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Twas the weeks before the holidays, when all through Creativerse–*record scratch*

Troggington the Abominable Snow Trog stole all Elfi’s toys! Creators, we need your help to take back those presents and save Elfi’s Wonderland.

Things aren’t all cloudy and gray. We’ve added a smorgasbord of festive items to brighten up your world. In fact, this may be our largest content update ever. The simple task of writing these patch notes took forever because the team just kept adding more stuff. They may working on even more blocks right now. Who knows?

But the best part about this update isn’t a matter of what, but how. For the first time in Playful’s history, we are donating a portion of proceeds from the event’s duration to charity, specifically The Make-A-Wish Foundation. That essentially makes this update a fundraiser to support making kids’ life-changing wishes come true. There are two ways you can contribute....

• Purchase our any of our new Elfi's Wonderland bundles from the Creativerse store. Each one comes with the same festive gift wrap block recipes, plus a ton of bonus toys and crafted blocks. Buy one or buy a bunch! 100% of the funds we receive from these bundles will go to Make-A-Wish!
  
• Donate directly to our Make-A-Wish campaign. And to make things interesting, we’re reserving a portion of this update’s new goodies for specific donation goals. Once we reach each goal, all items in that tier unlock for everyone. You can make a donation right now on our fundraising page.
  

This update has been a labor of love for us. We helped make a wish come true earlier this year when a child wished to see how video games were made. Ever since, we’ve wanted to do more with Make-A-Wish. The entire studio contributed time and effort on this update, and we hope you enjoy it.

Love,
–The Playful Team

• 2018 Holiday Event — Elfi’s Wonderland!
  • Elfi has a smorgasbord of new gifts to give away in return for the safe journey back of his stolen toys! Use Trog Traps (found in snowy biomes and login reward chests) to earn toys, and trade the toys to Elfi for new holiday goodies
    
    • Red Snowflake Glass
      
    • Blue Snowflake Glass
      
    • Leafi Snow Globe
      
    • Pigsy Snow Globe
      
    • Trog Snow Globe
      
    • Reaudolph Snow Globe
      
    • Holiday Wreath
      
    • Poinsettia
      
    • Holiday Garland
      
    • Red Ornament
      
    • Magic Snow Globe
      
  • Trade your toys for over 20 festive holiday recipes from years past!
    
  • Elfi's Wonderland and prior years' recipes are also available for purchase in the Creativerse store
    
• Make-a-Wish Charity Donation Bundles
  • These recipe and costumes unlock for the whole community at different donation milestones. You can make a donation right now on the Playful / Make-a-Wish fundraising page.
    
  • Tier 1 (First milestone)
    • White Wood Table
      
    • White Wood Chair
      
    • Grey Holiday Carpet
      
    • Dark Grey Holiday Carpet
      
    • Beige Holiday Carpet
      
    • Dark Beige Holiday Carpet
      
    • Plaid Holiday Bed
      
    • Ugly Leafi Sweater Costume
      
  • Tier 2 (Second milestone)
    • Holiday Mantle
      
    • White Snowflake Glass
      
    • Green Snowflake Glass
      
    • Red Brick Fireplace
      
    • Red Brick Wall
      
    • Candycane Bed
      
    • Mitten (Gauntlet Costume)
      
    • Reaudolph Head (Costume)
      
  • Tier 3 (Third milestone)
    • White Wood Door
      
    • Holiday Window
      
    • Giftwrapped Bed
      
    • White Brick Fireplace
      
    • White Brick Wall
      
    • LED Tree Block
      
    • Reinbeau Antlers (Costume)
      
    • Reaudolph Flashlight (Creativerse Pro Costume)
      
  • Purchase our any of our new Elfi's Wonderland bundles from the Creativerse store. Each one comes with the same festive gift wrap block recipes, plus a ton of bonus toys and crafted blocks. Buy one or buy a bunch! 100% of the funds we receive from these bundles will go to Make-A-Wish!
    
    • Red Giftwrap Block
      
    • Blue Giftwrap Block
      
    • Green Giftwrap Block
      
    • Candycane Giftwrap Block
      
      
• New holiday creature: Reinbeau!
  
  • Rumors tell of a rare Reinbeau with a bright red nose...
    
• New ranching quest line. Don't be tame. Get out there and grab some pets!
  
  • Unlock the new Rancher badge, greatly increasing taming speed
    
• Full set of shape variants added for Gingerbread Wall
  
• Full set of shape variants added for Green, Purple, and Orange Blocks of Goo
  
  • #TeamGoo was a valiant runner-up in the recent Battle of the Block Sets community contest!
    
• Death Statues can now be crafted
  

• Pets now give THREE times the amount of loot from harvesting.
  
  • (Pro tip: Better feed them their favorite foods!)
    
