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## Latitude 1.5.1-beta.1 (Minecraft 26.2) ### ⚠️ Backup your worlds before updating! --- A fix-and-polish pass on top of 1.5.0, carrying forward fixes discovered while porting Latitude to other Minecraft versions, a full worldgen variety pass, a compatibility fix affecting anyone running TerraBlender, and a round of live-tested UI cleanup. **Beta:** shipped for testing before the 1.5.1 stable tag. This update rounds out recent custom-biome integration work, but the sharpest fix is for the vanilla fallback. Without custom biome packs, biome admission was badly skewed and savanna was crowding the tropics, for one example. --- ### World generation - **Windswept hills no longer dominate the polar band.** They were showing up snowless across the pole with green grass and foliage; now correctly restricted to genuine cold mountain terrain, and the pole reads more varied as a result. - **Desert is the staple of the arid belt again.** Badlands had been crowding it out almost entirely. Badlands now generates as coherent regional patches inside a desert-dominant belt instead of everywhere. - **Fixed bug where Savanna dominated the tropics.** It's now a coherent region with real borders, set inside a proper mix of forest and jungle, and still forms the natural transition band hugging every arid area. - **Custom biomes: Muskeg, ice marsh, and glacier cliff were unplaceable in every world.** Fixed — a disagreement between two internal systems meant they were admitted but never actually reachable. - **Wetlands could appear in bone-dry regions, and deserts in explicitly wet ones.** Both directions fixed. - **Rivers and beaches can now come from installed biome packs**, not only vanilla. - **`eroded_badlands` was structurally unplaceable in every world**, logging a coverage warning on every load. Fixed. - **Redwood forest (a custom biome) now routes through the correct pool**, correcting a stale route from an earlier port. - **Alpine terrain respects real snow footing**, and badlands structures keep their intended desolate look instead of getting dressed up by nearby biomes. - **Custom-pack biomes decorate properly.** Biomes admitted only through a pack's provider ticket (not through Latitude's own band tags) could generate with no flowers, grass, or other decoration at all. Confirmed live with real Biomes O' Plenty/TerraBlender jars and fixed. - **Dedicated/server-created worlds now place custom-pack biomes at all.** That capture previously only happened for worlds created through the in-game screen. - **`savanna_plateau` no longer overrides a correct low-elevation biome choice.** - **The bonus chest no longer spawns floating over water.** - *Known trade-off:* since forest doesn't spawn villages (vanilla behavior), warm-belt village density drops somewhat now that savanna covers less ground. Villages remain common inside savanna regions themselves. ### Snow - **Windswept hills/forest at cold-but-not-freezing latitudes were showing bare grey grass with no snow.** Three separate causes, all fixed, and windswept terrain now has its own lower snow line so it reads as snow-capped. - **A leftover "orphaned" white-rimmed grass glitch** from snow removal is fixed. - **The tree line and foliage limit are now correctly separate rules** — trees stop at 72° latitude, ground vegetation continues to the pole. - *(Snow fixes only affect newly-generated terrain — already-explored chunks are unchanged.)* ### Sulfur caves * **Sulfur caves generated completely empty** — no ore, no decoration. Root-caused and fixed at every layer, including a compatibility conflict with TerraBlender (pulled in by Biomes O' Plenty) that was silently overriding Latitude's terrain rules. * Fixing that also restored **badlands' proper terracotta look** for anyone with TerraBlender installed — it had been silently using an old, untuned vanilla appearance instead. ### World Creation screen - **Cancel could accidentally select a climate zone instead of closing the screen**, at high GUI scale. Fixed. - **Tighter margins and spacing**, and a visual divider between climate zone entries. - **The second tab now correctly reads "Settings"** (was mislabeled "Rules"). - **A new title-intro animation** plays once per screen-open in the compact layout. - **The loading screen no longer flashes vanilla's own screen first.** - **The compass HUD no longer shifts position** when the location label changes length, and no longer renders outside a Latitude world. ### Compatibility - **Latitude reliably recognizes its own worlds even with other world-gen mods installed** (confirmed with CliffTree). It previously could silently fall back to vanilla terrain while still showing Latitude's loading screen and HUD — now it either works correctly or fails loudly with a clear error. - **Steep temperate terrain no longer gets flattened onto a plains-family biome** — the land-cohesion check that prevents this is now active rather than silently skipped. ### `/locate` and structures fixes - **`/locate biome` can now find custom-pack biomes**, not just vanilla. - **`/locate` now returns the actual nearest match**, not just the first one found along the search path. - **Structures now generate using Latitude's own biome map.** This ensures that structures are placed in the correct biomes, even when custom biome packs are installed. This also fixes an issue where structures were not generating in some biomes. - **New worlds' spawn point reliably stays inside your selected latitude.** ### Other - Corrected license inconsistencies and confirmed alignment to GPL-3.0-or-later. - Reduced unnecessary log-file bloat from the World Creation screen. ### Known issues - A rare seam where a lush temperate biome can directly border an arid subtropical one (e.g. flower forest against badlands) at the exact latitude-band boundary. Deferred — a fix is designed for a future pass. - Windswept hills are correctly restricted to cold mountains now, but are still fairly rare there (~3–6% of that terrain) — an open art-direction question, not a bug. - Climate-zone rows on the World Creation screen have extra spacing at high GUI scale. Known, intentionally left for now.