With the monster fruit hint I gave you, you had no trouble guessing. Indeed, Survivalcraft is coming to Apple hardware!
It’s a massive step forward for the game, although those who don’t have Apple devices may not feel that way. Here’s a video of the game running on iPad 3:
Although I am no great fan of Objective C (which is the native language in iOS), one thing must be said: Apple makes well optimized software/hardware combinations. My iPod Touch 3G runs the game at playable rates, despite having a measly 600MHz CPU dating back to 2009. It runs probably twice as fast as it does on HTC Desire, which has a 1GHz CPU.
Existing users need not worry: Apple guys are getting the same version that is already on Android and Windows Phone, which is 1.20. There are no new features in it, only a few bugfixes. The actual version number is 1.20.7.
1.21, when it comes, will be released simultaneously (certification permitting) on all 3 platforms.
Of course, it all depends whether Apple will accept it. They are known to fail apps frequently, and it’s my first venture into that market. I spent a lot of time making sure it will pass, but anything can happen.
Once Apple port is out of the way, I’ll resume working on 1.21. I think there’s about 2 weeks of work left to do there, but it’s a rough estimate. I still need to finalize the riding code. Most importantly I am not sure how best to let you control the horse once the player is riding it.
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Don’t apple charge you ridiculous amounts to be a developer?
I think its only like $100 US
AS LONG IF THE UPDATE COMES TO ANDROID AND WINDOWS PHONE FIRST,IB cool with me
OH YEAH, FOR SOME REASON, … I kinda play mcpe more than this because of the fps and the smoothness. But I like this game very much but the fps is too low and it’s not that smooth unlike mcpe, it’s smooth with all devices. But I play this game alot, so I’m not hating. Please no hate replies, I’m just saying where’s the smoothness. But, I like this game better than mcpe. Just add crack effects and smoothness.
Here runs very well
Get ready to see the money come rolling in with Apple. I have many friends with IOS devices that are so eager to play this game but they don’t have the chance to. The only problem i see is whether or not my friends will pay the price for the game.
Yeah jriot is kinda right about that. Get ready for the criticism from the comments. Well anyways could the horses jump, please reply. I wish you good luck kaalus, ignore if there is hate comments.
Thank you for finally answering my question kaalus.
Just one thing to mention. Minecraft PE is on the system so it may just be failed due to some sort of copyright/trademark issue. Or people may call it a clone and give you bad ratings I hope the best for you. And to James, the developer cost is the same as a WP developer, $99/year.
Oh right, thanks
I don’t think copyright will be an issue, since already several similar games are in the market too. It will most likely come down to visibility and sales, since MCPE and other games have established themselves in the market. A good buy for a first game, if you haven’t purchased anything else yet, otherwise people might not pay for a game they already have.
Still, best hope for a profitable return.
Even thought i don’t have any apple devices I think it’s good to get the game more popular, and apple version does indeed do just that. It’s just VERY important to make it clear that the game isn’t copy of MC.
Cool beans
What the heck?!??!!! I thought I was the only person who says cool beans
um no I lol I have been saying that + awesome socks
i say pixelgeri (geri is cow in maldives).. i managed to learn some words
Did anyone else experience a 1/4 of the screen blocked in the video
AHHHHH! I couldn’t be more excited!! :D
From WP –> Android –> and now iOS?
Ok if you are going to add Survivalcraft for more devices… Can you make Survivalcraft for Windows 8?
Please add Survivalcraft for Windows 8
Good for you kaalus I hope it is profitable:D
You should give the original platform a update 2 week week before all the others
Good Idea ;-)
I vote for what you said, add android ‘s and Windows phone update first. If you add IOS first….. :<… YOU WOULD BETRAY US.
You should let us freely control the horse unlike the crap MC does with the carrot on a stick because it would be easier and then we wouldn’t need to waste more materials
HEY KAALUS.Why did u take out cruel mode?I miss having a challenge like cruel mode.cruel mode is way more challenging than challengeing mode.
PS WHEN WILL SC 1.21 come out.I use to be the one not so excited about it.but I always have random dreams when the horses come to life then I realize that 1.21 came out.And I was like Omg its out then I rode the horses. Put some horses in my roof horse pen. Then my mom woke me up 4 school.I was so sad.I even looked at survivalcraft.It was’int out.I was so sad.PLEASE TELL ME WHEN ITS OUT PLEASE….:'( PLEASE. ILL DO ANY THING.no pressure.Please someone repley.even kaalus can repley
2 weeks of rough estimate.. april
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. SCHOOOLLL.
He said in two weeks
He didn’t remove the cruel mode
Nicolas.Try starting a new world and changing the settings to cruel mode.U might not find cruel mode.He must have taking it out.if cruel mode is not there
Wait no ahahahahahahaha I have no school, I’m …..nvm it’s private life.
