Astra 0.1.0-alpha — First public alpha

Welcome to the first alpha of Astra! The game is playable from start to finish, but expect rough edges and the odd bug. Back up your "saves" folder before updating.

THE WORLD

• A 5 x 5 km world closed by a misty sea, with six biomes: tundra with frozen peaks and ice spikes, ancient forest with giant mushrooms, misty swamp, jungle with giant trees, red desert canyons and mesas, and open plains
• Rivers, lakes, caves, ravines, shipwrecks, sunken ruins and buried treasure
• Villages in six styles (one per biome), each with a quest board, market stalls, fields and an iron golem to protect it
• The Heaven: floating islands around God's golden temple, rainbows, healing water, angels and singing creatures
• Hell: fiery biomes, fortresses, demons and the Demon Lord
• Seasons, weather, volumetric clouds, realistic water, day and night

GAMEPLAY

• Survival and creative modes
• Crafting with search, smelting, enchanting, farming, fishing, bow and shield, experience
• Village quests with a journal, 18 achievements, guided first steps for new players
• Ride camels and unicorns
• A full story ending: defeat the Demon Lord, then visit God
• Laurette's quest in the Heaven: build a house for Saylor's mum, who loved to build houses

TALK TO THE WORLD (optional voice add-on)

• Hold V and speak to villagers and angels with your microphone: they understand, think, and answer aloud
• Runs 100% offline on your PC, nothing is sent to the internet
• Voice chat with friends in multiplayer

CHARACTERS

• Cartoon-style models with their own animations
• Natural walking: feet stay planted on the ground, and mobs climb one-block steps

TECHNICAL

• Vulkan 1.3 renderer: shadows, PBR materials, bloom, ambient occlusion, distant terrain
• Graphics quality chosen automatically for your PC on first launch
• PBR texture packs for blocks and models (template included)
• LAN multiplayer and a dedicated server (astra_server.exe)
• Discord Rich Presence
• Automatic world backups when a new version opens your world, crash reports in the "logs" folder

KNOWN ISSUES

• Windows only for now
• Interface size cannot be changed yet
• With the voice add-on, the first answer can take about 30 seconds while the AI loads
• Mobs can still get stuck in some tight spots

Found a bug? Send the files from the "logs" folder with a few words about what you were doing. Thank you for playing!

Download links

• Windows