I will very soon release a bugfix update for the 2.3 release. Here’s the list of changes:
- Fixed broken uploading/downloading of 2.3 worlds
- Crouching deaths in low spaces fixed, general crouching improvements
- Reduced Sparrows spawn rate
- Different, more varied new world names
- Fixed glitches and improved wooden ladder
- Fixed depth clipping when crouching near a wall
- Hammer makes appropriate material sound when used to make furniture
- Reduced chance of spawning of many creatures of the same type
- Reduced number of pickables created by explosions
- Fixed cairn collision box
The version numbers of the update will be 2.3.10.1 (Google Play), 2.3.61.0 (Apple), 2.3.50.1 (Amazon) and 2.3.41.0 (Windows Store).
We will need to wait for the stores to approve the update – hopefully only about a day. It used to be over a week back in 2013…
Some of you have been complaining that motion sensors detecting movement of projectiles, pickables and moving blocks (a new feature in 2.3) broke their builds, because they were using pistons to block off visibility of sensors. As pistons are moving blocks, they trigger motion sensors in 2.3 – so the blocking no longer works.
I think this is unfortunate, but the fact the sensor detects more movement is good. What I would do, is to move away from mechanical blocking of sensors, and use the electronic way instead. Like that:
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Gang gang, love this game
Will past worlds that got corrupted while uploading be fixed? Or will they be permanently corrupted and the bug fix only applies to future uploads?
Future uploads, I tested it, but they are not unrecoverable, need a more little technical knowledge of the worlds
That’s a shame. I uploaded worlds to my new phone recently and in the process it corrupted many of them. Years of work all for nothing I guess
He is saying that yes, they may be recovered from the saved file!
Nope, worlds are still getting corrupted even with the new update. I literally can’t play the game since my worlds are all corrupted
give me your worlds, I can repair them.
I’ve fixed many
If you want somewhere that isn’t public,
My Discord nickname is NomeCriativoRFM#1001
Late again for not checking this place out often
So no furniture that requires more than one block now, I see
Been a long time, forgot that torches count as a block
Kaalus… You forgot one thing about “Fixed broken uploading/downloading of 2.3 worlds”, it is fixed, but it doesn’t recover the worlds, some players had lost their worlds because of that
just move all region files that are out of the “Regions” folder, and sadly some worlds get duplicate block entity error
In our community, the majority is in favor of increasing the sensitivity of the detector. Needed for drop, loot.
Also, the players themselves should be responsible for breaking worlds. After all, you should always have a backup! This is rule number one. And then just wait for a stable version of the program.
This isn’t the players fault at all. The worlds got corrupted while backing them up
Ain’t the worlds still on the dropbox? U can redownload them
I had same problem but just by redownload them everything back
No, they are corrupted in Dropbox too
I’m facing performance issues on Rog Phone 5S sn888+ 12Gb ram :/
Inconsistent fps, stuttering, overall lag no matter on what settings …
Try turning audio off?
Hey, I am going to follow the Discord TOS now as SteeringWheelGacha#9603
Kaalus, on the issue of animal’s pickables that are not close to reality, I would like to put forward some suggestions to you again. I hope you can adopt them.This would be a better choice: Each sparrows and pigeons have a 50% chance of producing raw bird, while Each seagulls and ravens produce rotten birds.Piranhas have 50% chance of producing fish or even 100% chance of nothing.
Mr.Kaalus, It is a great departure from common sense that we get rotten meat from sparrows, pigeons and piranhas. My opinion is that even if they do not produce any resources, they should not drop rotten meat. Besides, pigeon is a kind of high-quality food material all over the world and should not produce nothing. In this case, it may be more suitable to put it on ravens or seagulls. Even sparrows taste better than ravens and seagulls.In addition, piranha is also a high-quality ingredient in South America (it also tastes delicious)
Should you put owls and crickets at night?🌙🦉🌌
Steam please
if sc was on steam sc would be more criticized because everyone says that survivalcraft is a copy of minecraft and i hate minecraft
Dude that does not matter at all survivalcraft on steam mean 2 things, first, the game will be available for a lot more of people even linux user (coff coff steam deck COFF COFF) and second, survivalcraft on steam mean that we can use Steam Remote Play Together to play online multiplayer
So nice to hear from you Kaalus! Glad you’re alive and well, nice to see an update!
