The Bracken Pack

26.1-26.2 UPDATE

Another update made possible with the team's great efforts!

-Grandmaster updated data and resource pack to accommodate the 26.1 version of Minecraft. Also works on 1.26.2

-Grandmaster/Crimdev fixed issue with certain netherite golems in Sanctum pillar potentially dropping a full netherite block upon death.

-Grandmaster fixed issue with Bygone Viceroy spawning in with the wrong base mobs.

-Crimdev fixed issue with the Fae Emperor spawning in with the wrong base mobs.

-Crimdev buffed Frostkin. A damage command is applied whenever they encounter fire or lava instead of the insane amount of instant damage effect that was previously applied. The damage type is fire, thereby improving the effectiveness of cryolith and netherite armor to shield them from that sort of damage.

-Crimdev found and fixed issue with cryolith armor obtained in loot tables being weaker than cryolith armor made with a smithing table.

-Grandmaster fixed issues with varkstorm music event.

-Grandmaster refitted a multitude of fields to more appropriate dimension_type and timeline files.

-Grandmaster equipped all time_check predicates with a clock component.

-Grandmaster fixed issues with several worldgen features like, ice_spike, forest_rock, and random_patch.

-Grandmaster increased the step height in Varskspace so it is easier to sprint without bumping into anything.

-Grandmaster and Crimdev made it so admin commands can summon bosses in any dimension without mob swapping issues.

-Grandmaster buffed Nereids jumping so they can pillar up like other species.

-Grandmaster added wind sounds to Dormis shechemium biome.

-Grandmaster renamed all antiquated references to the lightning bolt ability book as, "travel call."

-Grandmaster added new ability book called, "Summon Lightning." It does what the name implies. ---ask

-Crimdev fixed issue with silversteel helmet enchantments not working.

-Crimdev fixed issue with frostwalker and infused_frostwalker not protecting Frostkin from magma blocks.

-Crimdev buffed the fire resistance properties of cryolith.

-Crimdev updated Frostkin species descriptions to match species' buffs.

-Crimdev added stab attack animation to daggers and rapiers.

-Crimdev fixed mistimed nightfall jump sound event.

-Crimdev fixed issue with custom wings taking item damage when hit.

-Bracken corrected issues with lustra, cryolith, verdant, meteoric, silversteel and old world bronze armor where armors were posesing up to 5x the amount of durability they should have.

-Bracken buffed silversteel armor. Full silversteel now grants 30 armor and 20 armor toughness.

-Bracken corrected issue with lustra, silversteel, and old world bronze armor attributes not matching loot table versions.

-Crimdev fixed issue with bobbit worm console spam.

-Crimdev improved Enderling teleportation.

-Crimdev fixed issue with omnipower disruptor beam hurting the wielder.

-Crimdev fixed issue with polyfolus duplication.

-Grandmaster addressed issue with multiple music tracks simultaneously being played in Varskspace.

-Crimdev updated endermen spawners in omnidrome palace structure.

-Bracken made it so attacking with silversteel weapons can clear most effects as well as cure zombie villagers.

-Bracken made it so flame walker boots no longer damage the wearer with flames.

-Bracken made it so flood walker boots only activate when crouching.

-Bracken fixed issue with silversteel armors not reducing potion, enderpearl, and lightning damage.

-Bracken added lunge to the list of enchantments blocked by the silvered enchantment.

-Bracken fixed issue where certain forbidden combinations of enchantments were possible on the same item.

-Bracken made it so obliteration enchantment works on spears instead of shovels.

-Bracken made it so wearing any armor item with the searing surface enchantment grants immunity to cold damage.

-Bracken buffed boldness enchantment. Full boldness x5 gear now grants bonus +8 damage to attacks instead of +5.

MY TEAM IS BEST TEAM

Seriously. While I was preoccupied by Hytale’s latest worldgen competition, my team was hard at work composing PHENOMINAL changes to the pack. Improvements to performance, cleaning up unused elements and reformatting the files to be much more navigable are just a fraction of what they did. And if you don’t believe me, take a look at the following…

CRIMDEV’S CHANGE LOG

• Fixed non-functional armor trims.

• Addressed issue in Pax where attack damage debuff didn’t let players destroy boats, minecarts or armor stands.

• Players now have weakness effect in pax (PvP prevention), workaround system added using interaction entities. To add armor to an armor stand, right-click its right side. To break it, left-click its left side.

• Turned admin tp command into dialog command system. (/function bracken:admin/_tp_to_dimension)

• Added species info dialog. Players can now do "/trigger bracken.species_info" which shows a recap of their species' stats & abilities, exactly the same as what you'd see in the initial species selection dialog. (may or may not include an easter egg)

• Fixed splintering enchantment. Splitering level 2 and 3 now correctly split into 4 and 5 arrows respectively. Splinter arrows no longer have fire by default.

• Omnipowers rework. A big rework of the omnipower system. Players now can click on a GUI to use omnipowers, instead of typing commands. The system is also much more optimized, because it does not rely on having so many different scoreboards to track command permissions & cooldowns.

Server admins: should you wish to grant permissions (to yourself or other players), please use /function bracken:player/omnipower/perms/set/(autocomplete) or /execute as player run function bracken:player/omnipower/perms/set/(autocomplete).

NEVER, EVER do /scoreboards players set player OMNI.PERMISSIONS_OTHER (value), UNLESS you know EXACTLY what you are doing. Same goes for OMNI.PERMISSIONS_BOOK, obviously.

If something went wrong you can always do /execute as (player) run function bracken:dev/revoke_omnitriggers.

• Fixed lustra duplication glitch. Lustra blocks had a misconfigured loot table that allowed players to quickly duplicate massive amounts of lustra. This has been fixed; now single petrified oak slabs will drop 4 lustra pearls.

• Fixed varskstorm

• Rectified returning tides ability book. Immobility check is exhaustive. Any kind of movement will now prevent returning tides from completing. Note that this check is extremely strict (speed has to be exactly 0).

GRANDMASTER’S CHANGE LOG

QOL Changes:

• Added config option to enable/disable the species selection dialog.

• Added config option to enable/disable the species selection dialog teleporting players to other dimensions.

• Removed the elytra nerf when flying in the rain.

• Made some fun tweaks to Disruptor: - Changed tinted glass particle that is spawned when moving to a structure void block - Boss should no longer be tweaking out when trying to face the player. Rotation should be steady now. - Laser attack will fire at a faster rate the lower the health.

• Reduced the time that a mansion portal will stay active from 7 min to 5 min.

• Golden Horn now properly functions as an anti-elytra item. Anyone flying nearby while a horn is used will be forced to face the ground and dive bomb.

• Players can no longer randomly travel to Dormis from the void.

• Changed the effect from the potion of Greed from luck to Strength.

• Greed potion rewards more xp from killing mobs. For Greed potion amplifiers 0-2 the xp reward went from 1,2,4 xp to 1,3,8 xp.

• Added more admin commands to summon custom mobs.

• Changed all the species teams to have "bp" for better datapack compatibility.

• Being in the Magnificent Mansion will now remove the void dimension jump strength and gravity attributes from the player.

• Teleporting back from the Magnificent Mansion will clear the void slow fall effect.

• Added buttons in the beginning dialog that allow users to travel back to species selection on the dimension screen.

• Sanctum Embassy Omniportal has particles and sound effects and creates a spawn platform in Omnidrome when traveling through it.

• Removed the feature where players were given slow falling while in water in Pax.

• Removed a feature where a clay block would be placed when traveling to Sanctum.

• Changed the Fae Emperor explosion attack to not damage blocks or harm itself.

• The first player to join a world will now be notified of the config menu and changing species with /team

• Added a conduit return portal when traveling between the Overworld and The Brine.

• Players no longer need to look at the top surface of a conduit to travel to The Brine and can now look at a conduit from any direction.

• The Astral Projection potion now has a cooldown after use. Weakness and Slowness are applied during this cooldown. This is to prevent players getting locked unfairly by players weaponizing lingering or splash potions of Astral Projection.

• Made Dunkleosteus move much faster in water (but they don't turn ultra instinct on land).

• Added Title Cards when a player travels to a Bracken Pack dimension for the first time.

• Sporangium will no longer summon more than 30 slimes in the arena.

• All Sporangium and children will glow to help the player find them.

• Players must kill all Sporangium children to actually defeat the boss.

• Tweaked Unsung sword behavior so that the boss can't attack with them if there isn't any sword being held (as opposed to not attacking if the sword being held wasn't a default iron sword).

• Gave Unsung depth strider on boots to prevent some cheese potential with water.

• Added a new texture for the Void Pull ability book (thanks to Yoann who made the texture!)

• Changed loot tables in Sanctum that previously held netherite ingots to netherite scrap. (it was too broken to get >70 ingots in structures lmao)

• Added Jellyfish to most brine biomes.

• Added text that tells players they can use /trigger bracken.species_info

• Several tweaks to the Kraken boss

  • Kraken no longer destroys water around itself which was causing an enormous amount of lag.
  • Kraken no longer harms itself with some attacks.
  • Reduced Grapple attack damage and increased Slap attack damage.
  • Previously the Kraken would dive down and make it difficult to actually engage the boss in combat if they were forced to battle in the Blackwater Depths. This behavior has been tweaked so the boss will dive down when it is above y=250 and will swim upwards when below y=250 allowing for a consistently stable battle in the middle depth of the ocean.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed custom suns and moons to properly display in the Bracken Pack dimensions.

