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New
- Server: skip the advancement flush for players whose progress didn't change (#701)
- Hoppers: look up the block only under container block entities (#702)
- Chunk streaming: look at each column once when players' areas overlap (#703)
- Entity tracking: each entity type's range once per tick, not per player (#704)
- Chunk packets: one cache lock per column for its non-air sections (#705)
- Chunk packets: keep each section's block entity blocks with its bytes (#706)
- Server: Fx hashing for each player's sent chunks and tracked entities (#707)
Fixed
- Advancements: read the tree on another thread while the world loads (#713)
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