Tyron

3 hours ago, Doctorgeo7 said:

 Also, I'm surprised you don't see the contradiction between "Only the leadership gets to decide what to add" and "I still carefully review almost every game mechanic and code change that gets added to the game..." You already are doing what your team seem to be against. At this point, the only difference between having a manager do it instead of you is that you have someone else around.

I am not sure what you mean by that. I said I don't want only leadership to decide, as in, some additions are made by individual team members from their own initiative - which I still carefully review and request changes if necessary.

That being said, help in that particular area would be useful yea, but I am very concerned putting this into the wrong hands. So far I have not found someone where I feel confident of handing over this task.

2 hours ago, Gabe Heasley said:

This is what some of us are talking about. Tyron, you wear too many hats. Bugfixes do not need your oversight. Code review is standard practice but this also does not have to be your job.

Ok looks like I did not word this carefully enough. I do not review bugfixes, I review code changes that alter game mechanics or the behavior of the game engine itself. Stuff that would affect players or modders. I do hand over trust/responsibility where I feel its adequate. But even without reviewing - sometimes we need to readjust this stuff later once we realize its not in the right state. This whole process of ensuring Vintage Story follows one vision is difficult to scale for me. 

In my view, in relative terms, the risk of Vintage Story itself failing is higher with a bigger team compared to a smaller team plus side projects with a mostly independent team.

7 minutes ago, Adnyeus said:

I think it would be really interesting if you made a video showing how the bug-fixing process works and how long it usually takes. It’d give the community a better understanding of what goes on behind the scenes. I’d definitely enjoy watching something like that

I did a lot of live streaming where I fixed many bugs, about 2 weeks ago, I can try to do that again soon but they happen rather spontaneously when I have no other tasks at hand. Please keep an eye out for them in the #events channel on discord.

14 minutes ago, Adnyeus said:

Yeah, it feels like you want to ride the hype to create something like Hytale
it's clear now, at least to me.

Update 1.21 is so far one of the weakest of the last two updates in terms of new content, etc. Let's see what 1.22 or 1.23 will bring.

Sigh. It is unfortunate that you think that way.

The 1.21 update is small for a reason, so that we can finish it quicker. The purpose of 1.21 was to finish some of the planned stuff for 1.20. The previous poll showed that a large amount of players want that we don't leave stuff in an unfinished state - well then we have to do updates like 1.21. 

I've updated the blogpost/forum post to respond to many of your concerns, thank you for your feedback!

Dear Hytale Community,

as many of you might have read by now, Hytale has been officially cancelled. Our heartfelt compassion goes out to those that were looking forward to its release, as well as to all the developers working at Hypixel Studios. 

As a former Hytale developer myself, allow me to openly invite everyone left unsatisfied by this news to try out Vintage Story! While it may not be quite the same experience you would have hoped, do keep in mind that our game allows a great range of customization options to reduce some of the more difficult settings that Vintage Story ships by default.

In fact, if you are one of the former developers or a highly passionate Hytale fan with extensive modding skills, do write us at jobs@vintagestory.at. Perhaps we can put together a small sub-project within our Team of developers to bring out an additional game mode for Vintage Story that can at least in part deliver on the vision of what Hytale set out to become. I could picture this as a mostly independent work group developing a new playstyle or an external team that uses our extensive modding api with funding from us.

Due to the massive success Vintage Story has become and with the right leadership, I believe this would be something very achievable!

For our existing player base: Don't worry, the default experience of Vintage Story will stay true to its vision and updates will come at the same pace.

[Update, June 26] We've already received over 20 applications, including several high profile ones. This seems to look promising to me. We'll collect more applications for another week and then begin processing them - for all applicants, please stay tuned!
 

Cheers,
  Tyron

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19 hours ago, Khornet said:

A whole year? Oof. I personally feel like one entire in-game year of time is too much.

no you have to feed the elk about 10-15 days long, but do it within a year

9 hours ago, Maelstrom said:

I suppose this means a new world creation to experience this new content?  Or will we be able to revisit the Lazaret to enjoy this new content?

These 2 changes specifically either need a new world or /wgen regen x around the area yea.

5 minutes ago, Khornet said:

Can this capture adult goats!??
Also, regarding the new ocean content, it will only apply to newly generated chunks, correct? We're still stuck with muddy gravel oceans on our current worlds?

I'm not sure to what values redram set the capture-ability of goats, but generally the 1+ block tall large animals should not be catchable with this.
It will only apply to new chunks, yes. 

6 hours ago, Tom Cantine said:

And eventually, I hope, bigger fish [...]

Soon™
The fish entityparticle colors will get tweaked still, their colors are a bit intense. 

Dear Extraordinary Survivalists
v1.21.0-pre.1, a preview release, can now be downloaded through the account manager (section "Other Goodies").

Getting to release new content is the best part of our jobs 
The goal of this update was to focus mostly on finishing some of the planned content that we could not finish in time for the 1.20 update and to shorten the update cycle. This first pre-release should deliver most of that with an rc.1 following pretty soon. As always thanks so much to everyone providing feedback, bug-reports and even the occasional push request on Github, which we started merging at increased pace now. 
 

Please note
1. This first preview release is an unfinished update, mostly intended for modders and very adventurous players. You will encounter major bugs, incomplete features, possible performance issues and crashes.
2. Further preview releases (including fixes for bugs in pre.1) will only be posted in Discord #news and on info.vintagestory.at and not on this blog. As usual, a new v1.21 blog post will then come when the first full release candidate (rc.1) is ready
3. If testing 1.21 on an old world from 1.20 or earlier, we strongly recommend making a backup copy before loading the world in 1.21.
4. We do not recommend starting a new permanent world with 1.21-pre.1. Some of the pre-releases might still break things. A world created in pre.1 or older will not automatically generate all of the new story content which we anticipate including. Therefore we recommend make a new test world for your 1.21-pre.1 adventures
5. In general it is a good idea to disable all your previously installed mods, when testing 1.21-pre.1. Until the mods have had a chance to update for 1.21, games with older mods installed will have a strong chance of producing issues or crashes.

