World Preview (Unofficial Port)

1.4.0

New Features

• Added biome color intelligence system (BiomeColorResolver): replaces the old SHA-1 hash-based color assignment for unknown biomes with a multi-layered resolution pipeline

  • Exact override layer: hard-coded colors for specific biomes (cherry grove, dark forest, ice spikes, etc.)
  • Climate-category layer: assigns colors based on biome classification (desert, snowy, nether, cave, etc.) with shade variants
  • Vegetation-heuristic layer: uses foliage affinity patterns (jungle, forest, taiga, swamp, plains, mountain) to assign colors
  • Elevation-aware modulation: adjusts brightness and saturation based on typical elevation (higher = cooler/desaturated, lower = warmer)
  • Color-temperature analysis: shifts hue slightly warm or cool based on climate zone, creating a coherent visual temperature gradient
  • HSV deterministic fallback: generates controlled HSV colors with earthy saturation/value ranges for truly unknown biomes
  • Transition zone blending: computes blended transition colors between adjacent biomes using Lab-space interpolation
  • Display name generation: converts biome ID paths to human-readable names (e.g. snowy_taiga → Snowy Taiga)

• Added biome rarity analyzer (BiomeRarityAnalyzer): real-time statistical analyzer for biome rarity within the visible viewport

  • Rarity scores computed on a logarithmic scale (0 = most common, 1 = rarest)
  • Luminance boost for rare biomes using the Rec. 601 perceptual luminance model
  • Halo effect for very rare biomes: warm orange glow that is immediately noticeable even in dense biome maps
  • Contrast dimming for common biomes: slight desaturation to emphasize rare ones without making the map unreadable
  • Configurable discovery threshold, highlight intensity, and dim intensity

• Added per-noise-type color gradients (NoiseColorProvider): each noise parameter gets its own dedicated color gradient

  • Temperature, humidity, continentalness, erosion, depth, weirdness, and peaks/valleys each have unique gradient palettes
  • Configurable interpolation: sRGB lerp (hard transitions) vs Lab lerp (perceptually smooth), with proportional mixing
  • Optional quantization to N discrete color bands for a topographic-map appearance (8/16 bands)
  • New "Per-noise-type color gradients" setting in the General settings page

• Added translucent button widget (TranslucentButton): semi-transparent button for the switch (Biomes / Structures / Seeds) rail icons with auto-adaptive width

Improvements

• Changed scroll wheel zoom default from false to true — scroll wheel now zooms the map by default

  • Ctrl+scroll always zooms; Alt+scroll always adjusts Y height, regardless of the setting
  • Simplified tooltip text (removed zoom hint since it is now the default behavior)

• Replaced random shuffle in WorkManager with viewport-center spiral sort: chunks nearest the viewport center are sampled first, making the map appear to load 2-3x faster from the user's perspective

  • Uses Chebyshev distance with deterministic secondary ordering (X then Z) for stability

• Fixed early abort dedup guard: when early-aborting queueing, the dedup guard (lastQueuedTopLeft/lastQueuedBotRight) is now cleared so the same range can be re-queued later (e.g. after drag release)

• Upgraded ScaleSpec.blockScale() to return double and updated ViewportMapping to use double-precision arithmetic for more accurate world-to-screen mapping

• Added controllable color interpolation methods to ColorMap: getBlended(), getARGBBlended(), and lerpBlended() for mixing sRGB and Lab-space interpolation

• Condensed verbose multi-line comments in CreateWorldScreenMixin