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Select the move-arrows item and then your player will move towards wherever you touch/click. I beat World 1-1 on my phone.

There is no touch action button yet. How about shake-to-punch?

YELLOW bits now give off light and some areas will be dark without them. You can not stand on yellow bits. Underground is very dark now, so you need a lantern or a few yellow bits to see. The Hell Arena is lit by the glow of the lava. Rooms start with two lights behind the glass tiles, if you remove them your room will dim (but not be too dark to see).

Don't place more lights than you need.  Too many and the game starts to slow down.

Background image tiles (bricks, wood, glass, etc) are now "wallpapered" on top of bits and empty space. The background tiles are not limited by inventory and you can erase as much as you want.

GREEN bits now function as platforms you can jump through.

I think this will be much less confusing/annoying.

I also added a hand-tool for picking up your items.

Read the road signs at the borders to travel north to Waterworld. There is basically no land, but you can go deep underwater. There are also a few test rooms to show off flowing water.
There is an Arena door at the top of the waterfall where you battle inside a floating ball of water high in the sky.

I probably still need to tweak it some, but you get the general idea. It does feel strange at first.

Add a nice flatscreen to your room. You can specify a YouTube playlist or video. Anyone who enters your room will see the same thing you do. You can sort of control the TV by clicking on the video and using YouTube's basic keyboard commands.

B = black, R=red

BBB
BBB
RRR

(It picks them up actually). I also added a help [?] button and a MakerMeow button for a list of all the recipes.

I also put more colored blocks underground.
And the platforms no longer stop you when you run into them horizontally.
And you can configure how you want chat to work when you press ENTER.
And you can place door anywhere except for your own rooms (one door per area)

Now instead of crafting brick or wood, you create a generic block. Then seperately you choose what it should look like.

The block-tile types are:
Background (square with dotted lines) - these are just for decoration
Solid (solid square) - solid blocks
Platform (square with solid top) - you can jump through these and stand on them.
Eraser (square with an X) - this removes blocks

On the right side of the game you can select what it should look like.

Here are the block "recipes":

Background Tile:
DDD
DDD
DDD

Solid Block:
GGG
GGG
GGG

Platform Block:
GGG
DDD
DDD

Eraser:
BBB
BBB
BBB

Dear Francis and other concerned parties,

My company has now taken a stance and agreed that double jumping should indeed be enabled globally and as of 2/3/13, we heavily endorse such an implementation to the game code.

--CEO Penguin PornAce

Stats: http://nerr.biz:8081/

Smash your fellow Sammer-Bros in the sacred arena atop Mount Betalands. I am keeping track of hits and kills/deaths.

Press the action button (Space-Bar, Enter, or "A" button on Wii U) to punch. If you hit someone they will be knocked up and away.

I also created a battle arena (door near the upper right on the "cloud" platform). In there you can't place any blocks, but you can double-jump. If you fall off the bottom, you die and after 3 deaths you get kicked out of the arena.

When you are hit in the arena your damage increases making it harder to stay on the platforms. When you die (fall off the bottom) your damage is reset.

I added a shortcut to the arena by going down the chimney (makes perfect sense, huh?)

It doesnt show up in your inventory, but if you craft one you can see better underground

DGD
GRG
GGG

D=dirt, R=red, G=green, B=blue, C=cyan, M=magenta, Y=yellow

Cyan:
DGB
DGB
DGB

Magenta:
RDB
RDB
RDB

Yellow:
RGD
RGD
RGD

White:
RGB
RGB
RGB

Black:
CMY
CMY
CMY

obligatory shadoo comment, snarky remark ignored as usual, possible crump bullshit, classic digibutter topic

and go

Place colored bits into the MakerMeow square in the house to create items.
Background blocks can only be placed outside or underground.

These patterns make different items:
D = dirt, R = red, G = green, B = blue

Background block:
DDD
DDD
DDD

Red brick background block:
DDD
RRR
DDD

Wood background block:
DBD
DBD
DBD

Grass background block:
GGG
DDD
DDD

Clear-background block:
BBB
BBB
BBB

Sign:
DDD
DDD
GDG

When you create the right pattern, the bits will disapeear and the item will appear in your inventory.
 

Betalands Over world land pitch-

Anyone can access bought land*1, but unbought land is inaccessible until a user purchases it. Open land cannot be bought, but is rather always open to all users and has no distinct landlord. A person who buys land can then pay to set rules there (ex: give X % of X to landlord upon retrieval of X resource), or can pay to have the land set to Private*2, where only the landlord and people who are allowed access by the landlord can enter the land.

*1:

Once a land is bought anyone can enter and exit as they please (while adhering to the owners rules) unless the land has been set to Private by its owner/landlord.

*2:

Private means that only the owner/landlord can access the land, alongside whoever he/she allows entry. The circumstances for upholding private lands may be anywhere from a higher price for buying the land, a price to turn private on and off, or a daily/weekly/monthly fee (ex: auto-extract 10 gold from Francis’s bank).

I'll try to draw up a diagram later but this is the basic jist of it.

I upped the block carry limit to 99 so you can dig a little longer. but I predict you will still hate me.
and FYI there isn't anything hidden underground yet, so dont waste all day digging hoping for something cool.

You might even find a secret passage.