Credits
Huge thanks to community members who contributed various code suggestions and fixes we have included in this release: Dana (13 contributions), Jayu (3 contributions), TheMas3212, InsanityGod, IKnewOne, mrgrim, Lugrol, wispae, Hellaeh, sekelsta.
 

Gifs/Screenshots

Added colored crocks, bowls, pots, vessels and watering cans

Added coral reefs: This time for real. Schools of fish included!

Added wavy sands to oceans

Slow healing system. Poultices no longer heal instantly. Recent damage is visualized.

Added volumetric clouds system. Soft as a pillow now!


Ground storage improvements. Can now store 12 ores per spot

Added bear hide trophy armor

Sailboat upgrades: Can now name the sailboat and attach shields

Sailboat control change: Need to furl/unfurl sails to sail


Elk upgrades: Can now attach a falx and bow and temporal gears

Added many new hair styles, added in-game barber in story chapter 2

Game updates

• Feature: Added Colored crocks, bowls, and pots
  • Feature: Added new raw and colored clay versions of storage vessels, watering cans, planters, and flower pots.  Added via new blocktype files ("...-generic"), and removing the raw version from the old blocktype.  This leaves the old blocks in place in old name formats, so the only remap required is the raw blue clay versions, rather than having to remap every single pattern.
  • Feature: Add colored crucibles and metal molds
  • Tweak: Can place different colored ingot molds in same block
• Feature: New and improved clouds
  • Volumetric cloud rendering
  • The old clouds look is still available through settings
  • Fixed: Dark edges on distant clouds
• Feature: Elk taming system
  • Can now tame wild elks to make them rideable. Added a large crate trap, to trap creatures larger than can fit into a basket trap. Use it to trap a baby elk. Feed said elk into adulthood within one year to get a partially tamed Elk. Place a saddle on it and "saddle break" it once per day for several days to get a fully tamed elk.
• Feature: Elk riding system tuning
  • Feature: A tamed elk now follows the player if it is tied to a rope, making leading a roped elk much easier
  • Fixed: Tamed Elk still attacking the owner
  • Fixed: Elk medallion (Stiletto) and Long gem studded bracelet should now appear in loot randomizers.
  • Tweak: Add ability for falx and blackguard sword to be stowed on elk's front left and right utility slots
  • Tweak: Bows can be stowed on elk front left and right storage spots
  • Tweak: Added 3 spots to hang temporal gears on the elk (behind the right saddle bag location)
  • Tweak: Player now cannot accidentally harm own ridden mount
  • Tweak: If an owned / mounted animal is damaged by owner / rider it will not turn aggro, but will instead flee a shorter than usual distance
  • Fixed: Elk looking alive following a server re-start after the Elk was killed
  • Fixed: mounting a sailboat with a rope in hands that is attached to an Elk makes the sailboat fling wildly
  • Fixed: game crashing when harvesting a dead tamed Elk after server restart
• Feature: Coral reefs generate in bodies of salt water
  • Different reef types depending on water temperature (players may need to head south to see most)
  • Schools of small fish near reefs, as entity particles
  • Coral can be broken, yielding chunks of coral; these eventually decay into dead coral over time; live coral can only be placed in salt water, dead coral can be placed anywhere
• Feature: Add wavy sand blocks, for sand that appears underwater.  Wavy sand blocks drop normal sand blocks when mined.
• Feature: World generation tuning
  • Tweak: Majorly reworked landforms to be more easily traversable. Warning: Will produce terrain smoothing between old chunks and new chunks
  • Tweak: Enabled 2.5% ocean at 500% scale by default
  • Tweak: Fixed an issue with ocean gen where high landform scale would produce very square shaped oceans
  • Tweak: Added small red clay deposits in soil and gravel in cold climates where clay previously did not generate
  • Fixed: Worldgen creature spawning could sometimes spawn groups of babies (or more generally, companions) only
  • Fixed: Chunk border smoothing system not working properly
  • Fixed: Large world height worlds had less surface deposits (Technical info: Correctly scale surface deposit chance by deposit depth to world sea level)
  • Tweak: Added 3 new ruins, fine tuned a few others
• Feature: Slow healing system
  • Slow heal as well as taking damage is now visualized in the healthbar
  • Healing items now heal over time instead of instantly
  • Armor no longer nerfs healing amount, but the time it takes for the healing to apply
• Feature: Added several new hairstyles
  • New base hairstyles: Bowl cut, Box braids, Dense dread locks, Long curls, Medium curls, Rows, Dense rows, Short curls, Short curls2
  • New hairstyle extras: Back bun curls, Puffy back bun, Box braid bun, Cobra side braids, Knots, Curly ponytailurly,  Creast ponytail, Segmented top knot, Curly sidebuns, Side puffs, Skep bun, Top roll, Back roll, Back roll bun, Thick roll, Fishtail braid, Steppe sidetails, Steppe braid loop, Steppe braids
