Bug Fixes

• Fixed using high resolution resource packs causing the main and pause menus to freeze temporarily
• Fixed an issue where marking a group of messages as unread would attempt to mark your own messages as unread
• Fixed the option to use the Minecraft button textures on 1.20.2
• Fixed an issue where enabling cheats when creating a world, but disabling them when sharing to your friends would still allow them to execute commands
• Fixed emotes still playing on the pause screen when they are disabled through the Essential Settings menu

Social Menu

• Redesigned the message input field and reply banner
• Added ability to attach screenshots to messages
• Added ability to edit messages
• Added last message sent timestamp to chat list
• Added muted indicator on friends and groups to chat list
• Added ability to save shared pictures
• Updated image embed design
• Updated background color of sent messages
• Updated color of links
• Updated world/server invite and join buttons
• Minor bug fixes

Pictures

• Added the option to run a quick-action after taking a screenshot
• Added a better placeholder for pictures which couldn't be loaded
• Updated default bottom-left screenshot quick action to "Copy Picture"

Appearance

• Added the option to use the vanilla button texture for Essential menu buttons
• Added support for resource packs to override the Essential menu button texture

Modals

• Added a "Create New World" button to the host world modal
• Added information to empty friend invite, make group, and share screenshot modals

Settings

• Updated the layout of all settings
• Updated the name and description of all settings

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where scrolling in certain menus would cause the game to crash
• Fixed a bug causing excessive memory allocation on the multiplayer screen, potentially leading to crashes

Improvements

• Updated bundled MixinExtras to 0.2.0

UI Changes

• Improved friend indicators on server entries and hosted worlds in the Multiplayer menu

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where the "Cheats" option wouldn't have the correct value when sharing a Singleplayer world for the first time
• Fixed Add Friend modal showing "Username doesn't exist" error when typing longer usernames
• Fixed the modal fade-in transition not showing on some systems
• Fixed an issue where the Essential logo wasn't appearing on Fabric when using Mod Menu
• Fixed search in Wardrobe sometimes showing incorrect items
• Fixed an issue where muting or un-muting a player in the social menu would show an error
• Fixed a bug where the Essential screenshot sound would still play when Essential is disabled in settings
• Fixed a bug where disabling Essential wouldn't remove Essential capes
• Fixed an issue where disabling Essential through the toggle in settings would cause body parts with cosmetics on them to disappear

Compatibility

• Fixed Plasmo Voice 2.x not working with World Hosting
• Fixed Essential World Hosting, chat and other issues when using Vivecraft
• Fixed an issue where Essential's online indicator wouldn't show on certain servers

New Versions

• Added support for 1.20.2 Fabric

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug in the game (MCL-3732) resulting in a crash when receiving a resource pack on 1.8.9
• Fixed a crash when inviting players to a server under certain circumstances

Improvements

• Updated bundled Kotlin to stdlib 1.9.10, coroutines 1.7.3 and serialization 1.6.0 on Fabric and 1.8.9/1.12.2 Forge

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where text inside messages wouldn't get unselected properly
• Fixed a bug in the game where player data would load incorrectly when sharing your world with your friends
• Fixed an issue with drawing onto screenshots on macOS
• Fixed modals not showing on title screen with FancyMenu

Automatic Updates

• Automatic updates are now opt-in for everyone
• Added manual update option

Improvements

• Added ability to directly share screenshots with friends
• Screenshot quick actions are now fully configurable
• Various minor UI improvements

Compatibility

• Fixed Essential not showing on main menu when FancyMenu is enabled
• Fixed crashes with ViaFabric and Draggable Lists in the multiplayer menu
• Fixed proxied server pings failing with ViaFabric
• Fixed the Essential diamond being black in the player list with Iris installed
• Fixed the player's hand still being visible when zooming in with Iris installed

Bug Fixes

• Default trusted hosts will load properly when Essential is disabled
• Fixed avatar images not loading on older Minecraft versions

Bug Fixes

• Fixed toggle button colors not updating in modals when clicked

Improvements

• Cheat option has new behaviour on Essential World Hosting:
  • When enabled: Host gets OP and they can choose who to OP
  • When disabled: No one gets OP
• Added a scrollbar to the account switcher
• Added confirmation modal when opening untrusted links in Social Menu
• Added telemetry about operating system information

