Up to now a simple counter variable was used to iterate through the
hidden-blocks in engine-mode 2 while obfuscating. This results in low
quality obfuscation.
One could for example easily write a hack, which bypasses Anti-Xray
by not showing ores, which have a certain pattern.
Furthermore, engine-mode 1 is slightly optimized by this commit.
However, engine-mode 2 is probably somewhat slower. I did some tests but
I wasn't able to get stable results for some reason. Therefore this
needs further testing.
An optimized random algorithm is utilized to pick random blocks from the
hidden-blocks list. This implementation uses xorshift and integer
multiplication for bounding. The resulting distribution is negligibly
biased because xorshift doesn't generate 0 and integer multiplication
also implies biased results.
PaperMC believes that 1.16.2 is now ready for general release as we fixed the main issue plagueing the 1.16.x release, the MapLike data conversion issues.
Until now, it was not safe for a server to convert a world to 1.16.2 without data conversion issues around villages and potentially other things. If you did, those MapLike errors meant something went wrong.
This is now resolved.
Big thanks to all those that helped, notably @BillyGalbreath and @Proximyst who did large parts of the update process with me.
Please as always, backup your worlds and test before updating to 1.16.2!
If you update to 1.16.2, there is no going back to an older build than this.
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