The Edge Case Extravaganza Patch

This patch is dedicated to the 1% of you running modpacks complicated enough to break the space-time continuum. If you weren't crashing, you probably won't notice a difference. If you were crashing because you threw a hamster at a target more than 16 blocks away while running Shaders and Macaw's Furniture on NeoForge... your problems are solved!

Added

• Translations
  • Updated langage files with a few translated strings that Crowdin elected to omit from the last version!
  • Major overhaul to the Russian translation of the Hamster Tips guidebook to ensure the text fits better on the pages, thanks to @CasualAnimalEnjoyer!

Changed

• Mod Icon
  • As all true geniuses do, @The Retro Stitcher woke up in a cold sweat with ideas for improving the mod's icon even further. JK about the cold sweat part. His improvements have been implemented. Thanks again!
• The mod's README.md file (also known as the "landing page") has had a major overhaul!
  • Used the Flashback mod to render epic GIFs showing off almost every feature.
  • Added new graphic headings with cozy pixel art tree branches, featuring the actual Hamster Bedding item texture for their leaves.
  • Reworked info banners for layout clarity and added credits for everyone who has helped out with development, artwork, and translations.
  • Added a new pixel art banner image up at the top. Huge thanks to @The Retro Stitcher for helping me get it pixel-perfect. He and I both spent a considerable number of hours on it!
  • Go check it out right here, and turn off your ad blocker and watch a few ads while you're there to help support the development of Adorable Hamster Pets!

Fixed

(Note: If I sent you a preview jar file on Discord marked v3.5.0, those fixes are included here.)

• Added defensive measures for crashes with Shaders and optimization mods.
  • While not directly caused by Adorable Hamster Pets, shaders often create "fake" player entities to render shadows and aggressive optimization mods sometimes leave these entities in a broken/uninitialized state. Then when this mod would ask, "Does this shadow have a pet?" for the shoulder hamster feature, the game would panic and crash.
  • Added defensive checks to both the Renderer and the Physics Simulation for shoulder hamsters to safely ignore these corrupted entities. This should not have any visual effect on the game except that your hamster may not have a shadow for a few seconds when you first load into the world.
• Fixed a crash when managing Announcements from the Title Screen.
  • Clicking "Mark as Read" or "Snooze" while on the main menu no longer causes a NullPointerException.
• Fixed stray semi-transparent pixels on the Hamster Bedding texture.
• Fixed localization and text errors.
  • Corrected the "Icon Position Preset" buttons in the config menu to show translated text instead of raw enum names.
  • Fixed a few other grammatical errors.
• Network Protocol Error (Macaw's Mods Conflict)
  • Refactored the shoulder pet data system to use custom network packets instead of vanilla DataTrackers.
  • This eliminates ID collisions with mods like Macaw's Furniture that inject their own data into the player entity.
• "Failed to encode packet" Disconnects
  • Fixed a race condition where the item stack used for particle effects was emptied before the network packet could be sent.
  • This prevents players from being kicked when feeding/mounting hamsters cheese with a stack size of 1.
• Crash when throwing hamsters at targets further than 16 blocks away on NeoForge
  • Resolved a NoSuchMethodError caused by a mapping mismatch when sending vanilla sound packets by migrating the "distant impact" sound logic to a custom network packet to ensure stability across loaders.
  • Minecraft cuts off any sound that happens more than 16 blocks away from your player— this logic exists in order for players to hear those distant impacts.