Tyron

Dear Seasonal Community v1.13.1-rc.1, an unstable release, can now be downloaded through the account manager For this update I focused on the more exotic bugs - those that appear only for some players with certain settings or certain hardware or happening only in certain situations, as well as some very tricky to fix ones. Several of them related to the world map. I hope I that makes the game more playable for everyone affected by them. Game updates Tweak: Seasons are now also enabled for patchy climate worlds, although not gameplay-balanced for it Tweak: Stability updates to the world map The persistently stored chunks are now stored as-is. Previously they were stored without the snow layer Is no longer re-initialized when reopened, which eliminates any lag spikes that occur during opening Fixed an issue where parts of the map did not redraw properly Fixed Lily Of The Valley way too visible on the map Several changes to hopefully reduce disk write times Tweak: Some tweaks to high detail leaves fading. (LOD-crossfade no longer working, more high detail leaves drawn than needed, and .lodbias 0 still drew some high detail leaves) Tweak: The view distance alarm value (the dark purple bar) is now described more clearly and also disabled for single player Fixed: Some experimental changes to the snow accumulation system to make it maybe less glitchy Fixed: A trader that has not been visited in a very long time would visibly swap out their inventory every few seconds Fixed: Low chance of fixing purple grass on some radeon cards* Fixed: The new temporal storm drifter spawn system ending up in an endless loop in some cases Fixed: Should fix black horizontal bar on the screen center on some systems Fixed: Grace timers no longer working Fixed: Modelling errors on doors API Tweak: World map layers now need to render directly to the world map instead of adding/removing map components. This reduces complexity by a lot API Fixed: A syntax error in a json patched file caused an exception in the error handler API Fixed: Syntax error in assets/game/config/remaps.json API Fixed: The client side chunk dirty event sometimes did not fire *If it did not fix the grass being purple open file %appdata%/VintageStory/assets/game/shaderincludes/colormap.vsh and on line 89, delete the "-1", then reload the world. View full record

Dear Seasonal Community v1.13.0, a stable release, can now be downloaded through the account manager Alrighty, v1.13 seems stable enough for everyone* to use. It has been about 6 months since the first v1.12 stable release and includes about 75 new features, 110 tweaks and improvements, 100+ bugfixes and 60 API changes. Enjoy! *Notable known issues: - Users of Radeon HD 5000 and HD 6000 Series Graphics card will have all their grass rendered purple - During Winter and Spring snow accumulates in unnatural patterns Game updates All the changes until rc.1, rc.2 and rc.3 New since rc.3 Tweak: Gamboised armor debuff. Reduced protection from 75% to 70%, reduced durability from 1000 to 900. Tweak: Handbook updates. Added guide on armor and meal cooking Tweak: Greenhouses should now recognize farmland as greenhouse floor Tweak: Berry bushes now also get the greenhouse temperature bonus Tweak: Added /setchiselblockmat worldedit command to set the material of a chiseled block Tweak: Burning entities now emit light Tweak: New sound for pumpkin breaking/placing and for basket opening/closing. Other minor changes. Fixed: Other players jittered when climbing ladders or when colliding with them Fixed: Game crashing when joining a world where another player is using the quern Fixed: Tool durability modifier not properly applied API Feature: Added handbooksearch:// link protocol to open the handbook with a pre-filled search term View full record

Dear Seasonal Community v1.13-rc.3 can now be downloaded through the account manager Getting closer to stable... Also, couldn't resist to improve temporal storms some more :< Game updates Tweak: Updated language files. Added swedish and ukrainian translations \o/ Tweak: Add gray overlay to the main menu screen so the white quote and version text is still readable against white background Tweak: More performance optimizations Server side optimization when visiting old chunks (Technical info: Lowered resolution for fast-forward simulation of creature weights) Entity Search running performance leak (Technical info: Iterated over entity partitions way more often than needed due to a design flaw) Improved game world saving speed (Technical info: Saving chunks and mapchunks now uses a prepared sqlite statement) Tweak: More temporal storms reworking. During storms: Fixed Drifters fleeing on the surface Fixed all sounds only high pitched and not also low pitched at random Increased chance of igniting creatures when hit by a torch (chance depends on storm strength) Increased glitchiness effect on drifters Rewrote drifter spawning because it didn't work properly. This made storms probably notably more challenging Tweak: Visual fine tuning Reduced dynamic shadow attenuation from fog (in other words, shadows more visible now in foggy areas) Shadow artifacts on back sides of blocks should be gone now Should fix some strange rendering issues on some graphics cards (purple grass is still not fixed) Should fix some worldconfigs not properly applying in multiplayer worlds Fixed Particles not properly shaded by fog Fixed Upside down stairs texture alignment issues against other blocks Disabled waving motion on saplings again, looked horribe in flower pots and planters Tweak: Made hens a bit more talkative Tweak: Drifters now play an aggro sound Tweak: Decreased min light level requirement from 8 to 7 for foxes and wolves to reduce the chance of them spawning inside chicken pens Fixed: Various mechanical power fixes by radfast Fixed: Various fixes for the fence gate by radfast Fixed: Maybe finally fixes trader name tags always visible? Fixed: Snow covered tallgrass did not have the same hitbox as snow layers, causing up/down jitter when walking over it Fixed: Should mitigate an issue where animals endlessly walk towards a food source while not moving Fixed: Animal breeding not working at all API Tweak: Added imageSurface.Bitmap() method that accepts a BitmapRef API Tweak: ClientSettings class is no longer obfuscated View full record

