World fog now starts further away from the player, to make distant terrain more visible.Fixed an issue that would cause players on low-bandwidth connections to get timeout errors when connecting to a server.
If you are running a multiplayer server, we highly encourage you to upgrade to this version as soon as possible. This release fixes a critical security issue for multiplayer servers, changes how the world fog works to make more of the world visible, and fixes a couple of other bugs. We’re now releasing Minecraft: Java Edition 1.18.1.
