UPDATE 1/7/22: We're extending the winter event until the end of January and turning back on Pumpkiru's Candy Campaign just to keep things interesting!

Seasons Greetings Creators!

Tis the season to spread cheer, and that’s exactly what celebrated toymaker Elfi had planned to do. But once again, Troggington the Abominable Snow Trog has stolen all of Elfi’s toys!

Creators, we need your help to retrieve those presents and save Elfi’s Wonderland. Utilize Trog Traps, which are found in snowy biomes, as well as daily login treasure chests, to capture Troggington and his minions. Win back those presents, then return them to Elfi in exchange for a reward of your choice. Elfi has an entire catalog of festive items and recipes to collect!

During the event, we will be celebrating holiday screenshots from this year and years past as in-game loading screens. Submit your photo: upload it to Artwork and don't forget to use the creative cam, which you can bring up in-game with the tilde key (~), aka the backtick key (`). See Shiva's guide for more help.

Happy Holidays!
<3 Playful

UPDATE: Due to popular request we're extending Pumpkiru's campaign by 2 weeks. Let there be candy!

Things are about to get spooky...because Pumpkiru’s Candy Campaign is back! Once again, the time has come for you to help the Great Pumpkiru fight off the ghastly hordes, recover their stolen candy, and trade them in for Halloween-themed recipes and costumes.

To participate, be sure to collect daily login rewards on the main menu to earn candy and idols. Place the idols to trigger pulse-pounding combat events that you can tackle solo or with friends. Complete them to earn higher-level idols and more candy. Then find the Great Pumpkiru in your world and trade candy for frighteningly cool costumes, creepy consumables, and a trove of haunted recipes.

During the event, we will be celebrating spooky screenshots from this year and years past as in-game loading screens. To have your shot considered, upload it to Artwork (not Screenshots oddly) and don't forget to use the creative cam, which you can bring up in-game with the tilde key (~), aka the backtick key (`). See Shiva's guide for more help.

Trick or treat, Creators!

Team Night overwhelmingly won with nearly twice as many unique entries as Team Morning. Last month, we promised this event would determine the people’s definitive choice for the superior position of the sun. Now that the results are in, what do they mean? What are the implications of #TeamNight’s victory? Who invented liquid soap and why??

All good questions...that will remain unanswered. We’re leaving it open to your own interpretation!

In the meantime, everyone who participated in the contest is automatically a winner! Y’all should have a bundle for 5 Qbits and 5 Villagers in your inventory.

We promised TEN of you would win a bonus prize for submitting our favorite screenshots. In a twist that will surprise no one, we decided to expand our bonus prizes to FIFTEEN recipients. There were just too many good ones to resist!

Without further ado, congrats to the winners…



































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Congratulations to the winners, who now have the rare and elusive Trophy Gauntlets (including Gold, Silver, and Bronze) and—before the end of the day—will have 300 extra coins. Look to see their shots in a loading screen near you. And thanks to everyone who participated! As usual this was a lot of fun!

(If you have any issues or didn't see the prizes show up, email support@playfulstudios.com and Entuland will look into it).

--PlayfulDavid ːgolemyayː

Full disclosure: I participated and voted for #TeamNight. Even if you remove my entry, Team Night still wins by a mile.

Hello Creators!!

Work is still underway on one of our biggest updates yet. I can’t wait to share more details with you next month!

In the meantime, we have a question for you…


I’m gonna be honest. I never knew how to answer that question. Are you talking about when I’m most likely to be awake? Productive? Susceptible to bad decisions?

While the morning / night person question may not be a good prompt for chit chat, it’s a great one for a Creativerse build-off! And we’re gonna make it interesting: we will be declaring a winner in the battle of Morning People vs. Night People based on the number of entries received. Only one team can win. Will you be #TeamMorning or #TeamNight? I wanna see a real battle for the soul of our earth’s rotation around its vertical axis.

Here’s how it’ll work...

Like our last contest, this one asks you to answer a question about yourself with a screenshot from Creativerse: are you a morning person or a night person?

The way you chose to answer that question is up to you. There are no wrong answers. You don’t even have to explain yourself. Just include #TeamMorning or #TeamNight in the description field (or title) of your submission on our Steam Artwork hub. We’ll let Entuland’s script that sniffs out hashtags, and with it the cold, unimpeachable voice of your collective raw data, take it from there. We will determine once and for all the people’s choice for the superior position of the sun!