Dear Seasonal Community v1.13-rc.2 can now be downloaded through the account manager Here, have another release candidate. Hopefully after 1 to 3 more of these the game can be declared stable. One important fix left to do is related to Radeon HD 5000 and 6000 series graphics cards, which have all the grass and foliage turned purple. Game updates Feature: New main menu backgrounds Tweak: More Performance improvements on the snow accum system, should further reduce lagspikes caused by it. Might break stuff. (Technical info: Added a fast-path for snowlayer client->server block updates) Tweak: Added worldConfig 'snowAccum', now disabled in creative building worlds, so players can build with snow again Tweak: Rain clouds now travel twice as fast, should hopefully mitigate never ending rain somewhat Tweak: Snow and Ice now melt much slower at low temperatures Tweak: Distant terrain fades again instead of hard cut-off Tweak: Metal Lamellar armor rebalance: +50% durability to all of them Tweak: Fine tuned the models and transforms of most tool heads Tweak: Hares now drop double the meat (1 => 2) Tweak: Temporal storm tweaks Now fades in/out 3 times slower Distant terrain during temporal storm is now more strongly distorted Rain during temporal storms is now rust colored. Tweak: Sleeping wolves will wake at greater distance when the player comes close (6 => 10 blocks) Tweak: Display case glass now less transparent Tweak: Surface copper deposits longer spawn in rich quality, except when its spawns in basalt Fixed: Singleplayer screen: World tool tips covering up the modify icon, making it tricky to find the button Fixed: Bony remains after harvesting floating in air sometimes they will now fall down Fixed: Block breaking overlay were incorrect on anvils, chests, vessels, pots, planters and crops Fixed: Worldedit undo works again Fixed: Setting different days per month for a world was not properly applied Fixed: Immersive Fp mode fixes Derpy seraph animations when picking up pots and crocks Derpy hands inside pots and barrels when held in handss Fixed: Sapling fixes. Snow covered saplings not stacking with other saplings. No longer overly dark with SSAO on. No longer static when windy. Fixed: Various exceptions thrown from loading up old or broken saves Fixed: Various inventory itemstack movement issues with the fire pit and quern Fixed: Mushrooms dropping snow covered variants of themselves Fixed: The current value in drop down gui elements were not vertically centered when the gui scale was not 8 Fixed: Customize world screen mouse clicks overlap issues Fixed: 'Days per month' property not synced to client. Causes oddities when it was not set to the default value of 12 Fixed: Rain fall where there is no rain clouds (will probably make the sky a lot more cloudy, needs more balancing) Fixed: Game crashing when opening the world map at the edge of the world Fixed: Shadows dropping on water made the shaded water more transparent Fixed: Mild peter panning artifact on dynamic shadows on the far sides of blocks API Feature: *byType wildcards can now be prefixed with @ to be interpreted as a full-on regular expression (which is a rather expensive operation, not recommended to be used for thousands of blocks) View full record

That is good to hear that you can still open the app, one less quirk to worry about

Dear Apple Users, [Edit 25th Sept 2020:] It has come to my attention that Mac OS Catalina will still allow applications to start, which is great. Also please bear in mind that this whole post is not presenting facts, but merely a personal opinion of mine which is not devoid of flaws. with a heavy heart but also some level of relief I have to announce to you that I will no longer consider Vintage Story officially supporting MacOS. As much as I would like to continue supporting this platform, the lack of stable libraries and frameworks as well as Apples general developer hostile approach makes this goal untenable for me. It has already been a herculean task to get the game working on MacOS and Apple is not making it any easier going forward, particularly in light of recent events. Can you elaborate some more? - The rendering back-end, OpenGL, is officially considered deprecated by Apple, to be replaced by their own proprietary rendering API that only runs on their systems. If OpenGL is officially removed, it would mean I would need to program a completely new rendering back-end just for Mac OS. Not to speak that the OpenGL driver on mac os has a lot of strange quirks one has to take into account during development. - Apple has announced that starting from Mac OS Catalina it wants to quite literally forbid you from launching apps outside the App Store unless the developer goes through some very complicated and non-free certification processes. - It also seems that Mac OS Catalina completely broke the mouse movement API within OpenTK, a library that Vintage Story relies on. - In the near future Apple wants to switch their hardware from Intel to ARM processors, which would mean more drastic changes on how software has to be written for their platforms. In short, Apple is hostile to open, cross-platform software development. What about the future? Can I still play on Mac? I will continue shipping new versions with a Mac OS build for at least 6 months for those players that still run the game on Mac. It is also still possible that official support will come back some day, but for the near term I will de-prioritize Mac OS support. I got the game, what are my options? 1. You are free to request a refund if you got the game and do not wish to await an uncertain future. 2. If you can still run the game on Mac OS and want to continue doing so, I recommend you do not update to Mac OS Catalina. 3. Alternatively, most modern 400 dollar laptops can quite decently run Vintage Story on low settings, in some cases even better than old Macbook pros. Intel. Be sure to look up its graphics card, and that it has at least 1000 benchmark points on videocardbenchmark.net (2000 recommended) Thank you for your understanding, Tyron View full record

