Hello Everyone!

We hope you’re as excited as we are about the upcoming Splintered Sea expansion! Today we’re going to talk about the expansion’s water simulation and some of its features.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2165710/Besiege_The_Splintered_Sea/

It’s always been important to us that if we ever added water to Besiege, it would need to be a more interactive & impactful experience for the player than simply a flat plane to sail a ship across. With that in mind, throughout the development of the Splintered Sea expansion we have tweaked and refined the water simulation to make it as fun, challenging and immersive as possible.

The Splintered Sea’s ocean features large waves that physically batter your ship about, making navigation challenging and causing ill-balanced machines to capsize. Constructing an aquatic machine presents different challenges to those faced on land and we’ll talk more about Building for Water in an upcoming post.



Ensuring immersive and satisfying interaction between player creations and the ocean was also very important to us. We wanted the water to react to your presence, creating a rippling wake-like effect as your machine moves and splashing when parts of your ship impact the surface. Splashes and spray are proportional to the magnitude of an impact, so striking the water with a large heavy object at high speed creates a much larger effect than something smaller and lighter at a slower speed.



Now, Besiege wouldn’t be Besiege without awesome explosions, so we wanted to give special attention to them in water as well!

• Bombs & Mines are powerful enough to physically impact water both above and below the surface. Above the ocean large explosions force the water downward, creating a temporary depression in its surface.
  
• Large explosions underwater create a big bubble that forces water (and anything caught in it’s wake) away from the explosion’s epicenter and then sucks anything nearby back in as the bubble collapses. This makes submarine warfare especially satisfying and immersive!
  
• Underwater explosions also thrust water upward, creating huge bulges on the ocean’s surface that cause damage to vessels caught in them.

That's all for today, but next week we'll be taking a deeper dive into The Splintered Sea's aquatic blocks and how they'll help you take on Besiege's formidable ocean!

Cheers everyone,
Von

If you haven't already, please consider wishlisting the expansion and check out the expansion's steam page for more information! :)

Today we’re excited to announce The Splintered Sea expansion for Besiege, coming to Steam May 24th this year! The expansion adds water to Besiege for the first time, a 10-level ocean themed campaign, 8 new aquatic blocks and an ocean themed sandbox environment.


Adding water to Besiege has been a huge technical challenge, one that’s been years in the making, with countless hours of experimenting and tweaking to get things just right.

The Splintered Sea’s water system employs elements of hydrodynamics to produce an interactive, immersive and challenging new machine-building experience, for both new players and veterans alike.

Water will also be available in both Multiplayer and the Level Editor, if you own the expansion. Everything you can do in Besiege, you can now do in water as well!

In the run up to The Splintered Sea’s release we’ll be dropping weekly community posts, providing a deeper dive into the expansion, its contents & features.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2165710/Besiege_The_Splintered_Sea/

Hello Everyone!

We hope you all had a good holiday season.
Today we’ve got a new update for you, featuring a host of bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements for the game, including a huge decrease in simulation start times for surface blocks!
A full list can be found in the changelog below.



Thank you to everyone from the Discord community who’s pitched in and playtested this update over the holiday period! Your help has enabled us to cram in more bug fixes and get the update released quicker than expected.

We’d also like to thank everyone who’s contributed to the new suggestions section on Discord. There’ve been some great discussions surrounding people’s ideas and it’s given us lots of inspiration for the future. Click below to join the Discord and add your suggestions too!



Regional Pricing:

Valve recommends that developers update their regional prices regularly, which we have not done since the 1.0 release. We wanted to give some advanced warning before we do, as pricing in most regions (Asia, Canada, Europe, Mexico & South America) is likely to increase.

To give everyone a chance to get the game at a discounted price before this happens, Besiege will be going on sale from the 29th of January to the 5th of February, after which the pricing update will take place.


That’s all for now and we hope you enjoy this latest installment of Besiege!

