Hey everyone...!

Build 57 is now being considered relatively stable, as it has fine for quite some time without game-breaking issues that affect the majority of users.

This release's interesting music video (as promised): SIDO: Astronaut

The libraries HAVE CHANGED! You will need to redownload them!

Backports before Forge 1.7.10-1558 are broken at the moment, sorry!

What's Inside:

• Fix #349
• Avoid potential "forever" server lockup
• Fix regeneration effect in beacons
• Remove flatmap (performance improvement kudos to @dogboy21 #407 )
• Performance improvements concerning OreDictionary, CraftPlayer
• Koloboke hashmap library to further improve chunk get() performance
• Fix some mistakes with Thermite RNG
• Add the vecmathlib needed for ProjectE
• Performance improvement with TileEntity collections
• Fix Bukkit achievement command ( kudos to @vizv #424 )
• Fix #437
• Apply Spigot Ping Patch ( #451 )
• Update update URL checker
• Update build requirements ( kudos to @spannerman79 )
• Allow opped fake-players to bypass the forced Bukkit event I had implemented (should fix odd stuff like #279 )
• Changed force restart to work properly #441 / #490 , now the crash log tells you the truth 😉
• Lag patch for fake players (still needs to be looked at by a larger audience)

There has not been a release in a while, as I had exams which I needed to focus on.

This is another ALPHA release. We project a BETA release at build 60. @Time6628 and I have implemented several fixes which we need to be tested on a larger scale before we are certain they are safe to use. There is nothing server breaking as far as I am aware, but I suggest you run a test server before you try to use this build.

Also, as I have other commitments that I have taken on, Thermos will not receive as much attention as it used to. I apologize in advance.

This release's interesting music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDoy4l3-9rc 😛

The libraries have not changed

What's inside:

• Possibly fix Opis?
• Fix potential dupe glitches with things going through portals
• Fix #323
• Fix #316
• Fix #298
• Latest Buycraft guava compat (hopefully)
• Add isForgeBlock method
• Preclude null worldguard error spam
• Fix an issue with books being signed incorrectly
• Handle server deadlock when #365 (not sure)
• Fix entity activation range
• Allow highly negative acceleration to bypass the Bukkit "moved too quickly"

This is a legitimately alpha build. More things were changed than usual between builds.

What's inside:

• Implement Guava 17 for PEX 1.23+ (need to fork and make fixed version)
• Work on the ways entities are activated
• Implement entities.yml file, where you can do things similar to tileentities.yml and also set entities to never ever tick!
  • Русский: Sushchestvo! 😛
• Fix #295 Leaf Shearing Bug
• Prevent firing of Bukkit Fire ignition event if gamerule "doFireTick" is false
  • Prevents grief prevention lag
• Transition to Hash-backed ArrayList data structure for all tile entity collection, should see a significant performance improvement
• Welcome @Time6628 to the Thermos Development Team!! 👏
  • Add getClickedInventory() method to match Spigot API
  • Add BeaconEffectEvent to match Spigot API ⚡
  • Let Spigot Watchdog close the server (System.exit() allowed) 💯
  • Add BungeeChatAPI Support 👍

Known Caveats:

• Entity Activation range is broken : this means that mobs/animals will lag the server slightly more than usual
• You can set items/people to never-ever-tick: @kristi71111 notified me about this, it's not exactly an issue but it is an interesting problem if you make the setting true
  • True for items: when you try to pick them up they disappear
  • True for players: cancer

The libraries have not changed.

Each release will have a little interesting music video at the bottom from now on...here is the first!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tqqarOi2dU

This is really a beta but bleeding just in case I accidentally broke something.

What's Inside:

• Ability to @ tag someone, Discord/GitHub style, plays an XP orb "ping" at the player if he/she has volume on
• Uber speedups in chunk get,put,set,check because of special bithacks and other tidbits
• NBT copy() speedups
• Fix a security flaw concerning /plugin:cmd usage by shady users, flaw fix enabled by default in cauldron.yml under protection.no-fallback...
• Force disable ram chunks just in case (it isn't done yet)
• Spigot entity activation range checking optimization. Offers up to a 5% server time reduction in theory

The libraries have not changed.

What's Inside:

• Fix #62
• Fix #275
• Fix #265
• Fix #180
• Fix #276 (needs testing)
• Work on #187 & #190
• The libraries have not changed*

Known Caveats:

• Maps do not work (they appear empty...sorry!)
• Fix for #254 does not work

What's inside:

• Fix various teleportation issues
• Minor optimizations

The libraries have not changed

What's Inside:

• Fix a serious issue in B51 where cauldron.yml settings were not properly applied
• Fix #256
• Fix some issues with IntArraySetting and StringArraySetting
• Minor optimization changes

The libraries have not changed

What's Inside:

• Fix #125
• Fulfill #239 (testing needed)
• Fulfill need for "absolute block removal"
• Fix silently tracking (for good)
• Handling for #253
• Modernize segment of crafting inventory code...

• Fix bug with region file saving
• Fix silently tracking spam
• Minor modifications to biome timeout

The libraries have not changed.

What's Inside:

• Allow non tile activator fake players to pass to Bukkit
• Entity AABB Optimizations
• Fix #236
• Force pass of Bukkit enderchest on respawn
• Fringe Case Chunk Optimization (store the last 4 accessed chunks. getBlock(x+1,y,z+1) could access another chunk next to the current chunk so the operation would be almost instantaneous)

The libraries have not changed.