Dear Seasonal Community v1.13-rc.1 can now be downloaded through the account manager Sooooo, looks like we managed to pull of some pretty decent seasons system for the game! \o/ This version is a "release candidate", which means it is feature complete and should be free from most game breaking bugs. We're releasing it into the larger community to find any last remaining major (and minor) issues before going full stable release. Julius van Vern made us a great trailer for this update, have a look: Game updates since v1.12 New in rc.1 Tweak: Worldmap waypoint GUI: Flipped the color and name field positions Tweak: Improved torch ignite fp animation Tweak: Locust nests spawn rate now increased, and also randomized per block (for nests in new chunks only) Tweak: Corrupt locust damage increased from 3.5 to 4 Tweak: Increased ruin generation by 15% Fixed: Wind waving motion affected by the players position. Made some fine tuning to the motion as well. Fixed: Low weight animal meat debuff not properly applied Fixed: Armor breaking did not play a breaking sound Fixed: A crash related to the character dialog Fixed: Water streams less awkward looking due to odd transparency Fixed: Mushrooms not shown in cooked meals All the changes in pre.1 All the changes from pre.2 to pre.16 Feature: New flower: Lily of the valley Feature: Can now climb out of 2 blocks deep water Feature: New model for the chisel, upgraded toolhead models Feature: Can now plant barrel cacti in flowerpots and planters. New model for the bamboo sapling Feature: The new chute variants, the clutch, large gear and archimedes screw are now survival craftable Feature: Can now create multimaterial chiseled blocks. Combined chiseled blocks in the crafting grid to add materials. Use chisel tool mode to select material. Capped to 4 materials per block. Feature: Improved support for attaching blocks to chiseled blocks. Blocks with a small attachment area can now also attach to small areas of a chiseled block. Feature: Can now apply gold or silver plates to placed lanterns that have no lining to add lining. Feature: Added world config option "days per month" to set the year length Feature: Snow layer block upgrades Added 2 and 3 layer snowed tallgrass Snow covered topsoil now gets a snowed overlay Players and creatures now sink deeper into the snow Reduced movement speed when in deep snow Now spawn a few snow particles when walking in snow Feature: The farmland moisture level is now shown in the block info hud. High moisture now gives a small growth speed bonus. Fixed various issues related to farmland moisture. Feature: Frost overlay system. Foliage, grass and other plants now will have a frost overlay if the temperature goes below freezing point Feature: Performance improvemens: Improved debug screen performance no longer causes lag spikes on its own. Might break things O_O. (Technical info: Update libcairo to allow multithreaded text rendering, thanks Fulgen!) Improved creature spawn performance another source of lag spikes. (Technical info: Shape tesselation now happens in a seperate thread) Switched to a more efficient noise generator in the shaders, should hopefully give a 1-2 millisecond frame time boost, maybe even more on low end cards (Technical info: Perlin Noise -> Value Noise) Improve world map close and reopen performance (Experimental, technical info: no longer instantly discards chunk images, instead, only discards them 15 seconds of not being used) Should fix lag spikes caused by the cellar system Block place/break delay should now be much reduced around chiseled blocks, but still not instant in some areas Should improve particle performance Slightly improved client side world loading time Tweak: Arrow heads can now be placed in the display case Tweak: Removed all tool heads from the "Tools" creative tab Tweak: Butterflies no longer spawn during low temperatures Tweak: Added hacky multi monitor feature: The ability for dialogs to show up in the center screen by setting a left and right margin for dialogs to appear. e.g. on a 3 HD monitor setup, type this: .clientconfig leftDialogMargin 1920 .clientconfig rightDialogMargin 1920 Tweak: Walking in snow now spawns some snow particles and walking in deep snow will slow you down Tweak: Golden poppies now also rarely spawn in the world Tweak: Deleting a savegame on MS Windows will now move it into the recycle bin instead of permanently deleting it Tweak: Breaking voxels during chiseling now spawns some particles. Slightly more intelligent method of building the selection boxes Tweak: Low to Medium chance of fixing a) Leaving a server sometimes left the player online which then slowly died b) Attempting to connect to a whitelisted or password protected server kicked the client before the reason of the kick arrived Tweak: Green bamboo now drop green bamboo saplings and brown bamboo drops brown bamboo saplings Tweak: Reduced default client connection timeout from 600 seconds to 120. Might slightly mitigate issues where players stay logged in after disconnecting Tweak: Added ability for grid recipes to have variable tool durability costs (modders, use new property: "toolDurabilityCost") Tweak: Added recipe to saw apart plank slabs and plank stairs Tweak/fixed: can now place ingot piles, plate piles, peat piles and firewood piles on chiseled blocks if their upside is fully solid Tweak/Fixed: Snow and ice that is not exposed to the sky never melted. It will do so now Tweak: New texture for the edelweiss flower Tweak: Hail has a wider spawn range, making it look less cut off in the distance, changed hail particle color a bit to look more hail like Tweak: Enabling gl debug mode on an unsupported card should throw a more infromative exception now Tweak: Mining bags now accept saltpeter Tweak: Attacked animals should react a bit faster now Tweak: Animals in low light levels now display that they will despawn in their block info Tweak: Change hail particle color a bit Tweak: Improved client side GetBlock(code) performance Tweak: During winter wolves will seek