This release represents the culmination of months of thought on the ideal architecture for Feather. Although not many new features were implemented, we have laid the groundwork for a rapid pace of feature development moving forward.

Changes

• Rewrote the entire server codebase (not the core code)
  • Switched our ECS implementation from Specs to Legion
  • Split the monolithic feather-server and feather-core into multiple crates
  • Improved reliability and modularity overall

Fixes

• Fixed issues with player count
• Fixed assorted crashes
• Fixed obscure bugs caused by lazy event handling by moving from Specs to Legion

New features

• Block lighting
• Weather
• Player data loading and saving
• World time
• Correct implementation of Mojang's chat component system
• Better display of error messages on startup
• Improved performance

This has been another eventful month of development.

Changes:

• World persistence (#52)
• World time support (#100)
• Physics support for entities falling through liquid (#84)
• Players can now only see entities within their view distance (#78)
• Load spawn area chunks on startup (#107)
• Fix item stacking and collection (#111)
• Load lighting data from world save (#103)
• Load entities from world save (#102)
• Load biome data from world save (#122)
• Arrow shooting support (#101)
• Support bounding boxes for non-cubic blocks (#85)
• Rewrite of the networking code (#35)
• Timeouts (#12)
• Lots of bug fixes

Thanks to our contributors for help on this release.