The Homesteading update (v1.15-rc.3)

Dear Community
v1.15.0-rc.3, an unstable release, can now be downloaded through the account manager.

Thanks to everyone's thorough testing we have fixed a great many special cases bugs as well as usability issues with our newly introduced 1.15 features. You can now also craft inner and outer roof corners, roof tips, and a completely new set of bamboo roofing

With these fixes complete, we hope to release v1.15 stable very soon.

Game updates

• Feature: New blocks! Added bamboo roofing.
• Feature: New blocks! Added roofing tips, inner corners, and outer corners.
• Feature: Can now plant ferns in flower pots and planters. Fixed some plants not season/climate colored
• Feature: Added links to class-exclusive craftable items, accessible from the class traits menu.
• Feature: Added recipes for remaining roof ridges.
• Feature: Lots of improvements on the handbook texts. We added several new guides and updated existing ones
• Feature: Added attributes argument to commands /giveitem and /giveblock to allow assigning of itemstack attributes. Useful e.g. for spawning in tinted lanterns or meals. Needs to be added to the end of the command and in json syntax.
• Tweak: Updated all language files
• Tweak: Removed churn and fruitpress from creative inventory
• Tweak: The client now logs a game exit reason to the client-main.txt to help with debugging
• Tweak: Can now also use knife to cycle pie top crust styles
• Tweak: Creative mode block breaking no longer overrides block reinforcement
• Tweak: The new seraph voices system is now marked experimental and disabled by default.
• Tweak: Improved UI alignments in the character selector
• Tweak: Revert changes to the sun position. Will need a bigger rewrite in an upcoming version
• Tweak: Rough wooden doors now no longer break when opened and closed in Creative mode
• Fixed: Missing 256k size for world length
• Fixed: Unnecessary line breaks in loose ore block info
• Fixed: Should fix a crash related to pie
• Fixed: Minor memory leaks
• Fixed: Cementation furnace visual issues when filling
• Fixed: Submerged ebony seeds when dropped on the ground
• Fixed: Creative mode reinforced block oddities
• Fixed: Incorrect interaction help with the plumb&square
• Fixed: Creative mode middle mouse click on firewood piles and peat piles buggy
• Fixed: Missing block interaction help for ground storables
• Fixed: Pressing Cancel on developer mode switch redirected the player to the developer tab
• Fixed: Wrong GUI sizing on the customize world screen
• Fixed: Missing block interaction help for pies
• Fixed: Omok table top had material rock instead of wood
• Fixed: Overculling issues on sign posts
• Fixed: Issues with alum prospecting results
• Fixed: Game not remembering the configured sound output device
• Fixed: Durability syncing issue (1.15 issue), on replacing broken tools
• Fixed: Game still crashing from a missing wind pattern file
• Fixed: Game crashing from missing weather sound files
• Fixed: Game crashing on sound loading race condition (when sounds loaded slower than the main game. cause of Melchiors crash)
• Fixed: Some falling blocks spawned only white particles
• Fixed: Crucible with melted metal in them were stackable, causing various issues
• Fixed: Crash in some cases when placing firewood or peat
• Fixed: Reduce unwanted 30fps when FPS is set to 60, see Github #1133
• Fixed: Strong wind player pushforce no longer applied when swimming
• Fixed: breaking a mix of bowls on the ground did not randomize block breaking particles
• Fixed: Pit kilns and spawner blocks (e.g. for traders) did not correctly check for chunk borders, causing undefined behavior
• Fixed: Adding/Removing armor to armor stands did not correctly synchronize to other players
• Fixed: Attempting to change a keybinding and clicking back button caused undefined behavior
• Fixed: Server view screen "Add to favorites" button overlapping with join button on some gui scales
• Fixed: Attempt to fix rare SnowAccum loading issue, also log for it     
• Api Refactor: Consistent naming of y-scaling properties.
  • CompositeShape.ScaleAdjust is now Scale, which defaults to 1
  • StorageProps.CbHeightMulFactor is now CbScaleYByLayer
  • BakingProperties.StartHeightMul is now StartScaleY