• Interface changes: UI changes to main screen and costume screen
  
• Compass and Weather HUD elements updated
  
• Questing and crafting trackers HUD elements updated
  
• Time and weather added to the Map
  
• Removed full screen tutorial pop-ups
  
• Loading screen updated for holiday event
  

• Fix for water and other blocks randomly freezing in warm areas.
  
• QB’s audio has currently been disabled while we discuss QB's most fitting role
  
• Fixed text clipping in the badge menu
  
• Temperature fix for eighth snow block
  

Greetings, creators!

Those mischievous ghosts are at it again and have stolen all of the Great Pumpkiru's candy!
Now the time has come for YOU to help him reclaim his delicious candies and fight off the ghastly hordes!

Explore the haunted grounds by your lonesome to stockpile all the candy, or join up with brave friends and turn those wicked hordes of ghosts into treats. In return, the Great Pumpkiru has a few treats up its sleeve... There are frighteningly cool new costumes to earn and haunt the worlds with. You can show off love for your favorite creature with a devious creature mask or fly into the night with a steampunk glider look (stylishly spooky idea: do both!).
There is also a chance to collect all of the Haunted Nights recipes from previous years and conjure up your own tricks!

• The return of the Great Pumpkiru!
  
  • Hunt ghosts at night and collect candy and idols
    
  • Place idols and complete events for more candy and higher-level idols
    
  • Search for the Great Pumpkiru and trade candy for seasonal recipes, items, and costumes!
    
  • The Great Pumpkin has new wares for trade!
    
    • Leafi Head Mask
      
    • Pigsy Head Mask
      
    • Chizzard Head Mask
      
    • Steampunk Skin for Pro Glider
      
    • Pumpkin Skin for Pro Flashlight
      
    • Ghostly Skin for Pro Flashlight
      
    • Green Goo Cauldron
      
    • Purple Goo Cauldron
      
    • Orange Goo Cauldron
      
    
    
    
• New Destroyer cosmetic costume!

• Sulfur icon more accurately represents the block
  
• Ghost mobs now tame-able
  
• Ghost mobs now spawnable from monster spawner
  
• Pro purchase screen updated with new character models
  
• /hud now hides buff countdown indicators
  

• Service improvements to automatically clean up worlds that get in a stuck state
  
• Fixed promo code redemption panel scrolling improperly
  
• Fixed air animation resettling during jumping/floating
  
• Fixed liquid flood fill in blueprints
  

R57 Pumpkiru Candy Campaign Returns!

Hello there, Creators!

Welcome to the Official Creativerse Fan Art Contest! We have seen some truly amazing Creativerse artwork from the community over the years and are excited for this chance to spotlight all of the talented and creative Creators out there.

The Challenge
Wow us with your insanely talented Creativerse fan art in whichever medium feels best.

How?
Pick your medium of choice and make some magic happen. Whether it is charcoal, oil, photoshop, ink, markers, fabric, yarn, tattoo, mud…express yourself! Be creative!

Duration
Contest begins October 4, 2018 and will end November 2, 2018 at 11:59 AM Central Standard Time (That’s on a Friday for you calendar keeping folks).

• GRAND PRIZE (5) – Five creators will receive the following...
  
  • $50 Steam gift card
    
  • Trophy gauntlet costume of your choosing: bronze, silver, gold
    
  • 3,000 coins
    
  
  
  
• RUNNER UP (10) – Ten creators will receive…
  
  • Trophy gauntlet costume of your choosing: bronze, silver, gold
    
  • 2,000 coins
    

1 – Steam: upload up to THREE (3) images of your submission and reply to this post with the links. We like seeing awesome creations on our Steam Artwork Hub, but imgur or similar image hosting sites are fine, too.
2 – Twitter or Instagram: upload up to THREE (3) photos/copies of your submission with your Creativerse username and the hashtag #creativersecontest.


We will choose a variety of winners, from any medium, who blow us out of the water. Whether you are spotlighting extreme creativity, skill, or just a lot of heart, the main goal of this contest is creative expression. Sharing art is brave and epic, so color us dazzled! Awe us with your wonderful ink skills, terrify us with a Leafi robot sculpture (look out, Alexa), or delight us with a lumite castle cake.
Creativity is the only key! And remember, the ultimate winner is all of us because we get to share and enjoy all of the heart and talent out there.

I can’t art
Fan art contest not your jam? No worries! Rumor has it there is a good ol’ Creativerse building contest coming up, so stay tuned…

• The Deadline for submitting your amazing art is Friday, November 2, 2018: 11:59 AM CST.
  
• All artwork and photography of artwork should be submitted in PNG or JPG form.
  
• Entries are still eligible if they have been created prior to the start of this contest.
  