other creature at increase range (15 -> 25) and become hungry faster (20 min -> 10 min) Tweak: All animals during winter will loose weight and thus yield less meat. Can compensate with trough feeding Tweak: During low temperatures the players hunger rate will increase by up to 50%. Can compensate by going into caves or staying in an enclosed room, the increase is only by 16% then Tweak: Animal reproduction debuff Now also requires males to eat food Pregnant animals now require twice as long to bear young Tweak: Crop debuff when exposed to -4°C or lower temperatures (seed drop rate stays the same) Growing Crops will become growth stunted and yield 50% less produce Ripe crops will become spoiled and yield 75% less produce Tweak: Flowering or ripe berry bushed exposed to -4°C or lower will revert back to empty berry bushes Tweak: The "Winter" music track should now play during winter Tweak: Planks debuff. Logs now yield 12 instead of 16 planks Tweak: Bighorn sheep and Boars will no longer spawn during the months december, january and february Tweak: Sleeping now drains 3 time as much satiety Tweak: Damage inflicted at a higher tier than the armor tier now removes 3 times as much durability from the armor piece Tweak: Added "Harsh Winter" world config which is enabled by default. When disabled it will deactive the following newly added changes: Crop damage from low temperature, Reduced meat from animal harvest during winter and disabled sheep and boar spawning during winter. Fixed: Setting Creative mode in worldconfig was not applied Fixed: Medium carpets could be placed on top of eachother Fixed: Quern progress bar derpiness Fixed: More nugget smelting unit rounding issues Fixed: Farmland not getting moist by nearby water Fixed: Switching to backback slots showed the item info for the off-hand Fixed: Server exception and broken blocks when using the creative mode paint brush with chiseled blocks Fixed: Chiseled blocks not resistant against block mapping changes Fixed: Opening 2 knapping recipe selectors made the other go black Fixed: Able to place rails on top of each other Fixed: Jitter on the water surface effects when flying towards or away from it Fixed: When hovering over an inventory item and then closing the dialog, then doing a left click will no longer take the item out of the inventory Fixed: The server and client tick profiler no longer prints a first wrong result Fixed: Stone bricks no longer survival craftable Fixed: Slab placement mode no longer changeable Fixed: Recipe selector crashing in some instances (when clayforming or smithing) Fixed: Potentially fixed a rare race condition that corrupts the game state, causing players logging off from a server not seen as fully logged off Fixed: Right click with an empty crock on an empty bowl crashing the game Fixed: Game crashing when smithing voxels close to the block edge Fixed: High FoV caused block clipping Fixed: Shift+Left click on a crucible or cooking pot did not prefer the firepit input slot Fixed: .reload textures did not properly reload some textures, amongst others the season and climate color maps. It also leaked memory each reload. Fixed: Mitigate windwave/waterwave jitter, instead of happening every 10 minutes it now happens only every 100 minutes Fixed: Should fix some rare issue where changing the time makes the seraph not sleepy forever Fixed: Game crashing when breaking a scrap pile with the propick Fixed: Some meal ingredients not showing up in cooked meals Fixed: When a trader refreshed its inventory, it did not refresh the prices Fixed: Game crashing with an unclear message when the installed .net framework is below version 4.5.1. It should now crash with a message to update .net Fixed: Potential race condition issue causing all kinds of oddities on the server Fixed: Entities falling below the world never despawned Fixed: Work item rotation oddities on the anvil (now resets the rotation whenever the work item is removed) Fixed: Weird artifacts on snow in the distance (reduced max mipmap level from 4 to 3) Fixed: All json models (e.g. chiseled blocks) were tesselated twice and rendered twice. Zomg. Should improve performance and notably reduce block placing lag Fixed: All creatures becoming invisible if their y-position is below 0 Fixed: /list banned crashing the game Fixed: Crash related to the world map Fixed: Lantern glass not rendered when in off-hand Fixed: Singleplayer world list loading all files instead of only .vcdbs ones Fixed: Moon always fully visible despite fog and clouds Fixed: Falling snow deleted water blocks Fixed: Animals could not pathfind through snow Fixed: "x days until first temporal storm" message was shown in newly created worlds with temporal storms disabled Fixed: Command "/ban player message" only allowed a single word as message Fixed: Wolves falling asleep mid-chase API Feature: The transform editor (.tfedit) now also supports tool rack and display case/shelf transforms (remove and place back block/item again to see updated transforms) API Tweak: Added a patched version of cairo graphics that fixes a bug in multithreaded font rendering API Tweak: Removed Enet library API Tweak: New Property ICoreAPI.Logger API Tweak: world.Blocks and world.Items are now of type IList<T> instead of List<T> API Tweak: world.Blocks now will never return null and never return a Block instance whose id is 0. Non existant blocks will have their Code set to null however (not sure if will keep this behavior) API Tweak: Upon asset loading the game will now reload its shaders so that patched vanilla shaders are loaded API Refactor: Moved sapi.WorldManager.GetBlockAccessor to api.World.GetBlockAccessor. Old methods still there but marked obsolete API Fixed: /wgen regen or by that extend api.WorldManager.BroadcastChunk did not send map chunks causing weird behaviors API Fixed: A Blocks InteractStep methods were only called after the player stopped or canceled the interaction API Refactor: Block.CanAttachBlockAt now has a new optional arg Cuboidi attachmentArea View full record