Who will win? Night people? Morning people? Frankly the stakes have never been higher.

Regardless of which team wins, everyone who participates will be rewarded with 5 Qbits and 5 Villagers. And ten of you who post our favorite screenshots (criteria defined below) will receive a bonus prize: 300 coins and the rare, elusive Trophy Gauntlet set. That’s 3 custom gauntlet skins—Bronze, Silver, and Gold—not available in the store.

Good luck, humanity!

–PlayfulDavid ːgolemyayː


Details

Duration: now through August 16, 2021 at noon Central US time.

Entry:

• Post your screenshot in Artwork on our Steam hub
  
• Include either #TeamMorning or #TeamNight in the description or title
  
• (Optional) Add a Workshop link to any blueprints shown, if applicable

How to screenshot:

• The tilde key (~) -- aka the BackTick key (`) -- will bring up the Creative Cam
  
• (Optional) Use the onscreen tools to customize the look
  
• Press F to save a screenshot to your desktop
  
• For more help, see Shiva’s guide

Prizes:

• All participants: pack of 5 Qbits and 5 Programmable Villagers
  
• Ten prize winners (5 for #TeamMorning and 5 for #TeamNight): 300 coins, and the Trophy Gauntlet set, including Gold, Silver, and Bronze

Prize winner criteria:

• Scale and epicness of build or “found” shot
  
• Uniqueness and variety of blocks/items in shot
  
• Creative Camera tool mastery (e.g. just the right amount of fog and bloom)

Rules:

• The screenshot must feature original work created by you
  
• UNLESS: it’s a shot of something found in your default world template
  
• This includes any blueprints used in the shot
  
• You can enter multiple times...but only win once
  
• Mods and Playful employees are welcome to participate but ineligible to be one of the 10 bonus prize winners.

Winners will be announced (and prizes awarded) on or before August 20, 2021.

Final thoughts:
Seriously y’all, thanks in advance for participating! These are a ton of fun. And this time we’ll obtain the people’s definitive, legally-binding, epoch-defining answer to an extremely important question!!

P.S. Our lawyer asked us to clarify that the previous sentence was a joke. To which we laughed maniacally for eleven uninterrupted minutes. But seriously, we’re joking. Including the part about talking to a lawyer.

If you’re in the northern hemisphere, happy summer! If you’re in the southern hemisphere, happy winter!

Regardless of where you are, we have a small but fun pirate-themed update for you! There's a new costume: the Captain No Beard pirate outfit, available in the store. There’s also a couple of new ship wood blocks available in the crafting and creator menus (type"ship" in the search bar to find them).

As a reward to all of you wonderful Creators, we have a promo code to receive 25 Qbits for free! Enter the code YARRR in the store to claim it. We hope you can put them to good use and build something nice. Perhaps one of the many majestic ships found in our workshop to go with your new pirate outfit?

This is a smaller update, and I want to acknowledge that it’s been a while since Creativerse had a substantial update. But I have good news: work is underway on our biggest series of updates yet. I can’t say just yet what they’ll be, but the team is really excited and we can’t wait to share more with you soon!

--PlayfulDavid ːgolemyayː

• Captain No-Beard

• Ship Wood
  
• Decorative Ship Wood
  
• Ship Wood Slope
  
• Ship Wood Outer Corner
  
• Ship Wood Inner Corner
  
• Sail Slab Plain
  
• Sail Slab Corner

Y’all.

These entries were so good.

Last month, we asked you to tell us whether you were an indoor or outdoor person, and you rose to the occasion by submitting some of our favorite Creativerse screenshots ever. It’s always hard to pick the winners, but this one was especially challenging.

As it turns out, a lot of you are outside people. In fact, there were so many outside entries that we quickly realized we couldn’t do justice to the build-off without adding a third category: Found Shots. These are outdoor shots that were cool but mostly untouched from the original world template.

That makes a total of 15 winners: 5 outdoor shots, 5 indoor shots, and 5 found outdoors shots. Here they are...



Pinch me, I'm dreaming. Seriously, I had to do a double take with this one. "Is that actually Creativerse?" It is. It's also a masterclass in building, shot composition, and use of color.


