BitCraft Online News

[p]Hello Everyone.[/p][p]Please note that BitCraft Online will be inaccessible during the upcoming maintenance, scheduled for the times below. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your patience and understanding.[/p][p]Maintenance is expected to last for 10 minutes.
[/p][p]Time & Date[/p][p]PST: (02:00 Monday 18th August)[/p][p]CST: (04:00 Monday 18th August)[/p][p]EST: (05:00 Monday 18th August)[/p][p]UTC: (09:00 Monday 18th August)[/p][p]JST: (18:00 Monday 18th August)[/p][p][/p][p]Maintenance Details:[/p][p]Updating the SpacetimeDB version to allow us to implement a feature for PVE dungeons.[/p][p]Please note that the maintenance completion time is subject to change. [/p]

[p]Hello, Everyone!
[/p][h2]Starstone’s Twitch Drops campaign begins today, August 12th, and will run for the next two weeks!,[/h2][p][/p][p]Watch BitCraft streamers and earn Beta Cubes:[/p][p]4 Beta Cubes at 60, 150, 360, and 600 minutes of watch time.[/p][p]An additional Beta Cube for subscribing to streamers playing BitCraft.[/p][p]Join the fun, grab your rewards, and play BitCraft Online today!
[/p][p]What are Beta Cubes & Starstones:,[/p][p]By linking your BitCraft Hub account to Twitch, you'll receive Beta Cubes in your BitCraft Hub inventory when you watch a participating live channel. These cubes can then be opened to obtain various Starstones. [/p][p]After unlocking the Starstones on the BitCraft Hub, they will be accessible in your personal in-game vault (V key).[/p][p]Starstones are mysterious items from the ancient world and their secrets have yet to be uncovered.[/p][p]BitCraft Hub Account to link your Twitch[/p][p]Twitch Drops Inventory
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[p]Hello everyone, ︀

[h2]The Official BitCraft Podcast has dropped Episode 0: Welcome to Starfell – The Lore Behind BitCraft’s World. [/h2] ︀︀

You can listen now on: [dynamiclink][/dynamiclink]︀︀Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5XHY529Vskq5PFML2PmxSM ︀︀[/p][p]Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bitcraft-bulletin-the-official-bitcraft-podcast/id1828920223 ︀︀
Official Website: https://www.bitcraftonline.com/podcast

Don't forget to like and subscribe so you'll be notified when we release more podcasts about Bitcraft! [/p]

[p]Hello Everyone;[/p][p]Apologies for the delay in patch notes; we ended up pushing the patch out late on Friday.

Updates!

The Clientside update is now live on all steam branches.[/p][p]The exciting new feature this brings is Direct Messages/Whispers![/p][p]You can type /w , /whisper or /dm to send a DM to a player. This can also be triggered from the context menu when targeting them or on a chat message sent by them. The UX of this should be largely improved with the addition of a friends list, which is coming very soon, as well as better commands for replying to incoming DMs.[/p][p]The other notable features included are:[/p][p]Watchtower sieges can now be started without touching the watchtower. Walk within range of a Watchtower which is marked for siege while holding a capsule and use the context menu on it to start the siege and place the cannon from afar. This should reduce the annoyance from players attempting to make watchtowers unreachable. This is not a total solution, but should make this a lot harder to do, and we plan to resolve this fully through further changes.[/p][p]We also made some backend tweaks to the marketplace. This is what was preventing buying multiple of an item in the previous client but should work correctly now. This should prevent a few issues where players could sometimes buy something for more than they expected. We have some further improvements we are going to make to this to make the UX even more airtight, but this should be a big improvement.[/p][p]Finally this update will unlock one more piece of new content which is the new T2 Furniture recipes! They will be available from Brico on the next task reset.

Patchnotes [/p][p]Bows now properly scale damage with Tier/Rarity and fixed an issue causing them to occasionally miss,[/p][p]Fixed T3 Outdoor furniture not being unlocked correctly,[/p][p]Fixed claim co-owners being able to evict other co-owners and owners,[/p][p]Nerfed Terratoad attack range by 40%,[/p][p]Fixed a bug with T8+ Stone Resources dropping wrong tier of chunks,[/p][p]Fixed some passive crafts (T7-8 Bricks, Cloth, Leather, Glass) requiring the wrong tier of building,[/p][p]Fixed embergrain experiment draining wrong amount of stamina,[/p][p]Fixed deconstruction recipes not working for T7+ Crafting stations,[/p][p]Fixed Heimlich's T3 Task requiring roasted fish instead of roasted ocean fish.,[/p][p]Fix a case where you would sometimes get 2 crowns,[/p][p]Fixed wrong icons on red and black Lusuls,[/p][p]Tree saplings now need more space around them to plant[/p][p]Added DMs / Whispers,[/p][p]Improved some backend marketplace logic (required an update to the client) to fix some rare race conditions which could cause you to overspend when processing an order,[/p][p]Added T2 Furniture set,[/p][p]Added the ability to start Empire Sieges without reaching the watchtower as long as you are within range

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[h2]Hello Everyone,[/h2][p]The updated build and content are now live, you will need to download the latest build to be able to properly use the new content.
[/p][p]Star Stones- You can now get your Star Stone(s) that you've opened in the vault in game. These are purely cosmetic. Currently they can be summoned as pets, but in the future we are going to expand their functionality to be usable in other ways. Additionally, they are currently not tradeable, this is due to the synchronization with the HUB. We will eventually make them tradeable once we have the functionality to sync across the HUB. Let us know what types of way you would want to show off your Star Stone(s) in the future.

For those wondering what a Star Stone is and where to find one. Currently all players of BitCraft will have received a special Cube item in their account inventory, viewable on our website here. These cubes can be opened to get various Star Stones. These are mysterious items from the ancient world and their secrets have yet to be uncovered.

In this week's update you will be able to receive any Star Stones you have in your account inventory on the website in game and show them off to other players.


Moving Empire Capitals[/p][p]\ - As Emperor, you can now easily transfer your empire's capital to another owned settlement. This new method is a straightforward process, replacing the previous, more complicated workaround of submitting to another empire, and with a lower cost.
\[/p][/p][p]Empire Usurping - Through whatever means, if you come into ownership of the capital city claim of an empire, you now have the ability to take the crown. This means that going forward, as Emperor, it is essential to retain ownership over the capital city claim or you risk losing control of your empire. Note there is currently a bug which we are working on which causes you to sometimes have two crowns after this process happens.
[/p][p]Notable Changes,[/p]

• [p]Added 4 new upgrades to player housing deeds,[/p]
• [p]Added 2 new larger residence buildings (T3,T5),[/p]
• [p]Added 2 new sets of furniture,[/p]
• [p]Fixed issues with mute sometimes not working,[/p]
• [p]Added recipes to craft buckets using higher tier planks,[/p]

[p][/p][p]Other Changes,[/p]

• [p]Fixed an issue with T7+ fish not stacking correctly,[/p]
• [p]Fixed Empire name and title not showing correctly when targeting another player,[/p]

[p][/p][p]Known Issues,[/p]

• [p]When closing the map, Icons show for a few frames,[/p]

[p][/p][p]We had some further changes to the map and UI performance but we've pulled them out until we can resolve some regressions. We may put an updated version of these up on preview in the coming days for testing.[/p]