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Hm thats odd, but no, crops currently are not affected by the climate.

Underchallenged and Overchallenged Vintarians! v1.12-pre.1 can now be downloaded through the account manager Yet again, this update was the "but now for real seasons" update, but to have seasons it would be seriously nice to also have rain and snow, so I ended up adding that and much more, to a point where you, the community voted on discord 2 to 1 that this should become its own update. On the bright side, we now have a beautiful weather system and I have now a pretty clear plan on how to get the rest of the seasons mechanics into the game for the next update. You'll also discover that the quality of the games ambient has also been pushed much further as well as a rather game changing new survival mechanic that conveys some more of that juicy lore into Vintage Story. Please notice 1. This is a (likely bug-ridden) preview release, mostly intended for modders and very adventorous players. Version 1.12 is not feature complete yet! 2. New "pre" updates will only be posted in discord #news and not on the blog. A new v1.12 blog post will come when the first release candidate is ready. Still planned features for v1.12: (disclaimer: Any amount of them might not make it into v1.12) Optimization pass. The new weather system and fluffy leaves are rather costly. I hope to add a low detail mode or something of the sorts. A special drifter drop during low temporal stability A mannequin to put your armor on A helve hammer to semi-automate smithing Immersive Armor crafting Animated chest lid, double chests Rock boulders, a luminescent block in caves, papyrus root, rotatable containers New drifter models, tool model overhaul, canvas block 1-2 new creatures Screenshots, Gifs, Videos Completely reworked, location bound weather system. There's now various degrees if wind, snow, rain, hail and other weather effects. Weather impacts various mechanics in the game, such as extinguishing fires. Visible impact of wind on the game world, recognizes wind protected rooms One of the new precipitation types: Hail New cloud formations such as towering cumulonimbus clouds and wavy undulating clouds Temporal stability mechanic. You now have to watch out for low stability areas and temporal storms. More info on this in rc.1 to avoid spoilers A great many improvements on the games ambient, such as new ambient sounds and new torch visuals 42 variants of sea shells now spawn on beaches Fluffy leaves for all the trees Greatly improved the falling block mechanics which now produce avalanche like behavior Can now force slabs into having the placed only vertically or horizontally by putting them in the crafting grid to change the placement mode Some tools now have a new stylized look. More still to come. You now need a fire starter or a torch to ignite a fire pit, whereas the latter is the more reliable option Game updates Feature: Massive Weather system rework Weather patterns are now location bound. Deserts will have different weather patterns than for example Jungles Cloud system rework. Added many new cloud patterns, some with special effects, such as undulating clouds Wind system Added 2 wind ambient sounds (one when the player is in a forest and one in a forest-less area) The Plants and Tree leaves swaying intensity now depends on the wind speed The motion of particles Particles is now affected by wind Enclosed rooms block the wind Precipitation system. Various types and intensities of downfall now occur on a regular interval Some weather patterns will now make it rain or hail Cold areas will have snowfall instead of rain, with a fluid transition from rain to snow Added thunder and lightning effects Feature: Weather in-world impact Butterflies now rest during rain Forges, firepits and forges will extinguish when rain, snow or hail falls on them Farmland gets moist during rain Feature: Added temporal stability mechanic The hotbar hud now has a temporal flux meter. Certain areas, especially the deep underground will drain the player of temporal flux. Stable areas slowly recover the players temporal flux Can extract temporal flux with a temporal gear in off hand and knife in active hand then hold right mouse New world config to disable the temporal stability mechanic. Disabled by default in the exploration mode. Added temporal storms. Causes low stability effects every x days. During low stability you will enter the Rust world: When very low, you take regular damage from being in it Drifters do not walk away from the player during daylight Drifters will spawn during daylight Tougher