Latitude

Latitude 1.2.2 — Border & Biome Consistency Update

This release focuses on fixing world size clarity, restoring proportional polar warnings, and correcting biome inconsistencies near the poles.

🧭 World Size & UI

• Clarified size selector to display diameter-based labels (e.g. Regular 20k).
• Added additional world sizes (in diameter):
  • Itty Bitty: 7.5k
  • Tiny: 10k
  • Small: 15k
  • Regular: 20k
  • Large: 30k
  • Huge: 40k
• Restored and expanded world size options without breaking existing worlds.

🌍 Latitude Accuracy

• Zone entry titles (e.g. Tropics 18°N) now display the actual player latitude, matching the HUD exactly.
• Removed discrepancies between zone-center math and player-position math.

❄️ Polar & Border Warnings (Major Fix)

• Replaced percent-based warning thresholds with distance-to-border staging:
  • 300 blocks: “Consider turning back”
  • 150 blocks: “Lethal conditions ahead” + mild debuffs
  • 50 blocks: Lethal cold / full effects
• Restored Stage 2 negative status effects (e.g. Slowness, Weakness), which were missing in 1.2.1.
• Tightened warning timing so effects no longer trigger hundreds of blocks too early.
• Applied the same staging logic consistently for north/south cold zones and east/west sandstorm zones.

🌱 Biome Generation Consistency

• Fixed mixed biome reads (e.g. beach, warm ocean) appearing at certain heights near the poles.
• Latitude-selected biomes are now applied consistently across the full vertical biome column.
• Improves:
  • Snow accumulation reliability
  • Polar terrain appearance
  • Village and structure biome alignment

🛠 Stability & Compatibility

• No world corruption or border resizing for existing saves.
• Fully compatible with worlds created in previous Latitude versions.
• To accomplish this, more world sizes were added so that existing worlds could still be accommodated.

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Existing worlds will be accommodated; e.g., if you had a world size of 'Regular' (10k diameter), it has now been shifted to 'Tiny' so as not to cause issues with chunk generating and polar shifts.