Brickadia Version 0.1.0
The first Closed Alpha release is now available, along with significant changes.
For those who went all the way back here on the blog to find out when Brickadia began: That was on the 20th of April, 2017. Long before this release.
Detailed Changelog
Major Features
- Added WIP kitchen map.
- Brick grids can now be chunked.
- Brick replication now works based on chunks.
- Mesh clusters are now generated separately for each chunk.
- Faces hidden between adjacent bricks are now culled from the mesh clusters.
- Added basic painting tool.
- Added basic delete tool.
- Procedural bricks can now be placed in the world.
- Added sideways building support and a few bricks that use it.
- New player model with new idle/walk/run/strafe/fly animations.
- Upgraded to Unreal Engine 4.19.0.
Minor Features
- Added a configurable draw distance limit.
- Massively reduced server-side memory usage of brick replication.
- Main Menu and Pause Menu buttons now have sound effects and animations.
- Multiple optimizations to async brick mesh building.
- It is now possible for players to raise/lower their hands.
- Added sounds for brick drag/place/delete.
- Jumping repeats while space is held down.
- You can pick bricks from the world to quickly place more of the same type.
- Parsing save files and preparing bricks now runs in an async task.
- Moving the mouse to the edge of the screen while building now rotates the camera.
- Players now have names above them.
- Added a command to display the brick count (/brickcount).
- Added an indicator for whether brick replication is currently streaming updates.
- Loading a build now shows a message saying how many bricks were loaded.
- Main menu logo updated.
- Basic movement now works with a controller.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed mouse not being captured properly on game start.
- Fixed missing character shadow in first person.
- Fixed UI upscaling being enabled beyond 1080p.
- Fixed brick icons being pixelated on less than 1080p resolutions.
- Fixed brick replication ignoring the bandwidth limit and saturating the connection.
- Fixed various bugs with markdown messages in chat.
- Fixed bad transparency sorting on ghost bricks (made them not transparent).
- Fixed chat messages designated for the host being sent to all clients instead.
- Fixed crash when loading a save file before the brick assets are loaded.
- Fixed console spam when chat messages appear onscreen.
- Fixed not being able to load a save file whose name contains special characters.
- Fixed incorrect collision on legacy bricks.
- Fixed servers randomly freezing after a few minutes.