Highlights / Notes

A collection of smaller additions, improvements and fixes.

Upgrading from 5.15

• Replace the bluemap.jar-file with the new one
• Delete your <webroot>/index.html to make bluemap update the webapp

Changelog since 5.15

• WebApp: Replaced using number parameter for cache-control with no-cache header (#762, thanks to Macil)
• WebApp: Use unadjustedMovement if supported in free-flight pointer-lock mode (#763, thanks to Macil)
• Added support for "oversized chunks" → large chunks that are stored separately from the region-files (#772)
• Added render-thread-priority config value for setting the java thread priority for render-threads
• Added RenderPasses which allow addons to modify the entire tile-model without being bound to a custom block or entity
• Added logs for more info when watching for map-updates on the CLI
• Added lenient support for non-standard pack.mcmeta format
• Improved exception-handling of API-consumers
• Improved exception-handling when resolving sponge-dimension directories
• Improved troubleshoot command
• Fixed potential deadlock when resolving a configuration-exception
• Fixed world spawn position not correctly read from the level.dat
• Fixed Thread-Names of MapUpdateService-Thread, Webserver and Scheduler
• Fixed player-skin not being removed from the map-storage if the skin-provider returns an empty skin

Full Changelog: v5.15...v5.16

Targets:

Java: 21
BlueMapAPI: 2.7.7

Highlights / Notes

Hotfix for a few bugs with 1.21.11 support.

Upgrading from 5.14

• Replace the bluemap.jar-file with the new one

Changelog since 5.14

• Updated fabric-permission-api to 0.6.1 for MC 1.21.11 compatibility
• Added a workaround for a paper-bug (in papers experimental version) that throws an exception when a player tries to join
• Fixed Fabric, Forge and NeoForge sometimes throwing an exception when a player tries to join (#761)

Targets:

Java: 21
BlueMapAPI: 2.7.7

Highlights / Notes

Initial 1.21.11 support and more improvements and fixes.

Upgrading from 5.13

• Replace the bluemap.jar-file with the new one

Changelog since 5.13

• Updated fabric, forge and neoforge to support 1.21.11 (cli, spigot, paper and sponge implementations work without changes)
• Added support for new model-rotations introduced in 25w46a
• Setting ignore-missing-light-data: true config now also ignores individual missing chunks
• SQL-storages now don't require db-write permission when only reading (webserver only, no rendering)
• Removed / from webserver loggers ip-addresses
• Improved formatting and grammar/spelling in the config-templates (#756, #758, thanks to nightowl286 and TechnicJelle)
• Improved internal cache-management
• Fixed circle and ellipse render-masks ignoring their center-position setting
• Fixed an exception with the webserver handling edge-case (invalid) http-requests
• Fixed cherry-signs not rendering
• Fixed backwards compatibility for old chain-blocks not working
• Fixed black edge-lines sometimes appearing on mushroom-blocks

Targets:

Java: 21
BlueMapAPI: 2.7.7

Highlights / Notes

Copper-chests and coppergolem statues models.
And reverted the integrated webserver changes from 5.12.
(There are some issues with using virtual-threads in combination with a database-storage that could lead to the webserver becoming unresponsive.
This issue is resolved when using Java 24+ but as long as BlueMap still supports Java 21 we revert to the previous webserver implementation)

Upgrading from 5.12

• Replace the bluemap.jar-file with the new one

Changelog since 5.12

• Added models for copper-chests
• Added models for coppergolem statues
• Added models for hanging-signs that are attached=false
• Added models for all pale-oak signs
• Reverted the integrated webserver changes from 5.12
• Fixed a loading error on forge 1.21.9+ (#743)
• Added a cooldown-time when updating the same region-file multiple times in a row
• Also scan the item folder in resourcepacks for block-models (fixes a compatibillity issues with ItemsAdder resourcepacks)
• Fixed and improved several small code-issues

Targets:

Java: 21
BlueMapAPI: 2.7.6

Highlights / Notes

Full 1.21.9 support, rework of the integrated webserver and more bugfixes and improvements!

Upgrading from 5.11

• Replace the bluemap.jar-file with the new one

Changelog since 5.11

• Updated fabric-implementation to 1.21.9
• Rework of the integrated webserver from NIO to using Virtual-Threads, improving performance and maintainability
• Added remapping chain -> iron_chain for RP version 67 for improved backwards-compatibility
• Added support for block-properties in the block-colors config
• Added support for addon dependencies and soft-dependencies (#730)
• Pushed BlueMapAPI to 2.7.6
• Improved logging for region/chunk loading errors
• Fixed paper reading the wrong minecraft version id when not on a release version (Snapshots,Pre-Releases,RCs)
• Fixed element default UV calculation, fixing the appearance of the cauldron and cactus-flowerpot
• Fixed melon- and pumpkin-stems not being colored correctly (#734)
• Fixed inside-out cubes not working, fixing the appearance of all spawner-blocks
• Fixed wrong tile coordinates being displayed in /bluemap debug map ... command
• Fixed inheritance of ambient-occlusion property from parent block-model (thanks to Uiniel, #729)
• Fixed webserver incorrectly handling absolute form of HTTP "path" (#737)
• Fixed legacy config error not showing the problematic config file

Targets:

Java: 21
BlueMapAPI: 2.7.6

Highlights / Notes

With Render-Masks it is now possible to limit your map render
to all kinds of shapes and perfectly control what you want to be visible on the map, and which regions should remain hidden.

