1.3.1

1.3.1
"The First Hostile Creature"
Release date	12 February 2017
Version chronology
◄◄ 1.2.0 ◄ 1.3.0 1.4.0 ►► 1.3.2 ►

1.3.1, also known as The First Hostile Creature, is an update featuring new combat system, first enemy, and few small fixes.

Features

Items

• Added attack power property to items. Swords, Knifes and Axes now have extra attack power (visible in the items tooltip).
• Durability reduction on items with durability when attacking.

Mobs

• Added first hostile creature: Drifter. Includes:
  • Basic but modular AI System: Wandering around, seeking players, attacking the nearest player.
  • Basic path traversing: Walk from point a to point b in a direct line. Ability to step on 1 high blocks.
  • Basic movement interpolation on the client. Creatures and other Players now should move smoothly.
  • Custom texture as well as idle, hurt and death sounds.
  • 0.5 second red tinting when being attacked. Spawn particles on death.
  • Basic spawning and de-spawning mechanic. Drifters (for) now spawn in dark areas where the light level is below 8.

Gameplay

• Added ability to punch other players and creatures.

Commands

• New server command: /entity [spawn|count|removeall] [entityname]

Tweaks

Gameplay

• In multiplayer a joining player is now regarded as spectator until the client sends a ready signal. This should prevent getting killed while still joining.

Fixes

• Fixed item texture overlays property not working.
• Fixed crash when trying to craft something.
• Fixed not being able to start a singleplayer world, if whitelisting is turned on in serverconfig.json.
• Fixed a client crashing in a certain situations when joining a multiplayer world .

API Changes

Additions

• Engine/Mod API Updates
  • Able to register entities, ai tasks, entity renderers and particle property providers,
  • Able to spawn particles server side ( broadcasted to clients)
  • Powerful creature configuration: A creature is merely a json file. Creatures can be added, removed or modified by touching only those files (custom models not implemented just yet).

Trivia

The devlog for this update includes a demonstration video of the new creature. The video itself had something gone awry with encoding, making it impossible to see the new creature in action. Tyron wanted to upload a better quality clip the next day, but never got around to it.