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Version 1.5.0.3, a stable release, is now ready for download in the account manager. Looks I broke something again. I hope thats all! Note: No need to update the server from 1.5.0.2 to 1.5.0.3. The changes are only client side. Game updates Fixed: Game crashing when breaking ingot molds Fixed: Client side DivideByZeroException (or at least the game won't crash any longer) View full record

hi @ACE, thanks for the feedback, I've just released 1.5.0.2 which should fix the mouse issues. The performance issues probably come from the retina display having a very high resolution. For this there is now also a Resolution slider in the graphics settings. If you put it at 50% your game should run better again.

Version 1.5.0.2, a stable release, is now ready for download in the account manager. It is very refreshing to see the sudden, and seemingly continuous influx of new members in our community. Let me take this opportunity to welcome you here one more time, show my appreciation for your support and hope that you are having a good time with what we've created :-) Also thanks to everyone that reported bugs, suggested features or helped spread the word of Vintage Story, makes for a very positive community climate, I find I decided to push another bugfix release, so that we have at least one very stable version of the game. Then I can worry less on creating unstable testing releases ^_^ Game updates Feature: Player view bobbing can now be disabled in the graphics settings (for @Milo Christiansen) Feature: The mouse Y-Axis can now be inverted in the controls settings (for @Shaun Graham) API Feature: Moved player/creature rendering system to the game content mod, several tweaks to the shape rendering system. Mods can now attach their own rendering stuff to players (for @copygirl) Tweak: Wooden paths now have a move speed bonus of 12% Tweak: Replaced fast graphics mode with a resolution slider. This now lets you reduce only the resolution without the weird side effects of backface culling. A value like 50% is recommended for MacOS Users with very high screen resolutions (for @ACE) Fixed/Tweak: Stone paths only yielding a 8% move speed bonus instead of 15%. Increase move speed bonus now to 20%. Fixed: The mouse cursor issues on MacOS and Linux should be a thing of the past now \o/ Fixed: Some shader errors printed to console on macos (and probably affecting moon rendering) Fixed: Increased move speed from blocks not increasing walk animation speed Fixed: Leaving, then re-entering a chunk causing some blocks to not fully disappear upon breaking (i.e. metal layer on molds, sign texts on signs, etc.) Fixed: Help dialog can be interacted with while the create character dialog is opened. Fixed: Foliage in some areas very uniformly colored (i.e. very rainy jungle areas) Fixed: Dying with GUIs disabled prevents to from enable again. Upon death guis are shown now if they were hidden. Fixed: Dying then rage quitting and reloading the world caused the player to be alive again with 0 health. Fixed: When Show/hide chat mapped to a letter then that letter can no longer be typed in chat without hiding the chat too. Fixed: /announce command not printing the message Fixed: 2 layer or thicker charcoal pits only yielding charcoal for the first layer Fixed: Placing fire pits in creative mode only producing a client side firepit that doesn't work Fixed: Minor Moon rendering issues Fixed: Hitboxes not tightly fitting baskets and crucibles Specially for copygirl, I made it possible that Mods can do this now (this is not in the game, but a sample mod) - back packs View full record

Yes, granted, gladly! :-)

Lovely! One request, perhaps you can use non-blurry zoom on the animated gif on the right, i think that will look better in a pixelated style. Alternatively you can up the gui scale in game to get a bigger preview.

Ok, you should be able to edit pages now

Oh yes, gladly. I've now reconfigured the wiki that anyone can sign up but not immediately edit. Please sign up now and tell me your user name, then I'll grant you the editing rights. Looking forward to your contributions!

Oh wow okay, sorry about that. I'll add an configuration option to disable it for next version!

