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Good Morning and Happy New Years Friends!  I can’t believe we are already at Update of the Avatar #260.. While we all continue to wait for release sometime “hopefully” in 2018, below we have the holiday news regarding SotA. Portalarium’s “Shroud of the Avatar in 2017” R49 Postmortem Telethon The Portalarium Devs gave us a rundown on what they feel was the highlights of 2017 for them (below). For…

Greetings, Creators!

This update is all about three things: Greater stability. Improved performance. Column blocks shaped from the finest, pointiest, shredded leaves.

Stability & Performance

We heard your feedback that game performance is due for a tune-up, and we've dived deep under the hood to make impactful improvements with the goal of getting Creativerse to run as smooth as a Miru's central eyeball (which we assume is pretty smooth, although we're not gonna get close enough to a Miru to find out).

Importantly, with this update Creativerse is now a 64-bit game - an upgrade we expect will significantly improve stability and reduce crashing.

A Cornucopia of Columns

"I don't care about all that technical mumbo jumbo; give me round things!" - someone, probably

We've got you, fam. Get thee to a processor to start churning out gloriously round column versions of eighteen of your favorite blocks (all free in the core game, btw).

So fire up a more stable, more performant Creativerse today and experience... the Column Craze!

New Features and Content

18 new column blocks - free for everyone!

Lumite Column (process Lumite Wall)

Corrupted Stone Column (process Corrupted Stone Wall)

Diamond Column (process Diamond Glass)

Hardened Lava Column (process Hardened Lava Wall)

Igneous Column (process Igneous Wall)

Iron Column (process Iron Wall)

Spiral Limestone Column (process Spiral Limestone Column block)

Straight Limestone Column (process Straight Limestone Column block)

Bedrock Column (process Bedrock Wall)

Limestone Column (process Limestone Wall)

Obsidian Column (process Obsidian Brick Wall)

Stacked Stone Column (process Stacked Stone Wall)

Yellow Wood Column (process Yellow Wood Wall)

Blue Wood Column (process Blue Wood Wall)

Red Wood Column (process Red Wood Wall)

Wood Column (process Wood Wall)

Thatched Column (process Thatched Wall)

Shredded Leaves Column (process Shredded Leaves)

Improvements

Creativerse is now built using the 64-bit Unity platform *

This will improve stability and reduce crashing

Various performance improvements

Improved occlusion culling

Improved sound loading

Reduced entity unloading cost

Other minor improvements

Elevation indicator added to death statue compass UI element

Creativerse sprites added to the arc sign! Use this new tag

Format: <sprite="icons_00" index=0>

Try different index values and sprite=”icons_01”, too!

Bugfixes

Refitted Pumpkiru’s Top Hat so it fits better on the Calavera Cabeza costume

Fixed issue where multiple flashlight sources could be allocated (degrading performance and requiring multiple toggles to switch them off)

Adjusted creature positions so they aren’t floating above the terrain, which was weird

“Server draining” messages now appear properly

Fixed incorrect “stick” weapon sometimes appearing on the character equipment screen

Fix for invisible textures on slabs and slopes in certain placement configurations

Fix for some discontinued item bundles not being properly claimable

Fix for sign text sometimes not rendering correctly

Fix for some machine hotspot text not showing

* An overwhelming majority of our players are running 64-bit operating systems and won't have to do anything but enjoy a more stable gameplay experience. However, a very small subset of players are still running 32-bit versions of Windows, which are no longer supported. If you're one of those players, we've put together this FAQ to help.