UNIVERSAL TWEAKS

A one-stop-shop for all bugfixing and tweaking needs

Universal Tweaks consolidates various bugfixes and tweaks into a single solution for Minecraft 1.12.2.

All changes are toggleable via config files.

🐞 BUGFIXES

• Accurate Smooth Lighting: Improves the accuracy of smooth lighting by checking for suffocation and light opacity
• Attack Radius: Improves the attack radius of hostile mobs by checking the line of sight with raytracing
• Banner Bounding Box: Fixes rendering issues with banners by correctly sizing their render bounding boxes
• Block Fire: Prevents fire projectiles burning entities when blocking with shields
• Block Overlay: Fixes x-ray when standing in non-suffocating blocks
• Block Selection Box Offset: Fixes the offset of mouseover selection boxes for blocks
• Boat Breaking Fall Height: Sets the required fall height in blocks for boats to break
• Boat Riding Offset: Fixes entities glitching through the bottom of boats
• Chunk Saving: Fixes loading of outdated chunks to prevent duplications, deletions and data corruption
• Comparator Timing: Fixes inconsistent delays of comparators to prevent redstone timing issues
• Concurrent Entity AI Tasks: Replaces linked entity AI task sets with concurrent sets to avoid mod exception concerning entity AI
• Crafted Item Statistics: Fixes crafted item statistics not increasing correctly when items are crafted with shift-click or drop methods
• Death Time: Fixes corrupted entities exceeding the allowed death time
• Depth Mask: Fixes entity and particle rendering issues by enabling depth buffer writing
• Destroy Entity Packets: Fixes lag caused by dead entities by sending additional packets when the player is not alive
• Difficulty Consistency: Fixes mismatching difficulty settings if a mod loads new dimensions before the world is loaded on client side
• Dimension Change Player States: Fixes missing player states when changing dimensions by sending additional packets
• Disconnect Dupe: Fixes item dupes when players are dropping items and disconnecting
• Double Food Consumption: Fixes consuming a food item having a chance of also consuming a second item without any animation
• Donkey/Mule Dupe: Fixes a duplication exploit connected to the inventories of donkeys and mules
• Elytra Deployment & Landing: Relocate elytra deployment and landing to client side to prevent issues with high latencies
• Enchantment Level Visibility: Fixes enchantments displaying unlocalized levels
• Entity Bounding Boxes: Saves entity bounding boxes to tags to prevent breakouts and suffocation
• Entity Desync: Fixes entity motion desyncs most notable with arrows and thrown items
• Entity ID: Fixes non-functional elytra firework boosting and guardian targeting if the entity ID is 0
• Entity Lists
  • Chunk Updates: Fixes chunk entity lists often not getting updated correctly
  • World Additions: Fixes client-side memory leak where some entity ids are not set before being added to the world's entity list
• Entity NaN: Prevents corruption of entities caused by invalid health or damage values
• Entity Suffocation: Pushes entities out of blocks when growing up to prevent suffocation
• Entity Tracker: Fixes entity tracker to prevent client-sided desyncs when teleporting or changing dimensions
• Entity UUID: Changes UUIDs of loaded entities in case their UUIDs are already assigned (and removes log spam)
• Exhaustion: Fixes saturation depleting in peaceful mode
• Extend Item Durability Range: Changes the durability storing to use ints instead of shorts, eliminating many issues with high-durability items (I.E. TiC tools)
• Falling Block End Portal Dupe: Prevents duplication of falling blocks through end portals
• Falling Block Entity Damage: Only damage living entities hit by falling blocks, prevents killing items and XP
• Faster Background Startup: Fixes slow background startup edge case caused by checking tooltips during the loading process
• Fixes Invisible Player when Flying with Elytra: Fixes the player model occasionally disappearing when flying with elytra in a straight line in third-person mode
• Frustum Culling: Fixes invisible chunks in edge cases (small enclosed rooms at chunk borders)
• Help: Replaces the help command, sorts and reports broken commands
• Hopper Bounding Box: Slims down the hopper bounding box for easier access of nearby blocks
• Hopper Insert Safety Check: Prevents crashes when the destination tile entity becomes unavailable during the item insert process
• Horse Falling: Modifies falling logic of horses, listening to LivingFallEvent and taking jump boost into account
• Item Frame Void: Prevents voiding held items when right + left-clicking on an item frame simultaneously
• Ladder Flying Slowdown: Disables climbing movement when flying
• Locale: Prevents various crashes with Turkish locale
• Max Health: Corrects maximum player health on joining by setting the last saved health value
• Minecart AI: Fixes non-player entities being able to control minecarts
• Mining Glitch: Prevents ghost blocks by sending an additional block change packet
• Mobs Crossing Rails: Fixes mobs being unable to cross rails during pathfinding
• Mount Desync: Fixes mounts and boats sometimes disappearing after dismounting
• Occlusion Culling Threshold: Determines the required amount of opaque blocks in the chunk to enable occlusion culling
• Overlay Message Fade Out: Fixes Forge's overlay message (action bar) fade out regression
• Packet Size: Increases the packet size limit to account for large packets in modded environments
• Particle Spawning: Fixes various particle types not showing up on the client
• Piston Progress: Properly saves the last state of pistons to tags
• Piston Retraction: Improves retraction behavior on double piston extenders
• Portal Location Link: Ensures portals link to their original overworld portal if within close distance
• Portal Traveling Dupe: Fixes duplication issues that can occur when entities travel through portals
• Potion Amplifier Visibility: Fixes potion effects not displaying their level above 'IV'
• Shear Mooshroom Dupe: Fixes a duplication exploit connected to shearing mooshrooms
• Skeleton Aim: Fixes skeletons not looking at their targets when strafing
• Sleep Resets Weather: Fixes sleeping always resetting rain and thunder times
• Spectator Menu: Fixes the spectator menu not showing player skins
• Third Person Camera Orientation: Fixes a raytracing bug which causes third person camera tilting to be slightly asymmetric
• Tile Entity Map: Replaces the chunk position data table to prevent tile entity related issues
• Untipped Arrow Particles: Fixes untipped arrows emitting blue tipped arrow particles upon reloading a world
• Village Component Parts: Always builds village structures with biome-specific blocks, improves compatibility with mods such as BiomeTweaker
• Villager Mantle: Returns missing hoods to villager mantles
• Witch Huts: Fixes witch hut structure data not accounting for the height it is generated at