U can’t change it to cruel mode u have to start ur world in cruel mode so try again then answer back
I have no idea what your talking about
Make a whole new world then in the spot u pick the game mode it will be there u just can’t have a place then switch it to cruel
You can’t change challeging mode to cruel, you ll have to create another world and them select cruel
TRYied that.didn’t work.I couldint find it.I have no space 4 new worlds so I edited some worlds.I couldint find it.not trying to be mean.!( I LIKE PIE
YEAH U ARE RIGHT. WHERE IS CRUEL MODE, DID YOU SWITCH IT FOR ADVENTURE.
Delete one of ur worlds than make one and when ur creating the world pick cruel mode answer back
As long as updates come out for android first, than I’m fine with that!
What is kaalus’s email?
candyrufusgames@gmail.com
Windows phone (Android too) should get the update early =D
But Android was not first, so why
Every device have to receive at same time U.u
Hey im happy for kaalus to but we got ur back for the apple people who hate ur game we got ur back. Am i right everyone?
mhmm I’m with you on that one
Amen praise tha lord
mmhhm
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pixelgeri rocks
Yup
Apple people are strict on if a game is a copy be careful
Srry i keep posting is sc only for ipad3 cause my sis has ipod4g and cant get it
it hasn’t gone out yet in the app store for ios.
I know but kaalus played it how that work
-_- he’s the developer figure it out
Yes it has
Anyone know his email????????
I HATE YOU STUPID APPLE PEOPLE YOU ALWAYS THINK YOU ARE SOO GOOD WELL YOU ARE A TERRIBLE COMPANY IM ASHAMED OF YOU, ANDROID AND KINDLE AND WINDOWS, ALL THOSE ARE GOOD COMPANIES BUT YOU’RE NOT!
lol my dad got me the new iPod and it broke IN THE CASE I was like Wtf f u apple ima go back to my awesome android that I have dropped 12 times ( yes I actually counted) and still works like its brand new out of the box
i dropped mine 57 times lol
I dropped mine 34 times
Apple was actually ment for girls though that’s why we hate it ps minecraft all around sucks now even pc version compared to sc
My favorite game on android is SC and on PC it is MC. But I love both as much
MINE CRAFT FOR PC IS A WHOOOLLLE DIFFERENT THING. So yeah, of course it would be minecraft. But the looks of it, Sc is only on the alpha stage and look how it is. If sc is on the version on Mc for pc is, sc would be better than mc on pc. But since mc for pc is ahead, yeah mc is better than sc. Look how sc is, ITS ONLY ON ALPHA STAGE.
Omg r u stupid, pc crushes survival craft
Shut up go talk about minecraft somewhere else this is sc by the way minecraft SUCKS why do u think he changed it plus minecraft company itself is trying to make pe diffrent to try to make it not suck
apple was good..BEST until steve jobs died
True….
Dude chill
OMG 2 weeks ASDFGHJKL
Ik exciting isn’t it
2 weeks!! omg
Mmm maybe after the updates you can start working on something like a better cooking system or fruit bearing trees. Keep the updates coming though ;] gj
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Check my website please…..
how do you get the rate my site thing it says Excellent Good Not bad Bad Awful also i like your site this is my one
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its really crappy but i will fix it am 11
What website maker did u use?I use Ucoz.And the rate poll thing was always there.
Oh sorry,I didnt see you used Ucoz,btw the design is different,Did you chose Web Polls when you first started making the website
nice website vinny
Mmm, great job all of you on encouaging potential Apple SC users to buy….
kaalus here is something for more cha-ching .. change the name.. the ‘craft’ makes people feel its copy of mcpe..how ’bout ..marooned..or add a new begginning and call it shipwreck..no offense or pressure but you can keep the name :)
Probably named it so similarily to mineceaft because 1) it is a game similar to it and more importantly 2) it is easier to bexome more known with that name because minecraft is searched a lot on app stores, and the name shows up with minevrat. Voila. Thats how i found sc actually.
Sorry for all the spelling errors, my keyboard hates me.
Actually your right, I only found this game while looking for minecraft, I decided to try it out along with MC pe and found that SC was wwaaayyy better.
Yeah right minecraft is way better, but this has electricity, even still, minecraft is bettervand has better graphics and stuff. On this,bears drop bacon, you EAT water, and it’s almost impossible to make a cobblestone generator
oh ok i see
Driop its easy ur just too stupid to know how and what do u mean minecraft is better grafics EVERY thing is a box even the colors nothings smoothed out a all sc all animals are smoothed out and at least we have bears I don’t want to go outside and see spiders bigger than me and skelectons with bows worst idea ever the creeper is just a giant green spotted dick
Why attack minecraft? I play only SC cause MCPE it’s horrible
But it true
Have fun riding pigs jackoff
I’m sorry for get mad but just don’t talk about how bad u think sc is and how much u think minecraft is better on sc wordpress
Cool, I have a friend who REALLY wants this game and he only has an apple ipod
Can you put it on the ipad 2
Maybe you could move the horse using the same controls. But have an unmount button.