Cheers everyone,
Von

Changelog V1.26 - 20554

Changes:
- Edge detector logic gate
- Automation blocks now don't have a broken framerate bound escape that would make automation respond differently depending on framerate.
- Wheels now use a single slightly more round collider, resulting in better performance and roll
- old saves will use the original configuration of wheels
- Wheels now have a new implementation of acceleration that also affects deacceleration and doesn't jump suddenly to infinite power
- Grabber now has a button for attach and detach when not auto grabbing, if the button is the same on both it works like before
- Grabber now uses a more reliable grab phase
- Steering hinges and steering blocks now have a tension slider making it possible for them to be more or less wobbly than default
- Surface block texture tiling by world size
- Surface block flip texture on F
- Surface block rotate texture on R (with no ghost visible)
- Vacuum block now using a much more reliable and performant cone of effect
- Vacuum radius now increases with distance, and reference cone point offsetting slightly
- updated camera targeting (lerp update)
- Save menu now returns back to the last folder you accessed a file in
- Added xml options to skin packs (only 1 implemented atm)
- Minor cleanup of brace code
- Added Spinning block free spin toggle
- Added ability for certain blockmapper values to be copy pasted to and from Windows clipboard
- Added preview models to dragged blocks in skin template
- Tweaked sim camera lerping
- Added new secondary joint connection window extension
- Made Jaw selection easier
- Cannon and crossbow projectile now sync velocity before applying the shot force
- Enabled the scroll dependent WASD move to work not just when shift was held
- Optimized flat surfaces collider further
- Added version number to surfaces controlling the use of new flat collider
- Added rudimentary pan by zoom for camera
- Added zoom dependent WASD move for camera
- Added soft reset camera to grab reference position in certain cases
- Client inputs are now trimmed and fragmented if they exceed packet size
- One-sized cluster surfaces now included in center calculation
- Stopped trying to emulate inputs on clients
- New experimental simulation start improvements for surface block joining
- Made surfaces connect based on latest target in hierarchy consistently

Fixes:
- Fixed Decoupler not working with automation
- Fixed Ropes chopping trigger lagging behind actual ropes
- Fixed backward compatibility for springs scaled to 0 in 1 axis providing stabilisation restored
- Drills now don't create sparks if they are spinning a block but themselves are not spinning
- Surface edges and nodes stay active for client making them render in front of 3d hud
- Fixed logs being inconsistent in terms of collision with what they attach to
- Fixed Steam cannons
- Fixed vacuums affecting blocks in reverse
- Fixing new wheels not grounding properly
- Fixed a bug with bombs in mv
- Fixed errors from opening mv because of new camera stuff
- Fixed trying to delete a brace while placing it
- Fixed secondary joint preprocessing
- Fixed an issue with certain level editor events where a child body to the target was null
- Fixed some range stuff for vacuum
- Fixed selecting icon id for skins above double wooden block, returning wooden block if it was present
- Fixed some miscalculations in the cone angle on the vacuum
- Fixed water hitting valve in tolbrynd
- Fixed issue where some cogs had weird settings some being less likely to rotate, made them more consistent (though one has a bugged setting to 1000 radians per second, but don't wanna revert it to be slower just yet)
- Fixed jaw center of mass alignmentMade
- Fixed desync between projectiles and their source
- Fixed continuous collision on crossbow bolts
- Fixed some targeting issues on level objects with new camera changes
- Fixed some breaking level objects missing body references
- Fixed f4 hotkey issues with MV chat, rebound default to enter
- Fixed an issue when focusing on a new object with the camera while the old one was destroyed
- Fixed issue with pre-extended sliders not blocking secondary joints
- Fixed a duplication issue where a networking merge would cross reference the wrong blocks and cause a significant error
- Fixed an issue when focusing on a new object with the camera while the old one was destroyed
- Fixed tiling for surfaces entering sim
- Fixed water cannon emulation issue
- Fixed water cannon client issue
- Fixed outline not working immediately on level objects
- Fixed some breaking level objects missing body references
- Fixed f4 hotkey issues with MV chat, rebound default to enter
- Bombs exploded on server should no longer cause errors for joining clients
- Fixed new wheel implementation breaking in multiplayer at times
- Fixed Playfab connections after playfab broke their own network requests
- Fixed a missing port of fov consistency for 3d hud cam and main cam
- Fixed an error in virtual folder
- Fixed an error on axle on client
- Fixed being able to use both shifts in value fields
- Fixed an issue with MachineMiddle in simulation that caused rockets being launched to result in wrong machine center and camera following, as well as the rocket not being properly marked destroyed
- Fixed scaled braces cylinder
- Fixed rocket values at 0 resulting in game break
- Dragged block ghosts now properly transparent
- Fixed an issue with multiplayer client inputs over steam connection
- Fixed an issue where ropes snapped on client

Modding:
- When loading meshes for mods they are set readable per default
- Generate colliders on surface block now has a callback

Hey everyone!

