Version 3.1.0 Released

New Features

• We now have a Friends system! You can search for players by username or nickname, request, respond, block, and get the connection/online status of friends; the RPG Template comes with an example widget (activated via the crate interactable in-game)
• Redwood now creates an admin user by default via configuration which is automatically used by the CLI tools
• You can create normal, non-admin users from the CLI
• You can configure a default proxy for a realm and use the new create-default-proxy CLI command, which optionally can be automatically started when the backend boots up
• There's a new SetCharacterArchived function in the UE plugin and example in the RPG template for (un)archiving characters; eventually archived characters will be deleted from the DB after the configured archival period
• All Realm Instance Configs will now inherit from config/node/default/realm/instances/redwoodBase.yaml which makes creating multiple realms much easier now
• We've improved the organization of the docs and continue to regularly add more documentation

Bug Fixes

• [UE Plugins] When players create a character, initial struct data can be can configured for non-characterCreatorData fields
• [UE Plugins] When clients reconnect to the backend sockets via the plugin, it will automatically reauthenticate the player so future API calls won't fail
• [Backend] The backend now auto restarts the first shard if it hasn't updated in awhile (if it unexpectedly crashes)
• [Backend] The backend won't destroy empty shards if they'd just be recreated immediately after based on the current players and config
• We've added logic to actually restart proxies when the Realm Backend starts if they're marked startOnBoot