v1.12 - Vintage Story

The Stormy Weathers Update (v1.12.0 stable)

12th February 2020

Download Links:
In the client area

Game updates

Tweak: Lowered rain sound pitch and volume while under water
Tweak: Speed up world loading by reducing regex matching in the crystalized ore item
Tweak: Improved clouds performance (Technical info: added a low alpha fragment discard to shader. 30->38 FPS when the sky is in view at 128 viewdistance on an intel hd 620)
Tweak: Firepit tweaks

Brought the firing temperatures for clay products a bit closer together (was kinda wacky range. 600 for molds, 1100 for bricks, 600 for shingles. Now its 650 for molds, 800 for bricks and shingles). Single shingles require less time on their firing temperature to fire.
The firing temperature is now reached more quickly, therefore going above the firing/smelting temperature is much slower, reducing the "overtemperature" bonus.
Firepits heat up quicker

Tweak: Mitigate ruin overlap issues. Logs a warning instead of throwing an exception
Tweak: Reduce chance of gold deposits by a bit
Tweak: Maybe fixes a rare rounding error when smelting metals
Fixed: Rain sound not playing while swimming
Fixed: Butterflies causing stutte
Fixed: Able to click on waypoints outside the map dialog
Fixed: Translocator animation oddities
Fixed: Meals shaded too dark
Fixed: Rain going through roofs and worldmap not showing correct blocks (should be fixed)
Fixed: Z-Fighting on leaves when wavy foliage was turned off
Fixed: Capped max temp storm strength to fix a server side exception
Fixed: Game crashing when right clicking on a shelf with a chisel in hands
API Fixed: Mods with missing modinfo.json crashing the game
API Fixed: Game crashing on invalid transitionprops
API Fixed: Handbook crashing on invalid modded chest blocks

The Stormy Weathers Update (v1.12.0-rc.2)

10th February 2020

Download Links:
In the client area

Game updates

Tweak: Fix stutter issues related to cloud system (Technical info: Cloud tile updating is now run in a seperate thread)
Tweak: Smithing updates. Re-added the directional upsets, can do sneak+right click with a hammer in hands to rotate the work item in the opposite direction
Tweak: Added client config option to turn screenshots upside down (.clientconfig flipScreenshot 1)
Tweak: Made igniting forges a bit faster
Tweak: Temporal storms are now 30% more common
Tweak: Can now place ore blasting bombs in the mining bag
Fixed: Fixed not able to fill a placed bowl with a crock in hands
Fixed: A Mechanical networks rotation speed dependet on the current frame rate
Fixed: Should fix a crash when connecting
Fixed: Plants in flower pots not affected by wind, plants in planters affected by wind too strongly
Fixed: Block breaking overlay on planters were wind waving
Fixed: Minor world map issues related to waypoints
Fixed: Iron bloom was workable cold
API Tweak: BlockGenericTypedContainer should no longer crash from an invalid handbook stack and write a warning log entry
API Tweak: Block.OnJsonTesselation(MeshData mesh, ...) is now Block.OnJsonTesselation(ref MeshData mesh, ...)
API Tweak: Added attribute to the player to drop armor upon death (add dropArmorOnDeath:true to seraph.json attributes)
API Tweak: Loading a texture outside the main thread will now throw an InvalidOperationException
API Refactor: VertexFlags.HasNormal (bit 14) is now repurposed as a "weak grass/foliage waving" bit flag. All geometry now renders with normal shading by default. Added a uniform to the standard shader to disable/enabled normal shading for the whole mesh.

The Stormy Weathers Update (v1.12.0-rc.1)

6th February 2020

Download Links:
In the client area

Game updates

Feature: Smithing rework

There is no longer invisible extra voxels. What you place is what you get. Adding an ingot adds a 3x2x7 cuboid of voxels
Removed all but one Upset Mode, you can instead rotate the work item using right mouse click with hammer in hands. Not sure if thats a good change will probably re-add the other 3 modes
A heavy hit that does not move voxels downwards will now spread-move voxels
Reworked many of the smithing recipes to better fit the more limited available voxels and fix dupe bugs

Feature: Cloud system rework

Clouds are now colored during colored sunsets
The regional weather system of the game is now also reflected in the cloud patterns. You can now see different cloud patterns in the sky
Some more attempts to reduce the rather ugly blocky seams in the clouds