We're excited to bring you the latest update for Besiege. This update introduces three new blocks, a Length Detector, Axle, and Metal Jaw block.

The Metal Jaw is a bear trap type weapon block that uses tension in a spring to release an impactful swipe or bite.



The Axle is a universal joint like block that is similar to a ball joint, except it isn't allowed to swivel freely, which means you can use them to transfer rotational energy from one part of the machine to another, like an axle on a car.

The Length Detector is much like a rope, but instead of shortening and lengthening itself physically, it just follows the two points it is between always, and dependent on length it can output a button like the other automation blocks.



In addition to the new blocks, we've added a couple extra features to existing blocks including; a damper setting for suspension, a target pressure/height for regular balloons, and an often requested pre-extension of sliders.

This update also includes important bug fixes, primarily focused on the Build Surface. We've addressed issues where clients couldn't connect to the host's surface blocks, when the host selected the move tool. We've also fixed a bug where surfaces would lose their paint colour when skins were toggled in simulation, and a problem where moving surfaces outside of the bounding box would cause fire spread to cover too big and inconsistent areas.
For a full list of fixes, see the changelog below.

We've also optimized surface interactions to reduce their performance impact, like spread out their mesh generation in multiplayer when loading machines. Explosions are now less intensive, which means you'll experience fewer FPS drops when many overlapping explosions occur.

We hope you enjoy the new update and look forward to seeing the amazing creations you come up with using the new blocks and features!

Cheers everyone!

Von

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Changelog V1.25:

New blocks:
- Length detector - (Automation block that measures the span between two points and emulates at a certain length)
- Axle - (A universal joint that allow rotation around 2 axes but not to spin around itself, perfect for axles and drive shafts.)
- Metal Jaw - (A new weapon block that uses a wind up spring to release an intense chomp to snap enemies and structures in half.)

New features:
- Damper setting for suspension
- Flexible setting for grabber
- Regular balloon can be pre-set to a target pressure/height
- Sliders can now be pre-extended

Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug where selecting the move tool as host in multiplayer would make surfaces not connect for clients
- Fixed sometimes undoing and redoing with symmetry enabled would go weird
- Fixed surfaces sometimes losing their paint color if skins were toggled in simulation
- Fixed an issue with camera tracking the machine sometimes would not follow
- Fixed focusing camera on rope like blocks would center wrong
- Fixed spring misaligning with the machine after moving the machine for a while or far away from where it started simulation.
- Fixed sometimes scaling blocks selecting a hinge skin instead of the skin they were assigned
- Fixed surfaces briefly extended outside of their bounds keeping their fire mask outside the machines bounds.
- Fixed selection tool blocking surface placement after undoing back into placement state.
- Fixed hot air balloons displaying a white line on enter sim sometimes
- Fixed glitching banding shown across camera when using SSAO
- Fixed explosions not applying forces and damage to ai realistically
- Fixed merging edges and nodes after deselecting a block selection providing an incorrect merge.

Improvements:
- Spread out surface mesh generation in multiplayer so loading in machines with lots of surfaces doesn't strain the server
- Surface skin colors should now match better with other blocks
- Ipsilon ai instantiation improvements
- Turning off bloom now doesn't change the colors of the game
- Place braces by clicking optionally
- Smaller more readable surface block nodes
- Made using move/rotate/mirror tool on partial surface selection should now only update the mesh when it needs to
- Reduced interblock connection broken checks every frame
- Flipping steering hinges display their arrow more visibly
- Camera centers on block centers and not pivots
- Explosions now spend less time evaluating propagation of their effects

Changes:
- Moved block search to bottom right
- Subtle normal map added to skin using surface blocks
- Rocket pivot is now in the actual block's center of mass

Modding features:
- Glass tinting slider
- Block 55 can get skins from block 52
- Wheel inflation slider

Hotfix 19238

- Fixed MP error caused by missing networkblock
- Fixed large cog, small cog, etc, where placing prevents entering Sim
- Fixed issue with collisions
- Fixed Blood transfer issue
- Maybe other stuff

Hey everyone!

