BTA! V8.0-pre3 Discord Announcement

[UmbralMay]

until something is handled, I have permission to post the discord announcements here. included will be screenshots and hyperlinks included in the announcement. I will also do a direct copy-paste for those who need the text itself for accessibility reasons, however it will be in a reply to the thread itself.

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CHANGELOG
CHANGES

BUG FIXES


the cut off segment is just a footnote explaining what the bug caused. it reads "(this fixes the mp exclusive issue where noclipping into ember blocks made them explode still)"


MultiMC/Prism Launcher instance: here
Server client: here
for convenience; here is a download to Java 17.
Windows (64x)
MacOS DMG
I am nowhere near knowledgeable enough to trust myself to link to anything for Linux. you weirdos are on your own

[UmbralMay]

the following is a direct copy+paste of the Announcement, with usage of bbcode to make the text accurate to how it is seen in the discord announcement. the next reply will contain the raw text of the full changelog, as it is in the .txt file.

Better than Adventure! v8.0-pre3

@everyone Hello! It's been a hot minute since prerelease 2, and we've spent that time feverishly working away and refining 8.0 based on your feedback. We've squashed a number of bugs, including some very important and long-standing ones, and found the time to add a little more polish on top. For the full changelog, please see ⁠(DISCORD CHANNEL LINK).

Note that this is a prerelease, which mean that it will be unstable and may eat your world. Be careful, take backups regularly, and report any bugs you find at https://bugs.betterthanadventure.net/.

Downloads
The best way to get this prerelease is to use the Better than Adventure! Updater v3.0 (link below). To install it, simply drag and drop the downloaded ZIP file into Prism Launcher or MultiMC and import it. Then, run the updater, enable "Advanced Mode" in the bottom left, and change the Version to "v8.0-pre3". Then click "Select", and "Install". You'll see a new "Better than Adventure!" instance in your launcher, which you can then run. If you have any questions, please ask, and one of our team will assist you as soon as they can.
READ THIS
As of this version, the required Java version for BTA! has been increased from Java 8 to Java 17. If you don't know what this means or how to upgrade, please ask.

Better than Adventure! Updater v3.0: ⁠(DISCORD CHANNEL LINK)
MultiMC/Prism Launcher instance: Download!
Server JAR: Download!

[UmbralMay]

Better than Adventure! 8.0-pre3

== Changes ==
- Updated Brimstone Brick texture
- Gave emissive textures to bucket items
- Added pressure plate recipes for new stone/cobble pressure plate types
- AssetPacks can now define min_format and max_format fields in the assetpack manifest.json to define a range of supported format versions
- Made moss bonemealing consistent with its natural spread behavior
- Added ash block to ash layers recipe
- Added functionality to fire arrows
- Updated fire arrow texture
- Added rubyglass painting border
- Added acid death message
- You can now drown in acid
- Reverted easy bridge mechanics to 7.3 behavior
- A lot of tweaks and fixes to the Matcher and Conduit
- Adjusted sulfur trommel rates and made it yield 4 sulfur consistently
- Pockets of sulfur now spawn in the sulfur pools
- Pockets of soul sand now spawn in the old world
- Made netherrack generation more consistent across the Nether
- Made gloomstone generation more consistent with netherrack
- Secret achievements are now obfuscated
- Completed achievement gray lines now render over incomplete ones
- Acid source fluid now turns into sulfur on contact with water, and brimthaw on contact with lava regardless of dimension
- Added Nether achievements
- Item Dragging now respects slot's max stack size
- You can now blast smelt Rubyglass Column and Brimsand into Rubyglass Crystal
- Cobbled Gloomstone now crushes into Ash
- Added new statue item textures (from @Doop)
- Pigs now wander when in water and saddled, upon getting back on land they sit down
- Lower brimstone hardness to be more in line with sandstone but slightly harder
- Slightly tweaked the Ash texture
- Burning blocks with fire now drops ash onto the ground
- Logs catch fire more easily and burn slightly faster
- Added a separate color correction slider for the Nether
- Added some more gamerules (doFireBurn, fireSpread, doExplosionGriefing)
- Removed acidTickRate gamerule
- Merged item despawn delays into one gamerule for all item despawning to avoid confusion
- Added frameTimeCounter to shaders
- Workbench block is now rotatable
- Various fixes for left-hand mode
- Allowed Activators to interact with Conduits
- Added Option for easy bridge outline
- Adjusted acid melt rate to be more aggressive
- Reworked sneaking/edge safety mechanic to be more reliable
- Added /achievement revoke
- Add java related arguments to instance.cfg
- Items now float in lava and acid as well
- Items inside of blocks now render lit, which sounds wrong but in the context of being pushed out it looks much less jarring
- Despawning items now fade smoothly rather than blinking
- GUI Scale Override now shows a range from 1x - 12x in the Hud Editor
- Global GUI Scale no longer says "Disabled" when any given override is set
- Popup lists now have a search bar, for example the world type selection popup. Courtesy of @Kheprep
- Updated Bake Bread achievement description to refer to dough rather than wheat
- Updated The Lie achievement description to refer to dough rather than wheat
- Renamed Frozen Over achievement to Hot Spring