Misc

• Removed the keybind for adding the player that you are looking at as a friend

Bug Fixes

• Fixed cape rendering incorrectly in pause menu while using emotes on Minecraft 1.19.3 and above
• Fixed confirm via Enter key on text modals such as the Add Friend modal
• Fixed game rule text not wrapping correctly on the World Host Settings screen
• Removed broken third party image embeds
• Removed localization of dates in the screenshot browser
• Fixed first person emote preview sometimes appearing when the "Play emotes in third person view" setting is enabled
• Fixed first person emote preview disappearing too early
• Fixed screenshots overlapping in the Screenshot Browser list view on certain resolutions
• Fixed Copy Image not functioning correctly with some applications on MacOS
• Fixed Copy Image not functioning reliably on Linux
• Fixed "Show friends what server you play on" dialog showing multiple times if screen is resized
• Fixed avatar images not loading
• Fixed spacing in "Loading cosmetics" modal
• Removed toast blocking access to Wardrobe via keybind when cosmetics are disabled
• Fixed long world names and descriptions in Select World modal
• Fixed a crash that occurred when failing to get hardware information for telemetry
• Fixed Discord usernames not being handled correctly when the user has migrated to the new username system
• Fixed markdown renderer crashing on some texts
• Fixed cosmetics not rendering in the Wardrobe when cosmetics are disabled in settings
• Fixed color of hovered links
• Fixed occasional crash when switching away from Owned Only in the Wardrobe

Compatibility

• Fixed position of Essential button in settings menu with NoChatReports installed
• The Screenshot Browser now works correctly with the Shared Resources mod

New Versions

• Added support for 1.20.1 Forge

Improvements

• Added a new loading animation for image embeds in the Social Menu

Bug Fixes

• Stopped showing changelog modal on fresh install
• Fixed Essential Menu showing when game is paused with F3 + Esc

Bug Fixes

• Fixed failure to connect via Essential World Hosting on 1.20.1

New Versions

• Added support for 1.20.1 Fabric

Bug Fixes

• Show a notification when the Blossom and Sniffer capes are unlocked
• Fixed Essential menu alignment in Pause Menu in Minecraft 1.19.3

Misc

• Reworded cosmetic and armor conflict settings, removed Always hide armor option

New Versions

• Added support for 1.20 Fabric
• Unlock the Sniffer and Blossom Capes when playing with friends on MC 1.20.x using Essential World Hosting

Improvements

• Added setting to hide your cosmetics for yourself and other players (toggled by existing key binding)
• Messages that are still sending are now marked by a different color
• Minor UI improvements in Social Menu

Bug Fixes

• Fixed cosmetics in Wardrobe disappearing when emote is dragged onto them
• Fixed messages being sent out of order when connection is unstable

Bug Fixes

• Fixed crash when rendering certain cosmetics on Minecraft 1.8.9

Improvements

• Social Menu: Added reply button to messages
• Added Resource Pack Sharing support for outdated resource packs
• Screenshot Manager: Added option to view and delete screenshots uploaded to media.essential.gg
• Made "Show my Armor" setting also hide Elytra when applicable
• Unbind the Save Hotbar Activator keybind for new users to avoid conflict with Zoom hotkey
• Updated friend selection modal when inviting friends to a world
• Stopped sending a client settings packet on all cosmetic updates to avoid falsely triggering some Anti Cheats
• Various UI improvements and bug fixes

Compatibility

• Fixed incompatibility with Show Me Your Skin mod
• Fixed incompatibility with Not Enough Gamerules mod
• Fixed random crash with Serene Seasons mod
• Added support for FreeBSD

Player Hosting

• Added warning when MacOS firewall state blocks Player Hosting connections

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Optifine breaking some screenshot functionality on Fabric 1.19.4
• Fixed Optifine breaking typing in modal inputs on Fabric 1.19.4
• Fixed crash when using Optifine on Forge 1.19.4
• Misc minor UI/Other fixes

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Player Hosting sessions starting on adventure mode when opening from the main menu

