The first beta for Virtual Additions' 4.0.0 Update!Things are less stable and not all the content is complete here, so be careful when using this version.

This version is incompatible with releases 1.3.11 and prior!

Additions

• Added Soul Grove biome

• Added Spectre mob

• Added Blue Petals and Soul Sprout plants

• Added Spectral Powder, Sand, Fire, and Fire-based Blocks

• Added Aura Potion

• Added Withered Woods biome

• Added Withered Trees and Wood set

• Added Bone Piles and Bone Litter

• Added Necrotic Roots and Nylium

• Added Harnesses for Virtual Additions dye colors

• Added Spring Lotus to Swamps

• Added Portal Core

• Added Mini Portals, replacing prior Warp Anchor and Tether

Changes

• Renamed all "Aerobloom" blocks and items to "Soulbloom"
• Soulbloom Trees now naturally generate in the Soul Grove biome
• Renamed all "Floatrock" blocks and items to "Porphyry"
• Porphyry now generates in sparse, large blobs in stone, similar to Tuff in deepslate.
• Removed Warp Anchor and Warp Tether, superceded by Mini Portals
• Removed Floatrock Ores and Grassy Floatrock

Finally, the worldgen datapack is no longer required!*

A few more things have been added, some keeping in theme with the new Spring of Life drop!

Additions

• Added Tomatoes and Cabbages

  • Two new crops, replacing Corn in Cold biomes (Cabbages) and in Temperate biomes (Tomatoes)

  • Both can be harvested and eaten - Tomato crops yield 1-3 tomatoes and replenish a small amount of hunger, while cabbage crops yield 1 cabbage that replenishes a medium amount of hunger

  • Tomatoes can be thrown while crouched, and may appear in Ancient City icebox chests

• Added Silence and Loquacity instant-effect potions

  • Brew an Echo Shard into an Awkward potion to create Potion of Silence, invert it to Loquacity with a fermented spider eye

  • Silence will disable all sounds made by a mob, loquacity will re-enable a mob's sound effects

  • Can not be used on players

• Added Bottled Lightning

  • Rarely sold by Wandering Traders

  • Allows casting thunder anywhere in the world, even indoors and outside of thunderstorms

• Added Steel Horse Armor

  • Craft using Steel, same shape as Leather Horse Armor

  • Slightly worse protection than Diamond Horse Armor

Changes

• Salty Caves and Wasp Den biomes now generate without the use of the Worldgen Datapack

  • Also can now generate in Large Biomes and Amplified world types

• Hornfels, Blueschist, and Syenite now generate in blobs in the deepslate layer

  • This is a temporary change until I can get surface rules to work properly

  • *For now, the intended generation is available through the Worldgen datapack

• Wandering Trader trades have been adjusted for the Spring of Life drop

  • Aerobloom Sapling trade now appears as commonly as other sapling trades

• Sheep can now be dyed with the custom dye colors, and will drop the appropriate wool when sheared or killed

• Cheese crafting recipe now only yields two Cheese Wedges

• Steel Armor protection has been slightly increased

• Aerobloom Leaves now drop particles similar to Cherry Leaves

• Entanglement Drive and powered Spotlight are no longer emissive, but still emit light

• Warp Tether teleportation now creates a field of particles around teleported entities

• Bonus Chest Bundle may now have a random dye applied

• Zombies will no longer drop Corn

• Cotton Crops will always drop one seed, even if fully grown

Fixes

• Fixed Warp Tether and Warp Anchor's item names being swapped

• Fixed Tall Grass, Ferns, and Large Ferns not dropping Virtual Additions seeds

• (Enhancements Datapack) Fixed Virtual Additions seeds not awarding the vanilla advancement "A Seedy Place"

Virtual Additions is now ready for The Garden Awakens drop, including more uses for Rock Salt, a new Enhancements builtin datapack and resource pack, and many more tweaks and fixes!

Additions

• Added Rock Salt ore, found throughout the world in similar quantities to Coal, and in higher quantities under ocean biomes

• Added Rock Salt Armor Trim Material.

• Added Jerky, an early-game food source crafted with Rock Salt and Cooked Meats.

  • Jerky can stack up to 96.
  • Two pieces of jerky fills the same hunger as one piece of its respective meat, but gives a relatively higher saturation bonus.