Today we’ve got another update for you V1.20, bringing a new block, a bunch of quality of life changes with a refreshed UI and a host of bugfixes. We've also launched some Besiege merch!



The new block can be used to raise your machine into the air, giving novice builders their first taste of creating a flying machine. The block works in a similar way to a hot air balloon, where its buoyancy can be increased or decreased on the fly, causing it to float gently at a desired height, and its colour can be customized.

Also for this update we've done an extensive rework of the game’s UI giving it a fresh, cleaner look, to go alongside the updates various quality of life improvements.



We’re also excited to announce that Besiege now has merch! Working with a number of talented artists we’ve come up with some cool stylistic designs for T-shirts & pin badges that are available right now on our new merch store!

We’ve also been working with Makeship to produce a Besiege Knight Plushy! Check him out, he’s so cool!!!! This is a limited time campaign and we need your help to make it happen, so make your pledge today if you’re interested!

That’s all for today, we hope you enjoy the update and we’re excited to continue Besieges development going forward. :)

Cheers everyone!

Von

• Spiderling Merch - https://store.spiderlinggames.com/
  
• Plush Campaign - https://www.makeship.com/products/besiege-knight-plush

Changelog V1.20

Patch notes:
- Added a new Block, THE HOT AIR BALLOON.
- Added new level for Ipsilon (Zone 3).
- Reworked old tutorials.
- Added new tutorials.

- Reworked direction arrows on rotating blocks to make it more clear which way they will turn.
- Fixed problem with balloon ai in Sandbox.
- Braces now show a ghost when dragging.
- Fixed problem with SSAO settings not updating correctly in Multiplayer.
- Fixed missing HUD lighting which caused the UI to be darker than intended.
- Reworked UI on the Top Bar.
- Steering Block is now properly grid aligned.
- Fixed a lot of different translation errors.
- Sliders related to height values now use logarithmic scaling.
- Moved Server Health and Server Buttons in Multiplayer.
- Updated model and texture on Balloons.
- Changed the Version check for connecting in MP to be less strict.
- It is now possible to undo a machine deletion.
- Rope default mass has been lowered from 1 mass total to 0.4 (will not affect saved machines).
- Added new option for disabling deformation of meshes.
- Fixed miss aligned Flying Block Collider.
- Adjusted AI melee attack range to be less when hitting upwards.
- Undoing now also changes tools to match the action that was undone.
- Added a secret.
- Resetting machine rotation now resets around the gizmo instead of around the transform position.
- Lenses rain has been disabled on multiple levels.
- Optimized all Cog Colliders.

Known Bugs:
- There are a few bugs related to the way our Symmetry Tool and the undo/redo system interact. We have fixed a few of them in this patch but it will unfortunately take some time to get it completely bug free.

Hotfix - 1.20.17395

- added togglable permanent FPS counter for UI, first revision
- slightly nerfed the new hot air balloon as to not be as op
- fixed an issue with rope+winch mass loading, it's consistently always 0.5 now
- made armour on breaking hot air balloons work
- fixed localisation suggestions
- fixed undoing transform giving weird tool selections at times
- made hot air balloon center update with modified scale
- Re-Hosting a Playfab Server may get you stuck waiting on "Hosting Server". Restarting the game will fix the problem.

Hey everyone!

There’s a couple of things we want to talk about today.

Firstly, as you’ve probably already noticed we’ve pushed out a few hotfixes over the past couple of weeks (since the 64bit update), which should have fixed any issues you’ve encountered.

If you come across any other bugs while playing please let us know in the Bug Reports section of the Steam forum or you can contact us directly through our support email!



The other news we have today is that Besiege Console is out now on play on Xbox One & Series X|S!
Those of you with Game Pass can download and play the game right now but if you don’t then the game is available for purchase here!


