About This Game Make the world truly yours in Junk Jack, a relaxing sandbox experience focused on building and improving your home. Tame and breed creatures, cook foods, collect animal companions, farm exotic plants, collect fish, grow flowers, play with your friends! Travel in procedural planets full of content to discover, monsters to combat, crafts to learn and loot to equip or simply proudly display in your home.All of this is possible in Junk Jack, and much more will be possible in the future. We have much more fun stuff to do planned forthcoming! Use portals to travel between 12 planets with unique hand crafted environmentsAll worlds are procedurally generated and different every time you create a new onePlay online with your friendsFully featured equip system with hundreds of different wearables with unique statsBeautiful retro styled pixel art graphicsDeep Electronics system to create intricate contraptions, even complete CPUs!Creative mode to unleash your creativity and build everything you can imagineMore than one thousand different craftsTwo styles of crafting: a crafting grid or simple mode which allows crafting items with a single clickLots of loot to collect!Hundreds of placeable objects, blocks and decorationsFully dynamic day-night system, with weather effectsA vibrant coloured lighting engine that will make you enjoy every minute spent in Junk Jack worldsFish and display your captured animals in fish tanks!Place your rare treasures on shelves, display your equip pieces on mannequins!Collect tameable pets which will follow you aroundCapture and breed cows, sheeps, pigs and many more animals!Farm and grow unique plants and use them to cook delicious recipesA thorough ingame tutorial will help you learn the basics of the gameBeautiful music tracks by Bright PrimateCraft hundreds of potions with che chemistry benchMix flower seeds to grow thousands of unique flower combinationsDecorate your home with many craftable and customizable furniture sets Combat hordes of mobs with many different weapon typesExplosives, signs, paintable objects and many more features awaits you! 7aa9394dea Title: Junk JackGenre: Action, Adventure, IndieDeveloper:PixbitsPublisher:PixbitsRelease Date: 30 Nov, 2016 Junk Jack Download 1gb I quite like this game. Its like terraria or starbound for people with bad computers. Worlds load really fast on default settings.There are quite a few negatives however or things some might find to be negatives.1. Only 1 accessory slot and accessories are hard to craft.2. Pets are only vanity when equiped.3. Your only allowed 1 defensive potion buff at a time.4. Its uses minecraft Light level decides spawning instead of Terraria player placed blocks prevent spawing.5. Every planet feels like they use the same terrain generation on the surface with a different splash of paint6. A ton of enemies very obviously share the same AI7. You can't search crafts by item used in it (like searching wood widget and see every craft involving it).8. No in game help or clues how to make potions (And quite a few potion ingrediants are rare drops).9. Items fly into open hotbar slots (very annoying when farming)10. No crafting while doing something else (similar to 7 days to die) to take some pain out of simple crafting.11. No bosses or epic boss loot.12. Lava destroys all items, no matter how important like portal pieces.13. Buckets don't stack14. Tons of animals you'd think you could tame but cannot like boars, foxes, squirrels, ect.15. No Npcs to live with you like terraria/starbound. Or shop keepers.16. Tons of food everywhere, but no hunger or thirst even on the hardest difficulty.17. Tons of farm animals, but no horses or mounts.18. Early game its easy to feel like your not progressing due to ore rarity. My second planet I unlocked was seth where I basically just found the same ores as terra.19. Best ore for planet type are VERY VERY RARE.20. Low Tool durability and slow mining speed. (even titanium tools feel like they break too quickly relative to how rare thier ores are)21. Sometimes the music just stops for long periods of time.22. You can craft a clock, but carrying it won't display the time like terraria/project zomboid.23. When crafting it won't take into consideration whats in nearby chests.24.Animals just instantly respawn if you leave an area and return so long as there is grass and its day (similiar to old school minecraft). So you can get all the cow, boar, bacon, ect meat and leather you want in a jiffy.25. Enemies can't break doors. And can only get you if they spawn inside your base due to light levels.26. Rare Treasure don't do anything, can't be sold, and don't say anything on them.27. Things often have to be used or worn to add to collection.28. No cool accesory granted abilities like teraria.29. no repairing or enchanting items.30. Ladders can only be placed from the bottom up. And ladder climb speed is terribly slow Vs minecraft ladders or terraria's ropes.That out of the way. This game has hundreds of blue print pages to find (Just a shame none of them list potion recipies) that show you how to craft things so you don't need a wiki