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< p > This page will walk you through fixing the most common issues that users have playing Sandboxels.< / p >
< h2 > BEFORE YOU READ< / h2 >
< p > Ensure that you are playing on the official website, < a href = "https://sandboxels.R74n.com/" > sandboxels.R74n.com< / a > . We cannot ensure it will work elsewhere.< / p >
< p > Most issues are with mods, which are created by the community and not fixed by the Sandboxels developer.< / p >
< p > Even if you don't remember enabling a mod, clear them with the following steps:< / p >
< ol >
< li > Open < a href = "https://sandboxels.R74n.com/" > Sandboxels< / a > .< / li >
< li > Find and press the Settings button at the end of the toolbar.< / li >
< li > Scroll to the bottom of the Settings, and press the Clear Mods button.< / li >
< li > Hit "OK" and make sure your webpage refreshes.< / li >
< / ol >
< p > If you've done all of this and it hasn't fixed it, please find your issue below.< / p >
< h2 > Loading screen takes forever< / h2 >
< p > The loading screen should not last more than a few seconds. This means that something has crashed the webpage before it could finish loading.< / p >
< p > This is usually because of a mod, so follow the steps above.< / p >
< p > If you've done those steps, it may be that you are using an unsupported or outdated browser. Try a different one, like Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge.< / p >
Sandboxels v1.9.1
[Version 1.9.1 - December 1, 2023 - Cozy Solstice]
+ Pipe
1. Draw a line with Pipe, maybe while paused
2. Wait for walls to form around it
3. Erase an exit point and allow Pipe to generate
+ Mayo
+ Mulch
+ Porcelain Shard (Hidden)
+ Jelly (Hidden)
[Coffee]
+ Coffee Bean
+ Coffee Ground (Hidden)
+ Coffee (Hidden)
[Nuts]
+ Nuts
+ Nut Meat (Hidden, from crushing)
+ Nut Butter (Hidden, from cooking)
+ Nut Milk (Hidden, from soaking)
[Festivities]
+ Candy is candy cane-colored
+ Mashed Potato (Hidden)
+ Skin will warm itself up when cold
[Other Changes]
+ Roots grow through Grass
~ Saplings no longer turn to wood all at once
~ Tree Branches no longer grow when burning
~ Tree Branches, Plant, and Grass are less flammable
+ Soda deoxidizes Rust and Copper
+ Balloons pop near absolute zero
+ Balloons pop when touching Clouds
+ Humans can consume Tomatoes, Pumpkin Seeds, and Cream
+ Humans get gas when eating Beans
+ Humans can take Gold Coins
+ Skin spawns at average body temperature
~ Skin no longer heals wounds
+ Snails can eat Lettuce
+ Tadpoles and Evergreen can be smashed
~ Rats no longer eat Rotten Meat
+ Rats can drink Milk
+ Lichen convert Gravel and Rock Wall to Dirt
+ Yeast ferments Sugar Water and Soda
+ Caramel freezes into Candy much colder
+ Baked Batter breaks into Crumbs
+ Rotten Meat or Cheese and Flies remove Fragrance
+ Primordial Soup spawns at a warmer temperature
+ Ammonia affects Pumpkin Seeds, Herbs, and Tomatoes
+ Glue can fix shards
+ Salt makes Water colder
+ Water breaks down Confetti into Cellulose
+ Hydrogen burns into some Steam
+ Hydrogen fusion releases Neutrons
+ Anesthesia breaks down to Oxygen at high temperatures
+ Castner–Kellner process
+ Sodium and Mercury reaction shocks and releases heat
+ Sulfur burns into Stench
+ Sugar dissolves in Milk
+ Salt dissolves in Sauce and Melted Cheese
+ Juice can be radiated
+ Carbonating Juice makes Soda
+ Seltzer can dissolve Limestone over time
+ Water can weather Limestone into Sand
+ Vinegar slowly dissolves the shell of Eggs
+ Baking Soda releases CO₂ when heated
+ Tuff melts into Magma
+ E-cloner ignores Wire, Sensor, and Battery
+ Cloners ignore Wall
+ Incense recipe
~ Fragrance now dissipates over time
~ Oxygen spreads Fragrance and Stench slower
~ Molten Solder no longer makes Fire
~ Recolored Molten Solder
~ Recolored Gold Coin
+ Insulation won't mix unless Shift is held
+ LEDs can break into Glass Shards
+ Cloners display element on hover
+ Author name appears if present in loaded save
