The May 17th, 2020 update, also known as the Buffalkor Update, is the seventh major update in Islands. This update introduced a new island, as well as new blocks and tools.
Patchnotes[]
Patchnote #1[]
New content patch is rolling out!
- 🗿 Buffalkor Mob & Island
- ✨ Gold Ore
- ⚔️ Iron War Axe
- 🔨 Gilded Steel Hammer
- 🥇 Gilded Steel Tools
- 🕯️ Lighting Station Gamepass
- 🔷 Coal, Iron and Gold Blocks
- 👓 Glass Blocks
- 🏭 Industrial Stonecutter
- 🥕 Carrot Cake
- 🌻 Flower Pots
- 🎵 Fix background music
- 🔊 Mobs play a sound when taking damage
- 🥫 Fix some foods not being edible
- ⚡ Bug fixes and performance optimizations
- Note: You need a "Buffalkor Island Key" to travel to the new island. This is a new rare drop from killing slimes.
- Note 2: Crystalized Iron is a rare drop from manually breaking iron rocks.
We'll make both of these things more clear in a follow up patch tomorrow 🙂
Link: https://discord.com/channels/699869792445792348/699870693675892746/711654121194913802
Patchnote #2[]
Rolling out a small bug fix patch.
- 🗒️ Fix an issue that could cause island data to corrupt
- 💸 Lower cost of gilded steel tools
- 🛠️ Fix an issue that could cause two islands to overlap
- ✍️ Fix some item descriptions
Link: https://discord.com/channels/699869792445792348/699870693675892746/711821964720734249
Patchnote #3[]
Deployed another set of bug fixes aimed to fix island corruption.
Link: https://discord.com/channels/699869792445792348/699870693675892746/712009244991422515
Patchnote #4[]
Rolling out some more bug fixes.
Link: https://discord.com/channels/699869792445792348/699870693675892746/712391930734182480
Patchnote #5[]
More bug fixes are going live!
We've identified an issue where joining a server with a large island (40,000+ blocks) could crash the server if not enough memory is available. This results in the large island's data being corrupted (lots of missing blocks). As a temporary fix, we now deny large islands from joining a server if it will cause a crash. This means players with large islands may need to join several different servers until they are able to load-in.
We're working on ways we can avoid this type of restriction for large islands. For the time being, players with large islands are recommended to either join non-full servers or reserve a VIP server. We've also lowered the max player count to 22. We're hoping this lowered limit is only temporary.
Link: https://discord.com/channels/699869792445792348/699870693675892746/712535293881745448
Patchnote #6[]
Quick patch to help with servers becoming unbearably laggy over time.
Link: https://discord.com/channels/699869792445792348/699870693675892746/712535293881745448
Changes[]
Added[]
- New Island: Buffalkor Island
- New Enemy: Buffalkor
- New Weapons: Iron War Axe and Gilded Steel Hammer
- New Tools: Gilded Steel Axe and Gilded Steel Pickaxe
- New Recipe: Carrot Cake Batter and Carrot Cake
- New Gamepass: Lighting Station Gamepass
- New Ore: Gold Ore
- New Item Drops: Buffalkor Crystal and Crystallized Iron.
- New Blocks:
Modified[]
- Fixed background music from not playing.
- Fixed mobs not playing their taking damage sound effect when taking damage.
- Fixed some foods not being edible.
- Performance optimizations.
- Reduced the chance of player's islands could get corrupted or overlapping.
- Fixed item descriptions being incorrect