ClayGrounds v0.4.6

Town Reconstruction & Generation Optimization

Solmere Town Fixes

• Fixed the floor height of the main Solmere town houses.
• The Guild Hall / Class Selection House remains unchanged and is now used as the correct vertical reference for the town.
• Added an automatic migration for existing ClayGrounds worlds so the corrected houses can be applied without requiring a new save.

Town Decoration Pass

• Began a larger environmental decoration pass for Solmere.
• Added additional:
  • Benches
  • Planters
  • Lighting
  • Windows
  • House stoops
  • Market details
  • Small town props
  • Environmental clutter
• Added restrained decoration around the main plaza while preserving navigation space.
• Added initial thematic details along routes leading toward:
  • Sunwash Strand
  • Verdant Steps
  • Claycrest Ruins
  • Sunken Grotto

Faster World Generation

• Reworked ClayGrounds' original staged terrain generator using the newer proven bulk-generation approach.
• Removed the old system that dispatched hundreds of individual generation steps through repeated condition checks.

Previous Generation

• 344 individual terrain generation steps.
• 55 individual foundation generation steps.
• 399 total staged micro-step functions.
• Approximately 30.5 seconds of scheduled generation time before normal game/client overhead.

New Generation

• 344 terrain steps consolidated into 43 bounded terrain batches.
• 55 foundation steps consolidated into 11 bounded foundation batches.
• All 2,682 existing authored terrain edits are preserved.
• All 219 existing foundation fills are preserved.
• Old micro-step functions have been removed.
• Generation batches remain intentionally bounded rather than attempting to construct the entire map in a single tick.
• Estimated scheduled generation time reduced from approximately 30.5 seconds to ~3.7 seconds before normal server/client overhead.

Generation Performance Improvements

• Removed unnecessary per-step particles during terrain construction.
• Removed unnecessary per-step generation sounds.
• Reduced repeated command-dispatch overhead.
• Reduced repeated generation-condition evaluation.
• Reduced function scheduling overhead.
• Preserved the authored ClayGrounds world layout rather than replacing it with procedural approximations.

Existing World Compatibility

• Added map_revision 46.
• Existing completed worlds automatically receive the new town reconstruction once.
• Existing worlds do not need to be recreated.
• Interrupted older ClayGrounds generation sequences can continue using the new batching system.
• Existing progression, classes, combat systems, mobs, regions, and player data remain preserved.

DAI Compatibility

• Remains compatible with DAI 1.9.9.
• Maintains the stable claygrounds experience identity.
• Maintains managed datapack version handling introduced in v0.4.5.
• Continues supporting automatic DAI world datapack replacement when a newer ClayGrounds version is installed globally.