rivencraft/ports/mc263/RELEASE_NOTES_1.0.1.78-beta.1.md

Rivencraft 26.3 beta 1.0.1.78-beta.1

Collects the player-validated port slices since 1.0.1.71-beta.1. This beta is not yet feature-complete with the Minecraft 1.21.1 version.

Sky and color writing

• Missing Sky pages now select a deterministic seeded style. Books with Normal Time and no explicit Sky select celestial-compatible Overworld Sky. Explicit Sky pages always win; weather and lighting choices stay independent.
• Ported Red, Green, Blue, Black and White color pages. Preceding Number pages control component strength; unnumbered colors use seeded values. Colors mix before clamping the completed group. Colors before Sky tint that sky; a trailing color group also targets the sky.
• Added an Ambient Color controller for an independent ambient-light tint. Color alone does not change effective illumination or monster-spawn rules.
• Native, End and animated Static backgrounds use saved Age color settings.

Normal Time celestial controls

• Length pages control the native day cycle; a preceding Number fine-tunes length. Zero Length freezes the cycle at a seeded time or an authored Phase, without interpolation bounce or changing the shared Overworld clock.
• Rising, Zenith, Setting and Nadir Phase pages choose the starting phase. Clockwise and Counterclockwise control direction. North, East, South and West Angle pages choose orbit bearing. Preceding Number pages fine-tune Phase and Angle in 15-degree increments.
• Small, Normal and Large Celestial size Normal Time's sun to 0.5×, 1× and 2×. A preceding Number overrides size from 0.25× to 3×. As in 1.21.1, the paired moon remains normal-sized. Size does not alter illumination or day length.
• Settings persist through reload/restart and remain stable when reseeding future terrain. Older profiles retain native/default values.
• Added operator diagnostics for environment, color and celestial profiles.

Compatibility and testing

• Catalog protocol is now 6: use matching client/server builds.
• Player in-game checks passed for the included slices. Build checks and targeted disposable-server diagnostics covered numeric modifiers, catalog round trips, unchanged sampled lighting, reload, reseed and restart.
• Standalone Sun/Moon controllers, multiple bodies, per-body colors, eclipses, full writing/discovery, instability, portals and optional-integration parity remain incomplete. Creative availability does not imply full page support.
• Number-controlled Static Sky resolution remains tracked in issue #109; time-page naming improvements remain tracked in issue #110.
• Existing chunks are not regenerated. Save compatibility is not guaranteed during beta; keep backups and keep the two Minecraft version tracks apart.

Requires Minecraft 26.3, NeoForge 26.3.0.99, and Java 25. Dynamic Dimensions and Bad Packets are not required. Minecraft 1.21.1 is unchanged.

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