Changelog

Features

• NPC Death Tracking & Broadcast Announcements
  • Added damage tracking for NPCs to capture the cause of death (monsters, drowning, fire, fall damage, void, etc.).
  • Broadcasts a server-wide chat message when an NPC dies specifying their name and cause of death.
• Calhambeque Live Speed Tuning
  • Added /simtale carspeed <percent> command to adjust top speed and acceleration in real-time (25% to 400%, default 100%).
• Vehicle Retrieval & Management
  • Players can pick up and return an empty car to their inventory via crouch + interact or /simtale carremove.
  • Tuned default car scale and proportions (3.5x - 4.0x).
• New Character Cosmetics
  • Added new cosmetics items, including shoes, capes, and variant UI icons.

Bug Fixes

• NPC Sleep & Routine Logic
  • Fixed an issue where NPCs would not lie down or sleep at night despite having an active sleep task.
  • Fixed sleeping NPCs in beds being incorrectly flagged as carried entities (ChildCarryHelper).
• Vehicle Seats, Collisions & Visuals
  • Fixed driver and passenger anchor offsets (driver now correctly sits at the steering wheel on the right side rather than floating on the hood).
  • Fixed collision snapping and bounce-backs by introducing a 0.15 collision margin and stepped obstacle approach.
  • Fixed cars falling into the void or disappearing when players logged out while driving.
  • Synchronized driving and idle movement states to play proper driving animations instead of playing while parked.
  • Hidden plumbobs and disabled name tags for riding players and vehicles.
• NPC Costumes & Attachments
  • Fixed bug where equipping a costume stripped an NPC of eyes, mouth, hair, and clothes by preserving base attachments when appending costume hats.
  • Regenerated 1,600+ costume assets with the complete attachment hierarchy.
  • Fixed costume state recovery across server restarts so costumed NPCs can be properly undressed.
  • Fixed seasonal costume scan running every tick when costumes were turned off.
• Jobs & World Interactivity
  • Fixed lumberjack posts being deleted after harvesting a tree trunk; posts now automatically retarget to the nearest remaining trunk.
  • Fixed leaked emote bubbles and plumbob indicators when NPCs despawned or died.
  • Fixed ghost blueprint outlines remaining stuck in the world after placement cancellation.
  • Fixed newborn NPC generation crashing the world thread by generating UUIDs safely without creating throwaway entities.
  • Fixed second player joins overwriting unsaved house and chest states.

Performance & Optimizations

• Spatial NPC Separation Grid
  • Replaced O(N^2) all-pairs entity iteration with a 2-block spatial hash grid, avoiding global store lookups every tick.
• Asynchronous Furniture Scan
  • Player join furniture scans are now divided into 8-column slices across ticks with classification caching per block type to eliminate world thread hitches.
• Work Area Scan Throttling
  • Farming and forestry searches now perform quick distance checks before querying block data and stagger scans across NPC IDs.

Hytale Server 0.7.0 Compatibility

• Server Version Requirement
  • Updated manifest.json minimum server version requirement to ^0.7.0.
• World & Chunk API Migration
  • Resolved NoSuchMethodError crashes by replacing removed legacy methods (World.getChunkIfLoaded, World.getBlockType, WorldChunk.getBlockType, World.setBlock, World.setBlockInteractionState, and BlockChunk methods).
  • Implemented safe wrappers in NPCMovementHelper (getBlockTypeSafe, setBlockSafe, and setBlockInteractionStateSafe) using ChunkStore, BlockSection, and BlockOperations.
  • Migrated door interactions in NPCDoorHelper, vehicle ground checks in CalhambequePhysicsSystem, chair detection in NPCSeatingHelper, and construction systems to the new section architecture.
• Custom UI Pages
  • Updated debug and graveyard page acknowledgements to clearLegacyCustomPageAcknowledgements().