Month: February 2016

Two updates for the 9BitMMO client today in build 2055:

Freecam Mode

You can now press F6 to enable free camera mode to fly around — great for taking screenshots/videos of your creations.

Use W,A,S,D to move normally. Q,E to go up/down. And hold shift to go fast.

Glitch Mode (experimental)

You can press F5 to enable Glitch Mode, which will every once in a while render glitch artwork correctly.  This comes at the cost of a) much lower framerate, and b) making everything else render incorrectly.  The long term solution is probably smaller blocks to do glitch artwork ‘properly’, but in the meantime you can get some nice renders using this technique:

It tends to work most frequently in the normal camera mode (no rotation mode).

Two issues fixed on 9BitMMO.  First, sometimes the game would crash in certain areas due to underground objects.  Second, sometimes transparent objects had a box around them.  Both are now fixed.

Following up on some of the planned security improvements I discussed earlier, the backend now uses a new, more secure password hashing system (Blowfish with random salt).

In order to upgrade your account password hash, simply login normally to the website or in-game (anywhere you normally type your username & password).  If you normally use Steam auto-login, you’ll want to login via the website one time in order for your password hash to be upgraded to the new format.

Both 8BitMMO and 9BitMMO have been updated to support the new system.

As always, please let me know if you spot any new bugs as a result of this change.