CosmicArchive

An Archive Of Every Cosmic Reach Version

Changelogs

Pre-Alpha 0.3.3 - The Multiplayer Update (hotfix) is out!

• Fixed server crash on startup

Pre-Alpha 0.3.2 - The Multiplayer Update

• Added Multiplayer
• Added account authentication
• Servers can whitelist, add operator status and ban players
• Added ban, ban-ip, unban, unban-ip, kick, op, and de-op commands
• Commands are now synchronized
• Server settings can have a default gamemode for players
• Server now only sends entity positions when they change
• Added brick blocks And now for the notable changes of the previous discord-only pre-releases leading up to this one:
• Fixed credits using the wrong charset
• Flying downwards in no-clip is now the same speed as going up
• Fixed block loot drops not dropping on center
• Fixed backspace in chat not deleting on the cursor
• Fixed creative mode consuming blocks in inventory
• Item catalog gives different amounts depending on if shift clicking or not
• Fixed a bug where block with inverted normals had no bounding box
• Air blocks have their own block event separate from default
• The environment variable ITCHIO_API_KEY will now accept itch API keys as well as JWT keys

Pre-Alpha 0.3.2-pre6

• 2D and 3D sounds are now networked
• Added ticking on servers
• Fixed block loot drops not dropping on center
• Backspace now deletes on cursor, not at end
• Creative mode blocks don't decrease when placed
• Item catalog now gives different amounts depending on if shift clicking or not
• Crates are now networked
• Fixed bug where could not place blocks above top loaded chunk on servers
• When pasting, replace the default text in multiplayer address field
• Fixed crash when pasting in multiplayer address

Pre-Alpha 0.3.2-pre5

Another discord-only development release, to hold you over for those who really can't wait for the fully fledged update.

• Fixed being unable to break leaves in multiplayer
• Disconnects are handled properly
• Fixed english tips being replaced by hungarian ones
• No clip flying down is now the same speed as flying up
• Fixed block positions causing crashes in negative coordinates

Pre-Alpha 0.3.2-pre4

• Fix default path for windows causing crash on first save
• This server is compatible with 0.3.2-pre2 clients

Pre-Alpha 0.3.2-pre3

• Potential fix for windows
• This server is compatible with 0.3.2-pre2 clients

Pre-Alpha 0.3.2-pre2

Another discord-only development release, to hold you over for those who really can't wait for the fully fledged update.

• Chat is limited to 256 chars per message
• Fixed credits using the wrong charset
• Join message whenever a player enters the server
• Server uses jar location to store worlds + config
• Can break, place and interact with blocks in servers now. (some block events are only partially implemented)
• Various networking crashes fixed

Pre-Alpha 0.3.2-pre1

This is a discord-only development release intended for modloaders to adapt to the new systems for multiplayer. Multiplayer will not function properly outside of basic actions like moving around.

• Added basic multiplayer via netty
• The client save directory is used, and the server cannot be configured yet
• All clients + server must have the same mods for expected results
• No account auth is used yet.

Pre-Alpha 0.3.1

• Fixed axes not being effective towards wooden crates
• Fixed sounds not loading from their resource locations
• Fixed credits screen crashing
• Better error handling on block events
• Better logging on block state generators

Pre-Alpha 0.3.0

• All mods and assets are now namespaced, data mods must be in the path /mods/YOUR_NAMESPACE/YOUR_ASSET_FOLDER/YOUR_ASSET
• For example, if I added a banana item, it would be under the path in the save directory /mods/my_banana_mod/items/banana.json
• Please refer to the base assets as examples on how to migrate your data mods to 0.3.0
• Items now have tooltips
• Credits scroll faster when holding the sprint or jump keybinds
• Tools are only damaged if blocks have a hardness greater than 0
• Saplings no longer block light
• Normals on saplings are now fixed
• Saplings can only plant on valid blocks now
• Added canPlace predicate to sapling
• Dropped block_ prefix from block json file names
• Moved isTransparent and cullsSelf flags to from blockstate to model files
• Models and textures are now referenced by their identifier in files
• Refactored language files to support tooltips and mods, added translation keys for blocks and items

