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@piegamesde piegamesde released this 24 Jun 12:18
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2.0.0
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breaking news for breaking changes! Long overdue, a rewrite/overhaul of quite a few components. No Minecraft 1.16 support yet.

Changes

  • GUI redesign:
    • Autocomplete!
    • Better support for viewing worlds on servers.
    • Rewrite of the map rendering engine
      • Much cleaner code, probably removed a lot of bugs
      • Removed caching (may increase memory usage in large worlds)
    • Removed saving support. Use the CLI instead.
  • breaking World representation has been changed. Previously, every folder containing region files would count as world. Now, a world always is a folder containing a level.dat together with a dimension (defaulting to the overworld).
    • For the CLI, a few paths will have to be changed. --dimension is now always used, but defaults to OVERWORLD.
    • For the GUI, nothing much will change except you cannot open a single region folder anymore (which probably nobody did anyways)
  • New server mode using render-many:
    • It is not declared stable yet, to allow breaking changes even on minor version bumps.
    • Declare a configuration file with all your worlds and how you want to render them. An example configuration can be found here.
    • Call blockmap render-many and pass the configuration file as argument. You can add dynamic server information like online plyers etc. via more command line options.
    • An output directory will be created with all the rendered files. You can view them in BlockMap.
    • Host that folder using the web server of your choice (e.g. miniserve). Clients will now be able to view your worlds across the Internet.
    • Call this on a scheduled basis. Subsequent runs will update the folder without re-rendering everything.
  • Other CLI changes:
    • breaking The --lazy option has been removed and is no enabled by default. Use --force to disable it manually.
    • Proper exit code handling. When using BlockMap in scripts, you'll know when it fails.
  • Java 13 support

Bug fixes

  • Color map selection in the GUI has gone wrong a few times
  • Some bounds checks when rendering part of the world are notoriously wrong

Backwards-compatibility

All changes that potentially require manual intervention are marked with "breaking" in the changelog above.

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