Ardwick

Ardwick

Ardwick is a modern survival overhaul that improves the world's atmosphere and removes degenerate solutions to gameplay. Progression is slower and follows realistic tool-tiers. Higher tier armour is balanced by reducing player speed so that no best-in-slot armour exists. Over-powered mechanics are balanced or removed entirely.

Atmosphere, Seasons, Weather, and Climate

• Seasons change the world's ambience and day/night length.
• Days are longer.
• Solar eclipses occur every 25 days. The orbits of the Sun and Moon have been decoupled.
• Cold biomes, nights, and Winters gradually reduce your body temperature. Stay indoors, underground, or warm up by a fire to restore your vigour.
• Weather is tied to seasons.
• Latitudes push colder biomes North and warmer biomes South.

Rewarding

• Hunger is removed. Eating food provides direct health regeneration.
• Earning XP and mining ore gives you temporary scaling boosts to movement speed, mining speed, and attack damage that are communicated via the vigour bar.
• No weapon cooldown (similar to pre-1.8 combat).
• Lit Campfires provide regeneration and set your spawn.

Slower

• Days last longer (between 20-40 minutes, depending on season).
• Vigour system balances sprinting and strip mining.
• Cooking food requires tending your campfire.
• Smelting raw copper, raw iron, and iron ingots takes longer so that progress requires time management.
• Beds speed up time rather than skipping it.
• Injury, armour, shields, and the cold slow you down.

Progression

• Gold < Wood < Copper < Iron < Bronze < Rose Gold < Steel < Netherite.
• Copper can be smelted in the Mud Kiln (throw Dirt in water to create Mud).
• Iron is exclusively processed via Bloomeries.
• Steel is produced by blasting Iron.
• Alloys of Copper and Tin create Bronze. Alloys of Copper and Gold create Rose Gold.
• Gold and Rose Gold tiers provide Silk Touch, Swift Sneak, Fire Protection, and Looting.
• Diamond, Emerald, and Lapis Ore removed. Gold only spawns in the Nether. Flint deposits spawn near the surface. Tin ore spawns near Copper in small quantities.
• Structures removed (except Ancient Cities, Mineshafts, and Nether Fossils).

Death

• Dying reduces your maximum health by one heart.
• Restore a lost heart by eating a Golden Apple.
• keepInventory is on.
• Minimum maximum health is set by hidden advancements, so you can't run out of health too early in the game.

Cooking, Farming, and Brewing

• Cookies provide speed. Glowberries and Carrots provide night vision.
• Wheat dropped in water (including Cauldrons) creates Dough. Dough cooked on a campfire bakes bread.
• Dough crafted with Sugar and Cocoa Beans creates Cookie Dough.
• Dough crafted with either Raw Mutton or Beef and Potato creates a Raw Pasty.
• Pasties provide Haste and increased yield from Tin mining.
• Crops can be found growing wild.
• Carrots and Potatoes now have seeds.
• Flax plants provide a renewable source of string.
• Small patches of mushrooms can be found in caves.
• Animals take longer to mature, and longer between breeding.
• Chickens shed their feathers.
• Potion of Swiftness + Blaze Powder brews Potions of Haste.
• Awkward Potion + Amethyst Shard brews Bottles o' Enchanting.
• Awkward Potion + Glowberries brews Potions of Night Vision.

Other New Mechanics & Quality of Life Features

• Dropping an Amethyst Shard into a Soul Campfire spawns an Allay.
• Creating Obsidian risks spawning Blazes that seek to defend their home.
• Combining an Ender Pearl and Wither Star creates a Pearl of Returning. Using a Pearl of Returning instantly teleports you to your spawn and refunds your Wither Star.
• Cooking Rotten Flesh turns it into Leather.
• Cats spawn in more biomes. Variants are biome dependent.
• Hostile mobs have been balanced by biome.
• Dropping Amethyst Shards into water creates Prismarine Shards. Prismarine Shards craft 1:1 into Prismarine Crystals.
• Dropping Dirt into water creates Mud.
• Dropping Concrete Powder into water creates Concrete.
• Using Shears on an Item Frame turns it invisible.
• Tree felling with axes.
• Harvesting crops on farmland with a hoe will auto-replant them.
• Villager trading has been balanced. Some unobtainable items are made obtainable via trading.
• Bartering has been removed.

Enchanting

• Enchanting removed
• Anvil functionality removed

No End

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Installation

The zip is a data pack and companion resource pack. Put a copy in both your resource pack folder and your world's data pack folder. Celestial Order Fix is available as an optional Vanilla companion shader to improve the visuals of eclipses added by the data pack.

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Licensing

CC0-1.0. Do as you please. Mods/Datapacks/Shaders that are stuck on old versions because they're no longer supported by the Dev but the Dev has placed them under a restrictive licence is a plague. You'll never have that issue here.

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Known issues

• Chickens won't shed feathers directly onto a hopper. Leaving this in to prevent automation.
• Cakes don't restore health. May not be fixable.