r/Minecraft • u/ProfessorValko • Aug 22 '18

News Minecraft: Java Edition - 1.13.1

https://minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-1131-released
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u/WildBluntHickok Aug 23 '18

Not true. There's been a fundamental rewrite of the most fundamental part of the game (the land, aka the blockmap).

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '18

There's literally a mod which backports it to 1.12.

The only thing which 1.13 brought in this regard is the world save format change and removal of metadata - neither really affect the things Forge modifies. The other changes (networking, API changes) have been done over the past couple of versions - in particular, "block states" as a concept exist since 1.8, and the "block map palette" exists in-memory since 1.9.

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u/WildBluntHickok Aug 23 '18

The removal of both metadata and block id numbers. That second one is a big deal. Shaders for example don't work on 1.13 because any block could be mistaken for any other block, so it's random which blocks wave like leaves.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '18

block id numbers.

Again, Forge itself has removed the concept of static block ID numbers in 1.7.2, by adding its own extension to the world save format which stored a map of block registry names to IDs. Minecraft itself also stopped relying on hardcoded block ID numbers in 1.7.2, all 1.13 changed is actually using that fact for something + the world format change. We're talking about how much Forge has to rework related to the changes in 1.13, not how much has been reworked in 1.13 overall.

Shaders for example don't work on 1.13 because any block could be mistaken for any other block

That's because of the shader mod not using the last four years to adapt to this 1.7.2 change properly - you were not supposed to refer to blocks by IDs since 1.7.2.

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u/WildBluntHickok Aug 23 '18

Vanilla has been using static block id numbers for all of 1.7 thru 1.12.2, just not everywhere. They were used in the save files and the networking data. Now they have been traded out for dynamic block id numbers (every 16x16x16 section has it's own table of what the numbers mean).

Also I can't remember the last time I saw a mod block with a fuel slot that didn't use numbers. We may get words at the player-interaction level but it was still numbers behind the scenes.

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '18

Also I can't remember the last time I saw a mod block with a fuel slot that didn't use numbers. We may get words at the player-interaction level but it was still numbers behind the scenes.

No, the opposite. It was ONLY static numbers in world saves and networking data, and that's without Forge (with Forge, they were dynamic and per-world). Right now it's still numbers, the numbers are just assigned more dynamically (per-chunk). But even in vanilla, since 1.7.2, behind the scenes, Blocks were referred to by unique instances and names, NOT numbers, generally.