Update Notes

Alpha 1.3.3 (11.6.2025) [Download]

● Left click is now default for building with blocks

● Right click with a block in hand now replaces the hit slab instead of breaking it

● Made the haze effect a turn offable setting

● Loading Universe Screen now shows the Universe Icon

Karhula:

● Haze now fly

● Jawns now always jump when walking

Animals:

● Added "Fly" property. This means how much they move in the direction their look at, like World Editor's Ghost Movement.

● Added "Always Jump" property

● Added "Jump While Walking" property

Bug fixes:

● Fixed a crash related to not finding the latest universe or world

● Fixed world title moving forever to the left if it overlapped with the screen edge

Alpha 1.3.2 (7.6.2025)

● Fixed VOIDMA/GREENMA, everything was green, blue, big, broken, complete chaos. For people with some specific OS languages.

● Fixed not being able to load models in the new Printer

● Printer now uses the voima font for texts

● Songs no longer have doppler effect

Alpha 1.3.1 (7.6.2025)

● Fixed Forever slabs causing Forever Haze

● Made Haze Skin fall slower

● Fixed Ice not being visible

● Forever Blocks no longer have building previews

● It now takes longer for the first song to play

● Fixed songs being able to overlap if the song wait settings were too low

Alpha 1.3.0 (7.6.2025)

Karhula:

● Nature Gaze universe is now called Karhula

● Updated icon from mossy eye to the Bear

● Added two new mirror bears

● Day time fog is now blue

● Added new song "Wanting More" by AndyRawr

● Made songs more rare

● Haze Skin no longer floats up

● "INVERT" slab now floats up

● Jawns are now aggressive only towards Bears. They ignore other Jawns and Haze.

● Decreased falldamage

● Fixed Reverse Shotgun not having negative knockback

● Fixed scissors being able to die

● Fixed haze sound being too loud

Printer:

● Added Printer to turn 3D Models (obj files) into sprites ready for VOIMA

Animals:

● Dont stare at the Haze....

● Animals now forget what they are chasing if they bump into some Haze

● Jump height is now affected by Animal Scale

● Fixed aggressive animals like Jawn forever fighting with one another (They were healing by kissing while fighting)

● Added ability to set ignore types for Animals

Blocks:

● Fixed collision issues when climbing Walls made out of blocks

● Fixed movement being slowed down when walking on a Floor made out of blocks

● Fixed block textures not being seemless with neighbouring blocks

● Fixed hazey blocks being invisible in menus

● Added tooltip for Copying Blocks with Middle Mouse Button

● Fixed a missing face bug when blocks check for neighbours (Forgot to compare rotations)

● Fixed falling through duplicated blocks sometimes

Guns:

● You can now choose to only Spin a Slab and not give it any knockback by holding control when shooting with a Fan/Gun

World Edit:

● You can now adjust your Player Size when using the World Editor

● Duplicated slabs buildings no longer fall and crumble.

● Added a Keybind for deleting selected slabs and things (Defualt bind is Backspace)

● Fixed the cursor accuracy becoming really unstable and shakey the further away you went from the world center

● Fixed Water and Other Slabs with Effects not being Highlighted

● Fixed Slabs having their textures move when dragging the slabs

● Added Warning Popup for when selecting Sculpt Mode (The mode sucks)

● Things spawned with the World Editor now spawn with maxhealth-1 instead of maxhealth/4

● Right Mouse Button on an Unselected Slab/Thing no longer drags it, it must be selected first (Was too easy to do accidentally)

● When setting a slab height, it no longer gets deleted if you set its height to the minimum

● Made Selection Shape no longer zclip on the floor

● Added button for Draw Selection in Select Mode

● Other buttons in Select Mode are now hidden when setting pivot

Slabs:

● Fixed Slabs getting rotated in crazy ways (Thanks vinesaunce vinny 💀)

● Improved performance by making Slabs update their texture resolution in 20fps and less when regenerating their health

● Fixed Slabs not having correct pivots after being shifted in a slope tower

● Slabs can no longer have their pivot be outside of its bounding box

Menus:

● Added the ability to Import Worlds and even Universes from within the game. From the main menus, Select an unzipped folder.

