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This page contains the changelogs of the game from 14/12/2017. Major versions are split by table, with minor versions being split into rows.
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This page contains the changelogs of the game from 14/12/2017. Major versions are split by table and year, with minor versions being split into rows.
  
= Sapling Edition =
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= Sapling Edition (2020) =
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== April ==
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!width="60%;" style="margin:auto;text-align:left;background-color: darkgrey;" | Changelog
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!style="text-align:center;" |10th of April 2020: Sapling 1.4.43 (200410b)
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* Fixed a case where a world would infinitely load due to world file not ending properly
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* Fixed some internal
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* Fixed some of Eris' lines not having a dialogue tag.
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* Fixed Seed maker giving goldenberries for strawberries.
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* Fixed Seed maker always giving 3 strawberries.
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* Fixed Construction Hat removing caith tails.
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* Fixed issue with an issue with connecting to a heavily modded server.
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= Sapling Edition (2019) =
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== April ==
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{| class="wikitable" width="80%";
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! colspan="2"| Sapling Edition
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!width="20%;" style="margin:auto;text-align:left;background-color: darkgrey;" |  Version:
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!width="60%;" style="margin:auto;text-align:left;background-color: darkgrey;" | Changelog
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!style="text-align:center;" |15th of April 2019: Sapling 1.4.26 (190415e)
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* Adjusted the Starbit hitbox to be easier to pick up.
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* Mailbox can now bought in the Grocery store.
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* Post office items are now sold after completing Leif’s first quest.
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* Slop Trough is now sold along with the other Farm Animal items.
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* Version number now only shows on the main menu and pause menu.
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* Fixed clothing not getting unlocked in the shipping catalogue. (Modded and Unmodded.)
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* Fixed being unable to set home after using the teleport button in the menu.
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* More staxel net relays have been added. If you want there is an option under gameplay.
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* Fixed a number of cases in dialogue where the player’s name was not coloured.
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* VR items can now be sold.
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* Allow the License Delivered achievement to be done out of order.
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* Fix a bug which would let Server Owners get the Build Barn Quest too early.
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* Allow Farm Fan to move again, if you completed the barn quest before the tutorial.
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* Farm Fan can now remove extra registration letters from your inventory when they aren’t needed.
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* No longer able to create a world with Impossible Folder names, or using \ or / or |. ( . is also limited.)
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* Aliza can now give extra trough recipes if you don’t have it in your inventory or if you didn’t learn it.
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* Fixed a case where the “Use Staxel Net” option could disappear after exiting edit world menu.
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* Some other minor crash fixes.
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!style="text-align:center;" |14th of April 2019: Sapling 1.4.25 (190414c)
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* Pet Food bowl, Trough, Slop Trough and Chicken Feed Area now give more food. (Now 5, 8, 8, 8 helpings respectively.)
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* Added a lot of previous unsearchable items to the creative catalogue. As well as some to shipping catalogue.
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* Shovel will now break blocks even if a tile is above them. Will not break blocks with plants on them however.
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* Fixed Eris' liked items not giving more reputation.
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* Added likes to Farm Fan.
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* Aliza should no longer care if you have the Farm License in your inventory to start the Barn Build quest. (If you previously lost your License here, just talk to Max again to unlock this.)
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* The dialogues for pointing the player towards farm fan should no longer play to people who can't complete the tutorial.
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* Vorlen will now unlock clocks when you try to make the museum for him.
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* Fix a case where the Prince, for Emilia's quests, wouldn't spawn if you went to Eris' castle.
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* Added an extra Prince check to Emilia's Liked quest
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* Fixed Daily quest items showing up in Jamie's fetch quest pool.
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* Fixed some issues with NPC's not spawning at the Airship totem.
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* Added /magicteleportreturn as a cheat command.
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* Made duplicate key exceptions better for Character Designs and Character Outfits.
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* Fixed Morel and Cirahna using 2 scripts at a time, and thus walking away from the player if they interacted with them.
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* Fixed quotations not being escaped in mail, causing a crash when you tried to make mail.
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* Fixed using a decimal point in the petals causing a crash.
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* Increase the amount of starbits spawned on a server by 1 per player on the server.
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* Fixed a crash after expanding a player's rights.
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* Crafting dock Drawables are now more rigorously checked in validation. They also do not spam logs when invalid in game.
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* Can no longer leave the world to increase the number of starbits that drop at night.
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* Fixed an issue with Staxel net, not choosing specific relay servers.
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* Fixed a bunch of models with wrong layernames.
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* Fixed tabbing in content builder.
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!style="text-align:center;" |11th of April 2019: Sapling 1.4.24 (190411a)
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* Fixed some counters having items docked to them float.
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* Fixed Husky pet skins not appearing.
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* Always show animal crates as buyable in store. However to buy them you do need a valid sign.
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!style="text-align:center;" |10th of April 2019: Sapling 1.4.23 (190410a)
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* Morel will now take spare special mushrooms away from you after her first quest is done.
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* Fixed a case where the Prince and Princess villagers could accidentally skip parts of their dialogue. Added a backup method for those affected by this.
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* Added an extra way to start the Murmur conversation if it failed to fire on Eris' first quest.
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* Fixed some Typos in English item names.
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* Jamie's rival no longer reads books.
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* Replica sword is positioned better in the hand.
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* Eris' final quest island will not allow you to leave unless you finish the dialogue there.
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* A spare starbit was added to Eris' final quest. (Leaving there to be an extra.)
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* Fixed a case causing a grey screen when alt+enter was used.
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* Fixed a grey screen caused by sleeping in a bed, while /stoptime was enabled.
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* Fixed a couple cases where the firework sound was used for teleporting.
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!style="text-align:center;" |9th of April 2019: Sapling 1.4.21 (190409a)
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* Improved the categorisation of many recipes in the Blueprint menu.
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* Black, Brown and Dark Brown are now normal palette colours. Clothing can be found in these colours.
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* Smoothies now have proper particles.
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* Milk is now drinkable and removes many status effects.
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* The shelves contain shipping items and tools have been split. One shelf only contains the shipping goods, while the other the farm goods.
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* Added a way to force set the Quest Giver of main quests. Use this to categorise Leif and Morel's quests better. (Only affects new journal entries.)
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* Fixed Morel and Cirahna having a case where they would just disappear.
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* Pet follow radius has been increased. Should make pets much more reliable in following you.
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* Added in a backup case in Leif's first quest, which would let you complete the quest, even if done out of order.
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* Fixed the sprinkler making a lot of noise at night transition.
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* Fixed the Roomie Quest and Complete All of a Villager's quests achievements being on the same spot.
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* Fixed movement speed and fishing timeout options not updating on restart.
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* Fixed the female version of the studded jacket showing skin through it.
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* Fixed the pink voxels that would appear on Caith's right hand if certain hats or hairstyles were used.
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* Fixed the player slowing down in mid air, if Walking speed option was below 100%.
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* The Tree village now has its placeholders replaced.
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* You can now teleport from the non-quest islands. This however costs money.
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* Fixed Ren appearing in the wrong outfit on first appearance.
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!style="text-align:center;" |8th of April 2019: Sapling 1.4.20 (190408a)
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* Players who get an extra locket for Cirahna can now give it to Cirahna again.
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* Fix a crash that resulted in making a mail, with an empty petal count.
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* Added a new potion to remove the current transformation.
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* Added potions and lucky boxes to the daily quest reward pool.
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* Fixed an infinite loop when a NPC is missing in Emilia's quest. (She will just say random dialogue instead.)
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* If you have both the Lucky status and Unlucky status (e.g. Drank a Mug'o'sap), you can no longer lose items due to unluckiness, but gaining items is half the original chance. (5% instead of 10%)
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* Tutorial will now attempt to remove the unlucky status effect, to avoid soft locking at the harvesting step.
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* Lucky and Unlucky will now affect milk and wool.
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* Transformation potion doesn't get used if you are already transformed.
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* Renaming an existing world now allows unicode.
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* Renaming an existing world, will now check to see if the new world name is valid.
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!style="text-align:center;" |7th of April 2019: Sapling 1.4.19 (190407c)
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* Split the recipes in the Building store onto two shelves.
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* Reduced the requirements to get the Reinforced and Infused tool level recipes.
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* Cirahna and Morel will visit each other on occasion.
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* Morel will occasionally leave her house to go to town.
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* Fix some cases where an invalid world name would be accepted, but the server would then crash.
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* Added a content builder check for "animation" in tiles.
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* Fixed the magic water animation freaking out when you are watering multiple plants.
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* Fixed a cat skin having the wrong layers and thus crashing the game.
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* Fixed a case where the server would crash at night transition if a player, who had mail to come the next morning, left the server.
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* Possibly fixed a couple cases where mouse clicks would stick after entering and leaving UI. (e.g. Teleporting, looking at the calendar.)
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* Don't crash when deleting a world, where a folder doesn't exist.
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* Don't silently crash when buying items with starbits while in creative mode.
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* Fixed another case where a Murmur would disappear if going through dialogue too quickly to a set of options.
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* Lower the time for the first arrival quest from 7 days to 4 days.
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* Fix some cases where $playername; would appear in gift dialogue on non-english languages.
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* The 3rd tier on the Building store should now unlock on the right quest.
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* The shipping station and magnifying glass now shows the nickname instead of the default username.
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* Some blackscreen fixes.
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* Allow Emilia to respawn certain villagers, if they have left already.
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* Reorder the bunny spawn check in Rosemary so that it is hit more often.
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* Made the Leif Friend quest backup trigger more reliable.
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* Fixed the Cirahna Locket not being a quest item. A backup method is provided for those that lost it.
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!style="text-align:center;" |5th of April 2019: Sapling 1.4.18 (180405a)
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* Night Transition and World loading fixes.
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* Don't crash the client when a font conflict occurs in translation files.
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* Properly center the calendar on resolutions other than 1080p.
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* Updated a number of translations.
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* Fixed a case where the loading screen would hang, if all chunks where empty air.
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* Be more reliable in sending crashlogs if a server is still up by the time reports are sent.
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* Fixed Leif's Acquaintance quest not triggering while Leif is at work.
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* Fixed a couple cases where villagers would path 20000 blocks to go to the festival.
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* Removed grass colouration on the Rough stone pathway.
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* Add a section for the journal to the control hints popup.
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* If a villager tries to path a long distance, they will teleport instead. (Rather than lock the server as they try to path.)
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!style="text-align:center;" |4th of April 2019: Sapling 1.4.17 (190404a)
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* Display a warning on pre-1.3 worlds to try and get people to move to newer version.
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* Fixed giving the wrong teleporter recipe for Eris' quest. If you are missing it, talk to her and she will give it.
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* Added a check to Riah's quest to give missing recipes.
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* Prefer to choose the home location or the town hall, if failing to find a position to teleport back from Islands. (Instead of in the ground.)
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* Barn quest will now properly complete on old worlds if you talk to Max.
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* Only allow the wandering bunny to be picked up if you are in the right stage in the quest.
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* Added a stricter check to Leif so he doesn't repeat the bunny quiz.
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* Fixed a case where Rosemary's last quest could loop back to the start.
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* Pet shop displays also act as counter tops.
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* Fixed trees not growing with magic water.
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* Fixed the issue allowing you to immediately talk to Farm Fan again during tutorial after finishing dialogue. (Now a 1 sec wait happens like normal.)
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* You are no longer allowed to gift to Farm Fan when you start the tutorial.
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* Fixed sizing on the Can't Set Home notification.
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* Fixed some cases where the wrong sound was being played. (Particularly Rosemary's rabbit.)
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* Lower Animal Jump Height. (To match the height from before gravity change.)
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* Hide some required items on Signs/Postboxes that were only available in a later quest. (e.g. Post office stuff for the grocery.)
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* Lowered Leif's first quest from Liked level to Acquiantance level.
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* Removed the notification for completing a recipe.
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* Fixed some cases where sticky notifications caused hidden errors.
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* You can now sleep for a moment to remove sleepy statuses.
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* You can now drink coffee, which will remove sleepy statuses and give a speed boost.
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* Shop tiles are now unlocked at the start of any world. (All old worlds will unlock these items.)
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Dropped the price of cookies to match chocolate chip cookies.
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* Changed a bit on how Merchants disappear.
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!style="text-align:center;" |1st of April 2019: Sapling 1.4.15 (190401b)
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New:
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* A new villager has arrived.
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* 3 old villagers now have friendship quests. (Leif, Jamie and Eris)
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* These villagers also have new gift dialogue.
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* Magic Crafting. Talk to Cirahna after finishing her Liked quest to unlock.
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* Players can now send mail to each other.
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* 1 of 2 postmen can now visit the village after some conditions are met.
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* Some new Side characters to find.
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* Starbits have been added. They add a little colour to the night.
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* VIP Merchants have been added. They offer some more exotic merchandise in exchange for a certain item.
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* A new bi-weekly festival. You might need to start thinking with portals for this one.
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* Magical islands. There are X custom made islands to explore.
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* Buffs and Debuffs. These last throughout the day, going away when you sleep.
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* A new tool. The weed killer. Faster than a scythe but doesn’t give you seeds or petals.
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* Tool upgrades. You can upgrade them to break stronger things and charge further.
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* Town Square Merchants can be picked up and moved, as long as you have a strong enough tool.
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* Added an option to disable tool notifications appearing with right click.
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* Some more clothing to find.
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* New fish and bugs to collect.
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* Added a demote option to the op command.
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* New look for both the collection screen and recipe screens.
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* New blocks to play around with.
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* New block to world generated farms: The calendar.
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* The game will now tell you can’t gain any more reputation for that villager for the day.
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* A new option to change default movement speed.
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* Added the ability to use any language as your world name. No longer restricted to english.
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Changes:
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* Shipping station no longer allows you to find everything.
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* Shipping station is now locked behind Leif’s friendship quest.
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* Seasons last 30 days. Up from 16.
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* Players can stay awake much longer. Be careful about fainting though!
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* Tool charging is faster overall. Spam clicking should no longer be the fastest way to farm.
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* Final charge state is now much stronger for tools with upgrades.
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* Fishing has been reworked. Now a more calming experience.
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* The Watering Can no longer has infinite water. Refill using water block or a sink.
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* Farm Fan no longer stands completely still all day. She’s a bit of a night owl now. (You, or the server owner for servers, will need to talk to her once to get her moving.)
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* Farm Fan prioritises other quests during the Harvest Festival, if you are currently not doing that quest line.
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* The UI for Post boxes and Signs will update as you are looking at it. (Instead of needing to be closed and opened again.)
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* Recipes will now visually show that they have been learnt by changing model and name.
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* Can no longer give items to Villagers who arrive for Festivals and other one time quest npcs. These NPC’s will not show a heart.
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* Villager conversations (Villager to Villager talking) will now appear in the journal.
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* If your inventory is full, any recipes given by NPC’s will be automatically learnt.
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* Some items previously not searchable in creative are now available.
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* UI backplates are now more consistent.
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* Major chunk loading changes. Should notice more consistency.
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* More of the world should generate as you play the game, even if you don’t travel the full island.
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* Charge tool achievement has been split into 2 parts.
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* Villagers that have been told to stay still, should do so even when they have a job.
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* Patisserie now requires an extra set of displays on second level. But these stands now provide delicious looking Pie Stands. (Not for eating.)
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* Gravity has been slightly lowered, items also have ground friction. (You can throw items farther but they don’t slide across the ground as much.)
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* Default throwing strength of items has been increased.
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* Balloons will float in mid air if you break any blocks attached to them.
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* Cirahna’s hitbox while on the ground reflects her more.
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* Can’t gift to Cirahna until after she gets off the ground.
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* Bald people should no longer gain hair while wearing hats.
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* Registration letter is no longer given as part of the items you spawn with, after finishing the tutorial. You now get a shovel instead.
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* Fixed Fossil polisher showing up in the Mechanic’s shop before Vorlen’s museum is done.
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* Fey Mansion now comes with more furniture.
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* You now get out of bed when you leave the night transition screen.
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* Sticky notifications will now go away after night transition.
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* Increased the power of festival tools to much or better tier 2 tools.
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* New sounds for rabbit, some effects and some UI.
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* Lightning is now in stereo. Also lightning will change its apparent distance more regularly.
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* Ignore a mouse down when exiting UI menus. Stops excess placing/using of items.
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Fixes:
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* Non server owners can now correctly start the Barn Quest. Fixes issues with Max not accepting items or starting quests.
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* Players can now teleport while sitting down or while they are locked to any other dock.
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* Improvements to how chunk reading is handled.
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* Fixed certain villagers attempting to go home after a single day of arriving.
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* Fixed the bug that showed 2 extra boxes for item mail.
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* Fixed Endash rendering as a Permille symbol.
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* Fixed Rosemary not going to quests if you went past Neutral reputation.
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* Auto pickup items option should now be properly activated/deactivated when you join a new world.
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* Behind the scenes fixes to how chunk loading occurs game wide.
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* Let night transition deal with more farming chunks. Fixes some issues with plants not growing.
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* Sponge should no longer eat itself if there is no room left in the inventory.
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* Fixes to many day checks that explicitly checked for midnight.
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* Fixed a loud hiss in one of the songs.
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* Fixed some underlying issues with rendering the UI.
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* Villagers spawned from a spawner will also hide from the map now.
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* Cirahna not always showing on the map after getting her up.
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* Inventory and Journal can no longer be opened during dialogue.
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* Fixed cases where villagers wouldn’t look at the player while talking.
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* Fixed numerous cases of the wrong model being used when a Caith put on a hat.
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* Fixed some other cases where models where wrong, or majorly clipping through.
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* Fixed a case where the world would be unfinishable as Farm Fan reset a flag. Worlds affect by this should be able to talk to Mayor Max to fix it.
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* Fixed numerous cases where villagers wouldn’t go to daily quests.
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* Fixed Daily quest display in the journal. (They show they are completed. Dialogue fills out more often.
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* Daily quests will attempt to remove quest items from player inventories when they expire.
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* Fixed 1x UI scale not being selectable.
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* Fixed numerous 1 pixel wiggles in the UI.
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* Fixed the mail notification sound happening several times at night.
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* Loot boxes should no longer give more rewards when clicking them, even when open.
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* Fixed effects ending before their sound ended.
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* Villagers will now unequip any item at night, and stop all animations. Less awkward reading while walking.
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* Fixed a case where localhost wouldn’t go to your computer.
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* Fixed some cases where a server would crash without an error being logged if given bad console arguments.
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Modding:
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* Old mods should remain mostly compatible with the exception of one change. Due to the shipping station not showing everything available to buy at the start, the lucky box will be needed to be used for any mod not updated.
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* The pricing component has had “canBeEarntFromLuckyBox” and “catalogueUnlockedFromStart” added.
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* Added a way to always show a static main verb for items.
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* There is a way to request that a chunk be regenerated now.
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* Lots of minor changes, that shouldn’t break compatibility with old versions.
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* Added a way for festivals to happen multiple times per season.
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* Content Builder now has a utility to find items that can be bought, but don’t appear in any location that would normally allow a player to get them. (Besides in the world.)
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* Dialogue errors should now provide more information overall.
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* It’s now possible to add custom collections and recipe categories.
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* Several error message improvements.
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* Added “tilesToIgnore” to totems which will completely ignore any specified tile.
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== February ==
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!width="60%;" style="margin:auto;text-align:left;background-color: darkgrey;" | Changelog
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!style="text-align:center;" |7th of February 2019: Sapling 1.3.62 (190207a)
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* Player renamer doesn’t get used if setting to the same name.
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* Post boxes and signs no longer provide protection by default if placed by player.
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* Break effect gets rid of it’s sound instance properly, instead of staying forever.
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* Generate lower level LOD’s and additional chunks while idle.
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* Reduced the number of LOD levels. Some were practically never used.
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* Don’t crash when generating too many particles.
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* Improved the content build error message when two plants contain the same tile.
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* Reduced the number of chunk change triggers for lighting and LOD.
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* Thread safety improvements to core paths.
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* Internally added tests for chunks.
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* Empty strings don’t attempt to get translated.
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* More crash debugging.
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== January ==
 
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!width="60%;" style="margin:auto;text-align:left;background-color: darkgrey;" | Changelog
 
