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this will be fixed in rc4. It accidently changed to the new rot label instead of the empty one

Dear Feature-Rich Community v1.17.0-rc.4, an unstable release, can now be downloaded through the account manager (section "Other Goodies"). The stabilization of 1.17 continues. This time with mostly non-critical, but important fixes. Looks like we are getting close to stable! Casting table, shared by metal#3033 on discord Game updates Feature: Added 6 new crock labels, dynamically chosen based on contents, including for when its contents are rotten Tweak: Fine tuned reflective shader. Fixed reflective tiling issues. Tweak: Can now interact with firepits while having a torch or pot in hands Tweak: Firepit now reduces the font size for the cooking recipe text if necessary Tweak: On world creation, the game now tries to avoid spawning players above 75% of world height Tweak: Snappier, crunchier gravel step sound Tweak: Server repair mode will now regenerate corrupted chunks, should they ever appear Fixed: Might fix UI rendering issues on MacOS M1 chips Fixed: Lowest liquid level no longer flowing downwards Fixed: Cascade bomb explosion did not destroy the bomb but dropped an item Fixed: Itemstack tooltip flicker every second in the handbook Fixed: Missing hotkey symbol in the flint tooltip Fixed: Game crashing on invalid hotkeys (e.g. when using russian translations) Fixed: Loose stones poke holes in lava lakes during worldgen Fixed: Hitting 'H' while hovering water bowl opened the page on the honey bowl Fixed: Fish trying to jump back into water throwing an exception on the server Fixed: Visible seams between some blocks Fixed: Weird interactions with rush matting Fixed: Own step sound not playing at the player but at the step location Fixed: Seraph voices missing in some cases Fixed: Might fix missing libsztd dll error in some instances Fixed: Buggy lamellar armor repair Fixed: Macro editor did not prevent duplicate macro names, causing undefined behavior Fixed: Bamboo hat recipes no longer conflict with bamboo roof ridge recipe. Fixed: Game crash when trying to repair gamboised helmets Fixed: Waterlogging issues with ruins generated underwater Api Refactor: Renamed IWorldChunk.Blocks to IWorldChunk.Data. IWorldChunk.Blocks still exists but is obsolete now. Api Tweak: Added new "Quantity" field to crushing properties to allow for fractional values. Api fixed: TreeAttribute.Clone() caused ItemstackAttribute values to loose its resolved Block/Item Api Refactor: Large refactor of the API methods for setting liquids. The default GetBlock() is no longer obsolete. Sorry modders this liquid layer stuff is all new tech so please bear with us while we work out kinks in the api, even though we are in a release candidate already. On the bright side, the block layer related API methods should be much more intuitive now. Api Refactor: ChunkDataLayer code (See also pinned discord post in #mods) View full record

Dear Feature-Rich Community v1.17.0-rc.3, an unstable release, can now be downloaded through the account manager (section "Other Goodies"). This release fixes a rather critical issue when upgrading old savegames (1.16.x savegames loaded in 1.17.0-rc.2) - some bodies of water became non-interactable, and reeds appeared to lose their enclosing water. This release fixes that issue and auto-restores the parts of those worlds which may have been broken in rc.2. If you notice any remaining water issues in your games please report them. Also ... hats are now craftable! Game updates Tweak: Added recipes for straw, bamboo, and top hats. Also improved their transform values. Tweak: Added subcommand /player [playername] entity maxoxygen [int] to edit oxygen capacity on existing players Tweak: Reverted spear thrust sound to old voiced sound. Made them respect the selected voice pitch therefore. Tweak: Removed 'new seraph voices' setting, they are now always on as I believe most are at a bearable quality now. Tweak: Various minor tweaks (addded sub-1 movespeeds to worldedit dialog, fixed a typo, improved ifp clayforming, slower vertical texture animation of water) Tweak: Dyes now need to be sealed for a while before they're ready. Tweak: Water visuals fine tuning Fixed: Worldmap: The trader icon disappeared Fixed: Multiple issues with the worldedit eraser and paintbrush when placing/deleting water Fixed: Drifters not fleeing during daylight Fixed: Unusually dark clouds in some cases Fixed: Plank block spawning under players feet on first spawn when it shouldn't Fixed: Crash when repairing copper head lamellar Fixed: Ground storage guide twice in handbook. Fixed a render issue with one of the hotkeys on the same guide Fixed: Attempt to fix startup issues on some systems related to libzstd Fixed: Attempt to fix rare deep water chunks not being drawn properly Fixed: Water and reeds in worlds created prior to game version 1.17 not updating correctly in 1.17.0-rc.2 API refactor: WaypointMapLayer icons and colors are no longer static and renamed to WaypointIcons/WaypointColors View full record

