Creativerse News

Hello Creators!

Turns out Thing is quite the collector, and now its collection can be yours. These shiny new figurines — which feature your favorite Creativerse mobs like Pigsy, Leafi, Chizzard, Rambeau, Rockster, Keepa, and more — will look great in your builds! So if you're feeling adventurous, head down to the Corruption Layer and fight or tame some Things to start collecting. It won't be easy but it will be worth it.

In addition, we have some new items and a bunch of improvements, including a big overhaul to loot from treasure chests, which are now way more rewarding. We've added the ability to customize the length of timers in advanced world options, so now you can process and forge everything in 1 second if you like. There’s several new chat commands that add some useful tinkering abilities. And more!

This update also removes the ability to migrate your old worlds (...end of an era). Until next time...stay creative!

[h2]New Content[/h2]

[h3]New Collectable Figures[/h3]
Thing now has a chance to drop collectable figures straight from its amazing collection of things!

• Six new common figures:
  • Playful Pigsy
    
  • Inquisitive Leafi
    
  • Flamboyant Chizzard
    
  • Rambunctious Rambeau
    
  • Splashing Karrotfish
    
  • Friendly Rockster
• Three new rare figures:
  
  • Golden Keepa
    
  • Waving QB
    
  • Baby Leafi Stack
• …More?

[h3]New Items[/h3]

• Added the Year of the Rabbit Lantern
  
• Added the rest of the missing "Year of…" lanterns:
  • Year of the Dragon Lantern
    
  • Year of the Goat Lantern
    
  • Year of the Horse Lantern
    
  • Year of the Monkey Lantern
    
  • Year of the Rooster Lantern
    
  • Year of the Snake Lantern
    
  • Year of the Tiger Lantern
• Keepa is the keeper of these new recipes!
  

[h2]Improvements & Fixes[/h2]

[h3]Loot:[/h3]

• 50+ home decor recipes (including the Ritzy Pigsy Hotel and Better Home sets) added as potential loot from tamed mobs
  
• "Frozen" recipes now have a chance to drop from cold mobs
  
• Special treasure chests with a chance to drop "Atlantis" and other ocean-themed recipes now sometimes appear near shores
  
• Stacked Crates recipe added to Wood Treasure Chests
  
• Death Statue recipe now has a chance to drop from any night mob
  
• Optimized treasure chests loot overall – more distinction between chest tiers, and good stuff generally has a better and more consistent chance to drop
  

[h3]Mobs:[/h3]

• Reaudolph is now tamable
  
• Troggington is now tamable
  
• Fixed arcstones not dropping from tamed Keepas and Keepa ranchers
  

[h3]World Options:[/h3]

• Added option to change timing on the Forge, Processor, and Extractor (Edit World > Advanced Settings > Crafting)
  

[h3]Repairing:[/h3]

• Rocket Pack is now repairable
  

[h3]Entities:[/h3]

• Increased storage size of most chests
  
• Improved Picture Frame / Arc Picture Frame interface
  
• Picture Frame images are now sourced from our Artwork page on Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/app/280790/images/
  
• Fixed freshly placed teleporters (empty ones) not pairing up
  
• Fixed problem with autobuilt teleporters not retaining their captured codes
  

[h3]UI & Menus:[/h3]

• Removed Migrate link and relative functionality from the main screen
  
• Updated names of various plants to indicate which ones are placeable
  
• Long item names no longer gets cut off on item description tooltips
  
• Improved visibility of the block cursor, making it easier to see on bright surfaces
  
• In-game help buttons now link to official help website
  
• Improved differentiation between editable and non-editable world forms in Server Browser
  
• Fixed inconsistent MaxPlayers default from 100 to 20
  
• Small tweaks and missing items fixed in NPC trader UIs
  

[h3]Player Character:[/h3]

• Updated animation when equipping boots to match that of leggings for consistency
  
• Fixed bug resetting player face to default when equipping boots
  

[h3]Player Management:[/h3]

• Renamed "cheat" to "command" in player list management
  
• Added for visibility commands which are always allowed and not editable
  
• Added link to player’s Steam profile in the player management dialog
  
• Added whitelist & blacklist buttons to player management dialog
  
• Added category links to playerlist manage commands overlay
  

[h3]Commands (formerly cheats):[/h3]

• New commands added:
  
  • /npcrange – shows the sensing range of a Programmable Villager
    
  • /grid – allows creating grids of arbitrary sizes and alignments
    
  • /markers – allows customizing duration and colors of test / action markers
    
  • /mirror – mirror an existing build, either moving or duplicating the placed blocks.
    
