The release of 1.27 is upon us. As usual, I will first publish for Android, which will serve as a beta-test platform for a hopefully short period of time.
Once all the bugs I missed during my testing are squashed, I will start publishing for other platforms.
This time I am more worried about the release than ever. This is by far the biggest code change since Survivalcraft was released in 2011. All because of the new engine.
Just to give you an idea of how much has changed since 1.26:
- New input system written from scratch
- New audio system written from scratch
- New graphics system written from scratch
- New storage access system written from scratch
- New web access system written from scratch
- New maths library written from scratch
- New content pipeline and build tools written from scratch
- Lots of new game features added
Every previous release from 1.0 to 1.26 only had to worry about the last bullet point on that list, and we still got bugs.
1.27 is a scary, scary thing… I expect there will be problems. I expect some devices that did work with the game will stop working. I expect some devices that did not work will start working. Although none of the phones or tablets in my big box of test devices did the former, I made sure of that. The world of Android is huge, fragmented and cruel :-)
By the way, I have just submitted 1.27.0.0 to Google Play Store so you should be able to update very soon and start hating me. Let the lashings commence!
Now on the merrier note. I haven’t told you about all the new features yet. In 1.27 you can throw or drop items on a chest, and it will automatically collect them (if there is space). Handy for automated harvesting systems.
Have a look at the video: http://youtu.be/tawQeMchgo0
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oh man…..
Just. Badass. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can ashes be used as a fertilizer
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Yay! Your the best Kaalus!
Hmm I was thinking Kaalus..maybe in the future the chests could actually be opened up…that way when we access it, it would open.. Then if we want, close it up “locked” if you will.. But if left open.. Items could be tossed in that way.. It will be a visual thing… And if left open, animals etc. could plunder the food inside for example…just a thought.. Great work nonetheless!
great idea makes sense too if you forget your door and chest open animals will scavenge your camp or home and maybe he could make a bag you need to make to increase your personal inventory. for instance you start with only the botttom bars and to have a personal inventory you build a backpack from fur leather or cotton. and each one gives more space than the previous
Yay thanks KaaLuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuus. :D
1.27 is pretty awesome !!!! <3
Nice… Finally…
AH MAN. NOW PLEASE KAALUS CAN THERE BE AN OPTION TO TURN OFF THE BODY TEMPERATURE IN ADVENTURE MODE? why not?
It wouldn’t be an adventure
it has ruined my map and there is no way to get around it.
Yes! Can’t wait for WP release! Nice throwing items in a chest.
Nice though for you android users!
1.27 is already out?)
yeah for Google play and android.
google play is on android
you should give the chest an animation!
+1
Nice semi-alternative to hoppers!
I’m looking up sc on Google play to see what’s in the update before it comes to iOS!
Google play doesn’t have the update yet
oh well apple will wait and wait….
Oh.. And maybe be able to wire it electricly.. So we could have control to open it near or far…I have a nifty trap door conveyor system this will be perfect for!
What if chests dropped a random item on the rising edge of an electric signal. The problem is, where? Maybe if there is a chest next to it or under it that hasn’t given the items to the original chest the items go to that chest as a top priority but otherwise, it would drop under the chest. Is this a good idea?
that would be a bit of a mix between a dropper and hopper in mc.
nevermind. That’s a bad idea.
I like trap door electrics, I remember when people discovered the elevator
Kaaulus, did you get an email from @hoban.org?
Whoo hoo time for whale hunting while wearing a cowboy hat!
lol
OH YEAH!!!
:D
This is my least favorite part. I have to sit back and watch everyone else say how cool the new update is. Gah!
It’s not !
me too. :(
How is it not? Bugs?
What’s not? The update?
Are you saying that you actually might not like the update?
no i have apple that takes forever!
One question I must know are there anymore animals besides moose in this update? (IOS user don’t have the update yet sadly Dx)
It’s not
Can’t find very much info on the update..
It would have been really nice if you included left-hand controls as an option ,as-in the WASD pad on the right, MineCraftPE does, very dissapointed
Men! How did u managed to do all this stuff in only three months?!
Now we can play basketball!
oh yeah! but no mltyplayer. :(
xD
Oh cool so this will work similar to a minecraft hopper
Kinda wish they could transport items, but yes
We need now the New Default Block Textures on the Files/Technical
Awsome
Ok… Now There is…
Roper pls
BUG TO RESOLVE! BUG TO RESOLVE!
In Creative mode after I tried to summon 15~20 Lightning, sounds doesn’t play anymore!
Tested Only on Trial Version…
Device used: Xperia Tablet Z3 Compact
Android Version: 4.4.4 Kitkat
Mmmmhhhh kitkat
I have issues with dropped sound as well. Can restore sound by reactivating bluetooth, but sound rather quickly disappears right after. Full game version. Lollipop 5.0.2 / CM 12
works fine on my Lenovo Android version 4.2.2
NOW PLEASE KAALUS CAN THERE BE AN OPTION TO TURN OFF THE BODY TEMPERATURE IN ADVENTURE MODE? why not?