New Versions

• Added support for 1.19.4 Forge

User Interface Tweaks

• Moved Essential settings button

Bug Fixes

• Fixed crash with malformed player signature
• Misc UI fixes and tweaks

New Versions

• Added support for 1.19.4 Fabric

Bug Fixes

• Fixed some issues relating to IPv6 with Player Hosting
• Fixed cosmetic unavailable on offline mode servers toast showing when staring a Player Hosting session
• Fixed World Share Settings GUI allowing the changing of difficulty when it is locked
• Fixed 3rd party capes showing in emote previews
• Fixed synchronization of friend request privacy across installs
• Fixed skins flashing for 1 frame in player previews
• Misc UI fixes

Compatibility

• Fixed game freezing with Forge-Client-Reset-Packet
• Fixed menu player sometimes using wrong model (Steve when it should be Alex) with OptiFine
• Show warning about cosmetics being unavailable when connecting to offline mode servers

Wardrobe

• Temporarily removed "Gift" button because it did not quite work as one would expect, you can still use the web store to gift cosmetics to your friends

Social menu

• Ignore embed handling for links wrapped in <>. For example, https://essential.gg
• Fixed 'Failed to load image' error showing on links that successfully loaded but did not contain an image embed
• Fixed extra toast when an announcement is edited

Player Hosting

• Removed 'friends' privacy setting. All sessions are now invite only
• Fixed host resource pack being zipped even when share resource pack is disabled

Wardrobe

• Improved loading speed of visible items inside the Wardrobe
• Adjusted minimium width of player preview to allow more content to be shown
• Fixed some keys toggling cosmetics in Wardrobe when toggle cosmetics hotkey was unbound on 1.8.9 and 1.12.2
• Fixed Wardrobe being empty on first openening in some cases

Bug Fixes

• Verify user has accepted terms of service before attempting to upload screenshot via upload button on toast
• Misc minor UI fixes

Compatibility improvements

• Fixed conflict with NotEnoughAnimations on 1.16
• Fixed parrots not animating on emotes on 1.16+ Forge with OptiFine

Compatibility

• Fix emote incompatibility with NotEnoughAnimations on 1.19.x

Bug Fixes

• Fixed 'Loading Cosmetics' modal closing way too early while some cosmetics may still be loading
• Fixed emotes breaking elytra position
• Fixed taking a screenshot while in a text input clearing search results on MacOS
• Fixed Forge bug on 1.12.2 causing difficulty to reset when changing dimensions
• Misc UI fixes

Bug Fixes

• Fixed various connection issues with Player Hosting
• Fixed cape misbehaving when emotes are disabled in the settings
• Fixed log spam when emote keybind is pressed with no emote bound

Compatibility

• Fixed compatibility with emotes with Quark mod

New Versions

• Added support for 1.19.3 Fabric and Forge

Bug Fixes

• Fixed some emote bugs
• Prevent emote wheel from being opened when not authenticated on the Essential Network
• Allow escape to close modals while they are fading in
• Fixed new friend request indicator in the Social Menu persisting when accepting friend requests through a toast
• Fixed crashes in the Screenshot Browser relating to corrupted data files
• Fixed non armor items in the head armor slot not hiding when using the 'Always hide armor' setting
• Misc UI fixes and tweaks

Compatibility

• Resolved incompatibility with Orange Marshall's 1.7 animations mod when using the 'Hide conflicting armor' setting
• Resolved incompatibility with morechathistory mod
• Resolved incompatibility with new Kotlin4Forge versions
• Fixed typing in modals not working on 1.16.5 Fabric with Optifine

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Wardrobe closing when searching for items that don't exist
• Fixed collections showing outside their availability window
• Fixed fallback player renderer not looping emote animations
• Fixed typing in popups on 1.16.5 Fabric with Optifine

Compatibility

• Fixed compatibility between emotes and Orange Marshall's 1.7 animations
• Fixed compatibility with KotlinForForge 3.8+

Bug Fixes

• Minor bug fixes relating to emotes

Bug Fixes

• Improved compatibility with Optifine
• Minor bug fixes in Emote Wheel

Bug Fixes

• Fixed mod conflict with optifabric
• Fixed unpurchased emotes staying on the emote wheel after leaving the wardrobe in some cases

Bug Fixes

• Fixed emotes canceling while holding an item on MC 1.8.9 Forge

Emotes

• Added emotes!
• Added an emote wheel to play emotes (default keybind: R)

Wardrobe

• Wardrobe redesign
• Increased amount of outfits to eight
• Added option to customize multiple emote wheels

Misc

• Improved clarity around pressing escape in Player Hosting modals
• Added a notification when the Discord Cape is removed from your account after leaving the Essential Discord server
• Resolved some cosmetic loading issues
• Did we mention that we added emotes?

