This video is to announce OctoberPeaks 1.6 (OctoberProject 1.8).

This version adds a bunch of mechanics and content to provide more of a reason to explore the world. This primarily includes the generation of a floating castle and towers. These towers are connected via portals which teleport the player between them and the castle also includes new enchanted items.

Note that portals and enchanted items cannot yet be created by the player but this will be added in a later release.

Also, the world generation changed to make the world crust thicker and now generates copper and diamond ore. Copper is much like iron, just produces lower-quality results. Diamonds can be used in crafting to make diamond-tipped iron tools. Copper is also now used for logic blocks instead of iron. Another note-worthy crafting change in the addition of ladders to allow easy vertical movement.

The default view distance has also changed from 1 cuboid to 3 and the maximum now defaults to 5.

In the next release, more changes will be made to entities so that they can be larger (make the player taller) and also to allow dropped items to behave like entities in the world (instead of just sitting on the ground, statically), eventually allowing the addition of a bow and arrow since projectiles will be part of this.

Thanks for checking it out,
Jeff.