Greetings, Creators!
There are big updates, and then there are COLOSSAL updates. R41 tips the scales with our biggest-ever set of new blocks, our most massive blueprint yet, plus a hugely impactful gameplay balance pass. (And that’s not all…)
First, swing by the store to check out the new Colossal Castle Super Bundle, which sports TWENTY brand new medieval-themed premium recipes and a moat-load of bundled blocks! And you’ll definitely want those blocks if you decide to take on the epic Colossal Castle Blueprint – a towering 20k block construction of turrets, keeps, ramparts, portcullises, and even a cozy stable for Joffrey, your pet Hoglet.
There’s also major fine-tuning of gameplay that rebalances combat, crafting, bombs, and more (explosive spoiler: TNT just got a whole lot stronger). AND we’ve made substantial performance impropvements that’ll have the game running more solidly and smoothly than ever.
Grab some popcorn and settle in – colossal fun awaits!
New Features and Content
- Major balance pass (details below)!
- New Premium Block Set: Colossal Castle Super Bundle!
- Medieval Brick Wall
- Medieval Banner Wall
- Medieval Crest Wall
- Medieval Brick Inset Wall
- Medieval Spike Wal
- Medieval Torch
- Medieval Lamp
- Medieval Sword
- Medieval Switch
- Medieval Chair
- Medieval Throne
- Medieval Stairs
- Medieval Carpeted Stairs
- Medieval Roof
- Medieval Door
- Medieval Fireplace
- Medieval Chandelier
- Medieval Chain
- Medieval Chest
- Medieval Table
- New Colossal Castle blueprint
- Several new “bundles” purchase options
- Overhauled ingame tutorial
- Type “/tutorial reset” if you’d like to try these from the beginning. Type “/tutorial off” if you’d like to shut them off.
- Sleeping in beds now restores health to full
- New sleeping animations
- Hold shift and click to process or forge five things at a time
Improvements
- Overhauled store UI
- Revised and improved ingame HUD
- Tweaks to world / adventure browser UI
- New Creativerse logo applied ingame
- Creature “push” animations and effects improved
- Added warning when trying to publish an adventure without a screenshot or description
- Sword art overhaul
- Gauntlet art overhaul
- Keepa ascend / descend animations added
- Tweaks to creature and player animations
- Taking a picture from an adventure gate or checkpoint UI returns you to that UI after the picture is taken
- Exiting to main menu from an adventure or world will take you to the adventure (or world) browser
- Improved creature selection for mob spawner
- Health and stamina bars now show value
- Better default name and description for unassigned adventure gates
- Improved store surfacing ingame
- Player’s first world now has “Default to Visitor” basic option on by default
- Various new sounds and music fixes
- Add tabbing through fields in machine UIs
- Significant improvements to ‘picking’ detection so it better matches what you are are visually aiming at
Bugfixes
- Substantial memory usage and performance fixes
- Lighting fixes
- Fixed ladder animations
- Fixed ladder top dismount
- Added feedback for attempting to purchase Pro when the Steam overlay is off
- Fix for shadows jittering the further from the center of the map the player goes
- Fix for occlusion culling to account for shadow casting direction
- Fixed a bug that caused sign text to stop showing up when leaving area and returning
- Add missing PVP setting to claim, so PVP can be enabled within a claim. Claim PVP setting overrides world PVP settings, like fire and TNT.
- Client can recover from some temporary file write access issues, generally from anti-virus or anti-malware programs scanning files that the game downloads to the user temp directory before moving them to the game directory. This would cause the changes in a world not to be reflected by that client.
Balance Pass
- TNT
- Coal can now be processed into gunpowder (1:1 exchange)
- TNT can blow up fossil layer at 4 radius
- TNT now unlocks on collecting coal
- Large TNT is now Strong TNT
- Strong TNT can blow up stalactite layer with 5 radius
- Strong TNT unlocks on crafting TNT
- Advanced TNT now blows up lava layer at 6 radius
- Advanced TNT unlocks on crafting Strong TNT
- Super TNT now blows up corruption layer at 7 radius
- Super TNT unlocks on crafting advanced TNT
- Excavators
- Basic Excavators now blow up fossil layer
- Advanced Excavators now blow up stalactite layer
- Advanced Excavators no longer requires diamond to unlock
- Super Excavators now blow up lava and corruption layer
- Super Excavators no longer require Lumite to unlock
- Combat
- Pigsy, Night Pigsy & Corrupted Pigsy regular attack damage reduced
- Pigsy, Night Pigsy & Corrupted Pigsy charge attack damage increased
- Pigsy hitpoints reduced
- Leafi hitpoints reduced
- Rockster and Night Rockster hitpoints reduced
- Night Rockster armor increased
- Night Rockster, Corrupted Rockster regular attack damage reduced
- Rockster, Night Rockster, and Corrupted Rockster charge attack damage increased
- Chizzard, Night Chizzard, and Blizzard Chizzard charge attack damage increased
- Night Chizzard and Blizzard Chizzard hitpoints reduced
- Corrupted Chizzard regular attack damage reduced
- Blizzard Chizzard armor increased
- Blizzard Chizzard freezing debuff duration increased
- Potions & Healing
- Basic Healing Potion reduced healing amount
- Basic Healing Potion cooldown added
- Advanced Healing Potion increased healing amount
- Advanced Healing Potion cooldown added
- Regenerate health effects on player doubled
- Mushroom healing duration decreased
- Mushroom cooldown increased
- Health Regeneration Potion duration set to 120 seconds
- Health Regeneration Potion now unlocks on basic healing potion
- Stamina Regeneration Potion is now Speed Potion
- Speed Potion increases movement speed for 300 seconds
- Equipment
- Leather Pauldron now requires Leather Breastplate (to unlock)
- Environmental
- Breath duration now 40 seconds
- Freeze meter rate increases 2X faster
- Freezing damage doubled
- Heat rate increases 25% faster
- Placed tar blocks spreads +1 distance
- Iron nodes now produce more iron
- Recipes adjusted
- TNT
- Strong TNT
- Super TNT
- Advanced Extractor
- Super Extractor
- Advanced Healing Potion
- Health Regeneration Potion
- Speed Potion
Other
- Picture frame changes – no longer uses completed adventure pictures
- Now provides a large selection of preset images
- This system will be revisited in the future