Hello everyone! Apologies for no weekly update this past week. I had planned to get something out for Christmas... however I got busy with the festivities and was unable to do so. Here is now (finally) a progress update!
Block cluster collisions have been reworked to now conform to the actual blocks in the block cluster, and not the cubic hitbox. While the main idea behind this was to help with block clusters placing/stacking strangely (especially with gaps between block clusters and the world), I have found this doesn't help much and I believe a better solution to a more inherent problem is necessary. For block cluster stacking specifically (especially during the Wither Storm's death sequence), perhaps block clusters could crumble and spread out, or if we wanted to go full out, use rigid body physics... though this may be really out of scope.
A result of this change is that entities can now stand, walk, and collide with stationary (and non-rotating) block clusters. This means players can walk, jump, and crouch on them as if they were normal blocks. Because they are in an entity however they are not interactable (doing so would be out of scope for what I was originally intending), but the collisions may be nice for datapackers who want to make moving platforms (although this has yet to be tested!).
This feature is still in early development, but will be included in the upcoming BETA, and likely defaulted to being off. I will polish this up as best as I can, move on to some other pressing things, then hopefully have that BETA update out eventually.
On another note, Naza has posted a bunch of teaser pictures in our official Discord server, including a summary changelog of some of the bigger things that will be in the upcoming update, which is titled CWSM: Renovation. Lots of things are changing with no cohesive theme, so the name should fit well as a general face lift and quality of life improvement update. I have attached a text file of the changelog if you would prefer to see it that way.
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Hope you all have had/are having some awesome holidays! Until next week.
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