2026-09-10 11:52 UTC · Community Announcements · Malkere
I was planning to release this patch on the beta branch before sending it live, but there was a couple of bugs, already fixed in this build, that ended up causing problems in the 1.2.2 branch that was released earlier in the week. So! I went ahead and pushed this branch live as well and things in general should be running smoother all around now.v 1.2.3.1MultiplayerJoining dedicated servers bug fixedBetter messaging when a join failsFixed a bug that could position a client improperly on server joinFixed a MP specific shrine bugCleaned up some annoying logs on dedicated servers World generation
2026-09-06 16:15 UTC · Community Announcements · Malkere
Merchants have been re-enabled in this build along with procedural NPC towns! They're still pretty basic, but it opens up a lot of opportunities for creating different kinds of NPCs.I've been crazy busy! This patch was ready days ago, but I kept finding little bugs the more I was able to playtest it. Hopefully there is nothing serious left. THOUGH, I do have a second patch ready to go up on beta tomorrow with some deeper level changes in the code that should get rid of more outlier case bugs, help prevent and track down bugs in the future, and improve performance.This patch and all going forwa
2026-07-23 15:20 UTC · Community Announcements · Malkere
Thank you to everyone that has posted a bug report or sent one in from the in-game console. I have tracked down and corrected around two dozen bugs for this patch, as well as added in a number of safety fallbacks for things that could otherwise cause a server disconnect, or in-game error.I've also worked on adding a lot of automated tests under the hood over these past few months. There are now over 10,000 checks including monster drops, biome & heightmap parity checks, building placement, all kinds of stuff that can go wrong with changes to the game code.I've also uploaded C++ versions to the
2026-07-01 14:36 UTC · Community Announcements · Malkere
Some fixes for the bugs reported thus far.Please let me know if you run into anything, I will fix it!v 1.2.1.2 2026.07.01 fixed mesh grass prefabs ignoring shadowsfixed grass not rendering at long distancesfixed old characters throwing combat errorsadded a guard to stop saturation getting set to 0 via old settings filesdisabled environment reflections on gems in caves (possible white wash glare cause)foundation specific and furniture specific building pieces placement explanations improvedJoin us in Discord!What You Can Do To Help- Keep up the kind words on our Steam posts and the Likes - You
2026-06-29 16:05 UTC · Community Announcements · Malkere
Believe it or not, I've been working on this game for 10 years now! What started as a dream from someone with no prior experience coding or working with Unity, certainly not in the gaming industry, has grown considerably with this latest patch.In all honesty, parts of Solace Crafting prior to this patch were still running on spaghetti I had written back in 2017. This isn't a complete overhaul fixing every last shortcoming of what I started so long ago, but it's a huge step forward, and I'm so thankful to everyone that has helped me make it this far. I hope to continue to make improvements to S
2026-06-25 16:10 UTC · Community Announcements · Malkere
Big patch up on beta right now that I've been working on for a long time. I was hoping to have it cleaned up for the start of the Steam Summer Sale, but I need 1 more day with it. Mostly just testing, optimization, and a little wiring. I wanted to get a blurb up though to make sure everyone knows it's coming!Please note that the current beta upload is for single player Windows only. If all goes according to plan tomorrow I will upload the Linux and server builds as well.Major changes * NEW TERRAIN ENGINE — The world now runs on a custom mesh-based terrain system (replacing Unity's built-in ter
2026-03-11 00:43 UTC · Community Announcements · Malkere
I've tried to gather and address all the recent bug reports. There are some "problems" that need improving still for sure, but I think I've got all the actual errors sorted out with this 3rd patch. The facility loading and saving bugs were persisting against my initial fixes but should be fully sorted out, now once again operating on the same systems that they operated on without problems in past. To ensure all your newly/recently placed facilities are fixed (storage chests, forges, teleporters, etc), picking them up and putting them back down will ensure they are moved back into the correct s
2026-03-04 14:59 UTC · Community Announcements · Malkere
