Latitude

Latitude 1.3.0 — Cohesion Update

Latitude 1.3.0 is a major world generation, polish, and usability update for Minecraft 26.1.

This release focuses on making worlds feel more coherent, more intentional, and smoother to play from the moment you create a new world.

World generation

• Improved climate cohesion across Latitude’s warm, temperate, subpolar, and polar regions.
• Reduced biome leakage between climate zones.
• Improved desert, badlands, savanna, jungle, swamp, mangrove, ocean, and cold-biome placement.
• Improved warm-to-temperate and cold-zone transitions.
• Restored correct live-world biome generation behavior for Minecraft 26.1.
• Verified fresh-world generation after the 26.1 port.

UI and player experience

• Added a more bespoke Latitude world-creation experience.
• Added improved loading-screen messaging.
• Added a new analog compass HUD style.
• Improved HUD/settings screens and preview behavior.
• Drastically reduced first-time world loading delay compared with earlier 1.3 development builds.
• Improved first-launch/new-world experience so world creation feels much closer to normal Minecraft startup.

Compatibility

Tested with:

• Minecraft 26.1
• Minecraft 26.1.1
• Minecraft 26.1.2

Notes

Existing worlds may contain already-generated terrain from older Latitude versions. For the cleanest 1.3.0 experience, create a new world.

r2 artifact rebuild: removes dev-only tooling from the public jar for cleaner distribution packaging. No worldgen behavior changes from the tested 1.3.0 release candidate.