Change Log/Versions 2.x.x

For version 2.3.8 (for Minecraft 1.12.1), progress can be tracked via commits on the Twilight Forest GitHub.

For versions 1.20.2 and older, see Change Log/Versions 1.x.x.

Version 2.3.7 (May 16, 2015)

• Fixed a too-long sign message disconnecting players on a server

Version 2.3.6 (May 15, 2015)

• Final castle architectural preview
  • Many new blocks
  • Much structure
  • Still a work in progress
  • Monsters and mechanics to come
• Fix huge lily pad item to be consume an item on placement
• Fix capitalization mismatch causing knightmetal ring texture to not load correctly
• Add config option to specify portal item
• Add in troll caves/giants to old map generation
• Beanstalks now grow through more natural blocks, such as trees
• Add a few more safeguards preventing taking items from the uncrafting table when uncrafting is disabled on the server, or the player does not have enough XP
• Fix crash when the cube of annihilation or chain block returns to a player with empty hands
• Ice crystals do not automatically despawn in 30 seconds if not summoned by the snow queen
• Small twilight oak trees and rainbow trees now properly grow with twilight oak logs
• Giant water lily flowers now insta-break instead of being as hard as cobblestone
• Giant lily pads make grass noise when broken

Version 2.3.5 (March 29, 2015)

• Disable GL_LIGHTING for firefly glows (thanks, jaqadro!)
• Add block and chain tool
• Add knightmetal ring item, part of the block and chain recipe
• Add knightmetal block item, part of the block and chain recipe
• Make giant blocks self destruct when one of their smaller blocks is destroyed or changed
• Added cube of annihilation
• Added talisman of the cube
• Suppress “Already decorating” error in the biome decorator. I’m fairly sure that this mod does not cause the error on its own, but some cross-mod interactions seem to.
• Add huge lily pads to swamps (lots of them)
• Add huge water lily flowers
• Added repair materials for block & chain, ice bow
• Fixed rainbow oak & small twilight oak trees growing with the wrong leaves
• Fixed rainbow oak giving the wrong leaf block with pick block
• Make canopy oak trees have 2-block wide trunks
  • That might be too wide, maybe they need to be 1.5 blocks wide
• Fixed a bug causing labyrinth entrances to frequently be 3 blocks off the actual ground
• Updated German translation, thanks Speedy1505
• Updated Russian translation, thanks Sto3IV
• Revise knight phantom death code to make generating a treasure chest more certain
• Stop crash if the knight phantoms lose their equipped item

Version 2.3.4

• Fix crash when using the giant’s pickaxe in some rare circumstances
• Added hint monster that spawns with a book when the player is encountering progression enforcement mechanisms
  • Limit spawns to once a minute
• Added /tfprogress command to advance a player past a certain boss progress
  • Does not grant the associated items, which may still be needed in some cases
• Enabled block protection on the hydra lair & hydra
• Enabled block protection on the aurora palace

Version 2.3.3 (September 18, 2014)

• Rename penguin to glacier penguin to avoid conflicts
• Rename highlands biome to twilight highlands
• Remove fiery aura and chill aura enchants, instead making the effect innate to the items
• Add tooltip to fiery and yeti items
• Begin converting lighted forest biome to firefly forest
• Change glowstone in hanging lamps to firefly jars
• Increase firefly jar brightness
• Fix some crashes
  • Fix crash when using magic beans on a dedicated server
  • Fix(?) null pointer exception with sorting tree block
  • Fix crash when using enderbow on a dedicated server
• Remove debug message when generating minotaur maze

Version 2.3.2 (September 18, 2014)

• Removed some debug messages related to armor calculation
• Exclude openblocks graves from structure block protection
• Fix a server crash with unstable ice core mobs

Version 2.3.1 (September 18, 2014)

• Fixed a few bugs on the server side
• Added increased search range for safe portal construction
• Move new bows into twilight forest creative tab

Version 2.3.0 (September 17, 2014)