@daretmavigood suggestion, i'll separate the hands when holding clay

Dear Feature-Rich Community v1.17.0-rc.2, an unstable release, can now be downloaded through the account manager [Please use this to replace rc.1 if you already downloaded it, as it now turns out that rc.1 had a little bug introduced at the last minute...] We are inching ever closer to 1.17 stable This release should be crash free for most players and safe to use for creating new 1.17 worlds. If upgrading your 1.16 worlds to 1.17, there is an issue with the water and reeds in this release rc.2 (that issue will be fixed and existing water anomalies healed in our next release), so you may want to hold off playing existing worlds until the next release. We do recommend making backups of worlds that you value. We'd also like to use this moment to send out a heartfelt thank you to everyone that has tested the pre-releases - your testing, bug reporting and general feedback are immensely helpful to us. Thank you so much for the support! As usual for rc (release candidate) releases, we will here only list everything we have newly added since pre.1. Please also look at the pre.1 update for a list of the features added since 1.16. When the first stable 1.17 release comes out, we will then present you with a complete feature list. Game updates Everything listed in the pre.1 blogpost Feature: Added an oxygen meter. Can now only breathe for 20 seconds underwater, as opposed to infinite air Feature: Added "arctic supplies" stashes to arctic climates, comes in 40 variants Feature: New rain drip behavior for leaves and stick layers. Added Accumulating droplets. Keeps on dripping for a while after the rain stopped Feature: Directional water physics. Doors, slabs, chiseled blocks, etc. now provide directional blocking of water flow for greater realism Feature: Handbook improvements The handbook now also shows how a block/item can be stored Added guides in the handbook on Dye Making and Ground Storage Added text about swapping glass panes to the lantern entry Added description of how to make ferrous (iron) anvils Chairs are now grouped in the handbook Improved handbook hotkey (<hk>) visuals. They now look like the hotkeys shown in the in-game block interaction help Feature: Continued work on shields All shields now craftable. Most of them have a new recipe. Ornate shields can only be made by a tailor Added metal hoops and bosses. Made by smithing. Shields are now crafted with hoops and bosses instead of metal plates Shield now properly scale for ground storage. They don't fit as nicely if you try to place two shields next to each other now, but it looks better overall. Deemed a worthy trade-off Added appropriate stats to all shields Rebalanced shield durability. Blackguard shield no longer top durability, but cheaper to make than full metal shields Adjusted transforms for shields, blades, and shovel Fixed wrong naming on metal shields Tweak: Reworked waypoint dialog. Icon and color are now a grid of clickable icons. Tweak: All tools can now be placed on the ground Tweak: Bears no longer spawn (runtime and during worldgen) in the first 4 in-game days and wolves don't spawn in the first 4 in-game hours. This should help with getting killed right at the start of a new (single player) world. This change will not affect multi-player servers which have already been running for more than 4 in-game days. Tweak: Most land creatures now flee from bears Tweak: Players should no longer spawn underwater in new worlds. Search range for solid land broadened, if it still fails to find land, it will spawn a block of planks for the player to rest on instead, i.e. a mini-raft Tweak: Dye System fine tune Dyes are now made with water instead of diluted alum/cassiterite/chromite Dye-making now requires a barrel for mordants and a barrel for dyes instead of combining both of them Reduced and standardized the amount of alum/cassiterite/chromite needed to make a mordant Added a mordanted cloth variant, which is now used for dyeing Reduced the amount of dye liquid needed to dye cloth Woad blue now has its own dye barrel since it doesn't require a mordant Black dye now made by adding pigment to gray dye, similar to orange dye Removed Brown dye until we add more pigment options for it. For now, cloth can be added to strong tannin to make brown cloth without needing a mordant Tweak: Added tool mode icons for the scythe Tweak: Leather can now be dyed pink Tweak: Ales now give Grain nutrition Tweak: Wrench can now also be used to rotate chiseled blocks Tweak: Added more descriptions for the smithing GUI Tweak: Replaced the 360° character autoturn in the character dialog into a light left-right swivel Tweak: Hares now also eat peanut plants, and early stages of rice and amaranth Tweak: Added more credits to the credits screen. Tweak: Tannin can now be made out of acacia logs as well as oak. Tweak: Adjusted the crafting cost of hide and pelt-based clothing. Costs less in general now, and crafting costs scale based on hide size instead of all having the same cost, e.g. 8 small hides are worth the same as 1 huge hide. Tweak: Adjusted lamellar armor crafting to follow the same principle of scaling hide sizes as above ^. Wood lamellar can now be repaired, only requiring firewood. Tweak: Oiled/curing hides now also scale according to hide size. For example, 1 piece of fat can make 4 small oiled hides, 2 medium hides, or 1 large hide. Huge hide now requires 2 fat. Tweak: Can now do "/worldconfigcreate int lungCapacity [milliseconds]" to define for how long a player has air (default: 20000) Tweak: Can now do "/worldconfigcreate int fertilityRecoverySpeed [speed]" to define farmland recovery speed (1.16 default: 0.33) Tweak: Added missing mushroom ingredient names Tweak: Disabled all custom cursors on MacOS, mouse controls may now be less glitchy on MacOS Catalina and above Tweak: Added helpful descriptions for items that can be used as a mordant Tweak: Held items can now also emit light (i.e. the candle) Tweak: Adjusted a couple animations to work better in Immersive First Person mode Tweak: Fish now die when exposed to air for 30 seconds. Fixed upright dead fish model Tweak: Increased the size of a number of items when dropped Tweak: Server admin: Handle invalid SaveFileLocation more gracefully and log to server-main.txt Tweak: Mitigate lag spikes caused by ground storage Tweak: Some texts were not translatable, updated community translations Tweak: Mitigate sizzle sound spam + OOM by reducing its sound range from 32 to 16 blocks Fixed: Able to chute-push random items into ground storage areas Fixed: Tiny memory leak in the main menu Fixed: Crafting dupe bug with some recipes Fixed: Falling sand block oddities in certain cases Fixed: Hopper item collecting oddities Fixed: Avoid a crash in the fruit tree block entity (report an error instead) Fixed: Selecting a very large view distance in single player then reloading the world made it revert back to a shorter view distance Fixed: Missing tool mode info on prospecting picks Fixed: Game crashing on ".debug perceptioneffects" Fixed: Mitigate occasional z-fighting on overlapping leaf blocks with wind motion Fixed: Infinite crafting dupe glitch when the inventory is full Fixed: Exception thrown on invalid book shelves Fixed: Some mushroom stews were invisible Fixed: Better localization for a few mushrooms. Fixed: Missing block broken particles on ores Fixed: Liquid dupe bug with barrels Fixed: Barrel closing sound not playing in some cases Fixed: Game freezing on the singleplayer screen if a savegame is write locked Fixed: Repairing armor consumed all materials. Now only consumes as much as needed. Fixed: Pink bonnet and funeral bell mushroom not poisonous Fixed: Mitigate derpy turning behavior in 3rd person while swimming Fixed: Game crashing when looking at a chiseled block with a soldering iron in hands Fixed: Too high speed on a shader effect on lava Fixed: Able to move a dialog outside the screen and no way to recover it. Reopening the dialog will now move a corner back into the window so it can be dragged back Fixed: Solved an issue that caused the game to crash when the `handle` texture for shields was not found. Fixed: Center aligned richtext did not properly align in some cases Fixed: Fruit tree error log spam Fixed: Various texture errors logged to client-main.txt on startup v1.17 related changes Tweak: Performance: Use native ZStd library on Windows platforms for more efficient memory management Fixed: Rapid breaking of adjacent reeds (and other blocks more generally) Fixed: Water buckets placement issue (fixes a more general issue where ExchangeBlock calls were not respecting the liquids layer; also now allows water buckets to place water down onto any non-solid block) Fixed: Should fix oddities when placing water from a bucket in existing water Fixed: All clutter blocks generated underground were invisible Fixed: Falling snow block behavior not working Fixed: Panning bony soil not working correctly Fixed: Wrench not properly attached to tool racks Fixed: Arrows getting lost on impact Fixed: Running out of air on the client on old worlds Fixed: Shields now appear in the proper location when placed in a mold rack. Fixed: Newly introduced crash in barrels Fixed: Able to place water lilies underwater Fixed: New reflective shader effect not respecting fog levels Fixed: Incorrect linebreaks on Japanese translations Fixed: Avoid a crash on invalid book shelves Fixed: Unknown texture on mantle blocks Fixed: Crafting improvised armor did not consume ingredients Fixed: Game crashing when changing Ctrl/Shift mouse modifiers Fixed: Render issue on the clay handbook page Fixed: Some blocks (e.g. querns, tools on toolracks, ground storage blocks) waving in the wind weirdly Fixed: Wrong shaggy hair on some bears (Panda, Polar, Sunbear) Fixed: Frost overlay on chests Fixed: Game crashing when right clicking a full ingot pile Fixed: Shields on tool rack not using correct textures. Fixed z-fighting on adjacent racked shields Fixed: Fish running away from players... while on land Fixed: Wrong selection box on ingot piles (and likely other piles) Fixed: Low fps during low quality shadows Fixed: Blackguard and Forlorn blade had 1 durability Fixed: Placement issues with ground leaning tools Fixed: Tool Durability multiplier and some other world config values were not taking effect in 1.17 Fixed: Large lakes pure water chunks sometimes did not render Fixed: More issues with wall leaned tools Fixed: Dropped candle not emitting light on ground Fixed: Client side taking damage after getting out of water with no oxygen left Fixed: Seraph protecting eyes from strong wind while swimming Fixed: Shields no longer missing icons in smithing menu or handbook. Fixed: Fixed a texture path issue with the gazelle shape. Fixed: Misaligned buttons in the main menu due to new dialog based menus Fixed: Prospecting pick no longer working Fixed: Water overwriting lava, also caused significant lag. Fixed sizzle sound no longer working Fixed: Wrench transform on tool racks, fixed wrench model z-fighting Fixed: Chest lids no longer animated Fixed: Game crashing when looking up boards in the handbook Fixed: Accordion seraph voice same as altoflute Fixed: Hot items dropped in water not cooling down Fixed: Missing error texts when trying to place tools on the ground Fixed: Unable to plant reeds/papyrus in flowing water Fixed: Unable to do edge sitting on a block if there is grass in front. Generally made the edge sitting triggers more tolerant. Fixed: "worldgen" issue and rare crashes in 1.16.5 worlds loaded in 1.17-pre.1 Fixed: Wrong drops for hay block (thanks Stroam) Fixed: Game crash when holding a plumb and square in hands Fixed: Minor issue when setting keyboard controls for Sprint key Api Fixed: Modmaker patches not prefixing "game:" domain for vanilla patches API Changes Feature: liquidBarrierOnSides attribute allows blocks (e.g. slabs) to prevent liquid flow below a certain height Feature: Added IGameCalendar.ElapsedSeconds/Hours/Days property to read how much in-game time has passed since world creation. Might be inaccurate on old worlds. Refactor: The server event OnTrySpawnEntity now has an additional IBlockAcccessor argument, as it might be a worldgen block accessor now. Refactor: Renamed BlockBehavior.ShouldReceiveClientGameTicks to ShouldReceiveClientParticleTicks. Added BlockBehavior.OnAsyncClientParticleTick Tweak: Refactor from -pre.1-4, the liquids layer is now called "fluids layer" and consequential changes Tweak: IBlockAccessor.GetBlock() now takes an optional BlockLayersAccess parameter (which is an integer constant, see BlockLayersAccess class for the options) Tweak: IBlockAccessor.GetBlock() method signatures from 1.16.5 and pre.1-3 preserved but deprecated Tweak: Add convenience methods IBlockAccessor.GetSolidBlock() and GetFluidBlock() Tweak: Liquids can now also glow Tweak: SimpleParticleProperties can now also be async Tweak: Networking / startup: Server Identification packet sent before mods PreStart phase, even in singleplayer (restores the order of events in 1.16.x: mods PreStart and Start phases can read WorldConfig values and other Server Identification packet info). Note: 1.17-rc1 and pre.5 game clients are not compatible with 1.17-pre.1, pre.2, pre.3, pre.4 servers, please update your servers. Tweak: Vintage Story now ships with debug symbols (=pdb files), so that crashes will print line numbers \o/ Tweak: Can now define "asphyxiating: false" attribute to blocks to prevent players from asphyxiating inside them Tweak: Update Harmony to 2.2.2.0 Tweak: Added Melchior's new metal properties for modders Tweak: updated XML text for IBlockAccessor.MarkBlockDirty: it does NOT trigger a neighbour block update, if one is needed please also call IBlockAccessor.TriggerNeighbourBlockUpdate() on the server side Fixed: TriggerNeighbourBlockUpdate() vulnerable to blockpos edit after getting called Fixed: Crash when removing the health behavior from an entity Fixed: Wildcard matching not working across game domains Fixed: In BlockFruitTreeFoliage fix resolving foliageProperties producing invalid texture paths with different domains Only the changes since pre.5 (note these changes are also listed above) Tweak: Shield now properly scale for ground storage. They don't fit as nicely if you try to place two shields next to each other now, but it looks better overall. Deemed a worthy trade off. Tweak: Add handbook section on ground storage Tweak: Server: Handle invalid SaveFileLocation more gracefully and log to server-main.txt Tweak: Reworked waypoint dialog. Icon and color are now a grid of clickable icons. Tweak: Bears no longer spawn (runtime and during worldgen) in the first 4 ingame days and also don't spawn wolves in the first 4 ingame hours Tweak: Performance: Use native ZStd library on Windows platforms for more efficient memory management Tweak: Most land creatures now flee from bears Tweak: Mitigate sizzle sound spam + OOM by reducing its sound range from 32 to 16 blocks Tweak: Added tool mode icons for the scythe Fixed: Running out of air on the client on old worlds Fixed: Shields now appear in the proper location when placed in a mold rack. Fixed: Newly introduced crash in barrels Fixed: Falling sand block oddities in certain cases Fixed: Hopper item collecting oddities Fixed: Able to place water lilies underwater Fixed: Wrong naming on metal shields Fixed: New reflective shader effect not respecting fog levels Fixed: Incorrect linebreaks on japanese translations Fixed: Avoid a crash in the fruit tree block entity (report an error instead) Fixed: Avoid a crash on invalid book shelves Fixed: Selecting a very large view distance in single player then reloading the world made it revert back to a shorter view distance Fixed: Unknown texture on bedrock Fixed: Chiseled blocks now react more correctly to water flow Fixed: Rapid breaking of adjacent reeds (and other blocks more generally) Fixed: Game crash when holding a plumb and square in hands Api Feature: Added IGameCalendar.ElapsedSeconds/Hours/Days property to read how much ingame time has passed since world creation. Might be inaccurate on old worlds. Api Refactor: The server event OnTrySpawnEntity now has an additional IBlockAcccessor argument, as it might be a worldgen block accessor now. Api Tweak: Update Harmony to 2.2.2.0 Api Tweak: Added melchiors new metal properties for modders Api Fixed: Crash when removing the health behavior from an entity Api Fixed: Modmaker patches not prefixing "game:" domain for vanilla patches View full record

