Sky, music and friends
A living violet sky, launcher tips and new ways to play together.
Launcher
- Astral Voyage plays first on a fresh installation. Its lead follows the harmony throughout the track; your selected song is remembered.
- Choose Animated violet sky in Appearance to replace the scenery slideshow with drifting pixel clouds, stars and a local-time day/night cycle.
- The new question-mark button beside Mini games explains where to find themes, music, instances, skins and friends. Its first-use glow stops after opening it.
- Tips can be hidden in Launcher settings. Animation settings and reduced-motion preferences also apply to the new sky.
- Automatic song changes recover from a settings save that is still in progress.
Client
- Host a singleplayer world from the pause menu. This first release used e4mc for internet sharing; the following update replaces it with the Pixonix relay.
- Invite Pixonix friends from Host world. Invitations arrive in the in-game Inbox and expire when the shared session ends; the world always runs on the host player's PC.
- Hold the middle mouse button while looking at a player to open Social Wheel: friends, blocking, voice-chat mute and copy name.
- Spotify shows the current Windows media session with track progress and playback controls, without an extra Spotify sign-in.
- Item Physics adds grounded item poses with models centered over their shadows. Direction HUD adds a compass with heading and intermediate directions.
- Confirm Disconnect asks for a second click before leaving a server. Minecraft GUI Scale now also changes the client interface consistently.
- Module and client setting rows now use the same framed style as the launcher.