What's new in Horizon

Horizon is numbered from now on: this is Horizon 0.2.0, the release after 2026.10.23. Releases used to be named after the day they came out; from now on they count up from 0.2.0, and the launcher's too. The launcher installs it by itself once it has updated itself. A server installed with install.sh that still says it is up to date takes it with horizon-server update --version v0.2.0.

Rebuilt from the latest main.

This is an alpha build: launchers on the Alpha channel (Settings, Updates) install it now; Stable gets it in the next daily update if it holds up.

Install or update it from the Horizon launcher: it installs new versions by itself. New here? Get the launcher at https://playhorizon.dev. You need your own copy of Minecraft: Java Edition.

Not an official Minecraft product. Not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft.

The launcher is numbered with the game from now on: this is launcher 0.2.0, the release after launcher 0.17.0. Your launcher takes it by itself.

New

• Launcher: say when a prepared version has no sounds, and that Prepare again fixes it (#1173)
• Live player count: an anonymous "I'm playing" ping and "N playing now" in the launcher (#1185)
• Launcher: Stable and Nightly update channels; nightly releases within minutes, stable once a day (#1209)
• Website: the Blocks look, a blocky Minecraft-like design in Horizon's purple (#1259)
• Launcher: a blocky, Minecraft-like look in dark and light (#1269)

Fixed

• Rename the Nightly update channel to Alpha (#1232)
• Launcher: Microsoft sign-in shows "Coming soon" (#1236)
• Prepare with Minecraft's own Java 25 when no JDK is installed (#1214, fixes #1217)
• One menu style, vanilla's: Horizon's settings join vanilla's Options (#1271)
• Telemetry: telemetry.playhorizon.dev by default, a benchmarks summary, the Railway config (#1276)
• Horizon 0.2: releases are numbered from now on (merge when Ludovic says go) (#1132)

Thanks to @pirut.

Your launcher updates itself. New here? Download the archive for your system below, extract it, and run horizon-launcher. Website: https://playhorizon.dev

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Fixed

• Mount inventories for a server's players, and llama inventories (#1325)

This is an alpha build: launchers on the Alpha channel (Settings, Updates) install it now; Stable gets it in the next daily update if it holds up.

Install or update it from the Horizon launcher: it installs new versions by itself. New here? Get the launcher at https://playhorizon.dev. You need your own copy of Minecraft: Java Edition.

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Fixed

• Riding animals for a server's players (horses, pigs, striders, camels, llamas, happy ghast) (#1314)

This is an alpha build: launchers on the Alpha channel (Settings, Updates) install it now; Stable gets it in the next daily update if it holds up.

Install or update it from the Horizon launcher: it installs new versions by itself. New here? Get the launcher at https://playhorizon.dev. You need your own copy of Minecraft: Java Edition.

Not an official Minecraft product. Not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft.

New

• Website: the Blocks look, a blocky Minecraft-like design in Horizon's purple (#1259)

Fixed

• Telemetry: telemetry.playhorizon.dev by default, a benchmarks summary, the Railway config (#1276)

This is an alpha build: launchers on the Alpha channel (Settings, Updates) install it now; Stable gets it in the next daily update if it holds up.

Install or update it from the Horizon launcher: it installs new versions by itself. New here? Get the launcher at https://playhorizon.dev. You need your own copy of Minecraft: Java Edition.

Not an official Minecraft product. Not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft.

Fixed

• One menu style, vanilla's: Horizon's settings join vanilla's Options (#1271)

This is an alpha build: launchers on the Alpha channel (Settings, Updates) install it now; Stable gets it in the next daily update if it holds up.

Install or update it from the Horizon launcher: it installs new versions by itself. New here? Get the launcher at https://playhorizon.dev. You need your own copy of Minecraft: Java Edition.

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Fixed

• Fix #1222 at the root: boats, minecarts, frames and lightning for a server's players (#1280, fixes #1222)
• Play with Friends on single player's server thread (#1285)

This is an alpha build: launchers on the Alpha channel (Settings, Updates) install it now; Stable gets it in the next daily update if it holds up.

Install or update it from the Horizon launcher: it installs new versions by itself. New here? Get the launcher at https://playhorizon.dev. You need your own copy of Minecraft: Java Edition.

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Fixed

• Cache rain/snow column parameters and animate atlas UVs in shader (#1237)
• Cache uniform surface biome cells for 10% faster Nether generation (#1268)

Thanks to @rdbtCVS.

This is an alpha build: launchers on the Alpha channel (Settings, Updates) install it now; Stable gets it in the next daily update if it holds up.

Install or update it from the Horizon launcher: it installs new versions by itself. New here? Get the launcher at https://playhorizon.dev. You need your own copy of Minecraft: Java Edition.

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Fixed

• Reuse End island scans for 10% faster complete generation (#1273)

Thanks to @rdbtCVS.

This is an alpha build: launchers on the Alpha channel (Settings, Updates) install it now; Stable gets it in the next daily update if it holds up.

Install or update it from the Horizon launcher: it installs new versions by itself. New here? Get the launcher at https://playhorizon.dev. You need your own copy of Minecraft: Java Edition.

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Fixed

• perf(client): retain seeded lightning bolt geometry (#1238)
• perf(client): retain the End sky mesh on the GPU (#1235)

Thanks to @rdbtCVS.

This is an alpha build: launchers on the Alpha channel (Settings, Updates) install it now; Stable gets it in the next daily update if it holds up.

Install or update it from the Horizon launcher: it installs new versions by itself. New here? Get the launcher at https://playhorizon.dev. You need your own copy of Minecraft: Java Edition.

Not an official Minecraft product. Not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft.

Fixed

• Fix Q drop animation with an empty hand (#1247)
• Fix hand animation for rejected block placements (#1248)
• Fix in-world menu background blur (#1249)
• Fix slash-command argument suggestions after connecting (#1250)
• Fix firework tooltip translations (#1251)
• Skip unchanged End surface traversal for 11–13% faster chunk loading (#1264)
• perf(client): cache weather column direction table (#1234)

Thanks to @rdbtCVS.

This is an alpha build: launchers on the Alpha channel (Settings, Updates) install it now; Stable gets it in the next daily update if it holds up.

Install or update it from the Horizon launcher: it installs new versions by itself. New here? Get the launcher at https://playhorizon.dev. You need your own copy of Minecraft: Java Edition.

Not an official Minecraft product. Not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft.

Fixed

• Load saved light faster with uniform-layer and paired-nibble paths (#1231)
• Fix delay between instant survival block breaks in multiplayer (#1245)

Thanks to @rdbtCVS.

This is an alpha build: launchers on the Alpha channel (Settings, Updates) install it now; Stable gets it in the next daily update if it holds up.

Install or update it from the Horizon launcher: it installs new versions by itself. New here? Get the launcher at https://playhorizon.dev. You need your own copy of Minecraft: Java Edition.

Not an official Minecraft product. Not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft.

New

• port-pack: blocks whose sides are true/false are vines, not walls (Chipped's vines load) (#1027)
• Far terrain: chunk summaries and mesh inputs on the worker (#1029)
• Launcher and horizon-server update: install only releases whose signed checksums match (#1014)
• Collision scans: a counting cursor, and fewer lookups and allocations per block (#659)
• Structures: Repurposed Structures' waterlogging fix, as horizon:waterlog_in_world_water (#1032)
• Content mods: shared tags merge like a data pack's, replace honoured with a warning (#1021)
• Stars: build the star buffer once, as vanilla does (#1079, fixes #1054)
• Video settings: cost tags from measured frame times, and Saves time for cave culling (#1089, fixes #897)
• Weather: rain heights from a cached MOTION_BLOCKING heightmap (#1084, fixes #899)
• Cave culling: vanilla's graph rules (every entry face, distant ray test) (#1094, fixes #629, fixes #782)
• Items merge with their neighbours; falling blocks land in their own tick (#1110, fixes #996)
• Loading screen: fill the chunk map square by square, as vanilla (#1112, fixes #770)
• Cave culling: see the world from above or below its height (#1111, fixes #1037)
• Sky, fog and water fog colours blend across biomes (GaussianSampler) (#1118, fixes #797)
• Terrain particles: the model's particle sprite and vanilla tint (grass blocks break into dirt) (#1115, fixes #1034)
• Extras: classic buttons two to a row; each extra's settings nest under its switch (#1122, fixes #812, fixes #815)
• Book title: Select All's highlight and vanilla's centring (BookSignScreen EditBox) (#1123)
• Station shift-clicks follow vanilla's quickMoveStack; the brewing stand runs on the menu engine (#1125, fixes #275)
• End crystals spin and bob in every dimension (#1116, fixes #1051)
• Boats: the water patch hides water inside the hull; the riding camera turns smoothly (#1119, fixes #1016)
• Ender dragon: runs on server levels, fights every player, vanilla damage rules (#1137)
• Other players' block cracks are drawn (#1149, fixes #1096)
• Loot tables apply set_potion (a piglin's barter potions hold fire resistance) (#1134)
• Other players are drawn lying in their beds (#1144, fixes #1045)
• A new world knows its world spawn before its first save (#1135)
• /summon reports primed TNT, falling blocks and projectiles it spawned (#1136)
• Ominous item spawners are saved with their chunk (#1143, fixes #462)
• Locator bar: one waypoint manager per level (#1150, fixes #843)
• Advancement triggers test only the criteria that can pass; the log writes on its own thread (#1152)
• Thrown potions: drawn as their item, facing the camera (ThrownItemRenderer) (#1117, fixes #818)
• Audio: pan like OpenAL Soft's stereo output (explosions were ~6 dB too loud) (#1133, fixes #488)
• Particles: 26.3's sulfur bubbles over wet potent sulfur (closes the #63 particle audit) (#1156, fixes #63)
• Axolotl: free water paths, flat walk targets and the attack sound (idle swim and play dead match vanilla) (#1159, fixes #64)
• LAN fixes: land the eight rebased B5 PRs together (#1138 #1139 #1140 #1142 #1146 #1147 #1148 #1151) (#1160)
• Client of a server: abilities from the server, flight sent back (creative flight on the server thread) (#1108)
• Run single player on its server thread by default (#1114, fixes #1072)
• Shader packs: Steadfast, Bloop and Noble get past the preprocessor; a compatibility table (#1157, fixes #616)
• Shader Packs page: the folder's path, Open Folder, a switch per pack (#1158, fixes #925, fixes #941)
• Dynamic lights: held, dropped and burning light sources (Horizon Extras, off by default) (#1162, fixes #814)
• Riptide: the auto-spin attack (pose, contact hit, spinning model, effect layer, first-person pose) (#1155, fixes #536)
• Render thread ahead of the workers on macOS and Windows (RD 32 long frames) (#1179)
• Chunk packets get 1 ms a frame on a client of a server (RD 32 frame spikes) (#1181)
• Live player count: an anonymous "I'm playing" ping and "N playing now" in the launcher (#1185)
• LAN guests: the lectern and the cartography table (#868) (#1188, fixes #868)
• Linux: the game's workers go behind its render and server threads (RD 32 long frames) (#1192)

Fixed

• fix: reset spectator fly speed when changing game modes (#1039)
• Fix creative and spectator hunger exhaustion and starvation (#1036, fixes #1033)
• fix: prevent spectators from dropping hotbar items (#1059, fixes #1053)
• Fix section headings in classic video settings search (#1064, fixes #894)
• Fix creative barrier block markers (#1062, fixes #1057)
• Prepare startup handoff CPU resources off the UI thread (#1042)
• Mods: capability storage, a quota'd per-mod key/value folder (#1044, fixes #1040)
• Restore missing accessibility settings (#1061, fixes #1058)
• Centre the cursor when a screen opens from gameplay (#235)
• fix(gfx): Stop the swapchain washing colours out (#1075)
• Structures: Repurposed Structures' air fix as horizon:close_off_air_sources (#1020)
• fix(hud): Apply legacy formatting codes to action bar and titles (#1077)
• Keep the loading UI responsive during local world initialization (#1041)
• Keep world saves and exit responsive while preserving durability (#1043)
• Shears carve pumpkins (PumpkinBlock.useItemOn) (#1081, fixes #1067)
• Blocks can't be placed into mobs and other entities (Level.isUnobstructed) (#1085, fixes #1052)
• Cobwebs slow falling blocks (WebBlock.entityInside) (#1082, fixes #933)
• Firework tooltips: flight duration and explosions (Fireworks.addToTooltip) (#1083, fixes #1047)
• Creative pick block in inventories: full stacks and drags (AbstractContainerScreen cloning) (#1086, fixes #1048)
• Title backdrop: build its generator on a worker (#1087, fixes #896)
• Prepare: accept Mojang's republished 26.3 asset indexes (no sound, no panorama) (#1091)
• Prepare: import the Unifont glyphs from the asset index (#1092, fixes #1076)
• /tick on a server thread: sprint, query, step and a smooth frozen camera (#1088, fixes #1038)
• Prepare finds installed JDKs; the launcher shows the preparation error up top (#1093, fixes #666)
• Elytra: a glide that isn't diving keeps the fall distance at 1 (no landing damage) (#1103, fixes #1046)
• Combat: attribute swapping (attack damage and speed from last tick's main hand) (#1105, fixes #505)
• No block placing or item use while an item is in use (shield, bow, food) (#1102, fixes #1050)
• Elytra: a landing glide lasts one more tick, so elytra hops keep their speed (#1104, fixes #1056)
• Combat: sprint knockback and knockback along the attacker's yaw; vanilla knockback on players (#1106, fixes #504)
• Explosions: two Blast Protection pieces cancel the knockback (explosion_knockback_resistance, per-slot enchantment modifiers) (#1101, fixes #1049)
• Beehives: nests on trees grown in the world get their bees (#1107, fixes #1097)
• fix(benchmark): create the world folder before writing its marker (#1120)
• horizon-server update: version 0.2 counts as newer than the dated releases (#1127)
• Draw and collide blocks while a piston moves them (#1113, fixes #935)
• A release says its version: horizon-server, horizon-prepare, crash reports and user agents report 0.2.x (#1131)
• Mob tick: build the mob world once a tick and answer mob queries from grids (#1200, fixes #1218)
• Server tick: cheaper view requeue, chunk ticket levels and player-proximity grid (#1201, fixes #1219)
• Mob tick: drop repeated scans in guest bindings, villagers, allays, piglins and sculk (#1202)
• Hoppers: skip the item scan when no item reaches the hopper's column (#1203, fixes #1220)
• Furnaces: look up the cooking recipe in an index, without cloning it (#1204)
• Faster Perlin volumes and climate search, same results (#1206)
• Faster feature decoration: region grid, ore column fast path, lazy biome cache (#1207)
• Perlin noise without libm floor or int-to-float conversions, same values (#1208)
• Keep the pointer locked on macOS in first person (#1225, fixes #1224)
• Reuse aquifer neighborhoods to speed up Overworld generation (#1229)
• Prepare with Minecraft's own Java 25 when no JDK is installed (#1214, fixes #1217)
• Load saved chunks 10% faster by retaining packed list palettes (#1223)
• Fix #1222: single player runs in the frame again until server players have vehicles (#1257, fixes #1222)
• fix(protocol): decode particle entity-data serializers so server holograms render (#1228)
• Mob pushes: one list per mob once a crowd is pushing (#1205, fixes #1221)
• Fix #1255: server players climbing down a ladder take no fall damage (#1263, fixes #1255)

Thanks to @ItsPotatoTime, @Yvonne-Aizawa, @feeldev12, @pirut, @rdbtCVS.

Install or update it from the Horizon launcher: it installs new versions by itself. New here? Get the launcher at https://playhorizon.dev. You need your own copy of Minecraft: Java Edition.

Not an official Minecraft product. Not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft.

