Mine Blocks 2 is BACK!

Last time I released a Mine Blocks 2 update was in 2015 — 9 years ago!
It feels like a lifetime since the last Mine Blocks 2 news, haha; I made five big Mine Blocks 1 updates and 37 videos within that time!

I can't only just say I ported the game to HTML5 and added new features. I also must reintroduce it with a brand new Mine Blocks 2 video!
Check it out:

Want to go to the game? Click the thing! Or keep scrolling for the changelog.

Generally, Better!
To bring Mine Blocks 2 back, I had to rewrite the entire game in the Haxe programming language. This was a great opportunity to improve many subtle aspects of the game.

So the game now has an uncapped FPS! No cap fr. It runs at your monitor's refresh rate, and you can adjust that in the settings menu.

Many bugs were fixed: ore distribution, world corruption, and dozens of offsets with lighting and entities.

And hopefully many of you will enjoy the new language options: Spanish and Portuguese! de nada, de nada

Water Improvements!
Water now looks much nicer, thanks to how light more naturally passes through it.

It's more interactive too - items float in water (and burn in lava), swimming is improved, and there's an air meter. Much more realistic!
Buckets were also added, allowing you to relocate water and lava.

Water used to be the biggest source of lag in Mine Blocks 2. That is no longer true, due to careful management of block updates and lighting caches.

New Items!
Bed were added! Which means you can now rest your weary satchel, reset your spawn point, and skip the long nights. Finally!

And there are now doors - one for each type of wood. They are fundamentally useful for making houses look natural. Plus they keep the leaf particles out ofc.

Copper blocks were also added, as well as the ability to cultivate cacti and cotton.

Mine Blocks 2 0.8 Changelog:

- Ported the game to HTML5! :D
- Added uncapped FPS, and framerate settings
- Added tool durability
- Added beds for sleeping and setting spawn
- Added buckets
- Added doors, one for each wood type
- Added copper blocks
- Added cactus growth
- Added cactus flowers
- Added cotton seedlings
- Added localizations for Spanish and Portuguese
- Added ability to ctrl+click a block in creative to obtain it
- Added the ability for items to float in water
- Added the ability for items to burn in lava
- Added air meter
- Fixed ores not generating proper amounts
- Fixed being able to place solid blocks directly over the player
- Fixed being unable to build next to non-solid background blocks
- Fixed sand and gravel being placeable as background blocks
- Improved how lighting interacts with water and vines
- Improved player movement
- Improved walk animation
- Improved shape of light emitted from torches
- Improved accuracy of entity lighting
- Improved tooltips to resize to content
- Updated scale of health bar icons
- Updated texture pack layout
- Updated social media icons

Mine Blocks 2 0.8.1 Changelog:

- Fixed crash during startup after using a custom texture pack
- (Web) Fixed crash caused by entering an area of a world enough times
- (Web) Fixed block states not saving and loading (torch attachment, liquid level, wool colors)
- Fixed crash caused by trees growing near unloaded area of world
- Fixed recipe for smelting cobblestone into stone
- Fixed inventory item counts displaying above pause menu background
- Added loaded region display to F3 screen
- Tweaked fly speed 50% faster
- Tweaked creative mode to have no block placement cooldown
- Tweaked which regions generate on new world to center around spawn
- Tweaked German translation
- Tweaked info screen title font size

Now that Mine Blocks 2 has been revived, I can hopefully bring new semi-regular updates to the game again!
Next, I'd love to add sound effects, introduce more farming features, and work on multiplayer support.

Hopefully you'll see more of Mine Blocks 2 in less than 9 years this time lol
(The best way to immediately access behind the scenes and pre-release builds is to join the Mine Blocks+ Patreon! It'll support me :D)

Wishing you all an awesome day!
- Zanz

(Btw this is the 100th post here WOOO!!!)