MH Warfare — Changelog

0.8.0 Beta 6

Beta 6 is a major UAV, fiber-optic control, radar, Remote View, multiplayer stability and combat-effects update. It introduces the Khizhak 13 REBOFF fiber-optic FPV drone, the Lys-3M radar system, expanded Ground Station functionality, improved Chuyka 4.0 behavior, optional night-vision camera upgrades, improved long-range drone presentation, physical fiber interaction and new explosion effects.

Khizhak 13 REBOFF

• Added the Khizhak 13 REBOFF fiber-optic FPV drone.

• Added physical fiber-optic cable deployment during flight.

• Added finite fiber spool capacity.

• Added 5 km, 10 km, 15 km and 20 km fiber spools.

• Fiber usage is based on the actual travelled cable route.

• Returning toward the operator does not restore already deployed fiber.

• Added dedicated fiber spool geometry and presentation.

• Added physical cable connection between the operator and the drone.

• Added fiber-link state to drone control interfaces.

• Added dedicated fiber-optic FPV behavior.

• Improved Khizhak flight and camera presentation during sharp turns.

• Improved cable payout presentation between normal gameplay and Remote View.

Fiber-optic control system

• Fiber-optic control is independent from normal RF communication.

• Electronic warfare and RF interference do not degrade an intact fiber connection.

• Fiber connections do not use RF fallback after the cable is severed.

• Losing the physical fiber connection immediately removes drone control.

• Motor inputs are removed after fiber loss and the aircraft continues with physical flight and gravity.

• Existing camera damage, power loss and component damage can still interrupt the video feed.

• Added clear connected, disconnected and broken fiber states.

Physical fiber cable

• Fiber cable now follows a persistent physical route through the world.

• Cable can settle onto terrain instead of remaining as a straight beam.

• Added retained cable bends and route corners.

• Improved cable settling and terrain interaction.

• Improved cable interpolation and payout smoothness.

• Improved cable endpoint alignment with the operator and drone.

• Improved cable attachment to the correct spool position on the aircraft.

• Improved cable rendering in both the normal world and Remote View.

• Broken cable sections remain temporarily in the world before fading.

• Detached cable remnants continue using bounded physical settling.

• Improved cable persistence across world saves and reloads.

Fiber cable interaction and damage

• Players can physically cut accessible fiber cable sections.

• Fiber belonging to other players can also be cut.

• Cutting requires maintaining interaction with a visible nearby section of cable.

• Infantry bullets can physically sever fiber cable.

• Bullet-to-fiber collision follows the actual projectile trajectory.

• Bullets cannot cut cable through a wall or another object hit first.

• Fiber cable can be destroyed by contact with lava.

• Cable damage does not force-load surrounding terrain.

• Severing the cable immediately disconnects both physical ends.

• An already armed airborne Khizhak can retain its existing impact-fuse behavior after cable loss and detonate on a real surface impact.

Long-range fiber presentation

• Greatly increased visible fiber-cable range.

• Fiber can remain visible at distances of up to approximately 2640 blocks.

• Added bounded long-range fiber history for already observed cable sections.

• Added distance-based cable rendering detail to protect client FPS.

• Straight distant cable sections can be simplified while important bends remain preserved.

• Increased route-corner detail for more natural cable wrapping and direction changes.

• Improved cable visibility without increasing server cable-search distance or forcing additional chunks to load.

• Physical cable simulation and client rendering remain independently bounded.

Night-vision camera upgrades

• Added optional Night-Vision Camera Upgrade support for selected FPV platforms.

• Wild Hornets now support an optional night-vision camera upgrade.

• Khizhak 13 REBOFF now supports an optional night-vision camera upgrade.

• Molniya-1 now supports an optional night-vision camera upgrade.

• Normal daytime video remains available without installing an additional day camera.

• Supported upgraded drones can switch between DAY and NIGHT VISION modes.

• Camera upgrade mass is included in the assembled aircraft configuration.

• Existing compatible saved configurations remain supported.

• Improved synchronization of active video-sensor mode in multiplayer and Remote View.

Molniya-1

• Improved Molniya-1 performance with heavy payloads.