At startup the logs showed many “Failed to create AudioTrack” entries, but none of those for a couple hours now.
Pros so far
– not a single glitch observed yet, Android 4.2.2
– Terraformers and Electrical Wizards are going to love the new menu sub-sections!
– 6 slots in the lower tray are awesome
– the 3 new status bars are quite tiny and not bothersome, IMHO (disclaimer – using 9 inch tablet)
– LOVE the lightning bolts – you can be Monty Python’s Tim the Enchanter!!
– the lightning doesn’t do much damage to houses like I feared. Several hundred test blasts my house remained standing, just a few blocks like exterior torches and slabs blown up. Obviously do not use wood for roofs!
– manmade structures are definitely lightning rods!
– you can put carpet on rock floor to make it sleepable in your house.
Minor issues
– clothing items in inventory are very dark, hard to distinguish colors. need more contrast !!
– The wet squishy sound is still fairly long, could be a tad shorter.
– Predators have become recklessly stupid, running off cliffs or into traps that normally they’d think twice about. Why did I report this?
I see that The Stone Brick Texture is changed a bit… Is more defined…
Magma Texture is now Brightened
Another small issue…
FPS are very low when you drag a Clhote on the Clothes Tab In Creative Inventory
Are their anymore animals beside the moose?
The 6 slots and the creative inventory are the two things I can’t wait for.
Thanks for the detailed analysis!
Tim The Enchanter (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) http://www.digital-eel.com/blog/images/Tim03.jpg
Hey guys, update history is for 1.27 available
It’d be nice if the edge carpet pieces showed a bit of the underlying block and you could see the 3D edge of the carpet. More calculations and block data, I know, but it’d look nice.
Carpet would not extend 100% width on a side that does not have another carpet block next to it. You could see maybe 15% of the block it is on. Then you don’t need a whole ring of carpetless blocks to see the 3D edge. Does this make sense?
Hi, will placing another block on top of carpet destroy/replace it? Or can I place “furniture” on carpet? Thanks
Yes :( putting a crafting table or door replaces the carpet block.
Thank you aesopredux
Bag of sound,it’s off in creative.
Error*
This reminds me of Avatar where he had a small campfire and fought off the “wolves” with a giant spear/torch
That mystery black lump – whoever guessed ashes was correct. You can build up a campfire too, to last longer. Lions seem to be fearful of crossing them, I was safe inside a ring – til they burnt out.
ashes?
What do you mean?
ashes are created and left behind by a campfire. I don’t think there’s a use for them though.
Ashes as a fertilizer maybe
Everything works fine but there is no sound at all! I checked everything the sound is on but no sound is coming out.
It works now but i didnt even change anything so im not sure what happened
What if there was ecological succession in sc?
Like trees planting themselves and ivy growing on man made blocks
NVM the sound went out when I placed carpet.
BUG – rendering issue – panning with the LOOK control – right thumb, items like campfire and crafting table shape will flicker and “jump”. Does not happen with the MOVE control. Android 4.2.2. Does not reproduce in 1.26 on iPhone4.
Or what if grass was its own semi-block (if you place blocks on it it’s destroyed and you can walk through it) and it had a very, very short height, like snow
Like a grass semi-block on top of a dirt block
Tall grass would destroy it so that’s useless…
Please make pistons(or something similar) in next update :)
waiting for this since i bought survivalcraft (1.19v )
Great work with update, im more than happy with this engine changes.
keep going!
+1
+1
TWO more issues
Sudden game crash, app minimized while hovering blasting frozen lake with lightning after flying/lightning-slinging. Android 4.2.2. Hard to reproduce.
MISSING ICON – the app icon disappeared from my tablet’s home screen, games group, after update through Play store. I was was able to add it back. Could just be a tablet OS issue.
For those who are waiting, try this world seed “1z5m9a” without the quotes. Creates plateaus, and has some nice variety in biomes and terrain features.
We will not hate you.
Kaalus, this may be a bug, but I can just walk on a campfire and touch it without getting set on fire! This should be fixed. So players and animals alike will get torched. Besides that, great job!
+1
Stand on it; you should catch on fire in a few seconds.
You can get lit on fire. I should know. I had a bad run in with it……. literally
Forum user reports – LOCK SCREEN ORIENTATION option has been REMOVED from Settings > Graphics, and they cannot play 1.27. Was this an accident? No more SC for them otherwise…
I can’t find the forum post – can you give me a link?
http://survivalcraft.lefora.com/topic/19406128/127-no-more-survival-craft-and-probably-ONLY-FOR-ME#.VRG5NfmG_uA
I see you found it.
Kaalus please have an option to turn off the body temperature in adventure mode. please im begging you.
YAYAYAYAYAYA
Nein. Lol
Are there more animals?
Only moose
Can ashes be used as a fertilizer
Ashes seem to have no use at this point
Hi guys… I don’t have 1.27 yet.. But Try to set fire to a pile of ashes with a match.. See if it reignits
Nope didnt
Thank you aeso
wait there is ash?
My mobile restart itself when I open the app (LG optimus L7).
