Building & Nature

Release Date: 11/3/2026

Version: 0.2.3-alpha

Development Stage: Alpha

📋 Overview

Update 0.2.3-alpha expands building, decoration, and everyday gameplay while introducing new natural features and refining existing systems.

Players can now build more detailed homes with staircases, platforms, and stone bricks, store resources in chests, and sleep in beds to advance through the night and establish respawn points.

The world also feels more alive with animated seasonal tall grass, flowers, rocks, and tree stumps. Additional control, interface, and lighting improvements make building and exploration more enjoyable.

✨ Added

Beds & Sleeping

• Added two-block-wide beds that allow players to sleep and set their respawn point.
• Sleeping accelerates time until sunrise.
• Players can leave their bed at any point during the night to wake up early.
• Added the Sweet Dreams achievement for sleeping through your first night.
• Beds can be crafted using:
  • 2 Logs + 4 Leaves
  • 2 Logs + 2 Moss

Storage

• Added Chests with 32 inventory slots for storing items and resources.

New Building Materials

• Added Stone Bricks.
  • 4 Stone → 2 Stone Bricks
• Added Wooden, Stone Brick, and Brick Staircases.
  • 6 matching materials → 3 Stairs
• Added Wooden, Stone Brick, and Brick Platforms.
  • 2 matching materials → 1 Platform

Staircases & Platforms

• Staircases allow diagonal climbing and descending while also allowing players to walk through them.
• Staircases feature backgrounds that extend downward to the nearest ground tile.
• Platforms can be jumped through from below.
• Pressing S while standing on a platform allows players to drop through it.

New Vegetation

• Added animated Tall Grass with seasonal appearance variations.
• Added Dandelions and Poppies.
• Added naturally generated Tree Stumps, consisting of 1–2 Log blocks without leaves.
• Added Small Rocks to the surface and underground caves.
  • 2 Small Rocks → 1 Stone

Flower Pots

• Added Flower Pots for decorating buildings.
• Crafted using 2 Clay + 1 Dirt.
• Flower Pots can hold flowers and saplings.
• Saplings placed in Flower Pots remain small and do not grow into trees.

🔄 Changed

Block Interaction

• Combined foreground and background breaking into Left Click.
• Left Click prioritizes foreground blocks before background blocks.
• Shift + Left Click allows background blocks to be broken directly.
• Foreground placement remains Right Click.
• Background placement remains Shift + Right Click.
• Non-colliding blocks, such as ladders and saplings, can now be placed in the same space as the player.

Plant Placement

• Flowers and Saplings can only be placed on Grass, Dirt, or inside Flower Pots.
• Tall Grass can only be placed on Grass or Dirt.

Creative Mode

• Removed Achievements from Creative worlds.
• Removed statistics that are not relevant to Creative Mode, including deaths and items crafted.

World Selection

• Worlds now display their current Day and Year in the world selection menu.
• Worlds are now sorted by most recently opened.

HUD Settings

• Added a clock format toggle allowing players to choose between 12-hour and 24-hour time.

🐛 Fixed

Creative Mode Statistics

• Fixed an issue preventing statistics from being recorded correctly in Creative worlds.

Lighting

• Fixed torch lighting causing textures to become excessively bright or washed out in already well-lit environments.

⚡ Improved

World Lighting & Atmosphere

• Adjusted Sun and Moon tinting, particularly during sunrise and sunset.
• Brightened background textures for selected building blocks to improve their appearance and visibility.

Creative Catalog

• Added category tabs to organize the growing collection of blocks and items.
• Added a search function to make finding specific blocks and items easier.

Building & Navigation

• Expanded construction possibilities with new building materials and traversal options.
• Improved the flexibility of block interaction and placement.