Changelog

This changelog describes changes, additions, corrections and other changes to this game in each version, starting with Alpha 0.1.

Alpha 0.23 (March 31, 2026)

• The row of the custom resolution in SettingsState becomes invisible if any resolution selected. Else if the “Custom” option is selected, that row is becoming visible and active
• The field of the custom resolution becomes inactive if the fullscreen select element is set to true
• The field of the custom resolution can only accept digits and ‘x’ character
• The form in the settings menu are being filled by the current settings
• Vsync and FPS are settable on run, without any need to restart the game
• Introduced new world saving format: each region of 4×4 chunks is saved in a separated file
• Restored rendering of ‘hint.3’ on the “Delete logs” button
• Started to work on XML parsing of the states
• Added running lambdas on listing and other setting the current position at a Select element
• Added an alert window that appears after saving the settings
• Added ‘hint.4’ for the inactive tutorial button in the main menu
• Fixed the bug where saving the settings wasn’t possible
• Fixed the bug where an attempt to get an GUI element from a collection by a wrong name throws NoSuchElementException
• Fixed some potential bugs that may occur while using the inner text processor with short keys, if not all of them
• Improved the GUI system
• Improved the inner text processor

Alpha 0.22 (March 22, 2026)

• Introduced new EULA
• Restored exception catching with entering ExceptionState
• Restored and fixed the falling item merging
• Restored char limit to the FPS field in the settings state
• Restored the camera moving by WASD. Sorry for misleading in the tutorial, because it is written that you can control by WASD, but you couldn’t!
• Restored message rendering about saving the world at the pause
• Added Spanish names
• Added new language: Brazilian Portuguese
• Fixed the bug where it was possible to dig up a block under a plant
• Fixed the bug where the “/lib” folder isn’t being deleted during uninstallation
• Fixed the bug where wrong worlds could be deleted
• Fixed the bug where generating more than one world in the same run was impossible
• Fixed the bug where items were poorly supplied to building blocks
• Fixed the bug where the “settings.ini” file could not be saved in the installable distribution
• Fixed potential bugs related to the item supplying
• Fixed the name list
• Optimized the rendering of new items
• Optimized UBJSON parsing a little bit
• Deleted the comments in the settings.ini file after the values
• etc.

Alpha 0.21 (March 8, 2026)

• Introduced string IDs for block and plant drops
• Plants can drop more than one type of items
• Blocks with placeholder texture can be again rendered
• Restored rectangular selection
• Added new biome: Savanna
• Added new block: Savanna grass
• Added new plant: High savanna grass
• Added new plant: Very high savanna grass
• Added new plant: Red flower
• Added new plant: Blue flower
• Added new plant: Acacia
• Added new item: Stick
• Added more detailed hints by holding the Shift buttons
• Renamed normal/continental biome to ‘temperate’
• Rearranged plant IDs
• Fixed water and ice rendering on the x-axis map border
• Fixed Sabbath behavior
• Fixed the bug where the date and the time were rendered at wrong place
• Optimized the items update
• Deleted useless ‘amount’ property from the ‘res/data/biomes.json5’ file
• etc.

Alpha 0.20 (February 19, 2026)

• Rewrote the code
• Introduced new GUI system
• Introduced new world file structure
• Introduced new pathfinding algorithm
• Changed IDs of some blocks
• Added new block: Clay
• Added new item: Clay
• Added cutting, copying, pasting and deleting to the text and the number fields
• Added switching between the form elements via Tab key
• Improved world generating, loading and other logging
• Improved item supplying to building blocks
• etc.

Alpha 0.18 (June 1, 2025)

• Introduced new item supplying system
• Introduced new crafting system, including the new concept of utilities
• Added names for the settlers
• Added dots to hovered file rows in the file loading menu for easier navigation
• Added rendering of some human data and the item data in the given coordinate as a hint
• Added a button for canceling the given orders
• Added a confirmation window before deleting a saved world
• Updated stove recipes to include logs or charcoal
• Fixed the bug with the problems of coloring by rarity in recipe hints in other languages
• Fixed a number of bugs related to providing input while a world is being created or loaded
• Fixed the bug when Sabbaths were not being confirmed in loaded worlds
• Fixed the bug which allowed to craft items on Sabbath
• Crafting recipe ingredients and block materials are separated by lines in the hints
• World names cannot consist of illegal characters
• Renamed the Apache 2.0 license file to “apache_2.0 (GSON and UBJSON).txt”
• etc.

