CardLife: Creative Survival - Gribb
Today we have released a new hotfix to address a few issues that have been with us from launch:

  • Fixed one of the occurrences which results in the Server Not Found error when trying to connect to servers.
  • Fixed an issue with our server infrastructure so that it will no longer have the issue where buildings fail to load.

Some players are still reporting that they still fail to connect to multiplayer servers and see a 'Server Not Found' error. We have made changes to the client which may eliminate this issue for some players but we believe there are other causes out there.

We're still working as hard as humanly possible to debug all occurrences of this error and fix it. If you still get this error after 12pm UTC 30/10, please send us a support ticket via https://support.freejamgames.com/hc/en-us with a description of the error and your game logs located Steam\steamapps\common\CardLife.

We're going to solve the Server Not Found issue, but we need more of your help to do it.

Thanks all!
Oct 25, 2018
CardLife: Creative Survival - RapheePlays


Hello everyone!

We have just launched a new single player offline mode in CardLife!

Several members of the team have worked incredibly hard to get this game mode up and running in just two weeks. They are now waiting for your feedback on this game mode and are now preparing to work on new features. We’ll share more details very very soon on what new content we are adding to CardLife

Offline Single Player Mode will effectively remove the lag that players have previously experienced. This relates to combat where maybe it takes some time to register an attack when the information is sent online. All actions in game are verified 100% by your own machine, creating a lag free experience. Players will also no longer be disconnected from their own game in single player.

It is important to note that in order to activate your CardLife account to be played offline you will need to log into the game with an internet connection just once. Below is a step by step progress as to how it will work

  • The first time you log into CardLife, we check that your account owns CardLife as the final part of the installation process. You need to be online for this but you would need to be online anyway to download the game
  • The next time you launch the game, you don't need to be online at all. You can be on a bus with a laptop and no wifi, and you'll still be able to play Single Player
  • From then on single player has no network stuff regardless of whether you have internet or not, zero lag (at least zero network lag).

How do I Access Single Player Offline mode?
If you want to play Single player offline mode, make sure to follow these steps

Start Cardlife as you normally would and select Single Player from the main menu. I’ve highlighted it in red in the screenshot below:



From here you’ll be brought to a menu where you can choose the game mode and select a bunch of mods (of which, we’ve had some incredible mods already created by the community and you should check it out!)... I’ve highlighted the new single player offline mode in red in the screenshot below:



And here it is zoomed in just in case! It is found at the top left of this menu :)



Because this is a new game mode, progress from Single Player - Online Cloud Save (which is the single player mode which was present before this update) will not be carried over. You will start the game from fresh if you play Single Player - Offline.

Please let us know what you think of the offline mode and if you come across any odd issues. We’ve tested it internally, but a big part of our release onto Early Access is to gather feedback and build upon our game. Offline mode is just the start of us listening to player feedback as it was a widely requested feature.

Review CardLife
Are you enjoying CardLife and want to help support the game further? Make sure to leave a review on the game! We’ve been reacting to many of the comments on the review section and a large number of our initial launch issues like server, lag and offline mode have all since been addressed :)

We’ve made some great changes to our network infrastructure by having servers based in different regions to reduce lag and the new offline mode responds to a lot of requests by players who wanted an offline mode.

Taking the time to write a review to recommend a game to other players really helps us as a studio and we often gain a great amount of insight into player experiences from reviews too!

Further fixes in this build
Along with the Offline Single Player Mode there are also a few fixes below:

  • Fixed a Client memory leak, this would have affected performance the longer the game was running.
  • Fixed a bug where players would sometimes not be able to place a building piece even if nothing was blocking them from doing so.
  • Fixed a bug relating to animations that was spamming the error logs, sometimes causing frame rate drops.
  • Optimisations to AI

Of course, if you experience any issues with this update, do get in touch with us with as much information as possible!

