Flora Expansion — Version 0.5: Salty Springs

Explore mineral-lined caves, discover brine springs, and put salt to use!

Added

• Salt Caves, with salt formations, brine pools, mineral particles, and fitting cave ambience.
• Surface Brine Springs that hint at Salt Caves below.
• Salt Water, including iron and wooden buckets and cauldron support.
• Salt evaporation: exposed brine slowly leaves salt deposits in sunlight. In the Nether, it instantly evaporates and leaves salt behind.
• Salt building blocks, including crystalline, smooth, cut, and chiseled salt, stairs, slabs, and walls.
• Salt Spikes that grow beneath crystalline salt supplied with brine.
• Calcite variants of all eight Overworld ores, retaining normal drops and compatibility with ore-processing mods.
• Hand Mill and Hand Crank for grinding salt, dyes, and other materials. The crank also supplies redstone power.
• Salting Tub, with hopper automation and an animated JEI recipe display.
• Salted foods, cured meat, and cured fish.
• Glasswort, an edible brine-loving plant that can be salted, composted, stored in crates, or displayed in a salt-filled flower pot.
• Salt archaeology: brush naturally generated deposits layer by layer to uncover small finds and pottery sherds.
• “Into the Caves” by Umplix, a music disc obtainable as a rare salt-brushing find.
• 39 connected advancements covering exploration, gathering, crafting, and food preservation.

Changed

• Reworked pebbles: collect and place piles of up to five stones, including underwater.
• Pebbles now generate in irregular patches along rivers, shores, and rocky terrain.
• Thrown pebbles can be recovered, launched from dispensers, and skipped across water. Skipping depends on speed and impact angle.
• Preserved the original textures for ground pebbles.
• Removed packed-pebble blocks; existing blocks and items convert to gravel.

Fixed

• Fixed wooden buckets failing to interact with cauldrons in certain situations while retaining their durability and special lava behavior.