Winter Sale / Update Discount!

[p align=\"start\"]December 18th to January 5th, grab Voxel Eras for 15% off![/p][p align=\"start\"]I\'ll be continuing to keep Voxel Eras at its current price and discount price for the foreseeable future, and I\'ll announce in advance when and how that will change.[/p][p align=\"start\"][/p][p align=\"start\"]If you are waiting for the best deal, this is as good as it gets![/p][p align=\"start\"]Anyways, now that the bills are paid, onto the update.[/p]

Hello Everyone!

I\'ve got some new stuff for you in time for the holidays!

I wanted this update to be the Steam Era update, but due to v1.3.2 taking longer than expected, and running out of time for v1.4 to have fluids (I wanted to have an update for the Steam Winter Sale), this update is instead part of a series of updates focused on evolving the Eras, an Era-lution if you will.

The centerpiece of this update is the reworked Era menu. I interchangeably call this a Tech Tree and Quest menu, as it\'s a guidebook that requires tasks to be completed with no resource cost, but it still locking recipes and constructs. It also serves as the way to unlock achievements!

Lemme know what you think!

[img src=\"https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/45632346/f4b2ed867e5bd67f4f8ed9e904f218be1dbb7696.png\"][/img](Yes, fragments of the Steam Era are in this update, no they do not function, mostly, but you can mess with the prototypes)

Anyways, I\'m tired (it\'s 8am EST, I\'ve been up all night finishing this before the Steam Winter sale), I\'m probably going to take a bit of a break before the new year, and I hope you guys enjoy!

New

• New Era Menu, unlike the previous iterations this now requires effort to progress through, restricts crafting recipes, buildables, completes achievements, ect., with progression being shared between all players. Achievements are only provided if present when it\'s achieved.

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• Achievements! Get rewarded for your progress with a Steam achievement.

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• 10 New Colored Concrete Blocks.

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• New Concrete crafting intermediate, made from Gravel and Sand in the Mortar and Pestle.

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• Clockwork Drill now displays energy level on the side.

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Balance

• The Alloy Furnace\'s cost has been changed from 8 Stone, 4 Wrought Iron Plates, to 3 Concrete and 4 Carbon Steel Plates.

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• The Lamp\'s cost has been changed from 5 Wrought Iron Ingots to 2 Wrought Iron Plates

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Changes

• The v1.3 style \"HUD text\" tutorial has been dramatically shortened, now only doing basic input and then directing you to the Era menu,

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• Recipes and Constructs now need to be unlocked, which is done in the Era menu, this will likely cause your world to \"not work\" until you\'ve completed them.

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• Save version v7 has been added, this adds statistics support.

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• Changes to chunks are now sent in subregions, dramatically improving bandwidth usage.

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• All networking traffic is now compressed with ZSTD, dramatically improving bandwidth usage.

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• The above networking improvements reduce bandwidth to ~10-15% of what it was previously, which isn\'t quite enough to get Steam P2P working, but gets my tests below 2-3mbps.

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Fixes

• Vulkan \"Depth_Bounds\" feature is no longer marked as needed, and VE should now run without it.

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• Free to build constructs can now be put in place, like they should be.

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Removals

• Save version v5 has been removed, this was sunset in v1.3 for v6. You can use an older Steam beta branch to upgrade older saves to newer versions.

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Modding

• New Bandwidth Estimation debug menu showing bytes sent / received for the client on a graph.

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• New Region Change debug menu which outlines the regions of space the client has received.

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• New Tech Tree debug menu, shows hidden tech entries.

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• New Reset Achievement debug setting, when saved checked will reset achievements.

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• Added VSCode code snippets to make writing modding easier (there are many still needed)

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• Added unlock APIs for creating new unlocks as well as unlocking them via GameState

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• Added statistics API for incrementing and retrieving a global counter. The Collect, Craft, and Place groups are used for the Era menu.

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• Many recipe and construct listing APIs have been modified, primarily to filter for unlocks

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Known Issues

• [strike]Pipes are not able to be placed as you never unlock them[/strike] This has been fixed if you run into it, please verify your games files (tiny, tiny update required)

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[ 2025-12-18 13:15:40 CET ] [Original Post]