Ice Boat Racing 1.11.0 Update Notes

The FINAL 1.21.4 Version!

This update is focused on reducing performance overhead by removing features that not too many people used. It enables new support for Gift Lift, increases custom boat performance and slims down on unused mods, plus some new additions for quality of life!

For the people that missed it, o7moon, the main developer of OpenBoatUtils, has stepped back and has handed over development to some of the most prominent developers within Ice Boat Racing. We'd like to thank them for the absolutely massive contributions to the niche, and if ever they want to contribute again, we'll welcome them back with open arms.

This is also the first build to have been tested on all major operating systems: Windows 11, MacOS Tahoe (MacBook Neo), and Linux (6.18 kernel, Bazzite)!

Changelog:

• Added a button in GUI options to shortcut to the BoatLabs Mod settings

• Fixed an issue where transparent surfaces would fail to render behind display entities that had transparent elements

Dev note: Particles fail to render behind transparent surfaces, this is still being investigated!

• Fixed an issue when using Equalizer APO or PulseAudio where specific sound effects would cause a short audio pop when unloading a resource pack while a sound is being played
• Fixed an issue related to the borderless windowed settings when using the Prism launcher and recording with AMD Radeon ReLive, where a driver timeout would occur when tabbing out of the game window
• Fixed a hard crash where the modpack would always crash on MacOS due to ImGuiMc not being compatible with it

Adjustments:

• Lowered default maximum render distance set by Bobby to 40 chunks

This is due to me having a stroke seeing people run 96 chunks on integrated graphics. (if you know how to change it back, feel free to!)

• Applied a forced override for the default supplied config for Continuity due to high performance impact on custom boats. The option to enable it now has a special tooltip to warn the user prior to enabling it.
• Updated default supplied config for Cubes Without Borders for MacOS
• Xaero's Minimap size adjustment is now a toggle instead of a hold
• Changed the BRWC server listing to the new IceDrifters name and adjusted assets accordingly

Splash texts:

• Added new splash texts for FC1 2026 and Formula Mario
• Added the top 5 constructors for Pacific Superseries as splash texts
• Added IBR World Cup, W4FC, IEC, and GOLF(h) to the splash texts
• Added the Summit season 2 teams as splash texts

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• Added the following mods:

  • Noxesium
  • Ixeris

• Updated the following mods:

  • BadOptimizations
  • BBoatHud
  • BoatCam
  • Chat Heads
  • Chat Notify
  • CommandKeys
  • Dynamic FPS
  • e4mc
  • EntityCulling
  • Fabric API
  • Fabric Language Kotlin
  • Forge Config API
  • fzzy config
  • GammaUtils
  • ImmediatelyFast
  • LanguageReload
  • MacOS Input Fixes
  • OptiGUI
  • ParticleCore
  • ScalableLux
  • Searchables
  • Simple Voice Chat
  • Thorough Keybindings
  • ToadLib
  • WaveyCapes
  • Xaero's Minimap
  • YACL
  • Zoomify

• Removed the following mods:

  • Balm
  • Cloth Config
  • Entity Model Features
  • Entity Model Textures
  • FabriShot
  • ImGuiMC
  • Iris Shaders

  FOR SOME REASON, Iris cached all Display Entities on every single frame, causing high performance degredation in areas where many entities were present. This is the single biggest performance gain for areas such as the server spawns.

  • Puzzle
  • Xaero's World Map

  The WorldMap had a weird issue where every time a chunk border was crossed, a lag spike would occur. To fix this, the mod needed to be removed. If you desperately need a WorldMap, I recommend getting JourneyMap instead and disabling the minimap. If you add the mod manually, it should already be preconfigured, apart from the keybinds.

  • XaeroPlus

Known Issues

• The Xaero's Minimap generates a new backup config every time the game is launched. These are only 1kb in size and should not interfere with your gameplay experience.
• Rarely, when unloading a resource pack and joining a server or leaving a server before a resource pack is loaded, resource packs will fail to load for the rest of the session (a game restart fixes this)
• On first session join, BoatLabs NPC skins sometimes don't load due to skin/username loading not working correctly
• During the loading of resources pack, textures break due to texture mapping
• Very rarely, after joining a server, the world can become fully unlit

Ice Boat Racing 1.10.2 Update Notes

This hotfix contains a critical fix to OpenBoatUtils where interpolation would suddenly get reinitialized, breaking it for the rest of the session. Some research has been done with o7Moon, and it will no longer happen!

