What changed

0.3.12 and 0.3.1315 October

Hot iron and hanging ceilings

Play

• The encyclopedia's search finds words inside pages, not only titles.
• Food is eaten when you hold it in front of your mouth, where you see it, not only low down.
• Fruit laid on a stove grill or a machine cooks for everyone, and a burning stove lights the ground and the cook before it.
• Any fire heats an iron sword, a torch too, and a hot blade cools with every blow it lands.
• A bomb left on a bench catches from nearby flame, and a thrown lit bomb no longer sets off a second one at your feet.
• Arrows lie still on the ground, and one that snaps as you pull it bursts into splinters.

Building and crafting

• Wall and flat panels hang from the roof or beam above them, for ceilings and lofts.
• Glass skylights and glass floors can be laid in a shared world again.
• Trees no longer grow into your machines, and a tree you fell stays felled instead of growing back through a house.
• While you place a machine, the room its add-ons need shows in blue, as advice.
• The sawmill sends out the wood for the next craft as soon as one is done, and materials spilled onto a bench or the sawmill land on its top.
• A plasma blade's hilt shows its crafting progress, and a cooking stick no longer chops trees like an axe.

Steadier

• Felled logs, big bases, benches, running smelters and setting-out robot patrols run smoother, above all on Quest 2.
• Fixed a crash with a bitten piece of food in your pack, and guests see the Hollow Leader's sweeping blows as the host does.
• Everyone in a multiplayer session needs to be on 0.3.13.

0.3.815 October

One panel for walls, roofs and floors

• Walls, roofs and floors are one panel now: hold it level for a wall, up for a roof, down for a floor. Window glass works the same way: a window, a skylight or a glass floor.
• Benches no longer have a hammer of their own. Craft with your fist, or faster with a stone, copper or iron hammer; your materials fly onto the bench when you start.
• The plasma blade slices on its way back to you too, and a pulled blade no longer gets stuck behind what it cut.
• Far journeys stay steady: no more jitter or cracks thousands of metres from home.
• Other players move smoothly even when the connection hiccups, and another player joining no longer makes your view hitch.
• The world loads in around you much faster while you walk and run, and busy bases and torch-lit caves run smoother.
• Honeycomb no longer lights up the forest at night, bees settle on their hive, and the pod's solar arm sits in its socket again.

0.3.612 October

Solid blades and calmer settings

• Blades are solid: enemy swords and bare hands clash with yours, and a dead Hollow's sword falls.
• Fires and torches no longer shine through walls and doors, and caves run much faster on Quest 2.
• Calm animals let you walk up, climb on and ride them; only shy ones run.
• The Vaultmaw is back in the caves, and sharks are tougher.
• The sawmill's power-feed kit saws faster and unlocks big wall, roof and window pieces.
• Walls hold each other up, and a cut-off piece falls whole.
• Settings are simpler: a View tab for near, middle and far detail, and a Hits tab for hit cubes and numbers.
• The research station is gone; research you had already funded became blueprints.
• The host can switch player damage off, and players' hits work like hits on creatures.
• A world with a damaged record in its save opens instead of crashing, and a copy of the file is kept aside.

0.3.0 to 0.3.48 to 10 October

Weapons, benches and the deep

Weapons and combat

• The plasma blade, a metre of glowing blade in a random colour. Call it and it flies back spinning to your hand; flick your wrist to curve it around enemies.
• The plasma rifle, the copper storm sword that calls lightning, a forge-hot iron sword that glows, the blast hammer, bombs and venom arrows.
• Block and riposte, shove enemies off ledges, swat arrows out of the air and hold two weapons at once.
• Weapons are solid: they never pass through creatures, trees, rock or walls.

Crafting and building

• New benches: a sword bench, an explosives bench, a bow table and a gun table, plus an alchemist's table, a camp stove and drawing boards.
• Workbench add-ons unlock the later machines in order. Benches show the next design as a hologram, and take-all brings everything back to you with one press.
• Wall and roof pieces by the half metre, snapped to a grid and mended with more pieces.

Enemies and the world

• Hollows climb after you, Hollow Leaders smash, and robot patrols march out of their keep.
• Deep in the caves: Dripwings, the blind Earwight, Pitcoils and Veilgrip. Caves refill, and animals have tempers.
• Adventure tunnels, a deep cave level, named worlds that are Survival, Peaceful or Sandbox, export and import of worlds, and moonlit nights.
• A death satchel keeps everything you carried, and your pod has a hidden stash drawer.

Comfort and multiplayer

• Left-handed play and the first version of hand tracking.
• Voices carry further, and a world that crashes on opening gives way to a fresh one instead of locking you out.
• Much steadier fights and faster loading, above all on Quest 2.