SE3 Beta 2.2

May 2, 2024 · 14 min read

Space Eternity creator

Hello everyone! I hope you're going well. I'm back after a very long time and I release a new major update for SE3, Beta 2.2. Although it doesn't contain a lot of new features, it's still one of the biggest updates ever. If you don't believe me, read this changelog. It won't take up... eternity:

New features:

added bone asteroids on cementeries
added background colors dependent on biome and active boss
added various difficulties: EASY, NORMAL, HARD, DIABOLIC + hidden: NONE, IMPOSSIBLE
- difficulties affect damage received by everything except other players, potions and remote damage
added wind bullets, obtainable sometimes on geyzer biomes
removed coal bullets, all from previous versions will turn into wind bullets
- wind bullets push the enemy away
- wind bullets are faster and have a bigger range than copper bullets, but also smaller DPS
added copper diodes
added the following experimental fobs (available only through datapacks):
- copper chimney
- small copper chimney
- tiger gem (not functional yet)

New features (less gameplay):

chat added, press "T" or "/" to send a message, press F2 to hide all messages instantly
added SE3 accounts, you can register or login in main menu
added nickname-protection system on servers based on SE3 accounts, enable 'require_se3_account' in config.json
added command system to server console, type 'help' for more info
added whitelist and banlist to servers
added fob72 (total vacuum) which is a removed fob place, used in arenas from now
universes without UniverseInfo.se3 file are marked as "Time: 00:00, Version: Unknown" and are always possible to update
datapack importing on servers improved, just add your datapack into Datapacks folder and start an empty server
magnetic alien activated is now a proper item and fob, it uses the magnetic alien texture
info about other player's death will be displayed on top of the screen
added 3 new treasures with IDs: 73, 74, 75 (second and third are reserved for use in custom datapacks)
added keep inventory option available when creating new universe and in server config

Old feature changes:

you can drill from pistons now
drillers can drill all items from drill loottable now, including magic elements
all craftings reworked, check in game for details
stone collider is now bigger, so it's easier to collect stones
removed old pumpkin, replaced it with a copper chimney
invisibility pulses removed when modifing terrain, trolling with illusion artefact is now easier :)
damage invisibility pulse time reduced: 25+3 -> 20+3
recreated pause menu to fit difficulty change menu
simplified piston collider to be a rectangle
fire bullets can now set bosses on fire, but have a lower base damage
- bosses are much more vulnerable to fire effect than players
- fire effect on bosses is affected by the bullet upgrade of the attacker
illusion artefact buffed:
- players are 20% faster when invisible
- players don't receive crash damage when invisible
drill efficiency upgrade nerfed +15% -> +12%

Cosmetical changes:

player damage sound changed to be more metalic
fob destroy particle effect reworked
grass asteroid reflects less light now
coal asteroid and coal bullets are darker now
asteroid and wall textures reworked, pixels are less noticable
boss damage sound volume reduced: 0,35 -> 0,3 + pitch changed
artefact lights changed a bit
all 0-1 animations (hiding, camera zoom, bgcolor etc.) are less sharp from now
added smooth camera zoom when being close to activated arena
cementery big asteroid is now as fat as it should be
adecodron glass is now a bit more flat
boss damage particles modified to be more noticeable
reworked the starandus neutronium animation
fob placing selector material has changed to be semi-transparent
packed copper material has changed a bit
copper stone, packed copper and copper bullet texture colors have changed a bit
music natural volume reduced: 0,75 -> 0,4
unstable loop sound volume reduced: 0.4 -> 0.25 (to be less annoying)

UI changes:

junkyard info is now bold + changed color to more gray
disabled main menu button color is now lighter gray
new junkyard messages added
multiplayer connection panel reworked, added "stop" button to stop connecting to the server
junkyard discard button reworked
lighter amethyst is now visible in the bedrock storage when it is empty
in the right UI segment small letter-buttons were replaced with arrows
credits reworked to be more... poetic?
reworked SE3 logo and added version subtitle to it
font changed in the main menu
locked backpack slots are now marked with text "Locked"
there will appear text "No power bar" when trying to use power potion and not wearing a proper artefact
battle can be activated only using LMB from now
'adress' changed to 'address' in main menu placeholder field
F1 is now independent from pause menu
added universe creation screen, which contains various settings, including datapacks
upgrade text "Max Level!" changed to "Max Level"
boss bar proportion to health shrinked: boss with 1000 health has the same bar as boss with 1200 from previous version
boss bar will set its size properly only when max box health is larger than 200 and smaller than 1400
main menu button selected color has changed from white to blue

