Homesteading part 2 & Combat update, stabler-er finetune (1.16.4)

Dear Homesteaders
v1.16.4, a stable release, can now be downloaded through the account manager.
 

All game updates since 1.16.3

• Feature: Vintagehosting: Added ability to kill an unresponsive server
• Tweak: Rifts sounds volume is now reduced by 85% when the player is not in direct line-of-sight of them
• Tweak: Distant rifts are now less visible
• Tweak: Can now do increment time via command in months and years /time add 2 years or /time add 2 months
• Tweak: Reduced creature aggro sound rate if they cannot find a path. Should mitigate endless drifter growling around your base.
• Tweak: Gameplay balancing
  • Halved produce drop rate on wild crops (they were doubled in 1.16, unintentionally)
  • Acacia trees now also spawn resin
  • Reduced mushroom spawning during worldgen by 20% and they stay harvestable less longer (30 days -> 20 days)
  • The Bell alarm mob spawning rate now scales with the amount of nearby players
  • The hacking spear can now also be made from bisbronze and tinbronze
  • Increased fruit tree cutting growth chance (25% -> 40%)
  • Increase resin spawn chance 2.5-fold
  • Increased rusty gear drop rate for drifters (normal: 0% -> 1%, deep: 2% -> 3%, tainted 5%->7%, corrupt 7%->10%, nightmare 10%->20%)
  • Beds now stack (1 -> 2)
• Tweak/Fixed: Avoid game crashing on corrupted chiseled blocks
• Tweak: More informative fruitpress block info hud text
• Tweak: Further optimized entity physics simulation for overall improved game performance when lots of entities are loaded (Technical info: Skip loading all nearby block collision boxes if entity didn't move a full block since last tick)
• Tweak: Scythe rework
  • New (default) tool mode: Trim grass. Will leave behind short grass that regrows. The 2nd tool mode restores old behavior.
  • Fixed desync issues with long duration tool interactions causing scything to sometimes have no effect
  • 3rd person scythe animation a bit more in sync with the fp animation
  • Fine tune timings a bit
  • The action no longer cancel when player looks at another grass block mid-swing. Added icons.
• Tweak: Can now dry items on tool racks and chests. Can now place bow staves on tool racks. Bow staves show drying rate in the item tooltip.
• Tweak: Added "Tree state" info to fruit tree blocks to help debug non-fruiting trees. A correctly behaving tree should loop through these states throughout a year: Young, Flowering, Fruiting, Ripe, Empty, EnterDormancy, Dormant, DormantVernalized. Please help me figure out where it gets stuck.
• Tweak: Increased growth speed of fruit trees by about 37%
• Tweak: Free-floating vines now slowly disappear over time
• Tweak: Crocks now use vegetable labels for meals that have 3 or 4 of the same ingredient
• Tweak: Mitigate clayforming lagspikes. Disabling the block interaction help while clay forming might reduce the lag even more now.
• Tweak: Small server performance optimization related to entity spawning
• Tweak: Rough hewn fence recipe a bit less generous (12 -> 8 fences)
• Tweak: Added a new "arctic supplies" cracked vessel (not yet in worldgen).
• Tweak: Right-click placing fuel into a firepit now plays a sound
• Tweak: Arrows now show break chance on impact in their tooltip
• Tweak: Increased fleeing distance on most creatures
• Tweak: Improved teleporting behavior of hacked locusts
• Tweak: Mitigate locust wall climbing derps
• Tweak: Mitigate creatures forever stuck running into a wall
• Tweak: Disabled unused bellows block
• Fixed: Animal weight system not working at all since 1.16
• Fixed: Able to circumvent block reinforcements with ore bombs
• Fixed: Might fix some trader carts cut in half on world generation
• Fixed: Should fix game no longer launching on MacOS
• Fixed: Able to add chiseled blocks as material on chiseled blocks, producing unknown textures
• Fixed: All spaces gone in english texts if the language was set to Japanese
• Fixed: Mitigate issues with copying text to clipboards from various in-game buttons
• Fixed: Retrieving buckets of juice or dairy from the creative inventory gave you buckets of rot instead in some cases
• Fixed: Various oddities when sleeping in a bed and logging out / shutting down the server
• Fixed: Dairy liquids yielding huge amounts of rot
• Fixed: Block reinforcement system: Non reinforcable blocks could still be reinforced but had no effect
• Fixed: Putting fruits 1-by-1 into the fruit press allowed you to get way more juice
• Fixed: Able to relight burned out torches
• Fixed: Able to mix items in the crate using a chute
• Fixed: Harvesting lychee trees yielded breadfruit
• Fixed: Cider and Juice not spoiling
• Fixed: Placing firewood in claimed areas placed a firewood pile on the client side
• Fixed: Wrong Playstyle selector hover texts on the create world screen
• Fixed: Coke oven doors and chute sections floating on water
• Fixed: Crushed olivine and quartz not smeltable into glass
• IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR MODDERS: If you override Block.OnBlockExploded() and don't call the base method you now must manually delete the block with "world.BulkBlockAccessor.SetBlock(0, pos);" or your block will become a source of infinite drops
• Fixed: Hitting creatures with a torch did not ignite them on occasion
• Fixed: Should fix multiplayer animation derp when a player has a torch in hands and similar
• Fixed: Itemstack tooltips sizing derps on sub-8 gui scales
• Fixed: Consuming liquids played the eat sound instead of the drink sound in some cases
• Fixed: Server disk space checks after the server has been started were failing silently, potentially causing loss of many hours of progress
• Fixed: Dropped Shields sinking into the ground
• Fixed: Player floating in air when breaking the block below and not moving (1.16.4-rc.1 bug)
• Fixed: Small memory leak in crates
• Fixed: Some derp with fruit tree branches not regrowing after being cut
• Fixed: Pathfinding issues:
  • Entities that have fall damage would be willing to fall from greater heights instead of the opposite effect (but did add a reckless attribute so drifters still fall from large heights)
  • Creatures believed they could walk through diagonal openings. Should mitigate cases where drifters bunch up in corners
  • Potentially fixes hares "leaping" fences in winter when they should not [Detail: fixes a pathfinding issue where creatures believed they could step high off a low block such as snow layer]
  • Chickens looking for a Henbox to lay in are now less likely to give up when half-way there
• Fixed: Rifts not affected by fog
• Fixed: Dense fog causing fog even at very near distances. Should mitigate heavy fog inside homes a bit
• Fixed: Should greatly mitigate melee attacks not registered when attacking a fleeing creature
• Fixed: Teleport-on-lag is now off when AntiAbuse mode is off. Multiplayer players rejoice!
• Fixed: Strange behavior when sleeping in a bed and right clicking on another bed
• Fixed: Vintagehosting a failed request was displayed as sucessful in some cases
• Fixed: Rare server freeze when running /stop in the same moment as a player joins
• Fixed: Sawblade locust emitting light
• Fixed: Particles glitching through blocks, such as snow particles
• Fixed: Worldedit bug doing Undo and Redo on a placed schematic deleted all block entity data
• Fixed: Some Z-fighting issues with chiseled block materials
• Fixed: Player entered sneak mode when walking through doors and fence gates
• Fixed: Player knockback not synced to other players on death
• Fixed: Somewhat awkward first person animation when attacking with a spear while looking downwards
• Fixed: Down faces of all roof blocks are now considered solid sides
• Fixed: Snow breaking sound not attenuated over distance
• Fixed: Rare client side crash related to particles
• Fixed: Should fix .tfedit not using correct decimal seperator for numbers
• Fixed: Current tool mode hud icon not scaling with the gui scale
• Fixed: Rare rendering issue with X-ray vision on snow layer sides after snow melted nearby
• Fixed: Rendering issues below snow-covered fences (etc.) with certain blocks
• Fixed: Forest floor blocks now also have snowy grass sides if snow-covered
• Fixed: Might fix a rare crash when connecting to a server
• Fixed: A crash on heavily modded games when looking at soil/rock in the handbook
• Fixed: Might fix rare glowing fruit mash glitch
• Fixed: Should fix yet another liquid dupe glitch
• Fixed: Mushrooms not spawning in the wilderness survival mode
• Fixed: Unknown texture when putting solder ingots on forges
• Fixed: Should fix the server mod downloader deleting manually installed mods that are outdated

