Updates History

Survivalcraft was first released on 16th of November 2011 on Windows Phone 7, where it enjoyed a lot of success being the first block world game to reach that platform. The version number was 1.0.

Android version was released on October 14, 2012, at version 1.17. Amazon users got it less than a month later with version 1.18. iOS build of version 1.21 was approved by Apple on 26th of April 2013.

All platforms receive the updates simultaneously, bar certification/review delays imposed by the stores (usually about 1 week for Microsoft, Amazon and Apple – and now also Google since 2020).

Brief Update History

1.0 (initial release, 16 Nov 2011)
1.1 (screenshots, torches, lamps, tools, controls sensitivity, recipaedia)
1.2 (sneaking, stairs, slabs, doors, ladders, snow, ice, christmas tree)
1.3 (basalt, limestone, marble, furnace)
1.4 (new world format, clay, bricks)
1.5 (birds, weapons, throwing, food, eating)
1.6 (emergency bugfix release)
1.7 (trapdoors, water animations, snowballs, traps, wildboars, game modes)
1.8 (buckets, water physics, magma, world properties, view angles)
1.9 (Dropbox, fences, upside-down stairs and slabs)
1.10 (optimizations, bulls, signs, sulphur, saltpeter, adventure mode)
1.11 (explosives, fire, matches, magma as fluid)
1.12 (wolves, cows, milk, diamonds, flat terrain, controls improvements)
1.13 (creature spawners, eggs, saplings, compass, thermometer, grass spreading)
1.14 (emergency bugfix release, hygrometer, sharper text)
1.15 (big performance improvements, bears, machetes, adventure restart, cacti)
1.16 (smoother framerate, polar bears, paint, falling blocks, environment modes)
1.17 (3rd person view, 3d tools, creature shadows, physics optimizations)
1.18 (rain, snow, thunderstorms, thawing/freezing, werewolves, pumpkins)
1.19 (electricity, new UI, new recipaedia, new help, germanium + lots more)
1.20 (community content, better caves, creative options, SD card)
1.21 (fish, horseriding, electricity improvements, camels, leather + lots more)
1.22 (survival, farming, boats, islands, more painting, pathfinding, rhinos and many other animals)
1.23 (content rating, larger visibility range, analog electrics, halloween special, donkeys, bass)
1.24 (bows and arrows, shooting target, reindeer, tigers, iron fences, ivy, feathers, string)
1.25 (custom skins, new explosions engine, bombs, crossbows, fire arrows, new UI, stone fences)
1.26 (clothes, armor, temperature effects, belugas, cassowarys, pumpkin and cotton farming)
1.27 (moose, campfires, larger inventory, lightning button, more clothes, carpets, new engine)
1.28 (firearms, dispensers, fireworks, digging cracks, left-handed controls)
1.29 (more paintable items, copper armor and weapons, tall spruces, horizontal logs, bigger caves)
2.0 (furniture, pistons, underwater plants, colored wires, new lighting)
2.1 (split screen, female players, customizable paint colors, food rot, rivers, more animals)
2.2 (double terrain height, flat island mode, mimosa tree, new tools and weapons, more animals)
2.3 (compressed terrain format, crouching, cairns, pigeons, sparrows, easier Survival mode)
2.4 (seasons, werewolves open doors, fog, Community Content search, poplar trees)

Detailed Updates History

Alpha 1.1

Take a photo to your phone’s media library using the new camera button.
Improved lighting model with maximum light propagation of 15 blocks (versus 8 in Alpha 1.0).
Torch with light range of 13.
Wicker lamp with light range of 15.
Tools damage added. Tools will wear out with use and eventually break.
New tools modelled on Minecraft by popular request: shovels are for digging soft material, pickaxes are for quarrying hard substances, and axes are for chopping and hacking through organic stuff.
Wooden pickaxe and wooden axe added
Stone shovel, stone pickaxe added
Iron shovel, iron pickaxe and iron axe added
Framed glass block added for better windows
Lost health slowly recovers over time (a temporary measure until a proper system is added)
Trial period extended to 15 minutes
Controls sensitivity can now be changed in settings. Slight tweaks to control to improve usability.
Tap time can now be changed in settings
Brightness at night can now be increased in settings to support phones which have poor dark shades reproduction
“Despair button” to get stuck players out of their misery
Solid iron & copper blocks added
Gravel will now spawn at beaches sometimes
Autojump function added
Recipaedia added, containing all recipes available in game
Display of time since last death added

Alpha 1.2

“Sneak” mode which prevents you from falling off the ledges and makes movement more precise
Wooden stairs, stone stairs, sandstone stairs and stone brick stairs added
Wooden slab, stone slab, sandstone slab and stone brick slab added
Wooden doors, iron doors and cell doors added
Ladders added
New type of window block added
Increased durability of iron tools
Added ability to disable/enable GUI being rendered to screenshots (in settings)
Made dropped items stay for longer before disappearing.
Leaves now decay if all the nearby wood has been chopped down
Added snow and ice
Added christmas tree
Maximum tap distance increased, should help with taps not registering properly for some people
Fixed a bug with buttons and dragging (reported by anteater80)
Improved sandstone looks to better match sand