  • /rotate – rotate an existing build
    
  • /custompaint – allows saving / loading / clearing custom paint intensities
    
• Certain commands are now automatically granted to players
  
• /sphere and /spheretest no longer requires separated width / height / depth params
  
• /aimed command now replaces / digs liquids when the rotation flag is set (which is by default)
  
• Improved feedback when attempting to use a banned command
  
• Improved /poly command
  
• More details on commands and their usage is available in Manage Commands > “i” icon (toggle info); (if you aren’t the world owner, open your own record in the player list and click View Commands)
  

[h3]Chat:[/h3]

• Whispers now prepend with sender name (only for the sender) to differentiate sent messages from received ones
  
• New player preferences added:
  
  • /pref Use24Hours true|false – forces 24 hour time format regardless of any locale setting
    
  • /pref UseCelsius true|false` – forces showing C° values instead of F° values
    
  • /pref NPCVerboseOutput true|false` – gives more details in chat regarding NPC containment failures (i.e. when an NPC says “I don’t have what I need”)

[h3]Paint / Textures:[/h3]
Made improvements to paint masks and/or paint intensities for the following:

• Wood Roof
  
• Wood Stairs
  
• Diamond Wall
  
• Old Wood
  
• Adobe Roof
  
• Thatched Roof
  
• Goo block sets
  
• Gold Stairs
  

[h3]Web Admin:[/h3]

• Improved the webadmin reference utility
  
• Fixed claims missing from the webadmin map
  
• Fixed islands-simplex generator not forcing the correct procedural type in the resulting mapinfo.json files
  
• Quests editor now supports Days in Repeat Time Span field
  
• Fixed help button in Creatisprites Picker wrongly filling the grid randomly
  

[h3]Miscellaneous:[/h3]

• Fixed various blocks not unlocking correctly
  
• Uniform processing time for Diamond Node Variants, Diamond Wall Slices/Slabs
  
• Fixed Diamond Wall Slice not being processed from Diamond Wall Slab
  
• Fixed Diamond Quarter Round Slope not processed out of Diamond Wall Column
  
• Fixed Adobe Brick variants not being processable
  
• Improved output for data dumps (reference js files you can download by typing /createmedia in chat)
  

version 4.0.0

[h2]Hello Creators,[/h2]

How goes the building and adventuring in Creativerse? Hopefully fantastically!

We wanted to remind you of the upcoming April 6th deadline—a little over 2 weeks from now—before we have to shut down the original Creativerse servers.

This is your last chance to download your own worlds, or any whitelisted public worlds (search for “migrationallowed” in the migration tab).

Once the servers are shut down, we won’t be able to recover any world data. We know our players have put millions of hours into building amazing things, so please take the time to download and backup it up!

If you haven’t yet purchased The Definitive Edition, now would be a great time as the game is currently 50% off for the Spring Sale. Also don’t forget if you’ve spent over a certain amount on Creativerse, we’ll gift a copy of the game to any friend of your choosing. The deadline to apply for that is March 31. More details here.

Our next update is coming soon! Until then, stay creative!!

—The Playful Team

[h2]Hello Creators,[/h2]

We wanted to let you know about some special deals going on right now, as well as an extension of the deadline to migrate worlds.

But first, the deals!

[h3]1. The Definitive Edition of the game is 50% off this week![/h3]

If you haven't picked it up yet, this is a great chance to get the new, improved, and future-proofed version of the game.

Go directly to the store page:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/280790/Creativerse/

[h3]2. We are pleased to announce a new promotion we like to call "More Creatifriends!"[/h3]

We are offering a FREE copy of The Definitive Edition to any friend of your choosing if you've supported us above a certain amount.

Specifically, if you've spent more than $30 USD on the game, or, for international players, the equivalent of $30 USD in your local currency, which might look like one of the following combinations:

• Pro + Welcome Bundle DLCs
  
• Pro + any 2 coin bundles
  
• Pro + any 1 coin bundle + Soundtrack DLC
  
• Creativerse: The Definitive Edition + Soundtrack DLC
  
• Any combination of coin bundles equal to $30 USD (or local equivalent)
  

And if you've spent more than $60 USD (or local equivalent), you can pick TWO friends to get the game for free!

Just send your player name or Steam ID to [email protected] with the subject "free copy for a friend" and we'll get it sorted.

The deadline to contact us is MARCH 31.

If you aren't sure if you qualify, email us anyway and we'll figure it out with you. Because the game is always better with more Creatifriends!

UPDATE, 2/7: One point of clarification: if you purchase The Definitive Edition on sale plus the soundtrack you won't qualify for the free copy unless you also have purchased $10 USD (or local equivalent) in coins OR the Welcome Bundle.

[h3]DATA DEADLINE EXTENSION[/h3]

We’ve decided to extend the deadline for migrating your worlds and data an additional 30 days. This means you have until APRIL 6 to download your data from our servers before we have to shut them down.

Remember, you can download local copies of any world you owned before we switched to The Definitive Edition. You can also download any worlds that other players have flagged to allow public migration (and there are a bunch of popular ones out there, e.g. the Playfulverse worlds we featured on livestreams back in the day).

They are all yours for the taking but please remember to migrate them before April 6, 2023!


That's it for now. We are hard at work on the next update, which we hope to release before the end of the month. In the meantime, stay creative!

—The Playful Team

Is a Definitive Edition of a game truly definitive without a released soundtrack? A moot question as of today.