Hi, sorry for the late reply, I was busy with v1.13 and other tasks. It seems like for both of you, the game fails to read files in the folder %appdata%/VintageStory/assets/survival/worldproperties, which makes it impossible to properly start up the game. I have no idea why in your particular case this would fail, to be frank. Is there any chance you manually added or modified a file in there? If not, can you please zip up that folder and send it to me? You could also try to uninstall the game, delete the folder %appdata%/VintageStory, then reinstall. Keep the VintageStoryData folder however.

Is this still an issue?

Dear Seasonal Community v1.13-pre.1 can now be downloaded through the account manager Many of you requested it in the last poll, and we'll deliver. Here is the very first public (preview) release of the seasons update! Turns it its not that easy to build good season simulation - this is the end result of the cumulative work that spanned several updates - all the way back to version 1.9 where we added realistic climate bands, food preservation in 1.10 and snow and rainfall in v1.12. Please notice 1. This is a bug-ridden preview release, mostly intended for modders and very adventurous players. You will encounter major bugs, incomplete features, performance issues and crashes. 2. New "pre" updates will only be posted in discord #news and not on the blog. A new v1.13 blog post will come when the first release candidate is ready. Screenshots, Gifs, Videos Seasons! Seasonal foliage and temperature dependent plant growth Snow accumulates in winter and melts during summer (WIP) Fine detail ambient occlusion with SSAO, for high end users Specular sunlight reflections on water surfaces, more foamy water New Mechanical power blocks - the large gear and a clutch Flowerpot and Planter rework, the planted flowers and plants now have new models and different models depending on the size of the pot. Chute rework. Added many more chute block variants, including an archimedes screw Experimental immersive first person mode The world map is now persistent, as in, it will no longer unload previously discovered areas Lots of new flora for hot and wet climates: Fern trees, crotons and rafflesias Modders are no longer limited to cubic shapes, here's some pumpkins modded in by Novocain, which he modeled in Blender Game updates Feature: Seasons Seasonal foliage - pines will have different shades of green, blueberries will turn bright red and maples will have fancy yellow leaves during fall Snow accumulation - many blocks can now be covered in snow, such as loose stones, tall grass, saplings, flowers, slabs, stairs and fences - even in unloaded chunks (WIP) Realistic, season-, latitude- and season-aware day/night cycles Correct hemisphere simulation. If you travel far enough south, the seasons will be flipped, i.e. Winter in July Latitude and day/night-aware temperature simulation. Temperature now affects crop growth and the precipitation system. Reeds, Papyrus, Mushrooms and berry bushes will also stop growing during freezing temperatures Feature: Increased graphical fidelty SSAO Shader - greatly improves the shading of blocks and creatures when enabled Specular sunlight reflections on water surfaces New models for knife, spear, axe, hoe, shovel and arrows Trader Outfit bonanza: They now wear a wide range of accessories Water is now more foamy Bamboo is now also randomly rotated Feature: Experimental immersive first person mode. Makes it so you can see your own body also in the first person camera mode Feature: Mechanical Power updates Many bugs related to it were fixed New block: The clutch to disengage parts from a powertrain New block: A large gear that translates torque<=>speed and has multiple connectors for small gears (WIP) Feature: Map persistence. Clients now store already visited map pieces locally Feature: Flowerpot/planter rework. You can now plant bamboo, reeds, papyrus, crotons in them. Also several planted models received some updates. The pot and planter is now also ready to receive new plant-in-pot growing mechanics in the future. Feature: Wide ranging performance optimizations. As usual we always try to counter the additional performance cost of new features by squeezing out ever more extra frames from the game engine: Greatly reduced block update lag when building with hundreds of chiseled blocks. Reading block entities were a bottleneck, they can now be accessed much more quickly by the game engine (technical info: moved from an array to a dict) Major entity optimization - signifcantly reduced the cost of having many entities loaded at the same time. (technical info: Player, Entity and Item Physics simulation should now run independently from the physics simulation tps (GlobalConstants.PhysicsFrameTime). This allows us to reduce the physics sim tps from 60 to 30, effectively doubling physics sim capacity. The physics simulation is one of the most costly cpu side operations for the client and server, so this should give a nice performance boost. Probably introduces some new physics oddities though.) Several performance leaks fixed for long running worlds. A server with many players that runs for several days eventually ended up very laggy. (technical info: 1. farmland and berry bushes were not properly unloaded, causing creatures searching for food looking through an every increasing list of potential food sources, 2. the entity partitioning system did not seem to properly unload entities, again increasing search costs) Feature: New ram optimization mode: "Aggressively optimize". Should theoretically save about 200 MB ram. In this mode the game No longer preloads all sound files, but only loads them