Quality of Life

Release Date: 11/2/2026

Version: 0.2.1-alpha

Development Stage: Alpha

📋 Overview

Update 0.2.1-alpha focuses on improving the overall gameplay experience through quality-of-life changes, visual enhancements, performance optimizations, and new convenience features.

This update introduces autosaving, world map waypoints, improved movement, expanded display settings, and a more polished interface. The world itself also feels more alive with the addition of the sun, moon, clouds, and more varied trees.

✨ Added

World & Environment

• Added the Sun and Moon to the sky.
• Added clouds.
• Added more variation to tree generation, including branches made from existing Log blocks.

World Map

• Added a waypoint system to the world map for marking locations.
• Expanded the world map's vertical viewing range to level 100.

Gameplay & Controls

• Added automatic saving every 60 seconds.
• Added keyboard shortcuts for Crafting (C) and Tools (T).
• Added automatic climbing over one-block terrain height differences.

Display Settings

• Added additional screen resolution and frame-rate options.

🔄 Changed

Crafting & Inventory

• Combined crafting recipes that have multiple ingredient combinations into single entries.
• Improved the Creative Mode catalog and inventory management.
• Removed Crafting and Tools tabs from Creative Mode.
• Removed block quantity labels from Creative Mode.

World & Movement

• Increased the maximum world height to Y = 250.
• Slightly increased player jump height, allowing players to jump up three blocks.

World Map

• The world map now displays generated chunks rather than only chunks the player has physically visited.
• Worlds with more than 16 chunks now open the map focused on a 16-chunk range surrounding the player instead of displaying the entire world.

Interface

• Removed the numerical health value from the health bar.
• Redesigned the Settings menu to match the Inventory tab system.

Release Build

• Removed development features that were unintentionally accessible in the 0.2.0-alpha release.

🐛 Fixed

World Performance

• Fixed stuttering when entering newly loaded chunks.

Controls

• Fixed certain keybindings that previously could not be rebound.

⚡ Improved

Crafting Interface

• Cleaned up the Crafting menu to reduce visual clutter.
• Added icons to crafting category tabs for easier navigation.

Menu & Interface Design

• Redrew the scrollbar texture for improved visual consistency.
• Added a parallax-scrolling world background behind title screens.
• Improved the main Play menu screen.

Overall Experience

• Refined inventory navigation and menu organization for a cleaner, more consistent experience across the game.