0.5.12 Alpha

Cosmic Reach 0.5.12 is out! Merry Christmas!

• Added a Santa hat, which for now is a rare drop from laser interceptors
• Added Sulfur ore, which when crushed produces Sulfur Crystals, an ingredient for the Battery block.
• Added Aluminium doors
• Added a GUI to the server, which can be disabled with --no-gui
• Pistons now push entities
• The player can now crawl through tighter spaces
• Removed the respawn button from the pause menu
• Fixed doors wrongly culling blocks
• Fixed laser "quantum entanglement" bug
• Fixed jetpack not rendering when no longer flying while equipped
• Fixed fir leaves not dropping items when broken
• Fixed equipment screen player animating weirdly while in third person
• Fixed sun / moon not blending properly

0.5.11 Alpha

• Added the Advancing Piston, which when shot with a laser can push itself forward!
• Added Fir trees
• Added the Taiga biome, which is populated with Fir trees
• Added the Push Activated Laser Emitter, which is a block that shoots a laser whenever pushed by a piston
• Added new sounds for snow blocks
• Retextured ice bricks, snow bricks, and magma bricks
• Packed lunar soil is now crafted from only 1 lunar soil
• Night time ambient lighting is now visually brighter
• Removed crafting recipe for packed lunar soil to lunar soil
• Data modding: Removed block events base:grow_tree_poplar and base_grow_tree_coconut and replaced it with base:grow_tree
• Reloading shaders no longer crashes the game when shaders are broken
• Missing textures on block models now load fallback textures instead of crashing the game
• The moon is now rendered before the sky
• Fixed missing recipes for boomboxes, ice bricks, snow bricks, and magma bricks
• Fixed block raycasting memory leak
• Fixed wrongly placing a block above air under certain conditions
• Fixed interceptor traps dropping loot when releasing drones
• Fixed soundbanks not playing random pitches
• Known issue: leaf decay may be broken

0.5.10 Alpha

• Fix server side crashing when using a machine

0.5.9 Alpha

• Added Cobblestone variants for limestone, basalt, gabbro, and sandstone
• Added a search bar to the crafting menu
• Added a work-in-progress equipment screen
• Added the Liquefactor, which uses power and water to liquify starch slurry
• Added the Fermenter, a machine that creates biofuel
• Added Starch, which is made from putting corn in the crusher
• Added Starch Slurry, which is made from putting Starch in the Liquefactor
• Added Biofuel, made from putting Starch Slurry in the Fermenter which can power the generator as much as coal
• Added Ice Bricks, Snow Bricks, and Magma Bricks
• Datamodding: Added base:loot_drop to item events
• Crusher recipes are now usually 8x cheaper, unless crushing ores
• Items that you have ingredients for are now at the top of the crafting screen
• Items which cannot be crafted yet are now dimmed in the crafting screen
• Plastic blocks are now easier to break
• Lava now explodes machines when used as an input
• Magma is no longer a fuel source
• Stone bricks now have the same hardness as regular stone
• When the tick runner crashes, the player is booted out of the world instead of freezing the game

0.5.8 Alpha

New machines!

• Added the Recycler, a block that breaks down items with simple crafting recipes
• Added the Crusher, which breaks down stones into gravel, gravel into sand, ice into snow, and ores into dust for smelting
• Added the Battery Block, which stores power for machines
• Added Wooden Ladder
• The workbench can now be used to swap between block types (e.g. stairs and slabs)
• The workbench and electric furnace now have new textures
• All light blocks now have emissive textures
• Coal blocks now spawn twice as often
• Rubies and Sapphires no longer drop directly in the ores, get them through the crusher instead!
• Fixed wetlands no longer generating shale under clay
• Fixed interceptor traps no longer dropping light blocks
• Fixed crash when alt tabbing or minimizing the game on Windows
• Fixed blocks in inventory rendering the wrong direction

0.5.7 Alpha

• Fixed windows build - no changes!

0.5.6 Alpha

The great underground overhaul!

• Caves now form in layers, making the underground much more packed for exploring!
• Lava caves now form in deep underground
• Added Komatiite, an extremely tough rock at the bottom of the world
• Added postprocessing effect when underwater
• Can now scroll in the crafting menu using the scroll wheel
• Incinerators now only spawn on magma and basalt blocks
• Gravel patches are now smaller and more common
• Fixed crash using fluid vaccuum on logs
• Fix falling blocks not rendering (again)
• Removed spherical lava caves

0.5.5 Alpha

• Poplar sapling + leaf drops are now more rare
• Pixel displays now glow in the dark as blocks now support emissive textures!
• Blocks now support textures that aren't 16x resolution
• Fixed crash when playing the game for the first time or clicking the language menu

0.5.3 Alpha

• Added Plastic Blocks with multiple colours
• Added Naphtha, a crafting ingredient which you get by smelting Shale
• Added Plastic Pellets, a crafting ingredient which you get by smelting Naphtha (for now)
• Added /panorama command (/panorama <type> [size])
• Lasers guns changed in the workbench now change their texture color to match!
• Hiding UI now hides nametags
• Naturally generated maize is now "wild" and will only drop corn kernels
• Sneaking or going prone no longer makes footstep sounds
• Renamed item stacks can now be split and merged properly
• Renamed mobs no longer despawn
• The game loads much faster now, postponing asset loading
• Changed the formatting of credits for translation contribs
• Fixed laser collision order
• Fixed leaf decay being extremely slow

0.5.4 Alpha

• Fixed laser emitters crashing in singleplayer