Changelog

Master

0.8.3

• Show content details in the inventory and display the selected content name above the hotbar.
• Fix broken fluid simulation and add flow animations.

0.8.2

• Add hunger that affects a player’s HP: When starving, a player loses health, when fed, the player gets healed.
• Hunger affects regeneration of endurance and health.
• Endurance is used for sprinting and fast swimming.
• Show hunger and endurance in the HUD.

0.8.1

• Add custom PyCraft icon.
• Add animated animals:
  • Spawn in the entire world and are persisted.
  • Drop items.

0.8.0

• Support items:
  • Add torches: They can be held, placed on blocks, broken, dropped, and picked up.
  • Add sticks: They currently have no function.
• Change the world format to version 2, worlds in the old format are deleted and recreated.

0.7.9

• Add item sort button in player inventory.
• Add render resolution setting.
• Implement various performance improvements related to chunk streaming.
• Compile shaders while the startup shader remains playable.
• Bugfixes:
  • Prevent item drops inside player inventory panel.
  • Fixed fullscreen resolution bug.
  • Smooth colored block lighting to avoid oversaturated lamp light.

0.7.8

• Update dependencies.
• Support rendering cross-plane blocks (e.g., grass blocks).
• Improves raytracer performance by 30% (optimizing chunk-slot mapping, adding coarse-distance empty-space skipping).
• Improve chunk management: reduces chunk-window movement spikes, and implement various streaming optimizations.
• Improve shader compilation time.

0.7.7

• Allow players to adjust the field of view.
• Water is rendered slightly below land block that are at the same height level.
• Fixed bug where jumping out of water could fail on same-level ledges or cause jitter when a wall blocked the exit.
• Unapplied settings now highlight the Apply button in green, with a brighter green hover state.

0.7.6

• Add inventory systems:
  • Can be opened by pressing E.
  • Items can be moved with left click drag&drop.
  • Items can be split by performing a right mouse click.
  • Pressing Q drops a single item, dragging an item outside the inventory drops an item stack.
  • Stacks of the same item type can be merged by stacking them via drag&drop.

0.7.5

• Allow to kill mobs.
• Drop tiny blocks when breaking a block and play sound on pickup.
• Implement many chunk and light related optimizations
• Fix 3D light spread.

0.7.4

• Support gamma-correction setting.
• Added lamps and lava that glow and light nearby blocks.
• Improve chunk upload performance and support rain clipping.

0.7.3

• Added voxel ambient occlusion and Blinn-Phong style lighting improvements.
• Added build metadata to the download page so users can see the commit used for the published packages.
• Render rain under certain weather conditions and play rain sounds.

0.7.2

• Added cloud rendering and weather-driven cloud behavior.
• Added a toggle for voxel grid rendering.
• Updated benchmark documentation and rendering performance baselines.

0.7.1

• Reworked the sun and moon model with shader-driven celestial lighting.
• Fixed the in-game fullscreen toggle behavior.
• Improved shader benchmark coverage for first-use and cache behavior.

0.7.0

• Refactored the renderer architecture into clearer shared and backend-specific components.
• Improved renderer performance through shared frame state, cached uploads, and faster non-profiled render paths.
• Expanded renderer, shader, and project architecture documentation.

0.6.0

• Improved underwater water boundary rendering and shader variant handling.
• Split and documented the raytracer shader modules.
• Added faster shader startup through compact shader sources, deferred full shader compilation, and shader binary caching.
• Added screenshot support and packaging-aware screenshot paths.

0.5.1

• Added distance fog to the raytracing shaders.
• Cleaned up related tests and documentation.

0.5.0

• Improved game loading and chunk streaming performance.
• Added tooling and documentation for chunk streaming comparison benchmarks.
• Updated performance profiling documentation.

0.4.0

• Reworked GUI behavior and added more coverage around renderer and shader invariants.
• Added render-distance and chunk-window tests.
• Improved shader compilation logging and raytracing documentation.

0.3.0

• Added renderer profiling and benchmark controls for GPU and CPU render costs.
• Improved shadow traversal, coarse voxel masking, and adaptive antialiasing.
• Improved chunk generation and chunk-load scheduling performance.
• Added project-level documentation and reorganized benchmark tooling.

0.2.1 and before

• Established the core voxel gameplay loop with player movement, collisions, block interaction, chunk streaming, world generation, mobs, HUD, audio, and settings.
• Added the compute raytracer, texture atlas support, water and fluid behavior, basic sky and lighting systems, and a macOS-compatible renderer.
• Added world saving, named worlds, packaged builds, GitHub Actions packaging, and the first broader test and documentation pass.