1.6.0

Instance creation, Cloud instances, improved mod management, performance improvements, and more!

Added

• Instance creation 🎉
• You can now create your own instances either from Vanilla or a common Modloader. We currently support Forge, Fabric, and NeoForge
• You can now set your own icon for the instance and can provide a category for the instance
• Cloud instances! ☁️
• Firstly, we'd like to apologize for the delay in getting this working again but we're happy to announce that cloud instances are back!
• You can now sync your instances to the cloud as long as you have a paid Minetogether Plan OR you are a CreeperHost customer
• You can set to sync your instances from the Instance setting page
• Complete instance rewrite
• You can now queue instance installs and this no longer locks up the app whilst they are installing
• Updating packs also no longer locks up the app
• You can now create your own instances!
• Set categories for your instances
• Set your own icon for your instances
• We've greatly improved the load time of the app and modpacks
• We've redesigned the Pack Cards and Pack preview (When you're searching for a pack) design and improved their overall usability
• You can now override an instances ModLoader as well and update it
• Instance locking is now enabled by default
• This locks adding custom mods and changing the ModLoader of the instance but can be unlocked via the instance settings
• News page is now the Blog page and now loads the blog posts from the website in a nicer format
• Custom content
• You can now update mods you have added to an unlocked instance
• You can now toggle mods on and off
• You can now search for updates for mods
• Modpack release channels
• We have introduced Modpack release channels to the app, by default you will only be recommended stable modpack versions but you can either change this on a per pack basis or globally via the settings page or app settings respectively
• And a bunch of other nice to have quality of life improvements, there are too many to list here

Changed

• The settings page has been moved around and tidied up
• We've improved the way we handle web requests which should improve consistency and reliability
• We've dumped a bunch of old code that was no longer used which has reduced the size of the app, a 10MB reduction on all platforms, nothing to be sniffed at!

Fixed

• Changelogs will no longer try and load on CurseForge modpacks as they are not available right now
• Noticeable lag and performance issues when navigating the app and loading data
• MacOS had a tiny 3.2 pixel gap at the bottom of the app... Yes this is the kinda thing we fix 😂
• A bunch of other bugs, crashes, and issues that we've found and fixed
• MacOS and Linux users will no longer redownload the CreeperHost advert every time the ad refreshes. We now cache the advert to reduce bandwidth usage

Removed

• MineTogether chat and friends list has been removed for now
• We're working on a new chat system that will be available in the future. We felt that the current system was not up to the standard we wanted and so we've removed it for now and are working on a new system to replace it
• MineTogether server listings
• Again we're working on a new system that will be available in the future

This update has been a labour of love and we're very excited for it to be released! With every big update we're expecting to see some issues... If you find anything, please report it to our issue tracker or you can try and contact us on our Discord