1.6 Release Announcement (again)

1.6 Release Announcement (again) Well, here we are again @everyone, has it been that many days already 😮 At this time, I am estatic to announce that the remaining blocker issues have been resolved, and 1.6 is officially slated for a final ETA of Friday the 26th sometime in the afternoon. But first, I'd like to take the time to more further explain what happened: During our initial monday announcement, several last-minute issues cropped up in addition to a bit of burnout in the team due to the short term eta that I non-permissably gave out. We used the extra few days of time to both resolve these last-minute issues, but also make a few adjustments to the patch. Here's some notable entries from our extra time: - ALL of the feature issues at this time have been resolved, with the exception of large lakes. These have been re-scheduled to be added in the 1.7/1.8 updates as 1.18 will allow us more creative freedom to re-implement them without issues. - A minor bug bash was held by me during the week, during which Issue #299 (Improper door and tall flower physics, due to improper item conversion), Issue #246 (Incorrect bonemeal behavior effecting both quicksoil and Aether Grass), and other minor tweaks were made. Additionally, this bug bash also added the ability to lead swets up to a certain size. Have fun dragging your friends along in Swets xD - We additionally tidyed up a lot of our code and polished up a lot of our newer rendering code, in addition to holding far more validation checks to ensure the content will scale up well. In general, 1.6 is poised to be one of our most stable updates yet, with x2-x3 the changes that 1.5.0 had. As for older worlds, it would be best to regen the Aether dimension for these new biomes, but no errors should occur if you choose to use your old worlds. An Aether regen however will likely be needed depending on 1.18s port We would like to thank everyone for having paitience with us as we wrap up this update, and 2021 with a bang, and can't wait for you to see what's in store next, and exploring all the surprises and secrets in store in the 1.6 update 😄 See you tomorrow 😄 PS: The new server IP will also be announced tomorrow, but it has also been prepped with 1.6s final release files for instant-access 😄