Vanilla Expanse

[v0.5.12preview4dev2] Vanilla Expanse

Preview version. Tested but might not perfectly work on any computer.

The first release of preview4 was not a success. As the version right before the full release, its overall performance was far from what I wanted, and I was not willing to just patch forward. So I did the whole release again, properly. This is preview4dev2, the largest version we have ever shipped in terms of tuning, especially configurations and parameters.

The biggest work in this version is not new content. It is a deep audit of memory and performance across the entire pack. I profiled the full instance, found out where the memory actually goes, and tuned or removed what was causing trouble.

What changed

• Removed Legendary Monsters, a real memory hog whose cost did not fit the pack and cause confict between tectonic's high mountain. This could cause things to lost but for balance reasons, I still think I would remove and continue removing this mod (unless the author immproved that).
• Updated NeoForge to 21.1.262.
• Updated AsyncParticles and more.
• A long list of config adjustments across the pack.

Known issues

• This version removed a boime mod (datapack) named "Blooming Biosphere" which greatly changed the world generation, I will not do that again but this version we will recommend you to update because that datapack causes some issues in the generation, mostly about the terrain feacture which I don't think is very nessesary.
• Old worlds from before this preview line are not guaranteed to load. Back up before updating.

If you are on preview4, or if you are waiting for the full release and want continue playing on your world, you might wait the full release and I would try my best to let everyone update preview4dev2 to release version!