1.6-The Takeflight Update!
Dave just released the brand new 1.6 update-AKA Take Flight! 1.6 brings many interesting changes, such as majic islands, titanium and...JETPACKS!!! This post should cover all the new additions!
Tweaks and Minor Additions
This update really brings some polish to the game that wasn't completely there before. Lighting seems more realistic and shadows are beautiful. You can now grow tulips and place tulips of different colours near each other to mix the colours, so a blue and yellow tulip may become purple with a yellow accent. This is a fun mini-game and experimenting with it can present some beautiful tulips which will make florists more florist-y and less like greengrocers.
Backwalls now only appear if there is another backwall within ten blocks below or if you place two blocks. This makes removable platforms a little redundant but you may still need them in some cases. In addition to this, you can remove backwalls with the correct tool type. So mined stone backwalls can be removed with a pickaxe and dirt with a spade. However, natural stone backwall cannot be removed this way.
You cannot add items to a shop without collecting any profits now. This can be frustrating but it stops shop abuse from happening. In addition to this, placing a chest/shelf/safe/cabinet inside a shop will drop the items out. This is because buying chests from shops caused lags and deleted items. This may be annoying but it's better than refunding customers.
There are many more tweaks and minor additions mentioned in the changelog right below this post.
This should be enough to round up the tweaks of the update. Now it's time for the main features, starting from really exciting to firing money at your screen even though this app is free.
Benches
We have three new benches in 1.6! These are the composter, the electric sluicer and the refinery. In addition, there is level seven on the tool bench, level four on the craft bench, level three and four in the armoury and level five in the workbench.
-Composter: Use twenty of any grown natural object to make one compost. Easy for faster compost as well as much cheaper compost-Trade Portal prices are high!
-Electric Sluicer: Have a lot of stone lying around? The electric sluicer gives you a random ore from gravel, made from stone, including the two new rare ores. This may be the easiest way to get these new ores as they are extremely rare to get through mining.
-Refinery: In this bench you make fuel, the items required for carbon fibre and carbon fibre itself. Fuel is used with jetpacks, carbon fibre to make jetpacks along with various other uses.
-Electric Press: It's a press that uses electricity and makes gravel for the sluicer. Faster than normal press.
The upgrade to the craft bench makes carbon fibre blocks and jetpacks!
The workbench upgrade makes the new benches.
The tool bench upgrade makes titanium pickaxes-The speed of a diamond pick without collecting billions of stone. Of course you may love stone now because of the sluicer-and titanium swords. These are both almost indestructible.
The armoury makes titanium and carbon fibre armour. These are the same strength but Carbon Fibre is MUCH cheaper! I recommend carbon fibre armour as it both matches up well with jetpacks and it is considerably cheaper.
COINS-MONEY-GOLD!
Trade portal prices are mad so to help with all the money you get from selling items, there are now platinum coins, worth 100 GC. This means that instead of a diamond pick costing 10000 GC it costs 100 Platinum Coins. To avoid confusion with Portal Chests we'll be calling it PLTC here.
Ores
There are two new ores as well as changes to ores spawning.
-Titanium and Platinum ores: Super rare! Platinum ores are worth lots of money, and the blocks have a rainbow effect while titanium is super strong!
-Ores now spawn in large groups together. This includes flint and clay.
THE HEADLINE FEATURES: JETPACKS AND MAJICAL ISLANDS
These are the main parts of the update: Flight and islands.
Flight:
-Craft new jetpacks that let you fly! Makes moving around more efficient, quick and fun. You can tap to use a jetpack or use your devices gyroscope and tilt to move!
-You can shoot people with gold or normal bows from the sky! This is really fun for PvP gaming!
-Majical islands are now found when flying-you may find islands with a tree growing gems...
This is my favourite part of the update. This will help many with admining a lot because we can fly above griefers. It also adds an amazing gameplay element Jetpacks are expensive to craft and buy, and so is fuel, so you may want to create a large flax farm.
“But it'll die and my stuff will be stolen!”
Not anymore because...
OTHER HEADLINE FEATURE:OWNERSHIP SIGNS
Ownerships signs can be crafted by admins at a trade portal with 3 gold and a sign. These will create a field around an area that prevents griefing. Every block inside this zone is indestructible. However you can still see inside chests and shelves so be careful and use safes and shelves! This means that server owners don't have to build out of steel all the time-you could even make an indestructible dirt hut if you were insane enough.
Paired up with compost, which now means trees won't die, this makes a perfect way to grow plants that no one can kill and it won't die of old age, only admins and the owner of the ownership sign can kill the plant.
That wraps up our 1.6 roundup but a full feature list is below! More explanations will be out over the next few days helping you with all the new stuff!
New in 1.6:
- JETPACKS! You’re going to need a lot of oil, electricity, and titanium to make one, but then YOU CAN FLY!
- New floating islands in the sky! These will appear in new worlds, and in unexplored areas of existing worlds.
- New hanging vines, and colorful tulips
- Mining/digging speed with bare hands and primitive tools is now faster
- It’s now twice as fast to craft all items!
- New shaders and lighting for an improved look
- Adds platinum coins (worth 100 gold coins each), as well as platinum ore, ingots and blocks.
- Adds titanium ore, ingots, blocks, armor, swords and pickaxes.
- Adds carbon fiber blocks and armor
- Adds glass and black glass stairs and columns
- Adds a new electric press which is faster than a normal press, but also allows you to crush stone into gravel and gravel into sand
- Adds the new electric sluice, which sifts through gravel to find ores
- Adds ownership signs, which protect a 31x31 area so that only the assigned player and admins may modify it.
- All columns and stairs are now crafted at the builder’s bench, which replaces the stonemason’s bench
- Plants and trees grown in compost no longer die of old age
- Compost is now created at a compost bin, and can be made out of most organic items
- Ores are now clumped together into larger deposits
- Back walls are now only created if there is another solid block or back wall within 10 blocks below
- Back walls can now be removed by using the correct tool for the block type
- Text now appears black on light painted signs or shops
1.6 is available now-download it as soon as possible!
