Blockscape — September Update 2

This update is all about water: how it flows, how it looks, and how you move it around your builds.

Water physics

• Finite water now spreads more reliably — volume is conserved instead of fighting itself with last-write-wins glitches.

• Waterfalls and slopes fall cleanly without fanning sideways on the same tick.

• Lakes and water sources absorb spilled finite water instead of restamping weird “sourced” puddles on the shore.

• Water can seep into soil, grass, sand, and gravel over time.

• Puddles on grass and uneven ground should ping-pong less and settle more naturally.

• Shorelines and floor water against solid cubes render more consistently.

Flow, foam, and splashes

• Flowing water shows clearer foam along slopes and sheets.

• Waterfalls kick up mist and foam where they hit the pool below.

• Splash particles hang and fade more naturally when they hit terrain.

• Pressurized sprinklers spray visible foam from the head when they’re running.

Sprinklers & water networks

• New craftable Sprinkler — connect it to a pressurized water network to wet Soil into WetSoil in a small radius (great for wheat and farming plots). No standing water puddles; it just irrigates.

• Water pipes and devices respect switches and power more correctly — a closed switch or isolated line won’t keep pumping/draining as if it were open.

• Hovering and placing network parts shows blue input / cyan output arrows so pipe orientation is easier to read.

• Pipes, cubes, and network specials can sit half-buried in solid terrain; lanterns and torches mount more cleanly on outer surfaces.

Crafting

• Ingredients that accept a material group show as Any in the recipe UI when no specific material is required.

• Copter and drill reactor cores craft with the light material group.

Under the hood

• Faster, cleaner water remeshing and simulation around the player — less hitching when water is moving nearby.

Thanks for playing — jump in, dig a canal, wire a sprinkler, and tell us how the new water feels.