Release 182: Signs and Portals++!

[Kal-El]

@james

Holding a torch or other light-emitting block in your hand, and placing it onto the ground should now produce very similar results in terms of the characteristics of the light’s brightness and falloff, though holding it in your hand will still produce a “spherical” falloff rather than the “diamond” shapes falloff that lights placed in the world will have so along diagonals, the hand-held light will still reach a bit further.

I think the result of this is that a torch in hand does not produce the same amount of light it used to. Was the amount of light the torch produces reduced to match one that was placed?

[Karokendo]

Feels good.

[DonBab]

Stuck at work still. Trust that I’d rather be playing and working on my giant totem build wo while crafting some signs in the background.

[Heureka]

@james

Fixed the latency graph to sample the max latency every 0.1 seconds rather than the current value every 0.1 seconds.

Think the current value is 1 sec, not 0,1.

[DanBeforeTime]

Oh, that’s amazing.

[boundmore]

Finally I won’t get lost. I often have trouble remembering where was that portal I used to get somewhere.

[Kirinvar]

@Stretchious

The Skills Calculator is up! (You might need to refresh your browser - Shift+F5).

Saved my day - got to plan out all my chars before i play this time!
Thanks a lot for your work on the site!

[Stretchious]

No worries and my pleasure I’ll get the icons back on there soon!

[lucadeltodecso]

Yes, the held block lighting was made to be consistent with the in-world block lighting (the reverse isn’t possible, but even if was, it would have made every single build everywhere suddenly change how they look massively, as well as being much more expensive to mesh)

[boundmore]

Thank you for larger item icons in storage!

However, I’m not sure about recipes tab being the one that opens upon interacting with machines.
When I leave a lot machines working and come back, I usually can’t remember all I ordered and just go from machine to machine checking if there is anything left in output to collect. Interacting with machine was enough, as inventory/storage was the default view opening.
Now, apart from interacting with a machine, I need to switch from recipes to content. So that doubles the job. I find it awkward.

[boundmore]

With these little beauties visiting people can know more beforehand and decide easier if they want to proceed beyond certain point.
Especially if there is more to read upon interacting with signs.

[the-moebius]

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on this picture theres like holes in the sign weird

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there

[Havok40k]

@james

The one exception to this is spark-cores, which are now constrained to be at most 4 blocks wide on any axis, this may mean that one or more of your spark-cores may be removed from the game, but in locally migrating all the live worlds, this was less than 10 across the whole universe so actual impact is minimal.

3 of those 10 were my spark engines. Ouch! Going to have to figure out how to work around this new restriction

[Omnifob]

@the-moebius

there

Nice, that will help a lot <3

[SolFall]

i have 4 spark cores total from 2 of my builds disappear.
I also noticed that you can connect disconnected spark cores to one network. idk the max, but i have 2 separate spark core groups connected.

[Havok40k]

I had 3 nodes of 16, now I need to go see how I can reintegrate them into my designs.

[Heureka]

@james

Resolved Known Issues:

The following items were known issues in previous releases and have now been resolved.

@james

Cannot close Inventory when Chat is used.

Its still a problem, i had to shut down game after chatting with inventory open.

[james]

Updated OP with Release 182.1 notes.

@james

Release 182.1:

• Updating objective strings as players are not required to activate objectives anymore.
• Changing Difficulty to Mastery Required in the item tool tip.
• Adjusted loading/meshing priorities again. Now when looking directly at a portal, the game will choose to prioritise all the area around that portal over chunks and meshes around the current player location, rather just the 3x3 around the portal exit. This means that the game will prefer to fully load the portal you are looking at instead of only fully loading it once the entire world around you has loaded (the idea being, if you are looking at the portal you probably want to go into it soon, so we should prefer to load and mesh it over the current world you are likely about to leave).
• Fixed a server crash loading ammo not in backpack.
• Fixed balance of held light sources and self light skill range. This will change again in a future lighting balance pass.
• Fixed crash on exit on Windows.
• Fixed health bar not updating when changing character.
• Fixed issue where exceptions could be generated editing sign text.
• Fixed issue where ingredients were taken directly from a player’s Backpack when using the Furnace.
• Fixed issue where non-gleam items could be QuickMove’d into the Beacon colour slot.
• Fixed missing impacts effect from slingbows
• Fixed the jump jump height for Jump Height 2 skill from 0.5m to 1.2m.
• Fixed various crash in GUI interactions.

[Awkanic]

Sound Bug

Requirements: 5.1 surround sound

Expected: A tool striking the block from in front of you should continuously sound as though it is coming from in front of you (e.g. front speakers)

Actual: The first strike of a tool plays in front of the user, most subsequent strikes play from behind the user unless the user moves.

Reproduction Easy mode: Set up 5.1 surround sound and disconnect the two back speakers.

[Awkanic]

Another bug… while mining deep underground, I used my grapple and as I approached the roof, I was just teleported to the surface under lava.