Tweak: Removed some quirk about how chunks are loaded. Should make it so that chunks load instantly upon connecting/loading a world but might cause 1-3 frame long unknown blocks, let me know if that happens
Tweak: Low chance of fixing the fast hunger bug
Tweak: Creatures can no longer step on troughs
Fixed: Forge extinct upon reloading the world or chunk
Fixed: Crucible not placeable
Fixed: Game crashing when a helve hammer gets unloaded

The Stormy Weathers Update (v1.12.0-pre.18)

4th February 2020

Download Links:
Windows Installer (288mb)
Windows update (44mb)
Mac Archive (293mb)

Archive (Windows/Linux) (291mb)
Server Only (12 mb)

Game updates

Feature: Added ability for entities to burn. Standing in lava will now instantly ignite entities. Hitting an entity with a torch has a 10% chance to ignite it
Feature: Entities inside lava will disappear after a short delay
Tweak: Mitigate autosave server lag
Tweak: Reduced default autosave interval from 2 minutes to 5 minutes
Tweak: Added "GL Error checking" developer mode
Tweak: Renamed Sword to Longblade
Tweak: Added some handbook documentation on mechanical power and temporal stability
Tweak: All creature can now step a little higher (1 1/8th blocks instead of 1 block)
Tweak: The translocator spawns extra particles upon teleport
Fixed: A server thread crashing caused odd/broken shutdown behavior as the server ran Server.Stop() twice in 2 threads
Fixed: Lantern rotation not remembered.
Fixed: Farmland not growing
Fixed: Saplings not growing
Fixed: Major lag issue in the mechanical power system that will lead to an eventual server death
Fixed: Some blocks were not placeable on chiseled blocks

The Stormy Weathers Update (v1.12.0-pre.17)

2nd February 2020

Download Links:
Windows Installer (288mb)
Windows update (44mb)
Mac Archive (293mb)

Archive (Windows/Linux) (291mb)
Server Only (12 mb)

Game updates

Fixed: Multiple issues and crashes introduced in pre.15

The Stormy Weathers Update (v1.12.0-pre.16)

2nd February 2020

Download Links:
Windows Installer (288mb)
Windows update (44mb)
Mac Archive (293mb)

Archive (Windows/Linux) (291mb)
Server Only (12 mb)

Game updates

Fixed: Game crashing on startup. Not sure how this slipped through.

The Stormy Weathers Update (v1.12.0-pre.15)

2nd February 2020

This update includes some low level changes to the save game format. Old levels will upgrade automatically but please make a backup of your savegame before updating to pre.15.

Download Links:
Windows Installer (286mb)
Windows update (42mb)
Mac Archive (291mb)

Archive (Windows/Linux) (289mb)
Server Only (12 mb)

Game updates

Feature: Added quartz vugs to world generation. Generates hollow cracks filled with crystals in quartz veins
Feature: Updated underground and surface ruins. The former now contain tapestry blocks that reveals some more game lore
Feature: Can now rotate watering cans and ground and ceiling lanterns
Feature: Microblock chiseling improvements

Can now chisel slabs and stairs
Can now attach blocks to solid sides of chiseled blocks
Added new chisel mode to horizontally flip a block
Some experiments to chiseling to try to fix the weird ambient occlusion and sub/block light propagation. Let me know if that looks better

Tweak: The "Liquid foam effect" graphics settings now also disables the reflective effects on crystals and ingots
Tweak: Searching in the creative inventory should yield better results
Tweak: Significant RAM savings for large game servers (should be about 600 MB less for chrometech.at)
Fixed: Creatures sometimes not seeing the player and thus not attacking or fleeing from them
Fixed: Rainfall in some places where it should be snowing
Fixed: Uneccessary ~8% performance cost on the server (on chrometech.at)
Fixed: Snow with tallgrass block shiny
Fixed: Stutter when trying to access claimed blocks
Fixed: Server frozen for a long time during autosave
Fixed: Should mitigate the issues of not being able to add sails to the windmill rotor
Fixed: Dropped items in water cooling down below absolute freezing point
Fixed: Runtime loading of textures into a texture atlas not working when loaded from within the creative inventory
Fixed: Butterfly sitheight on the crops was too high
API Refactor: new "schematicSeed" argument for BlockEntity.OnLoadCollectibleMappings()

