Whiteout

Whiteout is an attempt to implement the gameplay and mechanic consistency patches included in the Paper project stream in Fabric.

Patches

Present

Bug	Upstream Source	Enabled by Default	Name
MC-4	Paper	❌	Item drops sometimes appear at the wrong location
MC-27056	Paper	❌	You can blow the extension off a piston
MC-84789	Paper	✔️	Tamed wolves beg for bones while wild wolves don't (this has been partially fixed in the vanilla game, so this fix is no longer included Paper)
MC-99075	Paper	✔️	Cancelled block place (spawn protection) causes inventory desync
MC-108513	Paper	❌	End crystal did not spawn/despawn correct after enderdragon respawned
MC-123450	Paper	✔️	Item frames play sounds when the item within them is read from NBT
MC-123848	Paper	✔️	Item frames (and items within) when removed from a ceiling, drop atop, not under, the block
MC-145260	Paper	❌	Whitelist on state inconsistency
MC-147659	Paper	❌	Some witch huts spawn the incorrect cat
MC-153086	Paper	✔️	Beacons always play deactivating sound when broken, even when not powered
MC-157464	Paper	✔️	Villagers move around in bed or even leave the bed when food is thrown at them
MC-158900	Paper	❌	"bad packet id 26" upon connecting after tempban expire
MC-159283	Paper	✔️	The End terrain does not generate in multiple rings centered around the world center
MC-163962	Paper	❌	Villager demand values decrease indefinitely
MC-167279	Paper	✔️	Bees get stuck in the void
MC-171420	Paper	✔️	OP players get kicked for not being on the whitelist (enforce = on)
MC-174630	Paper	❌	Secondary beacon effect remains when switching primary effect
MC-179072	Paper	❌	Creepers do not defuse when switching from Survival to Creative/Spectator
MC-188840	Paper	❌	This ticket covered piston-based block duplication. It is unknown why the ticket was privated/deleted.
MC-210802	Paper	❌	Inactive sheep eat grass
MC-243057	Paper	✔️	Furnace recipes don't consider alternatives when first option of recipe is used for fuel
MC-244739	Paper	✔️	Goat eating sounds aren't played when feeding them the last item of wheat within a stack
MC-248588	Paper	✔️	The "mobGriefing" gamerule doesn't prevent burning entities from being able to decrease the levels of water or powder snow cauldrons
MC-253721	Paper	✔️	Wrong logs when running /op @a
MC-257487	Paper	✔️	The ender dragon's name is not reset when it is respawned in the end
MC-259571	Paper	✔️	Last player game mode not saved after player dies or the game is reloaded
MC-262422	Paper	✔️	Lightning bolts during thunderstorms can strike players in spectator game mode
MC-263999	Paper	✔️	Zombies breaking doors do not show break particles
N/A	Paper	❌	Accessing the nether roof
N/A	Paper	❌	Breaking permanent blocks

Patches that aren't enabled by default generally meet at least one of the following criteria:

• The new behavior created by the patch is (possibly) not what's actually intended by Mojang
• The patch circumvents the issue but doesn't truly correct it
• The manner in which the patch is applied is not technically elegant and might cause unforeseen issues and/or performance degradation
• Mojang has not assigned the ticket a priority, potentially meaning that a Mojang employee has not yet personally reviewed the ticket and confirmed that the described behavior is unintentional

If you wish to enable them, you will have to do so in .minecraft/configs/whiteout.properties.

Planned

Bug	Source	Name
MC-33041	Spigot	Dedicated server logs "java.io.IOException: The handle is invalid" on startup
MC-92282	Spigot	Mob spawner block_entity_data does not copy SpawnData data to missing SpawnPotentials
MC-121706	Purpur	Skeletons and illusioners aren't looking up / down at their target while strafing
MC-157395	Spigot	Small armor stands drop no loot table
MC-200092	Paper	/setworldspawn seems to ignore the 'angle' parameter
MC-235045	Paper	Entity type tags suggestions don't work in target selectors
MC-264285	Spigot	Unbreakable flint and steels are completely consumed when igniting a creeper
MC-264979	Spigot	Fresh installations print NoSuchFileException for server.properties

Not Planned

Bug	Name
MC-11193	The order in which powerable blocks (e.g. redstone dust blocks) along a wire are powered or de-powered is not clearly defined and causes a non-deterministic behavior for redstone contraptions
MC-81098	Redstone dust updates cause lag

These patches are not planned for any future release. They are currently being addressed by Mojang in the experimental snapshots.

Disclaimers

Whiteout is in no way associated with the Paper project. Please do not contact the maintainers of the Paper project about Whiteout.

License

Since all bug fixes provided by this mod are ported from Paper, said fixes inherit their licensing from the Paper project, which is licensed under the GPLv3.

While some contributors to the Paper project chose to release their code under the more permissive MIT License, it is easier, and legally permissible, to release this entire project under the GPLv3. Patches are however still annotated to attribute appropriate credit to their original authors.

Compatibility

Best effort is made to keep Whiteout compatible with Lithium. Reporting of issues with compatibility is appreciated.

Compatibility with other mods is not guaranteed, but if you make an issue ticket I may get around to it. Attempts at compatibility are at my discretion. I generally will not make an effort maintain compatibility with very niche mods or large mod-packs, and will make no attempt at compatibility with mods that are fundamentally incompatible with the goals of Whiteout.

Compatibility with Sinytra Connector and similar projects is not supported at all. If you have issues using Whiteout with such layers, that is your problem.

Backporting

Deprecated versions of Minecraft will never be supported. This is a hobby project. Actually, it's more accurate to say that I made this mod - and even learned how to mod in the first place - because I personally needed these fixes in Fabric. I only made this project public because I figured there might be at least a handful of others that want/need the same. I do not care nor have the time to maintain backports. Please don't bother asking.