🍌 Preview 1.21.80.25

[forest holly]

I gotta play that. I just keep hearing about how good it is

[valid prism]

wait so will we have shadows in the end now?

[coral sentinel]

made by a bunch of my friends. great game.

[rapid bison]

Something that I've realized is that when I turn on actions and stuff, vv doesn't work

[raw heath]

yeah, from random directions every time.

[valid prism]

makes sense

[raw heath]

Marketplace packs currently don't support VV.

[coral sentinel]

this is intentional. Texture Packs and Marketplace Worlds disable VV currently.

[rapid bison]

[valid prism]

will that be fixed in the future?

[raw heath]

I absolutely love that this is the approach they took for the End. I was not expecting it, but it actually does so much for making me excited to explore and build in the End.

[coral sentinel]

I'm not going to announce any Marketplace plans today.

[forest holly]

It likely might not be performant but this would be dope

[valid prism]

oki

[hallow lark]

I think it would be great if packs can keep the "sun" in the end, but have this effect as a default or something.

[forest holly]

Oh wow that's awesome! I love nice and snappy platformers. Just haven't been able to find the time to sink my teeth into many single player experiences lately

[rapid bison]

why is this water depressed

[forest holly]

Water underground is quite buggy

[scarlet grotto]

This looks great but my attention went straight to her clipping through the pillar. 🤣

[raw heath]

That is the reason those pillars were made of obsidian, after all.

[tidal ruin]

Hey, how do i return to the release version?

The movie server join button disappeared when i installed the beta to test, but even after exiting the play store program it didn't let me download a different version

[celest scaffold]

It takes a while to go back

[tidal ruin]

It is quite annoying how we can't just. Install a previous version

Java has a launcher, but bedrock and especially the mobile version have to contend with that

[oblique shuttle]

Am I the only one that has near constant crashes with the preview version?

It's basically unplayable

[tidal ruin]

That sounds accurate to a preview version

[celest scaffold]

At least on Windows there's an unofficial launcher that makes the process much easier

[simple creek]

Do you mean the games restarting, like it goes to the red screen then Minecraft logo comes and back to world again

[oblique shuttle]

Still. It shouldn't be that bad.

[tidal ruin]

Isn't it just the vibrant visuals overloading your device?

[oblique shuttle]

no

I have a 3080

[tranquil inlet]

the only crash i've had recently was /reload all

[oblique shuttle]

just telporting crashes the game for me

[tidal ruin]

No, i mean playing in a previous version like 1.16 or beta 1.2 like java allows

[simple creek]

For me when using vv/deferred the game restarts some times and the area that you need to click to interact with the buttons and stuff in game changes to be a bit lower. Also the editor seemingly crashes again when opened with a deferred pack in it

[oblique shuttle]

Here's what crashes for me

• Basically anything

I know it's not because of my hardware.. It's much better then what minecraft needs.

[simple creek]

Is this with vv

And is the game closing completely or just restarting

[tidal ruin]

See if there's a crash log, see if a reason is given

Otherwise just return to the release version and wait for next week's preview

[simple creek]

On that note Couple of things to be expected for deferred/VV in next weeks preview: fixes for local exposure, fix to how transparent blocks are rendered, fix to water, fix to a new issue with bright color/glow on the screen (mainly on android).

Most of these fixes should be in the preview

[tidal ruin]

An hour and a half now and still nothing

[celest scaffold]

Longer than that I had to wait days iirc

[spice plover]

you'll need to reinstall the game back to stable completely, that's how android works, it can't downgrade versions.

Leaving beta should take about 10mins upto 20mins, you'll need to force close playstore first just to refresh it.

Reinstalling the game shouldn't be that bad as android does have "Keep app data" as uninstall option, so you don't lose your stuff.

[plain magnet]

Society if Android had preview.

[tidal ruin]

I sure hope so, really didn't wanna have to uninstall it first

Android has preview, that's the problem

I can't get out of preview

[plain magnet]

It doesn't have Preview.

That's beta.

[spice plover]

That's beta, it's different than preview.

preview is a separate app completely like some cloned app but only beta stuff.

so you get to keep both stable and beta at the same time.

