Version 2026.10.21 – Everything in hand: blocks that look like themselves, a hand for every tool, plants the right way round and 32 residents ✋🌿

October 19, 2026

This time it's all about what you hold in your hand. Until now a dyed block looked like a perfectly ordinary block in your hand, and lots of items simply floated in the air in front of you. We changed that – and fixed a few things along the way that we and you noticed while playing.

✋ Everything in hand. A block in your hand now shows its colour, its glow, its form and its picture – exactly the way it looks once placed. Beds, campfires, rugs, flower pots and ladders are held in their real form. Every item sits in your suit hand: tools and weapons in your fist, blocks on your open hand, plants by the stem. And when you switch, you put the old item away and draw the new one. With Reduced effects the switch is instant.

🌿 Plants the right way round. On the beach, Dry Shrubs stood like sand-coloured cards with the shrub cut out of them. Now you see the plant itself. Salt Grass, Snow Bush, Coral, Palm Plant, Orchid, Water Lily, Seagrass and Rock Flower got new pictures and now stand on the ground instead of floating a little above it. 🏠 Your base also has room for up to 32 residents now – one more than you have beds. Until now it stopped at five. Thanks to Justus for the tip!

🛡️ A few fixes: strong drills that break several blocks at once now leave factories alone. Blocks just past the spot where the world wraps round from north to south can now be mined and built on as usual. And in the browser, flowing water, fire and your buildings survive a reload: the water keeps flowing, fires burn out, and crystal drills recognise your buildings again.

✨ Everything also comes to your existing worlds. Game and server should both be on 2026.10.21. The desktop game updates itself on start, and the browser version is always current. Have fun building! 🚀