Changelog

0.3.9.121012

• Give each material and shape its own block ID. Older worlds keep their pieces and their orientation.
• Show Building Pieces items in the mod's creative tab. Vanilla pieces stay in their usual tabs.
• Let players switch to ordinary slab placement from the Mods menu.

0.3.8.121012

• Bring Building Pieces to Minecraft 1.21.1 on NeoForge.
• Keep existing pieces, recipes and supported world upgrades.
• Grass Slabs and Mineralogy are still optional.

0.3.8.120062 — Minecraft 1.20.6, NeoForge

• Bring the building pieces and recipes to NeoForge 1.20.6.
• Keep the names and custom data on pieces when you rotate them in a crafting grid.
• Keep existing piece IDs and supported world upgrades, including optional Mineralogy pieces.

0.3.8.120012

• Bring the building pieces, creative tab and continuous glass walls to NeoForge 1.20.1.
• Preserve existing pieces, their recipes and supported world upgrades.
• Keep Grass Slabs and Mineralogy integration optional.

0.3.8.119041

• Bring the building pieces, creative tab and continuous glass walls to Minecraft 1.19.4.
• Keep the existing palettes, recipes and supported world recovery.
• Retain optional Grass Slabs and Mineralogy integration without requiring either mod.

0.3.8.118021 - Minecraft 1.18.2 (unreleased)

• Bring the existing building shapes and Mineralogy pieces to Minecraft 1.18.2.
• Keep placement, joins, continuous glass walls, grass, snow, waterlogging and paths.
• Keep saved palettes, orientations, inventories and custom item data when upgrading.
• Preserve recovery progress in the new chunk format, including add-on coverage.
• Keep add-on biome names through Minecraft's conversion to section palettes.
• Fix loading of older worlds with gaps in their saved biome numbers.
• Use the matching Grass Slabs version for shared grass behaviour when installed.

0.3.8.117011 - Minecraft 1.17.1 (unreleased)

• Bring the existing building shapes and Mineralogy pieces to Minecraft 1.17.1.
• Keep placement, joins, continuous glass walls, grass, snow, waterlogging and paths.
• Show recipes in the recipe book when their matching ingredients are collected.
• Keep saved palettes, orientations and custom item data when upgrading.
• Keep add-on material names short and translated, including BOP wood pieces.
• Keep the full material's mining rules for pieces made from retired rocks.
• Fix a startup crash when several mods preserve old world data.

0.3.8.116051 - Minecraft 1.16.5 (unreleased)

• Bring the existing building shapes and Mineralogy pieces to Minecraft 1.16.5.
• Keep placement, joins, continuous glass walls, grass, snow, waterlogging and paths.
• Preserve saved palette identities, older pieces and custom item data.
• Use the matching Grass Slabs version for shared grass behaviour when installed.

0.3.8.115021 - Minecraft 1.15.2 (unreleased)

• Bring the existing building shapes and Mineralogy pieces to Minecraft 1.15.2.
• Keep placement, joining, glass walls, grass, snow, waterlogging and paths.
• Keep saved palette identities and recovery of older pieces and item data.
• Use the matching Grass Slabs release for shared grass behaviour when installed.

0.3.8.114041

Minecraft 1.14.4 support, native waterlogging and recipe-book integration. Existing piece palettes, orientations and custom item data are kept when upgrading from 1.12.2. Saved item frames also load without stalling the world. See the release notes.

0.3.8.112021

• Added the missing recipe-book unlocks for crafting and rebuilding pieces.
• Made the next recipes appear while the crafting table is still open.
• Keep recipe previews on the normal item model, including saved orientation variants.

0.3.7.112021

• Use a shovel to turn ordinary dirt and grass steps and corners into paths. They keep their orientation, with the top lowered by one pixel.
• Flattening a grass step or corner also turns the grass block beneath it into a path, using the shovel once for both changes.
• Grass steps and corners keep their grass and snow edges, with grass left visible beneath partial pieces.
• Rebuild two corners into one step and two steps into one slab by stacking them in the crafting grid. Matching BOP pieces work the same way.
• Mineralogy rock steps and corners are now included when Mineralogy is installed. They rebuild into its native slabs; no separate add-on is needed. Saves made with the earlier test add-on keep their pieces and item data.
• When Grass Slabs is installed, use 1.1.1.112021 or later for shared grass behaviour. Building Pieces still works on its own.

0.3.6.112021

• Shortened piece names, including Gold Wall, Gold Stairs and Oak Step.
• Tidied material names and word order across all 18 languages.
• Kept recipes, registry IDs, metadata and world migration unchanged.

0.3.5.112021

• Gave all custom walls lower panels and raised posts, including gold and packed ice.
• Kept posts at ends, corners, junctions and beneath blocks or torches above.
• Matched selection and collision shapes to the wall profile and removed internal faces.
• Kept existing materials, registry IDs, recipes and saved palette assignments unchanged.
• Updated the BOP add-on wall models to use the same profile.

0.3.4.112021

• Added a Sky's Building Pieces creative tab, including the vanilla pieces the mod reuses.
• Made clear and stained glass walls continuous where the material and colour match. Borders remain at posts, exposed ends and colour changes.
• Added raised posts at wall ends, corners, junctions and beneath blocks above. Straight glass runs have lower panels without a post in every block.
• Matched glass-wall selection outlines to the panels and posts, and removed hidden internal glass faces.
• Allowed ordinary and redstone torches on walls.
• Kept existing pieces, palette assignments, recipes and world recovery unchanged.

0.3.0.112021

• Kept separate recovery progress for removed BOP decorations supplied by the add-on.
• Added Minecraft 1.12.2 support with the existing IDs, palettes and save state.
• Kept native crafting recipes intact when other material mods are installed.
• Recovered supported legacy stacks before containers read them, including furniture inventories with their own saved-data layout.

0.3.0.110021

• Added a piece lookup interface for Terrain Smoother and shared grass rules when the updated Grass Slabs mod is installed. The core still works alone.
• Added ordinary dirt vertical slabs.
• Replaced cutting templates with ordinary shaped recipes for every material.
• Kept native recipes and added one-for-one slab rotation in the crafting grid.
• Old beta templates are hidden and can be recycled into paper.
• Added recovery for legacy dirt vertical slabs, including already visited chunks.
• Kept existing palette assignments and migration history unchanged.

0.2.0.110021

• Added support for material add-ons using the existing cutting templates.
• Kept separate migration progress and totals for each supported catalogue.
• Preserved existing block IDs, metadata and saved vanilla migration history.
• Added per-material fire behaviour for woods such as hellbark.

0.1.0.110021

First beta for Minecraft 1.10.2.

• Vanilla building pieces, with existing Minecraft pieces reused where possible.
• Seven reusable cutting templates.
• Slab placement follows the clicked face and edge, including vertical halves.
• Optional replacement of supported pieces from older worlds.
• Names in 18 language variants.
• No terrain generation.

Soil and grass slabs, turf, path slabs and wooden walls are not included. Keep the older building mod installed if the world still needs its other content.