  • Several more hairstyles available in the game from the barber
• Feature: Added bear hide armor
  • A new craftable trophy armor with average stats
• Feature: Monster autoharvest! The falx now extracts 1 drop per hit from drifters, shivers and bowtorns (drop rate remains unchanged)
• Feature: Moon and stars position now closer to a real astronomical simulation
  • Moon phase now consistently correct
  • Rendered moon orients itself so that the lit side precisely faces the sun current position
  • Moon phase is correct based on relative moon and sun positions
  • Moon apparent path through the sky is now close to the ecliptic
  • Night-time star field rotates appropriately for the current latitude
  • Night-time star field varies over the calendar year according to the seasons / zodiac
  • Slight increase in full moon light strength, as our astronomically-accurate moon is on average a bit lower in the sky
• Feature: Added a world customization screen in the savegame modify screen
• Feature: 2nd story chapter adjustments
  • Feature: All traders (for a small fee) can now direct you towards a Treasure Hunter trader near your spawn point to get started with the story in the first place
  • Feature: Tad can now give haircuts and heal the player
  • Feature: All villagers now have their own unique dialogue
  • Feature: Added new short story found in the Lazaret
  • Feature: Tobias will now give you some food for the journey home
  • Feature: You may now confess to your crime if you hurt Charlemagne
  • Tweak: Added more environmental storytelling to the Lazaret
  • Tweak: Devastation area temperature now at fixed 17°C, which removes the unintentional snow cover and players freezing there
  • Tweak: Timeswitch skill is available again immediately if the way back is blocked; and base skill cooldown reduced to 1 second in Creative mode
  • Tweak: Significantly reduced distances between 2nd story event locations
  • Tweak: Many tweaks and jank-fixes to villager animations
  • Tweak: Many many fixes on Nadiyan clothing
  • Tweak: Elevator now can now be unlocked on each level in the tower
  • Tweak: A number of tweaks to Nadiyan villagers (added spear melee attack, they now attack monsters, added tongs, various tweaks to villager hairstyles)
  • Tweak: Reduced cooldown on the rickety translocator from 6 months to 2 months
  • Tweak: Devastation Area mob spawn: reduce the mob spawn speed, fix potential overspawn issues
• Feature: Sailboat/Raft improvements
  • Feature: The sailboat is now primarily propelled by the unfurling of sails; holding the Forward/Backwards keys has only a small effect now
  • Feature: Can now write on the side of the sailboat, to name it etc.
  • Feature: The weather vane on the top of the sailboat is now responsive to wind direction but it wont affect the sail speed at this point
  • Feature: Can now attach shields to the side of the sailboat. Up to 14 around the gunwales, one at each rib.
  • Tweak: Hanging onto the ratlines now tires the player; when too tired kicked off the ratlines and will need to rest
  • Tweak: Fence posts added to sailboats now consume 2 of the available spaces (one space for the post, one space for the animal)
  • Tweak: Sailboat rudder now moved to the right side
  • Fixed: Opening dialogs while sailing or rafting could change the player look direction
  • Fixed: Animals in sailboats looked jittery while on the move
  • Fixed: Water lilies now no longer render inside the sailboat
  • Fixed: Players positioned on the ratlines in the sailboat looked wrong
  • Fixed: Flicker and desync when switching seats on a raft or sailboat (or other rideable such as elevator); also fix flicker when mounting directly from one rideable to another
• Feature: Add mod safety check to stop mods marked by the VS team as not safe to load (to swiftly disable mods that have vulnerabilities in them)
• Tweak: Gameplay balancing changes
  • Tweak: Hats now provide protection from rainfall
  • Tweak: Anvil mold must now be destroyed to get the anvil
  • Tweak: Wolf attacks now have better cooldown and windup
  • Tweak: Improve irregularity of mob spawning. Remove mob spawning very far below/above the player. Increase chance of mob spawn near rifts
  • Tweak: A Hacked locust is now rope tie-able
  • Tweak: Sod roof now has an alternative recipe using logs
  • Tweak: Can no longer place an iron anvil top on a meteoric iron base, and vice versa
  • Tweak: Can no longer construct or light a pit kiln underwater
  • Tweak: If a tool breaks, the tool mode for that tool type now still persists
  • Tweak: Tweaks to charcoal pit and firewood burn efficiency
  • Tweak: Increased Rift Ward range from 30 to 40 blocks and range is no longer spherical but cylindrical (from world bottom to world top)
  • Tweak: Fish meat satiation halved, drops doubled.  Fish carcasses now have their own model.  Fish, tiny, and small carcasses drop 'tiny bones', which cannot be used in tools.
  • Tweak: Tree seeds burned 10 seconds (longer than sticks) now burn just 1 second
