- Update 59 for cyubeVR is live! Update to Unreal Engine 5! - 4 July 2026
Hey everyone, Update 59 for cyubeVR is live! This is a really big technical change. It took quite a while to finish and has been tested in the beta build for a long time. Hopefully the wait was worth it! Previously, cyubeVR was using the last version of Unreal Engine 4, that's Unreal Engine 4.27. Now it uses Unreal Engine 5.6. Updating a game from UE4 to UE5 means a lot of things need to change in the background, and the first goal with the engine update was to have it work as identically as possible to UE4 - just a solid updated technical foundation in the background that makes future updates much easier than trying to work with an outdated UE4 base. And only after that, the focus was on adding new visuals-improving features from UE5 that you surely have heard about from other games by now (Nanite, Virtual Shadow Maps, DLSS 4.5), so it can look way better than before! From other games…
- Unreal Engine 5 beta build available for testing! - 29 September 2025
Hey everyone, the Unreal Engine 5 update for cyubeVR is progressing well! This has been in the works for quite a long time: Finally updating cyubeVR from Unreal Engine 4.27 to Unreal Engine 5.6. This should just be just a very quick update post to notify people who might not be in the cyubeVR Discord: Since a few weeks, there is a UE5 beta build available for testing! Beta testers in the cyubeVR Discord have already tested it a lot and given a lot of feedback, but more people testing it is always helpful. Moving from Unreal Engine 4.27 to Unreal Engine 5.6 at once is really a very big jump. The biggest engine update ever for cyubeVR! After such a big engine update, at first nothing works any more, and at the beginning it was nice to see at least see a few triangles render at all. So then there was a lot of work of getting everything as close as possible to fully working again. By now, a…
- Happy Easter! During Easter, you can find easter eggs in your cyubeVR world! - 20 April 2025
Happy Easter everyone! Until Easter Tuesday, you can now find Easter eggs in your cyubeVR world! Since it's Easter, a bunch of easter bunnies have worked hard to hide easter eggs all over your cyubeVR world. If you play the game within the next few days, then with a good eye you'll be able to find many easter eggs with different designs hidden between grass in the world. And they're not just useless easter eggs. They contain useful items! The easter bunnies were very generous this year, and have put many valuable resources into the easter eggs. You might find regular dye, coal or copper, but maybe also gold or rainbow dye. Some bunnies have even hidden easter eggs in your chests, so make sure to also look into those! Also, sadly, some easter bunnies were not as generous as others, and decided to keep the easter eggs for themselves. They will not give them to you on their own. If you gra…
- Until December 31, you can find Christmas presents in your cyubeVR world! - 18 December 2024
Merry Christmas everyone! Santa flew over your world, and a bunch of Christmas presents fell off his sleigh! Now there's Christmas presents scattered all across your world, and no one will be there to pick them up, unless you find them! Until December 31, you can find Christmas presents in your cyubeVR world! Inside of the christmas presents you find items - could be gold, could be rainbow dye, but might also just be normal dye or some coal. Someone also managed to hide some presents in some of your chests - you have no idea who would do that, but they are there, and you're happy about that! Also, during this christmas period, maybe take a look at the noses of the deer in the game ;) Let me also use this opportunity to thank you all for being a great community! Thank you to everyone who supported development of cyubeVR in any way this year - that's everyone who bought and played it, or…
- Update 58 for cyubeVR is live! New objects to build, water, and much more! - 29 September 2024
Hey everyone, Update 58 for cyubeVR is live! There is a lot in this Update! This update adds many cool new things to craft and build, like a great functional shelf for the wall, new chairs, couching places and statues! It also adds a great looking native water block, a much-requested feature for easily teleporting home, completely new music for shimmerstone caves with new realistic reverb for sounds, a completely new dynamic 3D crafting recipe visualization with a new UI, Polish localization, the ability to place mesh objects on top of other objects, a new HQ Video Capture mode, significant optimizations, and as always, many more general improvements and bugfixes! Let's first take a look at the really long list of changes, and after that, let's get into more detail for the biggest changes! Btw, are you in the official cyubeVR Discord yet? Added new furniture to craft and build: A Simple…
