Everything shown and described in this blog is not available publicly yet, it will be in the next update.
Work on the projects detailed in the previous blog continued this month. We finished the mesh for the auto-crafter. To distinguish it from regular jobblocks, and to signal that it can do productive things without human input, it’s powered by wind - it’s a mill.
We’re trying something new here. It’s not just a voxel-sized workbench, or a single large mesh like the banner. The mill is actually a combination of many smaller parts, most of which fit neatly within the 1x1x1 voxels of the game.
Yet you won’t build it part-by-part. It will assemble automatically. The in-game bed already does the same. Technically, it’s two parts that both place at the same moment when you click once.
But a structure with so many parts - we’ve never done that. Zun is working on some new systems to properly integrate this. I’m excited - we might add more structures like this in the future! Hopefully, we can actually get the blades of the mill moving while it’s active.
Most of the UI is functional. You can see it in the image below. On the left, there’s a list of possible recipes, currently only containing two test-items. You can select them and see some information about them, and then you can add them to the production queue. When items are done, they’re added to the box on the right. Players have to walk back to the mill to collect these items physically, either by assigning them to the hotbar or by sending them straight to the stockpile.
The new auto-textured quarterblocks look pretty great, and it made us want to use them more in our builds. Which quickly led to another desire: being able to use them vertically too. So Zun actually added that ability to the new dynamic quarterblocks! They can now be placed on the side of blocks too, instead of merely on top. This allows for a whole new range of decorative options.
Talking about decorative options - many people demanded the return of coated planks, the darker and more reflective variant of planks. A couple of updates ago, we replaced the old planks texture with a new one, but we didn’t add a “coated” variant. I’ve now made one for the new planks texture!
Bedankt voor het lezen :D