BetterEnd

Features

• The hydralux sapling tooltip says it needs about 7 blocks of water above to grow
• Wild Waystones now generate in BetterEnd biomes
• Config option to stop giving the guidebook when entering an End Gateway (BetterEnd#535)
• Build for Minecraft 26.3

Changes

• The End's outer void is mostly empty again, with BetterEnd's islands and ice stars mixed in
• BetterEnd saplings take bone meal like vanilla saplings (about 4-5 per tree instead of ~32); natural growth is unchanged
• BetterEnd's island biomes are more common than vanilla's small End islands again
• BetterEnd biomes are slightly more common (x1.25) than vanilla End biomes and biomes of other mods
• Crystalite armor is now stronger than Netherite armor
• Sulphur crystals of age 1 now drop themselves without Silk Touch, like age 0 (BetterEnd#517)
• Block models are bound through WorldWeaver model keys instead of client-only lambdas
• Removed the BYG integration
• Removed the unused Old Bulbis Gardens building templates
• Upgrade bundled structure templates to the 26.3 data format
• End bridges are walkable: railings only on the deck edge, plus an erosion pass
• Elytra protection values read as round numbers
• Crystalite Elytra completes the Crystalite set (BetterEnd#595)
• Food composting rates snap to the supported tiers

Fixes

• JEI lists the End Stone Smelter's fuels in its Alloying Fuel category
• Lacugrove saplings on endstone dust and mossy glowshroom saplings on pallidium or sangnum never grew
• Sulphur crystals, smaragdant shards and hydrothermal vents placed by commands or structures no longer leave a water source behind when broken
• Dedicated servers with Lithium crashed at startup with BetterEnd
• Painted mountains started in a world from before 26.3 were completed without their stone layers
• End fish, shadow berries, chorus mushrooms and bolux mushrooms can now be cooked in a normal furnace, not only in a smoker or on a campfire
• The respawn obelisk could respawn players into a one block high gap, forcing them to crawl
• The respawn obelisk's set-spawn sound played at the wrong position
• Placing a key item on an Eternal Pedestal without partner pedestals crashed the server
• Mountains and other structure pieces left a buried crashed ship's block entities behind, which logged invalid skull block entities
• Desert lakes, geysers, crashed ships and End lotus leaves read terrain outside the chunk area they may write to, which logged unsafe terrain read errors
• The youngest sulphur crystals dropped nothing without Silk Touch; they now always drop themselves (BetterEnd#517)
• Terminite and Thallasium anvils lost their wear when broken and placed again (BCLibBetterEnd#128)
• The Crystalite armor set item tag had no translation
• Geysers read terrain outside the chunk area they may write to, which logged unsafe terrain read errors
• Smaragdant Crystal Pedestal could not be placed, its block entity type did not accept it
• Turkish system locale broke BetterEnd biome and elytra registry names (BetterNetherBetterEnd#285)
• Dedicated servers no longer crash at startup
• Structure templates carried block entity ids of removed types
• The End pillars and the exit portal on the main island were missing on 26.3
• Flower pots were missing from #minecraft:flower_pots, so on 26.3 water and lava no longer washed them away
• BetterEnd chandeliers were not washed away by water and lava
• Plants were no longer washed away by water and lava
• Crystalite armor did not follow poses from Entity Model Features / Fresh Animations (BetterEnd#603)
• 3D Crystalite armor was drawn into the camera during first-person attack animations (BetterEnd#602)
• Several blocks lost their vanilla-like properties: cave pumpkins, neon cactus and crystal shards broke instantly, the eternal portal surface was solid and pushable, aurora and smaragdant crystals suffocated players
• Smaragdant crystal blocks, terminite and thallasium blocks and tiles, brimstone and missing tile dropped nothing when broken
• Petals of neighbouring lumecorns flickered (z-fighting) (BetterEnd#388)
• Tinted glass recipe from smaragdant had a misspelled id (BetterEnd#377)
• Dyed bulb lanterns and dyed hydralux petal blocks dropped nothing when broken (BetterEnd#370)
• Sulphur water tint read the live world from Sodium's meshing threads, crashing clients on servers and breaking Distant Horizons water (BetterEnd#519, BetterEnd#581, BetterEnd#545, BetterEnd#554)
• Using a debug stick on an eternal portal crashed every client in render distance (BetterEnd#527)
• Opening an Eternal Portal could freeze or crash the server while searching for the exit location (BetterEnd#572, BetterEnd#376, BetterEnd#482, BetterEnd#530)
• BYG-only connected-texture entries now load only when BYG is installed (BetterEnd#471)
• End village chests handed out unbreakable Eternal Rune Flavolite instead of normal Runed Flavolite (BetterEnd#381)
• Boats, rafts, spears and the Flower Islets / Waterfall Ponds biomes showed untranslated names (BetterEnd#393)
• End Veil's enchantment description said 'Enderman' instead of 'Endermen' (BetterEnd#368)
• The wither could break Eternal Rune Flavolite and Eternal Pedestals, which are otherwise unbreakable (BetterEnd#406)
• Bone meal destroyed umbrella moss and small jellyshrooms on some ground, and was wasted on amaranita and twisted umbrella moss (BetterEnd#416)
• Hydralux, lilies, lotus and umbrella moss did not trigger observers or BUDs when growing (BetterEnd#456)
• Left fin of the End Fish was attached in the middle of its body instead of on its side (BetterEnd#503)
• Harvested umbrella tree clusters never refilled with juice (BetterEnd#578)
• Fully grown sulphur crystals dropped no crystalline sulphur (BetterEnd#517)
• Path blocks turned into dirt instead of end stone when covered or placed under a block (BetterEnd#605)
• Wall plants, vines and ceiling plants could crash world generation with 'Cannot set property facing' when chunks generated on several threads (BetterEnd#477, BetterEnd#523, BetterEnd#445, BetterEnd#531)
• Iron, golden, diamond and netherite hammers were held flat instead of like a tool (BetterEnd#533)
• Terminite and Thallasium bars and chains were missing from the vanilla and common bars/chains tags (BetterEnd#458, BetterEnd#540)
• Drinking Umbrella Cluster Juice did not return its glass bottle (found while checking BetterEnd#544)
• Mountains and lakes were cut off at chunk borders when generation continued after a world reload (BetterEnd#556)
• Menger sponges broke instantly with stone sounds instead of behaving like vanilla sponges, so hoes gave no speed bonus (BetterEnd#583)
• Spears exposed a tool rule without a tag key, crashing world load with Golden Age Combat, and had wrong attack speed (BetterEnd#601)
• Cave moss lost its top/middle/bottom shapes and no longer generated flipped on cave ceilings (BetterEnd#606)
• End trees read terrain from chunks that were not generated yet
• End Stone Smelter duplicated results after the first craft (BetterEnd#597)
• Smaragdant crystals and end stalactites growing through village buildings
• Aeternium, terminite and thallasium tools rendered flat
• Armored and Crystalite Elytra granted no knockback resistance
• The End crashed with other mods that add ores there (BetterEnd#596)