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!style="text-align:center;" |30th of January 2019: Sapling 1.3.60 (190130a)
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New:
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* Player Nicknames. Upon creating a new character, you can change the name that will be shown.
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* Player Name Changers: The town hall now allows you to buy a name change certificate for changing your own name.
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* Player list shows the player’s username if they are using a nickname. (You can also use /getUsername [Nickname] to get a person’s username)
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* When trying to break a block that is protected, a particle line will show you to the thing that is protecting it.
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Changes:
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* All worlds made before this patch will have sign protection disabled for any existing sign.
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* Small Optimisations to UI. Should load faster, and be more responsive, on less powerful computers.
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* Improvements to LOD generation speed.
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* Some minor memory improvements.
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* Some minor optimisations to Shaders.
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* Some imrovements to file loading
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Fixes:
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* Fix some cases where an NPC could be pushed out of a conversation by another NPC.
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* Sign protection defaults should now be fixed. Festival areas and other similar signs should no longer protect by default.
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* Lots of behind the scenes changes to LOD generation. Some odd quirks of LOD generation (Shadows on beaches) should now be gone.
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Modding:
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* Improvements to Key Not Found error messages.
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* No longer says unknown content build error, if the file was at least in a folder in mods.
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* Fixed doubling of file path on Tile errors.
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!style="text-align:center;" |14th of January 2019: Sapling 1.3.59 (190114c)
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* Let players drop items from inventory when hovering over the item description area.
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* Fixed another bug which didn't allow dropping from inventory.
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* Let a second press of esc work while transitioning from map mode or selfie mode.
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* Show status of bees when using a Smoker on an Apiary that is currently producing honey.
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* Fixed an issue which caused worlds to not be deleteable.
 +
* Fixed some other issues caused by map mode and other interactions.
 +
* Added command line property to Steam Launcher, "binary", which opens specified file instead of Staxel.Client.exe
 +
* Added a special pass to command line parsing, to allow values that aren't joined with a : or =.
 +
* Try joining by staxelnet first when trying to join via Steam Friends.
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |9th of January 2019: Sapling 1.3.58 (190109a)
 +
||
 +
* Sign UI has been updated.
 +
* Area protection is only on by default for homes and main town buildings. Festival area is now not included.
 +
* Fix totems not being able to scan and being stuck on "Updating...". They should reliably scan the area.
 +
* Fix weirdness caused by talking to an NPC while in map mode.
 +
* Fix MinSpecs warning always showing, even if told to never show.
 +
* Changed MinSpecs window from Yes/No to just Continue.
 +
* When opening the journal, it will automatically go to the tab the last quest appeared in.
 +
* Small speed improvements to chunk loading.
 +
* No longer closes UI menus when a drag goes outside it.
 +
* When the game/server crashes from an Out Of Memory error, show "Exit to desktop" instead of "Exit to menu".
 +
* Staxel net Address box lines up better with the escape menu.
 +
* Fishing now sends data more efficiently.
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |8th of January 2019: Sapling 1.3.57 (190108a)
 +
||
 +
* Mouse Smoothing now takes framerate into account.
 +
* Fix Signs/Totems stopping festivals.
 +
* Fix Signs/Totems stopping plants from growing.
 +
* Fix plant pulling not triggering the protection notification.
 +
* Fix plant pulling happening every tick if the plant was in a Sign/Totem area.
 +
* Fix window and borderless modes not respecting half resolution and window size.
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |5th of January 2019: Sapling 1.3.56 (190105b)
 +
||
 +
New:
 +
* Totem regions will now protect the area they cover by default. You can turn this off by clicking on the totem and pressing the right button.
 +
 +
Changes:
 +
* Improvements to rendering speed and range while walking around.
 +
* Some small memory improvements to chunks.
 +
* Standalone users who purchased the game can also use StaxelNet.
 +
* StaxelNet options should now properly save on worlds
 +
* StaxelNet errors should be easier to read.
 +
* Issues list in Steam Launcher will now show some more issues.
 +
 +
Fixes:
 +
* Fixed a case where players would still be in a conversation and thus would not save properly when exiting a world.
 +
* Fixed Standalone launcher deleting saves when updating.
 +
* Fixed controller not being able to get to the StaxelNet checkbox.
 +
* Fixed Steam Launcher crashing if it fails to find anything to check for files missing.
 +
* Fixed StaxelNet text overlapping in some languages.
 +
* Fixed some cases of needing to talk to Farm Fan twice.
 +
* The wall clock is now against the wall, and the hands line up correctly.
 +
* Don’t crash if a person in dialog leaves the game.
 +
* More robustness when loading textures.
 +
* More logging to find some more inconsistent crashes.
 +
* When deleting worlds, it will now retry if it fails.
 +
* Improved some StaxelNet Exceptions.
 +
* Possibly fixed a crash when looking at journal.
 +
* Fixed a crash when loading totems.
 +
 +
Modding:
 +
* Joke time estimate when content building replaced with an actual helpful message.
 +
* Draw Point added to Debug Drawing.
 +
|}
 +
 +
= Sapling Edition (2018) =
 +
== December ==
 +
{| class="wikitable" width="80%";
 +
|-
 +
! colspan="2"| Sapling Edition
 +
|-
 +
!width="20%;" style="margin:auto;text-align:left;background-color: darkgrey;" |  Version:
 +
!width="60%;" style="margin:auto;text-align:left;background-color: darkgrey;" | Changelog
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |10th of December 2018: Sapling 1.3.53 (181210a)
 +
||
 +
Added:
 +
*Festival signs are not breakable by default. Can be turned off when selecting the sign.
 +
*Added a new popup to Steam Launcher notifying users if they are below minimum spec.
 +
Changed:
 +
*More shirts and shorts available in the beginning character generation.
 +
*Exit popup is now different in multiplayer.
 +
*You can now rename worlds without opening them.
 +
*Optimisations to lighting.
 +
*Small optimisation to rendering. Average FPS in the town should be higher.
 +
*Large trees should fall more reliably.
 +
*Show the network issues prompt if disconnected due to error from a Steam Friends game.
 +
*Pathfinding changes. NPC’s should handle stairs and indoors easier. Longer distance pathing should be better.
 +
*Fey Manor’s garden has been redesigned.
 +
Fixed:
 +
*Magic water not working on White Rose, trees, and other non-pickable plants.
 +
*Fixed not being able to delete copied worlds.
 +
*Fixed Nametags and NPC heads flipping upside down in Map view.
 +
*More adjustments when reading files that are being blocked.
 +
*Minor changes to double press dashing.
 +
*Fixed Buy sites not restoring from save correctly.
 +
Modding:
 +
*It is now possible to add in more waypoints for villages.
 +
*Changed stack size limit on Placeholder items from 1 to 999.
 +
*Buy sites now try to get rid of placeholders without crashing.
 +
*New admin command for debugging pathing: dystra.
 +
*More villager validation checks.
 +
*Improved component builder error messages.
 +
*Improved an error message in Treasure Pools concerning null items.
 +
|}
 +
== November ==
 +
{| class="wikitable" width="80%";
 +
|-
 +
! colspan="2"| Sapling Edition
 +
|-
 +
!width="20%;" style="margin:auto;text-align:left;background-color: darkgrey;" |  Version:
 +
!width="60%;" style="margin:auto;text-align:left;background-color: darkgrey;" | Changelog
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |29th of November 2018: Sapling 1.3.52 (181129b)
 +
||
 +
New:
 +
* Level Of Detail changes now smoothly fade in.
 +
Changes:
 +
* Changed model of an old duplicate Tracter Double Bed and hidden it from catalogues.
 +
* Added a button to rename worlds without loading them.
 +
* Better and more efficient distance fog. Distance fog is now disabled if Bloom is disabled.
 +
* Minor adjustments to the steam launcher usability.
 +
* Halloween changes have been removed. (Brick sells his original stock etc)
 +
* Added some particles at the start of pulling up flowers animation
 +
* Improvements to the steam launcher error if the game fails to start.
 +
Fixes:
 +
* LOD holes have been fixed.
 +
* Fix caret position in the World name box being reset to the end all the time.
 +
* Hardening towards certain Dialogue crashes.
 +
* Some hardening towards save corruption.
 +
* More retrying and hardening when loading files.
 +
* Don’t have the server crash if world facade goes null.
 +
* Suppressed some old world exceptions to do with bugs. Fixed on the spot now.
 +
* Fixed multiple inventory full sounds happening at once.
 +
* Fix some crashes with StaxelNet.
 +
* Fixed a crash when the renamer was used yet wasn’t the active item.
 +
* Fix gaps appearing in terrain at long distances.
 +
* Fix some surrounding logic that may have caused NPC’s to read without a book.
 +
* Don’t disable sound if the audio system goes out of memory. Some other minor audio changes.
 +
* Keep trying to delete/move files for up to 15 seconds. Should help with sporadic issues with Anti-viruses and similar programs.
 +
* Can no longer get Halloween mail by having an older world.
 +
* Fix Character model showing when net issues window appears.
 +
* Fix some cases of visual sliders (e.g. Gamma) going out of bounds and causing black screens.
 +
Modding:
 +
* Items from mods that have been removed should be replaced with a “Missing Item” item. These should turn back into the original item, if added back in.
 +
* Content Builder checks sounds exist on Plants and Tiles.
 +
* Content Builder error messages should now provide all of the details upfront.
 +
* Links in Content Builder error messages should now be clickable.
 +
* Improved error message for empty Language files
 +
* Fix Content Build Exceptions not showing the filename.
 +
* Updated Plants and added sponges to the Asset Manager.
 +
* Removed chain crafting behaviour as it wasn’t used in Staxel. If you want previous behaviour, use “DeprecatedChainCraft” : true in your reaction.
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |22th of November 2018: Sapling 1.3.49 (181122b)
 +
||
 +
Changes:
 +
 +
*Better and more efficient distance fog. Distance fog is now disabled if Bloom is disabled.
 +
*Minor adjustments to the steam launcher usability.
 +
*Halloween changes have been removed. (Brick sells his original stock etc)
 +
*Added some particles at the start of pulling up flowers animation
 +
*Improvements to the steam launcher error if the game fails to start.
 +
Fixes:
 +
*Fix gaps appearing in terrain at long distances.
 +
*Fix some surrounding logic that may have caused NPC’s to read without a book.
 +
*Don’t disable sound if the audio system goes out of memory. Some other minor audio changes.
 +
8Keep trying to delete/move files for up to 15 seconds. Should help with sporadic issues with Anti-viruses and similar programs.
 +
*Can no longer get Halloween mail by having an older world.
 +
*Fix Character model showing when net issues window appears.
 +
*Fix some cases of visual sliders (e.g. Gamma) going out of bounds and causing black screens.
 +
Modding:
 +
*Fix Content Build Exceptions not showing the filename.
 +
*Updated Plants and added sponges to the Asset Manager.
 +
*Removed chain crafting behaviour as it wasn’t used in Staxel. If you want previous behaviour, use “DeprecatedChainCraft” : true in your reaction.
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |13th of November 2018: Sapling 1.3.48 (181113a)
 +
||
 +
New:
 +
*Control schemes.
 +
*Added options to flip mouse/joystick horizontal directions.
 +
*New way to connect to other friends. “Use Staxel Net” option added to “Play With Friends”.
 +
*Added controller support to building tool settings windows.
 +
Changes:
 +
*Transition to/from Map mode has been changed a bit.
 +
*Increased the amount players push NPC’s.
 +
*Minor optimisations of Animated tiles doors and lighting.
 +
*Internal changes to file creation/loading.
 +
*Auto-picking up items should occur for more actions.
 +
Fixes:
 +
*Looking down near a wall should no longer make you go first person.
 +
*Fixed Golden Watermelon, Golden Cabbage, Golden Pumpkin, and Golden Strawberry seeds missing from seed maker
 +
*Minor crash fixes.
 +
*Fix a crash when loading a world with a missing mail count.
 +
*Don’t keep a server running when failing to start a world.
 +
*Make sure only a single forest bunny spawns.
 +
*Stop players from giving more items to Farm Fan, after they already got the coupon.
 +
*Fixed some blob corruption issues.
 +
*Don’t leave a broken file behind if loading fails.
 +
*Swapped numerous cases of saved time not being in UTC.
 +
*CompleteQuest and UpdateReputationCommand now check for the right number of arguments.
 +
*When failing to load an Entity for rendering, fall back to a new renderer to avoid failing every frame.
 +
*Don’t crash if a DockTile with animation that is missing is spawned.
 +
*Don’t crash during animation if a Dispenser is missing a component.
 +
Modding:
 +
*Retrying a failed content build should now work properly.
 +
*Old sprinkler mod is now blocked from being loaded.
 +
*New format for Errors in Content Builder. Should be less scary now.
 +
*Most content builder exceptions will now point to a specific installed mod, if possible. (e.g. “Modded Content Build Error. Caused by: X at workshop url: “)
 +
*Error messages should be clearer when failing to upload using Mod Manager.
 +
|}
 +
 +
== October ==
 +
{| class="wikitable" width="80%";
 +
|-
 +
! colspan="2"| Sapling Edition
 +
|-
 +
!width="20%;" style="margin:auto;text-align:left;background-color: darkgrey;" |  Version:
 +
!width="60%;" style="margin:auto;text-align:left;background-color: darkgrey;" | Changelog
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |24th of October 2018: Sapling 1.3.46 (181024a)
 +
||
 +
is now live for all players
 +
* Added a new Spooky furniture range
 +
* Added 6 new cosmetic hats for halloween
 +
* Brick will sell spooky furniture over the next week or so
 +
* Sent out a spooky letter to everyone
 +
* Added a "showCraftingKeyword" option to docks so modders can disable their nametags
 +
* Big dropped tiles (e.g. pet house) should scale better now
 +
* Improved readability of UI Tabs so it's easier to tell what is currently selected
 +
* Wood tree saplings now grow in all seasons
 +
* Fix non-compound tiles pushing out from walls in the wrong direction
 +
* General codebase fixes
 +
* fix a rare issue where social icons would throw an error
 +
* Fix an issue where the game was reporting duplicate reactions
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |12th of October 2018: Sapling 1.3.44 (181012a)
 +
||
 +
Major
 +
* Lighting fixes. Less black void.
 +
* Show a warning prompt instead of kicking players with high amounts of lag.
 +
* Signs… THAT YOU CAN WRITE ON
 +
Additions:
 +
* Allow journal bind to close the journal while it's open
 +
* Allow the “accept” button (Default: A on controller) to advance dialogue
 +
* Prevent a case of accidentally closing the character creator on the first world load.
 +
* Add a couple of lines to Farm Fan to stop her from referring to herself in third person.
 +
* A prompt is displayed before stealing.
 +
Changes:
 +
* Made the scarf on the shaved pink sheep match un-shaved version.
 +
* Made powerful refrigerator be recognised as a fridge
 +
* Show a warning prompt instead of kicking players with high amounts of lag.
 +
* Your view won’t be snapped back to your conversation partner all the time.
 +
* Set the active inventory slot when moving items within hotbar. Instead of just between hotbar and inventory.
 +
* Added a slight delay before getting the next hint in the night transition overlay.
 +
* Changed arrows on dropdowns to a higher resolution version.
 +
* Reduced delay in showing the dialogue progress hint.
 +
* Use the randomized cobble tile when creating the town hall.
 +
* Changed the mouse icon that showed up in dialogue.
 +
* Changed some internal logic for key binding.
 +
* Ensure that Steam Launcher brings Staxel to the front of all open windows.
 +
* Hide the “allow friends joins” option on GOG version. Play with Friends button is also disabled.
 +
* Moved the “Inventory Direct” keybind higher in the list. So it is next to other menu keybinds.
 +
* Added Hay as a requirement to craft chicken coops.
 +
* Allow multiple gog owners to play on a server using the same credentials.
 +
* Unmappable key bindings are now more clear in the UI.
 +
* Allow escape menu to be shown while in dialogue.
 +
* Fancy chairs can be sat on now.
 +
* Added a button that you can click on night transition to continue.
 +
Fixes:
 +
* Fixed some bad layers in Male Swimsuits, Bermuda Shorts
 +
* Added some methods to quickly update lighting before full information is received from server.
 +
* Added extra protection for weird ui scale values.
 +
* The Tool area region no longer sticks around after switching from the creative shovel
 +
* Fixed replaced tiles leaving behind compound fillers. This fixes some cases of invisible blocks.
 +
* Fixed the screen growing past the monitor size, when switching from borderless to windowed mode.
 +
* When a field gets assigned a null in json, ignore the field when parsing the blob. Fixes some weird issues.
 +
* Don't crash on CancelCharacterCreator if current design was not set yet.
 +
* Track file access conflict issues on BinBlobDb with more detailed error messages. To find some unusual crashes.
 +
* Fixed a crash for Docks when a dock is provided an item with no code or tile code.
 +
* Fix some threading issues.
 +
* Fixed a float precision issue causing animations to not play at 60fps after 2 hours of gameplay.
 +
* Don't crash when saving, while feeder has just been spawned.
 +
* Don’t throw an exception when muting a player for a second time.
 +
* Don’t trigger selfie camera mode when using ALT+F4 to close the game.
 +
* Don’t leak sound effect instances when skipping sounds.
 +
* Avoid cleaning up GameContext multiple times, and solved some race conditions concerning cleaning up GameContext.
 +
* Fix an issue with reloading pets.
 +
* Several hardenings of code surround chunks.
 +
* Hardening against null item stack exceptions.
 +
* A fix was applied to some failures to directly connect to a player.
 +
* Removed the server list from the client and server wizard.
 +
* Fixed Cecile’s Model showing a different skin tone on the shoulder.
 +
Modding:
 +
* Certain DLL’s are now blocked from loading. This is to stop issues with certain old mods crashing the game.
 +
* By default, Mod Manager only asks to update mods if you own the mod.
 +
* By default, Mod Manager does not ask to run content builder on new versions of the game.
 +
* Both options above can be turned off by finding the file in the /mods/ folder.
 +
* Mod manager’s command line parameters have been clean up. The only input changed is steamLauncherCheck (e.g. -steamLauncherCheck 10.0.0 instead of -steamLauncherCheck -version 10.0.0)
 +
* Fixed villager definitions being outdated in Asset Manager.
 +
* Fix Modmanager not detecting that some mods needed to be uninstalled before being reinstalled. Should fix cases of files being left behind.
 +
* Added Mail definitions and Quest Definitions to the Asset Manager.
 +
* Check if files are missing from the bundle after Mod Manager does its checks.
 +
|}
 +
 +
== September ==
 +
{| class="wikitable" width="80%";
 +
|-
 +
! colspan="2"| Sapling Edition
 +
|-
 +
!width="20%;" style="margin:auto;text-align:left;background-color: darkgrey;" |  Version:
 +
!width="60%;" style="margin:auto;text-align:left;background-color: darkgrey;" | Changelog
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |12th of September 2018: Sapling 1.3.42 (180912b)
 +
||
 +
New:
 +
* New pants have been added.
 +
* Players lagging badly for more than 60 seconds will get kicked from the server.
 +
 +
Fixes:
 +
* Fixed all villagers being considered a quest villager.
 +
* Allow controllers to get to the cog button in the single player world select.
 +
* Various sound fixes. Out of Memories should be less common.
 +
* Added some more grace time to effects. Some sounds should play more reliably
 +
* Updated Festivals in Asset Manager. This fixes previous issues.
 +
* The old mailbox is no longer searchable in catalogues.
 +
* Better error message when trying to connect to a multiplayer server, and the port is invalid.
 +
* Fixed a case where pet houses could spawn Farm Animals and crash the game.
 +
* Allow animations to play during night transition, so the player's animation state is correct on wakeup.
 +
* Fixed Oscar final quest being broken.
 +
* Harden FillPotWater against Dispenser Component being null.
 +
* Improve the reported server lockfile error, by finding the process currently holding the lock to the lockfile.
 +
* Made some changes to make certain errors easier to catch
 +
* Some very small technical changes
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |9th of September 2018: Sapling 1.3.40 (180909a)
 +
||
 +
New:
 +
*Added the ability for any tilestate to dispense (water from fountains & wells)
 +
*Added particles and sounds for catching bug entities
 +
*Added --disableFullscreen and --disableSliders commandline options, which are used by the steam compat start option to make the game more likely to work or work around stuff the user broke in menus.
 +
 +
Changes:
 +
*Made control hints more visible, and redesigned the mouse fully.
 +
*Made larger lighting batches.
 +
*Assert qb layer is of inbounds size.
 +
 +
Fixes:
 +
*Fixed Farm Fan being removed after festivals where she was the host.
 +
*Fixed inventory getting stuck and dropping items.
 +
*Fixed a bug with particles.
 +
*Fixed low drive space detection.
 +
*Fixed stir entity action & boiling station particles looping forever
 +
*Fixed a bug with the order shipping manager that causes the game to crash.
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |5th of September 2018: Sapling 1.3.39 (180905a)
 +
||
 +
New:
 +
*Allow user to hide the feedback form in future.
 +
*Force Download mods when opening Mod Manager.
 +
*Players are now asked to remove incompatible or banned mods.
 +
*Added functional bin and stop merchant sites accepting zero value stacks.
 +
*Added a shelf where modders where modders can have their items spawn in the store.
 +
*Added effects & actions to dispensers.
 +
*Added a "Cobble Moss" tile, similar to weeds, for use in adding aesthetic overgrowth to non-farmland tiles.
 +
*Add gating to totem requirements and display ??? if the quest isn't active for that player.
 +
*Game now displays a lag notification.
 +
*Added option to auto-pickup items within a certain distance around the player.
 +
*Added --disableFullscreen and --disableSliders commandline options.
 +
 +
Changes:
 +
*Game now detects duplicate keys in json blob files.
 +
*Added alt stages to rare mushroom plant to accommodate rotations.
 +
*Game now checks if the player is looking at a villager before throwing throwables.
 +
*Town hall pedestal dock is now available to buy.
 +
*Added contentbuilder check for category concept & fix missed villager regards.
 +
*Added additional check to Cirahnas part in Oscar's junk queen quest.
 +
*Removed the old postbox from the catalogue.
 +
*Allowed many of the common grasses to spawn mixed seeds, increased mixed seed rate slightly.
 +
*Stop interrupting action cancellations when fainting.
 +
*Added some missing essentials to the building store.
 +
*Removed fossil category from polisher.
 +
*Included dock contents in structure export/import
 +
*Removed questItem status from giant mushroom since you can get it as many times as you need.
 +
*Player is now prevented from sleeping during the morning.
 +
*Apply and persist random villager likes.
 +
*Made fairies emissive to match lore.
 +
*Game no longer recalculates the lod and lighting on watering and cropgrowth.
 +
*Removed the dialogue functions of the tutorial script.
 +
*Lag notification now hides and shows timers.
 +
*Made control hints more visible, and redesigned the mouse fully.
 +
*Made larger lighting batches.
 +
 +
Fixes:
 +
*Work done to the dialogue format.
 +
*Fix Farm Fan being able to talk about needing to go see Farm Fan.
 +
*Fixed Farm Fan not correctly returning to normal dialogue after the gift dialogue has been triggered.
 +
*Improved error message on config code collision.
 +
*Fixed some wall objects acting like vines.
 +
*Simple fixes for a lot of Leif bugs.
 +
*Fixed some rosemary quest issues.
 +
*Fixed a bug with Oscar and the Trash Fairy.
 +
*Made Aliza only visit the cash register in the building store.
 +
*Fixed beet interference bug with the tutorial.
 +
*Make most counter tops not push out from walls.
 +
*Fixed dialogue issues with Oscar.
 +
*Fixed massReplacer docking.
 +
*General optimisations.
 +
*Fixed spinkler performance issue.
 +
*Fixed issues with particles not correctly resetting after resize.
 +
*Fixed inability to pick up flowers.
 +
*Fixed merchant dialogue locking.
 +
*Minor cleanup of unused code.
 +
*Fixed fainting waking the player up at midnight.
 +
*Fixed naming issue with the double beds.
 +
*Fixed issues with docking.
 +
*Fixed issue with flashing wall torches due to not building emissive color into cached mesh.
 +
*Reduced tilestates by improving replacetile and merging the remove/place into one action when possible.
 +
*Fine tuned reliable network.
 +
*Fixed bug with sleeping on multiplayer servers.
 +
*Fixed Farm Fan being removed after festivals where she was the host.
 +
*Clamped values to avoid generating a NaN.
 +
*Game now asserts qb layer is of inbounds size.
 +
*Fixed low drive space detection.
 +
*Fixed inventory getting stuck and dropping items.
 +
|}
 +
== August ==
 +
{| class="wikitable" width="80%";
 +
|-
 +
! colspan="2"| Sapling Edition
 +
|-
 +
!width="20%;" style="margin:auto;text-align:left;background-color: darkgrey;" |  Version:
 +
!width="60%;" style="margin:auto;text-align:left;background-color: darkgrey;" | Changelog
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |8th of August 2018: Sapling 1.3.33 (180808a)
 +
||
 +
New:
 +
* Allow swapping between places on the same object. (e.g. Bed)
 +
* Friendship Requirements were lowered. (1.3.30)
 +
 +
Changes:
 +
* Coffee is no longer an Eggplant.
 +
* Magic Water is no longer buyable from catalogue.
 +
* Default key bindings now have I to go straight to inventory.
 +
* Fossil polisher is now in the Building store after building the museum.
 +
* Hidden some items used by Rowan's questline from Catalogue.
 +
 +
Fixes:
 +
* Some fixes to getting stuck in docks.
 +
* Some fixes to getting stuck in fainted position.
 +
* Fixed crash when a player left when being led, or running away from.
 +
* Fixed Skirts being in the wrong slot, and being offset.
 +
* Fixed Rosemary not being able to become Roomies.
 +
* Fixed some wrong configs with Hanging Pans and Hanging Light.
 +
* Fixed typing E while editing world name, on existing world, closing the menu.
 +
* Fixed world creation/editing error messages not appearing.
 +
* Cleaned up Quest item list, so that all items are obtainable.
 +
* Fixed up various tile sounds.
 +
 +
Modding:
 +
* Better error messages when some things have duplicate keys.
 +
* Villager regards, when using a category concept, now require a list.
 +
* Modmanager should no longer ping when some mods were downloading.
 +
* Modmanager should now uninstall a mod first before installing in all cases.
 +
|-
 +
|}
 +
== July ==
 +
{| class="wikitable" width="80%";
 +
|-
 +
! colspan="2"| Sapling Edition
 +
|-
 +
!width="20%;" style="margin:auto;text-align:left;background-color: darkgrey;" |  Version:
 +
!width="60%;" style="margin:auto;text-align:left;background-color: darkgrey;" | Changelog
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |27th of July 2018: Sapling 1.3.29 (180727a)
 +
||
 +
* Plushes are pickable.
 +
* Should no longer be able a certain special pet from Farm Fan.
 +
* Notifications of the same type but different properties will now stack. e.g. "You have learnt x." "You have learnt y." will now stack.
 +
* Don't let duplicates spawn of a certain pet.
 +
* Add the server world version and creation date to crash logs.
 +
* Using selfie mode no longer skips night transition.
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |23rd of July 2018: Sapling 1.3.28 (180723a)
 +
||
 +
* In game Friendship achievements.
 +
* Added wildberry drops to other harvestable plants.
 +
* Room 208 in the Fey Mansion has been renamed to Room 108. This should be a little less misleading.
 +
* TV's now change their height to fit to stuff below them again.
 +
* Don't let Farm Fan give a duplicate License Letter if you handed 1 in already.
 +
* Improved error message when two farm animals have the same code.
 +
* Fix a rare crash to do with Villagers going home.
 +
* Rare mushrooms should break properly when not on soil tiles.
 +
* Don't let a villager crash by walking onto a plant with no configuration.
 +
* Some logging changes. Don't force logging on certain mod crashes.
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |21st of July 2018: Sapling 1.3.27 (180721a)
 +
||
 +
Added:
 +
*Reputation and reputation levels
 +
*Reputation icons displayed in nametags
 +
*Reputation can be gained by:
 +
**Talking
 +
**Giving Items
 +
**Completing daily quests
 +
*The ability to invite villagers to be your roomie upon completing their questline
 +
*Roomied villagers will hang out at your house
 +
*Roomied villagers will have extra special dialogue
 +
*A new species of pet
 +
*A new festival
 +
*Dozens of new quest items
 +
*New hats
 +
*Conversations with Murmurs (Merchants)
 +
*Postboxes and signs can have extra criteria:
 +
*Must be away from town
 +
*Must not overlap with another totem
 +
*Villagers can go shopping in the village
 +
*Villagers can converse with each other (only used in quests for now)
 +
*Dialogue can be used to spawn villagers, tiles, and more
 +
 +
Fixes:
 +
*Allow all numpad buttons to be mapped; some were missed by mistake
 +
*Fix pets colliding with doors while following their owners
 +
*Fix some cases of Journal entries duplicating
 +
*Fix an issue where postbox/totem sale pools couldn’t be expanded with new tiers
 +
*When checking for an item in a players inventory, the clothing slots were skipped
 +
*Fixed some dialogue issues, which resulted in getting stuck in conversations
 +
 +
Modding:
 +
*Added a large number of extra Dialogue Commands
 +
*Added functionality to fishables to be active during certain quests, or while certain totems exist
 +
*Added functionality to plants to drop seeds when broken at certain stages
 +
*Allow villagers to be farm animals
 +
*Added village global variables for dialogue
 +
*Added personal cross-villager variables for players in dialogue
 +
*Add the ability to defer dialogue commands, limited to a small handful of commands for now
 +
*More extensive dialogue validation
 +
*Regards are now included in villager npc files
 +
*Dialogue pools blocked by friendship levels are included in villager npc files
 +
*Fixed an issue where a misnamed dialogue command could still be validated
 +
*Fixed an issue where farm animals, and pet models were not checked
 +
*Fixed bodytype layers in some animals
 +
*When creating translation files for dialogues, the content builder will now filter to .dialogue and .npcconversation files.
 +
|}
 +
 +
== June ==
 +
{| class="wikitable" width="80%";
 +
|-
 +
! colspan="2"| Sapling Edition
 +
|-
 +
!width="20%;" style="margin:auto;text-align:left;background-color: darkgrey;" |  Version:
 +
!width="60%;" style="margin:auto;text-align:left;background-color: darkgrey;" | Changelog
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |25th of June 2018: Sapling 1.2.39 (180625c)
 +
||
 +
New:
 +
* Sprinklers have been added to the game. You can find them in the building store.
 +
* Added Social media shortcuts to the Main Menu.
 +
* Water Squirters have been added.
 +
 +
Fixes:
 +
* Don’t crash the server when swapping an item with an empty slot.
 +