The Stormy Weathers Update (v1.12.0-pre.14)

29th January 2020

Download Links:
Windows Installer (286mb)
Windows update (42mb)
Mac Archive (291mb)

Archive (Windows/Linux) (289mb)
Server Only (12 mb)

Game updates

Tweak: Replaced main menu backgrounds
Tweak: Added switch sounds to the brake block
Fixed: Throwing spear crashes the game
Fixed: Engaging brakes on the brake block crashes the game
Fixed: Mechanical power blocks not receiving shadows
Fixed: East facing brake block rotated the axle wrongly

The Stormy Weathers Update (v1.12.0-pre.13)

29th January 2020

Download Links:
Windows Installer (292mb)
Windows update (42mb)
Mac Archive (296mb)

Archive (Windows/Linux) (294mb)
Server Only (12 mb)

Game updates

Feature: Wearing a backpack now visibly renders on the back of the player
Feature: Added a shiny reflective effect to crystals, ingot plates, crystalized ores, display cases and other blocks
Feature: Raccons can now pickup and carry around food
Tweak: Added "Metal molding" info to handbook when a tool can be made from pouring metal into molds
Tweak: Can now make a skep harvestable in creative mode by right clicking on it with a honey comb in hands
Tweak: Distance fadeout for dynamic shadows
Tweak: Made ember block more glowy (creative mode block)
Tweak: Lots of minor tweaks
Tweak: Added medium sized carpets to creative mode
API Tweak: JSON Shape elements can now have a Reflective property to make things shiny
Fixed: Sign blocks causing the game to crash on disconnect/unload
Fixed: Might fix a crash with the .blockitempngexport command
Fixed: Game crashing when using mechanical power brakes that are not part of a mech. network
Fixed: Game crashing on disconned/leave world in some cases
Fixed: Storm particles not spawning
Fixed: Much better framerate when dynamic shadow are enabled. (Far shadows did not use low detail leaves)
Fixed: Small carpets made the block below invisible
Fixed: Should fix game crashing for some players when starting an echo chamber track
Fixes a jitter issue with animations in some cases

The Stormy Weathers Update (v1.12.0-pre.12)

25th January 2020

Download Links:
Windows Installer (292mb)
Windows update (42mb)
Mac Archive (296mb)

Archive (Windows/Linux) (294mb)
Server Only (12 mb)

Game updates

Tweak: Improved incandescent materials glow
Fixed: Iron bloom metal voxels not recognizable as such

The Stormy Weathers Update (v1.12.0-pre.11)

24th January 2020

Download Links:
Windows Installer (292mb)
Windows update (42mb)
Mac Archive (296mb)

Archive (Windows/Linux) (294mb)
Server Only (12 mb)

Game updates

Fixed: Several crashes and other issues related to smithing

The Stormy Weathers Update (v1.12.0-pre.10)

24th January 2020

Download Links:
Windows Installer (292mb)
Windows update (42mb)
Mac Archive (296mb)

Archive (Windows/Linux) (294mb)
Server Only (12 mb)

Game updates

Feature: Iron bloom. Bloomeries no longer yield iron ingots directly but instead drop iron bloom which has to be worked into ingots on the anvil.
Feature: Added mechanical helve hammer. Can be used to autocraft metal plates and iron ingots from an iron bloom
Feature: Added mechanical power brake block. Can be used to bring a mechanical power train to a halt
Feature: Can now quickly cool down hot items by throwing them into water
Feature: Can now add, modify or delete waypoints by right clicking on the world map. Can now assign icons to waypoints
Feature: Multilayer smithing. The way smithing works changed notably with this change. It's kinda weird but also kinda interesting. Tweaked Spear and Hammer smithing recipe
Feature: Tool modes now display names in the tool mode selector ui
Tweak: Can now place solid rock into mining bags
Tweak: No longer need to hold down right mouse button to pan
Tweak: Updated to OpenAL Soft 1.16 to fix sound system not initializing properly everyone once in a while until restarted
Tweak: The Bloomery and Anvil no longer resets the temperature of the material / work item
Tweak: Different metal pouring sound
Tweak: Dropping a stack of items on the ground makes it split into multiples of 4
Tweak: Clay forming and Smithing helper grids now only show when you have clay / a hammer in hands
Tweak: Set monster spawn grace timer to 0 for the default survival mode
Fixed: Disable bell spawning again >.>
Fixed: Forgot to re-enable smoothstep lerp for clouds? Maybe now clouds look more decent
Fixed: Firepit particle related crash on the client
Fixed: Translocator particles ignoring translocator orientation
Fixed: Game crashing when attempting to put vintage beef into a display case
Fixed: Able to put (invisible) clothes onto the armor stand
Fixed: Silver and Gold ores yielding more nuggets than they are supposed to
Fixed: Leaves still slowing down chunk retesselation
Language: Updated all language files

