Manic Digger

New version

exe — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 05:57:24 +0000

If anyone is interested in new versions of MD you can make it happen here: http://www.indiegogo.com/md/

War mod

exe — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 11:29:21 +0000

New version, 2012-10-15, has a mod that transforms the game into a first-person shooter.

Features:

Four weapons: pistol, submachine gun, shotgun, sniper rifle. They differ in accuracy, delay, damage, number of bullets, etc.
Three classes: soldier, medic (gives medical kit), support (gives ammo).
Mode command. It allows to switch between collaborative map creation and play, without leaving the game server.
Ammo reloading (R key. Respawn is now O key.)
Iron sights (right click)
Countdown to respawn. Players are respawned every 30 seconds. Dead player model.
3d sound
Network is done now with UDP instead of TCP to reduce lag.
Inventory scrolling.

The idea for war mod comes from Ace of Spades game.

To host your own War mode server currently you must change Mods/current.txt file from “Fortress” to “War”.
List of planned next updates is at Wiki todo page .

Gallery

exe — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 10:10:27 +0000

Anthony maintains a gallery website for Manic Digger screenshots. You can upload and rate them.

Link: http://mdgallery.strangebutfunny.net/

Modding

exe — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:27:52 +0000

New version (2012-08-13) allows to install mods. Modding API has only basic functions, but we are adding more as required and as requested.

Mod releases can be found on wiki and on forum.

Now I’ll be adding bigger inventory, ability to have more than 256 block types, simple tools, and modding functions for monsters.

Update

exe — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 09:00:36 +0000

Last nightly version (see “Development news” above) now became stable version.
It has:

New world generator with mountains, plains, caves and cliffs.

Server fixes, including building permissions (to keep out vandals). Account verification.

Doors, tnt
Night is enabled by default.
Easier to use server list – can start game directly from play page
Dozens of little fixes.

Be sure to check for more updates in the coming week. I’m adding a modding system, similar to modding in Minetest. http://minetest.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1225

Per-server textures, sun and moon.

exe — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:22:47 +0000

Version 2011-02-12 (compatible with previous) has:

Per-server textures. Replace terrain.png and players connecting to the server will see it.
Sun and moon.
More options: key bindings, view distance, sound off. Options are saved.
Server setting to disallow freemove.
Small speed improvement.
Chat scrolling.

Night, antivandal

Maniacal.Digerer — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 15:24:04 +0000

A new release has been issued (2011-02-02), it now has Night time. Shadows must be enabled via the in-game options for this feature to work

Antivandal:

World is split into two sides. On one everyone can build, and on another password is required. To host an antivandal server, set BuildPassword in ServerConfig.xml and use /login [password] command to play.

Mine carts now re-added

Maniacal.Digerer — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:14:22 +0000

release date 24.01.2011

This latest version now brings back minecarts, it also reduces game lag around the save game points

Optimizations – 3x-10x faster

exe — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 01:47:19 +0000

New version (2011-01-15) is around 3x faster at high view distance. At view distance under 256 (F key), game is up to 10x times faster than previously.

There is less fog.
Fog 32 (old version on the left)

Fog 64

Details about optimizations: forum.

2010-08-19 version

exe — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 01:35:43 +0000

Winter

Unicode fonts (can use Cyrillic alphabet)

Hand animation.
Better swimming.
Removed Minecraft Classic client (“Mine mode”).
Broken minecarts.