[tidal ruin]

Ah i see

God i hate the latest android

I can't backup the app data manually

[valid prism]

YESSS THEY FIXED PARTICLES IN DEFERRED

NOW I CAN HAVE CUSTOM CLOUDS

They used to be extremely bright and you could barely see anything when you looked at them

[cold bluff]

Blocks that use alpha_test_single_sided become opaque at a distance when they are in the same chunk as blocks with alpha_test_single_sided_to_opaque, is this a known problem?

[plain magnet]

Interesting.

Should make a Bug Report.

[cold bluff]

MCPE-201727

[alpine vessel]

(MCPE-201727) Render Method: alpha_test_single_sided_to_opaque is applied to nearby blocks that are in the same chunk as the block that uses it.

Status

To Do (Open)

Resolution

Unresolved

[gritty pebble]

theres preview for education edition but not for bedrock

[spice plover]

Edu is free.

though playstore currently doesn't support bought app or atleast clone the app as separate yet.

[gritty pebble]

yeag

[spice plover]

it'd be dumb to buy the game again just to use preview

[gritty pebble]

honestly im surprised that google play doesnt have that yet

[spice plover]

Honestly wouldn't make sense for them but yeah

Though it's also the first where playstore actually does mojang request with chromeOS version being completely separate even though it's the same app.

unfortunately you'll have to buy the game twice if you're playing on both android or chromeOS even though you can run android as compatibility layer already.

Hopefully that'll change once chromeOS is fully merged with android. (Yes, Google is ditching chromeOS and replacing it with android.)

[oak ruin]

That's good to hear

[runic ridge]

Next thing you know, we have another lore limit situation

[elfin python]

is it possible to increase the block rendering distance with add-ons now? Like grass?

[tranquil inlet]

no

[elfin python]

sad

[gritty pebble]

awwwhh particles dont cast shadows :(

also uhhhhh, is this known? non-attachable items wont cast shadows in first person

and attachable items are desaturated for some reason

[spice plover]

that didn't happen in regular deferred if i recall.

probably recent bug or something

[iron patrol]

interesting...

[hallow lark]

Intentional afaik

[gritty pebble]

[raw heath]

playing at 0% brightness will be a fun challenge.

[rapid bison]

blend seems to work well

but then it has other issues like slime rendering through it

[rapid bison]

i can't seem to change my brightness on ps5 for some reason

[plain magnet]

They meant for vanilla it seems.

[rapid bison]

Ohhh

mb

[raw heath]

Are you editing the right brightness slider? there's 2.

[rapid bison]

there just isn't a second one for me

[raw heath]

the default slider won't affect VV

[rapid bison]

i checked all of video settings

[raw heath]

it's under Vibrant Visuals

[rapid bison]

yeah

[raw heath]

hidden in a button

[rapid bison]

i looked under there

[raw heath]

the slider is disguised as a button :<

[rapid bison]

how tf did i not notice that before

mb

[gritty pebble]

wait there are more settings?

i dont remember seeing point light (shadow) quality

[celest scaffold]

That's with the render dragon creator features toggle enabled.

[gritty pebble]

oh

[oblique shuttle]

I don't get why they hide the settings

[celest scaffold]

because point lights are in their own league of experimental

[oblique shuttle]

Hmm

[night topaz]

they probably have point lights only in old deferred toggle because they are still a bit wonky

[proven leaf]

Specifically, it's simulating a supernova flash 🙂

[forest holly]

wait WHAT

thats sick

[hallow lark]

Oh what? That's cool, though a lot of people think it's a bug

[proven leaf]

It will improve over time, and resource packs will be able to control the color/intensity like other directional light sources.

We've been calling it "End Chaos" lighting. Or just "Chaotic Lighting".

[hallow lark]

Oooo

[celest scaffold]

What would be really cool is if we could also control the speed and frequency of this light. Maybe even freeze it.

