Since the update to Minecraft 1.9.4 chunks were actually never loaded
asynchronously because a sync request was always made from the
PlayerChunkMap shortly after the chunk had been queued.
- PlayerChunkMapEntry now only loads chunks synchronously *after* the
chunk failed to load asynchronously.
- Fixed some minor bugs that caused "Attempted to dequeue chunk" messages
- Simplified ChunkProviderServer patch. loadChunk no longer generates chunks,
so there is no need to handle that.
- Moved loader and provider to ChunkIOProvider so there is no need for
"hashCode abuse"
Major things to note:
Class renames: https://gist.github.com/LexManos/44dd211f90f498ad4015279b103dff86
Tile Entities are now packed in the ChunkData packet.
Forge intends to work around this to better support large moded worlds, but for the time being modders should implement the new function carefully and only send what data they need to!
Minecraft's codebase now has annotations, these are directly from Mojang and should be adheared to!
Added support for package-info.java's containing @Nullable information for all MC code base.
Modders can now modify and reference internal elements of a loot table by name.
Editing can ONLY be done in the event and any external editing will cause a exception to be thrown.
See this gist for more information: https://gist.github.com/LexManos/77c983d67b9ad27010428478b66d50fd
Added detection of mods that rely on Java 8 and a graceful error screen.
The nag screen will be shown once a day. It can be disabled by editing the forge.cfg.
However it is HIGHLY recomended that user update to Java 8.
When combined with @Optional this should address all issues of soft dependancy on mods/apis.
This also addresses the issue of dynamic functionality in TileEntities/Entities.
Current capability providers: TileEntity, Entity, ItemStack
Also added INBTSerializeable, a generic interface for game objects that can be written to/from NBT tags.
Vanilla capabilities will be coming soon, mostly on request and review.
So start requesting capabiliteis on vanilla/Forge features.
cpw