Pre-Alpha 0.2.5

• Added /skylight command
• Added credits screen
• Added community contribution: 3D Item models
• Reduced frequency of iron ore generation
• Poplar trees now have their own leaves and saplings
• Added new block event: base:loot_drop which allows blocks to have a custom loot table

Pre-Alpha 0.2.4

• You can now paste seeds directly in the world creation screen
• The cursor now resets to the center of the screen when opening the inventory
• Fixed nostalgic islands world type never loading in
• Fixed mesh glitches when too many blocks are edited at once
• Fixed a bug where a single-block layer would upgrade to a bit layer with the wrong block
• Fixed respawning whenever the game restarts
• Fixed camera getting stuck looking straight down when away from the world origin

Pre-Alpha 0.2.3

• Fix player respawning every time the world is loaded

Pre-Alpha 0.2.2

• Fix crash in F3 debug menu when not looking at blocks
• Potential fix for cropped screenshots on certain mac computers

Pre-Alpha 0.2.1

• Reduced vertex size
• Reduced in-memory representation of blocks and world sizes on disk
• Remove metal blocks from interceptor loot
• Fix spawn point to be dependent on the world seed
• Fixed world spawn being set in the air or in water
• Fixed bug where player is spawned with 10 out of 3 max HP
• Fixed block selection being interrupted while moving
• Fix mod asset loading for windows (Testers wanted!)
• Potential screenshot fix for mac (Testers wanted!)

Pre-Alpha 0.2.0

• Added the new "Survival" world type
• Added /time command
• Added Poplar trees
• Added per-face normals, and blocks are now lit by the position of the sun
• Added iron and aluminium tools
• Added block hardness
• Spawn position is now random in a 5000 block radius from 0, 0
• Default sky for non-moon worlds is now dynamic, temporarily removed the lighting options
• Fixed bug freezing player on first world load
• Fixed falling through the floor when away from the original camera position on load
• Fixed modded items and recipes not loading on windows
• Removed generateSlabs flag from block states

Pre-Alpha 0.1.50

• Fix crashing on breaking block in new world
• Fix crash on modded item overwriting an existing one

Pre-Alpha 0.1.49

• Added item durability
• Furnaces now explode when smelting C4
• Temporarily added a rare chance for interceptors to drop gold ingots
• Allied interceptors are now cyan instead of green
• Furnace screen now closes when the furnace is broken
• Fixed modded items + recipes not loading in
• Fixed crash when a missing block is replaced with a modded item

Pre-Alpha 0.1.48

• Items, furnace recipes, crafting recipes, and loot now load from data ( and data mods! )
• Player now starts at 3 max HP
• Added gold, aluminium, and iron for both ores and ingots
• Added a gold medkit, which increases your max HP by 1 up to a max of 10
• Can now tame interceptors using a gold ingot
• Can now double jump in creative to go into no-clip
• Sticks now take two planks instead of one
• Fixed player freezing upon teleporting or respawning
• Fixed bug where a crash would occur on absurd amounts of leaves
• Fixed furnace dropping its lit variant
• Fixed furnace being lit with a non fuel item in fuel slot
• Fixed bug where shift clicking into furnace caused a crash
• Fixed duplication bug when pressing drop item key in the crafting output
• Added a crash guard as a temporary fix until a rare bug with large amounts of meshes can be diagnosed

Pre-Alpha 0.1.47

• Fixed tools not working

Pre-Alpha 0.1.46

• Added a furnace
• Takes logs, planks, sticks, leaves, wooden crates, or magma as fuel
• Can smelt sand into glass, and stone into magma
• Added /nightvision command
• Added short aliases for commands (use the /help command for more details)
• Inventory UI now has higher contrast
• The world now saves its current time
• Fixed a huge lag spike when placing or breaking blocks near rainbows (yes really)
• Fixed a bug where clicking an empty item slot may crash the game
• Fixed severe flickering of water and leaves in the batch renderer