Compatibility

• Improved compatibility of hosting and joining worlds on old Mac OS versions

Compatibility

• Fixed compatibility with Dynamic Player Progression and Difficulty mod

Bug Fixes

• Fixed screenshot editor size on retina displays
• Fixed accessing of Wardrobe via hotkey when cosmetics are disabled
• Fixed /inviteworld and other commands opening modals not working
• Misc minor UI fixes and tweaks

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the Social Menu opened randomly

General

• Added setting to collapse the Essential main menu into a sidebar, or turn it off entirely
• In-game chat can now be scrolled while peeking
• Added a setting to remove quick action bar from Essential menu

Social Menu

• Overhauled parts of the social menu’s chat interface
• Right click to copy and paste in text input fields
• Added ability to reply to messages
• Added option to mark messages as read
• Friend requests tab now displays amount of unread requests

Design

• Fixed some design inconsistencies
• Updated design of on/off toggles
• Updated the folder icon
• Updated the friend request notification
• Updated the cosmetic purchase notification
• Added fancy icons to context menu actions

Fixes

• Gray links in “open link” modals are now clickable
• Fixed player names occasionally not resolving
• Message notifications are now properly cut off after three lines
• Modals now close when the screen changes
• Modals can now be closed with the Enter and Esc keys

Wardrobe

• Added Spooky collection
• Added "Featured" sort option

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a Forge bug breaking Player Hosting

Compatibility

• Improved compatibility with the player display and Figura mod

Bug fixes

• Removed ModCore warning setting on platforms ModCore wasn't released on
• Fixed TOS modal immediately showing on first boot. It now shows when players interact with a feature that requires the TOS to be accepted.
• Fixed sorting not working in some situations in the Wardrobe
• Misc minor UI fixes and changes
• Fixed the displayed sale percentage in the Wardrobe

Bug Fixes

• Fixed cosmetic previews sometimes applying outside the Wardrobe

Commands

• Rename /invite to /einvite and /session to /esession to avoid conflicting with server commands

Cosmetics

• Discord cape now shows in the owned tab
• Fixed cosmetic animations animating relative to an incorrect position

Compatibility

• Fixed 1.17 forge crash due to mixin error
• Improved compatibility with player display

Settings

• Disable sharing current server IP on Discord by default

Bug Fixes

• Fixed some modals having inconsistent height
• Fixed resource packs not being shared on 1.16+
• Fixed crash in legacy forge dev env
• Fixed World Settings screen being accessible in multiplayer

Bug fixes

• Fixed changelogs modal not showing update description
• Fixed a crash involving certain resource packs

Bug Fixes

• Fixed crash on world join on some Forge installs
• Fixed Discord cape being unlockable in Wardrobe without joining Discord

Player Hosting

• Added "Host world" button to the main menu to quickly invite friends to a world
• New world settings screen to manage gamerules, player permissions, and other settings
• Added PvP gamerule to toggle player combat
• Added support for Plasmo Voice and Simple Voice Chat mods
• Last used world settings are now remembered for each world
• Added commands for the host to invite, kick, and op other players
• Improvements in connection quality using regional proxies where a direct connection is not possible
• Ability to share your Resource Pack when hosting a world

Discord Integration

• Essential is now shown in the Activity Status on Discord if enabled
• Invite friends to your world over Discord using the + button next to the message input field
• Added a free cape unlocked by joining the Essential Discord

Other

• Added setting to disable Essential entirely
• Added setting to disable cosmetics and control how they interact with armor
• Updated "Friend online" notification
• Set privacy settings for each server individually
• Fixed player UUIDs instead of names being displayed in some GUIs