It gets quite strenous to keep up with 3 locations of bug reporting, so we disabled the reporting of new bugs on here. Please either report them to #bug-reports on our discord server or on our official issue tracker, thanks!

Dear Feature-Rich Community v1.17.0-pre.1, a preview release, can now be downloaded through the account manager (section "Other Goodies"). New main game trailer We've made a brand new trailer for the game, the last main trailer was in 2020. We're proud of how far the game has advanced over the last two years, and we think the new trailer is quite the banger - enjoy! New Website theme As you might have noticed, our website also got some new looks! We hope you like it... For anyone feeling nostalgic, the old theme is still around - simply scroll to the bottom and click on the Theme link to select the classic theme. New Major update The main topic of this update was "Dejank", though it has kinda morphed into a "mostly game juice, and a bit of dejank" update We also added a lot of new graphical pretties to the game - for that extra oomph. And a few new creatures! In the process, we have added a slew of ground-breaking tech: Palette based chunk data storage: The game engine now stores chunk information much more efficiently in memory, greatly reducing RAM usage for chunks; this helps smooth gameplay and may in future allow for even higher rendering distances Modern compression algorithm: The engine internally uses a much faster compression algorithm, improving chunk loading performance and world saving times Improved startup sequence: Starting up a game world should now be nearly twice as fast, taking full advantage of modern multi-core CPUs New water and ice system: There can now be water and a block at the same coordinates in the world. This means that any (non solid) block can now be submerged in water, water can flow through most blocks that are not solid, and blocks can be embedded in ice Instanced rendering: Some common blocks are drawn in a more efficient way, which should slightly improve FPS (frames per second) Improved creature AI: Attacked creatures react more intelligently, and large creatures are better supported Thanks to the new tech, performance is improved throughout the game, even at the same time as adding plenty of new 1.17 content: over 200 new blocks, over 300 new items, new creatures, new visual effects and new animations and behaviors for the player! Mods made for version 1.16.5 should remain compatible for the most part, even with these tech changes: code mods will probably need to be recompiled for 1.17, but mods which make tweaks and additions through JSON files should mostly still work without any changes. Please notice 1. This is an unfinished update, mostly intended for modders and very adventurous players. You will encounter major bugs, incomplete features, performance issues and crashes. Worldgen might also significantly change and produce unknown blocks until rc.1 2. New "pre" updates will only be posted in discord #news and not on the blog. A new v1.17 blog post will come when the first release candidate is ready. Screenshots / Gifs Added Lightning strikes and lightning rods to protect against lightning strike damage The player model now reacts to being cold and when exposed to strong winds. Added sand storm fog effect in sandy areas. Can now sit down on block edges (WIP) and pet animals Water is now stored in an independent "layer" - meaning blocks can be submerged, and water can flow through blocks Added 200+ clutter blocks in preparation for the Lore Update Added gazelles Added brown bears, black bears, pandas and sun bears Added Salmon fish, non-interactable for now (WIP) Improved termite mound models with much larger variants, termite mound color matches the local type of sand Enhanced temporal storm and low stability visuals Armor repair and visible armor damage Many more varieties of shield Added a new grass type, a new cactus and cracked stone blocks. Improved berry bushes, water lilies and breadfruit appearance Reducing resolution in the graphics settings (for higher FPS) no longer makes the game blurry Improved sunset ambient visuals More bling: improved reflective effects for metals and crystals New Lava visuals to look more like real lava Ground storage improvements - items can now be placed with any orientation (respects placement orientation) Ground storage improvements - can now place a selection of tools on the ground New wrench tool to modify the orientation of a selection of block types Armor stand pose can now be changed, using the wrench tool Prettier main menu screens - dialogs such as Settings are now drawn over the background, and the background is smoother Berry bushes are now fluffy (but can be pruned). Fences now attach to more solid block faces Game updates Feature: Lightning strikes! Damage creatures in a 8 block radius Lightning rods can redirect lightning, be sure to place them in an elevated spot Feature: 200+ new blocks: lore rich "clutter" blocks and bookshelves with rich visuals. Currently these are only in the Creative inventory. These will be added to Survival worldgen (in ruins, tombs, etc....) in the future 1.18 Lore Update Feature: major Water physics update any (non-solid) block can be submerged water will flow through non-solid blocks non-solid blocks can become embedded in lake ice if water freezes stones, boulders, seashells and ruins etc. can be generated underwater in worldgen panning from sand and gravel blocks which are in or next to water, the reduced layers block can become submerged Feature: More visual spectacle during temporal storms and low stability Added large turning gears in the sky Additional "flowing rust" shader effects on blocks More wicked glitches and particles Feature: Improved Armor Armor no longer disappears when its durability reaches 0, but it will lose all its protection. Protection degrades as the armor durability reduces Armor can now be repaired using its base material. Repairing armor has half the material cost. Lowered the cost of crafting lamellar armor to be more accessible. Rebalanced blackguard and forlorn armor crafting costs to match repair costs for other chain/plate armors. Forlorn now requires some luxury materials to suit its fanciness. Visuals: damaged armor will look visibly damaged Feature: 30-fold increase in shield variety There are now nearly 300 types of shields in the game. Materials can be mixed and matched. Currently limited to just a few shield models but we will add more soon. Shield durability is now dynamically determined based on the materials used: hardwoods and stronger metals add durability to the base durability value Feature: More and prettier flora Added red top grass Added flowering water lily Added silver torch cactus to desert mountains. Painful on touch! Berry bushes are now fluffy (can be pruned with shears) Improved seasonal colors for ferns Improved lichen model Made breadfruit texture more spiky looking. Ripe breadfruits are now larger Creative-only dandelion and acanthus flowers Feature: New and improved fauna New creature: Gazelle. Male, female and calf. Found in warm/dry climates (savannah) New creatures: Brown bear, black bears, sun bears and pandas now spawn in the world The first fish: Salmon. No fishing or boats just yet, the salmon is only decorative right now Fox pups now spawn as well Can now pet tameable animals when they are generation 1 or higher (right-click a creature to pet it). Petting causes creatures to stand peacefully Termite mound remake. Added much larger versions. All termite mounds are now rock typed. Added rare large patches to Savannahs Improved Creature AI Attacked creatures should now react more quickly Improved creature AI tactics - when a attacking creature cannot reach its target and gets hurt, it will make a tactical retreat. Every time it gets hurt again, it will retreat further. Should mitigate the pillaring + ranged attack weakness of most creatures. Fixed animals sprinting around a target because they overshoot the destination. Now they slow down near the target Bears and other large creatures in general should no longer become stuck when wandering Creatures walking into solid walls will attempt slight strafing movements to get around the wall Feature: Extensive visual tuning Much improved graphics quality when using resolutions below 100% - as