Creativerse News

Greetings, Creators!

Creativerse R51 is a Pebble-sized batch of all the bugfixes and improvements that have piled up as we've been working on some bigger features & fixes for the future. We're gonna let those Rockster-sized improvements continue to simmer for a while longer, but in the meantime there's still plenty to enjoy in this modest Pebble of a patch.

Blocky the Snowman, a leftover brand new holiday decoration, has been a little cranky since he missed out on all the holiday festivities. Give him some sharp weapons to hold so he can fully express his surly brand of holiday spirit!

Plus we heard your feedback that it took too dang long to tame, wash, and harvest pets, so we sliced all those times in half with the fabled Lumite Sword of Balancing... or maybe Chase the designer changed three numbers in a data file. There's really no way to be certain.

• New decorative & weapon display item: Blocky the Snowman!
  

• Pet taming, washing, and harvesting times cut in half
  
• Added opt-out option for newsletters when validating e-mail
  

• Fixed recent issues with Creativerse Pro occasionally vanishing for a bit
  
• Costume icons now unified to face the same way. Finally!
  
• End of World blocks can no longer be phased and replaced
  
• Fix for other players with female characters playing male voices
  
• Fix for multiple music box sounds not starting if they started on the same frame (via machine activation for example)
  
• Sent the Holiday Hat costume to the dry cleaners - it came back cleaner and brighter
  
• Fix for blueprints extending higher than world height causing lag
  
• Very large blueprints now show up in-world preview (but may still show as incomplete depending on the size)
  
• Fixed broken email and help buttons on main menu
  
• Fix for that 1-pixel UI gap on Message of the Day panel that was driving everyone crazy
  
• Fix for loot chests in decorative containers causing the container UI to open repeatedly
  
• Fix for certain block types (like holiday lights) to correctly show random variants
  

Creativerse R51 - A Pebble-Sized Update

The holidays may be over, but there's still time to hop in to Creativerse and help Elfi save the day!

Elfi's Community Toy Drive will continue going strong until the morning of January 10th, at which time the event will end. Make sure to log in and trade Elfi any toys you've recovered before he retires to the tundra for some well-deserved rest!

In case you haven't heard, there are less than 2 million toys required to unlock the final community reward, which includes the super awesome Snowball Turret! Hop in today and help Elfi overcome Troggington's shenanigans!

• Will my traps still work on those trifling trogs after the event ends?
  • Traps will continue to work normally after January 10th, but they will no longer be available in the store or as part of a Daily Login Reward.
    
• What can I do with the toys I didn't trade in?
  • Players can trade their toys to Elfi up util his departure on January 10th. After that, you can store them however you like in await of Elfi's return!
    
• What will happen to the new costume options?
  • Like the Halloween-themed costumes, the Winter holiday costumes will remain in the store as we build up a wider selection of costumes. That said, it is possible they will only be seasonally available in the future!
    
• Will Elfi and Troggington ever return to Creativerse?
  • Elfi and Troggington will definitely return in time. In the meantime however, they have expended a lot of energy and require plenty of rest to recharge their batteries!
    

Combeau is planning the ultimate New Year party. Not just any venue will do though, so he is enlisting help via Combeau’s Party Pad Contest!

Descended from a very long line of distinguished party animals, Combeau has won numerous awards for his event planning skills! Here’s your challenge to help him maintain his streak of epic festivities: create a blueprint for the most amazing party pad the Creativerse has ever seen!


Build, capture, and publish a celebration destination in the form of a Creativerse blueprint. Take some great screenshots of your build, then follow the steps below to enter.
We’ll pick EIGHT total winners (including three TOP prizewinners) and award those creators with:

• GRAND PRIZE (1)
  • Glamorous Gold Gauntlet skin!
    
  • 5,000 coins
    
• SECOND PRIZE (1)
  • Sparkling Silver Gauntlet skin!
    
  • 5,000 coins
    
• THIRD PRIZE (1)
  • Bedazzling Bronze Gauntlet skin!
    