Fixed

• Furnaces: look up the cooking recipe in an index, without cloning it (#1204)
• Faster Perlin volumes and climate search, same results (#1206)
• Faster feature decoration: region grid, ore column fast path, lazy biome cache (#1207)
• Perlin noise without libm floor or int-to-float conversions, same values (#1208)
• Keep the pointer locked on macOS in first person (#1225, fixes #1224)
• Reuse aquifer neighborhoods to speed up Overworld generation (#1229)
• Prepare with Minecraft's own Java 25 when no JDK is installed (#1214, fixes #1217)
• Load saved chunks 10% faster by retaining packed list palettes (#1223)

Thanks to @pirut, @rdbtCVS.

This is an alpha build: launchers on the Alpha channel (Settings, Updates) install it now; Stable gets it in the next daily update if it holds up.

Install or update it from the Horizon launcher: it installs new versions by itself. New here? Get the launcher at https://playhorizon.dev. You need your own copy of Minecraft: Java Edition.

Not an official Minecraft product. Not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft.

Fixed

• Mob tick: build the mob world once a tick and answer mob queries from grids (#1200, fixes #1218)
• Server tick: cheaper view requeue, chunk ticket levels and player-proximity grid (#1201, fixes #1219)
• Mob tick: drop repeated scans in guest bindings, villagers, allays, piglins and sculk (#1202)
• Hoppers: skip the item scan when no item reaches the hopper's column (#1203, fixes #1220)

Thanks to @pirut.

This is an alpha build: launchers on the Alpha channel (Settings, Updates) install it now; Stable gets it in the next daily update if it holds up.

Install or update it from the Horizon launcher: it installs new versions by itself. New here? Get the launcher at https://playhorizon.dev. You need your own copy of Minecraft: Java Edition.

Not an official Minecraft product. Not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft.

New

• horizon-prepare sounds: sound copy in Rust, run by the launcher (no Python for players) (#123)
• Controllers: design note, gilrs input layer and gameplay (#120)
• Controllers: menus, screens and inventories (virtual cursor) (#129)
• Controllers: Controller options, button binds and glyphs (#145)
• Controllers: rumble (#149)
• Horizon extras: zoom, FPS counter, keystrokes and the Extras page (off by default) (#135)
• Horizon extras: minimap (off by default) (#136)
• Horizon extras: auto-reconnect (off by default) (#137)
• Design system: one set of tokens for the launcher, menus and website (#166)
• Horizon's mark and its icon everywhere (#167)
• Game menus (Horizon style) in the new design language (#173)
• Title screen: "RUST EDITION" under the logo (#226)
• Opt-in data collection (3/5): the game keeps crash reports and session summaries only with consent (#252)
• Play with friends (2/3): Invite friends in the pause menu (no server needed) (#199)
• Play with friends (3/3): Join a friend with the code alone, in game and in the launcher; end-to-end harness (#200)
• Controllers: focus navigation in menus, on-screen keyboard, menu navigation option (#241)
• horizon-client --benchmark SCENARIO: benchmark your own machine, report in the shared format (#263)
• Battery mode: an opt-in 60 FPS cap (30 in menus or unfocused) and half the worker threads (#254)
• Render the world with reversed depth like vanilla (far fire no longer flickers) (#296, fixes #272)
• Rebuild every section when See-Through Leaves, Smooth Lighting or Biome Blend changes (#297, fixes #273)
• Draw flying firework rockets as their lit item model like vanilla (#298, fixes #279)
• Copper golems keep the persistence vanilla saved (#289) (#292, fixes #289)
• Arrows stop jumping along their path after they land (#278) (#294, fixes #278)
• Autosave stops waiting for entity writes: no more 2 s freeze (#224) (#300)
• Bees live in hives and nests: they go home, come out in the morning and make honey (#208) (#307)
• Load worlds ~4.7x faster: stop copying the face visibility table per mesh job (#269)
• Stop reloading saved columns every frame after the player moves (#280)
• Recipe toasts show the workstation icon and cycle through the unlocked recipes (#295, fixes #283)
• Blur the panorama behind world selection, multiplayer and world creation, as vanilla does (#299)
• Multiplayer: vanilla's server list, with the LAN scanning text and its animated dots (#301)
• World list and pack lists: vanilla scroller, dragged with the pointer (#303, fixes #282)
• Create New World: vanilla's Game, World and More tabs (#304, fixes #281)
• Debug charts: F3+2 frame and tick times, F3+3 ping and bandwidth (#305)
• F3+4 shows the lightmap texture in the bottom right corner (#306)
• Shield blocks: the player hears the block sound, not the hurt sound (#310)
• Shields turn arrows back, as vanilla does (#311, fixes #277)
• Crossbows load firework rockets from either hand; bows and crossbows take held arrows first (#312)
• Use the off hand when the main hand passes: place blocks, eat, charge anchors (#313)
• Show the off-hand item in first person (#314, fixes #276)
• Minecarts roll and rattle when ridden, and hits on vehicles sound (#315, fixes #227)
• Axes on copper: a shield in the off hand is raised first, and sculk sensors hear it (#317, fixes #222)
• Trial spawner state machine, checked against vanilla (#319)
• Trial spawners run in game (#320)
• Fishing: the rod casts, bites splash and bubble, and the line is vanilla's (#316, fixes #265)
• Agent control: the widget tree of every screen, click and set by id (#349)
• Agent control: read and set every option by key (#350)
• Agent control: wait for a state, and the log of what happened (#351)
• Relit chunks remesh only where their light changed (#352, fixes #270)
• Save proto chunks on a worker, not the main thread (#353, fixes #224)
• Cap a fresh install at vanilla's 120 FPS (#354)
• Natural spawning skips air sections when finding the surface (#355)
• Shift-click on every container screen, even when Shift is pressed after it opens (#358)
• Vanilla text selection colours and blinking cursors in the creative search and anvil (#394)
• Pick Block picks from the inventory in survival (#398, fixes #367)
• Creative item tabs click as CreativeModeInventoryScreen does (#391)
• Shift + double-click moves every matching stack (#392)
• Drag highlight and counts as AbstractContainerScreen draws them (#393)
• Clicking a creative search result selects the query (#395)
• Mouse Tweaks-style inventory controls (extra, off by default) (#396)
• Sort buttons for the inventory and chests (extra, off by default) (#397)
• DualSense output over HID: the report, a writer thread, and rumble through it (#348)
• Mods in the game: Options > Mods, hooks and HUD panels, off by default (#345)
• Shader packs (3/3): pick a pack in Video Settings (#347)
• DualSense adaptive triggers (#360)
• DualSense vibration: shaped pulses, HD haptics on USB (opt-in) (#361)
• DualSense lightbar and player LEDs (#362)
• LAN guest: the guest sees himself (own player model on a server) (#425, fixes #366)
• LAN: every player wears their own armour (#426, fixes #366)
• LAN: chest and shulker box lids open and close for every player (#427, fixes #366)
• LAN: name tags over other players, and the host under its own name (#428, fixes #366)
• LAN guest: crafting in the 2x2 grid and at a crafting table (#429, fixes #366)
• LAN guest: fall damage, regeneration and hunger on the host (#430, fixes #366)
• Optional leaf and entity culling (Online5277's #387, rebased) (#420)
• Java shader packs (1): horizon-shaderpack crate, Iris's preprocessor and options (#405)
• Java shader packs (2): translate programs to WGSL (syntax-tree legaliser + naga) (#413)
• horizon-shaderpack: read shaders.properties like Iris (#415)
• horizon-shaderpack: plan a Java pack's full-screen passes like Iris (#418)
• horizon-client: run a Java pack's full-screen passes over the world (#436)
• Content mods (API 0.2): .hmod assets/ and data/, blocks and items from vanilla templates (#523)
• Content mods in the resource root: template rows appended to every block table (#530)
• Content mods in the game: loot, recipes, models, names and icons from mod namespaces (#531)
• horizon-port-pack: import a modpack and classify its mods (#532)
• horizon-port-pack carry: a jar's data and assets as a content mod (#533)
• horizon-server: server.toml, init, and a supervisor that runs the game (#551)
• horizon-server: start, stop, status, cmd and logs through a local control API (#552)
• horizon-server: backups, restore and automatic backups (#553)
• horizon-server: install scripts, a Docker image, and boot services (#554)
• horizon-server: the web panel (#555)
• horizon-bots and tools/server_bench.py: the first server benchmark against vanilla (#556)
• Content mods: load real carried-over mods (large tables, convention tags, mod recipes) (#630)
• horizon-port-pack carry: templates and numbers from the NeoForge oracle, 1.21.1 loot upgraded (#631)
• horizon-port-pack report: coverage per mod, and ATM10 measured (#633)
• Block textures: share identical sprites, and draw past 2048 layers (#647)
• Content mods: refuse more block states than chunks hold; the pack against NeoForge, measured (#648)
• horizon-prepare: keep the registry and command reports with the prepared files (#590)
• LAN hub: hand a tick's packets to each connection together (#649)
• Dedicated server: online mode, and refused logins in the log (#587)
• Pathfinder: Fx-hashed nodes, and each path type worked out once per query (#660)
• horizon-port-pack: a library, fetch and port; CurseForge zips name their mods (#653)
• Carry: leave out the files the content loader would refuse (#681)
• Dedicated server: encode each chunk section once, not once per player (#623)
• Entity portal checks: skip the sweep where no section holds a portal (#661)
• Online mode: players named in commands are their accounts (#589)
• usercache.json, and console names resolved through it as vanilla does (stacked on #589) (#694)
• Locator bar for vanilla clients on Horizon servers (waypoint packets as vanilla sends them) (#692)
• Server: skip the advancement flush for players whose progress didn't change (#701)
• Hoppers: look up the block only under container block entities (#702)
• Chunk streaming: look at each column once when players' areas overlap (#703)
• Entity tracking: each entity type's range once per tick, not per player (#704)
• Chunk packets: one cache lock per column for its non-air sections (#705)
• Chunk packets: keep each section's block entity blocks with its bytes (#706)
• Server: Fx hashing for each player's sent chunks and tracked entities (#707)
• Dedicated server: vanilla's chunk pacing and movement checks (#586)
• Server benchmark against vanilla 26.3 on equal work (#670)
• Block state ids past 16 bits: ATM10's 42 carried mods load (#674)
• Content mods' memory: measure the footprint, drop the registry's second copy (#680)
• GPU frame time on Metal, render spans and section draw counts (#742)
• Metal: draw terrain sections as one index list per page run (#743)
• Decode the server's command tree and complete commands with it (#708)
• Show the server's recipe book on a server and place its recipes (#714)
• Hoppers: look up the block only under five-slot containers (#738)
• LAN: compress a large packet once for every connection (#748)
• LAN: write chunk packets straight into one buffer (#739)
• LAN: wake the writer threads from one post thread, once per tick (#737)
• Server players finish vanilla's FULL square, not a 1.5x circle (#806)
• Creaking hearts: scan only sections whose palette holds a heart (#793)
• Dedicated server: never mesh sections (#813)
• Modpacks and server hosting: modpacks-4's #753–#765 and server-host-5's #759–#790 combined (#823)
• fix(server-thread): follow the render distance, past 32 too (#804) (#830, fixes #804)
• feat(server): secure chat, as vanilla 26.3's server (#831)
• Structures: honour a carried mod's start and placement rules (#820)
• Region files: write each saved chunk in place, as vanilla's RegionFile (#827)
• Brewing stands tick in the level's block entity ticker list (#828)
• Block entity animations: read the drawn block entities only when they change (#829)
• Clients keep the light the server sends; the server sends light updates (#824)
• Server: track each entity once for all its clients, as vanilla's ServerEntity (#841)
• Locator bar: update each connection in place, without clones (#842)
• Region writer: encode and compress chunks on helper threads (same bytes) (#860)
• Terrain vertices in 24 bytes instead of 28 (UV as 16-bit fixed point) (#865)
• Light changes dirty sections by section, not cell by cell (#866)
• Mesh scheduling looks at dirty sections column by column (#867)
• Modpacks: mod structures in vanilla sets, YUNG's jigsaws and placements, Moog/Repurposed layouts (combined #832–#852) (#870)
• Server: check each entity's range for every client from one compact pass (#864)
• Locator bar: look up each connection and its two players once (#871)
• Prepare: find native jars where Prism Launcher keeps them (#858, fixes #849)
• Mining: harness for a player's mining (#844); tools count as used, wear damage_per_block, pots shatter (#875)
• Structure starts: a sharded cache, so the server thread stops waiting on workers (#872)
• Natural spawning reads a kept WORLD_SURFACE heightmap (#873)
• Server: commands on other players, attributes, respawn, crouch, server-thread agent commands (combined #845–#892) (#901)
• Processors: read rule ids without a namespace, as vanilla does (#907)
• Structures: horizon:spawner_mobs, the mods' spawner randomizing processors (#908)
• Carry: the structure mods' spawner processors, as data the game runs (#909)
• Start checks: Repurposed's Nether city, Nether shipwreck and End stronghold rules (#910)
• Carry: Repurposed's Nether city, Nether shipwrecks and End stronghold (#911)
• Renderer: one command buffer per frame, uploads before the first pass (#905)
• LAN: guests use machines and brewing stands, trigger plates, see hits, swings and the paused clock (bugs-lan-4 combined) (#913)
• LAN: players see each other eat and use items (#887)
• Server: tick blocks around every player, from vanilla's chunk tickets (#890) (#931, fixes #890)
• Server build: Linux servers need neither ALSA nor udev (horizon-engine, its own archive) (#916)
• Terrain: occlusion culling of solid sections that pays for itself (Vulkan) (#939)
• Structures: Repurposed Structures' three rule tests (matter phase, piece-origin distance, height) (#919)
• Carry: Repurposed's rule tests as the game's, and minecraft:chain as iron_chain (#920)
• Structures: Repurposed Structures' mineshafts, laid out under the terrain (#922)
• Carry: Better Dungeons' small Nether dungeon, as YUNG's jigsaw (#923)
• Carry: vertical_distance_from_start_piece is a dead field, not a lost rule (#924)
• Structures: Moog's trial spawners and vaults, without the templates' saved state (#926)
• Structures: Better Desert Temples' placeholder blocks (suspicious sand, sherds, traps) (#929)
• Structures: Better Dungeons' small dungeons keep one or two chests (#930)
• Structures: Lithostitched's block swaps (Overhauled Village), with the shared properties (#932)
• Chunk packets: pack paletted containers a long at a time (2.3x faster from_values) (#915)
• Chunk batches: encode each column once a tick, its new sections on warm-up threads (#934)
• Guest ticks: count per-tick statistics without making strings, date criteria only when granted (#914)
• Entity tracking: check a pair again only when one side moves, as vanilla's ChunkMap (#927)
• Cache carver biome lookups per generator worker (#943)
• Server: spawn mobs around every player, and despawn from the nearest of them (#950)
• Paintings, frames, boats, armor stands, falling blocks and TNT tick only in entity-ticking chunks (#951)
• Coordinate concurrent neighbour cache misses by chunk key (#946)
• Reuse terrain sampler scratch buffers between chunks (#949)
• Strongholds: sample each ring's biome search through one climate sampler, as vanilla does (#954)
• Carry: read data files with comments, as Minecraft does (#957)
• YUNG's assembler: modifiers, piece_in_range and dead-end pools (#958)
• Carry: write Lithostitched's processor references in (#960)
• Carry: Lithostitched's apply_random, condition and set_block as the game's (#964)
• Structure processors: Lithostitched's apply_random, condition and set_block as data (#963)
• Optimize bulk density arithmetic, Beardifier and Perlin sampling (#796)
• Beardifier: YUNG's and Moog's enhanced terrain adaptation kernels (horizon:enhanced_terrain_adaptation) (#955)
• Carry: YUNG's and Moog's enhanced terrain adaptation as horizon:enhanced_terrain_adaptation (#956)
• Carry: YUNG's dead-end pools, modifiers and piece_in_range (#959)
• horizon-server update and rollback: switch releases, roll back by itself when the game doesn't come up (#966)
• DirectX 12 on Windows: fallback when Vulkan fails, and a Graphics API setting (#979)
• Server: run a dead player's chat commands, as vanilla does (#973) (#998, fixes #973)
• Server: a right click with an item on a block uses it once (#999)
• Server: players on one team without friendly fire don't hurt each other (#1000)
• Server: a guest's projectiles are theirs (ender pearls take them) (#1001)
• Place pillars and fluid fixes that reach outside the template (#981)
• Carry the mods' pillar and fluid fix processors (#982)
• Carry Formations' structures (#989)
• horizon-server: delete old releases after an update (#990)
• Far terrain: no faces for caves nothing can see into (-36% far quads) (#993)
• Far terrain: bounded render-thread work while tiles generate (#994)
• Far terrain: capped on integrated GPUs, held back on 4-thread machines (#995)
• Loot: read every namespace's tables, so modded structures' chests are no longer empty (#975)
• Content mods: namespaces besides the mod id, and no namespace shared by two mods (#969)
• Carry: Towns and Towers' namespaces (kaisyn, towns_and_towers) as its manifest's namespaces (#974)
• Flood and waterlog the structures built under the sea (#983)
• Carry Better Ocean Monuments' processors and YUNG's legs (#984)
• horizon-server config: change server.toml's settings from the command line, live where vanilla can (#1009)
• Generate Formations' structures from the noise column (#988)
• port-pack: Repurposed's structure voids keep the world's block (#1022)
• port-pack: enter_block criteria name their block as blocks (mod advancements no longer granted on any block) (#1028)
• port-pack: blocks whose sides are true/false are vines, not walls (Chipped's vines load) (#1027)
• Far terrain: chunk summaries and mesh inputs on the worker (#1029)
• Launcher and horizon-server update: install only releases whose signed checksums match (#1014)
• Collision scans: a counting cursor, and fewer lookups and allocations per block (#659)
• Structures: Repurposed Structures' waterlogging fix, as horizon:waterlog_in_world_water (#1032)
• Content mods: shared tags merge like a data pack's, replace honoured with a warning (#1021)
• Stars: build the star buffer once, as vanilla does (#1079, fixes #1054)
• Video settings: cost tags from measured frame times, and Saves time for cave culling (#1089, fixes #897)
• Weather: rain heights from a cached MOTION_BLOCKING heightmap (#1084, fixes #899)
• Cave culling: vanilla's graph rules (every entry face, distant ray test) (#1094, fixes #629, fixes #782)
• Items merge with their neighbours; falling blocks land in their own tick (#1110, fixes #996)
• Loading screen: fill the chunk map square by square, as vanilla (#1112, fixes #770)
• Cave culling: see the world from above or below its height (#1111, fixes #1037)
• Sky, fog and water fog colours blend across biomes (GaussianSampler) (#1118, fixes #797)
• Terrain particles: the model's particle sprite and vanilla tint (grass blocks break into dirt) (#1115, fixes #1034)
• Extras: classic buttons two to a row; each extra's settings nest under its switch (#1122, fixes #812, fixes #815)
• Book title: Select All's highlight and vanilla's centring (BookSignScreen EditBox) (#1123)
• Station shift-clicks follow vanilla's quickMoveStack; the brewing stand runs on the menu engine (#1125, fixes #275)
• End crystals spin and bob in every dimension (#1116, fixes #1051)
• Boats: the water patch hides water inside the hull; the riding camera turns smoothly (#1119, fixes #1016)
• Ender dragon: runs on server levels, fights every player, vanilla damage rules (#1137)
• Other players' block cracks are drawn (#1149, fixes #1096)
• Loot tables apply set_potion (a piglin's barter potions hold fire resistance) (#1134)
• Other players are drawn lying in their beds (#1144, fixes #1045)
• A new world knows its world spawn before its first save (#1135)
• /summon reports primed TNT, falling blocks and projectiles it spawned (#1136)
• Ominous item spawners are saved with their chunk (#1143, fixes #462)
• Locator bar: one waypoint manager per level (#1150, fixes #843)
• Advancement triggers test only the criteria that can pass; the log writes on its own thread (#1152)
• Thrown potions: drawn as their item, facing the camera (ThrownItemRenderer) (#1117, fixes #818)
• Audio: pan like OpenAL Soft's stereo output (explosions were ~6 dB too loud) (#1133, fixes #488)
• Particles: 26.3's sulfur bubbles over wet potent sulfur (closes the #63 particle audit) (#1156, fixes #63)
• Axolotl: free water paths, flat walk targets and the attack sound (idle swim and play dead match vanilla) (#1159, fixes #64)
• LAN fixes: land the eight rebased B5 PRs together (#1138 #1139 #1140 #1142 #1146 #1147 #1148 #1151) (#1160)
• Client of a server: abilities from the server, flight sent back (creative flight on the server thread) (#1108)
• Run single player on its server thread by default (#1114, fixes #1072)
• Shader packs: Steadfast, Bloop and Noble get past the preprocessor; a compatibility table (#1157, fixes #616)
• Shader Packs page: the folder's path, Open Folder, a switch per pack (#1158, fixes #925, fixes #941)
• Dynamic lights: held, dropped and burning light sources (Horizon Extras, off by default) (#1162, fixes #814)
• Riptide: the auto-spin attack (pose, contact hit, spinning model, effect layer, first-person pose) (#1155, fixes #536)
• Render thread ahead of the workers on macOS and Windows (RD 32 long frames) (#1179)
• Chunk packets get 1 ms a frame on a client of a server (RD 32 frame spikes) (#1181)
• Live player count: an anonymous "I'm playing" ping and "N playing now" in the launcher (#1185)
• LAN guests: the lectern and the cartography table (#868) (#1188, fixes #868)
• Linux: the game's workers go behind its render and server threads (RD 32 long frames) (#1192)