• Added Cheese Wedges, crafted with Milk and Rock Salt

• Added Rock Salt Bricks, Stairs, Slabs, and Chiseled Blocks

• Added Polished Blueschist and Polished Syenite walls

• Added Enhancements Data and Resource packs

  • These packs are enabled by default and include changes to the vanilla game to better incorporate Virtual Additions
  • Enhancements Datapack changes include:
    • New recipe for vanilla Flint and Steel, using a Virtual Additions' Steel Ingot instead of an Iron Ingot
    • Changed various collection advancements to include relevant Virtual Additions features (e.g. Salty Caves and Wasp Den required for the Adventuring Time advancement)
  • Enhancements Resourcepack changes include:
    • Item definition and models for Crossbows with Climbing Ropes (moved from the base mod resources)
    • Item definitions and models for Armor trimmed with Virtual Additions materials
    • Texture for vanilla Flint and Steel that uses the Virtual Additions steel color palette

Changes

• Rock salt has a new bright pink color palette.

• Untilling / Unpathing QOL now requires the player to be crouching

• Floatrock Ores require the Preview feature flag

• Steel Bombs have been changed:

  • Recipe now requires 2 Steel Ingots, 1 Gunpowder, 1 String, and yields 4 Steel Bombs
  • Damage for Steel Bomb explosions is now capped at 16 (8 hearts), but scales much faster with proximity to the explosive (meaning more entites hit by a single explosion will take the full amount of damage)
  • Cooldown for throwing Steel Bombs is now 1.5 seconds, up from 0.5s
  • Steel Bomb explosions no longer destroy Experience Orbs

• Fried Egg texture has been changed

• Builtin Datapacks and Resourcepacks now have icons

• Added Ambient Sound to the Wasp Den biome, inspired by the ambient sound system of the Pale Garden biome

  • Frayed Silk placed on Silk Blocks will create a clicking noise
  • Lumwasp Nests will now play a chirping noise if it contains larvae

• Webbed Silk collision logic is inverted (items pass through, living entities do not)

• Lumwasps now target entites up to 16 blocks away, down from 32

Now for 1.21.3!

• Fixed shulkers peeping out of custom shulker boxes
• Fixed Gilded Tool use actions (such as axe stripping wood) not working

Updated just in time (miraculously so) for Bundles of Bravery! Including a bonus improvement to bundles, and a very WIP preview feature!

• Added dyed bundles for Virtual Additions dye colors.
• Bundles are modified to be able to hold up to 4 non-stackable items.
• Preview: prototype for Remote Notifier block, coming (hopefully) in time for the Winter Drop.

Fixed some crashes with block entities that I didn't notice for a while (whoops)

Updated for 1.21.1

Now with fancier Iolite Interference particles!

A couple new things, a couple updated things!

Additions

• Added Oxidation states to all decorative Steel Blocks

  • Oxidation mechanics for Steel are the same as those for Copper

  • Oxidized states transition towards a red color pallete

Changes

• Steel Trapdoor texture has been updated to fit better with the Steel Door

• The Sculk Gild has been reworked and improved

  • Breaking blocks now uses durability equal to the amount of blocks selected to be broken, rather than the maximum amount every time

  • Cooldown duration is relative to the amount of blocks broken, and decreases with the Mining Efficiency attribute.

  • The Mining Efficiency attribute (used by Efficiency enchantment) now increases the amount of blocks broken by the Sculk Gild

    • Block break speed is not affected for Sculk gilded tools

  • All blocks, except blocks with Block Entities and blocks that can be insta-mined, are now affected by the Sculk Gild

Fixes

• Fixed Shulker Boxes not being dispensable

• Fixed Beacon Beam colors for Stained Glass & Stained Glass Panes

• Fixed "Entity has no attributes" errors on game launch

Another day, another fix. Hopefully this will be the last one before the next update, but you never know...

• Updated datapack structure for 1.21, fixing lots of functionality that broke in version 1.3.2

Another Hotfix appears!

• Fixed Advancements and Cotton & Corn loot tables not loading

Not an upload goes by without a breakage getting by...

• Fixed enchanting being broken.

Virtual Additions 1.3.2 is now released, with support for 1.21 and a few small additions, tweaks, and fixes!

Added

• Sweet berry pie (Tasty!)
• Potted plants for Aerobloom Sapling and Greencap Mushroom
• Un-tilling and un-flattening dirt with all hoes and shovels

Changed

• The Coloring Station has been improved
  • Now holds up to 4 stacks of each dye color (for a total of 24 stacks contained)
  • Recipes using partial quantities of dyes now use 1/8 of an individual dye rather than 1/4
  • Internally, dye items now account for 32 "dye component," up from 16

Fixed

• Corn Seeds can now be composted properly
• Removed outdated growth functionality for Salt crystals

Note: re-uploaded to fix incorrect datapack versions in the built-in datapacks

Updated to 1.20.6

(Also added MC version to the version string for better clarity in the future)

Fixed servers crashing (oops...)