on-demand No longer keeps shape files in memory, but unloads them after initial tesselation and loads them back in on-demand Reduces max particles by half Reduces actively held chunk data Unused music files get unloaded Feature: Survival handbook improvements Tries to yield more intelligent results when searching Added category tabs Added ".reload handbook" command to more efficiently trial&error handbook entries for modders Added Survival Guide, Progression guide and Mining guide Removed some items that do not belong in the handbook Added survival guide button to the escape menu Feature: More item transport blocks Added Archimedes screw for vertical item transport. New 3way, T, straight and cross chutes for horizontal and splitting item transport Feature: Jungle flora updates Added fern trees Added rafflessia flowers Added croton plants Jungles should now be more forested and grassier Feature: New world customization options Added Polar-equator distance: Lets you define how far you have to travel north or south to reach the pole or the equator Added starting climate: At long last, you can now now select in which climate band you want to spawn Added season switch: Lets you disable the passing of seasons Added global forestation modifier: Change the amount of forest your world has Microblock chiseling is now enabled by default, but only for wood and stone material blocks. Added new config option to enable it for most cubic blocks. Feature: Added new rain sound when in forests Feature: Beds are now bouncy Feature: Discovery of lore items now more epic with a gong and announcement message Feature: Added toggle sprint setting. Lets you press down the sprint button only once to activate instead of needing to hold it down continuously Feature: Improved remapper assistant. The tool that helps you upgrade your world to a new version just got easier to use. It now also offers to back up your world and after the remapping is completed, single player worlds will automatically reload Feature: Rotatable anvils Tweak: World Edit Gui Import Tool: Added 2 buttons to rotate the selection CW or CCW Tweak: Updated language files. Added dutch translations \o/ Tweak: Made the slope test block rotatable just because. Tweak: Added "Open Logs Folder" to the launching/connecting server screen Tweak: /serverconfig setspawnhere now prints the coordinates in the correct notation Tweak: Lowered the sun a bit, makes sunsets and sunrises look less awkward with the sun still up but everything dark already Tweak: The Handbook browse history now also remembers the scroll position Tweak: Disabled save game setting "AllowCreativeMode" because its confusing, and cannot be enabled again, so it trips up people. Creative mode is now always allowed given the right privileges Tweak: Increased the flee detection range for most animals, therefore when sneaking this range is reduced by 40% Tweak: allowCoordinateHud worldconfig now also affects the coordinates in the debug screen Tweak: Journal Entries are now translatable Tweak: Updated /time command Now displays the date in a day.month.year format Added subcommand /time setmonth [1..12] or /time setmonth [jan..dec] Tweak: Updated weather related commands Can now do /weather setprecip [0..1 or auto] to set set a permanent override precipitation level Can now do /snowaccum [on|off] do toggle snow accumulation Can now do /snowaccum here [0..4] to test snow accumulation for the current chunk Tweak: Farmland now internally works with a moisture level instead of a watered yes/no value. This will allow future updates to the crop growth mechanic. Tweak: Changed how precipitation works. It is no longer a separate weather pattern, but a function of time that is overlaid onto cloud patterns. This was necessary to simulate snow accumulation efficiently, but also would allow for precise weather forecasts in the future or for modders. Fixed: Scrollbar issues in the mods manager at non-8 gui scales Fixed: Vertical jitter when sprinting Fixed: Elusive orange lupine not being generated Fixed: Should fix the game crashing when using a completely empty json block model Fixed: Satiety draining while in creative mode Fixed: Plank stairs and slabs texture not aligning correctly with one another Fixed: Water was no longer having any wavy motion Fixed: Should fix a crashing issue when placing troughs in rare cases Fixed: Curable/Perishable info texts were not translatable Fixed: Disabling the survival mod made a creative world not start Fixed: "Ready to mate" info on dead animals Fixed: Flowing water deleting torch holder blocks Fixed: Throwing spears pulled other spears from distant chest inventories Fixed: /admin landfree removed the admins claims instead of claims of the supplied player name Fixed: Various typos fixed in-game and in code Fixed: Constructing pile of boards dupe bug Fixed: Rare crash related to the particle system (by making chisel blocks a bit more thread safe) Fixed: .reload shapes broke all creature animations (no animations were playing anymore) Fixed: Server throwing exception when typing "{test}" into the console Fixed: A charcoal lit text was not translatable Fixed: Hoppers no longer push items into the quern output slot Fixed: /time calendarspeedmul not sent to client causing sun jitter. Also was not saved to the savegame. Fixed: Various open file/folder buttons crashing on linux Fixed: Scythe showing as a usable tool instead of knifes on several blocks Fixed: Admin survival players non able to break their own reinforced blocks Fixed: Should fixed chiseled blocks not supporting non 32x32 textures Fixed: Reinforced lanterns broke on first attempt Fixed: Windows Font DPI Setting no longer messes with the in-game