Workshop notes: eight companions, castle duels and your look online

Every few hours the team merges a batch of finished work into the game. Here’s what players would notice from today’s batches.

Eight companions moved in

The first companions now have their looks in the game: the duckling, lamb, piglet, shoulder bird, tabby cat, tuxedo cat, terrier and sheepdog. You’ll earn them by playing. The Pets screen shows each locked companion with a short line about how to get it.

They’re the first of many. Twenty more have approved looks and are on their way, from a husky to a pair of tiger cubs; you can meet them all on the companions page.

Castle duels, together

Castle duel challenges now work over the network. The host’s game keeps score, so a duel plays out the same for everyone in it.

More life in the forest

Walk through the woods and you’ll spot small butterflies and the odd grasshopper.

Your look, for everyone

When you play together, your friends now see your Brickling exactly as you dressed it, along with your companion.

Mountain goats, better at being goats

Goats on the mountainsides leap more convincingly and follow the ground properly.

Knocked apart, built back

Give a Brickling a big enough bump and they now pop into their own pieces, which hop back together until they’re whole again and smiling. Never gore, always rebuilds. Knocks from vehicles and blasters are still being wired in.

Rivers and older worlds

Worlds saved before rivers were added no longer show stray water on the horizon.

BLOCKFORGE is in very early development. Everything here is a work in progress, and we’ll keep posting as it grows.