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Hunted Vintarians Version 1.3.1 is now available for download in the account manager. After a long and ardous journey through the depths of the engine a working creature system has come alive. Please note that this is just the very beginning of the creature/combat system that we actually have in mind. There was just so many new components and refactors required that I wanted to have them done first before I go ahead with a "version 0.0.2" of these components. The next step is probably to add support for models and animation made from the VS Model Creator. Nonetheless I hope that it will spice up your survival experience! Updates Feature: First hostile creature: Drifter. Includes: Basic but modular AI System: Wandering around, seeking players, attacking the nearest player Basic path traversing: Walk from point a to point b in a direct line. Ability to step on 1 high blocks. Powerful creature configuration: A creature is merely a json file. Creatures and can added, removed or modified by touching only those files (custom models not implemented just yet). Basic movement interpolation on the client. Creatures and other Players now should move smoothly New server command: /entity [spawn|count|removeall] [entityname] Custom texture as well as idle, hurt and death sounds 0.5 second red tinting when being attacked. Spawn particles on death. Basic spawning and despawning mechanic. Drifters (for) now spawn in dark areas where the light level is below 8. Feature: Very Basic combat system Ability to punch other players and creatures. Added attack power property to items. Swords, Knifes and Axes now have extra attack power (visible in the items tooltip) Durability reduction on items with durability when attacking Feature: Engine/Mod API Updates Able to register entities, ai tasks, entity renderers and particle property providers Able to spawn particles server side (=> broadcasted to clients) Tweak: In multiplayer a joining player is now regarded as spectator until the client sends a ready signal. This should prevent getting killed while still joining. Fixed: Item texture overlays property not working Fixed: Crash when trying to craft something Fixed: Not able to start a singleplayer world if in serverconfig.json whitelisting is turned on Fixed: A client crashing in a certain situations when joining a multiplayer world Demonstration Video (Something seems to have gone awry with the encoding. I'll upload a better quality clip tomorrow)

Filmic Vintarians Version 1.3.0 is now ready for download at https://account.vintagestory.at. This updates comes fairly late and does not contain many new features. My body seemed slightly fed up from the intense amount of desk work so I was forced to take a longer break. Furthermore I did some major refactorings in preparation for adding creatures into the game, without any progress that I could show off. I did add a long planned method of compression videos captured by the ingame recorder which is now done. It is pretty slow though, so I probably have to do some major optimizations there. Audio is also still not captured yet. And finally, on Request by UmbraCreations I improved the world edit tools to offer better copy&mirror operations for creating large builds. I've made. Please note that I had to make a backwards compabtility breaking change this version. If you load an old savegame you will get thrown back to the spawn point with full health and hunger, but everything else should work fine. Updates Feature: World Edit Updates (all documented on the How to use page) Ability to grow/shrink the selection, Added ability to mirror or repeat a selection. Coordinate Hud now shows the horizontal orientation Feature: Video recorder tools. Added .vrec tool to do ingame video recording, also offering video compression. .vrec start - Starts recording .vrec stop - Stops recording .vrec toggle - Starts/Stops recording (usefull for mapping onto a keyboad key using the Macro Manager) vrec fps [number] - sets the video framerate of the recording .vrec tickfps [number] - sets the game framerate (should ideally cause lagfree recording if set but I'm having minor troubles with it syncing up perfectly with the video frames. Setting it to the same as the video framerate will probably help with lag though). .vrec codec - lists all available encoders that compresses your video (install x264vfw for an mpeg4 encoder). Most encoders seem very laggy unfortunately, I probably have to optimize some more here. .resolution width height - Sets the game window size to given width height Mod API Updates Entity and ItemStack class now part of the API, allowing a bunch of things that weren't possible before Extended the Render API so that the rendering of entity items, entity players and other entities can now be rendered using the render api alone Tweak: Reduced sound range of all sounds Fixed: Hay block not blocking light Fixed: Some Stairs blocks causing neighbouring block sides to be come transparent Fixed: Rare client crash when exploring the world

