The Volatile World Update, Part 1

Alpha 1.6.0 - The Volatile World Update, Part 1

World Events:

• Added the World Events framework.
• Added two new World Events, "Bountiful Harvest" and "Beta Heatwave". As of now, these mostly affect forests and ice, as those are the Dynamics already implemented.
• Currently, these can only be accessed through a keybind.

Music:

• Add the TSL Volume Beta soundtrack songs by Takijana
• 7 new songs are in the game so far, replacing the Volume Alpha OST: "Safe", "Triumphant", "Funderar", "Enter the Depths", "Mummy!!", "Stalagmites and Stalactites", and "Hypercurian".

General Improvements:

• Subsequent loads after the first launch are now finally way faster

The Dynamic Update

Alpha 1.5.0 - The Dynamic Update

Dynamic Map Changes:

• Ice will now thaw all across the map.
• Forests will now regrow after they've been chopped down, but only if they are cut down sustainably.

World Manipulation:

• Apples can now be grown by placing down Osmium blocks in Forests.
• Cacti can be destroyed by placing Uranium blocks next to them.

Gold:

• Added Gold Ore, which can spawn on every layer.
• Added Gold Item and Gold Blocks
• Gold currently does not have any uses except causing Siegers to despawn when they steal a Gold block

Other Additions:

• Added the /fill command, with the syntax /fill <x1> <y1> <x2> <y2> <z> <value>.

Tweaking:

• Gave armor-hearts invinicibility frames.
• Made mobs move and attack twice as fast on the Lunatic difficulty.

Internal Improvements:

• Improved the framerate massively by...
• ...converting mobs and objects into a more efficient object-oriented programming based format.
• Removed the laggy and complicated screenshot function in favor of a simple one
• Update the entire save system to make it more compact and less complex.
• File sizes of all save files are reduced by over 25%. #9 isn't quite fixed, but we're getting there.

Fixes:

• Fixed a crash caused by inputting invalid commands.

Alpha 1.4.1 Bugfix

Tuning:
Fixed a tuning issue that prevented mobs from spawning on Easy, Normal, and Hard difficulties.

Siege Update

Alpha 1.4.0 - The Siege Update

Difficulty:

• Add the difficulty system with four difficulties (Easy, Normal, Hard, Lunatic)
• Difficulty now scales invincibility frames, mob health, and mob spawning

Mobs:

• Add the Sieger mob, which is a mob that only shows up on the surface when you're stronger and can break structures.

Slash Commands:

• Add the commands system
• Add /summonmob, /summonobject, /settile, /heal, /give, /setweapon, /teleport, /difficulty, and /setarmor, which are all fairly self-explanatory
• Add /renameworld, which finally fixes #4

Tweaks:

• Make Backspace key work in text entry for world saves

The Radioactive Update

Alpha 1.3.0 - Radioactive Update

Music:

• Retuned the music downloading system.
• Added "Ice Water's Refrain" as a placeholder song

Tuning:

• Yoctobyte-ify (make more compact with less spacing) some of my code
• the loading screen was tweaked and now actually has a loading bar!
• Dedicate 0.5 more GB of RAM.

Crafting, Weapons, Armor:

• You can now craft all of the powerups! Gel is finally useful!
• Added Greensteel Sword (add uranium to steel)
• Fixed text leaving box in armor/weapon crafting displays by extending the box so the text fits in it

Bugfixing:

• Fixed bug where placing Osmium would still display as "Placing: Tin"
• Fixed bug where placing Tin or Osmium would not display the half-tangible block properly.
• Fixed ArrayOutOfBoundsException when loading saves in some instances
• Super Form now actually has a description.

World Generation:

• A third layer of cave generation.

Controls:

• Selecting what to place is now not frustrating (i.e. you can now place Tin if you have no Stone, or Osmium if you have no wood)

Structures:

• Lowering Dungeon 2 (to go down to the third cave layer)
• Castle and Ruined Castle overworld structures!

Uranium:

• Added Uranium Ore, Uranium Item, and Uranium Blocks
• Uranium Ore works like catci but even deadlier, you better mine it quickly!
• Uranium Blocks have the same interaction with the player as Lava (i.e. deals damage to you if you walk into it)
• Uranium Blocks, unlike Lava, also damage mobs, so they work as an efficient trap if you can predict mob movement.

Alpha 1.2.1 Bugfix

Tuning:

• fix RAM dedication to allow the game to actually start up

Music:

• rename Wandering A, B, and C to Wandering, Flutter, and Insane Slimes respectively

Tweaking:

• fix combat so you can't just get knocked into a wall and immediately die

Make The Game Not Suck Update

Alpha 1.2.0 - Make The Game Not Suck Update

Internal:

• Perform a massive optimization to de-spaghettify the code.

Tuning:

• mixing on "Temple" fixed so it isn't AS loud
• schematics no longer download EVERY SINGLE time you start the game.
• fixed #6 - movement is now less stiff
• the colors of Osmium and Tin have been changed so they pop out more against the caves

Bugfixes:

• fixed bug where you can't heal half-hearts
• fixed issue #7 - worlds that were never saved will no longer appear in the saves list.

The Dungeons & Ruins Update

Miscellaneous / Fundamentals

• Add cave layer 2.
• Dedicate more RAM, so hopefully soon we can have maps bigger than 1k by 1k.
• Add Armor!!!

Blocks / Items

• Add Tin and Osmium Ore.
• Add Tin and Osmium Blocks.

Weapons & Armor

• Add Thistle Armor, Bronze Armor, Steel Armor, Iridosule Armor
• Add Bronze Sword, Steel Sword

Structures

• Add schematics.
• Add Lowering Dungeons.
• Removed the Omega House structure.
• Add the Grotto and Ocean Ruin structures.

Music

• Add Yet Darker
• Add sound volume settings.

The Temple Update

• Add the Temple dungeon.
• Add the Mummy boss fight and music for it.
• Add the Sandstone Temple Walls.
• Optimize mob despawning and world generation.
• Add the Super form.
• Rebalance form timers.

Omega 1.8.0

• Add the Mob system.
• Add Slimes
• Add cave demons.
• Add attack, weapons, and weapon upgrades.