Hey everyone, Update 54 for cyubeVR is live!

This update adds 75 objectives to the game, improves the graphics of the night sky and grass, and adds many more improvements, optimizations and bugfixes!

And Merry Christmas! Santa was generous this year, until December 31 you can find christmas presents with valuable items in your cyubeVR world! More about that below.

Let's take a look at the long list of changes first, and after that, let's get into more detail for the biggest changes! Btw, are you in the official cyubeVR discord yet?

• Added 75 Objectives to the game!
  
• Added a new achievement for unlocking all objectives
  
• Improved visuals of the stars in the sky, and added a new option on the "Sky Quality" setting
  
• Improved the grass and dirt side texture
  
• Further optimized the view distance fog code, making it ~25% faster
  
• Christmas presents can now also contain Starstones, Shimmertiles and Cloaknuggets
  
• Christmas presents and easter eggs now also support gravity gloves
  
• Improved the visuals of the green "valid crafting recipe" particles.
  
• Made the grass/dirt side texture, and starstone, look better during snow
  
• Added 4 new stats in the "Stats" tab of the Briefcase
  
• Rearranged the order of the stats in the "Stats" tab of the Briefcase
  
• The items in christmas presents now depend on which objectives the player has already unlocked
  
• Added "Razer Cortex" warning to the main menu
  
• Added new INI setting in the Game.ini: WalkingSpeedOverdrive=0
  
• Made bucket flying more smooth
  
• Reduced speed of clouds and aurora in the sky
  
• Added new screenshots to the community screenshot showcase in the main menu
  
• The focus warning is now disabled by default
  
• Moved the "Can't modify world here yet" warning a bit further down, so that it does not overlap
  
• Added C drive space warning to the main menu
  
• Fixed tiling of custom blocks with normal maps
  
• Fixed UI pointer intersection being incorrect on mod widgets
  
• Fixed a crash when DLSS is active
  
• Fixed torch recipe showing the recipe for a cloaked torch, not a normal torch
  
• Fixed torch recoloring not working correctly
  
• Fixed christmas presents and easter eggs behaving a bit weirdly regarding when they can be collected
  
• Fixed cloaked rainbow torch not looking correct
  

Objectives!

There is a new tab in the briefcase now: "Objectives". One small tab in the briefcase, one giant leap for the game!

So, in this new tab, the game now shows you objectives that you can choose to follow. cyubeVR is a sandbox game that gives you complete freedom to do whatever you want, but there is a certain progression in the game that makes sense to complete, like getting better tools, getting crystals and using them, etc. Sometimes you might feel like you don't quite know what is the next thing to do that would make sense regarding the progression of the game, so that's where these new objectives now come in! They'll give every player from now on a useful sense of direction whenever required.

These objectives are basically also an interactive tutorial, as the first few objectives cover all the basics you need to know about how the important mechanics of the game work.

There are a total of 75 objectives in the game now, starting with the very simple objective of "Open the Briefcase" and ending with much more difficult objectives ;) It will be interesting to see how many players will succeed all the objectives!

There also is a new achievement now that you get when succeeding all the objectives in the game.

Improved visuals of the night sky

Stars in the sky look much prettier now compared to before! Especially on high-resolution VR headsets, it's a massive difference :) Here's an before/after comparison:

Before:




After:



If you set the "Sky Quality" setting to "Low", you still see the old stars. On "Good" and "Best" you see the new stars. So you can compare it yourself in the game and see how much nicer the new stars look!

Christmas Presents!

It's this time of the year again! Every year at this time, there's a special seasonal event going on in your cyubeVR world: Santa flew over your world and gave you a ton of christmas presents that you can find now! Some of Santas helpers even hid christmas presents in some of your chests :)

The christmas presents have been further improved this year, they can can now be collected with gravity gloves, collecting them is easier, and they contain a bigger variety of items, including the new Starstone, Shimmertiles and Cloaknuggets that were added with the recent Update 53! So make sure to go on a hunt for christmas presents in your cyubeVR world between December 18 and December 31!

