1.16.0

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1.16.0
"Homesteading part 2"
Release date	January 9, 2022
Development versions
Version chronology
◄◄ 1.15.0 ◄ 1.15.10 1.17.0 ►► 1.16.1 ►

1.16.0, also known as the Homesteading part 2 plus with the Combat update was a major update that was released, the main focus of which is to improve various backend systems as well as graphical features in order to improve the overall experience of the game.

Features

Auction

• It's available on every NPC you find.
• Can be used to buy and sell goods with gears to players on a server.

New Storage Systems

• Crate it hold stores lots of stacks of a item.
• Trunk basically a double chest.

Alcohol Brewing

• Added Fruit Press for Juice
• Barrel can now convert fruit, honey and cereal into mead, cider, wine and ale.
• Distillery can be use to make mead, cider, wine and ale into spirits.
• Drinking Cider and Spirit makes you drunk.

Fruit Tree

• Added 12 types of fruit tree.
• It can be replanted by retrieving a cutting.
• Can take up a few days to mature.
• It can only yield fruit once a year.
• Fruits can be used for cooking and juicing.

Mushrooms

• Added 34 types of mushrooms, some of them grow on the side of trees.
• It can regrow over time.
• Mushrooms now has distinct regions where certain only a subset of all mushrooms grow

Drifter

• Drifters now throw stones at players
• Adjusted drifter animation names to clearly differentiate between Standing and Crawling.
• Added a drifter attack sound
• Fixed alternate version of the spiked drifter never spawned
• Added a rare drifter variant to temporal storms (Double Headed Drifter), which always drops a temporal gear and some gears.

Auto-modded server install

• You can now 1-click install mods that you need to join a modded server. These are only enabled when you join said server.

Rifts

• These appear and disappear at random in the world.
• Drain your stability when close to one.
• Surface drifters now only spawn within a 25 block radius of rifts

Combat update

• Added 5 types of shield, when standing 15% chance of blocking 1.5 to 3 damage, when sneaking 85% chance of blocking 3 to 5 damage, depending on the shield type
• Long blades now also have a wind up time, attack animation and strike effects, much like the spear
• Mitigate cases where creatures attack players while looking away
• Ranged aiming accuracy buildup is now about 50% quicker
• The hurt screen overlay effect now indicates from which direction the attack came from
• Improved hit knockback on creatures and players

Wind shader rework

• Improved code, making it easier for modders to add wind sway effects to their blocks and items through VS Model Creator
• Fixes heavy wind sway derp on sunflowers and other plants
• Made storm level winds more impactful
• Added water storm particles

Ground storage rework

• Any 2x2 storable can now be placed in the middle
• Pots, bowls and crocks are now 2x2 ground storable, while still able to transfer foods between them

Liquid system rework

• Liquid quantities are now shown in litres instead of amount of items
• Bowls can now be used to transfer liquids, just like the bucket
• New liquid container: The jug, a 3 litre container
• Implemented container specific transfer sizes. Buckets let you transfer 1 litre each, bowls 0.1 litre each, jugs 0.3 litre each
• Liquids such as milk, juices, ciders and etc. can now be consumed for satiety, either from a bucket, bowl or the jug
• Can now craft bread dough also with a (water filled) bowl + flour
• Fixed handbook dough recipe showed an empty bucket instead of a bucket with 1 litre of water inside
• Added sound and particle effects when moving liquids

Class Exclusive Items

• Clockmaker can now craft the hacking spear. Each hit with a hacking spear gives the clock maker a 15% chance to hack a locust, which will then fight by his side. Beware, hacked locus are extremely jealous on one another
• Malefactor can now craft the sling an exclusive ranged weapon for the malefactor that uses stones as projectiles
• Tailor can now make Tailored gambeson ehich comes in 11 colors: Has more damage resistance and higher movement speed than normal gambeson

Character class rebalances

• Traders now buy sewing kits and more craftable clothes.
• Blackguard buffed to 30% melee damage instead of 20% and -15% armor durability loss instead of -10%.
• Blackguard class is now less affected by the walk speed penalties of armor
• Hunter buffed to 20% ranged damage instead of 10%.
• Malefactor buffed to 35% reduced animal seeking range instead of 20% and 10% chance to get whole loot vessel instead of 5%

