Java Edition 1.18.1 Pre-release 1

1.18.1 Pre-release 1 (known as 1.18.1-pre1 in the launcher) is the first pre-release for Java Edition 1.18.1, released on December 3, 2021, which changed where fog starts, the shape of the fog from spherical to cylindrical, and fixed some bugs.

General

 * Fog
 * World fog now starts further away from the player, to make distant terrain more visible.
 * Instead of applying fog as a spherical volume it is now applied as a cylindrical volume.

Fixes

 * Other
 * Fixed an issue that would cause players on low-bandwidth connections to get timeout errors when connecting to a server.