amidst
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Published by stefandollase over 8 years ago
This is a summary of the notable changes since Amidst v3.7, which is the last release in the old repository. For more detailed information have a look at #1 and the releases notes of the v4.0 beta versions.
New features displayed in the world
- igloos
- mineshafts
- ocean monuments
- 1.9 strongholds
- the end dimension
- the end cities
- reduced false positives for villages
- increased accuracy of structures
- fixed nether fortress locations
- fixed player locations for the nether
- renamed the biome "Sky" to "The End"
- the world spawn is now read from the save game
- the player world icons now display the player's current dimension
Player loading, moving and saving
- improved workflow for player moving
- fixed the player in the sky issue by asking the user for the new y coordinate when a player is moved
- fixed player moving context menu on linux (did not show up on right click)
- added support for the
playerdata
directory, which is how players are stored since Minecraft 1.7.6 (saving and loading)
- added implementation of another web-service to request player names and skins by uuid
- added implementation of another web-service to request player uuids by name
- reworked how save games are recognised as single- or multiplayer
GUI
- reworked menu structure
- reworked keyboard shortcuts and Mnemonics
- added new Nether Fortress and Witch Hut icons
- added scale widget
- added world type to the seed widget
- added menu entry switch profile
- added menu entry goto spawn
- added menu entry reload player locations
- added menu entry how can I move a player?
- added warning about save game manipulation
- debug widget prevented the user to enter the biome highlight mode
- updated information in About window
- all Operating Systems now use the default Java Look and Feel
- made OS X keyboard shortcuts feel more native
Changes under the hood
- added information to the seed history file
- added useful logging output
- changed the update mechanism to work with the new project location
- increased the system requirements to Java version 8
- improved the command line interface
- removed google analytics tracker
- removed unused libraries and code
- cleaned up the source code
- used a code formatter (from eclipse)
- added documentation
- automated the build process
- added tests to ensure the world generation is not changed by accident
- changed to new version list URL
- updated the cached version list to include all versions up to Minecraft 1.9
Changes since v4.0-beta10
- added Minecraft 1.9 recognition
- updated cached Minecraft version list
- made OS X keyboard shortcuts feel more native
- disabled OpenGL on Linux
- added devtool to generate the Biome Color Table
- reworked widgets
- world seed
- world type
- selected world icon