* More asserts to find out where a NaN velocity bug is coming from.
 +
* Don’t give steam achievements when switching out of creative mode.
 +
* Fixed player options being updated way too often.
 +
* Ensure that all files are in UTF8, to avoid issues if someone trieds to encode it differently.
 +
* Don’t mark translations as untranslated when the English translation is empty.
 +
* A lot of micro-optimisations. Too many changes to list.
 +
* A number of changes to avoid leaking data.
 +
* A number of changes to lessen Garbage Collection for hot parts of the code.
 +
* Remove some leftover code from the 32bit version.
 +
 +
Modding:
 +
* Lots of improved error messages. Too many changes to list.
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |7th of June 2018: Sapling 1.2.37 (180607a)
 +
||
 +
New:
 +
* Saturation, Gamma, Brightness and Contrast sliders have been added.
 +
* Minor Mouse Smoothing
 +
 +
Fixes:
 +
* Fixed searching for Recipes not always giving the right recipes.
 +
* Logging added for when Entity Database gets corrupted, so we can find issues pertaining to disappearing NPC's.
 +
* Reduce a number of cases of memory leak.
 +
* Added more assertions, and improved error messages, to find weird corner case crashes.
 +
* Added more logging to a cache exception. Also stop it from crashing the game.
 +
* Increased tolerance of NAN's in player characters.
 +
* Removed some costly code when loading files.
 +
* A number of small optimisations to large areas of code.
 +
 +
Modding:
 +
* Reactions that result in a Null item as a result, will no longer knock off items in the result slot.
 +
* Done some protection against a Zip vulnerability.
 +
* Mod manager will now no longer allow certain characters in mod names.
 +
|}
 +
== May ==
 +
{| class="wikitable" width="80%";
 +
|-
 +
! colspan="2"| Sapling Edition
 +
|-
 +
!width="20%;" style="margin:auto;text-align:left;background-color: darkgrey;" |  Version:
 +
!width="60%;" style="margin:auto;text-align:left;background-color: darkgrey;" | Changelog
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |20th of May 2018: Sapling 1.2.32 (180520a)
 +
||
 +
Fixes:
 +
* Fixed an issue with rebinding specific keys.
 +
* Fix crash with character creator.
 +
* Fix crash when encountering a missing plant. (Should no longer crash when removing mods with plants.)
 +
* Fix crash when a button was missing from the key binding config.
 +
* More logging to find a crash when trying to remove a tile.
 +
* More logging to find crash with Shipping Catalogue.
 +
* More logging and changes to find crash while NPC is moving.
 +
* Changed logging to make sure no personal data is passed to us.
 +
 +
Modding:
 +
* DestructionEntityBuilder, TilePlacerItemBuilder and TilePlacerItemRenderer have been made public. (Code)
 +
* When a mod using one of the hook's crash, it will now put the mod name in the exception.
 +
* Alternative character accessory models are now checked as well on content build.
 +
* Make docks report which files have the same code.
 +
* Improve error message when loading an empty model.
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |16th of May 2018: Sapling 1.2.30 (180516a)
 +
||
 +
* Modmanager now has 4 new command line parameters. removeMod [NameOfMod], removeAllMods, installMod [pathtosxl], installFolder [pathtofolder]
 +
* New home notification should not appear as often when going to bed.
 +
* Pets no longer bring non-pet reward seeds.
 +
* Seed and World size visually change when selecting a world to base off of.
 +
* Fixed crash at Character Generator screen due to only having a previous design or outfit. (And not both.)
 +
* Adjusted the upper bound of qb vertices buffer.
 +
* Handle the case of an empty asset better.
 +
* Handle crash on start up better.
 +
* Added some under the hood changes to deal with values in saves changing types. (Should solve a rare crash on world load for some people.)
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |8th of May 2018: Sapling 1.2.28 (180508a)
 +
||
 +
New:
 +
* Key Rebinding Menu.
 +
* More world options. World Size and World Seed have been added. (Server owners can do -seed and -size) Note: Max size is 10x for servers and 3x for singleplayer.
 +
* Added controller support to some areas that didn’t have it before.
 +
* Added another cat.
 +
 +
Changes:
 +
* Basic Wooden wall recipe was changed.
 +
* Crafting previews will not display while the Crafting Station is crafting.
 +
* Stick Bug should now spawn on the side of blocks.
 +
*  Checker pieces have been made brighter.
 +
* Lots of small cleanup changes to files.  (This caused a large update. Sorry!)
 +
 +
Fixes:
 +
* Suppressed an error which was caused by Xsplit. The game should now run again when Xsplit is recording.
 +
* Validated dialogue commands to make sure no null items are spawned.
 +
* Pets being interrupted from fetching when throwing an item that was not fetchable.
 +
* Fixed a null reference with animations when using left handed mode.
 +
* Fixed Grass Skirt being counted as a shirt.
 +
* Added check when the game fails due to MultiSampling being enabled. Disables MSAA when this occurs.
 +
* Fixed an issue with a custom fishing rod turning into a normal fishing rod after using it.
 +
* Added a timeout to Dialogue systems. When dialogue crashes, the player should no longer be stuck in place.
 +
* A case where the player’s view could get stuck vertically when using the Map.
 +
* Fixed an error that could occur when loading into a modded server and downloading the modded files.
 +
* Fixed an issue when using Left Handed mode on models that don’t have an opposite layer.
 +
* Fixed an issue which crashed the game when using Left Handed mode in Character Generator.
 +
* Fixed some other Character Generator crashes.
 +
* Fixed a crash when the server sent an exception instead of an exception message.
 +
* Lots of behind the scenes changes to catch uncommon crashes.
 +
* Reduced the impact when a sound emitter was disposed before it should have been.
 +
* Reduced the impact of another crash with sounds.
 +
* Made removing sounds from cache a bit more robust.
 +
* Made sure a full audio cleanup happens on shutdown.
 +
* Fixed the “Advance Dialogue” prompt not showing when creating a new world after already going in one.
 +
* Fixed a null reference when shutting down the server.
 +
* Chat no longer does a crazy scroll when opening it for the first time.
 +
* Steam Launcher should no longer crash when attempting to install missing redists.
 +
* Only give the Pet achievement when the pet house actually spawns a pet.
 +
* Fixed an issue where the character model in Character Generator would stay grey when the player had a previous design to load.
 +
* Fixed an issue where the game would crash as a new tree spawned.
 +
 +
Modding:
 +
* Accessories with 0 palettes now work again.
 +
* Dialogue Commands Spawn Item will now throw an exception if a null item was created.
 +
* Added “flowerAmount” to Worldgen.config. Used to adjust the rate at which flowers spawn.
 +
* Sphere and Cylinder have been added to DebugGraphics.
 +
|}
 +
== April ==
 +
{| class="wikitable" width="80%";
 +
|-
 +
! colspan="2"| Sapling Edition
 +
|-
 +
!width="20%;" style="margin:auto;text-align:left;background-color: darkgrey;" |  Version:
 +
!width="60%;" style="margin:auto;text-align:left;background-color: darkgrey;" | Changelog
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |11th of April 2018: Sapling 1.2.27 (180411a)
 +
||
 +
* Made downloading bundles from Modded Servers faster. (Speed may vary based on connection speed and ping.)
 +
* Some controller input changes.
 +
* Accessories always check with some body type now. More errors should appear in Content Builder and not ingame.
 +
* Fixed the Mysterious Butterfly sometimes crashing the game.
 +
* Made it so Tiles doing animations, get their animation checked in Content Builder.
 +
* Fixed a silent crash when using Sponge on a rotated Tile Object. The sponge should always place now.
 +
* Made some better exceptions when UI centered code fails.
 +
* Made it so players can't switch to another seat without getting out first.
 +
* Made sure character was centered in the Character Generator box on all resolutions.
 +
* Changed some things concerning Dialogue and Items to try and avoid crashes.
 +
* Some logging changes to find rarer bugs.
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |9th of April 2018: Sapling 1.2.25 (180409a)
 +
||
 +
* Added the sponge to the general store. Price of sponges lowered by 80%. Sells in quantities of 5.
 +
* Fixed Caiths not always having Paws and Tails in all cases.
 +
* Fixed Postboxes not showing the tiles needed when accessing them.
 +
* Fixed Recipe Items crashing the game in some circumstances.
 +
* Fix notification spam when using Sponges.
 +
* Made Sponges properly stackable.
 +
* Fixed Content Builder not saving files, when running from Mod Manager.
 +
* Some changes to LOD system.
 +
* Fixed a crash when loading a world while the player had broken items in their inventory.
 +
* Fixed Museum Displays not counting towards the Museum.
 +
* Fixed a case where a .cache file wasn't being generated when Content Builder was being run from Mod Manager.
 +
* Fixed Shipping Catalogue silently crashing in the background when attempting to buy an empty space.
 +
* Fix a crash when loading a hair that had palettes that didn't exist.
 +
* Fixed trees growing exactly the same way.
 +
* Petal spawning now uses treasures.
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |6th of April 2018: Sapling 1.2.21 (180406a)
 +
||
 +
New:
 +
*Sponge tool. You can collect and place water with this.
 +
*Achievement rewards. You’ll receive a mail on how to get these when you get your first reward.
 +
*You can regrow trees by planting saplings. (You can find the recipe for Saplings in the crafting tab.)
 +
*New options menu option. Horizontal 3rd person offset.
 +
*Added a Slight Camera Smoothing effect.
 +
*A sound will play when night transition is finished.
 +
Changes:
 +
*Multiple animations should now blend together better. You can drink properly while you sit now.
 +
*Recipes now correctly show what item you get from them.
 +
*Removed the human ears on Caiths. Hairstyles should also be more consistent. (Not missing jewels etc)
 +
*All animal stats are now stored when crating. (Even pets) No more free reseting.
 +
*Museum now checks for tile categories instead of tiles.
 +
*Stick bugs have been rotated and now will appear on the side of wood blocks. This increases the rate at which you can find them.
 +
*The regions of Postboxes/Signs has been slightly extended vertically. Takes affect on new worlds or when breaking/replacing them.
 +
*Trees can now have colour variation.
 +
*Merchants will wait a moment before restarting their dialogue again when being spam clicked.
 +
*Loading screen is now shown when teleporting the player.
 +
*Removed the postbox on the farm as the player is given one.
 +
*Changed the Clocks in the Town Hall to not all make sound on new worlds.
 +
*Made the transition in/out Map Mode nicer.
 +
*The launcher will now stay up until the game launches. It will also have an icon during this period.
 +
*Sometimes when finishing dialogue, a notification will appear saying that the journal has been updated.
 +
*Added some debugging tools to work out the Black Screen Bug.
 +
*Fossil rocks now have collision.
 +
*/toggleTimePassing was added to toggle time. /stoptime will eventually be changed.
 +
*Letters and balloons have been rotated in the hand.
 +
*A number of placeholder models have been changed.
 +
*Volume of placement sounds were raised.
 +
*Festival totems are now unbreakable during festivals.
 +
*Clock hands now go into the middle.
 +
*Chat is now hidden on night transition.
 +
*Some decorative plants now drop themselves.
 +
*The pet house from the Creative Menu will always spawn a random pet now.
 +
*Hedges now have auto tiling.
 +
*Changed how the Client works to better hint drivers.
 +
*Camera Command now gives feedback on what went wrong.
 +
*Slowed running animation slightly.
 +
*Adjusted Farm Fan’s movement and leading mechanics to not require the player to be as close.
 +
*Allow you to switch colours for the Character Generator background.
 +
Fixes:
 +
*Polishers counting to Fossil achievements.
 +
*Fix pets being permanently ill.
 +
*Fixed a bug where pets would get their hunger incremented twice per day.
 +
*Fixed an issue with pets that shouldn’t be alive due to not having a house anymore.
 +
*Farm Fan will now repeat “Find Max” dialogue when talking to her after completing the tutorial but not handed in the registration letter. (Also gives an extra copy of the letter if needed.)
 +
*Fixed double/overlapping music.
 +
*Fixed music no longer fading between tracks.
 +
*Fix seeds going to where the cursor is, rather than the place they were meant to be placed.
 +
*Some plants with BreakOnSeasonChange, will now delete the tile if the player is around on Season Change. This does not affect tiles further than a bit away. (i.e. Some snow piles will dissappear, but not all.)
 +
*Fixed an issue where player list will never update with some players.
 +
*Fixed inventory selling not using the correct stack of items.
 +
*Fixed creative catalogue buying replacing full sized stacks.
 +
*Fixed old notifications showing when changing worlds.
 +
*Fixed an issue where certain blocks caused a jittering effect on the camera when walking up them.
 +
*Fixed the game’s resolution not defaulting to monitor resolution on resetting options.
 +
*Try to give an actual error to the client when the server disconnects them.
 +
*Fixed an issue with waking up at midnight while in the middle of fishing.
 +
*Fixed some issues with Multiplayer Server list not updating correctly.
 +
*/enablecheats and /op now correctly allow the Debug options menu to appear.
 +
*An issue with beach edges not counting as beach biomes.
 +
*Fixed an issue where docks could find a null entry and pass that on.
 +
*Fixed issues with parts of the Player not resetting between worlds. This caused issues with the journal.
 +
*Attempt to remove old duplicate bug entities from older worlds.
 +
*Fixed some recipes being carve instead of tile.
 +
*Fixed an issue where you could get the Talking with Farm Fan by clicking on her while too far away.
 +
*Fixed the wrong notification displaying for shipping dock in certain circumstances.
 +
*Fixed a hardcoded spawn offset in spawners. They will change depending on tile height.
 +
*Hardened the game against modded collectables disappearing. These caused issues after removing a mod.
 +
*Fixed some memory leaking in some functions.
 +
*Allow the player to interact with things while the debug tools and Creative shovel are in hand.
 +
*Fixed another money overflow issue.
 +
*Fixed certain tiles (e.g. clocks) not having the right model show. Also fixes collision on these tiles.
 +
*Changed how some of the chunk detailing worked.
 +
*Attempt some sneaky fixes to try and get the graphics driver to use the right graphics card.
 +
*Fix not all translations showing when the list got too long.
 +
*Fix parsing multiple of the same argument to the client.
 +
*Fix an issue with mail after opening the journal.
 +
*Fix firing off too many threads on machines with low powered cpus.
 +
Modding:
 +
*Mod Manager now displays much much less Notifications when installing files. (When installing a lot of new mods, it will display 1 message per mod with DLLs. When reinstalling mods it won’t show any messages.)
 +
*Fixed Mod Manager reinstalling all files, instead of just the ones needed updates, when detecting updates.
 +
*When Sxlmods no longer exist, show a single message rather than multiple.
 +
*Made Mod Manager more tolerant of a missing mod folder.
 +
*Reduced the number of notifications when mods install outside of mod manager.
 +
*Added an icon to the content builder window. And bring that window to the front.
 +
*Modmanager will no longer run certain content build validations. Should be faster to complete as well. (Content Builder itself will still use these.)
 +
*Cleaned up some code with Mod manager’s startup. Should be slightly faster.
 +
*Tile States on Tiles are now checked on a revalidate.
 +
*(Code) Universe.CanRemoveTile can optionally output a notification when failing.
 +
*(Code) Added CanInteractWithTile and CanInteractWithEntity to ModHookV3. (Which inherits ModHookV2)
 +
*Items now have a “usableRange” property which adjusts how far you can use the item. (Defaults to 10 blocks.)
 +
*(Code) Added TryGetTotemsOfType in Village. Allows you to get all totems with the same code within the village.
 +
*Fixed the Hard limit on Species count in Character Generator.
 +
8Some Assetmanager bindings have been updated.
 +
*Fixed an issue in AssetManager where editing a path would almost always fail.
 +
*Added “placementPreviewVariant” to Tiles. This makes sure the right alt model is always used for preview. (Defaults to random alt when not used.)
 +
*Added “iconVariant” to Tiles. This shows the specified alt model in the hand. (Defaults to random alt when not used).
 +
*“duration” on crafting reactions must now be non-zero if they are included in the file.
 +
*Translations now properly support having duplicate replacement values. (e.g. “notif.text={0} {0} {0}” is now supported.)
 +
*(Code) Notifications now use “GetTranslatedText” which should return an already translated string.
 +
*(Code) Items now have “GetItemTranslation” and “GetItemDescription” which will give the item name.
 +
*(Code) Items can now be used in Notification Params. (Used primarily by dialogue).
 +
*Client Console now only needs a file that starts with “showconsole”
 +
|}
 +
 +
== March ==
 +
{| class="wikitable" width="80%";
 +
|-
 +
! colspan="2"| Sapling Edition
 +
|-
 +
!width="20%;" style="margin:auto;text-align:left;background-color: darkgrey;" |  Version:
 +
!width="60%;" style="margin:auto;text-align:left;background-color: darkgrey;" | Changelog
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |10th of March 2018: Sapling 1.2.13 (180311a)
 +
||
 +
Fixes:
 +
* Fix for very old worlds allowing infinite catching of bugs.
 +
* Fix world crashing due to broken rights conflict. It will rename the broken file and generate a new one instead.
 +
* Fix beaches extending too far.
 +
* If a corrupted world happens, continue the game rather than hard crashing.
 +
* Added a buffer to steam networking. Send less small packets.
 +
* Change to handling of chunks which speed up the game.
 +
* Some other changes behind the scenes.
 +
* Remove old entities, that can't be made, from the world.
 +
* Some changes to logging/debugging behind the scenes.
 +
 +
Modding:
 +
* Mod manager now uninstalls using the .manifest file, only falling back to the sxlmod when it fails to read.
 +
* Clarified some item spawning errors.
 +
* Dialogue commands now verify a lot of their input before starting the game.
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |7th of March 2018: Sapling 1.2.10 (180307a)
 +
||
 +
New:
 +
* Left Handed mode is now working again after a long time out. Can be found under Other in options menu.
 +
* Camera Height option is added to the options menu.
 +
* Journal and Selfie mode are now rebindable from the defaultControlBindings.config
 +
 +
Changes:
 +
* Lowered size of objects on shelves.
 +
* The fancier displays can no longer be bought from Catalogue. You’ll need to earn them now.
 +
* Animals can be pushed around better now.
 +
 +
Fixes:
 +
* Added client side verification of bundles given by servers.
 +
* Removed SlimDX from Staxel and use FNA’s controller handling instead. Should no longer have issues with SlimDX not being found.
 +
* A try at fixing locked controls when alt-tabbing.
 +
* A try at fixing the Grey screen reappearing after waking up from night transition.
 +
* Fixed Bugs/Fossils having a reduced spawn rate under certain conditions.
 +
* No longer spawn more than the single vorlen spawner when the player has one already.
 +
* Fix Smoker not interacting with the top half of apiaries.
 +
* Changed windowed mode transition, should perform closer to expected now.
 +
* A number of background changes when dealing with data.
 +
* Increased the size of smaller outlines.
 +
* Fixed Mail crashing due to parsing an old staxel version from file. (Pre 1.0 versions.)
 +
* Remove old collectable items if they no longer exist / no longer have a collectable component.
 +
* Added some achievement verification.
 +
* A number of background changes to engine code.
 +
* Fix animals not respecting doors.
 +
 +
Mods:
 +
* [Code] You can add in your own dialogue commands in by inheriting IDialogueCommandBuilder.
 +
* Mods are added to our logs now.
 +
* Use /debugGraphics to see Debug graphics. [Code] You can draw debug graphics using the DebugGraphics class.
 +
* Removed some unused stuff in Reactions. (“allReagents” no longer exists.)
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |4th of March 2018: Sapling 1.2.9 (180304a)
 +
||
 +
New:
 +
* New server option added. noPause. Disables pausing when noone is on the server.
 +
* Added Spanish, Brazilian and Russian languages. (New russian font since 1.2.7)
 +
 +
Changes:
 +
* Fossil polisher output adjusted to not sink into table.
 +
* Changes to some food models and petal models.
 +
* Fossils spawn about 20% as often as before.
 +
* Slight increase in most crop prices. Small changes to other prices.
 +
 +
Fixes:
 +
* Fix a crash when using the Net.
 +
* Fix another case of getting the wrong bug when catching.
 +
* Other Catchable bug fixes.
 +
* Fix a null pointer when a pet desync from their house.
 +
* Other Entity Fixes.
 +
* Fixed a bug where you couldn’t maximise the window after changing from fullscreen/borderless.
 +
* Some achievement crashes.
 +
* Fixed a null reference when audio system failed.
 +
* Fixed some compaction issues with Networking.
 +
* Some other fixes to networking issues. (Specifically issues appearing while joining modded servers.)
 +
* Some other behind the scenes issues.
 +
 +
Modding:
 +
* [Code] TextureVertexDrawable is now public.
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |1st of March 2018: Sapling 1.2.5 (180301a)
 +
||
 +
Big things:
 +
*Mail system. You can now receive mail.
 +
*Journal. Press J to see your current daily quests and main quests.
 +
*Museum sign. You can make a museum now.
 +
*Two New NPCs.
 +
*A lot of stuff to put in the museum.
 +
*A large number of item prices have been changed.
 +
*New reward items.
 +
 +
New:
 +
Added “/plantwithering”. Turns on/off plant withering. Only recommended for large servers/build servers.
 +
*You can turn stone and wood back into their original blocks.
 +
*Added Sushi and Ice-cream recipes. Updates to other food recipes.
 +
*Name tags now show on map
 +
 +
Changes:
 +
*Food doesn’t get used in creative mode.
 +
*Pot plant beds don’t trigger house bed counts.
 +
*Commands can now except blobs again. (e.g. /spawnitem {“kind”: “staxel.item.NullItem”})
 +
*Wooden Pole Fence T and X appear in autotiling.
 +
*Trough should be clearer about why it can’t be filled.
 +
 +
Fixes:
 +
*Forced a minimum size of particle. (Fixes crashes due to 0 size.)
 +
*Lots of catchable fixes (catching bugs should no longer give you the wrong bug).
 +
*Fixed double Music track issues.
 +
*Fixed music playing in Mono.
 +
*Fixed ambient sound carrying to Main Menu.
 +
*Fixed totems displaying a notification on new scans.
 +
*Fixed a number of Steam Networking issues.
 +
*Sound should be playing in the correct ears now.
 +
*Selfie mode is disabled when going to sleep.
 +
*Catching all bugs should now be possible.
 +
*Fix fishing bobble particles not showing.
 +
*A number of behind the scenes changes/fixes to Entity Saving and Loading.
 +
*Fixed UI paths failing when they have spaces in them
 +
*Fixed Aristaeus achievement failing to trigger
 +
 +
Modding:
 +
*Game Version Class has been added. (Ways to use it can be seen in the Mail class.)
 +
*Watering Can particles and sound are editable.
 +
*Steam version will remove 32bit DLL’s before trying to load the game.
 +
*Polaroid has been added to NPC’s. This shows up in journal.
 +
*You can hide more than just the Hair layer with “hideLayers” in Accessories.
 +
*“notCategories” is added to AnyOfCategory achievements. To use for filtering out items.
 +
*Anything using IEntityLogicBuilder needs to update to IEntityLogicBuilder2.
 +
|}
 +
 +
== February ==
 +
{| class="wikitable" width="80%";
 +
|-
 +
! colspan="2"| Sapling Edition
 +
|-
 +
!width="20%;" style="margin:auto;text-align:left;background-color: darkgrey;" |  Version:
 +
!width="60%;" style="margin:auto;text-align:left;background-color: darkgrey;" | Changelog
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |14th of February 2018: Sapling 1.1.51 (180216b)
 +
||
 +
New:
 +
* Staxel is now running in 64 Bit:
 +
** Less Out Of Memory Errors. Less Purple Screens.
 +
** Improved lower end performance. Performance Stability should be increased.
 +
** Graphics Card usage is down.
 +
** Disk Usage is down.
 +
** Note: Reported memory usage (RAM) is up. This is due to Staxel not hiding memory in the Page File anymore.
 +
* Staxel now uses FNA.
 +
 +
Changes:
 +
* Sound spam when receiving a lot of notifications should be less now.
 +
* Prevent opening UI and map on the same frame. Caused weird issues before.
 +
* Some changes to some cooking recipes.
 +
 +
Fixes:
 +
* Added some entity deduping tech to crack down on duplicate entity issues.
 +
* Pets with no Home delete themselves.
 +
 +
Modding:
 +
* Code mods need to make sure they are either on "Any CPU" or "x64" from now on.
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |14th of February 2018: Sapling 1.1.50 (180214b)
 +
||
 +
New:
 +
* Cards and Emotes are now avaliable on steam.
 +
* A new Camera Mode: Reversed First Person (Selfie Mode). Press X (keyboard) to get this.
 +
* Unicorn Hat and Unicorn Plush have been added.
 +
* New recipes: Egg Fried Rice, Shrimp Fried Rice, Fruit Salad
 +
 +
Changes:
 +
* Plant prices have been increased.
 +
* Manure recipes are buyable.
 +
* Pedestal is now searchable.
 +
* Basic Table and Basic Chair recipes are now different from each other.
 +
* Gatherables can now spawn in Forest shacks.
 +
* Coloured petal’s sell price reduced.
 +
* Apiary’s collision is actually 2 blocks tall now.
 +
* Looking glass is actually in the hand now.
 +
* Sunflower and some other plant’s rotation is no longer random.
 +
* Some intermediaries have been removed from the catalogue.
 +
 +
Fixes:
 +
* Modded servers, with different files to the client, should now be joinable again.
 +
* NPC’s should now spawn at the Airship dock more reliably.
 +
* Fix crash when using Manure on something that isn’t a plant.
 +
* Fix fishing rod not bobbing and splash sounds.
 +
* Fixed some Catalogue search issues.
 +
* Pet duping should be fixed.
 +
* Fix crash with villagers and postboxes.
 +
* Staxel doesn’t hard crash when loading Code mods that crash. (e.g. Built for the wrong processor type.)
 +
 +
Modding:
 +
* Asset Manager updates to Docks, Particles, Plants, Spawner Binding.
 +
* Fixed Asset Manager crash when Character outfits did not have 5 items.
 +
* A number of improved error messages. A number of these errors were commonly hit.
 +
* You can now hide Item Tags on Docks. Use “showNameTags” : false.
 +
* Mod manager now uninstalls DLL’s. And doesn’t crash when they are missing.
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |5th of February 2018: Sapling 1.1.46 (180206b)
 +
||
 +
New:
 +
* Coloured petals from flowers. Used in crafting certain coloured blocks.
 +
* Added a low disk space warning when creating a server. (Or starting SinglePlayer).
 +
* Bacon Sandwhich and Scrambled Egg recipes.
 +
 +
Changes:
 +
* Made Weeds spread only on dirt.
 +
* Set certain plants to only be in 1 direction.
 +
* Certain recipes got changed. Particularly Brick recipes.
 +
* Some changes have been made, which lower Harddrive usage.
 +
 +
Fixes:
 +
* Fixed Animal Facial Expressions.
 +
 +
Modding:
 +
* Allowed IconScale to work for Accessories again.
 +
* Added a check in Content Builder when using CustomRendererVoxels.
 +
* Updated Festivals, Emotes and Expressions in Modmanager.
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |5th of February 2018: Sapling 1.1.45 (180205a)
 +
||
 +
New:
 +
* Pet Food recipe. (Bacon, milk and Oats.)
 +
* Added Manure recipe. Manure can be used to instantly revive wilted plants.
 +
* Allow players to immediately connect to Steam Server when invited outside the game.
 +
 +
Changes:
 +
* Made it so Farm Animals phase through doors.
 +
* Farm Animal achievements are granted on Crate Placement.
 +
* Allowed Bathroom sinks to also fill jars.
 +
* Some recipes and items have had their prices changed.
 +
* Changed Faces on the Map. They point in better directions when at the bottom of the screen.
 +
* Added more Keys that can be rebound to.
 +
* Removed Scorpion from Collectables screen.
 +
 +
Fixes:
 +
* Fixed Third Person camera.
 +
* Butter Counting as a Cake.
 +
* Fixed Rowan not giving the pet option when going through tutorial a second time.
 +
* Don’t crash world when a tile is no longer a dock due to updates.
 +
* Mixed Seeds complaining about being in the wrong season.
 +
* Fixed old worlds not loading their Heightmap.
 +
* When failing to get Asset Bundle from server, reset and disconnect.
 +
* Try to address grey loading screen issue.
 +
* Teleport command no longer crashes when not given a player.
 +
* Lots of additional behind the scenes logging and asserting to find weird crashes.
 +
* Some additional safety checks to code. Fixed some race conditions.
 +
* More bad packet detection.
 +
* Workaround Crash when opening Recipe UI before it was ready.
 +
* Fixed game trying to remove merchant cart when sellbox wasn’t placed yet.
 +
* Fixed issues with Gatherabes not spawning properly.
 +
* Behind the scenes changes to Item Rendering.
 +
 +
Modding:
 +
* Updated Asset Manager: Merchant, Structure Template/ Structure Pool.
 +
* Asset Manager will now show Expression Codes for properties that need it.
 +
* Mod manager now has an right click option to open the sxlmod location.
 +
* Asset Manager no longer logs crashes when Validating Assets.
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |1st of February 2018: Sapling 1.1.43 (180201c)
 +
||
 +
New:
 +
* New Yogurt Recipe.
 +
 +
Changes:
 +
* Cicadas and rhino beetles also spawn on forest wood.
 +
* Flies spawn on dirt and rock instead of trees.
 +
* Pause Generating World and LOD on night transition to let other sections take priority.
 +
* If the server closes too quickly, a more meaningful crash message should appear.
 +
* Cows don't have the milk counted as gotten, until the player gets a milk bottle.
 +
* Added A2S support for server hosters.
 +
 +
Fixes:
 +
* Fixed 3rd person camera being weird.
 +
* Made sure gatherables loading in are also checked for recycling.
 +
* Other gatherable checks.
 +
* Fix butter counting as a cake for Cake achievements.
 +
* Don't allow switching away from the rod while pulling up fish.
 +
* Fix an issue with Tile State Entities queueing up a lot of sounds which would all play at once when loaded.
 +
* A number of networking fixes.
 +
 +
Modding:
 +
* Asset manager should fail faster and with better error when it can't find the content folder.
 +
* Added Throwable Component to Asset Manager.
 +
* Updated Many Villager Assets and Updated Totems in Asset Manager.
 +
* Forced validation on Totem Tiles. They must have a buyable component now.
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |1st of February 2018: Sapling 1.1.41 (180201a)
 +
||
 +
Changes:
 +
* Kitchen Sink is no longer a crafting site. It does however still fill up Jars.
 +
* Can no longer go back in time beyond the start of the game. (Day 1.)
 +
 +
Fixes:
 +
* Fixed an off by one error in Postboxes/ Signs. This *should* be the last bug in displaying numbers.
 +
* Fixed a double dispose issue with Chunks.
 +
* A couple fixes to other disposing issues.
 +
* A number of behind the scenes changes to add more logging for specific crashes.
 +
 +
Modding:
 +
* A couple accessory had their Palettes moved to Platte Groups. Should allow you to add palettes to these accessories now.
 +
* Made moods in mood overrides not required.
 +
|}
 +
 +
== January ==
 +
{| class="wikitable" width="80%";
 +
|-
 +
! colspan="2"| Sapling Edition
 +
|-
 +
!width="20%;" style="margin:auto;text-align:left;background-color: darkgrey;" |  Version:
 +
!width="60%;" style="margin:auto;text-align:left;background-color: darkgrey;" | Changelog
 +
|-
 +
!style="text-align:center;" |31st of January 2018: Sapling 1.1.40 (180131b)
 +
||
 +
Changes:
 +
* Removed the requirement, Getting Harvest Crop achievement, for the in-game achievement Deliver License.
 +
* Give bonus weighting for certain catchables during Festivals. (Should be more likely to get Wisps and Fairies.)
 +
* Catchables will leave their location after 1-3 days, letting other catchables spawn there. Should give rarer bugs a chance to spawn.
 +
* Removed Farm Fan's house again. Was actually meant to be a quest for the player.
 +
 +
Fixes:
 +
* Fixed a rare bug were Dialogue variables were loaded too fast, and not allowing people to skip tutorial.
 +
* Fixed Order 100 achievement only actually required 10 orders.
 +
* More hardening against corruption.
 +
* Fixed an issue with locking while loading Character Accessories.
 +
 +
Modding:
 +
* Pricing Component in Asset Manager Updated.
 +
* Everything under Animals has been updated. Now includes links to wiki as well.
 +
* An error message to do with item spawning was made clearer.
 
