Changelog

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.

Sapling Edition

January

Sapling Edition
Version:	Changelog
26nd 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.
26nd 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 Old outdated water tiles are now hidden from creative menu.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.
24nd 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.
24nd 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.