it is no longer blurry (therefore, lower resolutions can be used to improve FPS without much loss of fidelity, especially on 4k monitors) Improved sun ambient color and water reflections to reflect the sky colors Prettier main menu - all main menu screens are now dialog based over the background image Much improved reflective shader effect and more configuration options for modders for reflective stuff Improved lava visuals and effects Added more metal pouring vfx, added bouncy particles when smithing Fences now attach to chiselled blocks Random cracked texture overlay on rock Tweak: Visual improvements on the death screen (permanent damage overlay + sepia effect) Tweak: More sparkly crystals Tweak: Larger bells and locusts Tweak: Added blur effect to dialog title bars, various other minor visual tweaks Tweak: Boosted SSAO intensity by 40% Tweak: Third person camera zoom with +/- keys is now smooth instead of instant Tweak: Added some glowy flicker to burning forges Tweak: Placed curd bundles now rotateable Tweak: More particles for burning coal in forges Tweak: Some extra seraph head bobbing while drunk Tweak: Beeswax and Honeycomb now displayed inside crates Tweak: Bees no longer clip through walls Tweak: Made filled crates and barrels fuller Tweak: Block broken particle spawns are now multiplayer synced Tweak: Added seraph chiselling animation Tweak: A bit of rotation randomization on items placed in a display case Tweak: Chickens now peck on the ground for longer, but now also peck for random durations Tweak: Gravel texture now randomly rotated, which greatly mitigates any repetitiveness Tweak: Fine tune amaranth crop texture, more fluff to some of the seraph hairstyles, fine tune layer of sticks model and texture, thicker stem for the bamboo sapling, added a bit of thickness to the condenser model Fixed: Visual glitch glowy geometry during fog Fixed: Weird AO on shelves against the wall Fixed: Sun specular reflections on water no longer working since 1.16 Fixed: Distant tall grass noticeably disappearing (not being drawn at all) Fixed: Minor visual glitches when distant tall grass seen against sky or water Fixed: Terrain below flowing water had inconsistent shading at the end of the water flow Fixed: Some inconsistencies in block sunlight levels below placed/flowing water blocks Fixed: white or wrong particle colors when breaking leaves, fruit-tree leaves, berrybushes and waterlilies Feature: Massive performance tuning Faster chunk loading: We have changed our internal compression algorithm from deflate to ZStd, which is several times faster for both the server and clients and single-player Even faster chunk loading and reduced memory usage: We have changed our internal chunk data storage method to palletised chunk storage, which needs two to four times less memory on average while the game is running, and made other improvements in memory efficiency, so the game uses less RAM while running, leading to smoother overall performance Faster worldgen: The worldgen can now usually "keep up" with player motion as the player moves into new areas of the map ~40% faster game starts: Lots of fine tuning and multithreading during the startup process should greatly reduce the game startup time. (Single player Creative world load time was 17 seconds in 1.16, now 10 seconds in 1.17, YMMV) Improved overall FPS: Grass and flowers are now drawn using instanced rendering which improves FPS and allows more fine grained control over grass for future projects Improved server TPS: AI pathfinding is now multi-threaded; many other entity ticking performance improvements; mitigated slow ticks caused by drifter and butterfly spawning; mitigated slow ticks caused by farmland and berrybush; for significantly fewer slow ticks / lag spikes overall Greatly improved GUI dialog creation performance (the dialog edge blur algorithm now skips over the center part of the dialog) Reduced SSAO quality on the "Medium SSAO" setting for more FPS Improve FPS when rendering very large inventories, like the creative inventory (50 FPS -> 100 FPS) Tweak: Increased server MagicNumbers values to reflect faster chunk loading speeds and faster worldgen - servers are encouraged to experiment with the servermagicnumbers - especially ChunksColumnsToRequestPerTick, ChunksToSendPerTick and ChunkColumnsToGeneratePerThreadTick to find their own optimal values Temporal storm particles are now async for more performance Feature: Added a wrench tool. Can be used to re-orient chutes, stairs, slabs, logs, pillars and plaster. Can now change armor stand arm pose with a wrench. Feature: Added Lookat camera mode. Makes it so that in the overhead camera mode the seraph looks into the camera. Enable via .clientconfigcreate overheadLookAt bool true Feature: Desert storms. Block colored fog effect in dry areas with lots of sand, when there are strong winds Feature: Added bamboo and straw hats Feature: Support for 2x1 paintings. Added "sodhouse" and "lastday" paintings Feature: Worldgen tuning Now less trees in hot and dry areas Reduced spawn of water in dry places by making lakes/seas more shallow. In existing 1.16 worlds this can cause lines of water at chunk borders with newly generated map regions, but only below sea level in dry areas. Loose stones and boulders now also spawn in caves Feature: Seraph fine tuning Tweak: Experimental Seraph voice sound rework. Added ".debug talk" command for testing voices. Community: Let me know if this sounds any better? Tweak: Improved immersive first person mode. Death animation no longer glitching into blocks and knapping should be easier (work in progress) Feature: Sitting down on a block edge now uses a custom seraph pose (still quite buggy in multiplayer) Feature: Added "protect eyes" pose to seraph during strong winds Feature: Additional visual effects when cold Animals and players that are low body temperature now have a frost overlay on them (when the outside temperature is below -5 °C) Seraphs will have a freezing / shivering animation when cold Feature: Added ability to place sideways hay bales Feature: New 3D models for tailor shoes, merchant shoes, great steppe boots, and reindeer herder shoes Feature: The longblade is no more. Long live the falx! Feature: Added more dyed leather options to make the new shields out of Tweak: Game controls fine tuning In the Settings menu, the Mouse settings and Keyboard controls are now split across two tabs New controls option: Ctrl-click and Shift-click mouse modifiers can now be separate from the Sprint and Sneak keys (so you can re-assign Sprint to something other than the Ctrl key, but still use a Ctrl-click mouse action) Keyboard controls are now more logically grouped in the Settings menu When the Handbook refers to keyboard controls, it shows the current assigned key Block interaction help now shows mouse modifiers (by default, Ctrl- and Shift-) before the mouse button Translation: added missing lang strings for some controls e.g. Show Handbook, Show/Hide Minimap Bulk add material to the Bloomery is now Ctrl + right-click, for consistency with other bulk adds Tweak: Gameplay balance tuning Added a small respawn timer: the death dialog now appears with a 1.5 seconds delay Double the drop rate of crystallized ores. They were waaaay too rare IMO Hares can no longer jump over fences in snowy conditions; reduced hare spawn max light level from 8 to 6 to further mitigate them spawning in farmlands Boosted breadfruit satiety 120 -> 200 Empty firepits now have a 4x burn time bonus instead of 3x Chiselling now requires a hammer in the off-hand in Survival mode, but does not consume durability on the hammer Aged wooden crates can no longer be made from aged wooden boards. To compensate, traders will now buy aged wooden crates for more than they used to Can now craft the stone coffin from basalt and peridotite stone Tree felling time is now more based on log count, less based on leaves count Tree felling time also based on wood type; hardwoods take 30% longer; tropical hardwoods longer still Higher tier metal axes fell trees slightly faster than previously Purpleheart requires at least a copper/scrap axe to fell; ebony requires at least a bronze axe Crop growth times are now calculated in months instead of days, so setting shorter months means quicker growth times. The default growth times remain unchanged Reduced respawn