Sky Archipelago

• [Added] Higher ocean heights for those who use height mods wanting oceans a lot higher.

• [Added] Progressively less radius requirement for village spawning, resulting in hamlet appearing if large is unable to place after a certain amount of retries. 

• [Fixed] Cresent Shaped island archetype, now actually produces a proper cresent shape 

• [Fixed] /locate structure pointing to the correct location (Some still need further adjustment pending for v1.3.5)

• [Fixed] Igloo spawning above ground. 

• [Fixed] Ocean Monument spawning, should no longer appear out of water.

• [Fixed] Villages spawning too small as 'solo' structures. (Potential to still not spawn as much as expected pending on the island radius settings)

• [Fixed?] Spawning structures cut in half. (Needs further testing, but was no longer able to replicate) 

• [Fixed?] Chunk failed to save spamming related to structure spawning where deferred structure has not yet spawned.

Changelog:

• [Added] Village placement on islands, 3 categories (Solo, hamlet and full) allowing for smaller villages/outposts, hamlets and full fledged villages to spawn.

• [Added] Village filter for spawning of villages making it support modded villages. (Based on village existing in full id)

• [Added] Jigsaw structures spawning partially underground based on start_height

• [Added] Water based structure spawning on ocean layer (OCEAN ENABLED ONLY, pending 1.4 for added support to floating islands)

• [Added] New category STRONGHOLD to allow configuration for modded strongholds to use the island placement approach.

• [Added] Island overlapping logic in Advanced Settings

  • void => Destroys island overlap downward, existing approach
  • overlap => Overlap over an island keeping all terrain in tact
  • crater => Creates a crater in the shape of the island overlapping

• [Added] Exposed category tokens to Dedicated & Singleplayer JSON configurations

  • water, sky, ground, underground, village, stronghold categories available.
  • Enables configuration by keyword (e.g: adding minecraft to ground would result in any minecraft* to spawn on the ground. minecraft:stronghold would spawn on the ground instead, or tries to)

• [Changed] Sky based placement migrated to v2

• [Changed] Underground based placement migrated to v2

• [Fixed] Savanna spawning with coarse dirt only, now spawning with grass. (Leftover from testing)

• [Fixed?] Chunk failing to be saved. Guard rail in place to stop it from occuring, from limited testing could not replicate, but more testing is required.

v2 Placement is W.I.P, so expect a few kinks in the system.

• [FIXED] Stronghold spawning, issue was related to underground flagging it as a structure to use underground logic, however strongholds have their own unique spawning logic.

• [Added] YUNG's Stronghold support, not 100% perfect, but it works

• [Added] v2 Spawning structure overhaul, instead of relying on vanilla placement we now rely on island-based spawning. Meaning more structures can spawn.

• [Added] Ground-based structure support for small, medium and large structures

More to come!

[Fixed] Singleplayer not loading last default set preset and instead loading default values.

Smart Structure Placement Update Changes

Structure Placement

• [Added] Small Structure Placement Ruleset
• [Added] Medium Structure Placement Ruleset
• [Added] Large Structure Placement Ruleset
• [Added] Underground Structure Placement Ruleset
  • [Added] Jigsaw support for underground structures
  • [Added] Static structures support for underground structures
• [Added] Sky Structure Placement Ruleset
• [Added] Water Structure Placement Ruleset (experimental)
• [Added] Whitelisting of structures to bypass placement rules and retain no-void spawn ruleset
• [Added] Blacklisting of structures to avoid spawning of the configured structres outright
• [Added] Category override support to force structures into a specific structure category for location placement.
  • [Added] New categories: SKY UNDERGROUND WATER DEFAULT SMALL_GROUND MEDIUM_GROUND LARGE_GROUND (Previous legacy categories will still continue to work, but map towards the new category names)

Configurability

• [Added] Disable Islands spawning over ocean biomes (configurable)
• [Added] Height support when using mods to increase spawning height range up to 2000 blocks
• [Added] Island thickness limiter to prevent excessively large islands from large radius usage

Built-in Presets

• [Added] New Continental Waters Preset to showcase the new height limiters and larger island radius capability.
• [Changed] All Built-in Presets have their structure configurations cleared, as built-in support covers majority of the cases.

Command Changes

• [Added] New export_dedicated command to export a preset currently in use in the format of a dedicated server config file. No more needing to go back into the menu to click the export dedicated button!

Performance

• [Changed] Column caching logic refactored to be more efficient which results in an overall improvement in chunks per second generation. (Depending on mod usage, % can be higher or lower)
• [Changed] Reuse of terrain snapshots to reduce redundant terrain generation work (Primarily impacts jigsaw structures, but also gives slight boost to chunks per second)

Fixes

• [Fixed] Dedicated server using default configuration due to loading order of config files.

[Fixed]: Default configuration set to debug-mode, now set to false. 

Dedicated-Server only change, if its still enabled. Disable it sky_archipelago-server.toml in the config folder, set the values to false and no more logs.

Equally, if you do want to see structure spawning logs, enable them

[Fixed]  Dedicated server does not load the preset configured.

NOTE: Only need to download 1.2.1 if its used on dedicated server, does not contain anything different from 1.2 for Singleplayer and you do not require to have 1.2.1 to join a MP server that uses 1.2.1.

• [Added]: Stronghold Support. (Island creation + protection range in which a stronghold will spawn).

• [Added]: Deepslate spawning with configurable Y-level for when deepslate should spawn. (Available in advanced menu).

• [Added]: Players will spawn only on an anchor island upon world creation.

• [Added]: Export configuration to clipboard to paste into dediated server config. (No more manual 1 by 1 entering).

• [Added]: Toggle to disable rule structure spawning mechanism. (Use at your own risk, this will just let ANYTHING spawn ANYWHERE).

• [Added]: Cluster spacing mode CONSISTENT & DYNAMIC to allow for variable cluster distances and set distance.

• [Added]: Built-in presets (Survival-ready preset available for use).

• [Added]: Preset to be assigned as default settings. (No need to keep loading a preset you love, just set it as default and every world after will use that as long as world is set to sky island).

• [Added] Default preset assigned persistance, if you close Minecraft and open it again, it will retain the default assigned by you.

• [Added]: Enable/Disable Satellite islands from spawning (Part of clusters around anchor islands).

• [Added]: Enable/Disable Spire islands from spawning (Part of clusters around anchor islands).

• [Changed]: Reset defaults button now will reset to your assigned default preset (if none, defaults to hardcoded values).

• [Changed]: Max Island radius is now 500.

• [Changed]: Configuration description/naming to be clearer.

• [Changed]: Advanced Config screen to be more in line with existing configuration flows.

• [Fixed]: Players will no longer spawn in the void when using low density and high cluster spacing. (New custom fallback mechanism will scan further to find the first available anchor island).