Thanks for your patience with this difficult release.
First, the good stuff. Do not worry about immersive mode going away after keyboard has been shown. Or about water gurgling sound in deep water pools (thanks Aesopredux). These are trivial to fix, and actually have already been fixed.
If only all bugs were like that.
Which brings me to the bad stuff. I spent most of yesterday fighting with Android audio system. The main problem is that audio on Android does not work without some special magic, and this magic is different for almost every version of Android. As we support all versions since 2.3 (2.2 support was dropped in this release), this makes for a lot of headache.
The current build, 1.27.2, does not use almost any magic. It does straightforward audio calls, and in the ideal world we should be getting proper audio. We actually do, on Android 5.0+. On all earlier versions you know for yourselves what is happening. Crashes. Error saving games. Audio going quiet.
I have to fix that, somehow.
Yesterday I went to bed around 5am without getting anywhere. The only positive was that I resisted the urge to send hate mail to all Google devs working on Android.Media.AudioTrack class. That’s why I haven’t posted – I did not have anything positive to say.
Today, after a few more hours, I see a tiny light at the end of the tunnel. But it’s tiny and may not amount to much in the end.
So please bear with me for a while. No 1.27.3 release yet.
Even if I get the audio fixed, there’s still the graphics glitches. Broken sky, holes in the terrain and water. Please keep sending screenshots and device data. So far it seems it’s mostly limited to PowerVR chipsets. Also, if you get broken terrain/water/sky please quit and restart the world, and tell me if the problem goes away (at least temporarily)?
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Hope its fixed soon
I hope I get the update soon. I have a kindle fire.
Hope you can fix it soon. My friend suggested a feature where if you break glass and then walk on the block beneath it you are damaged from the sharp broken glass.
Or if u walked on pure glass (not framed or windows) it would automatically break
i don’t like the idea of that. Because a lot of glass can hold you up in real life.
I didn’t know that.
Hang in there Kaalus! I’m glad none of my app ideas involve audio :/ Thanks to @Spoon3er and @Xynn Dimafelix for reporting the water sound first.
Hey, thanks for the credit, aesopredux! :D
You can overcome this, Kaalus! That tiny light could be heaven when reached! ;)
Transparent blocks. When you restart the world, nothing changes. Device: Huawei MediaPad 10 FHD (Android 4.1.2)
Thanks. Do you get this always or only sometimes?
Kaalus i get this to when you go to sleep in 1.26 IOS8 apple Ipad 2.
You mean go to sleep in game or put device to sleep? Are you sure it is exactly this, this is near clip plane somehow being set too far from the player (probably about 2-3 meters instead of 0.1 which is the correct value). This is different than holes in terrain or glitching sky.
in game. and you have to sleep under ground most of the time.
thanks for the response. keep up the good work!
i find it helpful because i can find caves and lava, but at the same time it is really unrealistic.
This always occurs
No rush Kaalus (iOS user) do what ya gotta do :)
7th!
oh IOS….
Thank u, Kaalus.
I noticed that the pegi rating went down from 12 to 7
What is pegi?
PEGI a European video game content rating system similar to the ESRB system we use in the US.
The company which decides the age rating in the uk
Will that’s interesting.
HUH?
Nothing it’s just interesting that it decreased.
Poor fellow.
who kaalus?
Of course Kaalus!
DUH!
For you IOS windows and Amazon people, this is going to take a while. but on the good side we won’t have to deal with all these bugs!
Exactly
There will be ios bugs aswell. Like kaalus said every device works differently . Whatever bugs he fixes with android could lead to new ones for iOS
Like the iOS clothes problem . It was only for iOS. That I can remember
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK KAALUS!!!!
Some pics https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zkc5r7hmx5fs5cb/AACWEy3V9wvM797JBPi0bJILa?dl=0
Of 1.27, not bugs :)
Keep up with the work kaalus, I know you will make it. Overall, I haven’t expirienced any bug in 1.27, however, I played only for a while, so I don’t know much about possible bugs. The only bug I found was th already fixed hiting horses when saddling. Meanwhile no bugs for me. My device: Sony Xperia M2 4.4.4
Dear Kaalus
I very much like this game but it hampers all the time I have vot my graphic settings all at low but still… :( As you can understand it is very annoying to play like that And another thing, when i was playing, in the space of 15 minutes the game randomly shut itself down without any reason Can you please fix this ???
Greets Luna007
Sent from Samsung tablet
My friend made a really cool Survivalcraft 1.27 video :-) https://youtu.be/V12ONSEDAh0
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/r5qxmdnu845a66o/brownhair.scskin?dl=1 the brown haired default skin for you players.
Hank you very much
also, here is the explorer skin!
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/3rwpo18qrhbwprh/spelunker.scskin?dl=1
is this it?
the adventurer skin…yes.
Thank you!
The adventurer skin looks like a dude in a jumpsuit with a purse … Nuff said
any other skib requests?
