This Week in Bevy

What happened this week in the Bevy Engine ecosystem

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Exofactory, POLDERS, and Thief

2025-09-15

This week Exofactory shows off their Belt system, and the procedural town demo that has appeared multiple times got an edit mode!

POLDERS also shows off some pathfinding and a few new demos of portal mechanics and Thief sensing appear.

With 0.17's release candidate process in full swing, new PRs coming in are coming in for last minute fixes.

state_scoped_entities is now always enabled, which is great because that's generally what everyone was doing anyway.

A new reflection example shows off how to serialize and deserialize types that derive Reflect without serde's Serialize/Deserialize traits.

A couple of Event and Observer rearchitectures landed, with Observers now being Events and 0.16's Events now being Messages

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edit mode procedural towns

Procedural Town Edit Mode

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An edit mode added to this procedural town generator (that has been featured before). Models can now be exported as OBJ.

testbed

Thief Sense Demo

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A testbed demo emulating Thief characteristics

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portals

Portal

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A portals implementation

hover controller

Hover Controller

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A hover controller for this spaceflight game. Without any inputs it tries to come to a stop and maintain the current altitude. As long as the player placed sufficient thrusters on the rocket this should just work™

roads

Voronoi Roads

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Voronoi roads for a city generator based on this paper

hexroll3

Hexroll3

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Hexroll3's content rendering and sandbox hyperlinks navigation.

crt shader

CRT Shader

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A CRT Shader

pathfinding

POLDERS: Pathfinding

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Pathfinding for characters in POLDERS.

keshi-inspired map

Keshi inspired game

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The full map is 16384x16384 in size and generates in chunks of 1024x1024

belt selection

Exofactory belt system

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The belt system for Exofactory, which has more information available at exofactory.net

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Crates

New releases to crates.io and substantial updates to existing projects

bevy-steamworks 0.14

crate_release

A Bevy plugin for integrating with the Steamworks SDK.

crates.io

Skein 0.3.0-rc

crate_release

Skein is a Rust crate and a Blender Addon that combine to allow inserting Components in Blender and instantiating them in Bevy when spawning glTF scenes.

  • Blender addon 0.1.11 is out now with support for both 0.16 and 0.17 (the same addon supports both versions transparently)
  • bevy_skein 0.3.0-rc.1 is also out with support for bevy 0.17

You can use the bevy cli (or cargo-generate) to try it out with 0.17

bevy new -t rust-adventure/skein --branch template-minimal my-new-project

There's also an ecosystem-crates channel for the project and documentation is available on the website: https://bevyskein.dev/

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bevy_flash

bevy_flash

crate_release

bevy_flash now supports some filters and blending effects, and it’s available for trial via Git dependency.

GitHub
bevy_lit

bevy_lit 0.7

crate_release

bevy_lit is a 2d lighting crate. 0.7 brings

  • Light map downsampling – added a new LightingSettings2d.scale option that enables downsampling the light map texture
  • Light penetration – simulate light bleeding, with configurable intensity and falloff
  • Edge highlighting – optional visual effect that emphasizes light boundaries
crates.io
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