Besiege Console includes:

• Singleplayer Campaign with 54 Levels
  
  
• 3 Sandbox Environments
  
  
• 68 Weapons, Blocks, Devices & Mechanisms to build machines
  
  
• A suite of Advanced Building Tools
  
  
• Workshop to download other player’s machines or upload your own to share

Unfortunately Besiege Console will not include Multiplayer or a Level Editor. We’ve worked really hard to bring all of Besieges features to Console but sadly it just wasn’t possible with Multiplayer & the Level Editor



Cheers everyone,
Von

Good news everyone!

Besiege will be coming to Xbox on the 10th of February!

Besiege Console will be entering Xbox’s Game Preview program on the 10th of February, and will be available on Xbox One, Series S/X and Xbox GamePass!



Significant sections of the game have been rebuilt from the ground up to provide a top tier experience while playing on a console. We’ve worked hard to ensure all the advanced tools present in the PC version, function smoothly & correctly while using a controller.
We’ve also completely redesigned the UI for Besiege Console, to provide easy interaction with a controller.



Besiege Console also contains an all new Workshop for sharing machines and has some cool new features built into it like the “Screenshot Tool '' which helps you to create an attractive thumbnail for your machines & even customize their backgrounds!




Besiege Console includes:

• Singleplayer Campaign with 54 Levels
  
  
• 3 Sandbox Environments
  
  
• 68 Weapons, Blocks, Devices & Mechanisms to build machines
  
  
• A suite of Advanced Building Tools
  
  
• Workshop to download other player’s machines or upload your own to share

Unfortunately Besiege Console will not include Multiplayer or a Level Editor. We’ve worked really hard to bring all of Besieges features to Console but sadly it just wasn’t possible with Multiplayer & the Level Editor

Another cool little addition we were able to make is Motion Blur, check it out, it looks pretty cool!



We're super excited about launching on Console and we're looking forward to bringing more content to both PC & Console gamers in the near future!

Hey Everyone!

Hope you all had a good time over the holidays, today we’ve got a big quality of life update!

The most important part of the update is that Besiege is switching to 64bit! This will mean players with powerful computers will see a huge performance boost when playing with larger machines, during testing we’ve seen up to a 3x FPS boost on certain workshop items!

We feel like now is a good time to make the shift to 64bit as it will put Besiege in a good position going forward, allowing us greater freedom to pursue more exciting features in the future.

If you’re still running a 32bit operating system then don’t worry! You’ll still be able to play Besiege as we’ve created a “legacy32bit” branch of the game on Steam, click here for a guide on how to change to the 32bit branch!
However, you will need a 64bit operating system in order to play newer updates for Besiege.

In addition to shifting to 64bit we’ve got a host of new features, improvements and bug fixes for you. There’s a full changelog at the bottom of this post but here are some of the highlights:

• Added more features for the logic system, including new gate options and support for variables in place of keyboard inputs, making complex logic systems easier to manage & track
  
  
• Reworked Ipsilon campaign island that includes the advanced brick system, present in the later campaign islands, as well as fixing a bunch of issues with levels

• Increased the number of maximum cloud saves from 1,000 to 10,000
  
  
• Added more level editor objects
  
  
• Added language support for Italian, Polish, Turkish, Chinese Traditional (Taiwan), Chinese Traditional (Hong Kong)
  
  
• Made UI improvements, New Tutorial system & a bunch more stuff!

That’s all for today but watch this space, we’ve been working on a whole bunch of stuff since our last post and we have lots more to talk about in the next few weeks! :)

Cheers,
Von


FEATURES

• Updated to windows 64 bit (for windows, linux and macOS already support it)
  
• Skins bottom bar fold out UI now shows you the most recently used skins in the first column if you use Advanced Building
  
• In advanced building you can now switch keyboard inputs to variables to make complex logic systems easier to keep track of
  
• Increased max number of cloud saves from 1000 to 10000
  
• Added new connection type: Playfab
  
• New level editor objects
  - Floating Crystal
  - Sandbox Mountain
  - Monk Idol statue
  - Crystal
  - Gold Nugget
  - Mine Cart
  - Dragon Ribs
  - Rotating Crank
  
• New languages
  - Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
  - Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong)
  - Italian
  - Polish
  - Turkish
  
• New Settings
  - Added setting to make the camera look at the center of all the blocks instead of the average
  - Camera Sensitivity
  - Soft / Hard shadows toggle
  