• Fixed an enormous amount of broken nbt conversions when transitioning between minecraft updates. There are too many of these to mention but these changes fixed over 100 bugs.

• Fixed Fae Emperor dropping duplicate items on death.

• Fixed many issues where multiple of the same boss active could cause conflicts. All bosses should no longer cause issues when near each other as well.

• Prevented an issue where some bossbars could be removed when one of the same boss was killed and another was still active.

• Fixed an issue where drinking a Greed potion could override the current Greed potion duration.

• Fixed travel between sanctum and omnidrome using an end crystal which was previously broken.

• Fixed an issue where brewing a Greed potion with an Essence of Eternity didn't increase the amplifier.

• Fixed an issue where splash and lingering potions of Greed and Astral Projection wouldn't function.

• Fixed an issue where Realmkeepers could not properly join their species.

• Dwellers are no longer blinded in Spectator mode.

• Villains no longer invoke anger on mobs while in creative or spectator mode

• Fixed an issue where nautiluses would spawn extremely frequently in certain Brine biomes

• Fixed an issue where the brine station would spawn too high up in the Brine and generation would be cut off due to reaching the world limit.

• Fixed Crofter to properly play its hum sound effect.

• Added netherite horse armor to work with the trampling enchant.

• Changed arrows that the Fae Emperor spawns to not be affected by the Fae Stand. This was previously causing an enormous amount of lag when fighting the Fae Emperor.

• Fixed an issue where splash and lingering potions of Greed and Astral Projection would not function.

• Fixed camel husks causing issues when spawned in several custom dimensions.

• Fixed a long standing issue where most bosses would not properly execute their death sequence if too much damage was applied to the boss when it was near death.

• Several bosses can no longer be cheesed with boats and minecarts.

• Fixed an issue where placing armor stands could advance Ostiarius' secret ending.

• Fixed an issue where changing species while as an Automech in water wouldn't remove in water attributes.

• The Bracken Pack was changing all golden helmets to a crown texture. This has been changed so that only the Thrall's Crown has this texture.

• Fixed Dust Storms and Blizzards not working in Sanctum and Glacium.

• Removed allays spawning in the Faewild mesosphere biome (it seemed to cause problems)

• Updated Glacial Mass entity spawning to prevent breezes being spawned in large numbers.

• Fixed brine zeppelin structures being spawned in a broken state.

• Fix for cyber tree omnipower almost always failing to be placed.

• Fixed several issues with the disrupter beam omnipower including the power harming the user and not harming certain mobs.

• Fixed the road north omnipower generating a road with pink stained glass instead of yellow stained glass.

• Fixed kill book texture in magnificent mansion.

• The uninstall function should properly remove all scoreboards.

• Fixed a long standing issue where lava was generating at the bottom of several dimensions, oftentimes within pools of water.

• Fixes to the Giant Lilypad generation in Panacea. Previously this structure would frequently spawn underground or cause vegetation to hover in the air. The structure should now generate in a more natural way.

• Fixes to prevent Giant Sniffers in Panacea from suffocating in blocks when they spawn. This mob now breaks trees and other vegetation when it moves around.

BRACKEN’S CHANGE LOG

-Normalized the base mob of many bosses to be a stray instead of zombies or skeletons (because they can be converted into drowned or stray).

-Changed Glacium column features in the destitute garrison biome to be less laggy. Columns are topped with sea lanterns instead of the smoke-producing campfires.

-Removed clouds from the Underdark.

(told ya I didn’t do much!)

Additional thanks for everyone on the team who was able to discuss the changes on Discord and do live bug testing!

3-10-26 HOTFIX

Sanctum sun texture would display at sunset in the overworld. This has been fixed but as a consequence players with the night vision effect will not be able to see the custom sun when in Sanctum for the duration of the effect.

In addition, mob spawning in the Faewild and Underdark has been adjusted to be less difficult.

FEBRUARY UPDATE

-Updated to 1.21.11

-Conure cleaned up code related to item textures of fae knight, frostkin mob #5 and mass heal ability book. (Thx dude)

With the recent changes to dimension type data and timelines, a collection of the following aesthetic decisions were made.

-Glacium sky and lighting turn bright green once per day/night cycle.

-Glacium fog distance has been reduced.

-Added custom sun/moon textures to Glacium.

-Found an unexpected way to make Omnidrome coloration look good again!

-Adjusted position of Omnidrome custom sun.

-Stars now pulse in Omnidrome.

-Increased Panacea day/night cycle length to 72,000 ticks.

-Reduced Panacea fog distance.

-Adjusted Panacea sky color and sky fog color.

-Added custom sun and moon textures to Panacea.

-Added solar eclipse events to Panacea.

-Removed Pax custom sun texture.

-Raised sun and moon to share the Pax sky.

-Restored the old blue lighting tint that Sanctum used to have.

-Increased size of Sanctum custom sun.

-Added barely noticeable custom moon texture to Sanctum.

-Changed Faewild sky and lighting to be more purple.

-Increased size of custom sun texture and moon texture in Faewild.

-Changed sky color and fog color of Brine dimension.

-Added orbital rings (custom moon texture) to Brine.

-Greatly increased the speed at which stars rotate in Varskspace.

-Changed lighting and coloration of Varskspace to be more purple.

NOVEMBER UPDATE

Smaller update this time. Focused primarily on making Glacium and the End dimensions more habitable.

-Updated data and resource pack to accommodate Minecraft version 1.21.10

-Removed Bracken pack version of copper swords, pickaxes, axes, hoes, shovels, and armor in place of Mojang’s new copper items.

-Elytra now have a harder time flying in the rain.

-Floating magma islands and swamp islands generate in the Brine.

-Glistering melon slices are now edible. Although they grant less saturation than golden carrots, they can be rapidly eaten in a fraction of the time.

-Popped chorus fruits can be eaten and provide about the same level of saturation as a cooked steak.

-Chorus flowers can be crafted into planks.

-Chorus fruits can be crafted into magenta dye.

-Enabled the spawning of more passive and neutral mobs like chicken, foxes, polar bears, wolves, and cows to Glacium.

-Slain endermites drop blank dye.

-Issue with players not being able to choose to play as Realmkeepers from the outset of the game has been fixed.

-Issue with players automatically switching species to Realmkeepers after entering Pax has been fixed.

-Issue with players being unable to switch teams to Human with the opening dialog has been fixed.

-Players using a conduit to travel to the Brine now teleport above sea level instead of at the exact same xyz coordinates they had been in the overworld.

END OF SUMMER 1.21.8 UPDATE

Have You noticed I’m slowing down?

SPECIES CHANGES

-New players who start on a Bracken pack world will be prompted with a dialog screen asking which species they’d like to play as. After selecting, they will also be asked if they would like to start their adventure in the respective home dimension of that species.

Each dimension comes with a difficulty rating as well as a warning for certain dimensions like Dormis.

To prevent players from getting “locked” into an undesirable dimension, I made it so players will respawn in the overworld if they die. However, if you make it far enough to set your spawnpoint with a bed or respawn anchor, you will instead respawn in your chosen dimension.

-Species beginner scroll has been removed.

-Removed lackluster Frostkin buff they get from walking in powdered snow.

-Replaced Outlander backstab ability with auto swiftsneak.

-Fixed issue with Dwellers getting blinded by bright, light source blocks.

-Fixed issue with former Villain players retaining extra hp even after changing species.

DORMIS CHANGES

-Bezerium biome now has more red sandstone than yellow concrete powder. It also has a lot more fire.

-Kedeshium biome has been migrated to a higher y-level and contains granite instead of obsidian.

-Hebronium biome has been modeled to look like the old Kedesium biome with obsidian and crying obsidian blocks.

-Added howling wind sounds to shechemium biome.

-Cut the size of the Dormis maze template pool in half to reduce the lag it generated.

-Added tnt traps to Dormis, as well as motion detecting copper bulbs, and “false” tnt traps just to confuse people even more.

-Dormis slate now generates in the kedesium biome, Dormis maze now generates in the ramothium biome.

-Added 7 new mobs to Dormis, each based on certain mix/max strategies.

• Blinded Markskin are a long-ranged mob that fires a bow with rending, flame, power x5, punch x2, and splintering x3, while using instant damage x3 tipped arrows. They also wear little blindfolds but they’ve been modified to have increased player follow range.

• Phariserpens are a tanky mob that has armor piercing cryolith sickle attacks that deal poison, slowness, and blindness effects.

• Bonewaller mobs have meteoric armor with boldness x5, a wolf’s head helmet to increase attack damage, strength x3 effect, and wield the same mortal cull greataxe weapon that drops from the Panacea sporangium boss, freshly enchanted with mortality x5, knockback x2, fire aspect x2, reverse thorns x3, and devouring curse x3.

• Plunderer mobs have the wind charged effect, jump boost x3, and pushback x3 on lustra armor. Also on armor can be found full feather falling, blast protection, thorns, and float walker enchantments. They attack with a mace with breach x4, knockback x2, windburst x3, sharpness x5, and density x5.