fonts API Updates Feature: Completed implementation of .obj and .gltf loader. Blocks and Items can now also use .obj or .gltf files for their models Feature: Added harmony lib to improve mod support - you can use it to patch native code, see also official docs Feature: Added api.Event.OnGetClimate event. Used by the survival mod to adjust the already existing worldgen based temperature value to the current season, latitude and daytime dependencies Feature: New event IngameDiscovery displays large centered text in a fancy font Feature: Added a side independent network api. Added a .GetChannel() method. This simplifies network setup and reduces code repetition. See Example code below Feature: Added GameMath.CyclicValueDistance() Feature: Added zOffset per shape element capability (not yet editable in VSMC) Tweak: Dropped obfuscation on 35k client code Tweak: Add RequiredOnServer property to ModInfo Tweak: Allow code mods without ModSystems to be loaded as long as they have a ModInfo attribute Tweak: New animation meta data property "holdEyePosAfterEasein". Can be used to freeze the camera in place in the immersive fp mode. Added that for smithing and knapping so far. Tweak: Added a globally unique identifier for savegames. (savegame.SavegameIdentifier) Tweak: Added 'SQLiteDB' to the api, a basic helper class to set up a sqlite database, check out MapDB in the essentials mod for an example use case Tweak: Renamed IBlockTextureLocationDictionary to ITextureLocationDictionary Refactor: Renamed IntMap to IntDataMap2D Refactor: IGameCalendar.Season is now GetSeason(), as the season now depends on the hemisphere at given location Refactor: Some renaming of the EnumServerRunPhase values, but left old ones in as [Obsolete] for now. Added one new server runphase thats just before loading the first spawn chunks Refactor: Removed Api.World.Calendar.DayLightStrength on the server side. Instead, retrieve the daylight strength with .GetDayLightStrength(double x, double z). The day light strength propery on the client side still exists, but now is the day light strength at the players position. Refactor: IBlockAccessor.GetClimateAt() now has a new arg "EnumGetClimateMode mode" to retrieve the current temperature values Refactor: GameMath.FastSqrt is now obsolete. Apparently it is slower than plain Math.Sqrt *facepalm* Refactor: world.RayTraceForSelection() now has an additional arg take accept an optional entity filter. If you use this method, you might want to add (e) => e.IsInteractable as entity filter, as this was the previous behavior Refactor: entity.EyeHeight is now entity.LocalEyePos Refactor: entity.LocalPos is now called entity.SidedPos Refactor: sapi.WorldManager.LoadChunkColumnFast is now called sapi.WorldManager.LoadChunkColumnPriority Refactor: Renamed BlockMPBase.HasConnectorAt to HasMechPowerConnectorAt (only relevant for modded in mechanical power blocks) Refactor: Cleaned up paths and naming on a lot of block shape files Major Client-Side Refactor: meshdata.Rgba2 is no more. No longer needed as climate tint is now sampled by the shader instead of baked into the vertices. Consequently: new MeshData() now takes one argument less. The standard shader no longer has the prog.RgbaBlockIn property Block.TintIndex is gone, replaced by Block.ClimateColorMap and Block.SeasonColorMap The VS ModelCreator no longer has a tint index field, replaced by 2 text fields for the climate color map and season map. Be sure to open the new shape files with the new editor. capi.ApplyColorTintOnRgba(tintIndex, ...) is now capi.World.ApplyColorMapOnRgba(ClimateColorMap, SeasonColorMap, ...) Any meshes that get added to a chunk mesh (e.g. by block entities) require meshdata.SeasonColorMapIds and meshdata.ClimateColorMapIds to be non-null (initialize with verticescount/4 zeros if no color mapping is needed) capi.Tesselator.TesselateShape() no longer takes 1 tint index, but 2 ints a seasonColorMapId and climateColorMapId capi.Render.PreparedStandardShader() now accepts a Vec3f to pass on a color multiplier capi.Render.AllocateEmptyMesh() no longer accepts "int rgba2Size" meshData.XyzFaces is now a byte array instead of an int array to save ram meshData.Renderpasses is now a short array instead of an int array to save ram meshData.XyzFaces now need to hold the face index plus 1 (0 for no face, 1 for north, 2 for east, etc...) Added api.RegisterColorMap() to register a color map that is (optionally) inserted into the block texture atlas, added config/colormaps.json for json loading of color maps. The shaders explicits attrib locations for several shaders shifted by -1 (since we no longer upload Rgba2 data) Fixed: The Array Extension .RemoveEntry<T>() garbled the resulting array when removal index was 0 Fixed: Using <font> in Richtext caused the text to loose its orientation Fixed: Renamed Block.OnNeighourBlockChange() to Block.OnNeighbourBlockChange(), and this method is now also called client-side Fixed: block type property RandomizeRotations ignoring the RandomizeAxes property Fixed: Crafting recipes that referenced blocks/items that existed but were remapped did not log an error New simplified Network api sample code, in this case sending custom data to any connecting player: public override void Start(ICoreAPI api) { api.Network.RegisterChannel("latitudedata").RegisterMessageType(typeof(LatitudeData)); } public override void StartClientSide(ICoreClientAPI api) { api.Network.GetChannel("latitudedata").SetMessageHandler<LatitudeData>(onLatitudeDataReceived); } public override void StartServerSide(ICoreServerAPI api) { api.Event.PlayerJoin += (plr) => { api.Network.GetChannel("latitudedata").SendPacket(latdata, plr); }; } View full record