Works great on my galaxy s4. The only problem I had was I seemed to have lost my last world. But I just started on that, so I don’t really care. Great job Kaalus!
I just noticed that sometimes sound effects like walking, chopping, etc… will stop working.
Im glad it works for ypu my s4 seems to have problems
Survivalcraft its so much better than minecraft, survival only need multiplayer
Anyone got a Thor skin? I might do a video.
i think i do…. i will check tomorrow.
Any luck? :)
aesopredux i don’t have to Thor skin. im sorrry.
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I love the update. But I have a glitch where a whole chunk disappeares or turns black. When I go towards it it loads up again. Can you fix this please, Kaalus.
By the way I love the new “intro ship” model.
Wow, Kaalus made it harder to make mods. I’m impressed. Not as easy anymore!
Also there is a glitch that when I look at water at a special angle, chunks of water disappear.
There’s a bug in that when I saddle a horse, it starts to act as if though I hit it. The saddle texture is there but the horse just runs away.
there is a different ship?
Can you support android 5.0 lollipop
My phone is samsung gaxaly s5
my model is SM-G900V
Thank you
And I found your house on Google maps it’s pretty nice
I know this is beta so iam telling you this in case you don’t have a gaxaly s 5 in the pile of phones you don’t have
It does support Lollipop.
I have Lollipop on my Nexus 5.
Since last year and nothing with SC is broken
Well it is for me my game keeps closing randomly
where is his house?
Do you have kik
why are you asking?
Dang it it’s not out on my kindle yet
I feel your pain
WOW, ALREADY 1.27? Really nice. I played 1.27 for a while and it worked ok in my Sony Xperia M2, I did not found any major bug in the game, however, the only bug I found was this: when I attempt to put a saddle in a horse I somehow punch it, I putted the saddle normaly but after I did, the punching sound came out and the horse started running away, as if i punched it. If possible fix this minor bug kaalus. Overall everything was nice.
there is always Sound error to see in the Warnings Panel
Problems with sound) sound disappears when you play for a long time) when you try to raise the unit is no sound( Android 4.4.2)
Did the app shut down shortly after the sound went out because that happened to me and i have 4.4.2
Crashes every few mins,I think the culprit is the audio system,all the crashes seem sound related. Say I’m dong something continously like mining rocks,eventually,some of the mining sounds start to chip in and out, then it gets silent, that specific sound stops. After the silence, you can expect a crash in the next few mins. The game simply stops responding. If these bugs don’t occur on some phones, I wonder exactly how intricate and different the programming is for each phone…
It happens trust me
Kaalus, when do you estimate the Android bug crunching will be over?
It’ll take until he doesn’t get reports anymore… Sadly
Please play on my world https://dl.dropbox.com/s/tw51igg9updibgb/atlantis%201%20%281%29.scworld?dl=1 based off my book http://bishopbooks.weebly.com/
As for my skins, I will work on them tomorrow.
AWESOME!!!
Bugs: I found some bugs, in my Moto G (Lollipop 5.0.2), the in-game sounds disappears when you play (I can only hear the sounds of the passive animals), the button of lock/unlock the direction of the screen has disappeared.
IDK if its a bug but when i see the water when i am flying i can practically see how deep it is and much more clarity than before.
Not the water translucency that i saw in the video of the new water translucency. IDK if its because im in creative mode. I’ll see how it is in adventure and survival mode.
Coloque logo na Amazon App store porque é android também. Por favor!
Carpet needs to be added to update history, it’s not on the list.
It randomly stopped working for my Samsung galaxy s4 like my phone shut the app down because it saw something in the game it didn’t like. HELP!
wow the audio must be messed up.
The lightning button is the best :P
Hallo all, I was wondering, what is the flowing water addition? It makes a new sound which is cool, but are waterfalls and rivers in the game now?
I believe it refers to new flowing water ambient sound
Yeah, probably.
horses act scared and you cant ride them in worlds made using 1.26 and worlds made in 1.27 the horses run away. But if you can catch them (not an easy task)you can ride them……… if you catch them.
I wonder if it is related to lions stupidly running off cliffs at you like zombies.
When is it coming out for the amazon app store?
Got 1.27.1. Confirmed saddling punches all horse breeds, but does not punch camel. had game freeze and game crash/shutoff within minutes of each other. Numerous “Failed to create AudioTrack” warnings in the log.
Anyone testing if you get a glitch or crash, immediately go to Settings > Compatibility > View Game Log, see if there’s a log entry about what caused the crash.
Just played first game with 1.27.0 and all my Cassaway eggs in my chest and Inventory changed to Ostrich eggs. This included cooked and non cooked ones.
Also on my Nexus 7 I seem to get a pause, much like lag on online games, every second or so.
Will wait for 1.27.1 to see if that fixes anything.
Many Thanks,
Paul.
Waiting for apple… Waiting for apple… WAITING FOR APPLE… APPLE IT HAS BEEN LIKE 2 DAYS SINCE THE REALESE COME ON I JUST WANT IT ON MY IPAD GOD
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