Fixed

• Make the Rust rewrite main (#34)
• Merge the parity work: 55% -> 71% Java parity (#38)
• Add the playhorizon.dev website link (#43)
• Fix the looping grass-step sound; classic menus lead back to Horizon's (#48)
• Creative inventory: every tab and the search as vanilla builds them; scrollbar drag (#49)
• Cosmic's camera, breaking, clouds and outline fixes (#42 + #47), integrated (#51)
• Furnaces keep their cooking progress across menu clicks (#76, fixes #69)
• Clouds: draw to the Cloud Distance option, not the render distance (#79, fixes #67)
• Rain and snow: tile the weather texture like WeatherEffectRenderer (#78, fixes #71)
• Composters take compostable items by hand, from hoppers and from droppers (#80, fixes #70)
• Give the fire charge's use sound its own pitch (#84)
• Game rules: save them with the world once, as they are now; save on Quit (#82, fixes #74)
• Hand sway: the first-person hands lag behind the view, as in vanilla (#83, fixes #66)
• Feeding sounds: each animal's own eating sound, or none, as in vanilla (#81, fixes #68)
• Match the variant components of entity predicates (taming grants only Best Friends Forever) (#86, fixes #65)
• Resource packs: reload everything in game and merge stacked files like vanilla (#85, fixes #72)
• Read the physical Shift keys in container screens and drop a stack clicked outside (#87, fixes #77)
• Powder snow: sinking, freezing, leather boots, buckets and falling blocks (#88, fixes #62)
• Particles: vanilla random streams, and fixes to 20 providers (part of #63) (#89)
• F3 key combinations, as 26.3's KeyboardHandler runs them (#90, fixes #73)
• Prepare resources in Rust: horizon-prepare replaces the Python preparer (#92)
• Entity particle bursts: five angry villager particles and the other bursts as in vanilla (part of #63) (#91)
• Particles: 29 missing vanilla particle types (part of #63) (#96)
• Particle emitters: waxing, scraping, sparks, eating, snowballs, eggs, slimes (part of #63) (#104)
• Keep the compositor's fullscreen; copy and paste in every text field (#108)
• Cobwebs and sweet berry bushes slow the player (#112)
• horizon-ctl: mouse-move, and turn/look-at --over through the player's mouse path (#113)
• Logs and crash reports: game, launcher, CLI and MCP (#98)
• Apply the entity hurt and white-flash overlay in vanilla's order (#117)
• Sweet berries can be planted; picking and bone meal work (#115, fixes #93)
• Find a new world's spawn as vanilla does (NoiseSpawnFinder, setInitialSpawn, PlayerSpawnFinder) (#116)
• Nether portals: vanilla timing and linking; items and mobs travel (#122, fixes #94)
• OverlayTexture texels from one tested table; creepers flash white while swelling (#121)
• Terrain gets its own 28-byte vertex without a normal (was 36) (#128)
• Fix creative inventory tab and toggle-sprint item drops (#56)
• Fix stuck keys when opening Options (#152)
• Fix keybind category translations (#155)
• Apply saved audio and GUI settings at startup (#150, fixes #134)
• Fix World Options pause and Escape behavior (#154)
• Fix classic options scroll limits (#156)
• Fix fall damage sounds in creative mode (#151)
• Play normal arrow impact audio for player hits (#158, fixes #130)
• Monster spawners spawn, spin their mob and take spawn eggs (#146, fixes #95)
• Respawn anchors charge, set the respawn point, explode outside the Nether (#163, fixes #99)
• Beds and straw beds blow up when used in the Nether and the End (#169, fixes #101)
• Maces: smash attacks, Density, Breach, Wind Burst (#175, fixes #105)
• Fix LAN worlds pausing when the host opens menus (#172)
• Fix LAN shutdown when leaving a singleplayer world (#171)
• Fix missing background in Classic menus (#162)
• Fix inventory banner face depth ordering (#165)
• Fix tab list for singleplayer LAN hosts (#170)
• Reuse verified Minecraft imports when preparing new versions (#178, fixes #160)
• Fix classic menu click sounds to match vanilla (#182, fixes #140)
• Fix screenshot, seed, and locate chat click actions (#176)
• Render dragon egg teleport particles (#179, fixes #106)
• Render falling blocks with their actual block models (#181, fixes #107)
• Drive rabbit hop and idle animations from runtime controls (#183, fixes #109)
• Resolve relative preparation roots before running Java exporters (#185)
• Water cancels the player's fall damage (#180) (#186, fixes #180)
• Arrows get vanilla's water physics (#127) (#187, fixes #127)
• Burning arrows: lava, fire, Flame and what they light (#125, #124) (#189, fixes #124, fixes #125)
• Arrows can be picked up (#119) (#193, fixes #119)
• Creepers swell and flash for LAN guests; load ignited from NBT (#194, fixes #157)
• Inverting crosshair and a working attack indicator (#196, fixes #97)
• End crystals from EndCrystalModel: lit, with their base and beams (#197, fixes #102)
• The dragon fight's world fog and the End's void darkness floor (#198, fixes #103)
• Fix Classic singleplayer world management screens (#177)
• Sprite mips from vanilla's MipmapGenerator: no cactus corner gaps (#201, fixes #110)
• Fix GUI Scale button in classic Video Settings (#191)
• Loaded spawners keep their mob; chunk block entities in vanilla's order (#203)
• LAN: offline players get a kept generated name instead of Player (#195) (#214, fixes #195)
• Items, orbs and arrows fly to whoever picks them up (#142) (#218, fixes #142)
• Play the player's hurt sound for every damage, by its damage effects (#144) (#216, fixes #144)
• Fix pixelated Classic menu panorama (#188)
• Explorer, treasure and abandoned camp maps work (#147) (#232, fixes #147)
• Match crosshair alpha cutoff and ready-target checks (#190)
• perf(client): parse large fact JSON from in-memory bytes (#207)
• Horizon menus: delete singleplayer worlds (#234)
• perf(client): buffer model and render JSON reads (#205)
• Fix animations, axolotls, fluids, fire and world progress isolation (#59)
• perf(mesher): short-circuit section visibility flood fills (#243)
• perf: reuse entity geometry vertex storage between frames (#240)
• perf: group block entities once per save batch (#246)
• Player water on #59: bubble columns, swim sounds, drown bubbles, vanilla fixes (#238)
• Make options list scrollbars draggable (#257, fixes #242)
• Honor Off, Fast and Fancy cloud settings (#260, fixes #255)
• Add the F3+F4 game mode switcher (#266, fixes #209)
• Prevent climbable blocks from slowing spectator flight (#262)
• Clip options rows smoothly at list boundaries (#259)
• Prevent block interactions through targeted entities (#268, fixes #217)
• Mesh columns loaded past the render distance once they come in range (#228) (#274, fixes #228)
• Save every generated chunk and decorated proto chunks, as vanilla does (#249) (#284, fixes #249)
• perf: reuse renderer entity material batching buffers (#237)
• perf: return only lighting from chunk light workers (#233)
• perf(client): reuse parsed model states during preparation (#210)
• perf(client): share parsed entity models across startup batches (#204)
• Fix status effect icons and display effects in inventories (#184)
• perf(client): skip tick chunk synchronization when membership is unchanged (#239)
• Fix classic title menu layout and accessibility shortcut (#219)
• perf: reuse unchanged resource-pack overlays after validation (#220)
• perf(streaming): skip unchanged generation scans (#230)
• Striders stand on lava instead of bobbing in it (#285, fixes #256)
• Bats hang upside down and fly, with their wing animations (#287, fixes #215)
• Bees fly, pollinate flowers, get angry and sting (#291, fixes #208)
• Load gameplay facts with typed decoding and interned shapes (#309)
• Cache random-tick section eligibility across unchanged chunks (#318)
• perf(client): share parsed block and item models (#330)
• Cache animated sprite mip chains within an 8 MiB budget (#341)
• Prevent hotbar selection from changing behind menus (#402, fixes #401)
• Interpolate animated textures like vanilla (prismarine, magma, stems, lit furnaces) (#343)
• Show ping tooltips over multiplayer network bars (#403, fixes #379)
• Preserve native sprite mipmaps in mixed-size texture arrays (#404)
• Reopening a world no longer duplicates its entities (#406, fixes #374)
• Commands follow the world's Allow Commands (#407, fixes #372)
• Graphics presets set render and simulation distance like vanilla (#409, fixes #382)
• F3 overlay like vanilla: on top of menus, debug GUI scale, default entries (#414, fixes #363, fixes #376, fixes #377)
• F3 shows vanilla's debug crosshair (world axes) (#416, fixes #375)
• Server list rows: favicons, styled MOTDs, player count colours, icon arrows (#421, fixes #365, fixes #370, fixes #378)
• Server list: confirm before deleting, vanilla Direct Connection layout (#423, fixes #380, fixes #381)
• Keep chat arrow keys from turning the camera (#459, fixes #458)
• Vaults: server logic and a parity harness (#410)
• Vaults in the game: ticking, keys, rewards and the display item (#417)
• Show trial spawner and vault visuals (#422)
• Give trial chamber pots their loot, sherds and insertion (#433)
• Trial spawners: become ominous, Trial Omen and ominous item spawners (#439, fixes #223)
• World list: hovered rows show the join arrow, clicking the icon joins (#445, fixes #369)
• Pause menu: icons centred and in full colour like vanilla (#449, fixes #371)
• World Options: vanilla layout, headings, port box, lock and footer (#450)
• Level loading screen like vanilla: panorama, chunk map and progress bar (#451, fixes #364)
• World screens' text fields: move the cursor, select, click and drag (#452, fixes #383)
• Classic sliders follow the pointer and snap on release (#385) (#453, fixes #385)
• World backup toast slides in and out with its sounds (#384) (#454, fixes #384)
• Fix Happy Ghast riding controls and standing after dismount (#465, fixes #411)
• Mod commands: coloured and Tab-completed in the chat like vanilla's (#456) (#463, fixes #456)
• Wayland: VSync off draws uncapped in a window (#446, fixes #441)
• Holding the drop key keeps dropping, in game and in menus (#447, fixes #443)
• Dropping from a menu swings the hand (#448, fixes #442)
• Command blocks: placing, the edit screen, and running commands (#455, fixes #444)
• Keep held keys held through wait on the control socket (#477, fixes #469)
• F3 debug crosshair: no view bob, drawn after the hand like vanilla (#476, fixes #475)
• World Options: difficulty lock with its confirmation, and Restrictions (#482)
• World Options: Edit Game Rules (InWorldGameRulesScreen) (#483, fixes #464)
• Ctrl + Pick Block copies the block entity's data in creative (#479, fixes #386)
• Item tooltips for container contents, spawner data and op-only data (#481)
• LAN: mobs target and attack guests (#466)
• LAN guest: hurt by lava, fire, drowning, suffocation and the void; hungry from moving (#467)
• LAN: PvP between the host and guests (#470)
• LAN guest: their own ender chest, and double chests as 9x6 (#471)
• LAN guest: command feedback names the guest and shows its numbers (#472)
• LAN: trial spawners and vaults see the guests (#473)
• Name tags show through walls (#474)
• Reuse cloud geometry and GPU buffers between frames (#485, fixes #480)
• Upload animated sprites through a reused staging belt (#501)
• Skip section face groups that face away from the eye (#503)
• Animated textures: cache every animation frame's mip chain (#502)
• Per-frame uploads through the staging belt; skip unchanged lightmaps (#520)
• Mobs: shape only the cells that can support them (−11 % tick time) (#506)
• Mobs: find the mobs to push through a grid, not a scan of every mob (−14 % tick time) (#508)
• Villagers: each block state's POI type from a table built once (−11 % CPU at world load) (#509)
• Data packs: walk only the folders functions, tags and predicates live in (#524)
• Collision scans: skip blocks with no shape, build the entity shape lazily (−6 % tick time) (#507)