Mordred came in 2nd for most entries submitted (congrats A1WEND1L for 1st), but that's cool -- we enjoyed every one of them. Especially this glorious shot from their series paying homage to Quentin Tarantino.


I have no idea what otherworldly wizardry Sir Marvin and his friends get up to, but whatever it is, I would like to know more dot gif. RSoM LuckySheep can play the creative cam like Miles Davis played the trumpet.


I've seen a lot of castle builds over the years, so it takes a lot to raise my eyebrow at another one, but I love the framing here, as well as the seamless blending with a mountain. The design is cool, and all that reinforced iron makes me feel like I'd have a fighting chance against a horde of invading Things.


The mix of intimate detail and grand scale in this one is magical: the way the horizon draws the eye inward, from the detailed outer edges to the vast horizon that shrinks to a teeny dot in a rule of thirds sweet spot...chef's kiss




This one is deceptively simple, but I love the use of color. I also love omarajbere's intriguing description: "Take a cave or cavern. Place all different styles of lights about it and put a lot of ice or snow on the ceiling and alternately throw fire bombs and freeze bombs at it and see what happens." What happens!? I must know!


єäяєɴd3ℓ submitted a whole bunch of amazing shots, but I love the in-game items to arc sign pixel art ratio in this. I also want to go to there. You can build it yourself with this awesome blueprint.


This is like a really well done selfie but in Creativerse. I feel like I know a lot about this character that AlexStudio's created. Actually scratch that, all I know is they have good taste and an enigmatic energy that intrigues me.


I've always been skeptical of the border effect in the creative cam (which sometimes looks like what I call "ugly borderlands") but this has convinced me it can be great. The lighting, block choices, and filters all come together for a really cozy but unique interior. Build it yourself with this blueprint.


The FOV slider in the creative cam can get pretty crazy, but this is the perfect use of sliding it up to 11. There's so much detail packed in, and the edges are far enough away that they don't look super warped. This looks like a nice place to feel guilty about not reading a book while I browse my phone.




If you've ever tried to capture an action shot of other players doing cool stuff (or in my case, footage for the game's trailer captured from 3 computers using both hands and my foot), you know how hard it can be. Epic shot!


I like this one a lot. I almost didn't pick it because...well, it's a visual glitch. But Entuland convinced me: "Clever play of the 'inside' part of the theme, this is a shot taken from inside the terrain, exploiting the see-through when you are looking at textures from the 'wrong end.'" Also it looks cool.


I can totally see Leafi in there. From the description: "There are two rivers coming out of his eye's like tears so I called them Leafi Tear River." Packaging a fun idea along with a striking shot makes this landscape pic a winner.


It's a great shot of a great spot in a great game. I love it!


The technical limitations of the game's draw distance sometimes distracts from an otherwise great shot (speaking of which, we're looking at adding fog to obscure the jagged edges of unloaded chunks). This shot, however, uses that limitation to its benefit, making the world look like it's a tiny planet you could circumnavigate on a day hike.

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Congratulations to the winners, who now have the rare and elusive Trophy Gauntlets (including Gold, Silver, and Bronze). Look to see their shots in a loading screen near you.

Thanks to everyone who participated! This was a lot of fun, and don’t forget: if you submitted something, you'll find a handful of Qbits waiting for you in your inventory! Go buy yourself a nice blueprint kit.

--PlayfulDavid ːgolemyayː

Indoor people and outdoor people!

Are you more of an indoor person? Do you like organizing your spaces with just the right combination of decor and color and making everything super cozy and chill...then spending the afternoon by the fire? Or do you prefer to be outdoors, exploring, adventuring far out into the horizon, slaying ferocious beasts, and/or building something epic?

Maybe you’re a little bit of both.

But deep down, everyone leans one way or the other.

So look deep inside yourself, find out which way you lean, and show us who you are!

Specifically, post a screenshot of something you’ve made that is either an interior shot or an exterior shot. Or, if you found a particularly interesting, untouched spot in your world, fire up the Creative Camera (instructions below) and make the shot yours.

Post your screenshot on our Steam’s Artwork hub with the hashtag #insideoutside before the deadline, and we’ll reward you with a pack of 5 Qbits just for participating!

And ten participants will be chosen as winners, receiving as bonus prizes: 1) 300 coins, and 2) the rare, elusive Trophy Gauntlet set, featuring Gold, Silver, and Bronze variants (these are not available in the store).