Alpha 1.3

Framerate & visual quality optimizations
Added new rock types: basalt, limestone
Added marble
Much more varied underground world
Added furnace & smelting
Setting to hide logo on screenshots
Fixed a bug with stairs blocking player movement when near sea level
Fixed a bug with player not colliding with doors sometimes
Fixed a bug with crafted items being lost when target slot was overflown
Fixed a bug with snow and water becoming transparent when under another block

Alpha 1.4

New save format to fix slowdowns on large worlds
Fixed a bug with erratic jump behavior
Added clay at the bottoms of lakes
Added bricks, brick blocks, brick stairs, brick slabs
Increased amount of resources
Reduced amount of limestone
Improved limestone texture

Alpha 1.5

Birds added: duck, seagull and raven
Melee capability added
Throwing capability added
Food added: raw and cooked bird
Eating restores health, health no longer regenerates
Wooden spear, stone spear and iron spear added
Stone chunks for throwing added
Stone skipping on water added
Worlds now have larger biomes
World names are randomized
World seed displayed in game menu
Trial period extended to 25 minutes

Alpha 1.6

Fixed a bug with loading old worlds
Slowed down the spears a bit
Fixed a bug with self-stabbing in sneak mode
Reinstated health regen

Alpha 1.7

Added wooden trapdoor, iron trapdoor
Added water animation
Added snowballs
Dead birds no longer make noise
Recipaedia counters added
Recipaedia is now available without leaving the game
Manually placed leaves do not decay
Added spiked plank
Added grass trap
Added wildboar
Added raw bacon and cooked bacon
Water current now carries player, creatures and pickables
Reduced trial back to 15 minutes
Added 3 game modes: Harmless, Challenging and Cruel
Reduced amount of basalt
More iron and malachite is generated

Alpha 1.8

Added narrow/wide view angle to settings
Added bucket, water bucket and magma bucket
Added directional water spreading
Added magma
Certain blocks will not drop items when wrong tools are used
Birds will fly away instantly after getting hit
Added creative mode
Changed lighting to make the terrain brighter
Added world renaming
Added changing of game mode
Added renaming of worlds
World name and directory name are no longer the same
Terrain generation tweaks
Fixed a bug with blocked cave entrances
Added logging of perf information to analytics

Alpha 1.9

Dropbox downloading/uploading of worlds
Dropbox downloading of texture packs
Fences
Recipaedia categories cleanup
Upside-down stairs and slabs
You can now have more than 4 worlds

Alpha 1.10

Massive terrain vertex data generation speedup
Dialogboxes back button fixed
Bulls added
Signs added
Weblink signs added
Adventure Mode added
Sulphur ore and sulphur chunks added
Saltpeter ore and saltpeter chunks added

Alpha 1.11

Magma is fluid
Fire added
Setting of animals on fire added
Matches added
Lighting and shadows improved

Alpha 1.12

Wolves & Coyotes
Optional flat terrain in creative
New move control mode (buttons)
Adjustable creative mode dig time
Cows
Herding
Milking and milk bucket
Autojump fixed (does not trigger on animal collision)

Alpha 1.13

Direct drawing of items
Fixed a bug with snowballs not disappearing on hit
Fixed a bug with eating of stacks of items
Added colored sunsets and sunrises
Added stars
Animals now remain even if you leave the area
Added eggs and birds laying them
Added creature spawners
Added compass
Added grass growth
Added plants growth
Added saplings and tree planting
Added Dropbox post-login page

Alpha 1.14

New text rendering engine. Sharper and faster.
Ladder dismount bug fixed
Grass appearing instead of harvested blocks fixed
Large number of birds when staying for a long time in a single place fixed
Fixed moon lighting
Added hygrometer
Fixed 1.13 world loading bug

Alpha 1.15

UI rendering engine rewritten to improve performance
Terrain rendering refactored to improve performance (up to 65%)
Added brown and black bears
Added bears spawning in caves
Refreshed UI looks
Added visibility range slider
Added sky rendering options
Added texture animation options
Snow generation fixed
Updated wildboar, wolf and coyote models
Added machete (wooded, stone, iron and diamond edge)
Added diamond blocks
Water and magma can be customized through texture packs
Water and magma bucket are now animated
Added adventure mode restart to game menu
Fixed a bug with plant growth deleting objects
Added cacti

Alpha 1.16

Optimized terrain generation to be smoother
Skipping generation of terrain geometry for out of range chunks
RestSharp/DropNet added as source, fixed RestSharp error on PC
Added falling blocks
Optimized autosaving, moved to background thread
Added living/static environment behavior modes
Optimized creature spawning CPU usage
Fixed smooth fade of chunks
Added white pigment
Added painted planks in 16 colors
Added paint bucket in 16 colors
Fixed memory leak in WidgetsManager
Reduced memory allocations frequency
Adding polar bear
Fixed plant growth destroying blocks

