Junk Jack 1.2.4 – St Valentine Update is out!

Hello people!

Apple just approved version 1.2.4 of Junk Jack that removes the Chrismas theme (finally we’d say) and brings some minor fixes and some stuff for St Valentine!

New Features:

• Removed Christmas theme and mobs
• New St. Valentine bunny!
• New rare St. Valentine Chest
• New St. Valentine Bow
• New St. Valentine Arrows
• Tiny consumable St Valentine hearts can be found in the world
• New rare Spider statue
• New rare Stone Golem statue
• New rare Worm statue
• New rare Mummy Pharaoh statue

Bug Fixes:

• Falling on blocks will make the correct block sound
• The inventory outline for the cactus is now correct
• It’s possible to hold on an item in a craftbook page to open its craft page (if it’s craftable)
• It’s possible to hold on an addon label in a craftbook page to open its craft page
• Player doesn’t get stuck inside blocks anymore when placing blocks on him
• Wrapped ribbon decoration can now be placed on blocks adjacent to player
• Jungle tree now makes the right sound when hit

As you can see this update is minor compared to the huge updates we did so far, this because we’re so busy building the foundations for the sequel of Junk Jack that we simply couldn’t do better than this. We hope you understand that

Now go and update the game on your devices, have fun with Junk Jack!

Junk Jack 1.2.3 Christmas update is out!

Apple has just approved the new Junk Jack 1.2.3 Christmas update.

Get it now

Happy mining everyone!

Junk Jack 1.2.3 Christmas update has been submitted to Apple! (waiting for approval)

Hi fellow miners!

The Junk Jack 1.2.3 Christmas update has been submitted to Apple!
It features new mobs, blocks, hats, achievements, themed stuff, weapons, crafts and much more

Here is the changelog:

New features:

• 4 hats have been added to the shop
• 10 new achievements!
• New craftable curing star
• The world has now a snowy appearance!
• New ice block
• Revamped Snow Bricks
• Revamped Snow Blocks
• Trees are now covered in snow!
• New throwable snow ball
• New rare placeable christmas tree can be found underground
• New christmas decorations can be found underground
• New placeable christmas bells craft
• New placeable christmas balls craft
• Brown Bears are back with revamped graphics!
• New white bear mob
• New big penguin mob
• New small penguin mob
• New frosty mob
• New falling star mob
• New placeable butcher’s broom!
• New placeable christmas candles
• New ice arrows, freeze monsters with them
• New ice shurikens, used to freeze mobs
• New ice sword weapon
• New Bear Claw weapon
• New placeable christmas light bulbs
• New placeable hanging star
• New craftable christmas chest
• New craftable frosty head
• New revamped placeable snow man
• New christmas biscuits and more than 10 christmas treasures
• New wrapped paper craft, use it to wrap blocks and give them a christmas look!
• Bonedust has a chance to force the growth of a plant when used on it
• It’s now possible to jump from the top of a ladder or a bridge
• It’s now possible to jump vertically from beneath a bridge

Bug fixes:

• Some wood objects have a new wood break sound
• Fireplace has now christmas socks on it
• Zombie and skeletons are now Christmas themed!
• Physics engine has been tweaked to work seamlessly on older devices (no more slides of entities anymore)
• Sloped block crafts now require a workbench
• Climb movement is slightly faster
• Fixed jump animation frames
• Blocks that yield fruits cannot be broken with bare hands anymore
• Removing fruits from trees and items from shelves now is possible only with bare hands but from any distance
• Fixed a bug that caused crashes with quickslots that were emptied and filled again
• Fixed a bug that caused ghost items to remain in a quickslot
• Fixed the bug which made the character float when sliding during explosions
• Most sounds now are faded according to the player position
• Hurt effect on player now has the correct brightness according to his tile
• Pumpkin skin graphical hand glitch has been fixed
• Now TNT has a special graphical variant when ignited
• Fixed a bug that kept TNT on basalt blocks after explosion
• Removing a deco from a tile doesn’t start to break it anymore
• Tilling an untilled dirt block doesn’t start to break it anymore
• Trees have been mildly revamped
• Naturally growing leaves and blue leaves are now non solid blocks
• Placing an item on a shelf will place the same variant that you have in your inventory
• Dead tree now makes correct sound when hit
• Fixed a bug which made fruits on trees glitch their hanging status
• Now climbable vines correctly updates their sprites when destroyed
• Some jungle decorations now correctly allow treasures and mob inside them
• Chairs and tables can now be correctly placed without a background block
• Dark stone can now be mined just with its correct tool
• Fixed compact sand hardness
• Fixed compact sand wrong footstep sound
• Fixed bamboo bridge wrong sounds
• Increased Wood Fence craft output to 2
• Slightly increased sapling drop rate on trees

We’ll let you know when Apple approves it!

Junk Jack 1.2.2 Halloween update is out!

