Random Chitchat 2020-2024

[tigerw]

And a happy new year to all.

[NiLSPACE]

Happy new year!

[Seadragon91]

Happy new year!

[tigerw]

Short-term plans for 2021:

* Refactoring cChunkData to prepare for storing BlockState and reduce memory usage
* Merge 12xx12's PRs
* Fix blocks popping off when placed (refactor block handlers, merge changyongguo's PR)
* Apply 1.13+ diffs all the way to 1.16.4
* Merge bounding box tracer physics PR
* Fix clienthandle's breaking progress and fastbreak checks, which should be based off clock time instead of ticks

Medium-term plans/goals:

* Entity AI: merge peterbell's behaviour trees PR
* Entity physics: try to figure out a system that encompasses entity, player, minecart, boat and arrow physics, presumably building on the bounding box tracer
* Attempt to unify different protocols' WriteEntityMetadata to avoid code duplication
* Replace all BLOCKTYPE & NIBBLETYPE with BlockState (oh no)
* Investigate speeding up MobCensus; it does a lot of work per tick including dynamic allocations, which should be avoided

Long-term:

* Thread pool computations for chunk lighting, generation, serialisation, even pathfinding
* Revive the serverTick branch; do the parsing of incoming protocol data on the network thread, and only queue update actions to the world thread

[Mathias]

The forum has been updated to MyBB 1.8.24.

[tigerw]

Merry Christmas everyone!

[NiLSPACE]

Merry Christmas!

[bearbin]

Merry christmas!

[xoft]

Heh, was going through some old external drive before I format it, and found this screenshot, from the time when we were developing the fire simulator Throwback to 2011.

[NiLSPACE]

The good old days when I still had time to spare to play Minecraft