good thing this showed up in my feed. was about to give up learning it for a final project of a small sample game.

Seeing this base I feel like there should be a documentary about how Minecraft building styles have changed over the years. Alpha had blocky simple buildings, Beta had complex but still simple looking structures, then the early 2010s had plenty of those modern houses and buildings that were pretty realistic, and now in the 2020s builds are extremely complex and detailed.

Love 2D mentioned! My intro to programming as a whole. Yeah. It's a framework. But respect...!m!

Well it seems pretty cool. Reminds me of minetest

Have you ever played the Myst games? I dunno why but your world really reminds me of those games.

I've realized something about the Beta/Alpha versions of Minecraft that took me a long time to put into words: On top of the lonely setting you mentioned, the limited block types really lends itself to a very specific type of gameplay/building. Modern Minecraft has so many different block types that people will build structures that are trying to be as realistic and/or detailed as possible. This simply isn't possible in Beta/Alpha Minecraft because of your limited toolset. These limitations mean people tend to naturally build things that tend to trend towards surrealism instead of realism. Your sand, tree village at the beginning is a perfect example. It looks like something I'd have dreamed of as a kid, and only have a vague recollection of. If somebody were to try and make a similar creation in modern Minecraft, they'd probably try to make it into a recreation of the Ewok village from Star Wars, or something along those lines.

I had to read the thread as I wasn't sure I had posted to that one or not. I've stuck my nose into several similar posts. I tend to think of Lua as the skeleton of a programming language that one extends with bits and pieces during application development. I've been messing around with LuaJIT for the past twelve years, and it's just a very handy thing as much for its FFI (e.g. I have a small script that calls out to mmap directly) as its speed. I committed enough to the platform that when I see a nice library or subsystem like a database engine, I look to see if someone's already written Lua support for it. My first serious application was a backenbd for the LPRng print queuing system. The low level stuff that slung and retrieve bytes from the PostScript printers was in C, but the top level logic was in LuaJIT. These days, being a lot more comfy with LuaJIT's FFI than I was at the start, I suspect I could even do most of the I/O stuff in LuaJIT and ditch a lot of the C code.. Quick note: Iguana starts with a capital I, not a lower case l. The system is named after medium sized lizard.

You mean "It's okay to be white" "Zoe Quinn is a cunt" "I stand by Qanon" "heterosexual pride" Notch? Yeah I don't think I really care.

Very interesting build.

i havent seen much about cosmic reach since near the beginning of this year. a lot has changed

:)

Add herobrine next pls :)

"IDK it just worked" daily life of an dev

Tell me just 1 reason to play your game instead of Minecraft.

wow! What a nice game!

hi

cool game

except the fact it's really easy to ddos by abusing the fact that there is no text limit there's a server rn being ddosed

Cool, how is the modding working? Im getting better at Java and want to mod this game a bit And how can I enter that Discord?

Oh hay I was in the video.

I'm so happy to see progress on multiplayer! It's going to be so cool to see people play together once it's finished! :D

Not gonna lie, I was starting to get a little worried about the development of this game after three weeks without an update.....FFE did NOT need to bless us with updates every 5 days like that, but he did, and his dedication to this voxel game still astonishes me

First!

Where I've seen Lua in the past: - scripting language for MagicLantern, a custom DSLR firmware extension - scripting language for the wiremod of Garry's mod - scripting language for Multi Theft Auto (MTA) servers - scripting language for The Settlers 5 maps

5:40 ~ 5:58 those can be new sounds for the player for taking damage as example or when you lose all hearts.

Thanks for playing my map! The way I’ve found the wall riding to work seems to be that the downwards gravity is constant as soon as you hit the block. Pretty weird!

Was there a video on the tunnel challenge? Did i juat miss it?

I can understand this man he is a millionaire and didnt do anything for years but something was missing for him his passion of development

i love the tree look, that is so damn unique and creative. im for sure gonna try that glow effect in my world

u sound like technoblade

Cool minecraft world! & nice voice over. like the actor, Brian Posehn.

Interesting

Technoblade? :D

now all we need are moonlanding flags as a way to set spawnpoints. (not my idea it's from a random guy on itch but i love the concept)

factorio

trees look like small rockets! :3

I really loved the new world generation, especially how stunning it looks at sunset! First of all, the water looks very clear. It would be even better if it gets darker towards the bottom (not talking about the ocean), which would give it a more realistic feel. - I noticed in other comments that adding something like distant horizons would be amazing. - The jumping feels a bit like being on the moon; it could be a bit more lively. - Adding a unique character model that shows the arms in both third-person and first-person views, but distinct from Minecraft, would make it more original and appealing. I'm following Cosmic Reach, and I think it’s a fantastic project. I’m excited for the upcoming updates!

This looks so cool

Bigger, connected caves further down could be interesting.

Will this game have an option for shaders? Like waving leaves and moving water?

This update is crazy, I didn't had launched Cosmic Reach since like the version ~0.1.15, so for quite a while tbh, it's cool to see the huge progress that has been made !

Imagine making a version of GTNH for this :3

These cave heights are CRAZY dude, imagine the giant lava lakes that could be programmed in the lowest layers of the world

The best part of this update is that generateSlabs is FINALLY DEAD LET’S GOOOO 👏👏👏👏

Was not expecting to hear Ever17 referenced. Still remember being floored by a certain scene involving a mirror...

I wonder if caving in this game is going to be different than minecraft caving. Minecraft caving is somewhat simple, just running around and placing torches everywhere. I can imagine rock climbing type stuff to adapt to the more vertical spaces.

finally! the new age of cosmic reach is almost upon us.

14:54 I think that something like the Distant Horizons Minecraft mod, where it uses LODs to render things far away would be cool

it's so pretty :0

will cosmic reach be open source? I hope so...