• Stronghold ring searches run on every worker that needs them (#514)
• Show the tenth storage slot in chests (#546, fixes #525)
• Show translated hover tooltips in Classic options (#522, fixes #498)
• Honor villager and zombie villager hat metadata (#521, fixes #334)
• Handle fullscreen shortcut across menus and text fields (#510, fixes #497)
• Preserve cloud opacity when shading faces (#511, fixes #491)
• Remove duplicated settings from Classic graphics submenus (#512, fixes #496)
• Correct Classic world-list search hints and text placement (#517, fixes #499)
• Renderer: skip wgpu's indirect-draw validation in release builds (−0.05..0.11 ms/frame of render thread at RD 32) (#560)
• Renderer: cull sections by chunk column from a dense list (section walk 5x faster, exact) (#561)
• Apply falling anvil impact damage and wear (#528, fixes #399)
• Fix main build: falling anvil wear reads blocks from self.pack (#572)
• Package registry reports and show recoverable server resource errors (#576, fixes #573)
• Preserve quit button sounds when leaving a world (#575, fixes #565)
• Remember Direct Connection server addresses (#574, fixes #571)
• Name the launcher's real button in the incomplete-resources error (#595)
• Clear block breaking progress when opening inventory (#606, fixes #588)
• Show live packet rates and server brands in F3 (#594, fixes #564)
• Returning to the Overworld reuses its stronghold ring positions (#591)
• Villagers search an index of POI blocks instead of scanning every block (#567)
• Fix Ominous Banner data, tooltips and breaking effects (#547)
• Add mod management to Classic Options (#585, fixes #559)
• Support mouse buttons for Extras sorting and zoom (#637, fixes #581)
• Correct inventory player scale, labels and equipment overlap (#638, fixes #583)
• Add an off-by-default Fullbright toggle in Extras (#640, fixes #584)
• Light both redstone ore variants when mining starts (#642, fixes #625)
• Make Extras accessible from Classic Options (#639, fixes #580)
• Honor mouse-bound hotbar swaps in inventories (#641, fixes #619)
• Fix resource pack reload failures and broken Horizon menus (#646, fixes #618)
• Keep the language search hint clear of the caret (#650, fixes #645)
• Hide survival bars consistently behind the Horizon pause menu (#651, fixes #634)
• Swap and sync the off hand on a server (#627, fixes #543)
• Show equipment attributes in inventory and Creative tooltips (#519, fixes #400)
• Open furnaces, blast furnaces and smokers on a server (#644, fixes #540)
• Keep server blocks in sync with what guests dig (#626, fixes #500)
• fix(rendering): correct selection outline on translucent blocks (#609, fixes #563)
• Fix mouse capture after world loading (#614, fixes #612)
• perf: reuse decoded gameplay and behaviour facts at startup (#607)
• Reset experience on respawn and drop capped XP on death (#665, fixes #621)
• Draw breaking cracks on chest models (#667, fixes #611)
• Fix multiplayer pause menu and World Options permissions (#656, fixes #568)
• Avoid hard clipping when explosion sounds overlap (#672)
• Use the configured respawn point after saving (#675, fixes #622)
• Show sweep particles on charged sword hits (#677, fixes #620)
• Build a saved chunk's structure starts when it loads, not on the game thread (#489) (#657)
• Sculk: find a loaded chunk's sensors from its palettes, not every block (#489) (#658)
• Cache resolved block behaviours in versioned binary snapshots (#608)
• Server: send tab-list latency every 601 ticks, as vanilla (#685)
• Release unused terrain GPU buffers (#676)
• Keep terrain in system memory when video memory is full instead of crashing (#600) (#688, fixes #600)
• Blend animated sprite frames without a roundf call per byte on x86 (#686)
• Allow render distances up to 64 chunks in settings (#673, fixes #654)
• Swimming pose and stroke on the player model (#689, fixes #534, fixes #535)
• Mobs float in water instead of bouncing (#690, fixes #542)
• Trident throw pose in third person (#691)
• Fix sleeping input, camera height and wake fade (#679, fixes #613)
• Advancements: read the tree on another thread while the world loads (#713)
• Render sulfur cube contents and award Uh Oh (#408)
• Dedicated server: read level-type, generator-settings and generate-structures (#733)
• Dedicated server: guests' command feedback reaches the console and ops, @s is the guest (#734)
• Fix shield poses, held-item rendering and blocked-hit feedback (#682, fixes #615, fixes #720)
• Restore saved death and health when reopening worlds (#736)
• Cache closed chest geometry in large block-entity fields (#728)
• VSync on waits for the display whatever the present mode (#684) (#715, fixes #684)
• Cull minecarts by distance and view like vanilla (#735)
• Give mob, beacon, sculk and splash effects to every player (#700)
• Worker threads: leave a core for the render and server threads (#745, fixes #744)
• Startup: load resources on a worker behind a loading screen (#712) (#740)
• fix(minecarts): use per-kind display offset in cart geometry (#741) (#772, fixes #741)
• fix(game): allow always-edible food when full and apply consume effects (#750) (#773, fixes #750)
• Fix Horizon options scrollbar dragging (#783, fixes #730)
• LAN guests: container clicks, head turns, XP orbs, sleeping, mob pushes and eating (#722–#727 combined) (#787)
• Add Open Mod Folder buttons to the mods screens (#786, fixes #780)
• fix(game): persist creative flight status across world save and reload (#777) (#794, fixes #777)
• Fix item tooltip display parity (#792)
• Block entities: tick only those with a ticker, in vanilla's order (#798)
• Cave culling: search on a worker thread, frames never wait for it (#788)
• Cull boats, paintings, item frames, armor stands, TNT, tridents and fireworks like vanilla (#789)
• Specialize constant surface material-rule branches (#801)
• Server: a dead guest is sent its health of 0, as ServerPlayer.doTick does (#807)
• Server titles: /title reaches the guest, and its HUD shows and clears them (#808)
• Command suggestions: ask the server for nodes the tree marks ask_server (#809)
• Paletted container access: one palette probe per write, dispatched unpack (#761)
• Upload section meshes through a reused staging belt (#834)
• Decoration order: dense grids instead of hash maps (#835)
• Portal scans: keep per-chunk section masks across ticks (#758)
• Fix falling block collisions with partial blocks (#836, fixes #711)
• light: pack the flood fill and precompute neighbour blocking (#781)
• Add settings search to Video and Controls (#751, fixes #582)
• Paletted containers: build palettes without hashing (#859)
• Preserve container contents when mining their blocks (#855, fixes #844)
• fix(game): finish every consumable as vanilla's Consumable.onConsume (milk, honey, chorus fruit) (#799)
• Server thread: horizon-ctl tp and fly make the server load the new chunks (#861) (#888, fixes #861)
• Fix F3 debug overlay toggling in the main menu (#889, fixes #811)
• Startup: make the menu interactive while world resources load (#712) (#878)
• Startup: no time limit on loading the world resources (#895)
• Biome zoom: mix the shared corner prefixes once in quart_at_block (#752)
• horizon-server: find game files prepared without sounds (#893)
• horizon-server on Linux: say which libraries the game needs, and follow updates (#898)
• Server log: vanilla's thread in latest.log, and local time on the console (#904)
• Fix vanilla multiplayer tick and interaction parity (#912)
• Villagers, traders and golems never despawn for distance (#917) (#942, fixes #917)
• Fix spectator scroll wheel flight speed (#948, fixes #945)
• Read GPU readbacks without assuming the mapping's alignment (fixes the Vega 11 launch crash) (#961, fixes #953)
• Keep restored chunk entities out of /summon's result after a level switch (#962, fixes #947)
• Fix execute source dimension for player teleports (#800, fixes #592)
• Fix multiplayer chat scrolling (#854, fixes #810)
• Add seed-driven voxel-column terrain LODs up to 1024 chunks (#771)
• horizon-server: give the game its folders whole when --dir is relative (#965)
• Fix the Intel HD 520/530 crash at Vulkan device creation (wgpu-hal patch) (#976, fixes #746)
• Use Classic menus by default (#578, fixes #548)
• Play the equip sound when the player puts on armour (#1002, fixes #986)
• Apply legacy formatting codes in the scoreboard sidebar (#1003, fixes #937)
• Give Java packs' full-screen passes Iris's sky, eye light and custom uniforms (#1008, fixes #944)
• Far terrain: no dark band at the full-detail edge, no black cliffs (#992)
• Release signing: add the first public key (#1023)
• Carry: bare {min, max} number ranges in loot tables get 26.3's uniform type (#1019)
• fix: reset spectator fly speed when changing game modes (#1039)
• Fix creative and spectator hunger exhaustion and starvation (#1036, fixes #1033)
• fix: prevent spectators from dropping hotbar items (#1059, fixes #1053)
• Fix section headings in classic video settings search (#1064, fixes #894)
• Fix creative barrier block markers (#1062, fixes #1057)
• Prepare startup handoff CPU resources off the UI thread (#1042)
• Mods: capability storage, a quota'd per-mod key/value folder (#1044, fixes #1040)
• Restore missing accessibility settings (#1061, fixes #1058)
• Centre the cursor when a screen opens from gameplay (#235)
• fix(gfx): Stop the swapchain washing colours out (#1075)
• Structures: Repurposed Structures' air fix as horizon:close_off_air_sources (#1020)
• fix(hud): Apply legacy formatting codes to action bar and titles (#1077)
• Keep the loading UI responsive during local world initialization (#1041)
• Keep world saves and exit responsive while preserving durability (#1043)
• Shears carve pumpkins (PumpkinBlock.useItemOn) (#1081, fixes #1067)
• Blocks can't be placed into mobs and other entities (Level.isUnobstructed) (#1085, fixes #1052)
• Cobwebs slow falling blocks (WebBlock.entityInside) (#1082, fixes #933)
• Firework tooltips: flight duration and explosions (Fireworks.addToTooltip) (#1083, fixes #1047)
• Creative pick block in inventories: full stacks and drags (AbstractContainerScreen cloning) (#1086, fixes #1048)
• Title backdrop: build its generator on a worker (#1087, fixes #896)
• Prepare: accept Mojang's republished 26.3 asset indexes (no sound, no panorama) (#1091)
• Prepare: import the Unifont glyphs from the asset index (#1092, fixes #1076)
• /tick on a server thread: sprint, query, step and a smooth frozen camera (#1088, fixes #1038)
• Prepare finds installed JDKs; the launcher shows the preparation error up top (#1093, fixes #666)
• Elytra: a glide that isn't diving keeps the fall distance at 1 (no landing damage) (#1103, fixes #1046)
• Combat: attribute swapping (attack damage and speed from last tick's main hand) (#1105, fixes #505)
• No block placing or item use while an item is in use (shield, bow, food) (#1102, fixes #1050)
• Elytra: a landing glide lasts one more tick, so elytra hops keep their speed (#1104, fixes #1056)
• Combat: sprint knockback and knockback along the attacker's yaw; vanilla knockback on players (#1106, fixes #504)
• Explosions: two Blast Protection pieces cancel the knockback (explosion_knockback_resistance, per-slot enchantment modifiers) (#1101, fixes #1049)
• Beehives: nests on trees grown in the world get their bees (#1107, fixes #1097)
• fix(benchmark): create the world folder before writing its marker (#1120)
• horizon-server update: version 0.2 counts as newer than the dated releases (#1127)
• Draw and collide blocks while a piston moves them (#1113, fixes #935)
• A release says its version: horizon-server, horizon-prepare, crash reports and user agents report 0.2.x (#1131)

Thanks to @ItsPotatoTime, @LookImEcho-Rick, @Online5277, @Yvonne-Aizawa, @feeldev12, @lazy-importer, @rdbtCVS.

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Rebuilt from the latest main.