Added permadeath mode

Life Quality Changes

• Can now use WASD keys to scroll the expanded world map
• Added isolated, handcrafted underground lakes
• Signs can now be placed at 45 degree angles
• Armor stands can now hold tools in one hand
• Improved animal pitch step rotation when stepping up and down blocks (and disabled it for bipedals)
• New 3d models for fruits and leather
• Shoes are now neatly placeable on shelves and on the ground
• Store location, seed and worldconfig when saving a screenshot. Could be used to autocreate a new world and teleport to this location and tons of other fancy things. (off by default, enable via .screenshotExifDataMode 1)
• The handbook now shows if an item is being sold or bought by a trader
• Can no longer sleep during temporal storms for standard and wilderness survival.
• Easy multimaterial chiseling - can now easily add more materials to a chiseled block, by dropping blocks into the tool model selector dialog
• Added rare polar bear spawn. The other bear types should get added in the future.
• Added vertical planks block
• Server side moddb install utility - /moddb
• New world config to disable class exclusive recipes
• Added Alcohol-soaked bandages, and grid recipe for solder bars
• Added admin longblade for testing purposes. (Creative mode only)
• Added command /gm shorthand for /gamemode
• A new set of main menu backgrounds, half of which are made by the community (please contact me if we shouldn't use your screenshot)
• Added 2 new sets of colorful creative mode blocks. One set of strong light and another with weak light, but both with max glow.
• Leather can now be dyed to make certain clothes (and a shield) instead of making the clothes in a barrel.