• Added load-aware propulsion compensation for heavy configurations.

• Heavy payloads no longer reduce forward-flight performance as severely.

• Existing maximum speed, battery consumption and physical flight behavior remain preserved.

• Improved Remote View smoothness during aggressive banked and sharp-turn flight.

Lys-3M radar

• Added the Lys-3M radar.

• Added a physical deployable radar entity.

• Added animated radar antenna rotation.

• Added radar health and damage.

• Added radar power and fuel management.

• Radar can be refueled using redstone.

• Added radar repair using iron.

• Radar state is preserved when packed and deployed again.

• Destroyed or heavily damaged radar systems stop operating.

• Added owner and allied-team access rules.

• Radar detects supported UAV targets using a rotating server-authoritative scan.

• Added terrain masking and line-of-sight terrain checks.

• Unknown terrain is not treated as automatically transparent.

• Small UAV detection range is approximately 8 km.

• Larger low-flying aircraft detection range is approximately 12 km.

• Radar rotation speed is approximately 20 degrees per second, giving an approximately 18-second full scan.

• Improved physical antenna rotation smoothness.

• Improved Ground Station radar-sweep smoothness.

• Radar scanning uses bounded workload limits to protect server performance.

Ground Station radar

• Added a dedicated RADAR tab to the Ground Station.

• Added Lys-3M radar stations to the shared tactical map.

• Added detected-aircraft contacts.

• Radar contacts represent the last successful scan instead of continuously exposing live target coordinates.

• Old contacts fade when they are no longer detected.

• Added friendly drone identification for player-owned aircraft.

• Improved radar-map presentation at large map scales.

• Radar terrain processing does not generate a massive surrounding terrain area.

• Multiple accessible radar stations can contribute information to the Ground Station.

Ground Station flight routes

• Expanded high-altitude route support for long-range fixed-wing UAVs.

• FP-1 Ground Station routes can reach approximately Y 2000.

• Geran-2 routes can reach approximately Y 4000.

• UJ-25 routes can reach approximately Y 6000.

• Geran-3 routes can reach approximately Y 9100.

• Improved altitude editing for high-altitude route planning.

• Client route editing and server validation now use matching aircraft-specific altitude limits.

• Strike-point behavior remains terrain-relative.

Chuyka 4.0

• Improved Chuyka 4.0 held-camera performance.

• Reduced unnecessary Remote View terrain workload while using Chuyka as a held detector.

• Improved multiplayer behavior while monitoring analogue FPV video.

• Passive Chuyka monitoring no longer replaces the player's normal-world entity-tracking position.

• Nearby players, mobs, dropped items and other entities continue updating normally while Chuyka video is active.

• Improved video stability while rapidly switching hotbar slots.

• Improved Remote View session startup and shutdown behavior.

• Improved synchronization between the viewed drone body and camera.

• Improved Wild Hornets and Khizhak camera presentation during aggressive movement.

• Chuyka can display the synchronized DAY / NIGHT VISION state of supported drones.

• Improved Lys-3M visibility through Chuyka Remote View.

• Fixed Lys-3M disappearing and reappearing while viewed through Chuyka.

Shader compatibility

• Improved Chuyka compatibility with external shader packs.

• Added runtime compatibility handling for Iris, Oculus and OptiFine-style shader environments.

• Chuyka uses a bounded secondary-world rendering rate while external shaders are active.

• Added adaptive rendering limits for expensive shader passes.

• Improved framebuffer and viewport restoration after Remote View rendering.

• Reduced unnecessary full-screen post-processing during shader-compatible Chuyka rendering.

• Improved Chuyka screen and LED presentation during shader rendering.

• Normal FPV and non-shader behavior remain preserved.

Remote View

• Improved Remote View stability for FPV and passive camera systems.

• Improved synchronization of primary drone body and camera presentation.

• Improved handling of entities using explicit Remote View snapshots.

• Fixed competing Remote View tracking paths for the Lys-3M radar.

• Lys-3M now uses one stable Remote View lifecycle.

• Fixed radar flickering and repeated disappearance/reappearance in direct FPV cameras.

• Improved passive Chuyka Remote View behavior without affecting normal player tracking.