- New awesome builds in the community screenshot showcase, and new custom blocks! - 29 September 2024
With Update 58, these new screenshots of very cool builds have been added to the community screenshot showcase in the main menu of the game! Normally these would be mentioned directly in the Update 58 Announcement post, but Update 58 has so much new stuff that the the Update 58 Announcement post actually hit the maximum length allowed by an announcement on Steam, so these had to be split into this separate post here. So take a look at these awesome builds by cyubeVR players here: Cow | Built by: ChibiArcher House | Built by: Talsma Pagoda | Built by: ChibiArcher Small Mayan Temple | Built by: ChibiArcher Train Station | Built by: @ChibiArcher City | Built by: KroyVR Boat | Built by: @ChibiArcher Apple Office Block | Built by: lonewolf2912 Borg Cube | Built by: @MeisterSasa Brick build | Built by: @lonewolf2912 Bridge in Mine | Built by: @koumorileo Building | Built by: @𝑫𝒂𝒇𝒕 Cantile…
- Update 57 for cyubeVR is live! Localization, Seated Mode, and more! - 7 February 2024
Hey everyone, Update 57 for cyubeVR is live! This update adds localization support making cyubeVR now officially playable in German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Ukrainian and Klingon language! Also, cyubeVR now officially supports seated gameplay through a "Seated Mode", and there are significant CPU performance, GPU performance and RAM usage optimizations, improvements to the graphics, and as always, many more improvements and bugfixes! Let's first take a look at the long list of changes, and after that, let's get into more detail for the biggest changes! Btw, are you in the official cyubeVR Discord yet? Added localization support to all text in the game! Added German language support Added Spanish language support Added French language support Added Italian language support Added Portuguese language support Added Ukrainian language support Added Klingon language support Adde…
- Until December 31, you can find Christmas presents in your cyubeVR world! - 21 December 2023
Merry Christmas everyone! Santa flew over your world, and a bunch of Christmas presents fell off his sleigh! Now there's Christmas presents scattered all across your world, and no one will be there to pick them up, unless you find them! Until December 31, you can find Christmas presents in your cyubeVR world! Inside of the christmas presents you find items - could be gold, could be rainbow dye, but might also just be normal dye or some coal. Someone also managed to hide some presents in some of your chests - you have no idea who would do that, but they are there, and you're happy about that! Let me also use this opportunity to thank you all for being a great community! Thank you to everyone who supported development of cyubeVR in any way this year - that's everyone who bought and played it, or streamed it, or made videos of it, or gave feedback in the Discord, or tested beta builds, or…
- Update 56 for cyubeVR is live! Much improved trees, huge optimizations and more! - 6 September 2023
Hey everyone, Update 56 for cyubeVR is live! This update adds significant VRAM optimizations (over 2 GB less VRAM usage!), RAM optimizations, significant GPU performance optimizations, a much better looking dark tree, new fancy shadows for trees, improved sky colors and a generally much improved sky, plus many more improvements, optimizations and bugfixes! Let's first take a look at the long list of changes, and after that, let's get into more detail for the biggest changes! Btw, are you in the official cyubeVR Discord yet? Significantly optimized the VRAM usage of the game, it now needs over 2 GB less VRAM! Replaced the dark tree model with a better looking one Added "voxel shadows" below trees, making the area below trees darker, without any performance impact Significantly changed the color of the sky, it's now way more blue during daytime Changed the color of light shafts from the s…
- Watch this video of amazing reactions from streamers playing cyubeVR! - 6 September 2023
Hey everyone! Today is a great day! Update 56 for cyubeVR will be released in exactly 1 hour from now, but there's not just a new update coming out today, there are two cool things released today! First, there's a really cool new video that was just released on the official Stonebrick Studios YouTube channel. It ever warms the heart to see streamers find solace and joy in the wondrous worlds of cyubeVR. So let us take a moment to marvel at some of their amazing sincere and awe-stirring first reactions to playing the game! Watch the new video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfjhzuPVWDI Thank you very much everyone for enjoying the game so much! And now see you in the next announcement post 1 hour from now that will be all about the awesome new Update 56 :) Cheers!
