Hey everyone, thanks for your patience! Block Story 14.0.3 is out now in Public Beta on Steam! This update is a big one! It's easily one of the biggest quality of life updates this game has ever seen! We went through and patched every known bug we could find and added a ton of features and requests you all have been asking for years like controller support and a fire damage nerf! There is also some major new content in this patch including 2 new layers of space! You can read all about below!

So now that this scope creep patch is finally out, lets talk about what's next. This is the final Beta for this 14.0 update. We plan on releasing a 14.0.4 patch over on the Live branch as long as there aren't many problems with it. Our private beta testers have been testing it a lot and I'm hoping this is a stable one knocks on wood. This patch will also be a learning lesson for the new team. We went a bit too crazy on adding in new content causing this patch to be delayed waaaay more than it should have been. My goal going forward is to keep things more organized to prevent this from happening again. As for the final remaining things, we just have a few minor things left to do that should only take a few days. You'll hear more about those very soon!

Anyways, I hope you all enjoy what we have for you! Lots of blood, sweat, and tears went into it!

Features

Sand Physics have been redone from scratch to fall smoother

Painting has been overhauled to support every single block in the game and any future block we add

Critical Hits - There is a 5% chance for you or your pet to land a hit that does 15% more damage. It will also throw back your enemy

Mobs will now fade in and out when they spawn and despawn

Mobs have had their lighting completely reworked and now reflect sunrises and sunsets

New Armor Set - Cosmic Armor

Custom Keybindings now supports 2 keybindings for all actions

Jumping will no longer be tied to FPS so you can now always jump at the same height

Fire damage has been nerfed

Water will now put you out

Water will put out blocks

Acid will now behave like water

Breaking blocks on fire will put them out

Magic damage will no longer stack on the player

27 new Achievements

Adjusted a few achievements to be less grindy

Controller Support

You can’t pause the game to stop your fall

Moria will now spawn with chests. These chests have a higher chance to contain better loot

The daily Amber Brick quest is no longer a daily quest

The 2 quests that require you to level up your dragons to level 50 have been lowered to level 30

Breaking your most recently placed bed will reset your spawn point

The Miner Helmet is brighter

Crafting colored paint brushes will now have full durability instead of just 1

Breathing recovers much faster

Added new audio for the Space Wren, Crescent Ray, and Orbis Felix

Updated the Fancy Texture pack

Updated translations

New Locations

Space Layer 5 - The Nebula A new biome above Space Layer 4 that spawns beautiful Nebulas that you can fly through with procedurally generated planets.

Space Layer 6 - The Deep Void A deep and dark space layer. It's deep and dark that rarely spawns in procedurally generated asteroids with ores, craters, and new resources.

Creative Mode Update

The block count doesn’t lower
Durability for all weapons and items has been removed
The Creative Mode Menu has been alphabetised
All Mob Spawners are now in Creative Mode
The Trash Icon will now wipe your inventory if you click on it

New Blocks & Resources

Nebula Rock
Nebula Cloud
Asteroid Stone
Star Core
Dark Matter
Obsidian
Obsidian Shard

Retextured the remaining Ai generated blocks

Added some hidden Blocks in prep for Terrain V3 (can be viewed in the texture pack)

New Creatures

Crescent Ray - A moon-like creature that spawns in space layer 5

Orbis Felix - A giant space whale that spawns in space layer 6

Balance Update

Pets max level has been increased from 50 to 60

Many creatures have had their HP, Damage, and XP drops changed

Added new passives to some weapons and armor sets

The Amber Armor set has had its stats changed to be directed more for end game melee players

The Cosmic Armor set is directed to be for end game magic users Redid the system that adds more HP, Mana, and Hunger Resistance to the player if you’re holding items that do this. If you have full health and pick up a Dragon Shield that gives you 200 more HP, you’ll still have full health.

Fixes

Discovered and fixed a long time issue that was causing lag in forests

Fixed an issue where some chunks would stay rendered outside of the render distance

Fixed an issue where empty chests would drop loot if you broke them

Fixed an issue where the female character would switch back to male

Fixed mobs being too dark in the ocean

Fixed mobs flickering between the surface and the ocean

Fixed an issue where Fog would make the UI transparent

Fixed a durability issue when you craft the Axe’s

Fixed an issue where some blocks would emit the wrong light color

Fixed an issue on mobile where the player’s held items would not stay in place

Fixed an issue where spawners would be painted when making a world in the old terrain and they wouldn’t work

The Pet Space Suit will now unlock properly

Fixed an issue where some blocks and spawners had {0} in their name

Fixed a Custom Keybinding issue that was causing a memory leak