• Screenshots from Creativerse are not eligible – entries must be created outside the game, whether physically (e.g. painting, quilting, sculpture) or digitally (e.g. photoshop/wacom drawing).
  
• The content of your submission must be your own creation.
  
• Limit one art entry per person.
  

Hello Creators!

The Big Update has a little brother: The Medium Update, and his pockets are lined with some nice improvements and a few extras.

Costumes are now visible and equipped from the main menu, enabling you to adjust and preview your character customization and costume settings in-game, side by side.

We have also added more craftable recipes, including new snow block processor shapes and a totally new block-imprinted bedrock wall! As the Battle of the Blocks winner, lumite wall also gets additions in the form of dark, light, and plain slabs, slopes, stairs, corners, ROUNDED SLOPES, and columns!

Community participation drives us to keep improving the ever-growing world of Creativerse and we appreciate your feedback, creativity, and continued enthusiasm! The full patch notes are below.

• New Snow block processor shapes
  
  • Snow Slab
    
  • Snow Column
    
  • Snow Slope
    
  • Snow Rounded Slope
    
  • Snow Stairs Inner & Outer Corners
    
  • Snow Slope Inner & Outer Corners
    
  
  
  
• New Lumite Wall block processor shapes
  
  • Lumite Wall was the winner of the Battle of the Block Sets community choice competition. Congrats #TeamLumite!
    
  • Dark, Light, and Regular Lumite Wall Slab
    
  • Dark, Light, and Regular Lumite Wall Column
    
  • Dark, Light, and Regular Lumite Wall Slope
    
  • Dark, Light, and Regular Lumite Wall Stairs Inner & Outer Corners
    
  • Dark, Light, and Regular Lumite Wall Slope Inner & Outer Corners
    
  
  
  
• New craftable recipes!
  
  • Snow Stairs
    
  • Dark, Light, and Regular Lumite Wall Stairs
    
  • Imprinted Bedrock Wall
    
  • Pulling Snow Capped Elderwood Leaves now gives you that block instead of the basic leaves
    
    • Try throwing a freeze bomb or snowcubes at Elderwood Leaves!
      
  • Added first-person roll & gauntlet smash functionality (with weapon equipped only)
    
  • Added roll animations to gliding - just for fun!
    

• Unified costume & customization interfaces
  
  • You can preview your character customizations and equipped costumes at the same time!
    
  • Costumes can now be equipped on the main menu
    
  • Character customization settings can now be adjusted in game
    
• The incredible power of your gauntlet smash now transforms some blocks!
  
  • Some transformations require stronger mining cells to be equipped
    
  • Only works where you have builder permissions (claim or world)
    
• Savannah grass now regrows on exposed rocky dirt
  
• Snowcubes now a craftable recipe rather than processed
  
• Sinew can be processed into twine. Ew.
  
• Rebalanced blueprint kit prices (prices slightly reduced overall)
  
• Improved icon art for several codex Help entries
  
• UI tweak to change location of quickbar action text
  

• Fix for lumite pulling speed getting overridden with a slower speed for surface blocks
  
• Fix for accidentally too-dark nighttime in 1st person mode
  
• Additional performance fixes
  
  • Reduced hitching caused by mobs spawning in to the world
    

R56 The Medium Update

Greetings, Creators!

The day has finally arrived — the Big Update is here! We know you’ve been waiting a while, but these new features and improvements are sizzling! Drum roll, please.

We are excited for you to meet our new, improved, and super customizable character models. We hope these new avatars will match the distinct character of the worlds you’ve worked so hard to create.

And let’s talk about combat. With the new 3rd person combat mode, you’ll have a front row seat to a variety of expanded and polished fighting abilities. Whether you are gauntlet-smashing a swarm of night pigsies to smithereens or dodging Miru’s flash attack with a well-timed roll, you’ll be ready for action.

THANK YOU for your continued support while we got this major update ready for you to enjoy. Your continuous creativity, enthusiasm, and feedback is what makes our community so great.

Play on!
-The Creativerse Team

• New & improved player character models!
  
  • Overhaul and improvements for all character models
    
  • Extensive animation polish, including facial movement
    
• More customization options
  
  • The appearance of your in-game character is no longer tied to equipped armor. This means you have freedom to wear whatever you want without having to look like every other player because you want the gear with the best stats. Visuals and item stats are independent so there is no constraint.
    
  • Five new costume sets inspired by the classic armor are now available — these five costumes are being given away free in the store for current players!
    
    • Check in anytime in the next two weeks and you can get them immediately.
      
    • You can mix and max pieces from different sets or use other costume pieces in the game.
      
    • Future players will be able to purchase these costumes in the store with coins, including the free coins that we provide at the start of the game.
      
