Anuken/Mindustry v160

v8 Build 160

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• Added a system for plugins to display custom UI on clients (see https://mindustrygame.github.io/wiki/serverUiBuilder/)
• Added support for servers sending dynamic textures to clients via Vars.netServer.sendTexture
• Added server remote methods for bulk-filling tiles
• Added button to restore automatically disabled mods
• Added version selection for mods that are reinstalled
• Added support for viewing items in bridge conveyors
• Added descriptions for more settings
• Added a button to the server browser to sort by player count
• Added a target dummy block for measuring DPS
• Added button to unset keybinds
• Added map sorting by last modification date
• Added localization support for logic editor
• Added rule to allow building cores anywhere and switching teams from cores
• Added statusChance field to bullets
• Made Reconstructors display all possible stances even with no units contained in them
• Improved auto bridge placement algorithm
• Made servers send existing entities with world data, which may improve initial rubberbanding (or be extremely buggy, who knows)
• Various improvements to database stat info
• Made non-player units no longer update in the map editor
• Made the mirror axis draggable in the editor
• Merged animated shields option into animated surfaces option
• Improved support for JS mods on iOS; it is now possible to implement interfaces
• Implemented a workaround to fix Time Control mod bugging out enemies at high speeds; this was not a vanilla bug
• Improved power generator/reactor explosion visuals/effects
• Minor improvements to mining effect visuals
• Allowed ground units to move into solid reconstructors
• Slight optimizations to unit physics
• Improved targeting of Ripple/Titan; they now target groups
• Made 'within' logic command not apply logic control
• Added support for logic markers as light sources
• Made camera sensor privileged-only (it did not function properly on servers anyway)
• Made setrate instruction available for non-privileged processors
• Added support for \uXXXX, \n, ", \ escape sequences in logic
• Added support for storing arbitrary objects in memory cells
• Added more features to logic cutscene control
• Added a sound selector UI for the logic play sound instruction
• Improved layout of logic editor UI
• Unloader behavior changes at lower FPS
• Made bridge blocks not accept items when disabled
• Made status effect apply instruction accept status effect variables
• Made status effect durations sense-able
• Potentially breaking change: For security reasons, JSON now requires classes to have the @AllowSerialization annotation to be deserialized when type is ambiguous
• Slightly reduced rotation speed of Spectre, Meltdown, Foreshadow, Swarmer, Cyclone
• Buffed Erekir payload logistics (decreased build costs, faster fire rate)
• Buffed Nova
  • Health: 120 -> 200
  • Boost speed: 1.5x -> 2x
  • Reduced fire rate (24 -> 30 ticks to reload), but now with a pierce value of 2
  • Smarter heal ability triggering
• Decreased speed of copper conveyor post-buff (was 4.2 -> buffed to 6.5 in 159 -> now 5)
• Increased armor of higher tier units:
  • Scepter: 10 -> 20
  • Vela: 9 -> 16
  • Arkyid: 6 -> 14
  • Antumbra: 9 -> 17
  • Quad: 8 -> 10
  • Reign: 18 -> 30
  • Corvus: 9 -> 14
  • Toxopid: 13 -> 22
  • Eclipse: 13 -> 22
  • Oct: 18 -> 20
  • Navanax: 18 -> 20
• Fixed mod icons not displaying when newly imported
• Fixed line joint rendering at sharp angles exploding into infinity
• Fixed various bugs with displays-on-displays
• Fixed pings persisting across maps
• Fixed message block edit button misalignment on mobile
• Fixed message blocks on iOS not being editable multiline
• Fixed various data patch bugs & map corruptions
• Fixed player-controlled units still internally aiming for their last AI-designated target
• Fixed some pathfinding bugs related to insect units
• Fixed keyboard-controls switch on mobile causing rendering bugs
• Fixed various bugs relating to setprop team
• Fixed overlay floor color not blending properly
• Fixed combustion generator not removing itself when exploding in a payload

This is the last 'feature' release of v8; there will be no more changes aside from bugfixes in this version. I will be shifting focus towards developing v9.