Alpha 0.17.1 (April 17, 2025)

• Added translations for the rarity ranks
• Added ingredient coloring by rarity in recipe hints (partly)
• Added logging supplying of items to building blocks
• Added water and ice animations
• Added side shading at the edges of wooded worlds
• Expanded the space between the columns in the menu
• Liquids are being rendered transparently
• The upper bar is not covering more the “northwestern” corner of the map, when the camera is on the uppermost side
• Fixed the bug with merging the same items downwards to the amount more than 16
• Fixed the bug that did not allow to supply stone to a building block
• New MapItems supersede the older ones, if they share the same coordinates
• Changed the recipe of Silver ingot and Gold ingot
• etc.

Alpha 0.17 (April 3, 2025)

• Added new block: Copper ore
• Added new block: Silver ore
• Added new item: Sand
• Added new item: Copper ore
• Added new item: Silver ore
• Added new item: Copper ingot
• Added new item: Silver ingot
• Added rarity
• Changed the texture of the next blocks: Grass, Snowy grass, Dirt and Sand
• Changed the texture of the next items: Mud, Stone, Log and Fiber
• Changed the indices of the next blocks: Dirt, Sand, Stone, Coal, Iron ore, Gold ore, Water and Ice
• Changed the indices of the next items: Iron ore, Gold ore, Iron ingot and Gold ingot
• Changed the background image
• Improved the logging
• Fixed the bug that didn’t allow to generate a world containing the last plant in the index (cactus)
• etc.

Alpha 0.16 (February 27, 2025)

• Updated the EULA
• Added upper bar
• Added money
• Added date and time
• People don’t work on Sabbath
• Fixed the crush of rendering blocks that are placed higher than Z=19
• Added new translation: German
• etc.

Alpha 0.15 (Januar 6, 2025)

• Added Minimap
• Added new Mapgen: Mapgen Ver. 3.1
• Added option to set custom resolution
• Added option to copy stack traces to the clipboard
• Added new item: Iron ingot
• Added new item: Gold ingot
• Fixed the display of a plant’s name when the mouse cursor hovers over the bar and pointing to the plant
• Elements in the bar disappear after a right click on the map
• etc.

Alpha 0.14 (November 19, 2024)

• Added new Mapgen: Mapgen Ver. 3
• Added new block: Coal
• Added new block: Iron ore
• Added new block: Gold ore
• Added new item: Coal
• Added new item: Iron ore
• Added new item: Gold ore
• Fixed the bug which caused to load the same world while entering to the “Load Game” state after it was already loaded
• Fixed the bug which caused to show the error label near to world name field for generating more than the first world in the session

Alpha 0.13 (September 30, 2024)

• Reclassified the plants
• Added new plant: Spruce tree
• Added paging in world file selection
• Introduced new exception handling system
• New map version system used
• Lakes are surrounded by sand
• Properties class is used for version data
• Updated Java® to 17
• Added logging
• Increased minimal resolution to 1024×600
• Improved the EULA textbox
• etc.

Alpha 0.12.1 (August 15, 2024)

• Updated the EULA
• Fixed bug when saving of new settings causes the game to crash
• Fixed bug when users, other than the one who installed the game, can’t save their worlds
• Fixed data format
• “C:\ProgramData\Towns ‘n’ Fields” directory is deleted when the game is being uninstalled
• Improved alerting when exceptions linked to the “settings.ini” are thrown
• etc.

Alpha 0.12 (August 4, 2024)

• Added installation version
• Blocks are biult by using items
• Added new block: Crafting table
• Added new item: Rope
• Added rectangle selection of blocks
• Crafted items are put down
• Updated world format
• Fixed bug when all the items from a block are taken, even when only one is needed
• Fixed crash when a human tries to destroy a non-existent plant
• Fixed crash when a human tries to grab a non-existent item
• etc.

Alpha 0.11.1 (June 9, 2024)

• Introduced new EULA
• Added new map sizes: 3XL (384×384) and 4XL (512×512)
• Added gameplay guide
• Added saving the camera position
• Fixed and optimized plant rendering
• Fixed bug when loaded from a file plants, entities and items were mislocated if their values in X or Y-axis were greater than 255
• Now people perform orders given when all the people are going or working, after they have finished their ones
• Used Ver. 2 mapgen as default
• It’s impossible to try to generate island world in Ver. 1 mapgen
• etc.

