v4.0

This is a summary of the notable changes since Amidst v3.7, which is the last release in the old repository. For more detailed information have a look at #1 and the releases notes of the v4.0 beta versions.

New features displayed in the world

• igloos
• mineshafts
• ocean monuments
• 1.9 strongholds
• the end dimension
• the end cities
• reduced false positives for villages
• increased accuracy of structures
• fixed nether fortress locations
• fixed player locations for the nether
• renamed the biome "Sky" to "The End"
• the world spawn is now read from the save game
• the player world icons now display the player's current dimension

Player loading, moving and saving

• improved workflow for player moving
• fixed the player in the sky issue by asking the user for the new y coordinate when a player is moved
• fixed player moving context menu on linux (did not show up on right click)
• added support for the playerdata directory, which is how players are stored since Minecraft 1.7.6 (saving and loading)
• added implementation of another web-service to request player names and skins by uuid
• added implementation of another web-service to request player uuids by name
• reworked how save games are recognised as single- or multiplayer

GUI

• reworked menu structure
• reworked keyboard shortcuts and Mnemonics
• added new Nether Fortress and Witch Hut icons
• added scale widget
• added world type to the seed widget
• added menu entry switch profile
• added menu entry goto spawn
• added menu entry reload player locations
• added menu entry how can I move a player?
• added warning about save game manipulation
• debug widget prevented the user to enter the biome highlight mode
• updated information in About window
• all Operating Systems now use the default Java Look and Feel
• made OS X keyboard shortcuts feel more native

Changes under the hood

• added information to the seed history file
• added useful logging output
• changed the update mechanism to work with the new project location
• increased the system requirements to Java version 8
• improved the command line interface
• removed google analytics tracker
• removed unused libraries and code
• cleaned up the source code
• used a code formatter (from eclipse)
• added documentation
• automated the build process
• added tests to ensure the world generation is not changed by accident
• changed to new version list URL
• updated the cached version list to include all versions up to Minecraft 1.9

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Changes since v4.0-beta10

• added Minecraft 1.9 recognition
• updated cached Minecraft version list
• made OS X keyboard shortcuts feel more native
• disabled OpenGL on Linux
• added devtool to generate the Biome Color Table
• reworked widgets
  • world seed
  • world type
  • selected world icon

v4.0-beta10

• added new Nether Fortress and Witch Hut icons
• added recognition for Minecraft 1.9-pre2
• switched windows to use the default Java look and feel again
• renamed the menu entry "Go to Spawn" to "Go to World Spawn"
• fixed rendering issues
• fixed a bug when moving the main window to another monitor
• removed the dos-box from the exe-file
• improved logging information

v4.0-beta9

This release contains user interface issues. Please use another one.

• renamed biome color profile to biome profile
• renamed the biome profile directory from biome-color-profile to biometo be backwards compatible with Amidst v3.7
• added information to the seed history file
• added explicit warning about save game manipulation
• added support for new snapshots
• fixed bugs

v4.0-beta8

• updated mail address in About window
• added world type to screen and suggested screenshot filename
• fixed widgets to not catch unrelated mouse events
• implemented fixed 128-stronghold generation algorithm
• made the end map more accurate
• there is only a single crash window

v4.0-beta7

• increased the accuracy of end cities
• players can now be moved again when an unknown minecraft version is loaded
• made the void background texture for the end static
• added information to the debug widget
• added tests
• fixed bugs

v4.0-beta6

• improved the crash window user interface
• added high resolution icons
• the world spawn is now read from the level.dat file
• added recognition for the snapshot 16w02a

v4.0-beta5

• made the saves directory in the profile directory optional
• possible fix for issue #26

v4.0-beta4

• enhanced the layers menu
• layers that are for another dimension are automatically disabled and thus invisible
• layers for structures that are not supported by the current minecraft version are disabled
• the user can enable all layers that are disabled by the current minecraft version to display where structures might me generated when the world is opened with a later minecraft version
• menu entries for disabled layers are disabled
• added many Minecraft Versions to the list of recognised versions
• the save capture image dialog is now a save dialog
• the save capture image dialog now suggests a meaningful name
• removed obvious dimension information from the world icons
• added a meaningful error message when there is no valid .minecraft directory
• fixed an issue with the "(Default)" launcher profile
• added the minecraft profile name to the main window title

v4.0-beta3

• refactored world icons producers
• preparations for the implementation of the export mechanism
• added igloos
• added mineshafts
• added 1.9 strongholds
• added the end dimension
• added end cities
• reduced false positives for villages
• increased accuracy of structures
• fixed nether fortress locations
• fixed player location for the nether
• the grid layer is now also drawn for unloaded fragments
• fixed seed history logger
• renamed the biome "Sky" to "The End"
• removed second period from filename
• changed location of backup files

Most of the changes are ported from AmidstExporter.

v4.0-beta2

• changed update mechanism to use Github Pages
• decreased startup time
• added command line parameter for the biome color profile directory
• enhanced command line interface
• fixed bugs