Pre-Alpha 0.1.45

• Added block tags (For data modders: an arbitrary list of strings called tags in a blockstate)
• "Flicking" an item on the ground now plays a small sound
• Fixed a bug where selecting a different block would not reset the breaking timer
• Fixed the bug where player would freeze on making a new world
• Fixed ghost transparent blocks in the batch renderer
• Fixed bug where cursor slot had the wrong perspective for an item
• Fixed shifting clicking crafting outputs not stacking + output slot is now coloured differently
• Fixed sticks not stacking
• Fixed rare crash when breaking animation is exactly one
• Allow survival mode players to disable no-clip via hotkey
• Fixed shovels not being effective towards dirt
• Fixed missing block related crash when breaking with tool

Pre-Alpha 0.1.44

• Added crafting system
• Added "2d" items
• Added medkit
• Added stick
• Added stone axe, pickaxe, and shovel
• Added /die command
• Added /teleport command
• Added /gamemode command (Use /gamemode creative and /gamemode survival)
• Can no longer instant-break blocks in survival mode
• Hitting items on the ground knocks them back
• Dynamic sky colour is now brighter on the horizon
• Chat text shadow is now darker
• Can no longer no-clip via hotkey in survival
• Fixed bottom of water clipping
• Adjusted metal panel + drone textures to be more saturated
• Debug screen shows bounding boxes of entities

Pre-Alpha 0.1.43

• Held item is now independent of FOV
• Made picking up items easier
• Random ticks now only occur in immediately surrounding regions
• Fixed a bug where the player would freeze when making a new world
• Fixed item jitter
• Added commands, notably /noclip and /summon
• Sprinting now influences the FOV
• Adjusted sprinting and walking speed
• Fixed a rare batch rendering crash

Pre-Alpha 0.1.42

• Fixed the stars spinning like crazy.

Pre-Alpha 0.1.41

• The currently selected item is now shown in your first person "right hand".
• Support non english world names
• Fixed bug where you could drop the wrong hotbar item if the cursor is hidden and hovered over
• The world loader thread now sleeps when idle
• Really really long world names are truncated in the world selection menu
• Fixed leaf decay crash
• Item drops float when "inside" blocks
• Can pick up items one block up
• Stars now rotate in the Dynamic sky
• Gravity is stronger, the player is now less "floaty"
• Crates drop items when destroyed
• Items correctly display "0" when count is 0, and no longer display if count is 1.
• @Language Contributor Localized the percent format for the loading screen
• Fixed the drone texture
• Camera far clipping plane now shrinks with lesser render distances

Pre-Alpha 0.1.40

• Blocks now drop as items
• New block event: base:item_drop, which can take in a position and optionally dropId as an input parameter
• Picking block now chooses the "correct" block state
• Pressing the drop item key in the inventory can drop the item in the hovered slot
• Stairs and vertical slabs now placed based on camera orientation rather than raycast position
• Fixed freeze when picking up similar items in inventory
• Fixed being unable to reliably leave water when swimming
• Worlds are now sorted by last played
• All saved strings + files use UTF-8 wherever possible
• Fixed being able to go fullscreen with the mouse causing the game to be unplayable

Pre-Alpha 0.1.39

• Fixed placed coconuts despawning after some time instead of growing trees
• Fixed leaf blocks growing into trees
• Fixed being unable to shift-click items when the hotbar is full

Pre-Alpha 0.1.38

• Added coconut trees
• The nostalgic islands world type is now the default
• Added random ticks, available now in block events with the onRandomTick trigger
• Added the base:increment_param block event action
• Fixed storage screen flickering on the first frame
• Fixed being able to drop an item from another world
• Meshing optimizations
• Clicking outside of the inventory drops the cursor's item
• Clicking in the item catalog now deletes the cursor's item
• Health bar now flashes when dropping
• Fixed game not pausing after loading if window unfocused
• Drones no longer drop dirt, grass or tree logs

Pre-Alpha 0.1.37

• Added a flying drone called the Interceptor
• Added a trap which spawns Interceptors
• Added a death screen
• Added damage effects
• Improved the main menu
• Added a difficulty setting: Currently only peaceful and normal are used.
• Can now drop items out of the inventory
• Fixed crash when creating a new world or respawning
• Fixed lighting calculations
• Moved game tick updates to a separate thread
• Fixed random frame-dependent camera jitter
• Fixed background threads not closing properly when the game crashes
• Region file version bumped to version 2
• Game can now save and load entities