A bunch of bugs justify a quick fix, so here's 1.2.9.2 for you. Get it at https://account.vintagestory.at as always Updates Feature: Added an API call to look at all registered world gen handlers. Should allow completely custom world generation by clearing all handlers. Tweak: Some API Methods now are getters instead of methods Fixed: Keymapping lost after every update Fixed: Ores not getting consumed after being smelted in the firepit Fixed: Client Crash when breaking blocks in certain situations Fixed: Client Crash when opening the chest inventory in certain situations (cause not yet known, so might still produce wonky behavior) Fixed: Client Crash when trying to connect to a server in certain situations (related to ingot piles)

[No Title Here] Version 1.2.9 is now available for download in the account manager, I've begun some work on metal alloying as well as a second farming mechanic: Herbalism. I've also started the first few bits of code for loading animations created with the modelcreator. A lot of time also went into improving the model creator to make the creation of animals easier. Beyond that, I felt like adding various planned small-ish features in no particular order, so here you go! Game Updates Feature: Stackable Ingots and Firewood: Shift + Right click on the ground with ingots or fire wood to make pretty piles Feature: Tool racks: For neatly organizing your tools. Crafted from 6 sticks (3 top, 3 bottom) Feature: Beginner bag: 2 Slot baskets crafted from 15 cattails (fill 5 slots with 3 items each in the crafting grid) Feature: Block ambient sound system. Each block may now emit forever looping ambient sounds.The first 2 blocks using this mechanic is water and lava. Feature: Firepits now emit an ambient fire sound when lit Feature: First person item rendering improvements Now lags behind the players camera rotation, giving a more immersive feel Moves out of sight when looking straight up Feature: Item/Entity boyancy. Light items now float on the water surface instead of going under Feature: Mod API Additions Added soundByType blocktype property Added client side mesher api to allow for injection of custom meshdata into the terrain tesselator (used by the ingot piles and tool racks). Unified Block/Item properties into a common Collectible class. Gives some additional properties to blocks. Tweak: Addd geartwos updated server.sh script Tweak: Made water yet again more transparent Tweak: High fertility soil deposits now only 1 ever block thick Tweak: Allow early low-yield harvest of pre mature crops (but only one stage before completion) Tweak: 4 times lower chance of getting a second seed from a mature crop Fixed: Snow layers not generating on top of tree leaves Fixed: Bunch of bugs with firepit inventory Fixed: Correct sound system attenuation Fixed: Server crash related to farmland Fixed: Players loosing privileges/roles on a smp server after every version update Fixed: Creative inventory scrollbar not updating to right size after searching something VS Modelcreator Updates Feature: Improved Saving/Loading Mechanic. Now behavors more like a classic image/text editor Feature: Added ability to move and delete keyframes Feature: Added undo/redo capability Feature: Added crude version of single texture mode that is more suited for creature creation Feature: Added attachment points manager. Let's you define attachment points for later use in game (e.g. where the held sword goes) Game Screenshots

