Village and Pillage!

After a rather exciting 25 hour process, BadWolfMC has updated to Minecraft 1.14.4! Update your launchers and Optifine!

What to expect:

• Lag/rubberbanding. And we don’t want to hear it.
• Disconnects, even on the best of connections, are expected in this version.
• Tougher restrictions on entities, especially villagers.
• Don’t expect your farms to work quite the same way.
• Don’t expect your villagers to come through unscathed.
• This was a pretty big change to the way villagers work. Existing villagers may not be the same as they were.
• There is a known bug in 1.14.3 that affects the trading of some upgraded villagers. See that bug report for a workaround until it is fixed.
• In order to minimize lag we’ve added something that reduces the number of checks villagers make against their professions and beds, limiting checks to every 2 minutes (previously these checks were constant), so by design they will not update as quickly as you might expect.
• Zombie Pigman spawns in nether portals have been permanently disabled. Sorry, your overworld gold farms will break. This is due to a really dumb change Mojang made that forces chunks to load and remain loaded in both worlds when anything goes through a portal. More loaded chunks = lag. We will consider any use of this mechanic as malicious, and anyone using it may be banned.
• Maps, including vanilla maps, have reset. Fucking again. No idea why since it all still works, but you’ll need to regenerate/replace any existing vanilla maps and we’ll have to manually reset existing custom maps. If you had a custom map, do not remove it, but create a /ticket in the location of the old custom map specifying which map it should be, and we’ll slowly get to them all once we’ve restored the images.
• As we warned before the update, we are treating this as something of a trial run. If it’s an unmitigated disaster we will make the call no later than 24 hours on 1.14.3 whether we will roll back to 1.13.2 and wait for a better version. While the update went smoother than expected, this is still a possibility.

All that said… we hope you enjoy it!