Better Village Spawn Point

Better Village Spawn Point 3.0 for Minecraft 1.21.9, built for Fabric, Forge and NeoForge. Requires Java 21. The Fabric jar needs Cloth Config 18.0.145 or newer.

This is the first release for 1.21.9. Minecraft moved the player spawn search in 1.21.9, so the mod hooks the new entry point (see below).

Fixed

• The village search could end up with a chunk radius of 0 for small villages, or villages whose start sat at negative chunk coordinates, and then find nothing. The radius now has a floor of 2 and uses absolute chunk offsets.
• New players are placed on the recorded village spawn again. Since 1.21.9 Minecraft picks a joining player's spawn in the connection's configuration phase via PlayerSpawnFinder.findSpawn; the method the mod used to hook still existed but was no longer on that path, so vanilla's own search around the world spawn ran instead and could put players in a tree next to the village.
• showBlockDebug never showed anything: the search recorded its block results into a private debugger while the command read the shared one. They now share an instance, and results are cleared at the start of each search.
• The "Set spawn to" log line now names the block the player is placed on, not the ground block under it.

Changed

• exclusions uses the same format as villageTags: #namespace:tag, namespace:id, or a * wildcard. The # on a tag is optional in both lists; a bare entry that is not a structure ID is tried as a tag.
• Players face the centre of the village when they spawn instead of due south.
• The mod now declares exactly Minecraft 1.21.9. Earlier releases claimed a wider range than the code supported, which turned a clean loader refusal into a crash on the wrong version.
• showBlockDebug draws its block results as floating text markers again (as text_display entities; hideBlockDebug removes them). Minecraft removed the game-test marker packets the command used before.

Files

• BetterVillageSpawnPoint-forge-1.21.9-3.0.jar
• bettervillagespawnpoint-fabric-1.21.9-3.0.jar
• bettervillagespawnpoint-neoforge-1.21.9-3.0.jar