✨ Arcane Expansion

Arcane Expansion expands Minecraft with new mobs, tools, progression systems, and mechanics—while maintaining a balanced, vanilla-friendly experience.

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📦 Features

🔧 Crafting & Progression

• New recipes for Netherite, Diamond, and Emerald
• Recipes unlock dynamically as you collect materials
• Additional unlocks tied to advancements
• Full recipe access via the Doll interface
• 48 custom advancements guiding progression

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🧙 Tools, Weapons & Items

• Grimoire → upgraded to Waxed Grimoire

• Anchor variants:

  • Base Anchor
  • Diamond Anchor
  • Siren Anchor
  • Honey Anchor

• Katana – fast melee weapon

• Hammer – heavy axe-like tool (fixed extreme knockback)

• Syringe – upgraded, versatile utility tool

• Remote – utility/control item

• Green Lantern – interacts with ores to generate blocks

• New materials including Scale ingots

⚖️ Tools and weapons are balanced for consistent progression.

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👁️ Mobs & Creatures

A diverse set of original entities:

• Dryad – nature spirit with drops
• Siren – water-based mob with improved behavior
• Doll → Puppet → Marionette – evolving entity chain with new mechanics
• Vampire & Wanderer – improved AI
• Sinless Seven – powerful late-game entity
• Demiflower – stabilized after crash fixes
• Melia – duplicates itself and drops honey

🧠 AI improvements ensure more natural behavior across hostile and passive mobs.

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🌱 World Additions

• Withering Rose

  • Can apply the Wither effect

• Seedling – new plant

• Additional flora tied to progression and mechanics

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🛡️ Equipment

• Sirenade Armor – new armor set
• Progression tied to new materials like Scale

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🎁 Systems & Mechanics

• Custom loot tables

• Mobs drop useful items

• Resource generation mechanics:

  • Doll produces Redstone over time

• Anchors now lose durability when used underwater

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🎮 Quality of Life

• Guide Menu (default key: B)
• Recipe visibility improvements
• Fixes to mob AI and behavior
• General balancing and bug fixes

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🔄 Version Highlights

v1.0.9

• Added new material recipes
• Introduced Dryad, Siren, and Doll
• Added Grimoire, Anchor, Katana
• Added Withering Rose and advancements

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v1.1.8

• Recipe unlock system improvements
• Doll recipe interface added
• Added Hammer
• Updated mob textures
• Added Vampire and Wanderer (AI improvements)
• Added loot tables

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v1.2.7

• Fixed Siren leaving water
• Improved AI behavior
• Added mob drops (Dryad, Doll)
• Added 14+ advancements
• Advancement-based recipe unlocks

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v1.3.7

• Doll generates Redstone over time
• Withering Rose gains projectile effect
• Added Puppet
• Added Syringe and Diamond Anchor

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v1.4.6

• Added Sinless Seven
• Added Marionette
• Upgraded Syringe
• Added Remote
• Added Guide Menu (B)
• Fixed Hammer physics bug
• Added 3+ advancements

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v1.5.7

• Added Green Lantern
• Doll/Puppet/Marionette can take player damage
• Added Demiflower (with crash fixes)
• Updated Siren + added Siren Anchor
• Added Sirenade Armor and Scale ingot
• Anchor durability changes in water

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v1.6.3

• Added Seedling plant
• Added Melia (duplicates and drops honey)
• Added Honey Anchor and Waxed Grimoire
• Expanded progression systems
• Total advancements increased to 48

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🏁 Developer Note

This mod has been tested in survival and supports a full playthrough, including defeating the Ender Dragon, while remaining fair and balanced.

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⚙️ Notes

Designed to expand gameplay depth without straying far from vanilla mechanics.