[hallow lark]

Though, will packs be able to change how it "behaves"? I am sure some packs would love it if the light was always there

[proven leaf]

I will bring this feedback to the creative team. 👍

[lethal robin]

Doesn't seem particularly realistic, every entity should've instantly died from an immense gamma radiation 🙃

It's also quite interesting from a lore perspective

[proven leaf]

I knew we forgot something

[willow current]

That's really interesting

[celest scaffold]

Was the team inspired by all the shaders making the end look like the middle of space?

[proven leaf]

I'm not familiar with that one, but it sounds awesome!

[celest scaffold]

Sure, many shaders with the end dimension have some sort of space theme.

I mean look at this

[proven leaf]

Gotcha. I don't know if I would say this ties the End to "space" theme necessarily. The supernova just happened to have a surprising amount of observational research with regards to lighting, so we started there.

[celest scaffold]

I see

Well it's an interesting take regardless

I wonder what the end will look like after per biome settings are pushed

[simple creek]

hey aajambram, i have dmed you a couple of issue that i have came across in the new beta/preview do you have any info any of them

[severe fossil]

Now y'all need to add quasars as well

[night topaz]

YES THATS ME

I WANT TO HAVE THERE DARK BUT VISIBLE PURPLE LIGHT 🙏

:3

also double or 3 layers clouds would be cool :>

clouds config where we can change layers, thickness, roundness of clouds

[valid prism]

yes sir

[boreal meadow]

We can have custom sky boxes?

[forest holly]

this was java

[boreal meadow]

Oh

[crisp charm]

This is not recommended, this option is very broken and may make you unable to install the game easily again.

[iron patrol]

-# 33% of my device's resolution is still too many pixels
How do I lower the resolution to less than 33%?

is that a bug? I can't see any text or buttons

[spice plover]

This was already fixed on android 13+.

[raw heath]

OH I LOVE THAT YES

THAT'S GREAT

just when i thought i couldn't love the End Chaos any more than i already did

[raw heath]

to be fair, i feel like that is very fitting for the End, given the fact the ambient noises also sound intentionally glitchy.

[odd valley]

thats if you use modified apks

[frozen night]

I know the culling layer stuff isn't done yet, but it seems there's still one other thing missing from custom blocks after that's finished to do leaves the right way:

As of now, only opaque renderings of minecraft:geometry.full_block cast ambient occlusion onto adjacent blocks. All other materials won't do such. Unfortunately, vanilla leaves (although alpha-tested) do cast ambient occlusion.

Wait, is this the only way to get the custom properties?

Because not having access to other custom components' data would make me very, very sad.

[tranquil inlet]

feels like this should be a parameter in the geometry component rather than hardcoded to a specific model and render method

[frozen night]

I'd have to agree, if it were possible.

[willow current]

Afaik .getComponent returns the custom component instance but not the parameters at least yet.

[frozen night]

Hopefully they'll do that. I'd love a shared data model wherein a single component would act as a data provider for multiple other components.

[heady edge]

Any reason why I don't have screen space reflection?

okay I know why

SSR and water visual don't worry with hight res resource pack

[simple creek]

It does work, what deferred/vibrant visuals pack are you using

[heady edge]

the vanilla one

[simple creek]

That’s weird, I am not sure but the resolution of textures should not effect ssr.

[heady edge]

yeah

but in the case of using Faithful 64x

it doesn't work

[night topaz]

Yeah because it doesn't have pbr

Every block needs to have it's own pbr textures

[heady edge]

AH

[iron patrol]

reflections need to be at ultra

[gritty pebble]

i learned that particles are affected by shadows

[mighty chasm]

discord is so broken, the video is playing without image

[gritty pebble]

uhhhhhhh

[crisp charm]

There is also the fact that the new materials only affected the distance and not the graphic option.

[steady copper]

how?

[heady edge]

do we have a doc for that?

[night topaz]

yes

[heady edge]

a link would be useful

[frozen night]

What's that mean?

[valid prism]

Particles

[steady copper]

G

[plain magnet]

Fancy leaves.

They think the render method is affected by the fancy leaves toggle even though its a different thing.

[frozen night]

Oh.

I didn't test everything.

