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# 🌍 Latitude v1.2.5 — Full Release (MC 1.21.11) This release focuses on long-standing world-generation edge cases and visual consistency, with major fixes to climate correctness, terrain shaping, and world border effects. Several issues that required deep vanilla interception are now fully resolved. --- ## ❄️ Warm-Band Snow Anomalies — **Resolved** After extensive investigation, all remaining cases of snow appearing in warm climate bands (equator, jungle, tropical regions) have been fully eliminated. ### What was happening Vanilla Minecraft was still attempting to place snow via internal systems (e.g. `FreezeTopLayerFeature`) based on *base* biomes (snowy taiga, snowy plains, frozen rivers), even after Latitude correctly reassigned the *output* biome to warm zones. ### What’s fixed - **Snow blocks** are no longer placed in warm bands. - **Powder snow** (including cave-mouth sink traps) is fully blocked in warm bands. - **Snow layers** are prevented in warm climates. - Fix applies consistently across: - cave mouths - hillsides - partially exposed terrain - edge-case chunk generation paths ### Implementation details - Intercepts snow placement at the **final worldgen write stage** (ProtoChunk + ChunkRegion). - Warm-band snow is replaced safely: - powder snow / layers → AIR - snow blocks → DIRT above sea level, STONE below - Debug logging and HUD counters are now **opt-in only** via JVM flags. Result: **Latitude climates are now strictly respected.** No more tropical snow. --- ## 🌴 Mangrove Hills — Fixed - Resolved incorrect mangrove generation on steep or inappropriate terrain. - Mangroves now respect terrain suitability and patch logic consistently. - Eliminates visually jarring mangrove “hillside blobs” outside intended zones. --- ## 🌪️ East/West World Border Sandstorm — Fully Working The east/west world border sandstorm effect is now stable and visible in all configurations. ### Improvements - Renders correctly **with or without shaders**. - Compatible with: - Sodium - Iris - Shaderpacks enabled or disabled - Eliminates flickering and non-rendering issues near the E/W borders. - Provides consistent atmospheric feedback when approaching world limits. --- ## 🧹 Debug & Performance Cleanup - Disabled verbose biome debug spam (`LAT_PICK`) by default. - Snow-guard logging and warm-snow HUD overlays are now **off by default** and enabled only when explicitly requested. - Maintains full diagnostics without impacting normal gameplay or logs. --- ## ✅ Summary Latitude 1.2.5 represents a major stability and correctness milestone: - Climate bands now behave exactly as designed. - Long-standing vanilla edge cases are fully neutralized. - Visual polish and immersion near world borders are significantly improved. - This release is suitable as a **stable, full release** moving forward. Thank you for your patience while these deep world-gen issues were hunted down and fixed properly!