Game updates/20141119

Update - Wednesday November 19, 2014

• JETPACKS! You’re going to need a lot of oil, titanium and electricity to make one, but then YOU CAN FLY!
• New floating islands in the sky! These will appear in new worlds, and in unexplored areas of existing worlds.
• New hanging vines, and colorful tulips
• Mining/digging speed with bare hands and primitive tools is now faster
• It’s now twice as fast to craft all items!
• New shaders and lighting for an improved look
• Adds platinum coins (worth 100 gold each), as well as platinum ore, ingots and blocks.
• Adds titanium ore, ingots, blocks, armor, swords and pickaxes.
• Adds carbon fiber blocks and armor
• Adds glass and black glass stairs and columns
• Adds a new electric press which is faster than a normal press, but also allows you to crush stone into gravel and gravel into sand
• Adds the new electric sluice, which sifts through gravel to find ores
• Adds ownership signs, which protect a 31x31 area so that only the assigned player and admins may modify it.
• All columns and stairs are now crafted at the builder’s bench, which replaces the stonemason’s bench
• Plants and trees grown in compost no longer die of old age
• Compost is now created at a compost bin, and can be made out of most organic items
• Ores are now clumped together into larger deposits
• Back walls are now only created if there is another solid block or back wall within 10 blocks below
• Back walls can now be removed by using the correct tool for the block type
• Text now appears black on light painted signs or shops
• Workbenches and portals can only be upgraded by admins or the owner of that workbench.

Pre-release images

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  Teaser image

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  New lighting effects on multiple surfaces

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  New lighting effects on side surfaces

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  Ambient occlusion

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  New lighting effects in a cave

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  Carbon fiber blocks

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  Carbon fiber blocks at night