like you do with minecraft. And theres a lot of planets to explore. Some end game enemies hit very hard on hardest difficulty settings, like 50% of my hp in a single hit in full unencrusted titanium armor. Undead burn in sunlight, animals drown in water, lava kills most things (but sadly destroys all drops). Theres a large number of redstone like items to create (more than i've seen in unmodded minecraft or terraria). You can farm (Though its extremely easy and requires no watering. But getting seeds can be quite hard for things like fruit trees), raise animals (more demanding), go fishing, hunt down the MANY MANY rare drop items, try to collect all the portal pieces to visit all 12 worlds (Not that you need too to reach end tier). Collect every treasure, all clothing, every pet, ect.. Been waiting for ages for the public release :D. INTRODUCTION:At first glance, you may think that Junk Jack looks like a clone of a much more popular game, Terraria. While the similarities are there, I'd argue that this game's intentions are much different, and the art style is the similar aspect. If you're familiar with Terraria, Minecraft and Starbound, Junk Jack would be its child, introducing all the neat elements of each of those indie games.PROS:- More content than expected on Early Access.- Fun graphic/art style.- Music is well done (I have a con for this though.)- Multiplayer (however, it's a con currently as well.)- Wide variety of biomes and monsters.- Many things to collect in the game.- Simple AND advanced crafting for inexperienced or experienced sandbox-game players.- Weather system.- Good variety of settings for all areas of the game.- When your character falls in water, you're not limited to try to jump out of water. You can control swimming around with WASD.- Combat strafing with the CTRL key.CONS:- Combat is too simple, thus making fighting monsters challenging. Limited to a single strike, it's difficult to push back enemies and not be hit with a massive amount of damage.- Music is great when it's there, but often the game's music will stop playing for some time.- Multiplayer is currently experimental, and comes with bugs. Attempted doing a Steam game with a friend, didn't work. We eventually connected to eachother by IP through a router, but experienced some random disconnects every now and then.- Sound effects sound out of place, the quality of the effects don't blend well with the atmosphere of the game.- The price tag. Personally, for the current stage, I think $15.00 is asking for a little much. I'd price this game at $10.00.CONCLUSION:Steam has been plagued with many Early Access games, and many of them have turned out to be flunks. From what I can tell though, the Junk Jack developers are committed and have come to Steam with a fairly polished game. Updates seem to be frequent as well, and they listen to those who are interested in the game. Junk Jack, in my mind, is a good purchase if you enjoy indie sandbox adventure games.RATING:I'd give Junk Jack a score of 9/10 for now. In my mind, $1 = 1 hour of entertainment. I can see myself spending more than fifteen hours with this game. Happy building!EDITS:- No longer have the invisible wall as a con, as a patch added a world loop to replace it.- No longer have the Steam achievements as a con, because a patch has fixed them to work now.. heres what i think of the game. The game has some bugs but other than that the game is preety fun to play with friends or without friends. ive played all the junk jack versions and all of them are good.. I've searched my whole life for a game that was designed for building pixel art, (and no, Minecraft is not, Minecraft is 3D, Pixel art is 2D). I love this game so much I think it was designed for me :D no need to put Diamond gem spark walls behind your pixel art like in Terraria and if you messed up somewhere you don't have to break everything down to get to the middle, its amazing :Dhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TofIb43hyicThe Adventure mode is also fun, if you use simple craft you need to find all the recipes before you can craft them, but you can change it if you really want to, I just like to go with the setting that will keep me busy for longer.. My dream come true! I have waited a very long time for this gem to come to PC. Always had difficulty playing this game on my iPhone and iPad with my big hands. Now I can play on the big screen with keyboard and mouse. Thank you so much for making this happen!. Very fun game!. I used to play this game years ago on my old iPod. The only reason I stopped playing was because I don't like mobile controls. Now that this is on steam, I can play and enjoy it even more than I did. This game is a must have!. amazing game its amazing that you can travel planets recommended for terraria and minecraft players or pixel fans. Fair warning: most planets are re-skins. If you're OK with that, go wild. Uber Mobs are coming!: Here’s a sneak peek of what we’re working on: Uber Mobs! Each planet will feature a unique Uber Mob which can be summoned by destroying its altair. These mobs are harder to kill and will drop unique rewards