v0.9.99

⚠️ Heads up

• The world has been completely redesigned. Chunks you haven't explored yet will look different, so start a fresh test world.
• Weepwood, Duskfen, Glasswastes and Emberfields are gone. The Sift now has 4 biomes.
• /sift:locate is replaced by /sift:getlocate.

➕ New

World

• Brand-new terrain: wide terraces, sheer cliffs, carved ramps, cliff trails, land bridges and secret tunnels
• River ravines, ravines between terraces, and caves under the high plateaus
• Redesigned ichor pools with rock islands you can hop across
• 4 biomes: Meadow, Blushland, Carapace and Soul Meadow
• Rare sculk patches and small white willows

Blocks

• Soul Stones (Brimming, Waning, Faint, Forlorn)
• Thallite, Cobblethall, Mossy Cobblethall, Red Moss, Mossoe, Siftite Ore
• Siftslate Bricks, Tiles and Pillar
• Slabs, stairs and walls for Siftslate, Cinderrock, Rimestone, Thallite and Cobblethall
• Pale and Willow wood: planks, fences, slabs, stairs, saplings, crafting tables and wooden tools
• Many new plants, flowers, tall grasses, vines and wall leaves

Items

• Raw Siftite and Siftite Ingot
• Soul Essence (Ichor Bucket + Lapis, you keep the bucket)
• Soulium Ingot (4 Siftite Ingots + 4 Soul Essence)
• Soulium sword, pickaxe, axe, shovel, hoe and full armor, made at a smithing table with the Soulium Upgrade Smithing Template
• The template drops from the Monarch and can be duplicated

Creatures

• 13 new creatures: Bloombud, Fusefly, Harmonizer, Hurler, Monarch (boss), Nester, Roamroot, Scavenger, Sentinel, Sprout, Stalker, Trill and Wobble
• The Monarch's battle arena and fighting animations are still in development
• Most creatures now spawn naturally. Scavenger, Stalker, Hurler, Harmonizer, Sprout and Monarch are spawn-egg only for now
• Singers are very rare and always come with a few Echo Golems

Commands

• /sift:getlocate <name> finds biomes and structures (/sift:getlocate list shows all names)
• /sift:gosift and /sift:gohome let you enter and leave without a portal

🔄 Changed

• Much faster first crossing, and you always land on a flat spot
• Slower, nicer portal melody and smoother note beams
• Screen blinks teal until you arrive
• Echo Golems are peaceful to players and fight hostile mobs with a sound wave
• Ichor flows more like real liquid
• Falling sand no longer hurts
• New leaf, vine and soul stone looks
• Deep underground rock is now Soul Stone Forlorn
• Stone needs a pickaxe, and leaves, grass and vines need shears

❌ Removed

• Blush Turf, Moss Turf, Umbrite, Redthorn

🛠️ Fixed

• Plants and vines now break when nothing supports them, and leaves fall when their tree is gone
• Stairs connect and curve properly
• Sandstone footstep sound
• Portal no longer gets stuck after a failed crossing

⚡ Performance

• Terrain generates faster, so exploring is smoother