command to add locks to doors in story structures
• Tweak: Entity spawning temperature and rain condition tested Y coordinate now always at 109% of sealevel instead of at the current spawnposition, should prevent for example Arctic creatures spawning on tropical mountaintops
• Fixed: Wolf (and other entities) with a SeekEntity attacking AITask with a null leapanimation specified, no longer default to "jump"
• Fixed: CompatibilityLib was not replacing assets
• Fixed: Blended texture overlays not working when using different domains
• Tweak: For coded mods only, in the unlikely event that in your code you need to adjust AnimationMetaData for a single instance of an entity only (not for all entities of the type), if you need to change or add to these fields or Dictionaries, please .Clone() it first: .Attributes, .TriggeredBy, .ElementWeight, .ElementBlendMode, .AnimationSound
• Tweak: In server-side code paths, Block and Item render transforms are now set to null after server startup is complete. This may produce exceptions in mod code if mods attempt to access these transforms server-side (should be unnecessary server-side)
• Tweak: BlockBehavior.OnBlockPlaced() is now called after any BlockEntity for the block is created (until now, it was called before creating the BlockEntity)
• Tweak: IAnimator now offers a TryStartAnimation() method, does nothing if the animation is not available
• Tweak: Added IsAir property as a mod-compatible way to replace checks for block ID == 0
• Tweak: new method IInventoryManager.CloseInventoryAndSync(): if called client side, closes the inventory and sends a syncing packet to ensure .CloseInventory will be called on the server also
• Tweak: Possibility of specific slot icons and colors e.g. for hotbar and armor slots; in code, can be changed dynamically at runtime
• Tweak: Add wildcard and regex support to BehaviorUnstableFalling exceptions
• Feature: Added OnGetMiningSpeed, OnGetMaxDurability,OnGetRemainingDurability,OnDamageItem and OnSetDurability to CollectibleBehavior
• Tweak: Coded collectible behaviors can now implement/override OnTransitionNow() [thanks to Dana]
• Tweak: Coded collectible behaviors can now implement/override OnHandbookRecipeRender() [thanks to Dana]
• Tweak: Coded mods extending BehaviorGrow can use overrideable BecomeAdult() method to transfer attributes etc from child to adult entity [thanks to sekelsta]
• Tweak: Farmland/CropBehavior class tweaks, added more parameters to the TryPlant and OnPlanted methods for CropBehavior modding
• Tweak: Less hardcoded EntityBehaviorMilkable
• Tweak: BEAnvil.cs now uses .GetInterface() instead of casting to get the IAnvilWorkable instance
• Tweak: Clay oven: Don't hardcode ovenFuelShape
• Tweak: Clean up berry bush code to be more moddable
• Tweak: More moddable crop seeds (use .Variant[".."] in ItemPlantableSeed.cs)
• Tweak: Use GetInterface for ICombustible, instead of "block is ICombustible bic"
• Tweak: Update GuiComposer to allow setting of TitleBar key via method argument
• Tweak: Remove NetServer.Name and ConnectedClient..FromSocketListener and use ConnectedClient.IsSinglePlayerClient instead of testing the socket for a DummyTcpNetServer
• Tweak: Ability to disable UI switches and sliders
• Tweak: new method ITesselatorManager.CreateMesh() including a texture source builder (for example used in vanilla by the Scroll rack, Bookshelf and Antler mount); ShapeTextureSource is now accessible through the API
• Tweak: Animal traps can now specify "destroyedDrops" in attributes
• Tweak: new block/item attribute "displayedShape", used to specify shape on shelf, in trap, etc.
• Tweak: healing item determines if it should be affected by 'healingeffectivness' stat instead of every healing being affected by it non conditionally.
• Tweak: A damage source can now decide to ignore invulnerability frames
• Tweak: Added a logger parameter to BitmapExternal constructors that can fail
• Tweak: Allows all AI task types to be enabled/disabled during certain hours
  Beforehand; only the idle task could be specified to happen in certain day time frames, using the "duringDayTimeFrames" property.
  This makes it so that all AI tasks can use the day time frames system. Properties without "duringDayTimeFrames" will act as normal.
• Tweak: NumberInput UI element only allows typing in valid input
• Tweak: Added IconPath to the ModInfo class, which now also gets loaded from json.
• Tweak: the shader shadowmapgeneric is re-named to chunkshadowmap
• Tweak: when the engine creates meshes from shapes, the order of the vertices for some faces (S, W, Down) has now been changed to a consistent order on every face. This should not usually affect mods unless they need to fetch individual vertices by vertex index: some of the vertex indices have changed. In rare cases this may also have an effect on the order of windmode/winddata specified in shape files for plants etc, please re-check that your plant models still look OK in-game.
• Tweak: IServerConfig.MaxClients now also returns the proper value if the --maxClients command line overwrite was used. ServerConfig.GetMaxClients() now gets its value from IServerConfig.MaxClients and is no longer needed. If you modify IServerConfig.MaxClients it will update the serverconfig.json and also update the value of --maxClients if it was specified at server launch.
• Tweak: Allow NatFloat Offset to be used in BlockDropItemStack properly 
• Tweak: Store chick data as attributes on egg item
• Tweak: Marked the ModInfo property on WorldConfig as JsonIgnore, this property is set internally and should not be deserialized form worldconfig.json.
• Tweak: Load pie crust top types from JSON
• Tweak: mount points on rideables like the elk can only be mounted if the slot is empty or has a saddle or seat in it, this allows for slots to be used as attachable storage and as a mount point
• Tweak: IAnimalNest.TryAddEgg now takes an egg itemstack with chick info set in attributes
• Fixed: Clayform looks for clay and clayworkitem in the proper domain
• Fixed: IsFood cooking recipe property properly serialized and stored
• Fixed: Allow entities to lay eggs hatching into a different mod domain
• Fixed: Incorrect clamping of some NatFloat values
• Fixed: Method AllocateTextureSpace() was not working correctly
• Fixed: Exception thrown when a block is broken and a trait modifies it to 0 drops
• Fixed: Game crashing when mortallywoundable is used on non-rideable entity

Changes since pre.3 (also included above)

• Feature: List when an item can be placed on/in bookshelves, scroll racks, antler mounts, and crocks in the handbook - ATP-Kraken
• Feature: Added coral cobblestone, which can be made from chunks of coral gotten from reefs.
• Feature: Show perish information in handbook
• Feature: Rework seraph faces, added many new types of faces in the character creation dialog
• Feature: Wood paths are now wood-typed (paths in pre-existing worlds will be remapped to 'aged')
• Tweak: (minor) Add info about pressing Shift+H to the intro text for Survival
• Tweak: Fix window fullscreen to windowed makes border disappear on Linux
• Tweak: Crocks now visibly indicate the seal on the model
• Tweak: When getting up from a bed you can now also stand up next to the feet part of it
• Fixed: When an exception was caused by another exception, the causing exception would not be logged
• Fixed: Game attempted to load mod files from .git folder
• Fixed: Various missing or incorrect language localization strings
• Fixed: Confusing mushroom names in meal names
• Fixed: Missing world edit localization strings
• Fixed: Missing beard names for village beard variants
• Fixed: Trader name listed twice in handbook sometimes
• Fixed: Bamboo trees grew placed block variant that cannot be chopped down properly
• Fixed: Lime said it was baked into quicklime in the handbook
• Fixed: No hammer durability used when hammering together iron anvil pieces
• Fixed: health not regenerating naturally
• Fixed: Scrolling while smithing can destroy non-hammers
• Fixed: Able to stack some piles that shouldn't be stackable
• Fixed: Cube particles not normal shaded
• Fixed: Placed ingot molds yield incorrect number of items when broken
• Fixed: Held lights not working in dim2
• Fixed: Various piles with solid tops did not allow stacking higher than 1 block
• Fixed: Snow appeared yellow on certain sod roof shapes
• Fixed: Getting up from the treasure hunters bed would get you stuck
• Fixed: Attempting to write on a sign or labelled chest with limestone/chalk places it on the ground
• v1.21 related changes
  • Tweak: Application of healing item will now be canceled only if player spends more than 0.4s in air. So stepping down a block or jumping onto a block wont cancel it. Configurable via TimeInAirToCancelSec attibute in json
  • Tweak: Added drops for figureheads
  • Tweak: Allow fence gates to also be opened by the new traverse permission
  • Fixed: Slider occasionally would crash the game
  • Fixed: Hens laying unfertilized eggs
  • Fixed: Survival mode players sometimes unable to place figureheads on sailboat
  • Fixed: Occasional judder in player motion in 1.21.0-pre.3   [detail: improved performance of entity state tags updates]
  • Fixed: In multiplayer other players where always looking in one direction
  • Fixed: Toggle shift broken on elk using snaffle bit
  • Fixed: [was broken in -pre.3] player seat positions on raft re-centered
• API Feature: Now all paramters for drifters to turn into crawling type is configurable from json.
• API Refactor: Continue reorganising and cleaning up multiple entity json files
• API Tweak: Use GetCollectibleInterface for IContainedCustomName
• API Tweak: Use GridRecipe in CollectibleBehavior.OnCreatedByCrafting
• API Tweak: Allow maximum swivel angle to be defined in entity json

In short, we will attempt to create a new game mode as part of Vintage Story!

Team, Budget and Risks
We are now looking through the job applications and contacting promising candidates. So much potential. It feels like picking your favorite candy from a candy store. Thank you everyone for applying! We've carefully thought about our options, budget and potential risks. We'll be starting small (3 to 4 people) and expand once the project shows merit and gathers interest. A small team might be slower, but is also much more manageable, more effective and can pivot quicker. Slow growth allows us to fund this truly for the long term. And thankfully, we can re-use a lot of the Vintage Story ecosystem.

The Goal
The new mode would be departing significantly in aesthetics, setting and game mechanics compared to Vintage Story. More focused towards fantasy and adventure/rpg-y compared to the gritty, realism based nature of the current experience. Personally, I would love to see some Elves and Dwarves in there
For the time being it would ship alongside Vintage Story at no additional cost but in the purely hypothetical scenario where it really takes off we could spin it off into a fully separate game. We'll be very open about it, release early and the sub-team will be given significant agency over development direction and communication style with players. There will also be some areas where the goals of both teams will intersect and both projects will benefit, such as combat, improved enemy AI or better NPCs in general. For existing players - rest assured, the aesthetics and game mechanics of Vintage Story will remain true to its original vision.

Closing words
It's a bold move for us - we haven't tried this before, nonetheless I'm confident that we can build something truly engaging for all players. In the off chance that the community is not interested in what we're building we'll keep the option open to pivot to making Vintage Story better instead. Either way, we'll try our best to deliver something worth your time!

We'll share more as soon as we have something to share.

Cheers,
  Tyron

[Update 07/06/2025, Q/A]

Dear Vintage Story Players,

I've read through the forum posts and comments on reddit - I hear you! Thank you for voicing your concern, I'm happy to address some of them.

> "It's a bad name for a new project"

I agree. We'll rename it to something better.

> "Finish Vintage Story First"

We have now 24 in our team, of which 15 are contributing to the game itself (I should update the about us page ). If there's one thing I have learned from hiring this many people is that it made us more ambitious, but not necessarily quicker. I still carefully review almost every game mechanic and (game mechanic or engine altering) code change that gets added to the game and Saraty still looks over nearly every piece of art and modelling change, to ensure that Vintage Story remains true to its original vision. We can only do so much. I can assure you, adding more team members will dilute this vision - Saraty and me would no longer be able to review all the changes the team makes. (For context, it was Saraty that defined the art style of Vintage Story)

It is already a significant struggle for me to put together the devlog posts, because there is so many changes being made to the main game on each update. More people means more opinions, means more possible development directions. We had to split our weekly meetings into 2 subgroups where each group can talk only every 2nd week because there were simply too many voices going on at the same time. I don't like it because I want everyone in the team to have a voice, but due to the team size this is no longer possible.  We in the VS team are not fond of a strongly hiearchical management structures where only the leadership gets to decide what to add. If we want Vintage Story in its full glory AND with its original vision, then we need to stop diluting the vision.

Lastly, finishing Vintage Story to its full glory would take 10 to 20 years more, if ever. There's just so much interesting mechanics that could be added still. This not something that can be done quickly.

> "Spend that Money on Vintage Story instead"

See above, adding more team members to original VS is very difficult. So if not more team members why not make us of these additional funds for a small side project?
    
Individual contributions to the original Vintage Story experience in terms of common systems as mentioned is a lot easier to manage than 3-4 people doing the same thing but full time.

> "Go to Steam first. It is too amibitious"
> "It is too risky"

Money is not the bottleneck. 

> "I paid for Vintage Story, not this"

And you got Vintage Story in the very exact form as advertised with many more updates to come. I am not sure how this is not a fair exchange.

> "You will be spread thin for project management"

Going from past experiences, I doubt it. Let me tell you about two previous side projects:

Vintagehosting: This had a very large initial time investment because I wrote a lot of code for it, but now this is pretty much a self running service. I maybe spend 2 hours per month on this to look at game server issues
Secret game project: This also took some time to set up, albeit much less than Vintagehosting and I am checking up on progress on a regular basis. I spend maybe 1.5 hours per month on this.

If you tally that up, both of these projects result in about 2% of my total time - i.e. 98% of my time still goes to managing Vintage Story.

Once this new project is fully set up, it should be able to run mostly independent from me. The exception being when there are engine changes that would benefit both projects.

> "This is feature creep"

It should be the exact opposite, since its 80-90% a separate project. If anything it would be more feature creep if we were to hire more devs on the main team

> "This new mode should be a separate project"

This would prevent us from sharing code between both projects, decreasing the symbiotic benefit we can get from this.

> "If it becomes a separate game, will existing VS players have to pay for it?"

This is a good argument, it would be fair if existing players could get it for free or at a significant discount.
    

> "Vintage Story will loose its identity / the new project will bleed into VS"
> "The re-use of mechanics in Vintage Story will make it like Hytale"

In the sentence were I mentioned both projects can benefit, I meant it in terms of pure engine tech, not game content, such as better hitscanning, tighter weapon/tool interactions, status effects, a stronger mod api, a more robust animation system, more intelligent AI systems... stuff that has already been in the requested by players or in the back of our minds.

I cannot emphasize this enough - there is absolutely no intention to ever mix these two game genres. Vintage Story will remain the gritty uncompromising wilderness survival you know today - with more survival mechanics to be added in the future. Saraty would kill me if that were to ever change

I also want to add here that Vintage Story was built with modding in mind from the ground up - to the point where we ourselves use the mod api to add game content. This is no different - the new mode will be just another (vanilla) mod to the game. Should engine changes be needed then this will be available for the original game, but if anything, this merely means we will end up with a stronger modding api.
 

> "Hytale failed, your project might also fail"

It's definitely within the realm of possibility. Here's a number of reasons why I strongly doubt that or why this is low impact:
- The company grows sustainably - we don't hire above our means
- I already pulled off a commercially successful game and learned a lot in the process. I am confident I can do it again
- We are willing to ship imperfect, flawed products and improve it over time - because the alternative is never shipping
- There is a symbiotic effect to this - both projects can benefit from this
- Most of all: We don't live off of debt! We have a continuous revenue stream

Imagine if I would have never started VS in the first place, because I was afraid it would fail. None of this would have existed either. Too many companies become risk averse and stagnate, or try to deliver the perfect product and fail. This right here is our opportunity to do something right!

> "You will abandon / slow down development of Vintage Story"

I started development of Vintage Story because that is the kind of game I wanted to play. It's the kind of game Saraty (my wife) absolutely loves to play. We deeply believe that this game needs to exist. We will continue on this mission unabated.

We are reaching out to the Hytale community and its devs as they too truly and deeply believed in Hytale. This is a chance to maybe maybe at least partially keep that dream alive. We are all on the same boat here. We're all gamers, desiring to dive into different game worlds with all our senses, to escape reality for a few moments in time. Why can't we, why shouldn't we peacefully coexist? Why shouldn't we help eachother?

When I worked for Hytale in 2015 I really felt their passion for what they are working on. The team there really believed in the work they did. It was also this very experience that gave me the confidence to start Vintage Story in the first place. It was Noxy that saw my work on worldgen and handed an olive branch to me - believed in my skills to work on their project.

Vintage Story might have never seen the day of light without Hytale. Now it is my turn to hand them an olive branch. It is the least that I can do.

I know many of you have a significant emotional investment in Vintage Story, I am well aware of it. I will be careful to not loose sight of that.
- Tyron

as many of you might have read by now, Hytale has been officially cancelled. Our heartfelt compassion goes out to those that were looking forward to its release, as well as to all the developers working at Hypixel Studios. 