Changelog:

• Fixed interpolation reinitialization from OpenBoatUtils
• Fixed a bug where main menu elements misaligned themselves due to a misconfigured unforced Flashback configuation

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• Updated the following mods:
  • BBoatHud
  • BoatLabs Mod
  • Entity Model Features
  • Entity Texture Features
  • Fabric API
  • Fabric Kotlin
  • Searchables
  • Simple Voice Chat
  • Wavey Capes
  • XaeroPlus
• Updated default supplied config for BoatLabs Mod

Known Issues

• Rarely, when unloading a resource pack and joining a server or leaving a server before a resource pack is loaded, resource packs will fail to load for the rest of the session (a game restart fixes this)
• On first session join, BoatLabs NPC skins sometimes don't load due to skin/username loading not working correctly
• During the loading of the BoatLabs resource pack, textures break due to texture mapping
• When using Equalizer APO or PulseAudio, specific effects can cause a short audio pop when unloading a resource pack while a sound is being played
• On NVIDIA Graphics cards, shaders exhibit major graphical artifacts
• When using the modpack from the Prism launcher and recording with AMD Radeon ReLive, a driver timeout can occur when tabbing out of the game window

Ice Boat Racing 1.10.1 Update Notes

Small hotfix for some small but worth-to-fix issues! The next update will focus on reducing the number of incompatible mods and working on some incompatibility notifications for some league-regulated mods. Stay tuned :D

Changelog:

• Added a button to the GUI Options menu to ease the customization of BB BoatHud
• Added a button to the Camera Settings menu to ease the customization of BoatCam

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• Fixed a hard crash on macOS devices a misconfigured pre-included config
• Fixed a crash due on the Mod Menu screen due to accidentally having left on screen customization
• Fixed a crash related to Iris and trying to load an invalid shader pack after a forced game close
• Fixed a crash caused by BB BoatHud when going faster that 999 km/h
• Fixed an issue when using a launcher that reads the included server.dat file, unintended listings appeared

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• Adjusted an image in the pre-included anti-nausea world border adjustment texture pack
• Cleaned up the WorldEdit config and fixed brush radii being limited to a very small size
• • A fix for the server list not being imported on the Modrinth launcher is in the works!

Known Issues

• Rarely, when unloading a resource pack and joining a server or leaving a server before a resource pack is loaded, resource packs will fail to load for the rest of the session (a game restart fixes this)
• On first session join, BoatLabs NPC skins sometimes don't load due to skin/username loading not working correctly
• During the loading of the BoatLabs resource pack, textures break due to texture mapping
• When using Equalizer APO or PulseAudio, specific effects can cause a short audio pop when unloading a resource pack while a sound is being played
• On NVIDIA Graphics cards, shaders exhibit major graphical artifacts
• When using the modpack from the Prism launcher and recording with AMD Radeon ReLive, a driver timeout can occur

Ice Boat Racing 1.10.0 Update Notes

Here it is, the grand update to 1.21.4! Featuring a lot of new tech for BoatLabs and a supporting mod for the eighth edition of World's Longest Course, this is by far the highest update-to-update improvement yet, for both performance and player experience.

After a talk with other racers and users, it's been decided to keep Axiom out of the modpack due to the possibility of forcing users into the Axiom UI unknowingly, and possibly not knowing how to leave the UI. Feel free to add it yourself, though! It's been thoroughly tested and will not influence your racing experience.

Changelog:

• Added support for sub-tick timing, exclusive to BoatLabs
• Added additional controls for pausing and resuming Flashback replays
• Added support for World's Longest Course has been added to the included server list
• Added a confirmation when resetting all keybinds
• Added several new splash texts relating to new leagues, teams, events, and viral media
• Added new behavior when using Simple Voice Chat groups
• Added a custom world border texture pack that reduces motion sickness and recording artifacts

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• Fixed a crash on Apple ARM devices caused by memory overprovisioning
• Fixed a scoreboard positioning issue caused by conflicting mods
• Fixed a wrongly duplicated tooltip on the BRWC Discord Server button
• Fixed a bug where the Issue Reporter always misreported the modpack version
• Fixed a misconfiguration while trying to use the /boat macro caused by the Xaero family of mods
• Fixed a bug where emmissive elements didn't always render due to a Puzzle misconfiguration
• A bug was resolved that caused HUD elements to display while in F1/HUDless mode

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• Improved performance while near block and display entities
• Improved capability of the Server Swapper Beta
• Improved subserver transfer speeds when using the Server Swapper Beta
• Major improvement to chunk loading times

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• Modified Smooth Scroll behavior inside the creative menu

• Modified Water Vision behavior to be more aesthetically pleasing :D

• • Updated all previous mods (unless noted below) to their 1.21.4 versions!