drifters will spawn The minimum spawning distance to the player is reduced to 0 Feature: Exhaustive ambient and realism improvements Torch rework: New model, fancier particles, plays sounds when in hands. Now has a burned out block variant. Firepit rework: You now need a fire starter or a torch to ignite it. Spawns fancier fire particles and with a pot inside the fire particles spawn around the pot Tree leaves rework: They are now all fluffy Falling blocks rework: They now spawn a lot of particles, play a sound, has a chance to drag other unstable blocks with it, can fall sideways, sideways falling blocks also push player and other creatures, and unstable soil has a chance to collapse when jumped on. In the wilderness survival mode sand, gravel and soil cannot be stacked vertically. Felling tree improvements: Felling a tree now plays a sound and spawns a bunch of falling leaves Forge rework: Added burning ember ambient sounds and the forges burn time is now calendar based (i.e. sleeping will make it go out rather quickly). This should also fix sync some oddities in multiplayer. Still water ambient sound Added seashells: Spawn on beaches. Can be ground into lime. Comes in 42 variations. Tool models rework: Several tools now have a new stylized look The chest now has a new model Feature: New tool: Cleaver. Can be used reliably 1 hit kill domesticated animals starting from their 3rd generation Feature: A number of bugfixes that allows increased world sizes. And now create worlds of size 32x32 mil, although there's a few minor glitches left to fix at this size Feature: Reduced RAM usage by 10-60% (Technical info: Empty chunks are now determined server side, hence may never need to get decompressed. Tall superflat worlds are mostly empty chunks, so these benefit the most from this change) Feature: Can now put slabs in the crafting grid to change their placement mode (Auto, Forced horizontal, forced vertical) Tweak: Hyena chase and flee speed is now doubled Tweak: Holding space while swimming should no longer jitter now Tweak: Improved/Fixed the ambient particles (fireflies, summer dust, in water dust) Tweak: Updated to official OpenTK 3.1. Should fix Issue #174 (Win32Exception) Tweak: Added some info on the plumb and square to the handbook Tweak: Added /debug netbench to benchmark server side networking Tweak: Worldmap hotkeys are no longer shown in the controls menu in a wilderness survival game Tweak: The fuel in hot firepits with an empty input slot now last 3 times longer Tweak: Sleeping animals that are getting damaged now wake up for a while Fixed: Game crashing when placing/removing planks from a plank pile Fixed: Half of the music tracks of the game never played Fixed: Game crashing on empty custom network packets Fixed: Sun texture sometimes glitching out Fixed: Might fix charcoal pits burning down if they are placed at the intersection of chunks Fixed: Should fix thick outlines on the knapping surface when the chunk wireframe is enabled API Updates Feature: Added capi.Event.RegisterAsyncParticleSpawner(ContinousParticleSpawnTaskDelegate handler) for asynchronous particle spawning Feature: Added --tracelog trace logging commandline switch. Useful for mod development with visual studio. Lets you delete the RedirectLogs.cs Feature: Added callback block.OnJsonTesselation(MeshData sourceMesh, BlockPos pos, int[] chunkExtIds, int extIndex3d) Refactor: Blocktype json particle system: Renamed glowLevel to vertexFlags Refactor: Many of the particle property fields were camel cased, now they start with an upper case letter Refactor: capi.Render.ShakeCamera() is now capi.Render.AddCameraShake() Refactor: In the block class bool OnTryIgniteBlock(EntityAgent byEntity, BlockPos pos, float secondsIgniting, ref EnumHandling handling) => EnumIgniteState OnTryIgniteBlock(EntityAgent byEntity, BlockPos pos, float secondsIgniting) Tweak: Dropped obfuscation on ClientPlatform code (~5k LoC) Tweak: New BlockBehavior callbacks: OnBeforeRender(), OnCreatedByCrafting() and GetHeldBlockInfo() Tweak: New event: OnEntityDeath Tweak: New server event: OnTrySpawnEntity Tweak: Better logging during mod loading Tweak: api.ModerLoader.GetModSystem<>() no longer returns a reference for disabled mods Tweak: Ability to animate the off hand item in code by setting controls.LeftUsingHeldItemTransformBefore Fixed: Source mods crash upon load when they referenced other mods Fixed: Collision and Selectionboxes where limited to 1/16th of a cube, now increased to 1/1000th. Also .bsedit was glitchy when using fractional numbers Fixed: Game crashing when more than 4000 items were registered View full record