|-
 
|-
 
!style="text-align:center;" |31st of January 2018: Sapling 1.1.39 (180131a)
 
!style="text-align:center;" |31st of January 2018: Sapling 1.1.39 (180131a)
 
||
 
||
Patch notes for Sapling 1.1.39 (180131a):
 
 
New:
 
New:
 
*Commands should now be able to take names with spaces by surrounding them with “”. (i.e. /kickplayer “Hah You Can’t Kick Me”)
 
*Commands should now be able to take names with spaces by surrounding them with “”. (i.e. /kickplayer “Hah You Can’t Kick Me”)

Latest revision as of 03:28, 30 June 2020

This page contains the changelogs of the game from 14/12/2017. Major versions are split by table and year, with minor versions being split into rows.

Sapling Edition (2020)

April

Sapling Edition
Version: Changelog
10th of April 2020: Sapling 1.4.43 (200410b)
  • Fixed a case where a world would infinitely load due to world file not ending properly
  • Fixed some internal
  • Fixed some of Eris' lines not having a dialogue tag.
  • Fixed Seed maker giving goldenberries for strawberries.
  • Fixed Seed maker always giving 3 strawberries.
  • Fixed Construction Hat removing caith tails.
  • Fixed issue with an issue with connecting to a heavily modded server.

Sapling Edition (2019)

April

Sapling Edition
Version: Changelog
15th of April 2019: Sapling 1.4.26 (190415e)
  • Adjusted the Starbit hitbox to be easier to pick up.
  • Mailbox can now bought in the Grocery store.
  • Post office items are now sold after completing Leif’s first quest.
  • Slop Trough is now sold along with the other Farm Animal items.
  • Version number now only shows on the main menu and pause menu.
  • Fixed clothing not getting unlocked in the shipping catalogue. (Modded and Unmodded.)
  • Fixed being unable to set home after using the teleport button in the menu.
  • More staxel net relays have been added. If you want there is an option under gameplay.
  • Fixed a number of cases in dialogue where the player’s name was not coloured.
  • VR items can now be sold.
  • Allow the License Delivered achievement to be done out of order.
  • Fix a bug which would let Server Owners get the Build Barn Quest too early.
  • Allow Farm Fan to move again, if you completed the barn quest before the tutorial.
  • Farm Fan can now remove extra registration letters from your inventory when they aren’t needed.
  • No longer able to create a world with Impossible Folder names, or using \ or / or |. ( . is also limited.)
  • Aliza can now give extra trough recipes if you don’t have it in your inventory or if you didn’t learn it.
  • Fixed a case where the “Use Staxel Net” option could disappear after exiting edit world menu.
  • Some other minor crash fixes.
14th of April 2019: Sapling 1.4.25 (190414c)
  • Pet Food bowl, Trough, Slop Trough and Chicken Feed Area now give more food. (Now 5, 8, 8, 8 helpings respectively.)
  • Added a lot of previous unsearchable items to the creative catalogue. As well as some to shipping catalogue.
  • Shovel will now break blocks even if a tile is above them. Will not break blocks with plants on them however.
  • Fixed Eris' liked items not giving more reputation.
  • Added likes to Farm Fan.
  • Aliza should no longer care if you have the Farm License in your inventory to start the Barn Build quest. (If you previously lost your License here, just talk to Max again to unlock this.)
  • The dialogues for pointing the player towards farm fan should no longer play to people who can't complete the tutorial.
  • Vorlen will now unlock clocks when you try to make the museum for him.
  • Fix a case where the Prince, for Emilia's quests, wouldn't spawn if you went to Eris' castle.
  • Added an extra Prince check to Emilia's Liked quest
  • Fixed Daily quest items showing up in Jamie's fetch quest pool.
  • Fixed some issues with NPC's not spawning at the Airship totem.
  • Added /magicteleportreturn as a cheat command.
  • Made duplicate key exceptions better for Character Designs and Character Outfits.
  • Fixed Morel and Cirahna using 2 scripts at a time, and thus walking away from the player if they interacted with them.
  • Fixed quotations not being escaped in mail, causing a crash when you tried to make mail.
  • Fixed using a decimal point in the petals causing a crash.
  • Increase the amount of starbits spawned on a server by 1 per player on the server.
  • Fixed a crash after expanding a player's rights.
  • Crafting dock Drawables are now more rigorously checked in validation. They also do not spam logs when invalid in game.
  • Can no longer leave the world to increase the number of starbits that drop at night.
  • Fixed an issue with Staxel net, not choosing specific relay servers.
  • Fixed a bunch of models with wrong layernames.
  • Fixed tabbing in content builder.
11th of April 2019: Sapling 1.4.24 (190411a)
  • Fixed some counters having items docked to them float.
  • Fixed Husky pet skins not appearing.
  • Always show animal crates as buyable in store. However to buy them you do need a valid sign.
10th of April 2019: Sapling 1.4.23 (190410a)
  • Morel will now take spare special mushrooms away from you after her first quest is done.
  • Fixed a case where the Prince and Princess villagers could accidentally skip parts of their dialogue. Added a backup method for those affected by this.
  • Added an extra way to start the Murmur conversation if it failed to fire on Eris' first quest.
  • Fixed some Typos in English item names.
  • Jamie's rival no longer reads books.
  • Replica sword is positioned better in the hand.
  • Eris' final quest island will not allow you to leave unless you finish the dialogue there.
  • A spare starbit was added to Eris' final quest. (Leaving there to be an extra.)
  • Fixed a case causing a grey screen when alt+enter was used.
  • Fixed a grey screen caused by sleeping in a bed, while /stoptime was enabled.
  • Fixed a couple cases where the firework sound was used for teleporting.
9th of April 2019: Sapling 1.4.21 (190409a)
  • Improved the categorisation of many recipes in the Blueprint menu.
  • Black, Brown and Dark Brown are now normal palette colours. Clothing can be found in these colours.
  • Smoothies now have proper particles.
  • Milk is now drinkable and removes many status effects.
  • The shelves contain shipping items and tools have been split. One shelf only contains the shipping goods, while the other the farm goods.
  • Added a way to force set the Quest Giver of main quests. Use this to categorise Leif and Morel's quests better. (Only affects new journal entries.)
  • Fixed Morel and Cirahna having a case where they would just disappear.
  • Pet follow radius has been increased. Should make pets much more reliable in following you.
  • Added in a backup case in Leif's first quest, which would let you complete the quest, even if done out of order.
  • Fixed the sprinkler making a lot of noise at night transition.
  • Fixed the Roomie Quest and Complete All of a Villager's quests achievements being on the same spot.
  • Fixed movement speed and fishing timeout options not updating on restart.
  • Fixed the female version of the studded jacket showing skin through it.
  • Fixed the pink voxels that would appear on Caith's right hand if certain hats or hairstyles were used.
  • Fixed the player slowing down in mid air, if Walking speed option was below 100%.
  • The Tree village now has its placeholders replaced.
  • You can now teleport from the non-quest islands. This however costs money.
  • Fixed Ren appearing in the wrong outfit on first appearance.
8th of April 2019: Sapling 1.4.20 (190408a)
  • Players who get an extra locket for Cirahna can now give it to Cirahna again.
  • Fix a crash that resulted in making a mail, with an empty petal count.
  • Added a new potion to remove the current transformation.
  • Added potions and lucky boxes to the daily quest reward pool.
  • Fixed an infinite loop when a NPC is missing in Emilia's quest. (She will just say random dialogue instead.)
  • If you have both the Lucky status and Unlucky status (e.g. Drank a Mug'o'sap), you can no longer lose items due to unluckiness, but gaining items is half the original chance. (5% instead of 10%)
  • Tutorial will now attempt to remove the unlucky status effect, to avoid soft locking at the harvesting step.
  • Lucky and Unlucky will now affect milk and wool.
  • Transformation potion doesn't get used if you are already transformed.
  • Renaming an existing world now allows unicode.
  • Renaming an existing world, will now check to see if the new world name is valid.
7th of April 2019: Sapling 1.4.19 (190407c)
  • Split the recipes in the Building store onto two shelves.
  • Reduced the requirements to get the Reinforced and Infused tool level recipes.
  • Cirahna and Morel will visit each other on occasion.
  • Morel will occasionally leave her house to go to town.
  • Fix some cases where an invalid world name would be accepted, but the server would then crash.
  • Added a content builder check for "animation" in tiles.
  • Fixed the magic water animation freaking out when you are watering multiple plants.
  • Fixed a cat skin having the wrong layers and thus crashing the game.
  • Fixed a case where the server would crash at night transition if a player, who had mail to come the next morning, left the server.
  • Possibly fixed a couple cases where mouse clicks would stick after entering and leaving UI. (e.g. Teleporting, looking at the calendar.)
  • Don't crash when deleting a world, where a folder doesn't exist.
  • Don't silently crash when buying items with starbits while in creative mode.
  • Fixed another case where a Murmur would disappear if going through dialogue too quickly to a set of options.
  • Lower the time for the first arrival quest from 7 days to 4 days.
  • Fix some cases where $playername; would appear in gift dialogue on non-english languages.
  • The 3rd tier on the Building store should now unlock on the right quest.
  • The shipping station and magnifying glass now shows the nickname instead of the default username.
  • Some blackscreen fixes.
  • Allow Emilia to respawn certain villagers, if they have left already.
  • Reorder the bunny spawn check in Rosemary so that it is hit more often.
  • Made the Leif Friend quest backup trigger more reliable.
  • Fixed the Cirahna Locket not being a quest item. A backup method is provided for those that lost it.
5th of April 2019: Sapling 1.4.18 (180405a)
  • Night Transition and World loading fixes.
  • Don't crash the client when a font conflict occurs in translation files.
  • Properly center the calendar on resolutions other than 1080p.
  • Updated a number of translations.
  • Fixed a case where the loading screen would hang, if all chunks where empty air.
  • Be more reliable in sending crashlogs if a server is still up by the time reports are sent.
  • Fixed Leif's Acquaintance quest not triggering while Leif is at work.
  • Fixed a couple cases where villagers would path 20000 blocks to go to the festival.
  • Removed grass colouration on the Rough stone pathway.
  • Add a section for the journal to the control hints popup.
  • If a villager tries to path a long distance, they will teleport instead. (Rather than lock the server as they try to path.)
4th of April 2019: Sapling 1.4.17 (190404a)
  • Display a warning on pre-1.3 worlds to try and get people to move to newer version.
  • Fixed giving the wrong teleporter recipe for Eris' quest. If you are missing it, talk to her and she will give it.
  • Added a check to Riah's quest to give missing recipes.
  • Prefer to choose the home location or the town hall, if failing to find a position to teleport back from Islands. (Instead of in the ground.)
  • Barn quest will now properly complete on old worlds if you talk to Max.
  • Only allow the wandering bunny to be picked up if you are in the right stage in the quest.
  • Added a stricter check to Leif so he doesn't repeat the bunny quiz.
  • Fixed a case where Rosemary's last quest could loop back to the start.
  • Pet shop displays also act as counter tops.
  • Fixed trees not growing with magic water.
  • Fixed the issue allowing you to immediately talk to Farm Fan again during tutorial after finishing dialogue. (Now a 1 sec wait happens like normal.)
  • You are no longer allowed to gift to Farm Fan when you start the tutorial.
  • Fixed sizing on the Can't Set Home notification.
  • Fixed some cases where the wrong sound was being played. (Particularly Rosemary's rabbit.)
  • Lower Animal Jump Height. (To match the height from before gravity change.)
  • Hide some required items on Signs/Postboxes that were only available in a later quest. (e.g. Post office stuff for the grocery.)
  • Lowered Leif's first quest from Liked level to Acquiantance level.
  • Removed the notification for completing a recipe.
  • Fixed some cases where sticky notifications caused hidden errors.
  • You can now sleep for a moment to remove sleepy statuses.
  • You can now drink coffee, which will remove sleepy statuses and give a speed boost.
  • Shop tiles are now unlocked at the start of any world. (All old worlds will unlock these items.)

