Release 247: Sovereign and Creative Worlds!

[Gerentt]

I mean this is the most non judgemental or rude way possible, but you had the option to choose exactly what biomes you wanted on your creative world and you decided not to do it? And then are now mad about what you got? You played the RNG game. You could have made it exactly as you wanted and chose not to

[sirdad]

1 im not mad 2 i can not read 3 i was at work and in a rush

[Kevin]

Is there anyway to change atmosphere? I picked a coal world but didn’t realise the lighting would be yellow/dusty and it wrecks the environment lighting I was after when making my world. I always thought T3 and below are relatively clear and friendly worlds with relatively no major lighting effects. I am aware of the T5 planet effects though. Please help

[sirdad]

1 im not mad 2 i can not read 3 i was at work and in a rush.

[majorvex]

You will probably need to purchase another one if you aren’t happy with the way the 1st one generated.

The Process of Renting a Private Planet (video guide)

Some asked what the process looked like, so I made a quick video walk-thru. [New! How to rent a WHOLE planet in Boundless]

[majorvex]

You can change the atmosphere on Creative planets (during initial creation I believe), but not on Sovereigns.

@rossstephens

Standard worlds atmosphere & water colour are controlled by the world profile for public and sovereign worlds.
However, for creative worlds we have allowed you to pick different colours from the world profile

So you could have a coal world using lush world lighting

(edit: updated for clarity)

[Kevin]

Mine is sovereign sorry for failing to mention this.

[majorvex]

It’s tied to the world type/tier and can’t be changed.

[Kevin]

Ah ok. Guess ill have to wait a month and just leave the current world ah what a waste.

[majorvex]

I messed up my 1st planet too & will be letting it expire. It happens lol

[Kevin]

Have a look at Titan from Boori.

Its a very beautiful planet then you have the horrible yellow tinge and dust of a coal world. Least I know for next time that Lush is what I’m after!

[james]

Update OP with details of the bug fixes.

@james

Release 247.2:

• Fix for pre-simulation of liquids removing crop-lights (gleam) during world generation. This was causing the world builder to fail generating some private worlds.
• Fix the presentation of heat in furnaces on survival worlds.
• Fix for the rendering of Atlases of 6km worlds.
• Fix the Creative Bridge distance checking to be consistent between client and server.
• Modifications to the sampling rates of http request to scale better for a larger universe.
• Modifications to the server logging to reduce the volume of verbose logs generated for a larger universe.
• Updated Marble text description to reference the variations.

[FireAngelDth]

@james

removing gleam during world generation. This was causing the world builder to fail generating some private worlds.

So it was the black gleam

[Heureka]

It looks like bumping up to ground in a two block high space no longer work, i get returned to same spot i leaved all time. Bumping warp bumps me to same altitude too.

[Stretchious]

It’s been changed to seek a place in front of you now, not above you. I think this was changed due to creative bridges initially trying to place you on top of the portal instead of in front of it.

The bump warp part may be a knock on effect from that which I think may need to be looked at further.

[Rydralain]

Oooh! I bet this explains why I spawn awkwardly in my basement now rather than being pushed up into my workshop!

[james]

Updated OP with details of Release 247.3.

@james

Release 247.3:

• Allow Location and Portal tokens to stack.
• Expose per level cave selections into private world customisation form.
• Rework handling of world end-of-life in clients to allow reducing world lifetimes.
• Update the world lighting to iterate more steps per frame. This stops the worlds from “getting behind” rapid block lighting changes whilst customising private worlds.
• Added a new special type of exoworld for evolving colours.
• Improve the performance of recolouring chunks used during colour selection process on private worlds.
• Fix for players rejoining a world from the sanctum too quickly asserting the server.

[ciprianb]

@james

Added a new special type of exoworld for evolving colours.

Details?

Regards,

[lucadeltodecso]

Included a state-of-the-art exceptional form of exoworld for unfolding tints.

[bucfanpaka]

Thanks all, can’t wait to see the new exo type!

@james

• Rework handling of world end-of-life in clients to allow reducing world lifetimes.

On this, does this mean we’ll be able to shorten our rentals’ lifespan? Would love to do that if so, got a few (…and probably will have more ) I’d scrap if I could before the 30 days, keep the Sanctum sky clearer and just easier for me to keep track of the ones I really want to get rid of a few. But no biggie if not, happy to leave them up til expiration for others to farm.