● Openning the Pause Menu no longer auto-saves the world (Less lag)

● Currently Played Song's title is now shown in the corner when the Pause Menu is open

● Updated F3 debug menu with more info

● Added the ability to reset a window's size by pressing Middle Mouse Button on the Window's Resize Button

● Fixed scrollbar having an offset when clicking with cursor

● Fixed menu values not always using . for decimal, depending on the OS language

● Fixed being able to name a world something invalid in Windows

Universe Edit:

● Renamed Dream Effect to Haze

● Fog Color is now a customizable setting in world.txt

● Falldamage is now customizable setting in world.txt

● Fixed crash when spawning a Universe Editor

● Fixed Universe Editor lines breaking when deleting too much text

● Fixed custom texture.txt file not saving TEXTURE tag with a newline after it

Other:

● Added Font Support for ä ö å

● Default ZOOM key is now X

● Slightly Improved Performance of Smoothed Lighting

Other Bug Fixes:

● Fixed slab shadows not appearing with resolutions higher than 1080p

● Fixed Player getting kind of stuck when on top of a spinning slab

● Fixed tiny bears being able to walk through walls

● Fixed Animals not updating their LOD settings when growing bigger

● Fixed Vsync setting not being saved

● Fixed Universe not loading if there were multiple sound .txt files with the same name

● Fixed Inventory/TAB Menu Background being extra blurry when holding scissors

Alpha 1.2.0 (21.5.2025)

● 7 new worlds!

Player:

● Added running

● Added view bobbing

● Added subtle vignette

● Added ability to copy hovered block settings

● Block sizes are now universal per holder

● Pressing Middle Mouse Button on ui elements will now set it to its default value

Other:

● Added textures for russian and ukrainian characters (Thanks Splav)

● Added font support for Apostrophe '

● Added side mouse buttons to controls menu

● Smooth Lighting setting no longer affects the menus, its always on

● Falldamage is now stronger for Things

● By default, Left Click is now Mine and Right Click is Build, like minecraft.

● Moved Point and Click default bind to side mouse button A

● Moved Zoom default bind to side mouse button B

● Zooming is now smoother

● Added titles into the settings menu

● Temporary: Torches and flashlights now use unitys default lighting stuff (its less bright)

● Lowered default render distance from 400 to 200

World Editor:

● New button for Exiting the editor

● Updated icons for Exit and Draw Mode (Thanks Splav!)

● Renamed Draw Mode's stretching to length

● Lowered minimum length for drawings

● Made highlighted slabs appear less large

● Removed the ability to duplicate a slab by double clicking (Was too easy to do accidentally)

● Renamed Sun Angle to Shadow Angle

Bugs:

● Shadow banding is now less common

● Actually Fixed blocks being equipped immediately after being dropped

● Fixed not being able to put items into some slots

● Fixed sky not rotating correctly in third person

● Fixed bear shadows pointing in the wrong direction, also optimized it slightly

● Fixed World Editor window being expanded by drawing

● Fixed not being able to duplicate only selected cards

● Fixed selection drawing being scaled by drawing length size

● Fixed drawings bobbing too much when ready to be completed

● Fixed seeing world icons flash for a frame when closing pause menu

● Fixed hurt resolution effect not stopping when pausing the game

● Fixed Things' minimum scale not being enforced in World Editor tools

● Fixed popup windows not being closed when World Editor's mode was changed

Alpha 1.1.2 (9.5.2025)

Temporary:

● Player can no longer create clans

World Edit:

● Added the ability to select slabs and things by drawing a shape by pressing CONTROL

● Moved Mode icons to the left instead of being at the top

● Added the ability to delete all Things by type

● Improved movement when inside a slab and not in Ghost Mode

● Added setting for disabling drops in the world (from breaking blocks, trees, etc)

● Fixed world editor spawning cards with a negative scale, causing them to be upside down

Modding:

● Experimental: Added "Aggressive" property to animal things

● Replaced "Fullbright" property with "Extra Lighting"

● Fixed repeating numbers in .txt files, for example 1.299999

Optimizations:

● Improved performance of Smooth Lighting

● Changed the Blur algorithim from Gaussian to Kawase

● Improved performance of Stars and Sky

● Optimized rendering performance of Things

● Improved shadow performance of Things

● Shadows cast by Things no longer change when looking around

● Slightly improved performance of menu background simulation

● Improved text generation performance

● Reduced frame rendering latency

● Fixed a bug where idle blocks were being simulated

● Fixed a bug where idle block drops were being simulated

● Back faces of slabs are now culled when not the player is not inside a slab

Other:

