Better than Adventure! 1.7.6.2 Pre-1

Release date	February 26, 2022
Downloads	Client ; Server

Better than Adventure! 1.7.6.2 Pre-1 was a prelease to BTA released on February 26, 2022, which focused on fixing many bugs, adding new features, and balancing the game.

New Features[edit | edit source]

New blocks and textures:
- Stone bricks (old stone bricks have been renamed to “polished stone bricks”)
- Polished slate and slate bricks
- Polished stone, polished granite, polished limestone and polished basalt
- Charcoal block
- Slightly altered the textures for basalt, limestone and granite
Controller support
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
Optional 3d items and item stacking
/colour command for setting your chat colour in MP
A new server player list accessed by pressing L (can be rebound)
Improved control rebind menu and lots of new rebinding options
A new “Photo mode” for taking isometric screenshots, including a variety of shader effects
Labels that can be named and coloured to name mob - this also stops them from despawning naturally
Labyrinths now spawn a new library room
A new server menu that allows saving servers
Diamond’s mining speed has been significantly buffed
Nether coal is now much more frequent
Empty buckets now stack
Support for HUD padding and gamma correction
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
F3+N now switches gamemode when cheats are enabled
Added new block placement settings and a new “direction lock” option for locking the direction of rotating blocks
Information overlays - have a compass, watch, or calendar in your inventory in survival to display extra info in your f4 screen
Placing netherrack in a furnace now makes it appear to be lit
F3+R shortcut to reload textures
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
Can now bind performance to VSync
Experimental texture mipmapping
Experimental custom shader support
Increased Vertical Item pickup range
Increased Fire Striker durability
Items now fall slower in water
Support for custom water, lava and portal animations
Water now creates sources on other water sources

Bug Fixes[edit | edit source]

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 consistant
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