Visit our support address by clicking here

We’d like to take a moment to thank everyone who has joined us in playing CardLife over the last two weeks. We have a really lovely community who have been supportive of our game. We are now working towards new content, bug fixes and hope to share more news very soon as we continue to strive towards making an awesome game!

All the best,
Chris
CardLife: Creative Survival - RapheePlays


Greetings all,

This is the first official Devblog since our launch on Steam and boy have we learnt a lot in the past week or so? This blog post will give you an idea of what's coming to the game, including the new Skeleton monster, dual wield and an update on how development of our new Offline Single Player mode is going.

New Skeleton Monster
Since launch CardLife's launch into Steam Early Access our code team has been busy implementing our new Photon Cloud Servers and the Single Player Offline mode, which has left the art team free to begin creating new visual effects and new monsters to launch in-game in the coming months. The first of which we'd like to reveal this week; say hello to the Skeleton or we call him internally 'Skele'.



The Skeleton will be another magic monster in-game like the Golem and Dryad. This character will be like the aforementioned monsters in terms of its behaviour and it's aggro distance and will drop a new crafting material - the Skull. Unfortunately we won't be able to get him in for Halloween due to current development priorities, but we did want to share our vision of Skele with you during the spookiest time of year.

The Skeleton is also the first character in CardLife to have a death animation as well, which is currently work in progress. Matt, our animator, is working on new death animations for all characters in-game to give kills a bit more oomph but don't worry we'll still incorporate that poof of cardboard as drops emerge.



Offline Single Player Launching Next Week
We've always had a small number of the CardLife community (that's you guys) asking for a way to play offline without having to maintain an active connection with servers while you play. That demand skyrocketed for this functionality as soon as we were available on Steam and as soon as we saw that we diverted some of our coders to begin work on that functionality straight away. The good news is that work on the Offline Single Player feature is almost complete and it's currently being tested by our QA team.

Here's how it'll work:

  • The first time you log into CardLife, we check that your account owns CardLife as the final part of the installation process. You need to be online for this but you would need to be online anyway to download the game :)
  • Next time you launch the game, you don't need to be online at all. You can be on a bus with a laptop and no wifi, and you'll still be able to play Single Player
  • From then on single player has no network stuff regardless of whether you have internet or not, zero lag (at least zero network lag).

If all goes well with testing, we believe that Offline Single Player will launch in-game towards the end of next week, but we'll communicate the exact date to closer to the time.

New Region-based Official Servers
We have spoken a lot about servers on this week when we launched our new Cloud Photon Servers which gave players hosting their own servers and playing in Single Player better pings and more stable connections. Today we have made this transition with our Official Servers as well:

  • EU-PVP-Official-CardLife-01
  • EU-PVP-Official-CardLife-02
  • EU-PVP-Official-CardLife-03
  • EU-PVP-Official-CardLife-04
  • EU-PVP-Official-CardLife-05
  • EU-PVP-Official-CardLife-06
  • NA-W-PVP-Official-CardLife-07
  • NA-W-PVP-Official-CardLife-08
  • NA-E-PVP-Official-CardLife-09
  • NA-E-PVP-Official-CardLife-10
  • Asia-PVP-Official-CardLife-11
  • OC-PVP-Official-CardLife-12

Formerly all of our servers were based in Ireland which meant that if you weren't in the EU you experienced a heightened chance of disconnections and a high latency. Now that shouldn't be as much of an issue as it was before.

Obviously, some EU players may experience much higher latency to their server of choice when formerly this wasn't the case. In those specific cases we'll be happy to transfer across any items that you have in your inventory that you want to take with you to an Official Server which is closer to your playing position. Just get in touch with our support team via this link https://support.freejamgames.com/hc/en-us with information on what server you were playing on, what server you have moved to, what items you want to take with you (pending verification), and of course your display name.