    • The five new costumes are:
      
      • Fury Warrior Costume
        
      • Electro Cycle Costume
        
      • Metal Mk I Costume
        
      • First Fantasy Costume
        
      • Master Creator Costume
        
• Improved combat!
  
  • New 3rd-person combat camera!
    
    • Equip your weapon to switch to a third-person perspective.
      
      • 3rd-person combat is enabled by default but can be toggled on the Settings menu.
        
    • You can see everything around you and land your swords with impressive accuracy!
      
  • New roll move
    
    • Roll by pressing the left-side alt or ctrl button and any directional key. Usable in 3rd-person combat mode.
      
      • Note: The "mouse unbind" hotkey is moved to right-side alt button
        
      • There’s an optional advanced setting for double-tapping any direction to roll
        
      • You have two roll charges that replenish over time.
        
        • The roll icons to the right of your quickbar on the HUD reflect how many rolls you currently have available
          
  • New AOE Gauntlet Smash attack
    
    • Use your gauntlet smash attack by pressing the middle mouse button (default). Usable in 3rd-person combat mode.
      
    • Deal incredible damage to creatures and players around you! BAM!
      
      • Gauntlet smash damage scales with your weapon’s power
        
    • Use Gauntlet Smash any time you have 75% or more stamina.
      All your remaining stamina will be consumed for this impressive attack.
• Improved Stamina Regeneration
  
  • Stamina regeneration now percentage-based, based on your maximum stamina, so players with tons of stamina will recover it just as fast as players without stamina bonuses.
    
• Improved combat targeting
  
  • Combat targeting is much more accurate and intuitive
    
    • Using a cone-based targeting system, with an optional aim-assist feature.
      
  • Creatures glow red when targeted in melee range.
    
• Improved player and creature animations
  
  • A wide range of player animation improvements and polish
    
  • New player and creature death, bomb throwing, swimming, and sprint attack animations
    
• New intro cinematic when creating a world!
  
• New Help feature
  
  • Visit the Help tab in the codex for descriptions of game items and systems.
    
• More QB! QB now welcomes you back to the game and generally shows love for you.
  
• Goo blocks can now be processed into globs of goo (try processing orange or purple goo blocks…
  

Major storage boosts!

• Maximum item stack size increased from 300 to 999
  
• Wood Bookshelf (formerly 3 slots) and Wood Chest (formerly 24 slots) are both increased to 25 slots!
  
• Stone Chest (formerly 28 slots) increased to 35 slots!
  
• Blue Gift Box, Green Gift Box, Red Gift Box, Heart Shaped Box, Industrial Locker, Medieval Chest, and Hidden Temple Chest (formerly 32 slots), Pumpkin Chest, Royal Pumpkin Chest, and Arctek Chest (formerly 36 slots) increased to 45 slots!
  
• Grand Arctek Chest and Pumpkiru's King Chest (formerly 40 slots) increased to 60 slots!
  
• Minor consistency changes and small improvements to the crafting recipes for some storage containers
  
  • Any existing chests will not be updated unless re-placed
    

Gauntlet pull speed improvements

• Most surface-level blocks pull faster regardless of equipped mining cell
  
• Lower-tier mining cells (base, stone, obsidian) pull a little faster overall
  
  • This change is for newer players to make pulling speed feel crisper and more responsive. Higher-tier mining cells are unchanged.
    

Crouch more aptly renamed to “Safe Walk”
Added Codex keybinding option
Claim pricing rebalanced

• Individual claim prices reduced by up to 50%.
  
• Players can acquire four additional claims per world with in-game resources.
  
• Max claims per player in a world increased from 24 to 40.
  

Crafting station animations are a bit more responsive
Most items can now be placed underwater without a visible “air box” around them

• We are looking into some weird visuals when placing on top-level water, but this change allows for a much better underwater building experience
  

Audio improvements for weapon swings and improved positional sound effects for other players

• Performance fixes to reduce frame hitching and stuttering
  
• Fire spread performance optimizations
  
  • Burns out twice as fast now and only shows a glow from farther away
    
• Networking fix to improve connections, particularly for players on EU and Asia servers
  
• Fixed some bad default configuration values for new users to fix reported issues
  
• Fixed cases where items end up in incorrect quickbar slots
  
• Quest rewards can now be fully claimed even with full inventory
  
• Fixed only being able to take one photo ever for adventure checkpoints
  
• Newly-placed adventure checkpoints should no longer show debug text
  
• Fixed sign text not displaying properly (z-fighting) on signs in some cases
  
• Unlearned seasonal crafting recipes now properly removed from the crafting menu outside of seasonal events
  
• Minor quest text and objective fixes
  
• Minor block description text and categorization fixes
  

Creativerse R55 - The Big Update