🔧 TWEAKS

• Accurate Potion Duration: Always displays the actual potion duration instead of **:**
• Advancement Screenshot: Silently takes a screenshot every time an advancement is achieved
• Advancement GUI
  • Allows increasing the Advancement GUI to scale with the screen size
  • Moves the page buttons to in-line with the rest of the GUI instead of hovering significantly
  • Hides page switching buttons when at the maximum/minimum page count
  • Disables the background fading when hovering over an advancement
  • Adds Advancement Page Title text to the Advancement GUI header
• Adaptive XP Drops: Scales dropped experience from entities based on their health
• Always Eat: Allows the consumption of food at any time, regardless of the hunger bar
• Always Return to Main Menu: Always returns the player to the main menu when quitting the game
• Anvil XP Level Cap: Sets the experience level cap for anvil recipes
• Armed Armor Stands: Enables arms for armor stands by default
• Armor Curve: Adjusts the armor scaling and degradation formulae for mobs and players
• Armor Swap: Enable the ability to swap equipped armor when right-clicking armor, instead of only being able to equip armor when the slot is empty. Also applies to Elytra
• Arrow Layers: Reintroduces rendering of hit arrows on mobs from Beta versions of Minecraft
• Attributes: Sets custom ranges for entity attributes
• Attribute Keeper: Specify attributes that will persist through player death
• Auto Jump Replacement: Replaces auto jump with an increased step height (singleplayer only)
• Auto Save Interval: Configurable interval in ticks between world auto saves
• Auto Switch Tools: Switches the selected hotbar slot