Animated Vintarians Version 1.2.8 is now available for download in the account manager, Last friday I managed to complete the first major milestone for having creatures in the game - which is being able to create animations in the model creator. It was a tedious task. To celebrate, I "allowed" myself a break in the form of minor non-essential updates on the game. I also fixed a lot of major bugs however. I'm quite glad I finally got the major performance hit fixed for users of certain radeon graphics cards. Updates: Feature: VS Model Creator Animation Features Completed. Can now build basic animations with keyframes that will be later support by the game engine. Downloadable at https://github.com/tyronx/vsmodelcreator/releases Feature: Added Cooper's Reed. The perfect lake prettifier. Naturally generates nearby and inside water. This work also opened the door to more water based plants and blocks in the future. In fact, any block now may be configured to be inside water. Feature: Added Saguaro Fruit. On rare occasion, saguaro cacti are generated with harvestable fruits. They do not regrow at this point in time though. Feature: Server Whitelisting: Can now put a standalone server into whitelist-only mode and /whitelist or /unwhitelist specific players Feature: Players now drop all their items on death Feature: The /op and /privgrp commands no longer require the player to be online Feature: Added crafting recipe for raw blue/firebricks which can then be burned into burned bricks, which can then be crafted into brick blocks Feature: Added ability to burn 8 clay piles into hardened clay in the fire pit Feature: A rough mechanic for fall damage reduction when landing in water. Should no longer take damage when slowed to a near halt and then touching ground. Feature: Cinematic camera now allows to create endlessly looping paths using the commands .cam close - to close a path .cam loop [num] - to loop num times. Or indefinitely if no number is supplied Feature: Debug screen now also displays the game version and the graphics card info on the left side Tweak: Added a low chance for very wet and temperate climates, tweaked tint map to have very dark grass in such areas. Fixed a few oddities in world generaiton. Tweak: Signs now only require 1 plank and 1 stick to craft Tweak: Cinematic camera paths are now white/blue checked to show the individual steps Tweak: Cinematic camera recordings should now actually be lag free, independent of the current ingame FPS Tweak: More block info for farmland and growing grops, e.g. Now shows the current growth stage. Fixed: Very bad FPS (1-20 instead of 100-200) on certain radeon cards. Fixed: Cinematic camera now moving correctly or in the correct speed in certain situations Fixed: Saplings not growing at all. Sigh. Fixed: Player unable to rejoin a multiplayer server in certain situations Fixed: Players teleporting around in multiplayer after opening a dialog while moving. Fixed: Game crashing when it doesn't find a block shape Fixed: Player standing inside farmland after exiting/loading the game and gltiching weirdness in multiplayer when standing on farmland Fixed: Some Bread texture too large and overly pixelated Fixed: Standalone server not using a supplied world seed through serverconfig.json Fixed: Backpacks disappearing when picked up in creative mode Fixed: Server disconnect messages not arriving on the client, which instead showed some connection lost error Fixed: Several bugs related to kicking/banning players, especially as admin Fixed: Firepit smelting progress hardly visible, now in green instead of black. Corrected dialog title. Fixed: Shift+Left click in the crafting output window consuming ingredients but not crafting enough output items, effectively destroying items. Fixed: Player picking up items that instantly end up in a currently opened container when the players inventory is full.

Renowned Vintarians Since I've been all over the place with no clear milestone reached there won't be a release this week. Not to say we were inactive though: The Story Excerpt page is finally done. Took us over a month to decide which art style we want to go for. This should give you a small peek of what is to come some day. I wrote up another page that summarizes an age old question: What makes Vintagestory different from Minecraft? Model Creator: The tool we use to design the games block received some convenience updates, code refactoring and is now underway of becoming also an animation editor that should allow everyone to add animated creatures to the game. It's the first important step in allowing us to implement animals/mobs. Game I ended up spending one day fixing up the cinematic camera. It should now finally work bug-free and will have 2 new features. Fixed the ingame recorder to actually record lag free videos. Might have finally found the cause of very bad overall performance for certain Radeon graphics cards Added some more useful information to the debug screen Video: With above fixes in place I was able to do some pretty recording again, check below Next week should there will probably be a 1.2.8 ready for download. Until then, sayonara!

Spacious Vintarians Version 1.2.7 is now available for download in the account manager, 3 Feature Release in one Week? Because we can! Very happy with having survival inventory working now, it was one of those features I never was sure on how to implement in the best way. The same goes for sapling growth, since the tree generation system is actually a seperate mod. Updates Basic Bag/Backpack Inventory Added all remaining code to make survival inventory work as planned. The idea is that your default inventory only consists of the 10 slots in your hotbar and you can further expand that space with bags. Well, now we have the first bag! Can now craft Linen Sack from 8 Linen Cloth which expands your inventory by 4 slots for each sack. Can now craft linen cloth from 4 flax twines. Feature: Very Basic Sapling Growth: Planted saplings now will grow a tree after 5-8 ingame days. Feature: Added new crop: Soybean Feature: Added small, rare deposits of high fertility soil. These are very valuable for growing crops. Feature: Berry bushes now also regrow based on the internal game calendar, which means they grow even if the chunks are not loaded Feature: Tool breaking sound whenever a tool runs out of durability Tweak: Shift+Left click on the crafting output slot now crafts as many items as it can Tweak: Shift+Left click on a creative inventory slot now creates whole stacks Tweak: All the crops generated during worldgen should now have a higher chance of being mature Tweak: Worldgen should generate more mushrooms Fixed: Random crash caused by farmland. (NullReference Exception) Fixed: Crops never growing if they were planted on dry farmland that was later given access to water Fixed: Crash when using the API to register custom block entities or blocks. Fixed: Added missing API access to registering items, block behaviors and entities

