PixelGuys/Cubyz 0.3.0

Cubyz 0.3.0

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Gameplay

• The Bag (throw all your trash loot in there and unpack it at your base)
• item drops have the same physics as the player (including bouncyness, surface friction and buoyancy)
• block selection and drops depends on tool type, you can only select and collect foliage with a sickle
• grass blocks are now craftable through grass seeds
• vine decay
• block selection is now based on the model, allowing you to select through holes in chiseled blocks
• tool stats are now rounded to their visual values in the background
• foliage is replaceable
• craftable swords (they are totally useless)

Terrain

• cave layers (addons can define their own layer without getting layers with mixed biomes from other addons)
• cave density can be configured per layer
• improved SDF system (rotation and cluster SDFs)
• parentEdgeDistance for subbiomes, makes islands more consistent
• biomes are now placed on a hexagonal grid, reducing the impact of grid artifacts
• surface caves are more connected, and it should be easier to find a cave that is worth exploring
• Borders between new and old surface terrain after version updates look more natural
• fixed subbiomes spawning outside their parent biome

New Biomes

• crying caves
• palm forest
• highlands biome (with stone circles)
• slate cave variants with different SDFs
• more island types (and they contain amber)
• archipelagos
• the mantle layer

Updated Biomes:

• sky islands (unique tress, caves)
• jungle (new trees, subbiomes)
• tall mountains
• mixed forest clearing
• glass forest

Structures

• young oak trees (replacing lollypop trees in multiple biomes)
• meteorites (can spawn in all biomes)
• snow snales (can spawn in snowy biomes)
• slimmer triclops statue
• old growth oak trees (spawns in bluebell woods and occasionally in other oak biomes)

Blocks and Items

• stone pillars (craftable)
• rough/smooth stone variants (craftable)
• cirrus wood blocks (sky islands)
• lumiflora (sky islands)
• lumi torches (craftable)
• pyrolite stone blocks (the mantle)
• ash block (volcanos, the mantle)
• voidstone blocks were overhauled (the root)
• many item and block ids changed

UI/UX:

• new menu music
• new songs for existing biomes, Kevin MacLeod's music was removed
• An account is no longer needed for singleplayer
• account creation and login was improved
• Player list with kick option (if you have the permission for it)
• The terminal now displays colors in chat using ANSI color codes (if available)
• improved text navigation with Ctrl

Commands

• /toggledecay to make branches/leaves decayable
• /avatar to set your player model (due to limitations in the permission system this only works in worlds with cheats enabled for now)
• /spawn world to display the world spawn
• /seed to get the world seed
• /server to stop or restart the server
• /blueprint list now lists all items including subfolders
• Bobik can't help you

Engine

• progress on the ECS (Entity Component System)
• gltf support for entity models
• aarch 64 windows support is back (it is not actively tested for though)
• linux versions with older glibc are supported by the release binary
• progress on the Vulkan rewrite
• fixed client lag spikes on bulk block updates
• block entities now use mod:name ids
• item migrations were fixed, iron ingots from before version 0.2.0 can be stacked with the migrated chisel iron
• fixed random teleportation issue in the physics code

I want to highlight some of the active contributors (100+ lines added)

@careeoki for all the new blocks and textures and biomes and structures she added
@tillpp for taking on the monumental task of starting the ECS
@Argmaster for the jungle improvements and the new command argument parser
@Wunka for many small improvements throughout the codebase
@codemob-dev for finally fixing item drops the proper way by refactoring the physics system
@TyrrelMeter for tall mountains
@RanPix for starting work on animations and not giving up on particles
@AfmanS for updating and improving some of the dependencies
@DellieDelta for implementing tool-based drops and improving the sickle
@Crepestrom for not adding mahogany cheese
@ikabod-kee for organizing the music contributions