[heady edge]

anyone able to find the render dragon doc

can't find it

please

[crisp charm]

but nobody talks about it

[plain magnet]

Because its a different thing.

[night topaz]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/minecraft/creator/documents/rtxpbrintro?view=minecraft-bedrock-stable

[heady edge]

TY!!

[plain magnet]

https://discord.com/channels/523663022053392405/1270171053561217214

[heady edge]

u a god

[crisp charm]

You say it's possible but you don't even send me the link to study, so it's a little difficult, but that's okay.

[light dawn]

Tbh it should not return the params, ever

[plain magnet]

Why?

[light dawn]

Only way to access the params should be a custom function on the custom compinent itself

[plain magnet]

#bringbackblockanditemevents

[light dawn]

I would argue that params are like the class ctor's args

[plain magnet]

I mean...by that logic...we shouldn't access components in general.

[light dawn]

Something the internal class has to process itself, that would also be a reason for why not to increase the object depth limit, since frequent copying is needed

[light dawn]

We definitly should!

The options in a component are willingly exposed

A custom components args are non willingly exposed

[plain magnet]

Then we should be allow to dictate that as well in the cc no?

[light dawn]

Yep

[plain magnet]

Ok, so we agree we should be able to get the params then but not on how.

[light dawn]

class MyCustomComponent {
   constructor(params) { ... }
   
   getHeight(): number { ... }
   public height = ...
}

It should be willingly exposed

[plain magnet]

Ehhh.

[light dawn]

Think about someone is passing in something you wouldnt want to be exposed

Idk a password or something

Doesnt matter

It should not be exposed by default

[plain magnet]

I agree...I do not like this method.

[light dawn]

A public class parameter?

Or a public setter/getter?

[plain magnet]

Im no TS expert, but params should be a Record where Record<param, public: boolean> or something.

[plain magnet]

I would only ever like this if blocks were purely made in TS. At least for 2.0.0 this is not what I want.

[light dawn]

Why?

[light dawn]

Why²?

[plain magnet]

I just don't fuck with it.

I love setters and getters, but for 2.0.0 CC, too much.

[light dawn]

Public properties?

[plain magnet]

The syntax of anything is just vibes really.

Like, I hate Javas biome json.

I just dont vibe with it.

[light dawn]

I agree with that, but not because of "vibes".

[tranquil inlet]

i'd rather have something like this

class BlockGrowthComponent {
  growthChance: number;

  constructor(parameters) {
    this.growthChance = parameters.growth_chance;
  }

  // Event hooks
  static onRandomTick(event: BlockComponentRandomTickEvent, component: BlockGrowthComponent) {
    if (Math.random() > component.growthChance) return;

    // do growing
  }
  static onPlayerInteract() {
    // bone meal things
  }
}

blockComponentRegistry.registerCustomComponent("example:growth", BlockGrowthComponent)

[plain magnet]

I rather we fully switch to TS.

[tranquil inlet]

how would TS make anything different

[plain magnet]

Because then everything is built using JS thus allowing more control of what can be exposed and whatnot and also trigger events on other classes.

Thats my biggest gripe is the removal of event allowing block to block or item communication but no one understands this.

[tranquil inlet]

I forgot multiple packs could exist so this wouldn't really work

since they wouldn't have access to the class

unless they could add something like const BlockGrowthComponent = BlockComponentRegistry.getCustomComponent("example:growth")

[distant plover]

Waiting for a fertilize event for custom bonemeal

[plain magnet]

I'm slowly working on porting adk-lib to CCV2 and once that happens I'm pretty sure I can replicate the bonemeal functionality fully.

[distant plover]

Aside from custom crops from other add-ons, but that's never been a priority as far as I can tell

[plain magnet]

no standards.

Which is why we need events back.

[distant plover]

Which'd require standards, but at least then it's doable without hardcoding every interaction in your addon

[plain magnet]

Exactly.

[light dawn]

We can't, there are way too many people relying on just using js in their "pipeline"

even on the marketplace..

