Better than Adventure! 1.7.6.2

Release date	April 22, 2022
Downloads	Client ; Server

Better than Adventure! 1.7.6.2 was a major update to BTA released on April 22, 2022, which focused on fixing many bugs, adding new features, and balancing the game.

Major Features[edit | edit source]

+ Controller support
+ Server player list
+ Photo mode for isometric screenshots
+ Labels
- Can be used to rename mobs and items
- Named mobs will not despawn
- Labels can be dyed to change the color they apply
+ Information overlays
- Different items will show different information onscreen
- Compass displays coordinates
- Watch displays ingame time
- Rotary Calendar displays season
+ Mipmapping support
+ Fragment shader support
+ Support for custom water, lava, and portal animations
+ VSync support
+ New server menu
+ Optional 3D items
+ New blocks
- Stone Bricks
- Polished Slate
- Slate Bricks
- Polished Stone, Granite, Limestone and Basalt
- Charcoal Block
+ Support for HUD padding
+ Gamma slider
+ New debug shortcuts
- F3 + N switches gamemode
- F3 + H toggles tool durability display
- F3 + R reloads textures
- F3 + F toggles fullbright when cheats are enabled/player is OP
+ New block placement settings
+ Block rotation can be locked for easier positioning
+ Player nickname and color can now be set in multiplayer
+ New server options
+ Mob griefing can be enabled or disabled
+ Sleeping percentage can be modified
+ Hotbar icon to display how long the player will stay on fire for
+ Experimental ModLoader support
+ Raw Mouse Input setting

Major changes:[edit | edit source]

+ Overhauled armour protection:
- Scrapped durability based protection and made different sets protect better against different types of damage to promote mixing and matching sets
- Leather protects better against fall damage and fire
- Iron protects better against projectile damage
- Diamond protects better against melee damage
- Steel protects better against explosion damage
- Chainmail and gold offer all-around protection
+ Overhauled command system - all SP commands now also work in multiplayer
+ Can now obtain coloured wood through different log types
- Spruce logs - brown planks
- Birch logs - white planks
- Mossy logs - green planks
- Euclyptus logs - orange planks
- Cherry logs - pink planks
+ Improved control rebind menu and lots of new rebinding options
+ Sunrise is now east instead of north
+ Text boxes now support Copy & Paste
+ Mobs only spawn at block light level 0
+ Shiny new main menu logo (thanks @Lurondor!)
+ Removed Herobrine

Minor changes:[edit | edit source]

+ Slightly altered the textures for basalt, limestone and granite
+ Labyrinths now spawn a new library room
+ Diamond’s mining speed has been significantly buffed
+ Nether Coal is now much more frequent
+ Empty buckets now stack
+ Blast Furnace now requires [Nether coal] to craft again
+ Wet sponges can be crafted via a bucket of water and a dry sponge, and will instantly evaporate in the Nether
+ Placing netherrack in a furnace now makes it appear to be lit
+ Slime chunk particles can now be disabled
+ Tool durability is visible in item tag when F3 is enabled
+ Placing netherrack in a furnace now makes it appear to be lit
+ Guidebook and creative GUI can now be paged via the scroll wheel
+ Increased Vertical Item pickup range
+ Increased Fire Striker durability
+ Items now fall slower in water
+ Water now creates sources on other water sources
+ Minecarts are now twice as fast
+ F3 shows block light and sky light
+ Minecarts are now twice as fast
+ F3 shows block light and sky light
+ Improved Mipmaps
+ Clouds can now be turned off
+ Mobs only spawn at block light level 0
+ Player List position can be changed with CTRL + L (default)
+ All players can use /difficulty to see the current difficulty
+ Detector and Powered rails recipes now output 8 instead of 6
+ Portals are slightly less noisy
+ Holding the button while crafting on a controller crafts more
+ Burn times for planks and sticks have been reverted to vanilla values
+ Steel blocks are now blast resistant
+ Changed granite iron ore texture
+ Added options to swap some controller buttons
+ Minecarts and boats break instantly in creative
+ Reduced Rain volume
+ Empty buckets can now stack
+ Hotbar indicator looks a bit nicer
+ Screenshots are now copied to the clipboard when taken
+ F3 menu looks a bit nicer
+ Nether Coal can now be used to make torches
+ Trapdoors can now be placed on the upper half of blocks
+ Wool now uses individal textures again
+ Shift-click crafting now makes an entire stack
+ Chat colours now reflect wool colours

Bug fixes:[edit | edit source]

+ Blocks now drop when broken with a tool's final durability
+ Fixed slimes jittering in multiplayer, and having incorrectly sized hitboxes
+ Fixed world holes appearing in multiplayer
+ Restored retro leaves texture
+ Sheared sheep no longer flash when hit
+ Fixed tile entity dupe
+ Fixed world type getting corrupted when leaving the nether sometimes
+ Fixed placing sugar cane, repeaters and cakes consuming 2 of the item instead of 1
+ Fixed bug that caused entities to stay in memory after walking into unloaded chunks (should improve mob farm efficiency)
+ Olivine blocks are now made with 8 olivine instead of 9
+ Players can now sleep during thunder storms
+ Creepers now flash in multiplayer
+ GUI scale now behaves better
+ SP and MP mining speeds are now consistent
+ Frame-time graph no longer appears when inventory is open
+ Shift+F now behaves properly
+ Bonemeal now works as intended on dirt in retro worlds
+ Water now renders properly under ice
+ Water is coloured on its bottom face
+ Texture streams are now properly closed after use
+ Fixed clay brick block description
+ Crash report now appears when the renderer crashes
+ Players no longer take damage when exiting a minecart in a 3-block-tall space
+ Fixed TNT dupe bug (don’t worry, not that one)
+ Flying up and down simultaneously in creative now makes you stay still
+ Moss now only spreads to adjacent blocks
+ Fire no longer destroys moss blocks
+ Dirt paths can no longer be created if there’s a solid block above
+ Picked up items now go to the currently active hotbar
+ Slimes no longer suffocate in blocks when they spawn
+ Spiders and baby slimes now spawn in one-block-high holes
+ Hidden guidebook items now render properly
+ Boats now face the direction they were placed
+ Chat Messages now appear in the log
+ Log now shows time
+ Chat Messages now appear in the log
+ Lighting TNT now takes Fire Striker durability
+ Fixed Tooltips going off-screen
+ Animations now work properly with non power of 2 resolutions
+ Fixed shift-click for some fuel items in furnaces
+ Game no longer crashes when high res texture packs are selected
+ Skeletons now hold their bow properly
+ Fixed Capes
+ Fixed Skins not reloading
+ Fixed crash in worlds without seasons
+ Rebalanced Blast Furnace fuel (was incorrect before)
+ Arrows no longer disappear when reloading world