Just wanted to report something I’ve noticed in 2.3.10.0
I have an Samsung S21 Ultra 12gb ram android 12
I’ve noticed like lag/ stuttering when I turn in the game
Like it subtle but it’s like everything takes time to catch up when you turn creating like a stutter
Don’t know if it’s from the new world format? or something else? Previous version was running so smoothly on high view range now it’s stuttering on low view range
Just thought I’d let you know :) appreiciate all the work you’ve done to this truly amazing game
this is an android 11 or higher issue, you can try to enable AudioTrack Caching in Settings > Compatibility > AudioTrack Caching, if it doesn’t solve it, try turning off the sound by going to Settings > Audio and changing the volume to zero
Thank you that helped!
Issues I have noticed after this new bug fix update :
1. In a lot of places in the game, the game still says “Sneaking” instead of “Crouching”
2.When looking at your character in 3rd person view, the character doesn’t crouch and so the top of his body litteraly phase through the blocks
The funny thing is that in a SC mod created by Chinese which named expand mod，crouch in 1 block is already finished.And, they solve the
sneak style in third person
Thanks
Hi Kaalus! Do you planing to improve the sound in the game? Mono sound regardless of distance makes it very difficult to play. As example, It is not clear where the wolf is howling, behind your back or somewhere far away.
I think it’s hard to do it programmatically. But I agree the sounds in SC look generally like random. You don’t need to determine the direction of the sound, at least it’s more like the environment.
can we please, PLEASE get a sensitivity slider for PC players, the game is unplayable for people with higher dpi
Let me remind you that in 2.3 the physical keyboard and the left mouse button do not work. Android.
Thanks for the bugfixes! I have sent some ideas on your youtube video about motion sensors.
Hi there!
I’d like to address the change in the motion sensor since I have worlds that will be broken by the change. First I wanna say that I’m generally in favor of the change. It does open up new possibilities for using it even tho it does complicate (at a minimum) certain previous uses. If it were possible, giving the sensor a control would be the best solution. Basically a sensitivity control to tell it whether or not to react to non character movement. Seeing as this is unlikely, I can present other means to avoid unwanted triggering. I have used the technique presented above but it is not useful in all cases.
Techniques to shield the motion sensor:
1. Limit its reaction depth. This is the technique above done electrically. The same can often be accomplished just by locating the sensor father away from the targeted detection range.
2. Limit its viewing angle. The sensor is placed in a ‘tunnel’ so that it only sees a limited area.
3. Limit its timing. If it is necessary to have moving blocks or other motion within the same area that needs to be watched for character motion, then sometimes the sensor can be electrically disabled while this unwanted motion is going on.
However, even using all three of these techniques does not solve the issue in every case. Here are three situations common in my map builds.
A. I have developed a door build using furniture and pistons. This lets me make doors of (almost) any size that slide open when they are tapped. It also gives me total control over when the ‘tap’ is enabled, whether it closes automatically and lets me use different functions for each side of the door. One of the most basic ‘tricks’ in dungeons and other adventure maps is having a door slam shut and locking behind you. To do this, a motion sensor is embedded in the ceiling just beyond the doorway. In order to avoid the door itself triggering the sensor, the sensor is placed in a ‘tunnel’ so that it only sees the area just past the doorway (#2).
B. Another common adventure map trick has a platform that rises up (often out of magma or piranha infested water) with a path to reach it. When the character gets to the platform, this triggers a sensor which (typically) retracts the path, forcing the player to [do something] in order to get his escape. In this case the only way to avoid detecting the rising platform is to either place the sensor so that only the very end of its detection range reaches just above the top of the platform, or do the same by limiting its reaction electrically. (#1)
C. Similar to the preceeding, a *falling* platform may be called for and then [something] must be triggered only once the character steps onto this new area. This is actually the situation I previously abbreviated by saying the sensor is blocked by moving blocks. Blocking the sensor isn’t the purpose of the moving blocks but a side effect of them. The closest thing to a solution for this scenario is to disable the sensors until the platform is in place (#3). Note that (#2) is usually necessary here too, in order to avoid triggering when the character is close to but not on the platform. However this is not an ideal solution. There may be cases when it is critical to be able to tell as soon as the player steps onto this area, even if he jumps onto it as it is still moving.
