# 📢 Update 0.2.1-alpha — 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.