MME 26.3.4.2 — Changelog

New

• Negative levels. Dying at level 0 or below now costs 1 level, down to -40. Recovering a level costs 7 XP. The number turns red below 0, green at 0, and the bar stays empty while in debt.
• Burning items. Fire no longer deletes drops instantly. A burning item cannot be picked up for 2s (hoppers and animals ignore it too), then:
  • a player in pickup range grants one extra 2s;
  • the final check needs a player in range: 70% saved with a smoker recipe (comes out cooked), 30% otherwise;
  • stacks keep a varied fraction rather than all or nothing;
  • saved items are pickable after 1.25s;
  • dousing (water, rain, powder snow) decides immediately — earlier is better, up to 70%.
• Fire deaths. Mobs killed by fire drop their loot already burning.

Changed

• Spawners empty themselves after 16 spawns. Refilling with a spawn egg resets the count.
• Food: you can eat saturation food while hunger is full.
• Zombie pathing: on block edges, zombies target a standable cell in the surrounding 3x3 instead of walking underneath you.
• Caves below the surface are no longer flooded. Oceans, rivers and lakes are unchanged. New chunks only.

Fixed

• Startup crash with Farmer's Delight installed.
• Level 0 no longer hides the level number.

Notes

• Existing worlds are safe: nutrition, spawner counts and levels keep their saved values.
• Fire kills usually destroy the loot (cooked meat has no smoker recipe, so only 30% survives) — intended, not a bug.