This brings me to one situation that cannot be solved by even all the afore mentioned ‘solutions’. Detecting a character on a MOVING piston stack. Previously, the motion sensor could be used to tell if a character is being pushed or lifted and tell the system to respond accordingly. This can be useful to “people pushers” and certain specialized lifts.
There is now no straightforward way to do this. The sensor will react whether or not there is a character in the contraption.
In the Russian community, we also thought a lot about the detector. Basically, everything is for high sensitivity. But other builders of mechanisms are right. The best option is like with pistons, make two types of motion detectors. IMHO
Here’s links to the most recent adventure maps I’ve made, for anyone who is curious. They are maps of different levels of the game Doom. They include the original tricks and traps and anyone who had played Doom will recognize them. Unfortunately the creatures don’t behave well as monsters for this, so there are no monsters. Yet! I have been working with another fan on certain tricks to get them to behave better (worse?) Hopefully this will pan out and dangerous monsters can threaten the player like in the original game!
(remove all spaces from within the links)
Doom level “Baron’s Lair”:
https:/ /dl.dropbox. com/s/2xj4kolye4pvtee/Barons%20Lair%20ad.scworld?dl=1
Doom level “Monster Condo”:
https:/ /dl.dropbox. com/s/is3x0y39v7b5u46/Monster%20CondoA.scworld?dl=1
Doom level “Processing Area”:
https:/ /dl.dropbox. com/s/hmkskpvlsgeq5p3/ProcessingArea.scworld?dl=1
Have fun!
Kaalus you should read the forum topics. Yes it is still there. Loyal beyond reason. The “hardships”, the lack of cattle spawning, are killing the fun. As a player from years ago I agree V1 was fun, you could do things. V2, fun is outweighed by frustration. 1 step forward, 5 steps back. It lost you players. You need to nerf all the hardships and boost the food animals.
There is a weird bug that makes it so when you enable multiplayer with controllers on PC, the start menu acts funky.
in the bug fix update still have an annoying problem.
when i select ‘restart’, all settings disappear.
Hello, I hope you have a good night, it’s just to report that I have many performance problems on my cell phone… it’s a Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro (Android 11) 6GB Ram with Mediatek Helio G90T CPU and I have very low FPS. drastic, audio errors and the game lags from time to time as I play or do things… in fact I have not been able to play on my cell phone for the same thing in a long time… I leave a Link with a small video that I recorded as evidence… I hope you can help me to be able to play this game again… Help me! sorry for my english…
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2tigou35e83prh5/screenrecorder-2022-02-19-01-06-52-931.mp4?dl=0
You have a good FPS. And in the explosion mode at 2.3 there are a lot of small particles. Kaalus already wrote about this. All devices usually withstand local explosions for resource extraction. Because of pampering, people add extra work to him …
I had the same problem, what I did was to activate the compatibility options in the game settings (singlethreaded terrain update & use audiotrack caching)
Sorry for the delay in replying, Yes, I’m not Kaalus, but you’ve had to play with that problem for a while
My message from another similar comment:
this is an android 11 or higher issue, you can try to enable AudioTrack Caching in Settings > Compatibility > AudioTrack Caching, if it doesn’t solve it, try turning off the sound by going to Settings > Audio and changing the volume to zero
Bruh….
Me and my sister beg that you add lan multiplayer not online just lab.
Me and my sister beg that you add lan multiplayer not online just lan.
Idc if it’s online either.
Since I upgraded my laptop to windows 11 I can no longer ride horses and board boats.I already uninstalled and installed the game several times but it doesn’t work. If Mr Kaalus sees this and can help me I would be grateful.
Today one of the players reached the top of 255 meters. In 2.3, the lack of oxygen occurs only at 296. The world has become higher, Kaalus inadvertently showed mountaineering.
Still no birds on islands. Please fix it.