Pre-Alpha 0.1.36

• Fixed bug with black screen on creating a new world
• Fixed bug where cycling item types of a missing block would cause a crash

Pre-Alpha 0.1.35

• Fixed bug where world would crash upon entering

Pre-Alpha 0.1.34

• Can now cycle block types in hotbar, e.g. blocks/slabs/stairs (set to the " ` " keybind by default)
• Can now set the save game directory with command line option -s or --save-location
• World info now stores additional metadata
• Added 3D audio, with new play_sound_3d block event
• Fixed a bug where picking a missing block would cause a crash
• Fixed a bug where changing worlds would show a black screen until pausing
• Fixed bug where dropping an item could not be rebound to mouse buttons
• Fixed a regessing bug where the last transparent block in a chunk would still be visible after removal
• Space keybind is no longer blank when set
• More internal work on mobs

Pre-Alpha 0.1.33

• Small hotfix to fix crashing when opening a crate
• Various translation fixes

Pre-Alpha 0.1.32

• Added the "Dynamic Sky" lighting option
• Added mouse keybinds for placing / breaking blocks
• Slight inventory improvements
• Max stack size increased to 1000, displayed as 1K
• Breaking blocks adds it back to your inventory
• Significant batch renderer optimizations
• Improved the internal block entity API for modders
• Mac vertex format is now the same as on PC
• Various translation additions
• Added health bar

Pre-Alpha 0.1.31d

Unknown. MacOS test version

Pre-Alpha 0.1.31c

Unknown. MacOS test version

Pre-Alpha 0.1.31b

Unknown. MacOS test version

Pre-Alpha 0.1.31

• Fixed placed blocks above y=256 not saving
• Fixed huge lag spike when quitting to main menu
• Fixed item duplication bug
• Fixed a crash with the batch renderer
• Various translation improvements

Pre-Alpha 0.1.30

• Hotfix to prevent worlds regenerating terrain and reverting placed blocks

Pre-Alpha 0.1.29

• Added wooden crate
• Added gravel
• Added limestone
• Added gabbro stone
• You can now build at any height above y=0
• Inventory and hotbar are now saved
• Items are now limited, to a maximum stack size of 999x
• Significant memory and meshing optimisations
• Fixed frustum culling issues
• Introduced the 'naive' renderer, which is slower but potentially more stable for laptops
• You can now switch between the default 'batched' and the new 'naive' renderer in the settings
• Added block entity logic, with saving and loading
• Region file version has been bumped from 0 to 1
• Various translation fixes

Pre-Alpha 0.1.28

• Added asphalt block
• Added Welsh, Serbian (also I forgot to mention Romanian from a previous update)
• Fixed wall running
• Fixed glitch-hopping when crawling near slabs
• Fixed glitching to the side of vertical slabs
• Fixed being unable to climb stairs with a vertical slab above
• Fixed block state generators not loading from the mods folder correctly
• Exposed debug info as public to java mods

Pre-Alpha 0.1.27

• Various movement fixes
• Player no longer phases through blocks when sprinting
• Player no longer glitches into the ground when falling
• Glass stairs are no longer ugly
• Added stairs for metal panels, aluminium panels, and packed lunar soil
• Added Serbian and other localisation fixes

Pre-Alpha 0.1.26

• Fixed glass slabs missing from the last update

Pre-Alpha 0.1.25

• Added stairs for seamless blocks
• Added block state generators, which can create variants of blocks at startup
• generateSlabs is deprecated, please replace it with "stateGenerators": ["base:slabs_all"] in your data mods!