Upgrading from 5.10

• Replace the bluemap.jar-file with the new one
• Delete your <webroot>/index.html to make bluemap update the webapp
• You will need to update your map configs!
  • Find the section with min-x, max-x, min-z, max-z, min-y and max-y in your map config file, e.g.:

    #min-x: -4000
    #max-x: 4000
    #min-z: -4000
    #max-z: 4000
    #min-y: 50
    max-y: 90

    and add render-mask: [ { before, and ] } after the section, e.g. like this:

    render-mask: [ 
      {
        #min-x: -4000
        #max-x: 4000
        #min-z: -4000
        #max-z: 4000
        #min-y: 50
        max-y: 90
      }
    ]

    -> here is a video-example
    smaller.mp4
  • Optionally, you can add the new edge-light-strength: 15 property to your map config as well

Changelog since 5.10

• Added a list of render-masks to the map-configs, replacing the previous min-x, max-z, etc.., properties (#81)
• Added edge-light-strength to the map-configs to control the lighting of map-edges if render-edges is enabled
• Custom dimensions are now ordered last by default
• Improved structure and comments of the default map-configs
• Added support for minor pack-versions introduced in Minecraft Snapshot 25w31a
• Fixed lily_pad's having no tint color (#727)
• Fixed error if biomes water-color has alpha (#715)
• Updated bluemap-api to 2.7.5

Targets:

Java: 21
BlueMapAPI: 2.7.5

Highlights / Notes

Resource-pack and -loading improvements,.. and some bugfixes.

Upgrading from 5.9

• Replace the bluemap.jar-file with the new one
• Delete your <webroot>/index.html to make bluemap update the webapp

Changelog since 5.9

• Added support for resourcepack-atlases (#720)
• Improved support for bluemap-addons loading their own resources (#720)
• The tint for custom liquids can now be defined in the blockColors.json in a resourcepack
• Updated NL translation (#713, thanks to TechnicJelle)
• Updated FI translation (#714, thanks to Chicken)
• Fixed some textures of the newer minecraft-version did not calculate the correct color for the lowres layer
• Fixed a bug where players would stop updating on paper after dying (#719)
• Fixed copying coordinates not working if the webapp is not in a secure context (not https or localhost)
• Fixed a bug with copying the region-file coordinates

Targets:

Java: 21
BlueMapAPI: 2.7.4

Highlights / Notes

Fixes 2 harmless but annoying issues introduced with 5.8
Also check out the changelog from 5.8!

Upgrading from 5.8

• Replace the bluemap.jar-file with the new one

Changelog since 5.8

• Fixed a (harmless) IllegalStateException exception
• Fixed a debug-log i forgot to remove again

Targets:

Java: 21
BlueMapAPI: 2.7.4

Highlights / Notes

Full 1.21.6 support
and some smaller improvements and fixes

Upgrading from 5.7

• Replace the bluemap.jar-file with the new one
• Delete your <webroot>/index.html to make bluemap update the webapp

Changelog since 5.7

• Updated fabric (thanks to @Mac898), forge and neoforge to minecraft 1.21.6
• Clear some caches and pools to release heap-space when it is not used for some time
• Added chunk-version to debug command
• Improved error-handling when loading corrupted entity-chunks
• Switched cli to new eta-formatting
• Added --markers option to cli which allows to (only) update markers based ont the map-configs
• Added sourcemap to webapp
• Display error screen on the webapp if webgl2 is not available
• Disabled pretty-printing for pluginState.json to discourage manual editing
• Fixed a compatibility issue with some mods on forge and neoforge
• Fixed player-markers not working if the world got loaded/added after bluemap loaded
• Fixed hanging signs not rendering correctly
• Fixed some face-culling issues
• Fixed storages command not detecting if a map is loaded or not correctly
• Fixed rare NoSuchFileException when rendering
• Fixed api RenderManager#start() not working when config uses the negative format
• Fixed webapp title not updating immediately when switching languages
• Updated vietnamese translation (thanks to @songnguxyz)

Targets:

Java: 21
BlueMapAPI: 2.7.4

Highlights / Notes

Fixed some issues with the previous release.
Make sure you checked out the update-notes of 5.6 as well.

Upgrading from 5.6

• Replace the bluemap.jar-file with the new one

Changelog since 5.6

• Added tint for bushes
• Fixed cows being rendered onto the map as black/purple cubes
• Fixed render-tasks not being scheduled in correct order
• Fixed tint for bamboo-leaves and sugarcane
• Fixed various exceptions triggered by commands / completions
• Limit the size of a single hires-tile to a reasonable amount
  (fixing memory-issues when trying to render an overly complex world)

Targets:

Java: 21
BlueMapAPI: 2.7.4