Kaalus, I found a critical bug on version 2.3. It consists in the fact that if you save the world to the sd card on 2.3 and then load it, then the world will fly off to its original appearance. I’ve been playing in my world for about five years and this is what happened. All buildings fly down to zero, but statistics and character are saved. here is the video (sorry for the Russian speech, everything is clear there without words). p.s. On version 2.2, everything works fine: I can load and save any worlds, but 2.3 with the same actions leads to critical errors.
I’m still waiting for it to be released on Amazon…
Well it looks like I’m being forced out of playing this game!
I play it on my tablet because i can’t stand the tiny phone screens. Although the tablet is fully functional and still has better specs than most latest models, it uses an old OS. Amazon has decided that their site no longer supports Android 4 and are forcing my tablet to be ‘obsolete’ even though there’s nothing wrong with it. The game itself seems to be fine with the situation, but the Amazon store has orphaned me!
I even tried to side load the game but it now refuses to run without contacting Amazon which then stops it from running. Now I’m forced to decide to either be “left behind” or just quit this game altogether.
Such a shame
Uh oh
…
I even tried side loading the previous version which had been working just fine… now it won’t run because it says I have to update it from Amazon. And Amazon has locked me out! Thanks the fascist practices of big tech, this might just be the end of me and Survivalcraft
Ahh that’s rough, sorry to hear that
Maybe try get a Samsung tablet with a more modern android, shouldn’t give you problems
You’ve created some amazing builds in Survivalcraft, would be a shame to see you leave
Thanks for those kind words. I’m not leaving any time soon. I managed to get 2.3 to work on the current tablet, after some effort. But I can read the writing on the wall and I’ll have to address the situation eventually.
My problem is that the tablet I have is unique. I still cannot find one with this high resolution in this size screen. I’d have to go to a 10″ or larger screen and I simply cannot afford that now! I am looking into “rooting” it to update the OS, too.
Hey Kaalus, I can’t login to Dropbox on iOS. I logged out to switch to my other account and now I get an error. It says:
Error 403: disallowed_useragent
You cannot sign in from this screen because this app does not comply with Google’s Safe Browser Policy. If this app has a website, you can open a web browser and try to login from there.
Please fix it!
i think the 2.1 update is so complex that it can’t compare with all the updates that the sc has already received was the biggest update ever
Kaalus, my worlds are still getting corrupted whether I upload them or not. Please fix this I can’t even play now since my worlds keep getting corrupted and I can’t even do anything about it
[BUGS]
1. Failure to resume standing even after you have crouched in the water if you try to click again.
2. When you place a TrapDoor in a corner and the mud under the TD is removed, an abnormal sound occurs when standing close to the corner and crouching on the TD.
3. When attempting to mount a horse after crouching, the character’s first-person camera will appear abnormally.
The trap door issue creates a clipping issue which gives “x-ray vision” too. Someone said this has been around awhile but without the strange sound effects.
BTW, it can be very useful when looking for caves!
Imagine if you just kept actively developing this game…
2.3.10.1 is running much smoother
Have an average of 68 fps now and lighting changing during sunrise/sunset no longer lags
Thanks for the bug fixes Kaalus!