Version 1.5.0.1, a stable release, is now ready for download in the account manager. As some of you may have experienced by now, ore blasting bombs are a very useful tool that enables you to quickly mine large deposits. They were however practically harmless to the player, which was not intentional. This update makes them literally deadly if you are too careless. Unlike in Minecraft however, an explosion will not hurt you if you take cover behind a blast resistant wall. So in case of ore blasting bombs either stand behind a 2 block thick rock wall, or a 1 block thick wall at a distance of 5 blocks and you should be save. Game updates Feature/Fixed: Explosions hardly hurting players. An ore blasting bomb explosion in the immediate vicinity (< 1.5 blocks) will now instantly kill the player. Explosion range and injury range are now separate. The ore blasting bomb now has an explosion range of 4 blocks and an injury range of 10 blocks. So from now on, when you go blast mining, you better take cover. Tweak: Some descriptive texts for the clothes Tweak: Game no longer crashes when the music and sound folders are deleted. Tweak: Hot metal in tool / ingot molds now cool down 3 times slower Tweak: Wolf pups no longer drop anything Tweak: Improved performance of large burning fires by disabling terrain collision tests for the fires smoke and spark particles Tweak: /we blu now places all blocks that are also in the creative inventory. /we blu all places all existing blocks. Tweak: Reduced surface copper and flint deposit occurrence by 25%. Reduced size of flint deposits by 25%. Fixed: Other player name tags not adjusting to their sitting/sneaking height Fixed: Distant players getting transparent and eventually fading out Fixed: Exception thrown by worldedit when using world edit tools right after world reload without changing any settings Fixed: Finally fixed the bug where the player wouldn't step on stairs Fixed: Animations broken on all baby animals Fixed: Clay forming and flint knapping textures slightly off again Fixed: The server default permissions did not allow players to build or use blocks Fixed: Player screen shaking when another player got hurt Since there's nothing new to show visually, here's 2 mildly interesting testing screenshots of a bombs ray cast and a large fire test O_O View full record

From top to bottom the right slots are: Gloves, Necklace, Emblem (for Medals), Ring and Belt. These are still subject to change if a better idea comes along before we get to actually adding these gear pieces. And yes indeed! It should greatly encourage exploration, trying to find rare dress pieces.

Stylish Vintarians Version 1.5.0, a testing release, is now ready for download in the account manager. This update will make multiplayer a bit more user friendly due to the addition of customizable player outfits, so we can each look not the same. Yay! I wanted to add some more game content but decided for an early release since there's were a few bad bugs in the previous version. Game updates Feature: Customizable player outfits! Everytime you start a new world or join server for the first time you will be able to select from a small range of dress pieces. We'll definitely add a greater selection in the future and make some acquirable only through ruin scavenging and trading. Dress pieces otherwise act just like normal items that can be stored and traded with other players Feature: When picking up items from the ground, the inventory slot they landed in will now vibrate to better visualize that you collected something. Feature: Mushrooms are now 3D! Feature: Added survival mode crafting recipes for stone path blocks (made from 5 stones and any soil) and wooden paths (made from aged planks). Feature: Getting damaged now shakes the screen API Feature: Added api methods for rendering a texture into a texture, Added api method to reserve texture space in the entity/block/item texture atlas Refactored TesselatorAPI texture atlas parts into their own texture atlas with some more functionality. We can now basically stream in and out of textures during runtime. More mod friendly way of setting the time speed (via time speed modifiers) Added ability for the engine to load mods from the data folder as well Tweak: Sign texts are now black and centered Tweak: The grid recipe for arrows now only results in a single arrow instead of 3 Tweak: Rewrote many server commands to be grouped together into logical components: /player and /role Tweak: Added ability to set default spawn point through command /serverconfig defaultspawn x y z Tweak: Improved the shape and textures of the bloomery, wooden chest, stationary basket, bucket and sign block Tweak: Some shader tweaks for the moon at dawn and dusk. Could potentially be used for further celestial objects that are also visible during daytime Tweak: Re-addded new opentk version built by copygirl, might fix linux mouse issues without breaking the game this time. Tweak: Animals only grow up if there is enough space to grow. This prevents them from suffocating if they are pushed to a block edge at the moment of growth. Tweak: Tweaked sound distance attenuation to play at 100% within a 3 block radius, should fix some sounds being very low volumne Tweak: Item/Block tool tip box now shows the item/block at 250% the normal size instead of 150% Fixed: /times speed command resetting on world reload Fixed: Killed animals still growing up and reproducing Fixed: Game crashing when trying to place a bow on a tool rack Fixed: Game crashing when igniting a block with a torch and then looking away. Fixed: Server crashing and breaking save games when breaking broken firewood piles (that contained shirts O_O) Fixed: Player block break animation not playing when nothing in hands Fixed: Tweaked the sizes / positions of many items and blocks in the inventory guis Fixed: Block schematic rotation issue when rotating by 180 degrees. Affects world edit schematics and structures created by world generation. Fixes ruins sometimes containing wrongly rotated beds. View full record