Configurables:

a lot of new server config variables, check in the server config
added upgrade variables in gameplay segment to allow customization of upgrade prices
removed some and added new gameplay variables
coal bullet gameplay variables reworked to be wind bullet variables
removed all structural tags except for struct=X, moved all built-in structures into custom structures
completely reworked seon language, see the newest documentation
removed some and added new biome tags
removed bosbul objects, they were replaced with the new bullet collision system
vacuum_drag gameplay variable works a bit different from now, calibrate your old datapacks

Default datapack changes:

cementery chance increased: 2% -> 2,7%
dark cementery chance increased: 1% -> 1,3%
that means all cementery chance increased: 3% -> 4%
unstable bullet speed: 0,35 -> 0,4
diamond asteroid chance changed: 1,5% -> 2%
star structure chance changed: 2% -> 1,5%
coal stone chance on asteroids: 45% -> 35% (like other stones now)
impulse damage: 8 -> 10
power element drill chance: 5,5% -> 2,6%
fire bullet player cooldown: 11 -> 10
changed fire bullet damage: 4 -> 3
- that means fire bullet DPS changed to 15 + delayed: 16 in 4s (bosses) or 4 in 2s (players)
added modified drop: magnetic_alien_activated: magnetic_alien;
upgrade prices changed:
- level 1: gold 3 -> gold 5
- level 2: gold 6 -> gold 10
- level 3: gold 10 -> gold 15
- level 4: amethyst 12 -> gold 20
- level 5: amethyst 20 -> gold 25
redA (id=25) object generation replaced with other (id=2) object generation in catastrophic arenas
blank element is now drillable from bone asteroid instead of metalic, drill chance changed: 5,5% -> 8%
changed all seon codes in datapack
added bone asteroids to both types of cementeries
treasures updated: shrinked junk loot, rarer treasures, useful items have overall similar rarity
changed biome tags to fit new background changes
rebalanced bullet rarity
every structure has "even" tag now, which means, it generates on the asteroid and not empty grid square
boss healths have been reduced: [800,1000,1200] -> [600,800,1000]

Technical changes:

a) Server connecting

the max lagging time in main menu is 3 seconds from now and it happens only during the nick verification process
server will kick you after waiting in main menu for longer than 30 seconds
the main menu will automatically add se3:// instead of wss:// prefix to the server address when it doesn't find any

b) Server run

server always verifies the sender of the message from now
conID safety system replaced with better, se3-ws safety system
messages to all clients are sent only to players confirmed to be in game
server will no longer crash after receiving a wrong message (if it does, contact with the game developer)
remote messages from clients are handled better (for example when client wants to activate the arena too far away)
cooldown system is handled better (bullets, impulse)
there was introduced the limit messages per second for connection: 1200
there was introduced the max length of message to server: 65536
server communication protocol was drastically reworked in client -> server commands, check server code comments for more information
server anti-cheat improved (there was completely no anti-cheat before)
player bullet speed will always be reduced to 1.2 units when too big
hour header on server improved, it may additionally display date
information display design on server console changed a bit, removed unnecessary rectangular brackets []
bullet removing after kick is now on server side, client bullets no longer disappear when returning to menu
config.json and authConfig.json files will now generate automatically
impulse and invisibility power anti-cheat implemented
from the server point of view unstable matter is an empty space too (replacable with other fobs)
GrowActive system optimized when more players on the server

