Dream Displays

Highlights

• Curved displays: place them on stairs and slabs
• Subtitles support
• Keyboard shortcuts in the display menu
• WorldGuard support, with three access levels: Everyone, Region members and Locked
• ClothConfig support (settings screen)
• Players without the mod can now join Fabric servers running Dream Displays
• Major Twitch playback stability improvements
• Smoother playback, faster seeking, and lower CPU usage
• Volume normalization
• Support for Minecraft 26.3
• Improved /display command suggestions
• /display fullscreen now works in command blocks and the server console
• Simplified Chinese translation
• Dropped packet protocol v1 support
• Various fixes for display synchronization and playback

Client

Features

• Curved displays: now you can place them on stairs and slabs (server 1.10.0 or higher required)
• Added keyboard shortcuts to the display menu:
  • Space: play / pause
  • ← / →: seek 5 seconds back / forward (15 seconds with Shift)
  • ↑ / ↓: volume up / down by 5% (10% with Shift)
  • M: mute / unmute
  • 0–9: jump to 0%–90% of the video
  • F: fullscreen
  • P: Picture-in-Picture
• Added subtitles support
• Added support for WorldGuard (#194)
• Replaced the display lock with three access levels: Everyone, Region members (WorldGuard) and Locked
• Removed the per-display render distance setting; displays now use the client's render distance instead
• Added Simplified Chinese translation (#180)
• Added experimental support for 26.3
• Now you can join Fabric running Dream Displays servers without Dream Displays installed (server 1.10.0 or higher required)
• Improved /display command suggestions and tab completion
• Added volume normalization
• Added a settings screen, opened from Mod Menu on Fabric or the mod list on NeoForge (needs Cloth Config)
• Dropped packet protocol v1 support: players can no longer join on servers with an ancient version

Improvements

• Reduced CPU usage of video playback, especially on 4K videos
• Reduced CPU usage while Picture-in-Picture or the menu preview is open, and for paused displays or displays out of render distance
• Smoother video playback: each frame is now picked at the moment the game draws it, which removes micro-stutters
• Faster seeking: playback resumes as soon as both picture and sound are ready instead of after a fixed buffer
• Videos start a bit faster when several displays are loading at once
• Subtitles now load right away, even when many displays are loading at once
• Unstable streams now retry with growing pauses and show an error if they keep failing, instead of reloading forever
• Displays are now bounded by the simulation distance when it is shorter than the render distance
• Displays are now unaffected by outlines, and the vanilla block selection outline is hidden over displays
• Added stable support of Window mode on macOS
• Twitch stability improvements
• Improved stability during long watching sessions

Fixes

• Fixed the game freezing when entering a world on some Windows setups (#227)
• Fixed the game crashing on Linux when opening the display menu while a video is playing (#229)
• Fixed the game crashing when the server crashes while a display is playing
• Fixed paused displays sometimes switching to "Waiting for video..." after a while (#228)
• Fixed the game crashing on 26.3 when a display is in view with Improved Transparency turned on (#244)
• Fixed displays turned off with /display off not turning back on after rejoining the world, and turning back on by themselves after a game restart (#243)
• Fixed videos from plain http:// links not playing, with "Option tls_verify not found" in the log (#246)
• Fixed videos getting stuck at the end, with play / pause doing nothing until another video was selected (#234)
• Fixed emojis in video and stream titles showing up as boxes; they are now hidden (#232)
• Fixed a video jumping back to the start on some GPUs right after starting or rejoining
• Fixed a glitched first frame when opening Picture-in-Picture or the menu preview during playback
• Fixed a video sometimes never starting to load because a background check hung
• Fixed playback restarting itself a second after start when the first frame took longer to arrive
• Fixed the paused frame being lost when a timeline seek lands during pause
• Fixed volume and brightness showing odd values like 194% instead of 195%
• Fixed Twitch streams starting with a 30 second "Commercial Break in Progress" screen (#231)
• Fixed Twitch sound breaking up into short chunks and the picture stuttering after a stall or an ad break (#231)
• Fixed Twitch sound sometimes running a couple of seconds behind the picture
• Fixed many Twitch channels playing without sound and restarting over and over
• Fixed live streams sometimes taking 20 seconds of black screen to start on synced displays
• Fixed bad command suggestion syntax after creating a display

Server

Features

• Added curved displays support
• Dropped packet protocol v1 support: ancient client versions are no longer supported
• Added WorldGuard support and improved access logic (#194)
• Added Simplified Chinese translation (#180)
• Added experimental support for 26.3
• Players without the mod now can join Fabric servers that have Dream Displays installed
• /display fullscreen now supported for command blocks and the server console (#248)

Improvements

• /display tab completion now covers every command and argument
• Improved the hint shown when creating a display, which now points at sneak + right click
• Displays are now bounded by the simulation distance when it is shorter than the render distance
• Added WorldGuard as an optional dependency in the workflow
• Added LuckPerms as an optional dependency for proxy in the workflow

Fixes

• Fixed duplicated displays across servers when using a proxy
• Fixed default_volume not applying to newly created displays (0 was dropped on the wire; 50 now matches the 50% client slider)
• Fixed Fabric and NeoForge servers crashing on startup when another mod that also bundles SQLite is installed (#242)
• Fixed /display on answering "already enabled" and doing nothing for players who rejoined with displays turned off (#243)
• Filtered out drop-column statements during schema migration
• Fixed the database connection pool leaking on plugin reload
• Fixed coroutine error when stopping the server
• Fixed rare bStats JSON warnings