Better Than Bountiful (BTB)

# Voice & Vision Update (1.7.10.11)

A complete built-in proximity voice chat, a controllable camera with filters, the mod's achievements woven straight into the vanilla tree, and a big pile of old vanilla bugs fixed.

## Added

### Voice Chat
* **Built-in proximity voice** with positional audio: voices come from the right direction and fade with distance. Gliby's Voice Chat is no longer needed and has been removed from the pack.
* **Voice panel** on the period (.) key: mute/deafen buttons, microphone picker, noise suppression, an audio test, and a player list where everyone can be set 0 to 200% or muted with one click.
* **Three talk modes**: push to talk, toggle, or voice activation with a calibratable threshold.
* **Mute (H) and Deafen (N)** hotkeys with Discord style logic (deafen silences both directions). The mic HUD indicator can sit in any corner.

### Camera
* **Controllable camera** with zoom, a timer, and a walk mode (R) where you wander around while the camera keeps filming.
* **Nine filters**, from black and white and retro to the new Funhouse (fisheye bulge) and Swirl (spiral twist). Negative now previews exactly in the viewfinder, and the distortion filters show their warp live.
* Photos of other players are never mixed into your own pictures. Only your own photos can be swapped for custom images.

### Inspect
* **Inspect held items** on F: 14 different animations depending on the item, and swords plus flint and steel randomly roll between several CS style sequences per press. Toggleable in the settings.

### Items and Blocks
* **Explosive Arrows**, crafted from a gold nugget, stick, feather and two gunpowder. Small area blast that breaks cracked blocks.
* **Cracked Nether Bricks**, a new block that is broken by explosive arrows.
* **Demolitions skeleton**: 0.1% of skeletons secretly carry explosive arrows, but only sixteen shots.
* **Colored saddles** for horses, mules, donkeys and pigs.
* **Cauldron re-dyeing** of glass panes, wool and hardened clay, even things that are already dyed. Horizontal glass now also breaks by hand.

### Book and Quill
* **Export and import** books to and from text files (name your export in a prompt). Everything is saved locally.

### Capes
* **Import and export** capes between computers, with built in theft protection: other players' capes are kept in memory only and never written to your disk.

### Light
* **Light emitting entities**: magma cubes, furnace minecarts, the camera flash, nether stars, glowstone dust, blaze powder, blaze rods and fire charges now give off dynamic light.

### Achievements
* **Woven into the vanilla tree**: the mod's achievements now live in the same screen and tree as vanilla's, connected with thematic arrows. The pointless "Minecraft" page button is gone, and L opens the screen directly.
* **XP for every achievement**, first time earned.
* **Celestial Cartographer II**: Star Expansion 2 fills the sky with even more stars and objects to identify in a second catalogue.

## Changed

### Mechanics and QoL
* **Cumulative furnace minecart speed**: trains with more furnace carts go faster.
* **Wool muffles minecarts**: rail laid on wool silences the cart's rolling sound.
* **Nether portals link logically**: portals remember and reuse known portals instead of spawning new ones out in the wilderness when vanilla's short search fails.
* **Animals notice food faster**: they perk up at the food in your hand almost instantly instead of sulking for five seconds.
* **Skeletons draw the bow**: you can now see a skeleton pulling back before it fires.
* **Endermen remember**: they no longer forget their attacker after five seconds or after a relog.
* **Anvil overhaul**: repair cost capped at 20 levels with progressive pricing, and no more "Too Expensive!" for genuine repairs.
* **Recipes**: doors now give 2 (both oak and iron), stairs give 6, and dispensers/droppers can fuel furnace minecarts.

### Settings
* **New config toggles**: the gold gear buff, the Bane of Arthropods buff and the anvil overhaul can now be turned off.
* **Cleaner Mod Options**: the in game screen now shows only client settings. Everything server side lives in the config file, and voice settings live in the voice panel.
* **Shorter star names** for the most overgrown constellations. The fun nicknames stay.

### Built-in
* **Borderless Fullscreen** is now built into the mod. The separate mod is no longer needed in the pack.
* **BugTorched** has been merged into BTB, since the original has not been updated since March 2025. A collision guard prevents double patching if the jar is still installed.

## Fixed

### Vanilla bugs
* **MC-2025**: mobs saved with the wrong hitbox position and ended up inside blocks or teleported on reload. Backported from 1.9.
* **MC-67532**: the hotbar selector now draws fully instead of being clipped two pixels short at the bottom.
* **Map colors**: sandstone is no longer gray and gravel no longer yellow on maps. They are now sand colored and stone gray, as they should be.
* **Fishing rod**: reliability bugs fixed (including MC-11877 and MC-3059), the line stays attached to the rod tip in third person and keeps up when you run.
* **Hopper minecart**: picks up items above it correctly and drops its contents combined when destroyed.

### Minecarts
* **Buried carts**: carts leaving the end of a sloped track no longer sink into the ground. The server corrects both the physics and the clients' view immediately.
* **Sit height**: you no longer sit too far down in a cart standing on sloped rail.

### Other
* **Config button** did nothing due to an old dead setting key. Fixed, and the screen can no longer be silenced by the same kind of error.
* **Keybind clashes**: voice mute moved off M (which collided with Xaero's World Map) to H. Old saved options are migrated automatically.
* **Photo frame flicker**: a specific photo frame in photo heavy builds alternated between its image and a blank map. The photo texture cache was too small and kept evicting the same one. Fixed.
* **Cape flicker** while riding, and a cleaner mute icon.

### Behind the scenes
* Full codebase cleanup and a multiplayer/dedicated server safety audit. Fixes include custom potion names on dedicated servers, voice server state cleanup at session boundaries, and stricter network packet validation.