c) Others

settings format changed to fit official account text field data (username and password)
nicks can only contain english letters, numbers, and following characters: _ -
game will close immediately after exception or error and save its crash into crash.log file
- unnecessary try-catches in SC_data script removed to fit this system
- saving game files is impossibe after crash
removed 2 junkyard messages because of wrong text wrapping
bullet invisible server projections do not spawn anymore as physical objects
biome offset system updated:
- updating universe may move a star and destroy part of terrain around it
asteroid blocker no longer works for geyzer turn and bullet turn
if datapack file not present in the server directory, the default datapack will be loaded + (datapack not present there by default)
custom datapacks with name set to "DEFAULT" will now pretend to have it set to "CUSTOM" (both on server and local side)
universes can now store file "difficulty.txt", which stores the actual universe difficulty (only singleplayer)
error fob is now 72 (total vacuum) instead of 0 (empty)
reworked communication with terrain files from code level
reworked biome generation API and copied it to the server
asteroid type set and fobs generation are now deterministic based on seed
biome memories system reworked, splitted one giant file into smaller terrain files
force give up counter on singleplayer changed from 1s to 20s, on multiplayer it was always 20s
star particles scaling changed to hierarchy
reworked the whole world generation system code, but it works still the same
reshaped the world border a bit
there was introduced asteroid generation per frame limit to reduce lags
the old, silent geyzer sound object was removed and no longer lags the game
fob and resp blocker lists removed, replaced them with better, more optimal systems
optimized asteroid string connecting, so the data saving lag was reduced
reworked object generation system, copied it to server and patched midas cheats
reworked boss bullet collision with the environment to include fobs, it no longer needs bosbul objects
reshaped ustable turn collider a bit
reshaped the following client bullet colliders: geyzer, lava geyzer, all elements, red spikes
int and float parsing system reworked to be the same on client and server side
only colliders older than 10 frames will be able to deal collision damage
reworked player movement code
full screen manager code reworked, full screen will be always enabled at the start of the game, you can always close it using F11
unity version updated to: 2023.2.20f1 (no one knows what it affected)

Bug fixes:

it was possible to activate pause menu without closing inventory when escape button was released while in inventory
it was possible to activate inventory while both in pause menu and on multiplayer
junkyard & chat font wasn't supporting characters like ą, ę, ó, ł
driller could transform items when more than one item type could be drilled from one asteroid (only multiplayer)
drill upgrade was not affecting loot until asteroid reloading
boss health had visible negative value part after defeating a boss, it was noticeable only when max boss health was very small
bullets were breaking when flying through respawn
fixed lightning problem in the main menu
bullet projections on multiplayer were breaking one frame too early
bullet invisible server projections were spawning one frame ahead of their real position
dark asteroid had not wall and sphere variant in seon language
when player died in multiplayer while fighting boss alone, boss fight was still going
some texts could change their appearence when updating
impulse was not ending after removing impulse artefact
biome offset was too big in some cases, which could result in weird generation like completely overwritten or enclave biomes
it was possible to create biomes with sizes 81-100 using datapacks (only using radius=X tag)
singleplayer storages could stop working on servers
object growth was corrupting the world on singleplayer by replacing 19th asteroid object with the "-1" fob
seon's sphere drill script wasn't working
geyzer wind wasn't dynamically updating its position to be on geyzer after introducing moving objects in Beta 1.14
only .jse3 files (and not .txt) could be imported as a datapack in the game menu
there was a relict-datapack Darks.jse3 in a "Datapacks" folder
driller on multiplayer could drill more items than it had capacity
using control to pick up all items from a storage could sometimes cause "Inventory full" message to appear
rescue-teleport from inside asteroids was too sensitive and could sometimes teleport player even when staying outside
ulam-XY conversion functions were inaccurate when computing big numbers
client bullets could fly through walls and spheres, when there were no fobs on the way
client bullets on singleplayer flying through the boss directly after the boss appearing state were igored by the boss
unstable turn collider was destroying bullets even if they were not unstable
bullets weren't flying through unstable matter
buggy quake collisions were dealing a lot of unfair damage
darkner objects in main menu were in some cases over page titles
other player health bars had a small offset to the left
drill kept being extended after death and respawn
the full screen resolution was always set to 1920:1080 instead of getting the screen native resolution
fonts will (should) no longer blur for no reason

Universe updating warnings:

it is better rather to create a new universe in Beta 2.2 than to update the old one because of the following problems:
- some structures will move a bit and destroy part of terrain around them
- old arenas will contain fobs, which should be removed normally (fobs overlapping with walls and pistons)
- some structures on the world border will be erased as well as some asteroids (200 000 coordinates from spawn)

Thank you for your attention and see you next time!