For normal users

• Fully re-implemented the "islands" world preset.
  • Each island has a different type associated with it.
  • Each island type can be thought of as like a different biome, with a different set of terrain gen parameters.
• Performance improvements.
• Sand, gravel, and other falling blocks now work differently in Big Globe worlds.
  • This is because there's sometimes a lot of it underground in cave ceilings, and having it all fall at once is laggy.
• Fixed lava replacing blocks that it shouldn't near lava level in the nether.
• Dry lakes now only spawn in deserts.
  • Likewise, non-dry lakes now only spawn outside of deserts.
• Minor visual tweak: aura-infused clouds now have AO, like regular clouds do.
• Added UNSUPPORTED mixin ChunkPyramid_ConfigurableFeatureRadius to expand the max size of configured features.
  • This mixin may be unstable, and may break things in subtle and hard-to-debug ways.
  • This mixin will make worldgen noticeably slower when exploring.
  • This mixin will never be enabled by default.
  • Nevertheless, it can be used to make my trees spawn correctly in pre-generated worlds, without needing to get near them first, which may be desirable when combined with LODs.
  • A value of 4 is required for my largest trees. The max value is 8, and the mixin will be completely disabled when set to a negative value or 0.
  • If you use this mixin, you are not allowed to report bugs with anything to anyone.

For data pack developers

• The concept of column restrictions has been replaced with scripts.
  • This affects flowers, trees with fungal shelves, and rock layers.
  • Reason: the existing column restriction system was too limited (it didn't even have a dedicated type for world traits), too verbose, slower than it needed to be, and required a lot of maintenance. Scripts are just better in every possible way.
• Removed legacy handling of minecraft:grass and minecraft:chain blocks.
  • These were renamed in vanilla a long time ago to minecraft:short_grass and minecraft:iron_chain respectively.
  • Big Globe would previously accept the old names too, for scripts that needed to work in multiple MC versions.
  • However, Big Globe no longer supports MC versions where these legacy names were in-use, so support for the legacy names is now removed.