Blockscape — August 2026

Blockscape — August 2026

This is a big one. Worlds look richer, Survival has a clearer loop, creatures and tools feel more alive — and multiplayer can finally share the same world with monsters, inventories, and vehicles.

Multiplayer

• Monsters, NPCs, vehicles, inventories, and thrown projectiles now sync over the network.

• Remote players, creatures, and vehicles move more smoothly instead of snapping or teleporting.

• Join a session and see existing creatures, settlers, and vehicles already in the world.

• Vehicles: enter, exit, and drive together. Your weapon is hidden while seated.

• Combat, mining bugs, pickups, and bed sleep are host-authoritative so everyone stays in sync.

• Sleeping in a bed waits until every connected player is in bed (“Waiting for other players…”). Time of day pauses until then.

• TAB shows the player roster. Fog, clouds, landscape type, and weather follow the host.

• Steam Networking (including Steam IP) is supported for sessions.

Worlds & exploration

• New Mesa Landscape — high plateaus, coastal cliffs, and eroded shorelines. It is the recommended world type in the landscape picker (hover a world for a short description). Wild, Realistic, and Flat World are still there.

• Realistic landscapes get coastal terraces, a procedural snow line, and sharper mountain cover.

• New lot trees, open house lots without fences, and a spring pine-leaves material.

• Terrain holes, building-edge errors, and flat-world ground gaps are fixed.

• The world map is redrawn from the actual terrain (including water and cover), with a parchment look and a player arrow.

• Press M to toggle the map. Dungeon finds are Region Maps (for claiming land). The full-screen map needs a crafted World Map (dyes, textile, and oil at a workbench). Region Maps use the same map marking as World Maps.

• Loading a save that already has a World Map fades the map in on the load screen.

• New music, including title-screen music. Battle music starts when a hostile is in range of you.

• Entering the Mysterious Machine now plays a short encounter with the Old Ones.

Look & atmosphere

• New lighting: probes and a 3D light field for bounced light, with less light leaking through walls.

• Brighter, more filmic image — exposure, contrast, bloom, film grain, and vignette.

• Clear weather (no clouds), height-based fog, and indoor fog that respects room size.

• Cumulus clouds and ground mist, plus water that keeps swell at a distance instead of a repeating grid.

• Chamfered voxel edges, detail maps, and more 3D brick/plank materials.

• Better grass, snow, fur, and cover (snow on mountains, more natural grass color).

• Explosions, smoke, embers, snowflakes, air motes, fireflies, and voxel debris.

• Higher-resolution shadows, smoother screen-space reflections, and better underwater glass/transparency.

• If Windows HDR is washing out caves and nights, the game will warn you (toggle in Options).

Creatures & combat

• New player body and armor meshes. Shoulder armor follows the upper arm. Hands grip tools, stay open while placing, and fist when you punch.

• First version of strafing. Stairs and ladders use walk/run instead of a jump pose, with footsteps on stairs.

• New models and motion for the flower monster, mother bug, ghost, worm, and golem.

• Fire golems in dry caves — burning bodies, fireballs, and crackle.

• Ghosts have a draped robe, lagging sleeves, and a cooldown after a hit so they can’t stunlock you. Snakes and Enigmas get the same pause.

• Azure armor protects against magic (ghosts). A full set can block it entirely (“Protected by Azure”). Hits you can’t hurt with a normal weapon show a Magic warning.

• Heat/cold warnings on the HUD, with Fire/Snowflake protection on armor tooltips.

• Creatures fade in, stay grounded, and path around corners and water more reliably. Grass is no longer treated as solid floor/canopy.

• Settlers and guards share the player figure and spawn on lots without clipping into the ground. Guards carry a sword; settlers keep a pick on their back.

Building, crafting & tools

• Two hands: left is the hotbar / active tool, right is your weapon. With a weapon selected, LMB mines or attacks; Shift + LMB places the tool in the world.

• You can still open doors and chests with LMB even if a weapon is selected (Shift still picks).

• Inventory: click to select or equip, drag to move. Shift + drag moves 64, Ctrl + drag moves all. Vehicle parts show in inventory.

• Player panel is four columns; armor sits in the fourth. Properties panel matches.

• Axis-aligned materials: inventory shows the base material; pick X / Y / Z / Auto for grain direction (Auto is available).

• Pipes and cables: pick a start and end point and the game finds a path between them. Pipes use gold, silver, steel, or copper — Azure and Dragon Scale stay for armor and magic.

• Wind generator — power from wind, no fuel. Coal generators now burn coal, have sound, and warn when they’re out of coal or missing water.

• New chest and hatch recipes. Damaged building parts. New potion bottle mesh.

• Recipes stay locked until you’ve crafted them once. Painted materials stay painted when you mine, drop, craft, and play together.

• Plastic crafts (like fur boots) keep the color of the input (brown fur → brown boots).

• Torches and lanterns are proper held lights you can mount on walls or floors.

• Raise, Lower, and Level terrain use a soft brush that matches the cursor size. The old Edge Nudge tool is now just Nudge.

• You can’t place blocks inside yourself or another player. Size-1 placement snaps to the closest block.

• Right-click with the symbol tool no longer mines the block behind the symbol.

Controls, HUD & options

• Graphics settings live in Options (including from the start menu): shaders, virtual resolution, invert mouse, reflections, and refractions. Settings save when you press Esc. Shader quality stays on Normal.

• Field of view slider (60–110°). Optional sprint FOV (+10° while sprinting).

• HUD, inventory, and the held map use world lighting and stay sharp.

• Hovering a dropped item shows name, material, and count. Walk-over pickup reaches from feet to head, so table and shelf drops collect.

• Blinking caret in menus and chat. Resolution-independent UI. Menu titles stay on screen (including when Windows HDR status is shown).

• Copters lose lift in water and can’t punch through the world ceiling. You can’t toggle fly (F) while seated.

Fixes

• Terrain holes and holes between chunks.

• Transparent objects underwater, LOD pops, and distant trees looking too sharp.

• Protector material orientation, beam material direction, and network-component edges.

• Drag-and-drop into state-model inventories. Plant delete also clears seeds/saplings.

• Destroying symbols and other special blocks no longer sprays the wrong rock or wood chips.

• Faster new-game / load progress, and a smoother Save / Load As list.

• Many multiplayer join, pose, inventory, paint, and vehicle issues.

Thank you for playing — and for waiting on this one. If something feels off in multiplayer or on a new Mesa world, please let me know!

/Jens