Dropped the price of cookies to match chocolate chip cookies.

  • Changed a bit on how Merchants disappear.
1st of April 2019: Sapling 1.4.15 (190401b)

New:

  • A new villager has arrived.
  • 3 old villagers now have friendship quests. (Leif, Jamie and Eris)
  • These villagers also have new gift dialogue.
  • Magic Crafting. Talk to Cirahna after finishing her Liked quest to unlock.
  • Players can now send mail to each other.
  • 1 of 2 postmen can now visit the village after some conditions are met.
  • Some new Side characters to find.
  • Starbits have been added. They add a little colour to the night.
  • VIP Merchants have been added. They offer some more exotic merchandise in exchange for a certain item.
  • A new bi-weekly festival. You might need to start thinking with portals for this one.
  • Magical islands. There are X custom made islands to explore.
  • Buffs and Debuffs. These last throughout the day, going away when you sleep.
  • A new tool. The weed killer. Faster than a scythe but doesn’t give you seeds or petals.
  • Tool upgrades. You can upgrade them to break stronger things and charge further.
  • Town Square Merchants can be picked up and moved, as long as you have a strong enough tool.
  • Added an option to disable tool notifications appearing with right click.
  • Some more clothing to find.
  • New fish and bugs to collect.
  • Added a demote option to the op command.
  • New look for both the collection screen and recipe screens.
  • New blocks to play around with.
  • New block to world generated farms: The calendar.
  • The game will now tell you can’t gain any more reputation for that villager for the day.
  • A new option to change default movement speed.
  • Added the ability to use any language as your world name. No longer restricted to english.

Changes:

  • Shipping station no longer allows you to find everything.
  • Shipping station is now locked behind Leif’s friendship quest.
  • Seasons last 30 days. Up from 16.
  • Players can stay awake much longer. Be careful about fainting though!
  • Tool charging is faster overall. Spam clicking should no longer be the fastest way to farm.
  • Final charge state is now much stronger for tools with upgrades.
  • Fishing has been reworked. Now a more calming experience.
  • The Watering Can no longer has infinite water. Refill using water block or a sink.
  • Farm Fan no longer stands completely still all day. She’s a bit of a night owl now. (You, or the server owner for servers, will need to talk to her once to get her moving.)
  • Farm Fan prioritises other quests during the Harvest Festival, if you are currently not doing that quest line.
  • The UI for Post boxes and Signs will update as you are looking at it. (Instead of needing to be closed and opened again.)
  • Recipes will now visually show that they have been learnt by changing model and name.
  • Can no longer give items to Villagers who arrive for Festivals and other one time quest npcs. These NPC’s will not show a heart.
  • Villager conversations (Villager to Villager talking) will now appear in the journal.
  • If your inventory is full, any recipes given by NPC’s will be automatically learnt.
  • Some items previously not searchable in creative are now available.
  • UI backplates are now more consistent.
  • Major chunk loading changes. Should notice more consistency.
  • More of the world should generate as you play the game, even if you don’t travel the full island.
  • Charge tool achievement has been split into 2 parts.
  • Villagers that have been told to stay still, should do so even when they have a job.
  • Patisserie now requires an extra set of displays on second level. But these stands now provide delicious looking Pie Stands. (Not for eating.)
  • Gravity has been slightly lowered, items also have ground friction. (You can throw items farther but they don’t slide across the ground as much.)
  • Default throwing strength of items has been increased.
  • Balloons will float in mid air if you break any blocks attached to them.
  • Cirahna’s hitbox while on the ground reflects her more.
  • Can’t gift to Cirahna until after she gets off the ground.
  • Bald people should no longer gain hair while wearing hats.
  • Registration letter is no longer given as part of the items you spawn with, after finishing the tutorial. You now get a shovel instead.
  • Fixed Fossil polisher showing up in the Mechanic’s shop before Vorlen’s museum is done.
  • Fey Mansion now comes with more furniture.
  • You now get out of bed when you leave the night transition screen.
  • Sticky notifications will now go away after night transition.
  • Increased the power of festival tools to much or better tier 2 tools.
  • New sounds for rabbit, some effects and some UI.
  • Lightning is now in stereo. Also lightning will change its apparent distance more regularly.
  • Ignore a mouse down when exiting UI menus. Stops excess placing/using of items.

Fixes:

  • Non server owners can now correctly start the Barn Quest. Fixes issues with Max not accepting items or starting quests.
  • Players can now teleport while sitting down or while they are locked to any other dock.
  • Improvements to how chunk reading is handled.
  • Fixed certain villagers attempting to go home after a single day of arriving.
  • Fixed the bug that showed 2 extra boxes for item mail.
  • Fixed Endash rendering as a Permille symbol.
  • Fixed Rosemary not going to quests if you went past Neutral reputation.
  • Auto pickup items option should now be properly activated/deactivated when you join a new world.
  • Behind the scenes fixes to how chunk loading occurs game wide.
  • Let night transition deal with more farming chunks. Fixes some issues with plants not growing.
  • Sponge should no longer eat itself if there is no room left in the inventory.
  • Fixes to many day checks that explicitly checked for midnight.
  • Fixed a loud hiss in one of the songs.
  • Fixed some underlying issues with rendering the UI.
  • Villagers spawned from a spawner will also hide from the map now.
  • Cirahna not always showing on the map after getting her up.
  • Inventory and Journal can no longer be opened during dialogue.
  • Fixed cases where villagers wouldn’t look at the player while talking.
  • Fixed numerous cases of the wrong model being used when a Caith put on a hat.
  • Fixed some other cases where models where wrong, or majorly clipping through.
  • Fixed a case where the world would be unfinishable as Farm Fan reset a flag. Worlds affect by this should be able to talk to Mayor Max to fix it.
  • Fixed numerous cases where villagers wouldn’t go to daily quests.
  • Fixed Daily quest display in the journal. (They show they are completed. Dialogue fills out more often.
  • Daily quests will attempt to remove quest items from player inventories when they expire.
  • Fixed 1x UI scale not being selectable.
  • Fixed numerous 1 pixel wiggles in the UI.
  • Fixed the mail notification sound happening several times at night.
  • Loot boxes should no longer give more rewards when clicking them, even when open.
  • Fixed effects ending before their sound ended.
  • Villagers will now unequip any item at night, and stop all animations. Less awkward reading while walking.
  • Fixed a case where localhost wouldn’t go to your computer.
  • Fixed some cases where a server would crash without an error being logged if given bad console arguments.

Modding:

  • Old mods should remain mostly compatible with the exception of one change. Due to the shipping station not showing everything available to buy at the start, the lucky box will be needed to be used for any mod not updated.
  • The pricing component has had “canBeEarntFromLuckyBox” and “catalogueUnlockedFromStart” added.
  • Added a way to always show a static main verb for items.
  • There is a way to request that a chunk be regenerated now.
  • Lots of minor changes, that shouldn’t break compatibility with old versions.
  • Added a way for festivals to happen multiple times per season.
  • Content Builder now has a utility to find items that can be bought, but don’t appear in any location that would normally allow a player to get them. (Besides in the world.)
  • Dialogue errors should now provide more information overall.
  • It’s now possible to add custom collections and recipe categories.
  • Several error message improvements.
  • Added “tilesToIgnore” to totems which will completely ignore any specified tile.


February

Sapling Edition
Version: Changelog
7th of February 2019: Sapling 1.3.62 (190207a)
  • Player renamer doesn’t get used if setting to the same name.
  • Post boxes and signs no longer provide protection by default if placed by player.
  • Break effect gets rid of it’s sound instance properly, instead of staying forever.
  • Generate lower level LOD’s and additional chunks while idle.
  • Reduced the number of LOD levels. Some were practically never used.
  • Don’t crash when generating too many particles.
  • Improved the content build error message when two plants contain the same tile.
  • Reduced the number of chunk change triggers for lighting and LOD.
  • Thread safety improvements to core paths.
  • Internally added tests for chunks.
  • Empty strings don’t attempt to get translated.
  • More crash debugging.

January

Sapling Edition
Version: Changelog
30th of January 2019: Sapling 1.3.60 (190130a)

New:

  • Player Nicknames. Upon creating a new character, you can change the name that will be shown.
  • Player Name Changers: The town hall now allows you to buy a name change certificate for changing your own name.
  • Player list shows the player’s username if they are using a nickname. (You can also use /getUsername [Nickname] to get a person’s username)
  • When trying to break a block that is protected, a particle line will show you to the thing that is protecting it.

Changes:

  • All worlds made before this patch will have sign protection disabled for any existing sign.
  • Small Optimisations to UI. Should load faster, and be more responsive, on less powerful computers.
  • Improvements to LOD generation speed.
  • Some minor memory improvements.
  • Some minor optimisations to Shaders.
  • Some imrovements to file loading

Fixes:

  • Fix some cases where an NPC could be pushed out of a conversation by another NPC.
  • Sign protection defaults should now be fixed. Festival areas and other similar signs should no longer protect by default.
  • Lots of behind the scenes changes to LOD generation. Some odd quirks of LOD generation (Shadows on beaches) should now be gone.

Modding:

  • Improvements to Key Not Found error messages.
  • No longer says unknown content build error, if the file was at least in a folder in mods.
  • Fixed doubling of file path on Tile errors.
14th of January 2019: Sapling 1.3.59 (190114c)
  • Let players drop items from inventory when hovering over the item description area.
  • Fixed another bug which didn't allow dropping from inventory.
  • Let a second press of esc work while transitioning from map mode or selfie mode.
  • Show status of bees when using a Smoker on an Apiary that is currently producing honey.
  • Fixed an issue which caused worlds to not be deleteable.
  • Fixed some other issues caused by map mode and other interactions.
  • Added command line property to Steam Launcher, "binary", which opens specified file instead of Staxel.Client.exe
  • Added a special pass to command line parsing, to allow values that aren't joined with a : or =.
  • Try joining by staxelnet first when trying to join via Steam Friends.
9th of January 2019: Sapling 1.3.58 (190109a)
  • Sign UI has been updated.
  • Area protection is only on by default for homes and main town buildings. Festival area is now not included.
  • Fix totems not being able to scan and being stuck on "Updating...". They should reliably scan the area.
  • Fix weirdness caused by talking to an NPC while in map mode.
  • Fix MinSpecs warning always showing, even if told to never show.
  • Changed MinSpecs window from Yes/No to just Continue.
  • When opening the journal, it will automatically go to the tab the last quest appeared in.
  • Small speed improvements to chunk loading.
  • No longer closes UI menus when a drag goes outside it.
  • When the game/server crashes from an Out Of Memory error, show "Exit to desktop" instead of "Exit to menu".
  • Staxel net Address box lines up better with the escape menu.
  • Fishing now sends data more efficiently.
8th of January 2019: Sapling 1.3.57 (190108a)
  • Mouse Smoothing now takes framerate into account.
  • Fix Signs/Totems stopping festivals.
  • Fix Signs/Totems stopping plants from growing.
  • Fix plant pulling not triggering the protection notification.
  • Fix plant pulling happening every tick if the plant was in a Sign/Totem area.
  • Fix window and borderless modes not respecting half resolution and window size.
5th of January 2019: Sapling 1.3.56 (190105b)

New:

  • Totem regions will now protect the area they cover by default. You can turn this off by clicking on the totem and pressing the right button.

Changes:

  • Improvements to rendering speed and range while walking around.
  • Some small memory improvements to chunks.
  • Standalone users who purchased the game can also use StaxelNet.
  • StaxelNet options should now properly save on worlds
  • StaxelNet errors should be easier to read.
  • Issues list in Steam Launcher will now show some more issues.

Fixes:

  • Fixed a case where players would still be in a conversation and thus would not save properly when exiting a world.
  • Fixed Standalone launcher deleting saves when updating.
  • Fixed controller not being able to get to the StaxelNet checkbox.
  • Fixed Steam Launcher crashing if it fails to find anything to check for files missing.
  • Fixed StaxelNet text overlapping in some languages.
  • Fixed some cases of needing to talk to Farm Fan twice.
  • The wall clock is now against the wall, and the hands line up correctly.
  • Don’t crash if a person in dialog leaves the game.
  • More robustness when loading textures.
  • More logging to find some more inconsistent crashes.
  • When deleting worlds, it will now retry if it fails.
  • Improved some StaxelNet Exceptions.
  • Possibly fixed a crash when looking at journal.
  • Fixed a crash when loading totems.

Modding:

  • Joke time estimate when content building replaced with an actual helpful message.
  • Draw Point added to Debug Drawing.

Sapling Edition (2018)

December

Sapling Edition
Version: Changelog
10th of December 2018: Sapling 1.3.53 (181210a)

Added:

  • Festival signs are not breakable by default. Can be turned off when selecting the sign.
  • Added a new popup to Steam Launcher notifying users if they are below minimum spec.

Changed:

  • More shirts and shorts available in the beginning character generation.
  • Exit popup is now different in multiplayer.
  • You can now rename worlds without opening them.
  • Optimisations to lighting.
  • Small optimisation to rendering. Average FPS in the town should be higher.
  • Large trees should fall more reliably.
  • Show the network issues prompt if disconnected due to error from a Steam Friends game.
  • Pathfinding changes. NPC’s should handle stairs and indoors easier. Longer distance pathing should be better.
  • Fey Manor’s garden has been redesigned.

Fixed:

  • Magic water not working on White Rose, trees, and other non-pickable plants.
  • Fixed not being able to delete copied worlds.
  • Fixed Nametags and NPC heads flipping upside down in Map view.
  • More adjustments when reading files that are being blocked.
  • Minor changes to double press dashing.
  • Fixed Buy sites not restoring from save correctly.

Modding:

  • It is now possible to add in more waypoints for villages.
  • Changed stack size limit on Placeholder items from 1 to 999.
  • Buy sites now try to get rid of placeholders without crashing.
  • New admin command for debugging pathing: dystra.
  • More villager validation checks.
  • Improved component builder error messages.
  • Improved an error message in Treasure Pools concerning null items.

November

Sapling Edition
Version: Changelog
29th of November 2018: Sapling 1.3.52 (181129b)

New:

  • Level Of Detail changes now smoothly fade in.

Changes:

  • Changed model of an old duplicate Tracter Double Bed and hidden it from catalogues.
  • Added a button to rename worlds without loading them.
  • Better and more efficient distance fog. Distance fog is now disabled if Bloom is disabled.
  • Minor adjustments to the steam launcher usability.
  • Halloween changes have been removed. (Brick sells his original stock etc)
  • Added some particles at the start of pulling up flowers animation
  • Improvements to the steam launcher error if the game fails to start.

Fixes:

  • LOD holes have been fixed.
  • Fix caret position in the World name box being reset to the end all the time.
  • Hardening towards certain Dialogue crashes.
  • Some hardening towards save corruption.
  • More retrying and hardening when loading files.
  • Don’t have the server crash if world facade goes null.
  • Suppressed some old world exceptions to do with bugs. Fixed on the spot now.
  • Fixed multiple inventory full sounds happening at once.
  • Fix some crashes with StaxelNet.
  • Fixed a crash when the renamer was used yet wasn’t the active item.
  • Fix gaps appearing in terrain at long distances.
  • Fix some surrounding logic that may have caused NPC’s to read without a book.
  • Don’t disable sound if the audio system goes out of memory. Some other minor audio changes.
  • Keep trying to delete/move files for up to 15 seconds. Should help with sporadic issues with Anti-viruses and similar programs.
  • Can no longer get Halloween mail by having an older world.
  • Fix Character model showing when net issues window appears.
  • Fix some cases of visual sliders (e.g. Gamma) going out of bounds and causing black screens.

Modding:

  • Items from mods that have been removed should be replaced with a “Missing Item” item. These should turn back into the original item, if added back in.
  • Content Builder checks sounds exist on Plants and Tiles.
  • Content Builder error messages should now provide all of the details upfront.
  • Links in Content Builder error messages should now be clickable.
  • Improved error message for empty Language files
  • Fix Content Build Exceptions not showing the filename.
  • Updated Plants and added sponges to the Asset Manager.
  • Removed chain crafting behaviour as it wasn’t used in Staxel. If you want previous behaviour, use “DeprecatedChainCraft” : true in your reaction.
22th of November 2018: Sapling 1.3.49 (181122b)

Changes:

  • Better and more efficient distance fog. Distance fog is now disabled if Bloom is disabled.
  • Minor adjustments to the steam launcher usability.
  • Halloween changes have been removed. (Brick sells his original stock etc)
  • Added some particles at the start of pulling up flowers animation
  • Improvements to the steam launcher error if the game fails to start.

Fixes:

  • Fix gaps appearing in terrain at long distances.
  • Fix some surrounding logic that may have caused NPC’s to read without a book.
  • Don’t disable sound if the audio system goes out of memory. Some other minor audio changes.

8Keep trying to delete/move files for up to 15 seconds. Should help with sporadic issues with Anti-viruses and similar programs.

  • Can no longer get Halloween mail by having an older world.
  • Fix Character model showing when net issues window appears.
  • Fix some cases of visual sliders (e.g. Gamma) going out of bounds and causing black screens.

Modding:

  • Fix Content Build Exceptions not showing the filename.
  • Updated Plants and added sponges to the Asset Manager.
  • Removed chain crafting behaviour as it wasn’t used in Staxel. If you want previous behaviour, use “DeprecatedChainCraft” : true in your reaction.
13th of November 2018: Sapling 1.3.48 (181113a)

New:

  • Control schemes.
  • Added options to flip mouse/joystick horizontal directions.
  • New way to connect to other friends. “Use Staxel Net” option added to “Play With Friends”.
  • Added controller support to building tool settings windows.

Changes:

  • Transition to/from Map mode has been changed a bit.
  • Increased the amount players push NPC’s.
  • Minor optimisations of Animated tiles doors and lighting.
  • Internal changes to file creation/loading.
  • Auto-picking up items should occur for more actions.

Fixes:

  • Looking down near a wall should no longer make you go first person.
  • Fixed Golden Watermelon, Golden Cabbage, Golden Pumpkin, and Golden Strawberry seeds missing from seed maker
  • Minor crash fixes.
  • Fix a crash when loading a world with a missing mail count.
  • Don’t keep a server running when failing to start a world.
  • Make sure only a single forest bunny spawns.
  • Stop players from giving more items to Farm Fan, after they already got the coupon.
  • Fixed some blob corruption issues.
  • Don’t leave a broken file behind if loading fails.
  • Swapped numerous cases of saved time not being in UTC.
  • CompleteQuest and UpdateReputationCommand now check for the right number of arguments.
  • When failing to load an Entity for rendering, fall back to a new renderer to avoid failing every frame.
  • Don’t crash if a DockTile with animation that is missing is spawned.
  • Don’t crash during animation if a Dispenser is missing a component.

Modding:

  • Retrying a failed content build should now work properly.
  • Old sprinkler mod is now blocked from being loaded.
  • New format for Errors in Content Builder. Should be less scary now.
  • Most content builder exceptions will now point to a specific installed mod, if possible. (e.g. “Modded Content Build Error. Caused by: X at workshop url: “)
  • Error messages should be clearer when failing to upload using Mod Manager.

October

Sapling Edition
Version: Changelog
24th of October 2018: Sapling 1.3.46 (181024a)
is now live for all players
  • Added a new Spooky furniture range
  • Added 6 new cosmetic hats for halloween
  • Brick will sell spooky furniture over the next week or so
  • Sent out a spooky letter to everyone
  • Added a "showCraftingKeyword" option to docks so modders can disable their nametags
  • Big dropped tiles (e.g. pet house) should scale better now
  • Improved readability of UI Tabs so it's easier to tell what is currently selected
  • Wood tree saplings now grow in all seasons
  • Fix non-compound tiles pushing out from walls in the wrong direction
  • General codebase fixes
  • fix a rare issue where social icons would throw an error
  • Fix an issue where the game was reporting duplicate reactions
12th of October 2018: Sapling 1.3.44 (181012a)

Major

  • Lighting fixes. Less black void.
  • Show a warning prompt instead of kicking players with high amounts of lag.
  • Signs… THAT YOU CAN WRITE ON

Additions:

  • Allow journal bind to close the journal while it's open
  • Allow the “accept” button (Default: A on controller) to advance dialogue
  • Prevent a case of accidentally closing the character creator on the first world load.
  • Add a couple of lines to Farm Fan to stop her from referring to herself in third person.
  • A prompt is displayed before stealing.

Changes:

  • Made the scarf on the shaved pink sheep match un-shaved version.
  • Made powerful refrigerator be recognised as a fridge
  • Show a warning prompt instead of kicking players with high amounts of lag.
  • Your view won’t be snapped back to your conversation partner all the time.
  • Set the active inventory slot when moving items within hotbar. Instead of just between hotbar and inventory.
  • Added a slight delay before getting the next hint in the night transition overlay.
  • Changed arrows on dropdowns to a higher resolution version.
  • Reduced delay in showing the dialogue progress hint.
  • Use the randomized cobble tile when creating the town hall.
  • Changed the mouse icon that showed up in dialogue.
  • Changed some internal logic for key binding.
  • Ensure that Steam Launcher brings Staxel to the front of all open windows.
  • Hide the “allow friends joins” option on GOG version. Play with Friends button is also disabled.
  • Moved the “Inventory Direct” keybind higher in the list. So it is next to other menu keybinds.
  • Added Hay as a requirement to craft chicken coops.
  • Allow multiple gog owners to play on a server using the same credentials.
  • Unmappable key bindings are now more clear in the UI.
  • Allow escape menu to be shown while in dialogue.
  • Fancy chairs can be sat on now.
  • Added a button that you can click on night transition to continue.

