Continuance 1.7.10 Changelog

Continuance 1.7.10 is focused on pushing Minecraft 26.1.2 back toward a Beta / 1.7.10 alternate-timeline feel.

Major Parity Changes

• Replaced the modern ban-list approach with a generated 1.7.10-style allowlist/version matrix.
• Added a startup registry audit file for unclassified vanilla IDs.
• Added broad modern-content filtering for items, blocks, entities, effects, enchantments, loot, recipes, trades, and worldgen leftovers.
• Disabled hunger, sprinting, swimming, the XP bar, offhand behavior, the shield slot, recipe book UI, advancements, attack indicator, auto-jump, and other modern systems.
• Reintroduced sword blocking behavior.
• Removed damage indicator heart particles when hitting mobs.

Worldgen

• Added old terrain-profile work for biome placement, cave frequency, and ravine frequency.
• Added chunk/worldgen cleanup for modern generated blocks and features.
• Removed or replaced many modern worldgen leftovers including leaf litter, cornflowers, kelp, modern bushes, firefly bushes, bee nests, Nether Update leftovers, End City content, and 1.9+ End features.
• Removed modern biome families from the terrain pool, including jungles, badlands, savannas, dark forests, old-growth taigas, and deep oceans.
• Removed Nether Update biomes and modern Nether structures/features.
• Restored old-style villages using the imported old_villages data pack structures.
• Prevented modern villages from spawning alongside old villages.
• Kept red beds in old villages as an intentional Continuance-era hotfix-style addition.

Mobs

• Removed biome-specific mob and animal variants.
• Redirected or suppressed modern mob variant behavior and sounds.
• Added old-style zombie pigman and zombie villager rendering.
• Reworked zombified piglin presentation toward the classic zombie pigman identity.
• Removed or suppressed modern Nether mobs and other post-1.7 mob leaks.

Visuals and UI

• Renamed the game window to Continuance.
• Changed in-game version display to Continuance 1.7.10.
• Added the classic top-left in-game version text.
• Updated the world list version display.
• Forced Programmer Art behavior to preserve old texture direction.
• Added classic sky, fog, cloud, water color, and Beta-style lighting passes.
• Forced transparent leaves off.
• Capped render distance and simulation distance to 10 chunks.
• Removed modern main-menu and pause-menu entries such as Mods, feedback, bug report, accessibility icon, Realms notification icon, and player reporting.
• Fixed HUD layout for missing hunger/XP, including hearts, armor, air bubbles, and hotbar positioning.
• Fixed chest inventory GUI missing-texture fallback.
• Added the classic crafting-table-style window/taskbar icon.

Audio

• Forced background music to C418-only tracks.
• Replaced modern situational music buckets with legacy C418 game, creative, menu, End, and Nether music.
• Rerouted modern music disc events to legacy disc behavior when they leak through.
• Restored old ambience direction:
  • Classic cave ambience.
  • Old liquid-style underwater ambience.
  • Muted Nether Update biome ambience.
• Added a broad legacy sound-event map for:
  • Doors and trapdoors.
  • Chests.
  • Bows and crossbow leaks.
  • Explosions.
  • Player hurt and fall sounds.
  • Classic mobs.
  • Mob variants.
  • Block break, place, step, hit, and fall sounds.
• Modern block material sounds now fold back into old stone, wood, grass, gravel, sand, cloth, or metal-style sounds.

Technical

• Rebuilt and packaged as continuance-1.7.10.jar.
• Added multiple client/server mixins for parity enforcement.
• Added sound-event overrides through assets/minecraft/sounds.json.
• Added custom client icon loading.
• Continued cleaning generated assets and modern registry leaks.