i got some nice ideas its simple…. but if your kinda new to developing its gonna be hard anyway the ideas
1: the ability to skin animals not just when you kill them u have to wait them to vanish
2:bones can be used in making armors or weapons
3:bleeding’ when you shoot an arrow and hit animal the animal should bleed (same with player) and the arrow wont just bounce it will stay in the animal that make it easir to know which animal did you hit
4: baby animals i mean why not and you can make them your pet by keeping them close to you and feed them untle they grow (work just for wolves horses camels some big herbivores and coyote) big herbivores like bulls make them more passive or zebra to make them rideable and remove the ability to easliy tame a horse and make them unable to tame only if u raised him or tamed him in old wild west style
5:some old ww1 and ww2 bolt action and semi auto you can make like mosin naget or kar and those good old bois
6: pls make a crouching animation and add sneaking and when u sneak close to animal they wont notice u
7: wild crops like potatos beet carots rice you know those good guys
8: better aiming and arrow control(split contro) for mobile
9: cart you can put on horses and zebras
10: water drinking i mean everyone like water delicious cheap and ez to get …. but not here the only water you can drink is rivers water or boiled sea water
11: animals can smell u and know where your … but they cant if your inside house or the air movment isnt between you and the animal
12: hear i know i said a lot of things and your already busy but at least do some of those… oh right 12: this is a realstic minecraft…right? soo add some physics so blocks wont just float if u destroyed like a tree it will fall that happend in a lot of games valheim some minecraft mods vintage story soo why dont u do it…
anyway am sure ur busy but i respected that u taked some of ur time reading this am a dev to and i dont think those are soo hard … but i still know it take time sooo take ur time and cya…. also if ur gonna do any of them reply at this so people will get surprised and exiting and the game is dying so u have to do something about it
oh right forgot 2 things
1: add female animals so they can actualy breed
2: add deers and elks it will be fun to run after a deer and make it deer hunting(and u can tame deers babies) and add scopes for the ww1 and ww2 guns…. thats it… i think anyway am sure the game wont die… sooo soon
Hey will you ever add mine carts for like train imagination & bluetooth. Was kinda hoping for that…
Are you doing something or just disappeared like before?
I have an issue with the Google play phone version of the game which I used to play easily on my Chromebook. I know that this shouldn’t be a prioritized issue since I’m guessing very few people have tried SC on Chromebooks but it was nice because all the keyboard controls used to work on update 2.2. Even though the mouse didn’t work like on the Windows version I quickly got used to just holding down left click all the time for looking around and then just releasing to dig, place, or strike. Believe it or not I got more used to this version than on the phone. I’m guessing the keyboard got patched out in one of the bug fixes but if it doesn’t hurt performance or take to much effort to add back in, I’d be very happy because I don’t have a Windows computer.
Btw has anyone else here played on a Chromebook or just me?
I hope you are ok
in the next update, you must fix the sad situation with the spear
BUG: Changing the world from Challenging to Creative and back to Challenging mode, now unable to place block in jumps.
Kaalus? Where did you go?
Could you quickly add a way of completely hidding the HUD ?
It would be nice for cinematic scenes when recording a video.
Right now we always have the cursor and inventory shown.
There is a problem on my iPhone 12 mini with the UI going off screen. (maybe add screen safe zone)
Let me be honest, I fear that the next update will take 2 years for it to be released!
Another 2 yeara then?
Maybe….
Hopefully the update dates will be later this year or mid-June or July as it used to be, I still don’t mind waiting so long for an update, the game is still quite entertaining and very good… That is what it needs a “something” maybe new metals or something more focused on exploration.
kaalus, hello, every day I sat and watched the release of your posts and videos on YouTube. if you don’t mind answering my little question, shall we wait for something new in the game?
Where are you now?
Where are you now?
Where are you now?
Was it all in my fantasy?
Where are you now?
Were you only imaginary?
Where are you now?
ok we know you don’t like working on Survivalcraft anymore so take it over for everyone kaalus 🤡
people can’t wait xd
he has a life and he is alone working in this game, dont abuse
The performance of the game has decreased. The SC 2.2 version can easily load my world where the computer is located. Now 2.3 is already hanging forever
would it be a problem to make the visual behaviour of glass blocks the default for all of them?
then you don’t have to differentiate while rendering
and it would enable x-ray textures to be possible
with survival craft in our hands, Kaalus will be here before we know it
Thanks for do it a favor to me, for the last 2 years i have been checking this page almost everyday to see some new, but due to this update i lost interest in this game.
Bye it was fun while it lasted
Please, by curiosity, what was the change that was so decisive? All games, for players, have a born of interest, and an end. It is worth the good times anyway. However I am relatively new to the game, less than 1 year, and so no big changes since last update, apart the size of downloads.