Tweaks

Tweak: Improved creative inventory search, e.g. when searching for "stone" the loose stones are near the top now Tweak: Major Crop rebalance. Doubled growth times and yields for most crops with some exceptions. (Experimental) Rye Cold Dmg changed to -12, Cold Mult to .75, and Heat Dmg to 27 (same heat dmg as turnip). Spawn conditions of Rye were changed to be in the -12 to 14 temperature range. Overal rye should now be more suited to northerly climates. Rice Heat Damage ceiling increased from default to 46. Peanut growth time was doubled, but yield was left alone. Amaranth growth time not changed, since its already about 50% of irl. Yield still doubled though. Cassava growth time was left alone, being already rather long (though still nowhere near irl). Yield was still doubled to keep the satiety per day vaguely 'competitive'. Doubled pumpkin mother plant growth time, but did not touch anything else, for now. Pineapple was not touched due to already being a very long growth time and its also the only farmable fruit. Tweak: Creature ai tweaks, applies to all creatures Slower look around speed They now tend to wander further Mitigate chasing derp (where creatures turn back for a second) Fixed walking sideways in 3rd camera mode caused animals to target wrongly Creature attack knockback now proportional to damage Tweak: Lots of visual tuning and polishing Fine tuned snow accumulating and melting to be a bit less abrupt. Fine tune wind affected particles Fine tuned explosion particle spawning a bit and made them more proportional to the explosion radius Fine tuned Aurora visuals Fine tuned teleporter sounds and teleport effect First person held item position/rotation polishing Fine tuned first person attack/interact animations some more Dark blocks now get a white selected block outline for easier chiseling Added more water bubbles when walking in water Zoomed in all spear gui transforms. Looks weird but can tell apart spears more easily now. Tweak: Lots of other gameplay balancing Slight speedup when walking in water, for creatures and players Windmills no longer work underground, unless worldconfig undergroundWindmills is set to "true" Standing still now reduces your hunger rate 4-fold instead of 3-fold Buffed all bow by +0.25 damage. Gambeson no longer High Damage Tier Resistant Torches thrown into water now also go out Boosted durability of steel armor to make it worthwhile (lamellar: 950->1600, brigandine: 1900->2600, chain: 1000->2000, scale: 2000->3500, steel: 3200->5500) Reduced cave art material cost by 50% (consume the pigment every 1/15 times instead of 1/10) When a temporal storm ends, half of the spawned drifters now disappear Hares eating crops leave behind a dead crop. Prevents seed loss Tweak: Added berry picking and shield blocking sound Tweak: Added tempStormFrequencyMul worldconfig Tweak: Removed liquid items from the creative inventory. Replaced them with liquids inside buckets. Added a new liquids creative tab. Tweak: All mods in the mod manager not having set up an icon will now use a default icon. Fixed crashing game if mods did not define a mod icon Tweak: Can now also right click with a bucket on the barrel slot in GUI to take out liquids (and also added holding CTRL to move only small portions) Tweak: Doubled sound range of echo chambers Tweak: Can now place bees wax, fired bricks, candles, clay, dyed cloth, all crushed resources, blasting powder, fat, flax fibers and flax twine on the shelf Tweak: Added pit kiln burn times by fuel to the handbook entry Tweak: Added more debug logging for the shift+click item disappearance bug Tweak: Locust drills more drill-looking Tweak: The selected chiseling material is now remembered across chiseled blocks Tweak: Performance: Don't render dynamic shadows when shadow intensity falls below 10% (during night or rain) Tweak: Reduced RAM usage by about 75 MB (Technical info: generate animation frames only on demand, optimized particles ram usage) Tweak: Added white and gray dye Tweak: Disable seasonal grass coverage changes. Causes large stutter with radeon cards, as it has to retesselate lots of chunks Tweak: Added mod<=>engine version check and crash the client/server if they mismatch, to prevent undefined behavior Tweak: Added additional handbook info, and a link to the wiki, when describing block reinforcement system Tweak: Barrels now visually show contents for some more items/blocks Tweak: Worldmap: Ignore corrupted map parts instead of crashing Tweak: Unlit chimney now hollow for particles, allows smoke to rise through it from below (or snow to fall through it!) Tweak: Add appconfig thing to maybe fix the game being launchable with too old versions of .net Tweak: De-Jank: Mouse wheel no longer changes the values of drop down ui elements just from hovering over them Tweak: De-Jank: The World configuration attributes are now grouped by category Tweak: Can now use {plr} placeholder in command block commands Tweak: Yellow dye is now made with onions. Orange dye is now made by adding more onions to yellow dye. Tweak: When making dyes, barrels now produce the same amount of liquid as the ingredients, e.g. if you put in 4 diluted alum, you get 4 dye. Tweak: Forest rain sound a bit more pronounced Tweak: Farmland now uses the configurable HoursPerDay instead of 24 hours to time crop growth Tweak: Grid crafting with spoiled ingredients now will also result in a spoiled crafting output Tweak: Shelves are now very suited for drying items if they are not in