That should already work, doesn't it?

Dear Community v1.11.11, a stable release, can now be downloaded through the account manager Fixes an item dupe glitch. Screenshot and Build by Zaldaryon Game updates Tweak: Some error checking to avoid / better report crashes some specific crashes Tweak: Game now shows a warning on each savegame when attempting to open it with an older version of the game Fixed: Plank piles falling apart in some cases Fixed: Metal plate dupe glitch Fixed: Trying to put food into non-empty crocks did not properly merge meals Fixed: Missing visuals and translations for cooked meals containing pickled vegetables API Tweak: Added some exception logging when the ModLoader fails with a TypeException View full record

Also, I took the time to document the /worldconfig now: https://wiki.vintagestory.at/index.php?title=List_of_server_commands#World_Control

Here are the spawn conditions in entities/land/hare-male.json runtime: { group: "neutral", tryOnlySurface: true, chance: 0.002, maxQuantity: 3, "__comment": "Make them spawn away from artifical light so they don't spawn inside farmland", maxLightLevel: 8, lightLevelType: "onlyBlockLight", groupSize: { dist: "uniform", avg: 1, var: 3 }, insideBlockCodes: ["tallgrass-*", "snowlayer-1", "frostedtallgrass-*"], minTemp: -5, maxTemp: 25, minRain: 0.3, maxRain: 0.9, minForestOrShrubs: 0.25, maxForest: 0.75, maxShrubs: 0.75, companions: ["hare-female-{type}", "hare-baby", "hare-baby"] } As you can see, there's indeed certain climate requirements for them to spawn. When in-game you can look at the climate conditions on where you're standing by typing /wgen pos climate ...or by using a mod. I think @Novocain made a thing that shows you the rainfall and temperature on the top left corner of the screen. Maybe it was VSHUD?

Dear Community v1.11.10, a stable release, can now be downloaded through the account manager So turns out you were not able to use pickled vegetables as part of cooking. I could not let this rest and *had* to make a patch for that. Why do you ask? Maybe I'm being OCD about minor details? Perhaps its some odd form of procrastination so I don't have to work on v1.12? Is it due the community excitedly going like "We love you, but give us more features, you pleb!"? Or am I too embarrassed over my own mistakes? We'll never know! Also you can put crucibles and bowls on shelves now! \o/ Game updates Feature: Shelves can now also hold bowls, and crucibles Tweak: The angry bee mob model now more closely resembles the peaceful bees Tweak: Set zfar to 3000 blocks so very distant clouds are also rendered, lets see how that goes. Might cause additional z-fighting or clipping issues Fixed: Might fix or mitigate fall damage when standing very close to the edge Fixed: Gold and silver chain not smith-able Fixed: Some of the underground loot logging an error ("Cannot fix itemstack mapping") and deleting itself Fixed: An early server shutdown caused the calendar system to throw an exception Fixed: Pickled vegetables could not be used in meals Fixed: Worldmap broken near the world edge Fixed: Translocator throwing exceptions when near the world edge View full record

Dear Community v1.11.9, a stable release, can now be downloaded through the account manager In an attempt to fix issues related to respawning I seem to have broken it even further in v1.11.8, but I'm fairly confident that this time I fixed it for good! Screenshot and build by @DiZz Game updates Fixed: One more attempt to reduce stutter issue with the block info hud Fixed: One more worldmap crash fixed on invalid blocks Fixed: Respawning not working properly in many cases. This might, at long last, fix all respawn related issues. Fixed: One more attempt at fixing a very rare SQLite Error Fixed: Salt bed deposits were not supposed to spawn visibly on the sides of cliffs. This change should notably reduce them. Fixed: Some serious berry harvesting oddities (crashing, bushes duplicating, etc.) Fixed: Other players armor in multiplayer not updating or glitchy Fixed: Should prevent caves filled with saltpeter Fixed: Mitigate lava falls very transparent Fixed: Distant clouds cut off (technical info: doubled z-far clipping plane distance from 1500 to 3000. Might cause new z-fighting or clipping issues, but lets see) View full record

Dear Community v1.11.7, a stable release, can now be downloaded through the account manager [Edit:] Also uploaded v1.11.8 to fix a potential server dead lock issue Perhaps I shouldn't have touched the v1.11 branch anymore, now I cannot seem to stop releasing more of them ^_^; I've come to notice the armor calculations were not calculated as intended, so they might have gotten a bit of a nerf now. But on the bright side, we've now got fancy gold and silver armor. They are mostly a vanity item, as their protection values are about the same as copper. Game updates Feature: Added Gold and Silver Chain and Plate armor by @Balduranne Tweak: Added a section on mechanical power to the handbook Tweak: Another attempt to fix stutter issues with the block info hud and block interaction help Tweak: Entity info box now shows their damage tier Tweak: Changed default surface copper deposity frequency for survive&build works from Uncommon to Rare Tweak: Reduced the amount of salt lake beds by 33% Tweak: Armor fix-up Added "high damage resistant" to gambeson, leather and plate armor. This means damage taken from high tier A high damage vs. protection tier disparity now drains the armors durability a lot more. In other words, if you decide to fight enemies that do tier 3 attacks with tier 0 armor then your armor will have a bad time Some polishing touches to some of the armor sounds. Chain and brigandine sounds are a bit more silent. Brigandine sounds are now shorter. Landing on the ground now also plays a sound. Fixed locust doing only tier 0 damage Fixed: Jump walking/sprinting in armor was faster than going by foot Fixed protection values incorrectly calculated Fixed: Hyenas attacking in passive mode Fixed: A bunch of fixes to make the game more crash resilient against invalid blocks Fixed: Rare server crash Fixed: Spectator mode players visible in the worldmap and held items were also visible Fixed: Axe not chopping down resin logs View full record

