All platforms should now have the 2.2 update. There was a slight hiccup with Amazon, but this should now be resolved.
I am aware of the lighting bug you mentioned. Indeed, the lighting calculation in 2.2 is partially broken. It’s my fault. When increasing terrain height I optimized it a little too aggresively, and in some cases the lighting value result is wrong. Most notably, when you dig a 1×1 vertical shaft down, cover it and place a torch inside, the torch may not emit any light (depending on what is under the shaft). Also, the long sleep time seems to be an issue, but I haven’t investigated it yet. I am working on the fixes.
In fact I am happy it’s my fault. Most of the past problems with the game stemmed from bugs in the operating system and its libraries. Buggy shader compilers, buggy audio implementations, buggy network stacks, etc. One cannot fix these bugs, only work around them, and this is tedious, time consuming and unsatisfying. I still remember how angry I was when I discovered that a bug in Android limits the total number of AudioTracks created during the lifetime of application to 1024. How could they have missed something so ridiculous and so common? They finally fixed it in KitKat.
With the lighting bug, the blame is squarely on my shoulders.
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Hey Kailua!
Kaalus, my bad. 😅
Any way you can look into optimizing the game for the iPhone X and 11?
The notch covers part of the game’s screen. I’d show you but I can’t exactly upload screenshots over here.
Here’s a kind of what it looks like if I look at the device
who the heck uses iphone for gaming
Me, it’sa good for a while before new iphones comes running in.
Ur just going to copy and paste that aren’t you
Yes.
People trying to play Survivalcraft?
I know
Also there is a bug that if you place try to edit a stack of memory banks, you will end up with one.
That’s been in the game a while now and it applies to any programmable device, including pistons!
NEVER edit these in survival modes while they’re stacked in your inventory, or you will lose all except one.
Yeah he really should fix those
I’m a coder too, and I see sometimes it is frustrating and unsatisfying when libraries have bugs
Please acknowledge that you read the bug report
I thought you left again. We were scared.
Does it mean you are here to stay for longer period?
Hey Kaalus, very happy to see the activity!
And although I think you released it a little soon after revealing, I like most of the update!
I do have one problem with the jumping/block placing change though, it’s one Many others have already mentioned.
This change makes the already annoying and unrealistic process of clearing out remaining wood and leaves of a tree even more excruciating.
Trees really need fixing. There is a big different to Minecraft and Survivalcraft trees. In Minecraft there are very few large types, and these large ones are often 4by4, meaning you can make a stairway up, In Survivalcraft ALL of them are large and a bit of work to clear, with no thick trees to staircase your way up, even for the really tall (and beautiful!) spruce trees.
I have few suggestions to fix this
There is a mod for Survivalcraft that effectively gives wood and leaves the same properties as Graves and this essentially chops down the full tree whenever the bottom is mined. This as well as changing how long it takes wood from a grown tree to break can make trees still have a long chop time while having no mess to clean up (esp difficult when you can’t tower up)
Preferably you’d tweak it more then just utilizing existing code, but it’s a good example of something that already sort of works already there. You should also change trees so that grown wood is different from chopped or fallen wood. Currently in my first few days I exclusively look for fallen over trees. I really like this factor and still think it should be the first step/easier to do so (maybe especially easier if without proper tools). If possible scaling the chop time to the tree size itself would be great. Or maybe giving each type of tree a different chop time to simulate a similar but less exact change doing so. You can also make tree generated wood a different block from mined wood, with fallen over trees being mined/”placed” wood type, having a shorter break time.
Now this next suggestion is probably a bit unrealistic for mobile (but if not please!), and will likely take a lot of time, likely requiring a future update dedicated to it specifically, but I’d LOVE if you managed to do so/do similar. The Minecraft mod Dynamic Trees gives beautiful growing trees put into the world. Trees actually grow from a Saplings up until they reach full maturity. Forests over time can actually grow back due to occasional falling saplings. Tree wood yield is based on size (so is break-time), anything not making it into a full block is converted to sticks. In the mod it’s set up so fruits like apples can continuously grow and get replaced on an apple tree. These trees more properly require light and will even grow towards more light. Trees can have rooty soil, with some types (dark oak) having visible above ground roots. The trees have “growth rates and mature sizes that are biome, temperature and rainfall dependent”. Branches that can be semi-climbable like ladders. Etc.. Did I mention these trees look absolutely amazing!
