1.20 Update

This update is mostly technical, but adds a lot of behind-the-scenes improvements, and some graphical updates.

This update was released on the 18th of November 2023.

Graphical updates

Digital Sea Beam

The beam that appears when someone falls into the Digital Sea now looks nicer and is sector themed, also added sound effects.

Skin animations

Added animations that use your Minecraft skin :

• Virtualization.
• Standing devirtualization.
• Crushing devirtualization.
• Soft/Fall devirtualization. Triggered by fall damage and players.
• Hard/Mid-Air devirtualization. Triggered by Monsters.

Virtualization animation now takes half as much time as before.

Return To The Past Effect

The Return To The Past has been upgraded:

• Added return to the past bubble.
• Added white fade.
• Removed slowness effect.

Sector Vibe Check

Sectors are now more immersive! There are now ambient sounds in each sector, and we've added vanilla skyboxes.

These skyboxes are compatible with the optional S1 & S3-4 Skybox resource packs.

• Added gradient-type skyboxes to all sector types.
• Added ambient sound to Lyoko sectors. Sector 5's maze and celestial dome will have their own unique sounds.
• Changed Sector 5 to daytime, making it look a lot better with shaders.
• Changed Ice sector to daytime.

Misc

• Telekinesis rocks and Overvehicles now look less weird in water.

Modpack

We've published a modpack on Modrinth with:

• Recommended performance mods.
• MRCL Skies Pack (enabled by default)
• Recommended shaders + recommended settings (disabled by default)

Gameplay

DNA Issues Nerf

• Missing DNA Sequences revert to DNA Degeneration upon Frontier rescue.
• DNA Degeneration will now send a message as it starts instead of 5 minutes into the condition.
• Increased time it takes for degeneration to turn into missing sequences.

Monsters

• Reduce Creeper HP.
• Reduce Manta HP.
• Megatank attacking Jeremie Towers no longer spawn incorrectly.

Routines / Kadic

• Food is now much easier to take from the cafeteria
• NPCs will now not eat like they're starving (they eat slower)
• NPCs have been scolded about the dangers of standing on chairs and tables.
• Non-boarder NPCs now actually leave the school.
• The psychologist now actually does his job.
• The Superscan in Jeremie's room is no longer always red.
• NPCs just behave a lot better in general (See technical changes)

Virtual

• Fixed some stuck Sector 5 doors.
• Fixed Cortex running out of Energy.
• Energy Fields are now a more approriate shade of pink.

De-laggening

Technical stuff that improves performance on your client:

• The holomap is now less laggy.
• Core earthquake no longer uses particles, reducing lag spikes.
• A bunch of minor wizardry.

Known Issues

• Mantas forgot they can can fly up/down.
• There's a very small texture issue with fabric and devirt models.

Technical stuff

• Updated to 1.20.2, obviously.
  • Update all our magic Minecraft wizardy.
  • Fix other people's magic wizardry, or replace them.
• Rewrite/merge minor plugins.
• Rely more on Hopperlib, our custom library.
• Write an alternative to Citizens: Residents.
  • NPCs are much better in every way.
  • Server RAM usage appears to have halved (remains to be stress tested).