Agricultural Vintarians Version 1.2.6 is now available for download in the account manager, It's now 30 minutes before the new year for us, but since we just completed a pretty milestone, I chose to release this one early. We are personally super happy with the new farming system and hope you are too! <3 Beyond that we also shine with a block info HUD that helps you figuring out what the blocks are and a fancy new music track. Happy new year! Updates: Feature: Farming! 4 kinds of grains and 4 kinds of vegetables now naturally spawn in the world. Each have a 70% chance of dropping seed, or 100% if fully grown. Hint: The best place to find them are temperate areas. Can now craft a hoe using 2 sticks and 2 stones or copper ingots (same way as in minecraft) Can now till the ground using the hoe, turning it into Farmland. Farmland has several unique properties 3 nutrient cageories (N-P-K), whereas each crop drains a different nutrient level. Farmland has to be moist for crops to grow, so ensure you have a nearby water source. Moist Farmland is visually darker than dry one. Farmland slowly recovers it's nutrients, except for the one thats currently in use by the planted crop. Fallow farmland will always recover all 3 nutrients. Fallow Farmland has a low chance to grow tallgrass on it. Those pesky weeds! Farmland grows the crops independent on whether the chunks are loaded or not. So you can leave for a large adventure and return home with all your crops matured. It does that by making use of the internal game calendar, so e.g. setting /time speed 0 will essentially stop crop growth. Many new items and textures related to farming, such as seed bags and new vegetables/grains. All the seed bags also display what nutrient the crop will need and how long it will grow. Feature: Block Info HUD (Waila Mod anyone?) Use 'B' to toggle it. 'B' is the default key binding, feel free to change it in the controls. Will show you information about the current block you are looking at. Can show additional, block specific information. First use is showing the N-P-K Levels for the Farmland Feature: Water Buckets Can now pick up and place water source blocks Can now be crafted from 5 planks + 1 flax twine Flax twine can be made from 4 flax fibers that drops from mature flax crops Feature: New Music Track "Adventuring" Feature: Added Mod API Access to the internal game calendar Tweak: Performance optimized particle system! Should now run about twice the speed as in the previous version. Tweak: Player will not get hungry 3 times as long when starting in a new world. Screenshots Some of the new crops as well as the block info HUD in the top middle Rice, Carrots and Onions ready for the Harvest Rye naturally spawning in the world FPS graph with 18.000 particles in 1.25 (left) versus 25.000 particles in 1.2.6 (right)

Survivally Vintarians During survival playtesting we discovered a bunch of gameplay bugs, so pushing a quick patch! Version 1.2.5 is now available for download in the account manager. Updates Tweak: Newly spawned/respawned player will not get immediately hungry Tweak: Peat bricks now can be used as fuel in the fire pit Tweak: Fire pit now burns 4 times longer when first constructed Fixed: Tallgrass not breaking when the block below is broken Fixed: Native copper ore not spawning at all Fixed: Eating mushrooms gave too little saturation Fixed: Player Saturation not reseting on respawn. Now the player always respawns at half saturation Fixed: Blocks not interactable (i.e. firepits, chests) when player was holding an item Fixed: Itemstack Tooltip not disappearing when pressing ESC in a Firepit Dialog Fixed: Flame and Arrow Symbols in Firepit dialog not scaling correctly with different gui scales Fixed: One more fix to prevent backpack slots turning into normal storage slots Fixed: Peat bricks placing weird transparent blocks Fixed: Player not able to pick up still stackable items on full inventory Fixed: Player not able to shift+click items out of the crafting output slot in certain cases Fixed: Generall crafting wonkiness and wrong output numbers appearing Fixed: Some areas completely devoid of tall grass