As a former Hytale developer myself, allow me to openly invite everyone left unsatisfied by this news to try out Vintage Story! While it may not be quite the same experience you would have hoped, do keep in mind that our game allows a great range of customization options to reduce some of the more difficult settings that Vintage Story ships by default.

In fact, if you are one of the former developers or a highly passionate Hytale fan with extensive modding skills, do write us at jobs@vintagestory.at. Perhaps we can put together a small sub-project within our Team of developers to bring out an additional game mode for Vintage Story that can at least in part deliver on the vision of what Hytale set out to become. I could picture this as a mostly independent work group developing a new playstyle or an external team that uses our extensive modding api with funding from us.

Due to the massive success Vintage Story has become and with the right leadership, I believe this would be something very achievable!

For our existing player base: Don't worry, the default experience of Vintage Story will stay true to its vision and updates will come at the same pace.

[Update, June 26] We've already received over 20 applications, including several high profile ones. This seems to look promising to me. We'll collect more applications for another week and then begin processing them - for all applicants, please stay tuned!
 

Cheers,
  Tyron

Please note
1. This first preview release is an unfinished update, mostly intended for modders and very adventurous players. You will encounter major bugs, incomplete features, possible performance issues and crashes.
2. Further preview releases (including fixes for bugs in pre.1) will only be posted in Discord #news and on info.vintagestory.at and not on this blog. As usual, a new v1.21 blog post will then come when the first full release candidate (rc.1) is ready
3. If testing 1.21 on an old world from 1.20 or earlier, we strongly recommend making a backup copy before loading the world in 1.21.
4. We do not recommend starting a new permanent world with 1.21-pre.1. Some of the pre-releases might still break things. A world created in pre.1 or older will not automatically generate all of the new story content which we anticipate including. Therefore we recommend make a new test world for your 1.21-pre.1 adventures
5. In general it is a good idea to disable all your previously installed mods, when testing 1.21-pre.1. Until the mods have had a chance to update for 1.21, games with older mods installed will have a strong chance of producing issues or crashes.

Credits
Huge thanks to community members who contributed various code suggestions and fixes we have included in this release: Dana (13 contributions), Jayu (3 contributions), TheMas3212, InsanityGod, IKnewOne, mrgrim, Lugrol, wispae, Hellaeh, sekelsta.
 

Gifs/Screenshots

Added colored crocks, bowls, pots, vessels and watering cans

Added coral reefs: This time for real. Schools of fish included!

Added wavy sands to oceans

Slow healing system. Poultices no longer heal instantly. Recent damage is visualized.

Added volumetric clouds system. Soft as a pillow now!


Ground storage improvements. Can now store 12 ores per spot

Added bear hide trophy armor

Sailboat upgrades: Can now name the sailboat and attach shields

Sailboat control change: Need to furl/unfurl sails to sail


Elk upgrades: Can now attach a falx and bow and temporal gears

Added many new hair styles, added in-game barber in story chapter 2

Game updates

• Feature: Added Colored crocks, bowls, and pots
  • Feature: Added new raw and colored clay versions of storage vessels, watering cans, planters, and flower pots.  Added via new blocktype files ("...-generic"), and removing the raw version from the old blocktype.  This leaves the old blocks in place in old name formats, so the only remap required is the raw blue clay versions, rather than having to remap every single pattern.
  • Feature: Add colored crucibles and metal molds
  • Tweak: Can place different colored ingot molds in same block
• Feature: New and improved clouds
  • Volumetric cloud rendering
  • The old clouds look is still available through settings
  • Fixed: Dark edges on distant clouds
• Feature: Elk taming system
  • Can now tame wild elks to make them rideable. Added a large crate trap, to trap creatures larger than can fit into a basket trap. Use it to trap a baby elk. Feed said elk into adulthood within one year to get a partially tamed Elk. Place a saddle on it and "saddle break" it once per day for several days to get a fully tamed elk.
• Feature: Elk riding system tuning
  • Feature: A tamed elk now follows the player if it is tied to a rope, making leading a roped elk much easier
  • Fixed: Tamed Elk still attacking the owner
  • Fixed: Elk medallion (Stiletto) and Long gem studded bracelet should now appear in loot randomizers.
  • Tweak: Add ability for falx and blackguard sword to be stowed on elk's front left and right utility slots
  • Tweak: Bows can be stowed on elk front left and right storage spots
  • Tweak: Added 3 spots to hang temporal gears on the elk (behind the right saddle bag location)
  • Tweak: Player now cannot accidentally harm own ridden mount
  • Tweak: If an owned / mounted animal is damaged by owner / rider it will not turn aggro, but will instead flee a shorter than usual distance
  • Fixed: Elk looking alive following a server re-start after the Elk was killed
  • Fixed: mounting a sailboat with a rope in hands that is attached to an Elk makes the sailboat fling wildly
  • Fixed: game crashing when harvesting a dead tamed Elk after server restart
• Feature: Coral reefs generate in bodies of salt water
  • Different reef types depending on water temperature (players may need to head south to see most)
  • Schools of small fish near reefs, as entity particles
  • Coral can be broken, yielding chunks of coral; these eventually decay into dead coral over time; live coral can only be placed in salt water, dead coral can be placed anywhere
• Feature: Add wavy sand blocks, for sand that appears underwater.  Wavy sand blocks drop normal sand blocks when mined.
• Feature: World generation tuning
  • Tweak: Majorly reworked landforms to be more easily traversable. Warning: Will produce terrain smoothing between old chunks and new chunks
  • Tweak: Enabled 2.5% ocean at 500% scale by default
  • Tweak: Fixed an issue with ocean gen where high landform scale would produce very square shaped oceans
  • Tweak: Added small red clay deposits in soil and gravel in cold climates where clay previously did not generate
  • Fixed: Worldgen creature spawning could sometimes spawn groups of babies (or more generally, companions) only
  • Fixed: Chunk border smoothing system not working properly
  • Fixed: Large world height worlds had less surface deposits (Technical info: Correctly scale surface deposit chance by deposit depth to world sea level)
  • Tweak: Added 3 new ruins, fine tuned a few others
• Feature: Slow healing system
  • Slow heal as well as taking damage is now visualized in the healthbar
  • Healing items now heal over time instead of instantly
  • Armor no longer nerfs healing amount, but the time it takes for the healing to apply
• Feature: Added several new hairstyles
  • New base hairstyles: Bowl cut, Box braids, Dense dread locks, Long curls, Medium curls, Rows, Dense rows, Short curls, Short curls2
  • New hairstyle extras: Back bun curls, Puffy back bun, Box braid bun, Cobra side braids, Knots, Curly ponytailurly,  Creast ponytail, Segmented top knot, Curly sidebuns, Side puffs, Skep bun, Top roll, Back roll, Back roll bun, Thick roll, Fishtail braid, Steppe sidetails, Steppe braid loop, Steppe braids
  • Several more hairstyles available in the game from the barber
• Feature: Added bear hide armor
  • A new craftable trophy armor with average stats
• Feature: Monster autoharvest! The falx now extracts 1 drop per hit from drifters, shivers and bowtorns (drop rate remains unchanged)
• Feature: Moon and stars position now closer to a real astronomical simulation
  • Moon phase now consistently correct
  • Rendered moon orients itself so that the lit side precisely faces the sun current position
  • Moon phase is correct based on relative moon and sun positions
  • Moon apparent path through the sky is now close to the ecliptic
  • Night-time star field rotates appropriately for the current latitude
  • Night-time star field varies over the calendar year according to the seasons / zodiac
  • Slight increase in full moon light strength, as our astronomically-accurate moon is on average a bit lower in the sky
• Feature: Added a world customization screen in the savegame modify screen
• Feature: 2nd story chapter adjustments
  • Feature: All traders (for a small fee) can now direct you towards a Treasure Hunter trader near your spawn point to get started with the story in the first place
  • Feature: Tad can now give haircuts and heal the player
  • Feature: All villagers now have their own unique dialogue
  • Feature: Added new short story found in the Lazaret
  • Feature: Tobias will now give you some food for the journey home
  • Feature: You may now confess to your crime if you hurt Charlemagne
  • Tweak: Added more environmental storytelling to the Lazaret
  • Tweak: Devastation area temperature now at fixed 17°C, which removes the unintentional snow cover and players freezing there
  • Tweak: Timeswitch skill is available again immediately if the way back is blocked; and base skill cooldown reduced to 1 second in Creative mode
  • Tweak: Significantly reduced distances between 2nd story event locations
  • Tweak: Many tweaks and jank-fixes to villager animations
  • Tweak: Many many fixes on Nadiyan clothing
  • Tweak: Elevator now can now be unlocked on each level in the tower
  • Tweak: A number of tweaks to Nadiyan villagers (added spear melee attack, they now attack monsters, added tongs, various tweaks to villager hairstyles)
  • Tweak: Reduced cooldown on the rickety translocator from 6 months to 2 months
  • Tweak: Devastation Area mob spawn: reduce the mob spawn speed, fix potential overspawn issues
• Feature: Sailboat/Raft improvements
  • Feature: The sailboat is now primarily propelled by the unfurling of sails; holding the Forward/Backwards keys has only a small effect now
  • Feature: Can now write on the side of the sailboat, to name it etc.
  • Feature: The weather vane on the top of the sailboat is now responsive to wind direction but it wont affect the sail speed at this point
  • Feature: Can now attach shields to the side of the sailboat. Up to 14 around the gunwales, one at each rib.
  • Tweak: Hanging onto the ratlines now tires the player; when too tired kicked off the ratlines and will need to rest
  • Tweak: Fence posts added to sailboats now consume 2 of the available spaces (one space for the post, one space for the animal)
  • Tweak: Sailboat rudder now moved to the right side
  • Fixed: Opening dialogs while sailing or rafting could change the player look direction
  • Fixed: Animals in sailboats looked jittery while on the move
  • Fixed: Water lilies now no longer render inside the sailboat
  • Fixed: Players positioned on the ratlines in the sailboat looked wrong
  • Fixed: Flicker and desync when switching seats on a raft or sailboat (or other rideable such as elevator); also fix flicker when mounting directly from one rideable to another
• Feature: Add mod safety check to stop mods marked by the VS team as not safe to load (to swiftly disable mods that have vulnerabilities in them)
• Tweak: Gameplay balancing changes
  • Tweak: Hats now provide protection from rainfall
  • Tweak: Anvil mold must now be destroyed to get the anvil
  • Tweak: Wolf attacks now have better cooldown and windup
  • Tweak: Improve irregularity of mob spawning. Remove mob spawning very far below/above the player. Increase chance of mob spawn near rifts
  • Tweak: A Hacked locust is now rope tie-able
  • Tweak: Sod roof now has an alternative recipe using logs
  • Tweak: Can no longer place an iron anvil top on a meteoric iron base, and vice versa
  • Tweak: Can no longer construct or light a pit kiln underwater
  • Tweak: If a tool breaks, the tool mode for that tool type now still persists
  • Tweak: Tweaks to charcoal pit and firewood burn efficiency
  • Tweak: Increased Rift Ward range from 30 to 40 blocks and range is no longer spherical but cylindrical (from world bottom to world top)
  • Tweak: Fish meat satiation halved, drops doubled.  Fish carcasses now have their own model.  Fish, tiny, and small carcasses drop 'tiny bones', which cannot be used in tools.
  • Tweak: Tree seeds burned 10 seconds (longer than sticks) now burn just 1 second
  • Tweak: Lime can no longer be crushed with a hammer
  • Tweak: Killed Bowtorns now drop bone arrows
  • Fixed: Bees in skeps still produced honey below 0°C
  • Fixed: Aged hay could be used to make fresh thatched roofing
• Tweak: New blocks/craftables
  • Feature: Added papyrus chests and basket traps
  • Tweak: Added papyrus version of handbasket
  • Fixed: Pink and smoky glass were missing slab recipes
  • Tweak: Clear quartz can now be pulverized
  • Tweak: Clinker bricks can now be chiseled
  • Tweak: Can now craft slabs, stairs, stonebrick, etc. from suevite
• Feature: Ground storage tweaks
  • Tweak: Ores now store in stacks of 12 on the ground
  • Tweak: Allow liquid interaction with ground storage
  • Tweak: Allow randomized rotation in SingleCenter ground storage
  • Tweak: Seeds, thatch, mortar and pulp are now ground-placeable
  • Tweak: Various other small items such as crushed powders, metal bits, gems, bones, feathers have improved appearance in ground storage
  • Fixed: Some ores not ground storable
• Tweak: In-World interaction improvements
  • Feature: Can now squeeze honeycomb in fruitpress for honey
  • Tweak: Allow honey comb squeezing into a barrel
  • Tweak: Pick block works in survival to swap slots, but does not give the block otherwise
  • Tweak: Can now swap chisel material using pick block mouse button
  • Fixed: When harvesting an animal it could happen that a drop would go over the stack limit
  • Fixed: Rotating a work item on the anvil could cause it to no longer line up with the smithing recipe
  • Tweak: Can now use a hammer and chisel to extract metal bits from hardened metal in metal molds without needing to finish filling the mold
  • Tweak: Can place and remove empty ingot molds always
  • Tweak: Allow placing crucible into firepit with right click
  • Tweak: Can now also seal crock outside the crafting grid
  • Tweak: Remove not needed shift key interaction help info on placed firepit and torches
• Tweak: Survival handbook improvements
  • Feature: The Handbook now shows meal and pie recipes
  • Tweak: Improved handbook guide for oven-baking and bread
  • Tweak: Show possible inputs for metal molding
  • Tweak: Show possible inputs for smithing
  • Tweak: Show "Created by" section for "firing in kiln", smashing with hammer to collect ores, anvil welding and smelting in bloomery
  • Tweak: Show possible clay inputs for clayforming
  • Tweak: Show required materials in smithing and clayforming 
  • Fixed: Inconsistent use of litres/liter and titles
  • Tweak: Handbook now displays more information for juicing and information for new squeezing action
  • Tweak: Add handbook info on parts required to repair translocator.
  • Tweak: Add mention of bone flute to the 'Tamed Mountable Animals' handbook entry
  • Tweak: Hide creative mode creature items from handbook
  • Fixed: Handbook: Daub recipe was including grass blocks not obtainable in survival mode in the image cycle
  • Tweak: Fireclay grid recipe in the handbook now shows 3 separate grids, to make clear that you can use all red clay, all blue clay, or a mixture of clays.
  • Tweak: Beehive kiln handbook entry changed to clarify that fuel piles do not have to be full to run the kiln, you just need some fuel in all 9 spots.
  • Tweak: Resin harvestable properties are now documented in the handbook
  • Fixed: Antlers now properly grouped in the Handbook
  • Fixed: Search in handbook not working properly with diacritics (e.g. Nawóz)
• Tweak: Performance improvements
  • Performance - optional setting ".clientconfig allowSSBOs on" to reduce GPU RAM used.  Reduces the GPU RAM usage of terrain by approximately half; try it at view distance 512 and higher, it may allow you to increase your view distance above your hardware's previous limit.  Changes to this setting are only effective after re-joining the world. It may affect framerate by -5% to +10% (depends on hardware, view distance, other graphics settings, and scene). Known issue: GLTF and .OBJ models might not render correctly in-game, if the "allowSSBOs" setting is enabled
  • Small server RAM reduction [detail: servers no longer retain block and item render transforms]
  • Reduce duration of occasional lagspikes due to garbage collection [detail: the number of permanently held small memory objects is reduced by 350k (servers) or 700k (single player), or more in modded games, allowing the garbage collector to complete its work faster; the garbage collector must run sometimes, typically there can be up to 3 such lagspikes every 5 minutes of gameplay]
  • Faster worldgen for large water bodies [detail: reduce array allocations in underwater blocklayers generation]
  • Fix one potential memory leak on long-running multiplayer servers [detail: it related to protobuf]
  • RAM: save RAM on both client and server when many entities are spawned (should also slightly improve multiplayer server TPS for spawning times)
  • RAM: reduced RAM use for animations on both client and server
  • Client-side, slight improvement in tesselation speed (3%-4%, YMMV)
     
