🖌️ AutoСhisel

AutoChisel — changelog

v5.1.0

• Overlay is now smart about what it lands on. Existing chiselwork is preserved — the model stamps on top without touching a voxel around it. A plain full block you placed as support (or a full single-material chiselled one) is carved down to the model, so the figure comes out free-standing instead of buried inside the block. A full block carrying a multi-material pattern (like a filled pixel-art wall) counts as artwork and stays preserved. The per-block decision is remembered across pause and resume.
• Carve sends half the packets. Carving now uses a single operation per voxel instead of two — runs finish faster and cost half the chisel durability.
• Resuming a carve remembers the carving material. Quitting mid-carve and resuming — even with a different block (or nothing) in hand — keeps painting with the material the run started with, instead of silently repainting the finished half.
• Switching models with Overlay on no longer fills cavities. The interior-fill suppression now follows the model you pick, so hollow models stay hollow.

• Flush placement works from every direction. Approaching from the north or west no longer leaves the model recessed against the far side of its block — all four compass directions now behave the same.
• The Center button now truly centers. With centering ON the model is centered on both horizontal axes, for every model type; with centering OFF thin models hug the nearest face as usual. Copies also center within the tightest footprint — a model one block deep lands centered inside one block instead of straddling the seam between two.

• Colours that share a block now chisel as one. When several palette colours are assigned to the same block (typical after auto-pick), their regions merge into one big-brush group instead of being split per colour — colourful models chisel dramatically faster with far fewer packets.
• …and no longer cost extra. Registering a block that several colours share consumes exactly one block from your inventory — not one per colour.
• Right colours even on a laggy server. When material registration outruns the server's sync, the predicted slots now match the server's real order — no more granite voxels painted as basalt after a lag spike.

• A block the server won't let you chisel no longer freezes the run. Ore-bearing rock and similar now get a chat warning and are skipped after a few seconds, instead of stalling the progress bar forever with no feedback.
• Less disk churn. Progress is saved every ~100 completed operations of real work — it used to rewrite the save file dozens of times per second while waiting on materials.

• Warnings survive pause. "Need block X", "wrong side", "drop what's on your cursor" and friends correctly re-appear after Pause → Resume if the problem is still there — and correctly stay gone if you fixed it during the pause.
• Changing the chisel's tool mode mid-run is safe. If you flip the vanilla brush selector while the mod is working, it notices and switches back instead of sending scrambled operations.
• Status buttons stay honest after a restored pause. Center / Mirror / Carve indicators now re-sync with the actual restored state when you resume a run from a previous session.

• Carve & Overlay can no longer damage the work around them. An internal "fix up this half-done block" optimisation ignored carve mode and could shave away the chiselwork around the model when resuming onto a partially completed block. It now stays fully hands-off outside the model in these modes.
• Re-running a model at a shifted position can't blank out a chunk anymore. Rebuilding a block whose old and new voxels didn't overlap could momentarily empty it — the game then deleted the block and silently dropped everything that followed, leaving 16³ of air in a "100% complete" run. Additions are now applied before removals, so the block never empties mid-flight.
• Finished a model by hand between sessions? No zombie prompt. A manually completed model no longer re-asks "Resume?" on every world load or leaves the HUD stuck on "Chiseling" with a dead Pause button.
• Materials from uninstalled mods are handled gracefully. A saved model whose palette points at a block from a mod you removed no longer confuses the after-run check into an extra corrective pass.

AutoChisel — changelog

v5.0.0

• Rename models right from the browser. Each card now has a slim action column on the right — a pencil to rename and a bin to delete. The pencil opens a popup pre-filled with the current name; renaming moves the .vox and carries its material assignments, capture facing and any paused progress with it (so a renamed model still loads pre-mapped, oriented and resumable).
• Delete models right from the browser. The bin removes the .vox plus its saved materials and progress, with a two-click confirm so nothing goes by accident.
• No more hang with lots of files. Model stats and preview thumbnails are cached and rendered lazily (a few per frame), so opening the browser with a large library stays smooth and reopening is instant.
• Copies preview front-on. Thumbnails now show the model's widest face, so copied models no longer appear sideways in the list.
• The colour count is honest. A card's "X / Y assigned" no longer shows impossible values like "7 / 6" — palette entries that are the same colour are merged correctly.

• Long setting names no longer overlap the next setting. Parameter labels too long for one line (e.g. "Straight shaft (no taper)", "Base width % (0 = shaft, + wider)") wrap onto a second line, and the row grows to fit instead of using a fixed height — so wrapped text stops colliding with the option below it.
• The settings list no longer jumps to the top when you change a value. Nudging a slider or option near the bottom of a long generator used to snap the view back to the top on every tweak; it now keeps your scroll position, resetting only when you switch generator or tab.
• Long descriptions no longer bleed into the settings. A generator's description block sizes to its actual text instead of a fixed height, so verbose or translated descriptions no longer overlap the first parameter row.
• Mesh Import tidy-up. When the import folder is empty, the "Open Folder" button no longer overlaps the "no files found" notice.