+ Pressing ; toggles Replace mode
+ Methane Ice
- Removed Molten Baking Soda
[Bug Fixes]
~ Fixed: Flicker when stepping frame
~ Fixed: Lamp Oil burns forever
~ Fixed: Mushroom Gills don't conduct heat
~ Fixed: Pumpkin, Stained Glass, Skin, Sponge, E-cloner can be dragged
~ Fixed: God Raying Gray Goo makes Rainbow
~ Fixed: Soda deletes Salt Water quickly
~ Fixed: Juice Ice darkens when melting
~ Fixed: Sand from Water weathering Tuff uses wrong color
~ Fixed: Hail doesn't apply color variants when breaking
~ Fixed: Confirmation appears when dropping save onto empty canvas
~ Fixed: Sauce density too high
~ Fixed: Hail is way too cold
~ Fixed: Humans continue panicking after extinguished
~ Fixed: Cloned pixels don't change state based on Cloner temperature
~ Fixed: Antifire doesn't react with Antifluid right
~ Fixed: Porcelain reforms immediately after breaking when hot
~ Fixed: Hot Bomb often melts itself
~ Fixed: Hard Yolk can't be mixed into Batter/Dough
[Technical]
+ Prop tool
+ Option for uncompressed raw save data
~ Save version is now sb2
~ New saves may not work in older versions
~ Old saves will work fine
+ Version handling system, warnings
+ Random will work when placed by cheating
~ FW_Ember no longer has a long name
+ runAfterAutogen function
2023-12-01 17:26:30 -05:00
< h2 > Game runs slowly, low frame rate< / h2 >
< p > Make sure you do not have Low Power Mode enabled on your device.< / p >
< p > This can limit JavaScript speeds, especially on mobile devices.< / p >
v1.9.3
[Version 1.9.3 - February 2, 2024 - Mix & Munch]
+ Potassium
+ Magnesium
+ Antibomb
+ Nut Oil
+ Cured Meat, from mixing with Salt
+ Grease, from cooking Meat
+ (BETA) Support for British, German, French, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Chinese
[Chemistry]
+ Water and Foam can extinguish small fires (Outer pixels)
+ Hydrogen is explosive when burning
~ Improved Calcium-Water reaction
+ Calcium reacts with Water variants
~ Recolored Calcium
+ Calcium-Acid reaction
+ Calcium exposed to air turns to Quicklime
+ Quicklime is an insecticide
+ Limestone can break into Gravel
~ Many things no longer turn to raw Calcium
~ Tweaked Quicklime-Water rection
+ Oil distills into Propane, Plastic, and Lamp Oil at certain temperatures
+ Cells break down Oil into Methane
+ Propane Ice (Hidden)
~ Copper no longer oxidizes in Water
+ Soap recipe
+ Potassium Salt recipe
+ Glue can be made from Bones
+ Acid reacts with Zinc and Sugar
+ Blue and Rose Gold can break
~ Recolored Electrum for consistency with other Golds
~ Anesthesia requires heat for production
~ AlGa reaction creates proper amounts
~ Aluminum flame color
~ Foam deletes when frozen
+ Caustic Potash (Hidden)
[Life]
+ Evergreen breaks into Sap
+ Sap is flammable
+ Flowers have more color variety (Light & dark)
~ Spawned Petals are multicolor again
+ Pollen requires soil to germinate
+ Pollen will sometimes fail to germinate
~ Bees drop Pollen less often if plants are nearby
~ Bees lose their Pollen when dropping it
+ Bees warm Hive to at least 33°C
+ Ant Walls can be damaged by Fire
+ Rats can eat Worms, Ants, Frogs, Snails, and Slugs
+ Worms, Fish, and Grass die in Alcohol
~ Fish Eggs are colored black
~ Fish no longer eat Meat
~ Snails and Slugs no longer die in Salt Water
~ Snails consume Limestone slower
+ Humans eat Pickles and Sauce
~ Humans won't rot while being defibrillated
+ Cancer kills Grass
~ Ocean worldgen uses Salt Water
[Cooking]
~ Mixing Dough and Batter changes color without deleting ingredients
+ Yeast, Cream, Baking Soda, and Quicklime help Dough and Batter rise
+ Deep-fried color when cooking Dough or Batter in hot Nut Oil, Butter, or Grease
+ Cooking Nut Meat makes some Nut Oil
+ Dough can be made with Vinegar
+ Cheese can be made with Yogurt
+ Yeast can ferment Milk into Cheese
+ Honey, Caramel, and Molasses can sweeten Water
+ Mixing Honey and Sugar Water creates Wax
+ Coffee Pumpkin Spice color variant
~ Tea and Coffee spawn warm
~ Moved Cream slightly