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New

• Render thread ahead of the workers on macOS and Windows (RD 32 long frames) (#1179)
• Chunk packets get 1 ms a frame on a client of a server (RD 32 frame spikes) (#1181)
• Live player count: an anonymous "I'm playing" ping and "N playing now" in the launcher (#1185)
• LAN guests: the lectern and the cartography table (#868) (#1188, fixes #868)
• Linux: the game's workers go behind its render and server threads (RD 32 long frames) (#1192)

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New

• Riptide: the auto-spin attack (pose, contact hit, spinning model, effect layer, first-person pose) (#1155, fixes #536)

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New

• Far terrain: chunk summaries and mesh inputs on the worker (#1029)
• Launcher and horizon-server update: install only releases whose signed checksums match (#1014)
• Collision scans: a counting cursor, and fewer lookups and allocations per block (#659)
• Structures: Repurposed Structures' waterlogging fix, as horizon:waterlog_in_world_water (#1032)
• Content mods: shared tags merge like a data pack's, replace honoured with a warning (#1021)
• Stars: build the star buffer once, as vanilla does (#1079, fixes #1054)
• Video settings: cost tags from measured frame times, and Saves time for cave culling (#1089, fixes #897)
• Weather: rain heights from a cached MOTION_BLOCKING heightmap (#1084, fixes #899)
• Cave culling: vanilla's graph rules (every entry face, distant ray test) (#1094, fixes #629, fixes #782)
• Items merge with their neighbours; falling blocks land in their own tick (#1110, fixes #996)
• Loading screen: fill the chunk map square by square, as vanilla (#1112, fixes #770)
• Cave culling: see the world from above or below its height (#1111, fixes #1037)
• Sky, fog and water fog colours blend across biomes (GaussianSampler) (#1118, fixes #797)
• Terrain particles: the model's particle sprite and vanilla tint (grass blocks break into dirt) (#1115, fixes #1034)
• Extras: classic buttons two to a row; each extra's settings nest under its switch (#1122, fixes #812, fixes #815)
• Book title: Select All's highlight and vanilla's centring (BookSignScreen EditBox) (#1123)
• Station shift-clicks follow vanilla's quickMoveStack; the brewing stand runs on the menu engine (#1125, fixes #275)
• End crystals spin and bob in every dimension (#1116, fixes #1051)
• Boats: the water patch hides water inside the hull; the riding camera turns smoothly (#1119, fixes #1016)
• Ender dragon: runs on server levels, fights every player, vanilla damage rules (#1137)
• Other players' block cracks are drawn (#1149, fixes #1096)
• Loot tables apply set_potion (a piglin's barter potions hold fire resistance) (#1134)
• Other players are drawn lying in their beds (#1144, fixes #1045)
• A new world knows its world spawn before its first save (#1135)
• /summon reports primed TNT, falling blocks and projectiles it spawned (#1136)
• Ominous item spawners are saved with their chunk (#1143, fixes #462)
• Locator bar: one waypoint manager per level (#1150, fixes #843)
• Advancement triggers test only the criteria that can pass; the log writes on its own thread (#1152)
• Thrown potions: drawn as their item, facing the camera (ThrownItemRenderer) (#1117, fixes #818)
• Audio: pan like OpenAL Soft's stereo output (explosions were ~6 dB too loud) (#1133, fixes #488)
• Particles: 26.3's sulfur bubbles over wet potent sulfur (closes the #63 particle audit) (#1156, fixes #63)
• Axolotl: free water paths, flat walk targets and the attack sound (idle swim and play dead match vanilla) (#1159, fixes #64)
• LAN fixes: land the eight rebased B5 PRs together (#1138 #1139 #1140 #1142 #1146 #1147 #1148 #1151) (#1160)
• Client of a server: abilities from the server, flight sent back (creative flight on the server thread) (#1108)
• Run single player on its server thread by default (#1114, fixes #1072)
• Shader packs: Steadfast, Bloop and Noble get past the preprocessor; a compatibility table (#1157, fixes #616)
• Shader Packs page: the folder's path, Open Folder, a switch per pack (#1158, fixes #925, fixes #941)
• Dynamic lights: held, dropped and burning light sources (Horizon Extras, off by default) (#1162, fixes #814)

Fixed

• fix: reset spectator fly speed when changing game modes (#1039)
• Fix creative and spectator hunger exhaustion and starvation (#1036, fixes #1033)
• fix: prevent spectators from dropping hotbar items (#1059, fixes #1053)
• Fix section headings in classic video settings search (#1064, fixes #894)
• Fix creative barrier block markers (#1062, fixes #1057)
• Prepare startup handoff CPU resources off the UI thread (#1042)
• Mods: capability storage, a quota'd per-mod key/value folder (#1044, fixes #1040)
• Restore missing accessibility settings (#1061, fixes #1058)
• Centre the cursor when a screen opens from gameplay (#235)
• fix(gfx): Stop the swapchain washing colours out (#1075)
• Structures: Repurposed Structures' air fix as horizon:close_off_air_sources (#1020)
• fix(hud): Apply legacy formatting codes to action bar and titles (#1077)
• Keep the loading UI responsive during local world initialization (#1041)
• Keep world saves and exit responsive while preserving durability (#1043)
• Shears carve pumpkins (PumpkinBlock.useItemOn) (#1081, fixes #1067)
• Blocks can't be placed into mobs and other entities (Level.isUnobstructed) (#1085, fixes #1052)
• Cobwebs slow falling blocks (WebBlock.entityInside) (#1082, fixes #933)
• Firework tooltips: flight duration and explosions (Fireworks.addToTooltip) (#1083, fixes #1047)
• Creative pick block in inventories: full stacks and drags (AbstractContainerScreen cloning) (#1086, fixes #1048)
• Title backdrop: build its generator on a worker (#1087, fixes #896)
• Prepare: accept Mojang's republished 26.3 asset indexes (no sound, no panorama) (#1091)
• Prepare: import the Unifont glyphs from the asset index (#1092, fixes #1076)
• /tick on a server thread: sprint, query, step and a smooth frozen camera (#1088, fixes #1038)
• Prepare finds installed JDKs; the launcher shows the preparation error up top (#1093, fixes #666)
• Elytra: a glide that isn't diving keeps the fall distance at 1 (no landing damage) (#1103, fixes #1046)
• Combat: attribute swapping (attack damage and speed from last tick's main hand) (#1105, fixes #505)
• No block placing or item use while an item is in use (shield, bow, food) (#1102, fixes #1050)
• Elytra: a landing glide lasts one more tick, so elytra hops keep their speed (#1104, fixes #1056)
• Combat: sprint knockback and knockback along the attacker's yaw; vanilla knockback on players (#1106, fixes #504)
• Explosions: two Blast Protection pieces cancel the knockback (explosion_knockback_resistance, per-slot enchantment modifiers) (#1101, fixes #1049)
• Beehives: nests on trees grown in the world get their bees (#1107, fixes #1097)
• fix(benchmark): create the world folder before writing its marker (#1120)
• horizon-server update: version 0.2 counts as newer than the dated releases (#1127)
• Draw and collide blocks while a piston moves them (#1113, fixes #935)
• A release says its version: horizon-server, horizon-prepare, crash reports and user agents report 0.2.x (#1131)

Thanks to @ItsPotatoTime, @Yvonne-Aizawa, @feeldev12, @rdbtCVS.

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New

• port-pack: blocks whose sides are true/false are vines, not walls (Chipped's vines load) (#1027)

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New

• port-pack: Repurposed's structure voids keep the world's block (#1022)
• port-pack: enter_block criteria name their block as blocks (mod advancements no longer granted on any block) (#1028)

Fixed

• Carry: bare {min, max} number ranges in loot tables get 26.3's uniform type (#1019)

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New

• horizon-server config: change server.toml's settings from the command line, live where vanilla can (#1009)
• Generate Formations' structures from the noise column (#988)

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New

• Carry: Towns and Towers' namespaces (kaisyn, towns_and_towers) as its manifest's namespaces (#974)
• Flood and waterlog the structures built under the sea (#983)
• Carry Better Ocean Monuments' processors and YUNG's legs (#984)

Fixed

• Release signing: add the first public key (#1023)

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New

• Loot: read every namespace's tables, so modded structures' chests are no longer empty (#975)
• Content mods: namespaces besides the mod id, and no namespace shared by two mods (#969)

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New

• Far terrain: no faces for caves nothing can see into (-36% far quads) (#993)
• Far terrain: bounded render-thread work while tiles generate (#994)
• Far terrain: capped on integrated GPUs, held back on 4-thread machines (#995)

Fixed

• Far terrain: no dark band at the full-detail edge, no black cliffs (#992)

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New

• Place pillars and fluid fixes that reach outside the template (#981)
• Carry the mods' pillar and fluid fix processors (#982)
• Carry Formations' structures (#989)
• horizon-server: delete old releases after an update (#990)

Fixed

• Use Classic menus by default (#578, fixes #548)
• Play the equip sound when the player puts on armour (#1002, fixes #986)
• Apply legacy formatting codes in the scoreboard sidebar (#1003, fixes #937)
• Give Java packs' full-screen passes Iris's sky, eye light and custom uniforms (#1008, fixes #944)

Thanks to @Online5277.

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New

• Server: run a dead player's chat commands, as vanilla does (#973) (#998, fixes #973)
• Server: a right click with an item on a block uses it once (#999)
• Server: players on one team without friendly fire don't hurt each other (#1000)
• Server: a guest's projectiles are theirs (ender pearls take them) (#1001)

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New

• DirectX 12 on Windows: fallback when Vulkan fails, and a Graphics API setting (#979)

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Fixed

• Fix the Intel HD 520/530 crash at Vulkan device creation (wgpu-hal patch) (#976, fixes #746)

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New

• Optimize bulk density arithmetic, Beardifier and Perlin sampling (#796)
• Beardifier: YUNG's and Moog's enhanced terrain adaptation kernels (horizon:enhanced_terrain_adaptation) (#955)
• Carry: YUNG's and Moog's enhanced terrain adaptation as horizon:enhanced_terrain_adaptation (#956)
• Carry: YUNG's dead-end pools, modifiers and piece_in_range (#959)
• horizon-server update and rollback: switch releases, roll back by itself when the game doesn't come up (#966)

Fixed

• Add seed-driven voxel-column terrain LODs up to 1024 chunks (#771)
• horizon-server: give the game its folders whole when --dir is relative (#965)

Thanks to @Online5277, @rdbtCVS.

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Fixed

• Fix multiplayer chat scrolling (#854, fixes #810)

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New

• Strongholds: sample each ring's biome search through one climate sampler, as vanilla does (#954)
• Carry: read data files with comments, as Minecraft does (#957)
• YUNG's assembler: modifiers, piece_in_range and dead-end pools (#958)
• Carry: write Lithostitched's processor references in (#960)
• Carry: Lithostitched's apply_random, condition and set_block as the game's (#964)
• Structure processors: Lithostitched's apply_random, condition and set_block as data (#963)

Fixed

• Fix execute source dimension for player teleports (#800, fixes #592)

Thanks to @LookImEcho-Rick.

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Fixed

• Keep restored chunk entities out of /summon's result after a level switch (#962, fixes #947)

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Fixed

• Read GPU readbacks without assuming the mapping's alignment (fixes the Vega 11 launch crash) (#961, fixes #953)

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New

• Coordinate concurrent neighbour cache misses by chunk key (#946)
• Reuse terrain sampler scratch buffers between chunks (#949)

Fixed

• Fix spectator scroll wheel flight speed (#948, fixes #945)

Thanks to @rdbtCVS.

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New

• Server: spawn mobs around every player, and despawn from the nearest of them (#950)
• Paintings, frames, boats, armor stands, falling blocks and TNT tick only in entity-ticking chunks (#951)

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New

• Cache carver biome lookups per generator worker (#943)

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New

• Terrain: occlusion culling of solid sections that pays for itself (Vulkan) (#939)
• Structures: Repurposed Structures' three rule tests (matter phase, piece-origin distance, height) (#919)
• Carry: Repurposed's rule tests as the game's, and minecraft:chain as iron_chain (#920)
• Structures: Repurposed Structures' mineshafts, laid out under the terrain (#922)
• Carry: Better Dungeons' small Nether dungeon, as YUNG's jigsaw (#923)
• Carry: vertical_distance_from_start_piece is a dead field, not a lost rule (#924)
• Structures: Moog's trial spawners and vaults, without the templates' saved state (#926)
• Structures: Better Desert Temples' placeholder blocks (suspicious sand, sherds, traps) (#929)
• Structures: Better Dungeons' small dungeons keep one or two chests (#930)
• Structures: Lithostitched's block swaps (Overhauled Village), with the shared properties (#932)
• Chunk packets: pack paletted containers a long at a time (2.3x faster from_values) (#915)
• Chunk batches: encode each column once a tick, its new sections on warm-up threads (#934)
• Guest ticks: count per-tick statistics without making strings, date criteria only when granted (#914)
• Entity tracking: check a pair again only when one side moves, as vanilla's ChunkMap (#927)

Fixed

• Villagers, traders and golems never despawn for distance (#917) (#942, fixes #917)

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New

• Server build: Linux servers need neither ALSA nor udev (horizon-engine, its own archive) (#916)

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Fixed

• Fix vanilla multiplayer tick and interaction parity (#912)

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New

• Server: tick blocks around every player, from vanilla's chunk tickets (#890) (#931, fixes #890)

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New

• LAN: players see each other eat and use items (#887)

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New

• Renderer: one command buffer per frame, uploads before the first pass (#905)
• LAN: guests use machines and brewing stands, trigger plates, see hits, swings and the paused clock (bugs-lan-4 combined) (#913)

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New

• Processors: read rule ids without a namespace, as vanilla does (#907)
• Structures: horizon:spawner_mobs, the mods' spawner randomizing processors (#908)
• Carry: the structure mods' spawner processors, as data the game runs (#909)
• Start checks: Repurposed's Nether city, Nether shipwreck and End stronghold rules (#910)
• Carry: Repurposed's Nether city, Nether shipwrecks and End stronghold (#911)

Fixed

• horizon-server: find game files prepared without sounds (#893)
• horizon-server on Linux: say which libraries the game needs, and follow updates (#898)
• Server log: vanilla's thread in latest.log, and local time on the console (#904)

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New

• Server: commands on other players, attributes, respawn, crouch, server-thread agent commands (combined #845–#892) (#901)

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Fixed

• Biome zoom: mix the shared corner prefixes once in quart_at_block (#752)

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Fixed

• Startup: no time limit on loading the world resources (#895)

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Fixed

• Fix F3 debug overlay toggling in the main menu (#889, fixes #811)
• Startup: make the menu interactive while world resources load (#712) (#878)

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New

• Structure starts: a sharded cache, so the server thread stops waiting on workers (#872)
• Natural spawning reads a kept WORLD_SURFACE heightmap (#873)

Fixed

• fix(game): finish every consumable as vanilla's Consumable.onConsume (milk, honey, chorus fruit) (#799)
• Server thread: horizon-ctl tp and fly make the server load the new chunks (#861) (#888, fixes #861)

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New

• Prepare: find native jars where Prism Launcher keeps them (#858, fixes #849)
• Mining: harness for a player's mining (#844); tools count as used, wear damage_per_block, pots shatter (#875)

Fixed

• Preserve container contents when mining their blocks (#855, fixes #844)

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New

• Terrain vertices in 24 bytes instead of 28 (UV as 16-bit fixed point) (#865)
• Light changes dirty sections by section, not cell by cell (#866)
• Mesh scheduling looks at dirty sections column by column (#867)
• Modpacks: mod structures in vanilla sets, YUNG's jigsaws and placements, Moog/Repurposed layouts (combined #832–#852) (#870)
• Server: check each entity's range for every client from one compact pass (#864)
• Locator bar: look up each connection and its two players once (#871)

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New

• Region writer: encode and compress chunks on helper threads (same bytes) (#860)

Fixed

• Paletted containers: build palettes without hashing (#859)

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Fixed

• Add settings search to Video and Controls (#751, fixes #582)

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New

• Server: track each entity once for all its clients, as vanilla's ServerEntity (#841)
• Locator bar: update each connection in place, without clones (#842)

Fixed

• Portal scans: keep per-chunk section masks across ticks (#758)
• Fix falling block collisions with partial blocks (#836, fixes #711)
• light: pack the flood fill and precompute neighbour blocking (#781)

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Fixed

• Upload section meshes through a reused staging belt (#834)
• Decoration order: dense grids instead of hash maps (#835)

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New

• Structures: honour a carried mod's start and placement rules (#820)
• Region files: write each saved chunk in place, as vanilla's RegionFile (#827)
• Brewing stands tick in the level's block entity ticker list (#828)
• Block entity animations: read the drawn block entities only when they change (#829)
• Clients keep the light the server sends; the server sends light updates (#824)

Fixed

• Paletted container access: one palette probe per write, dispatched unpack (#761)

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New

• fix(server-thread): follow the render distance, past 32 too (#804) (#830, fixes #804)
• feat(server): secure chat, as vanilla 26.3's server (#831)

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New

• Server players finish vanilla's FULL square, not a 1.5x circle (#806)
• Creaking hearts: scan only sections whose palette holds a heart (#793)
• Dedicated server: never mesh sections (#813)
• Modpacks and server hosting: modpacks-4's #753–#765 and server-host-5's #759–#790 combined (#823)

Fixed

• Specialize constant surface material-rule branches (#801)
• Server: a dead guest is sent its health of 0, as ServerPlayer.doTick does (#807)
• Server titles: /title reaches the guest, and its HUD shows and clears them (#808)
• Command suggestions: ask the server for nodes the tree marks ask_server (#809)

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Fixed

• Cull boats, paintings, item frames, armor stands, TNT, tridents and fireworks like vanilla (#789)

