Hi guys, sorry for the long silence, usually that means we’re working hard! We’re proud to announce that the new Junk Jack X Thanksgiving update with many multiplayer improvements, fixes and new features has been submitted to Apple!

Here are the new features and improvements/bug fixes:

FEATURES

4 new IAPs

added throwable spawner eggs to spawn mobs in creative for fun!

pine cones will now spawn on replanted spruce trees

rewrote the fruit management algorithm, now it manages spawning fruits on all parts of a multi leaves tree

new rare themed equip items

new autumnal biome on Terra

new rare Cornucopia containing Thanksgiving loots

new replantable chestnut tree

new replantable pomegranate plant

new replantable sunflower

new turkey mob

new squirrel mob

craftable bamboo blowgun to shot fruit seeds

a new rare toy: beachball. toss it around and then push it!

a new craftable toy: paperplane. throw them!

a new category of throwable items, toys. they’re just for fun with friends: throw them and them push them around with your finger!

setting the spawn point through beds now works in multiplayer

sleeping in beds now works in multiplayer

sofas now automatically attach to other sofas

a total of 8×5 + 8x7x8x15 = 6760 possible furniture combinations to be built!

15 craftable paints to dye furniture liners

8 sets of liners that can be applied on each different furniture piece

8 sets of furniture made by 12 pieces each

new wood widget used to craft advanced furniture

woodworker bench: a new addon that took all crafts of carpentry bench

carpentry bench is now used to craft advanced furniture

a sixth special difficulty mode: hardcore! If you die your player is directly deleted, no way back.

5 difficulty levels: peaceful, easy, normal, hard, very hard

100+ achievements have been implemented!

4 craftable world locks block to prevent clients placing or removing blocks within their range

craftable locks to prevent clients from accessing your chests

a trade window to do safe trades with people has been implemented

4 new mannequins items can be crafted to display your equip

created a dedicated section to multiplayer options

added an option that prevents placement and destruction of blocks by clients when hosting

added an option to disable user explosions when hosting multiplayer games

added an option that prevents clients from opening chests while hosting a world

added an option that prevents clients from freeing items from shelves

added an option to disable statistics in online games to save bandwidth

FIXES/ENHANCEMENTS

dynaslimes explosions now correctly work in multiplayer

added a sound to chat messages

simple bed now requires leaves instead that cloth

increased throw power of bows

tripled arrow craft output

rewrote some critical parts of the physics engine to perform better

coconuts will possibly spawn on the whole palm (not only on the top block)

added an option to disable some console messages that could be annoying after a while

iron and jail doors are now immune to explosions (like metal blocks)

modified tap to attack algorithm to hit all mobs near to the tap instead that just one

fixed a bug that didn’t allow to craft the 999th item in the output slot of craft grid

fixed a bug that allowed to craft encrusted items without gem requirements

fixed a bug with IAP bought items in inventory

fixed a bug with simple craft that allowed to craft with infinite resources in ammo slot

disallowed tilde (~) character in player and world names to avoid file saves problems

blocked ammo slot to allow just ammo items to be placed there

old furniture pieces have a worn out look

armor chest piece have now customized hands look

blocks and objects now have a 100% chance of dropping their relative treasure

revamped iron tools to be more different from stone tools

metal armor pages are now easier to find

maximum mobs present on screen at once decreased

fixed some object wrong hand placement offsets

changed placeable thick stone tool breakability to iron

increased stone layer height on terra

decreased huge dynaslime max jump height value

revised some mobs damage – health according to their planet difficulty

fixed zombie ghost wrong health (it was really too strong!)

fixed blueberry and blackberry biscuits inverted graphics

fixed weapon stand floating graphics

birds have been added to terra surface

advanced leather boot crafts fixed accordingly to other leather boot crafts.

fixed some typos in option menu tips

fixed long red carpet missing back layer variant

decreased damage dealt by some mob bullets damage

customized messages for blocks that require strong tools

fixed a small bug with item name tooltip that wasn’t disappearing after craft

fixed movement bonus values shown in stats panel which were imprecise

renamed Blackberry to Raspberry

added missing pages amount in craftbook index

slightly increased craftbook page drop chance

radically reduced stabled mobs food intake over time

bronze block can no be crafted bag to ingots

fixed a bug that made some craft recipes emit light

fixed crashes while swimming at the top of the world

fixed crashes when removing portals at the top of the world

fixed titanium arrows: now they can be properly shoot

fixed a graphical glitch that created blinking small artifacts at the bottom of the map

fixed spawn position algorithm on map generation to avoid spawning in liquids

fixed various minor graphical bugs

fixed various minor bugs

That’s all, for now! We’ll let you know as soon as the new version is approved and live on the AppStore!