• Improved session cleanup when opening and closing remote video feeds.

• Reduced entity churn caused by rapid Remote View session changes.

• Existing server-authoritative drone simulation remains preserved.

Long-range drone visibility

• Improved transition between normal entity rendering and long-range drone proxies.

• Fixed high-altitude UAVs becoming invisible while flying almost directly above a player.

• Geran-2 and other supported long-range aircraft remain visible during the transition between nearby and distant rendering.

• Long-range proxies now remain active until the actual normal-world aircraft has really been rendered.

• Improved long-range presentation without increasing server tracking or chunk-loading distance.

• Existing bounded long-range proxy limits remain in place to protect performance.

Drone explosions and glass damage

• Drone explosions can now shatter nearby windows and glass.

• Glass-breaking distance varies depending on the actual drone or payload explosion profile.

• Larger and stronger explosive payloads can break glass farther away.

• Smaller payloads and battery-related explosions have weaker effects.

• Solid walls and terrain reduce blast pressure reaching windows behind them.

• Multiple obstacles further reduce the effective glass-breaking range.

• Glass panes provide less protection than solid walls.

• Added support for vanilla and compatible modded glass and glass panes.

• Glass-breaking uses a bounded pressure-propagation system instead of scanning every block around an explosion.

• The system only processes already loaded terrain and does not create additional chunk-loading demand.

Drone components and organization

• Fiber spools are now organized with other drone components.

• Launch-booster components are now organized in the drone-components category.

• Existing registry IDs, saved aircraft and assembly compatibility remain unchanged.

• Improved optional camera-upgrade organization for supported FPV aircraft.

Multiplayer and synchronization

• Added synchronized physical fiber-link state.

• Added synchronized radar information for Ground Station users.

• Added synchronized drone video-sensor mode.

• Improved Remote View entity synchronization.

• Improved passive-camera behavior in multiplayer.

• Improved long-range aircraft presentation for non-host players.

• Improved synchronization during transitions between normal and distant aircraft rendering.

• Existing physical drone simulation remains server-authoritative.

Performance and scalability

• Fiber simulation uses bounded per-tick processing.

• Long-range fiber rendering uses a bounded client history and render budget.

• Distant cable sections use level-of-detail simplification.

• Fiber systems do not force-load terrain along the entire cable.

• Radar scanning uses bounded candidate, terrain and ray-processing budgets.

• Radar terrain checks avoid large synchronous terrain generation.

• Chuyka held-video rendering uses reduced Remote View terrain demand.

• External-shader Chuyka rendering uses adaptive frame-rate limits.

• Long-range drone visibility improvements do not increase server entity-tracking distance.

• Glass destruction uses bounded pressure rays and loaded chunks only.

• Existing projectile, Remote View and drone chunk-loading protections remain preserved.

Release and compatibility

• Updated the public version to 0.8.0-beta.6.

• Updated the general MH Warfare mod description.

• Removed outdated Beta 5 release text from the in-game mod description.

• Preserved existing player-facing test utilities and microphone-test controls.

• Preserved the Alexa Spatium (Experimental) designation.

• Install the same MH Warfare version on every client and server.

• A compatible GeckoLib version is required on all clients and servers.

Summary of the biggest Beta 6 additions

• Khizhak 13 REBOFF.

• Physical fiber-optic FPV control.

• 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 km fiber spools.

• Physical cable payout, terrain settling and persistent route bends.

• Player, bullet and lava fiber severing.

• Long-range fiber presentation up to approximately 2640 blocks.

• Improved fiber route-corner detail and rendering performance.

• Optional night-vision camera upgrades.

• Improved Molniya-1 heavy-payload flight.

• Lys-3M radar.

• Ground Station RADAR map and radar contacts.

• Expanded high-altitude Ground Station flight routes.

• Major Chuyka 4.0 performance and multiplayer improvements.

• Improved shader-pack compatibility.

• Improved Remote View entity stability.

• Fixed Lys-3M Remote View flickering.

• Fixed high-altitude drones disappearing above players.

• Added obstacle-aware window and glass destruction from drone explosions.

• Broad multiplayer, rendering and performance improvements.