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For this weekend we have A19 b178 for you!

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A19 b178 Changelog

Added

High quality water depth transparency and improved edge transparency, edge foam, waves and undulations

Changed

Changed: Improved Low quality water transparency, waves and smoothness

Fixed

Container buttons on vehicle in different order than loot container / backpack


Spear no longer flys slowly


Low quality water was drawn too high in the world


burntWoodBlock4 unpaintable


Iron and Steel

You don't need brass in the game. A lot of players just choose to go after it because they want to.

Normal entities don't load up front like they used to and hundreds of oversized textures were reduced, so the game does not need more VRAM. VRAM use can also be misleading since Unity's texture streaming does not free unused textures until it needs some space to load a new one.

Technically a chunk is 16x256x16 and has 16 layers each 16 tall, but people and myself often call a chunk 16x16x16 even though code calls it a chunk layer.

I don't know the details of what works or not currently. Just guessing. I have not touched that code and the creator is probably one of the programmers no longer with TFP. Like many features, it needs to be tested and reevaluated someday when someone has time.

Today I fixed some issues with electrocution, so it may be better.

The real problem there is that there are so many worn mod slots total.

Up to 4 on a weapon but up to 22 or so worn.

Fewer/merged armor locations would have a whole bunch of advantages for gameplay and other areas but that's for another game...

Vertical blocks should matter, since an opening is letting in cold air. Temperature would matter as much as rain in a survival situation where we determine if you are freezing or burning up.

It is not as simple as can the block above me stop rain, because blocks can be rotated. A plate or half block can or can't fill a vertical or horizontal hole depending on the rotation.

We will probably fix heat/cold survival before gold, which would include checking if enclosed, but not until A21+.

I have thought about doing brute force raycasts, but raycasts are not free and you would have to do hundreds or thousands of them and may still miss holes or things just out of range. If you built a big 10x10x10 or 20x20x20 room, but left off a wall are you inside? It would block some wind or rain, but you would still freeze if it was not fully enclosed. Say you built walls of center poles, columns or other partial block shapes, they would probably be seen as solid, yet they are full of holes and not really make you inside.

Placing a block about your head does not make you 'inside'. Imagine standing in a field in snow with a block above you. How are you inside?