Murder Miners News

[h3]We've heard from many members of the community and we are proud to showcase Update 38.3. This latest update comes with numerous bug fixes and small additions that many of our zombie fans and regular players will enjoy.[/h3]

[h3]New Additions:[/h3]
◦ New "Pastel" Block Set.
◦ Added a News screen to the main menu.
◦ Added Gamenight Fix announcement for people who participated last gamenight.
◦ Added a boot counter to the stat list.
◦ Added Zombie Toggles for Radar, Vomit, Vile Wind, and Regurgitate.
◦ Added top down view of selected map to Map Tools.
◦ Added Current size, locked blocks, and switch texture atlas to the Map Tools screen.
◦ Added Block picker screen to choose blocks in Map Tools and Map Create Screen.
◦ New Classic Infection Mode.

[h3]Quality of Life/Minor Changes:[/h3]
◦ Max players upgraded from 20 to 30.",
◦ Reorganised the "Main Menu", "Map Tools", "Options", "Controls" and "Map Create" Screens with categories.
◦ Renamed the Settings in the lobby menu to "Lobby Settings".
◦ Renamed "Options" to "Settings".
◦ Moved Locked Blocks from General Settings to World Settings.
◦ The Plastic Block Atlas now has a matching Sentry Icon.
◦ The Ambience toggle now makes the ambience pause and resume when selected.

[h3]Bug Fixes:[/h3]
◦ Fixed Zombie Model Shading.
◦ Fixed TVisor Helmet Neck Issue.
◦ Fixed the "Last Man Standing" Achievement.
◦ Fixed Gamenight Stat and unlock.
◦ Fixed Blood Particle "Off" not being able to be selected.
◦ Going to the main menu now reloads your block atlas, block properties, and stops the ambience from playing.


To explain some of your questions on development for Murder Miners 1 and Murder Miners X:

The "Murder Miners Hub" are working on Murder Miners while JForce is very focused about working on Murder Miners X. Yes, these games are still being worked on, but now the Murder Miners Hub has taken the effort to update Murder Miners. Thank you everyone for sticking around and being part of this special community. We truly appreciate all of your love and support!

Make sure to join the Murder Miners Hub discord to play/chat with community and for the latest news on Murder Miners and Murder Miners X. Believe.
https://discord.gg/T3QCYsU

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See you in March: https://countingdownto.com/?c=3441835​

The Custom Armor system is working with a temporary color picker and options to modify all primary/secondary armor pieces at once.
We’ve got some fancy new animated skyboxes, with more styles to come.
The Minergun has been freshened up and can now use the copy-paste feature we’ve shown previously, and you can now change the size when you paste it!
Lot’s of under-the-hood work this month.

Hello Everyone!

We hope you've all had a good holiday and some good fun playing Murder Miners, the game that
just keeps giving! With a new year comes new content in the coming months so here's a roadmap
for what you can expect as well as how you can help out! Let's get into it.

New Blocks Community Contest

That's right! We've pulled some strings in the game and managed to clean some stuff giving us space
to add a few new blocks to the game and one of them will be from one of you! Starting soon, send
us block textures in our discord server for a chance for it to be a part of the main atlases for the
game! Check in the discord server for updates and more information, we only have little space
though so your block has to be either one 32x32 texture or have some sides that use an existing
texture. We're excited to see what you all cook up for us! We'll give you some time to hone in on
your pixel art skillz before we start it. Good luck!




More Events & Unlockables

In 2020, we added events that spice things up with a whole host of changes such as time limited
weapon skins, block textures and unlockable helmets. You can expect many more events to come as
well as some old ones returning with some revisions. One of these new events starts in February
named 'Love Hurtz Event' where love will be spread all around, even to unlovable murdernauts!
Some of you have made maps using some of the seasonal event atlases and we love that so we're
going to be making all future block atlases stay in the game as an optional override allowing for
more diverse and beautifully crafted maps. With these events, we want to work with the community
more in order to make it feel more of a passion of love for the game so we'll be listening to all
feedback on the new content going forwards!




Non-Limited Helmet Unlockables

Over the year, you'll be getting new challenges to unlock some shiny new helmets! Our first of the
lot will be the Rhino helmet awarded for getting a set amount of ram kills (Where you look down
and run at inhuman speeds) so practice your movement skills because this will be chaos. Making
helmets can be difficult so please be patient if there's some time before more helmets are done, we
are only human after all, I think. Please send us suggestions on what kind of helmets you'd like.




Player Made Atlases & Block Sets

We're cooking up something special for everyone by making more atlases to choose from other than
what we have at the moment. Whats better? Having texture atlases made by the community of
course! We'll be looking for and adding the best of the best texture atlases so everyone can
experience maps in a fresh new look to liven up the game with a new spray of paint. We'll be making
more too with the release of more seasonal texture atlases and more stylised packs such as
simplistic and higher res packs! Want to choose an atlas that makes things look extra colourful?
Sure! Want an atlas that makes things look dilapidated? Maybe. Want an atlas that makes the Spiral
block not damage peoples retinas? Sorry but that's not possible, we tried, believe me! People that
contribute added atlases (or other community content) will receive an exclusive helmet (Believer 4-
Eva Helmet) and will be credited in game, get making everyone!


