Hey Everyone! Hope you all had a good time over the holidays, today weve got a big quality of life update! The most important part of the update is that Besiege is switching to 64bit! This will mean players with powerful computers will see a huge performance boost when playing with larger machines, during testing weve seen up to a 3x FPS boost on certain workshop items! We feel like now is a good time to make the shift to 64bit as it will put Besiege in a good position going forward, allowing us greater freedom to pursue more exciting features in the future. If youre still running a 32bit operating system then dont worry! Youll still be able to play Besiege as weve created a legacy32bit branch of the game on Steam, click here for a guide on how to change to the 32bit branch! However, you will need a 64bit operating system in order to play newer updates for Besiege. In addition to shifting to 64bit weve got a host of new features, improvements and bug fixes for you. Theres a full changelog at the bottom of this post but here are some of the highlights:

• Added more features for the logic system, including new gate options and support for variables in place of keyboard inputs, making complex logic systems easier to manage & track
• Reworked Ipsilon campaign island that includes the advanced brick system, present in the later campaign islands, as well as fixing a bunch of issues with levels

• Increased the number of maximum cloud saves from 1,000 to 10,000
• Added more level editor objects
• Added language support for Italian, Polish, Turkish, Chinese Traditional (Taiwan), Chinese Traditional (Hong Kong)
• Made UI improvements, New Tutorial system & a bunch more stuff!

Changelog:

• Updated to windows 64 bit (for windows, linux and macOS already support it)
• Skins bottom bar fold out UI now shows you the most recently used skins in the first column if you use Advanced Building
• In advanced building you can now switch keyboard inputs to variables to make complex logic systems easier to keep track of
• Increased max number of cloud saves from 1000 to 10000
• Added new connection type: Playfab
• New level editor objects - Floating Crystal - Sandbox Mountain - Monk Idol statue - Crystal - Gold Nugget - Mine Cart - Dragon Ribs - Rotating Crank
• New languages - Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) - Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong) - Italian - Polish - Turkish
• New Settings - Added setting to make the camera look at the center of all the blocks instead of the average - Camera Sensitivity - Soft / Hard shadows toggle
• Updated ipsilon brick levels for modern breaking systems
• Save + Load menu workshop tabs to more easily keep track of your subscriptions and uploads
• Glass surfaces now cast semitransparent shadows
• Glass surfaces now have slightly less intense reflection
• Improved thumbnail generation code with better centering and colours
• Scroll wheel now can interact with time slider for precision increments
• Boulder pieces now don't overlap and they inherit the velocity from before breaking
• Explosion updated to be more performant and minor visual improvements for slowmotion
• Logic Gate options added: - Binary Counter - SR Latch - D Latch - Random
• New tutorial system, that shows you more clearly how to do steps, with an example base machine for level 1
• Made it possible to select thumbnails from your pc for when uploading to the workshop
• Made it possible to update thumbnails from in game for previously uploaded items (if not selected, it won't change the thumbnail)
• When updating a workshop item it'll auto assign the tags that was used last

• The machine bounding box now doesn't render in front of your machine
• Local snapping for level editor translate tool now snaps to local grid instead of global
• Transform gizmos for level editor now hide while holding shift
• Single broken blocks now are ignored by the camera when following the machine
• Surface block hidden if not Advanced building mode
• Skins are now off per default
• Improved colour correction for the Krolmar island
• Improved colour correction for Ipsilon
• Slight improvement to fire spread
• Changed one multiplayer achievement from requiring 25 servers to 10 instead
• Making propellers automatically align themselves around blocks that spin around their base axis
• Steering hinges auto return per default now
• Updated some achievement names
• Changed connection type selection to tabs in multiverse

• stopped deflecting steering hinges on simulation start
• fixed some slight memory leak issues when loading skins and block mods
• when detaching surface blocks in a selection containing other block types, it now doesn't duplicate the others.
• when using modding tools to scale surfaces or blocks surfaces connect to, broken pieces now match the original surface scale.
• Surface corners don't show in automatic thumbnails
• foliage doesn't render on top of fog anymore
• fixed Ambient Occlusions sometimes missing in level selects
• fixed an issue where grass and blood decals would make a slight dark square around the bounds of the decal
• fixed when duplicating or detaching selections with surface blocks the reference pivot sometimes changing
• Fixed who needs a mechanic achievement using the right category when you have mods
• Made AI blood decal not spawn on the ground when dying in the sky
• Fixing Krolmar Artifact level so keys are more easily accepted
• various dx9 issues fixed
• fixing sometimes loading machines would say they intersected the floor even if they aren't
• fixed an issue where moving a surface corner on top of another surface corner, resulting in the surface being incomplete and removed, would throw errors
• fixed an issue where certain brick objects weren't updating right for clients
• Drill now properly receives emulation
• unpowered wheels now are allowed to spin as fast as other wheels

• Added hidden toggle to turn off collision for surface blocks
• Added social media mode to the cam tools
• Added min and max grid static surface grid size variables
• hidden logic gate option to make emulation loops burn out to avoid spamming behaiour

Hotfix 16991

• Fixed missing sensor area cylinder
• Fixed sorting files by date and throwing correct logs if invalid file loaded
• Fixed negatively scaled fire areas
• Fixed logicgate counter reset not resetting always or fully always
• Fixed automation update rate, to be like previous update consistently at a single time instead of staggered
• Made surface block zero volume check between corners and edges so zero volume is more accurately determined
• Launching certain languages breaking until switching languages
• Making emulation messages work even if the key is set to None
• Added tutorial toggle option
• Fixed drills not emulating again
• Fixed spark particles over emitting on drills and saws
• Added hidden mass slider to surface
• The gerenuks in multiplayer now face the right way
• Bomb explosion sizes stay consistent again as it did in 1.05
• Blocks with shadow casters now cast the correct shadows using skins
• Fixed occasional error when switching blockmapper from a secondary emulation input to another block