irongingot v1.6.6

Changelog - 2026-06-30

Mobs

• Fish movement rewrite - replaced restrictive 3×3×2 water-scan collision
  with simple solid-block rejection. Fish now swim freely through water of any
  depth, including through seagrass and kelp. Surface clamp corrected for
  1-block-deep pools. Out-of-water fish no longer compound "seek water" and
  regular movement simultaneously.

• Villagers despawn - villagers now despawn past mob_despawn_distance
  like other mobs (were persistent forever). Respawning handled by the village
  villager system when a player returns.

• Villagers and fish excluded from mob cap - countMobsNearPlayer no
  longer counts villagers or fish toward the general spawn cap. Villages no
  longer block passive and hostile mob spawning.

• Cactus damages mobs - mobs touching cactus now take 4 HP/tick (same
  check pattern as players, ENABLE_CACTUS_DAMAGE gated).

• Items destroyed by cactus - item entities touching cactus are
  immediately destroyed (vanilla behavior).

• Cactus placement restricted - cactus can only be placed on sand or
  another cactus block.

Combat

• Armor takes cactus damage - D_cactus removed from armor-damage
  exclusion list. Cactus now wears armor normally.

Crafting

• Snowball recipe fixed - 4 snowballs now correctly yield 1 snow block
  (was incorrectly yielding 3).

Commands

• !biome accuracy - getBiomeAtBlockCoords and getChunkBiomeRaw
  were overwriting mapApproxHeight results with a Y=64 fallback when the
  function succeeded. Now only falls back on failure, returning correct
  surface-level biome.

Inventory

• Chest durability preserved - chest/barrel per-slot storage expanded
  from 3 bytes ([item(2)][count(1)]) to 5 bytes ([item(2)][count(1)][damage(2)]).
  Damage transfers correctly for cursor pick-up/place, shift-click, stacking,
  and chest→chest reorganizing. Old 3-byte saves auto-upgrade on load.
  Chest direction entry shifted from +14 to +15.

• Chest break drops retain damage - when a chest or barrel is broken,
  its contents now drop with correct durability.

Downloads

Each archive contains the server executable and a default server.conf. Edit server.conf to customize port, max players, seed, view distance, and more.

Quick Start

1. Extract the archive
2. Edit server.conf to your liking
3. Run the server executable
4. Connect with a vanilla Minecraft client

Credits

• Original bareiron by p2r3
• cubiomes for biome generation
• Server icon by Alexballistic