After way too much time I can finally announce a large update covering various fields, including graphics, sounds and performance. A rewrite and extension of half the codebase now allows for easier and more frequent updates, with some cool new stuff planed in subsequent versions.
The noteworthy changes:
- Overhauled the recipe book
- Reworked portals
- Step sounds
- Added 25 additional languages
- More digging and block break sounds
- Reworked buffs
- Items now burn in fire
- Material with effects are now animated in inventory too
- Added fps slider
- Improved buckets + sounds
- Improved a few paintings
- Added some edges to block items
- Improved GUI visuals
- You can now harvest plants by right-clicking
- Added better rain renderer
- Improved item pickup
- Improved fog
- Added tooltips to arrows and bullets
- Torches get destroyed in water
- Reworked recipes for the ring, bow and arrows
- Tin arrows
- Added ash as fertilizer
- Safe
- Leave blocks
- Basalt, slate and pebble
- Yellow colored blocks
- And probably a lot of smaller improvements I forgot about
The more technical stuff:
- Rewrote and cleaned up major parts of the code
- Improved render scheduler and light engine performance
- Improved zoom especially on non-full HD screens
- New font engine and support for most glyphs
- Overhauled foliage system
- Decreased server latency and improved sync performance
- Improved collision engine and overall entity performance
I would also like to invite you to our Discord, as it's easier to chat and discuss there: https://discord.gg/fe5Tdug