• Tweak: Slightly nerf block light level boosts introduced in 1.20
• Tweak: When joining Multiplayer, on the modify server screen, added "Copy to clipboard" button for the server address 
• Tweak: Improved map marker position tracking for tamed elk [detail: the client now updates the ownership position to last-known position when it de-spawns client-side; the server updates the position in OwnershipsByPlayerUid when an entity is loaded; this means now the Ownership data should contain the last known position of an ownable, may help to track down missing elks]
• Tweak: When a support beam's selection box was out of bounds it became unselectable; now it is moved into bounds, albeit still not exactly at the location one would expect
• Tweak: Give back stick after squeezing cheese
• Tweak: Added seal hours info text for barrel recipes
• Tweak: Allow the player to take a meal serving from crocks on shelves
• Tweak: Added shelf interaction help
• Tweak: Moved server configs "allowFallingBlocks" and "allowFireSpread" to the worldconfig
• Tweak: Allow bombs to be blown up on land you have build permissions
• Tweak: Enable vsync by default, disable max fps limit by default
• Tweak: Worldedit can now be translated. See "we-" language entries
• Tweak: Luxury trader now sells new copper omok pieces, rather than gold.
• Tweak: Ingot molds display Block Info based on where you point
• Tweak: Conditional Block can now also accept "isBlock[code=abc] x y z" condition
• Tweak: Berry bush growth cycles are now about 1 month instead of x days to be month-length agnostic
• Tweak: Blocks with tiled textures (eg. fanned cobblestone) can now be chiselled and retain original textures
• Tweak: Held Temporal Gear and worn Temporal Gear Amulet now emit faint glow
• Tweak: Switching mod versions after already running the game once now shows a message prompting for restart to prevent unpredictable loading behavior
• Tweak: Add 'bigger' sounds for musk ox and takin
• Tweak: Water now somewhat less murky overall
• Tweak: Godrays intensity mildly reduced 
• Tweak: Change tongs offhand transform to 'nutcracker' style.  Also change crucible, toolmolds, ingots, and iron blooms to work with this.
• Tweak: Raw daub now stacks to 128. Raw daub grid recipe output reduced to 8. Wattle and daub block also now requires only 8 daub. So the crafting effort is the same.
• Tweak: Add CPU info logging to client and server, also add RAM logging to the server
• Tweak: Prevent story location schematics from generating too far from the center "StoryMaxFromCenter" in locationname/structures.json
• Fixed: Torch light in caves would dim if foggy at surface; generally reduce fog indoors
• Fixed: Shattered molds display proper amount of bits dropped
• Fixed: Randomizer meta block not resolving in medium1 ruin
• Fixed: Empty or unclosed hotkey tokens crashing the game
• Fixed: A removed itemstack not getting deleted from a loot randomizer (creative mode item)
• Fixed: Added a missing tooltip to the firestarter
• Fixed: Made most of the particle effects dimension aware
• Fixed: Some liquid containers in grid recipe are not getting their liquid rendered nor text shown
• Fixed: Trait "Damage against mechanicals" now also applies to ranged weapons
• Fixed: Server tick time higher than necessary in some cases
• Fixed: 25% chance of fixing player ghost duplicates
• Fixed: Only show one bag per category on player
• Fixed: Newly placed reed chests would not close
• Fixed: Larger worldedit schematics would cause the client to lose connection [detail: any large packet send to the server would make a client lose connection]
• Fixed: Sound engine breaking because it does not remove disposed sounds
• Fixed: Fruitpress issue when screwing down the screw fully if mash was not large enough to be juiced
• Fixed: Armorstands would not sync immediately with other players when adding/removing armor
• Fixed: Labeled Chests no longer showed their name in the inventory dialog
• Fixed: Berries in raccoon mouths had bad visual offsets
• Fixed: Entity insta-flee action and certain Eidolon actions were wrongly disregarding melee attacks
• Fixed: Leafy tops of turnips in troughs were invisible from certain angles
• Fixed: Two skin colors in character creation were both called "forest brown"
• Fixed: Doors would sometimes connect incorrectly
• Fixed: LeftDoor will flip properly during double door placement
• Fixed: When the VS updater was run the game was not automatically started again. Using the parameter /VERYSILENT you can suppress starting of the app, using /SILENT will now launch the application. When running the full installer using /SILENT or /VERYSILENT will not start the game automatically
• Fixed: Players who joined the game in Creative Mode flight had wrong collision box server-side
• Fixed: Logger.Warning with parameter exception was logged as error instead of warning
• Fixed: Should fix "outside water" rendering in chiseled blocks in Dim 2
• Fixed: Game speed stuck at a high rates from sleeping, this could have happened when getting out of the bed and directly exiting to main menu
• Fixed: Misaligned clay ridge roof models
• Fixed: Prevent rare game crash after tutorial progress failed to save correctly due to hardware or power issue
• Fixed: Bone flute was flammable
• Fixed: Goats had improper medium hide drops
• Fixed: Period for which moose had antlers was too short
• Fixed: Missing ground-stored transforms for cooked rhizomes
• Fixed: Noticeable transition in sky color tone after midnight
• Fixed: Hacky fix for animations not playing on newly spawn entities
• Fixed: Bowls and jugs show contents on shelf
• Fixed: Granite, andesite, limestone, and chalk sands could not produce any kind of daub with red clay.  They now produce golden brown daub (but still produce the lighter daubs with other clays)
• Fixed: Mods with worldconfig.json will now load lang entries for world config
• Fixed: Crucibles and hot meals once again show smoke or steam particles when placed on the ground
• Fixed: hides were missing incontainerTextures, and did not show up in-world in barrels.
• Fixed: Rope tool mode to lengthen/shorten no longer shown in top center
• Fixed: Deep water was not affected by underwater murkinesss
• Fixed: Erel feather stem had wrong position on tool rack
• Fixed: Wall-leaned spears popping off in in some cases
• Fixed: "Protect eyes" seraph animation was playing even when not facing the wind
• Fixed: Ruined wooden shelf now lines up with standard wooden shelf height
• Fixed: Chandelier lighting shading now matches that of candles
• Fixed: Own player not visible in map when in spectator mode
• Fixed: Worldedit TreeGenTool would not grow fruit trees
• Fixed: Game sometimes crashing when typing '[' while drunk
• Fixed: When editing sign text, the amount of lines in the edit GUI depended on GUI scale
• Fixed: When editing sign text, camera turning to the right sometimes when saving
• Fixed: Fish meat was missing food tag "meat"
• Fixed: Baby gazelles lacked proper stats and would never grow; gazelle calves dropped fat same as adults (now drop none)
• Fixed: Missing recipes to make aged scroll racks and aged bookshelves from aged boards
• Fixed: Compost could be put in mining bags
• Fixed: Players were still able to till soil which has a block above it
• Fixed: In Homo sapiens game mode, panning could drop man-made objects
• Fixed: Various corrections to the English language translation text
• Fixed: Rare crashes involving BehaviorSqueezable
• Fixed: Rare crash when looking at an entity with the elevator in the background
• Fixed: Attempt to fix very rare serverchunk entity serialization issue
• Fixed: When a dedicated server creates a new world some default worldconfig values and some settings from the selected playstyle were not applied
• Fixed: When a server backup is running and autosave was triggered it would block the server ticking until the backup was done, now we skip autosave till the backup is done
• Fixed: Issues with LAN-hosted multiplayer games and entity motion (for some people it stopped working randomly, requiring a restart, the underlying networking mapping now auto-renews)
• Fixed: When a savegame is already opened by another running version of the game (can also happen after crashes) it would lock up the client for 30 seconds before it was responsive again, reduced now to 1 second
• Tweak: Minor polishing changes
  • Tweak: Game credits now organised alphabetically within sections
  • Fixed: Beenades had incorrect held transform
  • Fixed: Weird ridge beam names
  • Fixed: A few grammatical issues with meal names
  • Fixed: Hay block bottom texture had wrong rotation
  • Fixed: Inconsistent naming for rice-based alcohols
  • Fixed: Blister steel work items missing localization
  • Fixed: Localization issue with units of metal

API Updates

• Upgrade: VS now runs on .net 8
• Feature: Fruitpress can now output a different item than dry mash when mash is fully juiced
• Feature: New Squeezable collectible behavior replaces hardcoded honeycomb item class
• Feature: Grid Recipe crafting: Added mergeAttributes to grid recipes that specifies ingredients which attributes will be merged into output stack. Allowed use of regexes in ingredient code. Allowed use of '{variant}' construction in ingredient code wildcard, several variant groups can be used in one ingredient and across ingredients, allowedVariants and skipVariants for them are specified separetly in recipe.
• Feature: For block textures, tiles and overlays can now be used together
• Tweak: New IsFood property for cooking recipes, to avoid dirtying the cooking pot
• Tweak: Liquid ingredients in meals can have nutrition set per liter
• Tweak: Cooking recipes can now have different quantities of items per stack
• Tweak: Traits & CharacterClasses can now be loaded from multiple files, you no longer need to json patch these files
• Tweak: ItemStone damage now json configurable
• Tweak: For entities with milkable behavior, made lactatingDaysAfterBirth and milk liquid stack configurable
• Tweak: Custom bloomery capacity in json; allow custom ore capacity in bloomery via collectible attribute "bloomeryCapacity"
• Tweak: Allow custom barrel sounds from json config
• Tweak: various changes to basket traps:
  • basketCatchable property replaced by trappable, see vanilla creature jsons for examples
  • The basket trap no longer defines bait by food category, now only by food tags
  • Traps can now define a min weight value for bait, and food tags can include a weight value
  • For both basket and crate traps, render transforms can be defined for the bait, can be different for different trap types. See vegetable.json, carrot attribute "inTrapTransform" for an example
• Tweak: Chests and other storage in ruins and dungeons can have contents refresh for each player: to create such a chest, use command: /giveblock chest-east{isPerPlayer:true} 1.  The inventory can be seen and modified in creative mode, ctrl click clears a slot. Command: /dev pplr l[] resets all player usages for this chest
• Tweak: For creatures, gallop/trot sound is now configurable in json
• Tweak: In creature diets, one additional food tag: "egg"
• Tweak: (experimental!) added /debug chisel genshape command to generate a json model from a chiseled block
• Tweak: Added StoryLockableDoor and /dev storylock command to add locks to doors in story structures
• Tweak: Entity spawning temperature and rain condition tested Y coordinate now always at 109% of sealevel instead of at the current spawnposition, should prevent for example Arctic creatures spawning on tropical mountaintops
• Fixed: Wolf (and other entities) with a SeekEntity attacking AITask with a null leapanimation specified, no longer default to "jump"
• Fixed: CompatibilityLib was not replacing assets
• Fixed: Blended texture overlays not working when using different domains
• Tweak: For coded mods only, in the unlikely event that in your code you need to adjust AnimationMetaData for a single instance of an entity only (not for all entities of the type), if you need to change or add to these fields or Dictionaries, please .Clone() it first: .Attributes, .TriggeredBy, .ElementWeight, .ElementBlendMode, .AnimationSound
• Tweak: In server-side code paths, Block and Item render transforms are now set to null after server startup is complete. This may produce exceptions in mod code if mods attempt to access these transforms server-side (should be unnecessary server-side)
• Tweak: BlockBehavior.OnBlockPlaced() is now called after any BlockEntity for the block is created (until now, it was called before creating the BlockEntity)
• Tweak: IAnimator now offers a TryStartAnimation() method, does nothing if the animation is not available
• Tweak: Added IsAir property as a mod-compatible way to replace checks for block ID == 0
• Tweak: new method IInventoryManager.CloseInventoryAndSync(): if called client side, closes the inventory and sends a syncing packet to ensure .CloseInventory will be called on the server also
• Tweak: Possibility of specific slot icons and colors e.g. for hotbar and armor slots; in code, can be changed dynamically at runtime
• Tweak: Add wildcard and regex support to BehaviorUnstableFalling exceptions
• Feature: Added OnGetMiningSpeed, OnGetMaxDurability,OnGetRemainingDurability,OnDamageItem and OnSetDurability to CollectibleBehavior
• Tweak: Coded collectible behaviors can now implement/override OnTransitionNow() [thanks to Dana]
• Tweak: Coded collectible behaviors can now implement/override OnHandbookRecipeRender() [thanks to Dana]
• Tweak: Coded mods extending BehaviorGrow can use overrideable BecomeAdult() method to transfer attributes etc from child to adult entity [thanks to sekelsta]
• Tweak: Farmland/CropBehavior class tweaks, added more parameters to the TryPlant and OnPlanted methods for CropBehavior modding
• Tweak: Less hardcoded EntityBehaviorMilkable
• Tweak: BEAnvil.cs now uses .GetInterface() instead of casting to get the IAnvilWorkable instance
• Tweak: Clay oven: Don't hardcode ovenFuelShape
• Tweak: Clean up berry bush code to be more moddable
• Tweak: More moddable crop seeds (use .Variant[".."] in ItemPlantableSeed.cs)
• Tweak: Use GetInterface for ICombustible, instead of "block is ICombustible bic"
• Tweak: Update GuiComposer to allow setting of TitleBar key via method argument
• Tweak: Remove NetServer.Name and ConnectedClient..FromSocketListener and use ConnectedClient.IsSinglePlayerClient instead of testing the socket for a DummyTcpNetServer
• Tweak: Ability to disable UI switches and sliders
• Tweak: NumberInput UI element only allows typing in valid input
• Tweak: Added IconPath to the ModInfo class, which now also gets loaded from json.
• Tweak: the shader shadowmapgeneric is re-named to chunkshadowmap
• Tweak: when the engine creates meshes from shapes, the order of the vertices for some faces (S, W, Down) has now been changed to a consistent order on every face. This should not usually affect mods unless they need to fetch individual vertices by vertex index: some of the vertex indices have changed. In rare cases this may also have an effect on the order of windmode/winddata specified in shape files for plants etc, please re-check that your plant models still look OK in-game.
• Tweak: IServerConfig.MaxClients now also returns the proper value if the --maxClients command line overwrite was used. ServerConfig.GetMaxClients() now gets its value from IServerConfig.MaxClients and is no longer needed. If you modify IServerConfig.MaxClients it will update the serverconfig.json and also update the value of --maxClients if it was specified at server launch.
• Tweak: Allow NatFloat Offset to be used in BlockDropItemStack properly 
• Fixed: Incorrect clamping of some NatFloat values
• Fixed: Method AllocateTextureSpace() was not working correctly
• Fixed: Exception thrown when a block is broken and a trait modifies it to 0 drops
• Fixed: Game crashing when mortallywoundable is used on non-rideable entity

This should be the last release of 1.20.x unless other critical issues appear.

As for the next major 1.21 update, titled "the 1.20 content completion update" (provisional name, lol), it should happen pretty soon, a first pre-release possibly still in June. The main theme of this next update will be completing and polishing a number of areas that did not make it into 1.20, such as sailboat improvements, an elk taming system, coral reefs and easier story progression. Stay tuned!
 

Screenshot by Kimera, shared on #screenshots on Discord

Game updates

• Fixed: Rare crash while loading entities client-side. Github #6025
• Fixed: Teleporters not working on servers once the tick time exceeds 100ms
• Fixed: Raft oar animations not correct in 1.20.11. Github #5924
• Fixed: Colored lanterns could lose their lighting colors when other light-sources placed nearby. Github #5950
• Fixed: Removing a lined lantern could leave a ring of faint light
• Fixed: Rare client crash on game exit. Github #5976
• Fixed: Client-side crash when an empty pie falls. Github #6009
• Fixed: Attempt to fix very rare serverchunk entity serialization issue. Github #6006
• Fixed: Large numbers of fresh spawned entities after pausing the game for a while in SSP
• Fixed: Privilege escalation vulnerability with the block randomizer
• Fixed: Timeswitch commands permissions not properly setup

This release has no new gameplay features BUT a few fixes compared with v1.20.10.  As well as that, on multiplayer servers, it significantly improves performance and reduces RAM utilization, especially with higher player numbers:

• A large multiplayer server running this release should perform up to approximately twice as good - twice as many ticks-per-second - when large numbers of players (more than 30) are online
• Different results may be seen with different player counts, adjusted servermagicnumbers.json, different creature numbers compared with the vanilla defaults, or modded games, but all servers should see some improvement
• This release also uses approximately 10%-20% less RAM, in both single-player and multiplayer games.