== Bug Fixes ==
- Fixed vehicle (pig/boat) movement in multiplayer
- Fixed player rotation/look direction in boats and on pigs
- Fix large lag spikes upon loading vent sounds for the first time
- Pigs now take damage from projectiles thrown/shot by the rider
- Fixed fluid hardening to work consistently and not generate limestone horizontally
- Limestone now generates from both water sources AND flowing water with lava/acid from above
- Fixed feeding pigs being able to create 0 stacks
- Fixed being able to duplicate saddles with dead pigs
- Fixed fast portal exploit
- Fixed step sounds disappearing when dismounting a pig
- Fixed matcher and redstone jack o lantern direct signal
- Fixed current chunk loading as air after world load/dimension change
- Fixed multiplayer inventory desync bugs
- Fixed Floating Items
- /achievement now no longer includes the entity selector
- Fixed Player Entity Syncing in MP
- Fixed nametag syncing issues in multiplayer
- Implemented fixed acid overlay courtesy of @agreathornedowl (PedroThePanda64)
- Fixed potential race condition crash with log rendering
- Fixed redstone wire power to accurately represent where it is pointing (and fix erroneous diagonal connections)
- Implemented the MC-2025 mob clipping fix
- Fixed visual bug in MP where mobs snap to the roof when under a ceiling
- Fixed chunk decoration desyncs
- Reach distance per game mode setting now properly understood by the server
- Fixed flaming explosions not placing fire
- Fixed Entities ticking before blocks are loaded
- Fixed /tp command to actually send chunks to the client in MP
- Fixed recursive server stall on Nether chunk load
- Fixed some font rendering issues in the Console Screen
- Fire hitboxes now more accurately match its shape
- Fixed accidentally floored player entity encoded position
- Fixed flowing procedural fluid textures not tiling properly
- Tweaked item physics in water to be more reliable
- Fixed item entity upon dropped from block velocity bug
- Hitbox of stairs now accurately represents a stair instead of a full block
- Fixed activator crashing when right clicking non-slots
- Fix falling block not landing after chunk reload
- Fixed head items not always using emissive textures
- Fixed activator right click locking sometimes getting stuck
- Fixed slab culling
- Worlds with no floor no longer cull the bottom faces of blocks at the bottom of the world
- World boundary culling now exclusively applies to bedrock
- Fixed jars not being consumed when capturing insects
- Fixed redstone dust model elongating at far distances from origin
- Fixed lightning evaluation
- Fixed entity edge-safety not working on x-axis and optimized Entity.move by quite a lot
- Fixed client of server world not incrementing total world time
- Fixed icecream bucket achievement not rendering properly
- Fixed Blast Processing achievement not being given on crafting a blast furnace
- Fixed grass in the overworld achievement page being uncolored
- Revert bucket use to old behavior, and dirty fluid breaking fix
- Fixed potential stack overflow when sponging water in the nether
- Fixed infinite recursion when painting buttons
- Removed redstone dust from debug worlds to prevent a crash
- Made mobs marginally bigger to make some z-fighting less common
- Fixed some cloud culling
- Fixed stage1 on pumpkin crop model
- Fix for conduit chain powering pistons via qc from the middle
- Temporary fix of suspended fluid after chunk reload.
- Made ore conversion recipes use ore itemgroups
- Fix snow layer accumulation overflow and fix missing collision
- Fixed weird sleeping behavior in multiplayer
- Fixed player sleeping on foot instead of head of bed
- Made bed.notValid, bed.occupied, and bed.setSpawn displayed via status bar
- Added proper support for grouping together string draw calls
- Grouped f3 menu render calls
- Made fogstate objects get reused
- Removed unneeded allocation from info hud component
- Grouped info hud component draw calls
- Optimized frustum culling code path slightly
- Fixed placed leaf pile not setting permanent flag
- Fixed TerrainRenderer memory leak
- Ember fling logic no longer always flings you in the exact same direction
- Reintroduce proper zero ticking + Fixed a client side moving piston crash
- Fixed custom shaders not being applied at startup
- Fixed empty armor icon not loading
- Fixed floating point error on bold char rendering
- Fixed rain momentarily rendering at max strength before fadein
- Fixed some winter checks not applying to endless winter
- Fixed zombie hat layer not being parented to head bone
- Aurora no longer attempts to mesh in the nether
- Fixed label recipe preview being able to display air blocks
- Fixed sign editor not shifting elements of colored signs
- Fixed portal particles sometimes spawning from the wrong direction
- Fixed intersecting portal rendering
- Improved chunk decorator error logging
- Fixed onBlockDestroyed being called when beforeBlockDestroyed was false
- Fixed hanging lantern improperly culling bottom face
- Fixed lit brazier sometimes not smoking
- Made acid damage actually apply to all entities
- You can no longer place multiple saddles on a pig
- Fixed placing rope inside a block deleting the block
- Fixed item dragging doubled rendering
- Fixed outline always rendering behind translucent terrain
- Fixed NBT tags not properly decoupling copies
- Optimized arrow renderer
- Fixed arrow damage attribution
- Fixed --debug arg not parsing properly
- Fix not able to fill steel milk bucket past stage 1 by right clicking on cow.
- Fixed clicked color text being wrong
- Fixed flag tool buttons not changing cursor shape
- Fixed inventory sorting placing items into locked slots
- Made no physics flag actually synced between client and server (this fixes the mp exclusive issue where noclipping into ember blocks made them explode still)
- Made ember blocks trigger more consistently
- Made ember block explosion logic no longer trigger on both the client and server simultaneously
- Fixed tooltip rendering in guidebook being duplicated
- Made BlockLogicRotatable no longer abtract
- Various particle fixes