Pre-Alpha 0.1.24

• Fixed a severe memory leak with the debug menu
• Added missing font glyphs for Croatian
• Added Bulgarian, Czech, and another dialect of Norwegian
• Various localization fixes

Pre-Alpha 0.1.23

• Added Turkish, Hungarian, Danish, Sicilian, Catalan, Swedish, Croatian, Italian
• Fixed various localization issues
• Pre-alpha text will now try to fit on screen the best it can
• If text on buttons are too long, text will wrap to try to fit as well as it can

Pre-Alpha 0.1.22

• The game has been translated to multiple languages, including Spanish, German, French, Norwegian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Ukrainian (thank you everyone for your contributions!)
• Introducing block events base:set_cuboid, base:set_sphere and base:set_spherical_segment
  • These block events allow for setting blocks en masse, and running triggers for each block before and after setting
  • Examples can be found in assets/block_events/examples in the jar file

Pre-Alpha 0.1.21

• Made walking speed faster
• Made sprinting speed slower
• Macs can render the world now
• Fixed bug where blocks would go missing on a palette clean

Pre-Alpha 0.1.20

• Adjusted water shader slightly
• Adjusted player physics in water
• Player walks slower now
• Potential fix for inputs being ignored when creating a new world
• Bottom of nostalgic islands world type now converts from missing to basalt stone

Pre-Alpha 0.1.19

• Added back references to myself to the game (the guy who wrote the previous changelog has been canned.)
• Nostalgic islands now generate with stone at the bottom layer instead of lava- uh, I mean cheese.
• Got rid of foolish blocks
• Fixed bug where entering the keybinds menu would stop all keypresses from working
• Fixed the player's position not loading properly

Pre-Alpha 0.1.18 (April Fools Update)

• FinalForEach has been cancelled so all references to him in the game have been removed.
• Added nostalgic island world type
• Added a hunger and health system for a true survival experience
• You can now eat cheese to restore health
• Added can... but no can opener (find another way to open it!)
• Added "red" "stone"
• Added Foreshadowing block
• Added a block that really doesn't want to exist
• Re-unused boombox
• Unacknowledged moonman
• Reverted atlas size increase
• Reverted reversion of atlas size increase
• Fixed worlds unloading incorrectly
• Triggers are now per-zone rather than per-game

Pre-Alpha 0.1.17b blue

• Testing version for the block catalog for MacOS

Pre-Alpha 0.1.17b red

• Testing version for the block catalog for MacOS

Pre-Alpha 0.1.17

• Fixed crash on world selection screen when world seed was not set

Pre-Alpha 0.1.16

• Added world creation screen
• Can set world name, seed, and type
• Added flat world type
• Fixed random crash with the Batched renderer
• Major internal changes, separating the concept of worlds and zones to prepare for multiplayer

Pre-Alpha 0.1.15

• Fixed crash when chunk's palette size exceeded 128
• Palette is automatically cleaned up when exceeding a soft limit of 128 or hard limit of 4096
• Major internal refactors to prepare for multiplayer

Pre-Alpha 0.1.14b

Unknown

Pre-Alpha 0.1.14

• Added tickDelay to base:run_trigger
• Added debug crash button for an easy way to copy specs
• Fixed texture buffer sharing the same binding as the diffuse texture
• Fixed bug where missing blockstate id would crash when no default params specified
• Fixed open save directory bug on windows not catching AWTError

Pre-Alpha 0.1.13d

Unknown

Pre-Alpha 0.1.13c

Unknown

Pre-Alpha 0.1.13b

Unknown

Pre-Alpha 0.1.13

• Texture atlas size + precision increase using texture buffers.
• Added Max FPS Slider
• Fixed non-qwerty keybinds saving incorrectly
• Reduced max FOV to 150
• Fixed player-jittering in pause menu
• Fixed bug where zeroed view direction would freeze game
• Meshes no longer add border for null blocks

Pre-Alpha 0.1.12g

• Adjusted atlas size for testing

Pre-Alpha 0.1.12f

• UVs sent to the UBO are now checked for duplicates before expanding

Pre-Alpha 0.1.12e

• Unknown

Pre-Alpha 0.1.12d

• Unknown

Pre-Alpha 0.1.12c

• Unknown

Pre-Alpha 0.1.12b

• The textures atlas has been increased to 1024x, increasing the limit to 4096 different block textures (in 16x format).

Pre-Alpha 0.1.12

• Added run_trigger to relay custom triggers
• Unlocked FPS when not using VSync
• Updates now work on a fixed-timestep tick system
• Position in debug menu now uses two decimal places
• Fixed swimming physics that behaved differently with different FPS
• Fixed being able to place or break blocks while paused

Pre-Alpha 0.1.11

• Reverted the atlas size change.
• Reverted the UV texture precision.