Screenshot by bens, shared on #screenshots on Discord

Game Updates

• Changes in 1.20.11
  • Tweak: Improve client<->server connection stability. (Technical Info: Added server health check for UDP since some ISP's may block randomly some UDP, this may cause desync between entities or dropped items. So now if there was no UDP received from a client for 30 seconds the server will fall back to TCP automatically for that client and tell it to also fall back to send only TCP which should fix the desync. Further you can now set forceUdpOverTcp in clientsettings.json or using ".cf forceUdpOverTcp on" command, then just rejoin and you have permanently enabled to only use TCP.)
  • Fixed: Rare exceptions in 1.20.11-rc.1 when a server loads mapchunks at the world border
  • Fixed: Containers spawned in using the /giveblock command without adding the type attribute would allow you to place them in a boat storage slot but would crash your client. If this was done on a server you may end up crashing as soon as you join again.
  • Fixed: Redwood tree generation destroys translocators
• Changes already in 1.20.11-rc.1
  • Tweak: Multiplayer server performance substantially improved in many areas
    • Improved TPS from entity ticking (especially if MaxPhysicsThreads exceeds 1: on large servers please experiment with setting that in the range 2-5, in servermagicnumbers.json)
    • Improved TPS from entity spawning (testing of spawn positions now runs on a separate thread)
    • Improved TPS from player and entity physics and animations updates on the server
    • Reduced peak RAM requirements for server packet sending
    • Reduced peak RAM requirements for server game autosaving
  • Tweak: Map and minimap performance improvements (client side changes)
    • Map now drawn up to 10x faster when panning or zooming into previously mapped areas
    • Areas of the map which are moved off-screen are now preserved for longer without re-draw
    • Reduced heavy multiplayer lag after panning in the world map (greatly reduced client-server network traffic from panning)
  • Tweak: Reduced RAM requirements on both server and client for animations
  • Tweak: Thrown stones, snowballs and other thrown projectiles now have smoother motion
  • Tweak: For hardware constrained servers, new optional VintagestoryServer.exe command line argument --reducedThreads to reduce the number of threads used overall (detail: may help servers which have hardware thread count limits, at the cost of some worsening of ticks per second and game startup time)

Note for modders:

It is possible that v1.20.11 will cause mod breakage for a very small number of coded mods, although most mods built for v1.20.10 should still work just the same. Mods which only add content using JSON or patches should all be okay. For coded mods, if you experience any new mod issues (not present in v.1.20.10), please do report them and meanwhile continue using game version v1.20.10.  [For coders: we did not change the API, but if your mod's code references ServerMain.Clients with VintagestoryLib.dll as a dependency, you will likely need to recompile against the 1.20.11 version of VintagestoryLib.dll. Harmony patches which make code changes deep within VintagestoryLib might also need attention: most of the entity physics, animations and general entity ticking code in the engine has been changed.]

This release has no new gameplay features or fixes compared with v1.20.10.  Its only change is to improve performance, especially for larger multiplayer servers.

• A large multiplayer server running this release should perform up to approximately twice as good - twice as many ticks-per-second - when large numbers of players (more than 30) are online
• Different results may be seen with adjusted servermagicnumbers.json, different creature numbers compared with the vanilla defaults, or modded games, but all servers should see some improvement
• This release also uses approximately 10%-20% less RAM, in both single-player and multiplayer games.

In multiplayer, v1.20.11 is network-compatible with v1.20.10.  A player with v1.20.10 can play on a server which is running v1.20.11-rc.1 (or the other way around). Therefore, generally we suggest that large servers could update to v1.20.11-rc.1 for better performance, even if their players do not update.

It is possible that v1.20.11-rc.1 will cause mod breakage for a very small number of coded mods. Mods which only add content using JSON or patches should all be okay. We have tested some of the most popular coded mods with this, but we have not tested them all. If you experience any new mod issues (not present in v.1.20.10), please do report them and meanwhile continue using game version v1.20.10.  [Note for mod coders: we did not change the API, but if your mod references ServerMain.Clients with VintagestoryLib.dll as a dependency, you will likely need to recompile against the 1.20.11-rc.1 version of VintagestoryLib.dll. Harmony patches which make code changes deep within VintagestoryLib might also need attention, most of the entity physics, animations and general entity ticking code in the engine has been changed.]

Screenshot by Extra Ram, shared on #screenshots on Discord
 

Game Updates

• Tweak: Multiplayer server performance substantially improved in many areas
  • Improved TPS from entity ticking (especially if MaxPhysicsThreads exceeds 1: on large servers please experiment with setting that in the range 2-5, in servermagicnumbers.json)
  • Improved TPS from entity spawning (testing of spawn positions now runs on a separate thread)
  • Improved TPS from player and entity physics and animations updates on the server
  • Reduced peak RAM requirements for server packet sending
  • Reduced peak RAM requirements for server game autosaving
• Tweak: Map and minimap performance improvements (client side changes)
  • Map now drawn up to 10x faster when panning or zooming into previously mapped areas
  • Areas of the map which are moved off-screen are now preserved for longer without re-draw
  • Reduced heavy multiplayer lag after panning in the world map (greatly reduced client-server network traffic from panning)
• Tweak: Reduced RAM requirements on both server and client for animations
• Tweak: Thrown stones, snowballs and other thrown projectiles now have smoother motion
• Tweak: For hardware constrained servers, new optional VintagestoryServer.exe command line argument --reducedThreads to reduce the number of threads used overall (detail: may help servers which have hardware thread count limits, at the cost of some worsening of ticks per second and game startup time)

Boop.

Screenshot by 7embre, shared on #screenshots on Discord

Game updates

• Tweak: Increased of fruit tree graft survival chance from 50% to 60%
• Fixed: Wide doors can delete blocks when placed
• Fixed: Should properly fix bowtorns not harvestable in some cases
• Fixed: Shiver hurt animation not stopping walk animation
• Fixed: Potential item loss in multiplayer if a player lost connection while a chest was open
• Fixed: Incorrect pottery trade items in the trader buying/selling lists
• Fixed: Unclear error message "missingtokenv2" when trying to connect to a game server
• Fixed: MacOS Hud and GUIs going invisible
• Fixed: Monsters spawning on surface anywhere, when temporal stability is disabled

Screenshot by Saatgut93, shared on #screenshots on Discord

Game updates  (in 1.20.8-rc.2)

• Tweak: Added to Tamed Mountable Animals guide, tame elk currently only obtainable from trader
• Tweak: In Handbook and item descriptions, add some mention of "elk" to most tamed-elk riding gear, for searchability
• Tweak: Players in creative mode with privilege "commandplayer" can now access locked chests
• Fixed: Rift weather stuck at very high forever (since 1.20.8-rc.1)
• Fixed: Mobs able to spawn near light sources outside of storms with normal self stability (since 1.20.8-rc.1)
• Fixed: Complete item loss from shift clicking away items into a chest in certain circumstances
• Fixed: Attempt to fix occasional issue with chest and other inventories not closing server-side
• Fixed: Soybeans and cured fish in meals were not being drawn
• Fixed: Prevent error log spam caused by hopper trying to push a crock into a chest that already contains a crock [Detail: disabled the meal serve into container mechanic when it has EnumMergePriority.AutoMerge which is used by hoppers shift left click and ground pick, in any of those this should be disabled]
• Fixed: Rare ghost items when serving meals from pots in the inventory
• Fixed: Resonance Archives lighting sometimes off when it should be on
• Fixed: In other dimensions, chisel add material and other tool mode changes didn't work
• Fixed: In other dimensions, could be incorrect entity AI targeting
• Fixed: Shiver and Bowtorn corpse harvesting range different from different angles

"Wall", shared by Kotsu on discord #screenshots

Some things just don't pan out as one would hope them to, pun intended

1.20.7 broke falling blocks in some cases so this update should remedy that. In the process I also finally tackled the excessive new mob spawn during temporal storms, as well as the missing mob spawns during nights in summer. I have marked the release as unstable because it might throw off the mob spawn balance again. Radfast added some fixes to the "other" dimensions.

Game updates

• Tweak: New Summer Stroll music track now also plays in summer. No longer exclusive to the Resonator
• Tweak: Improve localized messages sent to players, global messages are sent in the server language where player specific ones are sent in their language
• Fixed: Several issues in other dimensions
  • Blocklight from light sources should now spread correctly
  • For trunks, the right-hand element had wrong Block HUD info and wrong pickblock result
  • Fixed rare block breaking issues and excessive EntityItem spawned in some cases
• Fixed: Server-side error when player attempts to place faded crumpled letter on the ground
• Fixed: Invalid blocks created from falling blocks
• Fixed: Properly fix temporal storms sometimes spawning huge amounts of the new mobs
• Fixed: Mobs not spawning in summer nights. Rift tweaks.
• Fixed: Should fix butterflies turning in place for a minute at a time
• Fixed: Rare server-side exception if the disconnected player was not yet loaded
• API Tweak: Added IHeldHandAnimOverrider collectible interface to prevent a held idle animation being played based on an item held in the other hand

Screenshot by Serglittle, shared in #screenshots on Discord
 

Game updates

• Tweak: Added Audit logging when breaking containers and their contents is getting dropped
• Tweak: Further slightly reduce spawn rate of the new mobs during temporal storms
• Tweak: Update community translations
• Fixed: Small oddities with falling coal (was invisible, it hurt the player unintuitively and particles spawned too far up)
• Fixed: Properly fix blue tint during temporal storms
• Fixed: Wearables in ruined chests at 100% condition and getting set to a lower value only when taken out
• Fixed: In other dimensions, player motion smooth stepping and walking on walls
• Fixed: Placed torches not emitting particles in other dimensions
• Fixed: Texture flipper item: Invisible textures in toolmode ui
• Fixed: Armor damage overlay was not affected by fog
• Fixed: Text overflow from lots of mods on the public server view screen. Mod list now truncated after 20 mods
• Fixed: Might fix rare occasions where screen goes completely black after respawning
• Fixed: Potential duplication bug on lagging server, when causing blocks to fall
• Fixed: All water visible (even underground one) when inside the cloud layer
• Fixed: Incorrect position for the hot held crucible and incorrect pouring animation. Added flute use animation
• Fixed: Seraph knapping animation jittery
• Fixed: Rare exception on crash during shutdown
• Fixed: Might fix invisible entity issues following a teleport

We suggest to urgently update all game servers to this latest version, as all game versions of the last 6 years are affected. An issue was discovered which could allow a player to create arbitrary blocks and items, including Command Blocks which can run arbitrary server commands under admin privileges. This release should both fix the creation of arbitrary items as well as the ability to use Command Blocks as a Survival Mode player. Only the servers need to update. The game clients can remain on 1.20.5.
To clarify: This vulnerability only affected server commands via Command Blocks, not via the underlying server console / shell.

Game updates

• Tweak: Don't print audit logs to console, but to debug window only
• Fixed: Gameserver privilege escalation vulnerability on multiplayer servers
• Fixed: Large underground ruin having one of the creative blocks in it
• Fixed: Updated Harmony to 2.3.5 which should fix issue when using Harmony mods on Linux systems using GLIBC 2.41 and newer

This update should iron out a lot of oddities, strange behavior, lost items, some exploits, an item dupe bug and lots more, so we highly recommend to update to this version. There is a possibility that one of the latest fixes broke another system but we will then quickly release a fix for that.

Please note, this version is network incompatible with v1.20.4. In other words, with v1.20.5 you can no longer join a v1.20.4 server.

Screenshot by Alnico, shared in #screenshots on discord

Game updates since 1.20.4

• Feature: Multiplayer server improvements
  • Performance: Slightly better ticks-per-second on large multiplayer servers (Technical info: Improved handling of client packets queue)
  • Protection against one type of denial-of-service attacks (Technical info: Disallow large packets from unauthenticated clients)
  • Two more protections against repeated attempts, disabled by default: server configs TemporaryIpBlockList and LoginFloodProtection. If activated these automatically ban IP addresses when they send invalid packets or when they attempt to connect too many times - more than what a normal user would be able to do. Added command /ipban to list/clear the banned IPs list.  The banned IPs list is temporary, it will automatically be cleared if the server is restarted or after a certain amount of time has passed.
  • Please note: These protections only mitigate certain denial-of-service attacks, not all. Additional protection layers are necessary for solid protection, such as the use of iptables against SYN/PSH-ACK floods and/or use of a reverse proxy.
• Tweak: First person chiseling animation now less view covering
• Tweak: Smoother transitions between sky colors around midnight
• Fixed: Old and long-standing bug where selecting a tool mode is sometimes not properly synced to the server. Example while chiseling, bits would disappear or re-appear at random
• Fixed: Wonky output of /stats command with the connection queue system enabled
• Fixed: Able to break decor inside land claim
• Fixed: A unintentional pink block in one of the ruins
• Fixed: Naming a chiseled block with VTML could cause a client crash when using an invalid path for an icon
• Fixed: Various fixes in villager dialogue
• Fixed: Villagers sometimes appearing to stand in their beds
• Fixed: Villager and some Drifter "hurt" animations were not playing when hurt
• Fixed: New issues introduced in 1.20.4
  • Certain dropped items appearing to sink into ground/snow
  • Issues on unstable blocks if sideways falling was enabled as an optional world config
• Fixed: One rare exception when shutting down a dedicated server
• Fixed: Command /ban would log an error but the player was still banned and kicked
• Fixed: Issue where the Beehive Kiln would not work properly when a firewood or peat pile was placed in the clay burning chamber

• Tweak: Can now also cook flint in the Bloomery
• Tweak: Waterlilies on lake ice now frozen in place, instead of continuing to have wave motion when the water below was frozen
• Tweak: Performance: Save approximately 200MB Single player/Server RAM  (Technical info: Lazy-initialize story structures and trader/ruins rotated versions. If the Better Ruins mod is installed then this tweak saves up to 1.1 GB RAM use at game startup, albeit this will grow over time as ruins begin generating)
• Tweak: Performance: Generally quicker snow layer updates for better WeatherSystem performance  (Technical info: Various engine improvements in bulk BlockAccessor)
• Tweak: Updated community translations, added Turkish
• Fixed: Newly born or spawned wolves, chickens and other animals natural colour variations restored, was broken in 1.20.4 with only black wolves being spawned, for example
• Fixed: A few items in 1.20.4 (e.g. cranberry) had wrong rendered position in 3rd-person view  (Technical info: could occur if transforms were only partially specified in JSON)
• Fixed: Items disappearing or becoming ghost items when shift-clicked in certain situations (these items were inadvertently being moved into recently used raft/boat chests or Elk saddlebags, especially where inventories were closed by right-clicking again on the chest/bag)
• Fixed: Log spam with warnings related to Sulfuric acid and Chromite in 1.20.x
• Fixed: Log spam with warnings related to "BETransient"
• Fixed: Distant chunks going invisible in immersive first-person mode when standing against blocks and looking downards
• Fixed: Should fix players body getting in the way of mining while in immersive first-person mode
• Fixed: Might avoid a crash with some mods requesting invalid richtext
• Fixed: Exceptions thrown (and consequently undefined behavior) when leaving and rejoining a world in bed
• Fixed: Mitigate extremely janky sleep visuals in ifp mode (player model just invisible for now)
• Fixed: Wonky GUI transform for lime and quicklime
• API Tweak: Clean up EntityPlayerShapeRenderer code
• API Tweak: Added IRenderAPI.Render2DTexture(MultiTextureMeshRef quadModel, float posX, float posY, float width, float height, float z = 50)
• API Fixed: Possible wonky textures for the contents of certain blocks, if many mods are enabled (Firepit contents, Helve hammer, Mash in the Fruitpress, Texture flipper toolmode)

Additionally, game updates since rc.3

• Tweak: On Windows 11 with multiple GPUs the game installer will now setup the game to use the High Performance Card
• Tweak: Mobs dying in hot springs now yield only 25% of their drop rate (the hotsprings are highly acidic, they dissolve stuff!)
• Fixed: Verify claimed status on chests also on a network packet level
• Fixed: Items shift clicked into a saddlebag would end up in a different location server side than client side in some cases
• Fixed: Item dupe bug related to elk inventories
• Fixed: Players teleported by other players commands while still connecting to a server, could become frozen and other potential issues in the teleporting code
• Fixed: Wonky hitbox on Shivers during stroke
• Fixed: Bucket under fruit press not disappearing for other players when removed
• Fixed: Prevent nutrition being double-counted if two animals eat the same item
• Fixed: Drifters fleeing during Storms in some cases
• Fixed: Issues with the connection queue where clients would get disconnected
• Fixed: Rare exception and player-kick due to Locust Nest having become bugged
• Fixed: Occasional exception and client-kick on TOPS relating to propick reading deletion and server-client desync on slow connections
• Fixed: Small server memory leak due to never deleting propick data for disconnected clients
• Fixed: In Creative mode, picking a Ruined bookshelf from the inventory caused immediate crash
• Fixed: Client crashes in 1.20.4 and 1.20.5-rc versions with hot metal rod held in tongs
• Fixed: May generally fix all similar client EntityShapeRenderer.RenderItem crashes (Github #4777)
• Fixed: Rare error thrown by bed [Detail] could possibly happen when mounted and unmounted in the same tick so MountedBy could be already null
• Fixed: Slowly accumulating performance leak with anvils and a few similar blocks
• Fixed: Server standby launch not working correctly anymore since 1.20.5-rc.1
• Fixed: Fixed spawn loading issue for villagers in beds, new issue since 1.20.5-rc.1
• API Fixed: Dry mash output randomness when pressedDryRatio != 0
• API Fixed: Crash on merging mashes without transitionableProps

A few more minor optimizations and important fixes.

