Boundless News

Hello Everyone,

Exciting news, it’s time for the first update of 2020!

We’ve just rolled out the latest release, which includes a huge swathe of Quality of Life changes, our experimental prototype Creative Mode for PC, and the architecture for our Lovestruck event!

We’ve really focused on fixes and tweaks to make the general experience smoother and more enjoyable with this update. Particular areas that have been targeted for improvement are;

A huge list of tweaks to the messaging system
Quality of life changes to Guilds
Several small engine fixes.

For a more technical breakdown of bug fixes and Quality of Life changes, head over to James’ patch notes here;

https://forum.playboundless.com/t/release-239-lovestruck-and-prototype-creative-mode/41409

As mentioned above, we’ve also released the first version of a Creative Mode on PC with this release. This includes support for Lua scripting, and is very much a prototype - it’s the first step into the future of Boundless, and the aim is for it to precede a full Creative Mode, more game modes, and modding support. Our more technically-minded citizens should enjoy getting to grips with this (very) early version.

For anybody looking for documentation on this, we’ve got some on this thread;

https://forum.playboundless.com/t/boundless-creative-mode-lua-scripting-documentation/39255

We’ve got big plans for Boundless in 2020, and this update lays the foundations for much of that. We’re excited to talk about the next updates with everyone, and we’ll have more news to share as soon as we can.

Cheers everyone, enjoy the update!

It's here folks, Merry Oortmas!

For the next two weeks, wintry snow will be seen throughout the Known Worlds, and many Creatures will be seen sporting little Oortmas Hats. You’ll want to keep a keen eye out for these, as they’ll drop extra-special Green Candy Canes.

Green Candy Canes can be used to Craft decorative Gift Boxes and festive Oortmas Trees. Red Candy Canes are gained through special Snowball Meteorite events (more on those in a moment) and are used to Craft Snow Citizens. This year, Citizens can also Craft special Twinkles to deck the halls of their Builds!

Of course, we’ve got a whole host of new Wearables coming to the Exchange for a limited time only. Once again, the ever-popular Father Oortmas beards, Rudolph the Red Nosed Wildstock antlers and Snow Citizen mask will all be available. These are joined this year by the Oortmas Hat and three designs of Winter Scarf.

We’ve also introduced the brand new Candy Totem, which is grown from special Candy Seeds before being harvested and used as a Tool. Pretty Sweet, huh!

Now, more about these Snowball Meteorites! For the duration of the Winter Event, special Snowball Fight Meteorite events will occur on Starter Worlds. Rather than a regular strike, a giant Snowball will crash to the surface of the World, bringing with it a swarm of special Snow Spitters, which will launch their chilly projectiles at Citizens, and are impervious to regular Weapons.

You’ll have to fight snow with snow! Gather enough Ice from the Meteorite to Handcraft a Bag of Snowballs, and give the icy critters everything you’ve got! These will do direct damage to one target, and are only effective against Snow Spitters. There will also be no Defeat Penalty on these events, with Players instead building up ‘embarrassment’ from being hit, before heading to the sanctum having lost their ‘Meteorite Life’. As well as Red Candy Canes the rewards for these Snowball Fights include Food, Brews and Gifts. Poorly behaved Citizens may end up with Coal…

See you all in there for a snowball fight!

We’ve just released an update to Boundless - this one is focused on stability for the coming holiday season, and contains some fixes for the presentation of Beacon Fuel and Gleam Club duration.

Today's update is less based around features, and more around stability/quality of life. It does, however, include all the architecture for our upcoming Winter Event...

For full patch notes, head over to James’ post here;

https://forum.playboundless.com/t/release-237-oortmas/38486

Now, onto the Winter Event...

It’s beginning to look a lot like Oortmas! To celebrate the holidays, Boundless is getting festive for two weeks. Starting on the 19th December and running to the 2nd January, we’ll be reliving all the fun of last year’s event, plus a whole bunch of new goodies!

Wintry snow will be seen throughout the Known Worlds, and many Creatures will be seen sporting little Oortmas Hats. You’ll want to keep a keen eye out for these, as they’ll drop extra-special Green Candy Canes.

Green Candy Canes can be used to Craft decorative Gift Boxes and festive Oortmas Trees. Red Candy Canes are gained through special Snowball Meteorite events (more on those in a moment) and are used to Craft Snow Citizens.

Of course, we’ve got a whole host of new Wearables coming to the Exchange for a limited time only. Once again, the ever-popular Father Oortmas beards, Rudolph the Red Nosed Wildstock antlers and Snow Citizen mask will all be available. These are joined this year by the Oortmas Hat and three designs of Winter Scarf.

We’ve also introduced the brand new Candy Totem, which is grown from special Candy Seeds before being harvested and used as a Tool. Pretty Sweet, huh!

Now, more about these Snowball Meteorites! For the duration of the Winter Event, special Snowball Fight Meteorite events will occur on Starter Worlds. Rather than a regular strike, a giant Snowball will crash to the surface of the World, bringing with it a swarm of special Snow Spitters, which will launch their chilly projectiles at Citizens, and are impervious to regular Weapons.

You’ll have to fight snow with snow! Gather enough Ice from the Meteorite to Handcraft a Bag of Snowballs, and give the icy critters everything you’ve got! These will do direct damage to one target, and are only effective against Snow Spitters. There will also be no Defeat Penalty on these events, with Players instead building up ‘embarrassment’ from being hit, before heading to the sanctum having lost their ‘Meteorite Life’. As well as Red Candy Canes the rewards for these Snowball Fights include Food, Brews and Gifts. Poorly behaved Citizens may end up with Coal…

We’ll be unveiling the new props over the coming days, so keep an eye out for those...

Hey folks,

It’s here - Release no. 235 of Boundless is hot off the press and ready to go!

This update brings the rest of our suite of closed storage items, with Wicker, Stone and Gleam versions all ready to be added to your builds. These are all available in Plain, Stylish or Ornate variants, so with such a wide range of storage items available, there’s something to fit everyone’s beacon.

The second new piece of content this time out is three new Glass blocks, available in Plain, Stylish or Ornate variants. These look similar to the Glass Panes you may be familiar with, but in block form this time. These can be chiselled and tinted, so we’re looking forward to seeing what creative uses you can all come up with for this new addition to the Boundless builder’s toolkit. With a full colour palette with which to tint them, these blocks will lend a new dimension to the way interiors are lit in the game. We’ve also removed the placement restriction on Glass Panes, so we can’t wait to see what you can do with these!

This update also includes all the new Gleambow Racing goodies, which will be unlocked when the event starts at 1200GMT on Thursday the 28th November.

Alongside all this, we’ve got the usual raft of fixes, tweaks and updates. For more on those, head over to the full patch notes here;

https://forum.playboundless.com/t/release-235-chiselable-glass-and-gleambow-racing/38043

If you prefer to see this all in action, then Jiivita has done a sterling job as always with a full video rundown of the release from the testing servers;

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Thanks all, see you in there!

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