Again I have my doubts on the ability for mobile phones to handle, but am not well knowledge. With the complexity limit increased I feel this has a much stronger shot again. I can run the mod fine on older, rather slow PCs.
Here is the curse forge link, that I’m breaking apart because I have a strong feeling it won’t go through otherwise :)
https //www curseforge com/minecraft/mc-mods/dynamictrees
Comparing it with the need of experience levels for crafting, that isn’t unrealistic at all.
Comparing it with the need of experience levels for crafting, that isn’t unrealistic at all.
Can you tell me the website you get survivalcraft mods from?
I agree trees in real life fall by themselves when you cut the bottom, in survival craft that doesn’t happen, so the jumping and not being able to place a block will cause chopping down trees to be a more difficult task than it is.
Chair-keyboard interface errors are annoying but the easiest to fix. 😆
Had a couple crashes on my Kindle 5th Gen while in new world settings screen. Game completely closes.
Hi Aesop, can you try to nail down what you were doing when you got the crashes? Are they reproducible? Is there anything in the log (Settings->Compatibility->View Game Log)?
Howdy Kaalus. I was adjusting island width height sliders. Logs show errors capturing screen, could not find part of path, they some timestamp named jpgs. But those dont seem related.
Sorry on train now. Will email logs tonite, subject ERRORS KINDLE 5 GEN, and try to repro.
Well, filtering logs on Errors, those are the only type of error. Will try repro.
I was also creating many new worlds rapidly.
Ok emailed logs to you. The crash only happens when I have a wifi network connection.
New bug – I’ve checked via a PC and no screenshots are saving from the demo. This fits with the error logs:
20:12:31.351 ERROR: Error capturing screen. Reason: Could not find a part of the path “/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.candyrufusgames.survivalcraft2trial/files/Pictures/Survivalcraft 2019-12-16 20-12-30.jpg”.
20:13:17.292 INFO: PerformanceManager Measurement: frames=5328, avgFrameTime=35ms, avgFrameCpuTime=30ms
20:19:02.361 INFO: Loaded world, GameMode=Challenging, StartingPosition=Hard, WorldName=Roseacre, VisibilityRange=112, Resolution=High
20:22:19.365 ERROR: Error capturing screen. Reason: Could not find a part of the path “/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.candyrufusgames.survivalcraft2trial/files/Pictures/Survivalcraft 2019-12-16 20-22-19.jpg”.
20:22:23.991 ERROR: Error capturing screen. Reason: Could not find a part of the path “/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.candyrufusgames.survivalcraft2trial/files/Pictures/Survivalcraft 2019-12-16 20-22-23.jpg”.
Maybe the space is the issue? “Survivalcraft 2019-12-16 20-22-23.jpg”
Thanks Kaalus. Just for interest sake, what do you think of the alternative MP attempts by other people? What about copyright?
How do you subscribe to a post without commenting on wordpress?
Isn’t there a follow button at the bottom right corner of the screen?
There still seems to be an issue with sound, some of the sounds cut off when other noises play, like when you’re breaking blocks, but some ambient noise cuts it off. It doesn’t seem like the old sound bug though, where the sounds permanently stop playing and you have to restart the game to be able to hear again. It just cuts out like it skips a beat, but then it turns back to normal.
I hope you can improve the performance too, now the game feels laggy, especially when you are near a large mountain or in the forest, I even had fps drops inside a cave. I had to reduce the view distance and graphics and still feels laggy. 2.1 used to run just fine (Device tested: Samsung Galaxy A50).