Version 1.4.9.3, a stable release, is now ready for download in the account manager. Our multiplayer experience revealed quite some bugs, this should remedy all notable ones. Make sure to get this one before connecting to the server. Game updates Feature: Cow Skulls can now be placed on walls (by skodone) Tweak: Increased tree chopping speeds when using metal axes Fixed: Shift + Left Click items out of the 3x3 crafting output slot disconnecting players and doing all kinds of weird things Fixed: Sitting animation not shown to other players and right mouse click not released Fixed: Downgraded opentk.dll again, as it breaks current versions of mono Fixed: Custom kick messages not displayed Fixed: Disconnected screen had a black background Fixed: Player eating animation not playing correctly Fixed: Textures on wood piles, fire pits, ingot piles and plate piles going all wonky on rare occasions Fixed: Sneak + Left click in the air with clay in hands crashing the game Fixed: Several sounds in stereo and thus playing not respecting positional sound rules Fixed: 3rd person transforms for some blocks reaaaally wrong. Improved some others View full record

Graciously hosted by @Geartwo I have finally decided to launch a (semi-)official multiplayer server for Vintage Story v1.4.9.2. I'll try to keep it somewhat moderated and more or less up-to-date with the latest stable version I'll be playing for an hour or 2 tonight at 9pm (gmt+1), so if you like, come join me for a round of plain old survival at chrometech.at. I also made a forum post where we can further discuss server related topics. So see you tonight, maybe View full record

Version 1.4.9.2, a stable release, is now ready for download in the account manager. Looks like 1.4.9.1 is pretty stable, so this version contains mostly minor bug fixes. I'll be bold and declare this as a stable release. Many thanks to @copygirl and @skol for providing me with several fixes for the Linux version. Game updates Feature: Can now sneak + right click fuel and cookable items into the firepit without opening the firepit dialog Feature: The saw can no be used to break logs like the axe, but won't break the whole tree Tweak: In the 3rd person camera the body now lags behind the camera rotation which looks much nicer Tweak: Added commandline argument --dataPath Tweak: Doubled the time it takes before the char coal pit starts burning, thus doubling the time you can have to close it up (from 15 to 30 seconds) Tweak: Disabled creature reproduction if any nearby chunks are unloaded. This might fix the massive uncontrollable creature reproduction that sometimes happens. Tweak: Large kapok trees now have 2x2 size trunks instead of 1x1 Fixed: Updated OpenTK Library to latest version, might fix some linux mouse issues (copygirl) Fixed: Fixed install.sh and server.sh (skol) Fixed: Filled Sword molds not returning anything Fixed: Mega screenshot hotkey (ctrl+alt+f12) not working Fixed: Setting a new hotkey in the controls doing weird stuff if one of the keys was assigned already Fixed: Sitting down not synced to the server, making it believe the player was still standing Fixed: Knapping sounds not exactly playing where the knapping happens Fixed: FPS graph displaying wrong values because it was offseted by 20 pixels vertically Fixed: Wolves suffocating when walking into 1 block high gaps Fixed: Firepit model not updating properly on extinction/ignition Fixed: Player able to place the first stage of a firepit in mid-air Fixed: Player sitting animation not easing out Fixed: Player walk animation not playing when pressing the sit key while walking Fixed: Firewood piles in underground structures dropping quartz instead of firewood Fixed: Ladder placing behaving unexpectedly (when placing at a steep angle or when trying to stack vertically on the first ladder piece with a ground in front) Fixed: Shadows not dropping on water surfaces Fixed: Rare crash bug that can crash the server when overloaded Fixed: Chat dialog swallowing first key if remapped to Enter key Wiki Updates Added a page to help you with version upgrade world incompatbilities (Updating Old Worlds) Added all new recipes from 1.4.9 Added some important notes to the fire pit and surface ores to the starter guide View full record