Fixes:

  • Fixed some bad layers in Male Swimsuits, Bermuda Shorts
  • Added some methods to quickly update lighting before full information is received from server.
  • Added extra protection for weird ui scale values.
  • The Tool area region no longer sticks around after switching from the creative shovel
  • Fixed replaced tiles leaving behind compound fillers. This fixes some cases of invisible blocks.
  • Fixed the screen growing past the monitor size, when switching from borderless to windowed mode.
  • When a field gets assigned a null in json, ignore the field when parsing the blob. Fixes some weird issues.
  • Don't crash on CancelCharacterCreator if current design was not set yet.
  • Track file access conflict issues on BinBlobDb with more detailed error messages. To find some unusual crashes.
  • Fixed a crash for Docks when a dock is provided an item with no code or tile code.
  • Fix some threading issues.
  • Fixed a float precision issue causing animations to not play at 60fps after 2 hours of gameplay.
  • Don't crash when saving, while feeder has just been spawned.
  • Don’t throw an exception when muting a player for a second time.
  • Don’t trigger selfie camera mode when using ALT+F4 to close the game.
  • Don’t leak sound effect instances when skipping sounds.
  • Avoid cleaning up GameContext multiple times, and solved some race conditions concerning cleaning up GameContext.
  • Fix an issue with reloading pets.
  • Several hardenings of code surround chunks.
  • Hardening against null item stack exceptions.
  • A fix was applied to some failures to directly connect to a player.
  • Removed the server list from the client and server wizard.
  • Fixed Cecile’s Model showing a different skin tone on the shoulder.

Modding:

  • Certain DLL’s are now blocked from loading. This is to stop issues with certain old mods crashing the game.
  • By default, Mod Manager only asks to update mods if you own the mod.
  • By default, Mod Manager does not ask to run content builder on new versions of the game.
  • Both options above can be turned off by finding the file in the /mods/ folder.
  • Mod manager’s command line parameters have been clean up. The only input changed is steamLauncherCheck (e.g. -steamLauncherCheck 10.0.0 instead of -steamLauncherCheck -version 10.0.0)
  • Fixed villager definitions being outdated in Asset Manager.
  • Fix Modmanager not detecting that some mods needed to be uninstalled before being reinstalled. Should fix cases of files being left behind.
  • Added Mail definitions and Quest Definitions to the Asset Manager.
  • Check if files are missing from the bundle after Mod Manager does its checks.

September

Sapling Edition
Version: Changelog
12th of September 2018: Sapling 1.3.42 (180912b)

New:

  • New pants have been added.
  • Players lagging badly for more than 60 seconds will get kicked from the server.

Fixes:

  • Fixed all villagers being considered a quest villager.
  • Allow controllers to get to the cog button in the single player world select.
  • Various sound fixes. Out of Memories should be less common.
  • Added some more grace time to effects. Some sounds should play more reliably
  • Updated Festivals in Asset Manager. This fixes previous issues.
  • The old mailbox is no longer searchable in catalogues.
  • Better error message when trying to connect to a multiplayer server, and the port is invalid.
  • Fixed a case where pet houses could spawn Farm Animals and crash the game.
  • Allow animations to play during night transition, so the player's animation state is correct on wakeup.
  • Fixed Oscar final quest being broken.
  • Harden FillPotWater against Dispenser Component being null.
  • Improve the reported server lockfile error, by finding the process currently holding the lock to the lockfile.
  • Made some changes to make certain errors easier to catch
  • Some very small technical changes
9th of September 2018: Sapling 1.3.40 (180909a)

New:

  • Added the ability for any tilestate to dispense (water from fountains & wells)
  • Added particles and sounds for catching bug entities
  • Added --disableFullscreen and --disableSliders commandline options, which are used by the steam compat start option to make the game more likely to work or work around stuff the user broke in menus.

Changes:

  • Made control hints more visible, and redesigned the mouse fully.
  • Made larger lighting batches.
  • Assert qb layer is of inbounds size.

Fixes:

  • Fixed Farm Fan being removed after festivals where she was the host.
  • Fixed inventory getting stuck and dropping items.
  • Fixed a bug with particles.
  • Fixed low drive space detection.
  • Fixed stir entity action & boiling station particles looping forever
  • Fixed a bug with the order shipping manager that causes the game to crash.
5th of September 2018: Sapling 1.3.39 (180905a)

New:

  • Allow user to hide the feedback form in future.
  • Force Download mods when opening Mod Manager.
  • Players are now asked to remove incompatible or banned mods.
  • Added functional bin and stop merchant sites accepting zero value stacks.
  • Added a shelf where modders where modders can have their items spawn in the store.
  • Added effects & actions to dispensers.
  • Added a "Cobble Moss" tile, similar to weeds, for use in adding aesthetic overgrowth to non-farmland tiles.
  • Add gating to totem requirements and display ??? if the quest isn't active for that player.
  • Game now displays a lag notification.
  • Added option to auto-pickup items within a certain distance around the player.
  • Added --disableFullscreen and --disableSliders commandline options.

Changes:

  • Game now detects duplicate keys in json blob files.
  • Added alt stages to rare mushroom plant to accommodate rotations.
  • Game now checks if the player is looking at a villager before throwing throwables.
  • Town hall pedestal dock is now available to buy.
  • Added contentbuilder check for category concept & fix missed villager regards.
  • Added additional check to Cirahnas part in Oscar's junk queen quest.
  • Removed the old postbox from the catalogue.
  • Allowed many of the common grasses to spawn mixed seeds, increased mixed seed rate slightly.
  • Stop interrupting action cancellations when fainting.
  • Added some missing essentials to the building store.
  • Removed fossil category from polisher.
  • Included dock contents in structure export/import
  • Removed questItem status from giant mushroom since you can get it as many times as you need.
  • Player is now prevented from sleeping during the morning.
  • Apply and persist random villager likes.
  • Made fairies emissive to match lore.
  • Game no longer recalculates the lod and lighting on watering and cropgrowth.
  • Removed the dialogue functions of the tutorial script.
  • Lag notification now hides and shows timers.
  • Made control hints more visible, and redesigned the mouse fully.
  • Made larger lighting batches.

Fixes:

  • Work done to the dialogue format.
  • Fix Farm Fan being able to talk about needing to go see Farm Fan.
  • Fixed Farm Fan not correctly returning to normal dialogue after the gift dialogue has been triggered.
  • Improved error message on config code collision.
  • Fixed some wall objects acting like vines.
  • Simple fixes for a lot of Leif bugs.
  • Fixed some rosemary quest issues.
  • Fixed a bug with Oscar and the Trash Fairy.
  • Made Aliza only visit the cash register in the building store.
  • Fixed beet interference bug with the tutorial.
  • Make most counter tops not push out from walls.
  • Fixed dialogue issues with Oscar.
  • Fixed massReplacer docking.
  • General optimisations.
  • Fixed spinkler performance issue.
  • Fixed issues with particles not correctly resetting after resize.
  • Fixed inability to pick up flowers.
  • Fixed merchant dialogue locking.
  • Minor cleanup of unused code.
  • Fixed fainting waking the player up at midnight.
  • Fixed naming issue with the double beds.
  • Fixed issues with docking.
  • Fixed issue with flashing wall torches due to not building emissive color into cached mesh.
  • Reduced tilestates by improving replacetile and merging the remove/place into one action when possible.
  • Fine tuned reliable network.
  • Fixed bug with sleeping on multiplayer servers.
  • Fixed Farm Fan being removed after festivals where she was the host.
  • Clamped values to avoid generating a NaN.
  • Game now asserts qb layer is of inbounds size.
  • Fixed low drive space detection.
  • Fixed inventory getting stuck and dropping items.

August

Sapling Edition
Version: Changelog
8th of August 2018: Sapling 1.3.33 (180808a)

New:

  • Allow swapping between places on the same object. (e.g. Bed)
  • Friendship Requirements were lowered. (1.3.30)

Changes:

  • Coffee is no longer an Eggplant.
  • Magic Water is no longer buyable from catalogue.
  • Default key bindings now have I to go straight to inventory.
  • Fossil polisher is now in the Building store after building the museum.
  • Hidden some items used by Rowan's questline from Catalogue.

Fixes:

  • Some fixes to getting stuck in docks.
  • Some fixes to getting stuck in fainted position.
  • Fixed crash when a player left when being led, or running away from.
  • Fixed Skirts being in the wrong slot, and being offset.
  • Fixed Rosemary not being able to become Roomies.
  • Fixed some wrong configs with Hanging Pans and Hanging Light.
  • Fixed typing E while editing world name, on existing world, closing the menu.
  • Fixed world creation/editing error messages not appearing.
  • Cleaned up Quest item list, so that all items are obtainable.
  • Fixed up various tile sounds.

Modding:

  • Better error messages when some things have duplicate keys.
  • Villager regards, when using a category concept, now require a list.
  • Modmanager should no longer ping when some mods were downloading.
  • Modmanager should now uninstall a mod first before installing in all cases.

July

Sapling Edition
Version: Changelog
27th of July 2018: Sapling 1.3.29 (180727a)
  • Plushes are pickable.
  • Should no longer be able a certain special pet from Farm Fan.
  • Notifications of the same type but different properties will now stack. e.g. "You have learnt x." "You have learnt y." will now stack.
  • Don't let duplicates spawn of a certain pet.
  • Add the server world version and creation date to crash logs.
  • Using selfie mode no longer skips night transition.
23rd of July 2018: Sapling 1.3.28 (180723a)
  • In game Friendship achievements.
  • Added wildberry drops to other harvestable plants.
  • Room 208 in the Fey Mansion has been renamed to Room 108. This should be a little less misleading.
  • TV's now change their height to fit to stuff below them again.
  • Don't let Farm Fan give a duplicate License Letter if you handed 1 in already.
  • Improved error message when two farm animals have the same code.
  • Fix a rare crash to do with Villagers going home.
  • Rare mushrooms should break properly when not on soil tiles.
  • Don't let a villager crash by walking onto a plant with no configuration.
  • Some logging changes. Don't force logging on certain mod crashes.
21st of July 2018: Sapling 1.3.27 (180721a)

Added:

  • Reputation and reputation levels
  • Reputation icons displayed in nametags
  • Reputation can be gained by:
    • Talking
    • Giving Items
    • Completing daily quests
  • The ability to invite villagers to be your roomie upon completing their questline
  • Roomied villagers will hang out at your house
  • Roomied villagers will have extra special dialogue
  • A new species of pet
  • A new festival
  • Dozens of new quest items
  • New hats
  • Conversations with Murmurs (Merchants)
  • Postboxes and signs can have extra criteria:
  • Must be away from town
  • Must not overlap with another totem
  • Villagers can go shopping in the village
  • Villagers can converse with each other (only used in quests for now)
  • Dialogue can be used to spawn villagers, tiles, and more

Fixes:

  • Allow all numpad buttons to be mapped; some were missed by mistake
  • Fix pets colliding with doors while following their owners
  • Fix some cases of Journal entries duplicating
  • Fix an issue where postbox/totem sale pools couldn’t be expanded with new tiers
  • When checking for an item in a players inventory, the clothing slots were skipped
  • Fixed some dialogue issues, which resulted in getting stuck in conversations

Modding:

  • Added a large number of extra Dialogue Commands
  • Added functionality to fishables to be active during certain quests, or while certain totems exist
  • Added functionality to plants to drop seeds when broken at certain stages
  • Allow villagers to be farm animals
  • Added village global variables for dialogue
  • Added personal cross-villager variables for players in dialogue
  • Add the ability to defer dialogue commands, limited to a small handful of commands for now
  • More extensive dialogue validation
  • Regards are now included in villager npc files
  • Dialogue pools blocked by friendship levels are included in villager npc files
  • Fixed an issue where a misnamed dialogue command could still be validated
  • Fixed an issue where farm animals, and pet models were not checked
  • Fixed bodytype layers in some animals
  • When creating translation files for dialogues, the content builder will now filter to .dialogue and .npcconversation files.

June

Sapling Edition
Version: Changelog
25th of June 2018: Sapling 1.2.39 (180625c)

New:

  • Sprinklers have been added to the game. You can find them in the building store.
  • Added Social media shortcuts to the Main Menu.
  • Water Squirters have been added.

Fixes:

  • Don’t crash the server when swapping an item with an empty slot.
  • More asserts to find out where a NaN velocity bug is coming from.
  • Don’t give steam achievements when switching out of creative mode.
  • Fixed player options being updated way too often.
  • Ensure that all files are in UTF8, to avoid issues if someone trieds to encode it differently.
  • Don’t mark translations as untranslated when the English translation is empty.
  • A lot of micro-optimisations. Too many changes to list.
  • A number of changes to avoid leaking data.
  • A number of changes to lessen Garbage Collection for hot parts of the code.
  • Remove some leftover code from the 32bit version.

Modding:

  • Lots of improved error messages. Too many changes to list.
7th of June 2018: Sapling 1.2.37 (180607a)

New:

  • Saturation, Gamma, Brightness and Contrast sliders have been added.
  • Minor Mouse Smoothing

Fixes:

  • Fixed searching for Recipes not always giving the right recipes.
  • Logging added for when Entity Database gets corrupted, so we can find issues pertaining to disappearing NPC's.
  • Reduce a number of cases of memory leak.
  • Added more assertions, and improved error messages, to find weird corner case crashes.
  • Added more logging to a cache exception. Also stop it from crashing the game.
  • Increased tolerance of NAN's in player characters.
  • Removed some costly code when loading files.
  • A number of small optimisations to large areas of code.

Modding:

  • Reactions that result in a Null item as a result, will no longer knock off items in the result slot.
  • Done some protection against a Zip vulnerability.
  • Mod manager will now no longer allow certain characters in mod names.

May

Sapling Edition
Version: Changelog
20th of May 2018: Sapling 1.2.32 (180520a)

Fixes:

  • Fixed an issue with rebinding specific keys.
  • Fix crash with character creator.
  • Fix crash when encountering a missing plant. (Should no longer crash when removing mods with plants.)
  • Fix crash when a button was missing from the key binding config.
  • More logging to find a crash when trying to remove a tile.
  • More logging to find crash with Shipping Catalogue.
  • More logging and changes to find crash while NPC is moving.
  • Changed logging to make sure no personal data is passed to us.

Modding:

  • DestructionEntityBuilder, TilePlacerItemBuilder and TilePlacerItemRenderer have been made public. (Code)
  • When a mod using one of the hook's crash, it will now put the mod name in the exception.
  • Alternative character accessory models are now checked as well on content build.
  • Make docks report which files have the same code.
  • Improve error message when loading an empty model.
16th of May 2018: Sapling 1.2.30 (180516a)
  • Modmanager now has 4 new command line parameters. removeMod [NameOfMod], removeAllMods, installMod [pathtosxl], installFolder [pathtofolder]
  • New home notification should not appear as often when going to bed.
  • Pets no longer bring non-pet reward seeds.
  • Seed and World size visually change when selecting a world to base off of.
  • Fixed crash at Character Generator screen due to only having a previous design or outfit. (And not both.)
  • Adjusted the upper bound of qb vertices buffer.
  • Handle the case of an empty asset better.
  • Handle crash on start up better.
  • Added some under the hood changes to deal with values in saves changing types. (Should solve a rare crash on world load for some people.)
8th of May 2018: Sapling 1.2.28 (180508a)

New:

  • Key Rebinding Menu.
  • More world options. World Size and World Seed have been added. (Server owners can do -seed and -size) Note: Max size is 10x for servers and 3x for singleplayer.
  • Added controller support to some areas that didn’t have it before.
  • Added another cat.

Changes:

  • Basic Wooden wall recipe was changed.
  • Crafting previews will not display while the Crafting Station is crafting.
  • Stick Bug should now spawn on the side of blocks.
  • Checker pieces have been made brighter.
  • Lots of small cleanup changes to files. (This caused a large update. Sorry!)

Fixes:

  • Suppressed an error which was caused by Xsplit. The game should now run again when Xsplit is recording.
  • Validated dialogue commands to make sure no null items are spawned.
  • Pets being interrupted from fetching when throwing an item that was not fetchable.
  • Fixed a null reference with animations when using left handed mode.
  • Fixed Grass Skirt being counted as a shirt.
  • Added check when the game fails due to MultiSampling being enabled. Disables MSAA when this occurs.
  • Fixed an issue with a custom fishing rod turning into a normal fishing rod after using it.
  • Added a timeout to Dialogue systems. When dialogue crashes, the player should no longer be stuck in place.
  • A case where the player’s view could get stuck vertically when using the Map.
  • Fixed an error that could occur when loading into a modded server and downloading the modded files.
  • Fixed an issue when using Left Handed mode on models that don’t have an opposite layer.
  • Fixed an issue which crashed the game when using Left Handed mode in Character Generator.
  • Fixed some other Character Generator crashes.
  • Fixed a crash when the server sent an exception instead of an exception message.
  • Lots of behind the scenes changes to catch uncommon crashes.
  • Reduced the impact when a sound emitter was disposed before it should have been.
  • Reduced the impact of another crash with sounds.
  • Made removing sounds from cache a bit more robust.
  • Made sure a full audio cleanup happens on shutdown.
  • Fixed the “Advance Dialogue” prompt not showing when creating a new world after already going in one.
  • Fixed a null reference when shutting down the server.
  • Chat no longer does a crazy scroll when opening it for the first time.
  • Steam Launcher should no longer crash when attempting to install missing redists.
  • Only give the Pet achievement when the pet house actually spawns a pet.
  • Fixed an issue where the character model in Character Generator would stay grey when the player had a previous design to load.
  • Fixed an issue where the game would crash as a new tree spawned.

Modding:

  • Accessories with 0 palettes now work again.
  • Dialogue Commands Spawn Item will now throw an exception if a null item was created.
  • Added “flowerAmount” to Worldgen.config. Used to adjust the rate at which flowers spawn.
  • Sphere and Cylinder have been added to DebugGraphics.

April

Sapling Edition
Version: Changelog
11th of April 2018: Sapling 1.2.27 (180411a)
  • Made downloading bundles from Modded Servers faster. (Speed may vary based on connection speed and ping.)
  • Some controller input changes.
  • Accessories always check with some body type now. More errors should appear in Content Builder and not ingame.
  • Fixed the Mysterious Butterfly sometimes crashing the game.
  • Made it so Tiles doing animations, get their animation checked in Content Builder.
  • Fixed a silent crash when using Sponge on a rotated Tile Object. The sponge should always place now.
  • Made some better exceptions when UI centered code fails.
  • Made it so players can't switch to another seat without getting out first.
  • Made sure character was centered in the Character Generator box on all resolutions.
  • Changed some things concerning Dialogue and Items to try and avoid crashes.
  • Some logging changes to find rarer bugs.
9th of April 2018: Sapling 1.2.25 (180409a)
  • Added the sponge to the general store. Price of sponges lowered by 80%. Sells in quantities of 5.
  • Fixed Caiths not always having Paws and Tails in all cases.
  • Fixed Postboxes not showing the tiles needed when accessing them.
  • Fixed Recipe Items crashing the game in some circumstances.
  • Fix notification spam when using Sponges.
  • Made Sponges properly stackable.
  • Fixed Content Builder not saving files, when running from Mod Manager.
  • Some changes to LOD system.
  • Fixed a crash when loading a world while the player had broken items in their inventory.
  • Fixed Museum Displays not counting towards the Museum.
  • Fixed a case where a .cache file wasn't being generated when Content Builder was being run from Mod Manager.
  • Fixed Shipping Catalogue silently crashing in the background when attempting to buy an empty space.
  • Fix a crash when loading a hair that had palettes that didn't exist.
  • Fixed trees growing exactly the same way.
  • Petal spawning now uses treasures.
6th of April 2018: Sapling 1.2.21 (180406a)

New:

  • Sponge tool. You can collect and place water with this.
  • Achievement rewards. You’ll receive a mail on how to get these when you get your first reward.
  • You can regrow trees by planting saplings. (You can find the recipe for Saplings in the crafting tab.)
  • New options menu option. Horizontal 3rd person offset.
  • Added a Slight Camera Smoothing effect.
  • A sound will play when night transition is finished.

Changes:

  • Multiple animations should now blend together better. You can drink properly while you sit now.
  • Recipes now correctly show what item you get from them.
  • Removed the human ears on Caiths. Hairstyles should also be more consistent. (Not missing jewels etc)
  • All animal stats are now stored when crating. (Even pets) No more free reseting.
  • Museum now checks for tile categories instead of tiles.
  • Stick bugs have been rotated and now will appear on the side of wood blocks. This increases the rate at which you can find them.
  • The regions of Postboxes/Signs has been slightly extended vertically. Takes affect on new worlds or when breaking/replacing them.
  • Trees can now have colour variation.
  • Merchants will wait a moment before restarting their dialogue again when being spam clicked.
  • Loading screen is now shown when teleporting the player.
  • Removed the postbox on the farm as the player is given one.
  • Changed the Clocks in the Town Hall to not all make sound on new worlds.
  • Made the transition in/out Map Mode nicer.
  • The launcher will now stay up until the game launches. It will also have an icon during this period.
  • Sometimes when finishing dialogue, a notification will appear saying that the journal has been updated.
  • Added some debugging tools to work out the Black Screen Bug.
  • Fossil rocks now have collision.
  • /toggleTimePassing was added to toggle time. /stoptime will eventually be changed.
  • Letters and balloons have been rotated in the hand.
  • A number of placeholder models have been changed.
  • Volume of placement sounds were raised.
  • Festival totems are now unbreakable during festivals.
  • Clock hands now go into the middle.
  • Chat is now hidden on night transition.
  • Some decorative plants now drop themselves.
  • The pet house from the Creative Menu will always spawn a random pet now.
  • Hedges now have auto tiling.
  • Changed how the Client works to better hint drivers.
  • Camera Command now gives feedback on what went wrong.
  • Slowed running animation slightly.
  • Adjusted Farm Fan’s movement and leading mechanics to not require the player to be as close.
  • Allow you to switch colours for the Character Generator background.

Fixes:

  • Polishers counting to Fossil achievements.
  • Fix pets being permanently ill.
  • Fixed a bug where pets would get their hunger incremented twice per day.
  • Fixed an issue with pets that shouldn’t be alive due to not having a house anymore.
  • Farm Fan will now repeat “Find Max” dialogue when talking to her after completing the tutorial but not handed in the registration letter. (Also gives an extra copy of the letter if needed.)
  • Fixed double/overlapping music.
  • Fixed music no longer fading between tracks.
  • Fix seeds going to where the cursor is, rather than the place they were meant to be placed.
  • Some plants with BreakOnSeasonChange, will now delete the tile if the player is around on Season Change. This does not affect tiles further than a bit away. (i.e. Some snow piles will dissappear, but not all.)
  • Fixed an issue where player list will never update with some players.
  • Fixed inventory selling not using the correct stack of items.
  • Fixed creative catalogue buying replacing full sized stacks.
  • Fixed old notifications showing when changing worlds.
  • Fixed an issue where certain blocks caused a jittering effect on the camera when walking up them.
  • Fixed the game’s resolution not defaulting to monitor resolution on resetting options.
  • Try to give an actual error to the client when the server disconnects them.
  • Fixed an issue with waking up at midnight while in the middle of fishing.
  • Fixed some issues with Multiplayer Server list not updating correctly.
  • /enablecheats and /op now correctly allow the Debug options menu to appear.
  • An issue with beach edges not counting as beach biomes.
  • Fixed an issue where docks could find a null entry and pass that on.
  • Fixed issues with parts of the Player not resetting between worlds. This caused issues with the journal.
  • Attempt to remove old duplicate bug entities from older worlds.
  • Fixed some recipes being carve instead of tile.
  • Fixed an issue where you could get the Talking with Farm Fan by clicking on her while too far away.
  • Fixed the wrong notification displaying for shipping dock in certain circumstances.
  • Fixed a hardcoded spawn offset in spawners. They will change depending on tile height.
  • Hardened the game against modded collectables disappearing. These caused issues after removing a mod.
  • Fixed some memory leaking in some functions.
  • Allow the player to interact with things while the debug tools and Creative shovel are in hand.
  • Fixed another money overflow issue.
  • Fixed certain tiles (e.g. clocks) not having the right model show. Also fixes collision on these tiles.
  • Changed how some of the chunk detailing worked.
  • Attempt some sneaky fixes to try and get the graphics driver to use the right graphics card.
  • Fix not all translations showing when the list got too long.
  • Fix parsing multiple of the same argument to the client.
  • Fix an issue with mail after opening the journal.
  • Fix firing off too many threads on machines with low powered cpus.