Alpha 1.17

Fixed gravel harvesting generating both gravel block and stones
Fixed tools damage of indestructible blocks which was preventing stacking
Creature physics optimizations
Fixed one important terrain optimization which wasn’t working, causing longer terrain regeneration times
Fixed lightprobes of models
All tools and weapons use 3d models instead of flat bitmaps
Unpacking of worlds downloaded from Dropbox doesn’t stall progress bar
Fixed a bug with threadpool thread culture not being set to invariant for saving
Fixed lighting of models (ship going black periodically). Optimized model lightprobes.
Fixed creature spawn in static environments (preexisting creatures were not spawning)
Optimized model drawing
Added 3rd person camera
Added orbit camera
Improved player animations to look good in 3rd person view mode
Added creature shadows
Made random generator platform independent
Optimized drawing of inventory slots
Fixed slow walk speed when looking down
Switched to using 16bit depth buffer
Fixed paint being edible
Made signs text not use zoffset rasterizer state

Alpha 1.18

Made ingots use 3d models
Spears stick into wood and other soft blocks
Rainfall added
Snowfall added
Thunderstorms added
Fixed LargeDryBush not disappearing when support was removed
Snow deposits on empty spaces during snowfall
Water freezes into ice in cold areas
Ice thaws into water in warm areas
Made world slightly brighter at night and during the day
Added pumpkins
Added Jack O’Lanterns
Small terrain generator optimization
Added Werewolves
Made wolves turn to werewolves during full moon
Text drawing optimization (no more alpha test)
Optimized particle systems
Removed all usages of Minecraft texture
Caves under sea generate deeper
Fixed a bug with animals spawning underground
Fixed certain AI behaviors

Alpha 1.19

Eliminated UI block during world upload
Fixed rain not affected by global volume
Added electricity system
Added electric wires
Added electric gates (and, or, not)
Added electric SR latch
Added electric delay gate
Added electric switch
Added electric button
Added electric pressure plates, can be placed on all sides
Added electric detonators
Added electric battery
Made doors react to electricity
Made trapdoors react to electricity
Added upside-down trapdoors
Upside-down trapdoors stop falling blocks
Made gunpowder kegs react to electricity
Made spiked planks react to electricity
Spiked planks can be placed on all sides
Added germanium ore and germanium mineral
Allowed export of worlds in the demo
New UI with sidebar and back button on every screen
New in-game UI with expandable stack of buttons
Made UI size configurable (smaller/normal/larger)
Entire screen can be used for looking
Disabled sleeping in Trial Mode
Made thermometer and hygrometer drop when support is removed
Made explosions set surroundings on fire
Lightning no longer damages world in creative mode
Fixed sign rendering on certain Android phones
Added new Recipaedia
Added descriptions of all blocks to the new Recipaedia
Added blocks ordering in creative mode inventory
Added a new help system
Made saving system more robust and less likely to lose worlds
Added automatic world repair on load
Added option to fixed aspect ratio on Windows Phone 8 (1280×720, HTC 8X)
Made Christmas Tree electrically controlled

Alpha 1.20

Added Community Content Sharing via a central server
Can use SDCard for import/export (Android only)
Added Progress bars and cancel buttons during downloads/uploads
Added coal blocks that burn infinitely long
Added framerate limiter to conserve battery / stop overheating
Added downloading of Worlds/Block Textures directly from a web link
Fixed erroneous fluid flow trapping player under ice
Added photodiodes
Added ability to hide move/look pads
Added split touch controls & crosshair
Added getting a web link from Dropbox files
Made rain/snow less frequent
Made growing trees slightly easier
Fixed misplaced torches flame
Added setting to change flat terrain level
Added setting to fix the time of day in creative
Added setting to disable weather in creative
Trees density increased and has more variation across terrain
Rewoked cave generation, added massive and branching caves.
Fixed some tools damage issues
Black block highlight shows exact block bounds
Improved upside-down slab placement (tap on part of wall to place)
Added red and green LEDs
Better loading error handling

1.21

Added new hero model to match other animals
Added sharks in the ocean
Added yellow rays and brown rays, with dig-in behavior
Added piranhas
Added horses, 5 colors
Added camels
Added leather and saddle
Added horseriding mechanic and all associated elements
Added wire-through blocks (planks, stone and semiconductor)
Made LED size depended on distance
Added XOR gate
Added random generator
Increased lightbulbs size
Faster screen capture on Android
Fixed SR latch clock input behavior
Made signs trigger a message on electric signal
Changed physics engine from matrices to quaternions
More uniform input sensitivity across devices
Better error messages during game load
AI remembers the attacker and keeps running away
AI will walk through open doors and retracted spikes
AI will no longer drop from large heights
Multiple other AI behavior updates
Fixed stuck textbox when dismissed on Android
Fixed getting stuck on stairs bug
Fixed spawn egg disintegration
Fixed serious terrain generation bug (causing broken fences, disappearing coal blocks etc.)
Fixed bugs in terrain update code
Smooth lighting of models
Fixed framerate stalls during game loading
Speed optimizations
Smooth clouds fadeout with distance
Reduced jump height, made climbing blocks smoother
Copy Link button is correctly disabled
Added internet reachability checks
Increased amount of deserts
Increased amount of water
Made terrain flatter
Reduce jitter of models
Better four legged animals animations: walk, trot and canter
Animals cannot jump over fences or cacti
Added whistle
Added steed summon behavior
Added cattle drive behavior
Made noises scare animals
Added surprise animal
Tweaked some 3D models to look better
Made wolf howling less frequent and quieter
Fixed WP7 dropbox access bug
Made spawn eggs match color of the animal
Added raw fish and cooked fish food

