Hello-hello! Hope you're well and feeling festive You might have noticed that we've been beta testing new features You might even have participated, in which case - wholeheartedly thank you We're happy to say that it is time to release this update into the wild!

Highlights

Movable clutter

First highlight of the update is the ability to adjust the automatically spawned clutter. You can now move, rotate, delete and clone it. I can't wait to see what you make - picnic spots, taverns, a hut where a hoarder of food baskets dwells? :DD

Many lights

build by Omayli You might have noticed that only 32 lights illuminated things before. Not anymore! We've cooked fancy lighting tech that has allowed us to remove the light count limit as well as adjust the intensity of lights. Just in time for the festive season :3

Daily themes + Winter music

We've prepared 7 festive daily themes that will run from Dec 19 until Dec 26. And we've also updated Winter music with new layers for the holiday season

New clutter objects

I couldn't resist a fantasy of making a market for the holiday season, so there's now a stall with bread and a stall with veggies. And then I thought a crate of fish would go well too. A few evenings later, there were also an anvil, fabric rolls (Tom says they look like bedrolls, heh), a rack with brooms, a door bell, a drrkrans and a new flower box. And then I thought, why not bring back Halloween clutter too (a barrel with candles, 2 variants of pumpkins, a cart with pumpkins, boxes with pumpkins). Hopefully these will be fun to play with, especially now that you can arrange them to your liking Okay, phew, this covers the highlights and below you can find the full changelog

Changelog

Major:

Automatically spawned clutter can now be moved, rotated, deleted and cloned

Light limit has been lifted from 32 to 32,768

Updated Winter music with more festive layers for the holiday season Minor:

Lantern light intensity can now be chosen among 3 values

Lantern light colors now have equal luminous power (so blue and purple look similar in intensity to other colors)

New clutter objects: anvil, fabric rolls, stall with breads, stall with veggies, crate with fish, rack with brooms, bench without basket, door bell, drrkrans, flower box + halloween themed clutter (barrel with candles, 2 variants of pumpkins, crate with pumpkins, boxes with pumpkins)

7 festive daily themes coming on Dec 19 - Dec 26

Birds can sit on bird nests, lanterns, flags, and some clutter objects

Sheep will now avoid clutter

Brick limit has been lifted from 1M to 2M

Roof tile limit has been lifted from 128k to 256k

F6 feedback tool can now also be used to send performance benchmarks to us

Lanterns and flags now ignore collision with fences when placed on terrain, so you can place them closer for neater arrangements

Holding a disable snapping key (LCtrl by default) while manipulating rotatable objects (ground flags, ground lanterns and clutter) will switch to rotation

In the main menu, there's a newsletter button now next to Discord

In the settings menu, Tutorials have been renamed to "Control Hints", and there's no longer "enable tutorial" button. Instead, there's "complete all" which will mark all hints as completed to hide them. This way, when a new feature arrives, you always get a hint about the new controls. Fixes:

Fixed incorrect handling of WinAPI display mode errors, which could result in a crash loop upon enabling Fullscreen.

Use "File::sync_all" / "FlushFileBuffers" before closing files to reduce save corruption risk on Windows (thanks, Notepad++ forums folks!)

Fix rogue underground floors and columns which sometimes were interfering with placement of objects

Fix NaN-related crash when looking perfectly down and placing lanterns

Fix water ambience attenuation in first person mode

Fix water ambience audio source to prioritize playing the source closest to the player camera

New tutorial additions will no longer reset the whole tutorial state (oops!)

Left-clicking on lanterns and clutter is now ignored, since they don't have a random seed that can be changed as a result of the clicking

Ground flags will change their pattern if you click on rotation gizmo too (not just the bottom white dot)

The crash reporter will now detect crashes caused by OBS, and provide workaround info

Big tree in Olden glade is now easier to grab, and when grabbing it, it will no longer jump

Fix settings menu overlay from purple to dark green when in Olden glade at night Aaaaand that's all for now. Thank you for reading :3 We wish you happy holidays!
Love, Ana, Tom, Martin & Oda

[ 2024-12-16 16:37:38 CET ] [ Original post ]