Ardwick

We are feature complete. This version should have complete forward compatibility with future versions of Ardwick. The remaining work on this pack is balancing and small fixes.

Features

• Latitudes. Go North to find colder biomes, and South to find warmer ones. You'll need to walk for around a day to reach these biomes, so its a trek but fully possible. Get on your horse to speed up exploration, but be careful as these biomes are home to tougher enemies.
• Small patches of mushrooms can now be found in caves.
• Stretched humidity map makes biomes and their transitions larger/smoother. The world feels more enveloping like older versions of the game.
• The pack attempts to place you in a Plains biome when you first spawn.
• Tin ore added.
• Bronze added. Combine 1 Tin Ingot with 7 Copper Ingots to create 8 Bronze Ingots. Bronze fits between Iron and Rose Gold in terms of its strength and durability.
• Rose Gold added. Combine 4 Gold Ingots and 4 Copper Ingots to create 8 Rose Gold Ingots. Rose Gold fits between Bronze and Steel in terms of strength and durability, and retains roughly half the strength of enchantments found on Gold equipment.
• Copper and Bronze equipment oxidise as they lose durability to add more visual variety to equipment.
• Pasties! Made from Raw Beef/Mutton, Potato, and Dough. Cooked on the Campfire. When eaten they provide 3 minutes of Haste and a hidden 3 minute effect that increases your yield from mining Tin Ore.
• New Flax crop allows you to farm String. This balances the lack of Spiders in most Biomes.
• Ores redistributed by biome. All ores can be found in all biomes, but Coal will be more common in Swamps, and Tin is more common in colder coastal regions etc.
• Two slabs placed side by side in the crafting grid recrafts the block they came from. Vertical placement not used as this is used to create chiselled varieties.

Balance

• Nights are now a fixed 13 minutes and 20 seconds long. Days vary between being 26 minutes and 40 seconds long at the Summer Solstice and 6 minutes and 40 seconds at the Winter Solstice. This keeps nights a manageable length, and speeds up Winter considerably so that the player spends more time in the fun seasons.
• Wild crops appear 4x rarer, and can be found at various growth stages. Crops can now be planted directly onto grass and grow incredibly slowly.
• Vigour is now capped at ±300 (the same as the range visually shown on screen) but drains half as quickly so that this balance doesn't feel punishing.
• Armour stats and speed penalties have been rebalanced. Some Existing tiers have had their existing stats changed to make room for Bronze and Rose Gold.
• Attack damage of Swords/Axes rebalanced. In Vanilla a Wooden Axe has the same attack damage as a Diamond Sword.
• Surface spawning is re-enabled with rebalanced mob biome distribtuions. Surface spawning is now disabled via an achievement if any player ever kills a Warden.
• Chorus fruit can be purchased from Clerics, and Endstone from Masons.
• Feather Falling on Leather Boots raised from I to II. Swift Sneak II added to Gold Leggings, Swift Sneak I on Rose Gold Leggings.
• Furnaces give XP again.
• Redstone ores drop their vanilla amount of Redstone again. Dropping 1 was really harsh when there are no other ores that require the player to delve that deep.
• The charcoal recipe makes 8 charcoal with 1 coal again.
• Surface lava pools removed. You must delve down into the depths to unlock the Nether.
• Crafting a heavy core now requires Netherite.

Fixes

• Droppers and Dispensers were using the Mud Kiln texture.
• Zombie villagers and Husks now only drop Rotten Flesh. This was an oversight.
• Vanilla hidden advancements are now disabled.
• Wither Skeletons no longer drop their stone swords.
• Removed Herobrine

Known issues:

These issues will be fixed in Release Candidate 2.

• Grindstones can provide effectively infinite vigour as enchantments stripped from items provide XP and the enchantment automatically re-applies itself.
• Some of the achievement names are a bit lame. I'll rethink these.
• Allow crops to be planted on dirt for consistency with being planted on grass.
• Longer pauses to vigour draining after gaining XP may feel more rewarding.
• Rose Gold swords are giving Looting III. Should be Looting I.

Internal versioning v0.420