such as equip pieces, weapons, tools, rare materials and unique pets.We’re also working on totems! You will be able to collect cool looking totem pieces from each planets and assemble them as a trophy for your adventures.The upcoming update will also feature new ground biomes from the nearest planets, new collectable pets, some loot/ores rebalance and other tweaks!That’s all for now!. Junk Jack 3.1.5 Christmas Update is out!: Welcome to Junk Jack 3.1.5 Christmas Update!Hello miners, it's almost Christmas and time for the Steam Winter Sale! To celebrate we're discounting Junk Jack and releasing a themed update which makes Terra Christmas themed with presents all over the surface which contain unique loot! Capture and breed the new reindeers, fight Christmas themed zombies and skeletons and find the new Pocket Santa pet!We also added rare fossils on all planets which can be combined to form unique creations by assembling their pieces! Last but not least we fixed many reported bugs.Check out the changelog below!Terra is now christmas themedzombies and skeletons are now Christmas themedadded presents on Terra surface which contain many cool treasures!new Pocket Santa pet!new discoverable fossils have been added on all planets!new breedable reindeers!new craftable reindeer stable!fixed wrong offset on some mobsfixed a bug which recycled wrong items when crafting items that required items like buckets or similar itemsfixed many memory management problems which caused crashes in random circumstances or at game startfixed issue with super minimap which wasn’t drawing the sky properlyfixed minor gfx glitchesfixed lighting issues when placing lights during movementMerry Christmas by the Pixbits duo!. Junk Jack 3.1 Uber Mobs Update is out!: Welcome to Junk Jack 3.1!This patch adds Uber Mobs, powerful monsters that can be summoned by destroying Altars in each world. Defeat them and gather unique powerful equip and weapon sets! We have also improved combat hit detection, added new treasures such as weapons, pocket pets, new essence swords and revamped trinkets! Worlds are more varied now with new rare biomes with chests and everything has also been fine tuned once again. You will also find Totem pieces in all the planets which can be assembled to form a huge totem tower! Many other features and fixes have been added too. Check out the changelog below! The image shows some of the full armor sets and weapons obtainable by killing Uber Mobs! Remember to generate new worlds or you won't find Altars.combat hit detection has been improved!revamped swing and hit soundsexperimental: now you will be able use portals in multiplayer!tweaked weapon animationseach planet will now spawn Altars: destroy them to summon powerful Uber Mobs!collect 12 new unique looking armor sets which are dropped from Uber Mobs!collect 12 new unique and powerful weapons which are dropped from Uber Mobs!30 new rate pocket pets!totems have been added! Collect and assemble totems from all the planetssome rare treasures became pocket petssome rare treasures now became fancy weaponsnew essences treasure graphicsrevamped ethereal essence trinkets with improved statscraft ethereal swords by forging them with precious metals and essencesevery planet surface will now have rare biomes with chests from the nearest planets!new rare chests have been added on all planet surfacespocket pets icons are now integrated in the inventory just like encrusted weaponstweaked gem variety and density on all worldstweaked mob spawning algorithm and max mob quantityslight tweaks to ore distributionsadded missing colored goo to craft equivalenceadded some crafts to default available craftstweaked some mobs health valuessome loot table tweakszombies and skeletons will now wear various helmets!added generic songs to all planetstweaked music vs ambient sound occurrencerevamped campfire graphicsimproved terra surface variety with new biomesadded trap chest to all planetsfixed various reported graphical issuessmall graphical tweaksvarious bug fixesHappy Uber Slaughtering!. Junk Jack v3.2.1 is out!: Hello everyone!Sorry for the prolonged silence but we're undergoing some internal rearrangement so we took it long!This is a bugfix/QoL update which fixes a lot of bugs, balances the gameplay experience, improves things here and there and prepares some ground for future changes, here is the full changelog: Chest Interface now is twice as big for better organization Health regen from equip now triggers after 5 second without taking damage from monsters Implemented item sets bonuses : this features allows to give specific bonuses(and effects) when a specific set of items is equipped Created a set for each Uber boss equip drop, now the single equip pieces give less light value, equipping the full set gives the full light value Added tooltip symbols reference(accessed by Help pane, F1, then F2) Added light value to tooltips of armor pieces Added tooltips to some unclear potions Some mobs are now able to see through player invisibility Thorns damage on monsters is now mitigated by their defense Thorns related potions have been buffed Adjusted some