Validation

• ✅ Dedicated server (Minecraft 26.3) started (WorldWeaver 26.301.1, BCLib 26.301.1, BetterNether 26.301.1, BetterEnd 26.301.1, wunderreich 26.301.1)
• ✅ BiomesOPlenty + Terralith (BiomesOPlenty-fabric-26.3-26.3.0.0.13.jar, Terralith_26.3_v2.6.5+26.3.jar, GlitchCore-fabric-26.3-26.3.0.0.3.jar, TerraBlender-fabric-26.3-26.3.0.0.9.jar, lithostitched-2.0.5-fabric-26.3.jar, tested: gametest+worldgen)
• ✅ Incendium alone (Incendium_26.3_v5.5.3+26.3.jar, tested: gametest+worldgen)
• ✅ Nullscape alone (Nullscape_26.3_v2.0.1+26.3.jar, tested: gametest+worldgen)
• ✅ TechReborn alone (TechReborn-6.2.0.jar, tested: gametest+worldgen)
• ✅ BOP + Terralith + Incendium + Nullscape (BiomesOPlenty-fabric-26.3-26.3.0.0.13.jar, Terralith_26.3_v2.6.5+26.3.jar, GlitchCore-fabric-26.3-26.3.0.0.3.jar, TerraBlender-fabric-26.3-26.3.0.0.9.jar, lithostitched-2.0.5-fabric-26.3.jar, Incendium_26.3_v5.5.3+26.3.jar, Nullscape_26.3_v2.0.1+26.3.jar, tested: gametest+worldgen)