Qb

• Fishtrap can now be built, it automatically collects fish for the player
  
• Torches now properly align with the side of the block they are placed against
  
• Various brandy and fish related recipies for all kinds of tastes
  
• Juniper bushes can spawn in several biomes
  
• Recipes that allow multiple compatible ingredients now show these by switching their icon and tooltip
  

• Chests in prefabs and villages are now locked 90% of the time
  
• Recycling reworked, as it could grant too much resources
  

• Various fixes to the way entities are handled...
  
• ... this also fixes not being able to place stuff on a new world
  
• Cave reverb effects too loud
  
• Wolf, Warg, Snail and Bear have received a couple fixes regarding animations and collisionboxes
  
• Chat autocomplete uses naturally ordered list
  
• Bamboo forest water ponds squareness has been rounded
  
• Beehive did not spawn bees when destroying it
  
• Old planks were recyclable
  

• Smoke particles apply sunlight now
  
• Questicons above NPCs were bugged sometimes
  
• Camera no longer jumps up in 1st person when aggresively choosing your next potion/tool
  
• Static entites (like Campfire) no longer spawn too deep into the ground when there is a snow layer
  
• If you ever wondered, why Bob didn't like giving you a construction flag... it is fixed now
  
• Loottables refined to not give out too much of the same loot
  
• Changing mouse sensitivity does not require restart anymore
  
• Bandits no longer kill themselves if they might hurt one another in the heat of a battle
  
• Hair no longer despawns in Q-menu in 1st person
  
• Bears could not be hit because their collision box was too small
  
• Mac users now also receive latest updates
  

• It's possible to store extended data per block, allowing...
  
• ...plants that grow when you are away from a chunk, or not playing the game at all
  
• Signs with text, that are visible on the map/minimap ... and right in front of you!
  
• A potion that brings you back home safely, turns out all you needed was a beer and a good amount of sleep
  
• Startquests give a shovel and an axe along the other items
  
• Wardrobe can now be opened and has visual content
  

• HRTF (3D Sound) is now available
  
• HDR tone mapping is now enabled for all clients
  
• Level of Detail is now available for all models
  
• UPNP Support (port forwarding) if enabled
  
• Fireplace added
  
• Improved particle effects for campfire and fireplace
  

• Beehive will spawn bees when hit
  
• Icons over NPC's and bosses are reworked and will now be shown as intended
  
• All collision boxes have been updated to correct size
  
• Replugging your audio device no longer stops the sound
  
• log4j security fix CVE-2021-44228
  
• All collision boxes have been updated to actual size
  
• Gingerbreadman animations not working
  

• balance shovle speed for all kind of shovles
  
• torch visually improved
  

• fix qb unable to start on some linux distributions
  
• fix crash when joystick is connected
  
• fix crash when statistics are visible before loading a savegame
  
• fix sun beams texture format problem on NVIDIA GPUs
  

New Content

• Over 500 new character and NPC animations
  
• New NPCs (ram, elephant, ibex, salamander, elementals, frog, goose, snail, goat and many more)
  
• New combat system: dual wield weapons and shields, cooldown timer when attacking, enemies will taunt before they attack
  
• New weapons: mace and shields
  
• New sounds for all kinds of things
  
• New multiplayer server browser showing all available public servers
  
• 3rd person camera (toggle by pressing C)
  
• Happy little animated Loading screen
  
• Usable game objects now have an outline effect
  
• Hall effect in caves added
  

Quality of Life

• Left & Right rings and earrings are a thing of the past, you can now wear them on either slot
  
• Character editor rework (includes modifiable hair)
  
• In the Player Overview you can now see all active Conditions via a toggle button
  
• Pie menu rework (better item size scaling, along other fixes)
  
• Options got a new Tweaks-tab to contain minor settings
  
• Empty potions are no longer shown in pie menu
  

General Balance

• NPCs don't drop items that are worn by them
  
• All recipies have been adjusted to reduce confusion about combustible materials and wood
  
• Consumables have been adjusted to regenerate longer over time instead of giving a quick boost
  
• Uncooked food can cause poisoning effect
  
• Wild thorns will now make damage based on your health (try to wear some cloth to avoid it ;)
  
