b1.6.5 Release Candidate Announcement
Good Morning
@everyone, and a Happy Monday to all!
From our last announcement, we are still working on putting the finishing touches over b1.6.5 (Used to be b1.6.4), and are happy to announce the following:
Due to the stability rating of our current build of b1.6.5,
We will be releasing it in 24 hours from now as a Release Candidate Build
What this means is that this build will ONLY be pushed out to GitHub, so we can get a bit more testing on the release before giving it to our wider audience,
which given the week gap between then and the 14th (Whicdh is an ETA we are still on track to hit), should provide a more stabilized build.
For version support, we are happy to acertain that b1.6.5 will be able to work for the following versions:
1.18.1, 1.17.1, and 22w05a (Current 1.18.2 snapshot, as of writing)
Given this info, however, it is important that we make note of the following advisories due to recent events:
# Advisory: 1.17 -> 1.18 World Migration
At this time, migrating worlds will work fine all elements of the mod **except** for dimension information.
Due to unforeseen issues currently beyond our control, the game is currently unable to migrate the Aether Dimension from the 1.17 format to 1.18s.
Anyone choosing to migrate worlds is **strongly encouraged** to make a backup and additionally opt to regenerate the dimension due to the worldgen changes made,
as even if this component is stabilized, **there is no chunk blending in place for world transitions**.
(The Aether Dimension can be regenerated by removing the folder `<MC_SAVES_FOLDER>/<WORLD_NAME>/dimensions/the_aether`)
Efforts are currently ongoing to determine the feasibility of getting this component working, to ensure a smoother migration to 1.18.x.
Further news regarding this effort can be found on our [discord server](https://discord.com/invite/wmMa47n).
# Snapshot Support
For this release, we are allowing support for the 22w05a Build of Minecraft, which is classed as a snapshot for 1.18.2
Understandably, snapshot builds may provide more instability, and in the case here, the following additional action(s) must be taken:
- A custom build of CrowdinTranslate is required to be added to your mods folder in order to prevent a crash.
- This release can be installed through <https://github.com/CDAGaming/CrowdinTranslate/suites/5192921120/artifacts/158199761> via extracting the `artifacts.zip`'s
- DO NOT extract the jar with `-sources` in the name -- this a development file not meant for normal users
Any issues reported under these snapshot builds may not receive fixes, until the related versions release, so please be mindful of this while experimenting.
We hope you all are as excited as we are to push this release out, and we can't wait to see what you think of it as we begin to conclude the b1.6.x pipeline!