• Forsaken Miner shoots a crossbow with fireworks rockets, rending, and multishot x3. They hold a totem of undying in their offhand and set off a small firework explosion every time they get hit by an entity.

• Ferral Fae mob is equipped with verdant armor, a wanderlight wand in the mainhand, and a copper apple in the offhand. They have permanent regeneration, fire resistance and health boost effects.

• Betrayerkin might be broken. I min/maxed every defensive stat and the results are monstrous. It takes an iron golem 26 strikes to finish them off. They have cryolith armor with protection 4, a lustra buckler with guarding 5, and a tulip wand in the offhand with guarding 5. Cryolith has terrible durability and breaks rapidly, but item durability is negated when equipped to a mob.

GLACIUM CHANGES

-Fixed issue with Bygone viceroy instantly dying and transforming into two slayerkin mobs.

-Fixed issue with Glacium sun structure deleting nearby terrain.

-Frostkin Glacium mobs now drop diamond shards instead of iron nuggets and ingots.

-Added thick ocean ice layer to Glacium’s glacial mass biome.

-Added more passive mob variety to Glacium’s invasive forest biome.

OMNIDROME CHANGES

Added 3 custom Omnidrome mobs.

• Adapter-T is a modified vex that flies around and buffs other hostile mobs with strength and speed. More are spawned when a Macroprocessor mob is attacked.

• Parser-B is a long-ranged mob that fires a crossbow with multishot x9. It fires tipped arrows containing weaving, oozing, and infested effects.

• Capaciphite are giant, green shulkers with greatly increased range. They attack all players except Automech players.

-All slimes in the Omnidrome explode in a burst of lingering potion and hunger potion effects. This makes the oozing effect dangerous.

-All silverfish spawned in the Omnidrome transform into adapter-t mobs. This makes the infestation effect even more dangerous.

-Omnidrome hostile mobs now drop iron nuggets and ingots.

PANACEA CHANGES

-Greater biodiversity added to Panacea. Noticeable increases in dolphins, fish, and hoglin across most biomes.

-Fixed issue with verdant helmet crafting recipe not working.

-Added new biome to Panacea in honor of data pack developer and Youtuber extraordinaire, Conure. The conure conclave features a variety of tree types, as well as floating islands. I’m still working on a means to inundate the biome with an abundance of parrots without causing lag though. (I’m probably thinking structures tbh)

PAX CHANGES

-Added happy ghasts to Pax.

-Removed powdered snow from Pax and restored water ocean.

SANCTUM CHANGES

-Sanctum whirlwinds have been replaced with giant breeze mobs. Be careful, they will still catapult you high into the air!

-Fized old issue with Sanctum functions not triggering if the player had never once held the sneak key.

-Silverfish now spawn in Sanctum’s toxic playa biome.

BRINE CHANGES

-Added new block to the game. The block of lustra is a pink-colored block and drops 9 lustra pearls when mined with a pickaxe. In turn, 9 pearls can be used to craft a block of lustra with a crafting table. The blocks can be found at the center of every giant clam structure in the Brine.

FAEWILD CHANGES

-Flying boat ability book has been removed and replaced with the Void pull ability book. Players can now craft a flying boat with pale oak planks and a single ghast tear.

To craft, place the planks as you would when crafting any boat. Place the tear in the center.

-Modified loot tables of ferryman houses to include both ghast tears and pale oak planks.

-Changed all ferryman traders so they no longer offer any flying boat book trades.

-Changed all pack rat traders to no longer sell the non-functional bucket of salmon trade. (The fish was supposed to drop a worldsoar book when slain).

-Void pull is a quality of life ability book, designed by Grandmaster. Have you ever lost all your items and spent wayyyyy too long trying to find them again? Worry no longer. With void pull, simply click to teleport all items within a 100 block radius to your location. (Also works for stealing items someone else dropped!)

UNDERDARK CHANGES

-Partial construction of the Underdark trade metropolis has been completed. The megastructure can be currently found in the diorite sea biome, but there are currently no mobs, loot, or houses yet added.

-Giant Underdark bats no longer follow players in creative mode.

VARSKSPACE CHANGES

-Reworked Varskspace’s only biome into 4 new biomes; the ahimaaz reach, chrysoprase belt, non-maxwellian sector, and vonstein expanse. The vonstein expanse was made in reference to fellow data pack creator Von Leipenstein and his adroit data pack, “The Expanse," for getting my custom sun textures working again! You’re a genius dude!

-Modified Varskspace worldgen so it could accommodate more than one biome. Turns out, the current Varskspace noise file wouldn’t allow me to include more than one biome in the dimension. I had to rebuild the entire noise file from the ground up using the Faewild’s base worldgen as a template.I think I did a good job at recreating the original varskspace feel but it took me forever to figure it out!

ITEM CURRENCY CHANGES

-Silversteel items (ingots included) clear all debuff effects from a mob or player when struck. Removes things like poison, slowness, etc…

-Added diamond shards. Craft 9 together to make a diamond. A diamond can, in turn, be used to craft 9 shards.

-Added silversteel shekels. Craft 9 together to make a silversteel ingot. An ingot can, in turn, be used to craft 9 shekels.

-Added old world bronze assarions. Craft 9 together to make a bronze ingot. An ingot can, in turn, be used to craft 9 assarions.

-Added old world bronze quadrans. Craft 4 together to make a bronze assarion. An assarion can, in turn, be used to craft 4 quadrans.

-Added old world bronze leptons. Craft 2 together to make a bronze quadran. A quadran can, in turn, be used to craft 2 leptons.

MISC CHANGES

-Added grapes to the game. You can find them by breaking azalea leaves.

-Added leaf litter and flower petals to biomes in Panacea and the Faewild.

-Added cleaving enchantment. Does the exact same level of armor piercing breaching does but with axes instead of maces

-Added scorning enchantment. Gives entities the bad omen effect when struck.

-Conure fixed an annoying invalid loot table pointer so it is no longer annoying.

-Conure cleaned up texture pack code and fixed issue with mass heal book error spam.

-OH, and FINALLY got the custom suns textures working again at long last! Thank you Von Leipenstein I wouldn't have been able to figure it out without you!

BRACKEN PACK 1.21.6 UPDATE

Three main objectives left before I retire the pack. The upcoming underdark megastructure, Dormis rework, and incorporation of more custom mobs. In the meantime, enjoy the following changes!

MOB CHANGES

-Glacium mobs have been buffed. Enemies, mounts and wolves have been granted +25 bonus armor.

-Buffed Glacium Frostkin enemies drops. (Great source of iron!)

-Added sanctum wolf to toxic playa biome. Wolf is typically invisible unless angry. Can also be tamed and is much easier to see when wearing a collar.

-Added mayor mob to the faewild. Wields a powerful item called the, “wanderlight wand”. The mayor has a very small player detection radius but also wears armor with the searing surface enchantment.

-Renamed existing Frostkin enemy names to, “Spearkin”, “Bowkin”, and “Riderkin.”

-Frostkin mobs have new, retextured faces.

-Added new Glacium watchman head texture.

-Added new face texture for the frostforged minions spawned by the Bygone viceroy boss.

-Added a new Glacium Frostkin enemy called, “Slayerkin.”

-Added faewild giant.Equipped with a stone bludgeon with high knockback as well as full mim silk armor. Drops mim silk strands when slain.

-Players can now build hostile netherite golems out of two netherite blocks and a pumpkin block. WARNING: It is a terrifyingly dangerous mob.

-Added mimic mob. Players can craft a mimic with wooden planks and a creaking heart. Initially spawns in a dormant state but wakes up and attacks players who get within three blocks.

-Hammerhead land shark mob has been added to the Brine. Only spawns in light level 14 or lower, such as when it rains. Wields a toothed sword weapon. Drops shark teeth items when slain.

-Added macroprocessor mob to Omnidrome. Basic mob that is big, slow, and tanky.

-Added nutrimonitor mob to Omnidrome. Fast mob that summons a firework explosion whenever hit.

DIMENSION CHANGES

-Adjusted clouds levels for all dimensions. Void and varskspace have no clouds.

-Added sandstone and sand particles to Dormis shechemium biome

-Added Dormis nether fog (may remove at a later date)

-Added Dormis aqueduct structure.

-Fae theatre structure has been slightly changed to include a canopy.

-Most structures in the Faewild now load with custom bracken pack Paintings. (Fae Woman by Tytoninae)

ITEM CHANGES

-Buffed lustra armor to have more armor, toughness, and also protect against mob attacks and arrows instead of purely player attacks.

-Buffed silversteel to have the same armor toughness as netherite.

-Silversteel pickaxes can now break bedrock.

-Verdant armor crafting recipes have been changed to require 8 panaspores instead of one.

-All stone weapons can be obtained by putting a stone sword in a stone cutter.

-Added nine new fruit item tree drops. Banana and warped fig texture by Yoann.

• Lemons drop from birch trees.
• Oranges drop from acacia trees.
• Coconuts drop from jungle trees.
• Bananas drop from mangrove trees.
• Pale pears drop from pale oak trees.
• Olives drop from spruce trees.
• Cherries drop from cherry trees.
• Nether peppers drop from crimson fungus.
• Warped figs drop from warped fungus.
• Drops for Azalea trees are currently pending, depending on fan suggestions.

