New Features and Content:

• The return of the Great Pumpkiru!
  
  
  
  • Hunt ghosts at night and collect candy and idols
    
  • Place idols and complete events for more candy and higher-level idols
    
  • Search for the Great Pumpkiru and trade candy for seasonal recipes, items, and costumes!
    
  • The Great Pumpkin has new wares for trade!
    
    
    
    • Leafi Head Mask
      
    • Pigsy Head Mask
      
    • Chizzard Head Mask
      
    • Steampunk Skin for Pro Glider
      
    • Pumpkin Skin for Pro Flashlight
      
    • Ghostly Skin for Pro Flashlight
      
    • Green Goo Cauldron
      
    • Purple Goo Cauldron
      
    • Orange Goo Cauldron
      
    
    
    
  
  
• New Destroyer cosmetic costume!

Improvements:

• Sulfur icon more accurately represents the block
  
• Ghost mobs now tame-able
  
• Ghost mobs now spawnable from monster spawner
  
• Pro purchase screen updated with new character models
  
• /hud now hides buff countdown indicators
  

Bugfixes:

• Service improvements to automatically clean up worlds that get in a stuck state
  
• Fixed promo code redemption panel scrolling improperly
  
• Fixed air animation resettling during jumping/floating
  
• Fixed liquid flood fill in blueprints
  

Prizes

• GRAND PRIZE (5) – Five creators will receive the following...
  
  
  
  • $50 Steam gift card
    
  • Trophy gauntlet costume of your choosing: bronze, silver, gold
    
  • 3,000 coins
    
  
  
  
• RUNNER UP (10) – Ten creators will receive…
  
  
  
  • Trophy gauntlet costume of your choosing: bronze, silver, gold
    
  • 2,000 coins
    
  
  

How to Enter

How do I win?

Rules & Restrictions

• The Deadline for submitting your amazing art is Friday, November 2, 2018: 11:59 AM CST.
  
• All artwork and photography of artwork should be submitted in PNG or JPG form.
  
• Entries are still eligible if they have been created prior to the start of this contest.
  
• Screenshots from Creativerse are not eligible – entries must be created outside the game, whether physically (e.g. painting, quilting, sculpture) or digitally (e.g. photoshop/wacom drawing).
  
• The content of your submission must be your own creation.
  
• Limit one art entry per person.
  

New Features and Content:

• New Snow block processor shapes
  
  
  
  • Snow Slab
    
  • Snow Column
    
  • Snow Slope
    
  • Snow Rounded Slope
    
  • Snow Stairs Inner & Outer Corners
    
  • Snow Slope Inner & Outer Corners
    
  
  
  
• New Lumite Wall block processor shapes
  
  
  
  • Lumite Wall was the winner of the Battle of the Block Sets community choice competition. Congrats #TeamLumite!
    
  • Dark, Light, and Regular Lumite Wall Slab
    
  • Dark, Light, and Regular Lumite Wall Column
    
  • Dark, Light, and Regular Lumite Wall Slope
    
  • Dark, Light, and Regular Lumite Wall Stairs Inner & Outer Corners
    
  • Dark, Light, and Regular Lumite Wall Slope Inner & Outer Corners
    
  
  
  
• New craftable recipes!
  
  
  
  • Snow Stairs
    
  • Dark, Light, and Regular Lumite Wall Stairs
    
  • Imprinted Bedrock Wall
    
  • Pulling Snow Capped Elderwood Leaves now gives you that block instead of the basic leaves
    
    
    
    • Try throwing a freeze bomb or snowcubes at Elderwood Leaves!
      
    
    
  • Added first-person roll & gauntlet smash functionality (with weapon equipped only)
    
  • Added roll animations to gliding - just for fun!
    

Improvements:

• Unified costume & customization interfaces
  
  
  
  • You can preview your character customizations and equipped costumes at the same time!
    
  • Costumes can now be equipped on the main menu
    
  • Character customization settings can now be adjusted in game
    
  
  
• The incredible power of your gauntlet smash now transforms some blocks!
  
  
  
  • Some transformations require stronger mining cells to be equipped
    
  • Only works where you have builder permissions (claim or world)
    
  
  
• Savannah grass now regrows on exposed rocky dirt
  
• Snowcubes now a craftable recipe rather than processed
  
• Sinew can be processed into twine. Ew.
  