AMAZON IS BEING STUPID
I cannot download the upgrade to my Android. The app page acknowledges that I own the app but the DOWNLOAD button does not appear. I’ve tried on my tablet, phone and through the browser on my laptop. I even uninstalled it and attempted to download it ‘fresh’. Still no joy!
Amazon has no customer service that I can contact (how stupid is that?). Their service ‘bot’ is useless and they have no email to contact them through.
I hate to bring this up to you since it’s clearly their problem but perhaps you can complain that you’re losing customers because of their failure?
Thanks for anything you can do.
Well, I managed but only through a roundabout means. Seems Amazon is making it particularly tough for non-fire owners to use their site for apps now.
I had to use an alternative amazon appstore app to update on one device then backup and transfer the app to my main device. If I weren’t a “power user” I’d have no recourse.
stupid stupid stupid
Can you add an adaptive icon on Android? Not having one causes it to either use an inconsistent shape compared to other icons (ugly), or have a white background applied (slightly less ugly), depending on the launcher. Adding an adaptive icon allows you to specify the background layer, which could just be black like on iOS, or maybe show the texture of a block.
You can find the official documentation here:
https://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/icon_design_adaptive
I am glad that it is something you can fix.
But please:
1. Motion detectors need to detect movement caused by pistons.
2. We need a modding API. I have recently took a look at Mini Block Craft, the fakely redistributed SC clone. By the short names of the characters, I suspect a member from the chinese modding community is behind the whole scam, though this is only speculation and not confirmed.
By making modding official and accessible to the community, you prevent piracy and illegal distribution of your game. Right now, the SC ripoffs are as following: Mini Block Craft, Multi Craft, Wild West Craft, Modern City Craft, Mini Zoo Craft and Micro Craft.
They even stole the Fancy City community world to put it into their fake games!
TO ANYONE WHO WANTS TO HELP KAALUS:
Rate those games mentioned above 1 star and say in the review that they are stolen from Survivalcraft.
Report them as anything you can.
Rate the negative reviews that mention that the game stole from Survivalcraft or CandyRufusGames as helpful. The other reviews, both good and bad, are not helpful. If we manage to get a comment disclosing the theft as the most helpful negative review, more people might know about it and take action.
Go into Survivalcraft, take photos of the animals, then try to take photos of the same animals in a similar environment and similar postures and visit https://discord.gg/S28RWMG . In #take-down-mini-block you will find the community-started campaign and someone will likely give you instructions on how to use your screenshots for helping.
ONLY TOGETHER WE CAN HELP THIS GAME.
I am doing my part to inform the community. I wish I could do more myself, but it is a problem we can only solve together. We have to make our voices heard. We have to support the game. Stealing is bad. Redistributing paid content for free, for any kind of revenue, or both at the same time, is not only unfair for the developer, but also for the people who bought the game. If you have seen this comment and decided to take action yourself, thank you. It is much appreciated, and every bit of help matters.
I SO AGREE! I HATE THE SC RIPOFFS
Great
That guy mentioning climbing trees… this is a really interesting idea. I would still rather see “chopping down” trees at the base implemented. Climbing the tree itself would be a welcome (stamina using) compromise. What are your thoughts on these ideas, Kaalus?
As always, thanks for the update and may force be with you.
Just by the way kaalus there is a bug when I split items and the game will only take one block and put the red square around it instead of the full stack of blocks. All so the glitches are real I have a laptop with 16gb of ram and a 7th gen intel i7 processor and I am getting glitches every now and again many when I brake a block.
As I said before, I can’t really try this update since both my phone and my tablet are now in a bad “shape”
Despite this, I’m glad for anyone here who can try this long-awaited update and hopefully have tons of fun!
I love the new features. The only thing that still bugs me are the uncompleted trees, like if an invisible wall is in there cutting them. Maybe is not easy to fix that, but I mention it anyway.
Also, Would be nice if the leaves don’t float permanently when there is a block(dirt, wood) touching them, dropping it like leaves block wouldn’t be bad.
Tall spruces look brilliant now. Please add pine needle tea to prevent disease / warm up.
