Greetings!

Since 1.3 has landed we have been hard at work on the next big update for Crea. This update is going to feature some massive changes that everyone will love. First, we are finally adding some brand spanking new content. This will include doubling the shields, a new biome and several new monsters. Beyond content, we have completely reworked the toolbar once again and are doing a huge overhaul on how equipment works.

Toolbar Redesign

No one likes the current toolbar and at best those familiar with it have come to tolerate it. The reason the current iteration (roughly v5) has existed for so long is simply because I could not come up with a better solution. Thanks to Josh and Jonatan we were able to tackle the design and make something that feels great. The primary challenge has been trying to make the toolbar serve two different game modes (build and combat). The current version took this literally but that resulted in many inconsistencies in the controls making the learning curve extremely steep and always a pain to use.
In the new version (above), the toolbar has been simplified down to a single toolbar. Everything is press to use making skills as quick as ever to use along with everyone else. Placeable items such as blocks and furniture will go into a placement mode nearly identical to when you grab it from your inventory. While placing items from your toolbar you can quickly change to another by either a key press or with the mouse scrollwheel. In case you were ever worried about toolbar space, put those worries aside because now you can instantly change between four different toolbars with ctrl+1-4. Outside of placement mode, you can either have your weapons out (currently "W") or you can have your tool and offhand out (currently "Q"). We made switching between these separate keys so that you can always get to exactly what you want in a single button press. The weapons/tool are still usable with left/right mouse buttons and switching your weapon loadout is still Tab. Of course all of these keys are completely rebindable even including the toolbar numbers.

Equipment Overhaul

This next major update is bringing some substantial changes to equipment. Upgrading your equipment is being completely removed in favor of a much more juicy feature: ECHANTMENTS! Through enchantments you will be able to customize your equipment while crafting to however you like - that is of course once you find the right enchantments. More details on enchantments will be in a future announcement as we get a bit closer to 1.4 release. (or you can just join the devstream)

Feedback

What equipment attributes are your favorite? Do you have any attributes you'd love to see?