Supongo que Adios… Casi siempre es lo mismo con muchas personas que no comprenden lo difícil que debe ser programar el juego… incluso Kaalus no está obligado a hacerlo, es un pasatiempo como ya en el pasado lo dijo… Creo que años atrás lo dijo que hizo el juego por sus hijos… Incluso puede que esté en algún proyecto del mismo juego que sea muy grande… o tal vez no, de igual forma, Survivalcraft siempre ha sido un muy buen juego, sigue representando un buen desafío más que Minecraft, una gran dificultad por todos los cambios y demás… Aún si la actualización fue pequeña en comparación con otras. A veces esperar trae buenos momentos… hay juegos como Terraria que tardaron años en tener una actualización y no es un juego malo. Solo ten paciencia… si es que la tienes. Que tengas Buena tarde.
I think you don’t understand everything. There are Chinese that upgraded the game even with multiplayer. They tried to get hold of him, but it seems they were not successful. The upgrades are so great, including world edit with a huge amount of options. He is not interested to have their help. They have an option for mods, like torch giving light in your hand. There are so many. I am not even playing Kaalus’ game, since the new file system is not supported by the other mods yet. Thus, I cannot edit my new worlds or converted worlds on Kaalus’ game, which is not an option for me. With the mod you can even copy a part in one world and export it to another world.
What dit we get in this upgrade? A file system which corrupts worlds (I do however like the new file system very much, it just needs fixing), a dove and crosses on mountains. By the time you have developed enough to climb so high, the prizes are not really enticing. It would have been nice on level one, but not so much on level 8.
I do admire what Kaalus has created, but unfortunately he is not longer giving attention to the game. The Chinese will probably take over the reigns from here. There is still a chance that he might work with him. That will be such a great day. I don’t blame Kaalus for getting tired of the game, it is just that there are people who want to help him.
For me one of the main values of the original game is being fast and running well on weak hardware. Second it’s being stable, having, precisely, few changes: many good games end up modified so much that despite improving a lot, they lose something precious, a certain balance of gameplay and consistency that mods cancel out. Another value, for me, is the list of community games, being able to publish, and being able to download worlds. Finally, I find the survival modes especially interesting, not the creative ones (there are wonderful things for sure). I would not be happy to see here what happened with Minecraft. I just hope there will be a classic, as is now, Survival2Craft.
“An error occurred while sendindg the request” at any downloads
Hi Kaalus, the problem with map uploads and community downloads continues in the game, the error occurs when when you try to upload or download content, showing an error to request, please help me, thank you.
One other bug I noticed (I’m unsure if it’s related to the update) is that when I try to download community content worlds, I get the error message “AN ERROR OCCURED WHILE SENDING THE REQUEST”.
Kaalus tell me this, did you rush this update?
[HUGE BUG REPORT] Dropbox and Transfer.sh DOWNLOADS are NOT WORKING for Windows
Since April 13th, some users were reporting that they can’t download Community Content worlds (hosted by dropbox), Only in Windows.
https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Reminder-The-Dropbox-API-will-no-longer-accept-TLS-1-0-or-1-1/td-p/582785
As they say, Requests which uses old security protocol are rejected now, I really suspect the game uses some old .NET Framework, which has some legacy http code
Kaalus we need an ocean update pls, before you leave this game please give us an major update. Kaalus SurvivalCraft is the best survival game so please make a major update.🥺
The buttons to upload worlds to dropbox or transfer.sh do not work on the iPad mini
I’m having issues with wolves/coyotes/hyenas getting into my mount pens and killing them. Rip Bruno, 26/5/22-26/5/22. They aren’t just killing them through the fence, they are getting inside too. The place I keep them is a 4×4 roofed area, 3.5 blocks high and surrounded by the mountain I dug into on 3 sides, with the remaining side a wall with a 2×2 gate. The floor is wooden planks so I thought that spawning would be disabled regardless of lighting, although the area is not lit up. I see no way for the wolves to get in unless they are stacking themselves 3 high and climbing over the gates. Maybe there is a bug with gate permeability?? Or have I misinterpreted the spawning mechanics regarding terrain blocks? Either way I think a cool addition would be that wolves are repelled by donkeys, just like in real life, so that you can keep livestock and mounts safe from those hungry pests. It also incentivises getting donkeys for your stables even if you already have horses.
wonder when sprint/run will be added?
Can you make this work on WineHQ or make a Native Linux application version? I want to play this on Ubuntu