Changed since v1.16.4-rc.3 (also listed above)

• Tweak: Even smoother scything action. The action no longer cancel when player looks at another grass block mid-swing. Added icons.
• Tweak: Can now dry items on tool racks and chests. Can now place bow staves on tool racks. Bow staves show drying rate in the item tooltip.
• Tweak: Added "Tree state" info to fruit tree blocks to help debug non-fruiting trees. A correctly behaving tree should loop through these states throughout a year: Young, Flowering, Fruiting, Ripe, Empty, EnterDormancy, Dormant, DormantVernalized. Please help me figure out where it gets stuck.
• Tweak: Increased growth speed of fruit trees by about 37%
• Fixed: Forest floor blocks now also have snowy grass sides if snow-covered
• Fixed: Current tool mode hud icon not scaling with the gui scale
• Fixed: Rare rendering issue with X-ray vision on snow layer sides after snow melted nearby
• Fixed: Rendering issues below snow-covered fences (etc.) with certain blocks
• Fixed: Might fix a rare crash when connecting to a server
• Fixed: A crash on heavily modded games when looking at soil/rock in the handbook
• Fixed: Clay forming grid not visible in some cases (1.16.4-rc.3 bug)
• Fixed: Might fix rare glowing fruit mash glitch
• Fixed: Should fix yet another liquid dupe glitch
• Fixed: Mushrooms not spawning in the wilderness survival mode
• Fixed: Unknown texture when putting solder ingots on forges