[Edit:] Also released rc.3 to fix a crash related to the helve hammer and more

• Fixed: Might avoid a crash with some mods requesting invalid richtext
• Fixed: Exceptions thrown (and consequently undefined behavior) when leaving and rejoining a world in bed
• Fixed: Mitigate extremely janky sleep visuals in ifp mode (player model just invisible for now)
• Fixed: Crash related to Helve Hammers with dynamic shadows enabled

Screenshot by mtr, shared on discord #screenshots

Game updates (since 1.20.5-rc.1)

• Tweak: Can now also cook flint in the Bloomery
• Tweak: Waterlilies on lake ice now frozen in place, instead of continuing to have wave motion when the water below was frozen
• Tweak: Performance: Save approximately 200MB Single player/Server RAM  (Technical info: Lazy-initialize story structures and trader/ruins rotated versions. If the Better Ruins mod is installed then this tweak saves up to 1.1 GB RAM use at game startup, albeit this will grow over time as ruins begin generating)
• Tweak: Performance: Generally quicker snow layer updates for better WeatherSystem performance  (Technical info: Various engine improvements in bulk BlockAccessor)
• Tweak: Updated community translations, added Turkish
• Fixed: Newly born or spawned wolves, chickens and other animals natural colour variations restored, was broken in 1.20.4 with only black wolves being spawned, for example
• Fixed: A few items in 1.20.4 (e.g. cranberry) had wrong rendered position in 3rd-person view  (Technical info: could occur if transforms were only partially specified in JSON)
• Fixed: Items disappearing or becoming ghost items when shift-clicked in certain situations (these items were inadvertently being moved into recently used raft/boat chests or Elk saddlebags, especially where inventories were closed by right-clicking again on the chest/bag)
• Fixed: Log spam with warnings related to Sulfuric acid and Chromite in 1.20.x
• Fixed: Log spam with warnings related to "BETransient"
• Fixed: Distant chunks going invisible in immersive first-person mode when standing against blocks and looking downards
• Fixed: Should fix players body getting in the way of mining while in immersive first-person mode. Might break mods, let me know if they do and we'll see if we can fix that for rc.3
• Fixed: Wonky GUI transform for lime and quicklime
• API Tweak: Clean up EntityPlayerShapeRenderer code
• API Tweak: Added IRenderAPI.Render2DTexture(MultiTextureMeshRef quadModel, float posX, float posY, float width, float height, float z = 50)
• API Fixed: Possible wonky textures for the contents of certain blocks, if many mods are enabled (Firepit contents, Helve hammer, Mash in the Fruitpress, Texture flipper toolmode)

Please note, this version is network incompatible with v1.20.4. In other words, with v1.20.5 you can no longer join a v1.20.4 server.

Dwarven Balloon, Screenshot by ANTIFLUX, shared on Discord #screenshots

Game updates

• Feature: Multiplayer server improvements
  • Performance: Slightly better ticks-per-second on large multiplayer servers (Technical info: Improved handling of client packets queue)
  • Protection against one type of denial-of-service attacks (Technical info: Disallow large packets from unauthenticated clients)
  • Two more protections against repeated attempts, disabled by default: server configs TemporaryIpBlockList and LoginFloodProtection. If activated these automatically ban IP addresses when they send invalid packets or when they attempt to connect too many times - more than what a normal user would be able to do. Added command /ipban to list/clear the banned IPs list.  The banned IPs list is temporary, it will automatically be cleared if the server is restarted or after a certain amount of time has passed.
  • Please note: These protections only mitigate certain denial-of-service attacks, not all. Additional protection layers are necessary for solid protection, such as the use of iptables against SYN/PSH-ACK floods and/or use of a reverse proxy.
• Tweak: First person chiseling animation now less view covering
• Tweak: Smoother transitions between sky colors around midnight
• Fixed: Old and long-standing bug where selecting a tool mode is sometimes not properly synced to the server. Example while chiseling, bits would disappear or re-appear at random
• Fixed: Wonky output of /stats command with the connection queue system enabled
• Fixed: Able to break decor inside land claim
• Fixed: A unintentional pink block in one of the ruins
• Fixed: Naming a chiseled block with VTML could cause a client crash when using an invalid path for an icon
• Fixed: Various fixes in villager dialogue
• Fixed: Villagers sometimes appearing to stand in their beds
• Fixed: Villager and some Drifter "hurt" animations were not playing when hurt
• Fixed: New issues introduced in 1.20.4
  • Certain dropped items appearing to sink into ground/snow
  • Issues on unstable blocks if sideways falling was enabled as an optional world config
• Fixed: One rare exception when shutting down a dedicated server
• Fixed: Command /ban would log an error but the player was still banned and kicked
• Fixed: Issue where the Beehive Kiln would not work properly when a firewood or peat pile was placed in the clay burning chamber

1.20 post mortem
When you are knee deep in development it can be difficult to see the bigger picture, because oh boy did I not expect the amount of growth this update has created. On the day of release, the amount of purchases grew by 300%, consequently overloading every single server of ours one after the next over the course of 3 weeks. In addition to that some of our 3rd party providers had issues on their own causing further downtime. We had to optimize and up the specs on all the hardware we use to be able to deal with the additional load.
The downtime especially created massive amounts of new support tickets which our team was wholly unprepared for, so we had to quickly upscale the support team to overcome the flood of tickets.
Releasing the update on time itself came with quite a few sacrifices in terms of the content that we still wanted to add, but that has been the case for almost every update. Some of the rough edges have been ironed out in 1.20.3 and 1.20.4 with a few more things on the way, but more on that later.

Community and TOPS
Not only did we have an overheating help desk and servers, a growing community also means there are more points of contention and so we've had to adjust game content, processes and rules to ensure all our gathering spots remain friendly and welcoming places. Turns out, TOPS, our official public game server, is the perfect testing grounds to evaluate what tools are needed to provide just that. We have now added the capability for players to join in-game groups without invite (for language channels), prevent uncertainty when joining a full server with a join queue and we are in the works of adding a mod whitelist system so everyone playing there is on the same page. The additional game content of 1.20 also notably increased the hardware load on our game servers so that we had to lower the maximum player count on TOPS from 70 down to 55 and we are now optimizing various areas  of the server code to bring this back to 70 or 75 - to date we are already at 65 max players on TOPS. Furthermore, just very recently we've been hit by quite large DDoS attacks on TOPS and other player-run servers, which we are mitigating through optimization and blocking mechanisms, with a 1.20.5 coming out soon so other server owners can benefit from this mitigation as well.

The Mod Database also required urgent attention as we were lacking moderation tools there and we had to optimize the download bandwidth quickly, as it was bleeding money due to the peculiar cost structure of Amazon Web Services. In fairness, AWS even called me personally on their own initiative to offer their assistance with that. The VS ModDB is now serving 2.5 Terabytes of data daily.

On our Discord server we are currently testing a moderator support ticket system in order to simplify and streamline contact requests to moderators, which should come online very soon.

Moderation demands have also only grown and we have not yet kept pace with this increased demand. On that note, please be kind to our staff. We might not always get it right, but we try and we do listen to your feedback as much as possible.
 

Management overhead
At the same time, simply growing a company and all its related paperwork to satisfy all rules and regulations could be a full time job on its own. We are glad to have very good support for this from a local partner. Needing to keep an eye on all these aspects of this game project meant I am on a declining trend of availability to do the usual spearheading of game update programming and integration efforts. The demands on my time seem to grow quicker than my ability to delegate
That being said, I am optimistic that the right solutions will fall in place sooner or later and that I will be able to more strongly focus again on helping to get our next update built.
 

Continuing where we left off
As mentioned, the Team was left a bit dissatisfied with the current state of the 1.20 update. Consequently we initially planned to do a very very limited update with a much shortened development cycle, but the bar for this kept getting raised so we'll be doing it proper and make it a major release, ahead of our original plans for 1.21. However I will make sure to keep the scope limited to have this update released quicker than our previous ones.
Here's some of the points that we would like to address for 1.21. Disclaimer: Aspirational goal, some of it may get cut again.

• 2nd Boss fight improvements
• Bowtorn AI improvements
• Re-add Coral Reefs
• More direct ways to introduce the player to the game story
• Elk taming system: The elk should not be locked behind the lore content
• Better sailing system
• More work on some of the lore locations
• A rework of some of the existing animals and new wild life dangers for the warm climate zones, all very WIP still:
  
  
   
• We also got something smol in the works
  
   
• In parallel to that, we will more heavily focus on performance and RAM optimizations which will get added whenever the optimization is ready and tested. One of which is already in 1.20.4, another one will make it into 1.20.5 and more of them will come in future updates.
   

Beyond 1.21
Version 1.22 would then become what we originally planned for with v1.21 - dejank a number of mechanics and systems, mechanical power upgrades and likely one or 2 new or reworked crafting mechanics.
Version 1.23 will be the next major lore update where we will make more extensive use of the new dimension mechanics.

In Summary
Old plan:
1.21  Large update focusing on dejank and Mechanical power

New plan:
1.21  Small update to finish 1.20 content and fill in a few game content gaps
1.22  Large update focusing on dejank and Mechanical power
1.23  Large Lore update

One more thing
Wait you thought that's all? We wouldn't be called Anego Studios if we wouldn't be doing a hundred different things at once
We have also hired a fulltime & fullstack game developer that will work on a brand new secret game project completely unrelated to Vintage Story, but also a lot smaller in scope. Work on this project will be fully in parallel to the development of Vintage Story, so there will be no change in pace of updates for VS itself. I do have to say, its quite exciting to see it progressing already, I believe it has lots of potential.

That's most of whats happening around Anego Studios that I can think of right now. Next devlog in a month or two + 1.20.5 with fixes soon. Thank you for tuning in and keep being excellent!
 

This release is identical to 1.20.4-rc.4. We highly recommend to update if you are on 1.20.3.


Screenshot by Archbishop, shared in #screenshots on Discord

Game updates (since 1.20.3)

• Feature: For multiplayer servers, added a connection queue for when a game server is full (Experimental, off by default. Set MaxClientsInQueue in serverconfig.json to a value above 0 to activate it - the number determines how many players are allowed to sit waiting in the queue)
• Feature: For multiplayer, added a ModWhiteList for better control of used mods on game servers (set via serverconfig.json)
• Tweak: The decorative chimney block now covers entire bottom of block, and provides a solid downward face for creating a room
• Tweak: Interactions with a tamed Elk, such as mounting/unmounting and attaching/removing attachments, is now only possible for the Elk's owner. (As a reminder, attach a medallion to an Elk's brow to claim ownership)
• Tweak: Further reduced spawn quantity of new mobs during Temporal Storms
• Tweak: Some animals need to be of a certain generation before they can be roped. Goats are now rope tieable
• Tweak: Added tongs transforms to a large number of metal and ceramic items
• Performance tweaks:
  • Fix a source of server-side lag spikes (Technical info: Addresses 5-200ms despawn times for individual entities, entities should now be despawning in microseconds)
  • Reduce server RAM use by approximately 82MB through reducing duplicate Block/Item/Entity data
  • Doubles the client side framerate around lots of entities, e.g. when spawning 2000 chickens
  • Reduce overkill butterfly spawn attempts
• Tweak: Reduce error log spam when too many sounds get loaded, now prints a notification 2x per second instead
• Tweak: On client startup, silently re-try to verify the single player session a second time if the first one fails
• Tweak: Allow /wgen pregen command to be run from console
• Tweak: On World creation when the worldname is empty choose a random one again
• Tweak: Fix role change audit log: caller name, role and target player name were not in the correct order
• Tweak: Update community translations
• Fixed: Should permanently fix player phasing into blocks when getting damaged
• Fixed: Minimap opening at game start when it was supposed to be turned off
• Fixed: Beehive Kiln instantly firing blocks inside
• Fixed: Colors in character customization screen now named correctly
• Fixed: Should prevent tamed Elks attacking players after suffering fall damage and similar
• Fixed: Should fix Elk teleporting into Lava/Boiling water
• Fixed: Water rendering at the wall of a solid block (e.g. on a chiseled trough)
• Fixed: Light brown raw daub recipe only allow each sand to work with one clay type, rather than either sand with either clay type.
• Fixed: Rift Ward was blocking rifts even when not activated
• Fixed: Devastated soil and rock were chiselable
• Fixed: Treasure Hunter Trader should drop item when giving a map to a player whose inventory is full
• Fixed: Treasure maps could get broken by regenerating/deleting chunks and cause server-side errors
• Fixed: 2nd Story Chapter boss stuck in mid air
• Fixed: Land Claims would not work properly for large ones like the Devastation area after a restart
• Fixed: Maybe fixes players able to break the Jonas lens on the tower
• Fixed: Chat not opening on Broadcast messages like Temporal Storm warnings.
• Fixed: Command: Waypoint modify command did not check the waypoint index correctly and could cause an error
• Fixed: Server throwing an exception when the masterserver sends an invalid response
• Fixed: Rare issue where player group commands op/deop/kick would not work properly on some servers
• Fixed: Can pick up ingot molds while holding a mold
• Fixed: Overhead chat message no longer displayed
• Fixed: Log spam with charcoal pits when it has ground stored objects inside the charcoal pit (BlockFirepit.IsFirewoodPile)
• Fixed: Server side exceptions thrown by a bowl of meal in water
• API Change: Certain elements of blocks, items and entities which are intended for use on client-side only - for example, Textures and ShapeInventory - are now null on a server after game start. (Mods are not expected to make use of these on the server-side: if a coded mod experiences new "Object reference not set" errors in game versions 1.20.4+, it may need to check its code to ensure that code referencing these things runs only on client-side.)
• API Change: Added Block.CanAcceptFallOnto() method, for thread safety this must be used if implementing Block.OnFallOnto()

As some of you have noticed, our servers were acting up a bit at times over the last couple of weeks. We have now upped the specs on all of them so I am cautiously optimistic that all services should run smooth again ... at least until we get yet another huge influx of new players
Rest assured, we are already making preparations to ensure that we can scale quickly if there is a future need.

Taking a break from the server work this weekend, I was able to gather up some of the work the team has been doing in the meanwhile, to bring you another update! Running the Official Public Server has been especially helpful for us in determining what needed additional attention in our multiplayer server hosting software.

Please note, this version 1.20.4-rc.1 is not network compatible with previous versions, i.e. in multiplayer, you won't be able to join a 1.20.3 server if you have updated your game to 1.20.4-rc.1 and the server has not: both server and player would need to be running the same game version.

