Hello pingers! This beta brings a bunch of polish, better settings control, and more flexible outline rendering.

What’s new

Unified settings screen – now shows server options.
Chat templates can be customized per ping type, with 8 locales.
Block outline rules – now whitelist defaults to all blocks (*:*), blacklist wins.
Entity‑block outlines - have 3 modes (default: ALL).
Create/Flywheel integration (NeoForge only) – now renders cogwheels, contraptions, bogeys, SuperGlue, etc. into the outline buffer without messing with glow/visibility.
Config safety – corrupt configs get a backup and auto‑upgrade when loading older versions.
Beta limitations – no backward compatibility with the original Ping Wheel mod; cross‑dimension tracking, Sable and Immersive Portals not supported yet.

Chat templates can now be customized per ping type, using your current language pack – no accidental template swaps across locales. They also got a refresh, and the settings/config UI is now better localized.
We now ship 8 locales: English (US), German, Spanish (Argentina), French, Polish, Turkish, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. (Ukrainian was removed for now, because I don't want to get in political arguments just because AI made some stupid mistakes.)

The in-game settings screen now shows server-side options for authorized players: default channel, player tracking, regeneration time, and rate limit.
Permissions are rechecked on the server when you change settings.
The old /pingforit config command now opens this unified screen – all labels and messages are localized.

The block display whitelist and shape blacklist are edited outside the game – saving settings opens your config file in your system editor. Changes take effect after a client restart.
Config corruption? We now create a .broken-...bak backup and atomically reset the file. If backup fails, the original is preserved and further saves are blocked.
Config files now store the mod version that wrote them. When loading an older config, it’s automatically upgraded while keeping your custom values – with the same backup safety.

Whitelist now defaults to *:* (all blocks), blacklist is empty. You can use exact IDs, namespace wildcards (namespace:*), global wildcard (*:*), and block tags (#namespace:tag). Blacklist always wins.
The native model‑glow route works only for plain blocks (no BlockEntity) with a MODEL shape. For entity blocks, we try both real renderer geometry and baked-model geometry independently.
Entity‑block geometry has three modes: ALL(default), COMPATIBLE , and VOXEL_SHAPE_ONLY. Only a successful render suppresses the fallback shape – empty/failed attempts still fall back to voxel edges. If this went wrong, try COMPATIBLE or VOXEL_SHAPE_ONLY as fallback.

Targets Create 6.0.10 and Flywheel 1.0.6 – checks for the mods before loading, so other setups stay unaffected.

No backward protocol compatibility with the original Ping Wheel mod – don’t mix them.
Sable compatibility is not included yet.
Appreciate more reports on compatibility or crashes! that help us refine the project.
I'm not a god who knows everyone, so feature requests are welcomed!

Give it a spin and let us know how it feels. Happy pinging!

Full Changelog: https://github.com/a-Void-Deer/Minecraft-Ping-For-It/compare/v0.1.0-pif-beta1...v0.2.0-pif-beta1

Ping for it!