  • 5,000 coins
    
• HONORABLE MENTION (a minimum of 5)
  • 5,000 coins
    

• Post your entry (include both a link to your blueprint’s Steam Workshop page AND some screenshots to show it off) on the official contest thread on our Steam forums;
  
• Or Tweet your entry (both the link and the pics) using the hashtag #CreativerseContest (make sure you’re following us so we can DM the winner).
  

• The deadline for entries is Monday, January 15th, 2018 at noon CST.
  
• Limit one entry per person.
  
• You're free to work together with others, but the prize will go to the person that submits the winning entry.
  
• Whether it’s a small yard party or a giant disco you’re making, your creativity should shine through your blueprint. Make us want to drop everything and dance!
  
  • Entries should be a single blueprint of any size (small, medium, or large).
    
  • Players of all skill levels are welcome and encouraged to participate. All entries will be considered regardless of skill level involved.
    
• Use screenshots to show us details the blueprint thumbnail can’t capture!
  
• Playful and Combeau will judge blueprints and select winners via either or all of the following criteria:
  
  • Creativity - The amount of thought and imagination that went into the blueprint, regardless of size, scope, or complexity.
    
  • Innovation - The way blocks and items are uniquely utilized within a build.
    
• Players of all skill levels are welcome and encouraged to participate
  
• Make sure you’ve registered your e-mail in Creativerse so we can contact you if you win.
  
• Playful employees, their families, rambeaus, and other creati-creatures are ineligible to participate or win.
  
• Combeau required that we duly note he was most displeased with being overlooked for the recent blueprint contest. He uttered a muffled snort that roughly translates to “Cosmo-Chizzard can choke on a mushroom sandwich”.
  
• No purchase necessary; purchase does not enhance chance of winning.
  
• Void where prohibited.
  

Happy Holidays, Creators!

Tis the season to spread cheer, and that’s exactly what the celebrated toymaker Elfi had planned to do -- before Troggington the Abominable Snow Trog made off with all of his toys, that is. Now, he’s depending on you to get back those presents and save the holidays for the whole Creativerse!

Elfi’s Toy Drive expands upon the dynamic event system introduced in the Halloween update with exciting new challenges and frosty cool rewards spanning classic holiday recipes and festive new goodies. New premium items round out the update with a flurry of new costume pieces and the supernaturally beautiful Frost Block Set!

Utilize Elfi’s Trog Traps to capture Troggington and his minions, take back those presents, and then return them to Elfi in exchange for a reward of your choice. That’s right -- this time you can pick and choose which rewards you want to aim for!

Work together with the community and surpass milestones to unlock a range of increasingly epic rewards. Speaking of range, did we mention we’re introducing a turret? Because we’re introducing a turret.

• Collect Trog Traps from your free login reward chests, then place them in your world to get toys back from Troggington.
  
• Troggington has all kinds of shenanigans to throw at you! Don’t let him get the best of you, or he’ll get away!
  
• Trade the recovered toys to the Holiday Elfis for even greater treasures!
  
• Trade as many toys to elfis as you can to help the entire Creativerse community unlock special rewards!
  

Collect all of the Holiday Recipes

• Blizzard Bomb
  
• The Shur-Ice-n
  
• Holiday Tree
  
• Snow Buried Container
  
• and a TON of classic Holiday recipes!
  

Stock up on special seasonal potions

• Blizzard Potion
  
• Jingle Juice
  

Work together as a community to unlock these additional recipe rewards

• Ice Container
  
• New Years Fireworks
  
• Music Box
  
• Snowball Turret
  

New Holiday Costumes

• Frost Trog Costume Set
  
• Holiday Hat
  
• Candy Cane Sword
  
• Frostbourne Sword
  

A new Frost Block Set

• Snow Blower
  
• Icicle
  
• Ice Crystals
  
• Ice Vines
  
• Ice Spire
  
• Rocky Ice Column
  
• Ice Door
  
• Snowcapped Ice Wall
  
• Rocky Ice Wall
  
• Ice Door
  
• Ice Bed
  

• Update encounter system UI
  
• New re-factored Trader UI
  
• New Encounter Types and Challenges
  

• Fixed a rare inventory loss issue
  

Creativerse R50 - Elfi’s Toy Drive

Greetings, Creators!

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



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.



"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!

• 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)
    

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

• 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.

Creativerse R49 - The Column Craze!