I like this idea maybe if you jump at a horse with a saddle in your hands you mount it :-)
hey people watch pewdiepie’s videos, they’re awsome!
yo kaalus i want normal player movement buttons.. and when mounted has unmount button.. like duxk has said
I think is a great idea even though im a android user its great for apple user because if kaalus adds multiplayer he will have money to keep up servers because not only android and wp money but ios money too? If he gonna add it then u got money for servers too keep up. Also the controls for the horse u should use the same as walking but an unmount button like someone said above
I prefer to host the server and my friend connect via IP…
So do I but how u know ur internet slow or u dont got enough requirements to host a server
“Most importantly I am not sure how best to let you control the horse once the player is riding it.”
Maybe putting one finger on the horse head to guide the horse to where you want it to go.
Just a thought, maybe an idea, maybe a help…
I’m enjoying the game Survivalcraft, keep up the excellent work.
Cheers Runesten
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Survivalcraft
Or, make it like the player, same controls….. Whatever is good.
KAALUS, you must add money, villagers that trade with money, enemy bases, robots, other dimensions like a skyworld, tents, nukes, custom blockmaker, beds, cameras that you can use for paintings in survivalcraft, and islands in the next update.
Tents would be cool. Villagers would be sweet. Nukes? TOTALLY AWESOME!!!
Kaalus is probably not adding nukes because it would probably lag and bug up survivalcraft
That’s all in the next update? Huh, add 2 months :)
That’s wat I WANT kaalus to add in 1.22
What all can u throw kaalus it took me till today to find out u can throw bricks
heh mee too and if he adds multiplayer imma gon smack my bro with a brick
It takes off about just as much as a wooden spear
I love the brick its my new weapon kills birds with three hits
get iron spear bro.. i shot is bird stew
I LOVE BIRDS>> I EVEN HAVE CAGE 3:)
Hello Kaalus I am wondering when do you think the 1.21 update for Survivalcraft will be out.
P.S. I love the game got it as soon as it came out on android .
April 4th (2 weeks)
Unrelated question, when u set animals on firent night why does it not give off any light gradient????
If you bring cross-platform multiplayer to this game, I will buy you a very high quality beer.
Please add boats because if you add sharks, i won’t be able to swim in challenging mode.
SC is finally coming to iOS, I’ve been waiting for this for so long. As expected, many apple haters will gonna hate to know about this, but I’m fine with it. Hope one day SC will be available to all mobile platforms and online multiplayer on all mobile platforms will be implemented to the game, so that all SC players can enjoy the game together.
SC will be listed in one of the top games in the Apple AppStore, it will definitely be ranked higher than MCPE.
Wait man, in google play SC still behind MC, and amazon appstore too
lets have a cool poll.. (finished stealing brothers cash)
You mentioned in the video that the lowest spec Ipod that survivalcraft could play would be the Iphone 3GS
Will it be able to play on any of the Ipod touch devices?? (Im thinking of the Itouch 4th and 5th generation)
Yes, definitely. I tested it on iPod Touch 3G and 4G. The tiny screen is the biggest issue.
Nice!! :)
Hi
Kaalus add fireflys, house stuff, coral reefs and rainbow
yeah natural fireflies(unkillable due to size_) or able to obtain bioluminiscent (watever) light after death.. smelt with that and any color of paint.. NEON PAINT
Soo does this mean it works on Ipad 2 ? if so great
hi kaalus i have andriod but still like the idea plus please add soler panel and mfe and jetpack like in minecraft feed the beast please if cant no problem and please add multiplayer i really need it because i am makeing a awesome map to try with friends so please add multiplayer
photo diode is replacement of solar panel
Congratulations on expanding your market ( if ;) )
Hope you make BIG bucks!!
please add industuralcraft stuff
what is photo diode
what is photo diode??
Turns stuff on or makes it move when enough light has to be hooked up with wires use not gate so switches when it is dark enough
check recipedia kid :_)
Ok,I know is a survival game but can you put like some weapons. Like the mp5,m1119 I don’t know . Just saying.
Guns will make it voilent
I want only a shotgun
Hunting guns would good
i love survival craft
lol
Make:
If you step on a powered cable you lose half a heart
Wolfs and coyote bite instead of having their heads moving
how do you get the rate my site thing it says Excellent Good Not bad Bad Awful also i like your site this is my one
http://naibkingpro1.ucoz.com/
its really crappy but i will fix it am 11
If he were to make that with the wires, we should have like overhead wires that can be suspended without having a block to put it on every unit
my old site is all gone i have done a big mistake but i made a new one.
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add animal breeding
Kaalus please read, ok so something is wrong with my game because every time I want to change a world’s name it crashes and sends me to my tablet’s home screen, please talk about it in the next post, and please somebody help me please!
provide name of tablet to kaalus and android wersions its running on
Heheh, u said wersions!!
**** MY KEYBOARD
perhaps the big bang was when SC destroyed MineCraft
Kaalus I need t o talk t o you in. Private please if you have gmail oh and shut up other people
Mojang would have to make improvments on mcpe if survival craft comes out because if they find out about it they would get a little pissed
What he should ad is meatle detectors and remote detonators and whey is ther spaces for armoure and no amour?
Add saphire and remotes witch link to remote blockes and any wire touching it will power last one roller doors and wheels