From The Caves

BEFORE INSTALLING, PLEASE INSTALL GECKOLIB 4.4.9 🎭 New Possessed Mobs

Added more possessed variants.

👁️ Visual Improvements

Eyes model changed to 3D for a scarier look.

Updated textures for several mobs and items.

Fixed animations.

Slight model tweaks for Floor Cross and Upside Down Cross.

Added 8 new paintings.

Added a few new blocks (one included in recipes to create torches).

🏗️ Structures & World Generation

Added a beautiful, massive new structure key to starting Phase 1.

Revamped an existing structure.

Players can now spawn in a village just one block from the cross compass.

🧭 New Items & Recipes

Added the Cross Compass, which guides you to the new structure.

Added a new lore book found in village chests.

More items.

🔧 Systems & Mechanics

Revised the phase transition system; the "compass" cross is now crucial.

Adjusted and reduced spawn rates.

New internal systems for mobs.

Improved mob ability to freeze water (with added conditions).

Increased mob health.

🔁 Events & Bug Fixes Events:

Added more than 30 new events (each with 2–4 sub-events).

Added 2 particularly dangerous events (they push you into caves).

Replaced weaker events with better variants.

Added an event where Billy carves tunnels (sometimes with sub-events).

Improved lots of existing events.

Bug Fixes & Stability:

Fixed many bugs (textures, spawn rates, etc.).

Fixed and improved the block restoration system; buttons, chests, and beds can now be safely used/broken.

Fixed sleeping events triggering when the player isn’t actually sleeping.

Reduced dev logs/prints to avoid console spam.

🎵 Audio

Many new sounds added for ambience and mobs.

📖 Lore

Added even more lore.

⚙️ Configuration

New config file added (in your modpack’s config folder).

Several configuration options now available.

💻 Commands

New commands added.

Important:

Phase 3 and 4 are not finished; they will be available in the 1.0 release.