Got a big one just in time for 1.20.5!

Additions

• Added Salty Caves Biome

• Added Rock Salt

• Added Saline Mob

• Added Ice Cream!

• Added 8 Custom Dye Colors

• Added the Coloring Station

• Added new blocks to Steel and Hornfels block palettes

• Added & redesigned the Spotlight

• Added the Iolite Gild Type

• Added the Engraving Chisel

• Added 2 new Potions

• Added Acid Blocks

• Added Exoskeleton Armor Trim and Smithing Template

Salty Caves

• Generates in and around Ocean biomes

• Home to the Saline zombie - a red zombie variant that inflicts Frailty on hit

  • On Easy Difficulty - Only inflicts Frailty I

  • On Norma Difficulty - Each hit increases Frailty amplifier up to Frailty III

  • On Hard Difficulty - Increases Frailty amplifier by 2, up to Frailty V

  • Walks slower and has less health when compared to a normal Zombie

  • Drops Rock Salt commonly and Steel Ingots rarely

• Harvest Rock Salt to brew an Awkward potion into a potion of Frailty, or craft it into dyable ice-cream bowls

Dye Colors

• Chartreuse, Maroon, Indigo, Plum, Viridian, Tan, Lilac

• Each of them can be crafted from other dyes in a Crafting table, or via the new Coloring Station

• Coloring Station

  • Stores up to 1 stack of Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, Black, and White dye each in a reservoir

  • Obtain any dye from the stored reserves, or dye an item directly in the Coloring Station

  • Interactable with Hoppers, will drop all of its stored dyes immediately when broken.

Blocks

• Floatrock and Aerobloom blocks from the Skylands are now obtainable in the overworld without the Preview datapack

  • Floatrock can be found in patches near the surface of the Windswept biomes

    • It can then be duplicated by combining 8 Cobblestone with 1 Floatrock in a crafting table

    • Has a new deep red color to it, similar to that of Mangrove wood.

  • Wandering Traders will often sell an Aerobloom sapling

  • This does not mean the Skylands is finished - I just wanted the blocks to be available :)

• Steel Blocks

  • Chiseled Steel and Steel Grate blocks added to match with the upcoming Chiseled Copper and Copper Grate blocks.

  • Added the Cagelight - a dim light source crafted with Steel and Glowstone, much like the Redstone Bridge block

• Hornfels

  • Now has an additional chiseled variant for the Tiles blocks

  • The old Chiseled Hornfels is now crafted with the Polished block set

• Acid Block

  • Randomly generated in Lumwasp nests in place of Acid

  • A new method of of getting renewable Acid:

    • Acid with a minimum Fluid Height of 6 will randomly turn into Acid blocks when placed above a Magma block.

    • Acid blocks can be filled with a Water Bucket to be converted back into a fluid source.

    • Infinite acid wells (similar to infinite water wells) can no longer be made

  • Acid blocks are now used to craft Silkbulbs instead of Acid buckets.

• Spotlight

  • Available without the Preview datapack enabled

  • Now crafted with Steel and Amethyst

  • The light will now almost immediately react to changes affecting it

  • Updated texture to fit the new recipe

  • Now orientable in vertical directions similar to the upcoming Crafter block

Miscellaneous

• Iolite Gild Type

  • Crafted with Iolite (duh...)

  • Increases the player's block-breaking reach by 3 blocks while held in the main hand

    • Blocks can be placed at extended reach when held in the off-hand

  • Items dropped by broken blocks will immediately attempt to be picked up by the player

• Engraving Chisel

  • Crafted with Steel and Cobblestone

  • Place in the second slot of an Anvil's interface to add lore text to any item

  • Can be dyed similar to Leather Armor to set the color of the text

• Exoskeleton Armor Trim Smithing Template

  • Dropped by Lumwasps, affected by looting

  • This is a temporary method of obtaining this item!

• Ice Cream

  • Just a fun food item!