  • Tweak: Lime can no longer be crushed with a hammer
  • Tweak: Killed Bowtorns now drop bone arrows
  • Fixed: Bees in skeps still produced honey below 0°C
  • Fixed: Aged hay could be used to make fresh thatched roofing
• Tweak: New blocks/craftables
  • Feature: Added papyrus chests and basket traps
  • Tweak: Added papyrus version of handbasket
  • Fixed: Pink and smoky glass were missing slab recipes
  • Tweak: Clear quartz can now be pulverized
  • Tweak: Clinker bricks can now be chiseled
  • Tweak: Can now craft slabs, stairs, stonebrick, etc. from suevite
• Feature: Ground storage tweaks
  • Tweak: Ores now store in stacks of 12 on the ground
  • Tweak: Allow liquid interaction with ground storage
  • Tweak: Allow randomized rotation in SingleCenter ground storage
  • Tweak: Seeds, thatch, mortar and pulp are now ground-placeable
  • Tweak: Various other small items such as crushed powders, metal bits, gems, bones, feathers have improved appearance in ground storage
  • Fixed: Some ores not ground storable
• Tweak: In-World interaction improvements
  • Feature: Can now squeeze honeycomb in fruitpress for honey
  • Tweak: Allow honey comb squeezing into a barrel
  • Tweak: Pick block works in survival to swap slots, but does not give the block otherwise
  • Tweak: Can now swap chisel material using pick block mouse button
  • Fixed: When harvesting an animal it could happen that a drop would go over the stack limit
  • Fixed: Rotating a work item on the anvil could cause it to no longer line up with the smithing recipe
  • Tweak: Can now use a hammer and chisel to extract metal bits from hardened metal in metal molds without needing to finish filling the mold
  • Tweak: Can place and remove empty ingot molds always
  • Tweak: Allow placing crucible into firepit with right click
  • Tweak: Can now also seal crock outside the crafting grid
  • Tweak: Remove not needed shift key interaction help info on placed firepit and torches
• Tweak: Survival handbook improvements
  • Feature: The Handbook now shows meal and pie recipes
  • Tweak: Improved handbook guide for oven-baking and bread
  • Tweak: Show possible inputs for metal molding
  • Tweak: Show possible inputs for smithing
  • Tweak: Show "Created by" section for "firing in kiln", smashing with hammer to collect ores, anvil welding and smelting in bloomery
  • Tweak: Show possible clay inputs for clayforming
  • Tweak: Show required materials in smithing and clayforming 
  • Fixed: Inconsistent use of litres/liter and titles
  • Tweak: Handbook now displays more information for juicing and information for new squeezing action
  • Tweak: Add handbook info on parts required to repair translocator.
  • Tweak: Add mention of bone flute to the 'Tamed Mountable Animals' handbook entry
  • Tweak: Hide creative mode creature items from handbook
  • Fixed: Handbook: Daub recipe was including grass blocks not obtainable in survival mode in the image cycle
  • Tweak: Fireclay grid recipe in the handbook now shows 3 separate grids, to make clear that you can use all red clay, all blue clay, or a mixture of clays.
  • Tweak: Beehive kiln handbook entry changed to clarify that fuel piles do not have to be full to run the kiln, you just need some fuel in all 9 spots.
  • Tweak: Resin harvestable properties are now documented in the handbook
  • Fixed: Antlers now properly grouped in the Handbook
  • Fixed: Search in handbook not working properly with diacritics (e.g. Nawóz)
• Tweak: Performance improvements
  • Performance - optional setting ".clientconfig allowSSBOs on" to reduce GPU RAM used.  Reduces the GPU RAM usage of terrain by approximately half; try it at view distance 512 and higher, it may allow you to increase your view distance above your hardware's previous limit.  Changes to this setting are only effective after re-joining the world. It may affect framerate by -5% to +10% (depends on hardware, view distance, other graphics settings, and scene). Known issue: GLTF and .OBJ models might not render correctly in-game, if the "allowSSBOs" setting is enabled
  • Small server RAM reduction [detail: servers no longer retain block and item render transforms]
  • Reduce duration of occasional lagspikes due to garbage collection [detail: the number of permanently held small memory objects is reduced by 350k (servers) or 700k (single player), or more in modded games, allowing the garbage collector to complete its work faster; the garbage collector must run sometimes, typically there can be up to 3 such lagspikes every 5 minutes of gameplay]
  • Faster worldgen for large water bodies [detail: reduce array allocations in underwater blocklayers generation]
  • Fix one potential memory leak on long-running multiplayer servers [detail: it related to protobuf]
  • RAM: save RAM on both client and server when many entities are spawned (should also slightly improve multiplayer server TPS for spawning times)
  • RAM: reduced RAM use for animations on both client and server
  • Client-side, slight improvement in tesselation speed (3%-4%, YMMV)
     