speed of wolves, slightly reduced spawn rate of butterflies Hares now eat sunflower and cassava crops in their early stages Forest floor blocks when broken now drop low fertility soil instead of medium fertility Minor dejanking Tweak: Added barrel open/close sound. Can now right click barrel again to close gui Tweak: Tree seeds can now be placed in display cases Tweak: Changed behavior of how items flow in chutes to be more intuitive Tweak: Wolf howl animation now more synchronized to the howl sound Fixed: Pounders pounding in the wrong direction (visual bug) Fixed: Texture overlapping issue on the 3-flower lupin Fixed: Helve hammer obstructed by a block where it doesn't feel like it should get obstructed Fixed: Multiple visual issues with potted bamboo and lily of the valley Fixed: Wrong texture resolution on seaweed Tweak: Ground storage tweaks Can now place spears, shovels and hoes against walls The rotation of the placed item now depends on the player's placing direction (used to be fixed) The Ground Storage selection box now stays at ground level for better visuals and more accurate sub-block placement Fixed wrong particle collision box with ground storage blocks Tweak: Allowed glass to be chiselled. WIP: still didn't fix the wrong faces issue with them though or the wrong texture Tweak: Increased third-person in-hand model size for full blocks Worldedit updates Feature: Can now use worldedit to place fruit trees Fixed: Worldedit, using "Redo" after a move tool operation not working Fixed: 3 bugs related to importing entities stored in block schematics Tweak: Worldedit control panel now allows setting of fractional movespeeds Tweak: Changing the current selection is now also stored in the undo/redo history state Tweak: The Magic select mode will now ignore tallgrass by default Tweak: Added a flood fill mode more suitable for placing lakes Tweak: The flood fill tool now will replace all blocks of blockmaterial Plant Tweak: Left clicking with the flood fill tool now performs the opposite effect, a "flood erase" Tweak: Worldedit: Added server overload protection toggle to the options dialog Fixed: Multiple fixes with "/we mr" no longer creates 2 history states, also updates the current selection and does not move the whole selection up by several blocks Tweak: Worldedit GUI upgrades: Fixed: Drop down scrollbar was not visible Select tool now has 2 new buttons: Rotate CW and Rotate CCW Increased flat fog slider range 4-fold Various command tweaks Tweak: /time command now disallows setting of negative values because it has undefined behavior Tweak: Added "/player [plrname] entity intox" subcommand to set intoxication value Tweak: Added "/debug delplr name" to delete playerdata in a savegame Tweak: Added "/player playername movespeed" subcommand Fixed: /weather setev not working Tweak: /debug logticks command output now more informative and new layout Tweak: Tallgrass shadows only drawn near to the player Tweak: Gold and silver falx are now steel blades with gold/silver flair. As such, their recipes and stats have changed to be similar to steel falx Tweak: Forlorn Estoc now uses a thrust animation in 3rd person to better suit the weapon Tweak: Added a description to wolf pup item to indicate that it's hostile and some traders highly value it Tweak: Can now place side-growing mushrooms in creative mode Tweak: Chat dialog less obtrusive (more transparent) when not focused (experimental) Tweak: Trimmed the hunter class flavor text Tweak: Changed name of hacking spear to tuning spear to better fit the setting. Also gave it a description so players know what it does Tweak: Hacking spear can be made with tin bronze and bismuth bronze spears now Tweak: Added the 'Tinkerer' trait to the Clockmaker class: functions like the other unique crafting traits Tweak: Savegames should now be more robust against ungraceful exits in regards of entity spawning Tweak: Various improvements to creature bots (we used these for making the 2022 trailer!) Added bear and hacked locust bot More configurable playerbots Can wear backpacks, quivers and shields. Can apply a custom skin via /npc copyskin to apply a player skin Can now have a nametag, set via /npc setname Fixed /npc enq/exec playanim not working for some animations Added "/npcs loopall" subcommand Tweak: Added ability to disable crop/berry bush and fruittree growth (/worldconfigcreate bool processCrops false) Tweak: Added player entity repair capability when loading a savegame in repair mode Tweak: The paper, scroll and book lore items now have 3d models Tweak: Disabled span ruins, they need better spawning behaviors Tweak: Torches and other blocks which attach to the side of other blocks, now cannot be attached to lake ice (even if they could before) Fixed: Multiple issues with snow coverage on chiseled blocks Fixed: Dark shadows caused from SSAO, might break other things Fixed: Pristine forlorn body armor can now be properly crafted. Fixed: Wooden path block texture issues Fixed: Cinematic camera crash when adding 2 points at the same coords Fixed: Multiple issues with the immersive first person mode (clip into blocks upon death, not adjusted for running sideways swivel, etc.) Fixed: Heavy z-fighting on distant ice Fixed: Falling containers now drop their contents if they cannot be placed on impact Fixed: handbook entry for labeled chests, and links to it in chalk and charcoal descriptions Fixed: (long-standing!) leaves blocks incorrectly had a 0 degrees rotated alternate as well as 10 degrees Fixed: (since 1.16) blocks with general wind motion flag were incorrectly given a glow value (e.g. glow == 3) Fixed: (since 1.14) leaves ground-offset windshear being disabled for leaves against solid blocks was not working correctly on north side Fixed: Unknown texture when putting solder ingots on forges Fixed: Wrong glow vfx for items held in third person mode Fixed: In single-player, occasional flash of X-ray vision when breaking blocks underground at any chunk edge Fixed: Should fix stability issues when using the game updater, due to leftover files that should no longer be there Fixed: TempstormDurationMul world config not working Fixed: Some roofing faces too dark; trough fluffy hay faces too dark. Fixed: Particle collision box issues with the boiler Fixed: Water in condenser hardly visible Fixed: Placing fruit trees with worldedit did not respect the size values Fixed: Tool molds rotations during clayforming not matching finished product in some cases Fixed: Sealed barrels displayed block interaction help Fixed: Drifter killing drifter showed "eaten by" in the info text Fixed: Wrong SSAO on knapping surface Fixed: Pullets changing plumage when they mature to adults Fixed: Wrong texture resolution on some bamboo leaves Fixed: .clientconfigcreate not printing error on invalid datatype Fixed: Some lighting chunk border issues when rooms are closed or opened to sunlight Fixed: Various minor sunlighting bugs (eg. wrong values below water which spreads) Tweak: for Linux users, starting the game using Mono versions prior to Mono 5 should now fail (Mono 4.x and below is not supported) Translation: Fixed: lang strings for some item info such as clothing and armor properties Added lang strings for some colors API Changes Tweak: All code obfuscation now been completely dropped from the game engine Feature: Greatly improved frame profiler and slow tick logging. Instead of a flat list, frame costs are now displayed hierarchically and also show the call count. Allows for a much more fine grained analysis of costly operations / laggy sections of code. Added new FrameProfiler.Enter() and .Leave() methods for hierarchical tick logging Feature: New "OnAnimationEnd" Mode EaseOut. Greatly helps with jerky animation endings Feature: Shape.TryGet(api, fileLocation) method simplifies code for loading shapes and adds consistent error checking Feature: still and flowing water blocks, and lake ice blocks, are now accessed separately from regular blocks, as there can be both water and a regular (non-solid) block in the same BlockPos position Use IBlockAccessor.GetLiquidBlock(), IBlockAccessor.SetLiquidBlock(), IBlockAccessor.SearchLiquidBlocks() for reading and writing water and lake ice There are also IWorldChunk.GetLiquid() and .SetLiquid() methods, but mods should generally use the IBlockAccessor methods IBlockAccessor.GetSolidBlock() will