[light dawn]

I love this! Exactly what I meant

[lethal robin]

This message was approved by Microsoft

[light dawn]

If I had a penny for every MP project I worked on in the past year that didn't use JS, and I at least tried switching it to TS, I’d have five pennies. Which isn’t much, but wow, do I hate it.

[distant plover]

Compile times are worse

[plain magnet]

You know what I mean...swotch fully to JS and not use JSON.

[tranquil inlet]

yes that way i can register all of my 100 blocks in one file

[plain magnet]

Support for extending an abstract class and inheritance? Hell yeah.

[light dawn]

Ohhh

Yeah I totally support that!!

[modest adder]

There are partners who don't use TS?!?!?!

[reef robin]

😨 I could never use plain JS

[light dawn]

A LOT.

[reef robin]

please at least tell me there's jsdoc in the mix

[light dawn]

We're 100% TS now, but other studios still use a ton of js

[light dawn]

I currently can only think of two big ones using js

one does, the other doesnt

[reef robin]

frightening

[light dawn]

oh and the one that uses it, uses it very rarely lol

[dark glen]

It's all right. You can use //@ts-check to enable type checking. But it is definitely weaker than using VSCode's native cross-file Intellisense and a compiler to ensure type safety

[reef robin]

using ts-check means you'd need to be using jsdoc too, right?

otherwise it's useless

[dark glen]

Yeah, mainly to assert the types of each function's parameters

[reef robin]

I prefer using a jsconfig.json over the comment, if I'm forced to use js

[plain magnet]

Me.

[reef robin]

since that applies to a whole set of files

[reef robin]

wha

[dark glen]

ESBuild is really easy to set up, and it gives you powerful bundling options

[wraith ivy]

#userolldown

rolldown is the way!!!

[lethal robin]

There are some hobbyist folks who do develop add-ons on mobile devices. Getting build tools running there can be a pain, meanwhile with plain JS you can just write code in a plain text file, put it in an add-on and it just works. No dependency hell, no package managers, every line of code is made by you and it does something useful.

[wraith ivy]

its my favorite bundler so far its easy to setup and fast as hell, also supports direct TS tranformation to JS so you don't need TSC

[wraith ivy]

True, but in most cases package managers are just for development tools, i can't remember if i ever used NPM package in my addon actually

[dark glen]

Absolutely, I agree, and this is just fine.

[errant ridge]

Happy banana day

[gritty pebble]

i still dont know the difference between JS and TS

[dark glen]

I believe the discussion is more about partners who do develop at scale

[dark glen]

TS is a superset of JS; all JS is valid TS, not all TS is valid JS

[celest scaffold]

Actually, no.

[dark glen]

TS serves to add compilation-time validation of JS. Variables can be assigned a specific type, and the compiler prevents those variables from being assigned to a value of a different type

So e.g. the following would throw an error in TypeScript:

var myNumber: number = 0;
myNumber = "string";   // Type 'string' is not assignable to type 'number'. ts(2322)

So you must assert that myNumber can accept either a 'number' or a 'string': var myNumber: number | string = 0;
That extends to which methods can be called on a variable too. This throws an error because at is not a valid method on the Number class

var myNumber: number = 0;
myNumber.at(0);        // Property 'at' does not exist on type 'number'. ts(2339)

[lethal robin]

There is also an argument to be made that you can hyper optimise code with pure JS in a way that you can't, at least not easily and cleanly, with TS.

[gritty pebble]

hmmmm

i can see the purpose but i dont know if its necessary

[dark glen]

Not necessary. But it gives you that extra confidence that you are doing something correctly. Especially when it comes to more complicated JavaScript mechanisms like polymorphism

[gritty pebble]

i see

[dark glen]

Or, I suppose I meant function overloading, specifically (that only really exists in TS, so I suppose it's a problem created and solved by TS lol)

[wraith ivy]

you can but it would have to have "as any" many times

every JS syntax is vaild in TS afaik

ohh my bad i see

"not easily and clearly"

[dark glen]

Veka was also referring to specific JS features that TS rules make more difficult to emulate. Like prototypical inheritance

Prototypes are really annoying in TS. Which sucks because it is a core feature of JavaScript

[wraith ivy]

Yea

TS makes JS less JS

thats why many ppl like TS over JS haha

nah to be honest TS really helps catch up typos and some inconsitancy in early compilation

[modest adder]

Wild 😮

[light dawn]

Yeah... if only they used it....

