Ice Boat Racing
Making the ice boat racing experience as easy and smooth as possible! This modpack is intended to be a one-stop-shop for everything boat racing, and includes optimizations specifically to boat racing!
About
This modpack uses Simple Voice Chat. If you don't want to be heard by other people: make sure to mute yourself!
Boat Racing made easy for the public
Welcome to Ice Boat Racing! This 99%-vanilla-compatible modpack aims to improve the base-game boat racing experience with mods such as BoatCam and Sodium, significantly optimizing the playability and competitiveness of this niche mode within Minecraft. It also supplies a short list of servers which aim to ease newer players into boat racing. The pack runs on most devices flawlessly, eliminating performance bottlenecks and increasing racing performance.
The core mods that enable this experience are:
- BoatCam: A mod focused on aiming your camera in the direction of your momentum, avoiding nausea and making the racing experience easier on the eyes. My personal settings are included and can be adjusted with Mod Menu.
- OpenBoatUtils: A mod that enables racing on surfaces with heavy friction, like Stone or Grass. This enables the use of custom physics!
- Bobby: A chunk-caching mod, aimed to lessen the probability of the server not supplying chunks fast enough to the fast-moving client. Bobby caches these chunks to disk, which eliminates the need to re-render chunks when you pass through a cached section of a track.
- BBBoatHud: A fully customizable recreation of the BoatHud mod that makes sure you can see your speed, lap time, and position in a race without overlapping interfaces!
The modpack also comes with the standard suite of performance-optimizing mods like Sodium, Lithium, and more.
Additionally, the Appleseed BoatGang Discord server is the main hangout for boat racers and has loads of information and content about racing. It also gives access to closed leagues. I highly recommend joining it; you can find it in the sidebar!
What should I know about the supplied server list?
The servers supplied with the pack are a couple of the most popular multiplayer servers within the Ice Boat Racing community. They are all equipped with the TimingSystem plugin by Makkuusen, which measures lap times accurately to a single tick (50ms), marks checkpoints, and makes pitstops possible. The included version of BoatHUD features a lowered display to display the timer properly.
You should familiarize yourself with a couple of commands to get yourself started as soon as possible:
- /tt: Displays all tracks present on the server, with your leaderboard position and how much time you spent on the track. You can also use /tt {trackName} to travel to a track quickly.
- /t times {trackName}: Parses you the time leaderboard for the selected track, which lets you see how far you're from that praised track record.
- /heat quit: Started a race on a server but really don't want to finish it? Perform this command and you'll be removed from the race, at which point you can once again freely run tracks.
BoatLabs
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FrostHex by ABG
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/J04PGj_I6W4?si=auD9IVBQJuAiojB7" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Frosthex is your primary source for races accessible to the general public! Hosted in the US, the primary race type here is Formula (Craft) 1 and 2 races, based on known tracks from the F1 calendar. It also includes Rally tracks, enabled by the BoatUtils mod, which enables racing boats on land surfaces and gain the ability move the boat up and down blocks at high speeds. New tracks are added constantly and there are even weekly time attack battle tracks! Hosted on the US East Coast.
