The Homesteading update, balance & stable patch (v1.15.3)

Dear Community
v1.15.3, a stable release, can now be downloaded through the account manager.

This should hopefully cover all remaining major issues and that some players were having. We'd still like to add a few bits of missing content in v1.15.4 and then move on to 1.16.
 

Shared by Bertramqaz#6287 on discord

Game updates

• Everything from 1.15.3-rc.1
  • Feature: Can now use charcoal, bituminous coal, lignite and peat in pit kilns. Affects firing time. Firewood: 1 day, Peat: 16 hours, Lignite: 14 hours, Bitu coal: 12 hours, charcoal: 10 hours
  • Tweak: Increase bell spawn rate by 20% increase locust cage spawn rate by 20%
  • Tweak: Dead crops now always drop seeds with a 100% chance
  • Tweak: A tool breaking from 0 durability now also spawns a few particles
  • Tweak: Minimap data should now also be safe against corruption from graceful game exits
  • Tweak: Drawing cave art now requires you to hold down the sprint key, in order to avoid accidental drawing. Also added interaction help info
  • Tweak: Removed crank from creative inventory
  • Fixed: Empty storage piles after firing kilns. (technical info: Still send block entity updates while the client is connecting)
  • Fixed: Crucibles with melted metal inside not place-able, looses its ability to smoke though, will fix in 1.16 or later
  • Fixed: Game crashing when powering pulverizers without caps
  • Fixed: Mitigate trader carts spawning on water (also now checks center position)
  • Fixed: Game crashing when opening charred bread handbook page
  • Fixed: Rope/Wood Ladder exchange bug
  • Fixed: Infinite pie
  • Fixed: Throwing a spear with 1 durability destroyed a second clean spear in inventory
  • Fixed: Game crashing when clicking 'New world' with vanilla mods disabled
  • Fixed: Clay shingles recoloring themselves when snowed upon
  • Fixed: Enabling/Disabling a mod did not refresh the list of playstyles
  • Fixed: Exception thrown on the server when a player disconnects which belongs to a group that no long exists
  • Fixed: Some Fn keys activating in-game hotkeys, thanks to Nexrem and Lyrthras
  • Fixed: Localization for block names of snow-covered roofing blocks
  • Fixed: Fern tree trunks occasional visual gap due to random height scaling
  • Fixed: Client crash caused on a specific location on the aura fury server
  • Fixed: Should fix ewes no longer lactating after chunk or world reload
  • Fixed: Pie nutrition properties not considering serving size
  • Fixed: Ewe lactating behavior and pit kilns should be now more robust against schematic export/import (i.e. without messed up timers)
  • Fixed: Eye cancer causing flicker on itemstack tool tips, e.g. when heating an item
  • Fixed: Several crushed resources had no recipe to create them (crushed lead, cinnabar and lapis). Crushed lead is now Crushed galena
  • Fixed: Missing/incorrect interaction help for honeycomb and skeps
  • Fixed: Applying fertilizer on terra preta made it turn into high fertiliy compost (only visual issue, did not affect growth rates)
  • Fixed: One sound track not in music category and thus not affected by the music volume slider
  • Api Fixed: Crafting bugs when block ids exceed 65535
     
• Feature: Added blocks and recipes for suevite, kimberlite, green-, white and redmarble Cobblestone, Cobble slab, Cobble stairs and dry stone fence. Next release we'll add drystone and stonebrick blocks&recipes.
• Feature: You can now hit Spacebar to re-center your currently opened world map
• Tweak: Removed halite, scoria and tuff dry stone. Scoria and Tuff will get re-added in the future.
• Tweak: Removed mossy/lichen cobble stone from creative inventory and handbook. These blocks will be fully removed in the future.
• Tweak: Removed wind dust particles during heavy precipitation, looks wrong otherwise
• Fixed: Snow covered grass in summer in new chunks when travelling north
• Fixed: Outdated .net colors link
• Fixed: Collapsing coal piles spawning white particles
• Fixed: Able to join 1.15.2 servers with 1.15.3, but that crashes the client
• Fixed: Hens laying eggs in water and removing water in the process
• Fixed: Invisible block topsides if snowed on and a fence is on top
• Fixed: Snow particles submerged
• Fixed: Snow falling through roofing
• Fixed: Breaking snowed over roofing dropped a snowed over block
• Fixed: Able to place floating oil lamps
• api tweak: better crash message when the engine runs out of texture atlas space during color map loading