Had a nasty bug to go with the new systems that was making facility slots not interact properly after being saved and loaded. I had a busy start to the week and wasn't able to get on top of this until today. Sorry it ended up sitting for a few days. There are a few smaller problems I'm still looking into, but wanted to get this up right away.v 1.1.1.10 2026.03.04- Fixed a bug causing reloaded facilities to not accept input properly - Fixed lightning and lightning audio not working properlyWhat You Can Do To Help - Keep up the kind words on our Steam posts and the Likes - You can get and suppor
2026-02-27 03:10 UTC · Community Announcements · Malkere
Thank you for the bug reports in Discord! I fixed up what I've been made aware of so far. I'll check out the Steam forums later on if I can find the time ːsteamthumbsupːWhat You Can Do To Help - Keep up the kind words on our Steam posts and the Likes - You can get and support the builder here: https://bigkittygames.itch.io/solace-builder - Drop by our IndieDB page to help make it visible: https://www.indiedb.com/games/solace-crafting-rebuild - Support on our Ko-fi page here: https://ko-fi.com/bigkittygames Join us in Discord!v 1.1.1.9 2026.02.27- Fixed a number of bugs preventing interacting w
2026-02-25 06:25 UTC · Community Announcements · Malkere
Kyle here.I've been working hard behind the scenes, and today we are officially moving the latest beta patch over to the live branch. Along with pushing the Solace Builder integration to live, we’ve packed in some additional fixes, upgrades, and improvements including upgrades to how characters move and animate. Over the past year, I’ve finally recognized that one of the major shortcomings of Solace Crafting has been the overall presentation and feel of the gameplay. I started making Solace Crafting in 2017, if you can believe it, and after so many thousands of hours of familiarity with it I w
2026-02-10 05:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Malkere
Hello everyone, and welcome to the ninth Producer’s Letter for Solace Crafting.I’m Fab and today will be yet another dense producer’s letter, as a lot of work has been going on behind the scenes, so let’s get into it.A quick recapWe previously discussed the plans and work in progress regarding new buildings and locations for Solace Crafting. Over our posts and response to comments, we’ve detailed our vision and approach for this little Solace ecosystem. We weren’t always as clearly spoken or as clearly heard as needed but with this first update it’s finally time to make big steps towards imple
2025-12-21 05:47 UTC · Community Announcements · Malkere
Hey folks,Had a bit of an asset mishap bringing stuff into SC that wasn't supposed to be there. Not just that it doesn't fit the art style, but it was not built to work with the same systems so was popping up lots of harmless but annoying error warnings. I've rolled the patch back for now, and am working on fixing it up to bring it back online.We'll be in touch again soon!
2025-12-19 15:23 UTC · Community Announcements · Malkere
This patch brings in the full capabilities that we've been working on with Solace Builder into Solace Crafting. I still haven't had the chance to check every item, and every feature, but regardless, it's always safer to upload any major changes onto the beta branch and give some of our valiant testers a chance behind the wheel before we push it live.In this build the old building interface is still accessible via the "Building" button on the main inventory screen, whereas pressing the build keybind, the default being 'B', will bring up the new interface. The new interface has instructions on b
2025-12-14 03:40 UTC · Community Announcements · Malkere
Hello everyone,Fab here!Today marks the release of v0.2 of the Solace Builder demo, which we've prioritized working on over the past few months. It's a considerable update from the initial release in that it contains a lot more function and a lot more content. While the first version focused on the placement mechanics, we have expanded those and given you a lot more assets to work with.Before we go an overview of the changes, let's restate the central role Solace Builder is to play in the Solace experience and how.Solace Builder is a free construction tool within which you are meant to be able
2025-11-30 02:02 UTC · Community Announcements · Malkere
Hope everyone had a good week! It seems like Black Friday is a week long event now almost everywhere. It's certainly been a busy week for me!I've uploaded a small patch to the beta branch fixing a rendering error causing floating islands to go invisible. I've got family in town for Thanksgiving for another couple of days, but after that I'll be pushing these changes along with some others to the live branch, bringing live up to date with a variety of under the hood changes and bug fixes.v 1.1.0.8 2025.11.27- Fixed floating islands not rendering properlyWhat You Can Do To HelpIf you wanna push
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