Versions
## *Ice Boat Racing 1.10.2 Update Notes* This hotfix contains a critical fix to OpenBoatUtils where interpolation would suddenly get reinitialized, breaking it for the rest of the session. Some research has been done with **o7Moon**, and it will no longer happen! ### *Changelog:* - Fixed interpolation reinitialization from OpenBoatUtils - Fixed a bug where main menu elements misaligned themselves due to a misconfigured unforced Flashback configuation ___ - Updated the following mods: - BBoatHud - BoatLabs Mod - Entity Model Features - Entity Texture Features - Fabric API - Fabric Kotlin - Searchables - Simple Voice Chat - Wavey Capes - XaeroPlus - Updated default supplied config for BoatLabs Mod ### *Known Issues* - Rarely, when unloading a resource pack and joining a server or leaving a server before a resource pack is loaded, resource packs will fail to load for the rest of the session *(a game restart fixes this)* - On first session join, BoatLabs NPC skins sometimes don't load due to skin/username loading not working correctly - During the loading of the BoatLabs resource pack, textures break due to texture mapping - When using Equalizer APO or PulseAudio, specific effects can cause a short audio pop when unloading a resource pack while a sound is being played - On NVIDIA Graphics cards, shaders exhibit major graphical artifacts - When using the modpack from the Prism launcher and recording with AMD Radeon ReLive, a driver timeout can occur when tabbing out of the game window
## *Ice Boat Racing 1.10.1 Update Notes* Small hotfix for some small but worth-to-fix issues! The next update will focus on reducing the number of incompatible mods and working on some incompatibility notifications for some league-regulated mods. Stay tuned :D ### *Changelog:* - Added a button to the GUI Options menu to ease the customization of BB BoatHud - Added a button to the Camera Settings menu to ease the customization of BoatCam ___ - Fixed a hard crash on macOS devices a misconfigured pre-included config - Fixed a crash due on the Mod Menu screen due to accidentally having left on screen customization - Fixed a crash related to Iris and trying to load an invalid shader pack after a forced game close - Fixed a crash caused by BB BoatHud when going faster that 999 km/h - Fixed an issue when using a launcher that reads the included server.dat file, unintended listings appeared ___ - Adjusted an image in the pre-included anti-nausea world border adjustment texture pack - Cleaned up the WorldEdit config and fixed brush radii being limited to a very small size - - *A fix for the server list not being imported on the Modrinth launcher is in the works!* ### *Known Issues* - Rarely, when unloading a resource pack and joining a server or leaving a server before a resource pack is loaded, resource packs will fail to load for the rest of the session *(a game restart fixes this)* - On first session join, BoatLabs NPC skins sometimes don't load due to skin/username loading not working correctly - During the loading of the BoatLabs resource pack, textures break due to texture mapping - When using Equalizer APO or PulseAudio, specific effects can cause a short audio pop when unloading a resource pack while a sound is being played - On NVIDIA Graphics cards, shaders exhibit major graphical artifacts - When using the modpack from the Prism launcher and recording with AMD Radeon ReLive, a driver timeout can occur
## *Ice Boat Racing 1.10.0 Update Notes* Here it is, the grand update to 1.21.4! Featuring a lot of new tech for BoatLabs and a supporting mod for the eighth edition of World's Longest Course, this is by far the highest update-to-update improvement yet, for both performance and player experience. After a talk with other racers and users, it's been decided to keep Axiom out of the modpack due to the possibility of forcing users into the Axiom UI unknowingly, and possibly not knowing how to leave the UI. Feel free to add it yourself, though! It's been thoroughly tested and will not influence your racing experience. ### *Changelog:* - Added support for sub-tick timing, exclusive to BoatLabs - Added additional controls for pausing and resuming Flashback replays - Added support for *World's Longest Course* has been added to the included server list - Added a confirmation when resetting all keybinds - Added several new splash texts relating to new leagues, teams, events, and viral media - Added new behavior when using Simple Voice Chat groups - Added a custom world border texture pack that reduces motion sickness and recording artifacts ___ - Fixed a crash on Apple ARM devices caused by memory overprovisioning - Fixed a scoreboard positioning issue caused by conflicting mods - Fixed a wrongly duplicated tooltip on the BRWC Discord Server button - Fixed a bug where the Issue Reporter always misreported the modpack version - Fixed a misconfiguration while trying to use the /boat macro caused by the Xaero family of mods - Fixed a bug where emmissive elements didn't always render due to a Puzzle misconfiguration - A bug was resolved that caused HUD elements to display while in F1/HUDless mode ___ - Improved performance while near block and display entities - Improved capability of the Server Swapper Beta - Improved subserver transfer speeds when using the Server Swapper Beta - Major improvement to chunk loading times ___ - Modified Smooth Scroll behavior inside the creati