Atmospheric Fauna

Changes:

• Added "Spawning on Chunk Load" and "Ambient Spawning" config options
• Added minimum values to the config options (to prevent user inputting negative values)
• Changed some of the flocking behavior
• Changed crow take off to be more smooth
• Lowered crow wing flapping speed when rising
• Optimized a bunch of small things
• Fixed crow spawning when crow limit number in config was really low
• Fixed crow sprite not updating when going fast upwards
• Fixed possible crashes
• Fixed small memory leak

Changes:

• Added "Spawn Below Sea Level" config option
• Optimized the flocking data management
• Fixed several spawning issues
• Fixed some of the spawning condition checks
• Fixed possible memory leaks
• Changed the log messages to be unified with the rest of the project

At first I thought I would release a few of small updates, gradually fixing what was broken. However since Modrinth took forever to review this mod (not blaming them though, I hope they enjoyed their break 🥰) I didn't feel like releasing the changes and they somehow built up into this massive release. Honestly it feels like a completely different mod at this point, but it's still early in development. There are still quite a lot of things I would like to fix before I start adding more bird variants.

Changes:

• Completely refactored and optimized the backend, now supporting easy addition of new birds
• Fixed the crow spawning:
  • Crows spawn like they should (just set the Minecraft var alwaysSpawn to true lol)
  • Removed the custom height check -> Now only able to spawn above sea level
  • Rewrote the spawn location calculation to be further away (closer to config value)
  • Optimized the crow spawning if the max limit is reached
  • Added spawning attempt after loading every 4th chunk (to populate the world when it loads)
  • Added a list of spawnable blocks (to prevent spawning on things like water...)
• Added a despawn distance (render distance + 16 blocks)
• Added a random wing flapping offset to each crow
• Rewrote perching logic:
  • Crows now should land more sparsely from each other when in group
  • Less inclined to perch after spawning
  • Fixed some bugs with group perching
  • Added longer perch cooldown based on how long the crows were perched
• Added a check that adds any missing values inside the config file
• Added max bird particle count config value
• Replaced the missing Cloth Config disabled button with centered label
• Changed some of the config tooltip texts
• Categorized the config values inside the JSON file
• Changed some of the default config values:
  • Max number of crows: 120 -> 50
  • Spawn tick delay: 100 -> 200

Changes:

• Updated the wing flapping speed to be based on the vertical speed of the crow
• Added crow debug text option to the config
• Turned the mod to be completely client-side only (will figure out the server-side later on)
• Reduced final jar file size (by not including the /docs folder)
• Updated the mod icon

The first release, yippiee!!

Important info:

• This is the alpha release, most things will be bugged or just not working at all
  • mostly the spawning and crow behaviour is not finished (but somewhat working)
• Only works for Fabric loader and Minecraft 1.21.11