Dual Wielding
Did you know that we first hinted at Dual Wielding way back in DevBlog 8? Well, that is the next big feature we're currently neck deep in. The art team has already finalised how the animations will work when you, say, block a parry with your shield in your left hand while you commence a sword strike with your right, or carry a torch in a cave while digging with a pick-axe. By freeing up your hand for additional actions we're aiming to add a bit more complexity to combat and world interaction. The next step is the code team to implement this system in-game which we suspect will be completed and in-game soon. No promises of course as this is still in development, but it's looking good at the moment.

To give you an idea of how dual-wielding will affect the game animations, check out the attack pattern of the new Skeleton:



Connect The Dots Improvements
One of the most common suggestions we get from players is that they want more functionality in the Connect The Dots editor. Our art team is currently looking at that in detail at the moment with the goal of adding functionality that offers a lot of creative freedom without being complex to use. We've been looking at every art software you can possibly imagine in this pursuit and we'll share news of these added tools soon. We've also made some tweaks to the way your character looks during character creation to allow your edits to be much more easily visible with additional shadowing as well. This small yet impactful tweak will go live in our next major update.



As always let us know your thoughts about this week's Devblog and CardLife in general via Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Discord and our Official Forum. We want to make the best game we can and we can not do that without your support.

Thanks,
Andy - Comms Manager
Oct 17, 2018
CardLife: Creative Survival - RapheePlays


Hello everyone!

Today we have launched an update to improve our Network Infrastructure and provide a better game experience for players all around the world!

We have set up cloud servers in several regions which will reduce the time it takes to send information. There are still some further optimisations planned for the future as we work on our official dedicated servers but see below for further information on how we are currently solving lag within the game

Single player and player created multiplayer
Previously, players would need to send data back and forth from their current location to our game servers in Ireland. This would increase the amount of lag that a player will experience. Now, we have set up several game servers in regions around the world which will allow players to experience improved online performance.

The changes that we have made should dramatically decrease the amount of lag that players experience in game when hosting their own single player game or when hosting a multiplayer game.

It is important to note that if you join a multiplayer server that is not within your region, you may experience increased lag.

Official dedicated servers
Our official dedicated game servers are still based in Ireland. This means that the changes we’ve made will not affect your lag within the official dedicated servers. In the future we are going to need to change some of our current dedicated servers location to provide better support worldwide. We will share more information on these changes very soon

Offline Mode
A few members of the team have been working very hard to release an offline mode. Progress is going really well and we are still looking to release the offline mode as soon as possible.

Russian players - Server not found issue
This was an issue we felt where an IP was banned within this particular region. We have adjusted our server locations and this should now be fixed for users specifically in Russia. Though if you are experiencing this issue and not in Russia, do also please try loading the game and let us know if this latest update has addressed this issue.

Localisation
We are a studio which has a major focus in user generated content This can be seen from our work with Robocraft and with the systems we have in place for CardLife. We are always looking to involve the community with our development, be it providing feedback to improve game mechanics or seeing the amazing characters that you have all designed in game!

We’ve had interest from players who would like to see the game available in their language and have offered to help us translate the game. If you would like to help us with localisation, please do get in touch via the following URL and you’ll hear from us very soon!

https://support.freejamgames.com/hc/en-us

Chest issues
One of the issues in developing a game in Early Access is that we may come across times where some progress by the player is lost. This is a part of the development journey and can sometimes become unavoidable. It is wise to continue to update players that there is always a chance of this as the game is still heavily in development.

With our changes to databases and also the changes we made to improve latency for players around the world, one of the issues that has been raised internally is that some players may lose some items placed within their chest. We apologize in advance for this and hope that it only affects a small number of players. Rest assured we are doing our best to avoid these issues in the future and trying to protect the progress of our players.

If you have found that you have lost some items during this update, please get in touch with us via the support site below with information including your display name and the server you are on.

https://support.freejamgames.com/hc/en-us

Memory improvements
We have made some core changes to the code to fix a memory leak that was reported. This memory leak within the server would ultimately result in us needing to reset a server due to the sheer amount of data that was being sent. By reset, we mean turning it off and on, NOT a server wipe. Your buildings and progress when a server “resets” will remain when you log in.