Metallurgic Vintarians Version 1.2.4 is now available for download in the account manager. Dearest Community, I hope you all had a great christmas! In the meantime we completed the basic smelting system as well as everything around it for it to make sense in a survival game world. Currently you can only make use of copper ingots. A lot of features were needed to support it in a meaningful way which took away most of the dev time, so it is not very feature rich just yet. Updates Feature: Basic Smelting Can now use Firepits and Stoves to turn fuel + ore into metal ingots. Can now craft copper tools from copper ingots (same recipes as for stone tools) Can now construct firepits by shift+right clicking on the ground with 1 dry grass and 3 fire wood Can now craft fire wood from log + axe (above in the crafting grid) Can now gather dry grass from breaking tall grass with a knife Can now craft a knife from stick + flint (above in the crafting grid) Flint now spawn naturally on the ground amongst other patches of loose stone Feature: Better item and block tooltip Added smelting and burn temperature information Added nutrient information Removed debug infos (can be made visible again using the command .edi) Feature: Game optimizations Switched from Gzip to Deflate, saving on CRC calculations and memory. Saves ~2-4% CPU on server+client Added a fast random generator to Deposit and Cave generation. Saves ~4-6% CPU on server Cache a single value in terrain tesselation: Saves ~1% CPU on client Feature: Automatic World Save File Upgrader The compression optimization broke compatibility with pre 1.2.4 world save file formats, but VintageStory will now automatically probe what version a world save file was created with and upgrade the save file format on world startup. Feature: Worldgen updates Feature: Added single-block rivers to world generation. They generate on rocky faces over- and underground. Tweak: Less dense patches of tallgrass Tweak: No more grass under under lakes, should also allow gravel and sand in the right climates New Modding Features: Items can now also have any kind of shape that can be created with the VSModelCreator (example: Firewood) Custom Item Types are now possible (example: Firewood, Dry grass, Stones) Crafting recipes can require a tool without consuming the tool completely (example: Firewood) Blocks can now be made edible (example: Mushroom) New Event for Blocks and Items: OnUseItem MarkBlockDirty/MarkBlockEntityDirty/MarkBlockUpdated Methods in IBlockAccessor for more precise control on what kind of updates a block should receive. Feature: Added Item ID Remapper. Prevents adding/removing items to the game messing up your current items in old worlds. Feature: Can now place loose stones on the ground by Shift+Right click on the ground with a stone Feature: Mushrooms are now edible too (not very healthy, but might keep you from starving) Feature: Added bamboo hay block Feature: Added Ingots (item only at the moment) Graphics Tweaks: Many item and block graphics improved Added dithering to night sky (reduces color banding) Night fog no longer weirdly purplish Increased overal scene contracts Fixed: Dropped Items reappearing (but disappearing on collection) in certain cases Fixed: A bunch of crashes that I observed for the first time Fixed: Berry bushes not regrowing berries when placed by world generation

Hungry Vintarians! Version 1.2.3 is now available for download in the account manager. I've had little to no time for most of the week due to real life errands, but I did manage to cram in a few tasty new features in the 2 extra days of delayed release. I've also aquired a few more talented hands for drawing item textures and illustrations for our first story page that we can release to the public still this year I hope. Updates Feature: New Blocks Added carpets with 6 variants Added new 3 new variants for linen cloth Feature: New Items Bread, various Berries and Vegetables. Can be eaten. Flint, Flax, Feather, Arrow and Twine. Currently no use yet. Feature: Hunger! The green status bar now acts as a saturation indicator. Once your saturation runs out, you will receive damage every few seconds until you die. Can now eat items to regain saturation and health. All new food items can be eaten Can now harvest berries from the berry bushes that spawn naturally in the world Berry Bushes now slowly regrow berries (every 40mins) Feature: Added new "Fast graphics" option that turns off drawing various parts of the leave blocks Tweak: More messing around with distant tree and transparent rendering. Should now hopefully look right. Tweak: Command issued from console are now also Logged Tweak: More flexible handling of BlockEntities, can now be individually configured per block instead of being bound to the Block class. Fixed: Client crashing instead of displaying error when attempting to connect to a server with a different version. Fixed: Fixed last severe bug known to me: Black chunks after reloading a world Fixed: Visible seams between snow layer and frosted grass Fixed: Yet another attempt of fixing invisible mouse pointer bug in the menu. Maybe now for the last time. Fixed: API call to SetBlock should now also generates any associated BlockEntity