Surface 1.5.2b 🐸

G'day everyone! I'm so thrilled to announce the Surface 1.5.2b, this update, although not the biggest in the sense of the amount of features it adds, is essential for Surface, I hope you all will like it. Let's launch right into the changelog!

Changelog ⚙️

Just as always, the changelog was split into separate sections for you to follow.

Blocks 🧱

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» Witch Cauldron is a new block, that can be obtained by clicking a regular cauldron with a skeleton skull. Once obtained, it can be filled not only with water but also with potions, just like cauldrons in Bedrock Edition of the game can do. Furthermore, it can also convert arrows into tipped ones with effect depending on the current potion, the system works just like on Bedrock Edition. This effectively makes the tipped arrow at least a bit useful. Now, probably the most essential thing about the Witch Cauldron is, that if you place a campfire below it, you'll gain access to a completely new and unique crafting system. New Transmutation recipes, that's what the new crafting system is called, are very likely to be added in future updates, that's why all the recipes will be listed on a separate section of the changelog.

Transmutation Recipes 🔮

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» Oak Saplings can be now turned into Spruce Saplings, which can be turned into Birch Saplings and so on. Once you reach Cherry Saplings, they'll be turned back into Oak Saplings, which effectively creates a ring of items. Each sapling takes 5sec to be transmuted.

» Mushrooms, red and brown ones, can be combined with dirt to get Mycelium, which will take 10sec to be transmuted.

» Mandrake can be combined with a Glass Bottle, which will result into a bottle of Mandrake Serum, doing which will take 15sec to be transmuted.

Items ⛏️

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» Mandrake is a new item that can be found inside Swamp Huts.

» Mandrake Serum is a new consumable item that can be brewed from mandrake and a bottle in the Witch Cauldron. It acts as an enhanced version of the milk bucket. Once consumed, it'll decrease every debuff you currently have by 2 levels, which can also fully delete them. To make the item balanced, it also decreases your buffs by 1 level, but the amount of buffs it can lower corresponds to the number of debuffs it has lowered. For example, if you had Slowness, Resistance, and Regeneration. Drinking a mandrake serum will lower the level of the Slowness effect by 2, but because you only had one debuff, it'll also lower the level of Resistance by one. Once again, because you had only one debuff, your Regeneration effect will stay untouched.

Particles 🪄

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Firefly is a new particle that'll appear in swamps during night-time. They can only appear between Y: 70-100, which makes them very unlikely to be met inside caves, they also require a 3x3x3 space area around to spawn, so they are unlikely to spawn inside buildings.

Configuration 🗒️

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💡Surface now has its config, which can be found inside the settings screen of the game.

» shouldLeavesFall is a new boolean button, which determines whether falling leaves particle will appear in the world.

» shouldFirefliesAppear is a new boolean button, which just like the previous one, determines whether firefly particles will appear in swamp biomes.

» Firefly Amount is a new slider, that sets the cap of how many firefly particles can exist at once. For these changes to take effect, you'll need to restart the game. This slider is very flexible, as it can be set to any integer between 10 and 500.

Advancements 🏆

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» The Land of OZ is a new advancement given to those, who have successfully "bewitched" a cauldron.

Language 🗯️

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» LOLCAT is now an officially supported language.

Tweaks 🔧

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» Glove of Creation was slightly renamed (Glove Of Creation -> Glove of Creation).

» Swamp Hut loot-table was fully changed, which now includes Mandrake and other drastic changes.

Bug Fixes 🐞

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» Firebrand description typo was fixed (change -> changes).