1.22

Added rake
Added soil
Added rye and wild rye
Added farming & fertilizing
Added seeds for rye, flowers and grass
Added flour, dough and bread
Crafting and smelting can produce a second result
Made bricks paintable
Made granite paintable
Made basalt paintable
Added hunger
Added stamina
Added sleep deprivation
Added drowning
Added probabilistic loot drops
Automatic resetting of blocks texture on upgrade
Added rhinos
Added gnus
Added lions
Added orcas
Added ostriches
Added zebras
Bulls & cows models updated
Added sandy mountains
Made mountains more rocky
More overhangs and funky shapes of mountains
Added islands far out in the ocean
Added boats
Added pickables buoyancy
Added creatures pathfinding
Changes to AI to use pathfinding in various situations
Made creatures go after food using pathfinding
Added bodies swaying in the water
Made matches fail randomly when used on animals
Eggs are now cookable
Tpp camera tweaks
Added vital stats panel
Added number of respawns statistic
Items now stay much longer in the world
Improved split touch controls
Added magnets that influence compass

1.23

Added rating of community content
Added reporting of bad community content
Added stair corners
Fixed framerate limiter
Added donkeys
Added sea bass and freshwater bass
Camel model changes
Added larger visibility range, up to 2.5x current (via settings/performance)
Added use of multiple CPU cores for terrain updates increasing gameplay smoothness
Added stubborn steed behavior and ability to feed steeds to overcome it
Added generation of traps
Added generation of graves with a suprise
Fixed cave creatures spawning in buildings
Fixed dawn/dusk time when using time of day button
Fixed bug with aggressive animals losing interest in player
Fixed player dying after placing block over himself in tight spaces
Fixed collapsing blocks going through soil
Fixed paint bucket disappearing after all paint is used up
Fixed light needed for plants to grow
Made birds more difficult to hunt
Reduced hit reach from 5 to 2 meters, making combat more realistic and difficult
Reduced hit frequency from 2 to 1.5/s
Player starts with 55% food, not 100% in challenging
Made rye drop more seeds
Added ability to define block type of flat terrain
Added ability to have magma ocean in flat terrain
Modification time displayed in Dropbox/SDCard contents view
Added analog electric signals
Added motion detector electric device
Added 4-led electric device
Added 7-segment display electric device
Added sound generator electric device
Added analog-to-digital converter electric device
Added digital-to-analog converter electric device
Added 4-bit counter electric device
Added memory bank electric device
Added truth table electric device
Added new UI for editing certain items (memory banks, batteries etc.)
Made pressure plates emit analog signal indicating weight
Made battery voltage editable
Many changes to creative inventory. E.g. can drop items from it.
Cleaned up recipes for all electric elements to make them more consistent
Made thermometer and hygrometer output analog electric signals
Updated models of all electric gates to be more consistent
Updated all existing electric devices to work properly with analog signals
Added a way to see user ID
General optimizations

1.24

Added bows
Added 4 types of arrows
Added electric shooting target
Added reindeers
Added tigers
Added rare white tigers
Added hyenas
Added ivy
Added strings
Added feathers, made birds drop them
Added iron fences
Added iron fence gates
Allowed adjustment of global temperature & humidity in creative mode
Fixed a bug with machete being able to break wood in adventure mode
Added new pretty Christmas Tree
Tweaked spawning code to produce more birds and fish, less land animals

1.25

Changed UI drawing engine. Now uses procedural bevels/indentations instead of baked textures.
Changing some audio to use MP3 format
Added crossbow
Added iron bolts, diamond bolts
Added explosive bolts
Added fire arrows
Added sound delay based on distance
Completely new explosions engine, faster, more realistic
Explosions create flying and flaming debris
Last used creative inventory page is saved between world loads
Serious physics bug to do with velocity limiting fixed
Pickables and projectiles optimizations
Tall grass is now a pickable item
Added crafting recipe to obtain seeds from tall grass item
Added throwable bombs
Added smoke trails
Added stone fences
Added rendering support for custom skins
Changed UI to allow user select and manage custom skins
Added support for skins to community content server
Custom skins and block textures are now associated with each world separately, not a global setting
Added content management screen
Explosive pickables and projectiles explode when in contact with fire, magma or explosion
Fixed https issues on Android 2.2
Removed some audio files to reduce loading times
Reenabled preloading of certain audio files on Android
When inventory slot is in split mode (red border), dropping items from it will drop them one by one, not all at once
Tweaked birds UI to escape more frequently and further away

