BlockForge Changelog

v1.6 2026-05-21

Place a START and FINISH flag (plus up to 4 optional checkpoints) on your own chunk to publish a course. Visible to every other player as soon as it saves.
Walk near a course start to get a prompt. Press R to begin, hit each checkpoint in order, cross the finish line for a time. Live timer + checkpoint splits shown while you run.
Finish screen shows your time, whether it's a personal best, and your rank on the global leaderboard for that course. Press R to race again, Q to quit.
Leaderboards persist on the relay. Daily-best aggregation per course.
The chunk owner can delete any course on their chunk with Q from the proximity prompt.
On mobile: race START, Race Again, Quit, and Abandon buttons all respond to tap. Course creation stays desktop-only for now (flag placement uses the look-and-click flow).

Big shaggy tundra dweller with ivory tusks, curled ram horns, long tapered tail, and a brown arrow stripe down the spine. Roughly 4x the height of a sheep — tall enough to feel like an event when you spot one. Spawns at ~30% per tundra chunk alongside the existing penguins.
Mountable. Walk up, look at it, press E to ride. Slower than a sheep, faster than walking — built for crossing the snow plains in style, not speed.
Idle behavior: slow plodding wander with the occasional head-toss skyward.

Stand on any chunk you don't own and press K (or tap the ★ button on mobile) to give that build a kudos. The count is visible to everyone in the chunk-info HUD.
Rate-limited to one kudos per build per IP per day, so the counter is a real signal — not a spam target.
Counter resets if the owner re-inscribes the chunk (the build changed, the kudos vote was for the old version).
Works on the pre-launch builds that ship with the engine too — every chunk with a build has its own counter.

Camera is now over-the-shoulder so the block you're targeting isn't hidden behind your avatar.
Walking past a wall or into a tight spot no longer causes the camera to jerk in toward your head when the raycast catches a block edge.
Camera holds steady for 3s after entering a world, so the first frames aren't a jitter storm while chunks finish loading.

BlockForge now loads from Unisat's static.unisat.space preview viewer. Previously this path 403'd because the delegator redirected to /content/, which Unisat's static host doesn't expose. The delegator now preserves whichever route prefix served it.
Connecting a wallet from inside Unisat's preview viewer pops a friendly explainer (with a link to ordinals.com/content/) — wallet signing isn't available on that origin, but viewing works fine.

Color grading is now damped at night so the world is no longer harshly oversaturated under low light.
Block-info HUD shows the owner's display name (when set) instead of a truncated BTC address, and short names are no longer ellipsized.
Race proximity prompt no longer overlaps the main menu when you Esc out mid-prompt.
Tour / first-time-help popup no longer appears when opening the menu in gallery mode.
Kudos count loads correctly when you spawn directly into a chunk with kudos (previously took a chunk-cross to refresh).
Removed the redundant "AUTO-JUMP ON [j]" indicator from the block-info sheet.

v1.5 2026-05-13

Cats spawn in plains and enchanted biomes. Follow you when you get close, but roll aloof 25% of the time and refuse to follow for a few seconds. They stop at chunk boundaries, but step back in and they pick the follow back up.
Frogs spawn along shorelines at water level. They hop with their back legs only, front legs barely twitch. More common in enchanted biomes.

Strip Decorations: keep the natural terrain heightmap but clear trees, grass, water, and buildings on top. Quick prep before placing a build.
Restore to Inscribed State: discard all multiplayer and local edits, re-fetch the chunk from chain. Wipes the relay's 72h history for that chunk too.

Sunset gradient: sky and fog warm to orange as the sun approaches the horizon. Subtle when the sun is high, ramps quickly in the last few degrees before sunset.

Stationary billboards near origin showing recent BlockForge chunk sales and active listings.
Three blimps drifting in circles overhead, each carrying a billboard. Live data, pulled through the relay.

Now accounts for brotli compression. Estimates match actual on-chain cost (was off by ~25x before).

Load the world without owning a chunk. See everything, build temporarily, but changes won't save. Linked from the landing page so anyone can drop in and explore.

Wallet now connects in solo mode. Build in peace with your wallet attached, no relay required.
Multiplayer toggle now reloads the page (with a warning) instead of toggling in-place, so you keep a clean session.
Block-height-aware replay: relay edits older than the latest inscription no longer overwrite inscribed state on rejoin.
Custom block textures resolve by inscription iid across tabs and across chunks, so two creators using the same texture name on different inscriptions no longer collide.

Reset / Strip / Erase + Floor exports are now compact diffs against the op's base state, not bloated full snapshots. Reset went from 224 KB to ~50 bytes.
floorY persists correctly across page reloads.
Strip op now applies on inscription load (previously was a no-op for inscribed chunks).
Wiki controls reference updated to match the actual in-game bindings (Shift to descend, I for controls panel, mobile DESCEND button).
Various relay stability and edge-case fixes.

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