Modding:

  • Mod Manager now displays much much less Notifications when installing files. (When installing a lot of new mods, it will display 1 message per mod with DLLs. When reinstalling mods it won’t show any messages.)
  • Fixed Mod Manager reinstalling all files, instead of just the ones needed updates, when detecting updates.
  • When Sxlmods no longer exist, show a single message rather than multiple.
  • Made Mod Manager more tolerant of a missing mod folder.
  • Reduced the number of notifications when mods install outside of mod manager.
  • Added an icon to the content builder window. And bring that window to the front.
  • Modmanager will no longer run certain content build validations. Should be faster to complete as well. (Content Builder itself will still use these.)
  • Cleaned up some code with Mod manager’s startup. Should be slightly faster.
  • Tile States on Tiles are now checked on a revalidate.
  • (Code) Universe.CanRemoveTile can optionally output a notification when failing.
  • (Code) Added CanInteractWithTile and CanInteractWithEntity to ModHookV3. (Which inherits ModHookV2)
  • Items now have a “usableRange” property which adjusts how far you can use the item. (Defaults to 10 blocks.)
  • (Code) Added TryGetTotemsOfType in Village. Allows you to get all totems with the same code within the village.
  • Fixed the Hard limit on Species count in Character Generator.

8Some Assetmanager bindings have been updated.

  • Fixed an issue in AssetManager where editing a path would almost always fail.
  • Added “placementPreviewVariant” to Tiles. This makes sure the right alt model is always used for preview. (Defaults to random alt when not used.)
  • Added “iconVariant” to Tiles. This shows the specified alt model in the hand. (Defaults to random alt when not used).
  • “duration” on crafting reactions must now be non-zero if they are included in the file.
  • Translations now properly support having duplicate replacement values. (e.g. “notif.text={0} {0} {0}” is now supported.)
  • (Code) Notifications now use “GetTranslatedText” which should return an already translated string.
  • (Code) Items now have “GetItemTranslation” and “GetItemDescription” which will give the item name.
  • (Code) Items can now be used in Notification Params. (Used primarily by dialogue).
  • Client Console now only needs a file that starts with “showconsole”

March

Sapling Edition
Version: Changelog
10th of March 2018: Sapling 1.2.13 (180311a)

Fixes:

  • Fix for very old worlds allowing infinite catching of bugs.
  • Fix world crashing due to broken rights conflict. It will rename the broken file and generate a new one instead.
  • Fix beaches extending too far.
  • If a corrupted world happens, continue the game rather than hard crashing.
  • Added a buffer to steam networking. Send less small packets.
  • Change to handling of chunks which speed up the game.
  • Some other changes behind the scenes.
  • Remove old entities, that can't be made, from the world.
  • Some changes to logging/debugging behind the scenes.

Modding:

  • Mod manager now uninstalls using the .manifest file, only falling back to the sxlmod when it fails to read.
  • Clarified some item spawning errors.
  • Dialogue commands now verify a lot of their input before starting the game.
7th of March 2018: Sapling 1.2.10 (180307a)

New:

  • Left Handed mode is now working again after a long time out. Can be found under Other in options menu.
  • Camera Height option is added to the options menu.
  • Journal and Selfie mode are now rebindable from the defaultControlBindings.config

Changes:

  • Lowered size of objects on shelves.
  • The fancier displays can no longer be bought from Catalogue. You’ll need to earn them now.
  • Animals can be pushed around better now.

Fixes:

  • Added client side verification of bundles given by servers.
  • Removed SlimDX from Staxel and use FNA’s controller handling instead. Should no longer have issues with SlimDX not being found.
  • A try at fixing locked controls when alt-tabbing.
  • A try at fixing the Grey screen reappearing after waking up from night transition.
  • Fixed Bugs/Fossils having a reduced spawn rate under certain conditions.
  • No longer spawn more than the single vorlen spawner when the player has one already.
  • Fix Smoker not interacting with the top half of apiaries.
  • Changed windowed mode transition, should perform closer to expected now.
  • A number of background changes when dealing with data.
  • Increased the size of smaller outlines.
  • Fixed Mail crashing due to parsing an old staxel version from file. (Pre 1.0 versions.)
  • Remove old collectable items if they no longer exist / no longer have a collectable component.
  • Added some achievement verification.
  • A number of background changes to engine code.
  • Fix animals not respecting doors.

Mods:

  • [Code] You can add in your own dialogue commands in by inheriting IDialogueCommandBuilder.
  • Mods are added to our logs now.
  • Use /debugGraphics to see Debug graphics. [Code] You can draw debug graphics using the DebugGraphics class.
  • Removed some unused stuff in Reactions. (“allReagents” no longer exists.)
4th of March 2018: Sapling 1.2.9 (180304a)

New:

  • New server option added. noPause. Disables pausing when noone is on the server.
  • Added Spanish, Brazilian and Russian languages. (New russian font since 1.2.7)

Changes:

  • Fossil polisher output adjusted to not sink into table.
  • Changes to some food models and petal models.
  • Fossils spawn about 20% as often as before.
  • Slight increase in most crop prices. Small changes to other prices.

Fixes:

  • Fix a crash when using the Net.
  • Fix another case of getting the wrong bug when catching.
  • Other Catchable bug fixes.
  • Fix a null pointer when a pet desync from their house.
  • Other Entity Fixes.
  • Fixed a bug where you couldn’t maximise the window after changing from fullscreen/borderless.
  • Some achievement crashes.
  • Fixed a null reference when audio system failed.
  • Fixed some compaction issues with Networking.
  • Some other fixes to networking issues. (Specifically issues appearing while joining modded servers.)
  • Some other behind the scenes issues.

Modding:

  • [Code] TextureVertexDrawable is now public.
1st of March 2018: Sapling 1.2.5 (180301a)

Big things:

  • Mail system. You can now receive mail.
  • Journal. Press J to see your current daily quests and main quests.
  • Museum sign. You can make a museum now.
  • Two New NPCs.
  • A lot of stuff to put in the museum.
  • A large number of item prices have been changed.
  • New reward items.

New: Added “/plantwithering”. Turns on/off plant withering. Only recommended for large servers/build servers.

  • You can turn stone and wood back into their original blocks.
  • Added Sushi and Ice-cream recipes. Updates to other food recipes.
  • Name tags now show on map

Changes:

  • Food doesn’t get used in creative mode.
  • Pot plant beds don’t trigger house bed counts.
  • Commands can now except blobs again. (e.g. /spawnitem {“kind”: “staxel.item.NullItem”})
  • Wooden Pole Fence T and X appear in autotiling.
  • Trough should be clearer about why it can’t be filled.

Fixes:

  • Forced a minimum size of particle. (Fixes crashes due to 0 size.)
  • Lots of catchable fixes (catching bugs should no longer give you the wrong bug).
  • Fixed double Music track issues.
  • Fixed music playing in Mono.
  • Fixed ambient sound carrying to Main Menu.
  • Fixed totems displaying a notification on new scans.
  • Fixed a number of Steam Networking issues.
  • Sound should be playing in the correct ears now.
  • Selfie mode is disabled when going to sleep.
  • Catching all bugs should now be possible.
  • Fix fishing bobble particles not showing.
  • A number of behind the scenes changes/fixes to Entity Saving and Loading.
  • Fixed UI paths failing when they have spaces in them
  • Fixed Aristaeus achievement failing to trigger

Modding:

  • Game Version Class has been added. (Ways to use it can be seen in the Mail class.)
  • Watering Can particles and sound are editable.
  • Steam version will remove 32bit DLL’s before trying to load the game.
  • Polaroid has been added to NPC’s. This shows up in journal.
  • You can hide more than just the Hair layer with “hideLayers” in Accessories.
  • “notCategories” is added to AnyOfCategory achievements. To use for filtering out items.
  • Anything using IEntityLogicBuilder needs to update to IEntityLogicBuilder2.

February

Sapling Edition
Version: Changelog
14th of February 2018: Sapling 1.1.51 (180216b)

New:

  • Staxel is now running in 64 Bit:
    • Less Out Of Memory Errors. Less Purple Screens.
    • Improved lower end performance. Performance Stability should be increased.
    • Graphics Card usage is down.
    • Disk Usage is down.
    • Note: Reported memory usage (RAM) is up. This is due to Staxel not hiding memory in the Page File anymore.
  • Staxel now uses FNA.

Changes:

  • Sound spam when receiving a lot of notifications should be less now.
  • Prevent opening UI and map on the same frame. Caused weird issues before.
  • Some changes to some cooking recipes.

Fixes:

  • Added some entity deduping tech to crack down on duplicate entity issues.
  • Pets with no Home delete themselves.

Modding:

  • Code mods need to make sure they are either on "Any CPU" or "x64" from now on.
14th of February 2018: Sapling 1.1.50 (180214b)

New:

  • Cards and Emotes are now avaliable on steam.
  • A new Camera Mode: Reversed First Person (Selfie Mode). Press X (keyboard) to get this.
  • Unicorn Hat and Unicorn Plush have been added.
  • New recipes: Egg Fried Rice, Shrimp Fried Rice, Fruit Salad

Changes:

  • Plant prices have been increased.
  • Manure recipes are buyable.
  • Pedestal is now searchable.
  • Basic Table and Basic Chair recipes are now different from each other.
  • Gatherables can now spawn in Forest shacks.
  • Coloured petal’s sell price reduced.
  • Apiary’s collision is actually 2 blocks tall now.
  • Looking glass is actually in the hand now.
  • Sunflower and some other plant’s rotation is no longer random.
  • Some intermediaries have been removed from the catalogue.

Fixes:

  • Modded servers, with different files to the client, should now be joinable again.
  • NPC’s should now spawn at the Airship dock more reliably.
  • Fix crash when using Manure on something that isn’t a plant.
  • Fix fishing rod not bobbing and splash sounds.
  • Fixed some Catalogue search issues.
  • Pet duping should be fixed.
  • Fix crash with villagers and postboxes.
  • Staxel doesn’t hard crash when loading Code mods that crash. (e.g. Built for the wrong processor type.)

Modding:

  • Asset Manager updates to Docks, Particles, Plants, Spawner Binding.
  • Fixed Asset Manager crash when Character outfits did not have 5 items.
  • A number of improved error messages. A number of these errors were commonly hit.
  • You can now hide Item Tags on Docks. Use “showNameTags” : false.
  • Mod manager now uninstalls DLL’s. And doesn’t crash when they are missing.
5th of February 2018: Sapling 1.1.46 (180206b)

New:

  • Coloured petals from flowers. Used in crafting certain coloured blocks.
  • Added a low disk space warning when creating a server. (Or starting SinglePlayer).
  • Bacon Sandwhich and Scrambled Egg recipes.

Changes:

  • Made Weeds spread only on dirt.
  • Set certain plants to only be in 1 direction.
  • Certain recipes got changed. Particularly Brick recipes.
  • Some changes have been made, which lower Harddrive usage.

Fixes:

  • Fixed Animal Facial Expressions.

Modding:

  • Allowed IconScale to work for Accessories again.
  • Added a check in Content Builder when using CustomRendererVoxels.
  • Updated Festivals, Emotes and Expressions in Modmanager.
5th of February 2018: Sapling 1.1.45 (180205a)

New:

  • Pet Food recipe. (Bacon, milk and Oats.)
  • Added Manure recipe. Manure can be used to instantly revive wilted plants.
  • Allow players to immediately connect to Steam Server when invited outside the game.

Changes:

  • Made it so Farm Animals phase through doors.
  • Farm Animal achievements are granted on Crate Placement.
  • Allowed Bathroom sinks to also fill jars.
  • Some recipes and items have had their prices changed.
  • Changed Faces on the Map. They point in better directions when at the bottom of the screen.
  • Added more Keys that can be rebound to.
  • Removed Scorpion from Collectables screen.

Fixes:

  • Fixed Third Person camera.
  • Butter Counting as a Cake.
  • Fixed Rowan not giving the pet option when going through tutorial a second time.
  • Don’t crash world when a tile is no longer a dock due to updates.
  • Mixed Seeds complaining about being in the wrong season.
  • Fixed old worlds not loading their Heightmap.
  • When failing to get Asset Bundle from server, reset and disconnect.
  • Try to address grey loading screen issue.
  • Teleport command no longer crashes when not given a player.
  • Lots of additional behind the scenes logging and asserting to find weird crashes.
  • Some additional safety checks to code. Fixed some race conditions.
  • More bad packet detection.
  • Workaround Crash when opening Recipe UI before it was ready.
  • Fixed game trying to remove merchant cart when sellbox wasn’t placed yet.
  • Fixed issues with Gatherabes not spawning properly.
  • Behind the scenes changes to Item Rendering.

Modding:

  • Updated Asset Manager: Merchant, Structure Template/ Structure Pool.
  • Asset Manager will now show Expression Codes for properties that need it.
  • Mod manager now has an right click option to open the sxlmod location.
  • Asset Manager no longer logs crashes when Validating Assets.
1st of February 2018: Sapling 1.1.43 (180201c)

New:

  • New Yogurt Recipe.

Changes:

  • Cicadas and rhino beetles also spawn on forest wood.
  • Flies spawn on dirt and rock instead of trees.
  • Pause Generating World and LOD on night transition to let other sections take priority.
  • If the server closes too quickly, a more meaningful crash message should appear.
  • Cows don't have the milk counted as gotten, until the player gets a milk bottle.
  • Added A2S support for server hosters.

Fixes:

  • Fixed 3rd person camera being weird.
  • Made sure gatherables loading in are also checked for recycling.
  • Other gatherable checks.
  • Fix butter counting as a cake for Cake achievements.
  • Don't allow switching away from the rod while pulling up fish.
  • Fix an issue with Tile State Entities queueing up a lot of sounds which would all play at once when loaded.
  • A number of networking fixes.

Modding:

  • Asset manager should fail faster and with better error when it can't find the content folder.
  • Added Throwable Component to Asset Manager.
  • Updated Many Villager Assets and Updated Totems in Asset Manager.
  • Forced validation on Totem Tiles. They must have a buyable component now.
1st of February 2018: Sapling 1.1.41 (180201a)

Changes:

  • Kitchen Sink is no longer a crafting site. It does however still fill up Jars.
  • Can no longer go back in time beyond the start of the game. (Day 1.)

Fixes:

  • Fixed an off by one error in Postboxes/ Signs. This *should* be the last bug in displaying numbers.
  • Fixed a double dispose issue with Chunks.
  • A couple fixes to other disposing issues.
  • A number of behind the scenes changes to add more logging for specific crashes.

Modding:

  • A couple accessory had their Palettes moved to Platte Groups. Should allow you to add palettes to these accessories now.
  • Made moods in mood overrides not required.

January

Sapling Edition
Version: Changelog
31st of January 2018: Sapling 1.1.40 (180131b)

Changes:

  • Removed the requirement, Getting Harvest Crop achievement, for the in-game achievement Deliver License.
  • Give bonus weighting for certain catchables during Festivals. (Should be more likely to get Wisps and Fairies.)
  • Catchables will leave their location after 1-3 days, letting other catchables spawn there. Should give rarer bugs a chance to spawn.
  • Removed Farm Fan's house again. Was actually meant to be a quest for the player.

Fixes:

  • Fixed a rare bug were Dialogue variables were loaded too fast, and not allowing people to skip tutorial.
  • Fixed Order 100 achievement only actually required 10 orders.
  • More hardening against corruption.
  • Fixed an issue with locking while loading Character Accessories.

Modding:

  • Pricing Component in Asset Manager Updated.
  • Everything under Animals has been updated. Now includes links to wiki as well.
  • An error message to do with item spawning was made clearer.
31st of January 2018: Sapling 1.1.39 (180131a)

New:

  • Commands should now be able to take names with spaces by surrounding them with “”. (i.e. /kickplayer “Hah You Can’t Kick Me”)
  • Added Farm Fan’s house to the village again.
  • Pie recipes added to Patisserie and General Store buildings.
  • Added butter and cream recipes to the game.

Changes:

  • Important totems will now give a warning notification when destroying them.
  • Smoothed out the transition between rock layers.
  • Farm Fan gives a Farm License to players who can’t go through tutorial.
  • Items in the Post Box menu now wrap around to a new line if too long. (Translations often caused this.)
  • Widened Single player world creation and edit screens. Should work better in other Translations now.
  • Only show the control hints screen to those not finished the tutorial.
  • Animals start with only 1 hunger on their first day so they have food left for the second day.
  • Made Horizontal wooden beam work more like a block.
  • Bobble heads are no longer selected for quests.
  • Changed filled trough costs to exactly match the unfilled. (No more free money.)
  • Chicken has been removed from the tutorial package.
  • Pets should no longer play fetch with all throwables.
  • Pets should more reliably chase thrown balls.
  • Reeds can now be walked through.
  • Crates are cheaper. A number of recipes are cheaper. Some crafted items sell for less. Bottled Fireflies sell for more.
  • Made magic water not sellable.
  • Made sure certain festival items and water tiles are not buyable. Also hide certain water tiles from creative.
  • CobbleStonePath2, 3 and 4 are now hidden from creative and non-buyable. These were legacy tiles. CobbleStonePath already has these textures.
  • Steam Launcher should now also detect if dependencies are missing and install them itself.
  • Cows can now eat while being on top of trough.
  • Lowered Farm Animal jump height across the board. They should no longer be able to jump over tall fences. (1.5 tile tall, or higher, fences)
  • Moved “Show/Remove” HUD key from F10 to F4. Also it no longer requires Debug Keys option activated.
  • Pause the game when pulling up Steam Overlay.
  • If Steam is not connected, i.e Standalone launcher, do not show Steam related menus.
  • Removed make crash log in Main Menu. The game does this already.
  • Movement speed clamped to 1 tile per tick. (Should only affect falling large distances.)

Fixes:

  • More fixes to Steam Networking
  • More attempts at fixing Incorrect Client version (Even if same client client version)
  • Fixed Town Hall not being at Tier 2 on world creation.
  • Fixed Post Boxes/Signs saying “1 object (2 missing).
  • Fixed Post Boxes/Signs not completing lower tiers, even if the all of items is there.
  • Shipping catalogue should no longer crash the game when putting in bad input. (Negative numbers or decimal numbers.)
  • Attempted fix for players being stuck in Night Transition.
  • Certain bugs should no longer float in mid air after breaking their support.
  • Fixed interacting with things being off due to being in water.
  • Animals now just eat from a distance rather than teleport if they really need food.
  • Farm Fan no longer talks about herself in third person. Should always give the option to continue tutorial.
  • /givepetals now complains when you input a number which would result in getting too much money.
  • Fix catchables not respawning after losing their supporting tiles.
  • Recycle locations taken by bugs after being caught. Allows other bugs to spawn in these areas. Should give rarer bugs more chance to appear.
  • Fixed issue with reloading Character Designs with no eye, or an eye without a palette.
  • Fixed a crash with window being size (0,0)
  • Fixed a locking issue and other similar issues with chunks.
  • Fixed some memory leaking when chunks failed to load.
  • Fixed Shipping catalogue not working in creative.
  • Don’t let the game crash trying to remove a waypoint that isn’t there.
  • Made the game more robust to corrupted data files.
  • Fixed null pointer exception when removing an unknown totem.
  • Attempt to fix a Rare null pointer exception with rendering browser.
  • Steam Launcher should put out more error information if the game crashes too quickly.
  • Fixed sleeping in the wrong direction on Paw Double Bed.

Modding:

  • Improved error message when missing a Body Type and Species.
  • Clarified other messages to directly reference file extensions.
  • Added “code” to duplicate item and species messages.
  • Added a new filetype “.animalModel”. This is used to add your models to a pet made by someone else. (Specifically Staxel’s Cats and Dogs.)
  • Crafting Images and Animal Models are in Asset Manager.
  • Added “Sellable” property to Pricing Components.
  • A “treasure” property has been added to Pets.
  • Added “canOverrideBehaviour” to Villager Personalities. This can be used to make sure personalities are not overridden in festivals and similar activities.
  • Added “warningNotification” to Totems.
  • IModHookV2 was added for Code mods. This is aware of the client side of the game.
  • Added “willPlayFetch” to throwable component.
28th of January 2018: Sapling 1.1.38 (180128b)

New:

  • Steam networking. Players can now open up their games to let their friends join via steam networking. No fussing around with ports and servers.

Changes:

  • Some changes to writing system to not create and delete files as much.

Fixes:

  • Fixed issue with Post Boxes completing without placing anything.
27th of January 2018: Sapling 1.1.36 (180127b)

New:

  • Pickaxe can now turn grass into dirt.
  • Tutorial skip option.
  • Player limit option in servers. Use the server wizard or use the “--playerlimit=” argument.
  • Text speed option. Can increase the text speed up to 5x.
  • Allowed players to make bottled firefly. Firefly + Empty jar on Combining station. (Known issue with Empty Jars turning into Water Jars. Place Firefly first.)

Changes:

  • All village postboxes now have 2 tiers. Should be harder to break stores and homes by accident this way.
  • Wool is now throwable.
  • Magic water now sells for less.
  • Old outdated water tiles are now hidden from creative menu.

Fixes:

  • Fix trees showing the wrong message when checking their growth stage.
  • Fixed an issue where if a totem had two tiers with the same item, it could not go up from the lowest tier without having enough items to complete both tiers.
  • Fixed 1 in 5 chance of not getting item from wisps.
  • Some other background fixes.

Modding:

  • Changed wording of an Asset Manager error to suggest content building.
26nd of January 2018: Sapling 1.1.35 (180126a)

New:

  • The steam launcher will ask to reinstall dependencies if the game doesn’t start.

Changes:

  • All non-festival totems are searchable again.
  • Stone and Sand had their buy prices and sell prices lowered.
  • Light Wooden block has been increased to 10 blocks per craft.
  • Combining Station is now in the Building store.
  • Cat House and Dog House are now limited to 1 per stack.
  • Changes to Dialogue to make Daily Quests show up occasionally when talking to Riah or Emilia.
  • Removed Infobox from character creator.
  • Filter is case insensitive now.

Fixes:

  • Aliza, Riah and Emilia will no longer crash while talking to them. (You can buy replacement totems again.)
  • You can now walk through the Garden Arch and Japanese arch.
  • Fixed crash after picking fruit from apple tree.
  • Fixed notifications having the wrong name in them.
  • Fixed a case where game version wasn’t being sent to server.

Modding:

  • Asset Manager’s “Build and Validate” now Validates then Builds, rather than Build then Build. Also reload the system after doing so.
  • Clarified an error when having multiple layers named the same thing in models.
24th of January 2018: Sapling 1.1.34 (180124c)
  • Cabbage soup is now craftable.
  • Crops and crafted items are worth more in general.
  • Don't crash on monitors at or larger than 4K (Due to XNA limitation, we can't render at any higher resolution.)
  • Post 1.1.33 servers shouldn't crash when Pre 1.1.33 try to join.
  • Some behind the scenes fixes to chunk rendering.
24th of January 2018: Sapling 1.1.33 (180124a)

New:

  • A number of new sounds for tiles mainly.
  • Added Rainbow Coffee Tables, Desks, Side Tables, Tables and Lamps.
  • Added a filter to Server listing.
  • New background image for the Main Menu.
  • Some more Dev Bobble heads spawn in world now.
  • Light Wooden Block now is a Starter recipe.