• Fix 1.0.0.10 using incorrect jar for Fabric 1.19.1

New platform

• Added support for Forge 1.19.2

Compatibility

• Avoid log spamming when encountering compatibility conflicts with player display

Misc

• Use Mojang profiles API to resolve names ahead of API changes
• Allow tab navigation of modals
• Fix SPS issues when the language was not English
• Minor UI fixes

Cosmetics

• Introduce a new cape option to display any 3rd party capes another mod may add to your character
• Fixed log spam when loading cosmetics for the first time on some platforms
• Improved cosmetic loading sometimes causing game stuttering

Invite Friends

• A toast is now sent to all friends when you share a world on the friends privacy setting
• Improved the calculation of the best route for a lower latency connection in some situations

Misc

• Minor UI fixes
• Create a setting to bypass the link confirmation modal for trusted hosts

Misc

• Import previous TOS accept/deny state on new installs
• Add link confirmation modal to Social Menu
• Minor UI fixes

Account Manager

• Fixed account manager not refreshing profile public keys

Cosmetics

• Fixed cosmetics sometimes appearing white or with incorrect texture

Compatibility

• Fixed crashes starting the game with certain mods for other Minecraft versions in the mods folder

Compatibility

• Improved compatibility of the player display in the main menu

Misc

• Provide default trusted hosts when TOS is denied
• Updated the default keybind for the Screenshot Browser to I
• Minor UI fixes

Misc

• Fixed changelog or experimental features modals showing more than once
• Added right click menu to groups in the Social Menu
• Fixed typing in the Screenshot Browser causing screenshots to become white
• Improved media embeds in the messenger
• Removed erroneous "Unhandled error" logs
• Removed keybinds when the user did not accept the Essential Terms of Service
• Fixed Screenshot Browser breaking with large amounts of screenshots
• Minor UI fixes

Account Manager

• Improved saving and loading
• Removed Mojang accounts

Misc

• Fixed keybind category lingering when Essential was disabled

Compatibility

• Fixed crash when opening the controls screen with Essential disabled
• Fixed Essential not showing up in the mod list

Compatibility

• Fix Optifine conflict with Essential screenshots

Misc

• Minor UI fixes
• Fixed Essential indicator improperly showing through walls under some circumstances

Invite Friends

• Fixed Invite Friends not working on dual-stack networks

Wardrobe

• Optifine capes now show over Mojang capes equipped through the Wardrobe
• Fixed sorting options not applying when changing categories

Misc

• Fixed crash when entering Minecraft controls with Essential disabled
• Fixed crash from corrupted screenshot metadata
• Fixed changelogs modal not showing up after major or minor version update
• Fixed crash when tabbing out of Screenshot Editor
• Fixed incorrect version showing in the Essential Menu
• Fixed back button getting cut off at some aspect ratios
• Fixed failure to connect to the Essential Network if Minecraft took longer than 60 seconds to launch

Invite Friends

• Fixed Invite Friends not working on 1.16.5

Compatibility

• Fixed crash with BetterFPS Mod
• Fixed crash with MinecraftCapes Mod

Screenshots

• (1.8.9 & 1.12.2 only) Screenshots are now taken asynchronously without lag
• Browse all screenshots you've taken in Minecraft and sort them by world or server
• Draw on and crop your screenshots in the Screenshot Editor before saving them
• Upload screenshots to share a link
• Taking a screenshot now provides a preview and quick hover actions including Upload, Copy, Edit, and Favorite

Invite Friends

• Reduced latency whenever a direct connection is not possible
• Improved connection quality
• Fixed some issues causing players to time out

Wardrobe

• Renamed Customizer to Wardrobe
• Redesigned Wardrobe UI
• Show Capes on the player in Wardrobe and Menu
• Add Cape selector for official Mojang Capes
• Added gifting - gift cosmetics to your friends!

New Platforms

• Add support for 1.16.5 on Forge and Fabric
• Add support for 1.18.2 Forge

Other

• Redesigned all UI screens
• Added "Open Minecraft Folder" button
• Added the Essential Menu with Changelogs and Legal Notices
• Display Changelogs after version updates
• Improvements to Purchase Notification
• Changed onboarding to be more user-friendly
• Added button to refresh session when "Invalid Session" screen is encountered
• Bugfixes and improvements