Minecraft 26.3 beta port workspace
This is an experimental beta port for issues #97–#104, not gameplay parity with the Minecraft 1.21.1 release. The 26.3 backend persists separate Ages and their seeds. Books, the Book Binder, and the Ink Mixer work, and the Binder can author Standard, Amplified, or Island terrain with supported biome-distribution pages. Other terrain families, feature/material effects, portals, and much of the 1.21.1 gameplay remain unported. Use a test world and keep a backup; do not substitute this JAR for the 1.21.1 mod or import 1.21.1 saves.
The entries below record how the port was built, including earlier alpha-only limitations that were addressed by later slices.
The creative tab contains the two Books, Crystal Block and Crystal Shard; the player verified these in game. Unbound Linking Books use the Legacy sprite, and four Crystal Shards craft into a Crystal Block; both were also verified in game. The current local iteration adds Budding Crystal and all four blue crystal growth stages with vanilla-style harvesting. Natural crystal formation generation is not yet ported; use Creative or commands to obtain a Budding Crystal for this test. The player verified the growth chain in game. The next local slice adds the Link Panel Page as a separate creative entry, using the existing item texture. Blank Pages remain unavailable in Creative; the player verified the Link Panel's appearance in game. Ink Vials now use the existing crafting recipe and animated sprite. With paper in the other hand, an Ink Vial prepares a Link Panel for two of its sixteen ink uses, as in the current 1.21.1 default. The player verified the Ink Vial interaction in game. Symbol writing remains unported. A prepared Link Panel can now be combined shapelessly with leather to craft an unwritten Linking Book, as in 1.21.1. This custom recipe rejects a blank Page and extra ingredients. The first Book Binder slice now assembles random-Age Descriptive Books from leather and a Link Panel. Authored pages remain later.
The next local 1.0.1.10-alpha.1 slice exposes all eight combinations of
plain, Disarm, Maintain Momentum, and Intra-Linking Link Panels in the Link
Pages creative tab. Leather crafting preserves those flags on the Linking
Book. Intra-Linking permits same-dimension travel; Maintain Momentum rotates
horizontal speed to the destination yaw; Disarm leaves the player's inventory
at the departure point after a successful teleport. These are development
variants until the Ink Mixer is ported; other Link Panel modifiers are not
implemented in 26.3. The player passed this modifier slice in game.
The local 1.0.1.11-alpha.1 slice adds a craftable Book Binder with persistent
leather, Link Panel, and output slots. Name an Age in its GUI and press Bind;
the server creates a random prototype Age and places its completed Descriptive
Book in the output. Disarm and Maintain Momentum carry from the panel into the
book; Intra-Linking has no effect on Age creation. Symbol-page authoring and
the Ink Mixer remain unported. This slice passes the build and dedicated-server
smoke test. The player passed crafting and travel in game, but found that E
closed the focused title field and the provisional layout did not match the
existing 1.21.1 Binder GUI.
The local 1.0.1.12-alpha.1 follow-up reuses the 1.21.1 Binder layout: title
bar, cover and output at opposite sides, and a central Link Panel page strip.
The title persists in the block, the missing-panel cue pulses red, and a
focused title field consumes inventory/hotbar keys. Click the output once to
bind, then click again to take the completed book. Authored symbol strips and
the full 1.21.1 Binder grammar remain unported. This same slice also ports the
1.21.1 Ink Mixer block, menu, animation, modifier additives, 16-ink-per-panel
cost, and automatic vial exchange. The creative tab includes it and its
vanilla-shaped recipe is available. This slice needs an in-game Binder visual/
keyboard check and Ink Mixer interaction check.
The local 1.0.1.13-alpha.1 iteration makes Binder assembly place the new
Descriptive Book directly on the cursor with one click. It also renders the
five-page strip from the 1.21.1 GUI and refreshes the Mixer's virtual result
in the same server click that changes paper or ink. The Mixer now consumes
one ink unit and one paper per Link Panel (16 panels per full vial); additive
chances reset when a panel is taken. In-game retest of the first-update
behavior and Binder visual/click flow is pending.
The local 1.0.1.14-alpha.1 follow-up compares the current 26.3 Binder against
the new dev-image sequence. The Binder no longer paints five permanently empty
pages: the first strip page appears when a Link Panel is inserted or carried,
and the missing-panel cue remains above it. Clicking that page inserts/removes
the Link Panel using the same server-owned cursor flow as 1.21.1. Its tooltip
also shows the stored panel. Multi-page symbol writing and strip scrolling
cannot be exercised yet because symbol pages are still unported to 26.3.
The local 1.0.1.15-alpha.1 Binder polish uses the Link Panel's actual 16×16
item icon for the missing-panel cue instead of a full-size page sprite. The
red pulse and tooltip remain confined to that icon.
