Ferrite

[0.7.5-alpha] - 2026-10-23

Added

• Ore placement kernel, on by default. Same blocks and random draws as vanilla, 9% less ore time on a 24-core desktop and 15% on a 4-core server (pregen about 6% sooner). An oracle replays 1 in 64 veins; a full check of 1.5M veins in the overworld and nether found no differences. Off: /ferrite ore off or -Dferrite.orekernel=off. Counters: /ferrite ore report. Odd ore in new chunks? Open an issue with seed, coordinates and the report line.
• Entity tracker probe. /ferrite probe tracker on|report|reset reports tracker cost in ms per tick. Off by default. With 1021 zombies on a 4-core server: 0.45 to 0.66 ms/tick, under 3%.
• Surface rule compiler, on by default. The 26.3 material rule tree is compiled into one class per chunk shape, still calling the vanilla rules in vanilla order, so datapacks work as written. Surface time drops 16-27% on a 24-core desktop and 18-33% on a 4-core server; pregens finish 3-4% sooner. An oracle reruns vanilla on 1 in 64 chunks and keeps vanilla blocks on any mismatch; a full check of 240M blocks over five world types and three dimensions found none. Steps aside when another mod changes the material rule classes. Off: /ferrite rules off or -Dferrite.rules=off; force on: -Dferrite.rules=on. Counters: /ferrite rules report. Odd surface blocks in new chunks? Open an issue with seed, coordinates and the report line.
• Ore kernel and rule compiler together. Pregens finish about 8% sooner on a 4-core server. On a 24-core desktop wall time stays flat because workers already sit partly idle, but worker CPU drops 9%. Both oracles ran at 1 in 64 and found no mismatches.

Fixed

• Biome validator counts exact ties as ties. Over 2000 samples on 26.3 it reads 1999 pass, 1 tie, 0 fail.
• Dead toggles now say so. /ferrite surface dispatch, /ferrite aquifer rust, /ferrite aquifer parity and /ferrite biome route report inactive instead of success, and -Dferrite.bulkChunkDensity=true logs a boot warning.