● Adjusted Smooth Lighting's appearance

● Added Vsync setting

● Animals now have a slower walk animation the larger the animal is (Giant bears)

● Smaller trees now fall faster

● Improved file names for screenshots

● Screenshots no longer have Control Tool Tips

● Players no longer render shadow when in World Editor's Ghost Mode

● Lowered maximum render distance

● View Mode is no longer saved

● When loading a world, any cards with a negative scale get deleted

Menus:

● Reorganized settings menu

● Added Render Distance and Shadow Quality into the settings menu

● Added Fog Distance and Fadeout Distance into the settings menu

● Removed visual optimizations setting, it is now permanently on

● Hovered world icons no longer get bigger when creating a world

● ZOOM % text is now longer shown on screen when zooming

Bugs:

● Fixed Menu Scale setting not updating all the menus

● Sky colors are now smoother (No banding)

● Stars are no longer rendered on top of the Moon

● Fixed duplicated slabs having a wrong pivot

● Fixed blocks being equipped immediately after being dropped

● Fixed player not always being visible in third person

● Highlight effects when overlapping with other highlight effects no longer create the Mirror X effect

● Fixed not being able to use the respawn bind when invincible

● Fixed sound files and slab files with capitalized letters not being loading correctly

● Removed depth culling technique (it was causing tiny white dots)

● White flashbang is now shorter on game launch

● World Edit's Populate brush size is now also scalable with scroll when deleting Things

● World Edit's Edit mode now uses blue hand

● Fixed windows being slightly the wrong size

● Fixed the scrollbar sometimes bugging out in windows

● Fixed input not reseting when opening pause menu

● Fixed Universe Edit Menu causing a soft lock when closing it while editing a line

Alpha 1.1.1 (24.3.2025)

● Organized the game folder nicely

● Fixed stars being huge on some devices

● Fixed block preview not appearing on surfaces

● Default Footstep Sound Frequency value has been adjusted

● Visual Optimizations setting is now off by default

● Possibly fixed some sprites having white outlines

Alpha 1.1.0 (22.3.2025)

World Editor:

● Added the ability to select multiple slabs and things at once

● Added ability to duplicate slabs and cards

● Added the ability to move selected slabs and things (Right Click and Scroll)

● Added ability to set slab pivot (used for rotating)

● You can now delete dragged items by dropping them in the type menu window

● Editing an existing thing's type no longer crashes the game

● Removed Convert tool mode

● Ghost movement now has smoothness

● You can now change the world editor mode with number keys while edit (tab) menu is open

● You can now enter World Editor mode or Universe Editor mode using number keys while edit (tab) menu is open

● Fixed bug where Ghost Mode would cause you to fall through floors afterwards

● Fixed not being able to die in the void when invincibile

● You can now keep holding down to spawn items with Populate tool when grounded

● Populate tool, now selecting a tool type sets the brush size to zero

● Highlighted slabs no longer render on top of everything

Slabs:

● Slabs now rotate when you shoot them

● Slab Get Shadow property now works for getting fullbright textures

● All slabs now get hurt with falldamage, not just blocks

● Fixed bug where horiozntal slab movement caused it to recieve continuous falldamage

● Fixed slab uv not wrapping correctly with mega chunks

● added Rotation Sensitivity property to slab files

● Added Push Get property to slab files

● Slab boards no longer visually spaz out when overlapping

Things:

● Bears are less likely to get stuck climbing up a roof now. They will now lose interest and turn around.

● Improved movement while inside slabs

● Fixed items going into the ground when dropping them

● thing files now have touch width instead of touch radius (they get automatically converted)

● Fixed torches not giving light when being carried

● Adjusted pointlight and flashlight brightness

UI:

● Added Made By property to world details

● Added ability to clear stats in world details

● Made loading bar progress more accurate

● Added voima version and universe name to the loading screen

● Added new warning screen if world.txt has no playable characters defined

● Fullscreen resolution is now always the full screen resolution

● Improved duplicate world's name generation

● Fixed not being able to open pause menu while respawning

● Fixed bug where Controls icons disappeared after reseting controls

Other:

● Made slab and thing files use .txt instead of .slab and .thing. They still work, but they get automatically converted into .txt

● Now when the game loads the txt files, it will format them on the next frame, instead of on the same frame.

