Craftica

Released: Mar 26, 2020
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Last updated: 15 Sep 2026, 10:45 GMT

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29 May 2026Developer post
Craftica is now being rebooted as a new game named Voxelantis!
Hello everyone, as you may see this game hasn’t been updated for quite long time, you might be wondering what is going on? So please let me explain it here. First I want to assure you that I haven’t abandoned this game, it is just rebooted with a new name, as the post title sugge
Hello everyone, as you may see this game hasn’t been updated for quite long time, you might be wondering what is going on? So please let me explain it here.
First I want to assure you that I haven’t abandoned this game, it is just rebooted with a new name, as the post title suggested. Of course, I cannot simply change the game name and call it a reboot. The rebooted game must include something new and become way better. So I have been very busy improving it for more than two years without giving you any updates, and I am sorry for that.
The reason I stopped posting updates was that I was afraid that the mistakes I made with Craftica was unsalvageable. And the fact is that Craftica was the first game I ever developed and the first game I ever released on Steam, so I was inexperienced in many ways and made some big mistakes in the development and in releasing it improperly on Steam. After the release, for two to three years I tried to salvage the situation with some big updates, but nothing seemed to work.
After a few years of struggling, I finally decided that it would be better to reboot the game with a new name. This reboot will come with some big improvements such as:
A new spherical world mode;
Simpler mouse/key operations and controls;
Better vegetations;
Better optimization (in handling textures and mesh building);
Better graphics (physics base rendering with volumetric fog);
Complete rewrite of the navigation system;
More robust mechanical simulation;
Additionally the survival mode gameplay and the UI will also be significantly improved.
Voxelantis Store Page
If you are still interested in this game, you are welcome to add the new game Voxelantis to your wishlist. When Voxelantis is released, any player who has bought Craftica before the release will get a copy of the new game for free as a compensation for not finishing this game.
Thank you for your understanding!
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08 Aug 2023Developer post
Craftica Update V0.9.1.1
Hi, this update mainly included various improvements to the handling of world sections/chunks that can be created by village generation and model importing from working threads. These improvements also fixed several issues to ensure seamless smooth mesh building across section/ch
23 Jul 2023Developer post
Craftica Update: Improvements to View Modes
This update includes some improvements to the handling of third/mixed person view modes for the player's character, such that the player won't see through walls when the character is near places such as walls or wall corners.
16 Jul 2023Developer post
Craftica Update: New Village System, Various Improvements and Optimizations
This update mainly includes a new village generation system and various improvements to the multi-threading support. It also includes many other improvements and optimizations, making the game running more smoothly without lagging caused by large village generation. Also this upd
This update mainly includes a new village generation system and various improvements to the multi-threading support. It also includes many other improvements and optimizations, making the game running more smoothly without lagging caused by large village generation. Also this update has made some progress in the support for the multiple player mode.
Village System

Completely rewrote the village generation system;
Supports generating large villages with more structures;
Supports two architectural styles: Eastern Asian and European;
Direct generation of structures in the scene, instead of using pre-generated structures;
More variety of houses and workshops;
Different internal structures and furnishing for houses;
Added new bed, chair and lamp items;
Added new defense tower and water well structures;
Redefines habitable house by a sheltered bed with access to a door;
Added a new Duty Post item, to prioritize warrior generation and deployment;
Improved path planning and navigation for villagers and warriors;
Supports generating of fenced yards with mangers to spawn farm animals;
Improvements

Supports climbing up and down a ladder (W key for up, S key for down);
Supports ladders in path finding and navigation;
Switched to physics ray cast for locating surface point for navigation;
Improved navigation mesh generation and the handling of obstacles;
Supports pointing a point to go with right mouse clicks in the advance mode;
Improved character movements and agent path following to avoid jittering;
Improved the handing of view modes with a new camera tracking support;
Improved terrain block storage and simplified their loading;
Improved some materials and added support for texture orientation adjustment;
Optimizations

