Clockwork Kingdom

Clockwork Kingdom 1.2 – Performance & Stability Update

This update focuses heavily on server performance, smoother multiplayer gameplay and several important gameplay fixes.

⚙️ Server Performance

• Significantly improved overall server performance and tick stability

• Optimized entity ticking and AI calculations

• Reduced unnecessary pathfinding and long-distance mob calculations

• Added improved dynamic server performance management

• Optimized mob activation ranges while keeping nearby mobs fully active

• Reduced unnecessary chunk and structure search calculations

• Improved performance during exploration and heavily populated areas

📦 Chest & Container Fixes

• Fixed extremely slow chest and container opening on multiplayer servers

• Optimized inventory change checks

• Reduced lag caused by loot generation

• Optimized Alex's Caves map generation inside loot containers

• Improved Lootr chest opening performance

• Reduced expensive structure searches triggered by certain loot items

🧟 Mob & AI Improvements

• Reduced excessive AI calculations from distant mobs

• Reduced unnecessary mob wandering

• Optimized hostile mob target scanning

• Reduced long-distance Skeleton and Pillager shooting

• Reduced unnecessary Guard Villager scanning

• Improved Guard Villager performance

• Reduced excessive hostile mob spawn attempts while keeping nights dangerous

• Reduced Graveyard horde spawn calculations

• Reduced excessive Artifacts Mimic spawning

🏹 Entity Cleanup

• Added automatic cleanup for arrows that are already stuck in blocks

• Flying arrows are not affected

• Helps prevent large amounts of old arrow entities from accumulating and causing server lag

🌙 Night Spawn Balancing

• Additional nighttime mob spawning has been reduced to approximately 25% of the previous configuration

• Nights remain dangerous without overwhelming the server

• Hostile mob XP rewards adjusted to 80%

• Added a 25% chance for hostile mobs killed by real players to drop exactly 1 Emerald

• Normal mob drops remain unchanged

🗺️ Exploration Improvements

• Optimized Explorer's Compass structure searches

• Reduced extreme search calculations from cave and structure maps

• Improved performance when generating or discovering new loot

🎙️ Multiplayer

• Added proper Simple Voice Chat server support

• Simple Voice Chat now uses the Forge mod setup instead of a Bukkit plugin

🔧 Additional Changes

• Several server-side configuration improvements

• Reduced unnecessary background calculations

• Improved stability for multiplayer worlds

• General cleanup and optimization across the modpack

Thank you for playing Clockwork Kingdom! ❤️