• Updated ipsilon brick levels for modern breaking systems
  
• Save + Load menu workshop tabs to more easily keep track of your subscriptions and uploads
  
• Glass surfaces now cast semitransparent shadows
  
• Glass surfaces now have slightly less intense reflection
  
• Improved thumbnail generation code with better centering and colours
  
• Scroll wheel now can interact with time slider for precision increments
  
• Boulder pieces now don't overlap and they inherit the velocity from before breaking
  
• Explosion updated to be more performant and minor visual improvements for slowmotion
  
• Logic Gate options added:
  - Binary Counter
  - SR Latch
  - D Latch
  - Random
  
• New tutorial system, that shows you more clearly how to do steps, with an example base machine for level 1
  
• Made it possible to select thumbnails from your pc for when uploading to the workshop
  
• Made it possible to update thumbnails from in game for previously uploaded items (if not selected, it won't change the thumbnail)
  
• When updating a workshop item it'll auto assign the tags that was used last

CHANGES

• The machine bounding box now doesn't render in front of your machine
  
• Local snapping for level editor translate tool now snaps to local grid instead of global
  
• Transform gizmos for level editor now hide while holding shift
  
• Single broken blocks now are ignored by the camera when following the machine
  
• Surface block hidden if not Advanced building mode
  
• Skins are now off per default
  
• Improved colour correction for the Krolmar island
  
• Improved colour correction for Ipsilon
  
• Slight improvement to fire spread
  
• Changed one multiplayer achievement from requiring 25 servers to 10 instead
  
• Making propellers automatically align themselves around blocks that spin around their base axis
  
• Steering hinges auto return per default now
  
• Updated some achievement names
  
• Changed connection type selection to tabs in multiverse

FIXES

• stopped deflecting steering hinges on simulation start
  
• fixed some slight memory leak issues when loading skins and block mods
  
• when detaching surface blocks in a selection containing other block types, it now doesn't duplicate the others.
  
• when using modding tools to scale surfaces or blocks surfaces connect to, broken pieces now match the original surface scale.
  
• Surface corners don't show in automatic thumbnails
  
• foliage doesn't render on top of fog anymore
  
• fixed Ambient Occlusions sometimes missing in level selects
  
• fixed an issue where grass and blood decals would make a slight dark square around the bounds of the decal
  
• fixed when duplicating or detaching selections with surface blocks the reference pivot sometimes changing
  
• Fixed who needs a mechanic achievement using the right category when you have mods
  
• Made AI blood decal not spawn on the ground when dying in the sky
  
• Fixing Krolmar Artifact level so keys are more easily accepted
  
• various dx9 issues fixed
  
• fixing sometimes loading machines would say they intersected the floor even if they aren't
  
• fixed an issue where moving a surface corner on top of another surface corner, resulting in the surface being incomplete and removed, would throw errors
  
• fixed an issue where certain brick objects weren't updating right for clients
  
• Drill now properly receives emulation
  
• unpowered wheels now are allowed to spin as fast as other wheels

MODDING

• Added hidden toggle to turn off collision for surface blocks
  
• Added social media mode to the cam tools
  
• Added min and max grid static surface grid size variables
  
• hidden logic gate option to make emulation loops burn out to avoid spamming behaiour

• Fixed missing sensor area cylinder
  
• Fixed sorting files by date and throwing correct logs if invalid file loaded
  
• Fixed negatively scaled fire areas
  
• Fixed logicgate counter reset not resetting always or fully always
  
• Fixed automation update rate, to be like previous update consistently at a single time instead of staggered
  
• Made surface block zero volume check between corners and edges so zero volume is more accurately determined
  
• Launching certain languages breaking until switching languages
  
• Making emulation messages work even if the key is set to None
  
• Added tutorial toggle option
  
• Fixed drills not emulating again
  
• Fixed spark particles over emitting on drills and saws
  
• Added hidden mass slider to surface
  
• The gerenuks in multiplayer now face the right way
  
• Bomb explosion sizes stay consistent again as it did in 1.05
  
• Blocks with shadow casters now cast the correct shadows using skins
  
• Fixed occasional error when switching blockmapper from a secondary emulation input to another block

