CraftWorld v2.7 + Video
CraftWorld v2.7 has been submitted for review! This update applies to all three versions, so if you are using BETA, FREE or PAID then keep an eye on your marketplace hub on your WP7 device!
The FREE and PAID versions are skipping v2.6. The BETA version gathered lots of feedback in it’s short time as the more advanced version, but did carry with it some significant bugs. Fortunately these have been found, and we now have a green light from the community (so to speak) to move ahead and update all versions.
A shortened change log is included in the base of this post. Also, watch this video:
Creative mode is the big addition to this build. There are two pages of goodies for you to place, and build with. This includes a set of plants with some updated art, more blocks and some extra tools to work with. Just press the two inventory buttons in the top right to use. If you played the BETA version of this, then you will relish the improved UI for creative mode.
Version 2.6 and Version 2.5 bug fixes?
In the BETA there was a severe crash bug. On start up the world converter was failing to convert files to the new save file format (for speed, stability and easy cloud storage). This has been rectified, so if you have not uninstalled the BETA, continue to leave it installed. This update will cure what ails’ ya’!
Of course the screen flippy bug, and the performance issues in the FREE and PAID versions are dealt with, so v2.7 is a massive improvement to battery life, performance and stability.
Xbox and PC?
These versions are coming along quite nicely. We’re working on the HD mode. Daniel has crafted some rather lovely water, and a new sky dome to go with it. Full reflections and refractions are created by the water to complete the effect. Although you can pick the retro skyline and water if your netbook or PC should lag a little, once the PC build is out the door.
Floating islands, with three biomes visible. Don't fall.
Change Log:
- Screen flip then crash issue fixed
- Performance degradation over time fixed
- Signs may be edited on WP7
- Input for Creative mode improved drastically
- File conversion crash fixed
- Added Bookshelves to creative mode
- Added Pure gold blocks
- Added Pure silver blocks
- Added Pure Diamond blocks
- Added Pure Adamantium blocks
- Added 2.0 Block to creative mode
- Added new art for hemp and flowers.
- Added Pure Steel blocks
- Lavender is now blue orchid
- Menu placements
- Fixed UI double activate
- Added Stairs
- New graphics generation system
- Added HD water to XBOX and PC
- Added HD world reflections to XBOX and PC
- Added HD world refractions to XBOX and PC
- Added new Lighting model to XBOX and PC
- Added German language, please contact us if there are typos
- Added French language, please contact us if there are typos
- Fixed Dye names. No more Yoda speak
- Can place hemp, all flowers, all grasses and mushrooms (fix)
- Fixed save file creation null error
- CraftWorld saves and pauses on Deactivation (Just multitask craftworld with the windows button if you want to force a save)
- Added more restrictions to trial version (This is inherited from the Xbox)
- Fixed WP7 OS navigation crashes (rare)
- Fixed Text sanitation (accented characters stripped of accents instead of fully discarded)
- Fixed, can use spaces in world names.
- Fixed, world names limited to 13 chars
- Added floating island generator (This looks great, but eats a lot of memory. Beware if you have a low end handset. Dial down the view distance to compensate)
- Various bug, stability, performance and crash issues too small to list. (around 150)
when will multiplayer come out
When the following conditions have been met:
1) CraftWorld is on Xbox
2) CraftWorld is on PC
3) Single player is a complete experience (RPG system, HD mode, and a few other things in the milestone 1 page http://craftworldgame.com/?page_id=96)
so this coming update there will be a creative mode
Yes.
But an older version of it is in the BETA right now.
When do you think they’ll approve it?
Around the 18th at a guess? Hopefully sooner.
Update 2.7 will be today
How do you know it’ll come today dawid?
I think he’s trying to will it pass faster.
Oh I get it now
Lookin good!!
Good I’m glad this update came right after the other one. When will 2.8 come and what will it have? I think you need day and night and make one or two more enemies.
Btw what is better than diamond tools?
v2.8?! Man, you’re eager aint ya!
Day and night, beds and furniture are a must for v2.8. Maybe a new creature.
Adamantium tools outrank Diamond, and will be in soon. We keep putting them off till later because they are so easy to do. Get the nitty gritty done first!
Enemies you say? A projectile based set (like the zombie set) would be good.