1.26

Added clothing, with multiple clothing items per slot
Added armor
Dyeing of clothes
Added cold and heat effects on the body
Added wetness due to rain or immersion
Accurate temperature calculation engine, based on player surroundings
Made dangerous and exotic animals avoid player during the day
Added 256 blocks visibility range (16 chunks)
Added pumpkin seeds and pumpkin farming
Added cotton and cotton wads
Added canvas
Added Cassowaries (with deadly kick)
Added Barracudas
Added Beluga whales
Added whale breathing
Made animals prey on each other
Made docile animals occasionally retaliate when attacked
New crafting table model
New diamond model
Sky color changes depending on temperature
Bigger and more detailed trees
Fixed progress dialogs glitches
Fixed occasional text layout glitches
Speeded up UI when waiting for network operations
Added FPS and memory counter
Made fonts hi-resolution
Added busy dialog when scanning worlds in singleplayer screen
Fixed glitches in in-hand item drawing
Added more blocks statistics to Recipaedia
Weakened explosions propagating too far in long shafts
Fixed invisible animals on some Windows 8 Phones
iOS 8.1 compatibility changes
Added coordinates display to game menu in creative mode
Fixed excessive throwables hitting power
Nicer thermometer model and reacts to true temperature
Fixed pickables not perishing in fire
New Vital Stats screen
Added more help articles
Fixed tall grass rendering glitch

1.27

Ported all code to new cross-platform Engine
Removed obsolete compatibility settings
Made chests collect items thrown at them
Added summoning of lightning in creative
Added shader-based, proper water translucency
Added cavalry boots, long johns, socks, sweater
Added moose
Added campfire
Added carpets
Overhauled mouse/keyboard control to production quality
Fixed tallgrass, flowers and gravestone drops
Increased short inventory slots to 6
New health, temperature, hunger bars
Chasing creatures will eventually get bored
Dangerous animals will chase when touched
Animals will get out of player’s way when pushed
Added Engine logo
Pathfinding algorithm improvements
Added wooden leggings (armor)
Added support for very wide aspect ratio (21:9 and more)
Added picking of block type with middle mouse button
Added explosions to lightning strikes
Added leather sandals, cowboy hat, fedora
Made player start with more clothes
Added game log viewer in settings
Added flowing water and magma ambient sounds
Fixed particles of painted blocks
Added milking sounds
Made back button exit panels instead of going to pause screen
Fixed drowning

1.28

Digging cracks
Added dispensers
Added iron signs
Added iron ladders
Left-handed controls
Added particles when animal dies
Added musket
Added musket balls and buckshot
Improved animations for shooting and throwing
Improved animations for death
Made snowballs 3d
Bow has its own UI widget
Added fireworks
Increased durability of clothes
Fixed damage of bow, crossbow

1.29

Dispenser not editable in Adventure
Projectiles damage does not bypass armor
Spawner eggs spawn 100% of the time in Adventure/Challenging, laid eggs only 20%
Conversion to 32bit blocks (more data per block)
Zip file decompression bug fixed
All stairs corners supported
Fixed stairs texture mapping to match other blocks irrespective of rotation
Projectile damage by large blocks reduced
Most electric devices can be mounted on the floor/ceiling (all gates, delay, SR Latch, Memory Bank, Truth Table, RT clock, Random Generator, DAC, ADC, Sound generator, Counter)
8 colors of LEDs
8 colors of 4-LEDs
8 colors of 7-segment displays
NAND and NOR gates
Lightbulb has variable intensity depending on voltage (0.8-1.5V)
Added adjustable delay gate with user-configurable delay of 0.00 to 2.55 seconds
All stairs can be painted
All slabs can be painted
Separate categories for painted and dyed blocks to reduce clutter
Added stone stairs
Added stone slab
Made most solid construction blocks paintable (bricks, granite, cobblestone, planks, marble, stone bricks, sandstone, basalt)
Made all fences paintable
Made all fence gates paintable
Fixed texture orientation on all cube blocks to be consistent
Made all signs paintable
Added tall spruces
Made forests 20% denser
Added horizontal wood logs
Fallen wood logs generate deep forests
Added paint stripper bucket to remove paint from painted blocks
Placing slab on top of another creates full block
Stone fence model updated to look better
Added brick fence
Added basalt fence
Added copper armor (boots, leggings, chest plate, helmet)
Added copper tool (axe, pickaxe, shovel, rake)
Added copper weapons (machete, spear, arrows)
Displaying number of worlds on singleplayer screen
Added wire through bricks block
Switched copper/iron availability – copper appears in granite (shallow), iron in basalt (deep)
Optimized fluid geometry generation
Added large magma pools underground
Added water pools underground
Playing sizzle sounds near magma
Fire sound intensity depends on number of fires
Bigger, longer, more branching caves
Digging cracks visible underwater
Digging particles
Painting particles
Improved cobblestone, marble, sand, sandstone textures
Added copper arrows
Added more grave treasures
Creatures on fire now extinguish themselves after a short time
Fixed fish attacking the rider of the boat instead of the boat
Made animals attack anything the player is standing on if they can’t reach
Added ability to disable survival mechanics in Adventure
Added sound generator particles (notes)
Improved piano sound (instrument 7)
Added long piano sounds (instrument 8)
Added drum sounds (instrument 9)
Added single buckshot ball recipe – but shooting single buckshot balls is weak and inaccurate
Added new iron ladder sounds
Disabled ladder climbing when flying
Fixed multiple instances of edit dialog when G is pressed many times on Windows 8.1/10
Fixed AI for running away to disregard dead attackers
Made boat stronger
Made glowpoints (eyes, leds, 7-segment displays etc.) look better
Added more treasure types to graves
Bigger pumpkin destruction particle system
Added screenshot size setting and fixed potential screenshot corruption on Windows Store
Added fixed camera mode

