October 2021 – uNmINeD

Bedrock status #3

Post published:October 30, 2021
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Today is the day of the first successful Bedrock rendering. It seems that Bedrock saves much less chunks to disk than Java Edition as you explore. Perhaps it only saves chunks that have changed since generation from seed.

The Bedrock chunk loader needs some optimization because it is now 100x slower than the Java one.

Bedrock status #2

Post published:October 30, 2021
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This is the first render of a Bedrock world showing blocks. Something is off 😀

Bedrock status

Post published:October 29, 2021
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This is the very first render of a Minecraft Bedrock world that shows a successful data extraction from LevelDB files (without the need for a LevelDB library). The darker areas show where the chunks are. The next thing will be to decode the chunk data and feed it into the rendering engine. I am very excited about what it will look like.

The very first render of a Minecraft Bedrock world in uNmINeD

uNmINeD 0.14.13

Post published:October 28, 2021
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New uNmINeD development snapshot is available for download!

Changes:

Added support for changed chunk format used in latest 1.18 snapshot 21w43a

uNmINeD 0.14.12

Post published:October 22, 2021
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New uNmINeD development snapshot is available for download!

Changes:

(GUI) Added spawn location and single player location markers
(GUI) Added shadow strength setting
Fixed crash in 1.18 paletted biome loader
Minor performance optimizations
File access method reverted from memory mapped files to standard FileStream to avoid possible collisions with other apps

uNmINeD 0.14.10

Post published:October 19, 2021
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New uNmINeD development snapshot is available for download!

Changes:

Reworked biome code
Fixed 3D biomes below y=0
Added support for new biome palette format in 1.18 snapshots
(GUI) Fixed control alignments

uNmINeD 0.14.9

Post published:October 18, 2021
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New uNmINeD development snapshot is available for download!

Changes:

Improved performance: reduced memory allocation stress, huge drop in GC wait time, +50% speed
(GUI) Shadow rendering* is available again
(CLI) Added --night parameter for night mode rendering
(CLI) Added --shadows parameter for rendering shadows
Fixed crashes in web map export

* Note that this is a simple heightmap based shadow algorithm that does not handle floating objects, bridges, overhangs, and other structures with holes. Accurate shadow calculation will come later.