• MP bounding box now hides its front like in SP
  
• Surface Block changes:
  - Corner points would sometimes obscure other selections
  - fixed missing colliders for folded surface blocks
  - removed overlapping double collider generation with some surface block configurations (in those cases the mass will be halfed aswell)
  - Mass slider changes is now loaded in vanilla no matter if the toggle for it is enabled
  - hidden collision toggle now properly updates mass
  
• fixed broken key inputs for logic systems in level editor
  
• fixed broken discord link in the Title Screen
  
• fixed an accidentially changed event/action for mod stability (FragmentVisualController.onVisualBreak)
  
• fixing shadows on instantiating a block with non default skin
  
• slight optimisation to moving a lot of surface nodes at the same time
  
• Japanese Translation tweaks
  
• Fixed nre from loading a machine while having a surface block on the current machine.
  
• fixed bug after defeating the last level of Krolmar causing the player to be unable to build on the machine.
  
• Fixed baloons at length 0 breaking skins toggle and shadow mode.
  
• Fixed some issues with machine thumbnail generation when the build zone was moved away from the default position
  
• Machine tutorial now properly hide when using the level editor tools
  
• now doesn't change the thumbnail when updating a machine without touching the thumbnail.
  
• removed error logs from opening workshop update tab in save.
  
• fixing overwriting thumbnails when changing content of a workshop upload but not having selected a new thumbnail
  
• fixed not using completion state correctly to gauge what tutorials players have finished
  
• fixed an issue with surface blocks having an empty list of corners for other players

Hello everyone!

Today we’ve got another update for you, Version 1.05, bringing an awesome new feature we’ve been working on for a while now called “Build Surface” and some highly requested additions to the symmetry tool.

The Build Surface feature is a simple, highly customizable & powerful block/tool that allows you to create custom shaped blocks/panels for your war machine. These panels can be made from either wood or glass, both with their own characteristics that will affect the durability of your creation and how it reacts when damaged.

The tool uses a simple grid system that’s easy to master, even for you novice builders out there. You simply select 4 points on the grid and the tool will create a panel to fill the shape you have chosen.




Once you’ve created a panel you can then manipulate it into curved shapes using the advanced building tool. You simply select the advanced building tool, click one of the panel’s nodes and drag it to the shape you want.




The custom shaped panels you create also have aerodynamic properties which should unlock a whole range of new possibilities when constructing flying machines and airplanes.

The new panels have a health system that you can wear down by damaging them over time but it’s also possible to smash right through them, splintering the panels and sending fragments flying in every direction.




The size of the panels you make will affect how they react to damage or being put under stress, creating a more realistic structure for you machines.The panels also use the existing joint system, meaning that shapes you draw will attach to surrounding blocks and form a cohesive structure for your machine.

This new block/tool unlocks many more possibilities for designing your machines and makes creating complicated shapes and intricate detail on your machines even easier than before.

The tool is currently considered ‘Experimental’ which means we’re still actively working to improve it and give it a polish that we’re happy with.

In addition to the new block/tool we’ve made some additions to the symmetry tool that give it increased functionality, with two new modes that will further aid you in both building and editing your machines.
The first new mode revolves around selection and modification of your machine. When you select a block with this option enabled, it will automatically select the corresponding block on the opposite side of your machine. For example if you select the front left wheel on your car, it will also select the front right wheel for you.
If you use the advanced building tool with a mirrored selection, the blocks will behave in a mirrored fashion. For example if you have the front left & right wheels of your car selected and move the left wheel further away from the car’s center, the right wheel will also move further away from the center.




In addition this symmetry tool setting allows you to modify mirrored blocks at the same time, for example changing the speed of the front left wheel also changes the speed of the front right wheel.
The second new mode lets you perform mirrored deletion of blocks on your machine, for example deleting the front left wheel also deletes the front right wheel.

That’s all for now and we truly can’t wait to see what madness you guys concoct with this awesome new feature!

Happy building!

