== Frontiers a2025.1.0: Just the Facts ==

A small update for the Halloween season, with some special Halloween content...obtainable year-round, of course!

Special thanks to @jesterrcore for helping with this update - this was his idea! :D

---

Additions

Blighted Birch

• A new wood set only obtainable from saplings found in Witch Huts
• Sports a unique, pale purple hue!
• The logs have unique properties; logs that haven't been cut yet will change color based on the time of day!
• Has the usual variety of wooden items - slabs, stairs, buttons, pressure plates, etc!
  • Only things missing currently are doors, trapdoors, boats & signs. Those should appear in a future update...
• Similar to Oak Trees, sometimes the leaves will drop a unique fruit...

Pomegranates

• Drop from Blighted Birch Leaves
• Restores 1 hunger and 1.5 saturation
• Has a unique gimmick; when eaten, it will have a 75% chance of remaining in your inventory!

Witch Hat

• Dropped by Witches with a 2.5% chance
• Has 380 durability
• Doesn't provide any armor points, but has a few special abilities when worn:
  • Potion drinking time is significantly reduced (25% the usual time)
  • The wearer will have the same damage resistances that a Witch normally does
  • Either of these effects will reduce the hat's durability each time
• Just like a Witch, the wearer will randomly produce little spell particles over their head!

Jungle Spider

• Spawns in the [read the name]
• Exclusive to Hardmode
• Smaller than both Spiders & Cave Spiders, has more health & damage, and is faster!
  • To make it worse...it doesn't have glowing red eyes. Have fun. :)
• Getting bit on Normal difficulty and above inflicts the target with Weakness I
• Targets Chickens, Crows & untamed Parrots, because it's a Jungle Spider. It's gotta eat somehow.
• Drops 0-2 String, but no Spider Eyes
• Will try and spin a Cobweb in an open space every ~3 minutes. You could make a farm out of this...

Enchanting Magnet

• Crafted from 6 Glass, 1 Emerald Block, 1 Nether Star, & 1 Bottle o' Enchanting
• Acts as a unique method of storing Experience Points:
  • Rather than being able to deposit your currently held Experience, Enchanting Magnets will instead attract nearby Experience Orbs
    • Experience Orbs will actually prioritize Enchanting Magnets over players, making them great for mob farms
  • Once the magnet is holding Experience, a little spinning orb will appear in the center
    • The larger the orb, the more Experience is inside. The orb stops growing at 1200 points, and the magnet stops picking up Experience at 32767 points
    • A comparator can be used to determine the stored amount: the comparator will output 15 once the magnet contains 1200 or more exp points
  • There are two ways to extract stored Experience from the magnet:
    • Use a glass bottle on it to get a single Bottle o' Enchanting - so long as there's at least 12 points inside. It'll cost you 12 points to withdraw a single bottle.
    • If you're greedy and want it quick, just break the magnet without Silk Touch. It'll always drop itself without needing a tool, but if you break it without Silk Touch it'll drop exp...but at the price of only giving you 50% of the stored value inside!
  • The magnet can be broken with any tool enchanted with Silk Touch to store the Experience inside, allowing you to bring it with you.

Item Vacuum

• Crafted from 4 Iron Bars, 1 Hopper, & 1 Spawner Chunk
• Absorbs nearby item entities
  • If the Item Vacuum is empty, it'll pick up the nearest stack
  • If the Item Vacuum contains something already, it'll pick up similar stacks as long as it doesn't go over max
  • The item cannot be taken out by hand - use a Hopper or break it!
• Placing an Item Frame with an item above the Item Vacuum will make it exclusively pick up items of that kind, allowing for item sorting

Mana Orb

• Added basic implementation. Currently obtainable via the Creative-exclusive Bottle o' Magicks.
• Touches the player, makes a unique twinkly noise, then disappears. That's all for now. :P
• This is the basis for the soon-to-come magic system that Frontiers will add...