• Tutorial quests have been adjusted to support multiple players
  
• Low gravity potion allowes the player to jump higher
  
• Furniture cannot be destroyed by Area Of Effect damage
  

Behind the scenes

• Experimental version is available for everyone (in Steam under Betas)
  
• Codebase completely redone
  
• Remade animation system
  
• Remade watershader & glowing weapons
  
• New network system using Steam P2P (join your steamfriends)
  
• New behavior-driven AI
  
• UI-elements are forced into 16:9 aspect ratio to accomondate for larger displays
  
• NPCs use blueprints, setting the foundation for modding
  
• Default model & textures are loaded when something is missing instead of hardcrash to desktop
  
• Reworked the way chunks are loaded and rendered (no more missing chunks, no remaining chunks out of view distance)
  
• Reworked rendering pipeline to support gamma corrected sRGB color space
  

Known issues

• Connecting a game controller when the game is running leads to crash
  
• Some collision boxes are too small
  
• While regenerating health/mana causes the tooltip to disappear on items
  
• Clicking fast with staff consumes 2x mana
  
• There is an invisible button in the Option-tabs causing the last added checkbox to toggle when pressed
  
• First person with visible character shows too much bodyparts
  
• When resizing the game window there might be visually broken pixels in the UI
  
• Port forwarding for visibility of a server (27016/UDP) is still required, we will look into supporting UPnP in the future
  

Notes

• In first person the hands are gone, there is an experimental toggle to use the 3rd person animations in 1st person
  
• Support for MacOS has been put on halt until a general startup issue is resolved
  

• Steam API update, you can play with friends via rightclick and join
  
• Network code rework
  
• UI rework (Dialog System reworked, most Windows received a rework aswell)
  
• AI code rework (based on Behaviour Trees)
  
• NPC definition code rework (based on Entity Component System)
  
• New animation system together with new animations (500+) (based on State Machines)
  
• A lot of new animals and new models for existing animals (cattle, salamander, bear, wolf, crocodile, ibex, frog, goose, snail, goat...) ...
  
• ... and fixes to the existing models, both items and NPCs
  
• Reworked the way chunks are loaded and rendered (no more missing chunks, no remaining chunks out of view distance)
  
• Dual wield single handed weapons added
  
• Integrated tests made possible due to rework
  
• 3rd person cam added (deactivated 1st person for the moment)
  
• New water shader (to be fair, it is not yet done, but it is already visually more pleasing than what was done previously)
  
• Loading Screen added
  
• Server browser added
  
• Pie menu rework (better item size scaling, along other fixes)
  
• When a model could not be loaded a default model is used instead
  

• Hall effect in caves added
  
• The amount you gain with health/mana/stamina points have been rebalanced
  
• Furniture cannot be destroyed by Area Of Effect damage
  
• In the Player Overview you can now see all active Conditions via a toggle button
  
• Rebalanced food & potion regeneration completely, it is now always giving a condition to regenerate slowly over time
  
• Eating uncooked food has a chance to give poison condition
  
• Left & Right rings and earrings are a thing of the past, you can now wear them on either slot
  
• Added a couple trivia to items
  

• Animation System fixes and combat update
  
• Starting dedicated server and connecting to it locally doesnt work
  
• NPCs shall taunt before attacking
  
• Hopefully bring 1st person back
  
• Add more sounds where none have been before
  
• Writing tests for Quest and Inventory system
  
• When server shuts down the client is not notified
  
• Loading Screen needs some more robustness when something in the background fails
  

• NPCs can teleport sporadically
  
• Spawn of elementals via enchanted weapons is broken
  
• A couple Quest System related bugs
  
• When resizing the game window there might be visually broken pixels in the UI
  

• Further combat rework
  
• Destroying blocks shall happen in steps to give better feedback
  

• Total revamp the way the game starts and stops
  
• This means we can provide dedicated servers
  
• New Entity Component System that runs in parallel with the old codebase, this gives us a lot of options in how Animals and Human NPCs are put together (modability)
  
• New AI that uses Behaviour Trees instead being Task Priority Driven (this enables us to implement tauning enemies for example)
  
• Humans (both player and NPC) received a whole new set of Animations, although 1st person is still using the old one
  
• We've added a 3rd Person cam too
  
• The balancing for Food, Potions and Skills will be included
  
• New watershader
  
• Better error handling, thus we and you know the root cause of crashes or bugs
  
• Extensive logging