~ Moved Rad Cloud and Rad Steam slightly
+ Fat (Hidden)
[Other]
+ Save menu includes Author and Description inputs
+ Save menu remembers your name for later
+ Save menu autofills info from current save
+ Some elements will forcefully save with color
~ Settings don't save when in a loaded save
+ Image tool works with Replace Mode
+ Image tool replaces pixels when holding Shift
+ Hidden count goes down in real time when unlocking
+ Clay Soil heats up into Brick
+ Clay and Dirt or Gravel makes Clay Soil
+ Clay freezes into Clay Soil
+ Nitro and Clay or TNT makes Dynamite
~ Dynamite must be broken or shocked to explode
~ Gunpowder is less powerful than Dynamite
+ Bubbles pop when broken
+ Soap removes Glue
~ Soap reactions are less instant
+ Mercury dirties Seltzer
+ Uranium dirties Slush
+ Uranium slowly melts Snow
+ Ozone pops Balloons
+ Greek Fire ignites on contact with Plasma
+ Bless removes Liquid Stench
+ Virus-infected pixels can be restored with Soap or Bless
+ Virus ignores Plasma
+ Malware can interrupt Virus restoration
~ Virus optimizations
+ Vertical and Horizontal can swap when given opposite energies
+ Heat Ray and God Ray have densities
+ Pyrite, Electrum, and Yogurt aliases
~ Hid Clay Shard
~ Moved Ball to Special
~ Updated Cheerful Mode description
- Removed Sticky Bomb, Cluster Bomb, Electro Bomb, and Water Bomb
- Instead available in new classic_explosives.js mod
[Bug Fixes]
~ Fixed: Repairing with Glue duplicates material
~ Fixed: Painted Plant turns Light green
~ Fixed: Molten Sodium and Sodium Gas burn with too much Fire
~ Fixed: Melted and Rotten Cheese densities inconsistent
~ Fixed: Molasses boils into Sugar which immediately burns
~ Fixed: Single Dirty Water pixel turns infinite Snow to Slush
~ Fixed: Rad Steam doesn't form Rad Cloud when touching Cloud
~ Fixed: TPS accepts negative values
~ Fixed: Hive is draggable
~ Fixed: Nut Milk can't be mixed into Batter/Dough
[Technical]
+ Shift-Picking a pixel copies its properties
+ Z key swaps to secondary element
+ Backspace swaps to previous element
+ Prop tool supports NaN and lowercase Infinity values
~ Unhid Prop
+ 'extinguish' element property (true/false)
+ 'forceSaveColor' element property (true/false)
~ Custom element names and spaces are normalized in buttons
2024-02-02 14:54:29 -05:00
< p > On Microsoft Edge, this is also called 'Efficiency Mode'. On Chrome, it's called 'Energy Saver'.< / p >
2024-08-02 16:21:02 -04:00
< p > If this doesn't work, try turning off "Fancy Pixels" in the Sandboxels settings menu, or switching to a smaller canvas size.< / p >
Sandboxels v1.9.1
[Version 1.9.1 - December 1, 2023 - Cozy Solstice]
+ Pipe
1. Draw a line with Pipe, maybe while paused
2. Wait for walls to form around it
3. Erase an exit point and allow Pipe to generate
+ Mayo
+ Mulch
+ Porcelain Shard (Hidden)
+ Jelly (Hidden)
[Coffee]
+ Coffee Bean
+ Coffee Ground (Hidden)
+ Coffee (Hidden)
[Nuts]
+ Nuts
+ Nut Meat (Hidden, from crushing)
+ Nut Butter (Hidden, from cooking)
+ Nut Milk (Hidden, from soaking)
[Festivities]
+ Candy is candy cane-colored
+ Mashed Potato (Hidden)
+ Skin will warm itself up when cold
[Other Changes]
+ Roots grow through Grass
~ Saplings no longer turn to wood all at once
~ Tree Branches no longer grow when burning
~ Tree Branches, Plant, and Grass are less flammable
+ Soda deoxidizes Rust and Copper
+ Balloons pop near absolute zero
+ Balloons pop when touching Clouds
+ Humans can consume Tomatoes, Pumpkin Seeds, and Cream
+ Humans get gas when eating Beans
+ Humans can take Gold Coins
+ Skin spawns at average body temperature
~ Skin no longer heals wounds
+ Snails can eat Lettuce
+ Tadpoles and Evergreen can be smashed
~ Rats no longer eat Rotten Meat
+ Rats can drink Milk
+ Lichen convert Gravel and Rock Wall to Dirt
+ Yeast ferments Sugar Water and Soda
+ Caramel freezes into Candy much colder
+ Baked Batter breaks into Crumbs
+ Rotten Meat or Cheese and Flies remove Fragrance
+ Primordial Soup spawns at a warmer temperature