2.0

Added furniture
Added multi-state furniture & connected multi-state furniture
Added furniture switches and buttons
Added furniture packs support to game and community content
Added hammer
Added push, pull & strict pistons
Added sea urchins
Added sea stars
Added kelp
Added sea grass
Fixed rendering bug with bow string on iOS
Added incendiary kegs
Added incendiary bombs
Worked around Kindle Fire 1 crash bug due to buggy shaders implementation
Changed lighting system to use uniform lighting for all block types
Accurate corner shading on stairs, slabs and furniture
Fixed block textures orientation on many block types
Added bisons
Added player stats
Added display of cause of death
Changed old clothing colors
Changed default world names
Changed door textures to better looking
Make saplings grow near water even if temperature or humidity is not quite right
Many more types of treasure items to be found in graves
Large dry bushes drop sticks
Added sea level adjustment
Made boat stronger and allowed player to spawn in boat
Changed clouds to better looking
Gradual death instead of sudded when out of bounds
Changed collapsing blocks to use the same underlying mechanism as pistons
Editing terrain blocks has priority over editing inventory items
Adjustable delay gates are now duplicable and stay in creative inventory when placed
Fixed a major pickables performance bug
Mounted electric elements can be mounted on non-transparent sides of transparent blocks (e.g. back of stairs)
Added particles when magma burns snow/ice or grass
Improved target texture
Tweaked underwater visibility, colors and fog based on humidity/temperature
Water plants slow movement in water
Lightbulbs can be painted
Added colored wires
Made colored wires not connect to other colors
New marble texture
New semiconductor texture
New minerals textures (sulphur, iron, coal, malachite, diamond, germanium)
Added semiconductor block
Fixed malfunctioning cattle drive and run away from noise behaviors
Fixed block picking with middle mouse button (Windows Store)
Fixed models turning heads when body is turning
Fixed XOR gate back texture
Fixed inventory bug when right-dragging single item (Windows Store)
Fixed font rendering offsets
Text layout accuracy improvements
Fixed glass sound
Crafting table no longer blocks fluids
Made clay paintable (good smooth material for furniture)
Added horizontal creative flight (Windows Store)
Creative mode digging/placement range increased from 5 to 8 blocks
Fixed malachite/iron help text bug
New UI backgrounds, panels, logos and icons
Decreased player height to 1.68m to look better besides furniture