• Rebalanced blueprint kit prices (prices slightly reduced overall)
  
• Improved icon art for several codex Help entries
  
• UI tweak to change location of quickbar action text
  

Bugfixes:

• Fix for lumite pulling speed getting overridden with a slower speed for surface blocks
  
• Fix for accidentally too-dark nighttime in 1st person mode
  
• Additional performance fixes
  
  
  
  • Reduced hitching caused by mobs spawning in to the world
    
  
  

New Features and Content:

• New & improved player character models!
  
  
  
  • Overhaul and improvements for all character models
    
  • Extensive animation polish, including facial movement
    
  
  
• More customization options
  
  
  
  • The appearance of your in-game character is no longer tied to equipped armor. This means you have freedom to wear whatever you want without having to look like every other player because you want the gear with the best stats. Visuals and item stats are independent so there is no constraint.
    
  • Five new costume sets inspired by the classic armor are now available — these five costumes are being given away free in the store for current players!
    
    
    
    • Check in anytime in the next two weeks and you can get them immediately.
      
    • You can mix and max pieces from different sets or use other costume pieces in the game.
      
    • Future players will be able to purchase these costumes in the store with coins, including the free coins that we provide at the start of the game.
      
    
    
    
    
    • The five new costumes are:
      
      
      
      • Fury Warrior Costume
        
      • Electro Cycle Costume
        
      • Metal Mk I Costume
        
      • First Fantasy Costume
        
      • Master Creator Costume
        
      
      
    
    
  
  
• Improved combat!
  
  
  
  • New 3rd-person combat camera!
    
    
    
    • Equip your weapon to switch to a third-person perspective.
      
      
      
      • 3rd-person combat is enabled by default but can be toggled on the Settings menu.
        
      
      
    • You can see everything around you and land your swords with impressive accuracy!
      
    
    
  • New roll move
    
    
    
    • Roll by pressing the left-side alt or ctrl button and any directional key. Usable in 3rd-person combat mode.
      
      
      
      • Note: The "mouse unbind" hotkey is moved to right-side alt button
        
      • There’s an optional advanced setting for double-tapping any direction to roll
        
      • You have two roll charges that replenish over time.
        
        
        
        • The roll icons to the right of your quickbar on the HUD reflect how many rolls you currently have available
          
        
        
      
      
    
    
  • New AOE Gauntlet Smash attack
    
    
    
    • Use your gauntlet smash attack by pressing the middle mouse button (default). Usable in 3rd-person combat mode.
      
    • Deal incredible damage to creatures and players around you! BAM!
      
      
      
      • Gauntlet smash damage scales with your weapon’s power
        
      
      
    • Use Gauntlet Smash any time you have 75% or more stamina.
      All your remaining stamina will be consumed for this impressive attack.
    
    
  
  
• Improved Stamina Regeneration
  
  
  
  • Stamina regeneration now percentage-based, based on your maximum stamina, so players with tons of stamina will recover it just as fast as players without stamina bonuses.
    
  
  
• Improved combat targeting
  
  
  
  • Combat targeting is much more accurate and intuitive
    
    
    
    • Using a cone-based targeting system, with an optional aim-assist feature.
      
    
    
  • Creatures glow red when targeted in melee range.
    
  
  
• Improved player and creature animations
  
  
  
  • A wide range of player animation improvements and polish
    
  • New player and creature death, bomb throwing, swimming, and sprint attack animations
    
  
  
• New intro cinematic when creating a world!
  
• New Help feature
  
  
  
  • Visit the Help tab in the codex for descriptions of game items and systems.
    
  
  
• More QB! QB now welcomes you back to the game and generally shows love for you.
  
• Goo blocks can now be processed into globs of goo (try processing orange or purple goo blocks…
  

Improvements

• Maximum item stack size increased from 300 to 999
  
• Wood Bookshelf (formerly 3 slots) and Wood Chest (formerly 24 slots) are both increased to 25 slots!
  
• Stone Chest (formerly 28 slots) increased to 35 slots!
  
• Blue Gift Box, Green Gift Box, Red Gift Box, Heart Shaped Box, Industrial Locker, Medieval Chest, and Hidden Temple Chest (formerly 32 slots), Pumpkin Chest, Royal Pumpkin Chest, and Arctek Chest (formerly 36 slots) increased to 45 slots!
  
• Grand Arctek Chest and Pumpkiru's King Chest (formerly 40 slots) increased to 60 slots!
  
• Minor consistency changes and small improvements to the crafting recipes for some storage containers
  
  
  
  • Any existing chests will not be updated unless re-placed
    
  
  

• Most surface-level blocks pull faster regardless of equipped mining cell
  
• Lower-tier mining cells (base, stone, obsidian) pull a little faster overall
  
  
  
  • This change is for newer players to make pulling speed feel crisper and more responsive. Higher-tier mining cells are unchanged.
    