a cellar Tweak: Added hunter backpack recipe that uses 3 small pelts Tweak: Kapok leaves now less neon green Tweak: Made mountains less faded in the distance Tweak: Added recycling recipes for hay bed and thatched roof Tweak: Game crash resistance against corrupted large gears on TOPTS Tweak: Click sound for the creative rotor, placement sounds when adding parts to the pulverizer Tweak: Firepit construction stages drop contents when broken and break faster. Tweak: Added server arg --append which prevents the server from clearing the log files on startup Tweak: World map visual tuning (more color accurate but more noisy) Tweak: Disabled bell pepper worldgen spawn Tweak: Snow covered grass can no longer ignite Tweak: Mitigate cases where creatures stepped over fences Fixed: Bamboo shoots block info saying that they'll mature Fixed: Leaded glass panes not correctly rotated when rotating with worldedit Fixed: Hammer did not loose durability from combat Fixed: Floaty pixel on silver diadems Fixed: Add a bit of tolerance to cementation process completion Fixed: Player began to freeze if temperature was above 30 degrees o.O Fixed: Flowers not frost overlaid Fixed: Removing wax from waxed cheese reset the cheeses freshness Fixed: Wrong block breaking overlay on placed cheese Fixed: Wrong texture for placed waxed cheese Fixed: Anvil: Able to move metal voxels with a voxel above them Fixed: Bloomery insides completely black Fixed: Game crashing when an invalid language was set in the clientsettings.json Fixed: Items in gui not glowing Fixed: .tfedit with empty hands left the mouse unlocked Fixed: Rare race condition crash in animated blocks Fixed: Fern tree growing through trader cart floors Fixed: Translocating sound not attenuated Fixed: Dropping the wrong item when using the Q hotkey in the creative inventory Fixed: Game crashing when feeding certain non-crushable items into the pulverizer Fixed: Should fix a crash when launching the game on Pop OSFixed: Various minor issues (2 missing lang entries, floaty mushroom at block edges, wonky slanted roof hitboxes, shadows around reed&papyrus) Fixed: Meals in a pot or bowl spawning white particles when broken Fixed: Chiseling a light emitting block now emits light as well Fixed: Wrong texture resolution on croton plants, therefore more fluffly now Fixed: The Balanced trader had a broken sprint animation Fixed: Spears and arrows sometimes flying through creatures Fixed: Liquid containers accepting non liquids from hoppers/chutes Fixed: Light color jitter on the worldmap when chunks are updated Fixed: Pit kiln not emitting light Fixed: Farmland perma boosters still applicable multiple times Fixed: Coloring lanterns did not update lighting server side, causing them to get lost after server restart Fixed: Fence gates not remembering their reinforcement level when opened or closed Fixed: Vintagehosting Server Status screen showing wrong server state in some cases Fixed: Various z-fighting issues with armor Fixed neighbour block lighting visual issue for Wallpaper and other Decor blocks Fixed: Alignment issue in the transform editor Fixed: Updated the character trait descriptions to match previous balance changes. Fixed: Dragging around a dialog was janky on non-8 gui scales Fixed: /wgen regen not removing entities on the client side. Might fix duplicate ghost players? ?? Fixed: Crash reporter launching twice Fixed: Creature hurt sounds not playing? (Might break other things) Fixed: Wrong shading on first person held items Fixed: Missing texture on one of the shields Fixed: Freshly crafted clothes had not 100% condition Fixed: Missing texture on thrown hacking spears, fp hand spears upside down Fixed: Incorrect day/night cycle. Looks promising now, as in, behaving physically correct on all latitudes Fixed: First person spear upside down, spear attack animation a bit smoother Fixed: Ingame error text in front of dialogs Fixed: Missing "25k" option on world config world length Fixed: Freshly crafted clothes had not 100% condition Fixed: Chopping down bamboo chopped nearby bamboo trees Fixed: Able to always pick up clear quartz from loose quarts ores Fixed: Crash when setting the chisel tool mode right at the edge of a block Fixed: Derpy positioning of the itemstack infobox Fixed: Exception thrown on some /worldconfig commands Fixed: Opened coken oven doors dropping a different block variant Fixed: Should fix fern trees spawning underwater Fixed: Clay dupe glitch Fixed: Fog flicker when moving vertically Fixed: Game crashing when pasting text into the config world screen Fixed: Itemstack infobox sometimes displaying the wrong text Fixed: Fixed creature hostility configuration not properly applying whenever a major update comes out (To the author of the golden wolf mod: add "friendlyTarget:true" to your seek entity json config) Fixed: Firepit ash overlay culled with a block above Fixed: Woad not yellow in world map Fixed: Crash related to interacting with pies Fixed: Wrong sizes of cheese on shelves Fixed: Avoid an exception in the trader restock code if an item no longer exists (e.g. due to a removed mod) Fixed: Items in the grid crafting output slot starting to spoil/dry Fixed: "Dryable. Duration: NaN Hours" Fixed: Multimaterial chiseled blocks containing Glass disabled some faces that it shouldn't (glass chiseling is still not supported in vanilla though) Fixed: Difficulties using the teleport block on server with mild or heavy lag Fixed: Should fix rare crash in the error reporter