Von

Hot Fix Version 1.05-12524

Changelog:

- Fixed centering via C on selection
- Fixed an issue where removing a surface while building a surface could result in errors.
- Fixed an issue where joints would complain on rotated machines being respawned immediately
- Fixed pin blocks flickering on and off when being placed on a surface block
- Fixed issue with the surface tessellation when curving opposite edges in different directions
- Fixed burning surfaces being persistent on clients in Multiverse
- Fixed an issue where bloom options would apply properly
- Fixed a problem with undoing where an error could happen from duplication and other actions on surfaces
- Fixed outlines on modded objects
- Fdded new japanese translations
- Fixed some russian entries
- Edges of surfaces now don't accidentally get rotated off their orientation by AB
- Fixed an error when changing selection between surface blocks while duplicating
- Fixed and error when inspecting the overview key mapping with logic blocks in it

Hotfix Version 1.05-12422

Changelog:

- Fixed machine center calculation when the buildzone has been moved
- Fixed transform cache issues in Multiverse
- Fixed LookAtCamera component that was throwing exceptions
- Only resets and restores rigidbody interpolation on blocks that are affected by undo actions
- Fixed projectiles not despawning correctly when respawning
- Updated Chinese, French, German, Portuguese and Russian localisation with new surface-related entries
- Now makes sure edges and surfaces are valid after loading
- No longer tries to process invalid surfaces
- Surfaces no longer do anything in sim, and destroy their joints if they're invalid
- Automatically removes invalid edges and surfaces when automerging
- Fixed exceptions when machines with invalid surfaces enter sim

Hello Everyone!

Today we’ve got another update for you, bringing a whole load of new level objects & Krolmar’s desert environment to Besiege’s level editor, and a bunch of bug fixes for issues that have been reported since the V1.0 release!

The new level editor objects are from the new campaign island of Krolmar, so now you can make your own desert levels of doom for your friends or the wider community!



We’ve had a lot of really useful feedback about the Automation blocks since they were launched and have been hard at work making improvements to the way they work on a technical level. Key Emulation will now work consistently meaning that low FPS will no longer cause your machine to perform differently.
This improvement will be most evident in Multiplayer, where previously lag spikes resulting from people loading in large machines were having a negative impact on machines that rely on an emulation system to function properly.
Whilst this improvement will make using automation blocks much smoother in the long run, it’s possible that some existing machines may respond differently with the new update.

(Shameless twitter plug) You can follow us @spiderlinggames to get sneak peeks at cool new features and tech that we're working on, as well as announcements about Besiege and any future projects we work on!

That’s all for now folks, hope you enjoy this update and keep on Besiging!

Cheres,
Von

Changelog V1.02

Added Krolmar level objects!
- Cart
- Palm Tree
- Cactus
- Desert Ivy
- Basket
- Desert House
- Low Desert Wall, Low Desert Wall Turn
- Desert Obelisk
- Krolmar Peasant, Krolmar Spear Knight, Krolmar Gerenuk Rider
- Gerenuk
- Desert Wall, Desert Wall Battlement, Desert Wall Window
- Desert Rock
- Desert Rock Plateau
- Grass Patch Desert variant
- Grass Tuft Desert + Curly Desert variants
- Add Desert environment for level editor
- Add Krolmnar soundtrack to level editor (track 9)
- Add Ignore Static toggle to the sensor block

Bug Fixes:

- Fix being able to copy speed values from Speedometer to Wheel
- Make Anglometer respond correctly with rotated machines
- Fixed a problem where off screen insignias might have some invisible parts
- Fixed the text cursor appearing in wrong places for the slider values in the keymapper
- Fixed some potential issues with logic blocks on the client
- Fixed an issue with the camera focusing where blocks would disable and be impossible to build off of as a client
- Fix level 48 to only require destroying the cannons
- Make sure islands are marked as unlocked just after unlocking them
- Don't award Tree Of Life achievement on wrong level
- Make Dodger achievement detection more robust
- Add thumbnails/icons for logic blocks


Changes:
- Emulation now happens at a consistent 50 fps (assuming 100% timescale)
- Made modded negative valued water cannons not attempt particles that would fail anyway
- Sensors now properly ignore only virtual triggers, like insignias or things outside of the level
- Changed how interpolation and kinematic behaviour works for the spring blocks which hopefully should stop them from visually gliding off the machine
- Made starting simulation emulate the start emulation keybinding (SPACE fx.) consistently whether you pressed space or the play button