2.1

Added settings to disable supernatural creatures
Fixed inventory widgets dismissing with inventory button/e key
Adding Dropbox Api v2 support
DownloadFromLink dialog automatically deduces content type from link
Fixed and improved kill cause messages
Producing more pistons from the crafting recipe
Added food rot mechanics and rotten items (milk, meat, bird, fish, pumpkin, egg, dough, bread etc.)
Added 3d models for all food items
Added 3d models for all chunk items (coal chunks, stone chunk etc.)
Added creative mode reach setting
New food/health bar icons
Added WireThroughCobblestone
New MoveRose graphics, no more WASD letters
Added Split information label to InventorySlotWidget
Added support for having multiple players in the world
Added multiple view layouts (2-split horizontal/vertical, 3-split horizontal/vertical/even, 4-split)
Reduced complexity of sea urchin model (58 to 41 triangles)
Optimized bevelled rectangle drawing and removed panel textures
Human eye position tweaks to avoid clipping
Herding AI: chasers now break off and return to herd when too far away
Runaway AI: fixed spurious running away from a distant attacker
Made bison have cattle drive behaviour – drive herd of bison onto an animal you want to kill
Pilot AI tries to avoid other creatures
Added UI animations
Customizable colors palette and color names per world
Removed Disable Pathfinding setting, pathfinding is now always on as slow 1-core devices become rarer
Optimized InventorySlotWidget creation performance (cause of frequent hiccups)
Complete terrain engine rework to support multiple players in different locations using custom hashing
Negative world coordinates support
Moved default spawnpoint to around 0,0 to reduce float roundoff errors
Health replenished during sleep only when not starving
Cannot throw more often that once per 1.5 seconds in challenging to avoid machinegunning with rocks
GameMenuScreen turned to dialog to work for multiple players
New Survivalcraft 2 icon
Updated minerals textures
Cell door looks improved
Added menu music
Added gamepad support on Windows 8.1/Android/iOS
Sleeping system changes for multiple players. Time speeds up only if all players asleep/dead.
Biome size setting added
Larger default biome size
Much larger and more crazy mountains
Mountain peaks made more rocky
Added rivers
Added support for island generation with configurable size
Model rendering optimizations
Reduced minerals frequency
Generally more loot from animals
Reduced egg laying frequency of flightless birds
Movement controls default to touchpads on new installations (instead of directional buttons)
Piston duplication bug fixed
New framerate limiter (vsync based)
Added overhead player name display
Added possibility to flip screen upside down
Added female players support with sound, female players are weaker but faster and need less food
Added 4 male and 4 female players
Different default clothing for all player variants
Increased whistle summoning range and maximum pathfinding steps
Temperature is lower at night
Cows/bulls textures changed to better match other animals
Old clothing textures changed
Added brown instead of yellow by default
Increased attack resilience of most creatures
Wolves/bears/piranhas/hyenas/coyotes etc. drop rotten meat/rotten fish
Improved leather jerkin texture
Added Bullshark/Tigershark
Wildboar texture improvement
Sneak movement is slower
Added player levels
Replayed VitalStats panel with new display that shows how level/sickness etc. affects all abilities
Added collectable experience orbs
Dragging items on top of controls/buttons to drop them works
Added more players stats
Tweaked creature spawn ratios to have more dangerous animals
Added leopards
Added jaguars
Made tigers bigger, stronger
Added experience to graves
Fixed broken graves treasure generation
Spikes injure creatures every second, not continuously
Added sickness from food poisoning
Added puking
Cannot eat the same food all the time
LeftClick+Shift / A+LeftTrigger auto-move items to best inventory slot
Added pumpkin soup/rotten pumpkin soup
Added flu from cold
Added coughing attacks/sneezing
Fixed Survivalcraft malfunctioning in South Africa due to wrong culture handling
Increased lightning rate and made more random
Default players now have names: Walter, Basil, Geoffrey, Zachary, Doris, Mabel, Ada and Shirley.
Allowing longer visibility range: 320 blocks
iOS 7.0 now required due to gamepad support. iPod Touch 4G no longer supported (death to 256MB of RAM!)
Fixed aiming circle offset for left-handed setup
Added help items for sickness, flu
Fixed model orientation when walking sideways/backwards
Campfires burn for longer and produce more heat
Increased campfire animals avoidance range
Animal spawning tweaked heavily to work with multiple players
Player requires level 2 to use diamond tools/weapons/armor
Players made slower, only speed up on gaining experience/wearing shoes
Added gamepad help dialog
Fixed and overhauled environment temperature system
Increased musket and crossbow strength/durability
Added one-led blocks
Increased large and medium keg explosion power
Added rot period display in block information
Improved zebra texture
Added bestiary with animals parameters displayed
Cotton clothes give 10% protection (absorb 10% of attack damage)
Running backwards made slower
Improved donkey texture
Added Multicolored LEDs
Increased precipitation particle system range when visibility range is large
Added iron ore chunks that need to be smelted instead of iron ore blocks
Added germanium ore chunks that need to be smelted instead of germanium ore blocks
Added death records to player stats

2.2

Terrain height is doubled to 256 blocks
Visual glitches when too many complex blocks exist in one place are fixed
Increased performance of terrain geometry generation
Increased probability of saplings growing into trees
Added Mimosa trees
Improved tree generation patterns
Improved iron and copper textures
Increased probability of finding loot in graves
Removed unrealistic wooden and stone tools
Added new universal stone axe
Added wooden club
Added stone club
Slightly reduced throwing, bow and crossbow shooting speed
Projectiles stay in the world for longer
Bomb crafting recipe produces 4 bombs
Reduced experience gained from digging minerals
Fog only works horizontally (to be able to see ground from tops of the mountains)
Terrain generation overhaul: different mountains, more intermediate areas and many more
Increased torch light to 15
New lighting model: lightsources remove shadow, less edge shadowing
Added terrain textures mipmapping to reduce shimmering (optional – slows down the game by a few %)
Fixed lighting bug when only one piece of furniture was present in the world
Reduced Piranha attack strength
Biome size on islands is smaller to have more varied terrain
Made forests have more logs
Temperature calculation takes altitude into account
Colors of grass and other blocks take altitude into account
Added ice on tops of the mountains
Ice does not turn into water when harvested high up
Made some shy animals avoid player more
Reduced amount of spawned cats
Food takes longer to rot
It takes longer to get flu when being cold
Rotten food turns into compost
Fixed odd minus sign in fonts
Added damage value display after hitting a creature
Added new items category: Weapons
Increased health of larger animals
Increased damage dealt by arrows, bolts and bullets
Rain drops generate particles when striking ground or water
Snoflakes stay on the ground for a while
Added starting location difficulty option: Easy, Medium and Hard
Walking backwards speed reduced to 60% of normal
Reduced player food requirement by 20%
Reduced probability of predators attacking other animals
Tweaked weapon hit probabilities
When hitting a creature, sometimes there is no pushback effect
Increased number of inventory slots to 7 (up to 10 in creative)
Changed limestone and basalt textures
Made bears smaller, more realistic, they now fit in 1-wide space.
Improved player/creature ice slipping animation
Made polar bears have good traction on ice
Sneezing, coughing, puking will make noise and scare off birds
Added option to disable player-on-player attacks
Made block highlight of other players invisible
Added flat island mode
Added option to have rough shores in flat terrain modes
Improved sights texture visibility on snow
Improved terrain drawing at large distances from world origin
Improved clay texture
Brightened up wood and leaves textures
Iron trapdoor can no longer be used as furnace fuel
Made creative flying faster by 33%
Fish wag tail when attacking
Fixed eat pickable behaviour of creatures
Added Great White Sharks
Copper recipes require level 2 to craft
Iron recipes require level 3 to craft
Diamond recipes require level 4 to craft
Reduced amount of sharks, barracudas and piranhas.
Made boat stronger
Improved sharks models
Made wooden and stone arrows less accurate than metal arrows
In challenging/cruel/adventure player cannot place blocks if not standing on something
Made leaves drop sticks 15% of the time
Player can swim for longer before drowning
Crafting ladders produces 4 ladders instead of 2