• Added giant blocks and giant structures
• Added giant pickaxe and sword
• Added recipes for giant items
• Added giants (two types)
• Added uberous soil
• Moved cloud height to 161 to match generated clouds
• Added beanstalk
• Added huge stalk blocks and leaves
• Made unique texture for aurora pillars & slabs
• Made unique texture for wispy & fluffy cloud blocks
• Cloud houses should have 2 non-despawning giants and can spawn more
• Changed highlands biome to look similar to mega taiga
• Uberous soil patches generate above troll cave and gardens
• Added triple bow
• Added seeker bow
• Added new rendering effect for fiery pick and sword
• Make fiery armor also render at full brightness, regardless of ambient light
• Removed fire aspect enchant from fiery sword, made it innate to the item instead
• Experiments with making progression-protected biomes more obvious
  • Continual weather effects in protected biomes added
• Added ice bow
• Improved ice effect on entities
• Added ender bow
• Added ice sword
• Added glass sword
• Added stairs onto aurora palace entrance
• Some decoration in aurora palace entrance
• Added stable and unstable ice core mobs, with models, effects
• Added treasure caches to random aurora palace rooms
• Added snow queen boss
  • With trophy, treasures, effects
• Added sounds for ice creatures
• Some internal changes to tree generation to improve performance
• Turn lake generator off in dark forest, as charming as the weird leaf-lakes are
• Removed water sources from highlands, unflooding the troll caves
• Added troll vault with chests
• Randomized giant cloud layout somewhat
• Fix a few cave generation and ravine generation glitches
• Remove trolljos
• Add trollvidr with trollber
• Adding some wall decorations to troll caves
  • Added bracket fungi
  • Added several stone formations
• Added huge mushglooms
• Get structure protection packets heading out to only the players affected
• Added structure protection all clear packet
• Remove old biome danger overlay
• Remove enforced progression as a mod config file option, add it as a game rule
• Fix some deadrock textures
• Retexture troll
• Add troll attack animation
• Drew a slightly different icon for fiery tears
• Add snow queen trophy icon
• Replace aurora palace map icon with snow queen icon
• Rewrote several of the achievement descriptions to be clearer
• Lamp of cinders gives lamp achievement on use as well as pickup
• Fix mobility flags for giant blocks and thorn blocks
• Get massive chops achievement working
• Stop trophy pedestal from unlocking early
  • Only if enforced progression is on
  • Trophy pedestal does not work if no eligible players are nearby
  • Warns nearby ineligible players
• Updated russian translation, thanks Sto3IV
• Redo biome dictionary entries for Keybounce
• Added increased search range for safe portal construction
• Move new bows into twilight forest creative tab

Version 2.2.2 (July 15, 2014)

• Experiments to support future areas
• Auto-assigned biome IDs will now be written back to the config file on load
• Possibly fixed a crash with CustomOreGen mod
• Updated Russian translation

Version 2.2.1 (July 12, 2014)

• Many aurora palace revisions and new rooms
• Fix trophy item placement using a method that does not break 1.7.10 compatibility
• Fixed hydra sounds, thanks MamylaPuce
• Fix so that toggling creative mode properly handles the progression biome overlay
• Add color to aurora blocks, pillars, slabs in inventory
• Properly name aurora blocks, pillars, slabs in inventory
• Switch to a more reliable method of making the boss tower in the aurora palace
• Remove some debug messages
• Add hardness, resistance attributes to aurora blocks, pillars, slabs
• Make standard recipes for aurora pillars & slabs from aurora blocks
• Fix mosquito sound (oh boy!)
• Add snow guardian mob (still not finished)
• Snow guardian wears twilight forest native armors
• Snow guardian drops snowballs

Version 2.2.0 (June 19, 2014)

• When you hit a yeti, it becomes angry, otherwise they are fairly benign
• Fixed bug where the uncrafting table wouldn’t work with damaged items
• Naga should no longer despawn when idle
• Fixed a bug where the new feature offsets would mess up things like the maze map
• Fixed a bad quest ram sound
• Fixed a bug where the torchberry plant would give extra torchberries when sheared
• Removed old deprecated AABB methods
• Added alpha yeti
  • Added ice bomb attack
  • Added rampage with falling blocks
  • Added tired state after rampage
  • Snowflake particles, animations, etc.
• Added ice bombs for player
• Added outside spawns in the snow forest
• Added yeti armor
  • Added custom enchant, chill aura, for yeti armor
• Added winter wolf to outside spawns in snow forest
• Added treasure drops to alpha yeti
• Added progress achievement hooks to unique alpha yeti drops
• Convert Vec3 methods to be forwards compatible
• Progression effects should no longer affect players in creative mode
• Alpha yeti stays inside the lair when possible
• Made an alpha fur crafting material
• Made arctic fur crafting material
• Made arctic armor
• Regular yetis and winter wolves drop arctic fur
• Alpha yeti drops alpha fur
• Ice bombs now freeze/snow the area on impact
• Redrew ice bomb item
• Fixed occasional bug with aurora block coloration math
• Increased alpha yeti experience value
• Worked on forwards compatibility with 1.7.10
• Successfully got biome ID conflict detection working
• Implemented biome ID auto-assigning when config file is blank

