A big update, built from your feedback this week. The launcher installs it on its own: just restart it.

Version
7.1.43
On
Thu, Oct 29

The big ones

New

Chests that tidy themselves

Search, sort by count or alphabetically, and locked slots, just like the backpacks. Two arrows move items between the chest and your inventory.

Privacy

Choose who sees you

Your position on the map and your death message can be set to Private, Friends or Everyone. When Invisible, you vanish from the player list and the map.

Stability

Fewer disconnections

When one player explored far away, the server got overloaded and others could be disconnected. Far terrain loading is now capped and shared.

Chests, barrels and shulker boxes

Four buttons at the top right of the chest:

  • Search: slots that don’t match are dimmed.
  • Sort by count or alphabetically, in your language.
  • Lock slots: left click (or drag) to lock, right click to unlock. A locked slot never moves when sorting and always keeps at least one item. Locks are the same for everyone who opens the chest.

Two arrows between the chest and your inventory:

  • ↑ puts into the chest what it already holds, ↓ does the opposite.
  • With Shift, your whole bag goes into the chest, or the whole chest comes into your inventory. The hotbar is never touched.

The chisel

  • A real 3D preview, sharp, that you turn with the mouse.
  • A before → after line with the amount you get.
  • Variants you can’t make with what’s in the slot (a single slab for a full block…) are greyed out.
  • Shapes (block, stairs, slab) and connected textures are picked with icon slots.

Privacy

  • Your live position on the map can be set to Private, Friends or Everyone.
  • New setting My death in the general chat: Private, Friends or Everyone (everyone by default, as before).
  • In Invisible status, you no longer show up in the player list (Tab) or on the map, not even to friends.

Fixes

  • Wardrobe: pets you bought no longer show as “Not owned”.
  • Placing a block in a protected area no longer makes it vanish from your inventory.
  • A boat, a minecart or your own animal stays usable even if it wandered into another player’s base.
  • Readers’ pages stay in your inventory when you pick them up (right click to read them). They’re still added to your collection.
  • Interface editor: the bar sits in the middle of the screen and no longer hides boss bars.

Smoothness

  • Distant Horizons shows far terrain up to 48 chunks. Beyond that, the server spent too long preparing it.