The changes we are making to our official dedicated servers will mean that the game will reset servers less often.

We thank everyone for their support, patience and feedback over the last week! It has been incredible and we’ve learnt so much from every one of you. Please do let us know if you see better network performance with this update or even if you don't see any change! We need your feedback to make sure that we are continuing to move forward in development to create a better experience for all players.

All the best,
Chris
CardLife: Creative Survival - Gribb


Hey all,

CardLife servers will be unavailable from 2pm to 4pm (UTC+1) today as we implement Cloud Photon servers. Click here to see the downtime in more timezones.

Maintenance will take 2 hours but may be longer if we run into any issues.

We hope that the introduction of Cloud Photon servers will lead to fewer server disconnections by players worldwide and better network performance overall, but we will only be able to confirm this once the update is launched.

UPDATE: We are having to extend maintenance by a further 30 minutes in order to complete the introduction of the Photon Cloud infrastructure. We'll let you know as soon as we're back online again.

UPDATE # 2: Servers are now back up, but we are seeing issues with HP and stamina where HP is at 100 and Stamina is at 0. We are doing our best to address this and fix the issue as soon as possible!
CardLife: Creative Survival - RapheePlays


Greetings everyone, we’ve had a great launch week for CardLife but we’re still seeing players report lag in both single player and multiplayer modes. The good news is that we have started preparations to fix the lag this week and progress is going well.

Cloud-Based Servers
Currently in-game even if you are hosting a private server or Single Player game, your server or client needs to check in with a service we use called Photon to verify the actions you’re doing on a server. This Photon server is situated Amazon Web Services data centre in Dublin, Ireland.

Obviously, this can cause big lag spikes as not everyone is located in Europe. Over the past 4 days we’ve had players from almost every country on the planet playing CardLife which while very exciting, has led to poor network performance the further away you are from our office. We are going to fix that by moving to a cloud-based Photon solution which automatically routes all traffic to the nearest server to you with server locations on every major continent on the planet. This will mean that even if you’re playing in North America, Russia, Africa, Asia or Oceanic regions you will not suffer the crippling lag that some players have reported to us during Single Player and host Multiplayer servers.

To put this more simply, cloud-based servers will improve base level network performance for Single Player and Hosted Multiplayer servers. This solution is set to go live towards the end of next week, pending successful tests. So that’s big network fix number 1, sorted.

Connecting via Proxy
Big network fix number 2 is related to players failing to connect to servers. We’ve had over 110 Steam Reviews since we launched on Tuesday and a considerable percentage of those report that they can’t connect to servers or even see a server list. We believe this problem is related to player location and some territories failing to connect to our Amazon Web Services (AWS) servers. We are currently implementing a solution to this which involves players being routed to a separate server provider automatically if you fail to connect to AWS. We’re currently trialling this solution with some members of the community and if you are from Russian territories and would like to help us with these tests, please send a ticket to our support team (https://support.freejamgames.com/hc/en-us) and we’ll send you more instructions on how you can assist.

Again if all those things line up and work correctly we will be adding that to the CardLife server infrastructure next week.

Offline Single Player Mode
Additionally as confirmed in a blog post earlier this week, we are currently working on implementing a 100% offline Single Player mode to CardLife. This will minimise lag completely when you play as the actions you do in-game will be 100% resolved by your client. Many of you have requested this option in CardLife and we’re happy to report that we’ll be looking to deliver it by the end of the month if development goes well.

We want to say a big thank you to all those who are being patient with us while we resolve the kinks in our server infrastructure. Rest assured we are working on getting everyone who has purchased CardLife playing as soon as we can.
CardLife: Creative Survival - RapheePlays
Update - 11/10/2018
Hi everyone, An update has just gone live which includes the changes to the hunger system

We have significantly reduced the amount of hunger that is used when a player is running and have increased the amount of hunger that you replenish when eating berries.

