ImprovedHoppers v1.1.1 – Performance & Stability Update

This update focuses on performance optimizations, caching improvements, and safer handling of unloaded chunks, ensuring smoother operation and reduced server load.

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🔑 Highlights

Caching Enhancements

• Cached transfer task rate lookups, transferable item checks, and smelt/fuel settings.
• Cached disabled world configs, link distance checks, GUI particle colors, and particle color lookups.
• Cached suction entity buckets, smelter values, hopper filter totals, and experience task nodes.
• Added per-tick link resolution cache for transfer tasks.
• Integrated primitive LongHashSet and long maps for efficient XP orb handling.

Performance Optimizations

• Optimized XP orb scanning and bucketing for experience hoppers.
• Limited XP searches to boundary chunks to reduce overhead.
• Batched hopper movement stat updates.
• Avoided hopper holder lookups and simplified inventory detection.
• Used live block states for inventories to improve accuracy.

Stability & Compatibility

• Guarded hopper transfers and particle rendering against unloaded chunks.
• Prevented eager chunk loads when resolving containers or handling XP orbs.
• Adjusted chunk loading behavior in transfer tasks.
• Refined hopper activation checks.
• Adjusted internals for Java 8 compatibility.

User Experience

• Return to the filter submenu automatically after linking a single item.
• Experience bottles are now returned when breaking hoppers.