• Tweak: Slightly nerf block light level boosts introduced in 1.20
• Tweak: When joining Multiplayer, on the modify server screen, added "Copy to clipboard" button for the server address 
• Tweak: Improved map marker position tracking for tamed elk [detail: the client now updates the ownership position to last-known position when it de-spawns client-side; the server updates the position in OwnershipsByPlayerUid when an entity is loaded; this means now the Ownership data should contain the last known position of an ownable, may help to track down missing elks]
• Tweak: When a support beam's selection box was out of bounds it became unselectable; now it is moved into bounds, albeit still not exactly at the location one would expect
• Tweak: Give back stick after squeezing cheese
• Tweak: Added seal hours info text for barrel recipes
• Tweak: Allow the player to take a meal serving from crocks on shelves
• Tweak: Added shelf interaction help
• Tweak: Moved server configs "allowFallingBlocks" and "allowFireSpread" to the worldconfig
• Tweak: Allow bombs to be blown up on land you have build permissions
• Tweak: Enable vsync by default, disable max fps limit by default
• Tweak: Worldedit can now be translated. See "we-" language entries
• Tweak: Luxury trader now sells new copper omok pieces, rather than gold.
• Tweak: Ingot molds display Block Info based on where you point
• Tweak: Conditional Block can now also accept "isBlock[code=abc] x y z" condition
• Tweak: Berry bush growth cycles are now about 1 month instead of x days to be month-length agnostic
• Tweak: Blocks with tiled textures (eg. fanned cobblestone) can now be chiselled and retain original textures
• Tweak: Held Temporal Gear and worn Temporal Gear Amulet now emit faint glow
• Tweak: Switching mod versions after already running the game once now shows a message prompting for restart to prevent unpredictable loading behavior
• Tweak: Add 'bigger' sounds for musk ox and takin
• Tweak: Water now somewhat less murky overall
• Tweak: Godrays intensity mildly reduced 
• Tweak: Change tongs offhand transform to 'nutcracker' style.  Also change crucible, toolmolds, ingots, and iron blooms to work with this.
• Tweak: Raw daub now stacks to 128. Raw daub grid recipe output reduced to 8. Wattle and daub block also now requires only 8 daub. So the crafting effort is the same.
• Tweak: Add CPU info logging to client and server, also add RAM logging to the server
• Tweak: Prevent story location schematics from generating too far from the center "StoryMaxFromCenter" in locationname/structures.json
• Fixed: Torch light in caves would dim if foggy at surface; generally reduce fog indoors
• Fixed: Shattered molds display proper amount of bits dropped
• Fixed: Randomizer meta block not resolving in medium1 ruin
• Fixed: Empty or unclosed hotkey tokens crashing the game
• Fixed: A removed itemstack not getting deleted from a loot randomizer (creative mode item)
• Fixed: Added a missing tooltip to the firestarter
• Fixed: Made most of the particle effects dimension aware
• Fixed: Some liquid containers in grid recipe are not getting their liquid rendered nor text shown
• Fixed: Trait "Damage against mechanicals" now also applies to ranged weapons
• Fixed: Server tick time higher than necessary in some cases
• Fixed: 25% chance of fixing player ghost duplicates
• Fixed: Only show one bag per category on player
• Fixed: Newly placed reed chests would not close
• Fixed: Larger worldedit schematics would cause the client to lose connection [detail: any large packet send to the server would make a client lose connection]
• Fixed: Sound engine breaking because it does not remove disposed sounds
• Fixed: Fruitpress issue when screwing down the screw fully if mash was not large enough to be juiced
• Fixed: Armorstands would not sync immediately with other players when adding/removing armor
• Fixed: Labeled Chests no longer showed their name in the inventory dialog
• Fixed: Berries in raccoon mouths had bad visual offsets
• Fixed: Entity insta-flee action and certain Eidolon actions were wrongly disregarding melee attacks
• Fixed: Leafy tops of turnips in troughs were invisible from certain angles
• Fixed: Two skin colors in character creation were both called "forest brown"
• Fixed: Doors would sometimes connect incorrectly
• Fixed: LeftDoor will flip properly during double door placement
• Fixed: When the VS updater was run the game was not automatically started again. Using the parameter /VERYSILENT you can suppress starting of the app, using /SILENT will now launch the application. When running the full installer using /SILENT or /VERYSILENT will not start the game automatically
• Fixed: Players who joined the game in Creative Mode flight had wrong collision box server-side
• Fixed: Logger.Warning with parameter exception was logged as error instead of warning
• Fixed: Should fix "outside water" rendering in chiseled blocks in Dim 2
• Fixed: Game speed stuck at a high rates from sleeping, this could have happened when getting out of the bed and directly exiting to main menu
• Fixed: Misaligned clay ridge roof models
• Fixed: Prevent rare game crash after tutorial progress failed to save correctly due to hardware or power issue
• Fixed: Bone flute was flammable
• Fixed: Goats had improper medium hide drops
• Fixed: Period for which moose had antlers was too short
• Fixed: Missing ground-stored transforms for cooked rhizomes
• Fixed: Noticeable transition in sky color tone after midnight
• Fixed: Hacky fix for animations not playing on newly spawn entities
• Fixed: Bowls and jugs show contents on shelf
• Fixed: Granite, andesite, limestone, and chalk sands could not produce any kind of daub with red clay.  They now produce golden brown daub (but still produce the lighter daubs with other clays)
• Fixed: Mods with worldconfig.json will now load lang entries for world config
• Fixed: Crucibles and hot meals once again show smoke or steam particles when placed on the ground
• Fixed: hides were missing incontainerTextures, and did not show up in-world in barrels.
• Fixed: Rope tool mode to lengthen/shorten no longer shown in top center
• Fixed: Deep water was not affected by underwater murkinesss
• Fixed: Erel feather stem had wrong position on tool rack
• Fixed: Wall-leaned spears popping off in in some cases
• Fixed: "Protect eyes" seraph animation was playing even when not facing the wind
• Fixed: Ruined wooden shelf now lines up with standard wooden shelf height
• Fixed: Chandelier lighting shading now matches that of candles
• Fixed: Own player not visible in map when in spectator mode
• Fixed: Worldedit TreeGenTool would not grow fruit trees
• Fixed: Game sometimes crashing when typing '[' while drunk
• Fixed: When editing sign text, the amount of lines in the edit GUI depended on GUI scale
• Fixed: When editing sign text, camera turning to the right sometimes when saving
• Fixed: Fish meat was missing food tag "meat"
• Fixed: Baby gazelles lacked proper stats and would never grow; gazelle calves dropped fat same as adults (now drop none)
• Fixed: Missing recipes to make aged scroll racks and aged bookshelves from aged boards
• Fixed: Compost could be put in mining bags
• Fixed: Players were still able to till soil which has a block above it
• Fixed: In Homo sapiens game mode, panning could drop man-made objects
• Fixed: Various corrections to the English language translation text
• Fixed: Rare crashes involving BehaviorSqueezable
• Fixed: Rare crash when looking at an entity with the elevator in the background
• Fixed: Attempt to fix very rare serverchunk entity serialization issue
• Fixed: When a dedicated server creates a new world some default worldconfig values and some settings from the selected playstyle were not applied
• Fixed: When a server backup is running and autosave was triggered it would block the server ticking until the backup was done, now we skip autosave till the backup is done
• Fixed: Issues with LAN-hosted multiplayer games and entity motion (for some people it stopped working randomly, requiring a restart, the underlying networking mapping now auto-renews)
• Fixed: When a savegame is already opened by another running version of the game (can also happen after crashes) it would lock up the client for 30 seconds before it was responsive again, reduced now to 1 second
• Tweak: Minor polishing changes
  • Tweak: Game credits now organised alphabetically within sections
  • Fixed: Beenades had incorrect held transform
  • Fixed: Weird ridge beam names
  • Fixed: A few grammatical issues with meal names
  • Fixed: Hay block bottom texture had wrong rotation
  • Fixed: Inconsistent naming for rice-based alcohols
  • Fixed: Blister steel work items missing localization
  • Fixed: Localization issue with units of metal