Oh, and deer also have red noses in cyubeVR during this time ;)

New screenshots in the community screenshot showcase!

These new screenshots of very cool builds have been added to the community screenshot showcase in the main menu of the game:

Castle Fort | Built by: Bhima




WIP USS Enterprise (1:1 Scale) | Built by: roehrensockel



Divine Tower | Built by: Plantmaster



Lighthouse | Built by: Talsma



Village for the castle | Built by: @Plantmaster

Thanks very much to all the Patreon supporters!

A big thanks to everyone for supporting the development of cyubeVR on Patreon! I'm working full-time on cyubeVR, and it's often quite hard to make a living purely off the Steam sales of the game, so any Patreon Supporter is really worth a lot for the continued development of the game. Thanks so much to all the Patreon Supporters (list sorted by total lifetime donation, highest first):


ChibiArcher, Arados, @B4nH4mm3r on Discord, Quill, SkgBlaze, ErrorNull, Ethernoctis, Trevor Berninger, Tom Hörberg, Sceptrex, Al Raw, Lucanes, David O, KroyVR, Lynx, Shanya / Sabrina, MightyDuck, Eti the Spirit, WillyVR, David R., Austin Flores, TallOnTwo, Bhima, Plantmaster, Altair, Tiddlez, Michael Ballard, DiamondHunter_, HeyMika, Saltshine, WarChi1d, gunair, Alphie, Jackerino, VenturePopTV, Dark Slaughter, M1kk3l, Curzek, Lucas van Leiden, mazzawoollza, RelativelyQuantum, Netshaman, Dave Pearson, Albertbz, Bucket Codes, Lordoldmanrets, Daniel Crawford, texhnobees, Talsma, TinyMrMan (MB), AnubisXtreme, Adrian Sawn, joerkig, MurphChops, Connor A, Algiz, Yasha, SingingFluffyUK, Volpe, wherr, nqeron, Saul2000, __mt


Patreon rewards are being mentioned in the list of Patreon supporters in the main menu, getting a special colored name in the official cyubeVR discord, and physical items like a sticker, mug, or T-Shirt with cyubeVR designs.

More awesome new mods

Recently, one new mod was added to the workshop! Let's mention it here:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2895017907&searchtext=

If it looks interesting to you, just install it with one click from the Steam Workshop. cyubeVR is highly moddable. If you're interested in creating your own mods for cyubeVR, take a look at this high level modding overview:
https://github.com/cyubeVR-Modding/.github/blob/main/profile/README.md#cyubevr-modding-overview



As usual, thanks very much to our great beta testers in the official cyubeVR discord who tested this update as part of 11 separate beta builds! If you want to test new features earlier when they come out in the beta branch, make sure to join the discord and take a look at the #beta-build-patch-notes and #beta-build-discussion channel!

That's all for today, and probably also this year! If you like the game, don't forget to tell other people about it and write a review on Steam if you haven't done that already, even if it's simply "good game". Writing a positive review is the easiest way you can support the game because indie devs like me are very dependent on the Steam Algorithm recommending the game to new people to be able to afford to keep working on it! That's one of the the best christmas presents you can give me :)

Thanks for caring about the game and as usual, make sure to report all issues you see and give me as much feedback as possible in the official forums or the official discord server, join it before its full ;) We're over 3800 people there already, come and join us! If you don't like something about the game, please tell me there and I'll try to improve it! I'm available to chat with anyone in discord :)

There's also the official cyubeVR subreddit on Reddit, if you're active on Reddit, make sure to subscribe to it and maybe post some great screenshots there!

You can also follow cyubeVR on Twitter.

And lastly, don't forget there's an official roadmap with voting features.

Looking forward to hearing what you think about the new update :)

Merry Christmas and happy new year!

Cheers!