return the regular block at the position UNLESS there is lake ice present in which case it will return the lake ice (used e.g. for motion physics and collision detection) IBlockAccessor.IsSideSolid() behaves similarly: tests the regular block at the position for solidity, or will return true if lake ice is present to generalise, mods can add their own blocks (liquids, gasses or perhaps ice) to the new system allowing regular blocks to be submerged/enclosed/embedded in such blocks: this is done simply by overriding property Block.ForLiquidsLayer in the code for the liquid/gas/ice block For existing 1.16 blocks which are found in water or in ice (e.g. in vanilla, Coopers Reeds or Papyrus, which have -water- and -ice- variants, or Seaweed) you can update to the new system as follows: (a) remove the rendering of water and ice and any special water and ice properties from your block, the in-water variant should now be the same as the on-land variant; (b) for the in-water or in-ice variants only, for successful updating from 1.16 to 1.17, override property Block.RemapToLiquidsLayer to provide the water/ice code matching your block, e.g. Reeds in water set that property to "water-still-7" BlockUpdate and Schematic now have water data in them in addition to block data Mods needing to test for the presence of water or lake ice should change their code to use the IBlockAccessor.GetLiquidBlock() call Mods needing to test whether a neighbour side is solid should use IBlockAccessor.IsSideSolid() to detect all cases accurately, including e.g. stones embedded in lake ice To minimise the breaking of existing 1.16 mods, IBlockAccessor.GetBlock() will still return the water/lakeice block at a position if there is no block submerged/embedded in it - but if there is a block submerged in water (or embedded in lakeice) then .GetBlock() will return the submerged block, so that mods which do not update their code to use a .GetLiquidBlock() call will not see that there is water in the position, if a block happens to be submerged there To minimise the breaking of existing 1.16 mods, IBlockAccessor.SetBlock() used with a water/lakeice block (or any block for which Block.ForLiquidsLayer is true) will automatically write that block to the liquids layer, and will delete any existing regular block at the position (i.e. the same behavior as in 1.16 code). To add water/lakeice to a block position without deleting the regular block (i.e. allowing the existing block at the position to become submerged in water or embedded in ice) use IBlockAccessor.SetLiquidBlock() Placing a fully solid block in any position will remove the water/lakeice at that position Feature: Missing lang file keys are logged in client-debug.txt (and sometimes in server-debug.txt but that is rare) Feature: Added <hk> or <hotkey> VTML tag. In handbook entries, can use e.g. <hk>sprint</hk> to display the actual current mapping of the sprint key Feature: for any keyboard controls (hotkeys) your mod adds, use new EnumHotkeyTypes: HelpAndOverlays, MouseModifiers, MovementControls and InventoryHotkeys for better grouping in the keyboard controls settings dialog Feature: Configurable inventory slot count for entity harvesting Feature: IServerWorldAccessor.IsFullyLoadedChunk(), true if all neighbor chunks are also loaded. BlockEntities or entities can use this during tick updates for better performance, e.g. to make sure that searching neighbor chunks for blocks will not cause lag-spikes due to loading unloaded chunks. See BEBerryBush and BEFarmland for example Feature: Added api.XXXAtlas.GetOrInsertTexture() to replace InsertTextureCached() which is now obsolete, as it is very inefficient Refactor: Collectible.GetDurability() is now renamed to Collectible.GetMaxDurability(). Added Collectible.GetRemainingDurability() Refactor: QueueOfInt and FastSetOfLongs moved to Vintagestory.API.Datastructures Tweak: ModMaker should place patches into a separate mod domain (will now also prompt for the mod domain) Tweak: PlayerControl.CtrlKey and PlayerControl.ShiftKey, use these for block and entity interactions which depend on Ctrl+mouseclick or Shift+mouseclick, in place of checking for Sprint and Sneak keys (though by default Sprint is bound to Ctrl, and Sneak is bound to Shift, a player might change that) Tweak: Significantly re-order and properly ensure order of asset registration etc during server startup, for details of correct use, see updated descriptions in the XML help for ModSystem methods .ExecuteOrder(), .StartPre(), .Start(), .AssetsLoaded(), .StartClientSide() and .StartServerSide() ModSystem .Start() method may be called at a different time from previously, specifically it will now be called even before assets (including blocktypes, lang file, etc.) have been loaded; any of your code in Start() which requires assets to be loaded may need to be moved to the AssetsLoaded() method Additional optional initialisation call ModSystem.AssetsLoaded() called after the Start() method and after assets are loaded, but before StartClientSide/StartServerSide. This is called on both server and client, see VSSurvivalMod Core.cs for an example. Typically used to initialise block or item fields New server event AssetsFinalizers, can be used in code to modify/finalize behaviors or properties for any block or item in the game (your mod's assets or another mod's assets) after all loading from JSONs is complete. Use this in 1.17+ instead of making changes to assets in a mod's StartServerSide() method - doing it in the StartServerSide() method will likely be too late. E.g. in vanilla, the BlockReinforcement system adds a Reinforcement behavior to every appropriate block in this event Tweak: Added callback method Collectible.ConsumeCraftingIngredients() Tweak: Added ability to disable entity behaviors and AI tasks by adding a `enabled: false` line (can also do this byType) Tweak: Added "ShowInCreatedBy" property for recipes to hide them from the handbook (such as repair recipes) Tweak: IBlockAccessor.WalkBlocks() Action now offers int x,y,z coordinates instead of a BlockPos Tweak: Cuboidd new method SetAndTranslate() allows both operations to be combined in a single method call Tweak: Vec3d can now be Set() to an EntityPos Tweak: BlockPos new method SetAndEquals() returns a boolean indicating whether the BlockPos already held the values set Tweak: Can now define separate player animations to be run in immersive first person mode (by prefixing them with "ifp-"). Tweak: Chisel tool modes are now a bit more moddable Tweak: Block.SideSolid is now a custom class, SmallBoolArray Tweak: ShapeElement.Faces is now deprecated: use .FacesResolved instead if you need to access a ShapeElementFace Tweak: Block.Textures and .TexturesInventory are now IDictionary<> not Dictionary<> (but in most cases existing code should not need to be changed) Tweak: EntityClientProperties.Textures is now IDictionary<> not Dictionary<> (but in most cases existing code should not need to be changed) Tweak: Block.SideSolid is now a SmallBoolArray struct, not a bool[] (but in most cases existing code should not need to be changed, e.g. Block.SideSolid[0] will still test the North face) Tweak: Can now define particle Bounciness as a float value (before it was a boolean) Tweak: "Weak shiny" mode. If the shiny bit is set and any wind data is set, the shinyness effect is reduced Tweak: New basic flower shapes flower-48x48 and flower-32x64, drawn with correct pixel density, see the creative-only Dandelion and Acanthus flowers as examples (modders can test new flower textures in-game by replacing the dandelion and acanthus textures) Tweak: two new DrawTypes which appropriate blocks can use for instanced rendering, for higher FPS: InstancedCross (used by tallgrass, flower-horsetail, and flower-edelweiss) and InstancedFlower (used by catmint, cow parsley, poppy, redtop grass, wild daisy and woad). Where InstancedFlower is used, petal and stem textures should be combined into one double-width .png file, see the texture files for those flowers for examples Tweak: The Modmaker will now work on pre-releases of the game Tweak: Rewrite head yaw/pitch handling, now part of EntityPos and synced. Fixed: Cuboidf.RotatedCopy() not rotating hitboxes correctly Fixed: Positioning issues in VTML/richtext Fixed: Compatibility util did not work on first world load View full record