-Eating lemons grants 1 second of slowness and makes a “pop” sound.

-Eating a nether pepper sets the ground on fire and switches your species to netherkin. -Eating a warped fix switches your species to Frostkin. -Eating an apple switches your species to human.

-Added wanderlight wand. Crafted with a nether star and end rod. Comes with an intrinsic custom enchantment that teleports entities to a random location within a hundred or so blocks when hit. -All wands now have very slowed attack speed.

-Retextured enchantment books duplicated with mim silk to be blue to better indicate they were duplicated items.

ENCHANTMENT CHANGES

-Added banishment enchantment which only exists on wanderlight wands. Teleports hit mobs to a random location and cannot be removed with a grindstone.

-Guarding enchantment now only works on shovels and spears.

-Added obliteration enchantment that summons lighting on enemies when the player hits them during a thunderstorm. Only enchantable on spears and shovels.

-Mortality only works on swords now.

-Butchering now only works on axes.

-Added instability curse. Fireworks summoned at the wearer's location when hit by a mob or player.

BUG FIXES

-Fixed issue with brine mobs enchantment item data not working. -Corrected issue with a single piece of silversteel armor granting 100% lighting/enderpearl/mace smash damage resistance. -Milk now clears away the bonus armor granted by iron apples.

-Adjustments to y-level at which first time dimension text triggers.

-Fixed golden bludgeon recipe.

-Fixed mirrored meteoric sickle recipe.

-Update test error on brine custom potion crafting -Fixed missing texture for scepter weapon.

-Sporangium boss activation regen effect fixed.

-Broken compass item name fixed.

-Corrected instance of keeperscout in the fae theatre having overpowered trades.

-Fixed loot table fixes of Pax crofter.

-Corrected names of flying boats created with the flying boat ability book.

-Fixed issue with magnificent mansion loading without an exit portal included.

-Partial Hunter rework. Hunters no longer morph when eating plants but just morph when eating uncooked meat.

-Rectified the /function bracken:config command. Entries were displayed correctly but the text was unclickable.

-Rectified the /function bracken:admin_commands/teleport_to_dimension command. Entries were displayed correctly but the text was unclickable.

HOTFIX UPDATE

Ugh, I hate making these. Figured I'd make it up to you guys though by adding a few new things along with the bug fixes. Enjoy.

BUG FIXES

-Missing advancement background textures added back in. Some have also been re-styled.

-Issue with Brine whirlpool teleport not working has been fixed. (Just straight-up changed the structure to contain an activated conduit)

-Issue with the portal in the Sanctum embassy not taking players to Omnidrome has been fixed.

-End crystals have been re-enabled as a means of traveling between the Omnidrome and Sanctum, but only if the player has already used the embassy portal or void to get to the Omnidrome first.

-Issue with Pax portal not taking players to Dormis has been fixed.

-Missing scepter texture has been fixed.

-Min silk enchantment book duplication crafting no longer requires a diamond.

-The texture of the travel Call book found in Varskspace spires has been fixed.

-Reworked many advancements to more accurately indicate to the player how to travel to other dimensions.

-Hyperabundant nether quartz ore has been severely nerfed in crimson organism and creeper dominion panacea biomes.

-Turns out the creeper horn item is crazy powerful for tnt farming. As such, it can now only be obtained by killing the Gigaton Creeper in the Panacea creeper pyramid.

-Cleaned up terrain displacement around creeper pyramid.

-Players now get slowfall instead of resistance traveling to Panacea and Glacium.

-Wither roses and wither rose wands now appropriately protect Netherkin and Enderling players from rainfall damage when held.

NEW THINGS I ADDED TO MAKE MYSELF FEEL BETTER

-Most weapons variants, ie. bludgeon ,buckler, cutlass, etc... are now all craftable.

-Buckler, Cutlass, Rapier, and Katana weapons can now block.

-Rapiers rapidly block melee attacks, cutlasses ignore the shield disabling effect of axes, katanas can deflect projectiles, bucklers can deflect everything a shield can.

-Bludgeons now have knockback instead of knockback resistance, cutlasses and bucklers no longer grant armor, greatswords deal more damage, daggers grant swift sneak, katanas no longer reduce jump strength, spears have increased attack range, sickles have increased damage, warhammers disable shields longer than axes.

-Brine block break speed reduction has been increased from 75% to 85%.

-Players exposed to rain in the Brine now get haste effect x3.

-Added new advancement for players who experience the Brine's rain.

-Players can no longer end up in Pax randomly from Void travel.

-Added secret new advancement for players who fall to the bottom of the Void and randomly end up in the Void again.

-Added 3 new Varkspace themed advancements obtained by generating lightning, finding a Varskspace spire and teleporting back to the overworld.

-Added new advancement for players that dig their way to the Nether through the Underdark.

-Added firefly bushes to the Faewild foison fields biome.

1.21.5 UPDATE

Whew! This update was a painful one to get through. A recent change made to minecraft shaders has made the custom suns inoperable for the time being. Hopefully, after some of the more recent snapshots, shader changes will settle down and I can figure things out.

Aside from 1.21.5 compatibility, enjoy the following new features!

MOB RESKIN CHANGES

-Chickens in the Faewild are reskinned as turkeys.

-Chickens in the Brine are reskinned as ducks.

-Chickens in the Underdark are reskinned as dodo birds.

-Chickens in Glacium are reskinned as puffins.

-Chickens in Panacea are reskinned as “Sapidus Rex.”

-Frogs in Panacea can have one of three poison dart frog skins.

-Frogs in the Underdark are reskinned as toads.

-Pigs and Cows in the Faewild castle are reskinned as two mimic variants.

-Pigs in the Underdark are reskinned as half-hoglins.

-Cats in Panacea can have one of three big cat skins.

-Cats in the End are reskinned as ender-panthers.

-Cats in the Underdark are reskinned as saber-toothed cats.

DIMENSION CHANGES

-Conduit travel between the overworld and Brine has been re-enabled and improved. Being within three blocks of a conduit while staring at its top surface will transport you within a few seconds. Special thank you to Star Seed and SirFluffyPuffs for making the request!

-Updated Brine structures containing conduits, like the deluge city and brine_fan to reflect recent Brine tp changes.

-All stacked dimensions now have y-level antigravity dynamics like Sanctum. If you reach a high enough y-level, you jump higher and higher until you levitate upwards. You can also hold “sneak” to float back down.

-Players will now need to break bedrock to be able to travel to the Underdark.

-Bedrock breaking pickaxe enchantments have been added to ancient city loot and faewild village/castle loot. Players no longer have to purely rely on glitches to break bedrock or skulk-spreading to corrupt bedrock into skulk blocks. Although, I’m not stopping you if you do.

-Players can now visit the Underdark roof. Although the roof is primarily bedrock, it’s much easier to get past than the nether roof. Rifts and holes in the roof commonly have giant mushrooms growing out of them, making them easier to spot.

-More netherrack added to the lower layers of the underdark.

-Granite block layers added to the titan dripstone Underdark biome.

-Players will now need to break bedrock to be able to travel from the Nether down to Sanctum.

-Players can now visit the Nether roof without a wither skull.

-Dweller drill structures have been made more common in the Nether. By punching holes in the Nether roof, they make it possible for players to get below the bedrock even with zero items.

-In the Sanctum dimension, players can now build up to 32 blocks below terrain generation in the void beneath the world. Building void bases has never been easier!

-Sanctum mini hanger now has the bottom floor removed, exposing it to the void and making it easier for players to find.

-Sanctum now has slightly taller terrain.

-Towering beanstalk structures now generate in overworld plains, forest, and meadows biomes. They provide a convenient way for players to reach the Faewild without building a tower.

-Small and large cloud structures have been added to the Faewild.

-Players can get to Pax from the Faewild by entering Faewild clouds.

-Pax water ocean has been replaced by an ocean of powdered snow.

-Slight modifications to Faewild features to accommodate giant clouds.

-Removed negative ambient lighting from most dimensions. This was done to stop weird 1.12 water texture overlays from impeding underwater vision. As a consequence, dimensions like the Faewild, Panacea, and Sanctum, now no longer have a colored tint.

-Panacea now has a day/night cycle

-Block breaking speed reduction removed from Glacium

-Block breaking speed reduction added to Brine when outside of water.

-Underwater block breaking speed has been increased to the point that it’s much easier to break blocks in water than on land.

ENTITY CHANGES

-Fae emperor boss now places an exploding warped mushroom instead of ender crystals while fighting the player.

-Unsung boss now places ender crystals instead of instantaneously detonating primed tnt.

-Giant Jotun bats now spawn in the Underdark. They can pick the player up, deal damage to the player while holding them, and even drop the player.

-Changed appearance of Lost Miner to look more like a Dweller.

ITEM CHANGES

-Copper pickaxes, hoes, and axes break blocks faster. Another special thank you goes out to Star Seed and SirFluffyPuffs for making the request!

-Silversteel now grants enderpearl damage resistance.

-Silversteel now has a built-in smite enchantment.