[modest adder]

The only script project that uses JS here is Spellrune

👌

[dark glen]

0% mcfunction :^(

[muted monolith]

what's the difference between JS and TS?

[celest scaffold]

TS is JS but with more strict typings

[muted monolith]

alright, thank you

[karmic berry]

No idea why I would write my scripts in a language the game can't execute, of course I use JS

[plain magnet]

11% powershell is crazy.

[wraith ivy]

i was just learning powershell and its actually not that bad as i thought

[wraith ivy]

well 20k of lines is the reason in most cases

i mean for MC behavior packs i also used JS in most cases

[light dawn]

Skill issue

should've written C++ instead and hand transpiled it to Js

[wraith ivy]

rust not mentioned this time ? 👀

[light dawn]

nope, currently writing good old C++ for an ancient heavy load computer

[peak oxide]

11%?

[light dawn]

Preview is tomorrow, right?

[rain kayak]

For bigger projects, TS is what people would rather use as it's considered better for large projects than JS

For smaller projects, JS is good

[raw heath]

hopefully

i wonder what they'll add or change

[modest adder]

Tooling! A recent repo has a worse split but it's just a ton of tools in .js 😦

[modest adder]

One on the left is Sonic Add-On so no need! Only one BP AC as well

There's some MCFunction (Every JS file but two here is tooling, just a bunch of tools, so ignore the 67%!

[raw heath]

hoping for further superflat improvements mainly, but more VV improvements would also be nice.

[light dawn]

they'll add an air tag

trust me bro

But I don't think we should have any big expectations yk

maybe we'll get a hot fix once more, that'd be spicy

[raw heath]

i mean, there's 3 major things currently in development by presumably different devs (excluding things that aren't announced yet, for we do not know of them )

summer drop features, Vibrant Visuals, and superflats

so, if all 3 are in development at the same time, maybe there's a bigger chance at least 1 of them gets updated in some way each preview? not guranteed, since it all depends on when something is finished, but more likely than if there was just 1 upcoming "update" rather than 3.

[reef robin]

please

[reef robin]

editor and scripting 2.0

[raw heath]

true actually.

[light dawn]

We generally need way more tags

Its so horrible to work with at times...

[potent summit]

wondering the same thing, i cant find a reference anywhere and it supposedly fixes the "open bundle" issue

[viscid breach]

preview day tomorrow?

:doggysmurkW:

could be a .26 preview that’s still piping hot

[plain magnet]

It be a .27

[willow current]

1.21.80.30 when

[coral sentinel]

Preview should be tomorrow

Definitely won't be as maximum hype as last week 🙂

This will be the last one with new features in it, before we work to stabilize 1.21.80.

[plain magnet]

So NOW I can safely say, "I doubt we'll get anymore major technical APIs for the rest of 1.21.80"

[coral sentinel]

I think that's fairly safe 🙂

[crisp charm]

yes and everything is fine, but will we still have some things stabilized or just bug fixes?

[coral sentinel]

more than bug fixes

[viscid breach]

so like a ice cream scoop size of hype or a spoonful size of hype

[crisp charm]

interesting, well wait, there is little time left, if what I want does not come I will wait for it on 1.21.90

[viscid breach]

or what if

1.22.0.20

[crisp charm]

I find it a bit unlikely, the community wouldn't like this number

[viscid breach]

but also what if

1.22.0.29

[crisp charm]

Xd

[plain magnet]

Why?

[crisp charm]

high number version, they would probably charge for new content, as happened before the drop system

[plain magnet]

And?

Why would people hate a 1.22? Most people I know want Mojang to move on to 1.22.

[crisp charm]

I believe that some people still consider changing this number as a major update, and since there is no content yet, people would complain (as many always do, but on a slightly larger scale).

[plain magnet]

Happy Ghasts...