Alpha 0.11 (May 19, 2024)

• The game is being developed by Toham Studios
• New world format used
• Added new block: Stove
• Added new item: Mushroom stew
• Added pause menu by Escape button
• Added 3 new world sizes
• Added message queue in the upper-right corner
• Changed the index of Saw block
• Fixed the block cursor
• Fixed bug when the game crashes while giving an order when all the people are going. Now it’s just ignored
• etc.

Alpha 0.10 (March 26, 2024)

• Added name IDs
• Added new item: Mushroom
• Added external file for versions
• Added slow scrolling of the world
• Disabled periodic adding plants
• New string file used
• Fixed bug with no-rendering some of the mushrooms
• Fixed bug with map cursor
• Fixed bug with crashing while a world is being loaded
• Fixed bug with people baring mud in a loaded world
• etc.

Alpha 0.9 (Januar 29, 2024)

• Added logo
• Added new item: Wooden Plank
• Added new block: Saw
• Added crafting
• People can grab and carry items
• Blocks are separated by categories
• People keep distance when they perform several actions
• The name of the block selected for construction is displayed in the upper-right corner
• etc.

Alpha 0.8 (November 5, 2023)

• It is possible to choose a Mapgen
• Added new world biome: Woody
• Added new world type: Island
• Added new plant: Mushroom
• Added new blocks: Water and Ice
• Added new file for biome properties
• Fixed the language file in order to add missing names
• Fixed some bugs
• etc.

Alpha 0.7 (September 19, 2023)

• Added new Human skins
• Entities now are able to have different sprites depending on the direction they are looking
• Entities are using pathfinding algorithm now (in development)
• For generating the world entering its name is required now
• Fixed some bugs
• etc.

Alpha 0.6.1 (July 12, 2023)

• Map rendering is more fast than before
• Solved some problems with the Settings form
• People are generating in the middle of the map
• The camera in the start of the game is in the middle of the map
• Fixed some bugs
• etc.

Alpha 0.6 (July 6, 2023)

• New plant added: Very high grass
• New background which represents the new content
• High grass and Very high grass have new rendering format with foreground and bachground images for being more realistic
• High grass is regrowing
• Deleted currently useless /fonts folder
• etc.

Alpha 0.5 (June 11, 2023)

• New plant added: Cactus
• New item added: Fiber. For the truth, it is currently unusable
• New plant system. Now it includes new properties, for example, which texture for a specific plant will be used
• New map format
• EULA in the start. If accepted, it will not more appear there
• Optimized alert system
• Deferred loading is used now
• Different JSON5 files are used instead of one
• etc.

Alpha 0.4 (January 25, 2023)

• New blocks added: Chair and Box
• The game uses more strings from “en.json5” file
• More optimized code
• The bar has some improvements in it’s interface
• In-game settings

Alpha 0.3.1 (January 8, 2023)

• Deleted some unused stuff
• Now it’s possible to load files from versions before Alpha 0.3
• Changed design of Loading world Menu
• Added option to delete a world from the game
• Changed texture of Table
• The game is not more supplied with “readme.html” file, because at the moment it has untruthful information. Sorry!
• Fixed bug which didn’t allow to save worlds
• Now it’s possible to write to the Seed blank only integer number

Alpha 0.3 (January 1, 2023)

• Changed files organization
• Changed map generation: added option to generate hills
• Changed file format: you can’t open world files from the older versions
• Changed Main Menu
• From now you can store more than one world a time
• Improved GUI
• Added Background
• Added Map Size
• Added Biomes
• Added Snowy Grass
• Added Sand
• Added Table
• Added face highlighting

Alpha 0.2 (December 7, 2022)

• Changed the name of the game to “Towns ‘n’ Fields” (with spaces)
• Added Glass
• Added Marble bricks
• From now adding new blocks doesn’t necessary requires editing in the code. It can be achieved by editing the “res/data.json5” file
• Also, it’s possible to edit some in-game strings in “res/langs/en.json5” file without editing the code itself
• Fixed bug which didn’t allow to enter the “About” screen
• Changed the “About” screen
• Changed the texture of ceramic bricks
• Returned the previous EULA with some minoric changes

Alpha 0.1.1 (November 27, 2022)

• Fixed bug of alerting sometimes in English instead of Hebrew
• Removed some unused libraries and a directory
• Removed unused properties in the “settings.ini” file

Alpha 0.1 (November 27, 2022)

• Added Ceramic blocks
• Added items grouping
• Added shading
• Added saving and loading the map
• Added more alert strings
• Added alert strings in Hebrew
• Improved bar
• Improved side shading of the textures
• Optimized map rendering
• Changed some textures of the items
• & more