-Holding a wither rose in either hand prevents the player from getting the wither effect.

-Players can craft a wither wand with a stick and wither rose. Prevents the wither effect when held but also withers any mobs you hit with it.

-Players can craft a tulip wand with a stick and one of every kind of tulip. Prevents the weakness effect when held but also weakness any mobs you hit with it.

-Holding a torchflower in either hand prevents the player from getting the glowing effect.

-Players can craft a torchflower wand with a stick and torchflower. Prevents the glowing effect when held but also glows any mobs you hit with it.

-Holding an open eye blossom in either hand prevents the player from getting the blindness effect.

-Players can craft an eye blossom wand with a stick and open eye blossom. Prevents the blindness effect when held but also blinds any mobs you hit with it.

-Buffed breadfruit to the point where it can restore a player wearing a full set of vitality armor to full hp.

MISC BUG FIXES/ TWEAKS

-Fixed issue with smeglin not dropping loot.

-Fixed wonky generation with fae ring structure.

-Fixed issue with wanderlight music spamming in certain biomes.

-Removed lanterns from faewild clandestine castlegrounds biome.

-Removed spiders from castlegrounds biome.

-Verdant items can now be crafted with just one panaspore instead of requiring multiple panaspores.

-Frostkin species players now stay on fire longer.

-Sanctum Pillar loot is now more diversified.

-Flying boat has been changed to pale oak variant.

-Frozen heart armor stand in the Glacium watchtower now wears cryolith armor instead of diamond.

-Middle-era watchmen now wear cryolith armor.

-Removed attack speed from Villains.

-Endelings eating chorus fruit now grants bonus saturation instead of teleporting mega distances.

-Removed leftover command block from Sanctum embassy structure.

1.21.4 POST SCARCITY EXPERIMENT

A little change I hope you like. Most hostile and neutral mobs now have a chance to drop items they wouldn't usually drop.

You want panaspores? Kill a creeper. You want lustra pearls? Kill a guardian. You want the fireball book? Kill a ghast. (I don't think I can anymore)

You can also get a collection of wearable items with piglin trades.

Oh, and one more thing. This version just so happens to also contain a bunch of features intended for the 1.21.5 drop. Like giant beanstalks that spawn in plains biomes. Have fun.

HOTFIX UPDATE

Several issues had to be fixed. Also added new secret things.

-1.12 lookin' underwater overlay texture was removed. Issue was related to 1.21.4 shader changes for some strange reason.

-Silversteel loot helmet texture now displays correctly.

-Brine custom sun now displays consistently despite the render distance.

-Fixed silversteel and old world bronze ingots not displaying correctly.

-Darkened silversteel ingot texture to look less like iron.

-Tweaked custom sun textures in Brine and Varkspace.

-Slightly altered Brine sky color.

-Greatly darkened Brine blackwater depths biome color.

-Removed ugly magenta-colored flash that would display whenever players dived into the blackwater depths biome.

-Added secret sun schematic to Dormis.

-Added secret sun texture to Varskspace.

FEBRUARY UPDATE

MOB CHANGES

-Gave netherite golem a custom face texture instead of a plain netherite block for a head.

-Fae guards summoned by the Fae Emperor boss now have a copper rapier weapon and copper armor. They have also been renamed to “Fae Royal Guard” just as a way to differentiate them from all the other, less special, guards.

-Implemented visual update for the Valkyrie minboss at the center of Glacium snowflakes. The mob should also be initially neutral unless you attack her first.

-Implemented visual update for middle-era watchman in Glacium watchtowers. They now wear cryolith armor.

-Added the Dweller mob. Can be summoned with /function under bracken:admin commands. There are also a few that can be found in the Fae castle structure.

-Several other, previously un-summonable, custom mobs can now be summoned with admin commands.

-Fae rangers no longer spawn in clandestine castlegrounds biome. Only rarely in the Faewild whenever spider jockeys spawn.

-Fae wolves now come with a custom entity texture. All wolves spawned with a spawn egg in the Faewild will also have this display.

-Dire wolves now spawn in Glacium. They are larger than normal wolves and have +30 natural armor. They also come with a custom entity texture. All wolves spawned with a spawn egg in Glacium will also have this display.

-Added Silurian wolves to Panacea. They are very large and have a tremendous bite force. They have 50 hp and increased oxygen bonus attribute.They also come with custom entity textures. Silurian wolves are normally green-colored but turn orange when angry and blue when tamed. All wolves spawned with a spawn egg in Panacea will also have this texture.

-Gave gothrum spiders and riders the weaving effect when it rains.

-Sniffers are larger in panacea and break mangrove roots.

BOSS CHANGES

-Added Kraken boss fight. The Kraken is a Brine boss kept in stasis in the center of the underwater deluge city. If a player gets within 16 blocks of the giant squid it will wake up from stasis.

The Kraken is a fairly easy boss with most of its abilities being defensive. It can briefly turn invisible, jet horizontally or vertically away from the player, shoot blinding ink jets at the player or leave expanding trails of ink in its wake. The trident is the best recommended weapon for fighting this boss.

Its most devastating attack occurs when it rapidly spins a whirlpool that draws in all nearby entities. The Kraken not only has a high-damage bite that poisons mobs, but while spinning can slap the player at an extended range with its tentacles.

The Kraken also has a very high degree of passive regeneration, so if it escapes the player for too long, it can recover significant health. Upon getting the Kraken below a certain hp threshold, the Kraken will start bleeding blue blood, the bossbar will disappear, and the Kraken will take small passive damage until it dies.

Upon death, the Kraken drops several squid ink sacs and essence of eternity items.

WORLDGEN CHANGES

-Reworked arctic knolls biome to have less similar features to other Glacium biomes. Hydrothermal magma blocks are now a part of the theme.

STRUCTURE CHANGES

-Added Glacium tunnel structure to enable better travel underneath Glacium mountains.

-Added Brine zeppelin structure to yonder salt breaker bione. Contains pillagers + pressure plates + dispensers holding tnt. If you decide to tower up to the flying zeppelin, avoid being directly underneath!

-Added Pax columns to the grand machair biome.

-Added Pax bothy to the petal grove biome.

-Added Pax bothy secret message.

-Added loot chest to Pax bothy.

ITEM CHANGES

-Retextured shepherdess cloak and gave it an equipment model texture.

-Swapped the function of eternity and infinity essences (because it makes more sense for eternity essence to be the one that makes potions last longer).

-Corrected mislabeled entity interaction range of spears. -Buffed spear entity interaction range by 0.5 blocks.

-Gothrum fang now has infused poison enchantment.

-The base item for spears is now a shovel instead of a sword.

-Sai weapon is now crafted with a blaze rod and netherite ingot. -Sai weapon no longer deals 30 damage and hurts the welder when used.

-Sai weapon now comes with infused fire aspect.

-Hypocrite mask now properly hides the player from endermen.

-Updated wearable species features. Still only accessible with commands.

ENCHANTMENT CHANGES

-Added infused fire aspect enchant. Lights mobs on fire for an hour unless put out. Items with this enchantment cannot be removed with a grindstone.

LOOT TABLE CHANGES

-Nerfed the overwhelming abundance of enchantment books found in the omnidrone library.

-Essence of eternity has been removed from Brine station so now slaying the Kraken is the only way to harvest the valuable item.

BUG FIXES AND TWEAKS

-Massive effort taken to migrate away from custom model data into entity models. Thank you so much Conure for recommending the process in the first place and guiding me through it. You made this possible!

-Fixed missing textures for spear items found in loot tables.

-Fixed nonfunctional netherite spear crafting recipe.

-Greatly improved the quality of custom sun shader activation. Sanctum had been the worst, with the custom sun formerly displaying at super-specific render distances. Also, getting the shader to even work at all in 1.21.4 was made possible by VonLeipenstein, creator of the Expansion data pack.

-Made slight changes to biome fog color of Sanctum, Omnidrome and Dormis.

-Fixed issue with all fae traders summoned with admin commands only buying/selling single items.

-Mining block speed reduction no longer occurs in Glacium.

-75% Mining block speed reduction added to the Brine.

-Nerfed wither rose crafting recipe.

DECEMBER UPDATE

Hey everyone. This might come as some sad news, but the next few updates are going to be some of my last. I've had a fun time making the Bracken Pack, but ultimately it's been taking up way too much of my time and I'd like to adventure out and try some other projects out.

The Dormis update and Underdark trade center are still two MUST ADD projects I still plan on including but I figured I should at least give you all a heads up about the future of the pack.

As far as creative direction is concerned, (I've said it before and I'll say it again) this universe is your universe. Make characters, write stories, and code to your heart's content. If you are a fan, you own the Bracken Pack.

Here are the following changes. Works for 1.21.3 but since the latest full release update just dropped expect an update soon.

-Added long-awaited Dormis maze structure. Includes 50 jigsaws that can assemble together in different ways.

-Added Holdkeeper Guard trial spawners to maze. Tanky as heck, and shoots flaming arrows. They also have unicorn horns.

-Buffed vitality enchantment again. A full set of verdant armor now gives you 12 hearts.