Version 2.1.1 (June 14, 2014)

• Registered all my ingots in the ore dictionary, just in case
• Restored stronghold shield block unbreakabilty
• Removed most of the stronghold shield in favor of the new block protection mechanism
• Set the upper part of the knight stronghold as non-protected
• Removed mob damage protection from non-protected areas of a structure
• Fixed a terrain gen bug that was making hollow hill floors out of somewhat more dirt than normal
• Added login message if there is a biome ID conflict detected
  • Does not seem to be working, will try again next version
• Testing out an algorithm to send new portals to only “safe” biomes when enforced progression is on
• Fixed bug where screen overlay would stay on even when the player exited the dimension via portal or other means
• Fixed cave generation bug, thanks kwerti
• Fixed mixed up cracked & mossy underbrick names
• Removed stray example mod

Version 2.1.0 (June 8, 2014)

• Added biome protection system hooked into progression system
  • Biome protection visuals
  • Overlay appears on the edges of the screen when you are in a protected area
  • Overlay fades in and out depending
  • Added protection to swamps, dark forest and snow/glacier biomes
• Allowed skeletal druids to spawn in light levels as high as 11, similar to blazes
• A few fixes making sure the enforced progression config option is respected
• Revamped achievements related to progressions
  • All working up to the snow forest
• Changed the ur-ghast’s treasure from fiery blood to fiery tears. Works the same
• Added some other achievements not directly related to progression
• Make a separate block ID for dark forest leaves
• Dark forest canopy generation uses the new block
• Changed regular dark forest back to dark green coloration
• Dark forest center gets a redder autumn coloration
• Area protection system prevents activating (right-clicking) blocks in the protected area
  • Only stops certain blocks likely to have treasure or activate mechanisms
• Added area protection system tied to progression achivements
  • Created animation for protected areas
• When certain mobs die, mark the structure they are in as no longer active
  • Natural spawning stops in conquered structures
• Added /tffeature command to check structure status
• Fixed a crash bug with the tree of transformation on a dedicated server

Version 2.0.3 (March 10, 2014)

• Updated terrain generator to support block replacement per-biome
• Fixed it so that the metadata parameters are respected
• Added per-biome stone block replacement
• Thornlands and highlands center replace stone with solid deadrock
• Fixed crash with rendering knight phantom thrown weapons
• Made dimension provider ID configurable to work around a MCPC+ bug(?)
• Added traditional Chinese translation, thanks Likol
• Added thorn blocks
• Added generator for thornlands biomes
• Added lamp of cinders
• Added thorn roses
• Added leaves3 block
• Changed thorns to generate these
• Added name for thorn leaves
• Re-added flammability for normal log and leaf blocks
• Added deadrock
• Fixes to nagastone rendering, but can’t fix completely due to bugs in 1.7.2 rendering
• Changed nagastone placement logic to be more similar to log/pillar placement
• Fix a statistics problem in registering our mob eggs
• Minor change in dimension registration
• Fix an error message with the twilight leaves block
• Updated old language files to new format

Version 2.0.2 (March 4, 2014)

• Removed stray debug message

Version 2.0.1 (March 4, 2014)

• Fixed a few more conversion errors with item and block particles
• Fixed a crash launching the mod on a server
• Fixed a missing sound with the scepter of life draining

Version 2.0.0 (March 3, 2014)

• Ported to Minecraft 1.7.2, Forge 10.12.0.1024
  • Added many of the new plants from Minecraft 1.7 to the forest
  • Changed several biome map colors to be a little more evocative of the biome changes
  • Rewrote map packet system
  • Rewrote utility packet system
  • Changed the ore colors on the ore map to the new map colors made specifically for that ore
  • Added placeholder map icons for yeti cave & aurora palace
  • Language system updated
• Map generation changes
  • 4 regions centered around swamp, snow, dark forest, highlands
  • Added center biomes for highlands and dark forest
  • Giant spruce trees in snow biome
  • Yeti lair prototype in snow biome
  • Added lighted forest biome
  • Added oak savanna biome
  • Hanging lamp gen in lighted forest
  • Oak canopy trees in oak savanna, currently just a metadata swap
  • Dark forest canopy edge is less abrupt
  • Updated terrain generation to support higher generation
  • Added placeholder biome surrounding highlands center
  • Made highlands center higher, close to 128 y
• Bug fixes
  • Fixed the lich’s walk speed
  • Lich’s twilight orbs are very slightly affected by gravity, so they don’t stick around forever if they hit an unloaded chunk
  • Fixed knight phantoms targetting creative mode players
  • Lowered mist wolf sound pitch slightly