thorns bonuses from equip Fixed critical chance of weapons which wasn’t working(all had 0 % critical) Fixed bug which wasn’t updating collections when equipping items or pets Fixed bug which didn’t consume proper amount of items when using simple craft Fixed bug which allowed instant forge crafting Fixed a crash when dropping an item stack into an occupied space in some circumstances Fixed quick stack from forge which didn’t properly move items Fixed craftbook key which was working in creative and crashing the game Fixed Metal Feet potion, now it properly makes you immune to spikes Fixed open save folder option which wasn’t working Fixed a random crash when browsing collections Fixed a crash that occurred when destroying some growing plants Fixed truth table device which wasn’t working as intended Fixed some OpenGL issues on certain graphic cards(now game requires OpenGL 3.2) Changed Bottomless Chest UI color to match the graphics Fixed some weapons which had wrong animations Fixed some graphical glitches Fixed hacked item stacks larger than 999 items which could crash the game Added additional keys to bindable keys Added an option to shop help for some items in their tooltips Changed double confirmation dialogs to be more secure Upgraded build tool for Windows build of the gameSince we had to change the toolchain used to compile the game make sure you have Visual Studio 2017 redistributables if you're playing on Windows! Steam should automatically prompt you to install them in case. The update is rolling out on Windows with macOS and Linux versions following in the next couple of days.The next big thing will probably be official controller support since many of you requested it! We're already working on it and we hope to share further details soon!Happy mining!Pixbits. Junk Jack 3.0 Update is out!: Hello! Today we're releasing a big content patch which adds more than 250 treasures to be discovered, we call it the treasure hunt season! We also added a new end game planet named Tor which can be reached from Mykon, with lots of new monsters, equip pieces, treasures and blocks. Planets have been tweaked and should be more varied and fun to explore, we redrawn a lot of mobs and made many balance tweaks and bug fixes.We're quite satisfied with the progress made to the game and we think the game is mature enough to be released in full form on Steam, so please let us know what you think of this patch!After the release we'll continue with the updates, to improve Junk Jack even more.Happy treasure hunting!ENHANCEMENTStreasure hunt season is now open! We added more than 250 unique rare treasures in chests. Happy hunting!new planet reachable from Mykon: Tor! Make sure to generate a new Mykon Adventure or you won't find the new portalsplanets surfaces, graphics and biomes have been revamped and are now more varied and fun to exploremany new blocks and discoverable treasures can be found on Tordozens of new blocks and treasures!more than 20 new monsters!lots of new weapons, armor and other equip pieces can be dropped from Tor monsters10 new fish types12 new statuesnew pocket pets!two new types of wood with their relative crafts and weapons have been added: Green and Ebony woodnew rare manufacts have been added, older ones will be converted to the newer onesall rare weapons now have custom animation, speed and knockback valuesmany walking mobs have been redrawn from scratchmany new blocks, decos and objects have been added on all planets!TWEAKSadded many missing objects and blocks to creativeeach add-on has now some crafts available by defaultadded starter crates near the surfacetweaked ores distributiontweaked treasures distribution tablesrebalanced food heal valuesrebalanced potions heal valuestweaked mobs health and hit valuestweaked mobs bounding boxes, now they should stuck less between blocksdecreased healing potions drop chance from mobscrates can now rarely drop iron lumpswater won't spawn floating on ground anymorenew in use symbol on objectstweaked portal chests distributionslightly increased crates distributionadded rare chests and pots on planets surfaceremoved workbench requirement for stone toolsdecreased weapons drop chance from chestsincreased salt and sulphur rates on some planetsdecreased hard rocks distribution on planetsreduced vases on all planetsadded dangerous spikes and ice on end game planetsnew liquid graphicsnew hurt sound!new dirt sounds have been addedmost hit sounds had their volume correctedtweaked mobs spawn ratesimport craftbook/potions from other playersadded scroll wheel to changelog viewadded portals Yuca -> Magmarfixed some minor graphical glitchesBUG FIXESfixed bug with stackable objects improperly loaded from player savefixed sticky bullets in multiplayer on clientsfixed sticky bullets from mobs which were damaging player when unintendedfixed durability glitch which affected stacks split with shift+clickfix to music that was abruptly changing / stopping when unintendedincreased silence time between songsfixed crashes related to interaction at top of the worldfixed some small glitches in physics enginemany bugfixes and tweaks not