As others have mentioned before, a new trailer is in the works. We already started to work on it in January. I think it's gonna be another whole level of quality compared to the current one. We decided to take our time with it as well as release it with 1.17 and a new website theme, so its gonna be a large representation overhaul. Stay tuned!

We did a few changes now: Spam defense set to a more sensitive level i.e. require moderator approval of posts if the user might be a spammer Automoderation: If any reports as post as Spam and said users is less than 7 days old the content will be hidden We'll be collecting Phrases the spammers post and require moderator approval if new posts contain these phrases

Dear Players v1.16.5, a stable release, can now be downloaded through the account manager. As mentioned, here the stable version of 1.16.5. Only bugfixes in this release. All updates since 1.16.4 Fixed: Should fix some fruit trees never fruiting Fixed: Fruit trees harvestable multiple times Fixed: Worldedit import tool "Replace all" mode did not replace air Fixed: Game crashing when it cannot log to file Fixed: Dressing/Undressing backpacks sometimes not showing the backpack visually on the player Fixed: White storm dust particles that are not supposed to be there Fixed: Oversized poults Fixed: Breaking Ladder did not cascade break the entire stack Fixed: Infinite liquid drinking dupe bug Fixed: Able to add crust on baked pies Fixed: Not able to place filled jugs and bowls Fixed: Itemstack tooltip box some title text got linebreaked unecessarily Fixed: Should fix a rare crash with beds. Might break other things. Fixed: Should fix half generated trader carts Fixed: Breaking damaged refractory brick dropped 3 to 5 bricks, the same amount required to replace them, on average Fixed: Harvesting pomegranate trees dropped breadfruit Fixed: Clicking on the crate in the handbook did not direct to the crate page Api Fixed: Two bugs in OnBlockExploded() Changes since 1.16.5-rc.1 Tweak: Added ".clientconfig selectedBlockOutline" to disable the selected block outline renderer, for Mac OS users on M1 chips, so they can verify if that is the cause of the disappearing GUI issue Tweak: Block reinforcement loading errors are now logged into server-debug.txt instead of server-main.txt Fixed: "/group info" not working Fixed: Tiny memory leak with scythes Fixed: Server mod downloader did not distinguish servers by port Fixed: Deleting the serverconfig.json could cause instances where creating a new player group would cause some players to be already in that group Api Tweak: Fix a crash with modded crates Api Fixed: Incorrect lang entries in block info hud for decor blocks Api Fixed: Crash when trying to craft on certain recipes View full record