Improved multithreading support and the handling of computational tasks, reducing blocking in the main thread and improving multicore cpu usage;
Moved some extra computation for terrain and village generation to threads;
Improved mesh optimization for collision shapes;
Improved and optimized the models of some standard items;
Removed a large number of obsolete items, reducing the base memory usage while increasing game loading speed;
Work in Progress for The Multiple Player Support

Preliminary support for users and for interfacing external user systems;
Preliminary support for multiple player game creation and joining;
Preliminary server and client support;
Preliminary communication mechanism between a server and clients;
Preliminary support for state synchronization with incremental data;
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19 Jan 2023Developer post
Craftica Update: Minor Improvements and Fixings
This update includes a few minor improvements to things such as: collision handling for agents/mobs with navigation path, camera view mode for sitting character, hand holding for material items and village generation etc. This update also includes a few minor fixings to things su
11 Jan 2023Developer post
Craftica Update: Improvements to The Controller Support
This is a minor update that improves the recent support for controllers. These improvements includes both a better handling of controller operations and a support of more controller devices with a minor game engine upgrade. This update also includes a few other minor improvements
26 Dec 2022Developer post
Craftica Update: Playing with A Controller Is Now Fully Supported!
This update has brought to you the first Craftica release that can be played with controllers. The support is comprehensive and every functionalities of the game are accessible by controllers. Here are some pictures showing how the buttons are mapped to the functions:
16 Dec 2022Developer post
Craftica Update: Control Simplification and Various Improvements
This update has made significant simplifications to the controls for playing the game. Now the designation of hotkeys and mouse actions has taken the upcoming controller support into considerations, and removed most of the use of qualifier keys. Now the controls are supported as
This update has made significant simplifications to the controls for playing the game. Now the designation of hotkeys and mouse actions has taken the upcoming controller support into considerations, and removed most of the use of qualifier keys.
Now the controls are supported as the following:
Compared with the previous releases, the main changes are the following:

A new Advanced Mode is supported and can be toggled by the Caps Lock key. Now item variants can be selected with mouse wheel in the advanced mode, instead of in combination with the ALT key. A few advanced making and mining actions are now supported in this mode instead of using qualifier keys;
The hotkeys for Trading and dropping (Throw away) items are now supported by a single T key. If the key is pressed when aiming at a villager, it will be a trading action, otherwise it will be considered as a dropping action;
Now the mounting and dismount (on/off a ridable or vehicle) action is now supported the same with the jump action, such that a single jump while aiming at a horse (with a saddle) or a vehicle will mount the player on them, and double jumps will dismount from them;
Now mounting an object onto a crafting platform is supported with the C key instead of the M key;
A few additional control changes that can be easily discovered by players without causing issues will not be mentioned here.
Besides the changes to the controls, a few minor improvements and fixings are also included. In particular, the joint stability and robustness has been improved for robotic joint items, making objects built with these items can move more stably.
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22 Nov 2022Developer post
Craftica Update: New Batch Mode to Facilitate Large Structure Construction
The biggest improvement in this update is a new feature called batch mode. In this batch mode one can place or mine a large number of blocks at once, so that large structures can be built more easily and more efficiently. Please also checkout the new video that has been uploaded
30 Sep 2022Developer post
Craftica Update: Major Simplification, Optimization and Improvements
Simplifications and Improvements to Block Placement This update mainly features big simplifications and improvements to block placement. Now players no longer need to select block shapes from the hot bar. Instead one can move cursor around within the placement highlighting area t
Simplifications and Improvements to Block Placement
This update mainly features big simplifications and improvements to block placement. Now players no longer need to select block shapes from the hot bar. Instead one can move cursor around within the placement highlighting area to activate different shapes:

When the cursor is around the center, the full block shape will be activated;
When the cursor is near a corner, a partial shape with one cube corner will be activated;
When the cursor is near a border and away from its corners, a partial shape with a slope rectangle will be activated.
When the cursor is on the slope face of a partial block, it will activate the full block or a partial block that will fill the corner(s) near the cursor.
With this update, Craftica now support multiple block placement for a single making action. When the active block size is larger than the block size of the target chunk, multiple blocks (either a row, a column or multiple columns) can be placed depending on the presence of blocks within the larger block space.
Similarly, multiple block mining is also supported;
Other Optimizations and Improvements

