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[Cryptite]

The 1.21.8 Update​

Blocks, Mobs, Tech, Fun!​

Time to update Loka! The update from 1.21.4 -> 1.21.8 doesn't change too many things, but does add a few cool features/mobs and adds a lot of texture to the world. Additionally it provides the new Locator Bar and Dialog system which we intend to make heavy use of on Loka. Perks of staying up to date with latest Minecraft!



Block Updates
The following new blocks in the update are going to be retroactively added to the world:

Bush​	Firefly bush​	Cactus flower​	Dry grass​
Moor Taiga Mega Taiga	Swamp Mangrove Forest Mesa Oasis Desert Oasis	Cactus flowers organically grow on cactus naturally. Desert Mesa	Desert

Leaf Litter and

Wildflowers
We're introducing a dynamic new system to Loka in the same vein as Trails. Whereas trails will naturally form over time if many players run over the same blocks over and over again (most commonly seen in Conquest battles), Leaf Litter will naturally accumulate under trees/leaves, with players breaking the decorative blocks if they walk over them. You can see where players have recently been in heavily covered leaf litter areas! We may choose to replace all the force-generated cherry petal leaves with a dynamic system in the future for consistency.

Wildflowers are unique to specific biomes:

• Birch Forest
• Ancient Forest
• Sunset Isles
• Jungle
• Ancient Jungle

Mechanically, the way these "litter" blocks accumulate:

• They generate very slowly, under all leaf blocks based on a noise map and with some spread.
• Only on Continents (Ascalon, Garama, Kalros).
• Only in Territories, but not in Towns.
• Walking over them breaks the block!
  • Even if you're invis!
  • If you manually placed these blocks in your town, walking over them will not break them.

Mob Updates
The update provides new varieties of Pigs, Cows, and Chickens. You will now be able to find these new variants throughout Loka:

Pigs​	Cows​	Chickens​	Sheep​
Temperate Pig Jungle Ancient Jungle Swamp Cold Pig Savannah Warm Pig Desert Mesa	​ Temperate Cow Forest Birch Forest Mangrove Forest Cold Cow Mountains Ancient Forests Warm Cow Clay Cliffs Sunset isles	Temperate Chicken Ascalon Cold Chicken Kalros Warm Chicken Garama	Given that Mojang didn't change anything about sheep textures or models, we have elected to do nothing new with Sheep at this time.

Happy Ghasts​

• Will be fully available! All natural Aerial-entry checks to block them flying into Towns will be present much like with Players, along with some extra restrictions to make sure they really don't.

Other

• Players will not be visible by default on the new Locator Bar. Instead we plan to use this to help with trackable quests and, in the future, showing Party Members.
• Saddles are naturally craftable now, so have been removed from /rb as a custom Loka recipe.
• Ping in tab will return to it's normal state some time after the update. (Being your most recent ping, rather than your recent average ping)
• We will slowly convert many Loka inventory-based GUIs over to Dialogs, probably starting with /settings. Very excited about this!

That's all. Enjoy the update and Go Forth!

 

[Kylaz]

Awesome sauce

 

[fa1c]

Great

 

[Alexfoolery]

wow

 

[mcsamj]

 

[LuisBack]

 

[mindblaster007]

I politely think that they should heavily reconsider allowing the leaves thing to be toggleable in town settings, not just disabled. Also, kinda racist that they didn’t do anything with sheep… just cause Microsoft doesn’t care about the sheep race doesn’t mean you shouldn’t either.

 

[capybara]

cool