  
  

• Individual claim prices reduced by up to 50%.
  
• Players can acquire four additional claims per world with in-game resources.
  
• Max claims per player in a world increased from 24 to 40.
  

• We are looking into some weird visuals when placing on top-level water, but this change allows for a much better underwater building experience
  

Bugfixes

• Performance fixes to reduce frame hitching and stuttering
  
• Fire spread performance optimizations
  
  
  
  • Burns out twice as fast now and only shows a glow from farther away
    
  
  
• Networking fix to improve connections, particularly for players on EU and Asia servers
  
• Fixed some bad default configuration values for new users to fix reported issues
  
• Fixed cases where items end up in incorrect quickbar slots
  
• Quest rewards can now be fully claimed even with full inventory
  
• Fixed only being able to take one photo ever for adventure checkpoints
  
• Newly-placed adventure checkpoints should no longer show debug text
  
• Fixed sign text not displaying properly (z-fighting) on signs in some cases
  
• Unlearned seasonal crafting recipes now properly removed from the crafting menu outside of seasonal events
  
• Minor quest text and objective fixes
  
• Minor block description text and categorization fixes
  

New Features and Content

• Introducing QB!
  
  
  
  • QB is so excited to be your new mentor, advisor, and very best Creati-friend.
    
  • There’s more QB fun to come, but for now QB will be your guide to the...
    
  
  
• New questing and badges system!
  
  
  
  • Complete quests in the new Codex to earn loot and unlock badges.
    
    
    
    • Quest progress is tracked across worlds; complete your quests in any world you like!
      
    • Quests do not progress on adventures.
      
    
    
  • Badges grant permanent upgrades to your character, like critical melee hits and auto-healing.
    
    
    
    • You can select one of your unlocked badges on the inventory screen to proudly display it in the world.
      
    
    
  • New players will now earn their free coins by completing quests. The number has been raised from 300 to 350 total.
    
    
    
    • As a little bonus, current players can also earn those 350 coins by questing, too. Thanks, QB!
      
    
    
  
  
• You voted. We added eight new variants for the “Block Madness” tournament champion: Asphalt!
  
  
  
  • Slab, Slope, Slope Corners (Outer and Inner), Stairs, Stair Corners (Outer and Inner), Column
    
  • We loved this community event so much that we’re planning to run it again later this year.
    
  
  
• New free recipe: Stone Lattice Window
  
• New login reward: Quick™ Potion!
  
• New Playful Blueprint: Cozy Cottage
  
• Marvelous new costume: The Finite Gauntlet
  

Bugfixes

• Fixed the busted “no gliders” setting for adventures
  
• Added some missing characters to the Creativerse font used on signs and loading screens, and made the '<' and '>' characters face the correct way.
  
• Fix for the weapon tutorial firing at inappropriate times
  
• Fixed cornerstones not being granted with blueprint kit purchases
  
• Minor fix to make Tab key more responsive and consistent in menus
  
• Fix for arc signs using icons or non-default fonts always appearing “on” when first loaded
  
• “Slanted Straw Roof” corners now properly named “Thatched Roof” corners
  

Bugfixes

• Several nonfunctional badge perks should now work beautifully
  
• Fix for adventures not properly completing
  
• Fix for the first "touchstone" quest not auto-accepting & tracking for new players
  
• Replaced stub codex tab icons with stunningly beautiful real ones
  
• Added a keybinding option for the codex
  
• Fix for excavators sometimes creating visual “holes” in the world
  
• Partial fix for framerate hitching
  

New Features and Content

• Ten new loading screens
  
  
  
  • These were the winning entries from the Take Your Best Shot community contest!
    
  
  

Bugfixes

• Fix for sounds playing on some models (like Haunted Idols) inside decorative containers
  
• Fix for case where an announcement that world owner activated a seasonal encounter would appear, but the encounter itself wouldn’t
  
• Fix bug where machine hotspots sometimes wouldn’t show up with the wiring tool equipped
  
• Fix for “Reject All” on the map claim screen actually accepting all instead
  
• Fences no longer connect to placemats, just like in real life
  

Improvements

• 32-bit block support
  
• Improved messaging when claim limits are reached
  
• Increased world claim limit to 5000
  

Bugfixes

• Fix for Keepas spawned from mob spawners dropping Keepa loot
  

New Features and Content

• Valentine’s Day recipe - free in the store!
  