An optimization has been added to remove redundant collision shape computation for objects with the same models;
Mesh smoothing and ambient occlusion has been improved to handle border blocks better;
Several minor improvements are also added to some standard object items;
Progress rings around the health, armor and weapon icons have been make more square like;
A few bugs are fixed for the handling of world section chunks;
A few minor issues are fixed for the handling of mouse clicks;
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30 Jul 2022Developer post
Craftica Update: Minor Fixings (2022-07-30)
This is a minor update with a few fixings for a few common and annoying issues such as: Seams at terrain chunk borders due to inconsistent herb and shrub generation across the borders; Improper action mode switching with a hand tool that is also a weapon; Improper handling of con
This is a minor update with a few fixings for a few common and annoying issues such as:

Seams at terrain chunk borders due to inconsistent herb and shrub generation across the borders;
Improper action mode switching with a hand tool that is also a weapon;
Improper handling of continuous mining;
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10 Jun 2022Developer post
Craftica Update: Major Improvements and Optimizations
This major update mainly brings some big technical improvements. With this update, Craftica will have much better looking sceneries and run much smoother than before. Additional Mesh Smoothing Last year, mesh smoothing was supported to smooth Craftica terrain and objects. Now a n
24 Oct 2021Developer post
Craftica Update: Minor Improvements and Fixings
This is a small regular update with some minor improvements to the human, panda and pig agent models. There are also minor improvements to the handling of ray casting on materials with alpha masks. Some UI changes are also made to simplify item, agent and formula view&edit wi
30 Sep 2021Developer post
Craftica Update: Various Operation Improvements and Fixings
This update has made various improvements and fixings to the operations in the game. The biggest improvement is the swapping of the left mouse and the right mouse usages, such that now, the left mouse click will enter the mining mode or do mining operation, and the right mouse cl
This update has made various improvements and fixings to the operations in the game.
The biggest improvement is the swapping of the left mouse and the right mouse usages, such that now, the left mouse click will enter the mining mode or do mining operation, and the right mouse click will enter the making mode or do building operation. This way is not only more consistent with some other operations, it also avoids a few problems that existed previously.
Another improvement is the hotkey support for selecting block sizes for making and mining. Previously, this was done automatically according to the block amount (or unit) in the active slot of the hot bar and the block size of the targeting chunk. But it appeared to be confusing for new players. So adding this hotkey support will make it easier for new players to get familiar with building and mining, and also make it more convenient for everyone.
With the support for explicit block size selection, the mining mode is also improved to support three types of mining:

When the working block size is the same as the block size of the target chunk, a whole block will mined out. This can avoid mistakingly mining out partial blocks when the mouse is not properly aimed;
When the working size is smaller than the target size, it will support mining a partial block just like before;
When the working size is bigger than the target size, it supports mining multiple blocks within the working size range at the target location.
In order for players seeing the block/item and its placement better, its placement preview now supports a fading animation based on transparency. With this new support, the hotbar widgets are made slightly smaller to make better view for players. Also the selection of blocks/items, variants and shapes is slightly improved to make it easier to select using digit keys.
This update has also made various fixings, mainly to the torch, lantern and driving seat etc. items, as well as to block/item placement. It also fixed a position drifting problem at game loading for player characters and some other agents.
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17 Sep 2021Developer post
Craftica Update: : Various Improvements and Fixings
This update has added a minor improvement to physics simulation that could reduce agents (player's character, villagers, animals and mobs) bouncing away when collided improperly with the terrain or objects. It also added a few other minor improvements for human striking animation
This update has added a minor improvement to physics simulation that could reduce agents (player's character, villagers, animals and mobs) bouncing away when collided improperly with the terrain or objects. It also added a few other minor improvements for human striking animation and flying posture, and agent spawning. It also improved the handling of mining on combo blocks (block composed of two materials).
This update also fixed various issues. It fixed a recent handling of vertices in mesh building that cancels mesh optimization, and some minor issues in:

Tree or forest generation: inconsistent generation near octant borders;
Locating a neighboring section: preventing item placement at certain locations;
Locating a block in a neighboring section: same as above;
World sections in terrain updates: causing some objects not showing up;
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23 Aug 2021Developer post
Craftica Update: Minor Physics and Other Improvements
This update has improved mesh optimization for physics collision shapes to avoid large triangle faces, which may cause bumpy movements for some mobile objects. The game has some special handling for mobile objects to avoid unexpected movements after loading or initialization of p
18 Aug 2021Developer post
Craftica Major Update: Deformable Voxels, Model Smoothing and New Terrain
This update has made huge improvements in model building and rendering, as well as in terrain generation. Though these improvements are computationally demanding, the optimizations included in this update alleviates such problem, and some part even smoother. In addition, this upd
03 Apr 2021Developer post
Craftica Update Log (2021-04-03)
This is a minor update with a few improvements and fixings to the handling of view zooming, hotbar widgets, complementary block previewing and addition.
24 Mar 2021Developer post
Craftica 0.5.2: Improvements to Rule-based Placement and Some Other Things
This update mainly improves the support for rule-based placement. It includes more automatically generated rules for device items and a few other items. Now the game can better search placement rules against multiple other items in the scene, and select the best placement that is
12 Mar 2021Developer post
Craftica Update (0.5.1): Various Improvements and Fixings
This update includes various improvements and fixings to the game. Improvements: The handling of block highlight and item preview in the making mode; Simplified block mining; UI supports for several device items; Interaction with device items; The handling of crafted items; Terra
This update includes various improvements and fixings to the game.
Improvements:

The handling of block highlight and item preview in the making mode;
Simplified block mining;
UI supports for several device items;
Interaction with device items;
The handling of crafted items;
Terrain generation;
Improvements or fixings:

The handling of fog and cloud;
The handling of the crafting platform item;
The handling of the luminant mode for materials;
The handling of lighted lamp device items;
Fixings:

The handling of object chunks and world sections;
The handling of modified procedural objects;
The handling of village and agent navigation;
Additionally, this update adds a preliminary support for the Minecraft Schematic .schem file format. However, since there is no corresponding blocks in Craftica for many MC blocks, some models may be very incomplete after importing.
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Craftica

Updates & announcements

Craftica is now being rebooted as a new game named Voxelantis!

Craftica Update V0.9.1.1

Craftica Update: Improvements to View Modes

Craftica Update: New Village System, Various Improvements and Optimizations

Village System

Improvements

Optimizations

Work in Progress for The Multiple Player Support

Craftica Update: Minor Improvements and Fixings

Craftica Update: Improvements to The Controller Support

Craftica Update: Playing with A Controller Is Now Fully Supported!

Craftica Update: Control Simplification and Various Improvements

Craftica Update: New Batch Mode to Facilitate Large Structure Construction

Craftica Update: Major Simplification, Optimization and Improvements

Simplifications and Improvements to Block Placement

Other Optimizations and Improvements

Craftica Update: Minor Fixings (2022-07-30)

Craftica Update: Major Improvements and Optimizations

Additional Mesh Smoothing

More Importing Support

Optimizations

Other Minor Improvements

Experimental Development

Craftica Update: Minor Improvements and Fixings

Craftica Update: Various Operation Improvements and Fixings

Craftica Update: : Various Improvements and Fixings

Craftica Update: Minor Physics and Other Improvements

Craftica Major Update: Deformable Voxels, Model Smoothing and New Terrain

Deformable Voxels and Model Smoothing

Texture Blending and Normal Maps

New Terrain Generation

Optimizations and Improvements

Craftica Update Log (2021-04-03)

Craftica 0.5.2: Improvements to Rule-based Placement and Some Other Things

Craftica Update (0.5.1): Various Improvements and Fixings