Paradise Lost

Swets:

Swets have undergone a large overhaul, and are much more fluid - in more ways than one.

• White Swets can change color
• Swets now display their correct color
• Swets now vary in size
• Added #the_aether:swets tag
• Swet revamp (jiggle physics)
• Swets now suck berries off blueberry bushes.
• Changed what swets can absorb to a whitelist
• Added World of Goo advancement for growing a swet considerably
• Changed jump height and health for swets
• Swets are content. (They won't fall off the sides of the aether anymore)
• Right clicking a swet with a spawn egg or swet ball will increase its size
• Swet balls come in various colors now
• You can now use leads on swets

Worldgen

Lots of worldgen changes have come to the aether. The aether is now a far cry from homogenous.

• Water now fades from the bottom of the world in the aether, rather than from y = 0
• Still water now properly fades in the aether
• Made aerclouds carver-based
• Added blocks for the slider dungeon
• Implemented lots of flora ❤️ (Amadrys, Halophia, Honey Nettle, Giant's lily, weeping cloudbursts, lichen, flowering grass, moss star, and more)
• Added lakes
• Boreal wisteria leaves now update dynamically in real time
• Boreal wisteria items also dynamically update
• Aerclouds are now nice and wispy
• Added frosty blocks, courtesy of 24Chrome
• Added spring water
• Fixed bug regarding tree leaves decaying
• New biomes: As stated by our resident biome-guy Azzy:

• Continental plateau, a cool plains-like biome filled with flowering grass
• Highlands shield, a wet, cold, rocky woodland bustling with mushrooms and wild flax
• Autumnal tundra, frozen wastes without much of note... and a sign of something to come

• Fixed bonemeal behavior on quicksoil and aether grass
• Added potted aether flowers
• Added coarse aether dirt
• Added swetroot crops
• Added liverwort

Floating Blocks

Behind the scenes, the code for floating blocks has been streamlined, making way for various changes.

• Floating blocks drop as if broken
• Fire is no longer floatable
• Floating TNT may now explode depending on its landing velocity
• Floating lightning rods may cast a thunderbolt based on weather and velocity upon landing
• Fast floaters, swet transformations, non-floaters, grows_swets, now tag based.
• Adds floating block pushers (Like pistons + slime blocks)
• Adds a helper class to simplify making floating blocks, for addon makers
• Floating block hitboxes are now centered
• Floating blocks look a tad nicer
• Added /gravitate command, to float blocks
• Added a FloatingBlockHelper api

Conditions

A new system to allow for complex effects.

• Added Condition System
• Added a condition API for ease of use for addon makers.
• Added venom condition
• Added /condition command

Moas

Moa genetics is finally here!

• Saddled moas now drop their saddle upon death
• Moas will now follow their parents
• Added Moa Genetics system
• Added the incubator and food trough
• Added a moa API for ease of use for addon makers.
• Added /moastat and /moaegg commands

Items

• Added remaining spawn eggs (check which these are)
• Renamed some items (Gingerbread man, Blueberries, etc.)
• Added boats for aether wood variants
• Added bloodstones
• Empty skyroot buckets can now be used as fuel.
• The aether portal item is now 3x3 instead of 1x2 when placed
• Aether spawn eggs now work in dispensers
• Added "decorations" item group
• Removed unused, unobtainable items
• Reorganized the creative inventory
• Added a placeholder Lore book screen
• Began work on the Lore book
• Oranges are now compostable
• Redid healing stone
• Much more

Blocks

• Added bark blocks for aether wood variants
• Added pressure plates, buttons, for aether wood variants
• Added signs for aether wood variants
• Villagers will now farm on aether farmland
• Rabbits will now eat carrots from aether farmland
• Aether bookshelves are now supported by enchantment tables
• Added a quicksoil speed limit
• Removed unused, unobtainable blocks
• Added skyroot chests
• Much more

Entities

• Added dart entity textures
• Dead aether mobs can no longer be saddled
• Added cockatrice textures
• Cockatrices now shoot at you
• Aerbunnies no longer block your vision
• Fixed aechor plants
• Aechor plants now spawn naturally
• Aerbunnies now fall slowly
• Aerbunnies now can float the player
• Removed unfinished entities
• Added nightly birds

Behind the scenes

• Optimized textures
• Added issue templates
• Added support for MoreTags by Gudenau
• Fixed a bug that would prevent other mods' fuels from working with our mod.
• Removed all of our accesswideners (and then added some more)
• Removed unnecessary garbage
• Added documentation to our APIs
• Updated mod metadata to account for new developers.
• Fixed incompatibility with ExpandAbility
• Improved localisation
• Added devel features
• Cleared the startup logs

More

• You can now light an aether portal with a skyroot bucket, splash potion, or dispenser
• The player now spawns 320 blocks above world height upon falling from the aether
• Added custom portal sounds
• Added a new soundtrack by Sunsette
• Fixed aether worldborder issues
• Blue aerclouds no longer spawn particles when the entity isn't bounced.
• Fix: Aercloud overlays are no longer static
• Fixed placement of doors in tall grass
• Added dense aercloud overlay
• Water now properly paths around dense aercloud.
• The game is no longer unplayable (Moved the hoe texture by one pixel)
• Phoenix armor has a beak once more
• Added zonked state
• Fixed lever and mossy holystone recipes
• Added "simmering" status effect