● Added a smooth transition for switching between first person and third person

● Made loading world icons smoother, and they now only get loaded if the universe gets opened in the menu

● Smooth Lighting setting now saves

● Universe Editor now saves Ghost Movement and Movement Speed

● Fixed a crash related to deleting the loaded universe in game

● Fixed highlighted slabs from causing a crash

● Adjusted various Unity settings

Alpha 1.0.7 (10.3.25)

● FINALLY FIXED GHOST BLOCKS

● Fixed the WASD crash

● New blocks no longer fall when attached to different sized blocks/slabs (Not a perfect solution, they still fall when hit/updated)

● Instead of spam clicking, You can now hold down to keep mining when holding a block

● Improved the World Editor's Spawn Item button, You can now drag and drop items straight to the hotbar, not just to the inventory window

● Added loading screen for loading universes

● Universes load a lot smoother now

● Added ability to add footstep sounds for .slab files

● Added ability to add slam sounds .slab files (when a thing falls to the ground)

● Blocks can now be placed freely onto block walls with Control

● Adjusted Block Setting window's visual interface

● Improved how windows react with screen bounds

● Fixed World Editor drawings not being visible on top of the sky

● Fixed being able to punch (Mine blocks) when a window was open

● Fixed a crash with World Edit's convert tool (Slab highlights are now disabled)

● Fixed a crash related to clans

● Fixed a case where world wouldnt load because of some corrupt slab data

● Some sounds in Nature Gaze are now .ogg instead of .wav

● Version number is now always visible at the bottom right corner (Helps me debug screenshots)

Alpha 1.0.6 (8.3.25)

● Improved vertical movement physics of slabs

● Added volume slider for music

● Added star settings to world.txt; Star Count, Star Size, Star Sky Speed

● Game no longer saves anything when quitting the game from the window's [X] button

● Shadows can now be turned off completely (Set shadow quality to 0% (with Left Arrow))

● Fullscreen is now fullscreen windowed

● Block placement has been slowed down, except it speeds up based on your current movement speed

● Block Size text now renders correctly on top of the preview block

● Block Size window is now hidden when inventory or type menus are open

● The preview for placing a block is now only seen from the player

● Clan members now leave your clan if you hurt them and make them angry

● Added working idle animations for plants

● New worlds now have their icon correctly placed into the middle of the world menu area

● Fixed gun animation freezing when dropped mid animation

● Fixed world editor drawing bobbing when it shouldnt

● Default FPS Limit is now 120

● Adjusted hitbox of bush.thing

● Engine folder is no longer hidden

Alpha 1.0.5 (5.3.25)

● Fixed FPS Limit setting

● Fixed Fan/self shoot killing you instantly

● Fixed tooltips not showing for held items controls

● Fixed pickup sound not being heard in third person

● Fixed diagonal movement not being normalized (sorry speedrunners)

● Fixed the type menu from breaking every menu when trying to drag or click its scrollbar (yikes)

● Fixed songs not being saved in world.txt if there were more than one

● Added new variable "First song wait" to world.txt

● Added Hashtag to font

● Increased World Editor's sculpt modes default brush size

● World Editor's Paint tool has been renamed to Convert tool

● Fixed Haze hurt sound being a song by default

● Jawns now delete themselves when they die

Alpha 1.0.4 (5.3.25)

● FIXED VOIDMA FOREVERRR

● Game no longer flashbangs you as much when you open it

● Game now has FPS Limit set to 240 by default

● Renamed DEMO folder to DEMO CONTENT

Alpha 1.0.3 (4.3.25)

● Fixed more cases where the files were loaded incorrectly (VOIDMA)

Alpha 1.0.2 (3.3.25)

● Partly fixed VOIDMA

● Optimized Main Menu performance

● Improved default UI scaling

● Fixed inventory being opened when typing in universe editor

● Fixed scissor sound not working

● Fixed songs not being 2D

● Fixed volume setting

● Updated EULA

Alpha 1.0.1 (3.3.25)

● ? i forgot what i added here

Alpha 1.0 (3.3.25)

● And then there was light.