Comsicare-Networks

We have finished long and thorough internal testing of our 1.21.6 update for the THE PHASE SMP.
With that said this will not be done just now.

First of all we need to do lots of preparation and configuration after which we will make the move to 1.21.6
Once the update goes live we will update the MotD accordingly to make Java players aware of the version change.

Once the initial move is done we will need to maintain, reimplement and fix many things I am sure. This will take quite some time and until that is done we do not intend to develop new features and improvements. Y’all will be busy with the new Minecraft features I hope.

What will change?

With a version update there will of course be some gameplay and structure changes:

What will go (mostly for now):

• The server shop will be removed for the time being. The server side implementation that we were using is not currently available for 1.21.6. We will spent some more time at a later point to reimplement the shop. Since the shop is not really part of the core gameplay, it is not prioritized.
• Villager pickup will be removed for the time being. Again the server side implementation is not updated yet.
• Player to player trading will be removed for the time being. Again the server side implementation is not updated yet. We are currently looking into a replacement. We cannot guarantee that this will make it to the live server.
• Our implementation for custom anvil handling is gone. Forever.
  We have not been happy with it for a while. Therefore we have decided to look into a new implementation and just remove it for now. No ETA on that.

What will change:

• The map: We will delete all chunks that have not had any player interaction to make room for pale forests and all the new world generation. This change is necessary because the world was pregenerated for performance reasons.
  In short this change should not impact anyone.
• Some features like context links in the pause menu and Villager management are reimplemented in a different way due to missing versions of the old implementations. They will work differently but should offer most if not all the features as before.

Now the interesting stuff, what’s new:

• All vanilla features from 1.21.2 – 1.21.6 (duh)
• Some QoL and SMP features that we have quietly been working on in the background. Their implementations were specifically targeted for 1.21.4 or higher in scope of the version upgrade. The should be ready for the launch.

Speaking of the launch, when will the main server update?

We are working on some final tweaks and fixes on the closed test server. Tomorrow, Tuesday the 21. Oktober we will open the test server for an open beta phase.
The full update is scheduled for Friday. As always, just an estimate blah blah. You know how it goes.

Thank you <3

Will all that said, let me just say thank you for everyone who has participated in the SMP so far. Pleasant vibes, nice builds and lots of fun coming to up to 1 year in December.
For that, thank you!

That’s all for now. We will publish a new post with some more information about the new features and progress after the opening of the public test-server. Stay tuned.