Original post


Hello everyone,

CardLife launched on Steam yesterday and we've had some lovely comments, some constructive criticism and have had a few bugs reported! As we've stated on the main Steam store page, this is the very next step of our development journey and we are embracing all comments to make a great game!

Initially we realise that there have been some issues with our servers in select regions, most notably in Russia as they ban IP addresses for AWS which is the system we are currently using. We are currently thinking about offering ways for players to connect to CardLife via a alternate server provider. We hope to share good news with you on that front, next week

Offline Mode
We have seen lots of reports from players having issues connecting, or seeing increased lag in single player mode and additionally a lot of players who prefer to play offline. We are confirming that we are currently working on a mode which will allow players to play single player offline.

Development for Offline Mode is still in an investigatory phase but it's clear there is demand out there for it, so we'll be delivering that as soon as humanly possible. It's going to be a big job so we don't have a time-frame for its introduction yet, but when we do we'll update you all as soon as we can

Network Infrastructure Improvements
We are also working on improving our network infrastructure to decrease lag for those playing online. This is a priority for us to improve the experience of players wherever they are based.

We appreciate the patience of our players who have come across some of these issues. Do know that we are all working very hard to take on your feedback to make the best game we can.

Hunger System
Hunger currently decreases way too fast so we want to make some changes to this system! The first change is that we will significantly reduce the amount of hunger that is used for when a player is running. We will also be increasing the amount of hunger you receive from eating berries.

Of course more changes and refinements to the core game experience will come, we appreciate the initial wave of feedback from all players during our first day on sale!

Steam Community Screenshots
Each week we want to highlight the best screenshots made by the community! All you need to do is post a screenshot on Steam using the screenshot button (Default is F12). These can include a complex structure that you have built or seen, a cool looking weapon or even an image which has a cool story attached to it!

So far we've had some great screenshots come in from the community!

The first is a incredible structure seen by HaynezC, We're not sure if they built this, or saw it on their travels. but it is still very impressive!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1534556062
Squischi has made the Keyblade!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1534811420
Blue has made a ripped elf man with a creepy face:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1535189736
Kasu-chan (InuKasuka) has made an adorable cat person!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1535096888
At Freejam, we support User generated content and with CardLife the potential is incredible. Users have made some amazing pieces of art and we've not even touched on the modding functionality of CardLife. If you created or have seen something amazing within our servers you should share it with us and the rest of the community in either the CardLife Steam forums or the official website forums.

That's it for now! Expect a new build with the hunger fixes to be deployed tomorrow.

We'll share with you more news of the changes to our network infrastructure and progress of our offline mode when we can.
CardLife: Creative Survival - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice O'Connor)

I appreciate when games offer the opportunity to draw and sculpt in-game objects myself yet recognise that I have the artistic hand of a five-year-old hopped up on juice, and apply a style of their own to spruce up creations that even my own mother wouldn’t stick to the fridge. Enter CardLife: Cardboard Survival, a new online survival sandbox from the makers of Robocraft, where everything is built from corrugated cardboard. So sure, I’d ham-handedly draw my own avatar and building blocks, but in theory the game would make it look cutely craftsy. Thanks, video games.

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CardLife: Creative Survival - RapheePlays


Greetings everyone!

The time has come! Our survival game with an awesome and innovative crafting system is now available on Steam Early Access. We started our journey over two years ago with a core team and have expanded into a 25 person team. Every single one of us has been humbled by the response from our founders and content creators who were given review codes weeks ago.



CardLife is out now and costs $19.99 / £15.49 / €16.79 from Steam or our official website. As part of our launch into Early Access, we have wiped official servers. Those who previously hosted multiplayer servers or played on single player will keep their structures and progress.

Additionally, those who are founders should now have received an email which tells them how to transfer their account to a Steam account. Do make sure to check your junk email just in case!



Over the last month we have been fixing bugs and improving the core game experience. We hope that you enjoy the game and continue to provide us with feedback and suggestions as we take the next big step on our journey.