• Models now turn to face you. A thin model (sign, decal, converted image) is placed on the block face nearest you and oriented toward you, instead of landing on the far face turned away (where it looked edge-on or mirrored). Full 3D models keep their authored orientation.
• Copies stamp the right way round. A copied model now re-stamps facing the same side you captured it from — no more copies coming out sideways.
• Saving a copy loads it immediately. After you capture and save a copy it's handed straight to placement — no need to reopen the browser to find it.
• Mirror. Two new buttons — Mirror H and Mirror V — flip the model horizontally / vertically. Horizontal flips left–right exactly as you see it on screen.
• Move is view-relative. In move mode the arrows shift the model relative to your view (left = screen-left, Ctrl+up = away), from whichever side you stand — no more inverted-feeling nudges.
• New Overlay carve mode. The carve toggle now cycles OFF → ON → Overlay. Overlay lays the model's blocks on top of what's already there without clearing the surroundings — ideal for building onto an existing structure.

• Re-colouring an existing model now changes all of it. Re-chiselling a coloured model over itself with one colour swapped used to repaint only part of it — and, worse, report a successful finish while most of it still held the old colour. The whole model now recolours correctly, and the after-run check actually verifies the changed blocks instead of skipping them.
• Single-colour models can be assigned a material too. The Colors dialog now works for mono-colour models (with a 3D preview), not just multi-colour ones.

• No more "lost connection to host" during heavy re-colours in singleplayer. A large recolour sends a lot of work to the integrated server at once; with no brake it could fall far enough behind to trip the game's disconnect warning. The conveyor now watches the same signal the game uses for that warning and eases off the instant the server lags — so it never reaches a disconnect. This brake now works in singleplayer too, not just multiplayer.
• Smoother pacing. Instead of "full-speed burst, visible pause, repeat" (which felt jerky), the speed now settles smoothly onto whatever the server can handle and climbs straight back to your configured speed the moment it keeps up — so your singleplayer speed setting is honoured again.
• Fewer packets on colourful models. Same-colour regions are now placed with large brushes grouped per colour instead of voxel-by-voxel, cutting the work sent to the server on multi-material models.

• Steering clear of a rare game rendering glitch. Vintage Story can occasionally leave nearby chunks invisible or see-through when many meshes upload at once. The mod no longer sits in front of normal terrain rendering — it lets the game handle every chunk itself and only steps in for the oversized chiseled chunks that genuinely need extra room. This should lower the chance of hitting the glitch while the mod is installed. Still testing — feedback welcome.
• Easier to look into if it still shows up. The mod now notes in the log whether this rendering safeguard is active, so any remaining visibility hiccups are simpler to track down.

• Starter content out of the box. A fresh install now ships example generator scripts (Column, QR Code, Text), a sample model and a pixel-art image — extracted automatically on first launch into your autochisel folders. It never overwrites your own files, and anything you delete stays deleted.

• The "Assign Materials" dialog no longer jumps to the top when you change a colour. It keeps your scroll position while you pick blocks (the same fix as the Generators tab); the Inventory / All blocks auto-pick buttons keep it too.
• Mirror buttons sit on the left of the placement status bar, set apart from the other toggles, and are sized so the labels never overlap (RU/EN).

• Resuming keeps the exact placement. If you pause or quit mid-chisel and come back, the model now continues with the same rotation, mirror, facing and centering it had — not reset to default — so the resumed run lines up with what's already on the ground.

• Fixed a crash when a chiselled block was added to a model's colour palette as a material. Chiselled blocks are perfectly valid materials — the crash was only in displaying such a block's name; it's now shown safely, and adding one works as expected.
• Re-running over a finished model no longer eats your blocks. A second pass used to re-add materials that were already placed, consuming inventory each time; it now recognises materials already present (including ones the server stored in a different orientation) and skips them. The run also reaches 100% instead of looping on a "voxels left" count that never cleared.
• Pause actually stops now. Pausing no longer lets the background check restore voxels you removed during the pause; resume picks up cleanly.
• "Wrong side" hint. When the block you need is in your inventory but turned the wrong way, the HUD says it's the wrong side (and which way it must face) instead of claiming the block is missing.
• Renaming is safe in every case. Renaming the model you currently have loaded keeps its progress intact; renaming onto an existing name is refused; and case-only renames (e.g. House → house) now work on Windows instead of being wrongly blocked.

AutoChisel — changelog

v4.1.0-pre.4

• Models now turn to face you. A thin model (sign, decal, converted image) is placed on the block face nearest you and oriented toward you, instead of landing on the far face turned away (where it looked edge-on or mirrored). Full 3D models keep their authored orientation.
• Copies stamp the right way round. A copied model now re-stamps facing the same side you captured it from — no more copies coming out sideways.
• Mirror. Two new buttons — Mirror H and Mirror V — flip the model horizontally / vertically. Horizontal flips left–right exactly as you see it on screen.
• Move is view-relative. In move mode the arrows shift the model relative to your view (left = screen-left, Ctrl+up = away), from whichever side you stand — no more inverted-feeling nudges.