[Edit:] Also released rc.2. Changelog below.
[Edit:] Also released rc.3 to fix another issue
[Edit:] Also released rc.4 to fix sound issues

Screenshot by ZerSchitzler, shared on #screenshots on Discord

Game updates (rc.4)

• Fixed: Several mobs missing second ropetiable property, and so weren't actually ropetieable.
• Fixed: Should fix sounds no longer playing after a while
• Fixed: Can pick up ingot molds while holding a mold

Game updates (rc.2 / rc.3)

• Fixed: Sounds no longer playing after some minutes, in worlds with many bloomeries, querns and translocators around
• Fixed: Overhead chat message no longer displayed
• Fixed: Log spam with charcoal pits when it has ground stored objects inside the charcoal pit (BlockFirepit.IsFirewoodPile)
• Fixed: Server side exceptions thrown by a bowl of meal in water
• Fixed: If clients leaving while connecting a new player was not connected to the server from the queue
• Fixed: Connection queue sometimes not connecting next player from the queue
• API Fixed: Fixed mod incompatibility with RecipeRegistryBase, caused in 1.20.4-rc.1
   

Game updates (rc.1)

• Feature: For multiplayer servers, added a connection queue for when a game server is full (Experimental, off by default. Set MaxClientsInQueue in serverconfig.json to a value above 0 to activate it - the number determines how many players are allowed to sit waiting in the queue)
• Feature: For multiplayer, added a ModWhiteList for better control of used mods on game servers (set via serverconfig.json)
• Tweak: The decorative chimney block now covers entire bottom of block, and provides a solid downward face for creating a room
• Tweak: Interactions with a tamed Elk, such as mounting/unmounting and attaching/removing attachments, is now only possible for the Elk's owner. (As a reminder, attach a medallion to an Elk's brow to claim ownership)
• Tweak: Further reduced spawn quantity of new mobs during Temporal Storms
• Tweak: Some animals need to be of a certain generation before they can be roped. Goats are now rope tieable
• Tweak: Added tongs transforms to a large number of metal and ceramic items
• Performance tweaks:
  • Fix a source of server-side lag spikes (Technical info: Addresses 5-200ms despawn times for individual entities, entities should now be despawning in microseconds)
  • Reduce server RAM use by approximately 82MB through reducing duplicate Block/Item/Entity data
  • Doubles the client side framerate around lots of entities, e.g. when spawning 2000 chickens
  • Reduce overkill butterfly spawn attempts
• Tweak: Reduce error log spam when too many sounds get loaded, now prints a notification 2x per second instead
• Tweak: On client startup, silently re-try to verify the single player session a second time if the first one fails
• Tweak: Allow /wgen pregen command to be run from console
• Tweak: On World creation when the worldname is empty choose a random one again
• Tweak: Fix role change audit log: caller name, role and target player name were not in the correct order
• Tweak: Update community translations
• Fixed: Should permanently fix player phasing into blocks when getting damaged
• Fixed: Minimap opening at game start when it was supposed to be turned off
• Fixed: Beehive Kiln instantly firing blocks inside
• Fixed: Colors in character customization screen now named correctly
• Fixed: Should prevent tamed Elks attacking players after suffering fall damage and similar
• Fixed: Should fix Elk teleporting into Lava/Boiling water
• Fixed: Water rendering at the wall of a solid block (e.g. on a chiseled trough)
• Fixed: Light brown raw daub recipe only allow each sand to work with one clay type, rather than either sand with either clay type.
• Fixed: Rift Ward was blocking rifts even when not activated
• Fixed: Devastated soil and rock were chiselable
• Fixed: Treasure Hunter Trader should drop item when giving a map to a player whose inventory is full
• Fixed: Treasure maps could get broken by regenerating/deleting chunks and cause server-side errors
• Fixed: 2nd Story Chapter boss stuck in mid air
• Fixed: Land Claims would not work properly for large ones like the Devastation area after a restart
• Fixed: Maybe fixes players able to break the Jonas lens on the tower
• Fixed: Chat not opening on Broadcast messages like Temporal Storm warnings.
• Fixed: Command: Waypoint modify command did not check the waypoint index correctly and could cause an error
• Fixed: Server throwing an exception when the masterserver sends an invalid response
• Fixed: Rare issue where player group commands op/deop/kick would not work properly on some servers
• API Change: Certain elements of blocks, items and entities which are intended for use on client-side only - for example, Textures and ShapeInventory - are now null on a server after game start. (Mods are not expected to make use of these on the server-side: if a coded mod experiences new "Object reference not set" errors in game versions 1.20.4+, it may need to check its code to ensure that code referencing these things runs only on client-side.)
• API Change: Added Block.CanAcceptFallOnto() method, for thread safety this must be used if implementing Block.OnFallOnto()

This update should fix some of the more egregious bugs y'all have encountered. Fantastic reception of the 1.20 update so far - we are glad you're all having a good time!

Screenshot by Fishy, shared on Discord #screenshots

Game updates

• Tweak: Sailboats are now 20% faster than the Raft. Stopgap solution until there are more comprehensive sailing mechanics
• Fixed: Might fix 2nd story chapter boss getting stuck mid-air
• Fixed: Fruitpress sometimes stops squeezing juice
• Fixed: Should fix tamed Elk attacking player on fall damage and similar
• Fixed: Exception thrown in beehives and skeps
• Fixed: Exception thrown when chiseling a block for the first time
• Fixed: Exception thrown in handbook distilling and juicing
• Fixed: Dead shiver hitbox was too small
• Fixed: /wgen regen no longer working on some flat worlds
• Fixed: Basket trap error log spam
• Fixed: Various small fixes to story locations
• Fixed: Propick results no longer automatically appearing
• Fixed: Fruitpress log spam if mash got rotten
• Fixed: Should fix ServerMain.HandlePlayerIdentification NRE on high player count servers like TOPS
• Fixed: EntityBehaviorControlledPhysics.FindSteppableCollisionBox() error log spam
• Fixed: Tamed creature dupe bug
• API Tweak: Schematic remapping will try to get the version info from the remap name, like "game:v1.20.0-rc.5" and only apply when the remapping version is greater than the schematics version. If it fails to get a version from the remap name it will apply the remapping.

A small update with some new music and important fixes.

Screenshot by Deus Chirno, shared in #screenshots on Discord

Game updates

• Feature: 2 new sound tracks by Hayden. One plays during early fall, another one is a new tuning cylinder
• Fixed: Able to take out hot ingots from mold by breaking the mold
• Fixed: Updated trader buying/selling lists. Fixes trader selling invalid tapestry
• Fixed: Spirit giving too much satiety
• Fixed: Should better fix some chunks only generating pure stone
• Fixed: Client crash in the SoundEngine due to Reverb
• Fixed: Elk Medallions not working as intended
• Fixed: Temporary mitigation against a bug that can crash the server due to invalid player position

Well here we go, this stupendously large update is finally "complete enough". At this point we feel confident that everybody can and should update to 1.20. As mentioned in the pre.1 and rc.1 blog post, the primary goal of this update was to advance the game story, which we have achieved successfully. For me personally, it was awesome to see how the entire VS Team came together to push onward the idea of what is Vintage Story. It was not without its fair share of mistakes, misdirection and disagreement, mind you. Yet, we managed to push through and build something that we find truly worthwhile. The experience we went through as a team makes it all the more evident that - as with any other form of mastery - game development is a continuous learning process.

As for you, dear players, I can only repeat myself - thank you so much for being here! Your contributions are immensely helpful for us, whether it be a purchase, a bug report, testing 1.20, creating a mod, critical feedback or simply just a comment on our discord server. We deeply appreciate your participation in our very wholesome community.

Can I start playing 1.20 now?
Yes, we recommend everyone updating to 1.20 at this point. Old v1.19 worlds should also, automatically, retroactively generate the new story locations, and if there are player structures in the way, you will see a dialog appear with instructions on how to manually generate them.
Please keep in mind, 1.20.0 stable does not mean the game is now fully devoid of issues. When we mark a release as stable it means we feel confident that it is stable enough for 99% of players. There will likely still be a couple more 1.20 stable releases in future as we come across new issues.

Can I explore the new lore content now?
Yes! To get you started with the lore content - revisit the Resonator at the Library, listen to it, then revisit the same Treasure Hunter trader who originally gave you the map to the Resonance Archives. Defeating the Eidolon will now also drop a special item to help you in your journey, but it is optional! You can look forward to visiting 4 unique new story locations!

We hope you will be as dazzled as we were when we first saw everything come together! We are excited to hear, watch and read about your experience with the new lore content - we've put a lot of soul into all of it. For now, it is required to visit the Resonance Archives in order to unlock the ability to claim and ride an elk.

Still unfinished
There are a number of aspects that we would like to polish further, likely as part of a minor update for 1.20 still:
Small tweaks and additions to the lore locations. The sailboat needs more work, to feel 'just right'. The coral reefs we teased in pre.1 have been disabled as we are not yet satisfied with them. An elk-taming system that does not require getting into the lore content. Various other small additions.

Game update trailer

Screenshots

Mount system: Rideable Elk and Sailboat

Added Elk Ownership system. Outfit your elk with a medallion to be able to call it and see it on the map

Added 21 types of elk blankets and 15 types of Medallions to customize the looks of your Elk

Sailboat construction system

Equippable sailboats to travel the seas (wip)


Upgraded Raft: now has stowage for the oar and can carry a basket


Ocean Content: Visual upgrade - murky shader and opaque oceans

Ocean and Lake Content: Many more underwater plants

Added dynamic color grading and Crops now get frosted


Reworked wolf model and animations

Bricks overhaul. 130+ new variants of brick blocks

The beehive kiln: A new system of baking bricks


Added Wattle&Daub blocks


Added bamboo fence and fence gates


Trapdoors are now wood-typed, come in 2 variants each and animated like the door.


Chair & Table model redesign


Added insect life

New high tier carriable bags: Sturdy leather backpack and Sturdy mining bag. Made from end game materials.

Two new types of bombs

The Moon moving over the Sun will now produce actual Eclipses



The 100+ world configs are now much better organized through the use of Tabs


Smooth edges for quad particles, creating less jarring visual artifacts and more satisfying explosions

The most common hot items are now held correctly with the tongs


Hot ground stored items are now also incandescent and shading of held ones is improved.

Lava and Boiling water now kills nearby grass


Hot molds will shatter if exposed to water


More beams for creative mode players - shingled roof, ropes of various thicknesses and chains

