General questions about 1.21.5 (NOT ABOUT RELEASE DATE!)

[CarAnalogy]

Thank you developers for the 1.21.5 beta. My question is not about the final release like some others, but about something else.

Reading along with the changelog, I'm curious to the things that are being patched and added.

So my question is, when 1.21.5 was integrated, and if I have made no modifications and have no plugs or anything else, is that still just plain 1.21.5?

Are the things that are still being added part of the add-ons and extra features, not affecting the base release itself? If I don't use anything special is it essentially equivalent to vanilla?

Perhaps this has been answered in the faq or long ago but I couldn't seem to find a simple answer.

 

[Camm]

Hey! One of Paper's main goals is to fix Vanilla bugs/exploits and greatly improve performance for servers. This does lead to some inconsistencies from Vanilla. There is a community made guide that goes through the differences here: https://paper-chan.moe/paper/

There is also a page on our docs to help you configure Paper to be closer to Vanilla: https://docs.papermc.io/paper/vanilla

 

[CarAnalogy]

Hey! One of Paper's main goals is to fix Vanilla bugs/exploits and greatly improve performance for servers. This does lead to some inconsistencies from Vanilla. There is a community made guide that goes through the differences here: https://paper-chan.moe/paper/

There is also a page on our docs to help you configure Paper to be closer to Vanilla: https://docs.papermc.io/paper/vanilla

Excellent, thank you for that.

It seems everything is focused on performance and removing glitches.

I have noticed what seems to be a little bit of weird behavior regarding nether portal exit linkups and once someone said they had a weird respawn.

I guess my real question is, are any modifications made that affect core things like that which are potentially game breaking?

How worried should I be about totally breaking my world by running betas? I do of course always back up before installing a new beta, but it would be possible to not notice an issue for a long time and then not want to roll back due to the amount of work done in the mean time.