0.11.2 — Smooth Heats

Chocobos Reborn 1.1.15: smoother races, fairer betting and a big bug sweep. 106 mods. Existing saves load as they are.

Smoother races

• Birds draw on the graphics card. A full race field used to cost several milliseconds of every frame; now it costs almost nothing. Shader packs keep the old path.
• No first-sight hitches. Each breed's colours and blinking eyes are prepared in the background.
• No freeze when a heat is posted. The course is laid a little each tick during the countdown.
• Whiskerwind's sky draws faster, and birds respect your Entity Distance setting.

Betting with Rook

• A bet placed early rides the heat, even if you are not standing at Rook when it starts. Rook tells you the odds when it joins.
• Field bets pay at least even money, and are not taken on a heat with no field birds.
• A heat nobody finished refunds every stake, and Rook says why a bet was refused.

Racing and the rest

• The race standings have their own line, so lap counts and shortcut tips are no longer wiped out.
• A ranked win counts even if you log out or Pocketwatch away before the heat closes.
• The one-minute heat call, the start bell, the winners' board and the win fireworks work again.
• Riding into a Square gate uses it. The whistle never lands a bird in lava, fire or mid-air, and a bird tied to a fence stays tied.
• Spawn eggs keep their colour from dispensers, pick-block gives the right egg, and a named egg names the bird.
• Whiskerwind's courses and village are rebuilt once: fences and walls join properly, and the inn and waterfalls are fixed.