Available now, the official 54-track score for Creativerse weaves through the peaks and valleys of a sandbox limited only by your imagination. Featuring original music by David Chow and Max Cominos, the soundtrack includes 38 never-before-released tracks. It also includes fully remastered versions of the 16 tracks we previously released on Bandcamp. And it's available both in MP3 and lossless WAV formats.

The soundtrack to exploring, adventuring, and building is a VIBE, and now you can take it with you anywhere.

Store page:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2274240/

We hope you enjoy it!

We're back with a hotfix that has a lot of design tweaks and fixes based on player feedback. Thank you to everyone who sent some in!

• Added ability to edit worlds from the Local tab (pen button near the trash / delete button)
  
• Added /unlockallcostumes and /unlockallcrafts cheats, these cheats only allow unlocking "for yourself" and are safe to be granted to individual players which are supposed to unlock everything
  
• Added /unlockallcostumesforplayer and /unlockallcraftsforplayer cheats, IMPORTANT: do not grant these cheats to untrusted players, these cheats allow unlocking costumes / crafts for any other player by name
  
• Doubled paint intensity of the normal Canvas Set to try and recover the bloom it had on the legacy version even if unintended
  
• Made client and server more resilient against mod.io failures
  
• Added "?" button leading the guide from in-game (Server Browser, Player List, Edit/View World Settings)
  
• Added "last join" feature to the Server Browser
  
• Added ability to sort Server Browser worlds in various ways, start from alphabetic order and have the selection be remembered across reloads
  
• Add link to owner Steam profile above screenshot in world preview of Server Browser
  
• Compact info at the bottom of the world card previews to give more room to descriptions
  
• Added some sounds to the Server Browser, many more interactions still need adding sounds for audio feedback
  
• Removed Access Request button from the Playerlist if the world isn't currently using the Whitelist system
  
• Have World Settings / Edit page from in-world reference a local version of the Creatisprites Picker instead of the one running on the Webadmin of the world you're playing in
  
• Add link to the Creatisprites Picker to the Webadmin menu as well
  
• Increased spacing under the Creatisprites grid
  
• Add AFK check, warning and timeout settings to the World Options
  
• Added options to disable Treasures in the World Settings
  
• Added options to override Treasures and Traders in Claim Settings
  
• Fixed Cornerstone losing progress and erroring out after completion / autobuild
  
• Fix Phasers not allowing some blocks (Mossy Ashenwood, Cragwood with Vines and similar)
  
• Fix some missing Cornerstone hints and swap materials for some blocks (same "combo" blocks as Mossy Ashenwood as above)
  
• Improved wording of "Default Player Permission" in the Advanced Claim Settings
  
• Fixed temporary error blocks autobuilding gates, curtains and trapdoors
  
• Possibly finally nailed down bug capping claim purchase to 256
  
• Potentially fix Sensors and other blocks with interaction erroring out after reloading, any broken instances you may have already placed may require pulling and replacing, if you haven't done a lot of work on a migrated world, try migrating it again
  
• Fix error trying to migrate a world without a screenshot
  
• Fixed claims not overriding fire and TNT world options correctly
  
• Fixed overlooked black masking on kitchen cabinet, rambrew soda, haunted mirror and western mount
  
• Improve support for migrating very old worlds with unexpected data
  
• Disallow toggling Creator Mode via the H key other than in the normal playing screen (prevents toggling it while in menus / inventory / chests and so forth)
  
• Tweak text for Toggle Creator Mode and Slot/Block Info keybindings in the settings
  
• Made /aimed cheat more strict by default (only matches blocks with the same exact block type, rotation and color) but allow relaxing the matching rule to be only one or two of block type, color and rotation
  
• The /polyline cheat has been renamed to /poly only and has been largely overhauled, check the Manage / View Cheats info from the playerlist or run /poly only in the chat to get a list of actions
  
• Added /markers cheat to customize duration and colors of default test / action markers of the various worldedit cheats
  
• Added clientside Netstats page (signal / bars button on the Player List)
  
• Added TemplateOverridePath support to server.json (that position will be used to look for /templates and /dltemplates) - just like with the other overrides, it's up to the player to move any existing files from the old position to the new one, or trash them if not needed anymore
  
• Rebalanced coin drop rate
  
• Added plain concrete block
  
• Fixed missing Night Hoglet pet loot tables
  
• Updated / added unlock requirements for multiple crafts
  
• Better "used" text on coins
  
• Fixed missing craft quantity for iron roof slopes
  
• Added some missing ingredient items to ranching reward loot tables
  
• Feathers can now be used as a weak fuel for the forge
  
• Rocket Packs are now repairable
  
• Disabled obsolete Adventure Gate and Checkpoint items. Will add new cosmetic versions in a future update.
  
• Added better "unlocked by" messaging for crafts that are unlocked via quest completion.
  
• Fixed missing "found" text for a few items used as unlock requirements
  
• Added Medieval, Sci-Fi, Hidden Temple, and Industrial sword crafts to the appropriate bundles as quest rewards
  
• Added Gold, Legendary Gold, and Rainbownator Sword recipes as rare drops from Keepas.
  
• Adjusted international prices to be more in line with games at the same price point.