API

Tweak: Added block patch placement mode NearSaltWater and UnderSaltWater for Tonys immersion mod
Tweak: Added privilege "denybreakreinforced" to deny reinforced block breaking for the civ community
Tweak: Dropdown gui elements values can now be rich text
Refactor: Smithing and knapping recipe patterns now are multilayer you need to surround your pattern with [[ and ]]
Refactor: Ditched Collectible.GetQuantityToolModes and Collectible.DrawToolModeIcon and replaced it with Collectible.GetToolModes()
Refactor: capi.Render.UnregisterRenderer no longer calls Dispose() on the renderer. You have to call Dispose() manually now!
Fixed: Multi-Wildcard crafting recipes threw an exception when looked at in the handbook

The Stormy Weathers Update (v1.12.0-pre.9)

18th January 2020

Download Links:
Windows Installer (292mb)
Windows update (42mb)
Mac Archive (296mb)

Archive (Windows/Linux) (294mb)
Server Only (12 mb)

Game updates

Tweak: Can no longer obtain crystalized ore through blasting
Fixed: Seems like something derped during the build process in pre.8, causing lots of crashes. This one seems ok?
Fixed: All tools were tier 0

The Stormy Weathers Update (v1.12.0-pre.8)

18th January 2020

Download Links:
Windows Installer (292mb)
Windows update (42mb)
Mac Archive (296mb)

Archive (Windows/Linux) (294mb)
Server Only (12 mb)

Game updates

Feature: Added display case to showcase your ores, shells and other small items
Feature: Added rare crystalized versions of ore. Drop with a 1/200 chance from graded ores.
Feature: Added amethyst, smoky and rose quartz crystals. Not yet obtainable in survival
Feature: Added bioluminescent particle effect to warm, humid waters. Only appear in some locations.
Feature: Added armor stands, can be used to showcase armor
Feature: Added Raccoons. Spawns in forests near trees. Will eat berries from berry bushes and break harvestable skeps for the honey comb
Tweak: Disabled room check for leaves, makes chunk redrawing too laggy. Fixes delayed appareance of placed blocks.
Tweak: Reduced cloud ugliness by a bit
Tweak: Can now add more items to the shelf, such as ores
Fixed: Thrown spears not using the new models
Fixed: Should fix worldgen meteor impacts removing water blocks
Fixed: Some crashes due to recent changes to the weather system
Fixed: Should fix saplings that grew at a chunk edge generating with cut off leaves
Fixed: Barrel fullness indicator wrong for honey
Fixed: Able to put in berries and the likes into crucibles in some cases
Fixed: Might fix saltpeter re-appearing at random in the underground
Fixed: Falling sand and gravel not emitting dust particles
Fixed: Should fix joining players upside down for a few seconds
Fixed: Some animations not correctly playing
Fixed: Some particles (e.g. smoke or rain) loosing randomness in some cases
Fixed: A couple minor tweaks and fixes too small to mention individually
Fixed: Full snow blocks now have a full hitbox if there is a flat snow layer on top
Fixed: Occlusion culling not considered during shadow pass
Fixed: Baked bread lasted only 1-2 days

API

Feature: Composite shape definitions can now also define offsetX/Y/Z
Feature: Added engine side support for multiple textures sizes per shape, this now fixes the wrong texture scaling on the armor stand.
Feature: Added ability to combine shapes during runtime using shape overlays ( shape: { base: "shape1", overlays: [ { base: "shape2" } ] )
Feature: Can now get a TextureAtlasPosition from a texture path using e.g. api.BlockTextureAtlas[texturePath]
Feature: Added api.*TextureAtlas.InsertTextureCached()
Refactor: the tools MiningTier is now called ToolTier (MiningTier is still valid but deprecated)