There are just a few questions that we feel our players will ask, see below for just a few answers to some of them:

Will you translate the game into any other languages
Yes, we will be working on translation very soon. Make sure to add the game to your wishlist as we’d create an update which will let you know when the game has been translated.

Will you increase the server player count?
Yes! We are currently at a 20 person limit on our official dedicated servers. As we increase performance we plan to increase that number as soon as possible
CardLife: Creative Survival - RapheePlays


It is just four days until we release in Steam Early Access! Make sure you have added the game to your Steam Wishlist!

We already have an amazing community of players who have joined us during the last couple of years in development and are looking forward to growing that number with those of you who are purchasing the game via Steam.

We have a more detailed Dev blog which goes through the process of display names and transferring to a Steam Account. If you a re a Founder, you can read more about that by clicking the link below.

The Vanguard Edition
We had stopped selling the Founders Edition from our website in preparation for our imminent Steam launch. Players who purchase the game after October 9th will become Vanguards (until the next stage of development). Founders will keep their Founder title within game but will also receive the unique crafting recipes from the Vanguard edition.

Those crafting recipes are:

The Vanguard Lamp Post
Light the way and provide another layer of visual flair to your buildings

The Vanguard Statue
A special statue which is a cardboard recreation of the Vanguard ship in Robocraft.

Check them out below:


Those of you who would like to see what ship this was inspired from, we have an image below of the Vanguard ship within Robocraft.



When the game launches on October 9th, we will welcome the Vanguards with open arms! We know you're going to make some incredible things.



The Official CardLife Wiki
We partnered up with Gamepedia to create the official CardLife Wiki. There are already 329 pages so far and we need your help to improve upon it! Visit the Wiki now, contribute and we will be giving out prizes to the top contributors after the first month.

https://cardlife.gamepedia.com/CardLife_Wiki

Planned Server Maintenance and Server Reset
In order to prepare for our Steam release we are preparing our servers to be down for maintenance at some time on Monday, 8th October. During this time we will be resetting the servers, which unfortunately means that any building that you have created will be removed, terrain will be reset and any items in your inventory will also be removed.

We are hoping that this will be the last time that we will reset the servers. However there may be a time in the future when a technical issue may require a reset. But we will do our very best to maintain them from now on to protect your buildings on our official dedicated servers.

Stay tuned to our twitter account @CardLifeGame to be kept up to date on when the servers will be back up and running.

The Big Bug Squash
The team has spent the last four weeks squashing as many bugs as possible. During this time we have not focused on introducing new features to CardLife as we wanted to release the most stable and polished version on October 9th. During this time we eliminated over 200 bugs but below are a list of the ones that we felt you’d be interested in seeing addressed as part of our most recent patch.