  • Crafted with Bowl, Bucket of Milk, Snowballs and Rock Salt

  • Can be dyed similar to Leather armor

• Potions

  • Frailty - brewed with Rock Salt

    • Applies to All mobs susceptible to status ailments

    • Increases the amount of damage received by the inflicted entity by +20% per level

    • Stronger variant inflicts Frailty III

  • Love - brewed with a Rose Bush

    • Does nothing to Players and Hostile mobs

    • While applied to a breedable Animal, it has a random chance every tick of entering love mode

    • Cannot be applied to baby mobs or mobs in their breeding cooldown

    • Allows for automated breeding setups

Changes

• Steel has an updated color palette with bluer highlights

• Steel Armor Trims now use a darker color palette when applied to Steel Armor

• Corn item textures have been updated

• Corn now has a seed item rather than being planted directly from the corn item

  • Corn seeds can drop from Grass and be crafted using a Corn item

• Villagers will now harvest and use Corn crops

Preview Additions

• Added Lyft Mob

  • Note - These are early in development and will undergo a lot of changes!

  • Ridable, slow-flying passive mob found in the Skylands

  • Use them to float around - slowly but precisely

  • Allows reaching higher-up areas or tall, underside-surfaces easier

• Added Wind block

  • It worked for a bit, but it broke and I havent fixed it yet...

Changes, Fixes, Additions

• Gilded Tools
  • Combining gilded tools in an anvil now uses the gild type of the tool in the addition slot.
    • This makes swapping gild types much lest costly on EXP
  • Sculk Gild has been modified
    • Efficiency enchantment affects Sculk gilded tool less
    • Sculk Gilded Tools now take damage equivalent to the maximum number of blocks broken per use (Unbreaking still applies).
    • Using a tool with the Sculk gild will put the tool into a cooldown
    • The tool will break blocks normally until the tool's cooldown is finished.
• Deep stones
  • Added chiseled variants for Hornfels, Blueschist, and Syenite stone types
  • Fixed the shading being inconsistent on Polished Hornfels and Hornfels Tile Slabs blocks across some of their states.

Preview Additions

• A whole bunch of new Preview content for the Skylands has been added!
  • Sky Islands Generation
    • Sky islands will generate in a massive web across the world.
    • You may need to travel over 10,000 blocks to find them, but you can continue down the web to find more afterwards
  • Aerobloom Forest
    • Including a sparse variant
    • Bright blue forests with pastel-blue wood.
    • Find new Balloon Fruits in these biomes.
    • Balloon fruits apply levitation for 5 seconds when eaten.
  • Floatrock and Springsoil
    • Foundational blocks in the Skylands
    • Floatrock can be used to craft typical stone tools and items
    • All vanilla overworld ores generate in the skylands with Floatrock variants
    • A grassy floatrock coats the top layer of the skylands
    • Springsoil generates in large strand-shaped islands towards the bottom of the skylands
    • You can jump upwards of 5 blocks from springsoil
    • Use the springsoil strands and the balloon fruits to traverse the skylands on foot
  • This is just the start. MUCH more to come later! (Biomes, structures, mobs, etc.)
  • Additional note: the Preview datapack now includes world generation changes, including those of the Worldgen datapack. Only one should be enabled at a time!

Additions

• Steel Fences

  • Craft with 4 cut steel and 2 steel ingots.

• Redstone Bridges

  • Craft with 2 steel ingots and 1 redstone dust

  • Transmits signals in any single direction

  • Does not preserve signal strength

  • Strongly powers blocks that it points towards

Changes

• Virtual Additions datapack titles are now translatable.

• Gilded Tools can now combine with tools of other Gild Types in an anvil.

  • Items with no gild type are also valid.

  • The resulting item will retain the gild type of the item on the left.

  • This allows changing or removing gild types from items.

• When biting a target, Lumwasps will now apply all current status effects.

  • If the wasp has no status effects, it will apply Weakness.

• Steel textures have an updated color palette, with a stronger blue tint.

• Some textures have had some changes as well:

  • Raw Steel

  • Raw Steel Blocks

  • Steel Bombs

  • Sculk-Gilded Shovels

  • Iolite Trim Palette

• Most data elements of Virtual Additions are now generated rather than written manually.

• Some loot tables and recipes have changed:

  • Corn is now found in Savanna and Desert chests

  • Cotton now drops only cotton balls when broken

  • Cut Steel is now crafted with Steel Ingots instead of Steel Blocks

    • Steel Blocks can still be used to craft Cut Steel in a stone-cutter.

• New Icon (Thanks to Ewan Howell's Title Generator plugin for Blockbench!)

Fixes

• Climbing Ropes' pointing property now matches the direction the anchor faces when placed in the world.

  • As a side-effect, existing climbing ropes will be flipped when updating to this version.

First Modrinth Release!

Reuploaded to fix missing datapacks