Game updates since v1.19

• Feature: 4 new major story location, each uniquely different. Begin your journey at the Treasure Hunter trader!
• Feature: Animal Riding system.
  • First Mount: The Elk
  • Uses a brand new interaction system that allows one to target individual parts of a creature
  • For now, purchaseable at the treasure hunter once you have handed in the tinbronze pickaxe
  • Can be kitted out with additional storage options and be used like a tool rack for various items
  • If mortally wounded, will enter a mortally wounded state where players can still rescue the animal using poultices. If left untreated, will die after 24 ingame hours.
  • Can ride without holding down a button, using a bridle built for long distance travel
  • Ownership system. Attach a medallion to the elk to claim ownership. Can only own one elk at a time. Ownership allows you to see your elk on the map, see its current health and you can call the elk to you using the bone flute.
  • Added interaction help for elk and sailboat
  • Added 15 types of blankets for the Elk
  • Added 16 types of medallions for the Elk
• Feature: The sailboat
  • A much larger watercraft compared to the Raft currently in the game
  • Uses brand new physics for the correct simulation of non-square creatures and entities
  • Allows for mass-transport of goods, players and creatures. It comes with 8 slots where players can either put chests, crates, seats or creatures through fence posts. Can allow up to 10 players to travel on water
  • The elk can be placed on the sailboat by attaching a rope to an elk, and then attaching the rope to a fence post that has been placed on the sailboat
  • Is not carryable, it must be built step-by-step near water
• Feature: Upgraded Raft They now have stowage space for the oars and one basket
• Feature: The bricks and brick firing overhaul
  • Added behive kiln: Allows you to fire up to 27 full blocks worth of clay wares at once. Allows you to fire bricks in 4 different colors by adjusting the level of ventilation the kiln receives
  • Added red clay deposits, and item. Red clay is now the most common clay deposit. Blue clay no longer spawns at higher altitudes. Fire clay is now only found below coal deposits, inside bauxite areas or crafted from blue clay and flint.
  • Added a huge amount of variety of bricks with different sizes, patterns and colors
  • Added 'uneven' style bricks (running, header, and soldier patterns only)
  • Peat piles and firewood piles can now be ignited like coal piles, which can now be used to fire the new beehive kiln
  • Jugs can now be fired into multiple colors in the beehive kiln, more variety coming to other ceramics soon
• Experimental Feature: Ropes/Leashes, Attempt #2
  • This is a second attempt at getting it gameplay ready, it might get removed again!
  • Rope allows you to pull domesticated animals. Simply right click them with rope in hands. You can right click on a fence pole or trees to attach the animal to the pole.
  • A leashed animal can be placed on a sailboat, requires a pole to be placed on the boat first
  • Can now lengthen/shorten rope with tool modes when holding rope in hand.
  • Hard stretched ropes will now emit a sound, a overstretched rope will snap with sound and particles.
  • Rope now visually attaches to animal necks and player hands.
  • Fixed multiple issues related to rope
• Feature: 2 New Hostile Mobs: The Shiver and the Bowtorn, each with multiple variants
• Feature: Insects! Tiny noisy particles that make the world feel more alive
  • Added jumpy noisy grasshoppers. Only spawn inside plants during warm and dry days and only in some patches. Extra noisy cricket sounds during the summer months.
  • Added very noisy cicadas to warmer areas
  • Added swarms of mating gnats above wet area lakes
  • Added uncommon coquis to jungle-type areas
  • Added Water strider on water sources
  • Added command .insectconfig [type] [on/off] to allow selective disabling of some insects
• Feature: Tabbed customize world screen. Makes it alot easier to navigate through the myriad of world configs the game offers nowadays.
• Feature: Added solar eclipses. It was already the case that the moon moved right in front of the sun - now it also has an actual effect of darkening the world for a minute or two.
• Feature: Tool and ingot molds will now shatter when underwater, when watered with the watering can and during medium to strong rainfall. Will leave behind a shattered mold model and breaking it will yield 70-80% of metal bits worth of the original pour.
• Feature: Greatly improved Water visuals
  • Feature: New render pass to visualize water murkiness. Water surface visual tuning
  • Feature: Greatly mitigate the seafloor being visible at the edge of loaded chunks. This greatly improves the looks of Oceans
  • Fixed fog visible inside lakes
  • Fixed: Some water block pixels highly visible through thick fog
  • Should finally, finally also fix ugly noise pattern on water edge foam
• Feature: Added more water plants: Added giant water lilies and a whole lot of new underwater plants
• Feature: New Blocks (not survival craftable)
  • Feature: Added 2x3 gate
  • Feature: Added quad logs
  • Feature: Added plaster washes, white and yellow variants
  • Feature: Added 3 meter diameter wagon wheels. Existing short-axle wheels now placed from 'outside', rather than 'inside'.
  • Feature: Added 'roof beams' which are short sections of roof using the beam mechanic, to allow for greater freeform placement (WIP)
  • Added 'scratched white paint' decor overlay block (creative mode only)
  • Tweak: Added Ruined torchholder model
• Feature: New Blocks (survival craftable/acquirable)
  • Added several new lore related tapestries
  • Added new storage vessels. Purchasable at various NPCs
  • Added Wattle & Daub, crafted using fence + daub
  • Added quad-logs (with and without bark), and corners with extended ends. Extended ends can be covered with another quad-log and chiseled, for longer custom extension
  • Tweak: Added four sets of ruins-only brick
  • Feature: Added bamboo fences and gates. Added bamboo piles
  • Feature: Added wooden roofing blocks
  • Feature: Added half sized roofing blocks for all roof types, for cases where an entire block is too much
  • Tweak: Added electrum lantern. Electrum can now be used in lantern lining
  • Tweak: Added continuous smooth roof plane beams
  • Tweak: Added 'ridge beams' for roofs.  Meant to be used in peaks and valleys, and to cover 'loose ends'
• Feature: Added master sound slider to affect the volume of all ingame sounds
• Feature: Added two special sound effects
  • Sound dampening effect when underwater
  • Reverb effect when in caves, or other large mostly enclosed spaces made of reverbing material (rock, brick, metal)
• Feature: Dynamic color grading. Cranks up contrast and sepia based on temperature. Added a switch in the settings to disable. Added contrast slider as well.
• Feature: Shield mechanic improvements
  • More oomphy shield blocking sounds. Added light & heavy metal shield hit + heavy wood shield hit
  • Shields now have a 100% blocking chance against projectiles and absorb more damage in that case
  • Some high flying projectiles were not correctly blocked by shields
  • Shield block animation now only plays when successfully blocked
• Feature: The new clay brick chimneys now emit smoke if there is a burning firepit or pit kiln below
• Feature: Added one new really very large, very rare surface ruin and several house ruins
• Feature: Left click a crock or pot in inventory with one empty bowl to fill it from the crock. Allows meal transfer without block placement.
• Feature: Performance tweaks
  • Tweak: Improve overall CPU side performance anywhere from 5% to 30% (Technical info: Simply by enabling Dynamic PGO)
  • Tweak: Improve high player count server performance. Exact performance numbers not yet benchmarked, guesstimated +10% (Technical info: More CPU cache friendly algorithms for determinining which entities to send to which players, and which of those entities should actively tick. On highly populated servers this can become a bottleneck, e.g. 60 players with 8000 loaded entities = 48000 checks)
  • Fixed: Very large Video-RAM leak when traveling more than 5000 blocks (reduces VRAM usage from 8 GB to 4 GB when flying at movespeed 6 for 10 minutes straight with a view distance of 256)
  • Fixed: A number of small memory leaks on world leave
  • Tweak: Reduced startup time on certain savegames (Technical info: Greatly improve performance of the block registering/remapping system for savegames with a very high max block id count. E.g. from 6 seconds to 2 seconds. Achieved by greatly reducing the amount of calls to Array.Resize on a very large array)
  • Fixed: Runaway block and item mapping list growth in very old savegames in rare cases, causing 2 to 10 fold loading times and increased RAM usage
  • Tweak: Distant Salmons now despawn over time. Reduced hare spawn count during worldgen
  • Tweak: Greatly reduce lag spikes when entering areas with lots of clutter blocks (Technical info: Tesselate the shape in the chunk tesselation thread where possible by remembering which no longer need any texture uploads)
  • Tweak: Reduced overall RAM usage by 10% to 20% compared to 1.20.0-rc.1. Possibly even larger gains with lots of mods installed
  • Tweak: Improved chunk-redrawing (tesselation) time for chiselled blocks, may help to reduce block lag and improve map loading in some heavily-chiselled areas of the world, for example the Library within the Resonance Archives
  •  
  • Fixed: Lag spikes caused by ChunkMapLayer when teleporting
  • Fixed: Heavy lag issues with forest fires. Fire able to saturate the sound engine until it runs out of memory
  • Fixed: Memory leak in the dialogue system
  • Fixed: Resolved client-side lag when picking up items into the player's backpack, occurring specifically when wearing complex clothing and backpacks
• Tweak: Gameplay balancing changes
  • Tweak: Temporal storms now will spawn the new mobs, in several different patterns - randomly chosen each storm
  • Tweak: Candles are now a cooking pot recipe, no longer a grid recipe
  • Tweak: Sylvite now must be ground to powder and cooked in a cooking pot to get potash
  • Tweak: Raw fish satiety reduced from 220 to 100
  • Tweak: Path blocks are now reinforcable with the block reinforcement system
  • Tweak: The Clockmaker now has an actual +25% bonus against mechanicals. Previously it was around +10% due to the other damage debuff
  • Fixed: Thrown spear when player standing back to a wall was hitting this wall
  • Fixed: Range distance character trait did not affect spears
  • Fixed: Should fix spears damaging creatures multiple times on impact
• Tweak: Creature AI improvements
  • Most creatures no longer just passively accept getting pummeled by ranged weapons at a large enough distance. They will now run away.
  • Fixed hostile mob target circling behavior working again
  • Attacking hyena pups and moose infants now alarms nearby adults
  • Improve moose behavior so they don't run up to the player and then run away without attacking, repeatedly
  • Fixed: Fix 3 major bugs in the A* pathfinding system
    • Vertically tight pathways were considered not traversable if they werent at least 2x the height of the entity itself
    • Entity considered itself stuck when it wasn't and canceled its current action as a result
    • Chicken egg laying and a entity chasing other entities/players likely not fully working as intended (The WaypointsTraverser.NavigateTo() method, the non-async method of pathfinding did not correctly take in all method arguments. )
  • Fixed: Hopefully a number of cases of animals not running away upon getting hit
  • Fixed: A* Bug - Entities running in circles on halfslabs
  • Fixed: Creatures not getting out of water when they should
  • The creatures that followed other creatures: No longer try to endlessly follow said creature when it cannot be reached. Instead, stop trying for a minute
• Tweak: Further visual fine tuning
  • Feature: All Seraph clothing is now in 3D
  • Feature: Seraph now holds hot crucibles and ingots correctly. Purely a visual change. Other hot items still outstanding.
  • Feature: Added rust decor to locust nests
  • Feature: Wrenches now have different models depending on metal type
  • Tweak: Particle fine tuning. Quad particles now have smooth edges. Explosions now produce larger smoke particles. Water splash particles max velocity capped because it looked unnatural.
  • Tweak: Damaged refractory bricks now have a physically eroded model, in addition to the cracked texture overlay.
  • Tweak: Game juice: More satisfying particles when smithing (longer lived, more bouncy, fade to red, respect anvil and work item hitboxes)
  • Tweak: Made snow particles more affected by wind
  • Fixed: Temporal storm glitch effect on blocks went missing in 1.19
  • Fixed: Player underwater could occasionally rotate backwards 360 degrees when feet touched bottom
  • Fixed: Broken transparency on glass case bookshelf models
  • Fixed: Soil as part of a chiseled block not frosting over in winter like other soil does
  • Fixed: Jitter when doing left click scything and then holding right mouse button.
  • Fixed: Seraph sliding issues while on a wobbly raft
  • Fixed: Greatly mitigate player model extremely jerky when swimming with the jump key held down
  • Fixed: Fireflies and lightning flash particles not properly glowing
  • Tweak: Fp Animation for pouring liquid metal improved.
  • Tweak: Adjusted tool mold held transforms
  • Tweak: Held anvil and anvil parts now shown as held in both hands.
  • Tweak: Changed color of cattail bundles to less intense green, fixed held and dropped cattails way too dark
  • Tweak: First person hands, lag slightly behind when changing view direction, looks more natural
  • Tweak: Remove shinyness effect from iron and lead metal blocks
  • Tweak: Cementation Furnace sync visual particles with when you actually receive heat damage
  • Tweak: Minor remodel of the crucible, needs one more layer of clay when clayforming
  • Fixed: Apparently completely fixed sun shadows inside caves at no additional FPS cost?!
  • Fixed: Placing carpets on chiseled blocks caused them to become squeezed - medium carpets can no longer be integrated into a chiseled block
  • Fixed: All creatures and entities wobbled sideways in the first few frames of being loaded
  • Fixed: Mitigate super squeezed textures on support beams at the end of the beam
  • Fixed: Chest labels wind waving in some cases
  • Fixed: Misaligned texture on the underside of firewood
  • Fixed: Charcoal piles and snow layer texture appeared to remove material from the bottom layer of the pile, not the top of the pile, when material was removed
  • Tweak: Helve hammer: A upper half slab above the wooden toggle no longer stops the helve hammers operation
  • Tweak: Additional visual effect while drunk (vary ambient bloom level)
  • Tweak: Topsoil grass coverage texture is now randomly rotated
  • Tweak: Crops now have a frost overlay
  • Tweak: Improve SSAO quality, particularly the high quality setting
  • Tweak: Can now set LodBiasFar in the graphics settings
  • Tweak: Don't wildly wiggle around offhand torch while knapping
  • Tweak: Water striders now tightly follow the water line
  • Tweak: Disable sideways swivel for swimming land dwellers
  • Tweak: Fine tuned fire particles
  • Tweak: Reduced strong red ambiance during Nights
  • Fixed: Various lighting (ambient occlusion) bugs underwater, near water and next to stairs
  • Fixed: Mediterranean cypress in large planter had wrong foliage tinting
  • Fixed: Night vision mask visually conflicting with hoods
  • Fixed: Some gloves showing outside longsleeve clothing, plus other minor visual clothes glitches.
  • Fixed: Animation jerkiness on the Resonator block
  • Fixed: Animated blocks still animated while paused
  • Fixed: Creatures sideways-swiveled too quickly when turning
  • Fixed: Some animation jerkiness with traders
  • Fixed: Temptress shirt texture were missing buttons. visual issues with survivor boots. Metal clutter tables on incorrect renderpass.
  • Fixed: "Fall apart" particles after harvesting a creature not correctly positioned in some cases
  • Fixed: Very jerky fp arm movements on very low fps
  • Fixed: Offcentered down arrow on dropdown GUI elements
  • Fixed: Z-Fighting on distant decor and overlays like moss, wallpaper, paint, plaster, etc
  • Fixed: Moss layer and Papyrus not blending correctly in foggy conditions
  • Fixed: Firestarter did not play animation when using on pitkiln
  • Fixed: Other drunken player made your own player character wobbly
  • Fixed: Standing on quern rotated the player a bit too fast and in some cases in the wrong direction.
• Tweak: Indoor rain sound improvements
  • Now uses a clearer sound, the volume of the sound is now affected by the intensity of the rain fall, it is now properly fading in and out while inside rooms, it now requires twice as many glass panes for full volume (4 instead of 2), generally boosted the volume of the sound itself. Improved sound quality when the rain window ambient sound is emitted from multiple sources. Mitigate hardswitches from L to R speaker between to nearby windows, mitigate synchronicity/echo-y sound oddities (now starts playing the track at a random playback position to avoid weird overtones when 2 play at the same time at the same playback position)
  • Fixed: Rain on glass splash sounds is now affected by the Weather sound slider instead of the Ambient sound slider
• Tweak: Cave ins are now less predictable, as they can collapse more blocks and create additional cave ins nearby
• Tweak: Gameplay balancing changes
  • Feature: Added craftable sturdy leather backback and sturdy leather mining bag which requires the new sturdy leather to make, and holds two more slots than a normal mining bag
  • Tweak: Standard mining bag buff from 10 slots to 12 slots
  • Tweak: Farmland buff - now dries out after 96 hours, instead of 48
  • Tweak: Auction house buff. The traders managed to streamline the auctioning! Auctions now last twice as long for the same cost and delivery cost is reduced by 30%
  • Tweak: Added two new types of bombs for rock blasting and for damaging creatures respectively
  • Tweak: More items can be placed on the ground now: Most food items, cattail and papyrus bundles, bamboo, chute sections, compost, blasting powder, flax twine, iron blooms, leather, metal chain/lamellase/scales, and quartz
  • Tweak: Aggressive animals (bear, hyena, wolf) and larger passive animals (deer, goats, moose, etc) now spawn a little further away from the player
  • Tweak: Doubled creature swim speed by default. Add creatureSwimSpeed worldconfig to adjust this value.
  • Tweak: Buying price and demand for aged crates by traders reduced
  • Tweak: Lightning rods are now crafted in the grid using 3 copper rods, rather than being smithed on an anvil. Copper rods must be smithed though.
  • Tweak: Fruit press now requires a metal rod, rather than metal ingot
  • Tweak: Hyena drops reduced
  • Tweak: Reduced Tuning spear damage from 4 to 2. Intended to give Clockmakers more opportunities to hack a locust.
  • Tweak: Termite mounds now take significantly longer to break and leave a destroyed termite mound when broken, which will grow again into a populated termite mound within a year.
  • Tweak: Dye recipe liquid requirements adjusted to work with a full 50 liter barrel, rather than forcing the player to remove 2 liters to make it work.
  • Tweak: Edible bamboo shoots now spoil faster
  • Tweak: Grid recipe for terra preta doubled in costs, except for high fertility soil which remains at 1
  • Tweak: Don't spawn cassava crop in deserts (minrain 0.2 => 0.28)
  • Tweak: Reduce amount of loose surface malachite bits by about 25%, by slightly lowering malachite deposits
  • Tweak: Dropped items that cannot combust or do not melt at 800°C no longer burn when thrown into fire
  • Tweak: Cider/Wine rebalance - now lasts 10 times longer but only yields half the satiety
  • Tweak: Quern recipe now also require a hammer and chisel
  • Tweak: Bucket crafting recipe now also accepts rope, in addition to twine.
  • Tweak: Grass coverage on soil now dies if adjacent to boiling water or lava
  • Tweak: Rewrote algorithm that ignites blocks that are near Lava, which should make it less buggy / oddly behaving
  • Tweak: Add flint deposits to limestone.  Add extra-large but rare flint deposits in limestone and chalk
  • Tweak: Cementation Furnace process can now also break refractory brick grating
  • Tweaks: Reduce knock-back y-motion when the attack is mostly vertical
  • Tweak: Disallow hopper pushing items into the clay oven (it caused undefined behavior anyway)
  • Tweak: Bow aiming accuracy rework
    • The Ranged accuracy stat should now have a significantly more noticeable impact
    • The Ranged accuracy stat in the character dialog now also reflects the accuracy bonus of the currently held bow. The bow accuracy bonus is also visually reflected in the aiming reticle.
  • Tweak: Planks (blocks, slabs, and stairs) as well as beams' burn temperature reduced from 800 to 600, in line with other 'wood products'
  • Tweak: Nerfed ruins clothing loot, and adjusted other loot generation. Various tweaks and fixes to story locations
  • Tweak: Adjusted surface ruin generation for balancing reasons, and to better support large ruins
  • Fixed: Can no longer till ground with a block above, prevents wildcrop harvesting exploit
  • Fixed: Clay oven not providing heat to the player
  • Fixed: Tropical wild vines could not be used to make rope.
  • Fixed: Crude door no longer falling apart from opening/closing as they used to in 1.18. Lowered break chance from 10% to 8%.
• Tweak: New optional survival challenges
  • In Homo Sapiens and Wilderness survival playstyle: Can no longer create water source blocks with a bucket.
  • In the wilderness survival mode, lightning now causes fire if there is very little rain over 10 days
• Tweak: Creative mode changes
  • Feature: Can now use wrench to offset clutter model
  • Feature: Worldedit overhaul
    • When in Select, Move, Import mode you can use the scroll wheel to perform various actions, they can be switched by pressing F (hotkey for Select Tool / Clayforming mode). Those actions will also use the step size to perform moving or increase decrease the selection. This modes need to have the Wand Itemd in hands to perform their actions (left and right click, see tooltip for more details)