The Stormy Weathers Update (v1.12.0-pre.7)

11th January 2020

Download Links:
Windows Installer (292mb)
Windows update (42mb)
Mac Archive (296mb)

Archive (Windows/Linux) (294mb)
Server Only (12 mb)

Game updates

Feature: Tall grass is now also randomly rotated
Tweak: Draining temporal stability sound only starts playing when at 65%
Fixed: All creatures not wandering and staying in place more often than they should
Fixed: Some characters not displayed or not displayed correctly in chat messages above the players head
Fixed: Significant lag issue when looking up in the sky
Fixed: Block breaking overlay not adjusted for wind waving motion and random rotations
Fixed: Might fix torches and firestarters sometimes not igniting fires when they should
Fixed: Crafting trapdoors or slabs put them in horizontal only mode
Fixed: Should fix temporal stability mechanic now disabled everywhere
Fixed: Creature animations no longer playing properly
Fixed: Planter texture issue
Fixed: Throwing stones, spears or shooting arrows crashing the game
Fixed: The incomplete bell mob was spawning

The Stormy Weathers Update (v1.12.0-pre.6)

10th January 2020

Download Links:
Windows Installer (292mb)
Windows update (42mb)
Mac Archive (296mb)

Archive (Windows/Linux) (294mb)
Server Only (12 mb)

Game updates

Forgot to increase the network version to prevent crashes when connecting to a newer version game server ^_^;

The Stormy Weathers Update (v1.12.0-pre.5)

10th January 2020

Download Links:
Windows Installer (292mb)
Windows update (42mb)
Mac Archive (296mb)

Archive (Windows/Linux) (294mb)
Server Only (12 mb)

More fancies for a prettier trailer!

Game updates

Feature: Added glow worms to caves
Feature: Added aurora borealis effect to cold regions of the game
Feature: Full drifter model and texture remake
Feature: Hailstorms now damage the player
Feature: Added a remapper assistant. This tool now requires players only to press a button instead of going to the wiki and copypasting commands. Please make a backup of your savegames before using it.
Feature: Added ability to create savegame backups through the modify screen
Feature: Butterflies now flee from the player
Feature: Added seraph smithing animation
Feature: Some blocks now are randomly rotated (flowers, mushrooms, reeds, saplings, etc.)
Tweak: Translocator now also animates and plays sounds when another player steps on it
Tweak: Increased chance for hailstorms
Tweak: Fear reduction for animals set to 10 generations instead of 20
Tweak: Forge embers now look more glowy
Tweak: The new lod system no longer requires additional GPU RAM and semi-smoothly fades between high detail and low detail
Tweak: Refined low temporal stability sounds
Tweak: World gen tweaks

Sealevel water now generates ice block below -17 °C
Reduced lake generation below -5 °C down to 0 lakes at -20 °C
Trees no longer generate below -18 °C

Tweak: Increased marble deposit size
Fixed: Ice blocks flicker issues
Fixed: Animal bot issues
Fixed: Held torch particles spawned at the wrong location for other players
Fixed: Some areas had rain and thunder where there should have been snow only
Fixed: Bauxite boulders missing
Fixed: More issues with the clay planter
Fixed: Farmland, Forges, Firepits and Torches ignoring low levels of rain
Fixed: Creative search deleting all text on backspace in cases where it shouldn't
Fixed: Wrong lighting on the windmill blades
Fixed: Old creative worlds had temporal stability enabled
Fixed: Block breaking overlay not visible
Fixed: Added some missing tree types to the world edit tree tool
API Fixed: Not able to load assets from the config/ folder
API Feature: New block property: randomizeRotations

The Stormy Weathers Update (v1.12.0-pre.4)

5th January 2020

Download Links:
Windows Installer (292mb)
Windows update (42mb)
Mac Archive (296mb)

Archive (Windows/Linux) (294mb)
Server Only (12 mb)

This update contains some experimental changes to dynamic shadows and chunk rendering. Do let me know if something broke or got worse.