Hi Woesal, unfortunately still not yet. I was working with another developer who is on mac os, we have some clues, but not closer to a solution yet. Until then - the cursor issues might go away with this workaround:

Dear Community, in the back of my mind I always feel like I could be so much quicker developing the game if only the circumstances were just right. But then I wake up to the real world where I have previously made commitments as a father, husband, home owner and, for better or worse, leader of the team behind Vintage Story. When I do make a commitment, I usually honor them for many years. Not to mention the whole world dealing with the worst pandemic in a century, the gardening season starting and my less than stellar health conditions. I did also allow myself to slow down a bit, to reflect over the previous 4 years of very intense game development. Felt almost surreal to be peacefully sitting in the sunshine and not having the feeling of being a huge slacker Anyhow. I think I'm getting back on track now. In recent days I finally started to tackle one major part of the seasons mechanic - seasonal foliage. I made a video of the work-in-progress I got so far. Its a fast forward cycle-through of seasonal colors. Note that each type of foliage has a different color range. There is still more major parts of the seasons mechanics left to do before we could think of a pre-release. Beyond that, there's also a number of nifty features already implemented for the upcoming release, which I already showed off in Discord on #devlog: For modders an .obj and .gltf Loader, which lets you import models from popular 3d modelling programs. For example, sloped blocks \o/ The world map will be persistent Block Entities are now handled more efficiently. Amongst others, this means the game can handle dozens of thousands of chiseled blocks easily. Here's 62.000 of them in one screenshot running at a smooth frame rate. In version 1.12 this would cause extreme delay when placing/removing blocks nearby so many chiseled blocks. Chutes got an upgrade. There will be horizontal and vertical chutes, including an archimedes screw for vertical upwards transport, which requires mechanical power Some extra graphics fidelity is a must Water surfaces will feature specular reflections There will be an experimental immersive first person mode that should give you another edge in world immersion And lastly, I rewrote how plants in pots and planters are handled in the game, so you can expect a few interesting additions on that end Adding new game content like this, ideally while tackling interesting programming challenges is something I thoroughly enjoy doing, I am supper happy and grateful that I can do this full time now. Thank you very much for your support! And now, onwards to v1.13! View full record

modinfo.json has to be in the root folder of the zip file. You moved it into a Testmod folder

Upload your Testmod.zip so we can look at it

No, not currently, Kai

@radfast @cat you should be able to edit now