- Update 55 for cyubeVR is live! New graphics for grass and flowers, and more! - 7 April 2023
Hey everyone, Update 55 for cyubeVR is live! This update adds completely new, realistic graphics for the grass and flowers with a whole new system for efficiently rendering them, significant reductions in save file size reducing the required disk space to 1/4 of what it was before, plus many many more improvements, optimizations and bugfixes! Let's first take a look at the long list of changes, and after that, let's get into more detail for the biggest changes! Btw, are you in the official cyubeVR discord yet? Completely new realistic graphics for the grass and flowers and completely new system for rendering them Significantly optimized the save file format of the game, it's now only 1/4 the size as before Added an optional, much stronger compression algorithm for the WorldData_InstaLoad files, reducing them to 1/4 of their regular size When you launch the game, there's now a voice sayi…
- Update 54 for cyubeVR is live! Objectives, and more! - 20 December 2022
Hey everyone, Update 54 for cyubeVR is live! This update adds 75 objectives to the game, improves the graphics of the night sky and grass, and adds many more improvements, optimizations and bugfixes! And Merry Christmas! Santa was generous this year, until December 31 you can find christmas presents with valuable items in your cyubeVR world! More about that below. Let's take a look at the long list of changes first, and after that, let's get into more detail for the biggest changes! Btw, are you in the official cyubeVR discord yet? Added 75 Objectives to the game! Added a new achievement for unlocking all objectives Improved visuals of the stars in the sky, and added a new option on the "Sky Quality" setting Improved the grass and dirt side texture Further optimized the view distance fog code, making it ~25% faster Christmas presents can now also contain Starstones, Shimmertiles and Clo…
- Update 53 for cyubeVR is live! New massive caves, glowing blocks and more! - 11 November 2022
Hey everyone, Update 53 for cyubeVR is live! This update adds massive new caves, awesome new glowing blocks to be found in those new caves, cloaked torches for hidden lighting, footstep sounds for the player, native support for bHaptics, and many more improvements! Let's take a look at the long list of changes first, and after that, let's get into more detail for the biggest changes! Btw, are you in the official cyubeVR discord yet? Added new cave generation! Added "Shimmerstone" blocks in the colors Blue, Green, Gold and White Added "Shimmertile" blocks in the colors Blue, Green, Gold and White Added "Starstone" blocks in the colors Blue, Green and Gold Added "Cloakstone", "Cloaknuggets", and "Cloaked Torches" in all colors Added footstep sounds for the player Added native support for bHaptics Added VRAM warning in the main menu, inspired by Half Life Alyx Improved visuals of the float…
- Update 52 for cyubeVR is live! Great new dynamic view distance fog, and more! - 2 August 2022
Hey everyone, Update 52 for cyubeVR is live! This update adds a really cool new dynamic view distance fog system that also results in the default view distance being increased from 20 to 50, significantly improved world generation speed on slow CPUs, rendering fixes for Pimax headsets, plus many other significant improvements and bugfixes. Let's take a look at the long list of changes first, and after that, let's get into more detail for the biggest changes! Added a really cool dynamic/intelligent view distance fog Increased the default view distance from 20 to 50. Thanks to the new view distance fog system, this is now possible! Significantly improved the initial world generation speed on slower CPUs The dark mode in the main menu is now the default! Fixed rendering issues with running the game on a Pimax headset on "Normal" or "Large" FOV Improved tree spawning, it was too noticeable…
- Update 51 for cyubeVR is live! Super powerful modding support and more! - 23 June 2022
Hey everyone, Update 51 for cyubeVR is live! This update adds super powerful new modding capabilities like a native modding API and native support for UE4 mods, including Steam Workshop support, categories for custom blocks, an update to the latest Unreal Engine 4 version, a really cool craftable smoothbrain statue in honor of habie147, much improved performance with LIV, and many other significant improvements, like being able to grab rabbits and geckos with gravity gloves! Let's take a look at the long list of changes first, and after that, let's get into more detail for the biggest changes! Awesome new modding feature: Added native UE4 blueprint modding support Awesome new modding feature: Added a native modding API, the VoxelAPI Awesome new modding feature: Added Steam Workshop support for both new types of mods Awesome new modding feature: Added categories for custom blocks Awesome…