Changes:

  • Economy rebalance: Prices change slower at the beginning. Minimum price is 65% instead of 50%. Prices come back much faster.
  • Dialogue should have 1 second of wait time before reactivating.
  • Press ESC to escape dialogue for any NPC other than Farm Fan.
  • Made Rhino Beetles more common.
  • Certain grasses and flowers are now pickable as well.
  • Trough Food and Chicken Food are cheaper.
  • Mixed seeds sell for less.
  • The chance for trees to drop wood is 60% now.
  • /help is now available as a public command. Will only show other public commands unless /enablecheats is active.
  • Items in dialogue now cost 0 petals while in creative.
  • Village paths should play nice with terrain. (New world only)
  • Musical plants now say “Play” when looking at them.
  • Removed the second Bee sound.
  • Removed “Remove Nametags” option.
  • You can now get the watering achievement even when the crop is already watered.

Fixes:

  • Make sure certain UIs are reset when server is crashed. (Night Transition especially.)
  • If the note from Rowan goes missing, you can get a new one by talking to Rowan.
  • Some fixes to a mismatched version between Client and Server even if they are the same.
  • Fix collections showing ??? for items that have been collected.
  • Fix collections not showing some bugs.
  • Fixed some issues with animals and food.
  • Fixed issue where animals were not milkable or sheerable.
  • Fixed bugs keeping their sound on after being destroyed.
  • Villagers shouldn't teleport too high anymore.
  • Animal Happiness notification should come after happiness is updated. (Not Before.)
  • Fixed some crashes when server names were used as file names.
  • Fix much older world (>1 year) crashing on startup.
  • Fix an overflow/underflow crash that involved Colour.
  • Fixed a crash while viewing Server List.
  • Fixed pink spot on female lab coats.
  • Some other behind the scenes crashes.
22nd of January 2018: Sapling 1.1.30 (180122d)
  • Logs and feedback are now opt in on steam version of Staxel. However all logs are still sent on any steam testing branch.
  • Fixed Broken ambience sounds.
  • Fix plants wilting in certain cases.
  • Night transitions are giving more time to farming checks. Should help alleviate tile watering problems.
  • Fixed Snowdust Fair attendant giving only red lanterns instead of yellow and red.
  • Pets should now stop following their owner when you pet them again.
  • The pet plant can't be bought nor can be found from mixed seeds.
  • Fixed one last haircut for Caiths.
  • Bald hairstyle is always the first hairstyle.
  • Varnish added to Building store.
  • Watering slows you down less.
  • Basic wooden fence ingredient amounts lowered.
  • Capture crate recipe altered to avoid conflict.
  • Ranch window and Large Ranch window should not conflict either.
  • Fixed all Candy causing crashes. They are back to needing to be mixed.
  • Fish chances have been changed.
  • Koi fish can now only be gotten in SnowdustFaire.
  • If no fish exists that can be gotten, don't give a random fish.
  • Fireflies spawn in forests now.
  • Roof requirement on Totems now has (Any Block) to help signify you don't need "Roofing tiles" but just a "Roof"
  • Structures shouldn't spawn ontop of paths.
  • Controllers aren't scanned when opening esc menu. Only in options now. (Some people's computers could take 30 seconds to scan for controllers)
  • Background changes to entities that should make it so they don't completely crash the game if something goes wrong.
  • Server wizard had a couple changes. Should now be possible to have spaces in the Server Name. Storage has spaces explicitly turn into underscores now.
  • Monitor resolution is now picked instead of highest resolution on startup.
  • Gatherables now have the config "spawnFestivals" similar to "spawnWeathers" but for festivals instead.
20th of January 2018: Sapling 1.1.26 (180120b)
  • Lots of Caith hair fixes for various hairs and hats.
  • Trousers work with caiths as well.
  • New Bobbleheads of the staff.
  • Removed the monkey hat from chargen.
  • New alternative farms that can spawn instead of the default.
  • Holding Shift now lets you buys 10x what is on display. (For items that you buy in 5s. You will get 50x).
  • Scaffolding is cheaper and allows you to place it in more ways.
  • Lots of pricing changes. Some other random configuration changes.
  • Animals play sounds randomly.
  • You buy seeds in bunches of 3 now.
  • Crafting stations will now make the number of crafts that would have been automatically crafted, even if they unload from players being too far.
  • Maximum time for fish to appear lowered from 15 seconds to 10 seconds.
  • Hair Replacement config in Accessory files can take a BodyType argument. (Different hair styles for different races.)
  • Dock One At A time config removed from docks. All docks default to Full stack normally with one at a time with shift.
  • Some more nighttime hints.
20th of January 2018: Sapling 1.1.25 (180120a)
  • Added various items that pets can only get. Have fun getting them all!
  • Some furniture in the colours of the rainbow has been added.
  • Caith Race has been added to chargen.
  • Elves have new skin colours.
  • Firefly was added.
  • Patisserie oven was added.
  • Candle is now animated.
  • Added a T section and Cross section for the Wooden Pole Fence.
  • Added a scaffolding block for an easier time while building.
  • Hay bale added to building store.
  • Hair styles with hats are now gone. The hats on those Hair styles have been separated into actual hats.
  • Hat Hairs styles have also been removed from Character Generator.
  • Mapped B back to being cancel on the controller. This was originally a temporary change.
  • Made watering can slow you down while using.
  • Some minor pet happiness adjustments. (It's possible to get horrible mood, most gains are nerfed to be half as effective.)
  • Pets spawn hungry now.
  • Pet Treasures are now using biased random.
  • Fixed underground fishing.
  • Ladybugs and rhino beetles should not hang in the air if the tree was removed.
  • TV Stand and Shop Counters offsetting the items on top of them should be fixed. (And the one in the building store)
  • Made sure certain recipes don't conflict in crafting. Also adjusted values so that you craft 10 blocks at a time.
  • World gen improvements around smoothing terrain.
  • Fix maximising window not working when the window wasn't in fullscreen or borderless.
  • Don't allow a missmatch between the game's and the server's version.
  • Some more work around capping money to keep it from overflowing.
  • Auth is optional for servers. Public servers heavily encouraged to have it on though.
  • Don't have the controller send values for the sticks if it isn't active yet.
  • Spawn rate of Will'O'The Wisp has been increased.
  • Added another mode for gatherables and spawning during world gen. (Ignore, Chance and Always Spawn)
17th of January 2018: Sapling 1.1.23 (180117a)
  • Merchants should now give their selling tutorial to players again.
  • Dynamic economy was made to be a bit friendlier. (Prices go down slower mainly)
  • Labelled prices should now be correct again.
  • Fixed issue with shops not being stocked if the Totem was in range of the player, but the shelves weren't.
  • Fixed issue where night transition was skipping an entire day. Might have also fixed being stuck in the menu at night.
  • Made it harder for two totem entities to spawn in the same spot.
  • Capture crates now show "Catch" verb when looking at animals.
  • Capture crates will ignore pets now instead of crashing.
  • World gen has been changed slightly to make slightly better terrain around objects.
  • Some recipes have been changed to be non-buyable. Another recipe was added to building store.
  • Trying to join a passworded server takes you back to mp menu and sets focus to password box
  • Mod manager allows you to add your own tags for steam upload now. Also Added Translation tag.
  • Fixed mod manager not uninstalling .cache files.
  • Fixed mod manager complaining about folder missing when trying to change details of a uninstalled mod.
16th of January 2018: Sapling 1.1.22 (180116a)
  • Secondary players get thrown a random pet now on startup. We are looking to make this better later.
  • If you skip the tutorial, (By making Farm fan mad.), but then decide to do it, time will be locked at midday again to avoid time issues.
  • Tiles now have "pullSoundGroup". Tiles will now play these sounds when harvested or pulled.
  • Allow totems to be shown on the Map. ("showOnMap" to true. Can use "rotation" to affect how it shows on the map.)
  • Seed maker ratios have been changed. Should be more forgiving now.
  • Esc and Back can now be used to leave the map.
  • Fixed some golden crops showing up in mixed seeds when they shouldn't be.
  • Fix Collections page being off by 1, making it so some items didn't show up.
  • Options buttons are now lengthened slightly more. Text shouldn't be cut off too early.
  • Minor world gen speedup.
  • Game should be more resilient to overflowing money.
  • Fixed water appearing in the beach when it shouldn't.
  • Removed creative mode from the options menu. Was confusing people.
  • Asset Manager should no longer have assets crash while validating all files. (Should also be 2-4x faster now.)
  • Mod manager now remembers that you have already uploaded a file when you remake the file again. Allows you to upload to the same workshop file.
  • Mod manager should also have Steam Workshop tags. Working on adding support for custom tags soon.
  • Alt Tabbing in borderless windowed mode and fullscreen should perform better and work as expected.
15th of January 2018: Sapling 1.1.21 (180115b)
  • A number of behind the scenes changes to rendering.
  • A number of small bug fixes. Mainly to do with Inventory, Audio and rendering edge cases.
  • More french language updates.
13th of January 2018: Sapling 1.1.19 (180113a)
  • Newer, fancier emote faces for animals.
  • Fix animal capture crates.
  • Renamed some stations. (Carpentry → Carving, Masonry → Construction)
  • Starter floor/wall recpices are Tiled instead of Carved. They also use cheap varnish instead of varnish. (Should make it possible to craft during tutorial)
  • Made sure critical quest items can't be bought. (The stuff for fishing pond.)
  • Make sure that the mouse is actually inside the achievement window before changing the description box.
  • Fixed cobble path recipe showing wrong numbers.
  • Changed fishing combinations to show & instead of +. (So 1 & 4 instead of 1 + 4)
  • Fixed the recipe ingrediant count on the recipe UI.
  • Fixed regression causing GPU usage to skyrocket on certain GPU's.
11th of January 2018: Sapling 1.1.16 (180111a)
  • Fix the Fine Lumber recipe showing wrong lumber.
  • Remove mushroom categories from acorn.
  • Fixed stoptime description.
  • Made sure golden seeds aren't buyable.
  • Made sure treasure check took buyable into account.
  • Only unlock the clothing achievement if the item equipped was actual clothing.
  • Fix up the inventory control hint showing wrong button.
  • Star Jelly should now go straight to the inventory.
10th of January 2018: Sapling 1.1.15 (180110b)
  • Creature Bud plant actually gives the creature bud.
  • Controller connected message should now show when using direct input controllers. (Older version controllers, Playstation Controllers or Nintendo Pro Controller)
  • Behind the scenes memory optimisations. A lot of optimisations.
  • French is now in game.
10th of January 2018: Sapling 1.1.14 (180110a)
  • Bunch of behind the scenes stuff to do with memory management.
  • Some minor optimisations
  • Pet ears are now on the map.
  • Campfire has a soundloop.
  • Some changes to hopefully make Virus Scanners less mad at us.
  • Passworded servers are now completely possible.
9th of January 2018: Sapling 1.1.13 (180109b)
  • Some more totem updates. New worlds should be safe again for now.
  • Updated village structures slightly.
  • Some bugs got smaller.
  • Temporarily removed docks from some tiles so objects can be placed on them.
  • Chopping stations docks have been changed slightly.
  • All crops should have a golden version now.
  • Recipe intermediate items have been replaced with some more permanent models.
  • Some newer food items have been replaced with some more permanent models.
  • A /lot/ of background changes to bring in further optimisations.
  • Allow items with a buy price of 0. Disallow selling price to be higher than buying price.
  • Fixed showing unbuyable items in the shipping catalogue
  • Avoid duping town square totems in festival structures.
  • Player now looks at farm fan on world start.
8th of January 2018: Sapling 1.1.10 (180108b)
  • French Translation has been added to the game.
  • A free pet renamer form is now given with the pet.
  • More new sounds.
  • Several couple updates.
  • Totem requirements now has a scrollbar if the list gets too large.
  • Orchid Mantis doesn;t spawn on flowers and now works for bug achievements.
  • Fixed a bug with sounds. They should be at the correct volume and apply effects correctly at all times.
  • Lots of backend work optimising the game more.
  • Server should now send out more packets when lagging behind. Less visible lag should occur.
  • Mod manager UI improvements.
  • Farm fan should be blocking the player again on world start.
6th of January 2018: Sapling 1.1.8 (180106a)
  • Festival and airship structures have changed.
  • Fixed some types with some particles.
  • Door animations should allign better.
  • Particles for the smaller campfire.
  • Fixed bug with totems not showing that they need roofs properly.
  • Fixed worldgen creating holes due to smoothing in rare cases.
  • Make sure NoConsole was added to Steam check and firewall rules.
  • If you manage to get past that check. The error message will now say to go to a webpage to get more info.
  • Some more safety checks with merchants selling unsellable/unbuyable items.
5th of January 2018: Sapling 1.1.7 (180105a)
  • New Village structures!
  • Show Particles option in Options menu.
  • Limited number of threads so high core cpu's don't Out of Memory as easily. (Really high end cpu's should crash less.)
  • Gatherables can now spawn in only select biomes.
  • Acorns can now be found in normal and meadow biomes.
  • New bug. Orchid Mantis.
  • Smaller Campfire has an animation now.
  • Let grass replace dirt when a structure places flowers.
  • Seed tool spams less noise on failure.
  • Currency notification should now accumalate money a little over time.
4th of January 2018: Sapling 1.1.6 (180104d)
  • Show particles button added to options menu.
  • Bunch of entity changes are fixes for various issues that popped up since 1.1.3.
  • Placement sounds are now required on tiles. A lot of tiles gained sounds on placement.
  • Shipping crate items now auto-pickup.
4th of January 2018: Sapling 1.1.3 (180104a)
  • Fixed world being paused after sleeping.
  • There is now an essentials shelf in the Building Store.
  • Allowed mods to add their totems to Max's villager quests. Therefore it's now possible to get modded villagers into the game without modifying base files.
  • Fixed Client timestep being majorly ahead of Server Timestep on World Creation. A lot of problems that happened when creating a world is now fixed.
  • Patisserie totem has been updated. Along with couple of the added Patisserie items.
  • No longer possible to get villagers that are already in the village from Max.
  • Some fixes to disconecting servers while talking to NPC's.
  • Fixed crash when swapping/combining items.
  • Fixed some trees missing their buffers. No more floating trees.
  • Fixed up some more issues with Night Transition.
  • Animals should get to food more often.
  • Sound effects when Mass Breaking are merge into a single emit. Less lag when breaking multiple things at once.
  • Some other behind the scenes fixes.
3rd of January 2018: Sapling 1.1.1 (180103b)
  • Steam Achievements are live!
  • New sounds for a whole bunch of things!
  • Bee Spawn rate is now higher. Cricket Spawn rate is lower.
  • New display cases for the Patisserie.
  • Fixed up the night transition after earlier refactors.
  • Lumber Prices have been lowered.
  • Made sure villagers can path through doors.
  • Fixed paths not smoothing up/down hills.
  • Moutain intersecting with village should occur less often.
  • Some server changes to better handle giving assets to players.
  • Fixed up villagers interacting with disconnected players.
  • Fixed a couple things wrong in Asset Manager.
  • Fixed issue with Creative Menu sometimes giving multiple items on right click.
  • Fixed an issue with bookshelves and grabbing items.
  • Made Mod Manager force a content build if it failed on previously on Steam start.
  • Staxel will not start if Mod Manager fails a content build.
  • Ensured MassReplacer can't replace with objects larger than 1 tile.
  • Some other behind the scenes fixes.


Sprout Edition

Sprout Edition
Version: Changelog
31st of December 2017: ver Sprout 0.1.9 (171231a)
  • Fixed some mine placement issues. Should be spawning properly now.
  • LeftHanaded mode is now actually hidden. Make Crashlog and Enable Debug Keys are now always shown.
  • Chat message will appear when starting/stopping tracelog.
  • Make Characters who are flying/in camera mod invisible to NPC's.
  • Fixed some chunk rendering issues.
  • More logging to Out Of Memory crashes.
30th of December 2017: ver Sprout 0.1.8 (171230a)
  • A mine has been added to world gen. Have fun finding it.
  • More NPC's now sell their totems when you lose them.
  • Aliza now sells critical store items if the stores are broken.
  • Fix doubled Axe sound.
  • Fixed some of the UI issues that popped up since 0.1.7.
29th of December 2017: ver Sprout 0.1.7 (171229a)
  • Apiary finally has bee sounds.
  • A whole bunch of Cake and Pie stands can be found. (Not craftable and only sold in Shipping Catalogue).
  • Tavern door and Red door also added. Buyable in Building Store.
  • Aliza can sell you the barn totem if you lose it.
  • Old Jeans are now hidden in Char Gen. The newer paletted one is now there instead.
  • TV Stand can actually take TV's now.
  • A couple commands now don't require a player. (ditto, spawnitem, spawnmaterial, spawntile).
  • A few background fixes to Achievements.
  • Dialogue and vignette should be a little more reliable. (Done Client Side now.)
  • Pausing was centralised, and should be more robust.
28th of December 2017: ver Sprout 0.1.6 (171228a)
  • Farm Fan and other guiding NPC's will now slow down before reaching the destination.
  • Fixed null ref crashes for lootable tiles and other things.
  • Particle editor UI now hides properly.
  • When several Renders behind, only Render once now.
  • Validate that a tile's autotiling references known tiles.
  • Fixed some wonkeyness with the loading screen.
  • Some behind the scenes fixes.
24th of December 2017: ver Sprout 0.1.5 (171224a)
  • A whole bunch of minor optimisations.
  • Quest Dialogue should now have priority over normal dialogue.
  • Fixed some edge cases with Villager quests.
  • Rowan and certain Festival NPC's can't give quests anymore.
  • Removed the last hairstyle that was still in pet furniture.
  • Character Generator should now refresh skin palettes when changing race and gender.
  • Hardened Steam mod checker to exceptions.
  • Double click to install mod now runs content builder.
23rd of December 2017: ver Sprout 0.1.4 (171223b)
  • Santa Hats!
  • Coral tiles.
  • Pets should now save their names when being captured. The names should also update immediately now.
  • Jeans are now paletted. But the old ones are still in char gen to avoid issues.
  • Ponds/Swamps can now spawn gatherables on them.
  • Option to mute error sounds was added.
  • UI offset issue should be fixed.
  • Resolutions should now be sorted correctly. (Or at least better sorted.)
  • Minimalist desk can now fit a chair.
  • Pastel Coffee Table and Shop Counter have their dock offset's fixed.
  • Event recipes should be removed from stores. Sorry but you will only get them by participating in festivals.
  • White rose seed is no longer searchable/findable.
  • You now leave map mode when fainting.
  • Break sounds are louder.
  • Now plays a tool specific hit sound on breaking blocks.
  • Merchants now validate that their contents are actually sellable.
  • Fixed some issues with economy being off in certain cases.
  • Debug keys (The f1-f12 keys) now need to be activated by options menu.
  • Bunch of model fixes and crafting icon changes.
  • Typo fixes and Creative Icon updated.
21st of December 2017: ver Sprout 0.1.3 (171221a)
  • Chinese and German Translations was done today.
  • Cake recipes are now possible.
  • Sugar and salad are now starter recipes.
  • Frame animated tiles can now play sounds.
  • Pause has now been activated for all menus.
  • Building store now has more doors, windows, fences and blue prints.
  • General store got some new items.
  • Some item previously removed have been added in again.
  • Grass doesn't spread through winter.
  • Bugs won't spawn on weeds anymore.
  • Non-festival totems are now in the creative catalogue.
  • Aliza should no longer speak about Farm Licenses to non-owners.
  • Steam Mod installer now works with new versioning system and also won't bug installers with "Out Of Date" every launch.
  • Better colour highlight in creative catalogue.
  • Special Thanks was added to credits.
  • Baking station will check for stuff inside before giving a verb for it.
  • Server Console can now be activated with the settings menu. (Client console is still "showconsole.txt" in the /bin/ folder.)
  • Client Console now outputs stuff on Windows 8.1 and 10.
  • Debug Tools files in /mods/ got removed in preperation for Steam Upload.
  • Mass Filler Debug Tools is now working again.
  • Pastel Table is now set to the right dock config.
  • Plants should error before they get through content builder if they point to a non-existent stage. If it does, error message has been improved.
  • More Behind the scenes fixes for crashing.
20th of December 2017: ver Sprout 0.1.2 (171220a)
  • New Inventory Layout
  • The store sells decorations instead of Jams now.
  • 5 more doors.
  • Some newer crafting reations have been fixed up.
  • Items don't scale up in docks anymore.
  • Mixing station now shows the right states. (No more lifting up the beater while crafting.)
  • Wall vines are scytheable
  • Removed some Hairstyles that were in pet rewards. (You can't equip hairstyles)
  • Fixed world gen smoothing, should have less issues with structures on the edge of drops.
  • Forest box gives more money.
  • Server should be sending more compressed packets now.
  • Some more crash fixes.
18th of December 2017: ver Sprout 0.1.1 (171218a)
  • UI has been updated a lot across the board. Should have more consistency and more contrast. It's not completely done yet.
  • Server Wizard now has 2 buttons to start the Game. Will allow steam users to start the game after starting the server.
  • Totems placed by the Server are valid until they scanned the area. Should stop some issues happening on world start.
  • Black door has been added.
16th of December 2017: ver 20171216122337301
  • Steam Achievements are in the works. May or may not be able to trigger them now.
  • Crafting Stations and Sounds respect pausing.
  • Roofs are now in the LOD. Old worlds may not show this until you place a block in the chunk however.
  • Days are 25% longer. 22 minutes now.
  • 10, 100, 1000 achievements should now count at the same time. You used to need to get 1110 seeds, now only 1000 seeds.
  • Chairs should be more reliable in kicking the player off when they get destroyed. (No more sitting on thin air).
  • More double ui sound fixes.
  • Chimney now has smoke coming out of it.
  • Consoles are now hidden by default.
  • Fixed some more obscure crashes
  • Some minor optimisations and background code changes
13th of December 2017: ver 20171213231233773
  • There is now a more robust mod system on install.
  • Night transition got changed. The calender looks like a calender \o/
  • UI double sound issue should be fixed.
  • Pink and Blue doors
  • Fixed seed maker not restarting crafting
  • Hang on exit should be fixed.
  • Fixed a bunch of stuff in the backend.
12th of December 2017: ver 20172121200535704
  • A rudimentary mod check was added to the launchup of steam version. This will be made more robust in future.
  • Rope fence straight auto-tile has been changed.
  • Growing a plant with magic water is a bit more robust.
  • Couple of UI improvements. Calender looks better, Black Overlay in menus, Controllers and sliders fixed.
  • Some more crash fixes.
  • Solve some of the framerate issue while item preview is shown.
11th of December 2017: ver 20171211224307214
  • Controller prompt in start menu no longer blocks exit button.
  • Made more Dresser trigger Character Generator.
  • Debug Export Tool improvements. Should make less crashes and work more reliably now.
  • Dialogue checks were added to ensure translations for each line exists. You must run Dialogues through "Tag dialogue and generate language" in content builder now.
  • Fixed Controller not being able to go left-right in Character Generator.
  • Animated Tiles can now have particles. You can see this with the the Campfire and Torch.
  • Shop Roof was changed.
  • Other minor under the hood stuff centered around fixing various crashes including Out of Memory crashes.