No food near spawn on dedicated servers fix (v1.12.5-rc.1/rc.2)

Dear quickly growing Community
v1.12.5-rc.1/rc.2, an unstable release, can now be downloaded through the account manager

It seems that all previous versions of the game have an issue where when you set up a dedicated server, any new world will generate with the patchy climate configuration. This ends up making some players spawn in a hot and wet climate where there is little food available.

If are a server owner and you'd like to fix that here's some solutions that come to mind:

• Stay on v1.12.4: Fly around in creative mode (/gamemode creative then F3 to fly, F2 to speed up), find a better spot, then set up 2 teleporters between there and spawn and link them up. You can find the teleporter in the creative inventory (Hint: Teleporter, not translocator). That would let new players find more food and keep the current world.
• Stay on v1.12.4: You can correct the mistake in the serverconfig.json and then create a new world, see below for instructions
• Install v1.12.5-rc.1 or wait until stable, then create a new world

Single player worlds are not affected by this issue. Beyond that this release contains multiple bugfixes and a few small tweaks.
 

Screenshot by Wayward

Game updates

• Feature: Can now take torches out of a torch holder by right clicking
• Tweak: Copper/Tin spawn balancing
  • Standard mode: 20% more surface copper deposits
  • Exploration mode: Doubled surface copper and surface tin deposits
  • Wilderness survival: Doubled surface copper deposits
• Tweak: Fleeing sows and boars are now 33% faster
• Tweak: New sprint animation for drifters and they are now also seek and flee a bit faster
• Tweak: Added sub-command "/land claim allowuseeveryone [on|off]" to grant use access to everyone. not tested yet. *hides*
• Tweak: Attempts to fix dead animals floating up to the top block. Might break other stuff
• Tweak: The falling block sound is now considered an ambient sound and is thus affected by the ambient sound slider
• Tweak: Added debug logging to find various rare crash and freeze bugs
• Tweak: A newly installed game now starts in full screen by default
• Tweak: Updated credits page and german translations
• Tweak: /stop now has an optional arg for the programs exit code
• Tweak: Added experimental "spawnRadius" feature to randomize player spawn points, not optimized or well tested yet.
• Tweak: Small performance improvement in the animation system (Technical info: Don't update the walking speed on every single frame)
• Fixed: Game not shipping with oalinst.exe, causing some system to not play any sounds
• Fixed: Firestarter not mentioned in the firepits interaction help
• Fixed: The carcass block that spawns after harvesting an animal was offseted
• Fixed: Unable to get nuggets from crystallized ore
• Fixed: Game crashing when smithing all the way to the blocks boundaries
• Fixed: Farmland not getting watered by rainfall if a crop is growing on it
• Fixed: Minor UI alignment issues in the fire pit and dialog title bar
• Fixed: A revived player is still on fire
• Fixed: Game crashing when typing a decimal point in the world edit ui on some systems
• Fixed: Might fix loose stones spawning in water during worldgen
• Fixed: Hotfix for a bug that causes dedicated servers to generate worlds with patchy climates instead of the default realistic climate bands.
• Fixed: Block interaction help overlapping issue on certain gui scales
• Fixed: Should fix locusts up side down when walking on walls
• Fixed: Able to put dress pieces on armor stands
• Fixed: Minor graphical glitch with metal fences
• API Feature: Added ICoreServerAPI.InjectConsole(). Useful for piping server commands through a mod.
  
   

Patchy climate fix:

To make dedicated servers in version 1.12.4 generate realistic climate bands, you would need to shut down the server, open serverconfig.json replace

"WorldConfiguration": null,

with

    "WorldConfiguration": {
      "worldClimate": "realistic",
      "gameMode": "survival",
      "temporalStability": true,
      "temporalStorms": "sometimes",
      "graceTimer": "0"
    },

and then generate a new world. The bug should be hotfixed in version 1.12.5.