diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 61f286a..418ae61 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@
 .vscode/
 installJRMC.zip
 README.shdoc.md
-README.bbcode
+.README.bbcode
 output/
 *.code-workspace
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/installJRMC b/installJRMC
index 792c814..5e7fe95 100755
--- a/installJRMC
+++ b/installJRMC
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 # shellcheck disable=SC2329
 shopt -s extglob
 
-declare -g SCRIPT_VERSION="1.36.3"
+declare -g SCRIPT_VERSION="1.36.4-dev"
 declare -g MC_VERSION_HARDCODE="36.0.20" # do find all replace
 declare -g MC_REPO_HARDCODE="bookworm" # should match the MC_VERSION_HARDCODE
 declare -gi SELF_UPDATE_SWITCH=1 # 0 to disable installJRMC self-updater
@@ -2165,18 +2165,11 @@ main() {
 
 # @section Helper functions
 # @internal
-print_message() {
-  local label="$1" color="$2" message="$3"
-  local prefix="[$label]"
-  local prefix_width=8
-  local pad=$((prefix_width - ${#prefix}))
-  printf '%b%s\033[0m%*s%s\n' "$color" "$prefix" "$pad" '' "$message"
-}
-info() { print_message "INFO" '\033[1m' "$*"; }
-warn() { print_message "WARN" '\033[1;33m' "$*"; }
-debug() { ((DEBUG)) && print_message "DEBUG" '\033[1m' "$*"; }
-ok() { print_message "OK" '\033[1;32m' "$*"; }
-err() { print_message "ERROR" '\033[1;31m' "$*" >&2; }
+info() { printf '%b[INFO]  %s%b\n' '\033[1m' "$*" '\033[0m'; }
+warn() { printf '%b[WARN]  %s%b\n' '\033[1;33m' "$*" '\033[0m'; }
+debug() { ((DEBUG)) && printf '%b[DEBUG] %s%b\n' '\033[1m' "$*" '\033[0m' >&2; }
+ok() { printf '%b[OK]    %s%b\n' '\033[1;32m' "$*" '\033[0m'; }
+err() { printf '%b[ERROR] %s%b\n' '\033[1;31m' "$*" '\033[0m' >&2; }
 ask_ok() {
   local response
   ((YES_SWITCH)) && return 0