Movecraft 8.0.0 Beta 1

This is the first beta release of Movecraft 8, accompanying the rollout of Movecraft 8 to the Airship Pirates production servers. For those of you following along with the alpha releases, you can skip to the bottom. For those of you joining us with this beta release, welcome!

This update has been a long time coming, with development going back almost two years, over 30 thousand lines of code changed, and almost 500 commits, Movecraft 8.0 has been a major rewrite of multiple internal systems. If you are upgrading from Movecraft 7 (or a fork of it), be aware that you likely will have to redo all of your config and type files. Personally, I know it took weeks of time to redo the Airship Pirates server configs and craft types for Movecraft 8.

Version Support

This release supports the following Minecraft versions on all common Spigot forks (we recommend Paper for optimal Movecraft performance):

• 1.19.3
• 1.19.2
• 1.18.2
• 1.17.1
• 1.16.5
• 1.14.4

We expect that we will drop support for 1.14.4, 1.17.1, and 1.19.2 by the middle of 2023, and we plan to continue providing dev builds for the latest Minecraft versions within a week or two of release. Keep in contact with us by joining our Discord Server for the latest version support announcements!

Notes

Please do note that Movecraft will likely fail to load properly on the first startup. This is unfortunately due to limitations in the Spigot API regarding datapacks. If Movecraft fails to load after a few restarts, please refer our FAQ page for instructions on how to resolve the issue. In addition, our Wiki pages include a lot of useful information about the plugin, so please check that out before asking for help!

Full Changelog since 7.0.0: 7.0.0...8.0.0_beta-1

What's Changed since Alpha 9

• French language support by @HumorousFool in #543
• 1.16.5 and lower moving tile ticks by @drfiveminusmint in #547
• Minecraft 1.19.3 Support by @TylerS1066 in #556
• CI Update by @TylerS1066 in #557

For those of you following along with the alpha releases, we've previously noted that support for multiple versions is experimental, and with this release we are removing this qualifier. We have heavily tested Movecraft 8 on our Build server and now our Survival server as well, and it has been running without issue for months. Obviously we still highly recommend good server practices like timely backups (and do so ourselves), but we are confident in the stability of this update. That said, our focus for moving tile entity ticks (aka fire on the move) is on 1.14.4 and 1.16.5, since those are the versions our server uses. This feature is still in development but is not commonly utilized, even on Movecraft 7 where it was fully supported.

Full Changelog since Alpha 9: 8.0.0-a.9...8.0.0_beta-1