Hey folks! The new update is finally available! First of all, thank you very much for your patience! This update introduces a lot of new features and changes, but our main focus was on reworking the NPC behaviour as well as adding new hostile NPCs. You will now find small groups of bandits roaming the forests during night, and underground dungeons are now populated with skeletons. In addition to that, spiders spawn randomly in deep caves.
When fighting with bandits or skeletons, you can use your sword to block their attacks (so you take less or even no damage, but keep an eye on your stamina). Obviously this only applies to melee attacks - so watch out for enemies equipped with bows and arrows! Of course you can disable any NPC you want, and you can also change the spawn rates for both animals and enemies. So if you don't want to deal with bandits or monsters, you can simply turn them off.
But when talking about NPC related things, that doesn't mean that this update is only about enemies. We improved the NPC AI and collision detection with this update, so NPCs should no longer be able to walk through walls, fall through the ground or warp to the roof of your building. In case you still experience any of these issues, please let us know! We also reworked the spawn behaviour of NPCs: they are able to respawn in chunks which haven't been modified, and animals mostly spawn in herds now. Alerting one herd animal also alerts all other herd animals.
There is also another important feature in this update: it's now possible to load custom items (e.g. tools or weapons) through the plugin API. This makes modding a lot easier. We will update the plugin API and also release a few example plugins in the next few days. Apart from that, we implemented several other new features and changes. Blueprints can now store terrain data and water, there are some new items (weed whacker and venison), we added several new music tracks, we reworked the screenshot feature (it's much more powerful now) and last but not least we've fixed a lot of bugs. Check out the changelog to get an overview of all changes. __________________________________________________

Changelog 2019-03-12 (0.9.5):

• [New] New NPCs: bandits and skeletons with various equipment and outfits
• [New] Bandits spawn randomly in forests (during night), while skeletons spawn randomly in dungeons
• [New] Animals / NPCs can now respawn after a given amount of time
• [New] Animals usually spawn in small herds now
• [New] When a herd animal is alerted, other herd animals are also alerted
• [New] Spiders and rats spawn randomly in caves and abandoned cabins
• [New] When creating a new world, you can select a starting biome / area now
• [New] Custom / modded items can now be added via API
• [New] New tool: weed whacker
• [New] Added 7 new music tracks
• [New] Added settings for screenshots (resolution, quality, hud etc)
• [New] Added settings to change the animal and enemy spawn rate
• [New] Added venison, which is obtainable from wild animals
• [New] Terrain can now also be stored in blueprints
• [New] Added "Toggle Crouch" and "Toggle Walk" key bindings
• [New] Added gloss effect / environment mapping for some clothes (e.g. armor)
• [New] Added settings for grass view distance
• [New] Added support for DNS SRV Records (Multiplayer/"Connect to IP")
• [New] Added "continuous editing" for creative terrain tools (keep mouse button pressed to edit the terrain)
• [New] Creative mode terrain tools now have "water" as textur (i.e. the paint [3] and area tool [4] can now be used for water)
• [New] Added proper headshot detection for other players
• [New] Added new filter to server list to hide password-protected servers
• [New] Added command "disablenpc" to permanently disable an npc for the current world
• [New] Implemented GPU skinning to improve the performance regarding animations
• [Change] Player no longer gets "stuck" on walls when walking against walls
• [Change] Projectiles / Arrows despawn now after a given amount of time
• [Change] NPCs now also take damage from traps (with a few exceptions)
• [Change] Increased range for picking up items
• [Change] Increased range for "editconstruction" command
• [Change] Reduced height of player while riding a horse or donkey
• [Change] There is a small cooldown now when using tools by clicking the mouse button rapidly
• [Change] Deleting a custom image now removes all instances in the world
• [Change] Toggle aiming with a weapon is now disabled by default (can be changed in settings)
• [Change] Grenade / TNT cooking is now possible
• [Change] Water is now correctly rendered in front of a blueprint preview if it is opaque (press Return-key)
• [Change] The "flatten tool" in creative mode terrain tools (F5, press Return-key) now shows the current elevation
• [Change] Blueprints can now still be loaded if they were accidentally unzipped after downloading them
• [Change] Chainsaw is slightly more efficient now
• [Change] Reworked sword animations
• [Change] Player no longer takes damage from projectiles / arrows in creative mode
• [Change] Arrows and firework rockets can no longer be abused to climb walls (removed collision)
• [Change] If fly mode is disabled, double tapping F2 no longer teleports you to the surface
• [Change] Improved some sound effects
• [Change] Removed CPU load diagram, since it was causing performance issues on some operating systems
• [Change] Removed some unnecessary debug outputs from log
• [Bugfix] Fixed issue that chunks sometimes became invisible while editing them
• [Bugfix] Fixed issues with "undoblueprint" command (need feedback)
• [Bugfix] Fixed issues with modular construction element placement (need feedback)
• [Bugfix] Fixed random native crash (need feedback)
• [Bugfix] Fixed issue that some objects became unusable sometimes for no reason
• [Bugfix] Fixed item stacks disappearing sometimes when moving them from chests to inventory
• [Bugfix] Fixed issues when placing blocks or construction elements (weird collision behaviour)
• [Bugfix] Fixed issues when posters were referring to an already deleted custom image
• [Bugfix] Fixed issues with projectile collision detection when standing close to a wall
• [Bugfix] Fixed extreme "z-fighting" (flickering) when walking against walls
• [Bugfix] Fixed wrong animation of dead animal corpses in some situations
• [Bugfix] If "Keep Inventory" is enabled, you no longer lose your inventory when quitting the game without respawning
• [Bugfix] Player should no longer fall through the ground in certain cases when teleporting (need feedback)
• [Bugfix] Fixed problem that sometimes teleported the player to sky when using the "gotospawn" command
• [Bugfix] Headgear of dead players is no longer in the wrong position
• [Bugfix] Fixed wrong custom journal element position if "pivot=center" was set
• [Bugfix] Fixed memoryleak related to gun sounds
• [Bugfix] Fixed issue with picking up items

Changelog 2019-03-12 (0.9.5.1):

• [Bugfix] Removed red debug square
• [Bugfix] Fixed crash related to plugins which modify npc positions