WorldBinder Alpha V3

WorldBinder Alpha V3 is the third public Alpha release and a major responsive UI, 26.x export compatibility and release polish update.

This release focuses on making the entire WorldBinder interface usable across different Minecraft window sizes and GUI scales, improving modern 26.x world export compatibility, polishing the profiler and documentation, fixing keybind visibility in Minecraft's controls screen, and preparing the project for wider Alpha testing.

Highlights

• Added a new virtual scaled GUI canvas for WorldBinder screens
• Fixed major layout issues when Minecraft is not running in fullscreen
• Improved F9 Control Center scaling, spacing and window-size behavior
• Improved F10 Map scaling, viewport behavior, tooltips and fullscreen-style layout consistency
• Improved Config, Capture, Archive, Recovery, Tools, About and progress screens across different window sizes
• Fixed tooltip positioning when using the new scaled GUI canvas
• Improved the Capture responsibly screen layout and background sizing
• Removed redundant Capture screen status text that could appear outside its intended box
• Improved and redesigned the Queue Dashboard / Profiler screen
• Added missing language keys for polished Alpha V3 UI text
• Fixed WorldBinder keybind visibility in Minecraft's controls/keybind screen
• Added a dedicated WorldBinder keybind category
• Improved 26.x gamerule export handling for modern game rule registry keys
• Skips unknown or unsafe gamerule mappings instead of producing broken game_rules.dat data
• Improved 26.x world spawn metadata for Paper/Multiverse imports
• Updated README and HOW_TO_USE documentation for Alpha V3
• Replaced old Alpha V1/V2 wording in user-facing documentation where appropriate

Responsive GUI Update

Alpha V3 introduces a new virtual 960x540 WorldBinder GUI canvas.

Instead of relying on fragile per-screen breakpoint logic, WorldBinder now keeps its menus on a stable virtual layout and scales that layout to the actual Minecraft window. This makes screens behave much more consistently across fullscreen, windowed mode, different aspect ratios and different GUI scales.

This affects major WorldBinder screens including:

• F9 Control Center
• F10 Map
• Config
• Capture
• Archive and validation flows
• Recovery
• Tools
• About
• Queue Dashboard / Profiler
• Finish and progress screens
• Legal / capture responsibility screen

Very small windows may still look more pixelated because Minecraft's pixel-font UI is being scaled down, but the layout should remain usable and consistent.

26.x Export Compatibility

Alpha V3 improves modern 26.x export compatibility, especially around game rules and world spawn metadata.

Legacy gamerule names are now mapped to supported modern 26.x game rule registry keys where possible. Unknown or unsafe mappings are skipped instead of writing invalid registry keys that could break Paper's saved-data parser.

The modern world spawn compound now also uses the exported world key more correctly for Paper/Multiverse-style imports, helping imported worlds keep the expected world spawn.

Keybinds

WorldBinder keybinds now use a dedicated WorldBinder category in Minecraft's controls screen.

This makes the documented F6, F7, F8, F9 and F10 bindings easier to find, review and rebind.

Loader Support

WorldBinder Alpha V3 is currently available for Fabric.

Quilt and NeoForge support are being evaluated for future releases, but they are not part of this release yet.

Important Alpha Notice

WorldBinder is still an Alpha project.

Exports may still differ from the original server-side world depending on what the client received, server setup, custom content, resource packs, entities, dimensions, chunks, game rules and the selected target output version.

Use WorldBinder only on worlds, maps, builds or servers that you own, administer, created yourself, or where you have explicit permission. You are responsible for how exported data is used.

Feedback and Bug Reports

Please report bugs, ideas and feedback here:

• Repository: https://github.com/Philiipp06/WorldBinder
• Issues: https://github.com/Philiipp06/WorldBinder/issues

or on Discord:

• Discord: https://discord.com/invite/V7h3vaXxDZ

Useful bug reports include:

• Minecraft version
• WorldBinder version
• Selected target output version
• Window mode and GUI scale if the issue is UI-related
• What was captured
• What went wrong
• Screenshots, logs or exported test worlds if possible

Release Status

This release is intended for public Alpha testing and feedback.

WorldBinder Alpha V3 is a major improvement over Alpha V2, especially for UI usability and modern 26.x export behavior, but it is still not considered a final or stable release.