Hi jarryd I know I haven’t posted a comment in like 3 months but I wanted to tell u if your Xbox version will be better than the xbla minecraft because they got lots of people buying that I have it and its fun so I was wandering if yours was going to be better
Our goal is not to consider what other blockworld games are acheiving our final goal, but our bare minimum. Minecraft, Fortresscraft and the others have their own personality and flavour. On that logic, it is impossible to be better. But what we can offer, is more. More blocks, more unique gameplay features, more creatures, more updates, more multiplayer modes.
I’m hoping to make enough to fund our next game, and have a little extra to replace all our computers with new high end dev machines.
Good to see you keeping up with us Austin.
Can you add more creatures and possibly something like a scuba suit or maybe a boat?
He is a man like you and not a robot.
Read the milestones.
Also maybe more animals like cows and stuff
Thank you jarryd i can’t wait!!!
Will PC version also have a free version or be free and creative mode? and will it be just like it is on my wp7?
Can the map show the player’s location? Its quite confusing if you have the map but you don’t know where you are exactly.
It still needs a legend and lots more data added. So yes, that one is coming up soon!
hello jarryd.
We all know that your game is avaible all over the world.
So… Some of the peoples who can’t speak English rate your game bad because they doesn’t understood what they are doing now. (like the bug at the beta where you must uninstall and install again to play the new update)..
My idea :
1. The headline of the description at the marketplace will be ‘ craftworldgame.com ‘
2. You can choose the language you speak at the homepage ( this needs someone who speak this language to answer the question)
3. You really need guys who helps you ! I know that you can’t trust every kid that will do it..
But speaking over telephone helps maybe…
Its a lot of work, I know…
BUT you will be more popular and Microsoft helps you maybe by the producion of Craftworld if they see how good they sold.
Please reply.
Ps. If you will speak about it just send me a mail.
SerkanLives.
Hey Serkan,
We’re adding more languages now actually. We’ve added German and French (we’ll need feedback on typos, missing translations etc..). You’re feedback is 101% correct though, and I heartily agree. I’d like to know what your primary language is, so I’ll email you.
Read the mail please
Hi Jarryd can you add some drinks to craftworld cause I’m trying to make a bar btw I’m playing the beta and its pretty fun also great game
Drinks? Haha, we plan on having Fire Whisky soon! (search for fire whisky on the forums)
Thank also can you answer my earlier questions up there
Hi Jarryd can you add fire to craftworld so animals can be burnt to death which will produce cooked items eg. Bacon and i’ll be quite fun to burn zombies….. I’m playing the beta and craftworld is a great game. i’ll be waiting for v 2.7!!
Have you got my mail that I send you ?
…
I hate e mails…
There’s a glitch on my wp7 , when I turn my phone upside down I go through the ground and die
Fixed in the v2.7 update. Should be only a few more days
When is creative mode coming out BC that’s all I am going to play when I am bored
will you be able to make coal out of wood in the update
You can already do that! That might have been added in v2.6 (Current BETA version) though. Anyway, it’s definitely present in v2.7
Hey jarryd I got a new email its yahoo
Hey Austin, you’re still posting comments here with your old hotmail address. Care to change to the new email? Then I can email you your login details from a month or two ago.
What is this strange creature I came across today? Its head is a purple mushroom, body some strange block and legs like black brivks that dont move? When I killed one it dropped a purple mushroom. Is this a placeholder for some other creature?
That’s a Mushy. Their AI is not finished yet, but they are a living plant. That is a magic mushroom it dropped, which will be powerful ingredient in potion making later on.
The art however, IS placeholder.
do i have to download the updates on my phone,if i do tell me how to
and when will multiplayer be on
the marketplace hub, will tell you. It’s got a picture of a shopping bag. Keep that little guy pinned to your home screen. Whenever ANY update comes out, a number appears. If you have 24 apps that have updates waiting, it will say 24. When it does say so, click on it, and at the bottom of the hub there will be “1 Update” written. Click that, and a list with all of the updates will appear. If you click each one, or click “install all” and go make a coffee, it only takes 2-5 minutes if you have lots of updates.
Multiplayer will go in when the single player experience is mostly complete. Which means RPG mode and Experience, bookmaking, dye making, adamantium tools and a few other things need to go in. And also the PC and Xbox versions need to be out before we do multiplayer.