Homer Simpson!
Please…
who is he?
You don’t know the Simpson’s? Look it up very funny show.
wait…is it ok if i say no?
Thor please!
now that one i agree with! ill post the link soon. want him dressed or in underwear?
And you can make the skin fair-haired girl?
here is the thor. i decided he needed to have underwear. https://dl.dropbox.com/s/0ecyt5d0d19bmti/thor.scskin?dl=1
sorry, somehow it does not work.
Thanks John! Psst – jpgs don’t download, I had to convert it to a .png and then rename to .scskin :)
I have a skin request actually. How about venom from Spider-Man ha
New bugs found!
Device: Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 GT-P3113
Android: 4.2.2
1. I suddenly got random crashes.
2. Almost all Animals spins around and do nothing. They just spin and spin and spin. Kinda funny. :D
I will inform you about the other bugs when I encounter them. Good luck, Kaalus!
i agree with you….Animals spins around was happend in 1.26 also…and yeah too funny :D
Is it available on Kindle Fires yet? If so, how do you get it because my version is still 1.26?
Sorry it’s not available on the kindle yet. I have one too.
Ok, thank you :)
Sadly no not btw if Kindle it’s Amazon product so you have to wait like me.
Just tried Survivalcraft 1.27.2 on my Samsung Galaxy S3 mini…
Well, the Hardware of S3 mini is not the Best… So Survivalcraft is a bit slow…
Luckily I haven’t found any kind of bug on my S3 mini…
When will I get the update? I really want it and I have a kindlefire HDX 3rd generation.
wait. Kaalus needs to work out all the bugs 1st. Then we will get the polished version! :)
Ok. I’m so excited! Thanks! :D
Again audio Bug!
I was simply throwing stone chunks, then audio stopped to play…
Xperia Tablet Z3 Compact – Android 4.4.4 Kitkat
Here a link to the screenshot of the game log
Hi, I’ve found two problems.
One is the carpet squares show up black, like its a void.
The other is the paint.
I can’t get some colors to mix, mostly the ones that use coal
hola kaalus te tengo que dejar un problema con el juego y lo que pasa es que como a los 5 minutos de jugar el juego se sale automaticamente me dice ´´TOO MANY FILES´´ y se cierra el juego mi dispositivo es un samsung gts6500l android 2.3.6 no le puedo tomar captura de pantalla porque no alcanzo porque el juego se alcanza a salir
Can some one translate please
Something like: “Hello Kaalus, I have a problem with the game that happens five minutes into the game and it will automatically say to me “TOO MANY FILES” and then it closes the game. He has Samsung gts65001 and Android 2.3.6, but he can’t get a picture of the screen.” Or at least that’s what I got.
Hey guys (sorry probs not the best place for this) can someone make me a black panther skin? Like the big cat? If you can, can you put this as the title? “Black P for Kitty”
sure! if it works.
sorry, it will not work.
Is the update out for Amazon??
nope.
Yeah, I’m a developer for Android applications. Audio is such a pain when you’re trying to get it to work across different versions. Keep us posted. > >
wow Kaalus, you defiantly seem tired. That’s what owning a multi million app is like! It would be great if you took a couple hours of rest. Good luck on finding those glitches!
Can someone please make me a skin of Tris from divergent.
This is what I figured out. When you look down, its all OK. Like this.
https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/Survivalcraft%202015-03-26%2020-07-25-.jpg?_subject_uid=249235466&w=AAAfOCrlL_bWDW9O0h35jlJllj5givX_AhmXZa6TGJcYrw
This is the same world. I just lifted the field of view a little.
https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/Survivalcraft%202015-03-26%2020-07-31-.jpg?_subject_uid=249235466&w=AADjmCENuB95xlzQ_KQr-SMfNGUXs2hlRxBaPSNe_DN7xQ
This is the same world. I lifted the field view a little.
https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/Survivalcraft%202015-03-26%2020-07-31-.jpg?_subject_uid=249235466&w=AADjmCENuB95xlzQ_KQr-SMfNGUXs2hlRxBaPSNe_DN7xQ
More screenshots.
Glitching bricks.
https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/Survivalcraft%202015-03-26%2018-42-57-.jpg?_subject_uid=249235466&w=AACgXP2nZsfL6AoqVEb_A1moXJBlQU8Zy01GxZHEC8TH4g
Tall grass unaffected by glitch.
https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/Survivalcraft%202015-03-25%2017-02-42-.jpg?_subject_uid=249235466&w=AABU99YbLqgbuA8q7uSBqfXnkM-MMIz6o9eUXCwY95RgUw
did you use the “share” link? I get a 403 forbidden error
how do you convert it to png? :-)
Export to png from your graphics app.
Thank you kaalus for all your hard work and dedication! Try and get some sleep maybe something will come to you in a dream.