2.3

Completely new terrain file format – compressed regions. Up to 100x size reduction.
Motion detector detects moving blocks, pickables, projectiles
Reduced egg-laying rate by 20%
Added pigeons
Added sparrows
Tweaked touch controls sensitivity
Many small UI improvements
Reduced text size Community Content and other screens to fit more entries
Fixed light propagation bug causing lighting glitches
Optimized light propagation, about 30% speedup
Displaying total worlds size in Play screen
Fixed a bug with terrain generation which could cause geometry not to regenerate
Using special ShadowBlocks to make moving blocks be lit properly
Moving blocks are colored correctly according to altitude (affecting temperature)
Caching terrain geometry memory, reducing garbage generation approx 10x when moving quickly
Added special easier Survival Mode, which becomes the new default
New survival mode details: more immune to cold, gets a fish, more resilient to attacks, places blocks while in the air, less dangerous animals
Terrain generation tweaks, made biomes slightly larger
Discovered a new optimization of terrain bits extraction, 10% light generation speed increase
Using 3D-extruded blocks when flat items held in hand
Renamed sneaking -> crouching, crouching allows player to crawl into 1-block-high spaces
UI scale changed to numeric, instead of predefined 3 values
Smoothed Lion model
Made switch and button blocks editable (adjust voltage generated)
Proper font kerning engine added for nicer looking text
Upgraded HTTPS implementation, transfer.sh works again
Increased amount of gunpowder, bullets and bombs that get crafted
Added Cairn block which gains experience and diamonds when mined
Upgrading of worlds done on a separate thread to avoid ANR on Android
Using entire screen irrespective of device on iOS
Brightened blocks texture by 5% to make world lighter
Renamed stone chunks -> rocks
Increased gunpowder kegs explosion strength by 20%
Made natural rocks less resilient to explosions
Made wires and electric elements more resilient to explosions
Added missing stone axe recipe (when crafting from rocks)
Made explosions never destroy minerals pickables
Fixed mistakes and inacurracies in Help and item descriptions

2.4

Added seasons
Added layered fog
Manual control of precipitation and fog in Creative mode
Added dirt slabs and dirt stairs
Made speed of projectile depend on speed of thrower
Werewolves interact with all blocks (e.g. opening doors), but not with iron doors and only in challenging mode
Removed transfer.sh support as the web service is now defunct
Added community content search
Added more filters to community content screen
Updated entire UI style to use rounded shapes
Upgraded camera field of view button to a slider with a larger range
Fixed a bug where player could not stop crouching while in water
In-game messages widget supports multiple messages not just one
Added new Bass instrument to sound generator (1.0V)
Improved many sound generator sounds
Fixed sound generator invalid pitch of some sounds
Fixed and improved thermometer block
Natural lighting does not damage leaves, manual still does
Hidden Wetness messages when survival mechanics are off
Increased bread rot time to 20 days and campfire duration by 20%
Wolves and Hyenas keep further away from player during daytime
Prolonged duration of pickables, added prioritization
Added new “Minerals” category to items
Growing rye, cotton and pumpkins fail when temperature too low
Increased number of creatures limit
Increased animals spawn/despawn range
More fish spawn than in 2.3
Forests are denser and have more logs
Terrain has slightly less mountains
Increased average size of trees
Added more gravel and sand pockets inside rocks
Added crafting recipes for emptying of buckets (apart from magma)
Added poplar trees, poplar wood, poplar leaves and saplings
Changed eggs naming scheme, no more laid eggs
New wooden door texture
New chest, dispenser and wooden tools texture to match new wooden door
Fish can now freeze inside of ice block
Improved stars look, added North Star
Made sky tilt depend on season
Increased torches particle system visibility range
Weapon hit probability increased 3x when attacking stationary target
Added explosion ground shake
Improved explosion sounds
Fixed paint being used even when painting did not happen
Added digging suggestions when in survival/harmless
Spawn positions are chosen better depending on difficulty
Optimized crafting recipe matcher for faster loading of large worlds