Dear Community v1.11.5, a stable release, can now be downloaded through the account manager [Edit:] Also released v1.11.6 to fix a crash related to the changes in the lighting system! It's always a difficult balance to strike on whether to work on new stuff or to push more bugfix/balancing releases and when and how often and etc. This balancing/bugfix release was probably worth releasing as part of v1.11 still though. Do let me know if how you think though! Also, the wind mill is now 33% more impressive, as you can add another section of sails now Game updates Tweak: Propick fix-up The propick is now 12 times more sensitive - very low quantities of ore are now listed as "Miniscule quantity" Gold and Silver deposits were not detected by the pro pick Tweak: Land claiming fix-up Reduced minimum claim area size from 6x6x6 to 5x5x5 Fixed "/land claim new" throwing an exception when max claims were used up Fixed: Adding an area to a land claim sometimes reported that it was not adjacent although it was Tweak: Wind mills now can be extended by another section. This means 3 wide wind mills are now at 75% efficiency. Add another section for 100% Tweak: The bee mob now does tier 3 damage Tweak: In places where gold and silver deposits spawns, the amount of small deposits are now 30-40% less Fixed: In some cases game client getting laggy after longer game play Fixed: Very low damage with armor was healing the player Fixed: Should fix rams aggressive in the passive mode Fixed: More sun lighting issues. Fully enclosed rooms did not turn dark in some cases. Might require a new chunks or /debug cr for the correct lighting to apply. Fixed: Might fix some issues with player respawn API Fixed: /expclang generating invalid lang entries for modded blocks View full record

Dear Community v1.11.3, a stable release, can now be downloaded through the account manager A few more tweaks here, a few more fixes there so we can have awesome game-play everywhere \o/ [Edit:] Also released v1.11.4 to fix a crash when attempting to create a new world with the standalone game server! Game updates Tweak: Quern can now also be powered from the bottom Tweak: Hoppers no longer pull items from a container above them. Use chutes for that. Tweak: Updated trader buying/selling lists. The commodities and survival goods trader now have a much larger stock of halite Tweak: Updated all language files Tweak: Doubled the default land claiming allowance Tweak: Wooden gears now make a creaky wood sound when turning Tweak: Flour, Lime, Salt and Bonemeal now dissolves thrown in water Fixed: Automated Quern rotating in the wrong direction Fixed: Removing and replacing a part of a mechanical power train caused the now reconnected part to not turn Fixed: Armor durability was deduced based on the deducted damage and not the incoming damage. Armor durability will now go down more significantly Fixed: Jerkin had the same grid recipe as leather armor. Also crafting jerkin was more expensive than intended Fixed: Windmill blades wrongly oriented again View full record

Dear Community v1.11.2, a stable release, can now be downloaded through the account manager Took 2 days off from working on v1.12 to supply you with a few important fixes and balancing changes. A bit daring to mark it stable immediately. Let's see how that goes Amongst the tweaks and fixes I also added that you can set the world width and length in the customize world screen. Anyone up for a 128x128 mini-world challenge? Game updates Feature: Quern automation. If the querns output slot is full or taken, it will begin to spit out flour on its 4 sides. If any side is blocked, that side is skipped but also the grinding progress is reset. Place hoppers below to collect the flour for full automation. Feature: Improved crock shelf interaction. Can now more intuitively select where to place a crock Feature: Added world config for world width, length and a setting on whether you can fall off the edge Tweak: Armor rebalance. Debuffed plate armor protection a bit. Smithing metal scales now yields 2 scale piles each instead of 1 Added leather jerkin armor that gives 40% protection which is now used as a base ingredient for brigandine and chain armor Chain armor is now a base ingredient for scale and plate armor. Tweaked the grid recipes for those armors in the process. Tweak: Porridge debuff: Spoils 33% faster and grain inside meals is 12% less nutritious Tweak: Wind will blow more often now and is less local Tweak: Added new sound for plate placing Tweak: Bombs extinguish themselves if ignited close to claimed lands Tweak: Sold out items at the trader are now visibly crossed out Tweak: Applying a lock now plays a sound and the block info hud for chests now display that they are locked or reinforced Tweak: Changing GUI scale now also scales the mouse cursors Tweak: Piglets now more likely to grow into femals than males Tweak: Reduced iron deposit size by about 14% Tweak: Crafting sails is now twice as costly, but yields 4 times as many sails Tweak: Flour dropped as item now dissolves in water Tweak: Chisel takes half durability loss when using for microblock chiseling Tweak: In passive creatures mode, creatures no longer get aggressive when they take fall damage Tweak: Bunch of attempts to fix incorrect turn directions of mechanical power blocks. Maybe fixed now? Fixed: Jitter on rotating mechanical power blocks, buttery smooth motion now Fixed: Able to fall of world edge if x or z coord is <= 0 Fixed: Rare crash related to falling blocks Fixed: Rare crash with the decal system (e.g. caused by teleporting often) Fixed: Rare crash related to interacting with blocks (e.g. querns) Fixed: Plate pile deleting plates if placed in bulk Fixed: When selling something to a trader, in some cases, he would take away more items from the player than needed Fixed: Various issues with the chunks at world edges not rendering correctly Fixed: Itemstack info tooltip not updating when flipping between 2 similar items Fixed: Wolves in passive mode were still aggressive Fixed: Foam shader effect not set by presets Fixed: GL Debug mode not setting up the gl debug callback handler Fixed: Might fix the NullReferenceException originating from ChunkTesselatorManager.OnFinalizeFrame View full record