Yea, there will be a clothing layer that modifies the player skin and an armor layer that adds another model on top of the character model.

Phew Version 1.4.9/1.4.9.1, a testing release, is now ready for download in the account manager. Always makes me a little nervous to release a new version with so many changes, but here we go... Welcome to Version 1.4.9 - a massive amount of time went into one single new feature - the new player model. We went quite overboard on this one. There's dozens of major and minor new features now working behind the scenes to give you a much better player avatar. Instead of one single walk animation there's now 30+ different animations for all kinds of activities that also dynamically blend together. One disclaimer though, animations have been one of the most difficult / work intensive features we've added so far, so there's bound to be glitches and unlucky situations where the animations will look wrong. We definitely want to still tweak the system to make it look just right. Attention Linux/Mac Users: The location of the folder where your savegames are stored has changed, you might need to move the VintageStoryData folder manually to get back your saves. For the upcoming version 1.5.0 I would like to improve some on the game play content, such as an ability to set the spawn point and have player skin customization ready to use. I hope you like what you see! As for me, I already look forward to the next release! Game updates on v1.4.9.1 Tweak: Improved tree recognition when chopping trees. Harvesting acacia trees should be more pleasant again. Tweak: Axes no longer loose durability from broken leaves Tweak: Chopping trees with an axe drops more sticks now Tweak: Shears now loose durability from each broken leaves block, but also now have 5 times more durability. Tweak: Increased durability for all metal tools, particularly copper ones (50-100% durability gain) Fixed: Lowered player height so one can fit through 2 block high windows Fixed: Vintage Story on mono not using appdata folder Fixed: Knapping recipes now also drop tool heads Fixed: Game Server sometimes pausing and no longer resuming, causing it to act like crashed Game updates on v1.4.9 Feature: Complete overhaul of the player model New model! New texture! 35+ new animations! Seamless animations blending, i.e. can aim with a bow and walk, sneak or run at the same time! Can now see what the player holds in his hands in 3rd person mode! As always, all is configurable through json files for modders Feature: New camera mode "Overhead". To see the new player model in all it's glory you can now use the Overhead camera to look at the player in all angles Feature: Colored glass: 7 pretty variants of colored glass <3 (only for creative mode for now) Feature: All tool recipes now produce tool heads instead of the full tool. Combine with a stick to get your complete tool Feature: Complete overhaul of all tools models. Axes, Hammers, Hoes, Knifes, Pickaxes, Prospecting Picks, Saws, Shears, Shovels, Spears and Swords now look better than ever! Feature: Straw dummy. Test your skills on a stationary, defenseless dummy Feature: Wooden Club. Crude but effective tool for brute forcing your way out of sticky situations Feature: Added all creatures to the creative inventory Feature: Sleeping in beds to skip time. Straw beds let you skip 3.5 hours, wooden beds 4.5 hours and aged wooden beds 5 hours. Does not set the spawn point. Feature: One new cute animation for piglets and one attack animation for roosters. Tweaked the animation speeds for other creatures. Feature/Fixed: Single Key Hotkeys now fire even with modifiers pressed. Result: Can now make screenshots while sneaking/running or change slots via keyboard keys 1-9 while running. Feature: Added clay forming recipe for 4x crucibles, 4 clay bowls, 4x flower pots and 2x ingot molds Feature: Added knapping recipe for arrowheads. Tweaked existing knapping recipes Feature: Ore blocks now drop themselves when mined all around, just like stone blocks do Feature: Minimal intro dialog to redirect people to the wiki Feature: The /stats command is now more informative, debug screen now shows avg. amount of draw calls per frame Feature: Added Flint deposits near surface in rock types sandstone, shale, claystone, chalk API Feature: More modding abilities! Dropped the code obfuscation on the game content mod (VSGameContent.dll), this means modders have better access to the internal workings of the game content features In addition, I moved about 15.000 lines of game content code out of the engine and into the game content mod or the api library. This migration also surfaced a few shortcomings in the mod api, which are now fixed! Added a global event bus for mod/block communication (via api.Event.PushEvent) Tweak: Loose flint blocks now drop 50% more flint Tweak: Restyled most gui buttons to look like actual buttons Tweak: Shears now multibreak leaves and branchy leaves together Tweak: Enabled sideways running again Tweak: Enabled swimming up with the jump button again, but works better now Tweak: Significant performance optimized certain situations when there is *a lot* of creatures in a small space Tweak: Held item walk wobble now depends on the walk speed Tweak: Improved limonite texture Fixed: Glass blocks getting all white when looked at a very steep angle Fixed: Domain casing issue when loading assets from other origins (mod api) Fixed: More issue with spear/arrow hit detection Fixed: Player shadow not visible in first person mode Fixed: Added missing smithing recipe for pro pick Fixed: Game crashing when breaking leaves with shears on near 0 durability Fixed: Item dupe and more issues on falling block entities like tool and ingot molds Fixed: Client and Server Temperature fall-off of filled ingot and tool molds no longer drift apart Fixed: Game crashing if no blocks were loaded Fixed: Planting seeds not updating stack size on the client Fixed: A number of GPU memory leaks causing memory usage to increase notably when opening and closing many worlds without restarting Fixed: Mod lang files not loaded if no domain prefix was used Fixed: Game Server crashing on startup and not exiting properly when typing /stop in console >.< Fixed: Game Server tick rate not at the targeted 40 TPS but at 35ish Fixed: Overall scene too bright during daytime, causing snow to appear almost entirely white and sandstone sand almost entirely yellow. Screenshots New player model Beating a Straw Dummy with a straw dummy New glass blocks and flint deposits New Grid crafting Recipes View full record

