Talk:Game updates/20180314

With no change list included in the official description, I'm placing magicDave's forum post here for reference. Create links as appropriate, comment using italics and parenthesis. --McClaw (talk) 17:39, 18 March 2018 (MDT)

Although lists like these aren't included in the official release notes I think this might be a good idea to add to the main page. Useful for users and verified by developer. – Craig Davison (talk) 03:34, 29 March 2018 (MDT)

If it could be done without having it appear on the Game Update page, I'd agree. --McClaw (talk) 10:24, 29 March 2018 (MDT)

majicDave's post to the forum for version 1.7

I apologize for any typos, missed features, or inaccuracies, it’s hard to keep track of every little change! But lot’s of people have been requesting a full list, and this is the most complete list I have, hopefully it’s useful.

Additions

• Added mob taming, by feeding a given mob the correct food/item
• Added dodo breeding, resource eggs , egg extractor
• Added donkey breeding, unicorns, rainbow cake.
• Added mirror to customize blockhead appearance
• Added new blockhead skins
• You can now rename blockheads
• Added gates
• Added cages
• Added wheat, flour, yeast, dough, bread, flatbread (and salt)
• Added tomatoes
• Added pizza oven and pizza
• Added yaks, yak horns, razors, yak shavings, milk, mozzarella
• Added plaster block and luminous plaster block (and column and stairs forms)
• Added gem blocks, craftable at a press
• Adds D-pad for direct control of blockheads, and as an alternative to tilt control for boats/handcars/donkeys etc.
• Added job listings at trade portals
• Added new custom rules for teleportation, meditation, pole item degrading/respawning, blockhead death drops, trade portal buy/sell tax, and whether you need to discover items before you can buy them at trade portals
• There is now wind, which affects clouds, rain, and some particles, blows fruit off trees, and lowers blockhead happiness due to exposure (Weather)
• New HD clouds
• The time required to craft is now shown both before and during crafting
• You can now change the area covered by ownership signs
• Added /clear command to clear the chat
• Expert mode added, see below

Changes

• New font
• New look buttons
• Baby dodos!
• Pole items now slowly degenerate over time like other clothing, and respawn at the poles 40 days after removal. This is configurable in custom rules.
• The time crystal item has been mostly removed, should be impossible to do anything useful with any that remain
• Coffee cherries now give a 10 second extra speed bonus- All food now gives a small energy boost
• Energy now goes down a little faster to compensate
• Foods now replenish half as much food and health
• Sleep now also replenishes health slowly
• Plant harvesting has been changed so you always harvest the entire plant no matter which part of it you tap. (excludes vines and kelp)
• Plants no longer give a correct tool bonus when harvested by digging the block below with a spade
• Plant item drop counts have changed
• Sunflowers now emit light
• Time crystal and gold ore and gold blocks now have a larger light radius, which matches the gem block light radius.
• Boat moved to woodwork bench
• String moved to weave workbench
• After a rewarded video is watched, you need to wait 10 minutes before another will become available
• Fur is now a little harder to come by from drop bears
• Game Center multiplayer is no longer supported
• ‘Share a link’ crystal reward has been removed
• All tools and weapons now lose durability 4x faster per strike if they are used as a weapon
• The way animals spawn, feed and breed has totally changed, with longer lifetimes and different spawn rates
• Trees above 3 blocks tall will now always give at least one fruit per season
• Dodo feather drop on death is now 50% chance instead of 1 + 50%.
• Fruit now falls off the trees at the end of the fruiting season, and stays on the ground for one day.
• Tool decay custom rules are now 2x and 1/2x, not 4x and 1/4x
• Water is no longer removed when capturing a fish or shark in a bucket
• Dodos and donkeys now eat food lying around on the ground
• When a mob or kelp is frozen in ice, it will no longer die, but will be preserved in its current state until it thaws and comes to life again
• Drops from plants no longer make a sound unless they are being harvested by a blockhead
• New sword sound
• HD textures are now free, and are the default
• Trade portals now have a far greater tax between buying and selling, 0.5x the base price when selling, 2x the base price when buying. This is configurable in custom rules.
• Trade portals now require that you have picked up each item before you are able to buy/sell it in each world, however all items < 1.7 are unlocked in worlds you have already played in with 1.6. This is also configurable in custom rules.
• Happiness no longer influences craft speed
• Renamed ‘vanilla’ or ‘normal’ to ‘survival’ when used in text as a comparison to custom rules
• Diamonds and diamond colored things now are a whiter color
• Gems now emit a longer reaching light
• Donkeys now suffer fall damage, can die from high falls
• Scorpions now have babies even if there is a back wall
• All mobs except cave trolls now take damage from high temperatures
• New UI for selecting sun color
• If you tap while riding something, you now see a button to ‘STOP RIDING’ instead of immediately jumping off
• If the custom rules setting for world modification is set to disallowed or admin only, ownership signs can now be used to allow certain players to modify restricted areas
• If you don’t have permission to remove/modify a sign, you now can’t mine/modify the block behind it
• Chat notifications are suppressed if the UI to mute another player is visible

Bug Fixes

• It should now be no longer possible for hacked clients to remove the main portal on servers
• It also shouldn’t be possible for hacked clients to remove any other objects that they otherwise wouldn’t be able to.
• Where the main portal has been removed previously, it should now replace the base stone on reload
• Time crystal sharing via safes/shops etc. should no longer be possible
• leaf particles no longer fall through solid blocks
• Fixes bugs relating to beach sizes on very wet worlds, which caused a hang on creation when combined with the totally flat setting
• Fixed bug where you would wake immediately when you try to sleep in a bed in some situations
• Fixes bug where areas of the world would appear black when zoomed out 3x
• Shark jaw size is now clamped to sane values
• Placing trapdoors next to compost no longer works to spread compost
• ‘UNKNOWN’s and other items that shouldn’t exist can no longer be created or picked up
• Fixes bugs that cause your multiplayer avatar to change to an older or newer version in certain situations
• Fixes bug that caused the spawn item custom rules setting to revert sometimes when selecting empty or default

Expert Mode:

• Adjustable with custom rules:
  • Teleportation requires diamond portal
  • Tools are used up at half the rate, as long as they are not used in an attack
  • Hunger rate doubled
  • Doubles damage received when harmed in any way
  • All items dropped when you die
  • Cannot meditate
• Not adjustable with custom rules:
  • Totally new progression through workbenches with new crafting recipes for most items
  • Cannot get a workbench using time crystals, it must be crafted at a portal
  • Trade portal crafting requires diamond portal
  • In order to use any workbench/crafting block other than the spawn portal, you must be the one who placed it
  • Number of time crystal blocks has been doubled
  • Ore bonus with correct tool reduced from 3x to 2x
  • Plant drops are lower, and more related to current tool and whether it’s currently flowering. It’s possible to get no seed drop.
  • Trees and branches don’t drop anything extra when they fall as the result of another block being removed, the only drops come from the single block which was chopped
  • Dead trees don’t leave any drops
  • Less leather & fur drops from dropbears and donkeys
  • Less fruit grows on trees
  • Fewer treasure chests, and only in caves, not under beaches
  • Energy given by coffee and other food items halved
  • Low happiness gives a greater penalty to mine speed
  • Pole items have reduced effects
  • Health increase while sleeping is half that of normal mode