Ooh! That would be a cool new feature! Maybe you could put a spruce leaves block and a bucket of water in a furnace to get it?
please kaalus add lightning rod. It is currently impossible to build wooden buildings without being destroyed during the storm
just build your roof with non flamable materials, stone, bricks, sandstone
That is what I do and for an extra protection layer I put another row of stone bricks, until my whole house is made of stone breaks and the floor out of planks.
That is not a solution. What happens if I want to have a house with a wooden or leaf roof?
The short and the sweet is that currently you cannot have wooden roofs.
+1
You should add fireflies because when you said lighting bug I thought of lightning bugs, just a fun ideo.
Please do something to avoid dying with impact on the wall when riding or getting off the ship, I have died on several occasions instantly. please
Any changelog so i know what has been added?
I also agree with the comments here. You should Make the trees fall after breaking the bottom log, then you can harvest the fallen tree.
Or yeah, make the logs one entity and after breaking the bottom log, you get all the materials and the tree goes away.
Yea that’s a great idea
Hi Kaalus There is an error regarding when you play with the keyboard, does not answer the keys or moves a lot in one direction or does not react.
So far no problems in mine. I like the new cliffs a lot. I build skyscrapers, so happy camper here.
I would really like to be able to jump and place items. I build allot in challenging mode and line to use leaf blocks as scaffolding. It’s a quick way to climb up, place blocks, and then get down again. This update has made it too tedious for me to build and, therefore, play. Hopefully it is reinstated.
Try using 2 stacks, hop back and forth. Not as quick but you can still elevate.
Hope you are ok kaalus
Hey kaalus, can you please make the screen for the iPad Pro full (If that makes sense)? It’s annoying to see a massive screen showing a small display of the app.
Caves carve into the sides of mountains way too much. Especially with larger biome sizes.
Please fix this.
Another thing kaalus when I am playing on my laptop the fps generally stays at 40- 50 but I will get a lag spike now and again for no reason. I will be mining a block or fighting an animal than it will suddenly drop to 5-10 fps. Sometimes it will go low when I am doing nothing. But it is the worst when the sun is rising and during sunset. I think this is a bug with the game not my laptop because the my fps will jump from 100- 10 in seconds randomly. This happens only when I play Survivalcraft because on other games I maintain a solid 85 fps. Hope you can fix it.
I think this might have something to do with everyone else’s problems
Hey, thanks Kaalus! Yeah, I’ve had some lighting errors too. Glad to hear you are fixing them! Btw, THIS VERSION IS SWEET!!!
The wolf population needs to be at an all time low. Right now there is too many wolves. I have a couple worlds that are challenging and all of them have the same problem. After a couple days of making my house there are wolves (duh) and other creatures. Later, there is a whole group of wolves and no more prey animals. Jaguars and leopards may show up but only once here and there, tigers are non existent in some places, bears only come in a pair or one, and wolves rule it all. There are way more than 10 out there. When it is the full moon I get in the house quick because they all start transforming and lose their pack instinct which means they are going to start roaming from their group, but the next day they are all together. Also please add an option to make a world without the giant mountains and elevated chunks of land. An option where it makes it look like before if the update for that didn’t exist, thank you.
These new mountains spoiled the game because the character climbs 10 blocks already gets tired
I call wolves the fleas of the world.
And you can turn off the silly werewolves.
I always set ‘Supernatural creatures’ to ‘disabled’ as I prefer a more natural game. If you build a pit at least 3x3x3 and lure wolves into it they will gather in the pit, then DON’T kill them just mark the pit and you will only have a few wolves wandering freely around that area as the density in that part of the game is reached. Just do that where ever you have too many predators.
could add a sliding button because he walks a lot reading and this is too bad to run away from animals in the beginning when you have nothing, so the game is very difficult and boring, would take advantage of the game’s tiredness system to put a limit.
Use the touchpad controls and play in harmless
sorry for english i used google translator
BUG? I got a barren world, no animals spawning. Flat island about 600×300, terrain level 1, terrain block Sand. Creative Living. Kindle Gen 5, no warnings or errors in logs.
