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Thats Awesome! :-) > I had problems with my building flow due to how different it is to Minecraft and of course i had to get used to the World Edit in this game. I will continue building things though. If you provide me with some feedback, perhaps i can try make some things more similar :-)

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) View full record

[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 View full record

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! View full record

Glad to hear that you found some nice scenery ;-) I've already looked at the Terrain so many times from a developer perspective I kind of forget how it feels like to just be able to enjoy a scene.

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 View full record

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) View full record

We'll do it Vintagecraft style unless a better idea comes along ;-)

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 View full record

Yes, just temporary solution.

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 View full record

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 View full record

Fidelitous Vintarians! We've continued refining the game. Version 1.2.2 is now available for download in the account manager. Despite all my efforts in trying to push survival gameplay I somehow inadvertently ended up doing more of a graphics and detailing update. Le Sigh. Nonetheless we do have some survival updates. Loose stone now generate all over the world to make it easier to collect stones in early survival, peat and clay deposits now generate the surface, the latter being essential for smelting and required for various recipes. I've also continued working on the smelting system, which is now coming close to completion. Updates Feature: New blocks Grass Covered Clay and Peat Raw and Burned Vessel for holding up to 4 items Loose Stones Feature: New items Pile of Blue/Fire Clay Peat Brick Feature: Several graphics updates Much more elegant block selection highlight. Now perfectly placed on top of the block and anti aliased. Can now define how block sides should be merged and ambient occluded for each block face. This allows for better rendering of glass, ice, leaves, slabs and similar blocks Can now define what blocks should always be drawn on top of others, allowing for e.g. leaves always be drawn on top of any adjacent blocks. Makes leaves look way better when adjacent to solid blocks, as those sides can now be drawn as well. Also eliminates several sources of Z-Fighting (flickering of textures) The Weighted Blended Order Independent Transparency system should now more correctly mix together half transparent blocks, particles and clouds Feature: More Worldgen updates Added Clay and Peat deposits to the surface. Added ability to place deposits depending on climate. Ice lakes now generate naturally Very tall grass now varies in height randomly Loose stones now spawn all over the surface, making it easier to gather stones in early survival. Added ability for the block patch generator to place blocks based upon the underlying rock type. The tall pillar landforms are now not as tall and stepped, making look like the pillar mountains in the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park The humongous mountains landform now sometimes have very large caverns in them Slightly cooled down the planet ;-) Fixed: Sand and Gravel longer mixing vertically in strange ways Other minor tweaks to some landforms Feature: Can now place lanterns and torches on top of fences Feature: 3 more crafting recipes for cobble stone, cobble stairs and cobble slabs (requires stones and clay as ingredients) Feature: Added GearTwos updated server.sh script with 2 new features: backup and update Tweak: Water source blocks now also flows into several direction if several downward paths of the same length are found Tweak: Several block tweaks Lantern survival breaking speed reduced to 1 second Can now place attachable blocks like torches and wool/leather/linen layers on top of upside down slabs and stairs Added ability for blocks to have random shapes which are randomly selected based on where they are placed in the world Added new blocktype properties: glowLevelByType: Same as glowLevel but typed for the selected block SideAo and SideAoByType: If blocks around it should be ambient occluded RenderFlags (8-bit value, lowest 3 bits used for offseting the render depth, the hights bit used for reducing alpha transparency loss over distance) SnowCoverage: true/false, determines if snow layers can stay on the block FaceCullMode: Default: Default behavior NeverCull: All block faces are always rendered Merge: Removes any block face that is opaque and adjacent to an opaque block face or block with same blockid MergeMaterial: Same as merge but checks for equal material instead of equal blockid Collapse: Same as merge, but removes only 1 of 2 faces if adjacent to blocks with same blockid CollapseMaterial: Same as collapse but checks for equal material instead of equal blockid Liquid: Removes any block face that is adjacent to an opaque block face or adjacent to a block of the same material Fixed: Some block sides becoming transparent when placing stairs or slabs Fixed: Active slot item info box popping up whenever an item got damaged Fixed: Another attempt to fix mouse cursor not visible when disconnected from multiplayer Fixed: /welcome and /announce only allowing 1 word Fixed: Pre v1.2 worlds no longer openable Fixed: Crafting planks from logs only ever returning birch planks Fixed: Shift+Left click from the crafting output slot duplicating the item Fixed: Client crashing when a half broken block in survival is instantly broken in creative mode Fixed: Client crashing in certain situations in multiplayer when using inventory Fixed: Client rarely crashing in multiplayer when server is shutting down Fixed: Client crashing when window is resized to 0 height Fixed: Server rarely crashing when a player connects Fixed: Server crashing when a mod crashes in a certain way Fixed: Players rarely not able to pick up items Fixed: A world edit undo via /we undo after /we mmby x y z being applied incorrectly Fixed: Covering/Uncovering light sources not correctly relighting neighbour chunks Fixed: Stairs on top of stairs causing the lower stairs to be wrongly darkened Pictures Improved Block Selection Highlighter Prettier ice, ice lakes generating naturally Loose stones now generate on the surface Large Caverns now naturally generate in the humongous mountains landform New wooden path block View full record

Social Vintarians Vintage Story v1.2.1 should make the multiplayer experience significantly more pleasent. In addition, from now on I'll release the game also as a simple .tar.gz archive for download in the account manager, which should make it a lot easier to install and update linux game servers. It should also eliminate the need to install the game via wine for Linux users (you still need to manually install mono though). Furthermore one could even go ahead and build a small auto updater script by checking the version url! Updates Feature: Added a more Linux compatible release of the game to the account manager - a .tar.gz archive. Feature: Re-added New Version notification (was lost during the gui redesign) Feature: Add a client mod api call for rendering items/blocks into gui Feature: Made chunk-generator-thread ticktime configurable to boost chunk generation speed on powerful servers (servermagicnumbers.json) Tweak: Some minor aesthetic corrections on the main menu screen Fixed: Setting other players gamemode did not inform the client causing weird behavior for that client Fixed: Server shutting down after 6 hours Fixed: Not able to place/remove blocks with default privilege group level in multiplayer Fixed: Player Models not visible Fixed: Several issues with custom chat groups (the /group command) Fixed: Seeing other players with flymode on constantly falling down in multiplayer Fixed: Game crash when doing anything with inventory in multiplayer Fixed: Game crash when trying to save a sign block text Fixed: Game Crash when typing "/time set" View full record