Fellow Vintarians We hope you all had a great Christmas celebration! Let me use this time to organize my thoughts and give you an update on the current state of development. I've decided to take my time on this update instead of squeezing it into our usual 2 week release cycle. For one part because there's a big feature incoming and furthermore, on a rare occasions, Saraty and me took the holidays to play a game, which was "Don't starve together". What a punishing game Anyhow, we hope the bulk of our "don't starve" addiction is now over and we can continue on VS again Luke, Saraty and Ben were improving and animating our new player model while I was spending a lot of time working out all the kinks and quirks to make animation blending configurable and good looking. Only that allows a player to aim with a bow and walk/sneak/jump at the same time. I would love to make it even more feature rich, but for now I will probably focus on the ability to customize your characters looks. Just in recent days I decided to ditch the idea of MC style skin customization in favor of a more refined concept of ingame cloth pieces, I hope I can pull it off within a reasonable time frame. Wish me luck! Saraty also overhauled all the tools to be actual 3D models and now just voxelized textures, which combined with the new player model, look pretty awesome if i may say so. And finally, behind the scenes Ivan keeps building amazing stuff that makes me want to spend an entire month working solely on integrating structures and dungeons into worldgen! I'm super excited for when I can finally see them seamlessly integrated into our game. Survey Time In the essence of our constant strive to improve the game, I cordially invite you to help us make the best sandbox game we can by filling out a short survey. If you own a copy of Vintage Story, please fill in the Player Survey, for everyone else there is the Visitory Survey. Thanks! Moving v1.4.8 to stable Since I've heard no major bug reports on v1.4.8 I've now declared it stable. Pretty shadows for everyone! Version 1.4.9 Teaser Video Happy new year everyone! View full record