Exterminatus

New

• Its own settings menu with tabs and tooltips, in English and Russian
• Render distance up to 128 chunks and simulation distance from 2 to 128 chunks
• Dynamic lights: torches in hand, burning mobs, dropped glowing items, TNT and creepers (up to 1024 sources)
• Zoom on the C key (rebindable in Controls)
• FPS, frame time and TPS counters: three styles, any corner of the screen
• Game element settings: sky, sun and moon, stars, clouds, fog, rain and snow, foliage, shadows, biome blend
• Separate toggles for 11 particle types and 6 animated textures
• Anisotropic filtering up to 16x and 4 texture filtering modes
• Framerate limit from 1 to 260
• Light repair around the player: the /exterminatus light command

Performance

Rendering

• The world is drawn in large pieces, and the GPU builds the draw list itself
• Terrain hidden behind mountains and walls, hidden by fog or facing away from the player is not drawn
• World visibility is computed in the background, the frame does not wait for it
• Fast particles, rain, snow and clouds
• Compressed vertices: about a third less video memory
• The F3 screen barely affects FPS

Chunk loading

• Chunks are built on all CPU cores and 30–50% faster
• The world loads in a circle around the player, nearby chunks are prepared in advance
• New chunks fade in smoothly
• Changing the render distance does not rebuild the already loaded world
• A placed or broken block is visible immediately

Smoothness

• No stutter from texture animations and background tasks
• Less memory garbage and fewer garbage collector pauses
• Better performance on weak CPUs

Server and world

• Multithreaded terrain generation: new worlds load 30–45% faster, the world is identical block for block
• Faster ore, structures, water and lava
• Its own lighting engine: faster and without vanilla lighting bugs
• World saving without freezes
• Fast mobs: with thousands of mobs the server spends almost half as much time per tick
• Teleporting at a high render distance no longer freezes the server

Fixes

• Glass, water and ice are sorted without ordering errors
• Clouds and particles are placed correctly among glass and water
• Glass shards and haze no longer cut holes in translucent blocks
• Disappearing top faces of blocks, visible caves and the world after teleporting
• Dark triangles in falling water
• Dark light spots at chunk borders
• A crash when water flows during world generation
• A memory leak when leaving a world

Compatibility

• Support for mods that make the world taller than 256 blocks