• Fixed a crash when a chiselled block was added to a model's colour palette as a material. Chiselled blocks are perfectly valid materials — the crash was only in displaying such a block's name; it's now shown safely, and adding one works as expected.
• Re-running over a finished model no longer eats your blocks. A second pass used to re-add materials that were already placed, consuming inventory each time; it now recognises materials already present (including ones the server stored in a different orientation) and skips them. The run also reaches 100% instead of looping on a "voxels left" count that never cleared.
• Pause actually stops now. Pausing no longer lets the background check restore voxels you removed during the pause; resume picks up cleanly.
• "Wrong side" hint. When the block you need is in your inventory but turned the wrong way, the HUD says it's the wrong side (and which way it must face) instead of claiming the block is missing.

• Resuming keeps the exact placement. If you pause or quit mid-chisel and come back, the model now continues with the same rotation, mirror, facing and centering it had — not reset to default — so the resumed run lines up with what's already on the ground.

• Mirror buttons sit on the left of the placement status bar, set apart from the other toggles, and are sized so the labels never overlap (RU/EN).

AutoChisel — changelog

v4.1.0-pre.3

• Re-colouring an existing model now changes all of it. Re-chiselling a coloured model over itself with one colour swapped used to repaint only part of the model — and, worse, report a successful finish while most of it still held the old colour. The whole model now recolours correctly, and the after-run check actually verifies the changed blocks instead of skipping them.

• No more "lost connection to host" during heavy re-colours in singleplayer. A large recolour sends a lot of work to the integrated server at once; with no brake it could fall far enough behind that the game popped its disconnect warning. The conveyor now watches the same signal the game uses for that warning and eases off the instant the server starts lagging — so it never reaches a disconnect. This brake now works in singleplayer too, not just multiplayer.
• Smoother pacing. Instead of "full-speed burst, visible pause, repeat" (which felt jerky), the speed now settles smoothly onto whatever the server can handle and climbs straight back to your configured speed the moment the server keeps up — so your singleplayer speed setting is honoured again.

• The "Assign Materials" dialog no longer jumps to the top when you change a colour. It keeps your scroll position while you pick blocks (the same fix already applied to the Generators tab); the Inventory / All blocks auto-pick buttons keep it too.

AutoChisel — changelog

v4.1.0-pre.2

• Long setting names no longer overlap the next setting. Parameter labels too long to fit on one line (e.g. "Straight shaft (no taper)", "Base width % (0 = shaft, + wider)") wrap onto a second line, and the row now grows to fit automatically instead of using a fixed height — so the wrapped text stops colliding with the option below it.
• The settings list no longer jumps to the top when you change a value. Nudging a slider or option near the bottom of a long generator used to snap the view back to the top on every tweak; it now keeps your scroll position, resetting to the top only when you switch to a different generator or tab.
• Long descriptions no longer bleed into the settings. A generator's description block now sizes to its actual text instead of a fixed height, so verbose or translated descriptions no longer overlap the first parameter row.

AutoChisel — changelog

v4.1.0-pre.1

• Trying to steer clear of a rare game rendering glitch. Vintage Story can occasionally leave nearby chunks invisible or see-through when many meshes are being uploaded at once. The mod no longer sits in front of normal terrain rendering — it now lets the game handle every chunk itself and only steps in for the oversized chiseled chunks that genuinely need extra room. This should lower the chance of running into that glitch while the mod is installed. We're still testing, so feedback is welcome.
• Easier to look into if it sSavetill shows up. The mod now notes in the log whether this rendering safeguard is active, so any remaining visibility hiccups are simpler to track down.

AutoChisel — changelog

v4.0.0

• Colored models chisel roughly twice as fast. Applying a color to a voxel now takes a single action instead of two, so the whole coloring stage is about half the work — and spends about half the chisel durability.
• Operations land on the first try. Every chisel action is now aimed to succeed the first time at any brush size, so the mod sends far fewer wasted actions and the after-run touch-up has almost nothing left to do.

• Colors are no longer capped at 16 per block. The mod used to merge a region's rarer colors down to the 15 most-used; it now uses the game's full per-block material capacity, so detailed multi-color models (pixel art, imported textures) keep their colors.
• Colors come out right on the first pass. Previously an area could briefly be carved in the wrong (background) color and only get repainted during the after-run check. The mod now makes sure a block's materials are fully registered before it starts coloring that block.

• "Chisels needed" estimate was ~3× too high. It counted one durability point per action, but the game only wears the chisel on a fraction of them — the model-browser estimate is now realistic.
• Large-brush operations could land one voxel off (or be silently dropped right at a block edge). They now place exactly where intended at every brush size.
• Single isolated colored voxels are now painted correctly instead of occasionally being left as the base block.
• A run could report 100% with one stray voxel still unfixed — completion is now exact.
• Starting on empty space no longer reports "done" silently. If any model positions had no block to chisel, the run now tells you how many, so you can fill the area and run again.