But it is coming.
Is multiplayer done yet also can it be creepers but kind of a zombie type
Ya I don’t see a number
Whats about blur ?
Blur? Motion blur? Radial blur? Got hit in the head and seing double blur? Ate a magic mushroom blur?
At the graphic direction.
it will be look like a dream.
Hey Jarryd, from 1% to 100% how close do you think you are to finishing milestone 1?
I’ve updated the milestones page. It’s hard to say really, but I’d guess around 85% of just Milestone 1, with 10% of Milestone 2?
I don’t think that my phone can get updates
My craftworld is on update2.5 is it supposed to be like that?
The update has still not passed certification. Just keep an eye on that marketplace tab and this blog.
Why can’t I build a repairbench in 2.6? I tried the original steel barrod method and the 5 bronze bar recipie in the wiki, but neither works. I finally have a diamond pick, but I can’t use it.
The repair bench’s template has changed a lot in the past few versions. Try adding planks to empty spaces between the bronze rods. CraftWorld is becoming gigantic, and there are still a lot of changes happening, so the wiki during these early days might not always be up to date.
The diamond pick should work just fine… what version are you? v2.6 BETA, 2.5 PAID or something else?
Because the Beta version is for testing, and not so much an officially supported version of the game, the information on the Wiki doesn’t reflect all of the differences in the Beta version. As soon as 2.7 is available for download (since it’s being released on Paid and Free versions) all of the information on the Wiki will begin reflecting the changes from version 2.5.
In the meantime, I believe the pattern for the Repairbench in Beta 2.6 is the same as 2.5 but with Bronze instead of Steel. So Bronze Rods in the four corners and a Bronze Ingot in the middle. I hope that helps, and thanks for visiting the Wiki. Be sure to check back after the updates (it may take a day or two before all of the new info is up-to-date).
Ok, that makes more sense. The wiki says to use 5 ingots, not ingots and bars. Also, when I said I can’t use my pick, I meant that it’s going to break if I don’t have a repair bench. Thank you for all you help.
You’re welcome. The reasons the graphic template has been left as it is for now are fairly complicated, but I am aware that it doesn’t actually work in any playable version. With 2.7 right around the corner, though, rest assured that all of the information on the Wiki will be updated and accurate very soon. If for some reason a graphic template can’t be changed and still doesn’t work in 2.7, that will be noted on the site so there shouldn’t be any confusion after the update.
Please feel free to create an account on the Wiki, and if you have questions about any page you can click on the “discussion” tab on that page and note your question there. If information actually is inaccurate and just happened to be overlooked, it would be great to have people let me know about it.
Hey jarryd I am Austin but my nickname is aj I used my new email ok
You’re account has been updated, and your login details sent. See you on the forums!
What do you have left with milestone 1
Ps: did you know this forum thing has had the most comments?
54 and counting now. I gotta make a new post tonight. With a video.
I’ve marked off the done items on milestone one btw.
How come the beta is better? And do most of you play beta?
Hi Jarryd can you answer my earlier questions there up there a ways
Thanks
For more detailed questions and answers, make a post on our forums. Many questions have been answered there already.
2.7 to beta has arrived!!
My 2.7 update the game keeps crashing can that be fixed?
I’ve found the error reports you’ve sent it. It looks like that memory leak we found and fixed has been plaguing you mostly. The save data issue I’ll need to know more about. Can you post in the forums? I need to know at what point your game crashes?
Well It won’t let me register to post in the forum but it crashes when i make the maps and at random moments too sometimes
The map is broken in v2.7, however it’s fixed in v2.8.
I’ve just finished writing this up:
http://craftworldgame.com/?p=821
Why im unable to create an account for cloud storage?
It say its an unknown error and ask me to try again later, but the screen stuck at creating account and unable to return to main menu. I need to restart the game to play.
Even after reinstallation, it still gives the same error.And i used the email i provided to comment.
But i still cannot create, whats the solution?
Stuck in the account creation window? Duly noted. Thankyou.
You’re stuck on a window labele “Creating account” yes? Anyway, that’a bug found I can fix in v2.8. I’ll make you an account and email you soon.