-Special thanks to Fluffypanda in the official discord for setting up this one. Mojang's enchantment changes had capped the effectiveness of the thorns enchantment rendering the shepherdess cloak very weak. Intrinsic thorns enchantment has now been added. Does far greater damage than thorns. Fluffy, you rock! Thanks for helping us out on this one.

-Shepherdess cloak now grants a large entity interaction range attribute instead of one fewer hearts.

-Secret Sanctum boss defeat advancement fixed.

-Smeglin item burn advancement fixed.-Realmkeepers don't receive bad omen when in Dormis.

-Made increased cooldown for biome sound effects in Dormis.-Replaced firework trap in Sanctum embassy with tnt spam trap. Much more fun!>:)

-Fixed issue, which I had until today assumed was patched. Admin test version of Sanctum boss had zero issues but in

-game version couldn't spawn in. Whoops.

-Fixed issue where intrinsic mending could be stacked with normal mending enchantment.

-Fixed silvered lightning and mace damage reduction enchantment which was only working when held in hand.

EARLY NOVEMBER UPDATE

Gonna be away on the 7th. Update gets here early!

UPDATE CHANGES

Updated to the full release of Minecraft 1.20.3!

ABILITY BOOK CHANGES

-Cleaned up and improved ability book code (Conure)

-Added empty click noise when books are used without enough xp (Bracken, Conure)

-Added VOID PULL ability. Only accessible with commands at this point. (Grandmaster)

ENCHANTMENT CHANGES

-Drafted lunarite test enchantments. Stats vary depending on the moon’s phases. (Conure, Crim-dev)

-Vitality enchantment intrinsic to all verdant armors has been buffed by 50%. (Bracken)

-Added silvered fix enchantment. Cannot be removed with a grindstone. Items enchanted with silvered cannot accommodate any other enchantments. Armor enchanted with silvered also protect from damage received by lighting and mace smash attacks. (Bracken, Remote)

-Poison fix enchantment intrinsic to verdant weapons now ignores a portion of a target’s armor similar to the breaching enchantment. (Bracken)

-Added astuteness fix enchantment. Intrinsic to silk armor pieces. Periodically summons experience orbs at the wearer’s location. Cannot be removed with a grindstone. (Bracken)

-Added Fae silk patch inscription process. This process allows the player to duplicate enchanted books. (Bracken)

Using a smithing table, players can take any enchanted book, a silk patch, and a diamond, and craft it into two inscribed silk patches. These inscribed patches “record” the original enchantments the book had.

They can then be used with a normal, unenchanted book and an experience bottle, to make two, identical enchantment books.

ITEM CHANGES

-Added mim silk strand. Found in various loot tables in the Faewild. Intended in the near future to be a mob drop. (Bracken)

-Added mim silk patch. Made with 9 silk strand using a crafting table. (Bracken)

-Added mim silk armor. Crafted with silk patches similar to how leather can be used to make leather armor. The mim silk grants the same amount of armor as chainmail. Mim silk comes passively enchanted with astuteness. (Bracken)

-Added silk inscribed patch. Critical ingredient used to duplicate enchantment books. (Bracken)

-Added bandana wearable item. Grants slight luck attribute bonus. Found in Underdark loot tables. (Bracken)

-Added tinted glasses wearable item. Grants blindness immunity. Found in Underdark loot tables. (Bracken, Conure)

-Added wolf hood wearable item. Grants attack damage bonus. Found in Glacium loot tables. (Bracken)

-Implemented night vision goggles in-game. Grants night vision when worn. Found in Sanctum loot tables. (Bracken, Conure)

-Added weighted cuffs wearable item. Reduces player movement speed, increases player gravity, and greatly reduces attack range. Absolutely debilitating if paired with the curse of binding enchantment. Found in Faewild, Brine, and Dormis loot tables. (Bracken)

-Added blindfold wearable item. Greatly reduces vision. Found in Brine and Faewilod loot tables. (Bracken)

-Implemented power arms in-game. Greatly extends block interaction range when worn. Found in Sanctum loot tables. (Bracken)

-Implemented diving helm in-game. Greatly extends water breathing time when worn. Found in Sanctum and Brine loot tables. (Bracken)

-Added silversteel ingot. Crafted with four netherite scrap and four iron ingots in a shapeless pattern.Just like when you craft a netherite ingots, but with iron instead of gold. (Bracken)

-Added silversteel armor, weapons, and tools. 20 items total. Silversteel items are crafted using a smithing table the same way as netherite items (needing diamond items as a base as well as a netherite upgrader template). Silversteel items possess the silvered enchantment, preventing silversteel items from ever being enchantable outside of using cheats. Enchanted diamond items will lose all enchantments and curses if crafted into silversteel. Silversteel armor pieces have +1 more armor than netherite, meaning a full silversteel armor set provides 24 armor. Silversteel weapons also do +1 more damage than their netherite equivalents. (Bracken)

-Added old world bronze ingot. Crafted with four netherite scrap and four copper ingots in a shapeless pattern. Ok, I’ll admit I’ve been obsessively watching a lot of diy metallurgy videos lately, don’t judge me. (Bracken)

-Added old world bronze armor, weapons, and tools. 20 items total. Just like silversteel, old world bronze items are crafted using a smithing table with diamond base items and a netherite upgrader template. Old world bronze armor pieces have +1 more armor than netherite; however, they possess zero armor toughness. A full set provides 24 armor. Old world bronze weapons also do +0.5 more damage than their netherite equivalents. (Bracken)

-Cryolith armor pieces now each grant -3 armor toughness instead of zero. The game’s mechanics don’t calculate for armor toughness values less than zero, so this won’t actually change the effectiveness of the armor. However, this will reduce the effectiveness of wearing cryolith with other types of armors that contribute armor toughness. For example, a player wearing a netherite chestplate (+3 armor toughness) and cryolith helmet (-3 armor toughness) will have zero net armor toughness. (Bracken)

WORLDGEN CHANGES

-Added yonder saltbreaker bay biome in honor of Yoann! Contains abundant calcite and diorite features that makes boat travel more challenging. More additional features planned. (Bracken)

-Added cinder harbor biome. Contains abundant lava and magma blocks. Abundant bubble columns add a minor challenge to swimming here. (Bracken)

-Cleaned a multitude of dimension biome references. (Conure)

PLAYER CHANGES

-Greatly improved enderling tp dynamic. Enderling tp indicator now has a visual cooldown animation. (Conure)

-Improved how the game detects effect changes as well as effect immunities. (Conure)

TEXTURE CHANGES

-Added camera overlay to blindfold, diving helm, cryolith helmet, night vision goggles, verdant helmet, and tinted glasses. (Bracken)

MOB CHANGES

-Fixed issues with mob movement in Brine. Jellyfish no longer fly out of the ocean. (Conure, Grandmaster)

-Improvements made to dunkleosteus AI. (Conure Grandmaster)

-Fixed issue with overspawning mobs in Brine. Inadvertently fixed other issues such as turtles not spawning in Brine. (Bracken, Conure)

-Fixed issue with overspawning glow squid in Underdark. (Bracken)

-Found and corrected obsolete .generic and .player attributes used in custom mobs. (Conure)

-Fixed issue with Brine mobs holding and using tridents. (Conure, Grandmaster)

OCTOBER UPDATE IS HERE!

Only works in 24w40a. I'll probably update again when the full release drops. But for now, I hope you guys enjoy!

ITEM CHANGES

-Removed glint from all verdant items (Bracken)

-Added glint to all lustra items (Bracken)

-Added food and saturation to all beverage items (Bracken)

-Added glowing effect to glow_berry beverage (Bracken)

-Added instant health effect to melon beverage (Bracken)

-Replaced base item for panacea spores with creeper eggs instead of pitcher plant pods. This way players in survival mode can only craft lustra items AFTER entering panacea and not just by following a sniffer around (Bracken)

-Added cryolith item upgrader. Found in the Viceroy boss’ hideout. Use with iron items and cryolith item to smith. (Bracken) -Added lustra item upgrader. Found in the deluge city structure. Use golden items and a lustra pearl to smith. (Bracken)

-Added power arms. Only accessible with commands. When equipped in the chest slot, allows the player to place blocks a much further distance away (Bracken)

-Added night vision goggles. Only accessible with commands. When equipped in the head slot, grants the player night vision (Bracken)

-Added golden horn item. When blown, all players flying with an elytra within a 100 block radius will temporarily have increased gravity and rapidly nosedive. Can be found in the Brine station structure (Bracken)

-Added golden horn texture. (Made by Yoann and graciously donated from Yoann and Tux via another project)

-Added bagpipe item. When blown, all nearby entities will have 20 seconds of strength x1. Found in the Underdark twice-abandoned mineshaft structure (Bracken)

-Added bagpipe texture (Again, made by Yoann and donated in conjunction with Tux)

-Added chisel texture. (Yoann the epic)

-Textured the nightfall elytra item and entity model to look like bat wings when equipped (Bracken)

-Textured the Glacium glider elytra item and entity model to look like frosted beetle wings when equipped (Bracken)

-Added copper armor (Bracken)

-Added cryolith armor textures (Bracken)

-Added verdant armor textures (Bracken)

-Added meteoric armor (Bracken)

-Added lustra armor (Bracken)

