TeaTM's Arctic Expansion

This mod add various mechanics, blocks, items, and mobs that revolve around Minecraft's arctic biomes. This mod is non-combat focused and is ideal for cozy playthroughs or people that want more life and things to do in the arctic biomes.

Decoration Blocks Added:

• Aurora Bottles which are dyable and function as a light source
• Firewood which is a stack of small logs that is purely cosmetic
• Hot Chocolate Mugs which double as a food item that gives a brief speed boost, but has a block form with a steam particle

Functional Blocks Added:

• Frost Chests which are a small container that holds functionality for hot springs, soul springs, and interacts with the cherry penguin, frozen penguin, and sakura golems
• Snowboards which are a vehicle similar to boats but are very fast and can jump very high on snowy & ice blocks, but are slower and very difficult to jump on warm blocks. It also negates fall damage when riding the snowboard (similar to boats)
• Snowbloom crops/seeds, a new crop with a similar appearance to wheat, but can only be grown and planted in frozen biomes. When harvested it yields snowbloom popsicles which are a poisonous food item and a crafting material

Items Added:

• Snow totems, which are an item when used in a snowy biome, it can instantly make it snow
• Legendary ice cream, which is used primarly for taming all penguin variants, but also can be used to dye aurora bottles rainbow
• Lucky coin, an item when used on a sakura golem can permanently awaken or unawaken the mob regardless of weather and biome
• Snowbloom popsicle, as mentioned above it is a crafting material but also a poisonous food item which adds the poison, nausea, and freezing effect at once briefly
• Snowbloom seeds, used in snowy biomes for planting snowbloom crops
• Penguin egg, throwable item that spawns a newborn penguin, obtained through breeding, the location it is thrown in determines the variant
• Ice shards, dropped occasionally from frozen sniffers in cold biomes, used for crafting
• Hot chocolate, as mentioned above a food item that gives a brief speed boost
• Frozen sniffer egg, a block that behaves identically to the vanilla sniffer egg, but is blue and white and hatches a frozen sniffer
• Snow Day music disc, a jukebox music disc with a custom song, it also can be played nearby orcas and it will give you a snowboard
• Arctic Expansion Guide Book, in-game documentation, craftable with 1 book and 1 snowball, or spawns in your inventory on world join

Biomes Added:

• Frozen Blossoms, a snowy biome which does not spawn naturally. No mobs spawn in it making it safe from any hostile mobs, has bright green grass and pink water, constantly rains petals. It can only be obtained via a cherry penguin or a single biome world generation

Mobs Added:

• Orcas, a passive mob that spawns in frozen oceans and hunts salmon and cod. As mentioned when playing a Snow Day music disc in a jukebox nearby you will receive a snowboard
• Frozen Sniffer, does not naturally spawn, only hatched in a frozen sniffer egg, functions identically to a vanilla sniffer, but is bred with ice shards and drops ice shards in cold biomes
• Snowshroom, a mooshroom variant only obtained via soul spring haunting, when milked it gives powdered snow, and when sheared it reverts to a normal cow and drops snowballs
• Sakura Golem, a fox-like golem spawned with blue ice and cherry leaves which can sort dropped items into frost chests, by default it is in a statue inactive state, but when it snows it becomes active and can sort. You can use a lucky coin to permanently activate it (or inactivate it)
• Penguin, a tamable passive mob that naturally spawns in cold biomes and hunts salmon and cod, but only the default variant naturally spawns, it can be tamed with legendary ice cream and bred with cod or salmon. When bred it drops a penguin egg which can be thrown in a different locations to get other variants. Each variant has a unique taming ability (see below)

Tamed Penguin Variant Abilities:

• Default/Normal, naturally spawns, when tamed it provides a conduit power effect to all players in a range
• Frozen, spawned when throwing a penguin egg in a snowy slopes biomes, when sitting, tamed, next to water, and next to a frost chest with a snowball in it, it will convert the snowball to blue ice
• Cherry, spawned when throwing a penguin egg in a cherry grove or a frozen blossoms biome, when tamed, sitting, and next to a frost chest with 32 rotten flesh, it will consume the rotten flesh and turn one random block in a range to a frozen blossoms biome
• Skulk, spawned when throwing a penguin egg below Y=0, when tamed and shift right clicking it will highlight all exposed ores in a 16 block radius, it will only highlight exposed ores
• Nether, spawned when throwing an egg anywhere in the nether, when tamed if it is in an 8 block radius of ancient debris it will jump repeatedly and spew lava particles, but it will not disclose the exact location. It is also immune to explosions, lava, and fire
• End, spawned when throwing an egg anywhere in the end, when tamed & the owner shift right clicks it will set a teleport location (which works cross-dimensional as well), when any player (including the owner) shift right clicks with an end pearl and it has a teleport location it will teleport the player there

Mechanics:

• Hot Springs, when placing a campfire directly under a frost chest, it will turn orange and begin steaming. Any water source within 10 blocks of a steaming frost chest will turn into a hot spring. Any player in a hot spring will get the "arctic comfort" effect which provides regeneration and saturation when in the hot spring
• Soul Springs, behaves identically to a hot spring, but only occures when using a soul campfire. Soul springs can convert cows to snowshrooms and can be used for a new crafting method: soul spring haunting. This is used to craft certain items in the mod
• Craftable sponges using snowbloom and glowstone, and soul spring haunting ice into blue ice

Dependencies:

• GeckoLib (Required), for entity models and animations
• Patchouli (Required), for the in-game documentation
• JEI (Optional), optional but recommended, has support for viewing soul spring haunting recipes, but any other recipe as well

You can use this mod in modpacks but a link back to the mod is appreciated.

Getting started? The Arctic Expansion Guide Book covers all of these topics with crafting recipe examples and images.