BUG FIXES

  • Fixed a bug where Creatures are glitching through Doors
  • Fixed a bug where crafting a large stack of new projectiles, after running out of the previous set, causes them to be unusable.
  • Fixed a bug which caused caves to be pitch black when the cave contained light sources.
  • Fixed a bug where the sloped fence foundation and sloped fence had the wrong sprite.
  • Fixed a bug which caused the health and stamina bars to incorrectly update.
  • Fixed an issue which caused players combat animations to not appear correctly.
  • Fixed a bug which caused players who disconnect from the server to lose mouse functionality on the Main Menu.
  • Fixed a bug which caused Cobalt items to not fully appear in the crafting menu in Creative Mode.
  • Fixed an issue which caused the game to crash due to being out of memory.
  • Fixed a bug which displayed an error message reading “str [ok]” when disconnecting from server instead of the expected error message (“You have been disconnected from the server”)
  • Fixed an issue where players were able to see low level detail on the environment from up close (instead of only happening to terrain in the distance).
  • Fixed a bug which caused items to lose enchantments if dragged straight from the enchanting table to the equipment slot.
  • Fixed a bug which caused newly set key bindings to not update on some crafting tables.
  • Fixed a bug which caused your selected mods to be forgotten when you log out and back in.
  • Fixed an issue which caused some creatures to stay in a 'T' pose instead of animating correctly.
  • Fixed an issue with the Direwolf Pelt which caused it not to tile when applied to items.
  • Fixed an issue which caused items not to properly craft if you typed in an amount to craft (instead of using the mouse to click the '+')
  • Fixed a bug which caused creatures to stop attacking you if you turned your back to them.
  • Fixed a bug which caused the creature UI not to appear above your health bar if shot from range.
  • Fixed a bug which caused the creature names to be invisible if they were in front of water.
  • Fixed an issue which caused the animation of the crossbow reloading to finish before you could actually fire the crossbow.
  • Fixed a bug which caused the crossbow recoil to change depending on the direction you faced.
  • Fixed a bug which caused terrain drops not to fall to the ground when digging upwards.
  • Fixed a bug which sometimes caused users to not to be able to place stairs opposite doors.
  • Fixed a bug with crafting which would accidentally cancel the crafting queue if you hit 'I'.
  • Fixed a bug which caused you to hear all the games audio at once when leaving and rejoining a server.
  • Fixed a bug which caused stats which were being hovered over to stay on screen even after closing the inventory.
  • Fixed a bug where pressing 'F' whilst having a drawn bow would not reset the bow to idle.
  • Fixed a bug which caused you to place terrain you had selected when clicking resume on escape menu.
  • Fixed a bug which caused creatures to slide towards you from long distances if you turned towards them after running away.
  • Fixed a bug which made the chat expander extremely hard to select.
    Fixed a bug which caused your shadow to react erratically when holding a torch.
  • Fixed a bug which caused your hotbar to scroll when scrolling through the journal.
  • Fixed a bug which caused your hotbar to scroll when scrolling through crafting tables.
  • Fixed a bug which caused the user's client to crash if they walked on to specific tiles in the world.
  • Fixed a bug when eating food which caused the game to say '2x Food' was consumed instead of 1.
  • Fixed an issue where an invisible barrier was blocking players in certain locations in the world.
  • Fixed a bug with scrollbars in the Permissions Console.
  • Fixed a bug which displayed (str) near some menus in permissions console for players given permission to edit.
  • Fixed a bug for players who maximised the size of the Connect the Dots screen, as they could not minimise it after.
  • Fixed a bug which caused creatures breathing loops to sometimes stay active after despawning.

FEATURES:

  • We have implemented an interest management system which will only load structures, terrain and creatures within a certain distance of you, improving performance.
  • Multiple customisations of the same item will now each save as unique items, instead of overwriting the original customisation.
  • We have made a significant improvement to the infrastructure of AI which will make them more reactive and will improve performance. This is our first step towards better AI in CardLife and further improvements are planned.
  • Infinite Servers: We have implemented a new feature which will cause buildings to decay over time, if the user does not log in within a certain period the building will be destroyed and the items will become lootable.

We posted about the Infinite servers in the last blog. You can read more about that by clicking the link below:

http://cardlifegame.com/index.php/devblog/247-dev-blog-93-reactive-world

IMPROVEMENTS:

  • Made changes to the name field on the Connect the Dots screen to make it more readable.
  • Made the right hand side of the Permissions panel display a “Coming Soon" message as that panel currently has no functionality.
  • All equippable items now have run animations.
  • We have added in an “inventory is full” message.
  • Improved frame rate performance for players near large structures.
  • Reduced the long hang players were experiencing when returning to main menu
  • Improved available space for some items which had restrictive Connect the Dots screens.
  • Improved the hitboxes for sliders in escape menu

Thank you for supporting us so far
We’d like to issue a MASSIVE thank you to all founders who have joined us over the last two years and to those who are looking forward to joining us on October the 9th. Your support has been invaluable helping us to refine the CardLife experience and we hope that you enjoy playing the game. Steam is the next leg of our development journey and we have a ton of plans to continue to improve and add to the game.

Remember, you can share your thoughts on the game within the forums, on Facebook, Twitter and Reddit.

All the best,
Chris
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