The Homesteading update, stable patch #1 (v1.15.2)

Dear Community
v1.15.2, a stable release, can now be downloaded through the account manager.

This release fixes a few major issues, mostly related to multiplayer.


Hnefatafl game. Screenshot by TechRabbit

Game updates

• Tweak: Various small improvements on the handbook
  • Small additional margin added between created by etc. mechanisms if an item was drawn
  • Consistent spelling of "firepit" and other minor textual improvements
  • Fixed missing handbook explanations (created by/yields) for baked goods
  • Fixed missing handbook drop source for bellpepper
• Tweak: Wind force pushing now disabled by default. We'll revisit this one in a future version. (Enable via /worldconfigcreate bool windAffectedEntityMovement true)
• Tweak: Mitigate entity spawning issues on ungraceful server exit (don't add them to chunk if there are duplicate entity ids)
• Tweak: Improved feedback to clients when the game server player auth check fails
• Fixed: Iron dupe bug (iron bits yielded 100 units)
• Fixed: Some typos in the translations + updated mods links to the new modhub
• Fixed: Decent chance to fix a crash in the lighting engine (chunk data packing race condition)
• Fixed: Should fix a crash during autosave (likely due to the snow accum system writing while saving)
• Fixed: Two extremely slow but accumulative server performance leaks (leaf block decay queue not processed fast enough, region weather system weather snapshots probably not correctly saved to disk)
• Fixed: Privilege escalation issue on game servers. I recommend all server owners to update to 1.15.2 as soon as possible.
• Fixed: Improved SRV record lookup (forgot to read out the target, better logging)
• Fixed: Rare chiselled block client-side crash for certain source materials: Github #1195
• Api feature: Added new server events sapi.Event.ServerSuspend and sapi.Event.ServerResume. Use it to pause a thread when the server should pause. This is important to prevent race conditions during autosave
• Api tweak: Made a few fields and methods public
• Api fixed: Version comparison did not differentiate between stable and rc
• Server/Api fixed: Major block derpiness when used block ids exceed 65535