API Updates

Feature: Some simple implementation of a generic multiblock system, to hopefully avoid custom multiblocking everywhere. Currently used for the distillery. Feature: Added capi.Gui.LoadSvg() and capi.Gui.LoadSvgWithPadding() which allows for use of external SVG vector files to be loaded. For a first code sample, check out ItemProspectingPick.cs Feature: Improved mounting system. Should now be properly network synced \o/ Sneak to unmount a IMountable is no longer hardcoded. It must now be handled by the IMountable itself, see BEBed.cs as example. Feature: Ability for custom gui/fp itemstack renderers, register via api.Event.RegisterItemstackRenderer() Feature: *byType precedence: For the Json assets blocktype, itemtype and entitytype, can now define an attribute as well as a *byType attribute, whereas the latter takes precedence, e.g. stackSize: 32 would be overwritten by stackSizeByType: { "*": 16 } Feature: Explosion code upgrades Explosions radii have an upper limit, which is now doubled, reaching it nonetheless now throws a more informative exception Fixed particle lag and upper cap issues, as they now spawn async Fixed a crash in the lighting engine when explosions go beyond chunk boundaries Added blockDropChanceMultiplier argument to CreateExplosion() to reduce block drops by explosions (large explosions drop *a lot* of blocks) Feature: .gltf models now support most flags Feature: Added api.Render.RenderItemStackToAtlas(), allows rendering of an itemstack into a texture atlas Feature: Can now set amount of inventory columns for GenericTypedContainer blocks Feature: Add initialDelayOffsetMs arg to Event.RegisterGameTickListener() to mitigate lag spikes from many listeners running code at the same time Feature: Added withInheritance argument to api.ModLoader.GetModSystem() Feature: Added new render stage EnumRenderStage.AfterBlit Feature: Added client side api death event Feature: Added sapi.HandleCommand() to run a custom command through code Feature: In the json assets, can now define a "ucontents" property to define contents of containers. Example implementation: A wood bucket filled with water in the creative inventory Feature: New JSON Patch operation "addeach" allows inserting/appending of multiple elements in one operation. (the value must be an array) Feature: Added Block.PriorityInteract property to be able to sneak interact with a block before sneak interacting with the currently held item. Used for the new crate. Refactor: Recipe systems are no longer engine exclusive. All recipe systems (except the grid recipes) are now moved from api/engine to the survival mod. This means: If you need to look up cooking recipes, reference VSSurvivalMod.dll and exchange world.CookingRecipes with "Api.ModLoader.GetModSystem<RecipeRegistry>().CookingRecipes" or through the helper method "Api.CookingRecipes()" If you only add cooking recipe json files, no changes are required You can now add your own recipe system. Check out RecipeRegistry.cs for reference (still needs handbook support, though) Refactor: All Barrel recipes that have liquids as input or output, instead of quantity and stacksize respectively, these should now define "litres". However for backwards compatibility, if the recipe loader encounters a liquid ingredient or output without a litres definition, it will assume quantity/stacksize = litres and log a warning. Refactor: Rename BlockLiquidContainerBase.GetInContainerProps to BlockLiquidContainerBase.GetContainableProps Refactor: The block code for planks has changed from planks-{wood} to planks-{wood}-hor Refactor: Minor refactor in Weather/WeatherSimulationParticles.cs Tweak: Holding sneak key with .edi enabled shows you item attributes in the itemstack tooltip Tweak: Added the boolean properties CanDrinkFrom, IsTopOpened and AllowHeldLiquidTransfer to BlockLiquidContainerBase, can also be set via json attribute (unless you use the class BlockLiquidContainerTopOpened, which sets them all to true) Tweak: RegisterAiTask and RegisterVtmlTagConverter is now in ICoreApi (through C# class extension in the esentials/survival mod) Tweak: Shape elements of zero size are now no longer tesselated Tweak: New tool: /debug heldstattr key type value Tweak: Added IDisposable interface to many classes that are disposable Tweak: Calling networkChannel.SendPacket() server side without player args now throws an exception Tweak: Added CollectibleObject.TpOffHandTransform Tweak: Added helper methods for ITreeAttribute Set/GetVec3i, Set/GetBlockPos and Set/GetVec3is Tweak: Added ISaveGame.StoreData<T> and ISaveGame.GetData<T>() Tweak: Added SendBlockEntityPacket<T>(IServerPlayer player, BlockPos pos, int packetId, T data = default(T)) BroadcastBlockEntityPacket<T>(BlockPos pos, int packetId, T data = default(T)) Refactor: Massive Windwave/VertexFlags refactor. All wind related vertex flags are now consolidated into 2 properties - windMode and windData. Can now define these 2 values *per vertex* in VS Model creator Refactor: Rework mesh generation of displayed items, such as items