API Updates

• Upgrade: VS now runs on .net 8
• Feature: Fruitpress can now output a different item than dry mash when mash is fully juiced
• Feature: New Squeezable collectible behavior replaces hardcoded honeycomb item class
• Feature: Grid Recipe crafting: Added mergeAttributes to grid recipes that specifies ingredients which attributes will be merged into output stack. Allowed use of regexes in ingredient code. Allowed use of '{variant}' construction in ingredient code wildcard, several variant groups can be used in one ingredient and across ingredients, allowedVariants and skipVariants for them are specified separetly in recipe.
• Feature: For block textures, tiles and overlays can now be used together
• Tweak: New IsFood property for cooking recipes, to avoid dirtying the cooking pot
• Tweak: Liquid ingredients in meals can have nutrition set per liter
• Tweak: Cooking recipes can now have different quantities of items per stack
• Tweak: Traits & CharacterClasses can now be loaded from multiple files, you no longer need to json patch these files
• Tweak: ItemStone damage now json configurable
• Tweak: For entities with milkable behavior, made lactatingDaysAfterBirth and milk liquid stack configurable
• Tweak: Custom bloomery capacity in json; allow custom ore capacity in bloomery via collectible attribute "bloomeryCapacity"
• Tweak: Allow custom barrel sounds from json config
• Tweak: various changes to basket traps:
  • basketCatchable property replaced by trappable, see vanilla creature jsons for examples
  • The basket trap no longer defines bait by food category, now only by food tags
  • Traps can now define a min weight value for bait, and food tags can include a weight value
  • For both basket and crate traps, render transforms can be defined for the bait, can be different for different trap types. See vegetable.json, carrot attribute "inTrapTransform" for an example
• Tweak: Chests and other storage in ruins and dungeons can have contents refresh for each player: to create such a chest, use command: /giveblock chest-east{isPerPlayer:true} 1.  The inventory can be seen and modified in creative mode, ctrl click clears a slot. Command: /dev pplr l[] resets all player usages for this chest
• Tweak: For creatures, gallop/trot sound is now configurable in json
• Tweak: In creature diets, one additional food tag: "egg"
• Tweak: (experimental!) added /debug chisel genshape command to generate a json model from a chiseled block
• Tweak: Added StoryLockableDoor and /dev storylock command to add locks to doors in story structures
• Tweak: Entity spawning temperature and rain condition tested Y coordinate now always at 109% of sealevel instead of at the current spawnposition, should prevent for example Arctic creatures spawning on tropical mountaintops
• Fixed: Wolf (and other entities) with a SeekEntity attacking AITask with a null leapanimation specified, no longer default to "jump"
• Fixed: CompatibilityLib was not replacing assets
• Fixed: Blended texture overlays not working when using different domains
• Tweak: For coded mods only, in the unlikely event that in your code you need to adjust AnimationMetaData for a single instance of an entity only (not for all entities of the type), if you need to change or add to these fields or Dictionaries, please .Clone() it first: .Attributes, .TriggeredBy, .ElementWeight, .ElementBlendMode, .AnimationSound
• Tweak: In server-side code paths, Block and Item render transforms are now set to null after server startup is complete. This may produce exceptions in mod code if mods attempt to access these transforms server-side (should be unnecessary server-side)
• Tweak: BlockBehavior.OnBlockPlaced() is now called after any BlockEntity for the block is created (until now, it was called before creating the BlockEntity)
• Tweak: IAnimator now offers a TryStartAnimation() method, does nothing if the animation is not available
• Tweak: Added IsAir property as a mod-compatible way to replace checks for block ID == 0
• Tweak: new method IInventoryManager.CloseInventoryAndSync(): if called client side, closes the inventory and sends a syncing packet to ensure .CloseInventory will be called on the server also
• Tweak: Possibility of specific slot icons and colors e.g. for hotbar and armor slots; in code, can be changed dynamically at runtime
• Tweak: Add wildcard and regex support to BehaviorUnstableFalling exceptions
• Feature: Added OnGetMiningSpeed, OnGetMaxDurability,OnGetRemainingDurability,OnDamageItem and OnSetDurability to CollectibleBehavior
• Tweak: Coded collectible behaviors can now implement/override OnTransitionNow() [thanks to Dana]
• Tweak: Coded collectible behaviors can now implement/override OnHandbookRecipeRender() [thanks to Dana]
• Tweak: Coded mods extending BehaviorGrow can use overrideable BecomeAdult() method to transfer attributes etc from child to adult entity [thanks to sekelsta]
• Tweak: Farmland/CropBehavior class tweaks, added more parameters to the TryPlant and OnPlanted methods for CropBehavior modding
• Tweak: Less hardcoded EntityBehaviorMilkable
• Tweak: BEAnvil.cs now uses .GetInterface() instead of casting to get the IAnvilWorkable instance
• Tweak: Clay oven: Don't hardcode ovenFuelShape
• Tweak: Clean up berry bush code to be more moddable
• Tweak: More moddable crop seeds (use .Variant[".."] in ItemPlantableSeed.cs)
• Tweak: Use GetInterface for ICombustible, instead of "block is ICombustible bic"
• Tweak: Update GuiComposer to allow setting of TitleBar key via method argument
• Tweak: Remove NetServer.Name and ConnectedClient..FromSocketListener and use ConnectedClient.IsSinglePlayerClient instead of testing the socket for a DummyTcpNetServer
• Tweak: Ability to disable UI switches and sliders
• Tweak: NumberInput UI element only allows typing in valid input
• Tweak: Added IconPath to the ModInfo class, which now also gets loaded from json.
• Tweak: the shader shadowmapgeneric is re-named to chunkshadowmap
• Tweak: when the engine creates meshes from shapes, the order of the vertices for some faces (S, W, Down) has now been changed to a consistent order on every face. This should not usually affect mods unless they need to fetch individual vertices by vertex index: some of the vertex indices have changed. In rare cases this may also have an effect on the order of windmode/winddata specified in shape files for plants etc, please re-check that your plant models still look OK in-game.
• Tweak: IServerConfig.MaxClients now also returns the proper value if the --maxClients command line overwrite was used. ServerConfig.GetMaxClients() now gets its value from IServerConfig.MaxClients and is no longer needed. If you modify IServerConfig.MaxClients it will update the serverconfig.json and also update the value of --maxClients if it was specified at server launch.
• Tweak: Allow NatFloat Offset to be used in BlockDropItemStack properly 
• Fixed: Incorrect clamping of some NatFloat values
• Fixed: Method AllocateTextureSpace() was not working correctly
• Fixed: Exception thrown when a block is broken and a trait modifies it to 0 drops
• Fixed: Game crashing when mortallywoundable is used on non-rideable entity

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9 minutes ago, Dilan Rona said:

No disrespect intended, but it would help if you posted some information of what GLTF, or OBJ models are, and what it does. Not all of us are programming DotNET, and some might be getting into that later.

I don't think that's relevant to our poll. If a modder does not know what they are, then as far as we are concerned, we are good to drop support for it. This is more about existing mods using OBJ/GLTF.

I took the freedom to rewrite radfasts poll text to make the what and why clearer.

Dear Extraordinary Survivalists 
v1.20.12, a stable release, can now be downloaded through the account manager.

This should be the last release of 1.20.x unless other critical issues appear.

As for the next major 1.21 update, titled "the 1.20 content completion update" (provisional name, lol), it should happen pretty soon, a first pre-release possibly still in June. The main theme of this next update will be completing and polishing a number of areas that did not make it into 1.20, such as sailboat improvements, an elk taming system, coral reefs and easier story progression. Stay tuned!
 

