This update is accessible via the “Testing” release of Boundless on Steam.

Please report all issues discovered with the update to this support thread.

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Overview:

Initial support for Multiple Characters or Alts. Be careful deleting your characters as the beacons will be instantly removed and anything left behind can be claimed by active players or regen.

Important:

Testing is for testing, Live is for playing. The Testing worlds will be reset without warning. We will often copy worlds from Live onto Testing to test against real world data.

Release Notes:

Crafting + Resources + Equipment: Can equip specific items from within a Smart Stack. Moving held items in backpack should leave them still held.

Creatures + Combat + Characters: Creature names now display their level and if they are elemental. Elemental creatures now spawn, with different meshes, and applying status effects when they attack. Fixed the selection of meshes for creatures. Large refactor of the server and client to support users having multiple characters, gui to enable this functionality coming soon. This change required a reset of the testing universe (updated to a new snapshot of the live us east servers), it will not however require a reset on the live universe when promoted to live. Rebalanced creature variants that are spawned on each world to show more interesting variation.

Sanctum + Tutorial + Objectives + Progression: Exploration: Light Source skill now produces a continuous dull light around the player. Be warned that it currently can’t be disabled without unlearning the skill. For every 500000 xp earned beyond level 50 players will be awarded an extra 40 beacon plots. This can be repeated infinitely. Swapped endurance and abilities skill groups around. XP rewards for machine crafting are given to the person who started the crafting (previously all crafting rewards went to the beacon owner)

GUI + HUD: Improvements on the hud’s compass: Adding new compass entries: portals and settlements. Removing beacon entries. Improved the visualisation of enemy entries. Changed the compass entries scaling based on distance. Initial GUI for multiple character support.

Bug fixes: Fixed crash walking out of the sanctum to a location at the top of the world. Fixed a rendering issues in the sanctum where sometimes the portal would only show the sky depending on where it exits into the world. Fixed an issue where you could overextend a grapple by running along the ground, and also now allow you to reel yourself in much more easily when standing on the ground without needing to jump into the air first. Running along the ground will still allow you to reel-out the grapple though, only that you will eventually hit the max length before being forced to stop.



Resolved Known Issues:

The following items were known issues in previous releases and have now been resolved.

Beacons which are greater than 100 metres from the centre may not function correctly.

Placing an item into the Crafting Table will somehow miss the intended slot and will drop instead.

Some creatures may disappear instantly and drop items before their bodies hit the ground.

World Builder currently does not work on Mac.

Known Issues:

The following items are known issues in this release.

[new] Choosing Return to Sanctum option briefly displays ‘wrap error’ text on screen.

Choosing Return to Sanctum option briefly displays ‘wrap error’ text on screen. [new] Clicking the Craft button very quickly may close the active recipe.

Clicking the Craft button very quickly may close the active recipe. [new] If the Furnace does not have enough fuel, the game will state that basic crafting recipes are missing.

If the Furnace does not have enough fuel, the game will state that basic crafting recipes are missing. [new] Number of available feats is incorrect.

Number of available feats is incorrect. [new] Portal UI text overflows when the portal token name is very long.

Portal UI text overflows when the portal token name is very long. [new] Region names may not be displayed correctly after discovering one.

Region names may not be displayed correctly after discovering one. [new] When Beacon fuel is nearly full, adding extra fuel will display a message saying that there are no consumable fuel items.

When Beacon fuel is nearly full, adding extra fuel will display a message saying that there are no consumable fuel items. [new] When expanding a smart stack offered by another player during trading, it will be empty.

When expanding a smart stack offered by another player during trading, it will be empty. Breaking the Campfire during the initial tutorial will reset some objectives and display the ‘Build a Temporary Campfire’ objective again.

Cannot close Inventory when Chat is used.

Changing the Chunk Cache Size in fullscreen mode will disable game functionality.

Entity rendering will not always work correctly when there are multiple warps very close together, or where a warp opens up to a location very near where the entrance is.

Game displays welcome message for a world through a portal without going through it.

GUI rendered incorrectly on Intel HD graphics (and some AMD / GTX laptop GPUs) on Windows.

If the game (loader) fails to start on Windows 7 and 8 you may need to install https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/2999226/update-for-universal-c-runtime-in-windows

If you spend a skill point before the tutorial asks you to, you will be required to unlearn and relearn the skill again.

Illegal protocol message sometimes appears after going through a portal.

Item placed into Request Basket will disappear when placing the same item into storage.

Item wanted is completely different to what was placed there before on the Request Basket.

Items will occasionally be unable to smart stack with other items that belong in the same smart stack category.

Menus may constantly reappear on screen after closing them.

Objectives & Feats - Some tasks are not being tracked correctly.

Opening or closing doors and trapdoors when standing too close to them will restrict player movement. To get out of the situation, interact with the door or trapdoor again.

Request Baskets (previously Buying plinths) that had wanted items set before v151 have unset them. Sorry. Going forward they will be fine.

Skill descriptions are not final.

Some feats are not shown on the GUI

Some interactive blocks (crafting table, machine, beacon control) have become corrupted during the migration. This will result in at best those blocks not being able to be interacted with, at worst the game crashing when interacting with those blocks. To fix the issue the block(s) in question need to be re-placed. In the case of anything other than a beacon control the block can simply be broken, picked up, and then re-placed. In the case of a beacon control this will work, although it would result in all the plots having to be re-placed one at a time and during that process the contents being unprotected. A better workaround for a beacon control is to craft a new beacon control, place that, and then break the old one, which will keep the beacon’s plots placed throughout the process.

Speech bubbles may still be displayed above players after going through portals.

The recipes are not final.

Using D3DGear http://www.d3dgear.com/ crashes the game on start up.

Z-fighting with some items (workbench and other machines) when placed underwater.

Testing 171.1: