Version History

Alpha 73:
- Added a tool to apply a filter over a selected area. Smooth and Topsoil filters are now included.
- Fixed a failure to load chunks on low-end machines. 
- Fixed the error: Couldn't open terrain-classic.png on foreign machines.

Alpha 72.9:
- Chunk loading is faster whenever MCEdit doesn't have your attention (again)

Alpha 72.8:
- Fixed a bug where blocks stopped refreshing after saving the level.

Alpha 72.7:
- Attempted to improve refresh speed after editing

Alpha 72.6:
- Idle CPU use is much less
- Minor performance and stability tweaks

Alpha 72.5:
- Fixed some graphical errors on the toolbar.

Alpha 72.4:
- Preview blocks appear for the Brush and Clone tools again.

Alpha 72.3: 
- Tried to fix the "TypeError: descriptor '__sub__' requires a 'int' object" error.
- Misc performance tweaks

Alpha 72.2:
- Delete/Prune Chunks works again (again)

Alpha 72.1:
- Fixed ArgumentError on startup for Linux users

Alpha 72:
- Hopefully improved performance on many machines using multithreading.

Alpha 71.2:
- Hold ALT for additional info while pointing at a block. Info is tool-specific.
- Nudge buttons have a clearer visual effect 

Alpha 71.1:
- Fixed a crash when using F-keys to load a world from the title screen.

Alpha 71:
- Added an options panel with a few settings, including movement speed
- You are now asked to save changes before loading a different level
- Fixed several more bugs and crashes
- Fixed the issue with Classic exports having the wrong Materials id.
- Hidden feature:  Press Control-T to change mipmapping level

Alpha 70.7:
- Fixed a crash when rolling blocks

Alpha 70.6:
- Importing alpha worlds is much faster when chunk-aligned.

Alpha 70.5:
- Minor tweaks and compatibility fixes

Alpha 70.4:
- Schematic export works again on OS X

Alpha 70.3:
- Fixed a crash when alt-clicking with no tool selected.

Alpha 70.2:
- Fixed a failure to start on some non-English systems.

Alpha 70.1:
- Fixed "Remove Entities"

Alpha 70:
- You may hold ALT and click while using the Brush or Fill tool to start using the blocktype under the cursor.
- Removed the limits on export size and added a new export format.
- Added "Chunk Align" option to Clone and Import
- Moved "Select Chunks" to the selection panel
- Miscellaneous improvements

Alpha 69.1: 
- Fixed a divide by zero when copying zero blocks (???)

Alpha 69:
- Added "Select" to chunk control
- Minor performance and stability tweaks

Alpha 68.7:
- Reduced limits on view distance
- Fixed a 'ChunkNotPresent' crash 

Alpha 68.6:
- Relighting will be correctly triggered when replacing blocks

Alpha 68.5:
- Fixed a failure to start on older OS X systems.
 
Alpha 68.4:
- Added native file dialogs for OS X and Windows

Alpha 68.3:
- Fixed a unicode error when setting the window caption
- Fixed a memory error while reporting a memory error

Alpha 68.2:
- Continued performance and stability tweaks
- Setup installer is available for Windows

Alpha 68.1:
- Minor performance and stability tweaks

Alpha 68:
- Increased maximum view distance, hopefully fixed the memoryerror in the renderer

Alpha 67.7:
- Fixed a complete and utter failure to save, which made 67.6 fairly useless.

Alpha 67.6:
- Fixed a crash when deselecting while the clone tool is up

Alpha 67.5: 
- Fixed an error where the cloned blocks in transit would not update when the selection is changed

- Added options in the mcedit.ini for the following:
  "Invert Mouse Pitch" - inverts the vertical mouse control when aiming the camera
  "Camera Maximum Speed" - can't go faster than this normally
  "Camera Braking Speed" - when holding SPACE to brake, you can't go any faster than this

Note that you can put a small value for Maximum Speed and a large value for Braking Speed to reverse the meaning of the brake control (SPACEBAR by default) and turn it into a move-faster button.


Alpha 67.4:
- Fixed a startup crash introduced in 67.3

Alpha 67.3:
- Many errors will no longer cause crashes
- 'Save' while in the Nether will also correctly save the Earth

Alpha 67.2:
- Holding down a WASDQZ key while Nudging will continue to nudge as expected.
- Fixed incorrect lighting in the Nether

Alpha 67.1: 
- Fixed an error when creating a new world

Alpha 67:
- Added a 'noise' option to the brush for rough irregular shapes.
- Added an 'Alpha' option for the brush appearance.  Right click its icon in the toolbar.

Alpha 66.6:
- Fixed a crash when finding certain kinds of corrupt chunks.
- Low-detail terrain will redraw sooner

Alpha 66.5:
- Fixed errors when opening non-Alpha levels
- Tweaked the look and accuracy of the Move Player tool.

Alpha 66.4:
- Fixed "Dimension not found" error

Alpha 66.3:
- Added a button to toggle between Earth and the Nether
- The Move Player tool can be used to move the player to and around the Nether.
- The Move Spawn tool cannot be used in the Nether.

Alpha 66.2:
- Fixed a crash when finding entities with float NaN positions.
- Catch errors reading/writing the config file.

Alpha 66.1:
- The hotkey 'R' is now used for 'Export Schematic' whenever no tool or the selection tool is up.
- Fixed a few crashes when using nudge buttons while another tool is up.

Alpha 66:
- Added blocks Pumpkin, Bloodstone, Slow sand, Lightstone, Nether Portal, and Glowing Pumpkin
- Added a side panel for the selection tool with Delete and Export commands.

Alpha 65.5:
- Fixed mysterious errors when trying to create a new world
- Reduced the size of a new world to 4x4 chunks.
- Alpha levels will be repaired whenever level.dat is damaged but level.dat_old is intact

Alpha 65.4:
- You can get out of a file dialog using ESCAPE
- Files named .schematic.gz are now accepted

Alpha 65.3:
- Fixed an issue where unchecking both "Copy Air" and "Copy Water" did nothing.
- Fixed an issue with opening Classic levels 

Alpha 65.2:
- Right-click on the Clone tool for an option to automatically set down the cloned blocks. 
- Fixed the Clone button being enabled and not doing anything

Alpha 65.1:
- Right-click on the Selection tool to change its color. Change color presets in mcedit.ini

Alpha 65:
- Brushes are now slightly transparent
- Added version history and update check to intro screen
- The window title should now change to indicate lengthy operations
- Fixed a few crashes for Classic editing

Alpha 64.2: 
- Fixed the broken schematic export...again
- Fixed failure to start 64.1 on OS X

Alpha 64.1:
- Added mouseover on the selection size readout showing its volume in blocks.
- Tweaked the schematic import dialog a little.
- Added hard limits to clone and schematic size.  Change "Block Buffer" in the INI to increase them.
 
Alpha 64:
- Added a few more brush shapes
- Added Surface toggle for brush
- Added memory limits to loaded chunks. Press 0 for details.
- GlassCanals are now included with the schematics. You'll have to copy them to your MCEdit-schematics folder to use them.
 
Alpha 63:
- Mouse cursor selection is more accurate
- Fixed a nasty lighting bug
- Restored Explorer-style dialogs

Alpha 62:
- Increased the maximum distance for selecting blocks with the mouse cursor.
- Attempted to fix most of the Unicode/ASCII encoding errors

Alpha 61: 
- Schematics are now stored in the following locations:

Windows: My Documents/MCEdit-schematics 
OS X: ~/Documents/MCEdit-schematics 
Linux/FreeBSD: ~/.mcedit/MCEdit-schematics
 
Alpha 60:
- Added a selfupdate feature.

