0.1.25200.8 MB
MIT
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Woodlanders (Alpha) game launcher and updater
## About the Game (Early Alpha)
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You wake beneath a quiet pixel sky—no prophecy to follow, no quest log to obey—just wind over grass, rain that sometimes drifts in, birds crossing the horizon, and a compass that remembers where you began. This is Woodlanders in its earliest form: an open, living sandbox still knitting itself together night by night.
### What Doesn’t Exist Yet
- No scripted lore
- No story campaign
- No endgame arc
Instead: a procedural world, emerging systems, trees that fall and return, hunger that presses forward, bamboo that begins as a promise and grows if you give it time.
> Every mechanic you touch is a foundation stone. Every small imperfection is an invitation.
### How Builds Work
- 🧩 Minimal installer: one download
- 🔍 Auto-checks for new versions
- 🌒 Evening + daily pushes: sometimes subtle tuning, sometimes new possibilities
- 🧭 You’re ahead of the map — your feedback carves the path
### What to Expect
| Don’t Expect | Do Expect |
|------------------|------------|
| Polish | Potential |
| Finished loops | Change |
| Full narrative | Emergence |
| Packed world | Quiet moments |
Moments where the world feels sparse—and others where sudden rain or a line of birds makes it feel briefly alive. That contrast is the frontier.
### Your Impact
If you explore, plant, test, nudge the edges, and tell us what you felt—you help shape what comes next:
- 🔨 Crafting
- 🏗️ Building
- 🌅 Day/Night cycle
- 🐾 Creatures
- 🔊 Sound & ambience
- 📖 Future story arcs
Woodlanders isn’t finished — it’s becoming.
> Join early. Wander freely. Grow it with us.
Tagline: Woodlanders — not a story yet, just the dawn before one.
> 🐦 Optional share: “I’m playing Woodlanders in its alpha dawn—no story yet, just systems waking up. Exploring while it learns to become a world.”
> 💬 Status: Earliest Alpha Phase
> 🔁 Updates: Daily / Evening incremental builds
> 📥 Installer: Single download – auto-update enabled
> 🗺️ Story Mode: Not yet implemented
> 🧪 Your Role: Explorer, tester, trail maker
Woodlanders Launcher is a JavaFX desktop app for the [Woodlanders](https://gcclinux.github.io/Woodlanders/) game. It automatically
checks for updates, downloads the latest client from GitHub releases, caches it
locally, and launches the game with a single click.
## Features
- ✅ Automatic Updates — checks GitHub for the latest game version
- ✅ Smart Caching — downloads and caches game files to
- ✅ Version Detection — compares local and remote versions with SHA-256
- ✅ One-Click Launch — simple, intuitive interface to play
- ✅ Cross-Platform — Windows and Linux (Snap/TAR.GZ)
Update History
0.1.2 (5)13 Dec 2025, 09:47 UTC
24 Nov 2025, 21:13 UTC
4 Dec 2025, 17:56 UTC
13 Dec 2025, 09:47 UTC