+1
Sem pressa kaalus, reconheço que o seu trabalho deve ser muito difícil, nem faço ideia dos problemas que enfrenta e do nervosismo. Vá com calma, te admiramos e sabemos que pode demorar um pouco mas é para o bem da comunidade Survival Craft
I have a HTC one and the new update is fine but my adventure maps from 1.26 are freezing then crashing and one of my new adventure maps are freezing too please fix
And you can make the skin fair-haired girl?
I found something. Maybe glitch. In menu, sometimes I need to double tap setting & control button to access setting. And sometimes there was something look like flash? Or blue red horizontal line. Too fast for screenshot.
Kaalus some sounds dont work. Like attacking a bear or something, and when summonning the thunder, i only see the thunder butmi dont hear the sound
Thanks for all of your hard work Kaalus. Just another reminder that the keyboard doesn’t work with laptops. I’m running a lenovo z750 i5. Neither the “wasd”, numberpad, or arrow keys work. They worked before 1.27, but not any longer. Any fix would be greatly appreciated.
+1
– I have posted previously on stuttering with electronics. Please give game play preference over electronics updating. Really annoying.
– Please also look at water visibility. I could see fish through glass under water, now it is too dark. I have an under water tunnel where I could watch fish, not anymore.
You can see it in my world: https://www.dropbox.com/l/jlOICMgchtgRvNzwnHz7Qo
I have a Note 3.
You just had me thinking about a water-proof light
Then again have u tried shining light through glass?
Good news! We can lighten the water color in the world texture. Try HD flow 1.26.7 By wow in Community Content. Works for me! :)
Hey
I have a problem is sky bug
You can see it here please please fix
https://db.tt/FXQMd17I
1st! (nobody claimed) 👼 P.S Sorry if this comment is annoying 8•(
please check out my review of SC 1.27 on my blog
Hi kaalus one question why rain doesn’t put out fire…like when the players body is on fire….but rain doesn’t put out fire…we need to jump in the lakes to extinguish the fire :D and I recently upgraded my phone to lollipop 5.1 and I can see that terrain loads slower then earlier version(KitKat 4.4.4) of my phone….:/
You added multiplayer?
First of all, device name: Samsung Galaxy Ace 3 (GT-S-7270).
Error saving game occurs time to time, I can reproduce it by spawning a lot of animals, when they start to chase me, especially when it’s raining, some sounds disappear for a while and “Error saving game: too many open files” pops up. Btw, water/sky/terrain are OK.
Also some minor bugs:
-Some settings (e.g. sound volume) are constantly being dragged upwards (so if previously the volume slider was in the middle of the screen, now it’s on the top of it)
-Hyena’s right paws have their models “inverted”
-No change of horse speed with cavalry boots
-Predators attack your horse while riding in Creative (not sure whether it’s a bug, but I haven’t noticed that previously)
A couple of suggestions:
-The position of the thunder buutton is not very convinient, once I was attempting to change time of day and I’ve nearly burnt my house :). It will be nice if this button could just toggle “thunder mode” when you can tap the place where you want lightning to come.
-As was already requested, weather control button for creative will be useful.
Btw, while looking at the logs, I’ve noticed that the game attempted to download MOTD. What is this?
Hey Kali’s ignore me saying that the stamina is null and void. I said it in a couple of posts ago. It seems like I forgot that stamina doesnt work in harmless mode. I usually start a world on harmless just to get a building built and then change to challenging. When I switched to challenging the stamina started working again. So that isn’t a bug. Keep up the good work kaalus.
Also kaalus could you possibly give mojang or @_tomcc on Twitter your crafting gui. I find it much better to craft on Twitter then on mcpe just to select what you want. Thank you.
Darn autocorrect. It was suppose to be kaalus not Kali’s .
hey kaalus! I found this: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/survivalcraft/id622613679?mt=8 Its a copy of your game. I was just scanning through the internet when I saw this game and I though you’d like to know that there’s a remake of your game.
This is not a remake – it’s normal Survivalcraft on iOS.
Bug fix i didn’t get the newest update
Please make survivalcraft free for ios because i like it when i played it on my brothers tablet so please make it free
wow. Kaalus has to make money you know. wow just wow.
Hey so I have noticed the sound bug too and I have noticed that when the game sound goes away so does all of my sound like when you plug in the kindle usually it makes a chimes sound but when the sound from the game goes away so does all of the sound. I did an experiment where I waited for the sound to go away and the I entered some other app and the sound would still be gone. I found a short way to make it come back by when the sound goes away going out of the game and then entering back i ad their will be sound but the more you do that the shorter the time you have sound gets. I hope I helped you in fixing this bug with my information. Thanks for working so hard on this game.
you should get 6 slabs from crafting not for. three full block to four half blocks. in reality, they would be three-quarter blocks. and if you stack those 4 slabs by placing them, you get only two full blocks. Where did the third block go?