+ Ammonia affects Pumpkin Seeds, Herbs, and Tomatoes
+ Glue can fix shards
+ Salt makes Water colder
+ Water breaks down Confetti into Cellulose
+ Hydrogen burns into some Steam
+ Hydrogen fusion releases Neutrons
+ Anesthesia breaks down to Oxygen at high temperatures
+ Castner–Kellner process
+ Sodium and Mercury reaction shocks and releases heat
+ Sulfur burns into Stench
+ Sugar dissolves in Milk
+ Salt dissolves in Sauce and Melted Cheese
+ Juice can be radiated
+ Carbonating Juice makes Soda
+ Seltzer can dissolve Limestone over time
+ Water can weather Limestone into Sand
+ Vinegar slowly dissolves the shell of Eggs
+ Baking Soda releases CO₂ when heated
+ Tuff melts into Magma
+ E-cloner ignores Wire, Sensor, and Battery
+ Cloners ignore Wall
+ Incense recipe
~ Fragrance now dissipates over time
~ Oxygen spreads Fragrance and Stench slower
~ Molten Solder no longer makes Fire
~ Recolored Molten Solder
~ Recolored Gold Coin
+ Insulation won't mix unless Shift is held
+ LEDs can break into Glass Shards
+ Cloners display element on hover
+ Author name appears if present in loaded save
+ Pressing ; toggles Replace mode
+ Methane Ice
- Removed Molten Baking Soda
[Bug Fixes]
~ Fixed: Flicker when stepping frame
~ Fixed: Lamp Oil burns forever
~ Fixed: Mushroom Gills don't conduct heat
~ Fixed: Pumpkin, Stained Glass, Skin, Sponge, E-cloner can be dragged
~ Fixed: God Raying Gray Goo makes Rainbow
~ Fixed: Soda deletes Salt Water quickly
~ Fixed: Juice Ice darkens when melting
~ Fixed: Sand from Water weathering Tuff uses wrong color
~ Fixed: Hail doesn't apply color variants when breaking
~ Fixed: Confirmation appears when dropping save onto empty canvas
~ Fixed: Sauce density too high
~ Fixed: Hail is way too cold
~ Fixed: Humans continue panicking after extinguished
~ Fixed: Cloned pixels don't change state based on Cloner temperature
~ Fixed: Antifire doesn't react with Antifluid right
~ Fixed: Porcelain reforms immediately after breaking when hot
~ Fixed: Hot Bomb often melts itself
~ Fixed: Hard Yolk can't be mixed into Batter/Dough
[Technical]
+ Prop tool
+ Option for uncompressed raw save data
~ Save version is now sb2
~ New saves may not work in older versions
~ Old saves will work fine
+ Version handling system, warnings
+ Random will work when placed by cheating
~ FW_Ember no longer has a long name
+ runAfterAutogen function
2023-12-01 17:26:30 -05:00
2023-09-14 23:57:36 -04:00
< h2 > Screen flickers or stays black unless paused< / h2 >
< p > The canvas may flicker or disappear if an error occurs when trying to simulate certain pixels.< / p >
< p > Pausing should fix this temporarily, during which you can delete the offending pixels, or follow the steps above to uninstall any mods.< / p >
< h2 > Cannot access webpage< / h2 >
< p > If you cannot access the official < a href = "https://sandboxels.R74n.com/" > Sandboxels website< / a > , it could be one of a few things.< / p >
< p > Your network connection may be unstable, make sure you are connected to the Internet with Wi-Fi or something else.< / p >
< p > Your school or employer may be blocking the website. It would be best to contact them explaining its educational and scientific uses.< / p >
< p > While unlikely, there could also be an outage in one of the services we use.< / p >
< p > To play offline, check out our < a href = "offline-use" > Offline Use Guide< / a > !< / p >
< h2 > Other issues< / h2 >
< p > You have a few options to get our attention!< / p >
< p > Send us an < a href = "mailto:contact@R74n.com" > email< / a > , join our < a href = "https://discord.gg/ejUc6YPQuS" > Discord< / a > , submit to the < a href = "https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfyNRsMTnEND8WgZ2GdbKr_ZO1vA2T66p31sXXFua-NqTreFQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" > Feedback Form< / a > , or mention us on < a href = "https://twitter.com/R74nCom" > Twitter< / a > .< / p >
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