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Game updates

• Fixed: Rare crash while loading entities client-side. Github #6025
• Fixed: Teleporters not working on servers once the tick time exceeds 100ms
• Fixed: Raft oar animations not correct in 1.20.11. Github #5924
• Fixed: Colored lanterns could lose their lighting colors when other light-sources placed nearby. Github #5950
• Fixed: Removing a lined lantern could leave a ring of faint light
• Fixed: Rare client crash on game exit. Github #5976
• Fixed: Client-side crash when an empty pie falls. Github #6009
• Fixed: Attempt to fix very rare serverchunk entity serialization issue. Github #6006
• Fixed: Large numbers of fresh spawned entities after pausing the game for a while in SSP
• Fixed: Privilege escalation vulnerability with the block randomizer
• Fixed: Timeswitch commands permissions not properly setup

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Dear Extraordinary Survivalists 
v1.20.11, a stable release, can now be downloaded through the account manager.

This release has no new gameplay features BUT a few fixes compared with v1.20.10.  As well as that, on multiplayer servers, it significantly improves performance and reduces RAM utilization, especially with higher player numbers:

• A large multiplayer server running this release should perform up to approximately twice as good - twice as many ticks-per-second - when large numbers of players (more than 30) are online
• Different results may be seen with different player counts, adjusted servermagicnumbers.json, different creature numbers compared with the vanilla defaults, or modded games, but all servers should see some improvement
• This release also uses approximately 10%-20% less RAM, in both single-player and multiplayer games.

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Game Updates

• Changes in 1.20.11
  • Tweak: Improve client<->server connection stability. (Technical Info: Added server health check for UDP since some ISP's may block randomly some UDP, this may cause desync between entities or dropped items. So now if there was no UDP received from a client for 30 seconds the server will fall back to TCP automatically for that client and tell it to also fall back to send only TCP which should fix the desync. Further you can now set forceUdpOverTcp in clientsettings.json or using ".cf forceUdpOverTcp on" command, then just rejoin and you have permanently enabled to only use TCP.)
  • Fixed: Rare exceptions in 1.20.11-rc.1 when a server loads mapchunks at the world border
  • Fixed: Containers spawned in using the /giveblock command without adding the type attribute would allow you to place them in a boat storage slot but would crash your client. If this was done on a server you may end up crashing as soon as you join again.
  • Fixed: Redwood tree generation destroys translocators
• Changes already in 1.20.11-rc.1
  • Tweak: Multiplayer server performance substantially improved in many areas
    • Improved TPS from entity ticking (especially if MaxPhysicsThreads exceeds 1: on large servers please experiment with setting that in the range 2-5, in servermagicnumbers.json)
    • Improved TPS from entity spawning (testing of spawn positions now runs on a separate thread)
    • Improved TPS from player and entity physics and animations updates on the server
    • Reduced peak RAM requirements for server packet sending
    • Reduced peak RAM requirements for server game autosaving
  • Tweak: Map and minimap performance improvements (client side changes)
    • Map now drawn up to 10x faster when panning or zooming into previously mapped areas
    • Areas of the map which are moved off-screen are now preserved for longer without re-draw
    • Reduced heavy multiplayer lag after panning in the world map (greatly reduced client-server network traffic from panning)
  • Tweak: Reduced RAM requirements on both server and client for animations
  • Tweak: Thrown stones, snowballs and other thrown projectiles now have smoother motion
  • Tweak: For hardware constrained servers, new optional VintagestoryServer.exe command line argument --reducedThreads to reduce the number of threads used overall (detail: may help servers which have hardware thread count limits, at the cost of some worsening of ticks per second and game startup time)

Note for modders:

It is possible that v1.20.11 will cause mod breakage for a very small number of coded mods, although most mods built for v1.20.10 should still work just the same. Mods which only add content using JSON or patches should all be okay. For coded mods, if you experience any new mod issues (not present in v.1.20.10), please do report them and meanwhile continue using game version v1.20.10.  [For coders: we did not change the API, but if your mod's code references ServerMain.Clients with VintagestoryLib.dll as a dependency, you will likely need to recompile against the 1.20.11 version of VintagestoryLib.dll. Harmony patches which make code changes deep within VintagestoryLib might also need attention: most of the entity physics, animations and general entity ticking code in the engine has been changed.]

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Dear Extraordinary Survivalists 
v1.20.10, a stable release, can now be downloaded through the account manager.

Boop.

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Game updates

• Tweak: Increased of fruit tree graft survival chance from 50% to 60%
• Fixed: Wide doors can delete blocks when placed
• Fixed: Should properly fix bowtorns not harvestable in some cases
• Fixed: Shiver hurt animation not stopping walk animation
• Fixed: Potential item loss in multiplayer if a player lost connection while a chest was open
• Fixed: Incorrect pottery trade items in the trader buying/selling lists
• Fixed: Unclear error message "missingtokenv2" when trying to connect to a game server
• Fixed: MacOS Hud and GUIs going invisible
• Fixed: Monsters spawning on surface anywhere, when temporal stability is disabled

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Dear Extraordinary Survivalists 
v1.20.8-rc.2, an unstable release, can now be downloaded through the account manager.

[Edit 4/22/25:] Also today released 1.20.9 stable with the following changes:
- Tweak: Increased illumination levels of block light, from torches etc. (only client side visual effect, does not alter mob spawn)
- Fixed: Mobs spawning where they shouldn't
- Fixed: Error log spam when player was wearing a night vision helmet outside loaded chunks
- Fixed: Command .debug wireframe landclaim was for some players showing claimed areas with the wrong offset
- Fixed: Sling not affected by the ranged weapons damage character traits

[Edit 4/20/25:] Now released as 1.20.8 stable including all the changes in 1.20.8-rc.1 and 1.20.8-rc.2 and the following additional changes :
- Tweak: Update trader buying/selling lists, update community translations
- Fixed: Mitigate rare crash in wind particles system
- Fixed: One observed instance where the server was running out of memory when the Resonance Archives were generated with world height customised to a lower value than default

Screenshot by Saatgut93, shared on #screenshots on Discord

Game updates  (in 1.20.8-rc.2)

