Better Than Wolves

July 15th, 2013

• Added Soul Sand Piles to the game. These function similarly to the other piles, in terms of Soul Sand breaking apart into them if a shovel (or Mattock) isn't used to harvest it. However, they also have some additional functionality associated with them...
• Added the ability to use Soul Sand Piles to locate players after death. Right click with a Soul Sand Pile in your hand to get started, with the subtleties of this behavior left to the player to discover. Note that players who died before this change went into effect can not be tracked in this manner (this means you Charlie ;) ), but dying again will cause it to register.
• Added the ability to pass the various pile types through the appropriate Hopper filters. I had neglected to do so in the past.
• Changed weapons to take damage to their durability when they are successfully used to block damage.
• Changed the name of the "Hunger" status effect to "Food Poisoning" for the sake of clarity.
• Changed Jack O'Lanterns so that they can be placed without having a solid block beneath them. Previously, they couldn't be placed this way, but would remain in place if the supporting block was removed, which was just silly.
• Changed boats and minecarts so that they don't collide with items. This should prevent some rather odd behavior such as boats self-destructing when the player cuts logs while in one.
• Fixed problem with rendering books (of all types) in a Cauldron creating half as much glue as they should have.
• Fixed problem with villagers not being able to open and close wooden doors.
• Fixed slight visual vertical offset on cow heads. They were appearing a bit lower than they should have (and than they do in vanilla).
• Removed the option to disable Hardcore Spawn. With the addition of Soul Sand Piles, this feature is now finalized, and it's simply the way BTW plays.