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The First 4D Miner Early Access Update Is Now Available!
🕑 Added 2022-06-03 17:12:53 +0000 UTCHello 4D HyperSupporters!
You all now have exclusive access to a newly-updated version of 4D Miner through itch.io!
Here is the link to the official download: https://mashpoe.itch.io/4d-miner-demo/patreon-access
Itch.io allows content to be made available exclusively to Patreon supporters. If you don't already have your Patreon account connected to an account on itch.io, the link above should walk you through the setup process.
In an earlier post, I asked all of you what I should add to the game next, and you chose improved lighting.
One of the major downsides of 4D game development is that certain things are much more computationally expensive, and lighting is a very unfortunate example of this. Lighting calculations are already expensive enough in 3D, and adding an additional dimension introduces a whole new order of complexity.
This meant that I needed to implement a bunch of optimizations in order to make the game playable after introducing ambient occlusion, which is the technique I used to improve the game's lighting.
If you haven't already seen my Patreon post about 4D Miner's new lighting system, I highly recommend you check that out. It has a link to a cool video showing off how "4D shadows" work with the new lighting!
Even with the optimizations, the game runs slower when "smooth lighting" is enabled, so I added an option in the settings menu to turn it off. Since the optimizations took longer to implement than I expected, I decided to add some other features to make this into a better update. This is good news to players with slower computers, who might not otherwise be able to enjoy this update!
I was able to add two highly requested features: world seeds, and flat worlds!
Each time you create a new world, a random seed will be generated, which means the world you create will be completely unique! You can also manually enter your own seeds, and you will always get the same world if you enter the same exact seed in the world creation menu.
Flat worlds are just like superflat worlds in Minecraft. Sadly, there is no "creative mode" in the game yet, and you spawn in without any items, so there isn't really a way to build anything in a flat world without editing your save file.
There are two easy ways to do this. You can manually edit the players.json file in the folder for your flat world, or you can replace the players.json file with a copy of one from another world.
In the future, before a "creative mode" is added to the game, I will probably either make the player spawn with a bunch of items in flat worlds, or make a "bonus chest" generate near the player's spawn point in flat worlds.
The final feature included in this update pertains to the game's credits. Now, all of the 4D HyperSupporters and 4D Supporters are listed in the credits of the game, and the HyperSupporters' names are displayed with some fancy colors!
In addition to all of the features I mentioned, this update also includes various bug fixes. The game will no longer crash if you spam the "T" key, various instances of the game crashing when minimized are now fixed, and I was able to make the view bobbing less jittery.
I also added new bugs to the game! The biggest one I currently know about is that clouds are no longer visible. I haven't been able to identify the cause yet, but I decided not to let it delay the release of this update.
I plan on releasing a new Patreon-exclusive update at least once a month. When new updates are released to patrons, previous updates will become available in the demo on Steam.
Since a lot of you wanted me to add a passive mob to the game, that's what I'll work on next. I already have a great idea for a new mob that I think will integrate nicely with the rest of the game!
Remember to check out the event planned on the 4D Miner Discord server for a live Q&A session! More info can be found in the #announcements channel.
For the next several days, I will be working on a devlog video, along with another video that features a bunch of content from the Discord server, so now is your last chance to submit content to the #4d-creation-compilation channel!
I hope you will all enjoy this new update along with some of the other content that I have posted on Patreon!
Thank you all so much for your support!
Mashpoe
Comments
ManlyTube
I'm getting this error "failed api request GET oauth2/api/current_user 401: {"errors":[{"code":1,"code_name":"Unauthorized","detail":"The server could not verify that you are authorized to access the URL requested. You either supplied the wrong credentials (e.g. a bad password), or your browser doesn't understand how to supply the credentials required.","id":"c90e879f-8c1e-54ad-9f4d-ab57c43d9d86","status":"401","title":"Unauthorized"}]}" :(
Mr.Duckiling
As one wise man would say, "poggers"
Gabriel
Nice!
Rayce Lee
4D food/crops in general would epic especially if this game is going in the survival direction
LukeTheSylveon
NICE!!!
Reymundus
OWO
Mashpoe
It should work if you install the Visual C++ Redistributable
Samuel Loy
I asked this question on Discord and the answer was yes
Antxi
Are we allowed to record gameplays of this patreon exclusive versions?
Valephie
When I try to install it, I get a message saying vcruntime140_1.dll was not found
Connor
Lighting looks cool! 4D rotation causes frame drops even on my VR rig, so it could use optimization for sure. :<
Samuel Loy
Oh wow, I hadn't looked at the credits yet, within the credits it looks like some cool 80s alien language font.
Tupak
Amazing! I'm really excited to try it out.
Mashpoe
Yeah the game's credits have a serious bug. I will try to patch it soon
Catfish
Maybe there could be kline water bottles?
Catfish
When I click on credits then when the credits are over the font is all weird and it isn't text?
heris runs
imma play this now thank u :3
DesertWillow
i am going to coom
Jan Adam Zahálka
I play it with WINE and it works fine.
EepyGirlLava
nvm, it just said LEAAAEAN instead
EepyGirlLava
The "credits glitch" keeps changing the title to some form of hamburger. Why Hamburger of all things?
the void
Oh fuck yeah let’s play some 4d Minecraft!!!!
Jan Adam Zahálka
Great work, thank you.
Optimal
Very excited for this new update! I’m glad that you’ve also added the option to toggle lighting on and off. What’s making me the most excited is adding seeds now. I wonder what terrain I’ll find next!
flashbang1
Is it available for Linux?