Added Mods:

• BoatCam (Modrinth version by Pigalala)
• BB BoatHud (replaces BoatHud, by BillBodkin)
• BoatLabs Mod (by the BoatLabs team)
• Fabrishot
• ImGuiMC
• LongerChatHistory
• Motion Capture (suggested by TheLasersloth)
• More Culling (suggested by Makkuusen)
• Palladium
• Screenshot Viewer (suggested by Purplers)
• WECuiFix
• WorldEdit (returns after crash fix)
• WLC Mod (by TheLasersloth)

Removed Mods

• BoatHud (superseded by BB BoatHud)
• IBR Extras (superseded by BB BoatHud)
• Indium (unused dependency)
• RacingScoreboard (not available for 1.21.4)
• Scoreboard Tweaks (mod conflict)
• ToolTipFix (not available for 1.21.4)
• ThreadTweak (caused instability)
• XaeroZoomout (caused instability)

Configuration Updates:

• Updated default supplied configs for existing mods
• Fixed a configuration issue with enabled Continuity texture packs not persisting between modpack updates
• Added a default config for the BoatLabs Mod
• Added a default config for BBBoatHud
• Added read-only config for Palladium (modification can cause major bugs)
• Modified ModMenu config to get rid of the annoying update badges
• Modified BadOptimizations config to fix entity transparency culling
• Reduced default render distance to lessen stress on lower power devices
• Lowered maximum render distance due to stability concerns
• Increased Bobby chunk unload delay due to the average track length increasing across servers

Known Issues

• Rarely, when unloading a resource pack and joining a server or leaving a server before a resource pack is loaded, resource packs will fail to load for the rest of the session (a game restart fixes this)
• Rarely, when your game has crashed, an additional crash can happen on the world load due to a failed attempt to restore a previous shaderpack (fixes itself)
• On first session join, BoatLabs NPC skins sometimes don't load due to skin/username loading not working correctly
• During the loading of the BoatLabs resource pack, textures break due to texture mapping
• When using Equalizer APO or PulseAudio, specific effects can cause a short audio pop when unloading a resource pack while a sound is being played
• Attempting to open the website or issue pages of specific mods can cause a crash due to a null exception (mod author didn't put in a valid link)
• Attempting to go faster than 999 km/h will crash the game due to a HUD counter overflowing
• When using a launcher that reads the included server.dat file, unintended listings appear
• On NVIDIA Graphics cards, shaders exhibit major graphical artifacts

Notes for Customized Pack users

• As this is a version update, please remember what your custom mods were, and if they can be reinstalled with 1.21.4!

This also marks the official END of fully-featured CurseForge support. It's been incredibly hard trying to maintain a pack on a platform where so many mods are absent or need to be manually approved. Instead, CurseForge will transform into a type of long-term support build where only critical mods are present to maintain stability. CurseForge users should migrate themselves to Modrinth or a supporting launcher for the (new) best experience!

Customization Notes for adding and removing mods

Mods you shouldn't update or add as a customized pack user

• C2ME
• Debugify
• FancyMenu
• Flashback
• kennytv's epicforcecloseloadingscreenmod
• MotionCapture
• Remove Reloading Screen
• WorldEditCUIFix

Mods that are tested to be compatible with the modpack

• 3DSkinLayers
• Axiom
• XaeroZoomout

More mods exist, but I cannot guarantee their stability apart from the ones listed above. Mod responsibly :D

Ice Boat Racing 1.9.2 Update Notes

This is a minor update to improve performance and remove some mods that were causing issues.

You don't necessarily need to update, but it will improve your experience!

Microchangelog:

• Updated Cherished Worlds

• Updated Flashback

• Updated Iceberg

• Updated Iris Shaders

• Updated Legendary Tooltips

• Updated ModernFix

• Updated Sodium

• Removed Axiom due to causing a disconnect on BoatLabs build servers (will be readded for 1.21.4!)

• Removed Camera Lock On

• Added some splash texts

From this point onward, development will shift towards 1.21.4 as that will soon be the default version for boat racing!