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Fixed

• Block entities: tick only those with a ticker, in vanilla's order (#798)
• Cave culling: search on a worker thread, frames never wait for it (#788)

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Fixed

• fix(game): persist creative flight status across world save and reload (#777) (#794, fixes #777)
• Fix item tooltip display parity (#792)

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Fixed

• Add Open Mod Folder buttons to the mods screens (#786, fixes #780)

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Fixed

• LAN guests: container clicks, head turns, XP orbs, sleeping, mob pushes and eating (#722–#727 combined) (#787)

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Fixed

• fix(game): allow always-edible food when full and apply consume effects (#750) (#773, fixes #750)
• Fix Horizon options scrollbar dragging (#783, fixes #730)

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Fixed

• fix(minecarts): use per-kind display offset in cart geometry (#741) (#772, fixes #741)

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Fixed

• Worker threads: leave a core for the render and server threads (#745, fixes #744)
• Startup: load resources on a worker behind a loading screen (#712) (#740)

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New

• Decode the server's command tree and complete commands with it (#708)
• Show the server's recipe book on a server and place its recipes (#714)
• Hoppers: look up the block only under five-slot containers (#738)
• LAN: compress a large packet once for every connection (#748)
• LAN: write chunk packets straight into one buffer (#739)
• LAN: wake the writer threads from one post thread, once per tick (#737)

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Fixed

• Give mob, beacon, sculk and splash effects to every player (#700)

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New

• GPU frame time on Metal, render spans and section draw counts (#742)
• Metal: draw terrain sections as one index list per page run (#743)

Fixed

• Fix shield poses, held-item rendering and blocked-hit feedback (#682, fixes #615, fixes #720)
• Restore saved death and health when reopening worlds (#736)
• Cache closed chest geometry in large block-entity fields (#728)
• VSync on waits for the display whatever the present mode (#684) (#715, fixes #684)
• Cull minecarts by distance and view like vanilla (#735)

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Fixed

• Dedicated server: read level-type, generator-settings and generate-structures (#733)
• Dedicated server: guests' command feedback reaches the console and ops, @s is the guest (#734)

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New

• Content mods' memory: measure the footprint, drop the registry's second copy (#680)

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Fixed

• Render sulfur cube contents and award Uh Oh (#408)

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New

• Block state ids past 16 bits: ATM10's 42 carried mods load (#674)

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New

• Dedicated server: vanilla's chunk pacing and movement checks (#586)
• Server benchmark against vanilla 26.3 on equal work (#670)

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New

• Server: skip the advancement flush for players whose progress didn't change (#701)
• Hoppers: look up the block only under container block entities (#702)
• Chunk streaming: look at each column once when players' areas overlap (#703)
• Entity tracking: each entity type's range once per tick, not per player (#704)
• Chunk packets: one cache lock per column for its non-air sections (#705)
• Chunk packets: keep each section's block entity blocks with its bytes (#706)
• Server: Fx hashing for each player's sent chunks and tracked entities (#707)

Fixed

• Advancements: read the tree on another thread while the world loads (#713)

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New

• Online mode: players named in commands are their accounts (#589)
• usercache.json, and console names resolved through it as vanilla does (stacked on #589) (#694)
• Locator bar for vanilla clients on Horizon servers (waypoint packets as vanilla sends them) (#692)

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Fixed

• Release unused terrain GPU buffers (#676)
• Keep terrain in system memory when video memory is full instead of crashing (#600) (#688, fixes #600)
• Blend animated sprite frames without a roundf call per byte on x86 (#686)
• Allow render distances up to 64 chunks in settings (#673, fixes #654)
• Swimming pose and stroke on the player model (#689, fixes #534, fixes #535)
• Mobs float in water instead of bouncing (#690, fixes #542)
• Trident throw pose in third person (#691)
• Fix sleeping input, camera height and wake fade (#679, fixes #613)

Thanks to @Online5277.

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New

• Entity portal checks: skip the sweep where no section holds a portal (#661)

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New

• horizon-port-pack: a library, fetch and port; CurseForge zips name their mods (#653)
• Carry: leave out the files the content loader would refuse (#681)
• Dedicated server: encode each chunk section once, not once per player (#623)

Fixed

• Server: send tab-list latency every 601 ticks, as vanilla (#685)

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New

• Pathfinder: Fx-hashed nodes, and each path type worked out once per query (#660)

Fixed

• Build a saved chunk's structure starts when it loads, not on the game thread (#489) (#657)
• Sculk: find a loaded chunk's sensors from its palettes, not every block (#489) (#658)
• Cache resolved block behaviours in versioned binary snapshots (#608)

Thanks to @rdbtCVS.

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Fixed

• Use the configured respawn point after saving (#675, fixes #622)
• Show sweep particles on charged sword hits (#677, fixes #620)

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Fixed

• Avoid hard clipping when explosion sounds overlap (#672)

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New

• Dedicated server: online mode, and refused logins in the log (#587)

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New

• horizon-prepare: keep the registry and command reports with the prepared files (#590)
• LAN hub: hand a tick's packets to each connection together (#649)

Fixed

• fix(rendering): correct selection outline on translucent blocks (#609, fixes #563)
• Fix mouse capture after world loading (#614, fixes #612)
• perf: reuse decoded gameplay and behaviour facts at startup (#607)
• Reset experience on respawn and drop capped XP on death (#665, fixes #621)
• Draw breaking cracks on chest models (#667, fixes #611)
• Fix multiplayer pause menu and World Options permissions (#656, fixes #568)

Thanks to @LookImEcho-Rick, @Online5277, @rdbtCVS.

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Fixed

• Fix resource pack reload failures and broken Horizon menus (#646, fixes #618)
• Keep the language search hint clear of the caret (#650, fixes #645)
• Hide survival bars consistently behind the Horizon pause menu (#651, fixes #634)
• Swap and sync the off hand on a server (#627, fixes #543)
• Show equipment attributes in inventory and Creative tooltips (#519, fixes #400)
• Open furnaces, blast furnaces and smokers on a server (#644, fixes #540)
• Keep server blocks in sync with what guests dig (#626, fixes #500)

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New

• Content mods: load real carried-over mods (large tables, convention tags, mod recipes) (#630)
• horizon-port-pack carry: templates and numbers from the NeoForge oracle, 1.21.1 loot upgraded (#631)
• horizon-port-pack report: coverage per mod, and ATM10 measured (#633)
• Block textures: share identical sprites, and draw past 2048 layers (#647)
• Content mods: refuse more block states than chunks hold; the pack against NeoForge, measured (#648)

Fixed

• Fix Ominous Banner data, tooltips and breaking effects (#547)
• Add mod management to Classic Options (#585, fixes #559)
• Support mouse buttons for Extras sorting and zoom (#637, fixes #581)
• Correct inventory player scale, labels and equipment overlap (#638, fixes #583)
• Add an off-by-default Fullbright toggle in Extras (#640, fixes #584)
• Light both redstone ore variants when mining starts (#642, fixes #625)
• Make Extras accessible from Classic Options (#639, fixes #580)
• Honor mouse-bound hotbar swaps in inventories (#641, fixes #619)

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Fixed

• Returning to the Overworld reuses its stronghold ring positions (#591)
• Villagers search an index of POI blocks instead of scanning every block (#567)

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Fixed

• Show live packet rates and server brands in F3 (#594, fixes #564)

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Fixed

• Clear block breaking progress when opening inventory (#606, fixes #588)

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Fixed

• Package registry reports and show recoverable server resource errors (#576, fixes #573)
• Preserve quit button sounds when leaving a world (#575, fixes #565)
• Remember Direct Connection server addresses (#574, fixes #571)
• Name the launcher's real button in the incomplete-resources error (#595)

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New

• horizon-server: server.toml, init, and a supervisor that runs the game (#551)
• horizon-server: start, stop, status, cmd and logs through a local control API (#552)
• horizon-server: backups, restore and automatic backups (#553)
• horizon-server: install scripts, a Docker image, and boot services (#554)
• horizon-server: the web panel (#555)
• horizon-bots and tools/server_bench.py: the first server benchmark against vanilla (#556)

Fixed

• Apply falling anvil impact damage and wear (#528, fixes #399)
• Fix main build: falling anvil wear reads blocks from self.pack (#572)

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Fixed

• Handle fullscreen shortcut across menus and text fields (#510, fixes #497)
• Preserve cloud opacity when shading faces (#511, fixes #491)
• Remove duplicated settings from Classic graphics submenus (#512, fixes #496)
• Correct Classic world-list search hints and text placement (#517, fixes #499)
• Renderer: skip wgpu's indirect-draw validation in release builds (−0.05..0.11 ms/frame of render thread at RD 32) (#560)
• Renderer: cull sections by chunk column from a dense list (section walk 5x faster, exact) (#561)

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New

• Content mods (API 0.2): .hmod assets/ and data/, blocks and items from vanilla templates (#523)
• Content mods in the resource root: template rows appended to every block table (#530)
• Content mods in the game: loot, recipes, models, names and icons from mod namespaces (#531)
• horizon-port-pack: import a modpack and classify its mods (#532)
• horizon-port-pack carry: a jar's data and assets as a content mod (#533)

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Fixed

• Show the tenth storage slot in chests (#546, fixes #525)
• Show translated hover tooltips in Classic options (#522, fixes #498)
• Honor villager and zombie villager hat metadata (#521, fixes #334)

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Fixed

• Stronghold ring searches run on every worker that needs them (#514)

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Fixed

• Mobs: shape only the cells that can support them (−11 % tick time) (#506)
• Mobs: find the mobs to push through a grid, not a scan of every mob (−14 % tick time) (#508)
• Villagers: each block state's POI type from a table built once (−11 % CPU at world load) (#509)
• Data packs: walk only the folders functions, tags and predicates live in (#524)
• Collision scans: skip blocks with no shape, build the entity shape lazily (−6 % tick time) (#507)

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Fixed

• Per-frame uploads through the staging belt; skip unchanged lightmaps (#520)

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Fixed

• Animated textures: cache every animation frame's mip chain (#502)

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Fixed

• World list: hovered rows show the join arrow, clicking the icon joins (#445, fixes #369)
• Pause menu: icons centred and in full colour like vanilla (#449, fixes #371)
• World Options: vanilla layout, headings, port box, lock and footer (#450)
• Level loading screen like vanilla: panorama, chunk map and progress bar (#451, fixes #364)
• World screens' text fields: move the cursor, select, click and drag (#452, fixes #383)
• Classic sliders follow the pointer and snap on release (#385) (#453, fixes #385)
• World backup toast slides in and out with its sounds (#384) (#454, fixes #384)
• Fix Happy Ghast riding controls and standing after dismount (#465, fixes #411)
• Mod commands: coloured and Tab-completed in the chat like vanilla's (#456) (#463, fixes #456)
• Wayland: VSync off draws uncapped in a window (#446, fixes #441)
• Holding the drop key keeps dropping, in game and in menus (#447, fixes #443)
• Dropping from a menu swings the hand (#448, fixes #442)
• Command blocks: placing, the edit screen, and running commands (#455, fixes #444)
• Keep held keys held through wait on the control socket (#477, fixes #469)
• F3 debug crosshair: no view bob, drawn after the hand like vanilla (#476, fixes #475)
• World Options: difficulty lock with its confirmation, and Restrictions (#482)
• World Options: Edit Game Rules (InWorldGameRulesScreen) (#483, fixes #464)
• Ctrl + Pick Block copies the block entity's data in creative (#479, fixes #386)
• Item tooltips for container contents, spawner data and op-only data (#481)
• LAN: mobs target and attack guests (#466)
• LAN guest: hurt by lava, fire, drowning, suffocation and the void; hungry from moving (#467)
• LAN: PvP between the host and guests (#470)
• LAN guest: their own ender chest, and double chests as 9x6 (#471)
• LAN guest: command feedback names the guest and shows its numbers (#472)
• LAN: trial spawners and vaults see the guests (#473)
• Name tags show through walls (#474)
• Reuse cloud geometry and GPU buffers between frames (#485, fixes #480)
• Upload animated sprites through a reused staging belt (#501)
• Skip section face groups that face away from the eye (#503)

Thanks to @LookImEcho-Rick.

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Fixed

• Keep chat arrow keys from turning the camera (#459, fixes #458)
• Vaults: server logic and a parity harness (#410)
• Vaults in the game: ticking, keys, rewards and the display item (#417)
• Show trial spawner and vault visuals (#422)
• Give trial chamber pots their loot, sherds and insertion (#433)
• Trial spawners: become ominous, Trial Omen and ominous item spawners (#439, fixes #223)

Known issues

• Sprint-jumping has been reported as broken, but we couldn't reproduce it. If it happens to you, describe it in #horizon-bugs on Discord.

Thanks to @LookImEcho-Rick.

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New

• Java shader packs (1): horizon-shaderpack crate, Iris's preprocessor and options (#405)
• Java shader packs (2): translate programs to WGSL (syntax-tree legaliser + naga) (#413)
• horizon-shaderpack: read shaders.properties like Iris (#415)
• horizon-shaderpack: plan a Java pack's full-screen passes like Iris (#418)
• horizon-client: run a Java pack's full-screen passes over the world (#436)

Known issues

• Sprint-jumping has been reported as broken, but we couldn't reproduce it. If it happens to you, describe it in #horizon-bugs on Discord.

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Fixed

• Reopening a world no longer duplicates its entities (#406, fixes #374)
• Commands follow the world's Allow Commands (#407, fixes #372)
• Graphics presets set render and simulation distance like vanilla (#409, fixes #382)
• F3 overlay like vanilla: on top of menus, debug GUI scale, default entries (#414, fixes #363, fixes #376, fixes #377)
• F3 shows vanilla's debug crosshair (world axes) (#416, fixes #375)
• Server list rows: favicons, styled MOTDs, player count colours, icon arrows (#421, fixes #365, fixes #370, fixes #378)
• Server list: confirm before deleting, vanilla Direct Connection layout (#423, fixes #380, fixes #381)

Known issues

• Sprint-jumping has been reported as broken, but we couldn't reproduce it. If it happens to you, describe it in #horizon-bugs on Discord.

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New

• Optional leaf and entity culling (Online5277's #387, rebased) (#420)

Known issues

• Sprint-jumping has been reported as broken, but we couldn't reproduce it. If it happens to you, describe it in #horizon-bugs on Discord.

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Fixed

• Preserve native sprite mipmaps in mixed-size texture arrays (#404)

Known issues

• Sprint-jumping has been reported as broken, but we couldn't reproduce it. If it happens to you, describe it in #horizon-bugs on Discord.

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New

• LAN guest: the guest sees himself (own player model on a server) (#425, fixes #366)
• LAN: every player wears their own armour (#426, fixes #366)
• LAN: chest and shulker box lids open and close for every player (#427, fixes #366)
• LAN: name tags over other players, and the host under its own name (#428, fixes #366)
• LAN guest: crafting in the 2x2 grid and at a crafting table (#429, fixes #366)
• LAN guest: fall damage, regeneration and hunger on the host (#430, fixes #366)

Known issues

• Sprint-jumping has been reported as broken, but we couldn't reproduce it. If it happens to you, describe it in #horizon-bugs on Discord.

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New

• DualSense adaptive triggers (#360)
• DualSense vibration: shaped pulses, HD haptics on USB (opt-in) (#361)
• DualSense lightbar and player LEDs (#362)

Fixed

• Show ping tooltips over multiplayer network bars (#403, fixes #379)

Known issues

• Sprint-jumping has been reported as broken, but we couldn't reproduce it. If it happens to you, describe it in #horizon-bugs on Discord.

Thanks to @Online5277.