P.S. we’ll be adding your entries to the in-game loading screens throughout the event!



Duration: now through June 6, 2021 at 11:59pm CT

Entry:

• Post your screenshot in Artwork on our Steam hub
  
• Include “#insideoutside” in the description
  
• Tells us in the description whether it’s an indoor or outdoor shot
  
• (Optional) Add a Workshop link to the build’s blueprint if applicable

How to screenshot:

• The tilde key (~) -- aka the BackTick key (`) -- will bring up the Creative Cam
  
• (Optional) Use the onscreen tools to customize the look
  
• Press F to save a screenshot to your desktop
  
• For more help, see Shiva’s guide

Prizes:

• All participants: pack of 5 Qbits
  
• Ten prize winners: Trophy Gauntlet set (including Gold, Silver, and Bronze), and 300 coins
  
  • Indoor shots: 5 winners
    
  • Outdoor shots: 5 winners

Prize winner criteria:

• Scale and epicness of build or “found” shot
  
• Uniqueness and variety of blocks/items in shot
  
• Creative Camera tool mastery (e.g. just the right amount of fog and bloom)

Rules:

• The screenshot must feature original work created by you
  
  • UNLESS: it’s a shot of something found in your default world template
    
  • This includes any blueprints used in the shot
• You can enter multiple times...but only win once
  
• Mods and Playful employees are welcome to participate!...but ineligible to be one of the 10 Trophy Gauntlet winners

Winners will be announced (and Qbits rewarded) on June 7, 2021

Good luck!

UPDATE: winners have been announced: https://steamcommunity.com/games/280790/announcements/detail/3060739769662528247

Howdy Creators!

Let me tell you a tale about the old west. No, not that one. I’m talking about the wild wild west of Creativerse, circa 2015, when we first added homesteading to the game. Since then, y’all have enjoyed taming and naming pets, farming and harvesting crops, and making and tasting all sorts of delicious foodstuffs. Now, as we celebrate the 5.583th anniversary of that update, we’re adding some items to really bring out the frontier in your worlds.

Whether you’re a cowboy, pioneer, farmer, rancher, outlaw, rugged individual who prefers seeing the world through sepia-tinted glasses, or just a Creativerse fan who likes new stuff, you’ll find something to enjoy. Specifically, you can find them by searching for "western" in the Creator Mode menu, or in the regular old crafting menu. Be prepared to head out to the "frontier" for some of the ingredients (or you can grab a starter pack from the store).

The best part: all recipes are 100% free! Yeeeeeehaw!

–PlayfulDavid


New Craftable Blocks and Items

• Western Chair
  
• Western Mount
  
• Western Wall
  
• Western Lamp
  
• Western Lamppost
  
• Western Log Wall
  
• Western Log Wall Corner
  
• Western Rug
  
• Western Wall Trim
  
• Western Wagon
  
• Western Wagon Wheel
  
• Western Bomb

New Costumes

• The Horsey McHorseface Outfit
  
• Western Tomahawk

New Store Bundle

• Western Starter Pack

Improvements

• A new streamlined news section for the main menu
  
• A few under the hood improvements to keep things running smoothly, as always!

Updated in today's version...

• Fireplace is toggleable (requires pulling/placing for extant fireplaces)
  
• Fixed typos with some villager challenge text
  
• Realigned Coziest Couch model to be centered
  
• Fixed some inconsistent lighting with certain types of stairs
  
• Fixed Stone Path being very emissive
  
• Forbidden Red Roof now using the correct textures

P.S. you should check out our Twitter if you like free costumes...

Creators, once again you have come up with some incredibly astonishing builds. All of the submissions for The Great Golden Build-Off had us floored with the sheer amount of work that all of you put into your creations. We think you are all winners here. However, in the spirit of competition we have narrowed down The Great Golden Build-Off winners:

First Place:
Ihelam’s Temple of Knowledge



Second Place:
Totof’s Pyramid of Râ



Third Place:
Droxxanna(SoaringFreedom)’s Private Golden Castle



Congratulations winners! We will be contacting you directly through Steam. You can check out their builds and the many others here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/280790/eventcomments/5312531598970760600?snr=2_9_100000_&ctp=3
Feel free to comment and discuss what your favourite submissions were from the build-off and stay tuned for more build-off opportunities and prizes!