    • Feature: Option to hide the Right settings panel (use full when you need to see the coords or axis you are looking for, enable .edi to see the axis in the coordinate HUD)
    • Feature: option for import tool to not update the position on right-click (UPP)
    • Feature: start and end position markers within the selection
    • Feature: option for scroll tool mode to restrict action onto a certain axis (SAL / Scroll axis lock)
    • Feature: Hotkey for CTRL + Z for undo (can be changed in controls)
    • Feature: Hotkey for CTRL + C to copy the current selection and when switched to the import tool you can start placing it (can be changed in controls)
    • Tweak: Use the new Minidimension system for the move tool to help with performance on large structures and fine adjustments
    • Tweak: Moved the step size setting to the main control (top left)
    • Tweak: Moved Tool offset mode from the right settings panel to Paint brush , Eraser and Chisel brush tool
    • Fixed: Magic wand on pressing left mouse button it would destroy blocks
    • Fixed: Preview selection and place issues with the chisel brush tool
    • Fixed: Mirror with beams
    • Fixed: Slanted roofs not rotating properly
    • Fixed: Various fixes to all kinds of tools to function as expected and described, see their tooltips when you mouse over them
  • Tweak: Added selectable collider block for chiseling with
• Tweak: Inventory management tuning
  • Tweak: Inventory Pickup and drop off sounds (WIP. Currently has only one sound)
  • Tweak: Can also also use the keyboards right SHIFT key for moving items in the inventory
  • Tweak: Shift+Left Mouse click moving items from creative inventory no longer moves items into the backpack, which is not accessible in creative anyway
  • Fixed: Selecting a tab in the creative inventory and closing + reopening did not remember the opened tab but the list of tabs did not reflect this
• Feature: Handbook & Tutorial improvements
  • Tutorial system improvements: Can now restart a tutorial from the handbook. Fixed "grabbing a torch from the firepit" not being counted when using shift+left click
  • Fixed no intuitive way to complete the last tutorial step.
  • Added Sneak + H (Show Survival Handbook entry for currently looked at block) hotkey to the list of Controls under Settings
  • Slightly less bad command handbook text formatting, added scale font tag, e.g. <font scale="80%">  
  • Added more detail to charcoal pit handbook entry, regarding firepit having to be in center for max size
  • Added handbook text for vertical boiler, mentioning the grass and firewood that must be added (for people with tooltips turned off)
  • Handbook did not mention that hot molds will shatter when wet
  • Crash on handbook entry for parchment when hovering over the label-create recipe
  • Handbook search can now include AND between search terms, as well as OR (lowercase "and"/"or" also acceptable)
  • Add raw brick handbook info explaining different types of firing in beehive kilns (dana PR)
  • UI alignment of [hotkey] included in handbook texts etc
  • Further charcoal pile improvements, updated charcoal burning handbook entry
  • Add distillation properties to handbook (by jacopouggeri)
  • In the handbook, consumable liquids now show "When drunk ..." text instead of "When eaten..."
  • Handbook: Marble-topped tables added text to make clear the requirement for steel saw
  • Grouped several blocks and items in handbook to de-clutter 'ingredient for' sections
  • First Steps Tutorial will now only close when a lit torch is placed
  • Fixed: Tutorial page in Handbook non-responsive Start Tutorial button
  • Fixed: Handbook search no longer treats words such as "ör" (a type of bow in Icelandic) as logical OR
  • Fixed: Tool heads displayed in the handbook should render on top of the Creative inventory, if that is open at the same time
  • Fixed: Spirits not listed in the Survival Handbook
  • Fixed: Incorrect Handbook information and labeling of liquid recipe output
  • Fixed: Handbook reported the wrong portion size for CooksInto recipes
  • Fixed: In the Survival Handbook, Tutorial steps 4 onwards were missing their step number in the text shown
  • Fixed: Rare crash in First Steps Tutorial if fire pit glitched. [Github #4829]
• Tweak: Gameserver changes
  • Tweak: New (additional) command for whitelist control. Use /whitelist on/off to toggle whitelist system. Use /whitelist add/remove playeruid to add or remove players from the whitelist.
  • Tweak: Server now monitors RAM usage. If it reaches 90% of the configured value it will print every 60 sec a warning and shut the server down once the limit is reached. Can be changed in the serverconfig.json "DieAboveMemoryUsageMb": 50000. Default is 50 GB
  • Tweak: Dedicated game servers are now whitelisted by default. The ServerConfig "OnlyWhitelisted" is now obsolete, use WhitelistMode: "off/on/default" instead. (default means whitelist is on for dedicated servers, off for single player open to lan servers)
  • Tweak: Server advertising on the public servers list is no longer enabled by default
  • Tweak: archiveLogFileMaxSizeMb is now applied to all logs from one session instead of individual logs
  • Tweak: Added server Audit log for PVP damage
  • Tweak: Landclaiming, display claimed area in cubic m³ instead of horizontal area m²
  • Fixed: Three rare server side exceptions Errors logged caused by coal piles, the Bugnet and Fire
  • Fixed: The "/serverconfig setspawnhere" spawn position was retained across savegames, which caused all kinds of bugs. The spawn point set by this command is now stored in the savegame instead of the serverconfig.json. Old savegames are automatically updated to this new config.
• Tweak: Chat Commands changes
  • Tweak: Improve command help output for ban command
  • Fixed: .debug (chunk,region,logticks,ci,edi,...) could not be used on servers without admin permissions
  • Tweak: Add .debug wireframe landclaim utility as admin
  • Tweak: Add rudimentary command exporter for the wiki .chb expcmds
  • Fixed: Command /we replace-material did not work for beams on chiseled blocks
• Tweak: Performance tweaks
  • Tweak: 2 to 4 FPS improvement in thick forests, e.g. 40fps->42fps (Technical info: We pre-compute colormap values and the LOD0 fade in the vertex shader, instead of computing it in the fragment shader)
  • Fixed: Minor memory leak (Quern sound never unloaded when the block got out of range)
  • Fixed: When in overhead camera mode, the seraphs turning around motion was not smooth
• Tweak: Improved translation support
  • Fixed: Localization: Plaques in the Resonance Archives, and similar signs in ruins or story locations, are now visible in Asian, Arabic and Cyrillic alphabets. [Github #4748]
  • Tweak: Updated community translations. New languages: Thai, Icelandic, Norwegian and Chinese Traditional
  • Tweak: NPC Nametags now translatable, checks for "nametag-name" entries in the lang file
  • Fixed: New game version text in the main menu was cut off for some translations
  • Fixed: Added many missing translation entries
• Tweak: IP Addresses in the escape menu now hidden by default (with a link to reveal ip)
• Tweak: Surgeon hood (worn on head) changed to mask-hood combo, and moved to face location
• Tweak: Allow use of +/- keyboard keys to zoom world map in dialog mode
• Tweak: Less squishy entity pushing. Made rafts and boats pushable
• Tweak: Fixed GUI Layout issues in the disconnected screen and improved error messaging when a Vintagehosting address could not be resolved.
• Tweak: Worldgen Vegetation is now seed deterministic, which means if you generate a world with the same seed in the same VS version it will look the same now
• Tweak: Increase chance of inlog beehive spawning
• Tweak/Fixed: When in creative mode and chiseling can now add a vertical log to a chiseled horizontal log
• Tweak: Shears smithing recipe changed to look more like shears, and use most of the voxels in an ingot.
• Tweak: Rename rope item to 'coiled rope'. 
• Tweak: Flint/stone hoe knapping recipes made to more closely match the actual tool head
• Tweak: Hoe mold and smithing recipe now better reflect the actual appearance of the hoe head.
• Tweak: Male and female wolf size now vary by +/5%
• Tweak: Described how lightning rods works in the block description, as it was undocumented.
• Tweak: Dont raise shield while interacting with something, i.e. right mouse button down
• Tweak: Deer antlers are now at mature size for 2 months, rather than 1, and growth time is extended to 6.5 months.  So male deer will now have some stage of antlers from about 8.5 to 9 months of the year.
• Tweak: Revert explosion sounds to old style
• Tweak: Run main menu at a fixed framerate, ignoring the players graphics settings, to prevent unnecessary hardware load
• Tweak: Vine sections can now be grid-swapped into end sections, and vice versa.
• Tweak: Bears can spawn in any depth of snow, mainly relevant to Polar Bear of course
• Tweak: Multiplayer server management improvements
  • Feature: Added "/group joinpolicy [inviteonly|everyone]" allows ability for everyone to freely join a group. Added "/group join [groupname|groupid]" to join a public group
  • Feature: Can now set config /worldconfigcreate double allowClassChangeAfterMonths 6 to automatically allow players a class change every 6 real life months. Can also allow a shorter wait time before first class change via /worldconfigcreate double firstClassChangeOffsetMonths -5
  • Tweak: /kick command now also accepts a player selector
  • Tweak: /group command should now deliver localized messages to the player
  • Tweak: Improve Audit logging for take/put of contents from many blocks by a player
  • Tweak: Cleaner UI for Server Disconnected Screen
  • Tweak: Don't list connecting players with name "Unknown" in /list clients and /stats
  • Tweak: Allow setting simulation range during runtime via /serverconfig simrange (runtime setting only, not saved)
  • Tweak: Worldgen command /wgen del now defaults to also regeneration of structures similar as /wgen regen does
  • Tweak: Localized language handling between client and server improved, if a language does not exist on the server side it now properly falls back to the default one
  • Tweak: Schematics importing is now more robust against broken block codes
  • Tweak: Removed logging for opening and closing of inventories to the audit log. When items are moved the source and destination is logged already.
  • Tweak: Logging added serverconfig option "LogBlockBreakPlace" to enable logging of placing and breaking blocks
  • Removed: Obsolete notice printed to log file on linux dedicated server authserver connection issues
• Tweak: Immersive first person mode (and death) camera hackery to reduce clipping into terrain
• Tweak: Various chat commands adjustments
  • Added user warning on "/time speed" commands
  • Can now supply itemstack attributes to /giveitem and /giveblock
  • Added new /we importl <filename> command to import large schematics, this command will not be revert-abel but is a lot faster for very large schematics, further if you select the import tool and choose Replace Mode: Replace all no air it will make the import even faster (ideally there are no block in the area you want to import it into)
  • Added ".cam loadold" to be able to load pre 1.20 paths
  • Add "/we microblock removedunused" command, to remove any unused materials from selected microblocks
  • Add "/worldedit microblock setname" to set a name for multiple microblocks
  • Add alias /sc for /serverconfig
  • Add /entity set-angle yaw <degrees> command
  • Add /we gcc command to export CustomLandClaims json for storystructures.json
  • Corrected saving of /serverconfig whitelistmode <on/off/default> changes to serverconfig.json. Updated the notification about the new whitelist mode to no longer reference the deprecated onlywhitelist command.
• Tweak: Drifters are no longer as accurate in throwing stones. Drifter spawn quantity also reduced.
• Tweak: Add more waypoint suggestions
• Tweak: Can now do use "toggle" for boolean client config values, e.g. .clientconfig sedi toggle
• Tweak: Don't message box the player on thread crash on exit, just log a warning.
• Tweak: Ingot Molds are now placed in the facing direction
• Tweak: Also allow a jug of aqua vitae to make the alcohol soaked bandage
• Tweak: Waypoint list command can now output a detailed view /waypoint list details/d
• Tweak: Lowered ground storable hitbox for jugs and pots
• Tweak: Update Trader Buying/Selling lists
• Tweak: Issue #3762: For search terms, replace quotation marks, guillemets («, », ") and brackets ((, )) with a space.
• Tweak: Worldmap now allows to teleport to a waypoint by SHIFT + right clicking it, while in creative mode
• Tweak: Spiderweb is now combustible
• Tweak: Falling blocks system improvments
  • Fixed blocks floating up to the surface
  • Added threshold to falling block speed instead of comparing it to zero when calling OnFallToGround method. Fixes falling blocks being stuck in moving water unable to settle down.
  • Added check so falling block wont fall in the direction opposite to previous fall direction. Fixes falling block being stuck flickering between two positions while falling.
  • Added increase in hop-up high if previous hop-up was not enough to unstack the block, limited to 3 blocks (should be enough for most cases).
  • Made choosing direction to fall be pseudorandom based on entityId. This spreads up slides and makes it less prone to generating stacks of falling earth with each element waiting for others to settle down.
  • Fixed: 2 layers of rock above mantle being fully unstable
  • Fixed: exception on massive cave-ins
  • Fixed: falling blocks getting stuck in flowing water
  • Added random falling direction to spread out landslides
• Tweak: Linux run.sh now also works when used from a symbolic link
• Tweak: Ground storage, lanterns, piles, shelves, toolracks, signs, signposts, plaques and several more blocks are now lockable and reinforceable.
• Tweak: Can now apply a padlock to ground storage, lanterns, platepiles, shelves and toolracks
• Tweak: NPCs now reveal their name when asked about it.
  • Tweak: Disable lore content generation in creative worlds which causes issue when using /wgen regen, you can disable it via "/worldconfig loreContent false" in existing worlds
• Tweak: Removed "Required Mining Tier" block info line where player has no permission to remove this block
• Tweak: Don't show glue repair in clutter block info if the block is not breakable from being claimed
• Tweak: Disable render meta blocks mode when entering survival mode
• Tweak: Using wrench to offset clutter blocks now also offsets its hitbox
• Tweak: Prevent errors caused by unclean installs. Game now tests for a clean install - if files from an older game version are still in place, it will now error and exit
• Tweak: Added long distance elk call sound also to the untamed elk and removed it from the "idle sound" field, because that one does not play animations
• Tweak: Treasure Hunter trader will only give you another map to the story location if you don't have the first one
• Tweak: Decors (especially flat ones like wallpaper) can now be rotated using the wrench
• Tweak: Charcoal Pit and Charcoal Pile fixes: Firepit can now also be placed non-centered and still fire an entire 11x11x11 pit, now should register solid metal doors as airtight, will ignite combustible pit walls and the charcoal pile collapses when dug instead of left floating (pizza2004 PR)
• Tweak: Max world height for survival worlds is now capped to 512, as anything beyond that creates ugly terrain and also breaks the lore locations
• Tweak: World configuration setting "Player lives" is now found on the Player spawn & death tab
• Tweak: Add dropdown in Worldedit to change the wind preset in the settings panel
• Tweak: Added tooltip warning players to preheat the clay oven
• Tweak: A few tweaks and fixes to the Settings menus:
  • In the Controls tab, add a Search box (thanks Dana)
  • In the Graphics tab, tool-tip for Sepia, add the explanation that it is disabled (automatic) if Dynamic Color Grading is on
  • In the Graphics tab, fixed the incorrect tooltip for Contrast
  • In the Graphics tab, the View Distance slider now has consistent tooltips before and after interaction. Same fix in the main menu Customise World screen for the World Height slider. [Github #4526]
  • In the Sounds tab, the boss music track volume is now affected by the Music slider instead of by the Ambient Sounds slider
• Tweak: The command "/we chisel setchiseleditable false" is now "/we microblock editable false"
• Tweak: The Windows installer is now configured to not run the game after install, with the /verysilent command line argument
• Tweak: Almost all seed necklaces now craftable instead of sold by herbalist.
• Tweak: Slightly increase size of Edit Sign dialog to accommodate other languages (e.g. French) better
• Tweak: Improved chat logs with chat group id and unformatted message
• Tweak: Don't spawn salmon in flowing water to avoid salmon waterfalls
• Tweak: Support chains, metal support beams, 'rotten' wooden support beams, and 'very aged' wooden support beams no longer drop when broken.
• Tweak: Make the client crash if it tries to send a NaN Position or NaN Motion value to the server to avoid server isuses and track the cause of the issue
• Tweak: Add audit logging for sailboat actions (embark, disembark, place/remove chest, open chest)
• Tweak: Minimap Position can now be changed using Ctrl+F6 (default key, configurable in Settings menu)
• Tweak: Add /entity locateg command to find locations with large amounts of entities
• Tweak: Omok pieces can now be melted in a crucible
• Tweak: Metal plaques can now be scrapped using a chisel
• Tweak: Add new chat window option in Interface "Auto open Chat only on current group" This option will open the chat only when a new message is received in the currently selected chat group. If this option is disabled, any new message will open and focus on the respective channel, regardless of the selected group.
• Tweak: Added tongs transforms to a large number of metal and ceramic items
• Tweak: Setting a block on fire is now logged to the audit log
• Tweak: Added more clutter treasure models
• Tweak: Prevent ruins from spawning at the bottom of the sea
• Removed: Hardened clay removed from recipes and moved to legacy folder (replaced by wattle & daub)
• Fixed: Scythe can still destroy grass in trim mode
• Fixed: Bug when removing soil from microblocks (previously it sometimes damaged the microblock, losing random voxels)
• Fixed: Issue #4315: Placing bacterial mat in 1 deep hole crashes and bricks a savegame
• Fixed: Rare server crash (seen once on TOPS) likely due to race condition between CompressChunks thread and UnloadChunks thread
• Fixed: Might fix issue #4327 - Everything has a blue-ish tint
• Fixed: Rare crash related to chiseled block breaking
• Fixed: Not being able to attach sign to trunks
• Fixed: Single reported client crash related to Frustum spheres
• Fixed: Z-Fighting on decor layer on chiseled blocks when looked at from a distance
• Fixed: "Cannot fix itemstack mapping" log spam caused by firepit contents in ruins
• Fixed: Can remove not removable decor by replacing it with other decor
• Fixed: Projectile damaging same entity multiple times on hit.
• Fixed: Plants inside flower pots and planters windwaving inside of rooms
• Fixed: Missing interaction help for fuel for clay oven
• Fixed: Ebony shingles were missing, larch shingle texture was the same as birch.
• Fixed: Prevent Translocator breaking with hacked client
• Fixed: The last rope in a map region not properly getting deleted
• Fixed: In LAN hosted games if the host had a custom name tag color that would be used for all other players too
• Fixed: A number of OpenAL errors, that were reported in the logs, but had no ingame impact
• Fixed: Salted hides could not be soaked in borax
• Fixed: Chiseled block naming was all weird. First line is now the block name, subsequent lines is now the block description
• Fixed: Many Villager accessories using all the same textures (override textures were missing prefixes)
• Fixed: Rare exception thrown by the rock strata generator
• Fixed: Wild Vines did not rotate properly when used in a worldgen schematic
• Fixed: 3rd person player getting ghost damaged every 0.5 seconds client side only
• Fixed: Able to pick up thrown drifter stone after reload
• Fixed: Helmets now hide hoods, scale armor helmets did not align well with eyes, plus various other clipping and texture issues with clothing and armor.
• Fixed: Bow release sound sometimes not playing
• Fixed: Pumpkin carving did not work on servers if the server was last started before october
• Fixed: Worldedit rotate did not work properly for buckets, flowerpot and the watering can
• Fixed: Exception thrown on server when stepping on a chiseled block made of a missing block material
• Fixed: Sound error logged rarely related to wind sounds
• Fixed: Glider open/closed state desync in multiplayer
• Fixed: Several issues with non-player entities mounting beds
• Fixed: In schematics, when rotated, cave art (and other subdecors) now also rotate correctly
• Fixed: Schematics above size 511x511x511 would not import properly, now the full 1024x1024x1024 size is working (for large schematics you may use /we importl <filename> command)
• Fixed: Issues with support beams
  • Support beams stability was not properly saved, likely completely breaking the stability support beams provide for unstable rock
  • Water was not able to flow into support beam blocks
  • Support beams placed in water would delete the water
• Fixed: Removed incorrect interaction help on burned out torches
• Fixed: Meta blocks and crop prop blocks not in creative everything tab
• Fixed: Terminus teleport not working in laggy server conditions
• Fixed: Foggy weather no longer working
• Fixed: Various crashes when disabling survival mod and starting a super flat world
• Fixed: Adding labels to any wood crates turned them into aged labeled crates
• Fixed: Fermented pomegranate was incorrectly referred to as 'granadine'.  Now pomegranate wine
• Fixed: Using the worldedit paintbrush tool did not update the RainHeightMap correctly
• Fixed: Switching ifp mode on/off left some lingering animations that derped things
• Fixed: Able to reinforce blocks claimed by another player
• Fixed: Schematics would rotate the yaw of Entities twice
• Fixed: Filtering items in creative inventory right after loading crashes the game
• Fixed: Game crashes when reopening creative inventory with right side tabs active