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New

• DualSense output over HID: the report, a writer thread, and rumble through it (#348)
• Mods in the game: Options > Mods, hooks and HUD panels, off by default (#345)
• Shader packs (3/3): pick a pack in Video Settings (#347)

Fixed

• Prevent hotbar selection from changing behind menus (#402, fixes #401)
• Interpolate animated textures like vanilla (prismarine, magma, stems, lit furnaces) (#343)

Known issues

• Sprint-jumping has been reported as broken, but we couldn't reproduce it. If it happens to you, describe it in #horizon-bugs on Discord.

Thanks to @Online5277.

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New

• Vanilla text selection colours and blinking cursors in the creative search and anvil (#394)
• Pick Block picks from the inventory in survival (#398, fixes #367)
• Creative item tabs click as CreativeModeInventoryScreen does (#391)
• Shift + double-click moves every matching stack (#392)
• Drag highlight and counts as AbstractContainerScreen draws them (#393)
• Clicking a creative search result selects the query (#395)
• Mouse Tweaks-style inventory controls (extra, off by default) (#396)
• Sort buttons for the inventory and chests (extra, off by default) (#397)

Known issues

• Sprint-jumping has been reported as broken, but we couldn't reproduce it. If it happens to you, describe it in #horizon-bugs on Discord.

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New

• Shift-click on every container screen, even when Shift is pressed after it opens (#358)

Known issues

• Sprint-jumping has been reported as broken, but we couldn't reproduce it. If it happens to you, describe it in #horizon-bugs on Discord.

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New

• Relit chunks remesh only where their light changed (#352, fixes #270)
• Save proto chunks on a worker, not the main thread (#353, fixes #224)
• Cap a fresh install at vanilla's 120 FPS (#354)
• Natural spawning skips air sections when finding the surface (#355)

Known issues

• Sprint-jumping has been reported as broken, but we couldn't reproduce it. If it happens to you, describe it in #horizon-bugs on Discord.

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New

• Agent control: the widget tree of every screen, click and set by id (#349)
• Agent control: read and set every option by key (#350)
• Agent control: wait for a state, and the log of what happened (#351)

Fixed

• perf(client): share parsed block and item models (#330)
• Cache animated sprite mip chains within an 8 MiB budget (#341)

Known issues

• Sprint-jumping has been reported as broken, but we couldn't reproduce it. If it happens to you, describe it in #horizon-bugs on Discord.

Thanks to @rdbtCVS.

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Fixed

• Load gameplay facts with typed decoding and interned shapes (#309)
• Cache random-tick section eligibility across unchanged chunks (#318)

Known issues

• Sprint-jumping has been reported as broken, but we couldn't reproduce it. If it happens to you, describe it in #horizon-bugs on Discord.

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New

• Fishing: the rod casts, bites splash and bubble, and the line is vanilla's (#316, fixes #265)

Known issues

• Sprint-jumping has been reported as broken, but we couldn't reproduce it. If it happens to you, describe it in #horizon-bugs on Discord.

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New

• Shield blocks: the player hears the block sound, not the hurt sound (#310)
• Shields turn arrows back, as vanilla does (#311, fixes #277)
• Crossbows load firework rockets from either hand; bows and crossbows take held arrows first (#312)
• Use the off hand when the main hand passes: place blocks, eat, charge anchors (#313)
• Show the off-hand item in first person (#314, fixes #276)
• Minecarts roll and rattle when ridden, and hits on vehicles sound (#315, fixes #227)
• Axes on copper: a shield in the off hand is raised first, and sculk sensors hear it (#317, fixes #222)
• Trial spawner state machine, checked against vanilla (#319)
• Trial spawners run in game (#320)

Known issues

• Sprint-jumping has been reported as broken, but we couldn't reproduce it. If it happens to you, describe it in #horizon-bugs on Discord.

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New

• Bees live in hives and nests: they go home, come out in the morning and make honey (#208) (#307)
• Load worlds ~4.7x faster: stop copying the face visibility table per mesh job (#269)
• Stop reloading saved columns every frame after the player moves (#280)
• Recipe toasts show the workstation icon and cycle through the unlocked recipes (#295, fixes #283)
• Blur the panorama behind world selection, multiplayer and world creation, as vanilla does (#299)
• Multiplayer: vanilla's server list, with the LAN scanning text and its animated dots (#301)
• World list and pack lists: vanilla scroller, dragged with the pointer (#303, fixes #282)
• Create New World: vanilla's Game, World and More tabs (#304, fixes #281)
• Debug charts: F3+2 frame and tick times, F3+3 ping and bandwidth (#305)
• F3+4 shows the lightmap texture in the bottom right corner (#306)

Known issues

• Sprint-jumping has been reported as broken, but we couldn't reproduce it. If it happens to you, describe it in #horizon-bugs on Discord.

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New

• Render the world with reversed depth like vanilla (far fire no longer flickers) (#296, fixes #272)
• Rebuild every section when See-Through Leaves, Smooth Lighting or Biome Blend changes (#297, fixes #273)
• Draw flying firework rockets as their lit item model like vanilla (#298, fixes #279)
• Copper golems keep the persistence vanilla saved (#289) (#292, fixes #289)
• Arrows stop jumping along their path after they land (#278) (#294, fixes #278)
• Autosave stops waiting for entity writes: no more 2 s freeze (#224) (#300)

Known issues

• Sprint-jumping has been reported as broken, but we couldn't reproduce it. If it happens to you, describe it in #horizon-bugs on Discord.

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Fixed

• Bees fly, pollinate flowers, get angry and sting (#291, fixes #208)

Known issues

• Sprint-jumping has been reported as broken, but we couldn't reproduce it. If it happens to you, describe it in #horizon-bugs on Discord.

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Fixed

• Bats hang upside down and fly, with their wing animations (#287, fixes #215)

Known issues

• Sprint-jumping has been reported as broken, but we couldn't reproduce it. If it happens to you, describe it in #horizon-bugs on Discord.

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Fixed

• Striders stand on lava instead of bobbing in it (#285, fixes #256)

Known issues

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New

• horizon-client --benchmark SCENARIO: benchmark your own machine, report in the shared format (#263)
• Battery mode: an opt-in 60 FPS cap (30 in menus or unfocused) and half the worker threads (#254)

Fixed

• perf: reuse renderer entity material batching buffers (#237)
• perf: return only lighting from chunk light workers (#233)
• perf(client): reuse parsed model states during preparation (#210)
• perf(client): share parsed entity models across startup batches (#204)
• Fix status effect icons and display effects in inventories (#184)
• perf(client): skip tick chunk synchronization when membership is unchanged (#239)
• Fix classic title menu layout and accessibility shortcut (#219)
• perf: reuse unchanged resource-pack overlays after validation (#220)
• perf(streaming): skip unchanged generation scans (#230)

Known issues

• Sprint-jumping has been reported as broken, but we couldn't reproduce it. If it happens to you, describe it in #horizon-bugs on Discord.

Thanks to @rdbtCVS.

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Fixed

• Mesh columns loaded past the render distance once they come in range (#228) (#274, fixes #228)
• Save every generated chunk and decorated proto chunks, as vanilla does (#249) (#284, fixes #249)

Known issues

• Sprint-jumping has been reported as broken, but we couldn't reproduce it. If it happens to you, describe it in #horizon-bugs on Discord.

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New

• Play with friends (2/3): Invite friends in the pause menu (no server needed) (#199)
• Play with friends (3/3): Join a friend with the code alone, in game and in the launcher; end-to-end harness (#200)
• Controllers: focus navigation in menus, on-screen keyboard, menu navigation option (#241)

Fixed

• Add the F3+F4 game mode switcher (#266, fixes #209)
• Prevent climbable blocks from slowing spectator flight (#262)
• Clip options rows smoothly at list boundaries (#259)
• Prevent block interactions through targeted entities (#268, fixes #217)

Known issues

• Sprint-jumping has been reported as broken, but we couldn't reproduce it. If it happens to you, describe it in #horizon-bugs on Discord.

Thanks to @Online5277.

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Fixed

• Make options list scrollbars draggable (#257, fixes #242)
• Honor Off, Fast and Fancy cloud settings (#260, fixes #255)

Known issues

• Sprint-jumping has been reported as broken, but we couldn't reproduce it. If it happens to you, describe it in #horizon-bugs on Discord.

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New

• Opt-in data collection (3/5): the game keeps crash reports and session summaries only with consent (#252)

Fixed

• Player water on #59: bubble columns, swim sounds, drown bubbles, vanilla fixes (#238)

Known issues

• Sprint-jumping has been reported as broken, but we couldn't reproduce it. If it happens to you, describe it in #horizon-bugs on Discord.

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Fixed

• perf(mesher): short-circuit section visibility flood fills (#243)
• perf: reuse entity geometry vertex storage between frames (#240)
• perf: group block entities once per save batch (#246)

Known issues

• Sprint-jumping has been reported as broken, but we couldn't reproduce it. If it happens to you, describe it in #horizon-bugs on Discord.

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Fixed

• Match crosshair alpha cutoff and ready-target checks (#190)
• perf(client): parse large fact JSON from in-memory bytes (#207)
• Horizon menus: delete singleplayer worlds (#234)
• perf(client): buffer model and render JSON reads (#205)
• Fix animations, axolotls, fluids, fire and world progress isolation (#59)

Known issues

• Sprint-jumping has been reported as broken, but we couldn't reproduce it. If it happens to you, describe it in #horizon-bugs on Discord.

Thanks to @Online5277, @rdbtCVS.

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New

• Title screen: "RUST EDITION" under the logo (#226)

Fixed

• Fix pixelated Classic menu panorama (#188)
• Explorer, treasure and abandoned camp maps work (#147) (#232, fixes #147)

Known issues

• Sprint-jumping has been reported as broken, but we couldn't reproduce it. If it happens to you, describe it in #horizon-bugs on Discord.

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Fixed

• LAN: offline players get a kept generated name instead of Player (#195) (#214, fixes #195)
• Items, orbs and arrows fly to whoever picks them up (#142) (#218, fixes #142)
• Play the player's hurt sound for every damage, by its damage effects (#144) (#216, fixes #144)

Known issues

• Sprint-jumping has been reported as broken, but we couldn't reproduce it. If it happens to you, describe it in #horizon-bugs on Discord.

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New

• Horizon extras: auto-reconnect (off by default) (#137)
• Design system: one set of tokens for the launcher, menus and website (#166)
• Horizon's mark and its icon everywhere (#167)
• Game menus (Horizon style) in the new design language (#173)

Fixed

• Fix classic menu click sounds to match vanilla (#182, fixes #140)
• Fix screenshot, seed, and locate chat click actions (#176)
• Render dragon egg teleport particles (#179, fixes #106)
• Render falling blocks with their actual block models (#181, fixes #107)
• Drive rabbit hop and idle animations from runtime controls (#183, fixes #109)
• Resolve relative preparation roots before running Java exporters (#185)
• Water cancels the player's fall damage (#180) (#186, fixes #180)
• Arrows get vanilla's water physics (#127) (#187, fixes #127)
• Burning arrows: lava, fire, Flame and what they light (#125, #124) (#189, fixes #124, fixes #125)
• Arrows can be picked up (#119) (#193, fixes #119)
• Creepers swell and flash for LAN guests; load ignited from NBT (#194, fixes #157)
• Inverting crosshair and a working attack indicator (#196, fixes #97)
• End crystals from EndCrystalModel: lit, with their base and beams (#197, fixes #102)
• The dragon fight's world fog and the End's void darkness floor (#198, fixes #103)
• Fix Classic singleplayer world management screens (#177)
• Sprite mips from vanilla's MipmapGenerator: no cactus corner gaps (#201, fixes #110)
• Fix GUI Scale button in classic Video Settings (#191)
• Loaded spawners keep their mob; chunk block entities in vanilla's order (#203)

Known issues

• Sprint-jumping has been reported as broken, but we couldn't reproduce it. If it happens to you, describe it in #horizon-bugs on Discord.

Thanks to @Online5277, @rdbtCVS.

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New

• Controllers: menus, screens and inventories (virtual cursor) (#129)
• Controllers: Controller options, button binds and glyphs (#145)
• Controllers: rumble (#149)
• Horizon extras: zoom, FPS counter, keystrokes and the Extras page (off by default) (#135)
• Horizon extras: minimap (off by default) (#136)

Fixed

• OverlayTexture texels from one tested table; creepers flash white while swelling (#121)
• Terrain gets its own 28-byte vertex without a normal (was 36) (#128)
• Fix creative inventory tab and toggle-sprint item drops (#56)
• Fix stuck keys when opening Options (#152)
• Fix keybind category translations (#155)
• Apply saved audio and GUI settings at startup (#150, fixes #134)
• Fix World Options pause and Escape behavior (#154)
• Fix classic options scroll limits (#156)
• Fix fall damage sounds in creative mode (#151)
• Play normal arrow impact audio for player hits (#158, fixes #130)
• Monster spawners spawn, spin their mob and take spawn eggs (#146, fixes #95)
• Respawn anchors charge, set the respawn point, explode outside the Nether (#163, fixes #99)
• Beds and straw beds blow up when used in the Nether and the End (#169, fixes #101)
• Maces: smash attacks, Density, Breach, Wind Burst (#175, fixes #105)
• Fix LAN worlds pausing when the host opens menus (#172)
• Fix LAN shutdown when leaving a singleplayer world (#171)
• Fix missing background in Classic menus (#162)
• Fix inventory banner face depth ordering (#165)
• Fix tab list for singleplayer LAN hosts (#170)
• Reuse verified Minecraft imports when preparing new versions (#178, fixes #160)

Known issues

• Sprint-jumping has been reported as broken, but we couldn't reproduce it. If it happens to you, describe it in #horizon-bugs on Discord.

Thanks to @Online5277, @rdbtCVS.

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Controllers, copy and paste, logs and crash reports, preparing without Python, Nether portals in survival, and about 30 fixes for the bugs you reported.

New

• Controllers (first part): play with an Xbox or PlayStation pad on Bedrock's layout: move, look, jump, attack, use, hotbar, inventory, sneak and sprint. Menus with the pad come next. Settings in horizon-controller.txt.
• Copy and paste (Ctrl/Cmd + C, X, V, A) in chat, signs, books, the anvil, search boxes, world and server fields.
• F3 key combinations as in 26.3: chunk borders (F3+G), hitboxes (F3+B), copy location (F3+C) and block or entity data (F3+I), reload chunks (F3+A), spectator (F3+N), pause without the menu (F3+Esc) and the others. Holding F3+C crashes on purpose after a countdown.
• Logs and crash reports: logs/latest.log like vanilla, and a crash report with your system details when the game crashes. The launcher shows a notice with buttons to open, copy or report it on Discord.
• Preparing without Python: resources are now prepared by Horizon's own horizon-prepare. This fixes preparing on Macs, which failed with the system Python since early October.
• Agents turn like a player: horizon-ctl mouse-move and turn/look-at --over go through the real mouse path.

Fixed

• Nether portals in survival: the wait no longer restarts when you shuffle in the portal, trips back find your old portal instead of building new ones, and items and mobs go through.
• Sweet berries can be planted (carrots and potatoes too while hungry or in creative), picked, and grown with bone meal.
• Powder snow works: you sink, freeze and take damage, leather boots let you walk on it, buckets pick it up.
• Cobwebs and sweet berry bushes slow you down, and grown bushes hurt.
• Composters take items by hand, from hoppers and from droppers.
• Furnaces kept resetting their progress when you clicked in the inventory.
• Hurt mobs were too red, especially in the dark: the red tint now follows vanilla's lighting.
• Rain streaks were five times too long; clouds stopped at your render distance instead of following Cloud Distance.
• Texture packs: switching packs now reloads everything, high-resolution packs keep their resolution, and pack language, sound and font files add to vanilla's instead of replacing them.
• Game rules sometimes went back to their old values after leaving a world.
• Taming a wolf gave The Whole Pack and A Complete Catalogue too.
• Feeding animals played the generic eating sound; each animal now makes its own sound, or none, as in vanilla.
• Hand sway: your hands now lag behind when you turn.
• Particles: 29 missing particle types added, hitting a villager shows five angry particles, and many particles moved and coloured differently from vanilla.
• Shift-click didn't work with the left Shift key when toggle-sneak was on, and clicking outside an inventory didn't drop the item you held.
• Fullscreen dropped when you clicked menu buttons on Wayland (Hyprland).
• The world spawn now matches vanilla's for every seed we tested.
• The launcher said "No such file or directory" after updating itself.
• Smaller things: the fire charge's sound pitch, block place sounds played twice, and the hitbox shape of entity models.