-Changed base item of unruly compass to a spider eye instead of apple. As a consequence, it now poisons you when you bite it. Honestly making it more realistic considering what normally happens to people that eat random metal objects (Bracken)

-Swapped lustra and copper base items. Copper can now mine anything a stone pickaxe can. Lustra is now only as good as gold (Bracken)

ENCHANTMENT CHANGES

-Added rending enchantment. Deal massive damage to any entities wearing an elytra (Bracken)

-Added infused mending enchantment. Only exists on verdant items (Bracken)

-Added decaying curse. Items lose durability over time when worn or held. Intended for upcoming Omnidrome material (Bracken)

-Added astuteness armor enchantment. Intended for upcoming Faewild material. Players passively gain xp when worn (Bracken)

-Renamed beneficial curses, enchantments that cannot be unequipped but assist the player (like poisoning and freezing) to “fixes” in all instances (Bracken)

-Reworked quenching enchantment to essentially provide protection x1, fire_protection x1, and the ability to extinguish nearby flames while walking. Can stack with either protection or fire_protection enchantments but not both (Bracken)

-Added infused frost_walker enchantment. Cannot be unenchanted. Intrinsic to cryolith boots. Also turns lava into magma blocks (Bracken)

-Added integrity enchantment. Drastically reduces the damage received by melee player attacks. Intrinsic to lustra armor items. Cannot be disenchanted. (Bracken)

-Flame walker fire is now activated by sprinting (Bracken)

-Added reverse thorn axe weapon enchantment. Rare chance of dealing bonus damage upon attacking. A thorns_hit sound plays whenever bonus damage is dealt.

-Huskiness and litheness enchantments now work on horse armor and apply the same stats.

-First draft for moon-based material enchantments developed. Experimental and highly complex at this point (Crim ascending beyond the scope of mere mortals as per usual)

LOOT TABLE CHANGES

-Reduced number of beverages in in most loot tables (Bracken)

-Added custom enchantments to loot tables in brine_ship, brine_raft, brine_station, fae_library, sanctum_den, sanctum_pillar, panacea_hut, omnidrome_library, underdark_spider_nest, and underdark_mineshaft. (Bracken)

-Added more iron items to Glacium loot (Bracken)

-Added more gold items to Brine city loot (Bracken)

ABILITY BOOK CHANGES

-Increased range of crimson spark (Bracken)

-Added void pull ability book. Only accessible with commands at this point. (Grandmaster)

BOSS CHANGES

-Fixed issue with Fae emperor bossbar not disappearing (Bracken)

-Fixed issue with sporangium bossbar not reappearing if the player fights the boss a second time (Bracken)

-Removed tetra slime summon upon sporangium boss death (Bracken)

-Added new slime loot structure. Summoned after sporangium boss is slain (Bracken)

-Added new magma loot structure. Summoned after thrall boss is slain (Bracken)

-Updated viceroy to have cryolith armor and Glacium glider equipped (Bracken)

GENERAL MOB CHANGES

-Used vanishing enchantment + hiding enchantment glint, on most custom mobs to prevent them from dropping heads when slain. Some mobs, mostly those generating within structures, may still drop heads when slain. (Bracken)

-Invisible vindicators in Sanctum can now use truelight glow books (Bracken)

-Ability book announcements now present when bosses like the viceroy, sporangium, and fae emperor use ability books (Bracken)

-Killing and elder guardian now drops map leading to Brine entrance portal structure. (Crim aka the GOAT)

-Fixed issue with glow squids and pufferfish spawning too frequently in the Brine. (Bracken)

RESOURCE PACK CHANGES

-Fixed issue with custom sun textures not functioning after 24w34a (Bracken)

-Fixed issue with biomes crashing the game if equipped with custom music. Added all of Arnold’s awesome music back in addition to several more biomes! WOOO! I MISSED HEARING YOUR MUSIC SO MUCH! (Bracken)

-Arnold’s Omnidrome piece has been equipped to play in several Omnidrome biomes. THANK YOU AGAIN ARNOLD! (Arnold Rynux)

WORLDGEN CHANGES

-Replaced redstone blocks at the bottom of the Brine with crying obsidian. Too much redstone! (Bracken)

-Removed bedrock layer from the bottom of the Brine to enable Void access (Bracken)

DIMENSION FUNCTION CHANGES

-Fixed issue with players taking massive fall damage after exiting the void. Assuming they didn’t end up in Pax or the Omnidrome (Bracken)

-Fixed issue with Sanctum dust storms not working (Bracken)

WE'RE SO BACK!

SEPTEMBER UPDATE

ITEM CHANGES

-Added shark tooth item. Can be used to create toothed swords or tridents. Found in the sponge tower.

-Added brine rod item. Can be used to craft tridents or brine foam. Found in the sponge tower.

-Added brine foam item. Can be used to craft drinkable beverages.

-Added 12 consumable beverages to the game. All only grant the ominous potion effect but future improvements are in the works.

-Added beverages to loot tables in Brine, Underdark, Faewild, Glacium, Panacea, and Void.

-Added crafting recipes for all 12 beverages.

-Added loot chest to Panacea hut structure.

-Added nonfunctional bagpipe, golden horn, and paintbrush items. Currently only accessible with commands.

-Added 1st draft chisel item. A tool that can be used to switch blocks between variant types (i.e. chiseled, polished, bricks, etc…) Currently only accessible with commands.

ABILITY BOOK CHANGES

-Crimson Spark now detonates with a tnt blast, becoming insanely more powerful.

-Xp cost of crimson spark has been increased.

BOSS AND MOB RELATED CHANGES

-Added searing surface enchantment x5 to Thrall crown and golden pants.

-Added searing surface enchantment x3 to Blightrider armor.

-Thrall has a new custom-textured head.

-Nerfed Thrall regen power.

-Thrall is no longer invulnerable while regenerating.

-Nerfed anti-fire resistance zone made by crown blazes.

-Fire aspect x5 added to Thrall’s Sai weapon.

-Added quenching enchantment to Viceroy armor.

-Added freezing enchantment to Viceroy weapons.

-Viceroy main weapon has been changed from a diamond sword to a cryolth sabre.

-Viceroy has a new custom-textured head.

-Pushback x2 has been added to all pieces of Fae Emperor armor.

-Unsung has a new custom-textured head.

-Spectrality enchantment added to Unsung’s Paxmaker sword.

-Each of the 8 spinning swords orbiting the Unsung boss now have a single enchantment of the following: Curse of Sentience, Defusing, Butchering, Lethargy Curse, Vanishing Curse, Devouring Curse, Fragility Curse, and Dullness Curse.

-Curse of sentience added to Disruptor Null weapon.

-Curse of sentience added to Fae Ranger’s Dreambow.

-Curse of maiming added to Project Ruination’s Shepherdess cloak and the existing, now redundant, negative health attribute removed.

-Valkyrie miniboss has a new custom-texture head and wings.

-Bats in the Underdark are now 5x larger.

ENCHANTMENT CHANGES

-Added Pugnacity dog armor enchantment. Makes dog do extra attack damage.

-Added Huskiness dog armor enchantment. Makes dog larger and have extra hp.

-Crim Added Trampling enchantment to horse armor. Allows you to damage small and medium-sized mobs by running over them with your horse.

-Crim added Litheness dog armor enchantment. Makes dog smaller, faster, and have massive fall damage reduction.

ADVANCEMENT CHANGES

-Retextured keystone advancement item textures for Glacium, Sanctum, Panacea, Underdark, and Pax.

-Added the following advancements to Dormis: Prison Tour, Another Inmate, An Awful Lot of an Alloted Lot, The Prison Dimension, Tactical Retreat, Translate the Slate, Name Game, Thrall of Fame, Bailed Out, Prison Break!, Deep Wisdom, Flare Warning.

-Added the following advancements to Glacium: Unbreakable Expeditionist, Frozen Tears, Cryolith Craft, Polar Vortex, Best Served Cold.

-Added the following advancements to Omnidrome: Adept Researcher, Vaporous Waves, Powledge is Knower, Book Thief, Omni-Powers, Test Tube.

-Added the following advancements to Panacea: Dauntless Survivalist, Verdant Craft.

-Added Eternal Walker advancement to Pax.

-Added the following advancements to the Sanctum: Nature is Healing, I'm Vengeance, Life Finds a Way, Dust Bowl, Anomalocarriage.

-Added the following advancements to the the Brine: Strong-hearted Voyager, Never Again, Darkness, Pearl of High Value, Lustra Craft.

-Added the following advancements to the Faewild: Elsewhere Wanderer, Buys No Better Treasure, Copper Craft.

-All Faewild advancements now grant xp when completed.

-Added the following advancements to the Void: The Space Between Spaces, Reverse Lootbox

BUG FIXES /GAMEPLAY TWEAKS

-Renamed Pax arc to Pax gateway.

-Removed infested stone from diorite sea biome.

-Nereids can hold their breath underwater for 40 minutes instead of 20.

-Old instances of Glacium weapons have been replaced with cryolith equivalents.

-Conure fixed issue with player heads dropping upon death.

-Crim removed trailing whitespaces in code.

-Crim Fixed issue with Abstraction enchantment only working on creepers.

-Crim improved boat vehicle detection.

-Crim improved enchantment directory organization.