• Tweak: Added to Tamed Mountable Animals guide, tame elk currently only obtainable from trader
• Tweak: In Handbook and item descriptions, add some mention of "elk" to most tamed-elk riding gear, for searchability
• Tweak: Players in creative mode with privilege "commandplayer" can now access locked chests
• Fixed: Rift weather stuck at very high forever (since 1.20.8-rc.1)
• Fixed: Mobs able to spawn near light sources outside of storms with normal self stability (since 1.20.8-rc.1)
• Fixed: Complete item loss from shift clicking away items into a chest in certain circumstances
• Fixed: Attempt to fix occasional issue with chest and other inventories not closing server-side
• Fixed: Soybeans and cured fish in meals were not being drawn
• Fixed: Prevent error log spam caused by hopper trying to push a crock into a chest that already contains a crock [Detail: disabled the meal serve into container mechanic when it has EnumMergePriority.AutoMerge which is used by hoppers shift left click and ground pick, in any of those this should be disabled]
• Fixed: Rare ghost items when serving meals from pots in the inventory
• Fixed: Resonance Archives lighting sometimes off when it should be on
• Fixed: In other dimensions, chisel add material and other tool mode changes didn't work
• Fixed: In other dimensions, could be incorrect entity AI targeting
• Fixed: Shiver and Bowtorn corpse harvesting range different from different angles

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Dear Extraordinary Survivalists 
v1.20.8-rc.1, an unstable release, can now be downloaded through the account manager.
 

"Wall", shared by Kotsu on discord #screenshots

Some things just don't pan out as one would hope them to, pun intended

1.20.7 broke falling blocks in some cases so this update should remedy that. In the process I also finally tackled the excessive new mob spawn during temporal storms, as well as the missing mob spawns during nights in summer. I have marked the release as unstable because it might throw off the mob spawn balance again. Radfast added some fixes to the "other" dimensions.

Game updates

• Tweak: New Summer Stroll music track now also plays in summer. No longer exclusive to the Resonator
• Tweak: Improve localized messages sent to players, global messages are sent in the server language where player specific ones are sent in their language
• Fixed: Several issues in other dimensions
  • Blocklight from light sources should now spread correctly
  • For trunks, the right-hand element had wrong Block HUD info and wrong pickblock result
  • Fixed rare block breaking issues and excessive EntityItem spawned in some cases
• Fixed: Server-side error when player attempts to place faded crumpled letter on the ground
• Fixed: Invalid blocks created from falling blocks
• Fixed: Properly fix temporal storms sometimes spawning huge amounts of the new mobs
• Fixed: Mobs not spawning in summer nights. Rift tweaks.
• Fixed: Should fix butterflies turning in place for a minute at a time
• Fixed: Rare server-side exception if the disconnected player was not yet loaded
• API Tweak: Added IHeldHandAnimOverrider collectible interface to prevent a held idle animation being played based on an item held in the other hand

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Hey, is that since 1.20.7?

Dear Extraordinary Survivalists 
v1.20.7, a stable release, can now be downloaded through the account manager.

This should fix a notable dupe bug related to falling blocks and various other minor issues. Unless new major issues are discovered I am finished with updating 1.20.x, however radfast will likely build a 1.20.8 performance update soon still.

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Game updates

• Tweak: Added Audit logging when breaking containers and their contents is getting dropped
• Tweak: Further slightly reduce spawn rate of the new mobs during temporal storms
• Tweak: Update community translations
• Fixed: Small oddities with falling coal (was invisible, it hurt the player unintuitively and particles spawned too far up)
• Fixed: Properly fix blue tint during temporal storms
• Fixed: Wearables in ruined chests at 100% condition and getting set to a lower value only when taken out
• Fixed: In other dimensions, player motion smooth stepping and walking on walls
• Fixed: Placed torches not emitting particles in other dimensions
• Fixed: Texture flipper item: Invisible textures in toolmode ui
• Fixed: Armor damage overlay was not affected by fog
• Fixed: Text overflow from lots of mods on the public server view screen. Mod list now truncated after 20 mods
• Fixed: Might fix rare occasions where screen goes completely black after respawning
• Fixed: Potential duplication bug on lagging server, when causing blocks to fall
• Fixed: All water visible (even underground one) when inside the cloud layer
• Fixed: Incorrect position for the hot held crucible and incorrect pouring animation. Added flute use animation
• Fixed: Seraph knapping animation jittery
• Fixed: Rare exception on crash during shutdown
• Fixed: Might fix invisible entity issues following a teleport

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17 hours ago, Broccoli Clock said:

I'd love a "stop time" that doesn't stop the environmental animations/sounds

/time calendarspeedmul 0.00001   (default value is 0.5)

Dear Extraordinary Survivalists 
v1.20.6, a stable release, can now be downloaded through the account manager.

We suggest to urgently update all game servers to this latest version, as all game versions of the last 6 years are affected. An issue was discovered which could allow a player to create arbitrary blocks and items, including Command Blocks which can run arbitrary server commands under admin privileges. This release should both fix the creation of arbitrary items as well as the ability to use Command Blocks as a Survival Mode player. Only the servers need to update. The game clients can remain on 1.20.5.
To clarify: This vulnerability only affected server commands via Command Blocks, not via the underlying server console / shell.

Game updates

• Tweak: Don't print audit logs to console, but to debug window only
• Fixed: Gameserver privilege escalation vulnerability on multiplayer servers
• Fixed: Large underground ruin having one of the creative blocks in it
• Fixed: Updated Harmony to 2.3.5 which should fix issue when using Harmony mods on Linux systems using GLIBC 2.41 and newer

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Aw, looks like i forgot that, will be in 1.20.6!

thanks, notice removed

oh i see. okay, i'll disable that for next release

10 minutes ago, zizzler said:

excellent! thank you!

i see some new audit logs. can i turn these off?

18.3.2025 13:33:19 [Server Audit] xxx left clicked slot 27 in backpack-FZw8fzERlOc2EJn5+bHO+H5r. Before: (mouse: empty, inv: 16xHorsetail Poultice (from reeds)), after: (mouse: 16xHorsetail Poultice (from reeds), inv: empty)
18.3.2025 13:33:23 [Server Audit] xxx left clicked slot 27 in backpack-FZw8fzERlOc2EJn5+bHO+H5r. Before: (mouse: 16xHorsetail Poultice (from reeds), inv: empty), after: (mouse: empty, inv: 16xHorsetail Poultice (from reeds))

 

not currently, why would you want to turn them off? oh are they printed to the dedicated windows server command line window?