listed here!. Junk Jack 2.9.1.5 is out!: Hello miners, it's patch day!This version adds new procedural mobs, a scalable viewport option, new potions, new spear and bow mechanics, treasures drop rate tweaks and many more features and fixes.The new spear weapons mechanic is experimental and the whole spear graphical approach will be tweaked in the future, we're thinking about increasing their length to make them able to reach more distant positions while making them less effective for short range combat.The new procedural mob generation is experimental too, we tested it with slimes to understand the potentiality of generating different flavour of mobs by composing parts, we'll extend this feature whenever possible to other creatures if it satisfies us and especially you!The Linux version is under heavy development and we're in a good state so hopefully we'll soon release it!Have fun playing!ENHANCEMENTSAdded an option to scale the whole game viewportAdded a Treasure collection to track your rare treasuresAdded 4 Equip collections to track your fancy equipsHealth bars of creatures are now visible also on clientsAdded Ninja Potion which alters throw speed and powerAdded Wrestler Potion which enhances damage but slows your attackSome weapons had their strength tweakedCave systems can now be found in the surface of every planetNew procedural flowers added underground on all planetsMore than 40 new slimes different for each planetNew king slime mobs!New engine which adds different parts to mobs has been added!Slimes can now have different features on their body according to the planetNew craftable orange torchNew craftable slingshot which throws tiny rocksChanged ranged weapon mechanics, now each weapon has a different delay between successive throwChanged spear weapon mechanics, now they follow the mouse and their attack points in the direction of the weapon instead that just swingingAdded custom throw animation for arrowsMINOR TWEAKSEach slime type has its own unique behaviorTweaked treasures drop rates on all planetsTweaked chest treasures drop rateTweaked portal chests spawn rateTweaked crates seeds drop rateSome caves now contain vines which you can use to hang onSmall graphical fixes to equip piecesSkeleton bomber will now throw bombs less oftenAdded back skeleton bomber to spawn groupsBUG FIXESFixed a bug which cause abrupt interruption of sound or weather effects when many sounds were playing at the same timeFixed a bug which could cause crashes when using Potion of Invisibility with shooter mobFixed missing blocks from mini mapFixed incorrect iron armor chest speed tooltip. Steam Trading Cards are now available in Junk Jack!: Hello everyone, Steam Trading Cards are now available to discover in Junk Jack!We also added Steam emotes, custom badges and cool profile backgrounds.Another step towards the official launch of the game!We hope you'll enjoy them. Have fun mining!. Junk Jack 2.9.1.1 is available now!: Hello! We've pushed a quick update to the game which addresses mostly usability fixes gathered by your feedback and tries to solve the multiplayer bug which was rather common! Your feedback is precious, let us know if you find any bugs or possible improvements and suggestions. Have fun playing Junk Jack!BUG FIXESImproved Steam multiplayer handshaking to prevent connections error while connecting (it’s still experimental so if it doesn’t work just try relaunching the game)Fixed a bug which applied falling damage incorrectly when dropping from laddersFixed music volume issue on startupHopefully fixed crash related to music at startupFixed an issue which prevented non extended tooltips from being visibleENHANCEMENTSAdded experimental placement directly from inventory (with right click)Added CTRL + left mouse click to inventory to quickly move to/from quickslotAdded hold to jump higher which should make movement more comfortableNow default block placement actions occurs on top layer, you can place blocks on rear layer with CTRL + left mouse clickAllowed placement of solid blocks on rear layer when emptyAllowed placement of items/blocks on small props (like Green Grass) without the need to break it firstAdded an option to always show tooltips (so no Magnifying Glass button is present at all)Added an option to disable mouse wheel actions (to avoid issues with touchpads)Changed default inventory keybind to E (from I)Increased tool and weapon speedsAdded random generated potions to world chestsMINOR TWEAKSChanged sparkles graphicsChanged silver vein ores and treasure colorsTweaked some mobs graphicsTweaked some loot and lock placements in world generated chestsTweaked throwable weapons throw distanceTweaked sounds volumeReduced default music volumeMusic and ambient sounds will now play more oftenRedrawn locked chests graphicsAdded keys to world chestsOther basic crafts now are available by default in your craftbookAdded a sword to the tools section in creative to kill mobsA quick tip: you can see a summary of all available in-game commands by pressing F1! There are a lot of shortcuts to learn!That’s all, for now :D
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