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Minecraft: Java Edition
1.21.1–1.21.5
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Licensed MIT
Published 7 months ago
Updated last week
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- Added an Elite Bestiary in the form of using the Advancement system. A new tab will appear that will tell you how to log elite enemy information. There is an entry for all 34 elites (as of this update) (Note: Using a spyglass and looking at any elite mob will unlock it's bestiary log which you can use to look up basic information on them. This includes elite subvariants)
- Added Elite Guardians. (75hp, Regenerates health moderately, Has 10 armor)
- Added Elite Elder Guardians. (160hp, Has 18 armor, Makes all nearby non-elite Elder Guardians immune to damage. Upon being defeated for the first time recovers ALL lost HP, gains increased damage, but loses 18 armor.)
- Added Spearing enchantment. Used only on Tridents. Increases thrown Trident damage by +1 per level. Has a max level of 5. (Note: Drops from the new Elite Elder Guardians at a 25% chance. Randomly enchanted between levels 1-5. Chance to drop increases by 5% per level of looting)
- Added Empowered Turtle Shell (Helm). Has +300 durability, +1 Oxygen Bonus, +1 Armor Toughness, and +75% Underwater Mining Speed.
- Added new legendary Executioner's Great Axe. It is now required to been obtained atleast once for the secret advancements.
- Attempted to optimize Die by the Sword by trying to remove as many redundant commands as possible to improve performance on servers.
- Elite Pillagers, Vindicators, and Evokers have had their elite particle effect changed to match the other common elites.
- Player spawned Iron Guardians now have elite particles around them.
- Fixed Elite Slimes not having elite particles.
- Fixed minor typo in Everburn's lore flavor text.
Dev's Note: The new Bestiary feature is inspired by the datapack Minecraft Compendium. Their idea for using a spyglass to show mob information was a very neat idea so I did my own spin on it for the elite mobs in this datapack. Here is a link to the pack if you are interested https://modrinth.com/datapack/minecraft-compendium
As a result the mob information spoiler/mini-wiki will be removed from the Die by the Sword datapack page as it can now be accessed ingame.
Lastly the next version will only be focused on upgrading to 1.21.5 when it comes out within the next few days as well as updating Overheat and improving it's warning system a bit more.
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March 19, 2025 at 6:08 AMPublisher

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