Game updates

Feature: Added 5 new decorative storage vessels. Added ornate planters variants, can be purchased at the artisan trader
Feature: Chests, Vessels and Buckets can be rotated in 22.5 degree intervalls
Feature: Added loose boulders blocks, generates in mountainy and deserty areas
Feature: Experimental performance improvement feature (Technical info: Poor man's LOD experiment. The game tesselates each chunk twice now a low detail version and a high detail version. Distant chunk are now drawn using the low detail version. Increases RAM usage by a lot currently. Blocktypes can now define a lod1Shape shape file. You can set the lod range using .clientconfig lodbias [0..1] default is 0.3)
Tweak: Minor chunk updating performance improvement (Technical info: Leaves now do a quick check before they do a room search for updaing their wavy state)
Tweak: Optimize and improve the quality of dynamic shadows (Technical info: Now uses hardware level interpolation, increased range for reduced quality, shadow pass now uses only low detail chunks, attempted to minimize the chunks rendered during the shadow pass)
Tweak: Worldedit Air brush tool no longer replaces water unless targeting water
Tweak: Removed commands /glitch, /rain and /slomo
Tweak: Removed starter torch when creating a new world
Tweak: Loose sticks now look prettier
Fixed: Placing slabs crashing the game
Fixed: Quern stopped grinding when the output slot is full
Fixed: The command /weather seti not properly initializing the new cloud pattern
Fixed: Game not launching on linux
Fixed: Game crashing when exiting before its loaded
Fixed: Cleaver not placeable on tool rack
Fixed: High velocity particles causing heavy lag
Fixed: Creatures inside water creating high velocity particles
Fixed: Torch inside torchholders emitting old style particles
Fixed: Game crashing in some cases (NRE in ModSleeping)
Fixed: Vertical mud brick slab side solid issues

The Stormy Weathers Update (v1.12.0-pre.3)

Download Links:
Windows Installer (292mb)
Windows update (42mb)
Mac Archive (296mb)

Archive (Windows/Linux) (294mb)
Server Only (12 mb)

Game updates

Feature: Improved damage overlay, new low health overlay
Tweak: Reduced butterfly spawn rate
Fixed: Game not launching on Mac OS
Fixed: Worldedit Cutout not working with the cuboid paint brush
Fixed: Tool rack displaying wrong tool metal on some tools
Fixed: Labeled chest text writing issues
Fixed: Sign text is now length capped
Fixed: Game crashing when attempting to rename a savegame inside the modify world screen
Fixed: Game sometimes crashing upon connecting
Fixed: Gear HUD visible in spectator mode
Fixed: /worldconfig not applying changes correctly in some cases
Fixed: Wrong third-person transformation for held mushrooms and firestarters
Fixed: New slab placement mode mechanic not properly working for some slab types
Fixed: Setting cloud y position in the world edit gui could no longer be disabled
Fixed: Cloud vertical stutter when the player is moving vertically
Fixed: OutOfMemoryException when igniting a bomb

The Stormy Weathers Update (v1.12.0-pre.2)

Download Links:
Windows Installer (292mb)
Windows update (42mb)
Mac Archive (296mb)

Archive (Windows/Linux) (294mb)
Server Only (12 mb)

Game updates

Fixed: Game crashing when enabling dynamic shadows
Fixed: Wrong textures and transformations when placing the new style tools on the tool rack
Fixed: Game crashing when trying to cook bushmeat
Fixed: Temporal stability mechanics not disabled in creative and exploration mode
Fixed: Game crashing when trying to start it on linux
Fixed: Game crashing when clicking on an external link on some Linux systems (v1.11 bug)
Fixed: Game too bright for many players (v1.11 bug). This update resets the extra brightness and extra gamma level to 1. You can set it back if the game is too dark for you now
Fixed: Axe model not metal textured
Fixed: Crafting recipe for fire starter missing
Fixed: Unable to ignite a fire pit with a torch
API Fixed: Entity hurt event damage source was not set to player when a player attacked (v1.11 bug)

The Stormy Weathers Update (v1.12.0-pre.1)

Download Links:
Windows Installer (292mb)
Windows update (42mb)
Mac Archive (296mb)

Archive (Windows/Linux) (294mb)
Server Only (12 mb)

Game updates
See blog post on vintagestory.at