Pumpkin Golem

• Can be summoned by right-clicking a Carved Pumpkin with a Spirit Candle
• Only active during the night or during thunderstorms; will otherwise be completely unresponsive
• Can have one of seven unique faces!
• Pumpkin Golems can target and break any mature crops nearby it, while replanting them if able to
  • The golems don't pick up the items, allowing you to decide what to do with them next, whether that be Allay pickups, waterfalls, etc!
  • Only crops in the "pumpkin_golem_pickable" and "pumpkin_golem_no_replant" block tags can be picked. This includes the following crops:
    • Wheat (Vanilla)
    • Potatoes (Vanilla)
    • Beetroots (Vanilla)
    • Carrots (Vanilla)
    • Nether Wart (Vanilla)
    • Warped Wart (Frontiers)
    • Cabbages (Farmer's Delight)
    • Onions (Farmer's Delight)
    • Rice Panicles (Farmer's Delight)
    • Cotton (Rustic Delight)
    • Bell Peppers (Rustic Delight)
    • Coffee (Rustic Delight)
    • Flax (Supplementaries)
    • Leeks (Bountiful Fares)
    • Maize (Bountiful Fares)

Crow

• An ambient mob that spawns in Dark Forests
• Has unique spawning mechanics based on time
  • During Halloween, it can spawn so long as the moon is visible in the sky, at any light level
  • Otherwise, it spawns between sunset-sunrise, at any light level
• Drops 1-2 feathers
• Has a special Easter Egg skin if you name it "Doom". #thosewhoknow

Crows are planned to be tameable in a later version, and will be able to help you out with a very specific task...

Misc

• Advancements
  • "Jack o' All Trades"
    • Summon a Pumpkin Golem by placing a Spirit Candle inside a Carved Pumpkin
  • "Fountain of Knowledge"
    • Take experience from an Enchanting Magnet using a Glass Bottle
• Spawn Eggs
  • Added spawn eggs for the Crawler, Jungle Spider, Pumpkin Golem and Crow
• Splash Text
  • Playing around Halloween will now select from a list of unique splashes, not just "OOoooOOOoooo! Spooky!"
  • Added some new splashes to the base splash list
  • Added birthday splash texts for some important Frontiers team members
• Added some more contributor capes. :P

---

Changes

Eboncork

• Now has building block variants (stairs, slabs, fences + gates, button + pressure plate)
  • Like Blighted Birch, doors, trapdoors & signs will appear in a future update. Sorry!

Guardian Slices

• Food values for cooked slices + integration items have been rebalanced
  • Cooked Guardian Slice
    • Saturation: 8.5 -> 3
  • Cooked Elder Guardian Slice
    • Saturation: 15 -> 4.8
  • [Bountiful Fares exclusive] Breaded Guardian
    • Buffed as to give reason to use over regular cooked slices
    • Hunger: 8 -> 10
    • Saturation: 4.8 -> 7
  • [Bountiful Fares exclusive] Elden Bowl
    • Saturation: 15 -> 7.2

Quicksand

• Both variants can now be smelted into Glass in a Furnace
• Immune entities are now tag-driven instead of hardcoded
  • This allows for other mods to add their own immune entities
• With the above change, several new entities are no longer affected by Quicksand (mostly mechanical entities):
  • Jungle Spiders
  • Item Frames
  • Glow Item Frames
  • Paintings
  • Fireballs
  • Small Fireballs
  • Dragon Fireballs
  • Item Displays
  • Interactions
  • Markers
  • End Crystals
  • Area Affect Clouds
  • Falling Blocks
  • Leash Knots
  • Lightning Bolts
  • Crags Stalkers/Monsters

---

Vanilla Changes

Halloween Easter Egg

• Updated timing (since only like 2% of people so happen to play minecraft all day on halloween)
  • Halloween Easter Eggs now occur from October 20th to November 3rd - based on Bats spawning more frequently during this timeframe
  • This means enemies will be wearing Pumpkin Heads for longer! Not to mention the Frontiers content to follow!

Witch Hut

• Now have a varying chance of having the red mushroom in their flower pots be replaced with a Blighted Birch sapling, being the only way to obtain it.
  • During the Halloween season, this chance is guaranteed
  • Otherwise, it has a 1/5 chance of replacing it

Witch

• Now has a 2.5% chance to drop its hat

Iron Golem

• Will no longer target Crawlers or Hoglins that have been tamed with Truffles

Misc

• Loading Screen
  • Will now be colored orange instead of red during the Halloween event (unless monochrome logo is enabled)

---

This will likely be the final update for Frontiers before a hiatus; I've got game development to return to for the time being. That being said, this update has been super useful in getting ready for the next update to come; whenever it happens, I hope you're looking forward to it!