The local 1.0.1.16-alpha.1 slice adds the bundled 1.21.1 symbol-page
identities to the 26.3 creative menu, grouped by category. Their names and
descriptions are reused from the 1.21.1 translations, and the Page item now
persists each symbol ID. These pages currently use the generic symbol-page
artwork; the Legacy-style runtime glyph compositor has not been ported.
They cannot yet be inserted into the Binder or change Age generation. This is
the page-data foundation for the next authored-writing slice.
The local 1.0.1.17-alpha.1 follow-up derives biome pages from the active
26.3 biome registry instead of only the older bundled list. It excludes the
TerraBlender staging placeholder and separates cave/Nether biomes. Full-block
materials and true source-fluid blocks also receive registry-derived pages,
covering eligible new and modded blocks. Five 26.3 feature symbols cover
poplar trees, fallen poplars, shelf mushrooms, red shrubs, and abandoned
camps. These feature pages are identities only until their Age-generation
handlers are ported. Biome, material, and feature pages still use generic
artwork and cannot yet be placed in the Binder.
The local 1.0.1.18-alpha.1 follow-up restores the 1.21.1 animated redaction
for Corrupted Page names and descriptions. It does not yet port the dynamic
glyph artwork used for other symbol pages.
The local 1.0.1.19-alpha.1 slice ports the runtime glyph compositor for
symbol Page items. It uses the shared Legacy component sheet and page
parchment with a bounded 256-texture client cache; generated textures are
released on resource reload. Registry-derived biome and material pages use
the same deterministic four-word poem pattern as 1.21.1. No per-symbol PNGs
are generated in the source tree. Binder insertion and authored Age generation
are still unported.
The local 1.0.1.20-alpha.1 visual follow-up enlarges symbol artwork on Page
items, slightly thickens the component strokes, and centers number glyphs at a
larger size so they remain readable in inventory and creative-menu icons.
The local 1.0.1.21-alpha.1 slice ports the Binder's ordered, scrollable
symbol-page strip. Pages persist in its block inventory and can be inserted,
removed, and moved via the cursor or shift-click. A Binder with symbol pages
cannot yet produce a book: authored Age compilation is the next port step, and
silently producing a random Age would consume the player's writing incorrectly.
The local 1.0.1.22-alpha.1 visual follow-up gives large Binder pages the
transparent, full-size Legacy glyph composition. Item icons retain their
separate parchment-backed, reduced-size artwork.
The local 1.0.1.23-alpha.1 follow-up places Binder glyph overlays in a later
26.3 GUI stratum than the page atlas, preventing texture batching from drawing
the opaque page backgrounds over the dynamic artwork.
The local 1.0.1.24-alpha.1 follow-up renders Binder page glyphs through
their working special item model, scaled to the page thumbnail. Direct GUI
blitting of the generated texture remained blank in the 26.3 client.
The local 1.0.1.25-alpha.1 follow-up marks temporary Binder preview stacks
for glyph-only special-model rendering. The full-size transparent artwork now
uses the working item pipeline without drawing a second, smaller page outline.
The local 1.0.1.26-alpha.1 corrects the temporary preview component's codec
registration, which NeoForge 26.3 requires during bootstrap.
The local 1.0.1.27-alpha.1 slice applies the first authored Age subset:
Standard terrain plus at most one Biome page. The selected biome is persisted
with the Age and used by a fixed-biome Overworld noise generator on creation
and reload. Ordered page IDs are stored on the finished book. Other page
combinations remain in the Binder and cannot yet be assembled, preventing
silent loss of unsupported writing. Multi-biome distribution, other terrain
profiles, and feature/material pages still need their 26.3 generation ports.
The 1.0.1.28–1.0.1.32 slices add Tiled, Grid, Native, and five scaled
biome distributions; multiple authored Biome pages; Amplified and Island
terrain; and saved terrain/biome plans across reload. A Binder or Ink Mixer
beside another block no longer hides that block's faces. Unsupported authoring
still stays in the Binder rather than silently producing an incorrect Age.
From the repository root:
./gradlew -p ports/mc263 build
This standalone Gradle build uses Minecraft 26.3, NeoForge 26.3.0.99, ModDevGradle 2.0.148, and Java 25. The repository root remains the independent Minecraft 1.21.1/Java 21 build:
./gradlew build
The beta JAR is under ports/mc263/build/libs. Continue the port and its
full dual-version validation in issues #98–#104 before calling 26.3 stable.
The dedicated development server uses build/run-server, with its own world
and properties. Set a nonconflicting server-port there before running if
another Minecraft server is active. The prototype restores all indexed Ages
during the Overworld load, before initial chunk preparation completes.