2.2 is go, 😂
ERRORS KINDLE 5 GEN – response inline above, and emailed.
Won’t we have it for steam?
Dear Kaalus, I beseech you: do the texture of basalt a little bit darker, please!
Use old texture pack
It seems the game only looks at its folder now when it first starts up. In order for it to see worlds dropped into the folder, I had to actively kill the game and restart it. This on Android 6.0.
(I hate that you have to use the Android/data path now. Terribly inconvenient for users! Too bad we can’t change it in-game.)
It is really hard to survive in challenging mode, to many animal that want to kill you, and even the prey animal are stronger than you. I dont know how to survive without being kill by prey and predator. Rhino are insanely have a lot of hp. You definitely died when encounter with it. With the slow effect when you walk backward making it worse. The food are really hard to get. 😢😢
On my 5th generation Kindle it gives me a connection error “an unknown error occurred connecting to Amazon Appstore”… I can’t play it now
I have a bug with the new version : I played world in the previous version, I downloaded the new version of the game, and when I try to play a level, I got a screen saying
Error loading world : An item with the same key has already been added.
Key : 3541,88,5769
What does that mean?
I spent a lot of time on this level :(
Please email me the world file to candyrufusgames@gmail.com so that I can check it.
How? You mean like giving you a link to the level? How do you do that?
to get the world file select the world in the menu, touch the three dot button (“…”), then click at the upload button, then sd card. The world file is at /android/data/com.candyrufusgames.survivalcraft2/files/
Oh okay, thanks, I sent the message
Found a nice seed!
Starting Position: Easy
Terrain Type: Island
World Seed: seed
You spawn in a boat and the ship that leaves you runs through the island.
Hey, I couldn’t find this information so I’m asking here, hope you or someone else can answer. How does the weather system work? I mean, I always get rain on the first day at the same time. So how how does it look further in gameplay? Is weather generated randomly or it’s always changing on exactly the same time in every world I create?
Did Windows Phone get the update? Microsoft dropped support for it 8 days ago.
add the possibility of running, would make the game more realistic, would already take advantage of the game’s tiredness system to put a limit.
Alright I’ll be the one to say it. We waited a year and a half for great White sharks, slightly different lighting, technically 3 new tools and a couple new blocks…
My world sort of disappeared from community content. It is Johan Real Color TV. It also contain my texture pack, a skin and furniture. Kaalus fixed its rating again and you can easily find it now. Let me know if the download fails. I think it is because it is so large that people might download many times and then Dropbox limits my bandwidth. Then my world automatically gets downgraded. So over time this might happen again.
Also let me know what you want changed in my texture pack.
En lo personal esperaba más para esta actualización, lo lamento lo dejo hasta el momento que realmente realicen una actualización atractiva.
Por favor de evadir o ignorar este comentario.
Kaalus the yes are perfect the difficulty of the game is what makes it a survival game. It’s not supposed to be convenient it’s supposed to make us use our weird to get out of hard situations. The only real improvement I have for the game is to add animal breeding at a certain level, that would be revolutionary.
Kaalus the trees and the game are perfect. the difficulty of the game is what makes it a survival game. It’s not supposed to be convenient it’s supposed to make us use our wits to get out of hard situations. The only real improvement I have for the game is to add animal breeding at a certain level, that would be revolutionary
Crees que nos importa? Más debe importarte que el juego solo lo hace una persona, la cual tiene una vida y un trabajo. No es una p*** máquina.
Time to wait another 3 years for news sadly 😕
I found another bug. Whenever you place something like copper in a furnace and take out the last piece about half way though the Furnace will not stop smelting but will smelt you an extra piece of copper. This is great because I can get two times the metal but you should probably fix it.
However, we NEED TO HAVE FISHING TOOLS only other real improvement
Actually after more testing you can have an infinite amount of copper or iron as long as you have one iron ore or one copper ore and pull it out of the furnace before it is down.
more animals, less mountains