- Are you a programmer and interested in modding cyubeVR? Give feedback now! - 29 May 2022
Hey everyone! This is not yet the Update 51 announcement, but Update 51 for cyubeVR is approaching quickly! One of the major features that Update 51 will bring is the VoxelAPI, an easy to use, awesome native Modding API for the game for interacting with the voxel world of the game, allowing all kinds of fun mods to easily be created and shared through the Steam Workshop. Over the past 1.5 months, the VoxelAPI has been extensively tested and expanded in the beta build of game already, and many awesome mods have already been created and shared by beta testers in the cyubeVR Discord. This post here is primarily aimed at programmers who might be interested in creating mods for cyubeVR using that VoxelAPI! One important feature of a modding API is backwards compatibility - ideally, a mod that was created once should keep working forever. For that, it is important that function calls don't ch…
- Happy Easter! During Easter, you can find easter eggs in your cyubeVR world! - 17 April 2022
Happy Easter everyone! On Easter Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, you can find Easter eggs in your cyubeVR world! Since it's Easter, a bunch of easter bunnies have worked hard to hide easter eggs all over your cyubeVR world. If you play the game within the next 2 days, then with a good eye you'll be able to find many easter eggs with different designs hidden between grass in the world. And they're not just useless easter eggs. They contain useful items! The easter bunnies were very generous this year, and have put many valuable resources into the easter eggs. You might find regular dye, coal or copper, but maybe also gold or rainbow dye. Some bunnies have even hidden easter eggs in your chests, so make sure to also look into those! Also, sadly, some easter bunnies were not as generous as others, and decided to keep the easter eggs for themselves. They will not give them to you on their own.…
- Update 50 for cyubeVR is live! Significant optimizations and more! - 6 March 2022
Hey everyone, Update 50 for cyubeVR is live! This update adds very significant optimizations like reducing the RAM usage of the game by a whole 4 GB, a new awesome movement option, new helpful hints making the game easier to learn for new players, visual improvements, and many other significant improvements and bugfixes! And if you enjoy to use all your software in dark mode, you'll consider the newly added dark mode for the cyubeVR main menu the most important new feature ;) Let's take a look at the long list of changes first, and after that, let's get into more detail for the biggest changes! Significant optimization regarding RAM usage of the game: cyubeVR now uses 4 GB less RAM! Added a new awesome "Hybrid" option to the "Movement Orientation" setting Significantly optimized CPU performance when walking around in a world with a lot of torches or chests or picture frames placed Signi…
- Until December 31, you can find Christmas presents in your cyubeVR world! - 24 December 2021
Merry Christmas everyone! Santa flew over your world, and a bunch of Christmas presents fell off his sleigh! Now there's Christmas presents scattered all across your world, and no one will be there to pick them up, unless you find them! Until December 31, you can find Christmas presents in your cyubeVR world! Inside of the christmas presents you find items - could be gold, could be rainbow dye, but might also just be normal dye or some coal. Someone also managed to hide some presents in some of your chests - you have no idea who would do that, but they are there, and you're happy about that! Let me also use this opportunity to thank you all for being a great community! Thank you to everyone who supported development of cyubeVR in any way this year - that's everyone who bought and played it, or streamed it, or made videos of it, or gave feedback in the Discord, or tested beta builds, or…
- Update 49 for cyubeVR is live! Adding a great new control scheme, and much more! - 19 December 2021
Hey everyone, Update 49 for cyubeVR is live! This update adds an awesome completely new control scheme using a "Half-Life: Alyx"-inspired Radial Menu with fully ambidextrous tool/block selection and additional Shoulder Slots! It also adds DLSS Support, improved bow controls and mechanics, a significant upgrade to "Astronaut Deer", some funny commands for streamers, and many other significant improvements, bugfixes, and optimizations! Let's take a look at the long list of changes first, and after that, let's get into more detail for the biggest changes! The game now has a great new control scheme using a Radial Menu on both hands and Shoulder Slots! (Much more info below) New bow controls, and various improvements to the bow mechanics Added DLSS support Big upgrade to "Astronaut Deer"! Launching deer now have flames coming out of their rear end, and they explode! Added a "hover to pause"…