Dear Community v1.11.1, a stable release, can now be downloaded through the account manager Game updates Tweak: Improved creature leaping accuracy. They now take the players velocity into account to jump in the right direction. Locust move a bit faster Tweak: Added server uptime to the /stats command Fixed: Should actually fix v1.10 locust cages crashing and not spawning locusts Fixed: Some missing translations Fixed: Game crashing when spamming the Q button on a backpack slot item Fixed: Cooking 33% spoiled cabbage turned into a rotten meal Fixed: Hot meals not showing the "Perishable" notice API Tweak: Added a bunch of "Custom1-2-3" flags to EnumItemStorageFlags for modders to use as a temporary solution until recoded View full record

Dear Community v1.11.1-rc.1, a unstable release, can now be downloaded through the account manager Let's make the stable more stable, with an unstable! In other news, work on version 1.12 is under way and, although only semi-planned, already made some great strides in visual fidelity. I'll post some sneak peek screenshots at some point. Game updates Tweak: Added 2 new world config options: Player walk speed and allow claims yes/no. Exploration mode now has reduced walk speed, wilderness survival now has land claiming disabled Tweak: Undo player move speed increase from rc.6. Not sure why I added it Tweak: Removed player block stepping sounds when the player swimming at the bottom of a lake Tweak: Moved the ambient bloom slider to the right column, below the sepia slider, to indicate that this is not a graphics quality option Tweak: Minor creature move speed tweaks on the fox and hare Tweak: Improvised armor debuff. Halved durability, reduced protection from 65% to 55% Tweak: Creatures no longer sit or sleep more than half over the edge of a block, making them look really floaty Tweak: The Watering Can now last 3 times as long Tweak: Improved falling block stuff. Should less likely flicker upon falling Tweak: The more tougher drifter variants are now also less likely to flee from the player Fixed: Incorrect colors and brightness on the world map Fixed: Other players shown as sneaking in multiplayer although they weren't Fixed: Thrown items with 'Q' were no longer properly thrown Fixed: Various crashes with the .exponepng command Fixed: Particles not able to move through some blocks Fixed: Game crashing when placing an invalid item/block in your active hand slot. Still need to figure out where that invalid item comes from in the first place Fixed: Distant papyrus plant not correctly blended Fixed: Might fix the bug where creatures spawned in new chunks die nearly instantly Fixed: Able to apply a pad lock to a non-reinforced block (this does not really have a use and is glitchy) Fixed: Mitigate some render flicker issues when far away from the map middle Fixed: Hover text element cut off by the scrollable area in the world customize screen Fixed: Game crashing when clicking on a text link in the login screen Fixed: Block info hud not updating reinforced block strength Fixed: /bre grantgroup not working Fixed: Server exception when trying to break a v1.10 locust nest Fixed: In inhostile mode hyenas ran after the player Fixed: Some missing translations Fixed: Various minor ai issues Fixed: AI Wander task made drifters climb peaks and stay there Fixed: Nothing inside a Crock but still not fillable Fixed: Wrong block name for semi repaired translocators Fixed: Glass slabs on full glass blocks removed some block faces that it sholdn't View full record

v1.11.0 is the one you should get. RC stands for release candidate, i.e. an incomplete version of v1.11 in this case.