1. try `/bir list` or `/iir list` 2. that should already be printed to the server-debug.txt and client-debug.txt Is there a way to reproduce this?

I'll add a config option "selectedBlockOutline" that you can disable to see if that is the cause.

It was using the invisible reCaptcha, i now changed it to reCaptcha v2. Lets see if that helps. It might not be automated bots but actual humans creating these accounts, though.

Sure can do, I submitted the form, thanks for the tip

Members can now post again.

Dear Players v1.16.5-rc.1, a unstable release, can now be downloaded through the account manager. Been a month since I last posted so it's about time for an update. Here's whats happened so far. 1.16.5-rc.1 minor game update This update brings a few essential bugfixes, as an unstable release to be on the safe side. Should become stable in a few days. I feel 99% certain this will be the last 1.16.x update. Ukraine Charity From the 27th until the 6th of March we have donated 100% of our revenue to humanitarian aid for Ukraine, amounting to over 5000 Eur. We have seen increased sales during that time period - thank you everyone for participating! Vintagehosting update As of yesterday, our Vintagehosting servers now allow a maximum player count of 8 players at no additional cost (previously 5 was the limit). Existing server owners may need to restart their game server for changes to take effect. 2022 Feature Trailer Additions Currently we are focused on creating a new, 3 minute long main game trailer. In the process we add new visual effects and small details to help visualize the games mechanics and in-game experience. Most of them will become a permanent part of the game in the next main update. I've posted several of this changes on our Discord. Here's a few of them Player and Creature frost overlay. Freezing players will look frosted and have a freezing animation. You'll be able to sit down on a block edge Improved Lava visuals Layered gravel (from panning), Sea shells and loose stones will be submersible. Added flowering lily variant Upcoming Updates Beyond the aforementioned visual updates, the topic of 1.17 is "De-Jank". This means we'd like to improve some of the existing game mechanics and finish some of the currently incomplete ones. I don't want to go into specifics but I do can reveal some broad de-janks topics which we plan to work on, which are: Armor system, Immersive First Person Mode, Seraph Voices, Mouse/Keyboard controls, Prospecting, Meal cooking. Once the game trailer and 1.17 is complete, we'd like to finally make major advances around the games lore in 1.18. This will include lots of new ruins and ruin contents. We've also been working on a long term plan for a full story arch with different endings, all of them majorly affecting game play in a certain way, which is something I'm personally very excited about. I do hope we can add it all this decade still Till next time! 1.16.5-rc.1 Game updates Fixed: Should fix some fruit trees never fruiting Fixed: Fruit trees harvestable multiple times Fixed: Worldedit import tool "Replace all" mode did not replace air Fixed: Game crashing when it cannot log to file Fixed: Dressing/Undressing backpacks sometimes not showing the backpack visually on the player Fixed: White storm dust particles that are not supposed to be there Fixed: Oversized poults Fixed: Breaking Ladder did not cascade break the entire stack Fixed: Infinite liquid drinking dupe bug Fixed: Able to add crust on baked pies Fixed: Not able to place filled jugs and bowls Fixed: Itemstack tooltip box some title text got linebreaked unecessarily Fixed: Should fix a rare crash with beds. Might break other things. Fixed: Should fix half generated trader carts Fixed: Breaking damaged refractory brick dropped 3 to 5 bricks, the same amount required to replace them, on average Fixed: Harvesting pomegranate trees dropped breadfruit Fixed: Clicking on the crate in the handbook did not direct to the crate page Api Fixed: Two bugs in OnBlockExploded() View full record

Registering an account was already a requirement, invisible captcha was also enabled, i think this one - https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/invisible

I'll enable non buyer posting again in a week or two, lets see if the spam botting has died down by then

k k, will disable non buyer posting