BOY I SURE DO LOVE MAKING HOTFIXES

In a rush to release the last hotfix, I accidentally unleased an abomination of a structure test I had never intended to see the light of day.

Within version #110, a giant 5 block thick obsidian floor coats the entirety of the overworld at around y=15. This is obviously bad for anyone hoping to get diamonds from the overworld or just dig in general.

In addition, an obsidian ceiling exists in the nether at y=123, but is less obstructive given the nether's bedrock ceiling is already at y=128. Both obsidian structures have now been removed.

In other news, here are some new features I've been working on.

-You can now locate the Sanctum embassy and Omnidrome living palace structures with eyes of ender.

-Bedrock blocks are no longer immune to sculk spread.

-Cryolith base item has been changed from a repeating command block to a retextured/edited spawn egg. Don't worry it won't spawn anything if you click it (Unless you guys in the Discord have something in mind)

-Lustra pearl base item has also been changed from a command block (gross) to a spawn egg.

-Visit all underdark biomes advancement has finally been fixed.

-Fixed issue with Panacea rain event commands not working.

HOTFIX (again)

Ughhhhh! What now? Another crash-causing event has been discovered in the faewild. I've reworked the faewild malmsy candles again as well as nerfed the number of faewild trees. I've also gotten rid of all gravel in the faewild just as an added precaution. So sorry about this one guys!

HOTFIX UPDATE

Bug Fixes/Feature Tweaks:

-A critical issue with red poppy features in Pax caused games to crash whenever players got too close to the cenotaph biome.

-Another issue in which spider riding mobs spawned giant wither skeletons has been patched.

-Void mansion heartbeat sound now sounds more like an actual heartbeat

-Crim fixed issue with higher tiers of splintering enchantment not scaling

-Grandmaster fixed issue with Pax portal only working when two or more keys were equipped.

-Fixed issue with certain weapon buffs only activating when held in the offhand slot.

-Removed sand from Pax. (Just in case falling sand might cause lag)

Item Changes:

-Added cryolith item. (Texture by Bracken but all other Cryolith tools and armor textures by Yoann)

-Added lustra pearl item

-Reworked panaspores to have a non-duplicatable base item.

-Added 10 smithing weapon template items.

Recipe Changes:

-Added crafting recipes for verdant and cryolith armors.

-Added smithing recipes for bludgeons, bucklers, cutlasses, daggers, greatswords, katanas, rapiers, sabres, sickles, and warhammers for all variants. 110 recipes total!

-Added short spear crafting recipes for lustra, verdant, and cryolith variants.

Loot Table Changes:

-Replaced glacium swords, axes, and armor with cryolith variants in all instances.

-Replaced vitality armor with verdant variants in all instances.

-Cryolith can now be found in the Viceroy holdout structure. Diamond weapons have been replaced with cryolith variants.

-Lustra pearls can now be found in one of the suspicious sand blocks within the giant clam brine structure.

Enchantment Changes:

-Added new Quenching enchantment.

-Incorporated item-specific enchantments to cryolith tools: Curse of vanishing, Curse of Fragility, Freezing.

-Incorporated item-specific enchantments to cryolith armor: Curse of Vanishing, Quenching.

-Incorporated item-specific enchantments to verdant tools, Poisoning, Mending.

-Incorporated item-specific enchantments to verdant armor: Vitality, Mending.

Species Changes:

-Automechs now sink rapidly when in water.

OK FINE HERE'S THE 1.21 UPDATE

Before we get to the new stuff added, thank you's are in order for the dev team and all of the bugs that got fixed. Most were 1.20.6-1.21 transition related, other were fixes to the newer stuff. We fixed/improved…

-Fixed fae castle crashing game (Bracken)

-Restored frozen heart in Glacium tower (Conure)

-Activated giant death flowers in the crimson panacea biome (Bracken)

-Fixed Solatium Thrall dropping sand instead of fire (Bracken)

-Fixed Thrall not dropping loot (Bracken)

-Removed pool type features that crashed the game (Team effort)

-Astral potion fixed (Conure)

-Pax portal keys fixed (Conure and Grandmaster)

-Nightfall item improvements (Conure)

-Spelling fixes (Conure and Crim)

-Survival-specific selectors now include players in adventure mode. (Conure)

-Updated random number generation (Conure)

-Antivenom enchantment bug fix (Crim)

-Initiated effect permanence system (Conure)

-Replaced entire old jukebox system with updated version (Conure)

-Nereid effects swapped with more attributes. (Conure)

-Implementation of tick predicate system (Conure)

-Villain luck effects swapped with more attributes. (Conure)

-Updated Brine system, always a huge endeavor. (Grandmaster)

-Fixed Realmkeeper and Hunter attributes (Crim)

-Fixed team switching issue (Conure)

-Fixed living palace not spawning with boss (Bracken)

-Fixed Sanctum mini hanger not spawning with nightfall item (Bracken)

-Dweller gets no blindness in creative (Grandmaster)

-Added admin command to summon fae emperor boss (Crim)

-Falling to the void in the End dimension now takes you to the Void dimension (Conure and Bracken)

-Reformat and update item id’s (Conure)

Phew! Ok, and now on to the new stuff!

ENCHANTMENT CHANGES

Abstraction: Melee weapon enchantment. Hitting players with this enchantment depletes experience points from the target.

Antivenom: Armor enchantment that reduces damage taken from potions, thorns, or sonic attacks.

Boldness: Armor enchantment that increases player attack damage. Incompatible with protection.

Chiseling Curse: Intended for a future, “chisel” item to be added to the pack. It’s only a curse to prevent the ability from being removed with a grindstone. Pickaxes can switch stone blocks between variants. Clicking on stone bricks turns them into chiseled stone bricks etc…

Defusing: Melee weapon enchantment. Creepers hit with it don’t explode.

Dentine Touch: Pickaxe enchantment that turns bedrock into deepslate.

Devouring Curse: Sharp weapon curse that deals bonus damage to both the target and wielder.

Dullness Curse: Sharp weapon curse that reduces the damage inflicted.

Famine Walker: Boot enchantment that replaces water blocks with air and grass blocks with dirt.

Ferocity: Melee weapon enchantment that increases attack speed.

Float Walker: Boot enchantment that reduces the player’s gravity.

Flood Walker: Boot enchantment that replaces air with water.

Fragility Curse: Item curse that increases the rate at which durability is consumed. (Made by Conure)

Freezing Curse: Applies slowness effect. Intended to be added to future cryolith items. Only made a curse for technical reasons.

Guarding: Sharp weapon enchantment that reduces incoming damage (basically just the protection enchantment but for held weapons). Incompatible with sharpness.

Lethargy Curse: Sharp weapon curse that reduces attack speed.

Lifesteal: Bow enchantment that grants the wielder a brief burst of regeneration after hitting a target.

Maiming Curse: Armor curse that reduces wearer’s health by one heart.

Mortality: Deal bonus damage to non-player entities. Like smite but just against players.

Poisoning Curse: Applies poison effect. Intended to be added to future verdant items. Only made a curse for technical reasons.

Pushback: Armor enchantment that knocks away the attacker. Like thorns but with knockback instead of damage. Also knocks the wearer backwards but not as severely.

Searing Surface: Armor enchantment that burns the attacker. A simple enchantment but quite effective.

Sentience Curses 1-7: Items with this enchantment make noises when dealing damage. No strategic advantage or disadvantage, just goofy.

Shrewdness: Sword enchantment that grants extra experience after killing a mob.

Splintering: Bow enchantment. Targets struck will summon three arrows which may damage nearby entities. Also spreads flaming arrows and tipped arrows. (Made by Crim)

Spectrality: Sharp weapon enchantment that makes the target glow when hit.

Vitality: Armor enchantment that gives an extra heart to the wearer.

Wisdom: Pickaxe enchantment that grants extra experience when mining blocks.

SPECIES CHANGES:

Automechs have greatly increased health, increased step height, and now have innate knockback with their melee attacks.

Frostkin have increased step height, health and high sweeping damage ratio with melee attacks.

Dwellers have increased health.

Faefolk have decreased health.

Hunters have increased step height after eating apples.

Nereids have increased health, increased gravity, slightly reduced speed, and increased step height. Instead of having indefinite water breathing the time they can hold their breath is now 20 minutes.

Netherkin, Outlanders, and Realmkeepers have reduced health.

Realmkeepers have more absorption and retain absorption buff regardless of missing hp.

Villains have more health but are now attacked by polar bears, zombie piglin, and bees. I did try adding wolves to the list but it was too depressing having my own dogs attack me :(

DIMENSION CHANGES:

Copper ore now generates in the Faewild dimension.

Lapis ore generates less frequently in the Faewild.

Glacium block breaking speed attribute reduced in severity from -75% to -50%

RESOURCE PACK CHANGES Added 22 paintings to the pack. None of these can be accessed outside of commands.

-Accolade

-Bedrock

-Crossing

-Diamond ore

-End sky

-End

-Fae (by Tytoninae)

-Green

-Nether sky

-Nether

-Netherite block

-Oak planks

-Overworld Sky

-Overworld

-Roland

-Shallot

-Stanczyk

-Starry

-Swing

-Trisolde

-Water floor

-Zenobia