Brutal Nature, The Multiplayer Voxel Sandbox game

Development blog

This is our development blog! We have been maintaining this blog with updates for over 1000 days now, starting June 10th, 2013. Here you can read about the work that goes into making a game as complex as Brutal Nature:

 

Released: 0.39

March 31st, 0.39 is now released:

  • Fixed all known bugs
  • Added Options Menu
  • Added beds. Clicking on a bed now sets your spawn point and shows up as a point on your radar.
  • Added New installer for client.
  • Added sound for active smelters and campfires.
  • Added drop down list control
  • Added support for saving settings to Brutal Nature.cfg
  • Added mouse wheel scrolling support to list box and scroll bar control.
  • Added check box control.
  • Added Slider control.
  • Added scripted support for adding sound to objects.
  • Added chairs.
  • Added instant Player death if he leaves world bounds.
  • Added Grapple disconnecting if the object or terrain its connected to is destroyed.
  • Added Buy Game button to escape menu.
  • Added small delay before client can move after server moves the player a large distance.
  • Changed Esc to clear chat.
  • Changed Backspace to no longer close chat when empty.
  • Rewrote movement and grapple code.
  • Rewrote escape menu.
  • Rewrote the backup player collision code used when a player is inside terrain.
  • Reduced vertex memory used by water by 75%
  • Reduced terrain damage caused by grapple hook.
  • Removed hard coding of terrain texture locations.
  • Improved error reporting on missing mod files.
  • Lowered the precision that most numbers are displayed as.
  • Lowered jump endurance usage by 30%.
  • Moved FPS counter slightly.
  • Locked edit distance in standard edit mode to prevent confusing state where standard edit mode behaves poorly.
  • Fixed Party menu to now show name of party you are in when you rejoin the game.
  • Fixed walking sounds not controlled by volume controls.
  • Fixed bug where the ocean was surrounded by walls.
  • Fixed object culling using frustum of last frame instead of current frame.
  • Fixed leak in flush branches function
  • Fixed cavern generator producing disconnected caverns.

 

 

 

2014 March 30th

Player now dies if he leaves world bounds. Fixed bug where the ocean was surrounded by walls.

 

Rewrote the backup player collision code used when a player is inside terrain. Added small delay before client can move after server moves the player a large distance.

 

2014 March 29th

Added beds. Clicking on a bed now sets your spawn point and shows up as a point on your radar.

 

Lowered jump endurance usage by 30%.

 

2014 March 28th

Did some design work. Added chairs.

 

2014 March 27th

Added scripted support for adding sound to objects. Added sound for active smelters and campfires.

 

2014 March 26th

More work on movement code and grapple. Grapple now disconnects if object or terrain its connected to is destroyed. Reduced terrain damage caused by grapple hook.

 

2014 March 25th

Fixed object culling using frustum of last frame instead of current frame.

 

Fixed up party menu code. Party menu now shows name of party you are in when you rejoin the game.

 

2014 March 24th

Fixed walking sounds not controlled by volume controls. Removed hard coding of terrain texture locations. Lowered the precision that most numbers are displayed as.

 

Esc now clears chat. Backspace no longer closes chat when empty.

 

2014 March 23rd

Locked edit distance in standard edit mode to prevent confusing state where standard edit mode behaves poorly.

More work tweaking the movement code.

 

2014 March 22nd

Spent all day working on player movement code. Basically rewritten most of it from scratch. Eliminated sliding down hills and sluggish movement up hills.

 

2014 March 21st

Moved FPS counter slightly. Fixed cavern generator producing disconnected caverns. Minor GUI tweaks. Worked on designing an electrical system for the game.

 

2014 March 20th

Finished up options menu. Experimented with movement physics to have higher acceleration and more control.

 

2014 March 19th

Added check box control. Added Slider control. More work on options menu. Graphics options are roughed in. Sound options done.

 

2014 March 18th

Rewriting settings file code to support rewriting the settings file.

Added mouse wheel scrolling support to list box and scroll bar control.

 

2014 March 17th

More work on the drop down list control. Mainly done.

Started work on an options menu.

 

2014 March 16th

Started work on a new drop down list control.

 

2014 March 15th

Improved error reporting on missing mod files. Redid escape menu. Added Buy Game button to escape menu.

 

2014 March 14th

Reduced vertex memory used by water by 75%

 

2014 March 13th

Fixed leak in flush branches function. Took a bunch of screenshots of the new version.

 

2014 March 12th

Packed up version 0.38 of Brutal Nature for release!

 

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