  
  
  • Heart-Shaped Box
    
  
  
• Themed block set to celebrate the Lunar New Year - free in the store!
  
  
  
  • Forbidden City Red Wood Wall
    
  • Forbidden City Jade Shingles
    
  • Forbidden City Red Shingles
    
  • Forbidden City Window
    
  • Forbidden City Window Lattice
    
  • Year of the Dog Lantern
    
  • Bamboo
    
  
  
• Extremely romantic seasonal login reward
  
  
  
  • Love Potion
    
  
  
• New costumes available for purchase
  
  
  
  • The legendary fire-breathing axe… Dragon’s Breath!
    
  • The sword to make your opponents swoon (and then die)... Kindness!
    
  
  

Improvements

• Performance improvements (reduced hitching when moving quickly across the map, and quicker arc sign toggling)
  
• Placemat, Hidden Temple Chest, Medieval Chest, Flower Pot, and Wood Planter are now fully rotatable
  
• All storage and decorative containers are now fire and explosion-proof
  
• Cleaned up Mob Spawner menu (removed some duplicate and holiday mobs, added Twiggy, Hoglet, and Keepa)
  
• Added alternate server messages for better communication during downtimes
  

Bugfixes

• There can be only one: Fix for two blocks being named “Spiral Limestone Column”
  
• Fix for ice slopes and stairs requiring stone mining cell to pick up
  
• Blizzard Bomb can now be added to decorative containers
  
• Blue Carpet is now flammable, just like its red and yellow siblings
  
• Fixed missing icon for “Snowball Pile” on the loot spawner menu
  
• Dismissed pets will once again leave behind loot bags, as if to say “thank you for abandoning me”
  
• Fix for invisible faces on several outer corner blocks in certain configurations
  

Prizes

• Ultra-Rare Trophy Gauntlet Skin;
  
  
  
  • YOUR CHOICE: Gold, Silver, Bronze
    
  
  
• a Steam key for Creativerse Pro;
  
• 2500 coins;
  
• and your screenshot will be added to the game as a new loading screen!
  

How to Enter

• Take a screenshot in Creativerse, upload it, and post the link to this forum thread;
  
• Or tweet your screenshot using the hashtag #CreativerseContest.
  
  
  
  • Make sure you’re following us (@creativersegame) so we can DM the winner.
    
  
  

How to Win!

Rules & Restrictions

• The deadline for entries is 11:59 AM CST on Monday, February 19, 2018
  
• Important: screenshots must be exactly 1920x1080 resolution.
  
  
  
  • This is so the screenshot will work as a loading screen
    
  
  
• Screenshots must be in the PNG or JPG format.
  
  
  
  • The Steam screenshot tool uses JPG and the Creativerse camera tool uses PNG, so if you use either of those, you’re probably good.
    
  
  
• No UI; use the /hud command to hide the interface and and get a clear shot.
  
• No Photoshop; we want 100% all-natural unedited screenshots.
  
• No copyrighted stuff; this is not the time to share a screenshot from your Deadpool and Elsa go to Hogwarts adventure (although you should totally show that to us some other time).
  
• Limit one screenshot entered per person. Take your best shot and make it count!
  
• Make sure you’ve registered your email address in Creativerse so we can contact you if you win.
  
• No purchase necessary; purchase does not enhance chance of winning.
  
• Void where prohibited.
  

Q&A

New Features and Content

• New decorative & weapon display item: Blocky the Snowman!
  

Improvements

• Pet taming, washing, and harvesting times cut in half
  
• Added opt-out option for newsletters when validating e-mail
  

Bugfixes

• Fixed recent issues with Creativerse Pro occasionally vanishing for a bit
  
• Costume icons now unified to face the same way. Finally!
  
• End of World blocks can no longer be phased and replaced
  
• Fix for other players with female characters playing male voices
  
• Fix for multiple music box sounds not starting if they started on the same frame (via machine activation for example)
  
• Sent the Holiday Hat costume to the dry cleaners - it came back cleaner and brighter
  
• Fix for blueprints extending higher than world height causing lag
  
• Very large blueprints now show up in-world preview (but may still show as incomplete depending on the size)
  
• Fixed broken email and help buttons on main menu
  
• Fix for that 1-pixel UI gap on Message of the Day panel that was driving everyone crazy
  
• Fix for loot chests in decorative containers causing the container UI to open repeatedly
  
• Fix for certain block types (like holiday lights) to correctly show random variants