Thanks to everyone who reported these on Discord and GitHub.

Before you play

The launcher asks you to prepare resources once more for this version, because Horizon now prepares them itself. Older launchers still work for this version (they use Python one last time); a launcher update with the crash notice and preparing without Python follows shortly.

Known

• Controllers have not been tried with real pads yet: tell us in #horizon-bugs how they feel.
• Arrows, minecarts, boats and falling blocks don't go through Nether portals yet.
• Mobs don't freeze in powder snow and aren't slowed by cobwebs or berry bushes yet.
• The first-person fire overlay looks flat orange.

Install and update Horizon with the Horizon launcher. Website: https://playhorizon.dev

Not an official Minecraft product. Not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft. You need your own copy of Minecraft: Java Edition 26.3.

Villager trading, worlds generated like vanilla's, the Creative inventory fixed, no more footstep loop, and Horizon can now be played by AI agents and scripts.

New

• Villager trading, as in vanilla: every profession, level and biome, wandering traders, restocks, reputation and Hero of the Village discounts. Works in single player, on dedicated servers and over LAN.
• Agent control: horizon-ctl, shipped with the game, lets scripts and AI agents play: read the game's state (position, inventory, what you're looking at, nearby mobs, the open screen, chat), move with pathfinding, look, break, place, attack, use items, click menus and type. horizon-ctl mcp serves the same commands to AI agents over MCP. See the README's "Agent control" section.
• A way back from the classic menus: Options → Video Settings → Menu Style.

Fixed

• A constant rustling sound while standing still: the footstep sound played 20 times a second.
• Creative inventory: the Functional Blocks tab was empty (anvils, crafting and smithing tables, looms, beds, signs…), and search now finds exactly what vanilla's does. The scrollbar can be dragged.
• Trees, strongholds and other features differed from vanilla in worlds you explore: chunks are now decorated in vanilla's order.
• The view flipped when looking straight up or down.
• Clouds showed a grid pattern.
• Breaking cracks glowed grey and floated around slabs; mining particles on partial blocks were misplaced.
• The block outline was thinner than vanilla's.
• Mobs and players had flat lighting; items in the inventory and hotbar were lit wrongly; the player preview had seams at some window sizes; text glyphs bled into each other.

Thanks to Cosmic for the camera, cloud, crack, outline and lighting fixes, and for the reports.

Before you play

The launcher asks you to prepare resources once more for this version: the Creative inventory and block outlines come from new data.

Known

• Your world spawn point can differ from vanilla's on some seeds.
• Sprint-jumping has been reported as broken, but we couldn't reproduce it. If it happens to you, describe it in #horizon-bugs on Discord.
• On Hyprland, clicking menu buttons can leave fullscreen and copy/paste doesn't work yet: fixed in the next update.

Install and update Horizon with the Horizon launcher. Website: https://playhorizon.dev

Not an official Minecraft product. Not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft. You need your own copy of Minecraft: Java Edition 26.3.

Horizon's own menus, Simple and Advanced graphics settings, much faster rendering, and fixes for Linux sound, Windows, villages and preparing resources.

New

• Horizon's own menus: a new title screen, world list, options and pause menu in the launcher's style, over a live frozen landscape. The vanilla look is still available: Options → Interface → Menu style → Classic.
• Graphics settings, Simple and Advanced: presets (Performance, Balanced, Quality, Ultra), or every rendering, quality, display and performance setting, each with a short description and its cost, plus a performance overlay.
• Much faster rendering: for example, at render distance 8 over a village, 363 → 2,409 FPS on an RTX 4080. Render distance 32 still stutters in places.

Fixed

• No sound on Linux.
• Linux builds now run on ordinary distros (Arch, Ubuntu, …), not just the machine they were built on.
• Windows asked for a missing DLL: the launcher no longer needs the Visual C++ runtime.
• Memory growing near villages: mobs were duplicated when chunks reloaded.
• The frame rate dropping and staying low in villages.
• Preparing resources failed on Linux with "Missing … java-objc-bridge" (#41). Mojang's republished 26.3 version file is accepted too.
• The hand and held item looked wrong at high FOV.
• Missing swing animations in Creative and Survival.

Known

• Sprint-jumping has been reported as broken, but we couldn't reproduce it. If it happens to you, describe it in #horizon-bugs on Discord.
• Online-mode servers aren't supported; skins served over https show the default skin unless already cached.

Not an official Minecraft product. Not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft. You need your own copy of Minecraft: Java Edition 26.3.

Install and update Horizon with the Horizon launcher. If you already have it, it picks this version up by itself. Website: https://playhorizon.dev

Horizon is a Rust reimplementation of Minecraft Java Edition 26.3, checked against vanilla by differential harnesses.

Vanilla parity: 100% of what the harnesses compare. Every subsystem in the README's table now matches vanilla in all 281 harnesses. Parity is declared complete only after a from-scratch audit on Linux and macOS and launch checks on these packaged builds, which come next.

What's new since 2026.10.12

• Dedicated server: horizon-client --dedicated --nogui runs a server vanilla clients can join (offline mode), with vanilla's server.properties, status ping, chat, recipes, advancements and command tree. LAN discovery matches vanilla.
• Worlds from 1.8 onwards open and are upgraded as vanilla does, superflat worlds included, along with old options.txt and creative hotbars.
• Mob AI matches vanilla tick by tick in 92 scenarios: villager breeding and gossip, the warden and the sculk shrieker summoning it, ghastlings, copper golems sorting chests.
• Spawned mobs' gear and enchantments match vanilla.
• Screens: the resource pack screen, the open chat (input, history, command suggestions), the recipe book (drawing, search, ingredient placement), the loom's banner preview, End gateway beams, and player-list heads drawn from players' skins.
• Render distance 2 now loads.
• macOS gives vanilla's results in every harness.

Known differences

Online-mode servers aren't supported; skins served over https show the default skin unless already cached; pack icons show the unknown-pack texture in game; the creative hotbar keys (C/X) aren't wired up; item tooltips lack attribute lines.

See PLAY.txt in each archive to prepare the game's resources from your own copy of Minecraft.

Horizon is a Rust rewrite of Minecraft: Java Edition 26.3, checked against the game itself. Java parity: 88% (270 differential harnesses pass; see the README's Project status).

Not an official Minecraft product. Not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft. These builds contain no Minecraft code, assets or data: you need your own copy of Minecraft: Java Edition 26.3, and the first start prepares the resources from it.

Downloads

| Platform | File | | --- | --- | | Linux x86-64 (glibc 2.39+: Ubuntu 24.04, Debian 13, Fedora 40 or newer; Vulkan) | horizon-linux-x86_64.tar.gz | | macOS, Apple Silicon | horizon-macos-arm64.zip | | Windows x64 (Vulkan) | horizon-windows-x64.zip |

Each folder holds the game, the resource preparation tool and a PLAY.txt with the steps: Python 3.10+, JDK 25, your launcher's 26.3 install and the 26.3 server jar you download yourself, then python3 tools/prepare_native_client.py --prepare --server-jar PATH once, then run horizon-client from the folder. The macOS build is not notarized: right-click > Open the first time.

What's new

• Mob AI matches vanilla, tick by tick in 72 scenarios, with villagers on a port of vanilla's brain.
• New mobs: the breeze and wind charges, the creaking and the creaking heart, the sniffer, the happy ghast and ghastlings, llamas and trader llamas, and the copper golem; the warden's model, animations and emissive layers.
• Raids and pillager patrols.
• Dispensers, crafters, the loom and the recipe book; containers spill their items when their block is replaced.
• Every command runs as vanilla, including /item modify, /spectate, /waypoint, /dialog and /place.
• Scoreboards and teams in gameplay, the player list, subtitles, every HUD overlay, block entity animations, and End portals and gateways with vanilla's shader.
• Worlds from 1.17 onwards are upgraded as vanilla does.
• Builds for Linux, macOS and Windows.

Known gaps

The warden's brain and the sculk shrieker summoning it, villager breeding and gossip, spawned mob gear enchantments, the resource pack screen, a dedicated server mode, and worlds older than 1.17.

Known issues

• With the render distance at 2 chunks, a world stays on "Loading terrain…". Use a render distance of 3 or more (Options > Video, or --render-distance 12).

New

• port-pack: blocks whose sides are true/false are vines, not walls (Chipped's vines load) (#1027)
• Launcher and horizon-server update: install only releases whose signed checksums match (#1014)
• Structures: Repurposed Structures' waterlogging fix, as horizon:waterlog_in_world_water (#1032)
• Content mods: shared tags merge like a data pack's, replace honoured with a warning (#1021)
• Mod browser (3/3): the launcher's Mods page (#1154, fixes #577)

Fixed

• Add scrollbars to all launcher menus (#1063, fixes #978)
• Mods: capability storage, a quota'd per-mod key/value folder (#1044, fixes #1040)
• Structures: Repurposed Structures' air fix as horizon:close_off_air_sources (#1020)
• Prepare: accept Mojang's republished 26.3 asset indexes (no sound, no panorama) (#1091)
• Prepare: import the Unifont glyphs from the asset index (#1092, fixes #1076)
• Prepare finds installed JDKs; the launcher shows the preparation error up top (#1093, fixes #666)
• Launcher: version 0.2 counts as newer than the dated releases and launcher 0.16 (#1128)
• A release says its version: horizon-server, horizon-prepare, crash reports and user agents report 0.2.x (#1131)

Thanks to @Yvonne-Aizawa, @rdbtCVS.

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New

• port-pack: Repurposed's structure voids keep the world's block (#1022)
• port-pack: enter_block criteria name their block as blocks (mod advancements no longer granted on any block) (#1028)

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New

• Carry Better Ocean Monuments' processors and YUNG's legs (#984)
• Launcher: servers hosted through horizon-server (backend and CLI) (#1017)
• Launcher: a Servers page to host a Horizon server, with friends over Tailscale (#1026)

Fixed

• Carry: bare {min, max} number ranges in loot tables get 26.3's uniform type (#1019)

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New

• Launcher: stable builds by default, a "Beta builds" switch, and each version's channel (#1013)

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New

• Carry Formations' structures (#989)
• Content mods: namespaces besides the mod id, and no namespace shared by two mods (#969)
• Carry: Towns and Towers' namespaces (kaisyn, towns_and_towers) as its manifest's namespaces (#974)

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New

• Carry the mods' pillar and fluid fix processors (#982)

Fixed

• Launcher: switch to DirectX 12 after a Vulkan crash at the renderer's start (#980)

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New

• Carry: YUNG's dead-end pools, modifiers and piece_in_range (#959)

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New

• Carry: read data files with comments, as Minecraft does (#957)
• Carry: write Lithostitched's processor references in (#960)
• Carry: Lithostitched's apply_random, condition and set_block as the game's (#964)
• Carry: YUNG's and Moog's enhanced terrain adaptation as horizon:enhanced_terrain_adaptation (#956)

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New

• Carry: Repurposed's rule tests as the game's, and minecraft:chain as iron_chain (#920)
• Structures: Repurposed Structures' mineshafts, laid out under the terrain (#922)
• Carry: Better Dungeons' small Nether dungeon, as YUNG's jigsaw (#923)
• Carry: vertical_distance_from_start_piece is a dead field, not a lost rule (#924)
• Structures: Moog's trial spawners and vaults, without the templates' saved state (#926)
• Structures: Better Desert Temples' placeholder blocks (suspicious sand, sherds, traps) (#929)
• Structures: Better Dungeons' small dungeons keep one or two chests (#930)
• Structures: Lithostitched's block swaps (Overhauled Village), with the shared properties (#932)

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New

• Carry: the structure mods' spawner processors, as data the game runs (#909)
• Carry: Repurposed's Nether city, Nether shipwrecks and End stronghold (#911)

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Fixed

• Startup: make the menu interactive while world resources load (#712) (#878)

Thanks to @rdbtCVS.

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New

• Modpacks: mod structures in vanilla sets, YUNG's jigsaws and placements, Moog/Repurposed layouts (combined #832–#852) (#870)
• Prepare: find native jars where Prism Launcher keeps them (#858, fixes #849)

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New

• Modpacks and server hosting: modpacks-4's #753–#765 and server-host-5's #759–#790 combined (#823)

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Fixed

• Launcher: custom arguments for the game's command line (#719, fixes #716)
• launcher: reach Prism's and MultiMC's shared libraries from an instance folder (#721, fixes #693)

Thanks to @rdbtCVS.

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New

• Launcher: when Minecraft isn't found, say where it looked and what to do (#437, fixes #419)
• Launcher: prepare from Prism, MultiMC, Modrinth App, ATLauncher or GDLauncher (#438)
• Launcher: download Minecraft from Mojang for a signed-in owner (#440, fixes #434)
• horizon-prepare: keep the registry and command reports with the prepared files (#590)
• Launcher: Import modpack, its coverage report, port and play it as a profile (#663)

Fixed

• Fix launcher data preview scroll isolation (#457, fixes #432)
• Launcher consent: Send nothing / Save choices always on screen (#478, fixes #460)
• Package registry reports and show recoverable server resource errors (#576, fixes #573)
• Launcher: complete prepared versions that lack the run-time reports (#652)
• Launcher: Windows tests pass again (releases blocked since launcher-v0.4.0) (#698)

Thanks to @LookImEcho-Rick, @Online5277.

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New

• Launcher MCP: play the running game through game_* tools (#342)
• Opt-in data collection (2/5): the launcher asks, Settings changes it, CLI and MCP (#250)

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New

• Play with friends (3/3): Join a friend with the code alone, in game and in the launcher; end-to-end harness (#200)

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Fixed

• perf(launcher): fetch startup releases once for list and updates (#225)
• fix(launcher): wrap long warnings within the window (#245)
• Preserve package wrappers in launcher desktop entries (#244)

Thanks to @rdbtCVS.

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New

• Design system: one set of tokens for the launcher, menus and website (#166)
• Horizon's mark and its icon everywhere (#167)
• Launcher in the new design language (#168)

Fixed

• Resolve relative preparation roots before running Java exporters (#185)

Thanks to @Online5277.

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Fixed

• Fix missing background in Classic menus (#162)
• Reuse verified Minecraft imports when preparing new versions (#178, fixes #160)
• Release train 3/4: automatic launcher releases, version built in from the tag (#141)

Thanks to @Online5277, @rdbtCVS.

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No notes for this release.

Updates no longer ask you to prepare again. If you already have the launcher, it updates itself.

Fixed

• A new Horizon version reuses the resources you already prepared when it targets the same Minecraft version and nothing that shapes those files changed. Versions that 0.1.3 installed without preparing are caught up when the launcher starts.
• After an install, the CLI and MCP say when the version is ready to play instead of asking you to prepare it.

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The Horizon launcher installs, updates and starts Horizon. If you already have it, it updates itself. Website: https://playhorizon.dev

New

• Discord, Sponsor and website links in the launcher.
• Auto-install is on by default: new Horizon versions install themselves.
• Menu style setting: Horizon's own menus or the classic look.

Fixed

• The launcher could fail to read releases when GitHub's rate limit kicked in.

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No notes for this release.