The Blockheads 1.3.1
Device: iOS Universal
Category: Games
Price: Free, Version: 1.3 -> 1.3.1 (iTunes)
Description:"On an iPhone or iPad, the 2-D, side-scrolling block-based sandbox is a winning formula, and The Blockheads is the most well-executed, true-to-Minecraft game I've had the pleasure to experience on iOS." - TouchArcade (5 Stars)"The Blockheads takes the Minecraft experience and shrinks it down in a way that just works on a touchscreen. There are shades of Lemmings here too, and they blend together to make a sweet game about discovery, exploration, and creation." - Pocket Gamer (Gold Award)*****Night is falling and your blockhead is freezing. You haven't yet made shelter and your campfire has gone out. All you have is a spade, some wood and a few sticks. You have only minutes before exhaustion hits. Do you create a bed, dig a cave or refuel your fire? What will you do?*****Explore, mine, craft and build in this giant and detailed sandbox game. Navigate huge simulated worlds thousands of blocks wide with a full temperature and climate system, seasons, an equator, and frozen poles. Explore complex cave systems and flowing water, and survive deserts and snowy mountain tops.Play alone, or with your friends, with local or online multiplayer.• Control your blockheads in a vast randomly generated world with oceans, mountains, forests, deserts and deep underground caves.• Keep an eye on their needs - give them sleep, feed them, create clothing and shelter - and they'll be happier, quicker and more productive.• Craft tools with the resources they find, and they'll be able to work even faster and find more resources.• Upgrade workbenches and unlock more advanced items to craft.• Discover precious stones and metals deep underground, or rare plants and animals on the surface.• Craft a boat and navigate the oceans using the accurate night sky to guide you.• Make fur clothing and venture to the North Pole.• Pick coconuts at a tropical beach.• Cook meat at a campfire.• Build a marble palace.• Paint the walls.• Plant an orchard.• Ride a donkey!
What's New
New in 1.3:Massive multiplayer update! Play with up to 32 other players in persistent online worlds hosted on the free Mac app (download on the Mac App Store or at theblockheads.net). Or host a game from your device quickly and easily with up to 5 other players on your local wifi network. This update also adds multiplayer text chat, now supports 2 player auto-match over Game Center, and adds a whole bunch of new items and blocks, amongst many other improvements!1.3.1 Fixes problems found in 1.3, including the problems with editing signs, an issue where workbenches and items could disappear and crashes in multiplayer.Full feature list:Multiplayer:- Connect to persistent server-hosted worlds for many more players at once- In-game text chat with other players- Now continues when you exit in multiplayer too. The server will continue to run through any queued actions for your blockheads until you return.- Connect and play with up to 5 other players locally without needing Game Center- Host or join auto-matched Game Center games, and find new friends to play with- Smelt copper and gold coins to trade with other players.- New shop blocks allow you to trade items with other players, even while you're away.- Added safes, giving the ability to store items that no other players can access.- Added iron doors and trapdoors that only your blockheads can use.General:- Dig for treasure! New golden treasure chests containing valuable items.- Pinch to zoom out to a map view that shows all the way from lava to space, and allows you to easily see everything and zoom into specific areas.- Signs! Label your rooms and chests, or leave messages for other players.- Use time crystals to teleport from anywhere in the world to any portal instantly!- New advanced beds allow your blockheads to sleep much faster and stay awake longer.- Craft shelves to display items and easily see where everything is stored.- New metal blocks allow you to build strong walls that look awesome and are hard to destroy.- The expected change to your inventory is now tracked across actions. So for example if you queue up crafting 3 tin ingots, you can now immediately queue up crafting a tin bucket.- Find limes in limestone!- Seven new achievements.Fixes/Tweaks:- Fixes an issue where your world could become corrupted if you accept a Game Center invite while a world is loading.- Fixes many issues causing lag and crashes in multiplayer.- The 'fog of war' darkness is now per-player in multiplayer.- Partially mined stone no longer resets to its un-mined state (though placed blocks still do).- Many other more minor fixes and changes.
The Blockheads