[crisp charm]

I think it's too early for this to be stabilized now, well I just gave my opinion, Mojang knows what it's doing, even because the number doesn't matter if they want to put Minecraft 2.0.0 the game would continue receiving the resources normally

[plain magnet]

I'm confused what you're talking about really.

Happy Ghasts are in experimental toggle, so far it's taken two cycles for the Drop content to release for Bedrock anyways. So in this instance, 1.21.80 introduces it as experimental and 1.21.90 or 1.22 will de-experimentify it.

[coral sentinel]

Minecraft 2 confirmed

[plain magnet]

KaylaGPT 2 when?

[coral sentinel]

I'd say, a spoonful.

[crisp charm]

Oh yea

[plain magnet]

What if she's lying chat.

[coral sentinel]

Hi, I'm Kayla GPT 4o, how can I assist you?

[modest adder]

What does solidity mean?

[plain magnet]

Aaaand you just used all of our tokens.

[viscid breach]

🥄 🍰

im ready

[coral sentinel]

It’s the metaphysical sneeze of Newton inside a voxel soup—collide, adhere, support, deny.

[raw heath]

No superflat stuff? :<

[plain magnet]

Well...that's out of her domain.

That being said.

I suspect we'll see the void preset this week.

[viscid breach]

how do you do anything with the void

[plain magnet]

Setblock. Start building.

[raw heath]

Void preset on Java gives you a small stone platform

Great for if you want to make a skyblock or some other void challenge map for example

Or just build something without the pesky ground existing

[light dawn]

Hype train!!

This is going to be a big preview!

[raw heath]

Perhaps the biggest preview they've ever done!

[light dawn]

Custom dimensions, finally!

[night topaz]

Something for deferred?

[iron patrol]

fr?

[night topaz]

Waiting for Kayla Deepseek edition 😞

[oak ruin]

what is meant by life?

[light dawn]

Yeah yeah 1000%
-# this is a joke

[iron patrol]

Banana dimension

[light dawn]

Banana dimension.

[night topaz]

Pbr dimension

[light dawn]

Pbr dimension with rtx and deferred biome

[iron patrol]

how would custom dimensions work?

[light dawn]

New dimension, done

For new biomes that would likely be harder

[night topaz]

Yes 😻

[light dawn]

Still hope we get better transitions in deferred

Alongside customizations for them

[viscid breach]

preview day is now today

[iron patrol]

noise

[sudden needle]

[silent yacht]

42

[raw heath]

Well, to do that, they'd need to add estrogen

Which, to be fair, they should.

[light dawn]

estrogen?!?!

[raw heath]

Well yes, that would make transition a lot better

[wraith ivy]

world gen?

[night topaz]

or testosterone

[errant ridge]

Things i want so badly:

[celest scaffold]

What's testosterone? Can you find it in caves?

[night topaz]

silly you find it in the nether

in that new nether fortress

that one

[silent yacht]

Just opened up this channel, and this is what I see. Just a normal day in BAO

[light dawn]

WOLD GEN!!!

noise :33

[errant ridge]

And still waiting for this to come on addons.

[light dawn]

We do have noise for worldgen in addons...

We can even create complex stuff like (awkward) custom biomes

[errant ridge]

I meant like vanilla noises
Like edit erosion noise vegetation, temperature noises

[light dawn]

oh I mean we can edit vanilla world gen values for existing biomes

one day... custom biomes without all this hassle...

[vague salmon]

New render_method type available for minecraft:material_instances. They are meant to support the same behavior of block turning opaque in the far rendering like Leaves in contrast to other disappearing like Bamboo Stalk.

“render_method": "blend_to_opaque"
"render_method": "alpha_test_to_opaque"
"render_method": "alpha_test_single_sided_to_opaque"

Omggg

Dream come true

[frozen night]

Yeah, these are great. It doesn't give us full power, but I'm still sufficiently happy for now. I think these will allow us to emulate all vanilla blocks at least… which is a major aspect of Mojang's block endeavors right now.

[gloomy berry]

.

[viscid breach]

why revive this old preview thread?

on april fools next year lets revive 1.20.60.21