in shelves or ground storage. This is now done through the interface IContainedMeshSource for the contained item, instead of hardcoded in each container. Refactor: BlockEntity.OnBlockBroken() now has a new argument IPlayer byPlayer Refactor: Rename AddDecor() to SetDecor() and allow passing air blocks to remove decor Refactor: Merged BreakDecor() and BreakDecorPart() into one method Refactor: Remove API.Common.Action, replaced with System.Action Refactor: GuiElementCellList is now generic Refactor: GuiElementHandbookList is now GuiElementFlatList (now a slightly more basic version than GuiElementCellList) Refactor: Renamed entity "Hitbox" to "Collisionbox" (Hitbox can still be used but is marked obsolete) Refactor: Removed world argument from all methods in ILiquidSink & ILiquidSource Tweak: Seperated creature hitbox into collisionbox and selectionbox (the later is used for attacking and interacting with creatures) Tweak: Removed and consolidated a lot of crushed shape files since they were all essentially the same. Tweak: Doubled block, item and entity texture atlas size Tweak: Added property IBulkBlockAccessor.StagedBlocks for jakecools dynamic trees Tweak: Made clayforming system more flexible towards new types of clay Tweak: .AddDynamicText() removed argument for EnumTextOrientation, it can be set in the font. Tweak: GuiElementTextButton now has a Visible flag Tweak: Client and server now (lazy) load all language entries. Can now send text from server to client in the clients language. (Contribution by Apache#8842, edits by Tyron) Tweak: Added ability to disable durability averaging during grid crafting Tweak: Added rndIndex argument to Block.GetRandomColor() Tweak: .tfedit now allows editing of ground transforms for ground storable items and blocks (also fixed that blocks did not apply the ground transform) Tweak: Clean up reeds and papyrus assets. Drops are no longer hardcoded, only 1 blocktype file instead of 3, all shapes in the same folder, added frozen variant for papyrus Tweak: Can now define knockback strength in AiTaskMeleeAttack Tweak: capi.World.Player.Entity.OnFootStep and capi.World.Player.Entity.OnImpact are now events instead of Action fields Tweak: Added IParticlePropertiesProvider.Async to make particle spawn asynchronously (for particle spawn calls on the server) Tweak: Specially treat empty string variant code for blocks, items or entities: They are now treated as "skip this variant group" and not add an extra dash to the block/item/entity code Tweak: Clean up, unify and simplify GetModData and SetModData for chunks, map chunks and map regions Tweak: Added EnumFoodCategory.NoNutrition for foods that provide no nutrition Fixed: Calling GetClimate() for a specific date returned fundamentally broken values 🤦‍♂️ Fixed: Some items set to be placeable in backpack slots crashed the game for no (apparent) reason Fixed: Small values ignored in shape: { offsetX/Y/Z: 0.01 } Fixed: OnTrySpawnEntity event did not handle multiple event listeners correctly Fixed: Entity shape alternates didn't work (see example entities/land/drifter.json, make sure the alternate shape textures have different texture codes) Fixed: Liquid in barrel textures defaulted to the game domain Fixed: Health boosts in meals should now respect serving size and spoilage rate Fixed: Should fix night sky textures not moddable Fixed: Handbook crashing the game on invalid grid recipes Fixed: Json patch addeach not implemented in the engine Fixed: game crashing when removing the hunger behavior from the player Fixed: Wildcard liquids in grid recipes crashing the handbook Fixed: CreativeInventoryStacks property not working properly for items Fixed: Wildcards not working on grid recipe returnedStacks Fixed: Failure to resolve itemstack for a crafting recipe ingredient did not print a warning Fixed: Texture Rotation not applied to alternates when using * wildcard

Changes since v1.16.0-rc.8

Tweak: Reverted fence height changes. It gave wolves the ability to leap over them Tweak: Increased jug capacity from 2 to 3 L Tweak: Reduce fern tree spam a bit more Tweak: Completely removed old longblade swing behavior Fixed: Another liquid dupe bug with barrels Fixed: Able to pick up meals with jugs Fixed: Wolves going all stiff after leaping. Wolves not prioritizing players when up close. Fixed: Not able to put long blades on armor stands Fixed: Cut off links in the handbook Fixed: Gambeson no longer tier 2 armor Fixed: Creatures able to step over hewn fence gates Fixed: No forest floors in jungles Fixed: Colored lanterns not retaining their colored light Fixed: Pit kilns not removing the light they emit Fixed: Filled Jugs and bowls shown as empty when placed on the ground Fixed: Straw dummies and armor stands not resistant against knockback Fixed: Switching from map hud to map gui ordered the map dialog behind the hotbar Fixed: Disabling a mod made it disappear from the mod manager Fixed: Some parts of the afro hair too dark Fixed: Wrong held third person pose when holding metal parts Fixed: Croton in planters derp