A few new blocks is neat and all but why not a FEW HUNDRED BLOCKS?! We're adding a thing called
block sets that change the way players interact with their environments as well as sprucing up the
place by replacing the worlds sets of blocks with completely new blocks, each with their own
properties! If you're getting tired of space themed maps and want to create something new then
you can make a more natural looking map using sets of bricks, foliage and woods or maybe event a
painters paradise that turns the world into a canvas! This will only be changeable by the map maker
and not in any lobby menus in order not to break any existing maps. We couldn't be more excited to
get this all into the community hands but this will take awhile as there's just so much to do, stay
tuned for updates. This is going to be a game changer.




New Maps & Skyboxes

Good maps deserve to be seen, each month we'll be adding new maps into the default selection
with a new category named Monthly Maps which will rotate with new ones over time. New
Skyboxes are also coming as expected and we are looking into the possibility of making more unique
skyboxes that fit well in the murder miners universe.


We hope this sheds some light on what you can expect from us over the year, we want to be
transparent with you so please ask any and all questions you have to us. Our little group of aspiring
developers have been voluntarily working on the game for over a year now and we couldn't be
happier to have such a welcoming and thankful community! We can't promise we'll work on this
game forever but we're gonna make sure we work to the best of our ability while we are working on
the game. From everyone within the Murder Miners Hub, thank you for your patience and passion
for the game and letting us work on the game that many of us grew up with. Thank You.

Oh and as a reward for reading (or skimming, I won't judge), you're reward is the knowledge that an
update came out recently with more coming soon! Come and join us the night of the update and have some fun and ask some questions!


-Pinny From The Murder Miners Hub Team

Gamenight starts NOW!, join us for fun gametypes like Capture the Flag, Infection, Murdermatch, and more!

Join us to ask questions and have fun, the host is bigdaddy2
Join the Purple "Gamenight" lobby at the top of the list!

Or watch the Stream:

https://youtu.be/G3yZFt1vPhw

Gamenights are hosted every week so stay tuned for more gamenights. Giveaways are held once a month. Also don't forget to join the Murder Miners Discord and join us in voice chat and say hello!

Murder Miners Hub Discord: https://discord.gg/f2ardab

[h3]To start off 2021, we have introduced a number Quality of Life changes and bug-fixes to the game. We have a lot planned for this year so keep your eyes peeled and join the MurderMinersHub Discord to get the latest news when its ready![/h3]

[h2]Gamenight is starting right now, join us to earn hours towards the Spiral Helmet![/h2]

[h2]This change-log is a combination of 38.1 and 38.2[/h2]

[h3]New Unlockable Helmets:[/h3]
◦ Rhino, this helmet is only worn by true ram warriors.
◦ Requires 5 Ram Kills in Public Matches to unlock.



◦ Spiral, gives your enemies a sight to behold with this beautiful helmet
◦ Requires 6 hours in our Weekly Gamenight Sessions to unlock.



[h3]New Textures:[/h3]
◦ Plastic Texture Atlas - By Noiah
◦ This smooth, easy on your eyes texture pack gives you a nice slick look to your maps!



◦ New Button Icons (Toggleable within settings)
◦ Xbox 360, Xbox One, Minergun, and XG versions.

◦ New Sentry Textures and Icon
◦ Classic Block Atlas variant is not affected.



[h3]New Additions:[/h3]
◦ Added Speedrun.com and Map Submission Links under "Community Links".
◦ Added sorted Team and Players for the Manage/View Players Screen.
◦ Create Session screen got a makeover with categorized modes.
◦ Lobby Settings are now editable within a game session as host!

◦ Added 4 New Mode Presets
◦ Parkour, Free-Build, Competitive Murder Match, and Competitive Team Murder Match (2v2)

◦ Added 5 New Blood Particles:
◦ Try out the new Blue, Turquoise, Magenta, Orange, or Yellow colors.

◦ Added 10 New Default Maps

[h3]Q.O.L/Minor Changes:[/h3]
◦ Ram Acceleration is 15% faster now! (75 blocks traveled required to kill, reduced from 120).
◦ Added Pro-Tip Message to the Find Games/Create Lobby Screens.
◦ Adjusted the Host Session Screen to make it look better.
◦ Debug Options is more organized now.
◦ Renamed "Normal Blood Color" to just "Red" for consistency.
◦ Renamed "Blood Particle:" to "Blood Particle Color" for consistency.
◦ Infection Time limit default is set at 5 minutes (compared to the original 10 minutes).
◦ Added Join Gamenight Group and Join the Discord button to the bottom of the Find Games screen.
◦ Updated in-game leaderboard with Up and Down arrow keys.
◦ Air Block now has a preview texture when being placed.

[h3]Bug Fixes:[/h3]
◦ Fixed Armor Menu Popup text for the other helmets.
◦ Fixed Y-Sensitivity for Mouse users.
◦ Fixed Controller sensitivity issues.
◦ Fixed Gold Machine Gun Texture.
◦ Fixed Unlockable Helmet Progress Popup.
◦ Fixed Zombie Tentacle Grapple achievement looping.
◦ Fixed "block_atlas is being used by another process" bug.
◦ Fixed inconsistant and buggy map load-ins when re-hosting the same game mode preset.


To explain some of your questions on development for Murder Miners 1 and Murder Miners X:

The "Murder Miners Hub" are working on Murder Miners while JForce is very focused about working on Murder Miners X. Yes, these games are still being worked on, but now the Murder Miners Hub has taken the effort to update Murder Miners. Thank you everyone for sticking around and being part of this special community. We truly appreciate all of your love and support!

Make sure to join the Murder Miners Hub discord to play/chat with community and for the latest news on Murder Miners and Murder Miners X. Believe.
https://discord.gg/T3QCYsU