v1.21.6-rc.1 Story Chapter 2 Redux, Maintenance patch #2

Dear Extraordinary Survivalists
v1.21.6-rc.1, an unstable release, can now be downloaded through the account manager.

We've accumulated another handful of small patches worthy of a release.
 

Little Tractor-Crawler by T͗ͬ̈́h̎ͫ̚eͥ̆̈́_ͩ̓̍O͋wl̃͑̇, shared on #screenshots in Discord
 

Game updates

• Tweak: Elks and other mountables can no longer use a translocator or teleporters, unless being currently ridden - a player riding an elk, who uses a translocator, teleports both player and elk
• Tweak: Lore hint particles now always spawn, ignoring the player's particles quantity setting
• Tweak: Allow liquids to be chiseled only in creative mode
• Tweak: Small improvement to elk rider animation in idle and walk
• Tweak: New 'manageotherplayergroups' privilege and /group addplayer or removeplayer commands, so that server moderators can deal with abandoned groups (e.g. if all ops leave a group)
• Tweak: Add server audit logging for out-of-range block break/place attempts
• Tweak: Updated community translations
• Tweak: Updated in-game credits
• Tweak: On VintageHosting, on the server dashboard include a reminder that the name needs to be between 4 and 80 characters 
• Fixed: Storage vessels were applying double the perish rate bonus 
• Fixed: Items stored on shelves would not dry or melt at the intended rate 
• Fixed: Prevent the trader menu to be opened by multiple players at the same time, which could be abused 
• Fixed: On some occasions, traders walked away from player mid-conversation or stood still after conversations
• Fixed: For traders and villagers, opening the trade window caused the second dialog option also to be run automatically (typically "What's your name?")
• Fixed: Boars and sows not consistently being aggressive to players when piglets are around
• Fixed: Food placed in ground storage could result in empty ground storage blocks if the food rotted
• Fixed: When multiple Hoppers in different places picked up items at about the same time, some items could be teleported from one hopper to another
• Fixed: Beehive kiln and cementation furnace consumed fuel even when not processing, when the structure was partially loaded across chunks
• Fixed: Placing straw dummies always positioned them on the very edge of blocks
• Fixed: Some ropes not properly loading from a savegame to client side 
• Fixed: Flowing lava blocks now start their particles at the correct height
• Fixed: Devastation Area ground level could have chunk borders if originally generated in an earlier game version and /wgen regen used
• Fixed: On very old worlds (1.18 or earlier) the pan would result in only Homo Sapiens mode drop chances 
• Fixed: In vast caves or when standing below large structures or floating islands, a chunk directly above the player was sometimes invisible
• Fixed: Rare error when generating a weather dust particle for a not-fully-loaded fruit tree
• Fixed: Beehive Kiln doors could cause crashes in multiplayer. Github #5170 and #7226
• Fixed: Rare crash relating to insect sounds. Github #7201
• Fixed: Rare crash from async particle spawn
• Fixed: Crash when Ctrl+scroll up on the firepit input slot
• Fixed: Rare crash when copying the Resonance Archives
• Fixed: Potential crash on player death with no specific damage source (e.g. from combustion)
• Fixed: Potential crash with BodyTemperature system during server shutdown
• Fixed: Potential crash when trying to spawn a cube particle from a LooseItemFoodSource
• Fixed: Potential crashes if certain game folders (Logs, Saves, Macros) were not found 
• Fixed: Potential client crash in windowed mode when the game fails to center the game
• Fixed: WorldEdit chisel tools crash when holding an item instead of a block
• Fixed: Pasting line breaks into single line text field showed up as a missing character
• Fixed: Certain errors seen in logs on multiplayer servers
• Fixed: When the --dataPath argument was used, the game sometimes created unneeded directories
• API Tweak: Added to IBlockEntityContainer a new method CheckInventoryClearedMidTick() - this may affect a small number of mods which use this code, apologies, mod breakage was not intended