Hi guys, Apple has just approved the new Junk Jack 1.2.2 Halloween update.
It contains new monsters, statues, throwable weapons, blocks, crafts and much more!

Go and get it!

More news coming soon!

Junk Jack 1.2.2 update has been submitted to Apple! (waiting for approval)

Hi there!
The new Junk Jack 1.2.2 update has been submitted to Apple! It features a whole bunch of bugfixes, new halloween themed mobs, treasures, and things to find!
We’ll let you know when the update is approved, hopefully soon this time

Here is the changelog:

New Features:

• A new option has been added that keep game unpaused with inventory/map/book opened.
• New brewing barrel addon.
• 25+ new cooking crafts.
• New plantable hops.
• 4 New rare statues.
• Throwable knives!
• Slingshot weapon, use it to throw small rocks at mobs!
• Throwable shurikens!
• Placeable camp fire that can be used for basic cooking.
• Placeable fireplace block.
• Placeable carpet block.
• A new achievement has been added.
• 3 new mobs!
• More than 15 new rare treasures!
• A new rare chest can be found in the world.
• Halloween Pumpkins can be found in the world!
• A new craftable chest has been added.
• 10+ new crafts have been added.
• 3 new hats have been added to the shop.

Bug Fixes:

• Cocoa tree can be correctly destroyed without crashes.
• You can now milk a cow unlimited times.
• Taming collar craft now requires copper bars instead of silver.
• Various wrong treasure offsets fixed.
• Various craftnote typos fixed.
• Stone merlon moved under the right craftbook category.
• Putting Junk Jack in background will automatically trigger pause view.
• Damage on character is correctly inhibited for one second upon receiving damage from any source.
• Items thrown from inventory will bounce correctly even when player is not aligned to center of block.
• Sticky bombs thrown at world limit won’t crash the game neither explode anymore.
• Ghost items shouldn’t remain anymore when placing items.
• Unhittable blocks are properly indestructible with bare hands.
• Removed the duplication glitch with crafting and tap to move on.
• Arrows don’t stick on world limit anymore, they just disappear.
• Sapphire encrusted tools now properly work (shovels and swords).
• Compact sand is now properly identified as sand (eg you can plant cactus on it).
• Wheat is now easier to find.
• Increased stone merlon craft output to 4.
• Left sloped bricks hardness fixed.
• Fixed white sheep health.
• Jungle tree base makes the right sound.
• Walking on glass makes the right sound.

more GREAT news are coming soon

Weekly Junk #3

Hey guys, welcome to the Weekly Junk #3!

Let’s start with an update regarding the development status of the new Junk Jack version.

New monsters are coming, some new cool throwable weapons (some suggested by the users), new furniture, new placeable items that we hope you will like, food types, and lots of new rare treasures!
Last but not least, a lot of themed things are coming. Guess what they are?

We’re also working on .. something new .. an announcement will come out soon.

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Let’s see the community creations now!

Check out the adventure map “Dwarven town” by our forum user Onura!

The original forum link is here:

http://forum.pixbits.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4507&start=30

And.. take a look at the Jungle Mountain by Thetaupe:

Impressive work

That’s all for now!

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Have you got a nice creation, mod or something that you would like to see featured?

Post it on our forums here:

http://forum.pixbits.com/viewforum.php?f=8

The best ones will be featured in the next Weekly Junk!

Junk Jack 1.2 update has been submitted to Apple! (waiting for approval)

Hey guys!
The new 1.2 update with bow and arrows, breeding system to tame and let your animals grow, jewelcrafting to enhance your tools, sticky bombs and many more features has been submitted to apple!

Here is the changelog:

New features:

• 4 new hats can be purchased in the store!
• New wood bucket, a less expensive version for milk
• New Fence Doors!
• New craftable decoration Sloped Wood Blocks!
• New craftable decoration Sloped Wood Planks!
• New craftable decoration Sloped Stone Bricks!
• New craftable decoration Sloped Sand Bricks!
• New craftable decoration Sloped Clay Bricks!
• New craftable decoration Sloped Roof Tiles!
• New Compact Sand Block!
• New craftable stone merlons!
• 20+ New hidden treasures to discover!
• New enhanced widget, needed for some crafts
• Dark Stone can now be crafted back from shards and placed
• A rare magical bean that can be planted and grows as a tall climbable plant
• Quickstack: inventory to chest button (every item that is in both inventory and current chest page will be stacked)
• Quickstack: craft grid to inventory button (grid will be emptied and every stackable item even in inventory will be stacked)
• A new craftable Junk Machine! Recycle items and get materials back according to your luck!
• More than 20 new cooking recipes!
• Bow & Arrows!
• 7 arrow types!
• 7 bow types!
• A new ammo slot in the inventory
• Sticky Explosives (to blocks) (small, normal and big bombs)
• New craftable metal chest!
• A new way of moving items in inventory only with tap and/or hold (can be enabled via a setting in options)
• New craftable metal block!
• A new rare mineral which is said to be very strong!
• Metal tools and weapons can now be encrusted with gems to enhance them (durability, range, etc)
• New jeweler bench addon used to cut gems
• You can feed stabled pups to help them grow
• You can feed stabled adult animals to help them breed
• You can tame animals and place them on their correct blocks to keep them in your world
• New sow and piglet mob
• New ram and lamb mobs
• New rooster and chick mobs
• New bull and calf mobs
• New pig trough to keep and breed pigs
• New cowshed block to keep and breed cows
• New chicken hen block to keep and breed chickens
• New sheepfold block to keep and breed sheeps
• A taming collar can be crafted to capture certain mobs
• 4 New rare fossils can be found and gathered underground
• Treasures on ground and fruits are now shown on minimap
• Mobs are now shown on minimap
• Violet mushroom will now drop sprouts and can be replanted (they grow only in darkness!)
• A new kind of showcase block can be crafted and holds up to 4 treasures (as a shelf)
• Now you can throw items by dragging them outside inventory (side of throw will be chosen according to position of drag)
• Now you can tap an item in the craftbook to see its name
• Now you can tap an addon symbol in the craftbook to see its name
• Now torches have custom ember colors
• New beans plant
• New pepper plant
• New peach tree plant
• New lettuce plant
• New potato plant
• Now green grass drops grass seeds to replant it

Enhancements:

• 50% faster boot time when opening the game
• Item name tooltip will keep its visibility state when closing and reopening inventory
• Now it’s possible to eat also at full health
• Revamped Doors
• Revamped Furniture blocks
• Reveamped Building Blocks (Roof Tiles, Iron Ladder, Clay Bricks, Stone Bricks, Sand Bricks, Pavement Blocks, Glass, Wood Window)
• Glass window has become Iron Framed Window
• Signs shouldn’t crash anymore on newer devices
• Small Closets can now be used as shelves
• Decorations placed on leaves block will now shift accordingly if the tree grows
• Using the bed to sleep will now reset health (to prevent exploiting breaking a bed now won’t give back all materials for it for sure)
• Dark Stone can now be broken with strong tools
• Non hittable block flag on back layer nows work properly
• An empty durability bar won’t appear anymore in some situations on quickslots
• Destroying a cactus sprout won’t make a cactus grow from nowhere anymore
• Fixed some wrong cooking crafts.
• Skull statue pieces cannot be removed from below anymore.
• Fixed bugs related to palm trees (copper coins, coconuts on wrong tiles, crashes)
• Revamped world chests graphics
• Revamped craftable chests graphics
• Revamped metal blocks graphics
• Decay time of items on ground has been doubled
• Minerals and gems won’t spawn anymore on basalt (bedrock)
• Tapping on a togglable block (eg. chest) will now prevent throwing items as explosives
• Health is correctly reset when player data is deleted
• Gems dropped by veins now are raw gems (need to be cut)
• Revamped tools graphics
• Revamped gems graphics
• Green grass is not directly placeable anymore
• Tiles on bridges overlapped with ladders don’t get destroyed when removing ladder anymore
• Now character won’t keep auto-running after pressing home button
• Now violet and jungle grass are correctly removed when covered by another block
• Now violet grass will grow on violet dirt and jungle grass will grow on jungle dirt
• Trying to place a ladder on top of the world doesn’t crash the game anymore
• Items on shelves in minimap now have proper lighting
• Boar meat now gives the appropriate health value
• Pizza now doesn’t require eggs anymore
• Cheese ham can now be consumed
• Farming trees now should make the correct hit and break sounds
• Cloth now makes the appropriate sound when walking on it
• Stone golem drop rates fixed
• Carnivore plants now will spawn only in the appropriate biome
• Fixed the title typo in the scarecrow craftbook page
• Fixed corn seeds drop rate
• Fixed maya ceiling decos sound and behaviour
• Fixed small glitches in the super map
• Fixed misc craftbook typos and groups
• Decreased white sheep spawn rate

Thats all.. for now!

Junk Jack 1.2 update preview

Hi guys, sorry for the lack of news, but we were really busy developing the new update

The new version is coming along well, and soon we’ll let you know more!

Here is a screenshot showing some of the new features:

Junk Jack 1.2 update

You can also check out the current changelog here:

http://forum.pixbits.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=8

Happy mining!

Underground Farming!

Another quick update, this time it shows some underground farming action on the iPad universal version!

Only a little part of the growable stuff is shown, but you should get the idea

More news coming soon!

Junk Jack 1.0.5 has been approved!

Hi guys, after a long wait Apple finally decided to approve our last Junk Jack explosive update!

Go and get it

As always if you find any issue or want to suggest something you can contact us or discuss with the community in our forums!