Pre-Alpha 0.1.10

• Runtime texture atlas size increased from 256x to 1024x
• Increased UV texture precision for blocks from 7 bits to 32 bits per axis
• Moved some code into save library https://github.com/FinalForEach/Cosmic-Reach-Save-Library
• Pressing ESC in the keybinds menu no longer leaves if keybind button is active
• Fixed freeze when creating world if render distance is invalid

Pre-Alpha 0.1.9b

• A test for the inventory and open save directory button.

Pre-Alpha 0.1.9

• Fixed vertical slab placement when not placing on the ground
• Fixed worlds not unloading on going to main menu
• Fixed bug where open directory would go to the containing folder on windows

Pre-Alpha 0.1.8

• Added aluminium panels
• Slabs can now be orientated depending on placement position
• Removed debug printing from explosions, reducing lag
• Reduced stuttering at larger render distances
• Fixed bug on windows where the open directory buttons wouldn't open
• Fixed bug where non-english characters would crash the game

Pre-Alpha 0.1.7

• Added C4
• All lights can toggle on interact now
• Fixed bug where light slabs being toggled would turn into full blocks
• Introduced new block event trigger: onExplode
• Introduced new block event action: base:explode
• Introduced new block event action: base:set_block_state_params

Pre-Alpha 0.1.5d

• Changes to mesh and shader code specifically for MacOS

Pre-Alpha 0.1.6b

• Vsync is no longer activated by default. On/Off option should properly toggle Vsync now
• Partial MacOS Support

Pre-Alpha 0.1.6

• Added mouse sensitivity, FOV, and render distance sliders
• More work done towards mac support + a warning message that macs are not yet supported
• Selecting a block now takes into account its shape, not just its position
• Introduced the catalogHidden field for block states, hiding them from the item catalog by default

Pre-Alpha 0.1.5c

• Fixed invisible world
• Partial MacOS Support

Pre-Alpha 0.1.5b

• Partial MacOS Support

Pre-Alpha 0.1.5

• Reverted the atlas size change

Pre-Alpha 0.1.4

• Increased the runtime texture atlas size for blocks
• Block selection is now a wireframe
• Debug screen now shows the block you are looking at
• Work done towards mac support
• Keybinds should support non-QWERTY keyboards
• Fixed bug where multiple keybind buttons could be triggered at once

Pre-Alpha 0.1.3

• Introduced Block Events, Triggers and Actions
• Fixed a bug where one of the faces on the default cube was flipped

Pre-Alpha 0.1.2

• Pressing screenshot will notify you the file name
• Removing mods no longer corrupts the world
• Added world selection screen
• Inventory no longer duplicates items across pages
• Improved the default mouse sensitivity for wide screen resolutions

Pre-Alpha 0.1.1

• Fixed the last item in the item catalog being unable to be added to the hotbar

Pre-Alpha 0.1.0

• Adds packed lunar soil
• The blocks.png is overwritten at runtime, all block textures are separate files

Pre-Alpha 0.0.14

• Fixes the last item in the catalog being omitted

Pre-Alpha 0.0.13

• Fixed the inventory buttons not closing
• Fixed the water shader ruining the UI when escaped

Pre-Alpha 0.0.12

• Fixed inventory slot bugs (unsure)

Pre-Alpha 0.0.11

• Skipped Version

Pre-Alpha 0.0.10

• Inventory pages
• Light slabs

Pre-Alpha 0.0.9

• Fixed the last-transparent-block bug

Pre-Alpha 0.0.8

• Fixed the menu F1 bug
• Shaders can now use an #import preprocessor

Pre-Alpha 0.0.7

• Fixed alt-tabbing ruining the player file

Pre-Alpha 0.0.6

• Allows all assets to be loaded from the mods folder

Pre-Alpha 0.0.5

• Fixed crouching on slabs

Pre-Alpha 0.0.4

• Code cleanup
• Update chunk-water shader

Pre-Alpha 0.0.3

• Adds more error catching/logging to code

Pre-Alpha 0.0.2

• Fixed no block destruction cool-down while in the inventory
• Added basic mod support

Pre-Alpha 0.0.1

• Game Release